The Cowboys front office had an inkling they might find themselves right here. It turns out they structured Amari Cooper’s contract for the exact scenario they’re in right now, with a top-paid wide receiver who simply isn’t performing in kind. Whether they climb through their carefully designed escape hatch in the next month remains to be seen.
Also in the News and Notes, the NFL scraps its plan for a COVID bubble in Indianapolis, Dallas loses a special teams assistant to an opportunity with another club, and exploring the best- and worst-case scenarios for the Super-Bowl-or-bust Cowboys under Mike McCarthy. We’re looking at what to do at the tight end position, what’s on the shopping list come draft day, and five trades that might be worth making. All that, plus the top 101 players in the league (and which Cowboys make the cut), how the rookies graded out, and a Day 3 linebacker who may have saved his best performance for his final game of college.