Bet on Cowboys signing Prescott

[Reid1boys]

We don’t know either way. Why should he take 55 if he can bleed Jethro for more. Lol

It’s not his job to manage the Cap or build a better team around him. That’s on Jethro & Son which they’re trying to do. Good luck

you are right.... and exactly why they may let him walk. NOBODY on this forum feels Dak should be the highest paid player in the NFL... NOBODY. So maybe them letting him walk is the right move... regardless of how much you want to mock them ... for even making the right move.

 

[KingCorcoran]

Of course but his decision is based on our offer which is our decision.

No. It is Dak’s decision no matter what the Cowboys or any team offers once he becomes a free agent. It’s based on whatever Dak wants to accept. He is bound to no team. He can choose to retire if the spirit moves him. If the Cowboys want to retain his services beyond this season they need only agree to give him whatever he tells them to give him.

 

[DakotaReign]

Probably what’s best but if I don’t have a QB I trade Parsons and Micah and do a straight rebuild. I need to have some draft picks to build with I don’t know if I need Micah and Lamb here to just lose.

Yeah if we’re gonna scrap we need to scrap it all.

 

[Cowfan75Lives]

I don't think it's intestestinal fortitude, I think it's the "tik...tik" passage of time. How confident is Jerry that he will still be around when they find that "worthy" QB?

Jerry has proven time and time again he doesn't care about winning again before he kicks. I mean, he kept Fat Mike around another year just so he didn't have to pay "dead coach money".

 

[Diehardblues]

No. It is Dak’s decision no matter what the Cowboys or any team offers once he becomes a free agent. It’s based on whatever Dak wants to accept. He is bound to no team. He can choose to retire if the spirit moves him. If the Cowboys want to retain his services beyond this season they need only agree to give him whatever he tells them to give him.

Yes but our decision or offer determines his decision.

 

[Diehardblues]

you are right.... and exactly why they may let him walk. NOBODY on this forum feels Dak should be the highest paid player in the NFL... NOBODY. So maybe them letting him walk is the right move... regardless of how much you want to mock them ... for even making the right move.

Im not sure what the right move is for our Dynamic Duo ownership. Overpaying our QB limiting building a better team around him or releasing a playoff caliber Franchise QB who without a solid replacement could deliver being a non playoff team for years. Either way we’ll be able to criticize.

I tend to lean towards what one of my favorite writers in Dallas , Cowlishaw wrote this week, that it’s probably easier for Jethro to resign him and be stuck not being a Super Bowl team than restarting looking for another Franchise QB. Which illustrates the limits or obstacles we have with this ownership regardless.

 

[CowboyoWales]

We don’t know either way. Why should he take 55 if he can bleed Jethro for more. Lol

It’s not his job to manage the Cap or build a better team around him. That’s on Jethro & Son which they’re trying to do. Good luck

He doesnt have to, however, the optic that gives, is that he's not particularly interested in winning. If he thinks the heat and public opinion has turned over the last couple of years then a Rinse Cowboys contract (on his terms), would create such pressure FOR HIM TO PLAY UP TO THE CONTRACT that's its tantamount to his part in the play-off failures, a lack of composure when pressures on his game.

As for managing the CAP, I assume the sticking point is the number of years....especially with the $40M restructured money.

 

[DuncanIso]

I’m assuming they would front load with a huge signing bonus and backload Cap hits on back end of contract much like current deal.

We already paying for Daks current contract.

2024 - $55 mil
2025 - $40 mil
2026 - $12 mil

He’s the reason our cap is jacked up.

Why would they add another $ to that mess?

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

I don’t think Jerry has the intestinal fortitude to do what’s right and let Dak walk, that said he is getting everything he wants which is keeping the Cowboys in the news and relevant and that is Jerry’s main goal. Unfortunately Dak will get paid and Jerry will be telling everyone what a deal he got at only 62 million a year and how he got a home team deal. Sad but the writing on the wall always has been and I be shocked and extremely happy if he lets Dak walk, but it’s just not happening

Doubt that remember last time he told him to his face at the presser after that signing the he overpaid for him.

 

[thunderpimp91]

name me one team in the league today worth a damn

So what does worth a damn mean? Those were all playoff teams.

 

[KingCorcoran]

Yes but our decision or offer determines his decision.

No, it doesn’t. The Cowboys could offer him the most money and he could decide to go elsewhere simply because he feels like it. If he signs another contract to play for the Cowboys it will only be because he got what he wants from the Cowboys.

