Dak Prescott is caught in a sad and 'fractured fairytale' — Skip Bayless | NFL | UNDISPUTED

The Cowboys report to training camp tomorrow, but it's the news about Dak's future in Dallas that grabbed the headlines when asked if Dak wanted to stay in Dallas long-term. An anonymous former Cowboys coach said quote right now: No, I don't think so, so Shannon does. You agree that Dak doesn't want to be in Dallas long term. Hop. I don't think that's the case at all. I don't really think it's a situation where Dak doesn't want to be in Dallas, but I think he wants to be in Dallas. he wants the cowboys to compensate him fairly, he's disappointed in

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because he's watched him for the four years he's been there since 2016. he's seen guy after guy get paid and not once did jared or stephen jones tell them that I need you to get a haircut so we can pay the next guy and when it came time for the doctor to get his money, the first thing out of his mouth even before we started negotiating was the need to work with the team that needs to be given realize that he plays for Dallas. cowboy he plays quarterback in dallas and the other off field opportunities never mentioned any of that with any other player before that so dak is like wait wait a minute why now suddenly he's big importance that I give it to you? a haircut when you never ask any of those other guys to give you a discount so why didn't you say that to jaylen or zeke i need you to cut my hair because you know we have our quarterback and you know he's It's going to cost us a lot of money to get the quarterback to sign, they didn't make that jump, they might have been willing to work with them if they had gone with them, they went crazy, like the eagles went to win, like the rams went to jerry golf. like my team of friends came to him, two years left on the deal, okay let's do something, you let the guy completely fulfill the deal, you run the risk of him popping a knuckle, nothing happened, but Alex Smith He is glad to see that he was released.

He can come back and play, but God forbid, he has that kind of injury knack, so you want him to give you a discount. I think that's the price. Le

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could have gotten that press. God, they wanted that Prescott for somewhere between 34 and 34. 35 you know that price will never happen again, don't you know? Because when did you say that jerry jones bought the cowboys? 1989 jerry jones brought the cowboys, let's say he played in stores fluctuate between 120 and 140 million, right? I think Jerry Jones could have bought that team in 1990 or 1991 for $120 or $140 million. The lowest he was going to buy that equipment was when he bought them.

The man he was going to get. The press understood it. 34. 35 million was the last one. year and when that doesn't happen, the price will continue to go up, so if you think you're going to get it, you thought you were going to get it for 34 million, it's only going to go up and what hurts you is that let's say we could talk about this a little bit later the cap will now stay at 198 this year depending on how income goes it can't go below 175. if dax is on the books next year for 37 million you talk about you didn't want him to be over 14, that's 21 of your limit, so now what are you doing and is that what you always try to do?

Jump, you try to identify, your quarterback got it in an easy young man. contract build a riding let's go for it we saw what seattle see what now all my discount game then go get frank creep frank clark and hire some other guys keep a lot of their main guys skip chris jones chris jones chris jones that he's not going to do that skill yeah because he's like jerry stephen you guys don't believe in me you say all these things in public but in private the conversation I've had with my agent leads us to believe that I'm not sure what I'm capable of doing and Since you feel that way and since I have to go out and prove myself again, I will get every penny you can pay me to listen to everything you just said.

I heard about this report from Dallas. None of this is a surprise to me. Unfortunately, I told you the last day we were on this program, the day after the deadline came and the deadline was met without a deal. I told you it was the beginning of the end. from dak in dallas and i still believe that unfortunately with all my heart and soul oh here he is out of his size or both a little bit of both but especially dac's side and we both agreed once his brother immediately tweeted that i was never a big cowboys fan and I'm going to have a hard time rooting for the Dallas Cowboys next year even though my brother is on the team even though he's the face of the franchise once I read that you know and I know where it came from That came from emotions. from his younger brother, dak, who was a little over dak and knew there was some bad blood that had just been spilled all over the floor and we read the google report that jerry jones never got over having the rug pulled out from under him after from the first game of the fairly new that is todd france, dak

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's fairly new agent and again just to sum it up, dak bet on himself coming into the season, jerry said after the first game, great performance by dak against although the giants, jerry jones said our agreement is eminent.

