Yeah i thought the whole beef with Dak contract was that he wanted a 4 year deal with 3 years guaranteed and the 4th year to be a player option that was up to him, and the cowboys wanted to sign him to a 5 year deal, which is what the traditional deal is for most QB's, were the first 3 years are guaranteed, the 4th year is guaranteed IF you are on the roster by a certain date but it up to the team, and the 5th year has very little guaranteed money, which is why you see a lot of teams release a qb with 1 year left on their deal. Dallas told Dak aint no qb in the history of the nfl ever signed a contract that gave them 3 years guaranteed money AND a 4th year that was completely up to the QB so it was no way they were doing that. Dak told them well that is the only type of contract I am signing with you. Again, outside of Jane Slater, who is wrong about virtually everything, I never heard anybody talk about this "he wanted 40 million a year"
I actually don't think Dak cares about playing for the Dallas cowboys very much, which is why he didn't sign that traditional deal. I think him and his only new there would be lots of teams signing up to pay him a 5 year deal after he was tagged twice, so why would he accept it now?