Is Dak the only super greedy QB in Cowboys history?

[TheMarathonContinues]

Exactly. People act like Cowboys players shouldn't get paid high dollar contracts while other players around the league are.

Make that make sense....

Right. It’s just the name of the game. Now if anyone wants to argue when they pay guys that’s a fair point. Lamb and Dak were coming off All Pro seasons….they were gonna get paid and it was gonna be here.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Video boy is back, look he’s still stuck on hating Romo, he should find a new team especially when the current QB he loves isn’t better

Dak is your QB. Deal with it.

 

[Vtwin]

And got his job taken and retired by the quarterback he's 10x better than. How ironic....

Maybe he should have been 11x better than Dak.

What's ironic is you using the decision made by the worst GM in the league as some sort of validation.

That's ironic.

 

[Vtwin]

AC is proof that pure hate makes you very sick.

Also...trying to "get one over on the internet"...makes one even sicker.

It's a poison that rots your brain and your soul.

I can understand it coming from a 20ish year old young man full of piss and vinegar with an ego that far outpaces his experience, but from a grown man in his 50's it's flat out creepy.

 

[Chuck 54]

Typical cater to the masses, get clicks, don’t actually think about it thread.
It is so stupid to keep focusing on the money. Dak is no different than any other QB, including Romo and Brady.
Agents get paid to negotiate contracts….period. When the agent takes a contract to the player and says this is good, the player signs it.

Tony Romo would have easily been the highest paid QB in the NFL without deserving it.
Tom Brady didn’t just help the team keep its players by taking less when in his prime; that is just spin.

The difference is the arrogance and stupidity of Jerry Jones as he has gotten older.

• How many times was Romo or Brady franchise tagged Instead of being signed to an extension a year early?
• How many times did Romo or Brady have a contract that included no trade and no tag clauses?
• How often were Romo and Brady allowed to play out their contracts, essentially being days from free agency where every team in the NFL could have signed them while barely 30 years old?

Jerry franchised Dak two years in a row, which no competent GM ever does, making him one of the highest paid QBs instead of signing him to an extension. Jerry gave him the no trade and no tag clauses to save a few bucks on one contract and then allowed Dak’s contract to be played out and close to expiring. I am a Dak fan, but even I said at the time that Jerry had painted himself into a corner and needed to let Dak walk by doing it. The problem? You let the only QB on your roster, the QB who led you to those 3 twelve win seasons, the QB that just finished his best season ever get to that point without doing a single thing to prepare for letting him go.

If you don’t like Dak as QB because you think he should be able to lead a lousy offensive and defensive roster to wins against better teams, that I can accept and respect, though I do get tired of all the repetitious posts. But stop blaming Dak for his contract. There is no QB who ever lived, who if put in the same situation by an incompetent GM wouldn’t have signed the same offer. Jerry created the situation where he could get nothing but a compensatory draft pick for letting Dak enter free agency without having even a veteran journeyman ready to play QB.

 

[Chuck 54]

Stop propping up your arguments with false narratives about Tony Romo.
Both QBs are more similar than you want to believe. Both were above average; neither was elite.

Romo - don’t tell me he never played with great team.

Excellent QB, but his fans will argue he never had a good team. Ummm….Flozel Adams, Kyle Kozier, Andre Gurode, Leonard Davis, Marc Colombo on OL with TE Jason Whitten, WRs TO, Terry Glenn and Patrick Crayton at the same time, and Miles Austin, RBs Demarco Murray, Julius Jones and Marion Barbour. On Defense, he had Marcus Spears, Jay Ratliff, Chris Canty, Greg Ellis, DeMarcus Ware, Bradie James, Terence Newman, Jacque Reeves, Roy Williams and Ken Hamlin. Rolled through the NFC and went into the playoffs with the bye and #1 seed, but after his trip to CABO in the bye week, they lost to the lowest wild card team NY Giants 21-17 in a game where he only completed 50% of his passes despite the team rushing for 154 yards while holding the Giants to 90 rushing and 163 passing. That was the worst loss in Cowboys history in my opinion.

 

[OmerV]

Every player is trying to maximize their earning potential. That isn't somehow unique to Dak. Heck, Trevor Lawrence, Deshawn Watson and Justin Herbert have bigger guaratees built into their contracts than Dak and haven't done anything more than he has.

I know, Brady didn't have to be at or almost at the top, but you are talking about Brady later in his career when he was already incredibly rich. There was a point in his career, although admittedly brief, where he was the highest paid player.

The one to blame is Jerry (and other owners and GMs). The team has to be willing to walk away if the negotiation is stuck at a place they aren't okay with

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Romo was never the highest paid ever. And was 10x the QB Dak will ever be.

who says Romo was better? he was 2-4 in playoffs and lost 2 win and your in games.
he did have a pretty spiral though.

 

[Brax]

Dak is your QB. Deal with it.

I do very well he’s there 3-4 more years, I deal with it much better than you did with Romo who is still eating you up.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

10 times out of 10 you gonna be a first round exit too lol.

