I’ll ride with Newton for a 3 year term without blinking. I’d even consider Rivers for a year or two (though I think he is hugely overrated, but still about as above average as Dak), and I might even consider Winston if I was after a potential long-term answer.

My preference would be to ride Dak for 4-5 years, but I stand firmly behind what the organization is doing. Ben’s point is that the QB market is more volatile than people think. No, you don’t just pluck a superstar from a tree and I know you believe you have to have a great QB to win a Super Bowl, but I don’t believe that. The superstar obviously makes it easier, but he’s only “required” if the rest of your team isn’t balanced and/or up-to-snuff.

Garropplo, Goff, Kapernick, Foles, Ryan, Newton, even Dilfer and Grossman have taken teams to the Super Bowl. And those they haven’t won the game, they aren’t the reasons their teams lost.

I don’t mean to speak on Ben’s behalf but I think you are missing his point. You don’t have to have a Top-10 pick to develop a QB. In fact Top-10 QB’s are probably a 50/50 proposition if you roll through history. The Cowboys are in the catbird seat with Dak. They get to choose how they want to handle him. Everybody is all caught up in the money, but that’s not the focus. If he can play and prove himself, they won’t have any problem paying him despite what ya fans think of it.

If on the other hand, If this staff sees him and isn’t enamored with him, moving on from him in 2021 doesn’t mean their window to compete disappears either.

We can play these “what if” games all we want, but until we land into March of 2021, we have no idea what the landscape will look like, and that’s truer in this year moreso than any other, perhaps in history.