Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is going to count for one of the largest cap hits in NFL history over the next couple of years and recent comments from owner Jerry Jones indicate that nothing is on the horizon to mitigate that hit.
While it certainly seems to indicate that the Cowboys will wash their hands of Dak at the first opportunity, ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky believes that there’s one scenario where the Cowboys bite the bullet.
On Wednesday’s edition of Get Up, Orlovsky asserted that the Cowboys will most likely make 2024 the last year of Orlovsky and head coach Mike McCarthy unless they reach the NFC Championship Game.
“Unless the Cowboys get to the NFC Championship game and play well, this is the last year for Mike McCarthy in Dallas and certainly the last year for Dak Prescott as a Dallas Cowboy,” Orlovsky said. “Dak Prescott is gonna play well again this season. When he plays well (you’ll see) one of two things: The Cowboys are either going to have to pay him $65 million per year and still have nothing to show for it, or he walks and they get nothing for him. That’s why, the day after the season… I was like ‘This is the reality’ of where the Cowboys are. Unless they go to the NFC Championship Game, there will be a new start in Dallas.”
Prescott has been the Cowboys’ starting quarterback since his 2016 rookie season, but in five trips to the playoffs he’s won only two postseason games including just one in the last three.
Jerry Jones has proven a lot more patient in recent years than we once believed, but his well of patience isn’t bottomless.