Tony Romo had a passer rating of 93.0 with 1,316 yards, 8 touchdowns and 2 interceptions in 6 games in the playoffs in his career.​

he was 2-4 in playoffs

 

[Brax]

Come on man don’t do this lol….




It’s not that serious to lie about this man.

Again how many first place votes did Dak get? Straight up how many

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Dak is the greediest player in cowboys history, position is irrelevant. And Jerral bent over and took it.

well, Dak was top 5 in jersey sales two years in a row. so the investment paid off for Jerry. that's all that matters.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I can understand it coming from a 20ish year old young man full of piss and vinegar with an ego that far outpaces his experience, but from a grown man in his 50's it's flat out creepy.

Funny how you pick and chose when to be creeped out. Stevethecowboy and Pappy don’t creep you out but AC does lol.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

A big issue with QBs now is that they are not making a proportional amount to what guys did 10 years ago. Romos last contract at $18M per year made up roughly 14% of the cap. Daks is closer to 24% by AAV, Burrow was pushing 25% when he signed. A lot of these mega QB deals are also happening while a player is on their rookie contract which makes them longer term deals. Burrow's deal was essentially a 7 year deal. Josh Allen was 8 years. Mahomes was a 12 year agreement. Simply put the Dak contract situation was mishandled from the start including hitting the guy with the franchise tag. We can blame Dak...we can blame Jerry....ultimately it doesn't matter where the blame goes, its still a horrible contract for a team that doesnt like to spend money on its roster to take on.

how did you measure the % of salary? did you compare the AAV for romo to the cap in the last year of his contract, vs. 24% the first year of the contract?
cap goes up each year.

and I do agree, the QB salaries have accelerated much faster than rest of the positions across the NFL.

aslo, those are voidable years in the contract to spread the bonuses. Dak's last contract was 6 years, with two voidable years to do the same. its pretty standard in contracts to help manage the cap each year. with that said, why Jerry didn't do the same this time around is beyond me. but that's what happens when you are focused on publicity of it, than actually what needs to be done and sign the contract literally one hour before first game of the season.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Dak is the greediest player in cowboys history, position is irrelevant. And Jerral bent over and took it.

Jerry has a grin on his face right now. He pays Dak millions and he makes billions. I’m sure he’s losing sleep.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Jerry franchised Dak two years in a row, which no competent GM ever does, making him one of the highest paid QBs instead of signing him to an extension.

I honestly still can't believe Jerry did that. That's some high level stupidity.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Typical cater to the masses, get clicks, don’t actually think about it thread.
It is so stupid to keep focusing on the money. Dak is no different than any other QB, including Romo and Brady.
Agents get paid to negotiate contracts….period. When the agent takes a contract to the player and says this is good, the player signs it.

Tony Romo would have easily been the highest paid QB in the NFL without deserving it.
Tom Brady didn’t just help the team keep its players by taking less when in his prime; that is just spin.

The difference is the arrogance and stupidity of Jerry Jones as he has gotten older.

• How many times was Romo or Brady franchise tagged Instead of being signed to an extension a year early?
• How many times did Romo or Brady have a contract that included no trade and no tag clauses?
• How often were Romo and Brady allowed to play out their contracts, essentially being days from free agency where every team in the NFL could have signed them while barely 30 years old?

Jerry franchised Dak two years in a row, which no competent GM ever does, making him one of the highest paid QBs instead of signing him to an extension. Jerry gave him the no trade and no tag clauses to save a few bucks on one contract and then allowed Dak’s contract to be played out and close to expiring. I am a Dak fan, but even I said at the time that Jerry had painted himself into a corner and needed to let Dak walk by doing it. The problem? You let the only QB on your roster, the QB who led you to those 3 twelve win seasons, the QB that just finished his best season ever get to that point without doing a single thing to prepare for letting him go.

If you don’t like Dak as QB because you think he should be able to lead a lousy offensive and defensive roster to wins against better teams, that I can accept and respect, though I do get tired of all the repetitious posts. But stop blaming Dak for his contract. There is no QB who ever lived, who if put in the same situation by an incompetent GM wouldn’t have signed the same offer. Jerry created the situation where he could get nothing but a compensatory draft pick for letting Dak enter free agency without having even a veteran journeyman ready to play QB.

This is a really good post!

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

how did you measure the % of salary? did you compare the AAV for romo to the cap in the last year of his contract, vs. 24% the first year of the contract?

cap goes up each year.

and I do agree, the QB salaries have accelerated much faster than rest of the positions across the NFL.

It has. It is the most polarizing position in sports though. If a receiver gets 35 million a year for catching 5 to 10 footballs a game…. I kind of get why the quarterback would get 30 to 40 more.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I honestly still can't believe Jerry did that. That's some high level stupidity.

I question if that was Stephen or Jerry. I honestly think it’s Stephen the penny pincher being that’s never been Jerry.

 

[BigD_95]

Romo was never the highest paid ever. And was 10x the QB Dak will ever be.

best post of the new year! 100% agree