The offseason game of chess between the Dallas Cowboys and franchise quarterback Dak Prescott is a calculated conversation between two sides that has lingered for months and may be entering a stalemate scenario. There's a chance Prescott could enter a holdout with the Cowboys if the two sides can't agree on the terms of a new deal, according to Bleacher Report.
“The quarterback market operates differently than any other position,” Bleacher Report NFL insider Brent Sobleski wrote this week. “The best players aren’t necessarily the highest-paid; it’s about who enters the market at the right time. The Cowboys won't be paying just for what he's accomplished; they'll also pay for what he brings to them long-term.
"If they decide not to budge, there's no reason for Prescott to show up or sign anything that would lock him into a deal less than the market dictates."
Prescott is coming off a career season in Dallas and wants to be one of the highest-paid quarterbacks in the NFL. Earlier this offseason, Prescott was asked if he'll attend summer workouts and training camp should the Cowboys used the franchise tag. Dallas indeed tagged Prescott in March, agreeing to pay him $31.4 million in 2020.
The deadline to reach a long-term deal past the 2020 season is July 15 and Prescott hasn't signed his tender.
"We'll get to that when we get to that,'' Prescott said in February. “I look forward to talking to my agents and when that (franchise tag) comes to play, the direction that we’ll go. Until that’s a reality, I won’t worry about it.”
Former Cowboys quarterback and NFL analyst Troy Aikman believes an agreement is coming.
“I’ve been surprised that there has been so much discussion about his contract,” Aikman said last month. “It’s not like he’s not going to be playing for the Cowboys in 2020. Whether he is franchised or he has a deal, he’s going to be here playing and eventually a deal gets done. So, it’s not high on my list of things I look at the league and what’s happening with the other 31 teams.”
Prescott has started every game under center for Dallas over the past four seasons, compiling a 65.8-percent completion rate and averages of 3,944.3 yards and 24.3 touchdowns to nine interceptions annually.
“He’s involved in a business situation and I have full confidence he will be ready to go,” first-year Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy told reporters last month, via the Dallas Morning News. “There’s been communication. This is the way these business situations go sometimes and you respect that and have all the confidence it will work out.”
ESPN NFL insider Dianna Russini said this week the Cowboys and Prescott's camp have not had much recent communication, with neither side budging on a main issue.
"Here's where we're at, at this point — both sides aren't really doing a lot of talking, at this point," Russini said Tuesday afternoon on ESPN's SportsCenter. "Our Adam Schefter has consistently reported on this over the last few weeks that the issue between both sides right now is the amount of years on this contract. To Prescott's camp, they want the four-year deal. The Dallas Cowboys want the five.
"Obviously, Dak Prescott's people want that shorter deal because with the new CBA that would kick in, which would put him up for another contract. But Dak Prescott, at this point, he can really just sit back here because he's either going to get a lot more money — which we know he's looking to get, every single penny, while Jerry Jones is trying to save every penny — or he can, what we've know made a verb in the football world, he can just Kirk Cousins it, at this point, which is take that franchise tag, become one of the highest-paid quarterbacks in the league and just continue to do that and make a lot of money.
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