 

[75boyz]

I don’t think Jerry has the intestinal fortitude to do what’s right and let Dak walk, that said he is getting everything he wants which is keeping the Cowboys in the news and relevant and that is Jerry’s main goal. Unfortunately Dak will get paid and Jerry will be telling everyone what a deal he got at only 62 million a year and how he got a home team deal. Sad but the writing on the wall always has been and I be shocked and extremely happy if he lets Dak walk, but it’s just not happening

Good, and by past precedence alone, a highly accurate post.

 

[Diehardblues]

No, it doesn’t. The Cowboys could offer him the most money and he could decide to go elsewhere simply because he feels like it. If he signs another contract to play for the Cowboys it will only be because he got what he wants from the Cowboys.

That’s what I mean. Ultimately his decision rest on ours.

 

[Diehardblues]

We already paying for Daks current contract.

2024 - $55 mil
2025 - $40 mil
2026 - $12 mil

He’s the reason our cap is jacked up.

Why would they add another $ to that mess?

A new contract doesn’t just add on to current one.

 

[Diehardblues]

He doesnt have to, however, the optic that gives, is that he's not particularly interested in winning. If he thinks the heat and public opinion has turned over the last couple of years then a Rinse Cowboys contract (on his terms), would create such pressure FOR HIM TO PLAY UP TO THE CONTRACT that's its tantamount to his part in the play-off failures, a lack of composure when pressures on his game.

As for managing the CAP, I assume the sticking point is the number of years....especially with the $40M restructured money.

I’d argue Jethro isn’t particularly interested in winning. Just enough to remain relevant. Could be a a perfect match. Lol

 

[GMO415]

Get your ink Boys. Dak's staying
https://athlonsports.com/cowboys-co...-prescott-revealed-55-million-per-year-window

 

[Hadenough]

When the time comes I wouldn’t bet against Dak becoming the richest Cowboy player ever.

That probably isn’t a path to the Super Bowl, but it avoids the path to complete uncertainty.

And for all of his professional tolerance for ambiguity , Jethro isn’t starting from scratch at QB anytime soon.

Our dysfunctional ownerships insistence on remaining “ relative and interesting “ hedges on a playoff caliber Franchise QB regardless the implications thereof .

The way I see it is they have given Dak everything. And if Parsons wasn't there this would be a .500 team. Jerry was scarred from the performance last year. The defense has a little more wiggle room for excuses last year because Quinn was leaving and they played fairly well against SF in the playoffs previous years.
This team has been carrying Dak. You put Derek Carr or Kirk Cousins or Baker Mayfield and this team is making the playoffs. They might make it with a Sam Darnold or Jacoby Brissett. Paying Dak is going to kill any depth this team might have and the Cowboys will be stuck unable to build a championship team around Parsons.

 

[5Stars]

Slick Dak talking out boff sides of his mouf. First day press conference, "I'm only here so I won't get fined..."

Second or third day during an interview, "I'm in the best shape of my life, I run faster, feel better and want to be a Cowboy for life..." Well, which is it, Dak? He does not know if he is coming or going, but he can talk that trash, fo sure.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

You’re looking at it from annual value whereas teams/players are looking at what percentage of the cap they can get.

When you look at the newer Qb signings through this view it makes a lot more sense. Jordan love is technically the highest paid qb right now at $55m but is 10th in the league in percentage of the cap in the year they signed. Right now burrow is #1 at 25.5%. You match that percentage in todays cap and that is where the $60m for Dak comes from and the $65m next year would come from.

Depends on what Dak wants. He could ask to be the highest annual value, biggest signing bonus, biggest guaranteed money or biggest percentage of the cap (as you noted). If I was Dak I'd not give a hoot how much of the cap I get, the check(s) from the Cowboys are paid in dollars, not percentages of the cap.

Sure, Dak might want the highest percentage, but we may never know if that's what most important to his new contract....

 

[Diehardblues]

The way I see it is they have given Dak everything. And if Parsons wasn't there this would be a .500 team. Jerry was scarred from the performance last year. The defense has a little more wiggle room for excuses last year because Quinn was leaving and they played fairly well against SF in the playoffs previous years.
This team has been carrying Dak. You put Derek Carr or Kirk Cousins or Baker Mayfield and this team is making the playoffs. They might make it with a Sam Darnold or Jacoby Brissett. Paying Dak is going to kill any depth this team might have and the Cowboys will be stuck unable to build a championship team around Parsons.

Then why would Jethro even be considering or by most reports attempting to resign him?