News: Yahoo Sports reporting that Dak was offered 33 Million a year and he turned it down

[SackMaster]

33mil doesn't tell much.

Exactly.

Was it for 7 years?
Was it for 3 years?
What was the Guarantees?
What was the incentives / milestone bonuses?
What the deal balanced, front loaded, back loaded?
ect...

Too much focus on the Average Pay and not enough on the Details IMO.

 

[ShortRound]

 

[Bigdog]

I would agree with you if our defense wasn't bad and our special teams wasn't garbage. You can't lose 2/3 of the game and expect to win. Dak had control of the offense and the offense was not a problem in 2019

I will agree with you on that. Maybe I just can't get out of my mind scoring only 9 pts in NE or not beating the Eagles with players from the street. Don't get me wrong. i like Dak. I just want it to be fair for both sides.

 

[Stash]

If I remember right, LeBron James had a similar approach to some of his deals.

It's not a bad move if you're confident in your abilities.

But in this case, where the team has the option of using a non-exclusive franchise tag and keeping him on that for the nest two years and roughly $60 million, I think he and his agent should compromise on a shorter deal that would pay him $33 million a year. That's why I created that thread about 3 years, $100 million. I think it's a reasonable compromise with concessions by all sides that would get this thing done.

 

[sean10mm]

It's not a bad move if you're confident in your abilities.

But in this case, where the team has the option of using a non-exclusive franchise tag and keeping him on that for the nest two years and roughly $60 million, I think he and his agent should compromise on a shorter deal that would pay him $33 million a year. That's why I created that thread about 3 years, $100 million. I think it's a reasonable compromise with concessions by all sides that would get this thing done.

Yeah, the problem with what Dak wants from the team POV is that it's not very different from them... just tagging him 1 or even 2 years. Either way it's lot of money for a short time and then either side can walk.

I might laugh myself to death if dastardly Dak strong-arms the team into giving him... a short deal that lets the team move on if he stinks, and gets him mega-paid under the new CBA if he doesn't. Which is supposedly what everybody wants anyway!

 

[Ranched]

and who's gonna play QB?

Tagovailoa, Herbert, Love, Fromm and Jalen Hurts. All good draft picks. Back to Dak. $33.3 million is a lot of money for one-year of service. However, that’s pretty much what Spotrac.com is predicting Dak will earn per season on a long-term contract anyway.

They believe he will sign a five-year, $165,061,201 contract extension that will pay him $33,012,242 annually. I personally think he’s asking for $35 million+ a year, but regardless it’s a lot of money. That said, go after Bridgewater. I truly believe Bridgewater can come in and have the same kind of success with Dallas and do it for much cheaper.

Spotrac.com predicts Bridgewater’s market value at three-year, $60,120,146 and an annual salary of $20,040,049. I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a great bargain to me.

If I’m right and Bridgewater can be just as successful as Dak , the Cowboys would be fools to pay more money for the latter. Having approximately $13 million or so to use to upgrade your team in other areas such as defense sure would come in handy.

Too late for that. I wanted jerry to sign dak early last offseason. before wentz and goff. front office played chicken with Dak and lost. now they have to pay

That's exactly what caused this mess.

 

[sean10mm]

Right, if you're the FO and you believe in Dak long term, then you want to sign him early to a long deal, because the going rate for a QB only goes one direction - UP, UP, UP.

If you're unsure then you just tag him. Or give him the short deal he wants, because that cuts both ways - you get out of it quickly too if he doesn't turn out to be an elite player.

 

[SackMaster]

Tagovailoa, Herbert, Love, Fromm and Jalen Hurts. All good draft picks. Back to Dak. $33.3 million is a lot of money for one-year of service. However, that’s pretty much what Spotrac.com is predicting Dak will earn per season on a long-term contract anyway.

They believe he will sign a five-year, $165,061,201 contract extension that will pay him $33,012,242 annually. I personally think he’s asking for $35 million+ a year, but regardless it’s a lot of money. That said, go after Bridgewater. I truly believe Bridgewater can come in and have the same kind of success with Dallas and do it for much cheaper.

Spotrac.com predicts Bridgewater’s market value at three-year, $60,120,146 and an annual salary of $20,040,049. I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a great bargain to me.

If I’m right and Bridgewater can be just as successful as Dak , the Cowboys would be fools to pay more money for the latter. Having approximately $13 million or so to use to upgrade your team in other areas such as defense sure would come in handy.

