Does Dak Want Out? Is Prescott Not Signing a 'Secret' Exit Plan From Cowboys To Free Agency in 2025? FISH PODCAST

Is Dak Prescott Not Signing Part of 'Secret' Exit Plan From Dallas Cowboys To Free Agency in 2025? FISH PODCAST

FRISCO - "It will happen,'' Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott recently said of the long-planned contract extension intended on smoothing out the bloated $59.4 million cap hit in 2024 while also making the QB a "Cowboy for Life.''

But positive talk aside, there has been no positive progress. And that leads one to wonder if Jerry Jones' front office and Prescott and agent Todd France each have their own ideas here ... that in way means they might actually agree on something?

That wonder: What if Dallas is reluctant to give Prescott the monster contract of say, $60 million per year because it is maybe considering a "Blow It Up!'' rebuilding year in 2025 ...

While at the same time, Dak is reluctant to take any less and is therefore also eying 2025 as a start-over opportunity?

In other words, what if the Cowboys are aware of Dak possibly going free this year and are fine with it ... while Prescott is happy to "bet on himself'' in a way that might pay him even more on the open market a year from now?

"I'm definitely confident," Prescott recently said when asked about a potential contract extension. “It helps the team, and it's important for the numbers … It's a process, and both sides understand that. Everything is great. It’ll happen.”

That, as it happens, is a more optimistic answer from Prescott than the one that Jerry offered while at the NFL Scouting Combine.

"We don't need to, but we can if everybody wants to solve it," Jones said about extending Prescott. "You can get in and get on the same page and see if you can come to an agreement. If you can't, what we have in place works."

In this theorized scenario, it "works'' only in limited ways. Leave Dak's cap hit alone and 2024 roster-building is hamstrung and the locker room might be in lame-duck ruins ... but 2025 benefits.

The Cowboys are managing Dak in their own business-like manner. Prescott has the right to do the same. After a 2023 season where Prescott finished as the runner-up for the league's MVP award while throwing for 4,516 yards, 36 touchdowns, and nine interceptions? Do that again while playing out his final year in and he will become the highest-paid free agent of all-time.

And the Cowboys will start all anew in 2025.

Is this Dallas' plan? Is it Dak's? We discuss in the Fish Podcast and the Fish Report here!

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