NOP
I can’t help but keep thinking about the alternate position we’d be in if the Cowboys had simply chosen not to re-sign Dak to that long-term deal in 2024.
In that scenario, Dak is likely gone—no shortage of QB-needy teams would have picked him up, no doubt. We’re left with a $40 million dead cap hit and maybe a 3rd-round compensatory pick. It’s possible we lost a few more games, but that only improves our draft position.
We enter the 2025 Draft with Will Grier and Joe Milton in the QB room—hardly inspiring, but Milton is at least a prospect. We’d have had a legitimate shot at drafting Shedeur Sanders (or virtually anyone not named Cam Ward), and there were also a handful of cheaper veteran free agents we could’ve signed to bridge the gap.
The cap situation wouldn’t be drastically better in 2025, but looking ahead? Much more flexibility. Sure, you’re gambling on the uncertainty of upgrading the QB spot—but you're also opening the door to a true fresh start.
So ask yourself: which position would you rather be in? If you believe in Dak, maybe letting a “franchise QB” walk is unthinkable. But if you’re like me—jaded by the ceiling of his play—then maybe this timeline isn’t the crazy one.
Maybe this is the alternate reality.
NOPE! It's beyond crazy.
.I have to stop you right there joe Milton is not here your alternate reality anything you change prior to him coming here probably affects him not being here
he probably wouldn't be here the Jones family would make a different choice just like you can't go back and simply take Ezekiel Elliott out of the equation in 2016 and insert Ramsey and expect that Derek Henry was going to still be there when we pick, NOPE!
you guys don't understand how that works when you try to hypothetically time travel, when you go back and change one thing, everything also changes, there's a lot of things that don't work out ..
apparently, you don't watch a lot of sci-fi you can't have everything except for Prescott in your scenario change it's going to a lot of it is going to change..
So you don't know who they would have picked up at quarterback this offseason could have been Kirk Cousins or Sam Darnold or trade for Gino Smith we don't know how this would affected the entire NFL let alone Dallas I mean you guys really like to just go off into these weird alternate realities when you just need to stop if nothing would have changed because you can't go back and try to change the scenario to fit your narratives because you're trying to make this fit where it could have been great and no and it's more than 40 million I believe we owed him more than that it had been like 58 million over two years we'd had to payout not to have a quarterback and then not know who they would have kept..
I mean what if they'd have tried to insert Trey Lance right now what if they tried to just go ahead and roll with him how about that alternate reality... And lastly this is important the only way this works out is that they don't resign lamb so we don't get to have lamb or Prescott we trade digs if they did something like that the team would definitely blow it up and rebuild we talked about this prior to him resigning you either move them all or keep them all so as soon as lamb was signed this all changed I know you want to have it all but that's not how it works...
I mean go look at San Francisco right now they're dismantling everybody but now they're probably going to end up keeping purity but they're trying to trade brandon Ayuk already got rid of Samuels they could probably go back and make some changes as well like not sign Christian mccaffrey to two years 38 million because that was a waste of money..+
So lastly you wanting to get rid of Prescott because you don't like his ceiling well I hope you like 5 to 10 years of being worse you must love really high draft picks and think that you could just rebuild the team overnight no sometimes that can happen where you get lucky but most of the time you're looking for a quarterback like The Jets and the Browns and other teams have for decades and they turn around and do what they trade for guys like Prescott overpay for Wilson and overpay for Deshaun Watson both in draft picks and money I mean at least we homegrown paid Prescott we didn't have to give up any draft picks you guys are just really not understanding how this works.
I mean you think we'd have luck into a quarterback except for this year and next year supposed to have be a bad crop of generational quarterbacks this would be the worst time and that's why I believe they signed him and we have to keep him two years more minimum and then they can start looking at that crop of quarterbacks that might be better to rebuild with but I'm sorry I don't know if you think Sanders and Cam Ward or whatever his name is moves the needle for you but it doesn't for a lot of teams even the Giants are thinking about making a pass and they went and got Wilson/winstaon LOL .
