Dallas Cowboys should keep an eye on Packers quarterback situation

[CCBoy]

Dallas Cowboys should keep an eye on Packers quarterback situation
https://thelandryhat.com/2020/05/08/dallas-cowboys-packers-quarterback-situation/



The winning blueprint in the NFL has been to find a franchise quarterback. But has that strategy shifted? And what does that mean for the Dallas Cowboys?
The Dallas Cowboys had a very successful 2020 NFL Draft with a rookie class that is value-driven and heralded as their best in almost two decades. But the story of the draft was the Green Bay Packers trading up in the first round to draft a quarterback with the 26th pick. The Packers have a quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, who is Hall of Fame worthy and is still playing at a high level. He is signed for four more years and has expressed a desire to finish the contract which makes the Packers decision to draft Jordan Love fascinating...

...Rodgers will cost $21.6 million for the 2020 season according to spotrac.com which is a relative bargain for a quarterback at 10.9 percent of the salary cap. His cap hit rises to $36.4 million in 2021, $39.9 million in 2022, and $28.4 million in 2023. On the other hand, Love will likely cost the Packers $12.4 million total over the next four years when he signs his contract with the Packers having a team option for a fifth cost-controlled year. Montez Sweat was the 26th pick in the 2019 NFL draft and signed a four year $11.6 million contract which was 6.8 percent higher than the four-year, $10.9 million contract Calvin Ridley signed in 2018 as the 26th pick in the draft...

...I think the Packers will strongly consider trading Rodgers at the end of the 2020 season. This would be the same move the Chiefs made when they traded Alex Smith after the 2017 season and turned the franchise over to Patrick Mahomes paying dividends with a Super Bowl championship in 2019. The Packers will absorb a $31 million dead cap in 2021 but will have three years after that with an affordable quarterback...

...Could the Dallas Cowboys get in front of the curve by not signing their quarterback Dak Prescott to a long term deal? Might the Cowboys be able to flip Prescott at the end of the 2020 season and dip back into the rookie contract quarterback pool? If they do, they better be warned. The Green Bay Packers just might have their own Hall of Fame quarterback on the trade market at the same time.

 

[Starforever]

Yawn...

 

[EMMITTnROY]

From what I understand, Rodgers and McCarthy didn’t get along, right? So that would squash this thought immediately.

 

[dckid]

Dallas Cowboys should keep an eye on Packers quarterback situation
https://thelandryhat.com/2020/05/08/dallas-cowboys-packers-quarterback-situation/



The winning blueprint in the NFL has been to find a franchise quarterback. But has that strategy shifted? And what does that mean for the Dallas Cowboys?
The Dallas Cowboys had a very successful 2020 NFL Draft with a rookie class that is value-driven and heralded as their best in almost two decades. But the story of the draft was the Green Bay Packers trading up in the first round to draft a quarterback with the 26th pick. The Packers have a quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, who is Hall of Fame worthy and is still playing at a high level. He is signed for four more years and has expressed a desire to finish the contract which makes the Packers decision to draft Jordan Love fascinating...

...Rodgers will cost $21.6 million for the 2020 season according to spotrac.com which is a relative bargain for a quarterback at 10.9 percent of the salary cap. His cap hit rises to $36.4 million in 2021, $39.9 million in 2022, and $28.4 million in 2023. On the other hand, Love will likely cost the Packers $12.4 million total over the next four years when he signs his contract with the Packers having a team option for a fifth cost-controlled year. Montez Sweat was the 26th pick in the 2019 NFL draft and signed a four year $11.6 million contract which was 6.8 percent higher than the four-year, $10.9 million contract Calvin Ridley signed in 2018 as the 26th pick in the draft...

...I think the Packers will strongly consider trading Rodgers at the end of the 2020 season. This would be the same move the Chiefs made when they traded Alex Smith after the 2017 season and turned the franchise over to Patrick Mahomes paying dividends with a Super Bowl championship in 2019. The Packers will absorb a $31 million dead cap in 2021 but will have three years after that with an affordable quarterback...

...Could the Dallas Cowboys get in front of the curve by not signing their quarterback Dak Prescott to a long term deal? Might the Cowboys be able to flip Prescott at the end of the 2020 season and dip back into the rookie contract quarterback pool? If they do, they better be warned. The Green Bay Packers just might have their own Hall of Fame quarterback on the trade market at the same time.

Good post. I posted the same exact thing the day of the draft on this board and I was wholeheartedly shot down.
I think it makes sense. The only problem is the cap hit the Packers would face in trading him as the signing bonus hits the cap all at once. It's a really crappy system that prohibits trades in the NFL.

 

[MojaveJT]

AR holds grudges like a little female dog. His ego won’t let him reunite with MM after what was let out.

 

[CCBoy]

Yawn...

This is a completely different point...and could be another way that Dallas could be falling behind on current trends to get ahead of the current quagmire as to cap figures. It doesn't involve just the concept of a lingering offer to Dak. More is involved...

 

[J12B]

They need to focus on getting Dak's deal done and nothing else at this point.

 

[CCBoy]

Good post. I posted the same exact thing the day of the draft on this board and I was wholeheartedly shot down.
I think it makes sense. The only problem is the cap hit the Packers would face in trading him as the signing bonus hits the cap all at once. It's a really crappy system that prohibits trades in the NFL.

