No, keep Dalton and develop the other young guy, save the coin...that's all I got.
tl;drYour idea is way worse than his on so many levels. Tag and keep him this year while you keep trying to sign him ? Lol.... he knows we won’t be able to afford to tag him for a third year so our only option is to back up the armored car and give him whatever he wants. And he also gets to be a free agent because we can’t tag him again. So he can name his price with us while he wheels and deals with any other team. And the Cowboys get extorted or lose him and get nothing for him. If they can’t reach a deal, tagging and trading him is the only non-stupid thing to do.
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Your idea is to tank this year. Doesn't get any worse.
I hear ya, but as I've said, a lot can happen in three years.Ever see a NFL contract structured like that? There's a reason.
One is with an expiring contract there is leverage there on the part of the player if he continues to play well. Dak is likely to put more cash in his bank account over a 4 year period if he signs a three year deal now and then another three year deal in Year 4 than signing a longer 6-7-8 year deal.
Getting rid of Dak is tanking lolnobody said anything about tanking. That’s the best you got ? Tell us some more about YOUR genius idea to tag him and have no leverage and get nothing for him.
nobody said anything about tanking. That’s the best you got ? Tell us some more about YOUR genius idea to tag him and have no leverage and get nothing for him.
YupHe's got to sign the tag to be traded so he still has leverage there as well.
I understand. I didn’t say what I was thinking. I meant to say the average of the top QB’s. That was plural. And I knew it was the top 5. Just didn’t say it that way. Thanks
They will slap the tag on him if no deal is reached before the tag deadline to own his rights.
But it's up to Dak to sign it to actually trade him.
They can't trade him unless/until he signs the tag?
Reference?
This is how I expect it to be, that you can't trade a guy *not* under contract, but I could never find explicit confirmation of it.
if Dak is franchise and he signs it, i would trade him then give the jets a second round pick for Sam Darnold
It’s actually 144% on the 3rd tag. I wasn’t sure since I dont believe anyone has ever been tagged for 3rd year. So I looked it up.You're still not getting that the 140% refers to Prescott's 2021 salary not the average of the top 5 QB's.
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If Dak wanted to make a deal he would no longer be associated with France,,, that the hell are you talking about.First of all, as I have been saying for a while now, we have no idea what Dak really wants. If we were part of the negotiations we would have a sense if Dak is serious about signing a long term deal, of if he is just dragging us along to get the franchise tag and then hit free agency in 2022. I am sure Jerry and Stephen have a better sense of this. My personal feeling, based only on ignorance of the negotiations, is that Dak, or his agent, wants to hit free agency in 2022. This is something the Cowboys must avoid. If he hits free agency he is 95% gone. And if he plays on the franchise tag in 2021, then he is definitely hitting free agency in 2022.
If it seems Dak wants to make a deal, then by all means keep working until the deal is done. But of course there are parameters, like the money and the term of the contract, or as some have reported, Dak's desire to remove the option of using the franchise tag in the future. I have no problem doing a 3 year deal with Dak but not for $35 million or more. That is more money than Mahomes will get in 3 years. If Dak refuses to come down from, for the sake of argument, $40 million while insisting the deal be for 3 years, then Jerry would be an idiot to make that deal with Dak.
What if you feel Dak is not really negotiating in good faith? and he is just dragging it out until he plays on the tag? or that he wants ridiculous money now for the next 3 years then we go through this again in 2024? Do you really want this? Dak is a really good QB, but there has to be a limit to what the Cowboys will do to sign him.
It would be the best thing that’s happened to this franchise since 2016 if we got draft picks for Dak and avoided that deal.
Unless..
You like being mediocre.. If you like mediocrity then by all means sign Dak and let’s just forget about winning a championship and celebrate are consistent relevancy.
It’s actually 144% on the 3rd tag. I wasn’t sure since I dont believe anyone has ever been tagged for 3rd year. So I looked it up.
For a player to be franchise tagged two straight years, the team must pay 120 percent of the player's previous salary. If it's three straight years, the team must pay the player 144 percent of his previous salary.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl...-2020-values-rules/1nn0kl8x7hg5210kevqk2oim4w
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...each-position-plus-more-to-know-on-both-tags/
Yes. Franchise and transition players can be traded. However, players with unsigned tenders can't be traded until signed. A franchise or transition player essentially has a de facto no-trade clause or veto power on being dealt.
They will slap the tag on him if no deal is reached before the tag deadline to own his rights.
But it's up to Dak to sign it to actually trade him. Last year he signed it on June 22nd. 2 months after the draft.
It would have to be a team that was willing to trade for him and a team Dak would want to go to.
So there will be some suitors but he does own leverage in where he could be traded to.