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A lot, honestly, the thing is that we would normally do here, even simple, is just walking down the street with your falling in and stuff like that, which is kind of crazy, so. The do's and don'ts for the game in Brazil coming up in just one week, the Friday Night game, first Friday Night game or Friday game of any kind for the NFL. Wait a minute, opening, wait they've had Friday, it has to be Friday night because they played Black Friday, so never mind, they said something recently about it's the first Friday, something something and 50 something years, but it can't be Friday period because again, we had Jets and Dolphins last year, but we do get hackers and Eagles in seven days and, Trina, you have Brazil stories, really, the do's and don'ts are simple, don't do anything. Yeah, pretty much, I was there a month for the Olympics when it was there a few years ago and that was basically it because crime is so high there, it was great, wasn't great, but early in our stay, you had breakfast, so everybody goes down for breakfast and there's a crash of plates, so what do you do, you turn toward where the crash came from and the Associated Press guy had all his photography equipment swiped while he's looking at the crash, everybody's looking away, another guy comes around, picks up all his photography equipment, walks out the door, several thousand dollars in photography equipment and gone before they even knew what had happened, so it was that sort of thing, you know, lots of stealing of possessions, I got out of there without having any possessions stolen, so I felt very lucky to get back without having anything stolen. There's a certain amount of genius to that, creating the diversion by dropping plates because that is the natural human reaction, everybody knows what they're going to see, they still can't resist looking to see who caused the crash, somebody failed to say behind apparently or corner, but I digress the crash and the grab, so yeah, they do need to treat any of these international games, as best they can as a business trip, sometimes there's a little sightseeing involved, but you're in a foreign country, you don't know the lay of the land, you don't know where to go and if they're telling you don't even have your phone out when you're walking down the street, that tells you there's a chance that stuff can happen, so I would just want to go play the game and get the hell out and come home, no offense to Brazil, but you want to have a routine, you want to have normalcy and you don't want something that's a distraction right out of the gates for the first weekend of the season, and this is the first opening week game on a Friday since 1970, thank you Gary for that, the Rams hosted the Cardinals on a Friday evening to open the 1970 season, it was the first regular season game after the 1970 AFL, NFL merger and again, you can pull it off as long as that Friday night is the first Friday in September, as of the second Friday in September, no more football, they protect high school football, they picked a weird weekend to have a donut hole because there's high school football next Friday night, they are creating a distraction much like dropping plates at breakfast from high school football, especially because you're going to have plenty of people watching the game on their phones on peacock while they're in the stands at high school football games, that's just the reality of the situation, by the way, it's great to be able to watch football and not have to work football which happened last night, we were texting during the Colorado North Dakota State game, North Dakota State gave them a run for their money and just like last year, questionable clock management by Colorado, unlike last year though, I saw that MDS posted this, Dion Sanders, coach prime, coach Colorado entering his second year, a lot of hype at three and nine last season and a lot of criticism recently because he doesn't take criticism very well, he actually was asked about it, last year when they had very poor clock management while trying to come back to beat USC, no questions about the lack of urgency, I remember watching the game, like clock is ticking your down multiple scores, let's go, let's go, let's go, last night up trying to milk the clock, long pass thrown when long pass wasn't needed, long pass falls incomplete, Dion asked about it, he said his son Shadur was just trying to help the receiver get a catch and, and it, it sounded as if Dion approved of it, at least he knew enough to, or disapproved of it, he knew enough to say it's not something we should have done, but your quarterback's got to know the circumstances and I mean they, they just escaped what would have been fourth and long and they would have had to punt thanks to an interference penalty on a long throw that Shadur made when he looked like he might get sacked and North Dakota State might have pretty good field position down five points with enough time to try to win the game, they just got lucky because the defender ran into the receiver before the ball got there, that's one you should shift into milk the clock mode, so that was surprising to see because they did give North Dakota State a chance to pull out the win and if Colorado had lost to North Dakota State right out of gates, oh my God, that would have been not a good sign for Dion second season in Boulder. Well, one thing we were talking about my Travis Hunter is, is amazing, best receiver probably in college football, I don't know all of college football, but I can't imagine some of those catches he made were just unbelievable plays both ways. The only guy to really do that with a number of snaps that he does that. He's the best player in college football, but if he stays healthy and does what he did in that game, which I imagine he's going to put out some huge stats Colorado is as bad as I