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Despite not making big waves in free agency so far, Vegas still projects 10.5 wins for the Dallas Cowboys in 2024.
Dallas Cowboys, 10.5 wins
Two offseasons ago, the Cowboys’ win total was 10.5 and most bettors loved the under after some offseason losses. Dallas won 12 games. Last season, after a lot of negativity in the offseason, the Cowboys’ total opened at 9.5. Dallas won 12 games.
This offseason has had a bunch of negativity — this wasn’t an “all in” offseason, the Cowboys lost a lot in free agency but did not fire Mike McCarthy as most fans wanted — and yet the Cowboys’ win total is 10.5? Bummer for anyone wanting to get some value on 9.5.
Dallas still is one of the best teams in the NFL and getting back to 11 wins is a distinct possibility. It’s just interesting to see the Cowboys at 10.5 wins after the offseason has brought nothing but negative headlines.
Todd Archer from ESPN breaks down the different scenarios if the Cowboys are unable to extend Dak Prescott before he is set to hit free agency in 2025.
The Cowboys make the playoffs for the fourth straight year, hoping to get to a Super Bowl for the first time since 1995.
In order to get there, Prescott will have had another top season, like he did in 2023 when he led the NFL in touchdown passes with 36 and threw for 4,516 yards. Given the current state of the roster, it will likely be Prescott’s finest season because the Cowboys have to replace starting left tackle Tyron Smith, center Tyler Biadasz, tailback Tony Pollard and wide receiver Michael Gallup.
Or ...
The Cowboys miss the playoffs, but Prescott has what has become his average season: 25 touchdown passes and nine interceptions. He plays well enough to warrant a new deal, but there are too many holes on the roster to get back to the postseason.
What happens next?
It will become a mad dash from the end of the regular season to March 12, the start of the 2025 league year, for the Cowboys to sign Prescott to a new contract.
Through all of this, that is the deadline of deadlines.
Without a new contract by then, Prescott will count at least $40.46 million against the 2025 salary cap, and he will not be on the Cowboys’ roster.
With a contract done before then, Prescott’s cap number will be at least $25 million as a result of the restructures the Cowboys have used on the current deal, including converting his $5 million roster bonus [earlier this...