Could Bridgewater come in and be as successful as Dak? Maybe.

But based off his actual production and his estimated value in the league, I think it would be a much safer bet that Bridgewater would be a significant downgrade at the position and not be nearly as successful as Dak has been.

The wildcard would be that Garrett is no longer the coach. So maybe MM could have Bridgewater be as successful as Dak was. But if that's the case, how much better could Dak be under MM too?

 

[cowboy_ron]

Stephen don't give in.....stand your ground at fair market value, do not overpay.....if fair market value isn't good enough then focus elsewhere don't set the team back.........just be glad his true character came out before the long term contract did.

 

[sean10mm]

Could Bridgewater come in and be as successful as Dak? Maybe.

But based off his actual production and his estimated value in the league, I think it would be a much safer bet that Bridgewater would be a significant downgrade at the position and not be nearly as successful as Dak has been.

A problem with fans is that if they feel like a player on their team isn't Good Enough, they treat that as if they're Literally the Worst, and think anybody else they've overheard the name of on ESPN is automatically better.

Bridgewater has an 0-1 playoff record and garbage career stats. He went 5-0 on the Saints because they only needed him to throw like 150 yards a game, he was virtually a Dilfer-tier bus driver. His one full season he just handed the ball off to career peak Adrian Peterson a jillion times and barely passed. You look closer and he's just a dink-dunk machine who makes 2019 Dak look like 2007 Tom Brady. Yet there are Cowboys fans who think he can be better than Dak because a) they hate Dak, and b) he's a Name They Heard on TV That One Time.

 

[sean10mm]

Stephen don't give in.....stand your ground at fair market value, do not overpay.....if fair market value isn't good enough then focus elsewhere don't set the team back.........just be glad his true character came out before the long term contract did.

What "true character"? The one revealed as an un-sourced rumor on journalistic juggernaut... yahoo?

 

[Bowdown27]

Just get him more endorsements outside of cowboys and get paid the same amount if it was a contract of 40 million per.

 

[Philmonroe]

Who’s outraged?

I think the person you quoted is triggered and or Dak is disguise.

 

[beware_d-ware]

On its face, offering $33M for 2018 Dak is a very competitive deal. We won't know about any guarantees or poison pills, but the AAV alone makes it sound like a serious offer. Hopefully that should put the "Stephen lowballed Dak" story to bed.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

That's why I say players should ignore piker fans when it comes to business and most do.

They should ignore the fawning groupies too,,, they're full of bad advice.

 

[vlad]

So this was before the season started. How much would he have to make a year to make up for the $33 million he could have already had in his pocket? Does his agent understand math or am I missing something? Had to be something other than the yearly $ amount that killed the deal. Perhaps the guaranteed amount which the article doesn't produce.

That's a good point however I recall hearing somewhere in this saga it was about guaranteed money more than per year. Like the they only wanted to guarantee 70

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I recall reading that the issue was over years moreso than money. Dak wants 5 years so he will be a FA at age 31 as opposed to the 7 years at age 33 the club wants.

I'd bet dollars to donuts if the offer was 5/33 we would take it.

 

[Ranched]

I recall reading that the issue was over years moreso than money. Dak wants 5 years so he will be a FA at age 31 as opposed to the 7 years at age 33 the club wants.

I'd bet dollars to donuts if the offer was 5/33 we would take it.

Good post. And you call yourself a Lumpkin?!

 

[Reid1boys]

Whatever happens, happens... but one thing i do not want to hear is how teh Cowboys had such a bargain in his first 4 years. So wait.... so if Romo never got hurt and Dak sat for 4 years and never took a snap, does that mean the Cowboys would have overpaid Dak? I do not hear people crying about players that got paid and didnt live up to it... TANK.

Dak earned exactly what his contract was worth because he was a 4th rd pick. That is over, dont even think the Cowboys have to make up for your first contract now.

Sorry, Dak is actually trying to sign a deal that accounts for QB salaries increasing every year as the cap goes up. Screw that. Like I said, whatever happens, happens..... but I am extremely happy the front office is taking this slow and making sure they get a deal that the TEAM also thinks is good for them, not just laying down for Dak and giving him a blank check. When he takes us to 2 SBs in a row like Wilson did, or plays like Mahomes... yea, then we can talk about that blank check.

 

[mardwin]

We can get Brady or Rivers for less than $33M, this is just vintage Jerry Jones front office to offer Dak that kind of salary. Put the transition tag on him and he won't be getting anywhere close to that.