The Cowboys are going to offer Dak long term deals and hope they can agree on terms.
If they can't they will franchise him and continue to offer deals.
Dallas has often been annoying and slow played these deals til right up to a deadline.
Hopefully they don't do that this year.
They can use the cap savings versus paying the franchise tag number and it would mean paying 37+M for a 1 year rental.
Maybe Dallas has a number where they walk away but I doubt it.
NFL rookie QBs are far more hit than miss. And if you miss you waste years.
Jerry Jones doesn't have time to lift a Lombardi with a new rookie QB.
And you'd lose a good 20-25% of the fan base. As well as losing the prime of Martin/DLaw and others that would be a painful decision to make.
In all likelihood Dallas will draft the best defensive players they can and run it back next year with this team largely in tact minus some free agents they let walk.
Dallas has now lost 5 OT for multiple games including 2 Pro Bowlers and the All-Pro RG who shifted out, the league's leading passer, the starting TE, all 3 top CBs for various periods of time.
That's just awful, awful luck. And they've found the issues with this coaching staff.
There are issues to be addressed.
Special Teams can be aggressive but you better start putting your starters on those units if you wanna go for throats.
Going for it in general needs to be determined not by a chart but by your own circumstances.
Are you winning the line of scrimmage? Are you risking a lot? Do you have 100 reps of something you KNOW you can nail ready to go?
Far too much gung-ho nonsense bout going for it. There are no rewards for stupidly giving the opponent the ball already in field goal range.
That isn't edgy or cool or hardcore, it's just stupid, stupid football.
Dallas needs to find a 3rd RB. Zeke's snaps need to come way down. --As Sturm notes he leads the league by A LOT.
Dallas needs a 3rd RB they can use when fresh. Same as TP. Let defenses face fresh backs with different strengths.
Either go find a guy in free agency that is cheap and offers a skill you like or draft a guy with one of the many draft picks you have in rounds 4-6.
End of day most coaches would take what Dallas has coming back in 2021 and think they can compete for a SB with it.
Dak, Cooper, DLaw, Martin, La'el are near top of their positions.
CeeDee, Diggs, Biadasz, Gallup, Schultz are improving young guys with high ceilings.
Zeke, LVE, Jaylon, Gregory, Jarwin are useful vets with some high level play left in them if used properly.
Far too much talent in Dallas just give up and rebuild.