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RuskieTitan Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 18 minutes ago, RaidersAreOne said: No no no, we need to wait until March 2020 before we know the full details of this deal and whether Zeke got a record setting contract. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WizardHawk Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) I hate the idea of paying RBs any significant money, but this is way better than I had anticipated. Zeke gets his top guaranteed $ and Dallas gets an easy out in 4 years. About as perfect as I could have hoped for. The only real hangup, and it's a pretty big one tbh, is if Zeke is smart enough to steer clear of drama. Edited September 4, 2019 by WizardHawk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showtime Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 13 minutes ago, WizardHawk said: I hate the idea of paying RBs any significant money, but this is way better than I had anticipated. Zeke gets his top guaranteed $ and Dallas gets an easy out in 4 years. About as perfect as I could have hoped for. The only real hangup, and it's a pretty big one tbh, is if Zeke is smart enough to steer clear of drama. But if the Cowboys were willing to give Zeke his top guaranteed money, then why did they wait 3 days before the season starts to do it? They could have done this months and months ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WizardHawk Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 1 minute ago, showtime said: But if the Cowboys were willing to give Zeke his top guaranteed money, then why did they wait 3 days before the season starts to do it? They could have done this months and months ago. Zeke didn't want to go to training camp and organization wasn't concerned about him getting acclimated to Moore's scheme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showtime Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 1 minute ago, WizardHawk said: Zeke didn't want to go to training camp and organization wasn't concerned about him getting acclimated to Moore's scheme. I see. So you're saying this deal was done behind the scenes for a while and Zeke was doing this because he didn't want to go to training camp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matts4313 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 50 minutes ago, RuskieTitan said: No no no, we need to wait until March 2020 before we know the full details of this deal and whether Zeke got a record setting contract. Look at the details. Zeke was on a 2 year deal fully gtd, now a 4yr $50m deal for all intents and purposes. So it's dramatically different than the initial reports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WizardHawk Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 8 minutes ago, showtime said: I see. So you're saying this deal was done behind the scenes for a while and Zeke was doing this because he didn't want to go to training camp? Nah. Season opener is around the corner and deadlines make deals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilpimp972 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 21 minutes ago, showtime said: But if the Cowboys were willing to give Zeke his top guaranteed money, then why did they wait 3 days before the season starts to do it? They could have done this months and months ago. Same with Dak, you should not wait. Make your deal first, or don't make them at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matts4313 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, D82 said: I don't really have a problem with this contract. 4 year, $50m, $12.5m/yr with basically a bunch of one year team options after that. 41 minutes ago, evilpimp972 said: Same with Dak, you should not wait. Make your deal first, or don't make them at all. We killed it with that contract compared to what I was expecting. So waiting didnt hurt us at all. I guess Zeke #Caved Edit: Allegedly we still have $21m this year in cap space and $65m next year. For a rollover total of $86m. Edited September 4, 2019 by Matts4313 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippyX Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 I guess this deal is all about the guaranteed money and getting a little cheddar a few years early. His 7.5 million to sign is great, except you take away the 3.1 million they dropped off of his 2019 salary. So in the next year he gets about 4.4 million in new money and he gets another 10.7 in 2020 (13 with 2.3 dropped off his 2020 salary) Its really 28 million guaranteed with 50 guaranteed for injury but its poison pill enough that it would hurt for the Cowboys to walk away after this year or after 2020. Zeke also go the Gurley hook ups of 2021 and 2022 becoming guaranteed a year ahead in 2020 and 2021. It looks like the Cowboys have taken 6.2 million out of the next 2 years and converted it as part of the 6 year 90 deal So it's really 6 years 83.8 million. (13.996 per year) They can also dump him in 4 seasons with Zeke having made 12.5 per year from 2019-2022. (but 4.1 of that was his original signing bonus) This worst case for Zeke still gets him a huge raise in 2019 and 2020. (and about 46 million in new money) The Rams did the same thing with Gurley's contract so I have no idea who the highest paid guy is. (it probably will be Zeke at some point) I also have no idea what the 'Zeke is in jail' provision is for any of this. This would be a good one for match class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippyX Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 in 2023 the Cowboys could walk if he is no longer a 10 million a year guy or Zeke could hold out if he thinks 10 million is too low (since he can't really expect to ever get the 15 million per year in 2025 and 2026. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrry32 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 10 hours ago, Matts4313 said: lmao You dont even know the structure of the deal. And if we come back paying Dak/Cooper top money - then who do we value? Silly take. Are you honestly going to try and justify this deal right after you crapped on the Rams for giving a better HB the same sort of deal? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matts4313 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, jrry32 said: Are you honestly going to try and justify this deal right after you crapped on the Rams for giving a better HB the same sort of deal? What? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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