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According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, Dak Prescott has a record-setting contract figure in mind for his next deal.
Per the report, Prescott is seeking $60 million per year.
LOL. GO DALLAS!
Hope he gets it.
Dallas Fans deserve Dak.
Out of curiosity, if you had a game tomorrow (and wanted to win) who would you pick to be your QB – DAK, Lawrence or Hurts?
Wow… now THAT’s a good question. Keeping in mind that QB’s don’t win games all by themselves, I’d have to go with Dak actually.
Yea – just to run the offense, I’d probably pick DAK too ( and you can put Murray, Watson and one or two others on there).
But I wouldn’t pay him 60 mil.
Just the black Voldemort.
Hope Love wats 50 mil, guaranteed.
FTP
Depends.
Regular season probably Dak.
Playoffs not Dak
depends, same offense and all healthy? I probably go hurts Lawrence Prescott
Good. I hate Dallas. Please overpay for Average.
Your average is pretty strange Surly. Prescott has thrown 202 TD’s in 114 games, and almost 30,000 yards with a 67% completion rate and a 99 passer rating over his career. Them’s good numbers. But wait, there’s more!
Last year, Dak threw for over 4500 yards, with 36 TD’s, and completed 69.5% of his passes for a 105.9 passer rating.
If that’s average to you, I have no idea what standard you’re using.
I hope Jerra pays him.
My guess is that the Cowboys see the light that paying big$$ for average on a QB isn’t feasible. Particularly with Lamb and Parsons also wanting record deals.
I think he has a $40 mill cap hit or something next year if they don’t sign him to a new deal.
He does.
But if you pay him, it’s higher AND you kick the can again.
Still can’t see them being able to sign all 3.
I think Dak is the odd man out.
Just say on a show pay DAK and Parsons, and then tag Lamb. Not sure how that works out, but sounds good.
I would totally disagree with that move.
Lamb can refuse to sign the tag.
Parsons is year three. 5th year option solves that for the short term
Reasoning – Parsons is a generational talent so they will pay him. DAK is more important to offense than Lamb.
Guess time will tell what they do. No big deal to me.
Yeah, they painted themselves into a corner with poop on that one. sign him his cap hit is like $26 plus new money in 2025. Don’t sign him and its $40 while he plays for another team.
Hey you quoted your source this time! Good job! You’re growing, proud of you 🙂
Stay on the porch son.
Words must have different meanings to different folks. I don’t like Dallas at all and all’s Jerry’s BS, but while DAK is not elite, I’d hardly say he is average.
Dak can run an offense, and he puts up good numbers every year. If you look at his production since 2016 it’s impressive.
Seems the question is then – if he’s not elite but better than average and capable of running the offense well, what should you pay him?
If a team gets to a point where paying their QB is getting beyond the pale, they must consider other options. It’s a judgement call of course, and replacing a QB that is as consistently good as Dak is not an easy task. There aren’t any vets on the market remotely in his class, so you roll the dice with a QB that might be able to make some plays, and a rookie. Not a really good set of choices here. Dallas is in a pickle.
All 3 QBs on their roster are free agents after this year.
Behind Dak, you have Cooper Rush and Trey Lance. Might sign the back-up’s and roll the dice.
I’m no GM type (at all) but this strikes me as strange. Now as I said DAK is not elite, but he is very good. So you’re suggestion we pay him for a while, and as he gets better at running our offense, and wants more money, we dump him and start over.
Now, I wouldn’t run a business that way.
There’s always a limit JR. Sooner or later a business has to decide on the ROI right?
A well run business never lets. itself GET to that situation.
And WRT ROI – you make the right decisions ( everyday) and the ROI will take car of itself.
Is that what you told your professors in college when they told you to quote your sources?
I say that to people who are too insolent for their own good.
Stay on the porch son.
I’ll tell you NLV, I love my porch and spending time there.
Black Kirk cousins looking to get paid!
Streaming invading NFL. Think i saw Netflix has Xmas day games.
Yep. That is where all of this is going.
Amazon already has Thu night games.
I think they had a playoff game too.
I’ve become a huge fan of the “catch up to live through key plays” or “watch key plays” feature. Years ago it would have been unheard of for me to consider watching a hockey game that way, but I would prefer to watch something on Prim or NF with my wife and skip all the commercials and intermissions. Now if by some miracle the Oilers stretch to game 7 I’ll watch that live.
Only sport I like to watch live any more is Vikings.
