Jerry can phone any owner or gm he wants to. They can arrange a sign and trade.
Yes, if you want every sports news headline tomorrow to be “Cowboys giving up on Franchise QB Dak Prescott as negotiations fail.”
You can forget all about any deal with Dak at that point. Just look at Cousins in Washington. They still haven’t recovered and have no QB in sight.
You can also expect people in your locker room and around the league to look at the Cowboys with a raised eyebrow because at that point, you’re no longer negotiating in good faith.
There is a reason why teams always have the player and his agent involved in these types of trades (even though they never really happen for QB’s to begin with). Because the player has to be willing to sign a long term deal with the new team. You can’t just ship him off wherever you want.
And why can’t you?
Because he’s not even our player right now. He has no contract. You can’t negotiate a contract if he hasn’t signed the tender and if the player gets wind you’re trying to backdoor him and send him off to Detroit, or god knows where, he will absolutely refuse to sign the tender until after July 15th when the tag is locked in and he can just play out the year and go back into the pool with Mahomes and Watson next year.
What your suggesting just doesn’t work. The scenario is so far fetched as to be impossible.
The CBA and the NFL calendar just don’t allow for it.
Now, if you’re suggesting Jerry call up other GM’s and just shoot the breeze an offer ridiculous what if scenarios like it’s your friendly fantasy football league l, I would suggest that they all have better things to do.
“Hey Lamar. This is Jerry. What do you want for that old boy Pat Mahomes. I think he’d make a great Cowboy”
cant hurt to make the call, right?