Has Dak alienated much of the Fanbase

[Chasing6]

You'd do the same thing.

Players care about money first, second, and third. Winning is a cute bonus to them

I don't even see how winning is a bonus for them honestly. Most NFL starters make less money in playoff games. They are risking injuries for less money and it shortens their off season.

That is like asking the average person to work overtime for less money and less vacation.

 

[Jipper]

I dont get mad at dak, he's a player and he did some good things for the team....I get mad at Jerry for the contracts and not having the balls to move on.

Imagine if they had let dak walk and drafted someone last year...we would al be talking about this upcoming season in a different manner

 

[SultanOfSix]

Yep, all these guys who are sitting safely on their recliners want the guys who are putting their bodies at risk to gruesome injuries to take less money.

Such an asinine position. None of these guys would take a pay cut if they worked for the worst manager in their entire corporation who also happened to be in charge of payroll.

People in real life are forced to take pay cuts all the time. They can also get injured too for far less money. Thats why things like workers comp exist.

These players are privileged and spoiled more so now than before when the NFL wasn’t as big many years ago. Aikman signed a six year $11 million dollar contract as a rookie 35 years ago.

I don’t blame players for making as much as they can, but spare me the “brotherhood” and “feed my family” comments. Holding out for the difference between $55 million and $60 million and then acting like that is insulting is absurd when 99% of people won’t make that in a lifetime. Especially when having the status of a privileged position enables you to make that up elsewhere like it does for Wak who is clearly overpaid.

 

[CowboyoWales]

I dont get mad at dak, he's a player and he did some good things for the team....I get mad at Jerry for the contracts and not having the balls to move on.

Imagine if they had let dak walk and drafted someone last year...we would al be talking about this upcoming season in a different manner

It's as if Jerry deliberately made Dak sign that short term, NTC, high AAV contract. There are A LOT (not as many of us who balked and argued 'why do it in 2024, let him play out the contract'.....as there was NO QB that was going to raise the AAV from $55m between then and now).
The very worst thing that Jerry did, WAS DOUBLE DOWN ON THE DISASTEROUS CONTRACT, BY RESTRUCTURING IT IN 2026 RATHER THAN NOT PICK UP HIS 2027 GUARANTEE IN 2026.

Is there a CAP Guru that can confirm....as Dak's 2027 Salary guarantee's on 3/18/26....are we able to cut him 3/17/26 and Post-June that cut (it would save us $40m CAP - not I want to help Jerry out, but a lot can happen in that time???)

 

[nate dizzle]

The contract isn't alienating. The sucking is.

 

[Hadenough]

You guys trying to deflect from Dak and blame Jerry.......

It doesn't have to be one or the other. It's very fair to say Jerry hasn't put a truly championship caliber team together and that Dak is not a difference maker, is not worthy of the contract he received and is not part of the solution.

In other words, they can both contribute to any alienation.

There is a lot wrong with the structure of the Cowboys organization. But the Cowboys biggest reason they have fallen flat on their face lately is Dak goes from a reasonably decent QB in regular season to an awful QB when the lights come on. Dak is mentally weak and has been so exposed he now is mentally damaged. Combine that with not much arm talent and he has crumbled. He got by on hard work but that only gets you so far without pedigree.