Video: Skip Bayless nails it in regards to Dak not getting signed it

gjkoeppen

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Skip Bayless also said Troy Aikman was gay, Tom Landry was overrated, Johnny Manziel would one day be bigger than LeBron in Cleveland, Paxton Lynch was “cant miss”....this could go on and on.

I wouldn’t believe Skip Bayless if he told me the sky was blue.




Not to mention that when he was with the Fort Worth Star Telegram and lost his credentials with with Cowboys because he keep writing negative articles about the Cowboys so the paper fired him because he no longer had access to the biggest sport anything in the Metroplex.
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SteveTheCowboy

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Skip Bayless also said Troy Aikman was gay, Tom Landry was overrated, Johnny Manziel would one day be bigger than LeBron in Cleveland, Paxton Lynch was “cant miss”....this could go on and on.

I wouldn’t believe Skip Bayless if he told me the sky was blue.


Decided to not pick any right ones huh?
 

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I understand the ad hominem criticism on Bayless is valid. However, just because he was a total tool in those circumstances you prevented above does not mean he's wrong here. Thanks for the post, bud

Welp....you beat me to it. Classic cherry picking on bob's part. Classic.

If Bayless said "sky is blue" Bob would look up and see the sky is blue and still call bayless a perpetual lying freak.
 

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Skip Bayless also said Troy Aikman was gay, Tom Landry was overrated, Johnny Manziel would one day be bigger than LeBron in Cleveland, Paxton Lynch was “cant miss”....this could go on and on.

I wouldn’t believe Skip Bayless if he told me the sky was blue.

Although he made one great point you guys are missing.

Jerry usually caves and overpays or at least comes close to giving into a players' demands. He did it with Elliott, he did it with Lawrence, he did it with Bryant, he made Martin the highest paid OG, he made Smith the highest paid OT, he made Frederick the highest paid OC.......... he probably overpaid Crawford, he likely overpaid J Smith. Cooper's deal is fair but he's one of the Top 3 highest paid WRs too. If he wants to keep you, he pays market or more.

So I am not buying any spin coming from Dak's camp that they didn't give Dak a fair (or greater) contract. Dak and his boys dug in, they wouldn't budge, and the deadline came and went.
 

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Skip Bayless also said Troy Aikman was gay, Tom Landry was overrated, Johnny Manziel would one day be bigger than LeBron in Cleveland, Paxton Lynch was “cant miss”....this could go on and on.

I wouldn’t believe Skip Bayless if he told me the sky was blue.

Nailed it again. Skip is a clown.
 

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I hope you're right but turning down the deals that he reportedly has, deals on par with and bigger than deals signed by QBs who have been to and won Super Bowls, says to me a gaudy contract is more important to Dak than a few fewer million and staying in Dallas.

Its going be really interesting to see the information leak out (assuming it does). I think France was asking for the moon and Dallas was pretty set on staying right at the benchmark deal of Goff. It sounds like Dak was willing to come down from what France wanted, but it didn't happen in time.

I do think he signs long term next year.
 

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No.


Dak is here for $31.4m for this next season, yet fans are angry at the front office for not giving in to his ridiculous contract demands.

Explain to me, how that is in the best interest of the Dallas Cowboys? As a Cowboy fan, why wouldnt you want an additional year to evaluate Dak under a brand new head coach? If the team underperforms once again, kick him to the curb and move forward with a new QB. If he reaches the NFC Championship game, offer him a fair, but not franchise-crippling, contract.
If he brings us to the NFCCG for the first time since 1995 you would still not offer him a contract around 38 million? When that’s the market for QBs now?
 

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The part where it says.

The deal included a 50M signing bonus and 70M over the first two years. I'm told Dak Prescott wanted to get this deal done but it was just too late per source.

he wanted to get this deal done but it was to late. He would have signed it.

That doesn't mean that. All it means is he was "interested in getting it done" because maybe it looked attractive on the surface. We don't know if it meant things still needed to be tweaked. If he liked it exactly as formed, then he goes and signs it no problem. But that sounded like things still needed to be hammered out. Mind you, these are "sources" saying this and again, this is no quote from Dak. In fact, the only thing Slater says is from Dak is that he did call Stephen but also disputes some of the details reported. What does he dispute and why doesn't she say what that is or what she asked him? Does what he dispute kill her big scoop? People have to ask these questions but folks are content running with the emotion to make Dak the bad guy like they have this whole negotiation period after he didn't accept their very first lowball offer. No one's turning back now.
 

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Skip Bayless also said Troy Aikman was gay, Tom Landry was overrated, Johnny Manziel would one day be bigger than LeBron in Cleveland, Paxton Lynch was “cant miss”....this could go on and on.

I wouldn’t believe Skip Bayless if he told me the sky was blue.

Also, Mark Cuban owned Skip. Good times!

 

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Well he can blame that on his erratic college play and his DUI. He actually should feel blessed he is even the starter here now, he would still be on the bench if Romo and Moore didn't have injuries around the same time frame.

He can also blame his refusal to sign a contract extension last summer that would have made him a top 5 paid QB. I am not laying blame for his low wage. Just starting a fact. To say he outplayed his rookie contract is an understatement. He's easily been a top 10-15 QB over that period of time.
 

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If he brings us to the NFCCG for the first time since 1995 you would still not offer him a contract around 38 million? When that’s the market for QBs now?
Depends on the guarantees, did his play get us there, length of the deal, etc.
 

