Booger McFarland anticipates Dak Prescott's contract questions to LINGER into NEXT SEASON 😳 | Get Up

AFC East burning questions that that deescalate quickly all right burning questions on the AFC East baralu Buffalo is Josh Allen going to somehow be better without his longtime number one receiver Stefon digs um not at all but I think they're going to protect Josh Allen from himself by running the ball and being balanced which is going to expose him less for all those turnovers fumbles and interceptions that he's had so I think it can be addition by subtraction that they're going to be more balanced but without Milano I don't know if you can play complimentary football you may have to get in shootouts because your defense isn't going to be good Graziano let's go to New England we saw them last night certainly in a rebuilding situation do they figure maybe to be the worst team in the league yeah I I think it's possible for sure look offensively they're Limited in terms of their skill positions in terms of the line defensively where they thought they were going to be great they traded judon they might be without Christian barmore for the year the schedule greeny they got to play the Bengals the Seahawks the 49ers just in September uh it's it's rough hembo said their fbii three-point underdogs are worse in every game right now see what they're able to get done Mike T down there in Florida is this the year tour and the Dolphins win a playoff game they absolutely can greeny to two his credit he answered the Bell last year started all 17 games but here's where they have to improve he has to play better in December and January whereas qbr under Mike McDaniel is 43 in September it's 83 so if they can get a home playoff game and not go on the road to Buffalo or Kansas City they have a real chance to win a playoff game all right and then Bart I'll come back to you we asked you about one of your former teams earlier the Ravens here's your other do the Jets need that guy who is a fortime MVP to play like an MVP in order to get to the Super Bowl not at all I mean we can remember the late um you know pton Manning we can remember John Elway and well I'm not trying to you know pass Manny he's not the late pton well I'm sorry he's still he's still very much alive he's still very much alive I think I think you mean later in his career yes yes let me rephrase that but they but they just need Aaron Rogers you know to play behind that great that great off that great uh defense and the Great and the great uh running backs that he has I think you know they only need him to be special at times one thing I know about Aaron Rogers he's not going to come up short against Patrick Mahomes we've seen great quarterbacks come up small we see Lamar Jackson not look like Lamar Jackson against Patrick Mahomes we've seen Josh Allen as well I don't think that Joe burrow or Aaron Rogers would Does Aaron Rodgers need to play at an MVP level? come up short it's okay he's still alive I just say he did a great job he could have fallen apart like we did no yes I I couldn't go on you I knew what you meant L his career the later p man pton Manny the older pton Manny so now uh so what about the Monday night telecast what what what do we expect from the late Aaron roders here as he's he's 40 coming off an injury see here here's why I'm so encouraged because to me the answer to that question is no the Jets don't need Aaron Rogers ERS to be the best quarterback in the NFL the Jets won seven games with the worst quarterback in the NFL last year if Aaron roders is merely a good quarterback which you have to assume he's capable of being and and and God help us if he's better than that right then I think that automatically elevates them to a playoff team and then who knows where it goes from there Mike T GRE I totally agree and I was concerned that if I would denigrate Anon Rogers you couldn't put me in the corner remotely so I was trying to figure out like how I was going to how to survive that but in all seriousness I do think if we're talking about Bree Hall and Garrett Wilson and a really good front seven that could be even better with Hassan reic we're talking about a really good jet roster a deeper roster if you go back a year ago obviously we know about Aaron Rogers but they also circled up front with injuries and credit Joe Douglas not only do they get Tyron Smith they draft fashanu in the first round so this is a much deeper team a much more complete team I agree with you if an Rogers is be or better this is a 10- win team hey he just mentioned Assan reic I mean is there they could get a guy like that they'd be really good anything uh no I mean look there it's a standoff right like they won't give him a new deal unless he comes to Camp he won't come to Camp without a new deal like somebody's going to have to give at some point it's probably going to have to be the team who's that somebody going to be I mean what what what what in the wide Wide World of Sports is it going on here I mean listen I I don't know but for all the people that made fun of the Jets you know we just watched Atlanta do the same exact thing third round draft pick and and judon doesn't have a new deal I mean I think at the end of the day I think cooler heads will prevail I think they'll get him done you know at some point you know these these fines will become unable to absorb when you think about $700,000 remember this is $700,000 not after you know this is not post tax money this is real money no I mean at some point he's going to owe them money to play this season he's he's going to wind up having more accumulated more fines than his salary adds up to the whole thing is just a mess at any rate Matt put the picks up there we asked everybody who's going to win the AFC East and we are split down the middle Grano despite all those defensive injuries you're still on Buffalo I think