We both agree on this. But the last sentence is interesting. There are a lot of people that believe we don't need Dak just to make the playoffs. The Bucs don't have our roster, and they got there and won a playoff game with Mayfield. The Giants did it a year ago with Jones. If you have a good roster, you can get to the playoffs with a middling QB. You don't need to pay one 60M a year.
I can see if we're super bowl contenders year in and year out, like the 70s, early 80s, and half of the 90s, sure, pay the man. But we're not. What are we paying for?
First of all how many Baker mayfield's are out there available and how much money did he get? And I don't feel like doing this this morning but how much is Prescott's dead cap if he's not here and then how much money do you gotta spend for a guy like Baker Mayfield and can that guy have that one season like Baker Mayfield because right now that's a one off.... And again I'm not doing a lot of research on this but I believe he's in an awfully weak division but you pay a guy like Baker Mayfield plus Prescott's dead cat for not being here in the next two years isn't that the same thing as just keeping Prescott because we've been to the playoffs 5 out of the last eight years with Prescott and while people call that futile and average it's not average it's way above average having a top six team is not average..
I think in this case you have to look at the Cowboys needing to start Trey Lance and if he turns out to be terrible you're gonna get a high draft pick and you start over with a young guy but you cannot use a middle of the road veteran like Baker Mayfield because you have to pay them and when you add it up with the dead cap it's the same you have to go full young full cheap
and by the way that also means that you can't pay Trey Lance any more than you're paying Cooper rush I mean you might as well start Cooper rush or a guy like him for about 6,000,000 because you're not going for the $30 million guy'cause that doesn't make sense if everyone's talking about the cap hit and don't pay Prescott because he's gonna hurt us the next five years you also can't pay a guy like Baker Mayfield and also expect that to be repeated..
It's apples and oranges in my opinion and it shouldn't even be discussed... If you wanna be really bad for the next 5 years maybe even 10 looking for a quality quarterback even up to Prescott's level and even getting us back to the playoffs that's OK but don't act like getting to the playoffs is such a bad thing and why do we care about the damn salary cap we don't pay his salary if Jerry decides to keep him and we continue to at least win a division and get to the playoffs that is way better in my opinion in my perspective than having another Dave campo like run here...
I know it can land somewhere in the middle but that would be really average everyone calls what we're doing average and is above average when you're truly a top six regular season team that has won its division two out of the last three years that was the number two seed in its conference just last year you're not getting that with the guys you're talking about..
The odds are astronomical that if we make a change and you bring in a guy like Flacco or Mayfield we might win 9 games and most likely not getting into the playoffs and that's the best odds, most likely we win seven games and now we're picking in the top 10 versus the top five you might as well start a raw rookie or someone like Trey Lance or or take a flyer on another young guy or an undrafted guy you gotta go full cheap deal on a quarterback and then when you get into the top five then you have a shot at one of the better quarterbacks.