I don't think its apples to apples. Dak gives you that ability to go all the way where Dalton really doesn't. Not saying it could never happen. And THAT is what you are paying for with Dak over Dalton.
But if Dalton was starting, he wouldnt be taking 3 million or 6 million. You may get that for one year if you dumped Dak. But no veteran starting QB is going to play for that. Just take a look at what happened with Tannehil.
If Dalton killed it then he would want more money or would sign for bigger money elsewhere.
And you cant have a strategy of going around signing cheap veterans every year.
And lets be honest here...….……….whomever didn't like Dak at 1 million a year for 4 years is being disingenuous panning for Dalton. If Dak wasn't good enough then its laughable to pretend Dalton is.
That would be agenda trolling.
this is what’s most difficult for me to understand In this discussion. Dalton starts for us for one year, and offers a huge discrepancy in salary for that year. What are you doing with the one year savings? Signing clowney? Griffin? Who’s out there that you want and think is worth the money?
but moving forward, either Dalton sucks and you’ve dumped Dak and now have to hope you can draft a sure fire starter at QB or sign someone in FA (don’t think there are any good ones who will be available next year outside of maybe Jameis lol)
or Dalton proves to be capable and now you have to pay him market price which will probably be in the 30 mil territory assuming he’s played well enough to consider keeping, and now you’ve got a guy on the backside of his career and are locking him up for how long? And for what realistic savings over Dak through those years? 5 million?
there’s just not a realistic situation here outside of those who are just ok dumping Dak and starting from scratch altogether. I think that’s foolish, but at least they’re honest about preferring that purgatory