Dak extension coming ready or not

[Steve007]

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.

I have been saying all year the cowboys are going to extend daks contract. Dak will be with the cowboys for many years and the cowboys will not see a superbowl in many more years. A good front office would truly evaluate the players and make changes needed to win a superbowl, but jerry wont

 

[Steve007]

Jerry knows that there are enough fans that don't understand football that will stick with the new Cowboys regardless of losing. He can offer up any excuse and they will eat it up like cake. Some really don't care that the Cowboys don't achieve greatness because they are so caught up in their fantasy football stats.
True Cowboys fans are just out of luck, and have been for the last 25 years. Jerry doesn't care about them.

Yep, get ready for more hype before the season starts. There are always plenty of people who will drink the kool-aid

 

[Rockport]

When's the 12-5 parade, Rocky?

The playoff win.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

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, probably it will be in the form of an extension, moving the cash from next year and the year after into a signing bonus, spread over the additional years and reducing cap hit. it will also help reduce the dead money in the future.

 

[jay94]

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

I would not restructure Tank or Gallup, Tank's already been restructured and Gallup can be a clean release if he doesn't pick up his game up huge in 2024.

 

[MS17]

I have been saying all year the cowboys are going to extend daks contract. Dak will be with the cowboys for many years and the cowboys will not see a superbowl in many more years. A good front office would truly evaluate the players and make changes needed to win a superbowl, but jerry wont

As Adam Sandler used to say on SNL......"Just kill me now."

 

[CowboyoWales]

So, so wrong....because if we Allen even Moore would devise more expansive plays. You create the base plays which you think the QB can execute.
We run curls, because they, along with hitting a bigger target (TE), is what Dak's comfortable doing.
The issues arise when Dak has to reach out of his comfort zone ...EG - losing Pollard and the Running game.
I'm positive that Mahomes, Allen and Burrows (and even Hurts) are able to function at a higher level of productivity when put in an environment not to their liking. THAT's DAK's REAL WEAKNESS.

 

[CowboyoWales]

I have been saying all year the cowboys are going to extend daks contract. Dak will be with the cowboys for many years and the cowboys will not see a superbowl in many more years. A good front office would truly evaluate the players and make changes needed to win a superbowl, but jerry wont

There's the middle ground, convert 2023 money into the Void 2026. Yes it means we'll have $20m + Dead Money in two years, however, we continue to build a team in 2023 fit enough for when we're looking for a new QB.
Remember, 2024, is like CAP nirvana compared to 22/23, we've ridden the storm.

 

[Steve007]

So, so wrong....because if we Allen even Moore would devise more expansive plays. You create the base plays which you think the QB can execute.
We run curls, because they, along with hitting a bigger target (TE), is what Dak's comfortable doing.
The issues arise when Dak has to reach out of his comfort zone ...EG - losing Pollard and the Running game.
I'm positive that Mahomes, Allen and Burrows (and even Hurts) are able to function at a higher level of productivity when put in an environment not to their liking. THAT's DAK's REAL WEAKNESS.

Right, Moore is running plays based on Daks abilities.

 

[JJ1986]

They will renegotiate and extend his contract by 2 to 3 years.
But are they smart enough this time to write the contract so they can get out of it after 2 years with less of a cap impact.

Like it or not, we are stuck at least 2 years, probably 3.

We will need a defense that can win games, like the 2000 Ravens or 1985 Bears. You can surround him with great skill players, an elite OL. He will still throw picks if he doesn't improve.

Restructure to lessen the impact of dead money and draft a QB. Continue to throw INTS and you get benched!

What is he exactly doing on the sidelines on his Surface Pro? He keeps saying after every game he’s going to do better but never does!

It’s time to start planning for a future without Dak.

 

[Typhus]

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

We could do the unmentionable.
Bring Dak in and inform him that if he doesn't take a sizable pay cut and waive his no trade clause that the Cowboys will be willing to relegate him to clip board duty on the sidelines.
Daks options would be to either agree to Dallas terms and get traded or waste his career and be the laughing stock of the league if he chose to remain.
A real Champion would choose to rework their contract and accept Dallas terms in order to be traded.
A chump would forfeit the blessed years he still has to play QB in this league and choose to waste away on the sideline and fleece Jerry, this team and this fanbase.
Would Jerry the gambler take this bet that Dak would agree to accept Dallas terms and be traded?
Not a snowballs chance in Death Valley.

 

[catiii]

Option 4. Draft a new guy. Unofficially notify Dak, he can altar his contract and/or no trade demands, terms, dollar amounts and the team will accept his request for change. Otherwise he will be torched in the court of public opinion and never play QB again in the NFL.

Preach Deacon!

 

[Darkhound]

The cap is the total amount of money a team can spend on player‘s wages (salaries, bonuses, dead cap space from cut players).

When a team signs a player to contract, his signing bonus gets spread over the life of the contract and is added to the amount of cap space he takes up each year (in addition to his salary, and any other bonuses). When he is cut, the left over amount of signing bonus is absorbed immediately into the cap space (versus being spread over the rest of the life of the contract if he weren’t cut). That’s where the idea of dead cap space comes from — when a player is cut, and the rest of his signing bonus counts against the cap (and cannot be used).

Cutting after a certain date (June 1) allows you to spread the dead space over two years, instead of one.

Often times contracts are structured such that the team can more easily cut the player and not take a huge dead cap hit before the contract ends.

Restructuring contracts by adding years, or converting roster bonuses to signing bonuses allows teams to manipulate how much a player counts against the cap.

This is the very basics of NFL contracts. I am not an expert.

Thank you so very much