QB of the Day: Dak Prescott

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Ryan and Nick preview the season for Dak Prescott and why they love all the regular season overs for Precott

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00:00Talked to Babe Loftenberg earlier, former Cowboy, now is on the, uh,

00:02broad- I mean, doing color for them for 28 years on the broadcast.

00:06Dak Prescott's contract is obviously a massive

00:08conversation, as with any quarterback.

00:11And, yeah, and he thinks they're gonna get it done. I think we could agree they're gonna get it done.

00:14I think they'll get it done with Micah Parsons and CeeDee Lamb as well, because

00:17oh, well, you know, Jarrah always wants to make sure he gets his guys paid,

00:21and in the end, he'll negotiate, but then in the end, he's gonna make sure they get paid.

00:25Uh, Dak,

00:27I- look, it's always

00:29Dak Prescott is a hard quarterback to read.

00:32And the reason why I say that is because you see big numbers from him,

00:36but yet we also see the big moments where he disappears.

00:38He always is in the best spots, obviously, when

00:41the Cowboys were able to- like,

00:43when the Cowboys were at their best, and Dak was truly at his best,

00:46and really put in a position to succeed,

00:48that was peak Ezekiel Elliott,

00:50and that was when they were running the football

00:53more, like they promised

00:55they would do now, but actually did it back then,

00:58and he's thrown the ball 35 times a game or so, right?

01:00Good, good spot.

01:01When you start asking Dak to throw it 50-something times,

01:04that's when the numbers drop, that's when the team loses,

01:06that's when the problems happen, the mistakes happen,

01:09the interceptions happen.

01:11He's still set at just over 4,000 passing yards this year, 40, 50 and a half.

01:16Yeah.

01:16Minus 120 to the over.

01:17I think he goes over, and I-

01:20if you look at- I mean, passing touchdowns, 28 and a half,

01:23I'll be honest with you, I'd take the over on that too, and here's why.

01:26There's a lot of conversation about, not just his contract,

01:29but obviously C.D. Lamb, right?

01:31I think Zach- Zach.

01:33I think Dak is going to do everything he can to help C.D. Lamb get paid,

01:37and we saw the way the- after the first five or six games of last season,

01:40C.D. Lamb went on an absolute tear.

01:42We're talking double-digit receptions every single week, monster performances.

01:47I think we see the same thing again this year from those two,

01:51especially with, let's say, neither one of them.

01:52If we're still sitting here and they're both-

01:54we're talking about both their contracts,

01:56then there's even more incentive for them to play well.

01:59This is going to be a situation, I think, where he still puts up big numbers.

02:02They have to throw the football.

02:03I don't think they're as good as where they are last year,

02:05but I do think he still puts up those big numbers because they have no choice.

02:08Yeah, really good points right there, man.

02:09And I've also, like, you know, Dak came into the league and was a winner right away.

02:14They lose that playoff game to Green Bay, the Jared Cook catch game,

02:18but like, man, that was his rookie season.

02:20That was Zeke's rookie.

02:22They were young and they found success right away.

02:25And then there were some rough years there.

02:26They make the coaching change.

02:28They bring in Mike McCarthy.

02:29And now, like, everybody's a lame duck, so I'm with you.

02:32I would probably bet only overs, over 28 and a half touchdown passes, over yards.

02:36I'm not going to run out and do that, but I wouldn't bet unders

02:38because of what you said, man.

02:39It's a contract year.

02:40It's a prove-it year.

02:41Dak wants that one last big deal.

02:43And also, CeeDee Lamb is a top five, at least top 10 receiver in the league.

02:47That list gets longer every year.

02:49We got some dudes coming in now with neighbors and Marvin Harrison

02:52who might take over early on.

02:53But yeah, I expect both of those guys to ball out in a contract year.

02:57But even if they put up numbers, I just, I don't know how good

02:59Dallas is going to be this year.

03:01I actually worry a little bit about that defense, man.

03:03You lose your coordinator.

03:04You know, the secondary, I know it was beat up last year, but...

03:07They lost multiple pieces defensively, too.

03:09Now, they weren't necessarily stars.

03:10They couldn't stop the run.

03:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:12But, but Dak should ball out this year.

03:14And I think Dak is a really good regular season quarterback.

03:18Yes, yes.

03:20It's just like, man, but that playoff game, I finally bought into Dallas a little bit

03:23because nobody beat him at home.

03:25They were undefeated at home in the regular season.

03:27Green Bay comes to town.

03:29Jordan loves making his first start in the playoffs,

03:31so you would expect there to be growing pains.

03:32But it actually looked like Dak was the guy making his first playoff start.

03:36In the second half, he padded the stats a little bit.

03:38Jake Ferguson had four touchdowns to help him out.

03:40But dude, he had those awful pick sixes, those interceptions in the first half.

03:44And it was game over.

03:44You spotted Green Bay a two-score, three-score lead with those bad decisions.

03:49And you would expect the veteran at home to play much better than that.

03:52And you would expect Jordan Love to make the mistakes in his first start.

03:56He's pretty much a rookie, even though he's not a rookie.

03:58So that's why I kind of have to be done with Dak and Dallas in the playoffs.

04:02But as far as regular season numbers go, I would only bet overs, man.

04:05He's a great regular season stat padder.

04:06We know that.

04:07Yeah.

04:07Oh, 100 percent.

04:08I'm not ragging on him.

04:10A lot went wrong for Dallas in that game.

04:12But yeah, he wasn't great.

04:13Listen, it falls on the quarterback first.

04:16It does.

04:17That's really what it comes down to.

04:18But we can have these conversations all we want about if a quarterback's going to get paid,

04:23what he's going to get paid.

04:24In the end, it happens.

04:25It does.

04:25For any quarterback in Dak's position, two is going to end up getting paid.

04:29It doesn't matter at this point.

04:30Because these teams know, if you don't have a quarterback, you have nothing.

04:35That's how the NFL works.

04:36It's just that simple.

04:37I mean, there's a reason why some owners have actually suggested the possibility

04:42of just having max contracts, like limits on what you pay quarterbacks,

04:45because it's getting so out of control.

04:47I don't think that's ever going to happen.

04:48Good luck trying to get it to happen.

04:50But they want that to.

04:51But because the quarterback is so valuable, we're paying top 12, top 15 quarterbacks,

04:59top two, top three quarterback money.

05:01That's how it works.

05:02But salary cap goes up.

05:04Another quarterback gets paid more.

05:05The market just continues.

05:06It's inflation, like in this damn country right now, right?

05:08It's just like everything's getting more expensive.

05:10It's going to be the same thing with quarterbacks.

05:12Yeah, that's why, like, if I'm Jordan Love, like I've said on the show multiple times,

05:15I want to wait and see what Tua gets.

05:17Because like Jordan Love already has a playoff win.

05:20Tua has no playoff wins.

05:22And I just want to keep resetting that market.

05:23So I'd wait.

05:24Get my 600 million.

05:27It's almost crazy that we're talking about that number.

05:29We're talking about Jordan Love making 600 million.

05:32He could win an MVP.

05:33I'm not saying that he can't.

05:34Like, he was the real deal last year.

05:35But we've seen him for one year.

05:36And now he could be the highest paid quarterback in the league.

05:39People were freaking out about Justin Herbert, Trevor Lawrence.

05:43Oh, my God.

05:43What has Trevor Lawrence ever done?

05:45Well, like, when we look back at this in a year or two, it's probably going to be a discount

05:48for the Jags.

05:49Yes.

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