Plan that shows how they could keep Dak, CD and Micah for the next 4 years if they wanted

[bleachedwheat]

Let Dak and CD play out this year with the cap hits they have right now 55 and 18 million respectively.

Give Dak an extension with a option signing bonus that gives him his bonus on the first day of the new league year 2025.

Dak contract
4yr 240mil- 60mil/yr on average... 200mil in Guaranteed money... Signing Bonus 75 million dollars(Highest ever beats Goff's 73 million.
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. He already has 3 void years just use these again.
With the 75m signing bonus you can take 240m-75m=165m... Divide 165m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 41.25m per year base salary.

The signing bonus is like a loan and takes off 18.75m in base salary per year. It is stored in the Void years until his contract is up or he is traded. Then it hits the cap all at once. His dead cap would be 75m+54m that he already has in dead cap. 129m in dead cap total yr 2028. Dead cap can be split in half and paid over 2years. 64.5/yr.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 55mil
2025 base salary 41.25m
2026 base salary 41.25m
2027 base salary 42.50m
2028 base salary 40m
add all those base salaries together and you get 165m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 75m to it, and you get 240m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 200m dollars.
Dak's 200 million in guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027 and If they wanted to they could trade him.

CD contract
4yr 140m- 35m/yr on average... 115m in Guaranteed money(Jefferson got 110m)... Signing Bonus of 40m(Jefferson got 37m)
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. Add void years to accommodate the 40 million in signing bonus.
140m-40m Bonus=100m... Divide 100m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 25m per year base salary.

This time it saves 10m per year and after the contract expires you would owe 40m in dead money and split it over two years 20m per year.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 18m
2025 base salary 25m
2026 base salary 25m
2027 base salary 25m
2028 base salary 25m
add all those base salaries together and you get 100m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 40m to it, and you get 140m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 115m.
CD's 115m in Guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027, and if they wanted to they could trade him.

Parsons
2024 makes 5.3m
2025 he makes 21.3m on his 5th year option
2026 two options
Place the exclusive franchise tag on him(protects from other teams trying to sign him). It would be 120% of 2025 salary coming to about 25 million dollars.
or
Place the Non-exclusive franchise tag on him. A team would offer him a contract if they wanted him. If he accepted, Dallas would then be able to keep him by matching the teams offer or let him go to the other team and get 2 first round picks in return.
2027 same scenario unless he was traded the year before. The only difference is he would cost around 30m if they used the Franchise Tag two years in a row.

If they did all this and traded Dak and CD in 2028 they would have 129m dead cap from Dak and 40m for CD. Pay that over two years a total of 84.5 per year.
It sounds like a lot but by then Parsons should be off the books to with no dead money.
If you add up what you would have been paying them on average Dak 42m + CD 25m + Parsons 25m It would be 92m per year.

So for two years it would be like you were paying the 3 players even though they aren't on the team. In a rebuild scenario who cares. You would be breaking in a new QB anyway and by the time you figure out if he can play and you want to add pieces around him, all the dead cap will have been paid in full. Then you would have the cap space to add in FA.

If they did this the 2025 cap space would be
Dead money from
FA Tank 4.4m 2025 and 2026
FA Cooks 3m 2025 and 2026
Retired Martin 12.25m 2025 and 2026
around 20m/yr in dead money 2025 and 2026

Steele's pay increases by 6m
Parsons pay increases by 16m

but you save by not paying the players their big salaries anymore
saved cap space
Tank 16m less than he made last year salary was 20.4m-4.4m in dead money.
Cooks 7m less than he made last year salary was 10m-3m in dead money.
Martin 3.25m less than he made last year salary was 15.5m-12.25m in dead money.
Dak and CD old contracts combined 18+55=73 vs 25+42=67 saves about 6m/yr.

Basically you save around 30m dollars by not resigning/extending these players.
The cap is also projected to raise another 18-20m dollars
Plus what ever you carry over from 2024.

Dead money and pay increases total is about 42 million

Savings 50-60 million plus whatever you save from other FA on the team that you decide not to resign like Osa, Kendricks, Zeke.

Depending on how they play it they could have 20-30 million dollars to spend in FA next season and have their 3 best players to boot.

So it is possible. These void years and stuff can be confusing.