Hope the Oil steal one in FLA. Bring it back home.
That would be sweet. Panthers players are currently pretty relaxed, I’m sure flying family in and dealing with that leading up to game 4 (in case they won the Cup) distracted them. I don’t currently have high hopes but if Oilers do win tomorrow, the pressure will be really high on Florida heading into game six. Win game six and boys we have a best of one series on Florida ice. That would be epic…I’ve watched two SC game 7’s with Edmonchuk, one W and one L. This would be the tiebreaker!
“Best of one”. I like that one.
I had a vision of McJeebus plinking the OT winner on a broken play 2 on 1, Bobby Orr like.
From the Edmonton Journal:
#1 line needs to produce. I’m hopeful.
2 years ago a severe drought in Minny, now it’s flood warnings.
Proof positive that the Republicans and their hateful anti-environmental polices are ruining the planet. And DO YOU KNOW who was affected most by the draught 2 years ago??? That’s right! Poor people and minorities. And do you know who will be affected most by this flooding? Poor people and minorities!!! (I could write for the New York Times)
I’m sure our beloved governor Walz is shooting for a 20 billion surplus. I expect a big kickback. Minny might be the dumbest of all states.
well, it has the most Norwegians…so likely
Ouch….
Don’t you have the most Samalians ? And that crazy rep from Minneapolis – married her brother once.
Pretty sure Minnesota has the market cornered on them Salamis.
Across the street is Somalia USA. I live in little Mexico. Given our full democratic government i expect my state to declare Mpls a sanctuary city for Hamas.
You Minnesotans are very progressive. Good people there.
Saw a family of Latin descent standing on the corner in GDV on Saturday, sign saying no food no gas no money please help. That’s a first here. Don’t think they had much luck. Rural Montanans very non progressive.
So many subsidized people in this state it’s unreal, all you have to do is look out the window. Walz is a blood sucking SOB.
Wow! Mexicans are everywhere but having all those Somalians must be really tough.
Yea all you need now is the crowd from Palestine.
I didn’t pick my date of birth, but given the state of society and politicians it’s as good as any time to age.
Roger that!
Hope Celtics win tonight and destroy another Dallas dream.
FTP
Bryson is a LIV guy. What’s with the USA chants?
LIV is owned by Saudi Arabians.
Why i asked, was it sarcasm?
Roy played on the European Ryder Cup Team and got into it with one of USA caddies. Seems folks haven’t forgotten.
FTP!
FT*!
Sean Payton is a scab QB!
SKOL!!!
🔨⚒️🔨⚒️
If it were Tuesday……..
Interesting thought – “but my daughter and her wife.”
Virtue signaling at its finest
“our cook Brigitte sometimes only uses grade AAA cuts for making our filet mignon when we feel like slumming”
Exactly.
I doubt a hot dog or a hamburger has ever entered his mouth over the last 30 years.
So, he’s saying he is proud he has never paid property tax, or that he doesn’t know how to grill?
LOL…
Good point, however I do think people buy their apartments in NYC.
But to play along with your take….
I forget that they do buy apartments in bigger cities. But, he is also contributing to climate change by using a gas grill.
Nah. Only peasants are responsible for that.
Silly JacksonVike.
I think he owns his apartment in Brooklyn. The famous Park Slope place that he and his wife bought for $157K in 1982, worth 10x that now according to his frequent exposition about it. He prides himself on slumming.
I had to look up ‘ratioed’ (ratio-ed) on-line.
I am happy to say that I am happy that I don’t spend any time on Twitter (X) so I don’t know what that ‘cool’ stuff is.
To be honest, I don’t know the exact details of what “ratioed” means either, other than his post was such BS that he was shamed into taking it down.
Shamed probably isn’t the right word because I don’t think many Pols are ashamed about anything they do.
‘“Ratio” is often used to describe a post that generates more negative or critical responses compared to positive engagement. When a post is said to be “ratioed,” it means that the comments or replies are filled with criticism, disagreement, or negative feedback, creating an imbalance between the engagement metrics.’
LOL. Ok.
Translation….You pick up your toys and stomp away?
More like people are mocking you and making jokes about your post.
So that makes you pick up your toys and stomp away.
Being on social media is like driving.
No consequences for being an idiot because you don’t deal with people face to face.
if this was fingernail polish qb, he would have responded with all sorts of defensiveness and making excuses etc…
good guy, JJ
I noticed JJ put up the wrong finger…
LOL….
