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I've seen 11.5% and 12.4%. That's good for this year. But it's the first year of the deal, so it's going to be the lowest.Cowboysfan8 said:
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/03/09/cowboys-save-more-than-15-million-in-cap-space-with-new-dak-prescott-deal/
Everyone is reacting to the raw numbers and trotting out the same lines as when any quarterback resets the market. Apparently the only QB worth signing after a rookie deal is Mahomes.
Poorly run teams can not but somehow teams like Green Bay, Pittsburgh, New England, New Orleans, and Seattle have winning season after winning season while paying franchise QBs.
What are you referring to with the 12 mil and 18 mil cap hits? Daks cap hits the next 2 years are $22 mil and $33 mil.
Do they win Super Bowls? Tom Brady famously took less money in order to help his team win. Or so the story goes anyway.
Next year’s $20 million base salary likely will be flipped to a signing bonus, with the 2022 minimum salary of $1.12 million and the $18.88 million balance spread over the five remaining years, reducing the 2022 cap charge from $33.2 million to $18 million.
Yeah I heard yesterday that the Cowboys build all those restructures into players contracts and have been for years. They don’t even need to ask the player for permission, just call their agent and say they are going through with the restructure. Players never complain cause who doesn’t want more money in hand sooner than later.
So since you are saying likely, you mean that it hasn't happened yet, yes? Is this based on something Jerry said or some other source, or you just speculating based on your knowledge of how the Cowboys do things? I am not trying to be difficult, just trying to ascertain where the information you are relaying is coming from.
I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re asking for but this seems to have a pretty good breakdown of the contract.
Everything in that post is c+p from the article linked in the post
And the article says it's likely, meaning it hasn't happened yet. So to be factually correct, Dak's cap hit is $22 mil and $33 the next two years, and the Cowboys have the option to convert 2022 salary to signing bonus to reduce the cap hit in that year if they need to. Which we have seen Jerry do time and time again. It is a strategy that works well, unless the player in question has a career ending injury early in the contract, or the TV revenue flattens and the cap stops going up. Romo is an example of the Cowboys having to take a big cap hit because he didn't make it through his big contract.
They can’t necessarily bypass the rules. The $ just gets pushed into the future yrs the way I understand it
"However, the deal (we’re told) gives the Cowboys the ability to convert pay to a signing bonus at any time. Next year’s $20 million base salary likely will be flipped to a signing bonus, with the 2022 minimum salary of $1.12 million and the $18.88 million balance spread over the five remaining years, reducing the 2022 cap charge from $33.2 million to $18 million."
And the league apparently allows it, which I simply don't understand. 
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I'm not sure what you mean. Dallas has tried to extend him. He wouldn't sign, because it appears his asking price was astronomical. Good for Dak, but ultimately very bad for the Cowboys.
They could have paid less to sign him 2 years ago than what they just signed him for.
Maybe it was just the tone of the first post I quoted. It seemed to imply they didn't try to sign him to an extension two years ago. They did. He wanted more money than what was offered. It appears what he wanted was rather large (but I guess it was significantly less back then?), so they kept him on his rookie deal and a franchise tag. They were always ultimately going to lose this game of chicken no matter what unless they were willing to let him walk.
