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.