The Dez Bryant contract is one of the great illusions in sports history. For all the talk from Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones that the team didn't put any safeguards in the contract, it is in fact a series of safeguards built around one main objective:
Win a Super Bowl now and then hope Bryant can make it through three years.
On face value, the five-year, $70 million deal that Bryant agreed to last Wednesday looks impressive. The $45 million guarantee is the second-most that any wide receiver has ever been promised, trailing only the $48 million figure Calvin Johnson got in 2012 from Detroit.