{"id":29222,"date":"2025-02-27T07:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T07:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=29222"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T07:52:49","slug":"breaking-cowboys-40-million-dak-prescott-contract-decision-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=29222","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Cowboys\u2019 $40 Million Dak Prescott Contract Decision Predicted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u00a0Dallas Cowboys&#8217; $240 million contract with Dak Prescott, signed last fall on the eve of the start of the 2024 season? The ink, by now, is of course dry.<\/p>\n<p>But the ink can be moved. And in fact, our CowboysCountry.com insider Mike Fisher is predicting we might be about two weeks away from that very thing occurring.<\/p>\n<p>Built into the deal with the Dallas QB are void years, future empty vessels in which to move cap money as to spread out and lessen the impact of Prescott&#8217;s salary.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\" data-zone-count=\"3\">\n<div class=\"not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d m-in-content-ad is-loaded\">\n<div id=\"ad-in_content-aa79c081c073464083f31067e80f58d1\" data-google-query-id=\"COCo87uu44sDFaFkDwIdvX4fog\" data-ad-size=\"adhesion\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_2__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_2\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/08ce9bdace2c503a4c31399ca714d8cb.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-41\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-google-container-id=\"3\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It was 30 years ago when Jerry Jones and the Cowboys first started utilizing this tool, and Dallas became the model for how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>And now it is about to happen again.<\/p>\n<p>Writes Fish: &#8220;It is very simple and it is very clear: At whatever point the Cowboys wish to do so, they can &#8216;flip the switch&#8217; on Dak&#8217;s existing deal, without having to ask permission or negotiate, and move his 2025 cap hit from $89.89 million to about $50 to $54 million and in doing do will gain about $36 to $40 million in cap room.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\" data-zone-count=\"3\">\n<div class=\"not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d m-in-content-ad is-loaded\">\n<div id=\"ad-in_content-396c3704493940348ab0f3d94f691cc9\" data-google-query-id=\"CJGj87uu44sDFaVSDwIdY64bww\" data-ad-size=\"adhesion\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_6__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_6\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"7\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;And,&#8221; Fish adds, &#8220;with\u00a0NFL\u00a0free agency opening up on March 12, the smart prediction is that Dallas &#8216;flips the switch&#8217; sometime in the coming days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fisher also notes that the Cowboys can (will?) do the same thing with\u00a0CeeDee Lamb&#8217;s deal, with $20 million of room opening up.<\/p>\n<p>And as we&#8217;ve been reporting for months, if Dallas also does its long-term contract with Micah Parsons in a timely fashion, the Cowboys can end up with about $100 million in cap room with which to go shopping.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\">\n<div class=\"m-in-content-ad not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-2\" data-zone-count=\"3\">\n<div class=\"not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d m-in-content-ad is-loaded\">\n<div id=\"ad-in_content-88143ef1b9c14cd294c6440cbb63c3cc\" data-google-query-id=\"CJKj87uu44sDFaVSDwIdY64bww\" data-ad-size=\"adhesion\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_7__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/88059007\/athlonsports.com\/nfl_7\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" src=\"https:\/\/08ce9bdace2c503a4c31399ca714d8cb.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-41\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-google-container-id=\"8\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We do add a cautionary note to all of this, and an acknowledgement of Cowboys Nation&#8217;s skepticism: While not &#8220;flipping the switch&#8221; on Dak&#8217;s deal would leave his cap impact at $89.89 million &#8211; a figure so massive it would preclude Dallas from doing much roster-building business at all &#8211; COO Stephen Jones&#8217; conservatism on these matters justifies your wait-and-see approach.<\/p>\n<p>But this we know for sure: March 12 is coming. 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