Get excited about Deion Sanders as the next coach of the Dallas Cowboys all you want. There’s a great deal to like.
He’s larger-than-life “Coach Prime”, after all. He was a two-sport legend, the only man to ever play in a World Series and a Super Bowl. He was a starting cornerback on the last Cowboys team to win a Super Bowl.
But fans who want Deion to be hired to replace Mike McCarthy are getting a little ahead of themselves. Sure, Deion’s son Shedeur Sanders, a top college quarterback, gave his stamp of approval on Dad going to coach the Cowboys.
“I think it would be cool,” Shedeur said while attending the Dallas Mavericks game Tuesday night.
FanDuel got drunk on the hype this week, sending out a social media message that projected the Cowboys hiring Deion, trading Dak Prescott to the Tennessee Titans for the No. 1 pick in April’s NFL Draft and selecting Shedeur.
Said the X post in bold print: “WHO SAYS NO?”
Um, Dak Prescott. That’s who.
Hate to throw a bucket of cold reality on the hottest rumor in the NFL, but Deion and Shedeur aren’t a package deal. Not in Dallas, anyway. The idea that Deion will become the Cowboys coach and that they will somehow engineer a trade from 12th to first in the draft to select Shedeur and then the two will lead a revival of winning football in DFW much like they did in Boulder, Colorado, is pure fiction.
Even if the Cowboys could finagle drafting Shedeur, how would he fit behind Prescott and – for that matter – behind another quarterback Jerry Jones spent a draft pick to trade for, Trey Lance?
Prescott’s contract, which he signed before the start of this season, includes a no-trade clause and a $103 million “dead money” hit to the salary cap if he is traded before June 1.
In other words, Prescott is all but untradable. What, do the Cowboys trade up for Shedeur to have him sit? Do the Cowboys cut Dak and give the job to Shedeur?
The Cowboys don’t have their coach, but they already have their quarterback.
Deion to Dallas makes some sense. Deion and Shedeur to Dallas doesn’t.
