Every QB contract that comes up will be the biggest contract ever and take up a big part of the cap. Someone would have paid him, the choice is whether to let him walk and start over, and the odds of finding the next big thing at QB in the draft is iffy at best, and very low for a team that is usually somewhere between 12 and 18 in the first round. For all of Jerry's faults, choosing to pay for a QB that has shown capabilities to be, at an absolute minimum, pretty damn good is not unreasonable. And yet again, spare me about "the cap," it's all enron accounting, no team has ever failed because of "the cap." The video was posted some time ago confirming what was stated above about Dak having the narrowest receiver windows, and it wasn't even close. Reminds me of everyone calling Romo a choker when he had the most lead taking 4th quarter drives for most of his career and people just ignoring that the defense would then immediately fold and give the lead back up leaving the offense in an all but impossible situation to take it back. The "Dak sucks" line is just tiring but I've stopped pretending it gets me anywhere in this thread. This is the most I've said about it in months. I'll maintain that it comes down primarily to coaching, and the Shottenheimer hire is by a million times more far dumber than paying Dak, because while someone would have paid Dak, literally nobody was interested in having Shottenheimer III as their head coach. Jerry's biggest fault is his ego which makes it impossible to hire any of the young up and coming coaches that are taking over the league, including through innovative offenses and not the same boring ass routes from Garrett, Moore, Fat Mike, etc.