 

[America's Cowboy]

I believe Dak would accept only if allowed to keep a no-trade clause. In return, Dak would have to accept $52.5 mil / year, instead of $60 mil / year. Both parties (Dak and Cowboys) would win this way.

PS: I haven't read past your Dak proposal, but thank you for the hard and lengthy work!

 

[plymkr]

Let Dak and CD play out this year with the cap hits they have right now 55 and 18 million respectively.

Give Dak an extension with a option signing bonus that gives him his bonus on the first day of the new league year 2025.

Dak contract
4yr 240mil- 60mil/yr on average... 200mil in Guaranteed money... Signing Bonus 75 million dollars(Highest ever beats Goff's 73 million.
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. He already has 3 void years just use these again.
With the 75m signing bonus you can take 240m-75m=165m... Divide 165m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 41.25m per year base salary.

The signing bonus is like a loan and takes off 18.75m in base salary per year. It is stored in the Void years until his contract is up or he is traded. Then it hits the cap all at once. His dead cap would be 75m+54m that he already has in dead cap. 129m in dead cap total yr 2028. Dead cap can be split in half and paid over 2years. 64.5/yr.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 55mil
2025 base salary 41.25m
2026 base salary 41.25m
2027 base salary 42.50m
2028 base salary 40m
add all those base salaries together and you get 165m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 75m to it, and you get 240m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 200m dollars.
Dak's 200 million in guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027 and If they wanted to they could trade him.

CD contract
4yr 140m- 35m/yr on average... 115m in Guaranteed money(Jefferson got 110m)... Signing Bonus of 40m(Jefferson got 37m)
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. Add void years to accommodate the 40 million in signing bonus.
140m-40m Bonus=100m... Divide 100m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 25m per year base salary.

This time it saves 10m per year and after the contract expires you would owe 40m in dead money and split it over two years 20m per year.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 18m
2025 base salary 25m
2026 base salary 25m
2027 base salary 25m
2028 base salary 25m
add all those base salaries together and you get 100m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 40m to it, and you get 140m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 115m.
CD's 115m in Guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027, and if they wanted to they could trade him.

Parsons
2024 makes 5.3m
2025 he makes 21.3m on his 5th year option
2026 two options
Place the exclusive franchise tag on him(protects from other teams trying to sign him). It would be 120% of 2025 salary coming to about 25 million dollars.
or
Place the Non-exclusive franchise tag on him. A team would offer him a contract if they wanted him. If he accepted, Dallas would then be able to keep him by matching the teams offer or let him go to the other team and get 2 first round picks in return.
2027 same scenario unless he was traded the year before. The only difference is he would cost around 30m if they used the Franchise Tag two years in a row.

If they did all this and traded Dak and CD in 2028 they would have 129m dead cap from Dak and 40m for CD. Pay that over two years a total of 84.5 per year.
It sounds like a lot but by then Parsons should be off the books to with no dead money.
If you add up what you would have been paying them on average Dak 42m + CD 25m + Parsons 25m It would be 92m per year.

So for two years it would be like you were paying the 3 players even though they aren't on the team. In a rebuild scenario who cares. You would be breaking in a new QB anyway and by the time you figure out if he can play and you want to add pieces around him, all the dead cap will have been paid in full. Then you would have the cap space to add in FA.

If they did this the 2025 cap space would be
Dead money from
FA Tank 4.4m 2025 and 2026
FA Cooks 3m 2025 and 2026
Retired Martin 12.25m 2025 and 2026
around 20m/yr in dead money 2025 and 2026

Steele's pay increases by 6m
Parsons pay increases by 16m

but you save by not paying the players their big salaries anymore
saved cap space
Tank 16m less than he made last year salary was 20.4m-4.4m in dead money.
Cooks 7m less than he made last year salary was 10m-3m in dead money.
Martin 3.25m less than he made last year salary was 15.5m-12.25m in dead money.
Dak and CD old contracts combined 18+55=73 vs 25+42=67 saves about 6m/yr.

Basically you save around 30m dollars by not resigning/extending these players.
The cap is also projected to raise another 18-20m dollars
Plus what ever you carry over from 2024.

Dead money and pay increases total is about 42 million

Savings 50-60 million plus whatever you save from other FA on the team that you decide not to resign like Osa, Kendricks, Zeke.

