Dak Prescott spoke to the local media today at Cowboys training camp and addressed his contract situation, saying "Good conversations are going on, I will say that. … A lot of confidence (that something will get done).” according the Jon Machota of the Athletic. GBag discusses this contract situation and if it'll get resolved before the season begins.
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00:00Meshota just tweeted about Dak Prescott's quote about contract talks, good conversations
00:22are going on.
00:23I'll say that a lot of confidence that something will get done.
00:28So Stephen said it shortly before we went on that maybe we could have an announcement
00:33relative to CD and maybe even somebody else this afternoon.
00:37So shoot, a CD contract I think is a lock before the season starts.
00:42A Dak contract would be a surprise and a massive news event.
00:46I think there's probably less optimism now from the public that a deal is going to get
00:50done before next March.
00:51So if you would get this done and cement the next half decade of the quarterback position,
00:56I think that would be a lot of story that people would be excited about, but maybe even
01:00more would be crushed by.
01:03That's just crazy.
01:04Yeah, certainly.
01:05I mean, I think there's a lot of fans who would probably be like super ticked by that.
01:09Now I wonder if we're getting to the point now where it's this thing either gets done
01:12before the season or both have an understanding Dak's probably walking once next offseason
01:18rolls around and he hits free agency.
01:20That's why they want to do it now.
01:22Let's make sure you don't have another lower extremity injury.
01:25We won't sign you after that one in the market.
01:27Might not either.
01:28Dak.
01:29So how about I mean, that'd be my pitch, right?
01:30I do.
01:31You're on the other side of 30.
01:32You're already limping a little bit.
01:33You had one big injury, didn't come back 100% from now.
01:37We can guarantee you from injury in this year.
01:41And I think for Dak, that's got to be attractive.
01:43You know, getting locked into some kind of security.
01:45I don't need to, to, to, to drain that limit of every last drop right now.
01:50I want to lock in, you know, what's left of my career as a cowboy.
01:54Yeah.
01:55And perhaps that's exactly how he feels.
01:56I think that there's, there's, there's a lot of, there's a lot of money to, to be made
02:01out there.
02:02These guys are super confident.
02:03I don't think Dak's walking into the season feeling like he's getting hurt.
02:06I don't think Dak's walking into the season thinking that my value is doing anything but
02:09going up as I play a little bit more and more football and what we're talking about 60 million
02:13right now, we could be talking about 70 million for him per year when it gets to unrestricted
02:19free agency.
02:20So I just think if the Cowboys are getting a deal done with Dak right now, it's because
02:25they, they, they came strong with all the wood.
02:27You think they'd reset the market for it?
02:29Oh, without question, without question.
02:31It would be, I'd be surprised if it was only 60 million, if he agrees to a deal before
02:35the season starts, my guess would be that would probably be a $62 million deal APY,
02:42you know, average per year.
02:44That would be my guess.
02:45Very interesting.
02:46Okay.
02:47So stay tuned for that.
02:48Apparently we could have multiple big deals signed by the Cowboys.
02:51They got three of them.
02:52They're working on and Steven Jones shortly before the show said, you know, a couple of
02:55them, Dak just gave you the update.
02:57They're really confirming from both sides.
02:58Yeah.
02:59Like Brian, if it weren't Dak as the other player, I was trying to think of who else
03:05it could even be.
03:06Like, are they trying to get ahead of Osa Digizua?
03:09I mean, is it like, or I don't even know what other player it could be.
03:13It kind of felt like though, that in talking to people at camp, that they, and you know,
03:20people were saying to me that they, with CD, they had a number agreed on.
03:25They just didn't have the structure right.
03:28So maybe they've figured out, and this was, this was several days ago.
03:32This was, you know, four or five days ago.
03:35Then people were talking to me about it and I was like, okay.
03:38So when, with that being said, I was thinking, oh, okay, well they're going to get this thing
03:42done here pretty quick.
03:44So if, if not Dak, I think the one that they're really, really trying hard on is that, is
03:50getting CDs done.
03:51And so that, that would be the one I, I would think, Zach.
03:55Alrighty.
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