There is a lot of minutiae to be sorted out in the coming days; the kind of contractual bean counting that energizes a precious few of us and helps make sense of how the money is spread around to manipulate the salary cap, but the undisputed takeaway from Monday’s news that Dak Prescott will remain in Dallas for the long-term is that he headlocked the Cowboys at the negotiating table—even if he had to limp there on a recovering ankle.
The average per-year sum of $40 million is what he wanted when this entire process began two years ago; back when the Cowboys began the process of making him look greedy and out-of-touch.