From a football standpoint, Frederick's absence will result in a bad snowball effect for the Cowboys when they are finalizing the Roster.
The team just wasn't prepared for dealing with the absence of TF whether through injury or illness.
Unlike the skills positions, most teams don't have singular backups for interior linemen. The cowboys, like most other teams, have dual purpose backups to cover the interior linemen should they get injured.
And usually, the dual-backups are not legitimate starter material but have skills to provide relief hopefully for a short period of time until the stater returns.
Dallas attempted to cover their bases by signing Looney, Martin, and Fleming. Fleming is a Swing tackle so the team was relying on Looney and Martin to fill in, hopefully, on a sparing basis. But now with Travis out, the problem is exasperated by Martin being lost for the year. Looney was to backup the Center and guard positions. Now he has to solely focus on Center and now the backup guard will either have to be one of the URFA's we signed or a vet off of someone's roster after cuts are made.
As a result, the team may be forced to carry more Olineman than they had planned which will result in going short and cutting players at other positions in order to shore up the Oline.
It is likely that they will have to release or expose a player or two on the Practice Squad.
The situation becomes even dire if teh backup Olineman also suffer an injury.
At that point, the once strength of this team will be even more compromised and result in this team struggling to reach it's potential.
