One Giants site believes the G-Men have a better quarterback group than Dak Prescott.
We disagree on things as a fanbase. It is normal. Something that one person believes is great is viewed as utter trash by another. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and therefore our opinions on things differ from time to time. Again, that is to be expected.
One of the most divisive issues among Dallas Cowboys fans specifically is always the quarterback who plays for the team. This is true of Dak Prescott, was true of Tony Romo before him and will be true for all of time. Unless you are lifting Lombardi Trophies you are subject to ridicule. That is the game, for better or worse.
However you feel about Dak Prescott is one thing, but there is an element about who he is and his abilities as a quarterback that we should all agree on.
Big Blue View ranked the Giants quarterbacks ahead of Dak Prescott
This time of year is known for thinking, speculating and pontificating. We are in the most doldrum-y doldrum of the offseason, after all.
Recently our friends at Big Blue View conducted an interesting exercise and ranked the position groups on offense across the entire NFC East. This is a fun thing to think about, although with the Philadelphia Eagles serving as reigning Super Bowl Champions it is a bit less fun than normal.
BBV handed out points for each ranking. If a team had the best player at a certain group they received four points, if they were second they received three, so on and so forth. At the end of the exercise they tabulated all of the math to see how things shook out. You can read their analysis here.
As is customary they started with the quarterback position. BBV ranked Jayden Daniels ahead of Jalen Hurts which may strike some as outlandish, but obviously there is some context and nuance involved in that conversation. Jalen Hurts is good, but uniquely so and that requires an expansive conversation. We are not here to have that one, though.
We are here today because BBV ranked the Giants quarterback situation (Russell Wilson, Jameis Winston and Jaxson Dart) ahead of Dak Prescot. This is the same Dak Prescott who the Giants have lost 13 straight games against, by the way.
The No. 3 spot is controversial, but should it be? Let me preface this by saying no Giants quarterback is as talented as Dak Prescott. I have praised Prescott for years. He’s underrated, cerebrally gifted, and he has above-average arm talent. Still, he is the highest-paid player in NFL history, with a $50.5 million cap hit in 2025 and $ 231 million guaranteed. That’s a lot of cash, and his contract has a no-trade clause.
He’s also 31 years old and missed most of last season with a torn hamstring that required surgery. I’m a big fan of Prescott, but there’s plenty of reason to pause when one looks at his contractual situation.
That brings us to the Giants and why they are ahead of Dallas. It’s simple; the Giants have two veteran quarterbacks signed to relatively inexpensive short-term deals and a rookie first-round pick whom Brian Daboll gushes over. If Dart strikes bullseye, the Giants have a 22-year-old cost-effective quarterback contract on the books. Plus, New York has a plan to allow Dart time to develop, while also possibly playing competitive football with either Russell Wilson or Jameis Winston. Dallas takes the one, New York snags the two.
Brian Daboll gushing over one of his team’s players is hardly a reason to slot him ahead of anyone, but there is too much else to react to.
The author here is arguing that Dak trails the Giants quarterback room from a cost-efficiency standpoint. That is fair! Dak certainly costs more than Wilson, Winston and Dart combined and then some. Nobody disagrees there.
But as users pointed out in the comment section at BBV, this rationale was not used for literally any other position in the analysis. Even if you want to lump contractual value into things, you can make a very strong argument (I’m sure Brian Schottenheimer would and since we are counting Brian Daboll’s gushing as a value) that Dak is worth his current contract relative to what the Giants have going on. Just because the Giants have some lower-value quarterbacks on their roster does not make them good. Wilson and Winston were available for what they were because they are not very good. Dart is admittedly an unknown commodity, but he was so important to the Giants (even with all of the gushing) that they let him fall almost out of the first round entirely before ending his slide.
Again, no one here is advocating for anything other than the fact that there is no argument on this planet or any other in our solar system that the Giants have a more preferable quarterback situation to the Cowboys. Even Prescott’s biggest critics likely agree with this.
Once again, the Giants have lost 13 straight games to Prescott-led Cowboys teams.
