The whole mishandling of the QB conract haunts this team now and going forward. If they were to trust their first thought which was this guy is a mirage and don't pay him, things would look a lot different. The moral of the story being: bus drivers are OK as long as it is on a rookie deal.
About that.
Facts are stubborn things and the facts say that Dak's total cap number this year is a smidge under $20 million. Let's compare that a bit...
Jared Goff Just over $31 million.
Kirk Cousins about $31.5 million
Carson Wentz $28.3 million
Ryan Tannehill $38.6 million
I'm not saying that Dak is the greatest QB ev-AR or that his contract is stellar or anything of that type. All that I'm saying is that your statement about how his contract is somehow hamstringing the current team is simply false.
NEXT year, it gets grim, but this year it is very manageable.
Also, can't cut him after this year either as that would cause $89 million of dead cap next year. His $31,000,000 salary for next year is already fully guaranteed, but he is cutable AFTER next year if we can't stomach the $52 million cap number for 2024. He has both a no trade and a no tag clause in his contract.
