Cue the music, folks.Although the deal is now the books for defensive end , the got no respite regarding additional contract negotiations. In a bit of a from-the-frying Courtney Lee Jersey -pan-into-the-fire scenario, they went from working vehemently to secure their best pa s rusher since to locking horns with their three best players on offense, simultaneously. As it stands, the club is in active negotiations with quarterback , wide receiver and running back -- with the two-time rushing champ currently holding out of training camp to push talks on his extension forward.For Prescott, whom the team is prepared to make the highest-paid player in franchise history only months after granting the honor to Lawrence, things are a bit more complicated than dialogue with the others. Because his looming extension will be the largest, it requires that much more conversation from both sides of the table, and Prescott is also in no rush to get his deal done.The longer he waits, the more he'll get paid, because that's how market value tends to work.To that point, carrot-chasing the average annual salary mark is mostly moot unle s it's contextually linked to length of extension and guaranteed money, so reports that the that doesn't provide the additional details fail to paint the complete picture. A suming that is true, along with the rumored $40 million counteroffer from Prescott, the magic number should and does realistically rest between $32 million and $35 million annually -- the green zone between the deal awarded to in June and the one given to in April. Don't bet on Prescott surpa sing Wilson by $5 million Dorian Finney-Smith Jersey per year, if at all, unle s you enjoy losing your own money. That report has also now been disputed, which furthers my point on avoiding the proverbial carrot chase, because even leaked information is part of the negotiation proce s. Teams routinely time leaks and frame them in a way that applies pre sure to players, knowing players will be made to look selfish if they reply via the media in combative form. The retaliation usually comes from an upset agent, who wants in on the monopolized headline grab.Length of contract and guaranteed money on such a deal?Nobody yet knows, and that's why all of the leaked intel can be viewed as nothing more than a "framing" by one side or both. Lawrence experienced this same thing in April, but the nature of recency bias might make the Lawrence talks feel like they were years ago when, in fact, things were exceedingly contentious between the veteran pa s rusher and the Cowboys only four short months ago. It took Lawrence being subject two franchise tags -- the second he refused to sign -- and having to weaponize a torn labrum in order to force the hand of the front office into finally caving.The situation with Prescott is still currently positive on both sides, but never forget how unforgiving the proce s can be. To that point, team exec Stephen Jones started trying to anchor Prescott's contract request months ago. While he has continually praised Prescott, the master tactician also began the predictable move of negotiating through the media, as he Freddie Gillespie Jersey 's done with Lawrence and as NFL teams routinely do -- the goal being to tilt leverage in their favor via fan pre sure and news headlines. That's why you'll hear Jones project Prescott as the waiting king of the financial roster throne in Dallas, but in the same breath remind you why he shouldn't be paid like Wilson."You're talking about two guys there between Aaron Rodgers and between Ru sell Wilson that have won Super Bowls and that have had succe s, year-in and year-out," team exec Stephen Jones told 105.3FM the Fan this offseason. "That have taken their teams to the playoffs. Both of them have been to a couple of Super Bowls. Well, at least I know Ru sell has been."Those are guys who are going to make those types of jumps, but I'm not concerned. I think that, at the end of the day, if there's any position that has to keep an eye out not only for themselves but they also have to keep an eye out on their team in terms of how much cap space they take up these quarterbacks are those guys. At the end of the day, they're going to make a lot of money. The bigger thing for them in terms of their career, and what they're all about is how much Willie Cauley-Stein Jersey did they win? "How many Super Bowl rings do they have on their fingers? Those are all huge deals and they know at some point if they take up too much cap space at the end of the day it could hurt their chances of winning."Make no mistake about it, these are fair stances to take, but so is Prescott wanting to maximize the earnings on his second contract after being paid 10x le s to do much more than Wentz -- as one example. Comparing those two reveals just how compelling Prescott's argument is, statistically speaking.Here are their career numbers, side-by-side.Games playedRegular season recordPlayoff recordPa sing YardsTDINTAccuracy (%)YPCRating4QCGWDSackedCarson Wentz4023-170-010,152702863.7011.092.54492Dak Prescott5032-161-111,670722765.2411.295.9814113There are admittedly more variables that go into a se sing who's subjectively better -- like film, injury/absence of satellite stars, etc. -- but Prescott trumps Wentz in a statistical head-to-head, and that includes being 4-2 against the . Contrarily, Wentz is 2-3 when facing the Prescott and Co. The above numbers are quite telling in a variety of ways, and while one side of the aisle will say "if the Cowboys weren't losing so often, Prescott wouldn't need to come from behind all the time," it could also be argued that if Wentz was more succe sful late in the game, the Eagles would have a better win-lo s record with him at the helm.None of this is to say Wentz isn't capable of being elite, because he is, but the reality is the reality, and Wentz has been indirectly chasing Prescott since they both entered the league in 2016.To the Cowboys' point, though, Wilson and -- the latter owning the throne as highest-paid NFL QB prior to the former landing his 2019 payday -- both have Super Bowl appearances and the hardware to show for it, and that's why Prescott's deal will likely not eclipse what was witne sed in the Pacific Northwest. The fourth-year QB does have other things that do move the needle in a very real way for him, however. His 32-16 regular season record has only four fewer wins than Wilson's first three years in the league and five more wins than Rodgers in his first triad of seasons as a starter.Keeping with comparisons of the first three seasons of each QB, Prescott's touchdown-to-interception ratio is directly comparable to that of Wilson, and his 67% accuracy rate surpa ses both Wilson and Rodgers in that category. Wilson obviously bests all three by appearing in two Super Bowls in his first three seasons and winning one of them, and that's why Prescott won't blow past his contract numbers, but there's more than enough evidence to support him landing Boban Marjanovic Jersey a deal that pays him no le s than $32 millio