Depending on how they play it they could have 20-30 million dollars to spend in FA next season and have their 3 best players to boot.

So it is possible. These void years and stuff can be confusing.

Nice work! Good job

 

[plymkr]

I believe Dak would accept only if allowed to keep a no-trade clause. In return, Dak would have to accept $52.5 mil / year, instead of $60 mil / year. Both parties (Dak and Cowboys) would win this way.

PS: I haven't read past your Dak proposal, but thank you for the hard and lengthy work!

If we extend Dak, I’m not advocating yes or no in this thread, Jerry has to get something in the negotiations. He can’t do what he did last time and just accept Dak’s salary, NTC and no franchise tag. This time around Jerry’s got to get something. Ideally I would hope Dak would be more reasonable this time around with things as well.

 

[Killerinstinct]

Did the Dak contract include the huge amount they are already in the hook for that has been pushed into void years?

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Lots of work on this ....thanks
One problem I can tell you now that this is the final year Parsons is playing his current contract. He WILL not play on the 5th year option or tag without holding out. Listen to his recent comments.......he makes it quite clear, he's expected to get paid right after CeeDee. No way he is going to play on the 5th year option AND tag w/o hell breaking loose.

 

[PAPPYDOG]

Let Dak and CD play out this year with the cap hits they have right now 55 and 18 million respectively.

Give Dak an extension with a option signing bonus that gives him his bonus on the first day of the new league year 2025.

Dak contract
4yr 240mil- 60mil/yr on average... 200mil in Guaranteed money... Signing Bonus 75 million dollars(Highest ever beats Goff's 73 million.
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. He already has 3 void years just use these again.
With the 75m signing bonus you can take 240m-75m=165m... Divide 165m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 41.25m per year base salary.

The signing bonus is like a loan and takes off 18.75m in base salary per year. It is stored in the Void years until his contract is up or he is traded. Then it hits the cap all at once. His dead cap would be 75m+54m that he already has in dead cap. 129m in dead cap total yr 2028. Dead cap can be split in half and paid over 2years. 64.5/yr.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 55mil
2025 base salary 41.25m
2026 base salary 41.25m
2027 base salary 42.50m
2028 base salary 40m
add all those base salaries together and you get 165m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 75m to it, and you get 240m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 200m dollars.
Dak's 200 million in guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027 and If they wanted to they could trade him.

CD contract
4yr 140m- 35m/yr on average... 115m in Guaranteed money(Jefferson got 110m)... Signing Bonus of 40m(Jefferson got 37m)
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. Add void years to accommodate the 40 million in signing bonus.
140m-40m Bonus=100m... Divide 100m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 25m per year base salary.

This time it saves 10m per year and after the contract expires you would owe 40m in dead money and split it over two years 20m per year.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 18m
2025 base salary 25m
2026 base salary 25m
2027 base salary 25m
2028 base salary 25m
add all those base salaries together and you get 100m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 40m to it, and you get 140m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 115m.
CD's 115m in Guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027, and if they wanted to they could trade him.

Parsons
2024 makes 5.3m
2025 he makes 21.3m on his 5th year option
2026 two options
Place the exclusive franchise tag on him(protects from other teams trying to sign him). It would be 120% of 2025 salary coming to about 25 million dollars.
or
Place the Non-exclusive franchise tag on him. A team would offer him a contract if they wanted him. If he accepted, Dallas would then be able to keep him by matching the teams offer or let him go to the other team and get 2 first round picks in return.
2027 same scenario unless he was traded the year before. The only difference is he would cost around 30m if they used the Franchise Tag two years in a row.

If they did all this and traded Dak and CD in 2028 they would have 129m dead cap from Dak and 40m for CD. Pay that over two years a total of 84.5 per year.
It sounds like a lot but by then Parsons should be off the books to with no dead money.
If you add up what you would have been paying them on average Dak 42m + CD 25m + Parsons 25m It would be 92m per year.

So for two years it would be like you were paying the 3 players even though they aren't on the team. In a rebuild scenario who cares. You would be breaking in a new QB anyway and by the time you figure out if he can play and you want to add pieces around him, all the dead cap will have been paid in full. Then you would have the cap space to add in FA.

