Cowboys Trade Proposal Lands Defensive Help From Browns in Form of 68 Game Starter
Around the NFL, there are a few teams the Dallas Cowboys will have to be looking at in hopes of them trading some of their veteran talent to Dallas. The Cowboys are in a position to be buyers now, and with the apparent help needed on the defensive side of the football, it’ll be intriguing to see what Jerry Jones has in mind.
When considering potential trade options for the Cowboys to pursue, Mauricio Rodriguez of A to Z Sports proposed a trade idea involving the Cowboys trading for Devin Bush of the Cleveland Browns, a 27-year-old linebacker.
“Bush is in my opinion the most underrated Cowboys’ trade target there is. Even with DeMarvion Overshown targeting a Week 11 return, Dallas needs to upgrade its linebacker room. Bush would cost very little — a Day 3 late pick swap would do it per Browns expert Brandon Little — and he’s been a solid run stopper for the Browns. Plus, he hasn’t been a liability in coverage,” he wrote.
Cowboys Have the Assets to Make a Trade
While a trade seems obvious for the Dallas Cowboys, considering they’re in second place in the NFC East, Jones understands that a lot goes into his decisions.
He believes the Cowboys have some of the best draft capital they’ve had in a long time and doesn’t want to waste it unless the team is in a legitimate position to win a Super Bowl.
“Just because we played well, all of a sudden everybody thinks, boy, you’re in the hunt, so it’s time to go out and gather up all of this talent that’s waiting around out here on the trees to add to it now that we feel good that we can be more competitive,” Jones said in an appearance on “105.3 The Fan.” “That’s not realistic.
“What’s realistic is that if we do see an opportunity, we are in as good a shape as we’ve been in in years with (draft) picks, with financial, with our (salary) cap,” he added. “We’re in as good of shape as we’ve ever been if we see a way to improve our team with a player that makes sense today, this year, next year to entertain it and look at it.”
Browns Might Not Be Ready to Sell
Regarding what the Cleveland Browns plan to do, while it seemed like the team would certainly be sellers, and help the Dallas Cowboys and other contenders around the league out, according to Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com, it sounds like the ideal plan for the Browns might not be to sell.
While they could move on from some veterans like Bush, she mentioned the potential of buying in a buyer’s market.
“Ideally, the Browns would like to buy a couple of players; they’re in the buyers market right now and they would like to add a couple of players,” Cabot wrote. “I don’t think they are looking to sell very many players unless they have like a veteran on the decline or a veteran who’s been around for a long time who could go help another team and they could get something for him.”
If that is the case, it’s possible that Bush won’t be available. He’s had a year with 31 tackles and one sack.
Ex-Steelers QB Russell Wilson Claps Back at His Former Head Coach With Major Shade
Quarterback Russell Wilson stressed throughout his tenure with the Pittsburgh Steelers how much he enjoyed playing for Mike Tomlin. Wilson hasn’t shared those same feelings for his former head coach with the Denver Broncos — Sean Payton.
He’s unlikely to anytime soon.
There appears to be no love loss between Wilson and Payton. This week, the two exchanged insults through traditional and social media.
Wilson fired his shade at the Broncos head coach with a post on X on Tuesday.
“Classless … but not surprised …,” wrote Wilson.
“Didn’t realize you’re still bounty hunting 15+ years later through the media.”
That post referenced Payton’s year-long suspension for “Bounty Gate. An NFL investigation in 2012 found former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams paid bonuses in a bounty system to his players for deliberately injuring opposing players.
Williams allegedly ran the bounty system under Payton, who was the team’s head coach.
Wilson’s post was in response to Payton essentially telling reporters he would have preferred to face Wilson instead of rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart in Week 7.
“They found a little spark with that quarterback,” Payton said of Dart. “I was talking to [Giants owner] John Mara not too long ago, and I said, ‘We were hoping that that change would have happened long after our game.'”
Russell Wilson Responds to Sean Payton
There have been a lot of rumblings over the past year and a half that Payton didn’t want anything to do with Wilson after their first year together in Denver. Those rumblings reached a fever pitch after December 16, 2023 when cameras caught Payton irate at Wilson along the Broncos sidelines in a game against the Detroit Lions.
After the 2023 season, the Broncos released Wilson despite owning him $39 million.
The Steelers signed Wilson in NFL free agency. Pittsburgh was able to ink him to a league-minimum deal because his contract with the Broncos meant Denver owned him the difference from $39 million.
In summary, Payton and the Broncos paid Wilson about $37.8 million last season to play for the Steelers.
That’s an obvious sign a coach doesn’t like a quarterback.
Wilson has not really addressed his relationship with Payton publicly. But clearly, the quarterback has had enough of Payton subtlety throwing insults at him.
Steelers Media Defends Wilson Against Payton
Things didn’t end well for Wilson in Pittsburgh. After beginning 6-1 as a starter, the Steelers lost their last four regular season games in 2024.
Including the playoffs, Wilson finished with an even 6-6 record with the Steelers.
Even still, some Steelers pundits were glad to see Wilson go on the offensive against Payton after receiving shade from the Broncos head coach.
It may have been classless for Payton to say he’d rather face Wilson than a rookie quarterback. But it’s hard to deny that the Broncos, and Steelers for that matter, are better off without Wilson.
With their comeback against Wilson’s Giants on Sunday, the Broncos improved to 5-2 this season. The Steelers are 4-2 with Aaron Rodgers behind center.
Wilson led the Giants to an 0-3 start before getting benched in favor of Dart. Wilson has lost his last seven regular season starts.
He is 23-35 as a starting quarterback since the start of the 2021 campaign.
