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Dak addressed the media, saying he doesn't play football for the money, but for the love of the game.

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00:00Welcome back to TMZ Sports, Mike and Mojo.

00:07Mojo, there are a ton of storylines.

00:10Of course, we've talked about

00:11the Chiefs and Ravens game last night.

00:13Amazing, amazing game, Taylor Swift.

00:15We've done all that. Not the only big game

00:17going down this week.

00:19We've also got, and it's not just a premier matchup,

00:23but it's also Tom Brady's first game

00:25behind a Fox Sports microphone.

00:28Of course, we've got the Dallas Cowboys

00:31traveling to Cleveland.

00:33America's game of the week, 425 Eastern on Fox on Sunday.

00:38Again, Tom behind the mic.

00:40And Cowboys-Browns, that is a great, great matchup.

00:44Now, one of the big questions, not just for Sunday,

00:48but this entire season,

00:50will be about the future Mojo of Dak Prescott,

00:54the Cowboys star quarterback.

00:57Of course, last year, he finished second in MVP voting.

01:02He had signed a few years back

01:04a four-year $160 million extension.

01:07That lucrative contract is just about up, final year.

01:11So, perhaps for the last time,

01:15before the Cowboys get on that plane

01:17and travel to Cleveland,

01:19Dak Prescott met with the media

01:21where he was asked about his contract, Mojo.

01:25The only question is, what did he mean?

01:28So, that means it's time for a little bit of what he said,

01:33what he means.

01:34Dak Prescott.

01:35I've never played the game for that.

01:37I play the game for the pure love,

01:38for the guys in that locker room.

01:41Yes, this game has always brought me something

01:43that not a lot of things in life do.

01:46That's the type of peace that it does,

01:48is being out there in between the lines

01:49with people that you share a brotherhood,

01:52you share a brotherhood with.

01:54Yeah, it's something that's just special

01:56about this game of football,

01:57and we're just blessed that that money comes with it,

01:59and I'm in the position that I'm in,

02:00that we can be having these conversations,

02:01but that doesn't motivate me.

02:05Doesn't motivate him.

02:06The largest eye roll ever.

02:08Yeah, largest eye roll ever.

02:10This is one of the best what he said, what he means.

02:12I think we'll ever have the opportunity to break down

02:16because it was so ridiculous.

02:18I mean, look, he is saying everything

02:21that he should be saying, right?

02:23We're in the middle of the season.

02:24It's NFL week one, second in the MVP standings.

02:28We got eliminated early last year.

02:30I believe that was to the best football team in the NFL.

02:34If I recall back, those Packers out of green Bay,

02:38my Packers out of green Bay.

02:40But yeah, you know, you gotta get back to work.

02:42You gotta do what you do.

02:42You can't be worried about your contract

02:44at this stage of the game.

02:46That's why you have management.

02:47That's why you have an agent and representation.

02:50These guys that go and they handle that for you.

02:52Your job is to play the game.

02:54Now, sometimes those two worlds collide.

02:57If you're, you know, approaching a contract year,

03:00if your contract is about to expire

03:03at the start of the season,

03:04then maybe now you need to pull out and play hard to get.

03:07But this isn't one of those situations at this point.

03:10You just go out there and you play the game.

03:12But it's just the interview that makes us roll our eyes.

03:14Right?

03:15Like to act like the money

03:16is not even a relevant factor whatsoever.

03:21It is totally meaningless.

03:23I mean, at the end of the day,

03:25he could retire right now and financially,

03:27he's going to be set for the rest of his life.

03:29He'll never have to work a day again.

03:30So there's always that,

03:32but to act like this contract doesn't matter.

03:34Sometimes it isn't even about the money.

03:36It's about where it puts you status wise, you know,

03:39relative to the rest of the quarterbacks in the league.

03:42And that is an extremely important thing

03:44when you're starting to break down the legacy

03:46and things to that extent.

03:47So what he said, what he means,

03:50I don't think we need to listen to a single thing

03:53that he actually said.

03:54Yeah, I agree, Mojo.

03:55And you're right.

03:57If you go back to when he signed that deal for, again,

04:00four years, 160, heading into the 2021 season there,

04:03he was one of the highest paid quarterbacks,

04:05but right now he is not.

04:07These contracts, you know how it goes.

04:09They don't get smaller.

04:10They get bigger and bigger and bigger.

04:11Right now, you've got Joe Burrow,

04:13who signed recently a $275 million deal.

04:16Much of that, 219 mil of that is guaranteed.

04:19That puts Joe at about 55 mil a year.

04:22You've got Jordan Love, Trevor Lawrence,

04:24also making 55 mil a year on average.

04:27Tua just signed a fat new deal.

04:29He's getting paid over 53 a mil a season.

04:32Jared Goff, same thing.

04:33Herbert, Lamar Jackson, they're making over 50 mil, Mojo.

04:36So it's clear Dak Prescott believes

04:39he's one of the best quarterbacks,

04:40believes he's one of the elite quarterbacks in this league.

04:42And despite what he says,

04:44that's how he obviously wants to get paid.

04:46If he didn't want that big contract,

04:47I promise you Jerry Jones would give him something

04:49that was smaller to lock up a guy again

04:52who finished second in the MVP voting last year.

04:54I think this comes down to here.

04:56The reality is, if the Cowboys,

04:58who have not reached the NFC Championship game since 1995,

05:01they've got a ton of talent.

05:03If they do not make a deep run this season,

05:06and that might mean getting to the Super Bowl,

05:08you're gonna see a very different Cowboys team next year

05:12on the sidelines and on the field.

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