3 mistakes Cowboys are destined to make in 2023 offseason

1. The Cowboys will definitely overcompensate for trading Amari Cooper

If there’s a bright spot about the 2023 offseason thus far, it’s that Stephen Jones finally appeared to admit that last offseason’s Amari Cooper trade was a flat-out mistake. Not only did the team, quite simply, miscalculate the wide receiver market and how much they were paying Cooper in relation to that, but they then didn’t do adequate work thereafter to replace him.

Unfortunately, it feels like that admission is a precursor to doing something ill-advised to essentially try and make up for the shortcomings.

One lesson that has been taught time and again in the NFL is that chasing past mistakes is not a path that any franchise should venture down. However, in this instance, the notion of the Jones family making a splash trade for an aging DeAndre Hopkins or overpaying for a player like Brandin Cooks or drafting a player like Jalin Hyatt a round earlier than they should just feels all too likely.

There’s no point in predicting how it will happen, but it certainly is in the cards. The Cowboys are going to do something splashy at wide receiver this offseason when, though they need help at the position, a blockbuster-type splash move isn’t the way to go about doing that.

If there’s a blockbuster move, it should be to get someone like Jalen Ramsey or to help the secondary, not to go all-in on a star wide receiver when the team just traded one last offseason. Frankly, if Dallas exits the offseason without trying overcompensating for the Cooper trade, that would be more shocking than the alternative.