Why the Jonathan Mingo trade could haunt Dallas in 2025

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If Mingo doesn't get targets and produce, this will haunt the Jones clan all year.

Why the Jonathan Mingo trade could haunt Dallas in 2025
3/1/2025

The new league year begins in a few weeks, which means many transactions will occur throughout the NFL. Trades will almost certainly happen. However, one trade in particular the Dallas Cowboys made last season may have lingering effects at the worth possible time.

The trade in question is the Cowboys acquiring Jonathan Mingo at the trade deadline from the Carolina Panthers for a fourth-round pick in this upcoming draft. The trade caught many off guard, likely because the Cowboys aren’t usually active during the deadline. Secondly, the compensation given for Mingo was laughable.



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CATCH17 said:
Yeah it was a bad deal.
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IMO they just jumped on something they perceived as value. They had a very high grade on him. Me and alot of others here liked him alot coming out too. They didnt put enough into scouting him as a pro player. Under 50% catch percentage, amd didn't improve year 2. I actually think it got worse here.

He is basically their 4th rounder, but they lose two years of control. That and his upside now appeara to be below average #3
 
JW82 said:
Brainless trade. Even it they had a 2nd grade on him. They had a year and a half of watching him do nothing and barely get snaps on an awful team to see they were wrong, and still threw a pick away on him.
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Maybe read the draft profile on him.
 
JW82 said:
Brainless trade. Even it they had a 2nd grade on him. They had a year and a half of watching him do nothing and barely get snaps on an awful team to see they were wrong, and still threw a pick away on him.
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Head Coach developing him. He developed a great quarterback once and stopped. Oh, that coach was likeable in the press.
 
Still was a completely baffling trade.

It really makes you wonder if Jerry woke up that day and said I want to do something at the trade deadline. Go make me a trade. I have a hard time believing a pro franchise would be run that way. But then again I have a hard time believing the Cowboys spent weeks analyzing Mingo and came to the conclusion as a front office that was a good trade.
 
This is why I don't want Jerry making any trades. His tendency to overpay for players he gets is remarkable and his tendency to accept underpayment for players he trades is even more so.

I don't think the Lance or Mingo trades were particularly bad ideas, but the compensation he sent to other teams to get these two players was way more than they were worth. Lance, for example, may have been the 3rd pick in the draft, but he has been in the league for a while and he failed to beat out Sam Darnold in SF. I would have offered a 6th round pick and walked away if SF didn't take it. SF was going to release him anyway.

The same with Mingo. Not a bad risk taking a chance on Mingo, just not for a 4th round pick.

Still, I would give Mingo a chance. Last season it seemed like every time Mingo was thrown the ball, it was an off target throw. Rush did not do him any favors.
 
The trade was made for one reason. Jerry was in the middle of being told by everyone how he completely screwed up the offseason and how the Cowboys were out of it and should be sellers at the deadline and Jerry kept telling everyone we were still in it in a desperate attempt to remain relevant and reverse the narrative that his incompetence as a GM was the main story of the 2025 season and the reason we stunk. So Jerry makes a trade thinking it convinced anyone other than his equally dopey son that we were actually still in it. Add to that the inability that this team has to understand that college scouting reports have little (not none, but little) value once a player has been in the NFL for a couple of years and there you go, we trade a valuable pick for a guy who probably shouldn't be dressing on game day on a decent team.
 
Jerry, like any successful businessman, knows his customers.

This trade had nothing to do with making the team better.

Jerry knew that all he needed to do was make some kind of move, no matter how big or small, and 75ish percent of the fans that were feeling out would be brought right back in.

He is smarter than his customers and it's not really close.
 
They may have hired some positional coaches that are good teachers including Junior Adams who was somewhat of a WR whisperer at Oregon. I'll wait to see what he can do with this group including Mingo.
 
big dog cowboy said:
If Mingo doesn't get targets and produce, this will haunt the Jones clan all year.

Why the Jonathan Mingo trade could haunt Dallas in 2025
3/1/2025

The new league year begins in a few weeks, which means many transactions will occur throughout the NFL. Trades will almost certainly happen. However, one trade in particular the Dallas Cowboys made last season may have lingering effects at the worth possible time.

The trade in question is the Cowboys acquiring Jonathan Mingo at the trade deadline from the Carolina Panthers for a fourth-round pick in this upcoming draft. The trade caught many off guard, likely because the Cowboys aren’t usually active during the deadline. Secondly, the compensation given for Mingo was laughable.



More: https://howboutdemcowboys.com/2025/02/27/why-the-jonathan-mingo-trade-could-haunt-dallas-in-2025/
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I thought it was an odd trade and I didn't see anything from Mingo last season to change my opinion that made me like it. But we have a different staff and an entire offseason with him to see where he fits so I can't fully write off the trade at this point.

I still don't understand harping over a day 3 pick as if it's a catastrophic move that is crippling we'll regret for years to come. Yes, you don't want to throw away picks for nothing but this is much different than throwing away first round picks.
 
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