thought they were going to be. I mean, I think we all saw it last night against North Dakota State, they're going to play much better teams and that they're not going to win a whole lot of games. So as you pointed out, if they win three games, if they win four games, can you vote for him for the Heisman? I think if he's that much better than any other player on both sides of the ball, absolutely. What if he makes all American on both sides of the ball, then I think, yes, he's still the Heisman Trophy winner, but it's going to be interesting to me. That's the most interesting thing about Colorado is what Travis Hunter is going to do. Does he have a chance at the Heisman if Colorado is as bad as we think they're going to be win wise, three, four, five games, whatever it is, but a losing record, can he still win the Heisman? This is one piece of college football trivia that I was aware of without having to look it up. Only one time has a player won the Heisman despite his team having a losing record and Shireen, the thumbs up tells me you know who it is. It's Horning, right, from Notre Dame. Two and eight, the Irish in 1956. They were two and eight and Paul Horning won the Heisman Trophy with a team that was two and eight, so yeah, it's possible because it's happened, but it's happened once and that was a long time ago. So I do think Travis Hunter is spectacular and I thought it was funny last night when the announcers were trying to predict which side of the ball he would play in the NFL. That tells me they don't pay attention to the pay structure in the NFL because right now it's a no brainer, twenty one versus thirty five. You're playing receiver in the NFL period, you know, maybe you want to emulate Dion who was one of the all time great corners, but not today, not now, not the way the market is. I'm going receiver. I'm going that way and maybe sprinkle in some defensive back. So I think it's, it really is an easy question for Travis Hunter to resolve. The tougher question is, could he be the Heisman Trophy winner with a team that would have a losing record? And I don't know how many Colorado games are going to be on TV, presumably most if not all of them because they do draw a crowd, they're kind of becoming like the Cowboys because they're going to people who last year were rooting for Colorado. And now this year, there's going to be some of those people who were rooting for them last year, they're rooting against them this year. Just because, you know, it's too much, it's over exposure, the way Dion's handled himself with the media, not a lot of people or fans of that. So they're going to be on TV and it's, you know, like help. It's not like it wasn't we were growing up when you saw one or two college football games a week. That all changed in the 80s. But they'll be on people will be paying attention where they win or lose. There's something magnetic about that program right now. And that means Travis Hunter is going to be someone that people pay attention to. They're going to realize he's really good. And even if Colorado doesn't win another game, he's still going to potentially, potentially get enough votes to take the Heisman and a lot of it depends upon the kind of performances others have, but he's going to be good enough to be in the conversation, good enough at a minimum to be invited to the ceremony. I was here at the end of Dion Sanders reign with the Cowboys and, you know, he did place some offense. Obviously he was primarily a cornerback and why I went to the Hall of Fame, but he did play some offense and made a couple of big catches also. I hope that they let Travis Hunter play both ways because he is as good of a cornerback as he is a receiver and it's hard to do both in the NFL. I get that, but I do hope they let him play some defensive back just because I think he's so good at it. And I would love to send people would watch people want to see a guy do what he's doing on both sides of the ball because it is so rare. And I do think he's one of those rare athletes that could play both ways in the NFL. I don't see any NFL team allowing him to do it at the rate he does it at Colorado, but I hope they let him do it some in the NFL just because I think it would be so unique. I don't mean, Dion's really the last one that, and he didn't do a ton of receiver, but he did enough that you knew he was a threat on offense. And when he came in the game, it was just so exciting to see him on offense. What is he going to do? Because you figured they were going to throw it to him. You make an interesting point as it relates to how you properly compensate Travis Hunter if he's playing both ways. His initial pay is going to be determined by his draft spot. And it doesn't matter whether you play both ways. It doesn't matter whether you play special teams. It doesn't matter what position you play. What you get paid is determined by where you are drafted. Now, sometimes with quarterbacks, they'll try a little something different, but there isn't much you can negotiate in these rookie deals. So if coach tells you you're playing both ways, you're playing both ways where it becomes challenging is contract number two. If he is playing both ways, I remember when Laving on Bell was negotiating with the Steelers. His argument was I should be paid like RB one and WR two because that's what I am. I'm doing both things here. I'm lining up in the slot. I'm running past routes. I'm a running threat and a receiving threat. It's an easier argument to make that you should get two paychecks if you're playing and doing two jobs. Great receiver and CB three, who knows? So that's where it really becomes thorny and unprecedented. What do you pay a guy that plays both sides of the ball and that's an argument in and of itself for teams not to do it, but if you have a special talent, you know, you hear the cliche all the time, the coach speak, you want your best 11 players