Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik joined the Fan After Dark to discuss the Cowboys' decision to trade for WR Jonathan Mingo, if he's coming into a bad offensive situation with Dak Prescott set to miss multiple games, other deals around the NFL Trade Deadline and more.
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00:00I'll tell you what, it's interesting you say that as far as, you know, you like the way
00:20it worked for the Cowboys because of course, you know, and again, you, you, you know how
00:23social media works, unnamed general manager says this was a bad deal, yada, yada.
00:28And look, our, our first inclination is when you see, uh, what Mingo's done so far in the
00:34first year and a half of his career, you're sitting there thinking to yourself like, eh,
00:37but at the same time too, to your point, I mean, again, he is with the Carolina Panthers.
00:40My only concern is with this Cowboys team.
00:45You've got, you've already had Troy Aikman call this team out.
00:47As far as the wide receiver group, you've got an offense that's in disarray.
00:51And then, oh, by the way, you're not going to have Dak Prescott for, you know, at least
00:54the next couple of weeks, we've heard conflicting reports about whether he's on IR or not.
00:58What's the, you know, are you worried about what you're bringing it, bringing him into
01:01and how, you know, kind of unstable it is right now in, in Dallas?
01:05Well, I think you've got a lot of different things going there.
01:07I think you touched on it a little bit.
01:09One of them is obviously Brandon Cooks isn't going to be there going forward.
01:12I don't think going in 2025, it means that Jalen Tovert hasn't really panned out.
01:17I think the way they were hoping for Jalen Brooks, I think you kind of look at all these
01:20different players and they're saying, Hey, look, we're, we're struggling with that wide
01:23receiver room.
01:24Again, you look at the draft board in 2025 and you say, this is not the same receiving
01:28class that we saw this last year or the year before.
01:30So you, you have to, as a GM know the value of where the draft class is this year.
01:35And so if the Cowboys are thinking, look, I'd really like to draft a young running receiver.
01:39And now you'll get a guy that I thought was second round value.
01:42That's played in a system that isn't very much exposing whether this guy's a good player
01:46or not.
01:47I'm going to trust the process that we were going through, why we had him as a second
01:50round pick.
01:51And now I can put him in the system and whether he plays in 2024 or not, I've still got him
01:54for 2025 and 2026, which is a long time in NFL life, as you guys know.