The Dallas Cowboys are at a crossroads in their 2024 season.
After losing their Week 6 matchup 47-9 against the high-powered Detroit Lions, the Cowboys sit at 3-3. All three of their losses to this point have been embarrassing performances, and if the playoffs started today, Dallas would have to take a seat on the couch.
As the Nov. 5 trade deadline approaches, the Cowboys have some crucial decisions to make. Will they upgrade their roster to make a push for a Super Bowl? If so, how will they upgrade it? There are several position groups not quite performing up to snuff.
Then again, sometimes, the NFL is purely about superstars. And the Cowboys were recently urged to bring in one more superstar to revamp their defense.
Criss Partee of FanSided named Las Vegas Raiders edge-rusher Maxx Crosby as a top fit for the Cowboys on the trade market. Crosby is in the second year of a four-year, $ 94 million contract that includes a potential out after this season.
With all the turmoil in Las Vegas, Maxx Crosby could be the next Pro Bowl player on his way out of the desert,” Partee said. “(Cowboys owner Jerry) Jones has been tight with the Davis family for years so maybe he and (Raiders owner) Mark (Davis) can come to some agreement and work out a deal.”
Still just 27, Crosby is one of the most electrifying defensive talents in the NFL these days. He has piled up 32.5 sacks and a league-leading 54 tackles for loss since the start of the 2022 season.
Pairing Crosby on one side of the rush with current Cowboys superstar Micah Parsons on the other would be nightmare fuel for opposing offenses the entire week leading up to a game. That’s turning a strength into a superpower for a team that has looked profoundly average on the whole.
The cost to acquire Crosby would be steep, both in terms of draft capital and salary cap space. But having another dominant force on defense could be worth the pain and then some.
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