on the field. If he's one of your best 11 players for offense and defense and he's got the conditioning, the stamina, the will to do it, why wouldn't you do it? And you should pay him. You should pay him because you've got one guy that is doing the work of two men, especially if he's starting both ways, Mike. I don't know how you wouldn't pay in both ways, but he's going to be one of the most interesting players that we've seen come out of college, but since maybe Charles Woodson, I don't know, but just what he can do on both sides of the ball, it's teams are going to have to figure out where he's best and where are we starting men off. And then at that point, after he gets to know the offense of the defense, which I assume he will try to go be a receiver because of that pay scale that you talked about, but after he learns the offense, then do you start working them in a little bit on the defense, which I know he's going to want to do. I mean, he doesn't like coming out of the game. You could see that he lost his helmet one time and had to come out of the game and he didn't like that. He likes to stay in the game the whole time. And he's obviously conditioned to do it. That's the other thing. There aren't many players who are conditioned well enough to play every single play on offense or defense. And yet he's doing it on both sides of the ball. It's just impressive what this kid's doing right now. I can envision a not too distant future during a time of the year when you're one year older than me when I've got that three month buffer and there's a contract standoff between Travis Hunter and team that drafts him over this issue of how much they're going to pay a guy who plays both ways. And it's really not that far into the future five years maybe because here we are four years into the career of Brandon Iuch and that's our top story today. Iuch and the 49ers finally get it done. They finally work it out. And I've been saying look it makes it harder and harder to trade him with each passing minute. You have less of a chance to get the guy ready to go for week one if he goes to a new team. I have been saying I feel like the 49ers at the right moment are going to go to the bottom line and that's going to be it and the deal is going to be done. I was getting a little wobbly on that because things were getting ugly this week and we talked yesterday about how in theory Brandon and Iuch get the Terrell Owens treatment and suspend it and find and disciplined repeatedly for refusing to work but ultimately they get it done. And it's a four year extension $120 million total, 30 million per year. I'm told the cash payout is 90 million over the first three years, an average of 30 million per year. And remember the total average it's signing is going to be different than 30 million because he was due to make 14.1 this year. So it's 14.1 plus 120, 134.1 divided by five. You can do the math on your phone. It's not 30 million per year total average but he is going to get 30 million a year for the first three years which means if he plays at a high level screen three years from now he's going to be saying this contract sucks. I need a new one. Yeah, exactly right Mike. And this one took so long to do and just like CD lamb they're signing you know a few days before the season starts a little over a week before the season starts and I know deadline spur deals but I really wish they would move up their deadline. I wish the deadline wasn't the start of the season, the end of the pre-season whatever it is this week. I wish the deadline was before training camp. Do what the Vikings did which you're going to have to pay them anyway. Do what the Vikings did with Justin Jefferson. Do what these other T8, AJ Brown, the Eagles got that done earlier. They were in training camp and I just worry about these guys. How are they going to produce early both CD lamb and Brandon Iyuk. How are they going to play early because you only get in football shape by playing football. You can work out as hard as you want in a gym. You can go catch passes from some you or me throwing the ball to you. All those sorts of things but unless you're on a football field practicing you're not going to get in football shape. So what are these guys going to do early in the season and they've got to be careful. They're probably going to be on pitch counts so that they don't get those soft tissue injuries. You've got to protect those as well but move up the deadline that's the thing. You're going to end up paying them anyway and the longer you wait the more it costs. Yeah, you know, that's the same thing that we said about CD lamb and the Cowboys and the difference here is and I'm not saying this is right or wrong but because Jerry Jones, the owner of the Cowboys was so adamant on waiting and there wasn't a lot of reporting about what was out there and remember early on Jerry said, well, he just wants to see what happens with Justin Jefferson. Yeah, that's all the more reason to get the deal done before Justin Jefferson sets a new high watermark because you put a number in front of him in March or April that is so much he can't say no to it. It doesn't matter what happens with Justin Jefferson. What matters is what happens with CD lamb. It was different with the 49ers because we were here in dribs and drabs and I've gotten some stuff that I trust completely about how this went down. They could have gotten Brandon Eyeuke at 27 million a year if they'd done it before the almond Ross St. Brown deal post almond Ross St. Brown. It was more like 28. There were five teams willing to pay Brandon Eyeuke 28 million per year in new money average before the draft and the 49ers essentially dared Eyeuke to go find anyone that would pay him what he wants with the 49ers wouldn't pay. He found five teams and then the 49ers wouldn't trade him to the 49ers were never going to trade him but they were using that