The Cowboys believe they have a team ready to compete for a Super Bowl championship, but that doesn\u2019t mean they are satisfied with their roster. <\/p>\n
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he has had trade discussions with another owner as recently as Monday, calling it a \u201cvery legitimate discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be very interested,\u201d Jones said Tuesday during the team\u2019s annual news conference to open training camp. \u201cI\u2019d give up the future to [get something] substantive to where we are today \u2014 as to a player \u2014 to give you an idea about what I invest, something substantive, to get the right kind of deal and improve us for opening day. I would. I feel that good about this team this year. Of course, you know that I haven\u2019t seen this team play together, but in general, looking ahead, I think we\u2019ve got a chance to be worthy of spending some future if we saw an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jones elaborated to reporters after the news conference, saying the Cowboys still could use a playmaker on defense, like a pass rusher or a linebacker. The team, of course, traded one of the league\u2019s top pass rushers, Micah Parsons, to the Packers before the start of last season. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf we get an opportunity to add to this thing, we\u2019re very capable of doing that<\/a>,\u201d Jones said, via Jon Machota of TheAthletic.com. \u201cThe mood is here to do it. . . . If any place it would be to improve our play-making ability on defense and pressure that quarterback or have an opportunity to do something special at linebacker. A top pick is expendable this year to add somebody meaningful that would help us now. I\u2019m not just looking for a player; we\u2019re looking for somebody that can add to the mix.\u201d<\/p>\n The Cowboys seem to believe they are one player away from a sure-fire Super Bowl team, a feeling they haven\u2019t felt in years despite Jones\u2019 annual optimism.<\/p>\n Jones didn\u2019t win his first Super Bowl until the Cowboys traded for pass rusher Charles Haley just before the start of the 1992 season. He didn\u2019t win his third until the Cowboys signed cornerback Deion Sanders from the 49ers after losing to San Francisco in the 1994 NFC Championship Game. <\/p>\n At some point, for some reason, Jones stopped being the riverboat gambler. That\u2019s why it\u2019s been more than 30 years since the Cowboys\u2019 last championship, which Dak Prescott reminded everyone of Monday when he showed up to training camp in a Super Bowl XXX championship T-shirt<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI may have been trying to get a little of both in \u2014 a little for today, but also save a little for tomorrow,\u201d Jones said. \u201cBut then, you end up with a little milk toast sometimes. When that happens for you, you need to be a little more definitive. I will domino. I will lay it out there. It\u2019s not a threat. It\u2019s just that I will shoot. So, yeah, we\u2019re very capable, if we get the opportunity to improve it by doing it. My message simply is that I feel good enough about this thing to give up some of the future, if the opportunity comes up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cowboys believe they have a team ready to compete for a Super Bowl championship, but that doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-790573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}