Dak Prescott sets the stage for Lamar Jackson in contract negotiations

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Kyle Crabbs discusses Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and how the guaranteed money contract he signed last year plays an impact on Baltimore QB Lamar Jackson as he negotiates a new contract with the Ravens

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00:00Here's to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, who didn't just get himself paid last summer,

00:04but he moved the ball closer to the goal line on a goal that NFL owners allegedly have been

00:10in cahoots to try to ensure would never come to pass.

00:17I'm Kyle Krabs with A to Z Sports, and after Poblatory this week uncovered the full 61-page

00:23arbitration ruling in the collusion grievance between the NFLPA and the NFL, it's worth taking

00:29a moment to step back and tip your cap to Dak Prescott for the job that he did to help

00:34push the NFL players progressively closer to the goal of what owners were allegedly in

00:41conspiracy with one another to ensure never happened in the form of maximum amounts of

00:47long-term guaranteed money in NFL player contracts.

00:51Of course, at contact sport like football, the prospect of fully guaranteed contracts becomes

00:56a little bit more scary because things can change so quickly at the drop of a hat.

01:01This is not like running on the base paths.

01:04There's violent collisions on each and every play.

01:08But nonetheless, for the players and their bodies being on the line and the money that's

01:13now being thrown around as a part of this business that the NFL is, them getting their

01:19long-term security as assets that are creating the product on the field is an admirable and

01:26well-deserved goal for players to set for themselves.

01:31Prescott got a four-year $240 million contract extension with the Cowboys by taking them wire

01:37to wire last summer.

01:40He signed his deal last amongst the quarterbacks who got big-time money contract extensions,

01:44and $231 of that $240 million was practically guaranteed at signing.

01:51That, I'm not a math guy, but it's 96% of the money involved in the contract has some

01:58level of practical guarantees, including all of the future guarantees, whether they were

02:03guaranteed at signing or guarantee at a later date, is guaranteed for injury.

02:08And this is an important domino because one of the central figures of the arbitration case

02:15was Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, who was looking for his own fully guaranteed

02:21contract while playing on the franchise tag, and the Ravens weren't keen on giving it to

02:26him.

02:27But knowing now and seeing the text message exchanges between Lamar Jackson and Ravens GM Eric

02:34DaCosta, we know just how badly Lamar Jackson wanted a fully guaranteed contract when he

02:40was doing his negotiation with the Ravens.

02:43Now, Lamar is not coming off of multiple years with some missed games because of injuries.

02:49He has another MVP award in his back pocket, and he has the Dak Prescott contract to point

02:54to to say, there's a 96% practically guaranteed contract with $60 million per year annual average

03:02salary and an $80 million signing bonus on the table.

03:07It's been done.

03:08It's been signed.

03:09That is the threshold that we start my conversations with as the Ravens begin to reignite their

03:16conversations with Lamar Jackson.

03:18And interestingly enough, Ravens general manager Eric DaCosta has already conceded that they

03:23have started preliminary talks on a new contract with Lamar Jackson.

03:28So if Jackson gets that fully guaranteed contract or if he exceeds the dollar amount and the

03:35annual average and the practical guarantees that Prescott got in his deal, he'll be able

03:41to tip his cap as well to Prescott for the job that Prescott, Todd France and CAA did to

03:47help push closer to that attainable goal of a long term supersized fully guaranteed contract.

03:54Because as the NFLPA contested back in 2022 and 2023 was something that owners allegedly were

04:02talking amongst themselves to try to ensure would never happen.

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