be careful for what you wish for.
Overshown and Diggs will put the D back where it should be
And paying good but not great QB's the most money in NFL history will not win you a Super Bowl. So we can spend the next 6-7 years with Dak and make the playoffs 4-5 times and never get past the 2nd round, or we can go another way.
If dak goes out and proves it this year he is worthy, break the bank re-signing him. So far he has proven that where/when it matters the most, he shits the bed, but he been getting paid like he has been winning playoff games. That doesn't jive with me. Like I said, I like the guy. I really really want him to succeed. So far he's shown he just can't.
What do you want to do with Dak??? If we have to start over with a new rookie QB, expect no playoffs this year and next. I think we have to fix this defense and oline. Not happy with Dak, but don't see a better option this year.
Still need someone to play with Overshown and Clark. Need a big LB. I trust that Zimmer will scheme to stop the run. I know it was 20 years ago, but back in the day those Cowboys defenses under Zimmer could stop the run. They need to get their chit together and sign a guy like Queen. Or some other plug and play linebacker. Send Mazi to McDonald's etc. they need to stop with all the hybrid smaller tweeners on the DL. They been doing it for a long time and it is not working.
I get what you guys are saying. But to me this is a very simple & flawed way to look at it. To me this way of thinking is, only to pay the elite QB, which would mean restart with the most important position every 4 or 5 years. I cant get behind that philosophy. Remember how long it took us to get from Aikman to Romo? The idea we can just go get another top ten QB every 4 or 5 years is unrealistic to me.
Quincy Carter sucked . I still wish that at that time Troy Would have come out of retirement. Those receivers Dallas had at that time would be wide open and Quincy would be off target. Cowboys had the OL. But no running back
wouldnt have taken much effort to land Drew Brees in that draft either. But that was Jerry knows best BS.
Dak has been here long enough to see what we got, and it is longer than 4-5 years now. We are not paying him just to win in the regular but HE is getting that kind of $$$. Not sure how it is a flawed way if looking at it. We have evidence that he shits the bed when it is win or go home. The Cowboys keep going home. 2 - 5 when it mattered most.
Schmoopy Brother, I respect your opinion, without a doubt one of the best posters here IMO. And you may well be right. But you said something in there that reinforces where I am coming from. You said Aikman and Romo. There's a big difference there though. By the time Aikman was signing a 2nd deal, he was winning Super Bowls. Romo wasn't, and never did. Never got to an NFCCG. And with Troy, Heck of a QB, but once the salary cap was instituted and tye roster started getting stripped...he never got past the divisional round again either. Dak had his window, he has had 6-7 pro bowlers year in and year out. But all we ever hear is he needs this or he needs that. We will NEVER win a Super Bowl with Dak on a $60 million a year contract. Never. Now, we might end up with a Quincey Carter, but I don't think so. McClay would find a QB IMO.
I can pull up the post from 4 years ago saying I didn't want to pay him $40M and I would draft Jordan Love. Im not a Damn GM lol, if I can take a shot in the dark I bet McClay could figure it out. And I sure as Hell wouldn't have given him a no trade clause. So it's predetermined he stays. But I would let him play out this season at $59M, work in some series for Trey Lance, and draft Bo Nix or Michael Penix as #3. If he does great and wins a SB, you can still empty the bank to keep him lol. When he gets bounced the first playoff game, we will have a couple of young, talented QB's, the ability to draft another, and an extra $40 million or so worth of cap space per season
Tied for 9th out of 32 per Sportrac for annual average. 8th for cap hit
I like Pennix. I think he will be a good QB, but he has an injury history. 4th round. If they let Dak walk after the season.
The dollars DO matter. You just can't pay Dak Prescott $60M per year and expect anything to change. You want to win 10 -12 games every year and make the playoffs and a shit ton of money but never get over the hump, then yes, don't take a step back. But Dak is good, not great. There aren't many scenarios where he is the reason you win a SB. You can't pay those dollars for a guy to be "good enough". We have tried this way many years in a row now and Dak is only going to get older under this new deal. He is already visible slower, less agile and less able to avoid defenders and less able to roll out and throw smoothly. Where will he be in a couple more years? He's going to be 31 at the start of next season and about 35 when his next deal ends. Maybe if he loses about 15-20 lbs he can turn it around? I don't know and you can't really ask a guy to do that. Plus, the dead cap problem is going to be way worse at the end of his next deal so you are taking a couple years off either way in the next handful of years, it's just a matter of when. So 4 more years of this and then a year or two to find another QB sounds like a worse option to me. I don't blame Dak entirely for our post season disappointment but he has been a big part of it. We cannot just keep doing the same thing and expect different results. We need to make major changes and major changes are relieving the Jones Boyz of their duties which won't happen, getting a new HC which probably happens next year and/or changing the QB
Nix is the guy I would want. But Pennix could be really good too. Joe Milton would be worth a 3rd or 4th to me. Josh Allen talent but raw
If we are reupping Dak, I wouldn't either. But this year's class of QB's is pretty strong
