ESPN's trade idea for Cowboys

No thanks. He's always hurt for some reason and is always partying. I live in Miami, I would know.
 
They did 11 midseason trade ideas. Click the link for the other 10. Here's the one involving the Cowboys.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...rnwell?platform=amp&__twitter_impression=true

Miami WR DeVante Parker to Dallas

The details: The Miami Dolphins trade Parker to the Dallas Cowboys for 2019 sixth-round pick.

Let's start with a logical move. The Cowboys are absolutely bereft of wide receiver weapons for Dak Prescott. During Sunday's loss to the Houston Texans, Prescott's three top wideouts -- Cole Beasley, Michael Gallup and Allen Hurns -- caught three passes on nine targets for 17 yards. His fourth option, Tavon Austin, caught one pass for 44 yards on a play in which Prescott scrambled and made a desperate off-schedule throw. Prescott is struggling. His receivers are struggling. The Cowboys need to work on fixing both of these problems.

No team is dealing a star wideout at midseason unless they have Josh Gordon-sized red flags, so let's get the Cowboys a wide receiver with upside who has been held back by injuries. Parker was a breakout candidate before the 2016 and 2017 seasons, but things never quite launched for a variety of reasons. In 2016, the Dolphins threw the ball only 477 times, fewer than any team besides the Buffalo Bills. Prorate Parker's 56-744-4 line to a league-average number of pass attempts and you get something more like 67 catches for 891 yards and five scores, which seems more promising.

In 2017 and again in 2018, the issue has been injuries. Parker racked up 230 receiving yards in the first three weeks of 2017, admittedly mostly in garbage time, but then an ankle sprain cost him the better part of four games. He has missed time with a broken finger and a quadriceps injury this season, and while he seems close to returning, the Dolphins have run out of patience for their former first-round pick.

Miami is going to go forward with its expensive trio of wideouts, Danny Amendola, Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson, which makes sense. The Dolphins picked up Parker's fifth-year option before the season, which isn't surprising given their financial ineptitude, so the Cowboys would be acquiring Parker for a late-round pick in the hopes that he flourishes over the next year-plus. They could get out of Parker's $9.4 million salary in 2019 without penalty if Parker doesn't get hurt, which is the only reason they shouldn't take a flier on a wideout who has the sort of athletic traits the current group can't touch.

Trade for a guy who is injury prone? No, I don't think so.
 
well Parker might night be the answer but if they want to END the Dak is the issue vs WR is the issue they need to trade now for a frontline starter.. go make a bonehead trade like they did for Galloway and Roy Williams in a season and satisfy this Fans desire to blame one or both and the fact that the FO wont go try and get better.. when it fails then you wil blame them for wasting picks and taking too much risk.. no one WILL EVER BE HAPPY IN DCFANDOM...

so whos available what team would be willing to trade a true #1? for what price ET type deal? would ya?
 
I would rather trade a 4th or 5th rounder for Golden Tate. Yes, he’s a jerk but he’s in a contract year. He could be that veteran, reliable WR who has serious YAC potential.

I would too, but it's unrealistic to think the Lions would do the deal. Tate has been a 1,000+ yard receiver the last 2 years, and 3 of the last 4 years, and is a go to guy on a contending team.
 
hopefully an affordable one.
but when was the last time we made an in-season trade?
not holding my breath.

How often do any teams make an in season trade? It's rare, and especially early in the year when most teams still have playoff hopes and don't want to derail that by giving up the key players they chose to go into the season with. Accordingly, the only way to pry away a key player early in the season would be to seriously overpay for him.
 
I would trade for Brate in Tampa.

They have their TE of the future and might be winning to part with him.
I mentioned that idea in the roster section a few weeks back and completely agree. Someone else pointed out it would make little sense for them to trade him at this point due to his contract already being guaranteed or something like that. Would love to get him here in the offseason though. Maybe trade them a second round pick for him (we all know that we can't draft TE's in the second round anyway!)
 
Need two good tight ends. Need a quick big target due to poor QB protection.

All we have to do is incorporate the TEs we have into the game plans. They aren't going to be star players, but they can be solid contributing players. We finally put them to use this past game and the result was 5 catches for 98 yards.
 
Why? The TE's had 5 catches on 5 targets for like 98 yards or like 45% of our passing yards. The problem rests squarely on play calling & person responsible for delivering the ball on time & on target.
Well if you don’t have time to throw, you might consider a big, athletic, able to block well, find the holes quickly tight end. I don’t see any of the WRs as big targets.
 
Need two good tight ends. Need a quick big target due to poor QB protection.
I would see if DGB is ready to play football like everyone knows he can. If his mind is right, he could come in and line up at TE with his 6'6 240lb frame and force teams to respect the position like when Witten was in his prime. I would bring in Darren Waller too...this offense needs big and fast receiving threats.
 
A lot of short term thinking around here.

You'd be getting a highly regarded draft prospect in here for a late round pick. Give him a chance to develop for the future when we might have a real QB.

And have to pay him $9 million next year to keep him? While your 2019 draft pick goes bye-bye? Who's truly being "short sighted"?
 
I know. No move does. So you make a few. You don’t scrap any improvement because it doesn’t solve everything.


If they wanted to add a wr, josh gordon should have been it. These wr's aren't that bad as it is. Austin and thompson have been better than expected.Dak needs confidence and trust, mostly in himself but also with what he has available to him.
 

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