News: TS: Jimmy Johnson Trashes Cowboys For Paying Dak Prescott $60 Million Per Year

[Gangsta Spanksta]

Wow, Stans are so angry that they are rating Jerrah over Jimmy. True Cowboys fans? What's their agenda?

 

[Qcard]

Goalposts!!! I am NOT sure about the Running game right now......

 

[SultanOfSix]

I mean dak was getting a contract that paid as the top quarterback from Dallas or somewhere else-

Some of you guys seriously overrate Dak. Not once have I heard another GM say something to the effect of “I’d love to have Dak as my team’s franchise QB”.

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

The way this season played out, Dak wouldn't have gotten that big contract because 1) He didn't look good this season. 2) He got injured. The stan's suggestion is that we draft an entire new offensive line, a running back, maybe another receiver, and several defensive positions, and then Dak will be fine.

One one hand we have so many holes that it is not Dak's fault at all. On the other hand, we can figure it out in the draft and free agency despite having that anchor of a contract around our necks.

 

[Stash]

No lies told.

The Jones boys have been mismanaging this thing for decades.

They need to be held accountable with irrelevance and apathy.

 

[HanD]

Truth hurts. Usually leads to only "Lol's". No dispute. No statistical facts to refute because there is none.

I rest my case.

I've given you statistical ratings of his support team around him and you dismissed it. You have zero stats and it's based on biased opinion. You used to be a good poster but you've gone off the deep end on Dak. Can't even be close to serious anymore.

 

[HanD]

I've been saying that all of this time. Dak seriously hurt the Cowboys by taking Jerry to the cleaners, but Dak still gives us the best chance to win......by far.

Dak at 60 doesn't give us a better chance at winning compared to say Sam darnold, Mayfield, and QBs in that tier if we use the savings for the rest of the roster. That would have been the better move imo. But...if you want Dak as the franchise and we're going to make him the highest paid player with no trade clause and all that money guaranteed, there was no reason to do it until the end of the season.

 

[CTcowboy203]

Some of you guys seriously overrate Dak. Not once have I heard another GM say something to the effect of “I’d love to have Dak as my team’s franchise QB”.

Some of you guys seriously overrate Dak. Not once have I heard another GM say something to the effect of “I’d love to have Dak as my team’s franchise QB”.

You are correct sir! That would be tampering

 

[CTcowboy203]

The idea that Dak's contract doesn't compound onto the other issues that the team has and makes the situation worse is simply wrong.

All contracts and money paid to players compounds into other financial areas lol

 

[CTcowboy203]

Had Dak been a free agent this past summer, he might have got that kind of contract. I’m skeptical he gets $60MM but he would have surely got something in the Goff range. But if he hadn’t been extended and was a FA in ‘25, there’s no chance he gets anything close to that given how poor he has played and more importantly how shot physically he looks. And that’s not taking into account the injury. Let’s see what Sam Darnold gets because I think Dak would have gotten something similar to that. Probably less because of age but very similar.

There’s no way Sam darnold and daks contract are the same. Darnold has been passed around to several teams and hasn’t put together consistent years of quality quartback play. Maybe you’d have an argument for someone like cousins but not darnold

 

[shabazz]

The only thing to do now is to somehow discredit Jimmy Johnson , for the "Dakota First " fans......good luck with that

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

All contracts and money paid to players compounds into other financial areas lol

When it comes to Quarterbacks, the team needs to know when to walk away. Yes, the each subsequent quarterback contract is record breaking these days. But when your guy doesn't win the big games and has an abysmal playoff record, and you won't be able to surround him with the talent he needs to win, it is best to let go. Daksters like to have it both ways, they going to complain about that it is not Dak's fault because you have holes all over. Then they going to ignore the fact that we can't fill those holes with that insane contract he has. And then when you quarterback looks old, slow, worn and injury prone, yes, the contract was pure genius!

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

He does, but he's also a talking head (paid to give an opinion) and talking heads live in the moment. They can go from being completely supportive of a player when he's coming off a near-MVP system to the player is just OK and shouldn't have been paid when a season is going poorly and that player is now out for the rest of the year.

It's always easy to make decisions in hindsight, especially when you don't have to take blame if it contradicts an earlier opinion.

