News: Agent's Take: Here are the Cowboys' options with Dak Prescott as his rookie deal nears end

[Flamma]

Carson Wentz?? I had to stop there.

I did the same thing. I actually stopped reading at that point.

Huge issue with dong that is, what IF Dak shines out this season and gets us back to the playoffs and say the NFCC. He then becomes a FA, not sure of all the language in the contract, but pretty sure he is then free to "test" the market. Dallas would then be locked into either matching or paying way more to keep him. If I am correc ton how it all works, that would pretty much screw us signing squat after wards. Better to sign him now, get him locked into a sweet deal, nothing elaborate mind you, as even as a fan who thinks this kid can be our next FQB, he still has yet to show consistency in his passing. That being said, I do believe his heart and love of playing secedes his accuracy issue.

I have to agree. If Dak has another year like 2016 and maybe goes further into the playoffs, no chance at a reasonable contract. Because people are going to say, give him a half decent offensive line and viable targets and his play is excellent.

 

[CWR]

Meh

 

[jrumann59]

You are wrong, more like $21.9-$24.9 million. Just my opinion.

$1 Bob...

 

[Stash]

Huge issue with dong that is, what IF Dak shines out this season and gets us back to the playoffs and say the NFCC. He then becomes a FA, not sure of all the language in the contract, but pretty sure he is then free to "test" the market. Dallas would then be locked into either matching or paying way more to keep him. If I am correc ton how it all works, that would pretty much screw us signing squat after wards. Better to sign him now, get him locked into a sweet deal, nothing elaborate mind you, as even as a fan who thinks this kid can be our next FQB, he still has yet to show consistency in his passing. That being said, I do believe his heart and love of playing secedes his accuracy issue.

You're forgetting about using the franchise tag in 2020.

 

[Willfreedom909]

Give him 29.9 million a year. That way people don’t whine like an extra .1 means they spent the whole salary cap

 

[blumayne38]

Draft another cheap rookie let Dak hit the market

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

Nobody is going to confuse Prescott with the game's top young passers, such as Patrick Mahomes and Carson Wentz.

Wait, but you guy said....

 

[CCBoy]

Wait, but you guy said....

To settle all disputes, just check with the Liquor Store Guy...

 

[CowboyRoy]

Agent's Take: Here are the Cowboys' options with Dak Prescott as his rookie deal nears end
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...th-dak-prescott-as-his-rookie-deal-nears-end/



...Prescott's four-year rookie contract will expire after the 2019 season. He is scheduled to make approximately $2.05 million in 2019 thanks to earning the performance escalator available to third through seventh round picks in the final year of rookie contracts.

Signing the 2016 fourth-round pick to a contract extension may be a lot easier said than done. Nobody is going to confuse Prescott with the game's top young passers, such as Patrick Mahomes and Carson Wentz. One of the biggest criticisms about Prescott is he misses too many throws because of his inconsistent accuracy as a passer. Nonetheless, only Tom Brady, who is arguably the greatest football player of all-time, has more than Prescott's 32 regular-season wins since he entered the NFL in 2016. His 14 game-winning drives are the most in league history during a quarterback's first three NFL seasons. The Cowboys have won the NFC East twice in the three years with Prescott at quarterback...

...The QB market

There has been tremendous growth in quarterback salaries since Prescott was drafted. Ten quarterbacks were on multi-year contracts averaging at least $20 million per year at that time. There are currently 16. The $25 million per year quarterback didn't exist until Derek Carr signed a five-year, $125.025 million extension with the Raiders in June 2017. The $30-million-per-year barrier was hit this offseason when Matt Ryan received a five-year, $150 million extension from the Falcons. Ryan's deal contains NFL records of $100 million in overall guarantees and $94.5 million fully guaranteed at signing. Aaron Rodgers supplanted Ryan as the NFL's highest-paid player in the preseason with a four-year extension from the Packers averaging $33.5 million per year...

