
Hey, if you’re gonna blow smoke…blow hard.
That’s my gently sarcastic view of a Yahoo sports roundtable featuring a collection of otherwise-responsible NFL observers who are pushing your Dallas Cowboys to make a roster move.
And – in the chase for readership, which I surely do understand – Yahoo opts to think big.
Yahoo is suggesting that Dallas engineer a trade for an All-Pro cornerback.
And it’s all nonsense, of course.
Not that it is illogical to look at the Cowboys defensive roster and see a hole at cornerback. There are questions about the availability of rehabbing Trevon Diggs and really, outside of DaRon Bland, the questions keep coming.
So Yahoo’s Nate Tice “proposed a move that would finally land Jalen Ramsey in Dallas, completing a circle that arguably should’ve happened back in the 2016 NFL Draft, when the Cowboys selected Ezekiel Elliott fourth overall instead of Ramsey, who went one pick later to the Jacksonville Jaguars,” as the site writes.
We’re not sure about a “circle,” but we are sure that Yahoo is ignoring what the Cowboys have told us, first sourced behind the scenes and then on the record from COO Stephen Jones.
“No,” Jones said recently when asked if Dallas is chasing a trade with Miami for the 30-year-old Ramsey, who the Dolphins are trying to dump for cap purposes.
“I think he ages well because I think he can play corner, he could play the slot and I think he’ll transition to safety as his career goes along,” Tice said. “I think he’s on that Charles Woodson arc career arc.”
OK, but we’re getting way ahead of ourselves here. Dallas doesn’t want Ramsey at $24 million for 2025, and Dallas certainly doesn’t want the entirety of his $72 million contract.
So why are we talking about a future “career arc”? Why are we talking about Ramsey to Dallas at all?
Because folks are…”blowing hard.” That’s why.