It will be done in days, all we have to do is cross some t's and dot eyes because we have agreed on the key point, the money has been agreed upon, we have a sort of verbal handshake agreement about the money and, of course, Suddenly, Jerry was surprised, no, no, our price just went up and then after the game in Washington it went up a little bit more and after the Miami game at home it went up a lot more and Jerry said, "Okay, well, you've done me dirty. I don't play this way when it comes to negotiating.

A man's word is his bond and you broke your bond. Well, here we go. So bet on yourself for three games and keep betting on yourself and for the last few. 13 games in, Dak wasn't even as big a fan as I am and I still believe in him as a football player. I just have to tell you, I had the time, we were off for a week and this got settled in the back of my brain. I'm just disappointed in my man Dak Prescott I don't like the way he played this I still think Jerry made him a very fair offer I'll say it again, they told me it was 36 million but 34 35 36 36 million with 80 of them guaranteed at the time of the signature, that's a lot and I thought it was a fair deal, no, I won't go very well, right?

I won't go, they were respectable people, they disrespected the offer to a young man. man who has been very good but has not been Patrick Mahomes. He ranked it ninth or tenth, so I put it at the bottom of the top 10, which is still very, very good. I think you would agree between 10 and 15, yes, somewhere there absolutely. Okay, but he's not that guy that just got that big deal, but the more we look at the house deal, it seems very Brady, right, it's actually team friendly right now, the annuals are up, it's 45 million, right? and i think dak was aiming for somewhere close to that right 42 43 million a year right and jerry just said no that's too rich even for my blood and by the way forced now to accept the label i want to remind everyone that dak

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now it's starting tomorrow, I guess like them go to camp, now he makes 10 and a half million dollars more than any other overpaid cowboy, anyone, demarcus lawrence, amari cooper, name them ten and a half million more, go to the quarterback because he makes 31.4 million under the label, right, that's about 16 of the total.

The limit, right, is pretty high, but to your point, if you tag it again and it hits 38 million right now, it's up to 22 percent of the limit and that's too right, so Jerry says I don't know. what to do with this. because they backed me into a corner, there's bad blood, there's hurt pride here and jerry says well, when I tag him 31.4 for this year, I can't do any funny business with him, it's just who you are. I can't prorate it it's one year it's all 31.4 20 20. you can't filter some of it through a loophole around here a loophole is just boom you're done it's all there and you're stuck with it and I don't think Jerry may like to do business this way, but they backed him into a corner and I think his pride was raw, yeah, and it's a sad situation for a quarterback that I still love, it feels like a

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Well, most of the people that have that, I know it's in the front office, whether it's Ozzie New, John Elway, Mike Shanahan, a lot of the greats say that by year three you have to know what you have in a guy if you don't you know what I came in the third year, move on if you didn't know what you got in that Prescott at the time given the offer that was on the table, I think Jerry said we have a very good quarterback, we don't have Patreon Mahals, right? We don't have Tom Brady, we may have attracted Brees, but we have one we can beat.

I think the thing is when you look at the Mahomes deal, you jump, even though it's not a lot of money in the first three years of the deal over the life of the contract 45 million it's going to be a while before someone makes 45 annually a season okay, and I think he's saying okay, I'm willing to work with you for the first few years to make sure we can keep this together because like you said, I know Travis Kelsey is going to want a new deal, there's going to be a lot of guys that want new deals and I I don't want to because in theory I'll skip Kansas City if Padma Home said look guys this is what I want, I want 120 million when I sign my name at 120 million and I want to make 45 million in the next eight 19 years.

