We hear every day how Dak "has all the leverage". Don't know that's strictly true, but let's assume for the moment it is.
Jerry does have a way out of it, though I doubt he'd take it - and that is (if I'm reading Dak's contract correctly) to pay him the $59.4 millon and let his contract expire. Dak would then have to sign with somebody else or start an entire new contract with the Cowboys, and Jerry, if he/Stephen have learned anything at all, would be able to play hardball with Dak and only offer a "reasonable" amount. So you say, well, Dak would just sign with some other team for the same or more money.
But here's the rub for Dak - if he's out of a job, any other team that would sign him could just simply play hardball with Dak themselves, bringiing up the poor playoff record, the losses to multiple teams that had winning records, etc. In other words, Dak can't assume if Dallas won't pay him $50-60 million a year that some other team would. Of course they might, who knows? Broncos paid Russell Wilson an insane amount of money and are getting rid of him already.
I think Dak knows his best bet is to stick with Dallas, sure he might not get what he wants, dollar-wise, but Jerry, not wanting to be seen as taking a chance on Dak as a 4th round pick and failing (Jerry hates to fail) will continue to overpay Dak.
In other words, I think Dak is smart enough to know he's not going to lead some average team to the SB, and the good teams don't need him, they have their Purdy, Stroud, etc.
Understand this is just my view on it, it may play out entirely different than what I think, but I really think one way, or the other Dak will be the Cowboys qb for a long time, until he's too old, gets hurt or Jerry will do like he did with Garrett - get his fill of no SBs and let Dak go....