possibility as a way to say no one else is going to pay you what you want and he kept finding teams that would pay him what he wanted and I thought there was a weird disconnect here Shireen because the 49ers know him better than anyone and you've got all these teams that don't know him that are willing to pay him more than the team that knows him better than anyone will pay something's missing here and are all these teams wrong or the 49ers wrong and eventually because he's getting 30 million per year the 49ers were wrong all along and there's already some revisionist history that's being leaked by the 49ers obviously to both national and local reporters that oh we didn't move our offer at all since August 12th his holding his hold in accomplished nothing sir it accomplished nothing this is the same offer that was on the table on August 12th that has 49ers fingerprints all over it the bottom line is they could have had him for 27 and they blew it they could have had him for 28 and they blew it and if they were going to go to 30 all along doesn't matter if it's August 12 he's already missed half a camp go to your bottom line and make it clear to the agent that the deadline is the first day of training camp period the 49ers blew this the 49ers are low key dysfunctional in some aspects for as good as they are they do some things that make you say is that how an elite franchise should operate and this is one example of it and the Trent Williams lingering hold out is another example of it well and Trent Williams is way bigger than Brandon IU for all that we've talked about Brandon IU Trent Williams if they don't have him I think they're in mega trouble Mike to me he's one of the most important players on that team you know his annual averages 23 million it's been surpassed by five offensive lineman he is underpaid based on that because he is the best left tackle in football he he's made all pro the past three seasons he's been the all pro left tackle 11 pro goals and we know he's willing to sit out the entire season he showed that in Washington in 2019 he had the cancer scare that he was that they didn't catch in Washington that he was upset about and then some contract stuff to go with that he didn't play so he he has shown he is willing to sit out they can't waive his fines so all these fines that he's collected are not going to be waived he's going to have to pay them so I don't know that this gets resolved or not and good luck to brought perdy and good luck to Jalen Moore who's probably going to be the left tackle who has seven career starts if Trent Williams isn't there but this to me has been an underplayed story because I think he's way more important to that offense than brain and eye you kids I think they could have survived without brain and eye I don't know that they could survive without Trent Williams he's that good at left tackle and does so much for that offense that I don't know what I think we're probably going to find out at this point are they going to get Trent Williams done and the the fines that you mentioned the inability to waive the fines that money is coming from the 49ers and I eventually yes yeah eventually it's coming from them and that's where this whole this whole thing about the non-wavable fine it's aimed at getting guys to not hold out but when guys on their second contracts because remember it can still be waived for guys on their first contracts but for guys on their second contracts it can't be waived they're going to stay out even longer because they want the money to come from the team whatever I wanted add to it whatever I've lost trying to get to whatever I wanted it maybe some of these teams think they can all well let's split it or something like that I mean look the guys already shown he's got the will to stay out and as you said Trent Williams has the will to miss a whole year they need to get that one done now and I saw some of the team friendly analysis last night that well they were just focusing on brand and I you can now that I you can done they'll turn their attention to Trent Williams like like a professional football organization worth you know if they were on the market eight nine billion can't do two things at once I think they're capable of negotiating with two guys one holding out one holding in at once but that that's the narrative that's being pushed by the team there's been a lot of that in this one and that's what you know at some point makes it a potential challenge you got to set aside the acrimony to get the deal done they did they got it done right at the time when it felt like it was being and verging on dysfunctional and ugly and nasty Brandon I you can the 49ers have a deal and now they have ten days ten days from today to get him ready for the week one home opener Monday night football jets and forty nine is by the way over the cap dot com says San Francisco's twenty eight million over the cap fitting given the name of the website for twenty twenty five I mean this is it for Debo Samuel this is it yeah no doubt unless he takes a massive pay cut restructuring this is it Brandon I was now WR one at thirty million per year Debo's new money average is twenty three ish big cap number next year for Debo and and big big cap number next year for Debo Samuel this is it and I and I think it I think it's some level they might have considered because remember there was a report right before the draft or during the draft that the Steelers were talking to 49ers about a Debo Samuel trade and I guess you can't roll that out for some reason the wolves the wheels would fall off I don't know what I was trying to say if the wheels would fall off in San Francisco this year then maybe Debo's a guy that could be traded before the deadline I'm not saying the wheels are going to fall off I'm just saying in the event they would but next year the cap number for Debo Samuel twenty twenty five twenty twenty five