Back when Dak got his extension, Jimmy said, “Like him or not, Dak is the guy. He will be the guy, he’s been great during the regular season. Everybody says ‘Well you gotta win playoff games,’ well give him a chance to win playoff games.”

He also said when asked what Dak needed to win playoff games, “Surround him with a better-supporting cast. I’m not sure about their running backs right now, but they’ve got some outstanding receivers, they’ve got a good tight end, they‘ve got a good football team, they’ve got a good defense.”

Maybe since he is NOT "the guy" this season Jimmy thought he was preseason...Jimmy is allowed to change his mind?

 

[Staubacher]

Intercepscott would have been lucky to get 40 mil on the open market if stupid Jerry let the season play out, given the poor play and swiss cheese hammy.

 

[DandyDon52]

if you want to listen to the audio, which is all there is, and hear what jimmy actually said:
jimmy on dak and other things like cold weather games

 

[DandyDon52]

Maybe since he is NOT "the guy" this season Jimmy thought he was preseason...Jimmy is allowed to change his mind?

to me dak looked different this season, over weight, out of shape, and too many distractions, like tearing down his house , the new kid,
the 2 mil engagement ring party. ( she is actually bad for daks football career) Wonder how much the wedding ring will be ! lol

Overall this season wasnt the same dak we saw last year.

 

[Gangsta Spanksta]

Maybe since he is NOT "the guy" this season Jimmy thought he was preseason...Jimmy is allowed to change his mind?

I think Jimmy was just saying some nice things about Prescott, but that doesn't mean that if Jimmy was in Charge he would've extended Dak for that hefty price. And even him saying you have to surround Dak with talent, even many of Dak critics have said that, but that doesn't mean you can keep the talent level at what it was in the past with a hefty contract and the salary cap.

 

[Streifenkarl]

to me dak looked different this season, over weight, out of shape, and too many distractions, like tearing down his house , the new kid,
the 2 mil engagement ring party. ( she is actually bad for daks football career) Wonder how much the wedding ring will be ! lol

Overall this season wasnt the same dak we saw last year.

He was a sucker last year too. Oh yeah, all those great stats... well he got NOTHING done against worthwhile opponents. And couldn't even make it a race against the 7th seed in the play offs. Bad defense or not, that would have been his job.

This dude was just lucky he was playing in the worst division. In any other he'd never gotten even close to those kind of stats.

To me this guy is the biggest fraud in the NFL. And I supported him up to the 2021 season. I was fine with him playing in the 2016 play offs, he had earned it. But in that first 12 win season I had figured him out. How he played against KC and the Raiders was "that" kind of moment for me. Since then I knew, in clutch moments he will fail. And since then he has yet to prove me wrong.

With that being said, I don't blame Dak at all for taking that contract. He has a very short career and has to extract all the money he can get from it. But from Jerry's side that contract was just stupid in any way you slice it. You either sign him early and then use the whole off season to build that team around him. Or not at all and go for a rebuild. But late in the off season with doing nothing else? Stupid stupid stupid. And that's on Jerry.

 

[atlantacowboy]

Jimmy knows a bad deal when he sees it. Jerry never has never quite figured out that football and oil wildcatting aren't the same business.

 

[CTcowboy203]

When it comes to Quarterbacks, the team needs to know when to walk away. Yes, the each subsequent quarterback contract is record breaking these days. But when your guy doesn't win the big games and has an abysmal playoff record, and you won't be able to surround him with the talent he needs to win, it is best to let go. Daksters like to have it both ways, they going to complain about that it is not Dak's fault because you have holes all over. Then they going to ignore the fact that we can't fill those holes with that insane contract he has. And then when you quarterback looks old, slow, worn and injury prone, yes, the contract was pure genius!

Ah, and the time to walk away was after statistically his best year? I’m not a dakster…I completely acknowledge that he ultimately will fall on the sword and take blame for the teams failures as any good qb or leader does. Also was fine with moving in from him- as long as the cowboys would pick a path but the cowboys signed diggs to a huge deal, were going to be committed to Ceedee and and were going to pay Micah as well. That’s not a rebuild or going for assets to rebuild through the draft.

If you’re going to pay the other stars on your team then you should pay the quarterback as well. You’re issue with compounding is actually with the cowboys front office not picking a direction that dak is a part of the problem- but you are placing it solely on him as the issue and that’s not right.