How the Cowboys Manage Cap Issues with Player Contracts

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00:05 You take the big salary that the players do this season,

00:08 you reduce it to the minimum salary.

00:10 Then you give them a major signing bonus, just like, for instance,

00:13 the Vikings did in this deal.

00:14 Then you raise the salaries year by year by year, but you're going to lower this

00:17 year's cap number because the Cowboys are one of the few teams, Scott,

00:20 that have a cap problem.

00:21 That's why Dax deal has not gotten done.

00:23 They'll do the same with with Michael Parsons if they can get that deal done.

00:26 That's a priority for them.

00:27 They've already budgeted it.

00:29 I'd be very surprised if that deal is not done by late July,

00:32 by the time they report to training camp in Oxnard, California.

00:35 But Dak, look, the thing is, if you're Todd France, Dak Prescott's agent,

00:41 why would you take less than 57 million a year?

00:44 Like that, by them waiting, you've got the leverage here.

00:47 And Dak, you could say whatever you want about Dak Prescott,

00:50 the guy's still a very, very good quarterback.

00:52 Had an excellent season, did end like the club wanted for anyone on offense or

00:55 defense as they played against the Packers.

00:58 But the bottom line is, when you're the Cowboys, once again,

01:01 they've waited.

01:02 It's going to cost them way more than they thought it would or should have.

01:05 But this is what they have to do.

01:06 And again, the way you do veteran contracts is you lower the salaries in year one,

01:10 and then you increase going forward.

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