Reports: Russell Wilson’s contract the target for Dak Prescott, speculation Cowboys leaked the $40M

[Irvin88_4life]

Dak is a class act. The Cowboys shouldn’t lie about him.

He’s been the most underpaid player in the entire NFL the past 3 years. Pay him a $ million more than Wentz and call it a day already.

I'm going to agree with you. Then let's get Cooper locked up and all the other players so we can focus on winning a championship.

 

[Sydla]

It does not.

What it would mean is they definitely want to pay him, but they want to do at it at a discount.

If they were "souring on him" they'd let him play out the year and test the market.

We might be trending in that direction.

 

[KingintheNorth]

We might be trending in that direction.

Which is fine because we can tag him for the same $32-34M range without the risk of a long-term commitment. And if absolutely necessary, tag him again in 2021. The Cowboys have all of the leverage here. They can control Dak for the next 3 years. I don''t want it to come to that, but if he's demanding those numbers anyway (per year average), then the Cowboys can tag him without the salary cap ramifications of the huge signing bonus a long-term deal for Dak will come with.

Dak's only leverage is that the Cowboys have trash at back-up QB. If Dak were to hold out, and I don't think he will because the only way he drives up his value to other teams is by playing and improving, it would mean a wasted season because Cooper Rush isn't winning more than 4 games. However, by doing that, Dak would be putting the Cowboys in a better position to draft his replacement.

 

[aikemirv]

Because the Cowboys have a habit of doing something stupid with contracts.

Give me a break. Jerry and Stephen stopped doing that YEARS ago.

The Eagles always love to feel they are one-upping the Cowboys - it's just their thing - Dallas Goddert.....

 

[aikemirv]

If the Cowboys front office leaked a story (true or false) aimed at turning the fanbase against their QB then these guys are fools.


If this is true then we are in trouble.

you just don’t do that.

If they leaked it, it was not to turn the fanbase against him. It was to let them (Dak and his agent) see the absurdity of the request based on the response to the amount!

 

[superonyx]

If they leaked it, it was not to turn the fanbase against him. It was to let them (Dak and his agent) see the absurdity of the request based on the response to the amount!

This may be. But either way leaking stuff and negotiating with public opinion reeks of amateur hour.
Its not a good look from the Jones at all.

The first tier organizations don't have these problems. The freaking Eagles quietly got an extension done with Wentz and Alshon Jeffery without using the media.

 

[erod]

If they leaked it, it was not to turn the fanbase against him. It was to let them (Dak and his agent) see the absurdity of the request based on the response to the amount!

All's fair in contract negotiations of this magnitude.

What would Steve Beuerlein make in today's NFL?

 

[Brax]

Russel Wilson money?

Seems pricey for a guy with one Wildcard win, at least Russel is walking around with a ring.

I don’t know, might be tempted to let Dak play out the year and tag him if necessary.

It is amazing how it has become next man in line not performance based. let him play and if he can get the team to the SB (Dak folk say say's the guy who wins all the games for the cowboys) go from there.

 

[Beast_from_East]

It is amazing how it has become next man in line not performance based. let him play and if he can get the team to the SB (Dak folk say say's the guy who wins all the games for the cowboys) go from there.

Good points, I tag him also.

Dak ain’t Russel Wilson, sorry, but he just ain’t.

 

[zekecowboy]

If the Cowboys front office leaked a story (true or false) aimed at turning the fanbase against their QB then these guys are fools.


If this is true then we are in trouble.

you just don’t do that.

This was in the article also.

"It sounds like both sides may be leaking things to the press to get the upper hand in negotiations."

Most likely both sides are leaking info to the media, shame on Jones AND Dak's agent.

 

[Verdict]

If the Cowboys front office leaked a story (true or false) aimed at turning the fanbase against their QB then these guys are fools.


If this is true then we are in trouble.

you just don’t do that.

If it’s true, you might want to. The Cowboys need to get him signed for a reasonable deal. If Dak is being unreasonable and not budging and the fan base feels like the Cowboys are low balling Dak, why is that something that isn’t relevant to a fan.

