Video: Dak should take less. Skip and Emmitt are right

gjkoeppen

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Dak has earned the money and has every right to take it . What it comes down to is by giving the team a discount so they can acquire more talent and have a better chance of winning a championship do you really serve yourself better in the long run .

Brady thought so he wanted to win more SBs than any other QB and he did it and Im betting after a long successful career he probably has enough money to be comfortable .
But what do the SBs really do for him after football . Would the extra 5 to 10 million a year for ten yrs be more beneficial to him , Couple more houses boat as big as Jerrys or what ever obviously not in his mind .

Brady wanted the distinction of doing what nobody else had done and he got it . Not every player rates their success on championships some look at the money first and if they get the championship all the better .

Depends on the player some look at it as employment and get there satisfaction from making the most they can and providing for their family in the best way possible . We as fans want championships players families want lifetime security .

To give a discount or not is a decision Dak has to make but there is no wrong answer it just depends on what is your priority

Let me expound on this a little. When players, not necessarily Prescott, say they're priority is family first many think of just him and his immediate family of wife, children and parents, but many of these players come from poor families and they may be very close to grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins who are also still in poverty and these players want to help them out too. People also look at what the average pay per season and then forget how much of that gets eaten up by taxes, They also don't get that often when these players get new houses for these extended relatives they buy those homes and keep them in the players name so the relative doesn't have to pay capital gains on those houses. They also "create" jobs for these extended relatives and pay them very good salaries so those relatives don't have to pay capital gains tax on top of income tax if the players just gave them the money.

I commend players that take large parts of their income to also take care of not just their immediate family but their extended families too.
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In all honesty Dak isn't worth 40M. That is not his market value, probably in 3-4 years yes. Emmit and Irvin deserved to be top paid as they was the best in their skill group. Dak is good but not 35-40M good at the moment. I'll send him the same contract Wentz got but up the guarantee money and be done with it.
 

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And we still don't know for sure the bone of contention between the two camps. Might not be the salary at all, but guaranteed money, duration of contract, etc.

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Dak has earned the money and has every right to take it .
Agree. Anyone who doesn't is simply placed on ignore & have all the haters weeded out.

Not interested in their opinion, negativity nor hate for our young quarterback. Because guess what? Neither is Dak & the Cowboys lol.

Both sides will come to an agreement shortly before March 10th deadline & this topic will be water under the bridge.
 

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The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons. - Bill Parcells

I got more money than I can spend now. - Bill Parcells

Bill Parcell's net worth is considered in the $25-$35 million range.
 

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Maybe because those players were worth more because they were better players than Dak ?

Why didn't Troy, Emmitt, Romo, D-Law and Zeke take less? Why didn't they give the team a discount?
Oooh, but Dak all of a sudden should? :huh:
Why didn't Troy, Emmitt, Romo, D-Law and Zeke take less? Why didn't they give the team a discount?

Oooh, but Dak all of a sudden should? :huh:

Not that I agree with Dak requesting top pay, but how can one player demand that of Dak when they didn't do that themselves?


Not that I agree with Dak requesting top pay, but how can one player demand that of Dak when they didn't do that themselves?
 

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Why didn't Troy, Emmitt, Romo, D-Law and Zeke take less? Why didn't they give the team a discount?

Oooh, but Dak all of a sudden should? :huh:

Not that I agree with Dak requesting top pay, but how can one player demand that of Dak when they didn't do that themselves?

B/c he's asking for more than double what any other player on the team is making? And 2 bad contracts don't make a right one. You do realize that your NOT getting cut of Dak's contract right?

You can talk about Emmit and Troy when Dak has 1/3 of their success.
 

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Dak should take every dollar he can get. The Cowboys should only pay what they believe a player's truly worth. Too late to reload the toothpaste on DLaw, Zeke and Smith of course.


WHOA whoa whoa... reload on SMITH? EMMITT SMITH? EmmITT Smith is the main reason you HAVE 3 of those 5 superbowls to cheer about. he is a HUGE part of the reason the cowboys are still a household name. Emmitt SMith was worth EVERY SINGLE PENNY we paid him and THEN SOME. he was a superstar.

you ask one of TODAY"S Player to play his heart out with a dislocated shoulder to get us HFA in the NFC CHampionship game because NO ONE ELSE could have. THEN LETS SEE if they are worthy to hold Emmitt's shoulder pads.
 

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Maybe because those players were worth more because they were better players than Dak ?
How did Troy do when he lost Michael Irvin, Novacek and the core of the Great Wall of Dallas Oline during his last 4 years? What happened to his accuracy then? I thought elite QBs are supposed to make those around them better?
 

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B/c he's asking for more than double what any other player on the team is making? And 2 bad contracts don't make a right one. You do realize that your NOT getting cut of Dak's contract right?

You can talk about Emmit and Troy when Dak has 1/3 of their success.
You do know you are comparing Dak's 4 years to Troy's and Emmitt's whole careers? I don't agree with Dak's demands, but that is the market's going rate for a top 5-8 QB. I have yet to hear you complain when Zeke and D-Law got paid top pay last year.
 

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You do know you are comparing Dak's 4 years to Troy's and Emmitt's whole careers? I don't agree with Dak's demands, but that is the market's going rate for a top 5-8 QB. I have yet to hear you complain when Zeke and D-Law got paid top pay last year.

Troy and Emmitt had rings in year 4. Dak hasn't sniffed an NFC title game.

I didn't want to sign DLAW or Zeke. I was all over this board campaigning against both contracts.

Just proves you haven't been paying attention and make up whatever suits your argument.
 

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And we still don't know for sure the bone of contention between the two camps. Might not be the salary at all, but guaranteed money, duration of contract, etc.

Should Dak get top money? Heck no. But these guys are saying he should take a discount when they don't know what he's for sure asking for. The 33 million he turned down might have been for other reasons. We just don't know.

Now if it does come out for sure that he's asking for top money, then yeah, he's hurting the team for his own gain....but he may just be doing it for security. Maybe he wants a no trade clause. Maybe he wants a 5 or 6 year and they won't go that far.
Actually what I recently read was..

Dak does not want 5-6 year contracts.

He wants shorter contracts so as to do 2 more contracts during his career.

That way he can make more overall.

This is one of the problems getting an agreement.

I can understand the team wanting longer terms..

and the player wanting shorter.
 

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Tom Brady made millions before he started taking a discount plus his wife makes more money than he does. You can’t be asking Dak to take a discount on his first big contract. He hasn’t been pocketing the money Brady did all those years and he doesn’t have a rich wife.
 

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Troy and Emmitt had rings in year 4. Dak hasn't sniffed an NFC title game.

I didn't want to sign DLAW or Zeke. I was all over this board campaigning against both contracts.

Just proves you haven't been paying attention and make up whatever suits your argument.
Did you complain against Romo's top paid contracts?
 
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