Don’t expect the Dallas Cowboys to be overly aggressive at the trade deadline.
As the Cowboys enter the NFL trade deadline, pundits expect Dallas to be buyers. The Cowboys have a number of key areas they can improve, including running back and cornerback. However, don’t expect Dallas to be the one making the calls. According to team owner Jerry Jones, other teams are going to have to be the aggressors in order for a trade to be completed involving the Cowboys.
“It’d have to come my way,” Jones told 105.3 FM the Fan on Tuesday. “I don’t want to preclude anything in any way, but it always does. You have a lot of machinations that you’re working through there. The initiation of an opportunity to make a trade at this time that would help us, principally, would have to start on the other end.”
Jerry Jones Explains Approach to Trading at Deadline
While Jones brings up how the initiation would have to start the other way, he stresses that the team’s game plan entering the deadline is not from a “lack of aggressiveness.”
“That’s not showing a lack of aggressiveness; it’s just that’s where it starts. I like where we are with our personnel today. I’m not thinking, in any way, that we need to upgrade our roster.
The Cowboys have been no stranger to big trades over the past year. Prior to the start of the 2023 season, Dallas completed three major trades that saw them acquire former 1,000-yard receiver Brandin Cooks, former Defensive Player of the Year Stephon Gilmore, and former No. 3 overall pick Trey Lance.
Those three trades saw Dallas flip late-round draft capital, including a fourth-round draft pick, two fifth-round draft picks and a sixth-round draft pick