This is business. People do what they can Nd should do for themselves most of the time.

 

[superonyx]

If it’s true, you might want to. The Cowboys need to get him signed for a reasonable deal. If Dak is being unreasonable and not budging and the fan base feels like the Cowboys are low balling Dak, why is that something that isn’t relevant to a fan.

This is business. People do what they can Nd should do for themselves most of the time.

Because you are hurting your own product. It’s like a friend who tells you he is having a problem with his girlfriend. You just don’t start talking bad about her because then when they work it out and get back together things are going to be weird between you, her, and him.

Dak will ultimately sign here. There is very little chance he won’t and if he won’t and you want to trade him it doesn’t help to let other teams know they are getting someone who turned down 30m because he wanted 40m.

The reason you shouldn’t do this is because it is a business.

Our front office needs to find a way to get this stuff done. Daks in camp, he’s saying the right things and if you can’t even keep the contract dispute quiet on a guy in camp, playing in a meaningless preseason game then how ugly are you going to be if things need to get serious.

it’s a bad look.

show me where another organization acts this way?

 

[jsb357]

Dak was drafted to be a physically tough QB with eventually enough skills to step in case Romo got hurt.

Although he has played over what was expected he is still NOT A TOP TIER QB.

Although he has the position his skill set is still lacking of a TOP TIER QB.

His skill set has not taken the "big leap". Maybe it will this year, maybe it never will.

Wilson's attributes were questioned once upon a time however. he ascended to the big game twice
winning once.

IMO he's not worth Wilson money

If he did in fact turn down 30 million and plays this year for 900k, he's not as smart a people would have you believe.

 

[Ranching]

35 is too much Dak

That's only 5 in dog years!!!

 

[Ranching]

Because the Cowboys have a habit of doing something stupid with contracts.

Give me a break. Jerry and Stephen stopped doing that YEARS ago.

Old habits are hard to break.

 

[DandyDon52]

Well we dont know what the jones boys offered any of the 3 including Dak and that means yearly avg or guaranteed, signing bonus,
extra bonus clauses, or length of contract.
We just dont know, so we cant really judge it till after they sign, and it is made public.

So I am done thinking about it till whatever actually happens.
waiting for the 2nd PS game!

 

[CWR]

Man how many times does it need to be said?

Dak aint Russell Wilson

Coop aint Michael Thomas

Zeke is the only one with a legit claim to top money, and he cancels that out by being a suspension in waiting.

I dont think Daks agent is foolish enough to gamble which is why he will likely sign prior to week one.

 

[BigD_95]

Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports


One of the things that has made the subject of Dak Prescott’s contract negotiations so fascinating this offseason has been that his NFC East counterpart Carson Wentz was also eligible for an extension with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Wentz got his deal, he’s at $32M on an annual average value, which means that in all likelihood Prescott would like to beat it. It was always going to be that way for the second quarterback to get their contract done, that’s how business works with that position in the NFL.

When news of Philly locking down their quarterback that’s never played in the playoffs first broke there were tons (likely millions, I stopped counting) of tweets and comments noting that the Eagles were likely thrilled to have beaten the Cowboys to the punch with signing their signal-caller. This was very understandable as the race to get your quarterback signed is a never-ending one in football.

Yahoo’s Charles Robinson reported on Tuesday that this was in fact the case for the Eagles, duh, that they wanted to get the Wentz deal done before the Cowboys did Prescott’s. In fact ,Robinson writes that according to one of his sources there was concern the Cowboys could do something “stupid” with Prescott.

“That played a part in getting Carson’s deal done early,” a league source told Yahoo Sports. “It was a priority [for the franchise] anyway, but not knowing if Dallas would just completely cave in with Dak and do something stupid definitely entered into the conversation.”

Monday saw what a lot of people have quantified as exorbitant with a report that Dak Prescott is asking for $40M per season from the Cowboys. There are some questions as to the validity of this report, one question being that the team may have leaked it in an effort to curry favor with fans, largely because that would give Prescott the highest annual salary of all quarterbacks in the league.