there are major question marks with all these teams but with Buffalo we have seen a coaching staff that has shown an ability to kind of answer its questions as the season goes along get the team into the playoff we haven't seen Miami win this division we haven't seen this Jets coaching staff manage through the ups and downs of a season and get them into the postseason we haven't seen it yet and I think I have more trust in the people running the bills right now until I see it from somebody else can I ask you who has the best roster in this division was the best roster in the division it's probably the Jets I mean they just lost Matt Milano and that's what you went with you two Mike T how dare you they lost Matt Milano in the middle of the season last year and they still won the division yeah but that was with Hyde andyer still there quick final word tanam go yeah I think Shawn MC Derman gave us the answers to the test last year six and one when they made the coordinator Dak Prescott's ongoing contract talks change average 36 rushing attempts per game look for James Cook to have a massive year Cowboys quarterback we all know the story entering the final year of his deal his cap hit is over $55 million the negotiations I think we've forgotten sometimes that they are ongoing but he reminded us of that yesterday and he sounded pretty optimistic I'm happy where I am right now and that's really all my focus is um and yeah I mean as I said I enjoy being a cowboy a th% um enjoy living in Dallas enjoy everything about it uh but this is a business so um conversations are going well hoping it gets done now hoping it gets done in a couple of weeks during the season or whenever it happens I just know conversations are on the right way all right Dan so you know I I'm not an Insider you are I'm not I'm but I just listen to the things that people say and maybe I'm very gullible and maybe he's a very good actor but that sounded to me like a man who thinks there is a real chance something I have basically discounted as a possibility a real chance they get a deal done before this season starts I think there's a real chance but there's also I think just as real a chance that they don't that he gets to free agency next spring and I think people have to understand that like he doesn't have to do a deal unless and until he gets every single thing he wants they're not allowed to franchise him like he has the leverage we've been over this and over this if if he wants to stay and you know he's willing to meet them I don't say halfway but somewhere along the way then absolutely a deal could get done this off season or as he mentions during the season neither side rules that out but yeah I think you're listening to a guy who's saying the right things who I think if if there is a split I think the Cowboys and Dak Prescott will each want to make sure that the fans don't think it was them that was at fault right so I think you know I want to be here he's saying the right things but yeah I I it's possible they have talked since training camp started there are ongoing discussions just as there just as there are with CD lamb so yeah it wouldn't be the most shocking thing at all let me get T about me on this because again for those who don't know Mike T was a general manager in two different places you've lived these situations from the inside maybe not exactly this one because there's never been one exactly like this one a quarterback of this level who was this tantalizingly close to unrestricted free agency when you hear Dak say things like that does it make your mind spin a little bit it sure does and if I was his teammate I would be mad at him because at a $55 million cap number greeny that's 22% of the cap and we saw really good players Tyron Smith Tony par leave we had a really good team a year ago so as the quarterback and the leader that's on the field off the field from a salary cap standpoint there should be a massive sense of urgency on both sides and when we look at it from the Dallas standpoint look we could say a lot of things about Jerry Jones but he's smart and strategic I was surprised even if it was someone like Spencer Rattler seconder third round that they didn't draft a quarterback because they really don't have leverage when we're talking about unfettered free agency for a quarterback that was second in the league in MVP voting can't be franchised can't be traded and right now the Cowboys have zero options and has been discussed ad nauseum they also don't have CD lamb under contract but look who we have ladies and gentlemen the one the only Booger McFarland has gotten up early with us this morning from his palacial estate down there in Tampa Florida so Booger McFarland breaks down the Cowboys' situation booger you're hearing the conversation here it's all about the Cowboys as it so frequently is the daak situation not resolved and maybe not getting any closer to it we'll see the CD lamb situation not resolved and there doesn't seem to be an obvious explanation for that how do you see it right now big fella well good morning guys greeny uh Bart Dan uh I think that the the whole Dak Prescott situation is going to linger into next season or into into the offseason I don't see a situation where the Cowboys are going to be willing to go to the 55 plus $60 million uh a year range nor if if you're Dak Prescott really do you want to because I think it behooves Dak to become an unrestricted free agent where he can really see what his true value is as far as the CD lamb of it all I I think the the blueprint is kind of laid I'm really not sure why CD lamb hasn't got paid like the money is there all the wide receiver contracts have gotten done uh like we all can sit down in a conference room and do this contract in like five minutes so I foresee him getting a new contract before he steps on the football field or I think CD lamb has the