Franchise tags, free agency contracts, and combine scores can’t get here soon enough. In the absence of real football news like that, it’s almost as if the NFL world has lost its collective mind. For starters, one former player generally regarded as an otherwise intelligent and thoughtful individual has proposed the most absurd trade idea ever involving America’s (Most Polarizing) Team and the league’s most’s polarizing player. Then there’s a trio of longtime assistants to Mike McCarthy- who many were ready to run out of town on a rail- actually now getting promotions within the Cowboys coaching staff.
Elsewhere, Micah Parsons managed to offend all of the NBA and the entire city of Detroit in the space of two tweets, a national hotel chain has simply ignored a judge’s order in the Michael Irvin case, and the Cowboys have signed a new kicker seven months ahead of the 2023 season. All that, plus deciding which free agents to pay, charting which coaches are most aggressive on fourth down, a four-round mock draft, and- rounding out the bizarro-headline day- Emmitt Smith revisits what happened when he had to suit up in the Texas Stadium locker room as an Arizona Cardinal.