Dan Patrick dropped this bomb on his show (The Dan Patrick Show which you can watch daily from 9am to 12pm ET on AT&T Audience Network) today regarding the reports that surfaced on Monday. According to Patrick, his source informed him that this story was intentionally leaked by the Dallas Cowboys in order to paint Prescott and his agent in bad light to the media and fans of the Dallas Cowboys and NFL.

The Dan Patrick segment:

Continuing on the contract talks, Patrick later states that his source later proposed that Prescott should look into a shorter-term deal that would give him the opportunity to hit the open market again, while also getting a nice chunk of guaranteed money in the foreseeable future. This presumably would give the Cowboys flexibility if Prescott shows no development in the next few years, but would also allow Prescott to get his money, and prove to the Cowboys (and the rest of the league) that he is one of the best, young quarterbacks in the National Football League.

It sounds like both sides may be leaking things to the press to get the upper hand in negotiations

While Prescott likely won’t get $40M per season from the Cowboys, it’s possible that he lands something not too far behind. Per Charles Robinson of Yahoo, it’s the goal of Team Dak to get him more than Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson got this offseason (he is the highest-paid player in the NFL).


Charles Robinson

✔@CharlesRobinson

Yes, I‘ve been told #Seahawks’ Russell Wilson deal ($35 million APY) is the Dak target. And that will rise next offseason if he shows out in 2019. Also, @SlaterNFL isn’t alone in hearing that $40 million APY negotiation number. That figure has gotten around to other franchises. https://twitter.com/rjochoa/status/1161315534471933953 …

RJ Ochoa@rjochoa

Charles writes here that one league source tells him that the ultimate goal for Dak's camp is to top Russell Wilson's deal.

That would in fact be over $35M per season.

Prior to Wilson landing his new deal, I wrote about how Prescott compares favorably to him over the last three seasons (Dak’s time in the NFL). Of course, Russell has been in the NFL for four more years than Prescott and has won a Super Bowl, but in a world of objective data it’s difficult to look at what the two have accomplished since 2016 and disagree that Dak is deserving of a franchise quarterback deal.

To be crystal clear: I am not saying that Dak Prescott is better than Russell Wilson. What I am saying is that if I was negotiating against Dak and looked at the the resumes of both he and Wilson over the last three years, I would not be able to objectively disagree with a lot of it. Obviously, there are more aspects to contract negotiations than measurable accomplishments, but hopefully you get the picture.

Given that Wilson’s deal is the apparent target for Dak Prescott it’s certainly possible that he did ask for $40M. You can’t settle on something near $35M if you don’t ask for more. That’s just the way business goes sometimes.



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are you insane? So you want to compare what Wilson did the last 3 years and say well Dak compares. First, Wilson did win a super bowl and has had way more playoff success. You cant just brush that off. But why compare Dak to Wilson? Lets compare Dak to Tom Brady making 23 million a year? Who says Cowboys should look at Daks numbers to Wilson? Dak has really no playoff success - pretty much everyone around the league agrees he is not a top 5 QB but more of a low tier 2 or high tier 3 QB yet we should compare him to Wilson? Give me a break

 

[CowboysRule]

Dak wants to be the highest paid player in the NFL.

In the NFL, you are paid based on your ability.

Is Dak the best player in the NFL?

Is Dak the best QB in the NFL?

If the answer to either of the above is no, then he doesn't deserve to be the highest paid player.

I am Cowboys fan until death and I am rooting for Dak to finally overcome his flaws and become a top tier QB. The fact is though, he hasn't done that yet. I don't understand what case his agent can make that he should be the highest paid player in the NFL and likely NFL history.

 

[Stash]

Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports


One of the things that has made the subject of Dak Prescott’s contract negotiations so fascinating this offseason has been that his NFC East counterpart Carson Wentz was also eligible for an extension with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Wentz got his deal, he’s at $32M on an annual average value, which means that in all likelihood Prescott would like to beat it. It was always going to be that way for the second quarterback to get their contract done, that’s how business works with that position in the NFL.

