I agree. You’re right. Nobody will know what the team will look like in 5 years.
I think this Argument can also be made about how good Dak is.
Romo got better pretty consistently throughout his career. He continued to improve well beyond 4 years in the league. He wasn’t a finished product after 4 years.
I think it’s fair to say Dak can still get better too.
of course he could also get hurt and never be the same. Which happens to players all over the league where one bad injury derails their careers. Never know
It's really difficult to project these kinds of things, which is why I try to point out how circumstances can often change any given landscape. It's a fundamental question, to me and it kinda gets right to the root of the problem I see on this board, day after day.
You have those who do not like Dak and never will. Reasoning drives thought process and I don't want to get into that discussion because I don't pretend to understand it. There are those who love Dak, no matter what and again, I don't pretend to understand that either. Then you have those who believe in the idea that salaries are going to continue to escalate and so it's better to get out in front of the curve, as opposed to being behind it. They see this as prudent investment, even if it may be paying too much. I understand that thought process but I don't agree with hit. On the other side, you have those who believe that cap matters and you can't simply continue to pay more and more to keep players (in this case Dak) simply because somebody came up with the idea that QB Salaries are supposed to go up year after year, regardless of what performance suggests.
Now, I'm not going to say that all of this boils down to these simple descriptions because, as we all know, there are certainly more in depth nuances to all of this but, I will say that this is how I see all of these discussion breaking down.
There are certainly question marks and I agree, Dak could certainly get better or, he could digress or suffer a career injury. Any of those things are possible.
I honestly don't see this negotiation much different then what CAA did with Tony. Some of the circumstances are different but CAA is trying to do exactly what they did when Tony was here.