If they did this the 2025 cap space would be
Dead money from
FA Tank 4.4m 2025 and 2026
FA Cooks 3m 2025 and 2026
Retired Martin 12.25m 2025 and 2026
around 20m/yr in dead money 2025 and 2026

Steele's pay increases by 6m
Parsons pay increases by 16m

but you save by not paying the players their big salaries anymore
saved cap space
Tank 16m less than he made last year salary was 20.4m-4.4m in dead money.
Cooks 7m less than he made last year salary was 10m-3m in dead money.
Martin 3.25m less than he made last year salary was 15.5m-12.25m in dead money.
Dak and CD old contracts combined 18+55=73 vs 25+42=67 saves about 6m/yr.

Basically you save around 30m dollars by not resigning/extending these players.
The cap is also projected to raise another 18-20m dollars
Plus what ever you carry over from 2024.

Dead money and pay increases total is about 42 million

Savings 50-60 million plus whatever you save from other FA on the team that you decide not to resign like Osa, Kendricks, Zeke.

Depending on how they play it they could have 20-30 million dollars to spend in FA next season and have their 3 best players to boot.

So it is possible. These void years and stuff can be confusing.

Nice write-up but there is just one problem.................THEY DON'T WANT TO KEEP DAK ANY LONGER!!!!

 

[noshame]

Thank God Jerry has seen the light and won't take the road of guaranteed failure AGAIN.

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

Did the Dak contract include the huge amount they are already in the hook for that has been pushed into void years?

It doesn’t start that way, but Dallas creates it throughout the duration of the deal

 

[Coogiguy03]

Let Dak and CD play out this year with the cap hits they have right now 55 and 18 million respectively.

Give Dak an extension with a option signing bonus that gives him his bonus on the first day of the new league year 2025.

Dak contract
4yr 240mil- 60mil/yr on average... 200mil in Guaranteed money... Signing Bonus 75 million dollars(Highest ever beats Goff's 73 million.
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. He already has 3 void years just use these again.
With the 75m signing bonus you can take 240m-75m=165m... Divide 165m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 41.25m per year base salary.

The signing bonus is like a loan and takes off 18.75m in base salary per year. It is stored in the Void years until his contract is up or he is traded. Then it hits the cap all at once. His dead cap would be 75m+54m that he already has in dead cap. 129m in dead cap total yr 2028. Dead cap can be split in half and paid over 2years. 64.5/yr.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 55mil
2025 base salary 41.25m
2026 base salary 41.25m
2027 base salary 42.50m
2028 base salary 40m
add all those base salaries together and you get 165m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 75m to it, and you get 240m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 200m dollars.
Dak's 200 million in guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027 and If they wanted to they could trade him.

CD contract
4yr 140m- 35m/yr on average... 115m in Guaranteed money(Jefferson got 110m)... Signing Bonus of 40m(Jefferson got 37m)
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. Add void years to accommodate the 40 million in signing bonus.
140m-40m Bonus=100m... Divide 100m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 25m per year base salary.

This time it saves 10m per year and after the contract expires you would owe 40m in dead money and split it over two years 20m per year.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 18m
2025 base salary 25m
2026 base salary 25m
2027 base salary 25m
2028 base salary 25m
add all those base salaries together and you get 100m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 40m to it, and you get 140m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 115m.
CD's 115m in Guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027, and if they wanted to they could trade him.

Parsons
2024 makes 5.3m
2025 he makes 21.3m on his 5th year option
2026 two options
Place the exclusive franchise tag on him(protects from other teams trying to sign him). It would be 120% of 2025 salary coming to about 25 million dollars.
or
Place the Non-exclusive franchise tag on him. A team would offer him a contract if they wanted him. If he accepted, Dallas would then be able to keep him by matching the teams offer or let him go to the other team and get 2 first round picks in return.
2027 same scenario unless he was traded the year before. The only difference is he would cost around 30m if they used the Franchise Tag two years in a row.

If they did all this and traded Dak and CD in 2028 they would have 129m dead cap from Dak and 40m for CD. Pay that over two years a total of 84.5 per year.
It sounds like a lot but by then Parsons should be off the books to with no dead money.
If you add up what you would have been paying them on average Dak 42m + CD 25m + Parsons 25m It would be 92m per year.