When news of Philly locking down their quarterback that’s never played in the playoffs first broke there were tons (likely millions, I stopped counting) of tweets and comments noting that the Eagles were likely thrilled to have beaten the Cowboys to the punch with signing their signal-caller. This was very understandable as the race to get your quarterback signed is a never-ending one in football.

Yahoo’s Charles Robinson reported on Tuesday that this was in fact the case for the Eagles, duh, that they wanted to get the Wentz deal done before the Cowboys did Prescott’s. In fact ,Robinson writes that according to one of his sources there was concern the Cowboys could do something “stupid” with Prescott.

“That played a part in getting Carson’s deal done early,” a league source told Yahoo Sports. “It was a priority [for the franchise] anyway, but not knowing if Dallas would just completely cave in with Dak and do something stupid definitely entered into the conversation.”

Monday saw what a lot of people have quantified as exorbitant with a report that Dak Prescott is asking for $40M per season from the Cowboys. There are some questions as to the validity of this report, one question being that the team may have leaked it in an effort to curry favor with fans, largely because that would give Prescott the highest annual salary of all quarterbacks in the league.

Dan Patrick dropped this bomb on his show (The Dan Patrick Show which you can watch daily from 9am to 12pm ET on AT&T Audience Network) today regarding the reports that surfaced on Monday. According to Patrick, his source informed him that this story was intentionally leaked by the Dallas Cowboys in order to paint Prescott and his agent in bad light to the media and fans of the Dallas Cowboys and NFL.

The Dan Patrick segment:

Continuing on the contract talks, Patrick later states that his source later proposed that Prescott should look into a shorter-term deal that would give him the opportunity to hit the open market again, while also getting a nice chunk of guaranteed money in the foreseeable future. This presumably would give the Cowboys flexibility if Prescott shows no development in the next few years, but would also allow Prescott to get his money, and prove to the Cowboys (and the rest of the league) that he is one of the best, young quarterbacks in the National Football League.

It sounds like both sides may be leaking things to the press to get the upper hand in negotiations

While Prescott likely won’t get $40M per season from the Cowboys, it’s possible that he lands something not too far behind. Per Charles Robinson of Yahoo, it’s the goal of Team Dak to get him more than Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson got this offseason (he is the highest-paid player in the NFL).


Charles Robinson

✔@CharlesRobinson

Yes, I‘ve been told #Seahawks’ Russell Wilson deal ($35 million APY) is the Dak target. And that will rise next offseason if he shows out in 2019. Also, @SlaterNFL isn’t alone in hearing that $40 million APY negotiation number. That figure has gotten around to other franchises. https://twitter.com/rjochoa/status/1161315534471933953 …

RJ Ochoa@rjochoa

Charles writes here that one league source tells him that the ultimate goal for Dak's camp is to top Russell Wilson's deal.

That would in fact be over $35M per season.

Prior to Wilson landing his new deal, I wrote about how Prescott compares favorably to him over the last three seasons (Dak’s time in the NFL). Of course, Russell has been in the NFL for four more years than Prescott and has won a Super Bowl, but in a world of objective data it’s difficult to look at what the two have accomplished since 2016 and disagree that Dak is deserving of a franchise quarterback deal.

To be crystal clear: I am not saying that Dak Prescott is better than Russell Wilson. What I am saying is that if I was negotiating against Dak and looked at the the resumes of both he and Wilson over the last three years, I would not be able to objectively disagree with a lot of it. Obviously, there are more aspects to contract negotiations than measurable accomplishments, but hopefully you get the picture.

Given that Wilson’s deal is the apparent target for Dak Prescott it’s certainly possible that he did ask for $40M. You can’t settle on something near $35M if you don’t ask for more. That’s just the way business goes sometimes.



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No problem.

No hard feelings.

No animosity.

If we can't agree on a reasonable contract that works for both sides, let's just play it out.

Dak and his agent can assume all the risk of injury or diminished play, and the Cowboys can run the risk of him performing even better, winning a championship and then demanding and deserving that. $40 million a year. And the team can franchise tag him for two years, as is their right under the CBA.

No hard feelings.