it's twenty four million it's a high cap number this year though it's twenty six million this year twenty eight million this year I thought it was lower than that I thought they'd restructured maybe this information is not updated but I could have sworn that they did a restructuring to pull that cap number down for this year which in turn drives it up next year but still with Brandon Ayuk where he is and getting what he's getting the clock is ticking on Debo Samuel I really do think they wanted to hold everything together in its current financial structure for one more year there was no way Brandon Ayuk was playing for 14-1 nor should he yeah I absolutely agree Mike and he got he fits right in there we saw earlier that chart of the top receivers by annual average and he fits where he should fit I think in that in that chart I think he's right there where he should be that the forty Niners now have eight players who earn fifteen million per year or more per season so yeah they've got some work to do for next year but the window is this year they want to win that Super Bowl this year with this core group knowing that it's not going to be the same next year with Debo Samuel probably gone as we said and probably some more of these guys are going to be gone I mean teams change every year and you're going to by the way you're going to have to pay Brock Purdy right so they've got it they've got this window this year to get this done and then who knows what happens after this but these windows don't stay open unless your Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs or Tom Brady they usually don't stay open for very long but they do have this year to get it done but this is a key year for them everybody's talking about shrinkflation companies are now giving you less for the same prices before at Domino's we're giving you more mix and match any two medium two topping pizzas and we'll upgrade one 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i don't give a shit he's proven sorry london he's proven that he's one of the best players in the n_f_l_ you don't need one more year to prove it that's that old way of thinking remember they put the rookie weight scale in place to make sure that the market's rustles of the world don't abscond with millions they'll never earn fine when you have guys that earn it give them the money they should have had in the first place and don't make them sing for their supper for one more year at four point eight million dollars i don't care that he's got two years left i don't want to hear that again i know i will i don't want to hear it again because it's a bad argument the fact that other teams were able to kick the can for a fourth year should not prevent jamart chase from getting a deal done three years in and any of us in the media that spout bat without the caveat is doing the bidding of club oligarch and trying to hold these guys down and keep these guys from getting what they deserve to be paid and Mike this should be a relatively easy deal i mean he's he's justin jefferson he's at the top of the pay scale and he's going to want more than justin jefferson who was four years 140 million with 110 million guaranteed so you go a little bit higher than that and the deal's done it's it's really not that hard of a deal you're going to have to pay that now you're going to pay more later but that they've got to get this a the mike brown has to has to write this check i know he doesn't want to write the check like jerry doesn't want to write that huge check but you need to write that check mike and get jamart chase happy you've got a chance to do something in the a se but you do not want an unhappy receiver on your team who is second best player on that team probably so you need to get him satisfied by getting him a new deal and it's pretty simple to do yeah joe burrow had two years left on this contract and that didn't matter there was never a doubt they were going to pay him and the one thing that mike brown and jerry jones have in common the one and only thing they're both cheap and we see it with the bangles and we still see it with the cowboys because it was only kicking and screaming that jerry jones put pen to paper to give cd lamb his contract and now we've been talking about the deck press got situation jerry's comments recently the suggestion from yesterday that cd got his because he held out and dak's not getting his because he showed up i think dak's had enough as evidenced by some of the things dak had to say yesterday here's dak press cut on the ongoing negotiations on a contract that expires this year with no way to keep him from becoming a free agent also his thoughts on jerry jones ongoing comments about dak's contract cd got paid are you next uh not really sure not i'm not my focus anymore to be honest with you i'm told you guys that really can't say ever was really my focus um it's about making myself and this team better getting us in the best position on the most confident to go up to cleveland and start the season off of the win you don't need a deal done before the season uh i don't need a no no do you what you like it done before the season uh i think it says a lot if it is or if it isn't um but however doesn't doesn't really matter to me to be honest with you what is this if it isn't just how people feel what's people i don't know how do you how do you feel about jerry said that negotiation isn't about your merit as the cowboys quarterback but more about their cap situation what do you take from that when he says you know it's not really about what you're doing yeah i understand that that's the business and the nature of this this game that we play um uh yeah i mean i stopped honestly listening things that he says to the media a long time ago so um it doesn't really hold away with me and it shouldn't and he just says what he says it's word salad word salad word salad pay attention to the