Don’t forget he part where Dak gave Dallas the biggest discount in nfl history as he was maki g pro bowls as the 32nd highest paid starting QB in the nfl. Could have held out after year 3, didnt. Could have held out after year 4, didn’t. Could hold out now, isnt.
And now fans are upset he wants to be paid what others are being paid at his position.
1. First of all, he didn’t give any discount, he was a rookie QB that Linehan completely tailored the offense up, with the best OL and RG in football and he was basically driving the bus.
2. Secondly, he was on a rookie contract and completely sucked in 2017, when Zeke went out and the Jones family stood by him, and didn’t even bench him, but continued to give him game time experience to grow.
3. In year 3, they made this offense Dak-friendly, getting rid of Dez, the guy who was supposedly the distraction for Dak, who then fired his agent and hired France , then takes a week to throw a TD in training camp and refuses the extension offered to him after the 2017 season, to then become a laughing stock until Stephen who was already taking major criticism for letting go of Dez, gives up draft picks for Cooper.
4. Dallas always puts average players in the pro-bowl when they are winning. It happened with guys like Davis who was a complete bust with the Cardinals or Gurode and looked half-way decent when Romo was bailing out this offense. Just because Dak was a ‘filler’ in the pro-bowl because of being the QB of America’s team when they were winning is pretty much an absurd argument, especially since fans also not only vote for the pro-bowl, but can vote multiple times.
5. Nobody objects to Dak getting paid, if they actually think he’s decent abd not mediocre. They object to his ridiculous demands, especially for his garbage time stats in an offense that has been specifically tailored to his skill set for five years and in which the RG pretty much had been forcing so many man looks for any average QB to take advantage of against mediocre defenses.
6. Dak had ZERO grounds to hold out after year 3, after rejecting the Jones offer weeks after Dak fired his agent and hired France, and after Cooper bailed him out after his five straight under 200 yard performances that were Quincy Carter levels of embarrassment and even with Cooper, Dak was a complete joke when teams who played heavy zone, like the Colts shifted a safety over to Cooper’s side and Dak proceeded to get shutout against the Comte and then struggle against Tampa Bay, the only reason they won is because our defense gave the offense like two scoring possessions in TB territory. Even Winston looked better than him throwing the ball that game.
7. In reality, the only thing Dak is relying on, is garbage time stats. And before anybody says we would have ‘made the playoffs’ this year if Dak played under this battered line, that’s laughable. Dak’s performances always deteriorate as the seasons go along, and Dallas basically went quick throw football during the Bye, to adjust for the awful and battered OL play. Dalton had always been a quick throw, WC QB, so pretending Dak in these circumstances, particularly with Martin going down, would have ‘shined’ is pretty hilarious, especially since he holds onto the ball too long, his mechanics are sloppy, he’s lead footed and he’s slow at processing, let alone his release is slow, which is why he is always throwing behind WRs, and when he was staring down WRs particularly against the Browns, meaning by the time he got injured, on a regular basis. Hell, in the game he was injured, they only ‘came back’ when Moore took the ball out of Dak’s hands and went heavy Zeke and then Dalton comes in and wins the game.
8. Dak could have held out, but he was scared, ehh because is why he came running at the last minute. He knows deep down, a training camp with a veteran like Dalton, the pick heralded in the off-season by pretty much everybody, as the starter, and still not knowing Smith and Collins wouldn’t be playing, giving Moore and MM time to adjust the offense with Dalton with this OL and RG would have threatened his job. And even then, Dak entertained us with garbage time stats only to completely suck I’m the fourth quarter when down by 7, with his amazing 61% QBR and 4.8 YPC, 0 TDs and 1 INT.
