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Good post.Why is everyone forgetting history... EVEN IF you are a Dak fan.. we drafted this dude in the 4th round (for a reason!!) and we plugged him into a legit team and he won the divisional title.. twice in four years.
Why are we soooo convinced that we couldn't do exactly the same thing with a first round QB?!! High rated QBs are making a splash in the NFL faster than ever before.. they are primed to run pro offences from day 1.
I think the Chiefs are a PERFECT template that we need to look at. They had Alex Smith and despite the howls of laughter.. that dude was a solid QB. He put up good numbers, won games.. would have kept KC in the hunt every season he was behind centre. They go out and get Mahomes and he takes them to the next level.
Dak is the Alex Smith in this example. Dak is 'good enough' bGood postut he isn't a Superbowl winning level QB.. he would need absolutely everything to be perfect around him and then some. This is not a guy that turns around a game in 9 minutes in the fourth quarter of the SB. He is NOT that guy.
If you want to pay him middle of the road money.. maybe ok.. but it is a no brainer to go out there and start trying to find our guy.. find our Wilson, our Mahomes, our Jackson etc etc.
Dak is not the guy. Full stop. End of Story.
I suggest to you that Jerrah came to an epipheny.
He realized his QB is not who he had hoped.
That he may not ever be that.
So the only way to not have to go out and sign an expensive FA QB..
instead he would pay Dak well but not top dollar money and instead get the best coach he could sign, McCarthy.
Paid him a top contract and fixed the mistake that was Garrett.
So by offering Dak lower money, in Jerrah's mind, Dak is helping pay McCarthy and soon Amari Cooper.
So Dallas is going to stay the course and try to sign Dak to a contract that fits this guideline.
They will offer him $32 mil/yr and if Dak balks..
Tag him for that and let him play in 2020. If he does well, then 2021 becomes his big payday.
If not, the contract numbers tumble and Dak accepts a lower contract.
If not and a FA QB is found or drafted for McCarthy to win with.
Nobody wants to say this but the hiring of McCarthy is the most important move by this franchise.
Not whether Dak is signed or not.
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