cowboys pay attention to the cowboys pay attention to the cowboys the leverage the deck has over the cowboys is exactly the kind of leverage that jerry jones parlayed into his multi-billion dollar fortune jerry jones didn't go easy on people when he had them over a barrel deck should not go easy on the cowboys when he has them over a barrel i remember sims interviewing deck press god at the super bowl before deck god his first contract and sims every once in all flashes that oh don't be selfish oh there's a salary cap oh you want to win and he and i have argued about that in the past it's one of the few things that we we fundamentally disagree about because i think guys should get paid whatever he can get whenever he can get it and it's up to the team to balance the salary cap but deck gave him a side eye when chris dared to suggest you don't seem like a selfish guy it's not about selfish it's about getting paid for what you bring to the table and if the cowboys aren't going to do it then he becomes a free agent and someone else will and the biggest wrinkle here and this is the one aspect of the story that jerry would probably we not focus on yep you take away the franchise tag you take away their tool to squat on a player for a hell of a lot less than what some other team would pay him and that tool is gone this time around and that is what's going to allow dak Prescott to go wherever he wants and and there's a collusion grievance that went to trial this summer we'll probably have a ruling by march if the NFL gets whacked for colluding as it relates to guaranteed contracts for certain players like lamar jackson what happens when dak Prescott's available what happens if other teams aren't interested like other teams weren't interested in lamar jackson and we smell collusion in the air again these are just things that will play out and maybe that's the one thing that helps the cowboys maybe none of the other members of club oligarch are going to come sniffing around dak Prescott i i'll believe that though when i see it yeah yeah gary just ask a good question is there more pressure on the cowboys to get this deal done or dak betting on himself and i say it's the cowboys getting the deal done because i don't know that dak Prescott wants to get this deal done i don't think he should want to get this deal done i guess the cowboys come and put you know 60 million per year before him close to 200 million guaranteed maybe at that point you go okay that that's enough i'll i'll resign with the cowboys but unless they do that and i don't think they do that then then i think dak is definitely betting on himself he's done that before it took two years of negotiation to get that second contract and he kept rolling the dice and guess what he was coming off the fracture and ankle and they still signed him so i don't there's not a real great risk here for for dak Prescott there is a real great risk for the cowboys to lose dak Prescott and maybe deep down they don't care about that but jerry's got to think back to how long it took between troy aceman and tony romo anytime you're going to change a coach or you're going to change a quarterback you better have a better one in mind that you're going to go get and i don't know who that guy would be who's going to be better than dak Prescott that you're going to get to bring on to your team to make them better than than what they are and what they've been and everybody says oh whether you know he's so bad in the postseason two and five in the post again who are you going to get that's better than dak Prescott there's look at the nfl who's been success who's won super bowls in the nfl it's currently a quarterback patrick mohomes so as starters i know joe flakos won one we can get into all that but i'm saying that patrick mohomes is pretty much dominated when in super bowls so that's why lamar jackson and some of these other guys haven't but he's yes he's got to get them to a championship game where they haven't been since 1995 but i don't know that they have a better option at quarterback to try to do what they haven't done since 1995 mike the best deals i've ever done happened when i truly no longer wanted to do the deal the best prices i've ever gotten on a car happened when i decided you know what if that's the number i don't want it and i literally didn't want it and once they sensed that i no longer wanted it that's when i got a better deal and the problem was i don't want it anymore i had to talk myself back into it at the number they finally moved to that i wanted to buy it for because i convinced myself i don't want to buy this car and i feel like dak has gotten himself into a mindset where he doesn't want to stay he's not going to say it but he's fine with that he'll he'll be fine he has enough money that he will make it to the end of his natural lifespan however long it might be with cash left over and i don't i can't remember who it is that said you know my aspiration is to run out of all my money the moment i die but dak will not it's a brooster's million exercise for dak Prescott to spend all of his money by the time he dies so he's fine and you know i saw somebody react last night one of the one of the mouth breathers on social media well if he snaps his leg he's not going to get his money he snapped his leg the last time and got his money he literally snapped his leg when he was franchised tagged the first time he had a compound fracture of the ankle and before he ever was cleared again to play he got a four-year 160 million dollar contract that was better than Patrick Mahomes contract because it put him back at the trough for another huge payday in as little as three years and four years later you go to the market unrestricted unfettered could you imagine what Patrick Mahomes would get if he went to the market unrestricted and unfettered and as we were saying yesterday dak Prescott biggest free agent