Really - chasing Watkins and making a high dollar contract offer doesn't make the point that the Cowboys were looking to build a better receiving group than they ended up with? If that's your claim you are seriously lacking in the ability to reach a logical conclusion. That and/or you are just unwavering in your commitment to your personal narrarite regardless where facts lead.
As for your claim that I said Dak wasn't in any way considered in this - please show me where I said that? You won't be able to, because you fabricated that for the sake of an argument.
What I said was that Dak did not tell the team he wasn't interested in better receivers than he was given, and that the team didn't put the decisions on what receivers they signed solely in Dak's hand. Your narrative is that by signing Cooper the team was bailing Dak out for what you claim was Dak's decision to not different or better receivers, as if the team has no responsibility for team talent and the players are the ones calling all the shots on where talent needs to be added and who that talent is. It's a nonsensical narrative.
As for Dak putting on a good face after the fact, that's what players do all the time. But if you don't think players do that, I'll just wait for you to provide examples of QB's who have complained before a season that he has lousy receivers to work with and that he expects the offense to fail because of it.
I don't have to show you where I 'said anything', because I'm not refuting you. You entered yourself into the conversation and tried to refute "my narrative" with completely inaccurate claims, including that Watkins, who sucked with the Rams, was actually being sought after by the Rams.
Let me summarize what your essential 'narrative' to counter my narrative was. You tried to refute me by saying Dak didn't want these WRs, basically knew they sucked and just "put on smiley face". It was YOU that claimed that Dak wasn't part of this process by saying "he just put on a smiley face" and I said it's ridiculous to assume that Dak wasn't part of it. IT WAS YOU THAT CLAIMED DAK WAS JUST A VICTIM TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES, NOT I.
That's nonsense. Hell, the team chased Sammy Watkins - do you think they didn't get him because Dak told them no? The Cowboys got outbid.
Hell, TO was acquired without the Cowboys consulting Bill Parcells, and now you are trying to argue that Dak dictated who the 2018 receivers would be?
Even if that nonsense was true, it doesn't make an iota of sense to suggest Dak would advise the team he didn't want quality receiving options. No NFL QB would do that.
Ultimately the Cowboys assumed they could make something happen and failed at it, and after the fact Dak was just trying to put a good face on it.
Whether Dallas went to pursue other WRs, nobody on this planet denied. And nobody is claiming QBs would not love to have a line-up of DeAndre Hopkins, a prime Larry Fitzgerald and Randy Moss to throw to. That's another bogus tangent your adding into the argument.
This is without even discussing the fact you brought up Watkins as an example of a "legit" WR, while he completely sucked with the Rams previously, even though you thought the Rams were pursuing him in line with Dallas. This is without even discussing the fact that you bringing up TO actually further cements the point regarding Dez, because both WRs were viewed as reasons for the offense suffering, because they were 'distractions.
Further, pursuing WRs is not mutually exclusive to the fact they thought these WRs were going to be an improvement over Dez and plenty of Dak-stans on there thought Hurns was going to make them better, but now they pretend like they never asserted it. The reason they went to pursue other WRs, is because they wanted to get rid of Dez, who they believed was a distraction for Dak and an excuse for his awful play in 2017, because he was supposedly causing Dak to not spread the bad around and force it to him. This was further cemented by the claim that Dak had majority of his success in 2016, throwing to Beasley, not Dez.
All of what you claim is contradicted by the fact of everything I said and you still haven't refuted a single point. Dak called out Dez while Jones called him a distraction in 2017, while Dak completely sucked in 2017. Jones defended Dak after his awful 2017 season, Dallas went and looked for WRs to replace Dez, who they believed was a distraction, the Cowboys went for Watkins, who didn't want to play here and then went to Hurns, who signed and the organization immediately dumped Dez, Dak fired his agent and hired France after the offense became
ak-friendly", Dak came out and said he didn't 'need a number 1', Dak refused his extension after taking a week to throw a TD in training camp as if him not throwing a TD in training camp for a week was the WRs fault, per the natural corollary of your argument, which is comical.
So every action of Dak refutes your narrative, not mine. And then Dak has the audacity to talk about 'respect' in his interview. That is the reality.