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The and quarterback were unable to reach an agreement on a long-term contract before Wednesday's 4 p.m. ET deadline for franchise players to sign multi-year deals. Prescott, who was designated as an exclusive franchise player, will play the 2020 season for a fully guaranteed $31.409 million. A last-ditch effort to strike a deal as the deadline approached was made. After months of a contract Seth Joyner Jersey stalemate, the final five-year offer averaged between $33 million and $35 million per year with $110 million in guarantees, of which $50 million was a signing bonus, according to . The first two contract years in the offer were for $70 million. Previous reports about the negotiations did not have as much specificity about what Dallas had put on the table but pegged the offer in the $35 million per year neighborhood. Here are some frequently asked questions relating to Prescott's situation. The biggest sticking point was the length of the contract. The Cowboys were insistent on a five-year deal, while Prescott only wanted to sign for four years. Prescott wanted the four-year deal to be better positioned to take advantage of the 's anticipated financial growth in the coming years. The salary cap is expected to increase significantly with the addition of a 17th regular season game and new media rights deals. Most of the current TV deals expire after the 2022 season. The 17th game most likely will be implemented at some point before the 2023 season. Prior to the blockbuster 10-year, $450 million contract extension (worth up to $500 million through incentives) signed with the last week, the trend had been for high-end quarterbacks deals to be shorter than what Dallas would have preferred. There are seven quarterbacks besides Mahomes with contracts averaging $30 million or more per year. signal caller is the only one of these seven whose deal contains more than four new contract years, as he signed a five-year contract extension. The average length for these seven quarterback deals is 3.57 new years. Since all seven deals were extensions (where they had at least one year remaining on their existing deals when signed), the quarterbacks are under contract for an average of five total years.Both sides were e sentially playing a high-stakes game of chicken to see who would blink first. Neither side blinked.It's unusual. Quarterbacks have only played on franchise tags three times in the 21st century. was the first in 2005 with the . played under franchise tags with the Washington franchise in 2016 and 2017. The Cowboys are prohibited from NFL Philadelphia Eagles Jersey signing Prescott to a multi-year contract until the end of the 2020 regular season on January 3, 2021. Prescott said all of the right things after the deadline pa sed. He expre sed and is focused on trying to win a in comments to USA Today Sports. Prescott will become an unrestricted free agent next offseason provided he Brian Dawkins Jersey isn't given a second franchise tag in 2021 for $37,690,800 at a CBA-mandated 20 percent raise. A transition tag would be at the same amount as the franchise tag but would only provide the Cowboys with a right to match an offer sheet from another team.Prescott can be dealt to another team until the 2020 season trading deadline at 4 p.m. ET on November 3. A team must have enough salary cap room to absorb Prescott's current salary of $31.409 million in order to make a trade before the beginning of the regular season. During the season, a team must have the cap room to take on the prorated amount of Prescott's salary. For example, a team acquiring Prescott four weeks into the season must have $24,018,647 of cap room available for 13/17ths of his franchise tag. The prohibition on signing a long-term deal until the season ends also applies to the new team with a trade. Practically speaking, a Prescott trade isn't going to happen. Holding out would be pointle s and expensive. Prescott signed his $31.409 million franchise tender about three weeks ago and can't sign long term until January 2021 at the earliest anyway. Since Prescott has signed, he is contractually obligated to perform services once training camp starts. Prescott would be subject to a mandatory fine of $50,000 for each day of training Zach Ertz Jersey camp he mi sed because he is under contract.Barring a serious injury or major regre sion by Prescott this season, the expectation is Dallas will designate Prescott as an exclusive franchise player again in 2021. The Cowboys getting a deal done with Prescott before the end of the designation period next March would be surprising. Prescott would have little incentive to sign before the Cowboys had to decide whether to let him become a free agent.A second franchise tag would be harder for the Cowboys to handle from a salary cap standpoint. Prescott's current tag is 15.85 percent of the league-wide $198.2 million salary cap. League revenues are expected to drop because of the COVID-19 pandemic and have an impact on the 2021 salary cap due to games potentially being played in empty stadiums or in front of limited fans. At best, the salary cap will likely remain flat provided the NFL and NFLPA agree to spread out 2020 revenue lo ses over multiple league years. Prescott's 2021 tag would be 19.02 percent of the salary cap with it remaining at $198.2 million next year. Dallas already has nearly $177 million in 2021 salary cap commitments without signing any of the players that were selected in the 2020 , which would increase the number. In order to accommodate a second Prescott franchise tag next year, Dallas will need to restructure contracts to create salary cap room, negotiate pay cuts with contracted players and/or release some players.Prescott getting another franchise tag becomes unlikely depending on the severity of the injury. The kind of contract offers Prescott rejected may not be available from Dallas or any other team in free agency next offseason. Brees suffered at a career-threatening shoulder injury at the end of the 2005 season while playing with the Chargers on a franchise tag. Despite the nature and timing of the injury, Brees signed a six-year, $60 million contract with the as an unrestricted free agent in 2006. That was second-tier quarterback money at the time. Brees had only been named to one Pro Bowl in five NFL seasons when he signed with the Saints. Concu sion i sues would probably be more problematic for Prescott than a shoulder injury like the one Brees had. Generally, the longer a team waits to sign a Pro Bowl caliber player, the more costly it is. Any offers discu sed in this year's negotiations will likely be considered obsolete by Todd France, Dak Prescott's agent, because Jake Elliott Jersey his client would have succe sfully incurred the risk of injury and poor performance again to get franchised for a second straight year. The cost of franchising Prescott a second time in 2021 should become the starting point for serious negotiations to France. That's what happened with defensive end when he was designated a franchise player for a second conse