One year swallow with the near current cost as well. It would hop the problems hitting league cap figures next season...as well as being intensely pro active for cap room on an already pretty good Green Bay team. Dynasty building, amped up for now...

 

[OmerV]

Dallas Cowboys should keep an eye on Packers quarterback situation
https://thelandryhat.com/2020/05/08/dallas-cowboys-packers-quarterback-situation/



The winning blueprint in the NFL has been to find a franchise quarterback. But has that strategy shifted? And what does that mean for the Dallas Cowboys?
The Dallas Cowboys had a very successful 2020 NFL Draft with a rookie class that is value-driven and heralded as their best in almost two decades. But the story of the draft was the Green Bay Packers trading up in the first round to draft a quarterback with the 26th pick. The Packers have a quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, who is Hall of Fame worthy and is still playing at a high level. He is signed for four more years and has expressed a desire to finish the contract which makes the Packers decision to draft Jordan Love fascinating...

...Rodgers will cost $21.6 million for the 2020 season according to spotrac.com which is a relative bargain for a quarterback at 10.9 percent of the salary cap. His cap hit rises to $36.4 million in 2021, $39.9 million in 2022, and $28.4 million in 2023. On the other hand, Love will likely cost the Packers $12.4 million total over the next four years when he signs his contract with the Packers having a team option for a fifth cost-controlled year. Montez Sweat was the 26th pick in the 2019 NFL draft and signed a four year $11.6 million contract which was 6.8 percent higher than the four-year, $10.9 million contract Calvin Ridley signed in 2018 as the 26th pick in the draft...

...I think the Packers will strongly consider trading Rodgers at the end of the 2020 season. This would be the same move the Chiefs made when they traded Alex Smith after the 2017 season and turned the franchise over to Patrick Mahomes paying dividends with a Super Bowl championship in 2019. The Packers will absorb a $31 million dead cap in 2021 but will have three years after that with an affordable quarterback...

...Could the Dallas Cowboys get in front of the curve by not signing their quarterback Dak Prescott to a long term deal? Might the Cowboys be able to flip Prescott at the end of the 2020 season and dip back into the rookie contract quarterback pool? If they do, they better be warned. The Green Bay Packers just might have their own Hall of Fame quarterback on the trade market at the same time.

I don't agree with some of the conclusions here. Not that they are impossible, but I think there are flaws.

First, the Packers could just be looking at this similar to how they did when they had Brett Favre and drafted Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers sat on the bench for 3 years, and then was ready to step in, and it obviously worked out very well. It's not far fetched to think the Packer drafted Love hoping to recreate that situation.

It's also not the same situation as the Chiefs trading Alex Smith. Smith was never the kind of established QB Aaron Rodgers is, and Mahomes was drafted 7th overall compared to Love being drafted 26th overall. Accordingly, from what we know now, the Rodgers/Favre scenario is really a closer fit than the Mahomes/Smith scenario.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

Good post. I posted the same exact thing the day of the draft on this board and I was wholeheartedly shot down.
I think it makes sense. The only problem is the cap hit the Packers would face in trading him as the signing bonus hits the cap all at once. It's a really crappy system that prohibits trades in the NFL.

omg,,, I'd rather sign Cam Newton and have him do the Dance of the Seven Veils at half-time every game than to win a Superbowl with a lifelong Packers QB and coach,,, I think I'm going to throw up...

 

[CCBoy]

From what I understand, Rodgers and McCarthy didn’t get along, right? So that would squash this thought immediately.

Trades aren't limited to Green Bay...and picks are amounting for next season already.

 

[Whirlwin]

Aaron Rodgers Mr. hail Mary media lover boy. I take Prescott over him right now any day. When is just starting. And the other ones on the decline and has been

 

[Whirlwin]

Trades aren't limited to Green Bay...and picks are amounting for next season already.

Why would you want to trade a winning quarterback. Even under Jason Garrett he excelled imagine under Mike

 

[Kevin T]

Rogers is a diva...while talented, he may be a tough sale. But, someone will take him...just not Mike McCarthy.

 

[MoistMayonnaise]

Rogers is a whiny prima donna. Don't want him here. not worth the money of the hassle.

Plus, as others have said, he wouldn't come here and play for MM anyway.

 

[CCBoy]

omg,,, I'd rather sign Cam Newton and have him do the Dance of the 7 Veils at half-time every game than to have two life-long Packers come in and win the SuperBowl for Dallas,,,, lunacy!

That would work as well as extending Andy Dalton with a fist full of picks as well.

 

[CCBoy]

Why would you want to trade a winning quarterback. Even under Jason Garrett he excelled imagine under Mike

Go ahead and sign him...well?

 

[John813]

A-Rodgers is going to be 37 this year. While we have seen Brady win into his 40's, he was never athletic nor had the strongest arm.

Rodgers "magic" is his arm and his mobility. Time is ticking on his prime.

 

[jterrell]

The site listed here is the very worst Cowboys related site there is.

AR won't speak to his parents but you think he'd make up with McCarthy???

Seriously, new-age journalists please sanity check this stuff.
I know you have gotten hosed big-time in the market place but this desperation stuff for clicks is just sad.

 

[CATCH17]

The Jones’s have never been the type to get out in front of things..

Dak will get his deal.