Cowboys Should 'Start Over' & Dump Dak Prescott, Suggests PFT's Mike Florio - But How?
FRISCO - The Dallas Cowboys and franchise quarterback Dak Prescott have made their bed together, and it is their intention to sleep in it together. The QB has two years remaining on his current $160 million contract, but a $59.4 million cap hit is slated for 2024. And so an extension is coming.
Unless, that is, the Cowboys take the advice of ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio, who is kind enough to offer to Dallas both his football expertise and his cap expertise.
Florio insists that Prescott “is not one of the short-list franchise quarterbacks” - a football opinion that he writes as if it is etched-in-stone fact.
Florio also insists that "for the Cowboys, the question becomes whether, at some point, they should just start over.''
Wait. What? What does "start over'' mean? To Florio, it apparently means, among other things, to live with the 2023 cap hit of $26.8 million and also live with that $59.4 million. And then let the contract, and the connection with Prescott, who would be 31 at that time, shrivel up and die.
The cap foolishness here? If Dallas leaves that $59.4 million as is, the 2024 roster will be severely hamstrung with little room for improvement - thus the reason both the Cowboys and Prescott are planning on doing an extension maybe as quickly as this summer.
"I trust the Cowboys,'' Dak has essentially said ... and the Jones family is choosing to do the same in return in keeping Prescott at the fore of its almost invaluable "America's Team.''
The football foolishness here? If Dallas follows Florio's advice and simply allows Prescott to go free after 2024? Man, he better really suck. (Dak, we mean. Not Florio.). ... Because a 31-year-old Dak Prescott on the open market in the spring of 2024 might likely become the most coveted and highly-paid player in the history of the NFL.
Oh, and one more thing: Florio's "start over'' plan must call for somebody to take Dak's place, right? So who does PFT suggest replace Dak Prescott in a way that promises to be both more affordable and more productive?
Writes Florio with his solution: “Draft a new quarterback. Find a veteran starter. Do whatever they have to do to stop the funhouse ride that has become zero fun, sir for the team.''
Oh! Just find a new quarterback? Geez, why haven't these teams not winning Super Bowls ever thought of that!?
Seriously, even if Dallas could "dump Dak'' in part because you hate paying him $40 million APY, where are these magical replacements?
*The Raiders dumped Derek Carr, who was grabbed by the Saints. But they pay him $37.7 million APY, so forget that.
*The Cowboys could've tried to get involved in the NFL Draft's fourth-round run on QBs. Are you ready to hand over the keys to a contending Cowboys team to Fresno State's Jake Haener, Georgia's Stetson Bennett and Purdue's Aidan O'Connell?
*There is always the scrap heap. Florio says, "Find a veteran starter.'' Carson Wentz, anyone? Get Matt Ryan to un-retire? Joe Flacco? Chase Daniel? Jake Luton? What are we doing here?
That "zero fun'' quote is from the movie "Remember the Titans, and we have no idea what it has to do with anything except to say that the Denzel Washington flick is infinitely more realistic that the PFT proposal.
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