resolve where he just won't show up so Dak will probably have to wait till the off season and have a great big uh month of shows where is Dak G to go are the Cowboys going to pay him $60 million but I think the CD lamb of it all is going to get resolved I tell you the most surprising thing though guys is the michah Parsons like we've talked a lot about CD lamb a lot about the Cowboys but the michah Parson of it all has kind of slid to the side and I don't think there's any shape way or form we can see Michael Parsons not being a Dallas Cowboy so why you wouldn't take care of cidd and take care of Micah I really don't know what Stephen and Jerry are doing right now see that's such an interesting part of this to me I'm glad he took us there because the way first I I sometimes I feel like we talk about things like all football fans know them when you're drafted in the first round you get a four-year deal and then the team has a fifth year option so Michael Parsons Falls in that category Jamar Chase Falls in that category they were drafted in the same year that's my point but CD lamb is a year ahead of them CD lamb Justin Jefferson those guys are going into the fifth year option that's when the team knows look we got to get this deal done now or they're going to be able to walk Jamar Chase Micah Parsons two of the very best players in the league who are a year before that it seems to me that if I am as certain about those players being a part of my future as I would have to believe they are in Cincinnati and Dallas I would want to lock them up now because as we have seen the price just keeps going up if they had locked up CD lamb at last year's wide receiver numbers Dan they would have saved themselves a fortune there is definitely an advantage to be had in knowing when to go to your players early for an extension there's no question about that we see that's one of the things that Howe rosan in Philadelphia gets so much credit for doing uh over and over and over again uh we until this off season we really hadn't seen a lot of guys non- quarterbacks after year three uh get extensions and and to to piggyback on what you're saying so people know you're not allowed under the CBA to negotiate an extension with a player until he's played three years in the league a drafted player so uh I think you're they're at a point Dallas is with Micah Parsons where they feel like they can put that on the back burner because they have time because they have the option the franchise tag available to them and work on these other big deals but you're you're absolutely right if they're 100% certain he's going to be there uh there's some there's some benefit to be had to go to him now cuz the price is not going to go down youo when you think about Jerry Jones and Mike Brown they're they're from the old school they haven't hitten the refresh button about how how how organizations operate now in this new NFL and but Jerry has always gotten everybody that he's wanted signed so that's why I'm not worried about doc Prescott because at the end of the day we can be concerned with everything that's going on he'll get him done you know he's just trying to find a way to get leverage Jerry would likes to have leverage which he has none he gave the away in the last M go ahead Boer but here's the thing about it if if if Dak Prescott reaches uh the end of this season he will be an unrestricted free agent they can't franchise him okay because because that's in the contract like they can't franchise him so Jerry has zero control so to your point that Jerry always gets who he wants that's when Jerry has control Jerry will legitimately have zero control if the season ends and Dak Prescott doesn't have a new contract because Dak Prescott will be in control so that's where I think if you're Jerry you're playing this all wrong and and you could say okay well Jerry can offer him 65 a year but yes at what cost is Jerry willing to go to an absurd number to keep that Prescott when you could have done the deal right now I think then everyone agrees even mik T by the way good morning mik T he could have done this deal for 58 $60 million a year right now and this would be done so I'm really not sure what Jerry's doing right now because he's legitimately losing more control by the day but it's not like Dak is not without risk right now we know that we've seen Dak get injured and still got his money but you know what what happens if they go and they they don't perform well and they're they're out in the first round or they struggle to make the playoffs or if they don't make the playoffs I think when Jerry say he's he's all in I think he's saying he's all in with this regime and if it doesn't go well Mike McCarthy may be going you have to reassess you know are you going to build with uh with Dak Prescott or do you going to start over and tear it down because this is a organization that found Dak Prescott in the fourth round that found Tony Romo so they've had success with none firstr draft picks you got shadur Sanders coming out who knows maybe Prime Time can be the next coach of the Dallas Cowboys oh don't say that I'm the one who brought that up yesterday everyone yelled at me Mike T put a Finishing Touch on this because it's really your area yeah what would scare me to death if I'm Jerry Jones or Mike Brown is what Jaylen Ramsey did in Jacksonville that hold in had the back issue quote unquote got traded to the Rams got paid Micah Parsons and Jamar Chase are good enough players they could pull pull that off as well Jamar Chase has a practice Micah Parsons has that is the great equalizer not a lot of players can pull it off but Mah Parsons and Jamar Chase could right we'll see it is a changing an evolving circumstance with the way these contracts work and the Cowboys so far seem to be a little bit behind it is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]