What’s going on with Dak Prescott’s contract? | Inside Coverage

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Jori Epstein dive into the potential reasons behind the delay in Dak’s contract talks. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – part of the “Zero Blitz” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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JASON FITZ: I’m trying to figure out what’s going on with Dak because as I was driving around this week, I heard some people saying, look, if this was simple, it would already be done– Dak going into the last year of a deal, everybody trying to figure out if the Cowboys are going to try and reduce his massive cap number. Like, what is the sense right now that you have on what’s going on in Dallas?

JORI EPSTEIN: On one hand, Dak’s $59 million cap hit is a little bit prohibitive. On the other hand, it’s not as prohibitive anymore. The salary cap rose by over $30 million this year, which is above the projection of every single exec in the league I talked to.

Now, when I mentioned this to a Cowboys person, they were like, yeah, but we were thinking $15 million. So it’s more like $15 million extra than $30 million extra. But it still is extra.

So think of this more as, what if they were to take a $40 million cap hit or a $30-something million cap hit? Like, that’s really, if we’re trying to compare apples to apples, what is going on here. And so I think they have more flexibility in this particular year than you do most years to take on a cap hit like that.

I’m getting that CeeDee Lamb deal done tomorrow because CeeDee led the league in receptions and was top three in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. And the market for receivers is only going up. And so I think that the Cowboys tend to have deal inertia and often don’t get deals done because of it.

And I think that CeeDee Lamb has been everything you could want. And you need more receivers than you do quarterbacks. And they’re less expensive than quarterbacks. And so to me, while we’re all talking about this Dak contract, and it…

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Publish date : 2024-03-07 23:48:13

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