The Cowboys were hoping that Tolbert could be their WR2 but he wasn’t producing like a WR2 when he replaced Cooks. I believe that’s why they traded for Mingo. We were clearly looking for a WR2. Mingo did virtually nothing despite being with us half the season and that led to the Pickens trade. This from Google.
“Why did Dallas trade for Mingo?
Now, with the Cowboys needing a No. 2 receiver to go alongside CeeDee Lamb, Stephen Jones has mentioned Mingo in glowing terms, stating that he has the potential to be a No. 2 receiver. We also heard at the beginning of April how hopeful Stephen was that Mingo could develop into something substantial this offseason. May 1, 2025”
Look man you act like none of us pay attention to what's being said some of it being self edited or your memories have gaps but even right up to the Pickens trade yes it has been said by our front office they believe that Tolbert guys like Mingo they have potential to be number two they said potential that they believe they have potential but they also said in the same sentences that are being edited out that they haven't arrived yet they haven't stepped up and took that and owned that job therefore they were looking outside for help.
Mingo was not traded to be a replacement for anyone,
he is a project they saw him as a potential future contributor that's it that's how all GMS look at it and I'm guarantee you there's a lot of very disappointed GM's when you see that Buffalo went out and got Stefan Diggs who got hurt then they went out and made a trade for Amari Cooper..
tell me about all those trades around the trade deadline that were all receivers was it Deontay something from Carolina everyone said oh yeah, we should have got him instead or amari Cooper...
I was going to do this out memory but here's those moves many of which people around here said the Cowboys were so ridiculous that they didn't go after one of these players like it could have changed our fate..
Look that over real close, and you tell me how anyone of those trades helped that team, are they even still on those teams ,there are others I can't even remember some of the names that floated around and yes Mingo traded for a 4th rounder was indeed a terrible use of a draft compensation.
he probably would have been available this year for us just to grab as a free agent or you could have offered a 6th they probably would have took it yes it was a bad trade nobody's saying that but don't act like the numbers being put up by all those guys including Brandon Cooks yes Tobert by far last year was better than Brandon Cooks..
His numbers were every bit as good as Debo Samuels pretty close to Cooper kupp for sure better than Michael Gallup amari Cooper Keenan Allen go look at their numbers last year you guys are dogging Tolbert, saying he didn't step up to be a wide receiver2 and yet a whole bunch of these guys on this list were brought over to be either number ones or number twos and they all had sad number of production..
Pretty much all played below expectations,
they did not impact their teams the way people around here act like these trades are supposed to and yeah Mingo was a mistake but dudes give me a break with the nonsense like Jerry the only one that makes mistakes and somehow his heads in the clouds these were all technically mistakes because they made no difference at all in the fate of their teams...
Again, I believe all of them are on different teams now yeah isn't that something you trade for players at the trade deadline they don't impact your team and then they're gone.
What I find ironic Deandre Hopkins is floating around everyone thinks he's a good player even right now the Ravens somehow are hyping this dude up in camp they realize that last year with the two teams he was on he had about 600 yards that's it total same thing with a lot of these guys on this list did not do as well as people thought or at least they weren't impactful.. Now they're hoping he's their primary target or at least brings over some kind of juice he has not over the last three years been even better than Tolbert that's my point you guys can rag on Tolbert all you want he's actually been doing pretty well and he's still in my opinion developing....
MY point is Mingo was a hopeful developmental player just like Trey Lance was and yeah you waste 4th rounders on those players it is definitely a mistake they were never brought over here to be clear starters to replace anyone.
If you think Tolbert was disappointing and I think he did a fine job compared to some of these bigger names people wanted over here including the ones that were still left in Amari Cooper and Keenan Allen right now his numbers were as good or better than many of these names.
I don't care what Jerry said or how you twisted what he said because you guys don't understand in his mind he's just talking and sometimes, they don't even know what's coming out of his mouth,
he never meant he that mingo was brought over to be the number 2 he's hopeful they develop into that of course he is he wasted a 4th rounder on him...
Now all we can hope now is mingo turns into Noah Brown or something that's at best that we could hope for..
Anything else would be gravy but yeah that's what we have for hope for him I mean it is his first full offseason here it's not fair to be judging a guy who was already raw underperforming and you bring him over mid season in a terrible year in which you lose your quarterback and your offensive line is shuffling you didn't have a strong run gaming it was just a bad year....
Dak put the ball in Hunter's breadbasket and he dropped it. Dak coughs up the ball plenty but that one was all Hunter Luepke.