So for two years it would be like you were paying the 3 players even though they aren't on the team. In a rebuild scenario who cares. You would be breaking in a new QB anyway and by the time you figure out if he can play and you want to add pieces around him, all the dead cap will have been paid in full. Then you would have the cap space to add in FA.

If they did this the 2025 cap space would be
Dead money from
FA Tank 4.4m 2025 and 2026
FA Cooks 3m 2025 and 2026
Retired Martin 12.25m 2025 and 2026
around 20m/yr in dead money 2025 and 2026

Steele's pay increases by 6m
Parsons pay increases by 16m

but you save by not paying the players their big salaries anymore
saved cap space
Tank 16m less than he made last year salary was 20.4m-4.4m in dead money.
Cooks 7m less than he made last year salary was 10m-3m in dead money.
Martin 3.25m less than he made last year salary was 15.5m-12.25m in dead money.
Dak and CD old contracts combined 18+55=73 vs 25+42=67 saves about 6m/yr.

Basically you save around 30m dollars by not resigning/extending these players.
The cap is also projected to raise another 18-20m dollars
Plus what ever you carry over from 2024.

Dead money and pay increases total is about 42 million

Savings 50-60 million plus whatever you save from other FA on the team that you decide not to resign like Osa, Kendricks, Zeke.

Depending on how they play it they could have 20-30 million dollars to spend in FA next season and have their 3 best players to boot.

So it is possible. These void years and stuff can be confusing.

VERY VERY INFORMATIVE but my can damn head is spinning!! Too many numbers for COOG

 

[Coogiguy03]

Lots of work on this ....thanks
One problem I can tell you now that this is the final year Parsons is playing his current contract. He WILL not play on the 5th year option or tag without holding out. Listen to his recent comments.......he makes it quite clear, he's expected to get paid right after CeeDee. No way he is going to play on the 5th year option AND tag w/o hell breaking loose.

Please please please say this again!!!!!!!! His pride wouldn't let him be paid so cheaply as this

 

[Flamma]

The signing bonus is like a loan and takes off 18.75m in base salary per year. It is stored in the Void years until his contract is up or he is traded.

A couple problems I see with this.

1. Zero chance Parsons plays on his 5th year option without an extension, let alone the FT. The Cowboys should actually extend him now, to have those two extra years to spread out his cap hits.

2. If Dak gets a 4 year deal, you can't bypass those 4 years and allocate signing bonus money to void years alone.

 

[acr731]

I believe Dak would accept only if allowed to keep a no-trade clause. In return, Dak would have to accept $52.5 mil / year, instead of $60 mil / year. Both parties (Dak and Cowboys) would win this way.

PS: I haven't read past your Dak proposal, but thank you for the hard and lengthy work!

Maybe because all you care about is Dak? There are 52 other players on the active roster, including Parsons and CeeDee. Anyway..........

I don't see Dak accepting anything lower than 63 per. Burrow, the highest paid QB, makes 62.9 per year, and although I haven't heard Dak say it, I imagine he wants to be the man on top. Not that he deserves it, of course, he just wants it. Market value, right?

It really chaps me to no end that Dak wants (demands?) to be paid more than a 4 time super bowl champion.

 

[ChuckA1]

Great work. Don't think it's feasible to keep all three at those prices and still field a good team, but you did a great job at explaining your point.

 

[acr731]

Great work. Don't think it's feasible to keep all three at those prices and still field a good team, but you did a great job at explaining your point.

Some people aren't interested in fielding a good team, they just want their favorite player(s) signed, no matter the cost.

 

[DeaconMoss]

I hope nobody who works in the FO is reading this thread. This nonsense is ludicrous to consider.
1) Dak must go. I don't care how. A) He is JAG B) Hes a choker

"Dak contract​

4yr 240mil- 60mil/yr on average... 200mil in Guaranteed money...​

Signing Bonus 75 million dollars(Highest ever beats Goff's 73 million"​

​

2) I'm open to trading CD and parsons. I'm also open to keeping them. Depends on the offer.

