That major advantage is now a significant disadvantage, as the Cowboys will have to find a way to build a roster around Prescott's cap-devouring contract. They won one playoff game during that span. The Cowboys had a major advantage by employing an extremely cheap player on a four-year rookie contract at the most expensive position, by far, in the sport. Looking back, Prescott was a good quarterback from Day 1 in the NFL, earning NFL Rookie of the Year honors in 2016. If he's bad in 2021 and beyond, this contract will be a disaster of Carson Wentz proportions. And that's only if he's still a good player after his injury. It's only a four-year deal, which means that as the salary cap increases and quarterbacks push the market even higher over the next few years, the Cowboys and Prescott will be right back at the negotiation table three years from now, when Prescott can score yet another top-of-the-market quarterback contract, since this deal reportedly will not allow the Cowboys to franchise tag him again. However, the benefits of the deal to Prescott - and the disadvantages to the Cowboys - are in the details, and they are significant. He will reportedly receive $75 million the first year of the deal.īecause Prescott held all the leverage in negotiations, there was reason to believe that he might get more than the $40 million per year he received, so in that sense, his deal was viewed as something of a minor win for the Cowboys to at least keep it at that number. $126 million is guaranteed, and Prescott got a $66 million signing bonus. The simple explanation is that it's a four-year contract worth $160 million. But they were still only 1-3 in games that he started and finished in 2020.īefore the start of the new league year this offseason, after years of screwing around, the Cowboys and Prescott finally agreed to a long-term deal. The Cowboys are obviously a far better team with Prescott than they are without him, and so his return from a gruesome leg injury that caused him to miss 11 games last year will obviously help, a lot.

So what does this have to do with whether or not the Dallas Cowboys will be good during the 2021 season? Well, they are tried and true losers over a span of 25 years now, so why should we believe they'll be anything else, until, you know, they're not? 2) Dak Prescott is back, but the Cowboys still stunk last year before he got hurt (oh, and now he's super expensive) Each of the 13 other teams in the NFC have all made it to the NFC Championship Game at least twice during that span: Only two teams - the Washington Football Team and the Detroit Lions - can also make that claim. They haven't been back to the NFC Championship Game in the last quarter century either. Some recent Cowboys folks even got together recently to celebrate their quarter century of irrelevance.Īctually, it's not just that they haven't won or even been back to the Super Bowl in 25 years. The Cowboys' last Super Bowl was played on January 28, 1996, which means that we are officially now over 25 years since 'America's Team' was a championship team. 1) It is now over a quarter century since the Cowboys' last Super Bowl And yes, we'll torch the Eagles as well at the end of the series.

To note, we will not be talking about the positives of any of the Eagles' NFC East rivals, because, well, that's no fun. Batting leadoff, as always, will be the Dallas Cowboys. This week, all week long, we're taking a negative look at each of the teams in the NFC East, in detail.

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