Kaiser
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Some interesting points about the Dak Contract Situation from Bob Sturm in his latest column. To paraphrase –
1 – He firmly believes the contract gets done months ago if the pandemic hadn’t happened. France’s strategy is partly about pressuring the team with the player held out of the offseason workouts and meetings. No offseason contact, no pressure on the team.
2 – Goff’s contract was the benchmark but Goff regressed after signing it. So Dallas likely believed matching that contract was a significant raise for Dak but Todd France would think the numbers would have to be significantly over it. And France has a history of burning bridges with the contracts of Joey Bosa, Aaron Donald and DeAndre Hopkins. Dak clearly doesn’t want to burn the bridge but he is responsible for hiring a bridge-burner, which would also explain the reports that he was dealing directly with the team at the deadline .
3 – With the massive uncertainty going into next season, both sides had plenty of reasons to punt the issue for a year and let Dak play on the Tag. Its no big loss for Dak because his weekly paycheck this year will be equal to 93% of what he made for all of last season.
The overall tone of his article is that no one should freak out or assume anything is different now than a month ago, this just resets the clock by a year. In the middle of a hurricane, that isn’t a bad thing for Dallas or Dak.
1 – He firmly believes the contract gets done months ago if the pandemic hadn’t happened. France’s strategy is partly about pressuring the team with the player held out of the offseason workouts and meetings. No offseason contact, no pressure on the team.
2 – Goff’s contract was the benchmark but Goff regressed after signing it. So Dallas likely believed matching that contract was a significant raise for Dak but Todd France would think the numbers would have to be significantly over it. And France has a history of burning bridges with the contracts of Joey Bosa, Aaron Donald and DeAndre Hopkins. Dak clearly doesn’t want to burn the bridge but he is responsible for hiring a bridge-burner, which would also explain the reports that he was dealing directly with the team at the deadline .
3 – With the massive uncertainty going into next season, both sides had plenty of reasons to punt the issue for a year and let Dak play on the Tag. Its no big loss for Dak because his weekly paycheck this year will be equal to 93% of what he made for all of last season.
The overall tone of his article is that no one should freak out or assume anything is different now than a month ago, this just resets the clock by a year. In the middle of a hurricane, that isn’t a bad thing for Dallas or Dak.
