There’s been a sudden flurry of activity from the Cowboys front office this week, with both a veteran trade and a free agent acquisition going down on Wednesday. And now Dak Prescott has offered a glimmer of hope regarding his own contract negotiation, which had seemingly been dead in the water all offseason long.
The Cowboys quarterback characterized things as moving in a positive direction with less than a month to go before both the regular-season opener… and the official start of the final contract year for the league’s reigning passing touchdowns leader.
“Good conversations are going on,” Prescott told reporters at a Thursday press conference, per a post on X from Patrik Walker of the team website. “Lots of good things are going on there. I’ve got a lot of confidence in my guys and these guys in getting things done.”
Of course, everyone involved has been saying some version of that exact thing for several months. Prescott has been widely projected to be in line for new deal that could top $60 million a year and make him the highest-paid player in NFL history.
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$1 for 6 months The team has called securing Prescott for the long term a priority ever since the Cowboys were dispatched from the postseason in January. But despite Jerry and Stephen Jones taking every opportunity to drop a soundbite about how we think the world of Dak and how- at the end of the day – Dak can absolutely lead the team to a Super Bowl , here we are in mid-August with no movement toward locking him down and every single day that passes bringing Cowboys Nation 24 hours closer to a scenario that sees a frustrated and unappreciated Prescott ride into the sunset, enter the free agent market, and leave the team to start over from square one.
The Joneses love to explain how and why such agreements are laboriously long and slow processes. While Prescott’s comments Thursday gave no concrete details (or even a strong hint) that a new deal is imminent, it does offer hope.
And in a week where the front office has ditched its typical nonchalant ways and actually conducted some promising player business, a little hope- especially regarding the face of the franchise- could go a long way.
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