...Final thoughts

The patience Jones has exercised with Lawrence probably should apply to Prescott unless he is willing to give the Cowboys some sort of financial break. Rather than signing Lawrence to a long-term contract after a breakout 2017 campaign in which he was selected to the Pro Bowl for the first time while tying for second in the NFL with 14.5 sacks, Jones was more comfortable with him playing this season under a $17.143 million franchise tag. Since Lawrence demonstrated he is the "war daddy" pass rusher Jones has been looking after releasing future Hall of Famer DeMarcus Ware in 2014, it is going to cost significantly more to sign him long-term this year.

Jones doesn't seem inclined to wait, although the 2019 season could be used to evaluate whether Prescott is actually the long-term solution at quarterback since he could be franchised in 2020, if necessary. Just like in Lawrence's case, waiting would be more costly provided Prescott proves to be a potential franchise quarterback while building upon his performance during the second half of this season. The additional money would be well spent because it would come with more certainty about stability at quarterback.

Did you come to any kind of conclusion because I didn't see it.

Dak doesn't have consistency or accuracy problems. That's a made up by the Dak trolls.

That being said its very obvious Dak is the franchise.

THAT being said it would be foolish to wait another year as the salaries just keep going up. And Dak may give us some kind of a discount because of his low 2019 salary.

If we fix the Oline in the offseason then Dak will have a great season. Will be hard going after that.

 

[jujoboys]

What is the hurry. Let him play the 2019 season with a real OC and see if he is the real deal or not. I am not sure if he is more than just a bus driver or backup QB.

Some of it will be dictated by the other free agents we get signed. Here are our big money free agents for 2019 and 2020.

Demarcus Lawrence 2019
Cole Beasley 2019 (He is probably gone)
L'ael Collins 2020
Sean Lee 2020 (Probably gone)
Ezekiel Elliott 2020 (We can slap the 5th year option on him and move it to 2021 but would he play on it)
Amari Cooper 2020
Byron Jones 2020
Dak Prescott 2020
Jaylon Smith 2020

If you don't sign Dak to an extension this offseason then you need to have the franchise tag for 2020 in your back pocket to slap on him just in case he has a huge 2019 and you have trouble signing him. However, you risk losing Cooper Jones, Smith etc if you don't have them under contract and you have to use the franchise tag on Dak. There is a very good chance we lose some of the players on that list that aren't named Lee or Beasley.

 

[CCBoy]

Did you come to any kind of conclusion because I didn't see it.

Dak doesn't have consistency or accuracy problems. That's a made up by the Dak trolls.

That being said its very obvious Dak is the franchise.

THAT being said it would be foolish to wait another year as the salaries just keep going up. And Dak may give us some kind of a discount because of his low 2019 salary.

If we fix the Oline in the offseason then Dak will have a great season. Will be hard going after that.

The OP was to stimulate objective views and allow some discussion. Understanding means something to a fan...I didn't present my own conclusion, as of yet.

Jerry already stated he wanted to get ahead of the contract negotiations, in the now.

 

[CowboyRoy]

The OP was to stimulate objective views and allow some discussion. Understanding means something to a fan...I didn't present my own conclusion, as of yet.

Jerry already stated he wanted to get ahead of the contract negotiations, in the now.

If the analysis is that Dak is definitely your guy, than paying Dak THIS offseason is the most likely way to get the more affordable contract.

Personally, I don't think anyone but the top 5 QB's should get anything close to 30 mill per year. But sadly, that is the going rate for top 15 type QB's. If we could get Dak around 25 million per season I think that would be a great contract going out about 5 years. In order to induce him I would guarantee like 2.5 years of that. No chance we find a better QB and develop him sooner then that anyway.

 

[jnday]

Did you come to any kind of conclusion because I didn't see it.

Dak doesn't have consistency or accuracy problems. That's a made up by the Dak trolls.

That being said its very obvious Dak is the franchise.

THAT being said it would be foolish to wait another year as the salaries just keep going up. And Dak may give us some kind of a discount because of his low 2019 salary.

If we fix the Oline in the offseason then Dak will have a great season. Will be hard going after that.

