OmerV
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Actually Jerry wanted a 5 year deal. Dak was okay with 4.You want to sign Dak to 4-5 year deal? So did Jerry. Dak wants a shorter deal so he can hit FA right as the cap is expected to go way up and be can cash in again. He wants more than he is worth. Like you said, he's top 10 (not sure I agree but regardless). Top 10 does not get #1 or #2 money which is what he's looking for. Like you also said, the D is broken. How are you fixing that when you have so much tied up in Dak. I would love for Dak to take a deal, paying him for what he is worth as a good, not great QB, but he won't take that. You gotta bite the bullet and move on.
As for #1 or #2 money, he was never asking for anything like Mahomes got, or even Watson, although that came later. He was looking at something along the lines of what Wentz and Goff got, with maybe a slight increase because he was negotiating more recently.
One thing people have to do is stop thinking of pay as a position ranking. It's not, and it can't be because all QB's don't negotiate new contracts at the same time under the same market conditions. That's not to say how a player stacks up against others isn't part of the negotiation, but that's only one factor. Look at the examples of Wentz and Goff, who both got a better deal than Aaron Rodgers. That wasn't a statement that Wentz and Goff are better players than Rodgers, it was just that Rodgers contract was older and negotiated under different conditions. If Rodgers had been negotiating a new deal at that time he would have commanded more pay than those guys.