Dak needs to take less. Can he fix/redo contract?

[FanofJerry]

This whole convo is convoluted...

too many factors to place blame...

if I was a player and wanted to give back...i would start a legit business that circumvents discrimination labor laws(no need to argue that means its not a legit business)...somehow find decent people and pay them good wages. Good people willing to work I would pay. Trickle down, but humane and everyone happy.

Im not giving back 60M to an owner to go be greedy with. Im not giving 60M to the local charity that cant prove they are using the funds correctly.

I will start a business/s and inform willing workers I will provide a decent living for you, all things equal, if you are willing to work a reasonable job that isnt grinding you to the core.

Im not promoting laziness. Im promoting fairness.

funny that this is a thing when my reddit is promoting a video of some government panel where a guy is claiming that after about 10M a year....there is no more utility. I kind of agree unless you are a proven provider. No one can prove to me that Bezos is going from Planet to Planet helping monkeys become smarter at the expense of his grifting. Only a being with no feelings is happier with 500M than 50M....they are competing with other computers with no feelings behind your back.

Stop with the "things must be done sooner so lets apply inhumane pressure" when things will get to the same place, yet longer, in a humane manor.

only problem with all this is...its about pushing you even if you get no utility from it. its better for the system than it is for you.

 

[Beast_from_East]

He needs decrease to 45-50 a year max. Is that possible for him to redo and take less? Management needs to demand he redo it. Otherwise we are screwed for 4 years.

Demand he take a pay cut?

LOL

And when he tells you to F-off, what you gonna do about it?

His entire $240 million contract is guaranteed, you have ZERO leverage to demand chit.

 

[csirl]

Not good enough is not good enough regardless of the salary. Dak wont play any better on a lower salary.

 

[noshame]

He needs decrease to 45-50 a year max. Is that possible for him to redo and take less? Management needs to demand he redo it. Otherwise we are screwed for 4 years.

I'm sorry, but there's no accountability in Dallas, there hasn't been for 30 years.

 

[nate dizzle]

Your worthless GM only has to restructure Dak's deal to get a ton of money back on the cap. The same GM who gave Dak the money. Why should Dak give money back? Would you take a pay cut at work for the good of the company??? I'd bet not......

You realize that you don't get money back and that it just back-loads the cap hit so that it explodes at the end right? Otherwise, I agree, he's not taking a payout and shouldn't. This is Jerry's fault for signing this guy to a new deal anyway.

 

[Blackrain]

You realize that you don't get money back and that it just back-loads the cap hit so that it explodes at the end right? Otherwise, I agree, he's not taking a payout and shouldn't. This is Jerry's fault for signing this guy to a new deal anyway.

And after four pages this one hits the nail right on the head it's Jerry's fault and he should have never resigned him to a new contract for that much money.

Dak has become and aging injury prone player who has lost a great deal of his mobility.

The wear and tear gets everyone father time is undefeated and has no hate in him.

It's up to your front office management to recognize these things and take steps to keep the position filled with a quality player
That means at some point breaking down and using a high draft pick and grooming someone new to quarterback the Cowboys and that is not Cooper Rush with his marginal arm or Trey Lance who's a bust.

That means do your homework draft a Young quarterback out of college who's on a rookie contract that you can build a team around this is not rocket science.

Jerry treats these guys like old pickup trucks that you become sentimentally attached to they've done a whole lot of work for you and at some point you just keep pouring money into them till you just get fed up and buy a new one

 

[Blackrain]

Would anyone here actually give back 40-60 million? Didn’t think so….

How about is anyone here so good at their job that their boss would pay them 40 or 60 million . A year

Good management pays people what they are worth and at this point in his career with all the injuries and limited mobility DAk is not worth 60 million.

Especially when you have the comparison of Cooper Rush who doesn't even have close to an NFL arm somehow guide the team to a winning record in his absence and plays for nothing in comparison.

Let's Go All in shoot the works and draft a quarterback we can build a team around.

And while we're at it see if we can get a bag of chips and a ham sandwich for Trey Lance that waste of a fourth round pick isn't helping us

 

[Chuck 54]

He needs decrease to 45-50 a year max. Is that possible for him to redo and take less? Management needs to demand he redo it. Otherwise we are screwed for 4 years.

Sure, that will fix all our problems. You are grasping at straws. Our issues have nothing to do with money.
Our GM doesn’t value DTs, LBs, or S’s, right up the middle of the defense.
Our GM thinks the offense can succeed with 2 rookies starting on the OL, no RB with any special skills, and only 1 wr.

Show me another team with this approach that is successful.
In the very few years when he provided 2 good receivers and a decent RB, he totally neglected the defense and we couldn’t stop anyone. Then it’s a season with no receiving corps. Then it’s no LT. Then it’s no DTs or LBs. Then it’s no RBs or WRs. It’s always something that he completely neglects.

