A Recent Report Out of Bristol on Dak Prescott and Contract Talks Is Presented as ‘Breaking News’ … when in Fact is Seems Somebody – the Dallas Cowboys Themselves? – Are Feeding Misinformation to ESPN.
FRISCO – Is somebody from here inside The Star feeding misinformation to ESPN? Or is Bristol just goofing up the “news” on Dak Prescott all by itself?
The world knows that Prescott is out of contract after this season, and that it’s a potential mess right now and maybe for the long-term, too.
And how is ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler advancing the ball? He’s not.
Fowler’s weekend report includes three assertions that accomplish nothing outside of muddying the factual waters.
Four examples …
1 – “With Dak,” Fowler reports, “I was told from a source of the team that the notion that the Cowboys don’t want to keep Dak Prescott beyond 2024 when he’ll be a free agent the next year is false.”
This is a red herring.
Nobody inside The Star has ever said they don’t want Dak long-term. Fowler is shooting down a “falsehood” that isn’t at all part of the conversation.
2 – “They still believe in him firmly,” Fowler claims.
This might be, we suppose, a matter of semantics. We’d argue, though, that they clearly are not “firm” on paying Prescott what most would see as “market value” – which as CowboysSI.com has reported we believe Dak’s side to see as $60 million APY.
If Dallas “believed firmly” in Dak in that way, this deal would already be done.
Additionally, if the conviction and the desire and the plan was “firm,” the Cowboys wouldn’t be (allegedly) leaking the rumor that they might take a QB “high” in this months NFL Draft.
One more thing about “firm conviction and desire”: How did that “news story” comparing Dak unfavorably with the likes of Blake Bortles and Case Keenum ever end up in the local paper? How did the Jones family read that and not issue a retaliatory denial/argument?