Would you want to sign Dak if he wasn't a Cowboy?

[Jkyle]

Would you want to sign Dak to a $60 million per year contract if he wasn't a Cowboy and was coming from another Team?
I have a hard time seeing a fanbase being stoked to get Dak on that pricetag and preventing your team from signing many FA's and players due to taking so much of the cap.
Dak is known throughout the league/fanbases as a good but unaccomplished QB who doesn't put a team on his back and can carry them.
He will face just as much if not more from the fans of any team he goes to than he does in Dallas. Like us, they will be brutal if he is paid all that money and nothing comes of it.

 

[big dog cowboy]

 

[Coogiguy03]

So if he was better you would right?? The going rate for QBs these days are this amount for a good one. Either way you're going to pay

 

[GMO415]

Dak is good enough to get you to the playoffs but he's not excellent enough to win you a championship. Doubt that will ever change

 

[Swagger]

It would generally be viewed the same as a team signing Cousins. I thought the Falcons could be a potential lively outsider next season...until they signed Cousins for $45 million a year.

So put simply, NO.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Dak is good enough to get you to the playoffs but he's not excellent enough to win you a championship.

You are exactly right.........this can be true for most top 10 QBs not named Mahomes. It is why you also need defense, coaches and special teams

 

[RS12]

No. Dont want either way. He has a ceiling that isnt good enough. Eight years is plenty of time to come to that conclusion.

 

[Sydla]

Let's say Dak retired today.

How many of the Dak fans would then start clamoring to sign Kirk Cousins if he were a FA?

 

[Brax]

Let's say Dak retired today.

How many of the Dak fans would then start clamoring to sign Kirk Cousins if he were a FA?

I would hope none

 

[MoistMayonnaise]

Probably not, but that depends on a lot of factors.

 

[sbuscha]

Would you want to sign Dak to a $60 million per year contract if he wasn't a Cowboy and was coming from another Team?
I have a hard time seeing a fanbase being stoked to get Dak on that pricetag and preventing your team from signing many FA's and players due to taking so much of the cap.
Dak is known throughout the league/fanbases as a good but unaccomplished QB who doesn't put a team on his back and can carry them.
He will face just as much if not more from the fans of any team he goes to than he does in Dallas. Like us, they will be brutal if he is paid all that money and nothing comes of it.

Yes! I know this isn't the popular narrative on this forum but I can assure you the 55% of the Cowboys fans calling for Dak to leave Dallas either wasn't a fan during the Quincy Carter, Anthony Wright, Ryan Leaf. Chad Hutchinson and Clint Stoerner days or have forgotten how the seasons without a capable QB were like. I watched everyone of these games and can tell you the agony of those seasons was NOTHING compared to 12+ win seasons with Dak.
I get tired of reading the same 5 people posting about Dak's skills or lack thereof but who in the world world you replace him with (and I am not referring to some dream or madden simulation you did) I have been a member of this site for 25+ years and the amount of "this guy needs to go or this guy is terrible is nauseating. Aren't we Cowboys fans?

 

[KJJ]

Would you want to sign Dak to a $60 million per year contract if he wasn't a Cowboy and was coming from another Team?
I have a hard time seeing a fanbase being stoked to get Dak on that pricetag and preventing your team from signing many FA's and players due to taking so much of the cap.
Dak is known throughout the league/fanbases as a good but unaccomplished QB who doesn't put a team on his back and can carry them.
He will face just as much if not more from the fans of any team he goes to than he does in Dallas. Like us, they will be brutal if he is paid all that money and nothing comes of it.

If we’ve been struggling at QB for as long as Washington, I would. It comes down to how bad you need a QB. If Dak becomes a free agent, this will be a rare opportunity to get one of the best QBs in the league.

 

[KJJ]

Dak is good enough to get you to the playoffs but he's not excellent enough to win you a championship. Doubt that will ever change

We’ve only had two QBs in our entire history that were excellent enough to win a championship, primarily because they had great teams around them. Both Aikman and Roger Staubach had their problems in the playoffs with teams that weren’t as good. If a QB is good enough to win double digit games practically every season and get you to the playoffs consistently, they’re good enough to win a championship if you have a great team around them. The Cowboys have been flawed in several areas, especially on defense.

