Big news hit the NFL landscape on Thursday afternoon when Brandon Aiyuk and the San Francisco 49ers agreed to a four-year, $120 million contract extension that will keep him under contract through the 2028 season.
The 49ers have now resolved a key issue that threatened to torpedo their chances of winning their first Super Bowl championship since the 1994 season.
The Dallas Cowboys, one of their biggest historical rivals, haven’t won it all since the 1995 campaign, and they’re in far worse shape, as quarterback Dak Prescott and pass rusher Micah Parsons are due for big extensions of their own.
They also have some real roster holes and made meager additions to their roster this offseason, which led Skip Bayless, a well-known Cowboys diehard, to blast his team for not spending nearly as much money as the Niners have in order to go after the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
Please explain how the 49ers have twice the salary cap the Cowboys do? Because they beat us 42-10? They’ve paid their DE, their RB, now their WR. Soon Big Trent will get a big new deal, then they’ll lock up Purdy for 5 yrs. Yet the world’s most valuable team has the littlest cap?
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) August 29, 2024
Days ago, the Cowboys did make some real progress by giving star wideout CeeDee Lamb a huge extension that will pay him $136 million over four years.
But the Prescott situation is one that is causing a great deal of angst for Cowboys fans.
It is looking like he won’t get an extension before this season begins, and while he likely won’t hold out, there seems to be a real possibility this will be his last year in Dallas.
Meanwhile, the team has a weak running back room, no real WR2 behind Lamb and a questionable offensive line, and now they also need some help in the secondary after star cornerback DaRon Bland suffered a stress fracture that will cost him at least four games.
