Nick Wright Predicts Shocking ‘Package Deal’ Involving Bill Belichick

There’s been a lot of talk surrounding the futures of Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott and former Patriots head coach Bill Belichick — for very different reasons.

Prescott is entering the final year of his contract with Dallas, while Belichick theoretically could return to coaching in 2025, one year after his New England departure.

There’s certainly a world where the two link up in Dallas, where the Cowboys might decide to move on from Mike McCarthy if they fail to meet expectations this season, but Nick Wright floated another idea Tuesday on FS1’s “The Herd with Colin Cowherd.”

“I’ve been saying it. I will keep saying it. I really think Dak Prescott-Bill Belichick package deal to the New York Giants a year from now is going to happen,” Wright said. “I think Bill gets to end where he started. I think the Giants get to rebrand entirely and steal the Cowboys’ quarterback. And Dak gets something like three years, 200 million dollars guaranteed, and that’s where this thing ends up going.”

This would be rather stunning. It’s rare to see a quarterback of Prescott’s caliber hit unrestricted free agency, and it’s long been assumed the Cowboys will do whatever it takes to keep the Pro Bowl QB in Dallas. Plus, we’re only one year removed from Brian Daboll earning NFL Coach of the Year honors with the Giants. The narrative in New York sure changed quickly.

But that’s the NFL, right? Maybe we should expect the unexpected by now.

“I think (the Cowboys) are terrified of being locked into a ceiling with Dak Prescott,” Wright said. “And I think you’re right about the money. Everyone that’s saying, ‘Oh my God, Dak could get 57, 58 million (dollars)’ — that is not accurate. It is a minimum of 60 — it is probably 65 million dollars a year — and I don’t think the Cowboys are going to pay it. Because if they were going to, they would’ve.”

The Cowboys are coming off a 2023 season in which they went 12-5 before losing to the Green Bay Packers in the wild-card round of the NFC playoffs. The Giants went 6-11 and missed the postseason.