since regi white the original free agent in 1993 so we just sit back and we wait to see where god tells dak Prescott to go yeah and he's going to get his money Mike either cowboys are going to give it to him or somebody else is going to give it to him but he's going to get his money so you know as we talked about yesterday the cowboys should have done this deal two years ago or at minimum after last year but they didn't do that so they are where they are now and they've added void years to the end of this contract so they're going to be paying for dak on their sowing cap for years to come whether he's on the roster or not no no no hang on hang on it's not for years to come it's 54 million next year if he leaves no they renegotiated the deal they renegotiated the deal and added void years 40 million I still I still I still think once you're gone we got we got we're gonna have to and look I know not to have a bet with you because we tried that earlier in the week and it blew up in my face just yesterday which a cobra percent and drag may but I I think it all looks and now it all come it all I think it all hits next year I think it all hits next year the the first year he's gone it hits and there's there's a limited amount of gamesmanship that can play but we'll look into that and we'll get that answer and I'll probably be wrong again we'll see but whatever the case Mike they have a huge dead cap hit next year right so you pay him you get him paid you offer him something he can't refuse you waited too long you're you're paying more than you wanted to pay you obviously didn't want to pay it after two years of the contract or three years of the contract and now here you are and he still might not accept it but I certainly would put the best offer before him this week next week sometime before the season opener and say hey this is where we are this is our best offer take it or leave it we'll continue to discuss or we're discussed at the end of the season or whatever we don't want to move on from you but this is our best offer right now but if I'm the Cowboys I definitely try that and do what I can to get him signed now and get him undercut and and don't let him hit free aid to see and leave and there's a ton of Cowboys fans saying just leave just do you remember all those quarterbacks they had Clint Stern or Quincy Carter and we can go down true Henson go down the list to find that it's just not that easy to find a quarterback that you can win 12 games with in the regular season three consecutive years and get to the playoffs and have a chance yes they haven't gotten it done in the postseason but they've had a chance to get it done so don't you want that chance if I if if I'm a Cowboys fan I want that chance to get to the playoffs and have a chance to win it and they had a great chance last season they just didn't get it done against the Packers when they should have but they had a great chance to at minimum get to the championship game they'd already beaten Detroit that all assumes that Jerry truly wants that that he truly is obsessed with winning more Super Bowls I still think that that's part of the carnival barker routine the huckster in him that gets the fans to show up and keeps them engaged and see that's the thing you have to convince people you're trying and the best way you convince people you're trying is if you have a great quarterback but if you don't want to pay him 60 65 70 million per year then you have to come up with somebody else and that's where you have to hope that you either bottom out or you can trade up to get should or Sanders or whoever the top quarterback is coming out of the college ranks in 2025 so this is a mess for the Cowboys and they're trying to play it cool I mean this is a poker game and you got to have your poker face and you have to have the attitude that you don't care what happens and you got good cards the Cowboys have bad cards the Cowboys cards suck yeah Dak Prescott's got all the cards and Dak Prescott knows he's got all the cards and he's doing exactly what Jerry Jones would be doing if the circumstances were changed because Jerry Jones has that gigantic yacht that 250 million dollar super yacht because he knows how to capitalize on situations and it's okay for the owners to be capitalists but when the players try to be capitalists oh you're being selfish oh you have to think of the team oh we only have so many dollars to go around tough crap you figure it out it's the Peyton Manning approach my job is to get paid and play quarterback your job is to figure out how to handle the salary cap and that's how it should go and and we'll see and look I love a good story I'm aligned with Jerry Jones I like stuff that people are interested in this Dak Prescott story even without any further negotiations during football season it is going to continue to hover and it's going to continue to produce interest until it's finally resolved here's one last clip from Dak on whether he'll be distracted once football season gets started because of his unsettled contract situation I'm blessed to play this game I'm getting paid a lot of money to do it I've already got paid to get paid again that's just part of it that's that's I'm due up for that and whether it's signing here whether it's somewhere else that I don't care to think about it this moment it's all part of it and so for me as I said it's about controlling I can and that's being the best version of myself best leader and make sure all these guys in here understand that we're on a mission it's not about next year right now it's not about my contract it's not about anything but getting ready for game one against the Browns and simple as that yeah and he's done this before he's done it before he's been in a contract year with the Cowboys when he was making I think four million dollars in his fourth year that's where they first screwed this up because Jerry was being cheap