The Dallas front office has a big basket of snakes of some bad decisions on previous contracts combined with some good drafts coming to maturity along with some potentially disastrous decisions to come. Add in some excellent gamesmanship by agents and a few dumb ideas and Jerry is aging so fast he’s calling Soros for an adrenochrome hookup. 4, 88, and 11 expect to be the highest paid QB, offensive, and defensive players in history and if it happens for each, these three will eat about half of the cap. Thats hard to field a winning team with that when you need top CBs and OL to compete. CeeDee. Their offer of 33.x million is an easy rough calc to show their logic that it’s slightly better than Jefferson’s 35. It’s Jerry using the tax table of 0 in Texas vs 9.6% in Minnesota x 8 games + 8 matching the 35. Agents generally don’t pay much attention. Jerry will get it done most likely this week. Dak. His current contract is a problem they have to work thru and his agent has the leverage. Because they have borrowed against it in previous years he’s got a $55 mil number this year and if he leaves in 25, three void years roll up for a $40mil dead cap hit. Eventually the credit card bill must be paid in total. The answer for that is burying it in a new long term contract and that’s problematic too. First, is Dak the guy? Would you pay him say 5yr $300 mil $240 guaranteed? Jerry is probably doubting that after the Green Bay game. That team should have made the champ game at the least. So the price right now should be the baseline for 25 but he’ll hit the open market most likely and make a bit more wherever he plays. I think he’s a loser in big games; his head isn’t the leader you need. If he walks you figure it out for 25 or 26. No QBs are under contract for 25. Would you give Lance a 2nd contract based on what you’ve seen by now because hopefully he doesn’t play another down before free agency. Thats a hard no and waste of a 4. Drunk Jerry again. His agent wants to wait for now. The open market will serve Dak well. McCarthy’s situation plays here too. This is where Jerry’s dumbness factors as well. He should have fired Mike after Green Bay and had a roadmap and the chance to see if Dak could improve with a new coach, who would have input on a new contract or not. Dak hasn’t been the same since Jon Kitna didn’t even get an interview with McCarthy. So nothing will clear up here until January. Micah. Why is this a question? He’s under contract two more years. They can then franchise him. Let’s see if he can complete a full season without being gassed by thanksgiving. Is he really that disruptive or have teams figured him out? Can Zimmer use him different and save him some wear and tear as Quinn tried to wear his ass out like Earl Campbell. I would trade him for some picks to help get a new QB.