Best opportunity to find franchise QB

[Adiba1977]

Jerry is not releasing dak. Won’t happen - only thing if dak says wants to go some place else. Do not make him highest paid qb. That’s crazy. He needs take team friendly extension. He’s made enough and not won when matters.

 

[CowboyinMD]

Tell that to Denver….

Or Green Bay, two times (Favre to Aaron, Aaron to Love).

Or SF (Garappalo to Purdy)

The good ones know when to cut ties and do it fast.

It's sort of paradoxical -- some of you fans have morphed into the owner's mindset. "Oh, we can cut Dak..." Yes you can. You can also trade the likes of Micah and Lamb for good draft capital. Does that mean you're punting 2024? Well, yeah! But you've already hit your ceiling with this crew, so why not 1988-89 this for 1992-95?

 

[perrykemp]

Or Green Bay, two times (Favre to Aaron, Aaron to Love).

Or SF (Garappalo to Purdy)

The good ones know when to cut ties and do it fast.

It's sort of paradoxical -- some of you fans have morphed into the owner's mindset. "Oh, we can cut Dak..." Yes you can. You can also trade the likes of Micah and Lamb for good draft capital. Does that mean you're punting 2024? Well, yeah! But you've already hit your ceiling with this crew, so why not 1988-89 this for 1992-95?

They don't have to cut Dak and draft a franchise QB. They <can> draft a QB in the 1st round and develop him for a year or two behind Dak (ala the Green Bay method).

 

[Romo_To_Dez]

He will be gone after the 2024 season. And his contract is the only reason for why he'll still be playing for the Cowboys in 2024. Unless Jerry makes a bold move to cut his losses money wise and to get rid of Dak before the 2024 season.

 

[Nova]

Disagree on the fan enthusiasm not being there….next September everyone will be right back in front of the tv, right online buying stuff and ready for the “hope” all over again. It’s the nature of the beast

That's fair. You could be right-- perhaps evenly you're likely right. I might be wishing at this point.

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

They don't have to cut Dak and draft a franchise QB. They <can> draft a QB in the 1st round and develop him for a year or two behind Dak (ala the Green Bay method).

This franchise will never do that. Never. They will instead go find some non-threatening person from the 6th round and ride with Lance so that Dak does not feel threatened. This is the way of the Country Club.

 

[hopemsu]

Dak would’ve had to thrown for 450 yards, have maybe 2 incompletions total to win that game. Even then it would’ve come down to a field goal. If we release Dak, we need to release a slew of players including and especially Micah, “I almost got to the quarterback but don’t ask me to do anything worthwhile at all other than be an edge rusher” parsons

 

[raven55]

promise then draft, promise then draft, face it Money and Money that's all they want so forget change it's money and money and that's all there is besides the promise scrub qb's and money nothing is ever gonna change so look forward to the draft and promises

 

[Hawkeye0202]

As 110% Dak support I agree we have to make some hard decisions and if that means moving on, so be it but not just for the sake change. For all those point the finger at Dak, remember he doesn't play defense. My point is yes Dak is a major part of the problem(s) (contract, performance) but there are other critical problems as well. Parcell tried it his way, Garrett tried it and now MM all had different QBs.

Sidenote.....fans who keep referencing Jimmy's success should remember he didn't have to deal with free agency and salary cap issues. That matters

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

remember he doesn't play defense

Dak sucked the defense sucked - both of these were true yesterday.

 

[Redsfan_83]

The answer is in front of us. We tell Dak to waive his no trade clause or sit his *** on the bench behind Trey or the almighty himself next year. Eat his sarlary for 1 year, get a top 5 pick and rebuild where needed. We still have some young guns on this team, no full blowup is needed. Sure it will be painful, but could it be worse than how this sesaon turned out?

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Dak sucked the defense sucked - both of these were true yesterday.

Oh, I agree 100%........no excuses for either. For Dak, we have the same movie 3 times in the playoff.......but with a $59M cap hit hanging over your head, what do you do?

 

[JustChip]

Lost in the sheer disgust in the Dallas crapshow is how impressive Jordan Love looks. The dude looks like a young Aaron Rodgers... It's just sickening how GB somehow continues to pull this off at the QB position.

