While we will debate Jimmy Johnson’s point about the Cowboys being “financially-strapped,” the coach’s point about Prescott being worth $60 million per year has merit … and will be considered controversial until Dak proves to be a big-time postseason winner in Dallas.
FRISCO – It was one of the most controversial moves of the NFL season, and because it involved Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys and $240 million?
The controversy isn’t going away anytime soon.
As the 4-7 Cowboys enter their Week 13 Thanksgiving matchup against the New York Giants, there are any number of other storylines. Nevertheless, a recent TV conversation involving legendary Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson broached the subject of Prescott and his money …
And Jimmy decided to speak out about the deal he believes was a mistake.
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As it happens, Prescott is now out with a season-ending injury (hamstring), so Dallas is starting Cooper Rush in his place. … thus ending the hope that Dak would in 2024 live up to the controversial four-year, $240 million contract extension that he signed in September that makes him the highest-paid player in NFL history.
Did he perform well enough in 2023 to earn the deal? Dak did finish second in MVP voting last year. Still, during a guest appearance on “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd, former the Hall of Famer Johnson, the co-architect of the Cowboys’ three Super Bowl wins in the 1990s, asserted that the franchise made a mistake in giving Prescott that deal.
“I would never have given Prescott a new contract,” Jimmy said. I’d have let him play it out.”
As Cowboys fans know, that was certainly an option. But it was the Cowboys position that the $60 million per year deal he received would’ve been topped had he been allowed to be a free agent in 2025 … and that if he left, the void on the roster would be a large one.