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I know we don't need another Dak thread but Dak brings up some interesting points


-Dak may not have been demanding Mahommes money but it was pretty darn close

-Jerry has always been reasonable in contract negotiations and has always more or less overpaid. Prescott and the new agent was being unreasonable

-The new contract offered by Dallas would've made him the second highest paid qb with over 80 million guaranteed

-The media is currently bashing the dallas cowboys on this but how come no one is reporting what Dak's demands where. That's a very good point by Bayless

-This isn't a kirk cousins deal because Dallas did offer Dak a fair deal, unlike Washington. Dak just didn't want it

I'm left with two things here

1. Does Dak even want to play here anymore? Valid question

2. Why is Jerry the villain all of a sudden, considering in their history they have always signed the player they wanted or needed?


I like Prescott, but several of his fans have to ask themselves, are you a fan of the Dallas Cowboys or a fan of Dak Prescott because his demands are literally detrimental to the team and its success in the future.

Skippy is a Cowboys troll. He was ran out of Dallas. Listen to the local Dallas media he’s calling out not this fool.
 

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From the BR article...

The Dallas Cowboys are reportedly using the media in an attempt to keep fans on the team's side during their ongoing contract negotiations with Dak Prescott.

On Tuesday's episode of The Dan Patrick Show, Dan Patrick said a source told him the Cowboys leaked Prescott's desire for a $40 million annual average salary.

So says Dan Patrick, citing an unnamed source.

Nice try...;):rolleyes:

Just b/c they leaked a story doesn't make it not true. Teams do this all the time to sway public opinion. FYI: Dak's camp never denied the story.
 

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Well, actually there is. Why do you say "Grossly" underpaid? He received the pay that any player drafted at his position would have received, according to the salary slot his own Player's Union adopted. Why do you say he is underpaid?
He outperformed people getting paid the same, but a contract is a contract and if anyone has a grievance, please refer to the NFLPA and inquire as to all your why's and where's there.

In other words, I agree.
 

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the issue has always been the guaranteed money and the Cowboys barely went up on that.
 

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I know we don't need another Dak thread but Dak brings up some interesting points


-Dak may not have been demanding Mahommes money but it was pretty darn close

-Jerry has always been reasonable in contract negotiations and has always more or less overpaid. Prescott and the new agent was being unreasonable

-The new contract offered by Dallas would've made him the second highest paid qb with over 80 million guaranteed

-The media is currently bashing the dallas cowboys on this but how come no one is reporting what Dak's demands where. That's a very good point by Bayless

-This isn't a kirk cousins deal because Dallas did offer Dak a fair deal, unlike Washington. Dak just didn't want it

I'm left with two things here

1. Does Dak even want to play here anymore? Valid question

2. Why is Jerry the villain all of a sudden, considering in their history they have always signed the player they wanted or needed?


I like Prescott, but several of his fans have to ask themselves, are you a fan of the Dallas Cowboys or a fan of Dak Prescott because his demands are literally detrimental to the team and its success in the future.

Since last year, it seemed to me that Dak wanted to go the Kirk Cousins route.

Sharpe is talking about giving Dak 40mil. No thank you.

I don't think it's bad blood. I think there was just a fundamental disagreement over the proper value for Dak. And some of it was justified, if you look at how QB contracts have grown over the years.

Maybe in a couple of years Dak gets that big contract. Maybe not. Maybe the QB market resets lower. Maybe he gets injured. Maybe his play drops off. Maybe he gets moved to another team where the sledding is a bit tougher.

With the failure to get the contract done, all this "tried at the last minute" talk strikes me as PR, wanting to seem like he really wanted to get it done. Any competent negotiation would have come with a bottom line thumbs up/down threshold. That threshold was clearly not crossed. So it didn't get done.

Couldn't get it done with Dak. Time to move on. Good time, since we have a starting quality QB on the bench. Trade Dak for what we can get. Spend 31.4 elsewhere. Give McCarthy a chance to earn his QB Whisperer reputation next year.
 

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why was he trying to get the deal done directly at the deadline for a fraction of Mahomes money?
Fact not in evidence.

All that we've even heard is some bounds on the Cowboys' offer. As Skip points out, we've *never* heard of a Dak counter offer.

This "I tried at the last minute" sounds like after the fact PR. If you want a deal, you make counter offers.
 

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me thinks the agent was pushing for it more than Dak, and Dak kinda found himself in a corner. Now he must live with the potential consequences come 2021. Unfortunately, we will also be forced to find another QB in free agency and the draft next offseason. Thanks to this SNAFU. ALL SIDES MADE MISTAKES. The agent did no favors to Dak or himself. If anyone thinks for 1 hot second Jerry and Stevie will forget this, they just have a short term memory issue lol...THEY WON'T FORGET. Mark this down...next year when it comes time to make a deal, they wont budge. HE WILL BE GONE. In fact, MAYBE that was his plan all along. It almost looks bipolar, how Dak went about this. Bizarre...or passive aggressive.

To me, all evidence points to Dak and his agent planning to go the Kirk Cousins route since last year.
 

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That doesn't mean that. All it means is he was "interested in getting it done" because maybe it looked attractive on the surface. We don't know if it meant things still needed to be tweaked. If he liked it exactly as formed, then he goes and signs it no problem. But that sounded like things still needed to be hammered out. Mind you, these are "sources" saying this and again, this is no quote from Dak. In fact, the only thing Slater says is from Dak is that he did call Stephen but also disputes some of the details reported. What does he dispute and why doesn't she say what that is or what she asked him? Does what he dispute kill her big scoop? People have to ask these questions but folks are content running with the emotion to make Dak the bad guy like they have this whole negotiation period after he didn't accept their very first lowball offer. No one's turning back now.
Interested means wanted.. No.. If I am interested in a car then please tell me more, maybe a test drive. If I want a car then write it up, I will take it. Unless I don’t have the money but hey if I sign that contract I will take one in every color. Lol. I get what your saying but he wanted to get it done. But the whole story could have been just that, a story.
 
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