fivetwos
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The price was rising considerably at the very time the deal was being negotiated.Here is the thing. You can look at Dak's contract 3 different ways. Most teams try to sign the rookies they want to keep after their 3rd year. However, Dallas had Dak play on a very cheap rookie contract in his 4th year that only paid $2.0 million. We saved a lot of cap dollars at that time by not doing his contract early. Also, he played on the franchise tag for $31.4 million in his 5th year. He signed the 4 year $40 million contract in his 6th year. So here is how it breaks down:
The Dak Guy: After the 3rd year we got Dak for 6 years at $193.4 million or $32.2 million a year
The Content Guy: After the 4th year we got Dak for 5 years at $191.4 million or $38.3 million a year
The Dak Hater Guy: After the 5th year we got Dak for 4 years at $160.0 million or $40.0 million a year
Timing is everything in negotiations in the NFL. The longer you wait to sign the player the more the price will increase because the salary cap continues to go up. Jerry waited and it cost him more on the back end. However, he still got Dak at $2.0 million in his 4th year and $31.4 million in his 5th year when Dak should have already been on a new contract paying him more money.
First, they didn't see that coming and it cost them about 8-10 million a year by trying to get him to sign cheap.
This after backing themselves into a corner both publicly with the "Daks our guy and we will sign him" crap, along with not having anything close to a plan B in place.
The agent played it correctly.
Mr Billion dollar business deal and son for some reason think it's a great idea to tip your hand publicly while trying to get a discount.
Still....they think no one could possibly do better.