For 4 years Dak was underpaid. This contract will be his FIRST big payday. He wants to ensure he gets ANOTHER big payday. A 4 year deal gets him back to the table for his SECOND big payday. His contemporaries (Wentz, Goff etc...) are already on their SECOND big pay day because they were high draft picks and got big money the FIRST time. This is really what all this is about.
If Dallas had a REAL general manager....that person would have known after 3 years what they had/did not have in Dak. If they were sold on Dak. They should have been sold after year 3....and we would not be in this predicament. And sold does not mean the QB won/went to a Super Bowl. Only 1 QB wins the Super Bowl every year. And there are PLENTY of QBs that have gotten their payday without winning a Super Bowl (Stafford, Ryan, Garapalo, Sam Bradford etc...)
Its simple...do you think you can ONE DAY win a Super Bowl with Dak....YES or NO. If YES...get the deal done after year 3. if NO...start working on a replacement
Thank you.
We have no real general manger/ talent evaluator/ team builder. It has been that way since February of 1994.
The Eagles pay their guys early, mostly it work out, Ertz, Wentz.
Jerry always pays his guys late and ends up paying more on older guys. He owns a 5 billion dollar plus organization but wants to use quicken to keep track of the books. Why do we not have the best analytics/ talent evaluation/ strength coaches in the league? There is not salary cap on front office spending.
This league is all about putting yourself in a situation to succeed. The Eagles made 4 straight championship games with McNabb, yes they only made one SB, but just give the team a chance.
The early 90's cowboys went to 4 straight championship games and went to three SB's.
We as fans fall for the same trick every offseason. There is no plan, no organization, no nothing.
We got lucky with Romo falling to our laps... what were the options before Sean Payton found him? Bledsoe, Quincy, Vinny?
We got lucky when Dak fell to us and Jerry begrudgingly drafted him? Romo got hurt, we had absolutely nothing.