Dak Wants Cowboys To Pay Him ‘Right Behind Mahomes’ - And Pay Him ‘Respect’
 

https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/...respect-report

The Dallas Cowboys believe their two-years-worth of contract offers to Dak Prescott have been all about “respect.”

Dak’s side now wants something more: “Respect” in the form of a new proposal that would put his salary “right behind” that of two-time Super Bowl QB Patrick Mahomes.

Prescott is “looking to be paid right behind Patrick Mahomes, a guy who’s gone to the Super Bowl two years in a row,” NFL Network’s Jane Slater said on the Dan Patrick Show.

This is going to be one of the more entertaining shit shows this offseason.

um, no.

He's special now, if not before

"Well you can wish in one hand and crap in the other to see which gets filled first"

ROFL

The thing is you can't trade him because he's not under contract like Watkins and Wilson. He ain't worth anywhere near 35+ million yet this fool wants 40+? **** that. Dallas is better off cutting bait and beginning from zero. That team is in as bad a mess as the Eagles.

Of course he would say this, he wants to get the most money he can.

Do you think he’s going to say “pay me close to what Geno Smith makes”

Bitch please. You're not in mahomes league.

Dallas somehow needs to do a sign and trade with Seattle involving Wilson/Dak. It'd be a win-win for players/franchise.

The funny thing is unless Dallas gives him pretty damn close to what he's demanding he's just going to play out this last year on the tag and then hit the open market like Cousins did. Who knows what insane price he'll fetch then.

He’ll probably get it. It’s crazy but that’s the QB market.

This is ****ing ridiculous. Win a Superbowl, get paid, if not shut the **** up.

Dak is overrated as a QB.. And Jerry is not even on the scale as a Owner/GM... Neither side is going to cave in... Thank god we have the Owner, GM, coach, and QB we have here.. The Cowboys are a shitshow...

LMAO Holy shit the Cowboys cap is a disaster. They'd have to clear 20 million just to place the tag on him and that's still right up against it.

Cowboys are like the WFT: neither will win under their current ownership.

Best possible scenario for the Chiefs is all of these lesser QBs getting contracts in the ballpark and eventually exceeding that of Mahomes. Teams paying lesser QBs the same money for inferior results is a win for us.

Wonder what "right behind"' means?

$1 million/yr less?
$5 million/yr less?

Pat is at $45 mil/yr

and

Deshaun is at $39 mil/yr

I know that everyone is supposed to hate Dak and love Deshaun, but with how contracts are now Dak is probably gonna get $40 mil/year and he can justify getting more than Deshaun.

Frankly I don't think either are worth it, but Dak should get more than him because the next guy up always gets more than the guy that got paid before him. Both of them have 1 playoff win and if you look at QBR Dak has been better.

Dak P. QBR

16'- 77.6
17'- 69.9
18'- 55.2
19'- 71.9
20'- 78.7

And D Watson QBR

17'- 83.5
18'- 61.8
19'- 70.5
20'- 70.5

The wording of this makes it sound kinda dumb, but at least he's not saying he wants Mahomes money. He just wants to be the next highest paid QB and he will 100% get it.

Respect? He was already very well paid this year wasn’t he?

He will get paid a lot of money by someone. The QB market is insane for just a decent/competent talent right now.

Is it still conventional wisdom that anyone who makes an explicit demand for 'respect' is automatically a Fredo figure?

I wouldn't pay him that but he was leading the league in passing numbers before getting hurt and was pretty good the year before too

I totally agree that paying Dak "right behind Mahomes" is the perfect way to show him the respect he is due, just as long as this takes place right before Patrick takes a dump.

He's a good quarterback, but his value of himself is laughable.

Mahomes’ contract has set the NFL on fire. Dak wants out of Dallas. Wilson wants out of Seattle. Watson wants out of Houston. Franchise QBs used to never leave the team where they made their bones until late in the twilight of their careers. Now we have 3 top 10 QBs that are disgruntled in the prime years of their careers.

An astute and accurate analysis, Mr. cdcox. We may well be observing the Mahomes Effect first-hand.

Or ...

Dak, Watson, and Wilson are actually Skrulls.

It's either one or the other, for sure.

FAX

Ah, I see.

....and how many Super Bowls have you been to, Dak?

And I want a million dollars a month and Emily Ratajkowski available at any moment for my sexual needs but it ain't gonna happen.

If he plays out the last year on the tag and hits the open market he could probably get more than Mahomes APY.

Well, right or wrong... this is what happens with QBs. The new big contract sets the bar and raises the bar for those a level or two down. Wentz averages 32M and Tannehill averages 29M... shit is crazy.

Hell, I recall when Elway set the bar with a 5m overall contract or something to that effect... it's a good gig if you can get it.

You are probably right.

And there's a lot of dumb teams that will pay for it too. My hope is the Raiders or the Broncos shell out big buck for him if this happens.

I'd rather sign Mitch Trubisky

Dak’s emotions have pulled a chair up to the negotiation table.