 

[Swagger]

Yes! I know this isn't the popular narrative on this forum but I can assure you the 55% of the Cowboys fans calling for Dak to leave Dallas either wasn't a fan during the Quincy Carter, Anthony Wright, Ryan Leaf. Chad Hutchinson and Clint Stoerner days or have forgotten how the seasons without a capable QB were like. I watched everyone of these games and can tell you the agony of those seasons was NOTHING compared to 12+ win seasons with Dak.
I get tired of reading the same 5 people posting about Dak's skills or lack thereof but who in the world world you replace him with (and I am not referring to some dream or madden simulation you did) I have been a member of this site for 25+ years and the amount of "this guy needs to go or this guy is terrible is nauseating. Aren't we Cowboys fans?

In other words you are afraid of becoming a weaker team yet even more resistant to potentially becoming a better team with a stronger chance of winning the Superbowl.

Ask yourself would those Cowboy teams you mention have gone 5-1 with a practice squad quarterback? Cooper has shown that Prescott isn't a difference maker.

 

[thunderpimp91]

The root of the question is extremely flawed. What situation is he coming from? Is he winning 12 games a year and throwing for 4,000 yards with Carolina? If so I think you'd be crazy to not go get a player like that and give him a better team to make a run with. If he's putting up similar results to his time in Dallas coming from SF I'm a lot more hesitant to pay him a record contract. Also what has Dallas done with the extra $40M in cap space the last 4 seasons and does that position them to truly be in a position to be a QB acquisition away from a super bowl?

If I'm a team like Pittsburgh I'm absolutely open to the idea of paying Dak Prescott because of where my team and cap situation is. I'd even argue a team like the Giants would be a good landing spot for Dak. If I'm Vegas I'd be very tempted to go all in on a 1-2 year window before Devonte Adams falls off a cliff.

 

[EPL0c0]

not at the price tag he's asking

But it's not specifically about Dak. With a salary cap, I think putting much into a handful of players is just a poor strategy.

As we see Sam Williams was lost for the season and Armstrong & Fowler gone, finding a replacement won't be easy (or cheap)

Doing more with less is a tougher route to take beCause you also need good coaching, but IMO, its a better strategy than overpaying certain players

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Would you want to sign Dak to a $60 million per year contract if he wasn't a Cowboy and was coming from another Team?
I have a hard time seeing a fanbase being stoked to get Dak on that pricetag and preventing your team from signing many FA's and players due to taking so much of the cap.
Dak is known throughout the league/fanbases as a good but unaccomplished QB who doesn't put a team on his back and can carry them.
He will face just as much if not more from the fans of any team he goes to than he does in Dallas. Like us, they will be brutal if he is paid all that money and nothing comes of it.

I would. On the outside looking in I think most know Jerry is the problem and holding his organization back.

 

[Mikexike]

I would not sign him, I have not seen him carry the team when all isn't going well. He does not make anyone better.

 

[morat1959]

For the humpteenth time, no team with Dak under center is ever winning a SB. I wouldn’t sign him to a 10 cent contract.

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

Super complicated question.

If he wasn’t a cowboy, he wouldn’t have the playoff stigmas he has. What team did he come from? If it was a situation like Kirk in Washington, then few would blame Dak for their incompetence. If it were like Purdy in SF, you could argue he was propped up by the rest of the team, but you couldn’t argue he wasn’t a playoff winner.

And then, who was the Cowboys’ QB all this time and what was he doing? If you were struggling bad, yes of course you sign Dak just to win some games.

Dak’s biggest thing going against him is he did play for the Dallas Cowboys. If he were on any other time, he would have been extended a year ago. If he were on any other team, the playoff failures would be a hurdle to overcome and not a character flaw. Think about Lamar, pre-trade Stafford, Carr, Cousins, Herbert, Kyler, Baker. People will nitpick their playoff inexperience, but it’s not that big of a concern. Because they don’t play for Jerry