Bob Sturm on the Dak Negotiations

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OK, I found one Franchise Tag player who signed a long term deal and it was DT Chris Jones in KC. That contract seems like an overpayment however, while Dallas had no reason to overpay at this point.
 

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What is your interpretation of that?

He retweeted what Dez said AFTER he posted this. It seems like he’s confirming that Dak’s side was asking way too much and that Dez told him this when it was happening. Dez must have been in the know with his sources...

This is all on the 15th, after the deadline passed and no contract happened.
 

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I just don't understand why if Dak truly wanted to stay in Dallas, maintain his relationship with the team and keep his "team guy" image intact why he would hire a guy like Todd France. Maybe that stuff wasn't important to him and if so, rock on. But being the QB of the Cowboys is a position of glamor and opportunity offered by few others in sports. He had a new coach coming in whose claim to fame was making quarterbacks better and a locker room full of teammates who believed in and were ready to run through a brick wall for him. Jerry told the world about his love for Dak, wanted him to be a Cowboy forever, and everybody knows Jerry is loyal and good to the players he likes, to fault. So why France? No way Dak didn't know what he was doing.
Not to be negative but..

Dak to me after watching him for 4 years and looking at his past prior to the NFL..

Dak has always gotten ahead at the expense of the guy ahead of him.

Dak has never beat anybody out to move ahead of his competition.

He is not a guy with a killer instinct. He reacts to his situations and seems to like being an underdog.

Having France stems from that. France is aggressive where Dak is not. Dak is competitive. Not aggressive.

Mahomes is aggressive, Rodgers is aggressive. The best ones are..Brady is quietly the best at it.

So Dak has France and until France fails, Dak will retain him and hope.

I just think the FO is going to stay put going forward also.
 

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Not to be negative but..

Dak to me after watching him for 4 years and looking at his past prior to the NFL..

Dak has always gotten ahead at the expense of the guy ahead of him.

Dak has never beat anybody out to move ahead of his competition.

He is not a guy with a killer instinct. He reacts to his situations and seems to like being an underdog.

Having France stems from that. France is aggressive where Dak is not. Dak is competitive. Not aggressive.

Mahomes is aggressive, Rodgers is aggressive. The best ones are..Brady is quietly the best at it.

So Dak has France and until France fails, Dak will retain him and hope.

I just think the FO is going to stay put going forward also.

Interesting psychoanalysis take. It makes sense.
 

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Not to be negative but..

Dak to me after watching him for 4 years and looking at his past prior to the NFL..

Dak has always gotten ahead at the expense of the guy ahead of him.

Dak has never beat anybody out to move ahead of his competition.

He is not a guy with a killer instinct. He reacts to his situations and seems to like being an underdog.

Having France stems from that. France is aggressive where Dak is not. Dak is competitive. Not aggressive.

Mahomes is aggressive, Rodgers is aggressive. The best ones are..Brady is quietly the best at it.

So Dak has France and until France fails, Dak will retain him and hope.

I just think the FO is going to stay put going forward also.
I hear you and agree with your base point.

Although we do need to realize that he was raised by some pretty awful coaches around him, and the one who is supposedly any good at all was his peer.

I'm anxious to see if your point here can be overcome with new and better coaching, or if it is indeed just him, or too late to overcome.
 

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He retweeted what Dez said AFTER he posted this. It seems like he’s confirming that Dak’s side was asking way too much and that Dez told him this when it was happening. Dez must have been in the know with his sources...

This is all on the 15th, after the deadline passed and no contract happened.

ok man thanks. That’s what I was getting out of it, but I wanted to make sure that I was reading it right.
 

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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.
So, Dak clearly doesn't want to burn the bridge, but he hired a bridge burner?

Is he just dumb then?
 

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Words like “greed” and “owe” don’t factor into this situation for me. It’s a matter of Dak getting bad advice from France, in my opinion.
It completely bamfoozled me when Dak hired France in the first place. Only greedy selfish types hire agents such as France, which still doesn't all make sense to me.

Maybe Dak is naive in this sense and didn't fully realize the ramifications of hiring such a dirtbag?
 

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It makes perfect sense if the typical process is to have a ton of side discussions months ahead of time instead of trying to shove everything into the last day or two. And France basically refused to do anything until the last minute. This what Sturm wrote -

If there were no coronavirus shutdown, I believe this deal is done months ago. Prescott does not attend Mike McCarthy’s first OTA-sessions in Dallas in late April/early May, and this puts everything in motion for resolution back then. But with no team activities at all for the first time in recent history, there was also no pressure on the Cowboys to resolve this. That really seemed to ruin the Prescott/CAA plans to force the Cowboys to move to the table. Instead, we had Stephen Jones twice telling the media that they haven’t talked to agent Todd France about the contract in months.
Which points directly to France being a dirtbag overrated agent. Only one plan? Really? And that was blackmail? Seriously?

Why would ANYONE hire this saboteur?
 

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Dallas drafted a QB and then went and got Dalton during the pandemic, all after first offering Dak a contract. The latest excuse that I read was they wanted to get the contract done, but they just ran out of time at 4 pm.

https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/20...ried-last-minute-long-term-dak-prescott-deal/

And Dak’s brother also called out the Cowboys publicly.
If they wanted the contract done but ran out of time, that's a horrific job by the agent.

Everything....EVERYTHING points toward France being a horrific player rep.
 

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This'll probably get deleted but I think that last tweet summed up how "I" was interpreting that Dez and other tweet. To see it the another way is probably seeing what you wanted to see.

How do you see this Tweet, right after Jordan re-tweeted the Dez post? Where is Dez in that picture? And if that’s the case, it makes it even look worse after what they did to Romo for this guy.

 
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