I mean, what are they going to say? But they have flexibility during all those years. You can play with it. You can do things you can renegotiate even if you do that, jump, you said okay, if we give him 120 million, we can prorate it over 12 years, that's still only 10 million, so even if we pay him 15 million base, we still have , we are still fine with the limit, we are fine. Okay, so what did Tom Brady do for all those 20 years that he took below market value to allow Belichick to maximize his supporting cast and maximize the defense and I thought he called it Brady esque and I thought he would you operate it? under the same type of mentality and somehow everything went completely wrong and then the new plot twist that I read in this article we mean that dak is still upset because jerry fired jason garrett he didn't know, he knew he liked jake jason garrett, but now you actually hold a grudge against jerry for that because i think at first jerry wanted to get back with tony romo, it was jason garrett who was fighting for dak prescott after the success they had before. remember to skip the reports where jerry really likes tony that's his boy, it was box office and him and jason it's reported that jason garrett and stephen say you can't do this, you know dad, we can't, I mean, okay, well , this won't exactly be music to the ears of Mike McCarthy, who officially starts tomorrow as the new Cowboys coach because he has to think straight, my franchise quarterback was totally on board with the guy who got fired, so no one would skip , you have to earn it. that normally happens normally, especially, but look at the differences between that and uh and Tom Brady stuff, yeah, it's just that Tom Brady saw everyone getting their hair cut, it wasn't like that, but no, that's true, it wasn't like, it's Well, this guy here, well, he got it all. this and tom looks like this wait you say i need to cut my hair so we can pay all these other guys but everyone except stephon gilmore had cut their hair so jack its like man d log has head full of hair. look amari, look at z and you want to cut my hair, I can't, um, and so the skill was rubbed the wrong way, they're going to be, there's going to be a lot of healing, it's going to take place, but I still don't love the fact that Dak is Hold on to a coach who was there for nine years and missed the playoffs six times in nine years and Dax still believes in Jason Garrett.

I know this because Jason believed in him, there you go. Okay, but they had two really good years together, remember thirteen, three, ten and six, right, and they had two not so good years together, that was Jason's epitaph in Dallas, eight and eight up, down, up, down , eight, now, what if and if a lot? What was happening is Dak realized that that's not Jason Garrett, that's the guy staring. Well, if your heart isn't in it, then you should go somewhere else. Well, you're trying. We should look for someone else. We tried. Yes, we tried. To go ahead and do this because you already want to do the right thing, all you had to do was let us be free and then we can show you what the market is like.

All I can say is that there's only one way Dak Prescott is headed now. retire a dallas cowboy and that's in one of the next two years he has to take this team to a super bowl if he does that i think he'll get the long term deal somewhere in mahomes range i think I would get it. that, but he will have to do that and obviously the odds are not in that, but he looks, he jumps, he remembers what happened,remember joe flacco for two million dollars, you could have had joe flacco on a small ninth contract and you rolled the dice and he wasted his time. and he went to the Super Bowl and won Super Bowl MVP and for the next three years he was the highest-paid player in the NFL.

That's what Jerry Jones is about to face now that he let that media guy get you the Super Bowl, okay, but jerry has been so long since 1995 since jerry was in a '95 subaru, right, I think if that led to him getting into the game, I'd give him his deal, okay, that's what I think, I hope, gee, that's what the guy wants, he wants it now, okay, let's move on to some players In movement around the league safety Jamal Adams said he is now a dating man on a mission after being traded from the Jets to the Seahawks Seattle sent two first-round draft picks, a third-round pick and safety Bradley Mcdougall to trade for adams and a third round pick, so Shannon, was this a good deal or a bad deal for Seattle Skip?

