{"id":480511,"date":"2024-03-18T15:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T19:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480511"},"modified":"2024-03-18T15:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T19:10:05","slug":"cowboys-rework-prescotts-contract-eases-cap-hit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cowboys-rework-prescotts-contract-eases-cap-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys rework Prescott&#8217;s contract, eases cap hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys are slightly reducing QB <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/dak-prescott\/\">Dak Prescott<\/a>&#8216;s massive salary cap hit by reworking his deal going into the year of the contract.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cowboys and Dak Prescott are off to a strong start in contract talks, demonstrating collaborative ability to help team manage finances. Prescott willing to add two void years, leading to $4M in 2024 cap savings. Good sign for capacity to achieve extension. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hq0jNJfWXw\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/hq0jNJfWXw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Gehlken (@GehlkenNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GehlkenNFL\/status\/1769724331901227153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A 5 million dollar roster bonus has been converted into a signing bonus to reduce this year\u2019s cap hit by 4 million dollars to just over 55 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas can create more salary cap relief with an extension for the quarterback, who is coming off a wild-card defeat at their stadium against the Packers that dropped his postseason record to 2-5.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise will continue to persuade Dak to ink a deal extension.<\/p>\n<p>While Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has shared that the organization aims to keep the quarterback, the franchise GM hasn&#8217;t spoken the same way he did 3 years ago before inking his organization&#8217;s quarterback to a franchise-record 160 million dollar, 4-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Committing to Pak beyond the upcoming campaign would make it easier to get contracts done with Lamb and Parsons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys are slightly reducing QB Dak Prescott&#8216;s massive salary cap hit by reworking his deal going into the year of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":480512,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20236,17627,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[20238,18361,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Dallas escapes cap hit with Dak\u2019s reworked deal.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480514,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480511\/revisions\/480514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480511"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480511"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}