Unless he was just testing which way the wind was blowing……
Just returned from NE Saskatchewan was up there 10 days. This Monday is doubly tough. Did I miss any Vikes news? Watched the Oilers in part in a bar on the lake we fished. Those canucks are into hockey, it was near stadium atmosphere.
Jets signed his contract.
Oilers probably get the gentleman’s sweep tomorrow. Sigh.
If they win game 5, I’ll start getting excited again.
Sounds like a fun trip. You ever hunt in the Tobacco Roots?
Not much, my sons do some.
Is it packed like everywhere else is these days? Thinking about trying a little archery that way this year.
Parts of it have little pressure, I’ll touch base with my boys and see where they hunt.
Sounds good. I was kind of eyeballing around Pony a little. My buddy and I spent the weekend there checking it out a little. Pretty cool. Lots of country to explore. Hopefully make it over there a couple more times this summer to scout it out.
This sounds racist.
It seems a lot of people are down on the MN Twins, but if we were 40-32 any other season, we would be celebrating.
They have the 9th best record in the league and currently 6th in the AL. They had a tough schedule to start the season and it looks like it will get easier for a stretch.
Yes we have been stomped by the Yankees, but who hasn’t.
as a minnesota sports fan, i am enjoying the twins this year, they are up and down, but mostly doing well..
as a minnesota sports fan with limited income and kids who want to go to twins games, i wish they were worse so it was a cheaper outing for us.
Nose bleeds are still pretty affordable.
That last part is the key for me. I haven’t gotten hyped up for the Twins since the Bomba days because the league is stacked against them and they will choke in the playoffs as they always do.
No big shocker. I assume that’s why the signed Darnold in the first place.
i’m 100% ok sitting mccarthy for an entire year no matter how good or bad darnold is.
I am fine with that if the Vikings are in playoff contention with Darnold.
But if it’s November and they are like 1-7, I’d put in McCarthy. You got nothing to lose at that point.
In other news….
Correct.
Lets see. 20 gang members rob a jewelry store in Cal. 7 people stabbed outside a strip mall in Indianapolis, but hey, FBI says violent crime has gone down. Ok………….
FBI is more focused on Pro life grandma’s and MAGA.
That’s the only real violence that they see.
With 40% of Law Enforcement Agencies not reporting to the FBI including the NYPD of course the reported numbers are going down, that was the plan, actual crime not so much.
FJB Administration instituted new reporting rules in 2021, only 2% of Calif Law enforcement turned in reports to the FBI, .3% in Florida.
https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2022/11/29/california-fbi-crime-data-reporting
On the good new side of things, the doctors are surprised how well Zeph is doing. They are talking about discharging him on Tuesday. Mom and dad will still have to give him some meds and they are still feeding him via a tube and mom and dad will have to do that also, but it will be great for them to get out of the hospital. They will still be able to stay at the Ronald McDonald house as they will be checking in for appointments quite frequently. He also needs his stamina back as he gets tuckered out pretty easily. But I also get tuckered out pretty easily, so we are in the same boat.
Good for Zeph. I’m old and get tired too but Zeph is young and he’ll get stronger.
Great news!
Is the feeding through a PEG tube?
Glad he gets to be home!!
I’m not sure of all the terminology, but it is a tube that goes in through his nose that is taped to his body.
“feeding tube”
A PEG is inserted through the LUQ of the abdomen.
He does not have any tube in his abdomen. So it must just be the feeding tube.
Gotcha.
My daughter had the feeding tube through the nose while in the hospital, but they put in a PEG tube while she was home.
PEG tube is through the stomach, as MT uses fancy language, and hence gouges people for the use of that fancy language.
My daughter looks like she got shot now, as that hole in her stomach has healed up.
So you are saying she has street cred now?
Yes !!!!!!!!!!!
Freezy is so jealous.
A positive step along the journey. I am glad to hear it.
Nice!
Good to hear.
Wife got me the griddle I wanted. Cooked bacon and smashburgers.
MT told me two years ago to get a griddle. I am sad I waited this long, but very happy with the ease of using that thing.
natural gas line was already there, and they hauled away my 18 year old gas grill that has not been used much since getting the kamado.
Cooking life is good. Gives me something to do while waiting for the football season to start. I need more griddle ideas. Breakfast/smashburgers/fajitas. going to be eating well for awhile.
