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Get excited about\u00a0Deion Sanders\u00a0as the next coach of the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0all you want. There’s a great deal to like.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Super Bowl. He was a starting cornerback on the last Cowboys team to win a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
But fans who want Deion to be hired to replace\u00a0Mike McCarthy\u00a0are getting a little ahead of themselves. Sure, Deion’s son\u00a0Shedeur Sanders, a top college\u00a0quarterback, gave his stamp of approval on Dad going to coach the Cowboys.<\/p>\n
“I think it would be cool,” Shedeur said while attending the\u00a0Dallas Mavericks\u00a0game Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Tennessee Titans\u00a0for the No. 1 pick in April’s\u00a0NFL Draft\u00a0and selecting Shedeur.<\/p>\n
Said the X post in bold print: “WHO SAYS NO?”<\/p>\n
Um, Dak Prescott. That’s who.<\/p>\n
Hate to throw a bucket of cold reality on the hottest rumor in the\u00a0NFL, 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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
The Cowboys don’t have their coach, but they already have their quarterback.<\/p>\n
Deion to Dallas makes some sense. Deion and Shedeur to Dallas doesn’t.<\/p>\n
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