Really, you railed on the front office for stupid deals, by the way, I totally agree with you on those deals.
Now you want to expand on those stupid deals and give Dak a contract, because they might as well since they spent stupid money already. That was the whole gist of your post. To quote.
"But I’m supposed to hope for the cowboys to sign a worse QB or risk drafting one when they’ve shown little ability to do so, so they can turn around and give the money to defenders, despite the cowboys front office burning cash consistently on BUMS on defense?"
Now you state
"Nowhere do I imply that the cowboys should just pay Dak whatever."
Okay then, let's say the general consensus is correct, he was offered 4 years at ~35 million a year. 110-120 million guaranteed. He turned that down, although there was talk of Dak trying and end run around his agent to do a deal at the last minute, of course we don't know for sure. So what do you feel comfortable paying Dak? Would you offer more than 4 years at ~35 million a year. 110-120 million guaranteed? Less than that?
How can you logically argue this without giving an amount you would pay....Just pay the man.
I'll tell you what I would pay him, subject to change on how this season goes. As of now, I give him the transition tag at 38 million or whatever that comes out to be and see what the market bears.
I was taught a long time ago, never go to your boss or customer with an issue without having two possible solutions. They pay you to think.
So I went first, let play the price is right. What do you think is fair and what you think Dak would accept.
By the way, I think you're a great poster and enjoy most of your post. I find it humorous that this issue has the ability to make a bunch of great posters, who probably agree on 75% of the topic, to call each other idiots, dumb post, you obviously don't know football, have you ever played the game...bla bla bla.
One other thing, do you agree the Jone's suck as owners/GM and that Garrett was even a worse coach and our secondary gave up way too many wide open bombs yesterday? If you say yes, but we still don't agree on the Dak issue, that's okay, then we can say we mostly agree with everything in this post...75% or so