paying Dak 35 is not a gamble? thats huge Gamble hes played on talented teams and 2 of 3 years weve missed the playoffs now, 8-8 this season , I know its a not all Dak but dak also hasn't shown RECENTLY that he can win games , absolutely out a loss out and turn it into a win, not one time this season when down at the half by even small margins did we win.. he also couldn't beat good teams so we can be average with a Fitzpatrick or keenum type while developing another draft pick or be average with a 35mil QB who has never shown much consistency?? you pay a QB 35mil because he can pull out wins from apparent losses, a few anyway , most QBs can beat average to bad teams, its how they perform against the good ones is barometer for a big deal to be handed out.
we blamed a lot of this on Garett and Marinelli etc they are gone , maybe this new staff can take a Hurts or Fromm and build a strong scheme and team around them like Lamar Jackson got in Baltimore..we do have strong run game and Oline is experienced plus a new staff and what should be better ST and Defense..Im betting a journeyman QB with a young Draft pick could play in this environment..
thats the argument, no one really thinks dak suxs , a lot think its a high risk a big gamble to pay him 35 and not have the cap space to make the rest of the team stronger and Daks shown he needs a lot of help around him..irt hard to do both so options and plan Bs are nedded..
this isnt up to us anyway..lets see how the Fo handles this..these are spitballing sessions
yes, its a gamble. but a gamble that has a higher probability of paying off than wasting 15-20 mill a year on a QB that we know can not win. its about your odds. Dak has been on a talented team and he has won...the limitations as we all argued to no end has been the coaching. I have been a Dak critic (I never slobbered and neither was I ever a hater). I pointed to his flaws and wanted to see improvements in his game. he has done that every year. is he elite? no, there are only a few elite QBs in the league.....
I fully expected the results we saw this season. a lame duck coach. who couldn't hire any coaches he wanted. a meddling GM. what else did you expect to happen? there was so much uncertainty to begin the season and it was part of everything that happened this year. we can not pull full blame on Dak, given the coaching situation, with Garrett (do we need to go there) and a first year OC who got schooled a few times. we lost games due to stupid coaching decisions....at least 4 that I can count.
and Dak has shown he can beat good teams and come back. I always argued that most NFL games go into the 4th quarter within a score or chance of a team wining it. the coaching makes all the difference in the 4th quarter to put the players in position to win...this past year we didn't. how many times did we come on this board after a game we lost and cursed at Garrett and wanted him fired...
the point being, we can give him a contract that would allow us to get out of it in 3 years...lets see how the new regime does, because we can't bring in a lame duck QB, that will guarantee us a couple of craappy seasons...and then go searching for a QB, hoping to hit on one....to me that has much lower odds of us winning, than signing Dak.
two years ago, Cousins got a huge contract....now it doesn't look so large....Carr got a huge deal and now it looks very reasonable...two years from now Dak's contract will look average...its the way the NFL QB market is and will be for some time...