 

[John813]

Dak contract
4yr 240mil- 60mil/yr on average... 200mil in Guaranteed money... Signing Bonus 75 million dollars(Highest ever beats Goff's 73 million.
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. He already has 3 void years just use these again.
With the 75m signing bonus you can take 240m-75m=165m... Divide 165m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 41.25m per year base salary.

The signing bonus is like a loan and takes off 18.75m in base salary per year. It is stored in the Void years until his contract is up or he is traded. Then it hits the cap all at once. His dead cap would be 75m+54m that he already has in dead cap. 129m in dead cap total yr 2028. Dead cap can be split in half and paid over 2years. 64.5/yr.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 55mil
2025 base salary 41.25m
2026 base salary 41.25m
2027 base salary 42.50m
2028 base salary 40m

Explain this to me, as I'm not following.

The day Dak signs his deal, the signing bonus is prorated over 5 years max, including the current year he's in. If Dallas lets his contract void, they get hit with 40mil dead no matter if they sign him a week into Free agency.

If Dallas signs him in February/prior to contract termination, his prorated signing bonus cap hit for 2025 becomes 26.132 existing bonus from restructuring the 2021 contract + 15mil signing bonus from new deal.
Right off the bat, his signing bonus cap hit is 41mil in 2025. Prorated signing bonus cap hits can't be modified.
Now, they can make his base salary near minimum, say 1mil for an example by restructuring right away, for a total cap hit of ~42mil
If you gave Dak a base salary of 41mil in 2025, his total cap hit would be ~82mil.

Signing bonus isn't stored in the void years unless it's part of a restructure or within the 5 year max spread for signing bonus. If you did a 4+3 void year deal, only 1 void year gets filled with the prorated signing bonus intitally, as it's a max of 5 years that signing bonus can be spread out.

75mil signing bonus:
25 = 15, 26=15, 27=15, 28 =15 29(void)=15
The benefit to having 3 void years is the next three years of his deal they can restructure the contract and gain 1 year to maximize the spread of the restructured signing bonus.
In 2026 when they restructure his deal, now the 2nd void year gets used for spreading cap purposes(5 year max).

Dead cap in the void years is purely based off how many times and the amount that was restructured.

There's no benefit to having an equal split base salary. The cap will rise as it has and 40mil now is worth a lot more than 40 mil in 2028. It's better to push more base towards the end.

 

[Loso86]

Let Dak and CD play out this year with the cap hits they have right now 55 and 18 million respectively.

Give Dak an extension with a option signing bonus that gives him his bonus on the first day of the new league year 2025.

Dak contract
4yr 240mil- 60mil/yr on average... 200mil in Guaranteed money... Signing Bonus 75 million dollars(Highest ever beats Goff's 73 million.
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. He already has 3 void years just use these again.
With the 75m signing bonus you can take 240m-75m=165m... Divide 165m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 41.25m per year base salary.

The signing bonus is like a loan and takes off 18.75m in base salary per year. It is stored in the Void years until his contract is up or he is traded. Then it hits the cap all at once. His dead cap would be 75m+54m that he already has in dead cap. 129m in dead cap total yr 2028. Dead cap can be split in half and paid over 2years. 64.5/yr.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 55mil
2025 base salary 41.25m
2026 base salary 41.25m
2027 base salary 42.50m
2028 base salary 40m
add all those base salaries together and you get 165m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 75m to it, and you get 240m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 200m dollars.
Dak's 200 million in guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027 and If they wanted to they could trade him.

CD contract
4yr 140m- 35m/yr on average... 115m in Guaranteed money(Jefferson got 110m)... Signing Bonus of 40m(Jefferson got 37m)
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. Add void years to accommodate the 40 million in signing bonus.
140m-40m Bonus=100m... Divide 100m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 25m per year base salary.

This time it saves 10m per year and after the contract expires you would owe 40m in dead money and split it over two years 20m per year.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 18m
2025 base salary 25m
2026 base salary 25m
2027 base salary 25m
2028 base salary 25m
add all those base salaries together and you get 100m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 40m to it, and you get 140m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 115m.
CD's 115m in Guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027, and if they wanted to they could trade him.

