Dak extension coming ready or not

[Ken]

Who said anything about rebuilding in an offseason? Dak is how you get you in the mix next year and maybe with yet more talent around him, the team can overcome his inconsistency. Its not likely but its our best shot in 2023. Any plan that gets rid of Dak is a 3 year rebuild.......... unless you can somehow get out of his contract and land Aaron Rodgers.

I would rather keep dak and compete for titles in those 3 years.

Just me...

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Here are the options with Dak

1. Cut him and rebuild. Cost is 89M in dead 2023 cap space.
2. Plan to replace him after the 2023 season. Cost is a 49M cap hit this year.
3. Extend him out to lower his cap hit and try to build a better team around him.

Guess which option the Cowboy brain trusts are most likely to choose? Dak's contract was made to restructure and that's exactly what the team will do. Dak's not going anywhere anytime soon.

well 1 is not an option

 

[atlantacowboy]

well 1 is not an option

Its the nuclear option. But, had to put it in there b/c if I didn't there would be 15 posters pointing it out.

 

[charron]

I just puked....thinking about this makes me sick.

 

[JoeKing]

Dak isn't consistent enough to win a series of games through the playoffs and to the Super Bowl. This makes the thing you are building on rotten to the core. Everything else you do right will be undermined by this bug in the ointment. It's time to cut bait with Dak at the earliest time it's financially feasible. Whether it's through the draft or FA, it's time to recast the role of our QB1.

 

[G2]

We're a couple of players and a coach here and there away. I hope fans realize how insanely lucky we were to luck into Romo and Prescott. It's the front offices fault for not building a better balanced team.
Some of you are going to get what you ask for. When Prescott leaves for whatever reason, there's nearly a certainty that the staff will not simply "find an elite QB."

 

[Flamma]

We can't afford the cap space required to let him play out his contract.

Sure they can. How do you think other teams do it? Plus I only mentioned that because of your number one and 2. If those are possible options, so was mine. The Cowboys don't need to restructure Dak's contract next year. They can trot out a similar team to this year's.

 

[Flamma]

Yup. They gave him 31mil guaranteed salary this year, which would strongly lead to that being converted to a signing bonus due to it being guaranteed either way.
But, in the unlikely event they don't convert/restructure, then option 4 is in play.

They can make his salary work this year even at 49mil. But it would be at the cost of restructuring/extending Martin, D-Law and getting rid of Tyron Smith hopefully via trade. They set up Gallups deal to be restructured this year too, but with his meh performance, I'm not sure they want to touch that contract.

They can still get away with it by restructuring a small portion of his contract. Then just doing what they usually do. Trot out the same team just with added rookies.

 

[texbumthelife]

#2 should be the way to go. Use 2023 to get rid of bigger contracts, obtain draft picks, and start anew in 2024.

This FO couldn't properly tweak a roster that was 1-2 player away last season and you want them to completely rebuild?

 

[HMJYay]

To trade Dak the Cowboys would have to do 2 things.

1.) Draft a QB you feel could be the future and give a true competiton. If he wins out Dak's ego will want a trade.
2.) Get a QB you feel is a stop gap or resign Rush and use him as stop gap. Bench Dak. Dak's ego will want a trade.
3.) You'd have to do a trade that is Osweiler like. Give some a 2nd or 3rd pick to take on Dak's contract. Then I think you take on $25 million of dead money and can start looking to the future.

 

[mattjames2010]

Dak would have to agree to waive his no trade clause for Dallas to send him anywhere. Why would he do that? Being the Cowboys QB is lucrative, whether you win or not.

Why would he want to stay with a team that doesn't want him?

 

[Cowfan75]

@ this point....a Post June cut...spread the dead money over 2 years.

The salary cap is funny money...always has been. You can manipulate it...to make it work. Jerry just relies on dumb fans to think the salary cap is constraining...when really....it's not.

Don't forget Stevie reminding them that the cap is a real thing, while they nod vigorously in approval.

 

[jgboys1]

Why would anyone want Dak ? He’s not the guy at all .

Agree, a team would have to be in dire straits to want to add Dak to their team.

 

[Bigrandrn]

Trade him to GB

Spotrac after these moves has us at $11 million in cap space

Trade Dak to GB - $24 million hit
Release - Zeke and Lewis
Restructure: Tank, Martin, Gallup

Trade him for Rogers. Rogers doesn’t throw those two pics against SF if he’s our QB. He can throw a freakin out route.

 

[jgboys1]

Why would he want to stay with a team that doesn't want him?

Next season he will have 52 million reasons why he would want to stay with the cowboys.

 

[fivetwos]

Thinking about it further….the idiot twins knew that Prescott wasn’t worth top, top money. They tried to get him much cheaper along the way, Dak just kept tuning it down.

Instead of working on Plan B, they went with publicly declaring that “Dak is our guy,” and hoping that loyalty would get them their discount.

Couldn’t spend real capital on a potential replacement because that’s the only way the team can get any better since they pass the impact part of FA, and we are ALWAYS just oh so close according to football talent evaluator extraordinaire Jerry Jones and his sidekick kid.

 

[mattjames2010]

Next season he will have 52 million reasons why he would want to stay with the cowboys.

He won't be getting all of that once it is restructured - but either way, even if we are to trade him, that contract doesn't just go away. He can go to a team that wants him and still make bank.

It just doesn't make sense for an owner to say he wants you gone and then stick around. Get traded, keep a hefty chunk of that contract and be somewhere you are wanted.

 

[jgboys1]

He won't be getting all of that once it is restructured - but either way, even if are to trade him, that contract doesn't just go away. He can go to a team that wants him and still make bank.

It just doesn't make sense for an owner to say he wants you gone and then stick around. Get traded, keep a heft chunk of that contract and be somewhere you are wanted.

This is true, but I can't see any GM wanting him on their team.

 

[mattjames2010]

This is true, but I can't see anytime wanting him on their team.

There would be a team dumb enough to do it - that's how desperate owners are. I mean, Mr. Touchy Feely Watson found a home. We've also seen the likes of Sam Bradford traded for in the past.

I could see someone like Jets being stupid enough to try out Prescott.

 

[fivetwos]

Next season he will have 52 million reasons why he would want to stay with the cowboys.

Even if the Jones twins are tied up and being torchered in some isolated warehouse as we speak, and told they will die slow deaths if they don’t trade Prescott, Dak wouldn’t agree to it.

I’m fairly positive most if not all of his many endorsements are tied to him being a Dallas Cowboy.

The best we can hope for is a new offense that reels him in. Even that’s a longshot.

Maybe next year we just get really lucky, but the odds of Prescott not having one very bad game out of 3-4 vs playoff teams are quite low.

It is what it is and we are stuck.

I’m actually surprised they aren’t much worse when you consider the people running our team vs others. It’s just as bad as having worse players.

Super Bowls are indeed won in March and April as much as during the season, and our genius is on record saying the exact opposite, headed into his 28th year of failure. And they still have the nerve to address the media condescendingly with the cat who ate the canary look.