I'm a Dak fan. If I had my way, I'd much prefer Dak on this team than have contract dollars go to Jaylon, Crawford & Zeke (so if this was fantasy, I'd have not signed those three and signed Dak to $42M or whatever). But what I don't understand is, how did Dak & France think they'll ever make up the $70M they've lost by not re-upping two years ago (lets assumed those two years averaged out to about $35M per)? Like even if you got $42M now, he would still never make up the difference of two full years of being paid $2M or whatever.
France totally screwed him in this case. This isn't Cousins and WFT, where it seemed like they didn't want to pay him, the Cowboys wanted Dak as their future, but France convinced Dak to hold off as late as he can or for a little term as he can. Then he broke his ankle, which at this point hasn't hurt him too much, but who is going to give him $42M per year next year without first seeing him play?