So, we shouldn't trade players until they reach their potential? That makes no sense at all. I'm not saying we should give him away and you have no idea what he might bring in the open market. He is a luxury a bad team can't afford. We need drafts picks more than we need another WR. We do need a DT, LB, Safety, and OL.
First off great teams are made of skill set playmakers. That is just a fact. You have people at specific positions who make plays when the great moments come. Hence, why they called Irvin Playmaker. You build your team around those guys. They are the ones during the championship drive that make the catch, get the first down, score the winning TD.
Lamb may be close to a once in a generation receiver. I suspect they will pack another 8-10 pounds on him in a couple of off seasons. This will address the durability concerns the hand wringing set are worried about. But his skill set is remarkable, and those guys are virtually untradeable
Further, regardless of what this season appears to be, there is talent on this team. The results we see is more circumstantial than lack of talent. Certainly there are areas of need, but this isn't like this team doesn't have quality players. This new coach, no training camp, no off season prefect storm hit this team hard. Marry in a rash of fumbles and injuries and they are where they. But that does not mean a solid draft and perhaps a couple of FA, with second year players coming on and this team turns this whole thing around next season.
Further, there is some undone business with these three wideouts, Schultz and Jarwin, and Dak. There is money still on the table and these guys have a potential which can be reached and is not pie in the sky.
The biggest fallacy is what Parcells said that
you are what you are. There is not a one size fits all in any category of football. Each instances is unique of itself. Even on the same team. Jeff Heath is a prime example. Most fans here were all for cutting him every year. He was perhaps the most unanimously despised player on this team. But he goes to another team and is showing something. Is it the coaching staff? Is it the players around him? It doesn't matter. His results here were never going to be the same somewhere else because of the chaos theory.
So when you look at this team and believe there are a great number of holes thus the team needs to trade away a budding star, that is Madden mindset and not reality. This team is not the 1989 Cowboys or even near it.
Finally, you see a guy like Lamb fall to the team. How many teams that drafted before Dallas would - at this precise moment - like to redo the draft and have a shot at him?
But your theory of trading him away for draft picks suggests they would be able to go get a group of players who would offset his talent and future.
Do you actually watch the drafts here?
Lamb is not going anywhere, and only fans come up with these kind of ideas. It smells of desperation. Is wrong headed. And ain't gonna happen. And neither is a trade of Cooper or Gallup.
