Spotrac: Parsons could command $42M based on $280M salary cap

[Coogiguy03]

So if the salary cap goes up 10% next year, Dak should make $66M instead of $60M?????

very funny lol, it's what the market dictates!!!

 

[FVSTONE]

Here we go.......( Dak, $60M---Lamb, $40M----Parsons, $42M

The Cowboys need to toe the line and don't overpay Parsons like they did Prescott. Both Clevland and Pittsburg have a edge rusher who may be the best in the game and neither one has sniffed a SB with these two studs.

 

[Coogiguy03]

The Cowboys need to toe the line and don't overpay Parsons like they did Prescott. Both Clevland and Pittsburg have a edge rusher who may be the best in the game and neither one has sniffed a SB with these two studs.

they don't need to be in line, what is it really going to do for us except give us things to talk about on how we shouldn't have never done it, we paid too much he's not worth it

 

[conner01]

I could see it. Hopefully, Parsons means what he's said about trying to do his contract right to help with free agency and lets the team do it in a way that makes his hits low for the first few years. $42 million APY does not mean he makes $42 million each year.

That’s this year. Wait till next year when watt gets 45 or more and Micah will cost more too

 

[ATXSRT]

I think we pay him like 35 mil.

 

[gimmesix]

lmao...if you think Parsons will help out with the salary cap when he gets into negotiations with Jerry, he has you fooled, big time! Just like all players, he will screw Jerry as hard as he can.

There are ways to help out with the salary cap without taking less money than the market says you are worth. That's what Patrick Mahomes did when he took his big deal years back. He didn't take less than he was worth and for a period of time there he was the highest paid QB (as USA Today reported earlier this year his $450 million contract clears the second-most lucrative one in the NFL by $175 million). However, the structure of the deal helped out the Chiefs' cap.

 

[gimmesix]

That’s this year. Wait till next year when watt gets 45 or more and Micah will cost more too

He may, and he'll get what the market says, but it's all about the structure of the deal. Trouble is, I'm not sure the Joneses know how to structure a deal.

 

[5Stars]

There are ways to help out with the salary cap without taking less money than the market says you are worth. That's what Patrick Mahomes did when he took his big deal years back. He didn't take less than he was worth and for a period of time there he was the highest paid QB (as USA Today reported earlier this year his $450 million contract clears the second-most lucrative one in the NFL by $175 million). However, the structure of the deal helped out the Chiefs' cap.

I don't care about the Chiefs. This the Cowboy and Jerry and the spoiled damn man child we are talking about. As far as I'm concerned, Parsons should be traded yesterday!

By the way, did you know I despise that player? He is going to be nothing but trouble if they keep him for the money he will get.

 

[coult44]

WAIT A MINUTE. People here said they would have more money to spend on a couple different guys. They wouldn’t listen to me when I said the players would just want more if the can’t up. I

 

[Hawkeye0202]

The Cowboys need to toe the line and don't overpay Parsons like they did Prescott. Both Clevland and Pittsburg have a edge rusher who may be the best in the game and neither one has sniffed a SB with these two studs.

This is something that gets overlooked about elite edge rushers..........they can be a major chess piece but they alone are NOT going to win you a Super Bowl. Now if you surround them with a couple of other elite players and a dynamic scheme, you have something ..........see the Eagle's defense.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

To base a players pay on the percentage of the salary cap is so beyond stupid.

Talk about a dumb tweet.

What should they base price on instead? What feels right to fan gut reaction?

It is the normalized price for top non-QBs. It is business as usual

 

[TwentyOne]

Here we go.......( Dak, $60M---Lamb, $40M----Parsons, $42M

Someone here lol'ed last year when i expected him to make 50 mils per anno in his second contract.

Lets see.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

So if the salary cap goes up 10% next year, Dak should make $66M instead of $60M?????

Now QBs are a different animal. Dak is actually taking up more of the cap than he was on his previous deal. QB price inflation relative to the cap is a big issue.

This is just them saying top non-QBs have gotten x percent of the cap and x percent of the cap this year is $45m.

Dak was getting x + 10 percent and then went to x + 15 percent.

 

[bottleKids]

Pay Parsons 42 mil = no super bowls.

The minute we paid Dak $60 million ended our superbowl chances for the foreseeable future.

 

[FVSTONE]

This is something that gets overlooked about elite edge rushers..........they can be a major chess piece but they alone are NOT going to win you a Super Bowl. Now if you surround them with a couple of other elite players and a dynamic scheme, you have something ..........see the Eagle's defense.

Cowboys aren't nowhere close to work the Eagles can throw on the field.

 

[KingCorcoran]

What should they base price on instead? What feels right to fan gut reaction?

It is the normalized price for top non-QBs. It is business as usual

The Cowboys should offer Parsons as little as they can, but enough that he’ll agree to it. If his agent believes there is ownership group out there that will pay more than Jerry offers it becomes a more heated negotiation. Micah can’t leave for three years. So he has to weigh what it will cost him to play on his fifth year option plus two tag years if he doesn’t take Jerry’s offer. Jerry has to weigh just how badly the Cowboys need Parson’s services. They’ll arrive at a number and Micah and Jerry will sign the deal. It will be a big one. Micah Parsons will remain a Dallas Cowboys player.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The Cowboys should offer Parsons as little as they can, but enough that he’ll agree to it. If his agent believes there is ownership group out there that will pay more than Jerry offers it becomes a more heated negotiation. Micah can’t leave for three years. So he has to weigh what it will cost him to play on his fifth year option plus two tag years if he doesn’t take Jerry’s offer. Jerry has to weigh just how badly the Cowboys need Parson’s services. They’ll arrive at a number and Micah and Jerry will sign the deal. It will be a big one. Micah Parsons will remain a Dallas Cowboys player.

That is great and all but when you look at salary trends over the cap era from Calvin Johnson onwards, teams have been paying the top non-QB FA a fixed percentage of the cap. The Cowboys and Parsons have known this for years.

Last time they played chicken with a player in the manner you refer to they ended up paying a premium over typical QB proportion upwards of 20%. $60m is just ghastly. I would have let him play Kirk Cousins who might be cashing in yet again this offseason.

Nevermind going cheap on VFA and now lowballing the team's best players is not the best look.

 

[KingCorcoran]

That is great and all but when you look at salary trends over the cap era from Calvin Johnson onwards, teams have been paying the top non-QB FA a fixed percentage of the cap. The Cowboys and Parsons have known this for years.

Last time they played chicken with a player in the manner you refer to they ended up paying a premium over typical QB proportion upwards of 20%. $60m is just ghastly. I would have let him play Kirk Cousins who might be cashing in yet again this offseason.

Nevermind going cheap on VFA and now lowballing the team's best players is not the best look.

They should offer Parsons 5 years, $40 million AAV, $120 million guaranteed, before others start signing. That will establish the number for the team trading for Garrett, and Watt’s deal, etc. At least force other teams to pay for their guys, too.

 

[plasticman]

Gee, thanks Spotrac.

So an increase in cap is a cost of living adjustment?

In just 5 years the cap has increased by 60 million or an average of 12 million a year. if you have 55 players on your active roster then that is an average increase of over 218 thousand dollars per player. of course, we know that is not how the money is being distributed.

I would like to see that money trickle down to the other players and make the pay rate a little more even.

Yes, some players deserve to get paid more but do they deserve to get paid up to 60 times more? Those lesser paid might be the guys doing the blocking or defending the run.

They really should revise the salary cap and put limits on contracts so other players get a more fair share of the pie. This is a team sport, after all.

 

[noshame]

I repeat TRADE!