Stephen A. Smith is Going to Keep Yelling Until Cowboys' Guaranteed Money Offer to Dak Prescott Leaks

This whole Dak Prescott thing has gotten out of hand. After reportedly coming close to a contract extension worth a gaudy $33 million per year with his fair Dallas Cowboys back in September only to see things fall through, the situation between the parties just keeps souring. After being forced to use the franchise tag on their QB to keep him around in 2020, Big D is no closer to an agreement with the summer suddenly approaching.

Strangely, we still don't have a sense of how the offer on the table has evolved in real terms since last fall, specifically in terms of guaranteed money. That shouldn't sit well with Cowboys fans, to say the very least, but it certainly rubs one man the wrong way: Stephen A. Smith, who more or less cast himself as the victim in this narrative on Monday's edition of ESPN's "Get Up."

Look, nobody thinks Dak is worth the $35 million AAV that Russell Wilson earns on his record-setting deal. He's a Pro Bowler coming off his best statistical season, however, so it's hard to suggest he deserves to make less than the increasingly unimpressive Jared Goff, Smith's chosen punching bag.

Sadly, we can all cherry-pick bad contracts, especially among quarterbacks, that would seem to suggest Dak deserves not a penny less than that fallen-by-the-wayside $33 million annual figure. From one point of view, the market for QBs has already been set and there's nothing Jerry and Stephen Jones can do to change that. But the fact remains that Dak Prescott is not a top-three or even top-five quarterback in the NFL, and paying him like he is would be financially ruinous for the franchise.

That's not Dak's fault, and Stephen A. is a victim in no part of this footballing imbroglio. But given the lack of progress here -- and the fact that the franchise tag is an insult -- he's not so wrong to be just about ready to blow his stack.