I only need it to work once.. For my team. If you are unwilling to acknowledge that Dak is different from all the guys you listed here then there is nothing further to discuss. Just because those guys turned out to be bums does not automatically mean he will. I think Dak is better than all of them.. and he is still improving. The Cowboys simply need to address their other issues and they will be fine.. and if they don't it will not matter if they paid Dak 40 million or 40 thousand.. they will not be successful. Period. He's not the problem..
Hey man, I can tell you are passionate as I am. I am not willing to acknowledge that Dak is different, because over the past 5 years he has not show to be any different. He is a good player when the system suits him. Nothing wrong with being in the group I mentioned in my previous post.
Success in the NFL doesn't just happen, you have to find an edge. All these teams have mountains of analytics trying to gain an edge on other teams. You don't kick the can down the road on a QB you want and then pay him 15 million more per year than you could have. That is being a bad GM.
How do you address the other issues you mentioned in your post? We couldn't address them from 2016-2020 when Dak cost nothing. He was the best value at the QB position in the league outside of a 1st or second year rookie.
The Cowboys fooled themselves into thinking Dak is an elite franchise guy and he isn't. The Winston example is just one of many, I would take Fitz over Dak at his price every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I like Dak, I wanted him to replace Romo. The move this year was to replace Dak and extract the value of trading him. You only don't want to trade Arod, Brady, Mahomes types. You will never get fair value trading a superstar QB and you will have no regret paying them.
The die has been cast, no turning back. I can only hope what my eyes and years of football watching are all lies and Dak becomes a superstar. Right now I don't see him taking this organization to a SB. We haven't been to a championship game in 26 years so please refrain from calling me a quitter on this organization, because I am not.
I am trying to think outside the box and I would suggest you all do the same. I remember the three titles, I enjoyed them very much so especially the 92,93 ones.
Until this organization changes its mindset we are 8-8 forever.