The Dallas Cowboys reportedly offered Dak Prescott a contract worth more than $100 million guaranteed, yet the former fourth-round pick remains unsigned long-term.
There’s a reason for that: he knows he can get more.
“The Cowboys are just simply not a hard-line, in-the-sand type of negotiating team if they like you,” Damon Amendolara said on The DA Show. “They liked Tony Romo. They like Ezekiel Elliott. They like DeMarcus Ware. They like their guys, and when they do, they pay them comfortably – and they pay them comfortably more than those players would likely get on the open market elsewhere.”
Prescott, 26, could reportedly make $33 million a year, which would make him one of the highest-paid players in the NFL. Why not sign it? Well, because Prescott is coming off of his best NFL season, and he knows that the Cowboys – always in win-now mode – don’t want to start over at quarterback.
“It’s funny,” Amendolara said. “Maybe one of your parents is the pushover. And maybe you know you can get more out of that parent. If you go to one, they’ll say no; if you go to the other, they’ll say yes. Maybe one of your kids knows this bit, that one of you says no, and one you says yes. That kid is going to come to the one that says yes and keep asking for more. . . . And he’s going to keep pushing it because they know they’ll ask for more and ultimately get it.
“I just think that is what Dak is doing here,” Amendolara continued. “There is no way that the Dak Prescott camp would be unhappy with $33 million. If he ends up being the second-highest-paid player behind Russell Wilson, there’s no way Dak could think that that’s unfair. There’s no way the Dak camp could think they didn’t get what they were worth. But they know every time you keep saying no to the Cowboys, the Cowboys keep ponying up their offers – and ultimately, if they just keep saying no, they just keep squeezing more out of them.”