I heard Dan Graziano saying, Get up.

The dad could have taken a golf or went like contract Last year, those two both were offered four year extensions.

Dak was being offered five.

So Graziano responded.

He wrote, Right.

It's not an apples to apples.

Comparison wasn't presented his one.

Those deals were done after year three with two left.

My comment was in response to someone else's comment about money.

Specifically, we understand the issue is about contract length.

I appreciate you watching.

To which Tad responded, You guys are the only show on TV Who gets it right?

L o l So again, we present this to you in part because it is maybe the only reasonable and and dignified conversation that we've seen on that social medium that maybe in my entire life, I've never seen two people go back and forth and as civil away as the two of you did there And Dan, that is the point here, right that he was trying to make sure people record can be done.

The DAX side of this can be done is that it's not about money, right?

I mean, for all the people who will say, Why don't they just give him his money?

Dak wants you to know it's not the money.

Yeah, I mean, NFL contract structures are very, very complicated.

When Wentz and golf did their deals, they were.

They each had two years left on the deal.

They did extensions that allowed their teams to do kind of what Dallas wants to do, right, extended out, defray the cap hit, uh, when his contract is all kinds of structured with roster bonuses that pay at different times during the deal and all that that has made it clear he wants the shorter contract.

It's about the guarantee up for how much money you gonna make in the first two years.

How much money you gonna make in the first three years.

He's completely within his rights to demand this, and he's in a position of leverage that those guys never reached because he's in his re agency.

Reason this second franchise tag years.

So he's exercising that it's a two way street.

You need both sides to make a deal.

They've staked out their position he staked out his, and so far they haven't been able to meet in the middle.

I think at some point they will.

But guys, I was saying that last year and frankly, the year before, and here we still are.

He also has leverage because at this point it's no longer arguable.

He's just been better than Jared Rough or Carson once.

And he's just been a better player.

That's been a debate here on the show for a long time.

There's no longer any room for debate at the beginning of this hour.

Nique, I asked you and again those of you who watch the show.

You know, nikh is sort of the representative and spokesperson for Dak here.

Um, I asked, You will dock play zero more years one more year or more than that in Dallas?

And you said more than that.

So you are confident that one way or another they will get a long term deal done.

Yeah, I mean, I based it off of Dax behavior and the things that he's done publicly, like he's never done anything that, with exception of not signing the deal that they gave to him, he's never done anything suggests that he wants out of there.

And I do think that I've become the Dak Prescott kind of representative on this show.

Not because I love DAC all that much more than anybody else, although I probably do.

But it's because I have two functioning eyeballs.

And back in the day when people were watching games, they're like Kodak is being carried.

You watch those games.

That was not true.

And now we've We've all finally had it exposed to us, and it kind of feels like an insult to now compared Dak or have him in the same conversation as Carson Wentz and Jared golf like they're not even in the same league as Faras faras Um, production is concerned and as far as carrying the weight of a particular offense.

So I think that Dad does stay there in part because I don't see him as the type of guy that that forces his way out right.

Those two guys again, they were drafted in the same draft, so that's part of the reason for the comparison.

But one of them has been benched and the other one has been traded away.

Rob Ninkovich as you watch this thing play out?

How do you see that doesn't usually happen this way with quarterbacks?

Why is it happening with Jack and what's gonna happen here?

I think it's gonna work out.

I think they'll get a deal done.

And usually this does not happen.

When an injury happens and a guy has gone for the season, it doesn't help their status.

But in this particular case, when Dak went out with his injury, the Cowboys literally fell off a cliff and the backup came in and you saw the difference.

You saw the difference with the Cowboys were with and without dak.

So if your ownership you're up in the top in the in, the in your box and you're looking over your team and you're saying, Look, how close are we?

You lose your starting quarterback and you completely lose everything that you have in that particular season, so they realize how important it is.

And then on the flip side of that dac having an injury, he's realizing.

Look, I'm only one injury away from not having the stability in the contract in place to help me and support me throughout the rest of my life.

So for him, he's looking at it.

Look, let me go get paid.

Let me get my guaranteed money because this this isn't gonna last forever.

And in Dallas, on the other side of that's like, Look, we need that guy on our team to be better to be competitive in tow.

Win the division, right?

I get it.

That the worst fear of any football players having the kind of injury we have two picks a late on the screen to show it again.

But having said that, Dominique Kirk Cousins, I keep going back to this.

Kirk Cousins has made more money than any player in football over the last five years.

He's not nearly as good as Dak Prescott is.

So this path has been proven to work on and and even the injury isn't keeping him from getting it.

So this is not working out badly for Deck.

I think playing it out this way might actually wind up making him the most money.

Oh, yeah, I think it definitely would making the most money because it will end with him or it will start with him getting a second franchise tag, which gets close to $40 million this year, and then he'll have free agency.

And then you just have all the teams who think their quarterback away throwing everything they possibly can at you, and he can go to the highest bidder or go to the best situation that might end up being perfect.

I think free agency is something that all players dream about getting to and quarterback, so rarely get there.

And Kirk Cousins is a perfect example because hey, hit free agency.

He got the double franchise tag and he he at that time, he wasn't as coveted as I think Dak Prescott would be after this coming season.

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