Love was in the zone. Most of his big plays were thrown flat-footed or falling back and were spot on. The Dallas got decent pressure early on but to no avail.

The Packers keep pulling this off because they keep trying. The Cowboys haven’t. Maybe trading for Trey Lance is a change in that approach.

 

[Redsfan_83]

Oh, I agree 100%........no excuses for either. For Dak, we have the same movie 3 times in the playoff.......but with a $59M cap hit hanging over your head, what do you do?

Tank for Tua is what we do.....let his contract ride out and force him to waive his no trade clause. Are we really really really really sure Trey is any worse?

 

[boysfanperiod]

The time is NOW. Dak is not getting any younger. Nothing is going to help his game. He will be 31 when the season starts. Maybe competition will do him some good.

 

[boysfanperiod]

Jerry is not releasing dak. Won’t happen - only thing if dak says wants to go some place else. Do not make him highest paid qb. That’s crazy. He needs take team friendly extension. He’s made enough and not won when matters.

If he could elevate the team's play, I would say pay him. He's just not a difference maker. Too much money to be a regular season QB.

 

[HungryLion]

Or Green Bay, two times (Favre to Aaron, Aaron to Love).

Or SF (Garappalo to Purdy)

The good ones know when to cut ties and do it fast.

It's sort of paradoxical -- some of you fans have morphed into the owner's mindset. "Oh, we can cut Dak..." Yes you can. You can also trade the likes of Micah and Lamb for good draft capital. Does that mean you're punting 2024? Well, yeah! But you've already hit your ceiling with this crew, so why not 1988-89 this for 1992-95?

And the eagles too. They dumped Wentz and were back in a Super Bowl two years later.

 

[blueblood70]

We have a very good opportunity to find a franchise QB. Will we do it? Probably not.

What we should do:

Release Dak. Take advantage of a strong QB class and draft the best of who’s remaining (likely one of Bo Nix, Michael Penix, JJ McCarthy will still be available when we pick).

We’d go into the season with Trey Lance and a high-potential rookie competing for the starting job. Trey Lance would have his opportunity to prove why he was drafted #3 overall.

If we have a terrible season, we’d go into 2025 with a top pick where we could potentially draft the best QB in the next class.

This doesn’t guarantee we’d get the next Stroud/Love/Mahomes, but it would give us 2-3 high-potential QB prospects to find the best one to build around.

What’s the alternative? If we keep Dak, we likely don’t draft a Bo Nix and we likely don’t give Trey Lance a shot to prove himself. If Dak fails again, we won’t have a good pick. We wouldn’t find any cheap vets better than Dak (best we could get is a Carson Wentz).

Did I'm trying to read all of that but you can't release that that's where I'm stopping to read you cannot eat that kind of cap hit and expect to rebuild this team we need to keep Prescott one more season and it's still a big cap hit in 2025 but we need to have him in 2024 fire the entire coaching staff start over at least have a good quarterback if you are blaming the quarterback for what happened with that offense when the defense was absolutely horrible NBA been horrible in almost every big game this year if you're not seeing that this was more about the defense putting pressure on the offense to make them feel like they had to break off their game plan and score on every damn play every damn series needed to be ending seven are we gonna lose the game you're seeing this in our backwards sword away....

The only way to salvage this would be if Prescott himself wanted to leave and would remove his no trade clause for certain teams and we got good draft picks for him then you might make a move like that but if you think releasing him and eating like I don't know $38 million this year and another 30 or so $1,000,000 next year in dead cap is gonna help you rebuild the team and then guess a quarterback might workout out of that list you have if you think they're going to give you 3-12 win seasons in a row , 5 of 7 years pof payoff appearences, no losing seasons etc etc,

you're delusional there's gonna be some step back before you step forward years before we get this thing back right if you flat out cut Prescott you're cutting your nose off to spite your face as my dad used to say

 

[Carter]

As a Michigan Man i can tell you that JJ McCarthy is Bailey Zappe at best. Likely will never start a NFL Game.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

What if they move on from Dak and it’s fun and not sad for him or scary for us?

What if dak is like I blew it release me let me prove myself somewhere else and we have a dak villain arc with the raiders or whatever

We sign bekicheck and Mac Jones