Respect is earned and paid in a different kind of currency altogether. It can’t simply be monetized.

Situations like this remind me how young these players are.

Doesn't really have anything to do with youth. It's the society we are in, plain and simple. Look at JJ Watt chasing the money to a team that won't win anything, when he's one of the most "respected competitors" in all of Football, nearing the end of his career, and saying all the right things.

Perhaps. How old are you?

I hope Jerry Jones pays him $50 million a year and crushes their salary cap for the next 10 years. ROFL

This is great news. If they pay Dak that much, they will never be able to build a championship team. More years of mediocrity ahead for the Cowpokes! I love to see that.

Git 'er done Jerry! :thumb:

DO IT, COWBOYS! DO IT!

Can’t wait to see Baltimore have to pay Lamar his fat contract.

You guys eat up the dumbest shit.

Dak got mad jokes

I LOOOVE HAVING PATRICK MAHOMES ON MY TEAM!

The NFLPA is a ****ing abomination and the reason for shit like this.

Dak sux ballz.....He’s a complete idiot for turning down what the Cowboys already offered.

Even if it's not the Cowboys he is going to get $40 mil/yr from somebody. Supposedly he had a 5 yr $175 mil which comes in at $35 mil/yr. I definitely wouldn't call him an idiot for turning the deal down, because he made just under $31.5 mil for 4 games of work and this coming up year if he's franchises (he will be), then he's guaranteed to make $37.7 mil in 2021. That's $69.2 million for 2 years.

The reports about his most recent offer were saying that in the first 2 years of the contract he'd get $70 mil. So by playing under the franchise tag he basically gets the Cowboys offer, but he isn't tied to them long term. If Cowboys want to franchise him again after 2021, then he's going to make $54.3 mil in 2022.

Barring a catastrophic injury one of these 3 things is going to happen

1. Cowboys sign him to a 4 yr/$160 million deal
2. Cowboys franchise him in 2022 and it's like he signed a 3 yr $120+ mil deal that was fully guaranteed because of the franchise tag.
3. Cowboys let him walk after this coming season and he's a 29 year old FA QB in a year that the salary cap takes a massive jump and who knows, by then the Ravens might to stupid enough to give him a contract that pays him more per year than Mahomes and Dak signs for $50 mil/yr with some stupid ass team like the Raiders.

I wouldn't really call that being a complete idiot.

I agree. If he's patient, he's going to get paid.

Yep, and if the Cowboys are stupid enough to franchise him a 3rd time, then he's gonna make like $165 or $170 mil in 4 years and hes going to look even smarter.

Oooohhhh Dak, :shake:

Which QB is that?

True. All this qb flipping helps us. Could speed up the process of qb pay by a couple years and makes mahomes deal better compared wise.

Dude is a head case and Jerry needs to jettison his ass fast

No he's not

How so?

I love this whole situation for the Cowgirls.. I want to grab a bucket of popcorn and watch this trainwreck. Its a win win for me.. If Dallas signs him to a huge contract they will continue to be irrelevent for years. And if they don't sign him they will also be irrelevent.

Sure you can say he’s smart for making a ton of money taking the Kirk Cousins method on the franchise tag. IMO any team that pays him “respect money” will end up going nowhere.

He’s been carried by a top defense and run game since entering the league, and hasn’t proven he can carry the load by himself. Only a handful of guys in the league are worth this pay range, and I don’t think Dak is one of them.

After a bad injury where nobody will know if he's the same or not? No thanks, Dak can **** right off if I'm the Cowboys. Trade him now. The biggest problem was Jerry committing to Dak after that injury. Pretty dumb move.

Can't trade him. Not under contract until he actually signs the tag. He could really **** them over here.

Yup. He has the power here, not the Cowboys. Dak will get paid a LOT...maybe not quite as much as he wants, but some team will step up and pay him. I bet the Cowboys will cave because they are scared to start over again.

Jerry asks himself, what would Al Davis do? Then does it

Pro sports contract negotiations bring out the idiots.

"Dak is a headcase!" "Win a Super Bowl then demand top dollar!" LMAO

Dak is getting paid big time.

Yeah, Honestchieffan has so far chosen not to articulate how Dak is actually a head case.

Dak is the king of garbage time stats.

He wants to get the maximum amount of money he can. Therefore, headcase. DUH

Who are those QBs in your mind?

Stephen Jones is really ****ing bad at negotiating, especially cing off the tag.

He’s a borderline top 10 QB. NFL QBs are extremely well paid no matter what your ‘tier’ is these days.

because he doesn't win the majority if any of the big games.;)

Nailed It !!:clap:

Pay behind Mahomes and RESPECT?

Here you go...nlmnlmnlmnlmROFLROFLROFL

Hear Pantera - "Walk" playing in the background please

He should be right behind Mahomes... by many hundreds of millions.

If I'm the Cowboys, I'd give him the non-exclusive tag and see what happens.

There are only two IMO - Brady and Mahomes.

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:bigpopcorn:

Can’t wait to see the details of the deal.