During a recent appearance on OutKick’s “Hot Mic,” former Green Bay Packers executive Andrew Brandt had a pretty brutal message for the Dallas Cowboys as he made it clear that he thinks the team is in a rough spot due to the contract situation regarding quarterback Dak Prescott.
Prescott is currently entering the final year of his contract with the team and is set to become a free agent at the end of the season unless they can sign him to a new contract before that point.
It’s a pretty brutal situation, and Brandt offered his harsh assessment.
“They cannot do anything. Play it out, maybe franchise next year or maybe pay him through the roof. Let him go, where he’ll make the biggest contract ever in free agency, because players like him never get to free agency, or try to do something now,” Brandt said according to Fox News. “But the fact that they haven’t done something when they have Micah Parsons and CeeDee Lamb waiting for cap room to do something, the only way they’re getting cap room is through Dak Prescott.”
Brandt went as far as to suggest it could be a “lame duck” year for the Cowboys.
“I’ve been on record saying I think they’re going to let it ride with Dak Prescott. Because, listen, I was at that game. I’m still a Packer fan. The Packers rolled them off the field in the playoffs. Everyone thought Mike McCarthy, whom I hired 15 years ago at Green Bay, would be gone. He’s not gone. He’s riding it out on one year. Parsons has a year left. Lamb’s got a year left. Prescott’s got a year left. They let [Tony] Pollard go. They signed Zeke Elliott, who’s a one-year project.
“So, I just look at the Cowboys, like, wow, this is kind of a let-it-ride, lame-duck year, [it] just seems like, and no Dak Prescott next year – just seems like that to me. At this point, I’d be surprised if they do his contract.”
Needless to say, it sounds like he’s predicting a rough year for the team.