I got a Blackstone for father’s day. Been wanting one for a while now. If it ever stops raining, I might actually be able to use it.
unfortunately you can’t call them blackstone’s anymore.
Ha, well, that’s what it says on the box so that’s what I’m calling it.
I am thinking about getting the Blackstone pizza oven. It’s spendy, but I make a lot of pizza on the pellet grill.
You can do pizza on the Blackstone griddle also. I’ve been doing some recipe research and there are all kinds of things that you can make on it.
You would need the hard cover on it of course.
It’s definitely very good eating.
I’ve had the blackstone for about 2 years now.
My cholesterol level is up, but the food is awesome.
That’s awesome!
I heard a couple of good dad jokes yesterday.
I told my wife that she needs to embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug.
Did you hear about the magician that disappeared in Mexico City? He was doing a performance and told the crowd that he was going to make himself disappear. He said, “Uno, dos”, and then poof, he disappeared without a trace.
The second one is pretty good, I don’t care what Freezy thinks.
Does anybody?
The first one was the winner of the dad joke contest at church because, of course, all the ladies voted for that one.
The second one was in the top five and was my favorite.
I’ve lived for almost 60 years and every year, it gets hot in the summer. Why is this a surprise to some people?
i’m not surprised anymore, at people being surprised at things that should not be surprising
It’s now just about ANY weather event.
It’s raining….CLIMATE CHANGE.
It’s not raining….CLIMATE CHANGE
Hurricanes…..CLIMATE CHANGE
Not many Hurricanes……CLIMATE CHANGE
It’s Cold…..CLIMATE CHANGE
It’s Hot…….CLIMATE CHANGE
It’s a beautiful day….CLIMATE CHANGE
I hope you are catching the pattern……
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Well Climate started changing back when the earth first got a climate, so of course it will continue to change.
10k years ago there was a 2.5 mile thick sheet of ice over most of North America and then ‘global warming’ started.
Yep.
Global Warming without man made CO2.
And in order to get the sheet of ice in the first place, global cooling had to occur without manmade CO2.
It’s science.
Well I did before I retired, now the days are kind of the same now that The Teacher is retired.
I have the picture on that shirt hanging in my small bathroom, only it is in German. It probably won’t make the move to Idahome.
Schoen Montag?
Ich Hasse Montag Morgen
to the media selection up top, Mondays are way better than tuesdays….
if you disagree with you, you’re wrong.
How do I disagree with myself?
And if I disagree with myself wouldn’t I be both right and wrong?
It’s the Skolly way.
hahaha dangit.
I work at home on Mondays and I am in the office on Tuesdays, so you may be right about this.
i definitely am right about this.
QotD:
Will Jets play out his contract in MN?
Seems like no one does, anymore. So, I doubt he will fully play it out in MN.
No, he’ll get an extension or be cut before it expires
I can see them not resigning him if his demands are too much ala ‘he who should not be named’ but ‘cut’?
Not sure I see any rationalization for that in the future. I am probably missing something.
My thought, once JJ is ready to be QB1, Jets stays for another season and we trade him and go with JA as WR1.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
It’s raining…again…
I’ve always been a fan of SuperTramp.
Me too.
he’s talking about the band, nodak…
Oh…well they are o.k. too….
It looks like Sunday is going to be nice, but until then, more rain.
I remember people in January fretting about a drought!
THE WORLD IS ENDING
Bring it on. I am ready to go.
We are in a bad drought…maybe it was me?
Hey MT! Those XRay findings finally came in…
FINDINGS: No acute bony abnormality. There is moderate to severe degenerative changes of bilateral hips. There is severe degenerative changes of partially visualized lower lumbar spine.
I would say all in all not great news.
Nope, you’ve been rode hard and put away wet.
Yeah, the hips are one thing, they can be changed out like spare tires….But you can’t really change out a back.
You can try some yoga, that will help.
Yes, physical therapy appointment coming up, I am sure there will be all kinds of stuff I don’t like. Probably should lose weight and drink more water – those are rumored to help as well.
You probably caught the bad back from Golf like Tiger did.
*pats self on the back for not playing golf*
I actually investigated to see if I have to quit playing golf with an arthritic back…They answer seems to be NO, which is the answer I wanted to see.
You should probably cut back on those 300+ yard drives though.
No, it was people I deal with face-to-face, an administrative official, to be exact. He was in a total the-world-is-ending phase because we had a nice winter for once.
The last winter we had this nice was 40 years ago.