I've gone back and forth on this and when I look at it from Seattle's perspective, I know that Jamal Adams will be traded, there's no way he can come back. in that locker room having said what he said in that interview about the head coach, so I know he has to go, why would he give up two? Why would he give up two in the first skill round? I think they could have had Jamal eleven and four first. and a third now maybe seattle is looking at it in the last course of the last three or four years, they haven't drafted well in the later rounds and they say you know what we feel, where we're going to draft low uh uh high 20, hopefully maybe even in our 30s, the guy we could get won't be that guy you're talking about, a guy that's all pro, two time pro bowl, can play a lot of different positions. a lot of different things um, but two first rounders and a third rounder skipped the hell they gave up to get Khalil back.

Chicago gave that up to get Khalil mm-hmm of course back with the play of the year mm-hmm, that's it. a lot to give up for a security skill now i don't say it and people like it well he's not and reed look it doesn't have to be ed reed you're talking about the top you're talking about the top of the top when you're talking about reed , but I think he's a game-changing safety skill, he plays a lot of different positions and Seattle is going to use him like Jet Fusion because if you say okay, we want you to play safe.

You're going to play hard or you're going to play free, but Greg Williams lined up at linebacker, put him in the slot, blitzed him a lot, put him in coverage, so he played a lot of different positions so you can get Seattle will have to use him as The Jets used him or else you wasted two first-round picks. Now he says he's on a mission, I think for Seattle to do this deal skill, they had to feel like they could get it. This guy should sign because it would be foolish to give up two firsts and a third by not signing to know that he will be the highest-paid safety after this season.

I think where the Jets made the mistake. Jump, that's how it works. with athletes and I'm talking about playing in the national football league. You are my general manager. I come to you and tell you to skip it. I think I'm over this contract. I have done everything you ask of me. I've been an All-Pro I've been a Pro Bowl player and I'm the leader I'm the captain of the team leader one of the team leaders we'll make it skip if you tell me we're going to do it I hope you do it now I'll get back to you here we are nine months later Jumping like you, we won't be able to do anything, we'll see, we have a problem because you lied to me, jump, you told me that if you told me that I won't be able to do anything, I'll be angry, but at least you were honest with me, you're sincere, say Shannon, We're not going to be. able to do it, but if you tell a player that you're going to close that contract and he comes to you and tells you what's up and he doesn't do it, he jumps, it's over, so hell, they didn't have this.

At that point, the planes had no choice but to transport Jamal Adams, but Seattle paid a high price for safety, two one and a jump three. That's right, Seattle dangerously overpaid for Jamal Adams. Jamal Adams has shown me for three years that he is more of a problem than he is. will he ever be worth it and he again he is known for constantly making waves on social media and causing nothing but trouble in his own locker room and did you see what he already tweeted today? He already tweeted how upset he was that Seattle put it at 7 a.m. flight this morning and then deleted the tweet but was complaining about how you could put me up at 7am. making me get up so early for that kind of flight well, I mean what do you think Seattle is right around the corner, isn't it close? the corner is as far as you can go, yeah if you're in New York it's six hours and they need you to have a media session there, they want you to meet everyone, get situated and start getting into their training camp, which I'm sure opens in a day or two, so the point is that he's already up to his old social media tricks.

Live on social media, which is not always a bad thing unless it reinforces your negative behavior where you have a lot of people following you. You who say stay after that, I'm talking about your balls, go get them, go get them, okay, all I can say is that this sums up my feelings towards Jamal Adams. I can't express how grateful I am, how relieved I am that he is. now i'm not a dallas cowboy especially for two two one three don't stop and remember jamal grew up in the dallas area it's lewisville and carrollton he went to high school in carrollton but he's in the dallas area he grew up a big fan of the Cowboys made it very Very clear on social media: I want to be a Dallas Cowboy and now he's a Seattle Seahawk, right, and I say God bless you.

