Dak's contract

The 4th or 5th team in the NFC isn’t bad. Jethro can sell that. Look how much SB hype and hope we had this year. The cash registers and Amazon trucks were running full throttle for Cowboys merchandise.
 
This championship talk for Cowboys this era is a pipe dream under this dysfunctional ownership.

It’s admittedly not even a priority. Jethro has admitted he’d of fired a GM with his record this era but refuses to step down. But yet we have fans who still expect different results. Why??????

And in his own words his priority is remaining “ interesting and relative”.
 
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Diehardblues said:
I just don’t believe Dak is our weakest link. Our running game is atrocious . Elliott is probably our worst production for buck we have on offense. And our defense if it isn’t causing turnovers is well below average.

If fans are frustrated at 11-5 with Dak, imagine where we are without him. Yes, he probably not enough for more but he is enough to keep us “ interesting and relative “.

Dak is not what many of the homers think he is but he’s not as bad as the haters want to claim. It falls somewhere in the middle and why we are still a playoff contender .
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But if you look through the winning games, how many were because of Dak, in spite of Dak and where he was indifferent to the result?

Whilst you mull over that, consider that the Cowboys beat the Vikings in their back yard with Cooper Rush as QB.

I would argue pretty much any starting QB in the league would have this team 9-7 worst case scenario heading into the final game of the result season and most would have the team around the 10-6/11-5 range.

10 QBs would have the team better than 11-5 - Rodgers, Brady, Mahomes, Wilson, Burrows, Herbert, Allen, Murray, Jackson (when healthy obviously) and Stafford (he would be explosive in this offense). So no, I'm not counting myself fortunate that the Cowboys have Prescott especially given how much his contract will eat of the salary cap over the next 2-3 years.
 
baltcowboy said:
All owners are about the money. Every franchise is worth a billion dollars now and Jerrah is a big reason why that happened. The Joneses want to win, they just want all the credit. This team has championship potential, the issue is that 4 other teams in the NFC is just as good if not better.
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I think you are over simplifying it, there is a reason why these owners never sell. The value of franchises only go up, along with revenue. Jerry knows that this team won because of Jimmy as the first 5 years are living actual proof.
If Jerry had not had the early success which was unprecedented.. it is also why he got so much clout in the TV deals, because of 3 SB's in 6 years of ownership. There is actually no debating this fact.
If he was like the Jag's owner whose team is the worst in the league over his 8 years of ownership, no one cares about him.
It's the flywheel effect, success leads to Jerry's clout, Jerry takes advantage by brokering the Fox deal, individual licensing, etc, etc, etc. Now we are 26 years later and the actual football program is stuck in neutral.
 
atlantacowboy said:
Not sure what you are referencing. I use spotrac. We have 2 years left on Daks contract if we don't restructure it. Year 4, his cap hit jumps to like 48M.
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I am saying that his base salary for year 1, year 2 and year 3 and his signing bonus is all guaranteed. That money is spent. It doesn't matter what year any of it hits the cap and it doesn't matter if he is still on the team or not. It is guaranteed. This means it is almost 100% certain that Prescott will remain our QB for 2 more years. It doesn't do us any good to cut him and it doesn't do him any good to hold out.

When you look at year 4 of the contract it is basically a one year deal for 29 million bucks. No matter how much you hate Dak a one year deal for 29 million 3 years from now for a top 10 QB will be a bargain. If you were Dak would you play one year for 29 million bucks or would you say shove it give me a new deal or I will just sit out. He would easily get a fresh new deal with a boat load of fresh new guaranteed money.

And this has been gone over 100 times but restructure doesn't accomplish anything the player still gets the same amount of money. He just gets it faster and the team gets to spread out the cap hit over multiple years.

If you checked out his contract he already has a cap hit for 2025 of $14,450,000 and he isn't even under contract to play for us then. Madness. Basically we are already hurting our chances to win in 2025 to help our chances to win this year. Lets see if it is worth it in the end.
 
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Swagger said:
But if you look through the winning games, how many were because of Dak, in spite of Dak and where he was indifferent to the result?

Whilst you mull over that, consider that the Cowboys beat the Vikings in their back yard with Cooper Rush as QB.

I would argue pretty much any starting QB in the league would have this team 9-7 worst case scenario heading into the final game of the result season and most would have the team around the 10-6/11-5 range.

10 QBs would have the team better than 11-5 - Rodgers, Brady, Mahomes, Wilson, Burrows, Herbert, Allen, Murray, Jackson (when healthy obviously) and Stafford (he would be explosive in this offense). So no, I'm not counting myself fortunate that the Cowboys have Prescott especially given how much his contract will eat of the salary cap over the next 2-3 years.
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I understand but that’s now how Jethro sees it or can sell it.
 
atlantacowboy said:
When you cut out all the fluff and headlines, it is actually a 3 year 97M deal. Thats the guaranteed money. The way the contract is currently structured , we have an out after the 2023 season if Jerry doesn't do a restructure of it...........which I agree is a long shot.

The upshot here is that if he continues to struggle against everyone outside the NFC East, there is an opportunity to move on sooner than most think.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-19089/
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Weren't you the guy that posted Dak's red zone stats from 2020 a couple of weeks ago lol
 
dckid said:
I think you are over simplifying it, there is a reason why these owners never sell. The value of franchises only go up, along with revenue. Jerry knows that this team won because of Jimmy as the first 5 years are living actual proof.
If Jerry had not had the early success which was unprecedented.. it is also why he got so much clout in the TV deals, because of 3 SB's in 6 years of ownership. There is actually no debating this fact.
If he was like the Jag's owner whose team is the worst in the league over his 8 years of ownership, no one cares about him.
It's the flywheel effect, success leads to Jerry's clout, Jerry takes advantage by brokering the Fox deal, individual licensing, etc, etc, etc. Now we are 26 years later and the actual football program is stuck in neutral.
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The money started rolling in after Jerry started making deals outside of the NFL with Pepsi. The Cowboys had a separate deal with Uniforms will Nike. Jerry is in the Hall of Fame because he helped turn millionaires to billionaires by promoting the League. He is the one leading the negotiations with the Networks. It makes me realize how stupid Cowboys fans are when they call the Joneses idiots while Jerrah buys a 275 million dollar yact and making sure his family won’t have to work again.
 
Jerry doesn't hate the money but he isn't in it for the money. He has tons of money. The Dallas Cowboys are his play toy and no one is gonna tell him how he gets to play with his toys.
 
Well that contract is getting restructured, so they'll be no outs.
 
atlantacowboy said:
When you cut out all the fluff and headlines, it is actually a 3 year 97M deal. Thats the guaranteed money. The way the contract is currently structured , we have an out after the 2023 season if Jerry doesn't do a restructure of it...........which I agree is a long shot.

The upshot here is that if he continues to struggle against everyone outside the NFC East, there is an opportunity to move on sooner than most think.

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-19089/
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I don't see how they do not restructure Dak's contract before 2024. Then again, I do not see how Jerry does not extend Dak after 2023.
 
Creeper said:
I don't see how they do not restructure Dak's contract before 2024. Then again, I do not see how Jerry does not extend Dak after 2023.
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Maybe b/c he's got the best wr core in the NFL ........ top 5 OL......... good rbs............. still slumps and has trouble beating good teams. The objective is still the super bowl, not paying a pet cat.
 
im not moving on from a franchise qb who has gotten better every year.
still on the other side of 30 and is about to bring home a lombardi.
no thanks.
i have 0 interest in being the jets.
we have our qb.
this is settled.
 
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