Football is simple. Stop the run. Run the ball. Have a couple of explosive receivers. Play to the strengths and weaknesses of your QB. Have solid special teams play.

You don’t need super stars everywhere to do the above. You need solid role players to compliment a few studs.

 

[DuncanIso]

There is hope…

2025 cap hit is 89M+

32 percent of our team cap.

but…

March 2026. has to be done early.

POST-6/1 RELEASE​

2026 Dead Cap: $28,005,000
2027 Dead Cap: $34,000,000
2026 Savings: $39,691,666


lets go Lance!

 

[CowboyoWales]

How about is anyone here so good at their job that their boss would pay them 40 or 60 million . A year

Good management pays people what they are worth and at this point in his career with all the injuries and limited mobility DAk is not worth 60 million.

Especially when you have the comparison of Cooper Rush who doesn't even have close to an NFL arm somehow guide the team to a winning record in his absence and plays for nothing in comparison.

Let's Go All in shoot the works and draft a quarterback we can build a team around.

And while we're at it see if we can get a bag of chips and a ham sandwich for Trey Lance that waste of a fourth round pick isn't helping us

You don't go All-In on a pair...we missed the bus. We'll lucky to have a winning season in 2025 and if we don't Dak may be a FA a bit earlier than he wanted.

 

[Creeper]

Dak is due $47 million in salary in 2025, which is guaranteed. Another $42 million in pro-rated bonuses brings his CAP number up to almost $90 million.

Dak can "give back" the salary and the Cowboys would get a CAP save, but it would have to happen before the start of the new NFL year for it to affect the 2025 salary CAP. Otherwise I believe it would be taken as a save in 2026.

Dak would have to give back $43 million roughly to bring his CAP hit down to $45 million.

 

[Hadenough]

He needs decrease to 45-50 a year max. Is that possible for him to redo and take less? Management needs to demand he redo it. Otherwise we are screwed for 4 years.

That ship has sailed! The Cowboys need to draft a QB with first round pick or make a play for JJ McCarthy. Making arrangements to move on is a better move than extending him even more and have him taking less.

 

[youngjerryjones]

Players only do this at the end of their career when they are about to be cut and even then it’s extremely rare and usually fringe type players anyway

So, no, what you suggest isn’t going to happen.

within 2 seasons we will view Dak Prescott as this type of player

 

[StarLord]

The brotherhood wouldn't like that...

 

[thunderpimp91]

Between the amount of guaranteed money in the deal along with what Dak has already been paid it makes this completely unrealistic for at least a couple years. The actual extension hasn’t even started yet, the cowboys have zero leverage to ask for a pay cut.

 

[kevm3]

The only situation in which Dak should take less is if the Jones boys hire a serious GM and move out of the way. Otherwise, take less for what? So our FO doesn't spend it actually making the team better?

 

[kskboys]

He needs decrease to 45-50 a year max. Is that possible for him to redo and take less? Management needs to demand he redo it. Otherwise we are screwed for 4 years.

I can't imagine that the greedy slipshod would reduce what he's paid for the good of the team. He's shown beyond a doubt that he doesn't care about anything but money.

 

[TwentyOne]

It's real easy to talk about another man's money... I don't know if this is funny, ignorant, pathetic, desperate or just a joke...

Of course its easy. And thats how it should be.

Thats how our legal system works. People who are not emotionally involved (or have no interessts invested) make better decissions than those who are emotianlly involved. Thats why you have for instances judges and not let the mob make the decissions about who ahould be penalized and who not.

And to help you out because you are not sure: Its not funny, pathetic or else. Its what a lot of people died for in their fight for equality and human rights.

I think you should think a little bit more about certain relationships before you post or offend someone just because your understanding of things is fluffy.

 

[heir]

Love him or hate him or anywhere in between, Dak is the not the biggest problem of this franchise's worries. Start at the top first and work your way down. Until fans realize this and really embrace what the Jones have done it is pointless to continue complaining. Put any of the top QBs on this team and the Jones family would **** up.

 

[Ranching]

Of course its easy. And thats how it should be.

Thats how our legal system works. People who are not emotionally involved (or have no interessts invested) make better decissions than those who are emotianlly involved. Thats why you have for instances judges and not let the mob make the decissions about who ahould be penalized and who not.

Its not funny, pathetic or else. Its what a lot of people died for in their fight for equality and human rights.

I think you should think a little bit more about certain relationships before you post or offend someone just because your understanding of things is fluffy.

So Jerry is the judge and you're the legal system? How does this explain, you complaining about another man's money? People died for their right to rip Jerry and Dak? Stupidity at its best.