Dak does have the consistency and accuracy issues. He also has poor pocket awareness. These faults leads to these ugly, low scoring games that the offense is responsible for. These games are usually very close in scoring and with a decent QB, they would be blow-outs. Dak has had these same issues, with minimal improvement, since high school. It doesn’t matter what kind of offense this team is using when the QB’s faults are limiting him. You apparently have low standards for a franchise QB.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Dak does have the consistency and accuracy issues. He also has poor pocket awareness. These faults leads to these ugly, low scoring games that the offense is responsible for. These games are usually very close in scoring and with a decent QB, they would be blow-outs. Dak has had these same issues, with minimal improvement, since high school. It doesn’t matter what kind of offense this team is using when the QB’s faults are limiting him. You apparently have low standards for a franchise QB.

Any inconsistency or accuracy issues can be chalked up to the Oline inconsistencies of late and unfamiliarity and quality of pass catchers. First 24 games of Dak's career he had no such issues when the line was creating a pocket and he had reliable receivers to throw to. He also improved on those areas once Cooper came on board and Alexander was fired.

Pocket awareness I completely agree. He needs to work on that. He was NEVER a pocket passer in college. Takes time. Ive seen improvement. And when he does have a good Oline, those issues are minimilized.

As far as standards, I just understand Dak's past, understand what a young QB must go through, and I understand the effect of the players around the QB.

But I am definitely NOT one of these people that thinks you need Tom Brady to win a championship.

Im also not one of these people that thinks that getting the next Tom Brady is even a reality.

Loved Romo, Love Dak. Very lucky to get Romo as a undrafted FA and very lucky to get Dak as a 4th round pick.

Dak is a QB you can build around. 100%, no question. Now if Elite QB's are all you want, then whatever. Thats not reality.

I never considered Romo to be elite, but he was plenty good enough. It was coaching and the players around Romo that was the problem.

AGAIN........unless you consider NOT having Tom Brady as a problem.

 

[mattjames2010]

What is the hurry. Let him play the 2019 season with a real OC and see if he is the real deal or not. I am not sure if he is more than just a bus driver or backup QB.

With the demand there is in the NFL for just an average to good QB and how much teams will overpay, the ball may just be in Prescott's court.

You don't see any QBs holding out because no team wants to go into the season with a backup QB - if Prescotts agent went to Jerry and demanded a contract, he'd most likely get it. And Jerry just had to open his stupid mouth and already say Prescott will be here for a long time - so that doesn't help.

 

[erod]

Don't extend Garrett. Don't extend Dak right now either.

Makean offer he'll refuse, then just agree to talk after next season.

That's the right move.

 

[ClintDagger]

I did the same thing. I actually stopped reading at that point.



I have to agree. If Dak has another year like 2016 and maybe goes further into the playoffs, no chance at a reasonable contract. Because people are going to say, give him a half decent offensive line and viable targets and his play is excellent.

I don’t see a huge gap right now between Dak & Wentz. But I will tell you that the numerous scouts that I follow love Wentz and are down on Dak. Even after this season where you’d think that gap would close. I think agents put a lot of stock into that kind of thing.

 

[mattjames2010]

Some of it will be dictated by the other free agents we get signed. Here are our big money free agents for 2019 and 2020.

Demarcus Lawrence 2019
Cole Beasley 2019 (He is probably gone)
L'ael Collins 2020
Sean Lee 2020 (Probably gone)
Ezekiel Elliott 2020 (We can slap the 5th year option on him and move it to 2021 but would he play on it)
Amari Cooper 2020
Byron Jones 2020
Dak Prescott 2020
Jaylon Smith 2020

If you don't sign Dak to an extension this offseason then you need to have the franchise tag for 2020 in your back pocket to slap on him just in case he has a huge 2019 and you have trouble signing him. However, you risk losing Cooper Jones, Smith etc if you don't have them under contract and you have to use the franchise tag on Dak. There is a very good chance we lose some of the players on that list that aren't named Lee or Beasley.

The Cooper and Zeke deals scare me more than Dak's.

 

[PAPPYDOG]

Did you come to any kind of conclusion because I didn't see it.

Dak doesn't have consistency or accuracy problems. That's a made up by the Dak trolls.

That being said its very obvious Dak is the franchise.

THAT being said it would be foolish to wait another year as the salaries just keep going up. And Dak may give us some kind of a discount because of his low 2019 salary.

If we fix the Oline in the offseason then Dak will have a great season. Will be hard going after that.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Wait...................what are Dak and Zeke doing in that photo?