The star signal-caller agreed to a four-year, $240 million contract extension on Sunday morning -- just before Dallas took on Cleveland in its season-opener.
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00:00Welcome back to TMZ sports Mike
00:07and Mojo Mojo Sunday was a
00:08pretty good day for Dak
00:10Prescott Cowboys quarterback.
00:12Not only does he go out there
00:13and lead his team to a
00:14convincing win over the
00:15Cleveland Browns week one with
00:17Tom Brady on the mic but the guy
00:19who doesn't care about money and
00:21doesn't play the game for money
00:23got a lot of money.
00:24Dak Prescott before before kick
00:26off on Sunday there he is with
00:28the boss with Jerry Jones signed
00:30the most lucrative contract in
00:32NFL history a four year two
00:35hundred and forty million
00:37dollar extension Mojo two
00:39hundred and thirty one million
00:40of that guaranteed so nearly all
00:42of it guaranteed making him the
00:45highest paid quarterback.
00:47Now he's making a ton of money
00:48this year he's making like
00:49eighty one million dollars this
00:50year.
00:51But if you look at the average
00:52annual value Mojo of the four
00:54years he is going to be making
00:56sixty million dollars a season
00:59that puts him five million
01:00dollars more than the next
01:02highest paid quarterbacks which
01:03are Jordan Love Joe Burrow and
01:05Trevor Lawrence making fifty
01:06five million a year Mojo.
01:08Not bad especially when you
01:09don't care about the money.
01:10Yeah.
01:12Biggest Ironman is the biggest
01:15Ironman ever.
01:16I'm not I don't care about the
01:18money whatsoever.
01:20I don't even blame him for it.
01:21We all we all want to get paid
01:23and he should go out there and
01:23get every dime he can in my
01:25opinion.
01:25But yeah I don't care about the
01:27money.
01:27That's that's comical.
01:28Yeah.
01:29Just say what it is man you care
01:30about the money you want the
01:31money.
01:32I mean you could have gone there
01:33and told him I don't need sixty
01:34million a year.
01:35I don't care about the money.
01:36I'll I'll do it for one million
01:38a year and I'll do the rest to
01:40go get the best players in the
01:41NFL and bring them over to
01:42Dallas so we can win some
01:43sleepers.
01:44Well you don't accept sixty
01:47million dollars if you don't
01:49care about the money we've
01:50paid.
01:51We've seen guys take less money
01:52in the past to get more weapons
01:55around them so they have a
01:55better chance at winning a big
01:58one.
01:58Those are the guys that don't
02:00care about the money until you
02:02do that.
02:02You're not entitled to say this
02:04but Tom Brady Mojo I mean Tom
02:05had done that a bunch of times
02:07and look at you know maybe
02:09that's no coincidence that he's
02:11got seven Super Bowl rings and
02:14you know that don't even have
02:16that many playoff wins.
02:17Not even close.
02:19Yeah.
02:20Now don't don't get me wrong.
02:21I'm not necessarily going to
02:22fault the guy for taking that
02:24money.
02:24I think I'd probably take the
02:26money as well.
02:27I'd rather have 50 million
02:29dollars extra in my bank account
02:31than a Super Bowl victory at the
02:33end of the day.
02:34But that's that's just me
02:35speaking.
02:36I'm sure maybe there are one or
02:38two other people on the planet
02:39besides Tom that that feel a
02:41different way about the matter.
02:43But hey I mean look he played
02:46this right though.
02:46He did say all the right things.
02:49I mean he knew that there was a
02:51big contract offer coming his
02:52way.
02:53This is a big move by the Dallas
02:54Cowboys.
02:55I mean they're essentially
02:56betting the house on the fact
02:58that Dak Prescott is going to be
03:00their guy.
03:01And this is a team that's been
03:02under a lot of heat.
03:04This is America's team right now
03:06maybe the most popular team in
03:09the entire NFL and they just
03:11have not lived up to par here in
03:14recent years.
03:15They haven't made a deep run in
03:18quite some time.
03:20They've had some heartbreaking
03:20ends to a lot of these things.
03:22These seasons very prematurely.
03:25So I mean this is this is a
03:26statement by Dallas.
03:28This is going to dictate all of
03:30their future moves with that
03:32much money off the table.
03:33So let's see if Dak is going to
03:35be the guy that gets this one
03:37done.
03:37At least they're familiar with
03:39him.
03:39They know what he can do or at
03:41least what he's capable of
03:42delivering potential wise in the
03:45future.
03:45But as it goes for Dak at least
03:48this contract's done.
03:49He can go back to focusing on
03:51football and saving his.
03:54I don't want to call them lies
03:56maybe white lies for other
03:58areas.
04:00At least this one's not much of
04:01the question is did Dak deserve
04:03this because again as good as
04:04the team has been during the
04:06regular season they have not
04:07been good during the playoffs.
04:08Dak is two and five in the
04:10playoffs.
04:11It's not a good record.
04:12Now they've you know they've
04:14locked up two hundred and forty
04:15million dollars with this guy.
04:17There's a salary cap in
04:18football.
04:18So was this the right move for
04:20Jerry Jones football team.
04:21I don't know.
04:23A guy who might is Hall of Famer
04:25Drew Pearson a Cowboys legend.
04:28Here's Drew.
04:29Absolutely.
04:30You know that I mean that's the
04:31market.
04:32I didn't establish it.
04:33That didn't establish that even
04:35Jerry Jones didn't establish
04:37that.
04:38You know the quarterback market
04:39you know it's a commodity.
04:41Look at the quarterbacks around
04:42the league.
04:43Teams are suffering to find good
04:45quarterbacks.
04:46You know they're looking down
04:46the depth chart you know to see
04:48who's available.
04:50But the Cowboys back is that
04:52kind of quarterback.
04:55With all due respect should be
04:57the quarterback of the Dallas
04:58Cowboys simply because the way
05:00he carries himself not just on
05:02the field at being a team
05:03leader but the way he carries
05:05himself off the field.
05:06Allah Roger Starbuck Allah Troy
05:09Aikman even Allah Tony Romo you
05:12know carry yourself the right
05:13way off the field.
05:15And that's what that does.
05:16He says all the right things and
05:18he does those things because he
05:19believes it.
05:20And what the players need to do
05:22is rally around that.
05:24But these are leaders.