Supposedly Byron Jones and Jourdan Lewis have been made available for trades

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Trade the Pro Bowl DE, trade the Pro Bowl CB, trade the Pro Bowl RB... I've heard em all, but someone is considered nutz if they say trade the QB? Bump it trade everybody and have a revolving door of draft picks and trades once a player good enough to get big money...oh except interior OL???
 

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So we finally develop a decent secondary aside from safety and now we are going to trade it away? What is this obsession with draft pics. Are we the development league for the rest of the league?
 

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This is dumb. Hard to believe the Cowboys would consider wanting to trade either one of these players who are young and can play DB very well. I would rather trade D-Law and his constantly injured, aging body and greedily demanding $22.5 mil/season self, than the much younger and cheaper to keep Byron Jones and Jourdan Lewis.

We can't BJ. Remember Dak, Zeke and Coop will be up for contacts. I assume they Looking for at least a 3rd.
 

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We used a 1st for byron and hes one of the best corners in the league. If they trade him away for a second or 3rd rounder something is seriously wrong with this fo.
 

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I'm 100% on board with trading Lewis. He had the 4th most snaps at CB last year and he was way behind Brown in 3rd place.

We wont get a good comp pick for him. We're not using him. He's got enough upside to be worth something to teams that would use him. He's affordable. Perfect trade candidate.

I dont know about Byron Jones. He's under contract for another year and was a NFL top CB for most of last year. He had the most snaps at CB. That's not going to be easy to replace.

How tough is it to replace zero INT's?
 

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Lewis I can see. He's a dime corner at best here and is worth more to a zone team than he is to us.

Byron... I really don't. Dude looks like a stud CB, and he's very, very low risk. 4 totally healthy seasons in a row, 26 years old, elite athleticism, good technique, one of the smartest guys on the team, ambitious off the field, zero character issues.... I'd give him 5 years $75M tomorrow. And I bet you he'd live up to every cent of it.

Inb4 "he's not elite! he doesn't get picks!" He pretty much took Odell Beckham out of the game when we played the Giants... how much do you figure a defender who can erase an $18M receiver is worth?

I didn't see him "erasing" anybody in week 17, or late in the season, when teams actually started testing - and beating - him. As a matter of fact, he made former Broncos bust Cody Latimer look good.

Everything you say about Jones character and work ethic is true. And it's also true that he doesn't get his hands on the ball.

I'd sell high on him if I could too.
 

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They are about to treat cornerback like running back. Gonna try and find one and never pay big money for one. They are penny pinching and that’s fine but what’s the end game?
 

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If true, I believe they would be trying to get a 1 to get Oliver

Ps. I'd trade Jones in a second.
 

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How tough is it to replace zero INT's?
It’s not but you can’t deny his skill last year. He didn’t have many chances to get picks. I’m not against trading him or Lewis but there comes a point where you have to ask if it’s worth it and if you are getting a 2nd for Byron or a 5th for Lewis? Not worth it.
 

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To be fair, CBs disappearing isn't a bad thing. I want the turnovers but I'm not turning my nose up at a shutdown guy. He can be that.

I saw teams avoiding him early on in the season. And later in the season, when they realized that the worst thing that could happen to them was an incomplete pass, they tested him more. And then more than that. And they had success. And I expect teams to look at that film and realize that the worst thing that happens is an incomplete pass and they'll test him even more in 2019.

I'd sell high too if I could rather than paying him $15 million a year.
 

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I saw teams avoiding him early on in the season. And later in the season, when they realized that the worst thing that could happen to them was an incomplete pass, they tested him more. And then more than that. And they had success. And I expect teams to look at that film and realize that the worst thing that happens is an incomplete pass and they'll test him even more in 2019.

I'd sell high too if I could rather than paying him $15 million a year.

Precisely.
 

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It’s not but you can’t deny his skill last year. He didn’t have many chances to get picks.

I "cant deny" that he started strong. But I also can't deny that once teams realized that he's zero threat to take the ball away, they started testing him more, and having more success. Fact is, he's lucky that the Pro Bowl vote happened as early as it did, because he wouldn't have made it based on his entire season of work.

I’m not against trading him or Lewis but there comes a point where you have to ask if it’s worth it and if you are getting a 2nd for Byron or a 5th for Lewis? Not worth it.

I'd trade Byron for a top of the round 2nd round pick, but Lewis for a fifth? No, not interested.
 

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On another note.......Byron on the Colts would be a great fit.

It would, but I don't see the Colts giving up one of their premium picks. They're killing it in the draft lately.
 
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