and then he did it again his franchise tag year broke his ankle and still got his massive deal the one time they woke up and panicked in the Dak Prescott career was when they recognized once we tag him a second time he walks away after that because we'd have to give him a 44 percent raise over his second tag for the third year of the tag so that became the leverage to do the four-year 160 million dollar deal and create a palatable cap number and by certainty yada yada but they don't seem to be troubled by that now that's what's weird about this the last time around they were sufficiently troubled by the prospect of Dak walking away to get the deal done this time around they don't they don't seem to be bothered by that even though the cap number is 55 and I do think for next year I do think the only the only way those avoidable years help them is if they do a new contract and they can freeze those numbers in place if he's gone I think that all rushes to the first year after he's gone because they that's happened time and again with other quarterbacks it doesn't matter and and we would have had more contracts with four or five phony avoidable years if you can smooth out the cap charge the bucks took 35 million with Tom Brady you know the only way around it was with the Saints in Drew Brees he retired after June 1 allowing the Saints to have some dead money the year he retired and the rest of it the next year but that's the reality of having a franchise quarterback there's always that price to pay on the back end because you kick the can the first year after he's gone you're going to have a pretty significant cap number and the Cowboys are having a very significant cap number this year and a very significant cap number next year even if he's not on the team well it might you made a great point in that the Cowboys don't seem troubled by this they really don't that certainly doesn't and it's the first time he's talked about I'll be fine go elsewhere and he keeps repeating it he did again yesterday talking about he'll play with Cowboys or replace somewhere else and that's the reality of it but the Cowboys don't seem troubled by that either they seem to want to put pressure on this group because all the coaches are in the last year of their contracts and they just seem like they want to put pressure on them saying okay you have this year go go show us what you can do and then we'll pay you well there's no guarantees might McCarthy may be fed up say they go win a Super Bowl if I might McCarthy I go see you you didn't want to pay me last year I'm not taking your money this year I'm going somewhere else and they all could do that dad could do the same thing you didn't pay me before I'm out I'm going to go see what I can get on the open market if your offer is better than anybody else's yeah I'll come back but if it's not I'm going somewhere else and the Cowboys just don't seem troubled by that miles and I went through this exercise on Wednesday the teams right now that we would at least be watching as potential deck Prescott destinations jets Steelers Raiders Giants wouldn't that be something Saints maybe the Seahawks and really you can look at all four teams in the NFC West and make a plausible argument there's a way this season goes that they decided to just pay DAC I mean Brock Purdy would have to completely and totally implode for the 49ers to think about it the Cardinals will have to decide Kyler Murray's not the guy the Rams I think in order of likelihood it's Seahawks then Rams and it's very unlikely for Cardinals and 49ers but at least you could make that argument that maybe some other teams you can make the argument the quarterback implodes they would pivot you know the the Buccaneers if Baker Mayfield is just horrible and I don't think he'll be that's a team that all of a sudden emerges but Giants oh boy Jets oh boy Steelers would never pay him but the Giants are the one that would be the most fascinating because here comes your arch rival to take away your quarterback yeah and we saw it was say come Barkley going from the Giants to the Eagles we could see the same thing I talked about this the other day that that Prescott could very well end up a giant if he hits the free agent market I don't think there's any doubt about that I think they would have interest in him and I think he would have interest in them going to know who who wouldn't want to play in the New York market if you're not going to play in Dallas America's team you go play in the New York market and if you're successful there you can do as many things outside of football that you can do as a Cowboys quarterback so that would be the the ideal spot for for Dak and I think Dak would be the ideal quarterback for the Giants so I that I think that would be number one if he's going to leave the Cowboys after this year I there's a good chance I think we see him with the Giants and that's the other side of this notion that all the Cowboys haven't gotten to the NFC championship you know they there's a lot of teams out there that haven't even gotten to the playoffs on a regular basis there's a lot of teams that would love to have a quarterback who is good enough to have you in the conversation every single year and I mentioned the Saints he's from Louisiana yeah he grew up in Louisiana the Saints would be a fascinating homecoming story if that's where Dak Prescott goes because this is the year that the Saints can decide following this season to go forward without Derek Carr if they don't become what they haven't been since the days of Sean Payton and Drew Brees all right let's take a break how would you grade the trade that brought Caderius Tony from the Giants to the Chiefs if you were a Chiefs fan well Chiefs GM Brett Beach may have a little information it can help you come do a conclusion we'll discuss that next year on PFT Live. 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