With Davante Adams and Amari Cooper being traded today, Mike and Cory ask if there are things Jerry Jones can do right now to improve the Cowboys.
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00:00That's where the other part of the conversation is, right?
00:02With Jerry, if you're having the discussion of where you're gonna get players,
00:05there are teams right now that are contenders.
00:07There are teams right now that are fighting to be contenders,
00:10and they're making moves.
00:11There are teams right now that are not contenders, and they're selling.
00:14Are you picking up the phone and calling those teams that are selling?
00:17That's saying that we can go find something.
00:18We can actually do something other than sitting on our hands
00:22and saying we can't do anything right now.
00:24We just have to sit and wait and hope that Mike McCarthy
00:26can do something special with the recipe that we've given him so far.
00:30And I think this is where Jerry's work ethic comes into question.
00:34If you're going to run the franchise the way he does,
00:36which is we only draft and then we sign C and D level free agents,
00:40and sometimes they end up being very good free agents.
00:42I'm not saying Eric Kendricks is not doing a good job
00:45when he's healthy on the field.
00:47He is.
00:48What I'm saying is, is if you're 100% into the draft and nothing else,
00:52you have to trade Demarcus Lawrence today.
00:54You have to trade Zach Martin today.
00:56You should have traded Tyron Smith three years ago.
00:58If you're only a drafting team
01:00and you have to get all of your players through the draft,
01:02then as your players have three or four years left,
01:05and I know Zach Martin's probably retiring at the end of the year
01:07and maybe he's not.
01:08Who knows, yeah.
01:09But like, that's how you have to do it.
01:13He just isn't.
01:14And the thing is, I know he's educated enough and I know he's super smart.
01:18He just doesn't care.
01:20That's why I quit the Cowboys.
01:21I know that the person running the Cowboys,
01:23his priority of winning is like third at best on his list.
01:26And I don't even think it's third,
01:27but I'll give him credit that it's third on his list.
01:30Is that if you're going to run it this way, Jerry,
01:33you have to trade guys right now.
01:36You have to start, you have to make players available
01:40that you know you're not going to sign long-term
01:43or you feel like you can't financially afford them long-term
01:47to then add a whole bunch of draft picks.
01:49Because if you're ever going to build a championship team
01:51just through draft picks and signing your own,
01:54then you have to accumulate 10 to 14 draft picks a year
01:59to do what you want to accomplish.
02:01But he can't think that far
02:02because it's not that big of a priority for him.
02:05This team, in order to make something special happen,
02:08if they want it this year,
02:09they got to make some significant changes
02:12or hope that whenever those players come back,
02:14that's the changes that they need.
02:16As we end this segment, just soak this in, Cowboy fans.
02:19You traded a first for Amari Cooper,
02:21then you traded him for a fifth,
02:24and then a few years later, he gets traded for a third.
02:28Are your Cowboys doing a good job?