Seattle Pete Carroll has a reputation that he is very proud of. I've always been able to coach, it's difficult to coach players, especially. when they have a lot of talent and they think they have a chamber chancellor who can and has a little more coverage range the deal is probably ok yeah then you have a special football player who couldn't lift the jets out of mediocrity or below mediocrity obviously because his was three records five and eleven four and twelve and 7 and 9. now again that's not all his fault because it's not very good football correct but what I'm saying is don't tell me that He's a leader of a football team, don't tell me he's transcendent and makes a difference, he's not that kind of player, like Ed Reed was that kind of player from that position, I think Earl Thomas was that kind of player. player, but Cam Chancellor and Earl Thomas were in the historic days of boone's legion, right, they were more wii gamers than me, gamers to me, they were both as talented as each other, even richard at that time, richard sherman, he could be a guy of mine, but they were a weed, I think they bought In that, I'm not sure Jamal would ever accept a Wii type situation.

He is a player of mine. He is a soloist. He is a talented soloist. He was Lsu's sixth overall pick, but that kind of sums up his career. it happened after him in the draft, can I, can I put it in perspective, who at eighth, a guy that you watch growing up in your locker room, right, yeah, absolutely fine, so he was eighth and then guess who was 10. my Dude, guess who was 12th and so it's worth a guess who went 30th in that draft, a kid named tj watt who just gets a little better and his engine runs so hot that i can argue that in the long run tj watt will have more impact in This league is better than Jamal so the point is I'm not saying he's a loser but some of his intangibles are what I describe as intangible losers so I don't love this unless Pete can To say, look what I do now, John Schneider has brought many people down. times he went after percy harvin and then jimmy graham and he remembers sheldon richardson and it's been one guy after another where he said in genevieve they said we're going to take the plunge here well, they haven't launched again janaevian, well, leave it out, I think the The thing is, Seattle reminds me of Baltimore.

I think, especially when you go to the defensive side of the car, you buy it, yeah, because you had guys that set the framework, you had a Ray Lewis. had an air read, yeah subs, so everyone that came after that you still got Bobby Wagner, you still got KJ Wright, you still got the center pieces, yeah some of those court pieces that were part of the boom legion that when they went to the super bowl they were dominant those guys are still there there is no doubt that bobby wagner is the best player in that defense he is he is a player of the entire decade a perennial provo all-pro year after year, so he's the de facto boss of that defense, yeah, now if Jamal can get there at the end, look, it doesn't mean he's weak anymore, it's about us.

See, you have all those stats and you know he's fast. The list is that he and J.J Water are the only guys that got 20. sacks and so many intercessions so many foreign errors what what the hell do you want? Oh, that's finally good, okay, I get it, I get that the stats are good, okay, where's the lombardi that goes along with that, so at the end of the day that's what they do? I'm trying to do it in Seattle because once you've tasted that success, yeah, and maybe once Jamal makes it to the playoffs and wins and see what it's like, the stats are good, but it's all about team because you play a team sport.

Do it and so for me, he jumps and looks at De'Andre Hopkins, he waits for the second round, yeah, yeah, I'll give it to you. You can have Jamal after you get D-Haw, I'll take it to all of you the same way, Darius Slate went for a third in the field he did, Stefan Diggs went for a one, four, five and a six, I mean, yeah, but I think Seattle, I mean, their average peak over the last five drafts is 23 and they haven't been that good, well, they better be real. Well in the next few years, then they devalue those draft picks so they stay in the 20s, yes, because you better have a losing season, suddenly that's a team or a top 10 pick it won't be, but no.

I see. what's happening, russ is too good, russ has gotten better and better every year, yeah, so I think there will be and I think that's what you're counting on, jump, this says we're going to be good and we're We'll be able to continue to draft late in the draft, so we won't find anyone down there who's that guy, but we'll see, we'll see in the next two years, but the jets, if you think about skipping what they've drafted in the last six seven years those guys aren't on the team no you can't you can't build a championship team your best player somehow keeps coming out so something is going on they need to do a thorough investigation of how they're doing business because none of their best draft picks managed to somehow finish their careers or even spend four or five years with the team and I'm still not sold on Sam Darnold because I wasn't before the draft, right? and you better be right or they'll be really wrong.

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