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Dallas Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones recently expressed that the franchise “absolutely” wants to sign quarterback Dak Prescott, who’s entering the final season of a four-year, $160 million deal, to a long-term deal.
Is that the right approach for Dallas to take?
On Wednesday’s edition of “Undisputed,” cohost Skip Bayless vehemently disagreed with the notion that the Cowboys have to retain Prescott.
“[The Cowboys] will be just good enough to get annihilated in some playoff game. That’s what happens year after year after year,” Bayless asserted about the prospect of the Cowboys potentially sticking with Prescott past 2024. “There’s some little thing missing if [the Cowboys] want to go to the promised land. After a while, it’s like the old saying: you fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on Jerry and Stephen Jones …
“Dak Prescott takes you to the precipice, and then you fall off the cliff.”
Fellow cohost Keyshawn Johnson was incredulous about Bayless’ take, arguing that Prescott isn’t the center of the Cowboys’ continual shortcomings.
“You can’t sit here and blame it on Dak Prescott,” Johnson said. “What you do too much, Skip, is you try to point the finger at Dak when [the] defense isn’t playing well, [they’re] not running the football well, [the] offensive line is in and out of the lineup because they can’t stay healthy, [the] coaches are making bad decisions at times, calling timeouts at the wrong time, not calling timeouts when they’re supposed to, throwing the football when they supposed to be running it, running it when they supposed to be throwing it.
“But you wanna blame Dak for all of this when the owner just sat there and said ‘when Dak Prescott is our leader, and he’s in the building, and he’s a part of this team, we all feel good.’ … who the hell you gone get?”
Prescott totaled 4,516 passing yards, an NFL-high 36 passing touchdowns, nine interceptions and a 105.9 passer rating, while…
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Publish date : 2024-02-29 01:31:18
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