Dallas Cowboys Needs: Trade For Receiver & Copy Eagles, Urges Michael Irvin
FRISCO - The NFL trade deadline is set for next Tuesday, and the Philadelphia Eagles have already made a pair of noteworthy moves ... the sort of moves that former Dallas Cowboys wideout Michael Irvin thinks "America's Team'' should be mimicking.
"The issue is when you're seeing Philadelphia hunt up every stone, turn over every rock trying to find players, bringing in Julio Jones on offense, going to get a safety from Tennessee (Kevin Byard) for your defense,” said the Cowboys legend Irvin. “You keep getting players because you’re saying, ‘We’re doing everything in the front office,’ and you send a message to the players, ‘You make sure you’re doing everything on the football field.’
And does Irvin believe that the Dallas front office, led by owner Jerry Jones - for whom, by the way, "The Playmaker'' has great affection - is doing something less than that?
Irvin added, "Well, I wish Jerry would send that message, ‘We’re always looking.’”
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It is clear that Irvin, speaking on FS1, is reflecting here on Jones' early-week suggestion that the Cowboys might make moves but don't need to make the phone calls to initiate those moves - a goofy concept that we have since repeatedly debunked.
Because CowboysSI.com is reporting that the Cowboys have indeed made phone calls in recent days, that leaves Irvin to make a deeper point ... about the quality of the roster in general.
“This game right here (Sunday against the Rams) should be your final (look at the roster as it presently exists),'' he said. "If I saw Michael Gallup playing like Michael Gallup played years ago, if I saw Brandin Cooks doing things, then I would say, 'You’re good enough right now.' (But) they haven’t shown enough for me to be saying that I’m out of the business to trade.”
