Part of me hopes this comes to fruition. Ride with Dalton.
Greed is always a bad look, especially undeserved greed; and that’s what Dak is showing now.
To all you who use the “QB market” as a means to explain why Dak “deserves” $35-$40m/yr, don’t even start. Two terrible overpays by other teams shouldn’t obligate the Cowboys to follow suit. Dak is an average QB at best and completely reliant on all-pro talent surrounding him to be competent. That’s a proven fact!
3mil gets us a quality backup and some leverage against Dak. Well worth it. That's what was entirely lacking forever - leverage against Dak. Any thought that Jerry might move on without him. Dak wanted an over market price on a team that delivers over market benefits. And why not just forever ask for more more more, when Jerry says that not signing Dak is not an option, and leaves himself with no options besides.
Now Dak, and his agent, have to start thinking that *maybe* Jerry will move on from Dak, either this year or next.
Now something *other* than mo mo mo money might happen to Dak.
I still think Dak signs the tag and plays for a year. Maybe with this, he even reconsiders signing a long term deal to foreclose the possibility that Jerry moves on.
Two points for Dalton. Could be a sweet deal here for him. If he gets some play time, he'll audition to the league for next year on a high powered offense. *Maybe* the team likes him enough to move on from Dak.