Adreme
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With regards to your first point, the offensive line managed to weaken even further with injuries even after Prescott went down. The Vikings game was arguably the only comparable one with what Prescott had during his 4 games with Martin actually playing. The Cowboys put up 31 points and won. In the last game the Cowboys put up 16 points (should have been 20 but for Lamb dropping a dolly) with both Martin and Irving missing from the offensive line. Plus if people are being fair the coaching really hurt the chances of the offense putting up points vs Washington with their dumb decisions.
It's not realistic to compare what Prescott was doing behind a better offensive line than to what Dinucci and Gilbert played with and come on neither is even a 5th round draft pick!
I don't see 6 teams being willing to pay Prescott 40 million. I agree that teams would be interested in him but given his injury (I think tearing an ACL would be better to recover from than a compound fracture) and the global pandemic I just couldn't see a load of GM's wanting to take the plunge and pay top dollar on Dak Prescott. They would also need to have the cap space as well.
Either way I think the Cowboys will tag him again giving both options of keeping him or trading him.
Most of their games were pretty comparable on the OLine. The only difference was they realized by then to put Martin at RT which they didnt realize for Dak so if anything it was better than what Dak had, but Martin was not out every game that the offense forgot how to function. So it is absolutely a fair comparison when they had almost the exact same players and if your argument was "no no no it was just the extra guard missing that made the offense average more than 25 points LESS per game" I am going to laugh and I am going to laugh A LOT.
Also again neck injury which people thought would be permeant damage AND a major injury to a throwing shoulder did not stop QBs from getting top dollar in free agency.
As for the teams assuming you tag him next year and he walks you have, in no particular order: Patriots as obvious suitor (they would also probably be a suitor this year), Saints who will be in cap hell next year after Brees retires but in a good place after, Buccs who only have a 2 year deal with Brady who seems to be trending downward in a hurry, the Raiders have been trying to get rid of Carr for a decade, the Browns are going to want to move on from Baker because he does not have it and they have a Super Bowl level team, the 49ers can move on from Jimmy G pretty cleanly both this year and next year and get a massive upgrade for a SB team that will be lucky to have a high draft pick due to injuries, Detroit is a team to look at in 2 years for moving on from Stafford, Washington has a strong defense and needs a QB and has plenty of cap space for either this year or next so making Dak a key piece would be huge for them, NY needs 2 years but again if a tag and walk they are in the market, and of course the Colts who in 2 years will need to replace the veteran sign on that they have. That is ignoring teams like Chicago who have no QB, and teams that might be thinking about wanting to move on in 2 years like the Steelers who have an aging QB themselves, but would have to pull cap gymnastics to even be in the running.
Edit: I am also not counting if Tua bombs or Denver wants to move on from Lock (they are not afraid to sign highly talented veteran QBs to big money when they have a roster), and I am assuming Jax and Jets get a QB in this draft.