A part of the Dak Negotiation that wasn't discussed much

[Diehardblues]

management is like mother nature. it is concerned with the species/team as a whole. not just one individual. stephen explained the pie. he drew a line in the sign. dak and france totally misread the outcome. looking forward to dak 2.0 next year.

Hopefully we didn’t mismanage one of the critical pieces to the pie. We shall see.

 

[Flamma]

I understand but that’s not what I said.

Does it matter If we don’t have a Franchise QB?

I’d suggest signing your QB first then your WR1 and top RB.

Agreed. But the guy you quoted before was right. He didn't say anything wrong when he was talking about solid backups. Or at least adequate backups. The time to sign Dak has passed. We missed that after his 3rd season.

 

[Diehardblues]

Agreed. But the guy you quoted before was right. He didn't say anything wrong when he was talking about solid backups. Or at least adequate backups. The time to sign Dak has passed. We missed that after his 3rd season.

Great points and agreed but the point of discussion is after that fact.

 

[buybuydandavis]

Another poster brought this up in another thread, and it's an interesting aspect of Dak's negotiation that doesn't seem to have been discussed much, but it's not unreasonable to wonder if, without the threat of the season not taking place at all, the Cowboys would have taken the 5th year off the table and signed Dak. As it is they may have worried that if the 2020 season isn't played that with a 4 year contract they would have effectively only had Dak committed for 3 seasons.

It's probably a waste of key strokes for me to write this, but if all you have for this thread is something like "Jerry just screwed it all up", or "Jerry just decided Dak sucks", or "Dak doesn't want to play in Dallas" please let it go in favor of some discussion on this topic. Obviously there was a desire to get a deal done, whether 4 or 5 years, or the two sides wouldn't have held out the possibility of a deal until the deadline.

Regardless of details, the threat of a missed season should have made the Cowboys less interested and Dak more.

It is possible that the Cowboys really *didn't* want the contract signed, and gave terms that made that happen. 33-35 AAV and 100gtd at *5* years was well below Goff and Wentz.

But that's assuming that a missed season would mean a lost contract year, instead of contracts all pushed downstream a year. Either has problems, but the latter makes more sense to me.