How the Eagles made the Cowboys look foolish this week
The Philadelphia Eagles inadvertently made the Dallas Cowboys look foolish this week. On Wednesday, the Eagles traded defensive back Ugo Amadi and a seventh-round pick to the Tennessee Titans for a sixth-round pick. The Eagles had just acquired Amadi earlier this month, sending wide receiver J.J. Arcega-Whiteside to the Seattle Seahawks for the defensive back. […]
The Philadelphia Eagles inadvertently made the Dallas Cowboys look foolish this week.
On Wednesday, the Eagles traded defensive back Ugo Amadi and a seventh-round pick to the Tennessee Titans for a sixth-round pick.
The Eagles had just acquired Amadi earlier this month, sending wide receiver J.J. Arcega-Whiteside to the Seattle Seahawks for the defensive back.
So essentially, Philly traded Arcega-Whiteside and a seventh-round pick for a sixth-round pick.
Arcega-Whiteside has played in 40 career NFL games. He has 16 receptions for 290 yards and one touchdown.
You're probably wondering what this has to do with Dallas.
Well, the collection of moves that Philly made to turn Arcega-Whiteside and a seventh-round pick into a sixth-round pick sounds a lot like the trade the Cowboys made with the Cleveland Browns earlier this offseason.
Dallas sent wide receiver Amari Cooper and a sixth-round pick to the Browns for a fifth-round pick and a sixth-round pick. Basically, they traded Cooper for a fifth-round pick.
Cooper is obviously the much better player. His worst season (2017 with the then Oakland Raiders) was nearly three times better than Arcega-Whiteside's career numbers in 40 games.
For his career, Cooper has 517 receptions for 7,076 yards and 46 touchdowns. Beyond his production on the field, he also makes the players around him better.
In Dallas, for example, when Cooper was on the field, Dak Prescott's quarterback rating was 25 points higher.
There's a massive gap between Arcega-Whiteside and Cooper. Yet they yielded almost the same return.
It was a savvy move by Philly, but it was an even sillier move by the Cowboys.
Dallas was in salary cap trouble and instead of finding a way to keep Cooper — a player they absolutely shouldn't have traded if they want to win the NFC East this season — they sent him to Cleveland for almost nothing.
It's pretty easy to see how the Cowboys look foolish compared to the Eagles.
There's a reason why Dallas hasn't won a Super Bowl in nearly 30 years — it's hard to win a championship when decisions like this are being made.
But that's good news for the Eagles. The weaker the Cowboys are, the better Philly's odds are of winning the NFC East.
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