RememberTheKoy
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Obvious benefit: I am assuming it is just too complicated for you to understand. If Dak has a career ending injury this year which way ends up better for the Cowboys? The ability to put off a $175M contract in a cap world is an absolutely huge benefit for a team.
Possible benefit: If Dallas extends Dak this year for 4 years they likely do so in the future for 4 more years so that is 8 premium $ years for a QB. But if they go two years of tags and then 4 years there is a good chance that is it for Dak, so it's 6 years. That is of course a scenario that we can't predict but a scenario that could be huge for Dallas. They also may end up trading him or not resigning him.
Your comment that he only gets more expensive: If he signed a 4 year deal today it would be with a low cap hit year 1 and probably year 2 so years 2022 and 2023 could be as high as $45M each against the cap to come to an average of $35M. You think he signs for MORE than $45M per in two years? Regardless the cap goes up every year which is why the contracts are structured as they are in the first place.
Lastly, coming back to your hypocrisy on, well pretty much everything. You said for months Dallas would be dumb and kill their team by giving Dak a huge LT deal. They don't do it and you say they are dumb for it. Maybe the dumb one is you...
So this is actually a benefit to the Cowboys if Dak suffers a career ending injury...but then they don't have a QB so how is that a benefit?
Cowboys can't extend Dak 4 more years this year. The deadline for an extension for a player on the tag was July 15th, that time has come and gone. They have screwed this situation up so badly they are either going to have to tag him again next year or sign him to a new deal that will be far more expensive than if they did it last year and even a few weeks ago prior to the Mahomes deal.
When did I say it would be dumb for the Cowboys to sign Dak to a new deal? The only thing I've been saying is they have been bumbling this whole situation and are causing themselves to ultimately pay way more for Dak than they would have had to of they just took care of things sooner.