NFL trade deadline: Cowboys were in a 3-4 hole in ’18 and revived the season with a massive deal. Jerry Jones needs to go there again.

Let’s recap the past two weeks for the Dallas Cowboys.

They got paddled at home 47-9 by the Detroit Lions. Team owner Jerry Jones went from threatening to fire hosts on the team’s flagship radio station one week, to throwing head coach Mike McCarthy’s offensive scheme under the bus the next week. Quarterback Dak Prescott has continued to regress from his near-MVP form of 2023, with one of his worst back-to-back performances in years. A fully padded up cornerback, Trevon Diggs, confronted a media member outside the locker room following Sunday’s 30-24 defeat to the San Francisco 49ers, upset about a tweet that questioned his play. Oh, and lest we forget — Dallas has just entered the most difficult part of its schedule on another loss that appears to have left the team spiraling.

If this isn’t a five-alarm fire screaming for a shakeup, nothing is. And if Jones can’t see that, nothing will change.

This feels like 2018 all over again. That’s when the Cowboys were 3-4, coming off a loss to a mediocre Washington team, and looking like they were on the verge of nosing down into the abyss. Maybe the only differences between 2018 and now, Prescott was actually playing cleaner football six years ago, Jones wasn’t wound nearly as tight as he is now and the atmosphere around the team wasn’t as suffocating as the current environment. The 2018 Cowboys were at least bold enough to understand when a big swing was needed to salvage the season.

That’s where these Cowboys are right now, back in that familiar trench of mediocrity, facing a season that is threatening to get away from them, and needing to make a move that can get things back on track. In 2018, the answer to that problem was aggressive and exciting. More importantly, it was actually fruitful: the acquisition of then-24-year-old wideout Amari Cooper from the Raiders, a star player in a funk who needed a change of scenery.

A trade for Amari Cooper in 2018 pumped life into Dallas’ offense and helped get…

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Publish date : 2024-10-28 06:55:27

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