Dak is the guy who should be signed as soon as possible, assuming he and his agent aren’t trying to hold us up.
First, the QB is the most important player on the team. No, Dak isn’t close to being as good a QB as Zeke is a RB, but Dak is much more important due to the position. You sign Dak before all the other young studs start signing, even before Wilson if possible. The longer you wait on Dak, the more astronomical his contract will become. Set the market for him now before someone else sets it for you.
Second, once your QB is signed to a contract that locks him up for the next 4-5 years, then you know the parameters for Cooper and Zeke and anyone else. It’s not about how much you pay other guys...the market always determines that, not your salary cap space....you pay the market or they walk. But having other key players signed, like your QB, helps you start structuring the contracts in ways that work best over 3-4 years down the road so you aren’t cutting stars because you mismanaged the cap.
Dak first; then you mitigate his increase somewhat by extending Cooper so his huge fifth year hit doesn’t happen. Then you start dealing with Zeke, which will be all about what’s reasonable for a Star RB.
I applaud you my good sir in the eloquently structured flow of intended thoughts seamlessly placed into compiled prose in such an expeditious fashion
it prolly would've took me 30 minutes & 3 glugs of fine tuning to have posted up that in draft ,before hitting post reply,,, er,,,and then after it hit the board? Probably 2 more fine tunings would be required,,,
