The primary track of the favored Broadway present Pricey Evan Hansen is named “Anyone Have a Map?” and is sung by means of a little bit of chaos all through the unfolding scene.
We aren’t fairly in the midst of chaos, however permit me to ask the same query.
Does anyone have a rake?
Thursday afternoon noticed a leaf fall and this one is formed like a quarterback contract. The Jacksonville Jaguars locked down Trevor Lawrence to a brand new deal, one which sees him attain $55M per 12 months. This was the bar that Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow set a 12 months in the past.
Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence reached settlement on a five-year, $275 million extension, together with $200 million assured – $142 million at signing, per supply. pic.twitter.com/DfBwA7TSlz
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) June 13, 2024
Bypassing the argument of whether or not or not Dak Prescott is price this or that, we’ll go on an assumption that the Cowboys consider Prescott is price signing to a brand new deal. If we assume/consider/whatever-you-want-to-say that is the case, then there isn’t any query that ready and dragging the method out is costing them cash. We will debate whether or not Lawrence is best than Prescott, however does anyone consider Lawrence is best than Joe Burrow to make use of the bar he simply reached? After all not, for many who wish to have arguments in that method.
Did that matter, although? Did Trevor Lawrence objectively being “not nearly as good” as Joe Burrow hinder him on this method? Did Lawrence not match Burrow on a mean annual worth foundation? Clearly none of it mattered as a result of the market is the market and it is a provide and demand world. If you would like a franchise quarterback and are coping with one able to working the market to their benefit then you’re going to should pay market price.
The Cowboys could very effectively consider that for all we all know, however not coming to phrases with Prescott is seeing numbers rise and rise and rise (though one author right here at BTB believes this to be inconsequential relative to the larger image).
Even if you’re somebody who doesn’t need the group to signal Dak Prescott to an extension, if they’ll do it anyway then do you’d most likely agree that ready like that is unhealthy enterprise. Maybe the individuals who consider they’ll let him stroll are proper, but when Dallas winds up getting a deal achieved they may in all chance make Prescott the highest-paid participant in NFL historical past. To be clear they’d have needed to have achieved that had they gotten a deal achieved at an earlier level, however that bar would have been decrease than it’s proper now.
