Dak Prescott Financial Breakdown
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00:00 In the case of Dak Prescott, a goodbye would be financially difficult.
00:04 People talk about how you would save $34 million if you did that.
00:09 That's not exactly right.
00:11 You still have to pay the $59 million Piper.
00:13 So you could make him a post-June 1 cut or even trade.
00:16 And you would gain $9 million worth of room once you do the plus and minuses on 2024.
00:23 But you still would owe another $34 million the next year.
00:28 So if you want $9 million worth of room, no Dak Prescott,
00:33 and $59 million worth of dead money over two years, spread over two years, you could do that.
00:37 The question is then who plays quarterback?
00:40 The grass is just not always greener.
00:42 Like I just keep going back to change for the sake of change.
00:46 Doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:47 Right.
00:47 Now, if you decide, and I don't think the Cowboys think this, he's just not the guy.
00:53 I don't think that's what they're going to do.
00:56 I understand why Recency Bias says, "Boy, it looks like he's just not the guy to me
01:00 because of Sunday."
01:01 But he did.
01:02 He's an MVP.
01:02 And he will.
01:03 He'll finish in the top five in MVP voting.
01:05 Yeah, I mean, he was the runner up for MVP voting two days ago.
01:09 So which is it?
01:10 And then if you say goodbye to Dak Prescott, which you could do,
01:15 even though it would be fiscally irresponsible,
01:17 who, Trey Lance is going to be better than Dak Prescott?
01:22 Cooper Rush is going to be better than Dak Prescott?
01:25 Maybe there's one scenario where this works.
01:26 You find some team to take Dak Prescott in a trade,
01:29 and they give you back a valuable high pick,
01:32 and then you draft a quarterback with that.
01:34 But first of all, that doesn't make you better at quarterback than Dak Prescott.
01:37 There's no guarantees.
01:38 And second of all, why would a team do that?
01:41 You don't want to pay him $59 million.
01:44 Why do I want to pay him $59?
01:46 You want Caleb Williams or whoever out of the draft?
01:50 Well, I want Caleb Williams out of the draft.
01:52 So the Cowboys have made their financial bed with Dak Prescott,
01:56 and now they're going to continue to sleep together.
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