Parsons
2024 makes 5.3m
2025 he makes 21.3m on his 5th year option
2026 two options
Place the exclusive franchise tag on him(protects from other teams trying to sign him). It would be 120% of 2025 salary coming to about 25 million dollars.
or
Place the Non-exclusive franchise tag on him. A team would offer him a contract if they wanted him. If he accepted, Dallas would then be able to keep him by matching the teams offer or let him go to the other team and get 2 first round picks in return.
2027 same scenario unless he was traded the year before. The only difference is he would cost around 30m if they used the Franchise Tag two years in a row.

If they did all this and traded Dak and CD in 2028 they would have 129m dead cap from Dak and 40m for CD. Pay that over two years a total of 84.5 per year.
It sounds like a lot but by then Parsons should be off the books to with no dead money.
If you add up what you would have been paying them on average Dak 42m + CD 25m + Parsons 25m It would be 92m per year.

So for two years it would be like you were paying the 3 players even though they aren't on the team. In a rebuild scenario who cares. You would be breaking in a new QB anyway and by the time you figure out if he can play and you want to add pieces around him, all the dead cap will have been paid in full. Then you would have the cap space to add in FA.

If they did this the 2025 cap space would be
Dead money from
FA Tank 4.4m 2025 and 2026
FA Cooks 3m 2025 and 2026
Retired Martin 12.25m 2025 and 2026
around 20m/yr in dead money 2025 and 2026

Steele's pay increases by 6m
Parsons pay increases by 16m

but you save by not paying the players their big salaries anymore
saved cap space
Tank 16m less than he made last year salary was 20.4m-4.4m in dead money.
Cooks 7m less than he made last year salary was 10m-3m in dead money.
Martin 3.25m less than he made last year salary was 15.5m-12.25m in dead money.
Dak and CD old contracts combined 18+55=73 vs 25+42=67 saves about 6m/yr.

Basically you save around 30m dollars by not resigning/extending these players.
The cap is also projected to raise another 18-20m dollars
Plus what ever you carry over from 2024.

Dead money and pay increases total is about 42 million

Savings 50-60 million plus whatever you save from other FA on the team that you decide not to resign like Osa, Kendricks, Zeke.

Depending on how they play it they could have 20-30 million dollars to spend in FA next season and have their 3 best players to boot.

So it is possible. These void years and stuff can be confusing.

Thanks for all this. Again if they want to they can and will sign all 3. Even though some of our fans refuse to believe logic

 

[blueblood70]

Let Dak and CD play out this year with the cap hits they have right now 55 and 18 million respectively.

Give Dak an extension with a option signing bonus that gives him his bonus on the first day of the new league year 2025.

Dak contract
4yr 240mil- 60mil/yr on average... 200mil in Guaranteed money... Signing Bonus 75 million dollars(Highest ever beats Goff's 73 million.
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. He already has 3 void years just use these again.
With the 75m signing bonus you can take 240m-75m=165m... Divide 165m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 41.25m per year base salary.

The signing bonus is like a loan and takes off 18.75m in base salary per year. It is stored in the Void years until his contract is up or he is traded. Then it hits the cap all at once. His dead cap would be 75m+54m that he already has in dead cap. 129m in dead cap total yr 2028. Dead cap can be split in half and paid over 2years. 64.5/yr.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 55mil
2025 base salary 41.25m
2026 base salary 41.25m
2027 base salary 42.50m
2028 base salary 40m
add all those base salaries together and you get 165m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 75m to it, and you get 240m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 200m dollars.
Dak's 200 million in guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027 and If they wanted to they could trade him.

CD contract
4yr 140m- 35m/yr on average... 115m in Guaranteed money(Jefferson got 110m)... Signing Bonus of 40m(Jefferson got 37m)
He doesn't sign a no trade clause, potential out 2028. Add void years to accommodate the 40 million in signing bonus.
140m-40m Bonus=100m... Divide 100m by the 4yrs in his contract to get 25m per year base salary.

This time it saves 10m per year and after the contract expires you would owe 40m in dead money and split it over two years 20m per year.

Yearly it looks like this
2024 base salary 18m
2025 base salary 25m
2026 base salary 25m
2027 base salary 25m
2028 base salary 25m
add all those base salaries together and you get 100m in base salary. Then add the signing bonus of 40m to it, and you get 140m.
add the first 3yrs of his extension together and the signing bonus and it comes to 115m.
CD's 115m in Guaranteed money would be paid by the end of 2027, and if they wanted to they could trade him.

Parsons
2024 makes 5.3m
2025 he makes 21.3m on his 5th year option
2026 two options
Place the exclusive franchise tag on him(protects from other teams trying to sign him). It would be 120% of 2025 salary coming to about 25 million dollars.
or
Place the Non-exclusive franchise tag on him. A team would offer him a contract if they wanted him. If he accepted, Dallas would then be able to keep him by matching the teams offer or let him go to the other team and get 2 first round picks in return.
2027 same scenario unless he was traded the year before. The only difference is he would cost around 30m if they used the Franchise Tag two years in a row.

If they did all this and traded Dak and CD in 2028 they would have 129m dead cap from Dak and 40m for CD. Pay that over two years a total of 84.5 per year.
It sounds like a lot but by then Parsons should be off the books to with no dead money.
If you add up what you would have been paying them on average Dak 42m + CD 25m + Parsons 25m It would be 92m per year.

So for two years it would be like you were paying the 3 players even though they aren't on the team. In a rebuild scenario who cares. You would be breaking in a new QB anyway and by the time you figure out if he can play and you want to add pieces around him, all the dead cap will have been paid in full. Then you would have the cap space to add in FA.

If they did this the 2025 cap space would be
Dead money from
FA Tank 4.4m 2025 and 2026
FA Cooks 3m 2025 and 2026
Retired Martin 12.25m 2025 and 2026
around 20m/yr in dead money 2025 and 2026

Steele's pay increases by 6m
Parsons pay increases by 16m

but you save by not paying the players their big salaries anymore
saved cap space
Tank 16m less than he made last year salary was 20.4m-4.4m in dead money.
Cooks 7m less than he made last year salary was 10m-3m in dead money.
Martin 3.25m less than he made last year salary was 15.5m-12.25m in dead money.
Dak and CD old contracts combined 18+55=73 vs 25+42=67 saves about 6m/yr.

Basically you save around 30m dollars by not resigning/extending these players.
The cap is also projected to raise another 18-20m dollars
Plus what ever you carry over from 2024.

Dead money and pay increases total is about 42 million

Savings 50-60 million plus whatever you save from other FA on the team that you decide not to resign like Osa, Kendricks, Zeke.

Depending on how they play it they could have 20-30 million dollars to spend in FA next season and have their 3 best players to boot.

So it is possible. These void years and stuff can be confusing.

That's far too long to read but just off the title,

I agree they could keep them all but it's not as simple as you're writing out they're going to need to be very careful in structuring these contracts and really Prescott's contract is the only one that would make sense to do first if you wanna keep all those other players if not they need to trade them all blow it up and start over without a quarterback we're not going anywhere for the next three plus years so why keep all those other dudes when you can get maximum trade value right now for any of them and you're right probably cutting and getting rid of Zach Martin and tank...

In my opinion a lot of this stuff gonna happen within a month before the season starts you might see all three signs you could see at least Prescott and lamb signed but everyone thinking this offseason's over just because it hasn't happened yet look what just off the top of my mind Chris Jones did with Kansas City he got signed a week before the season started it literally can happen at any moment and heck if they wanted say they signed those two and then Micah Parsons got off to a tear in the first six weeks of the season and has like 10 sacks already they could sign him during the year can't they or is that against the rules??

Think there might be a rule on when you're allowed to sign new deals or not but I have no idea but yes they could keep them all but I think Prescott is the X Factor all the other chips will fall when they decide what to do with Prescott we cannot operate without a top quarterback and I'm sorry history says they're not easy to find...

 

[America's Cowboy]

Maybe because all you care about is Dak? There are 52 other players on the active roster, including Parsons and CeeDee. Anyway..........

I don't see Dak accepting anything lower than 63 per. Burrow, the highest paid QB, makes 62.9 per year, and although I haven't heard Dak say it, I imagine he wants to be the man on top. Not that he deserves it, of course, he just wants it. Market value, right?

It really chaps me to no end that Dak wants (demands?) to be paid more than a 4 time super bowl champion.

It was late. Had to get some sleep. I'll finish reading the rest of the OP later today.

I'm so happy to see Dak irks you so badly. Can't wait for Dak to resign just to hear your posts of anger. lol