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The Dallas Cowboys Draft Day trade was even better than you thought
Entering the 2024 NFL Draft it made all the sense in the world for the Dallas Cowboys to trade down in the first round. Absent a fourth-round pick, and with plenty of holes on their roster (that were exacerbated by the lack of moves in free agency), it was obvious that Dallas needed multiple bites at the apple of talent to restock their roster.
Thankfully the Cowboys found a proper suitor in the Detroit Lions and ultimately moved down from their original spot in the first round while still coming away with a player who they highly valued. The draft is a constant game of phone calls and offers and back and forth, so it was assumed that Detroit was not the only team who Dallas spoke to about moving around.
We now know at least one of the others.
The Arizona Cardinals offer proves how great the haul that Dallas got was
Nowadays there are all sorts of documentaries and productions chronicling and profiling NFL teams. Beyond the likes of Hard Knocks and similar ventures, we now live in a day and age where teams and their own media departments put projects like these together.
The Arizona Cardinals have a series called “Cardinals Flight Plan” that they are rolling out on their YouTube Channel, and on Wednesday they released an episode that covered a variety of things, including the first round of the draft. You can watch the episode in its entirety here.
In the episode Cardinals general manager Monti Ossenfort is obviously putting together and executing Arizona’s plan. Their draft began with the selection of Marvin Harrison Jr. at number four overall but they also held the 27th overall pick in the draft as well. Apparently they had a high level of interest in moving it and we can see that they made a call to the Cowboys about it.
The Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys had discussions about a trade during the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft.
Conversation involved Dallas sending picks 24 and 174 in exchange for 27 and 104.
The Cowboys ultimately traded back with the Detroit Lions for 29 (Tyler Guyton)… pic.twitter.com/0RHollasNt
— RJ Ochoa (@rjochoa) June 13, 2024
Ossenfort speaks on the phone (presumably to Stephen Jones) and notes that Arizona is willing to offer picks 27 (first round) and 104 (early fourth round). He adds that the offer is contingent upon their guy (being Arizona’s guy) being there at 24 where Dallas is slated to pick at the moment of this conversation.
Earlier in the clip, Ossenfort mentions the Green Bay Packers as the threat for “the big guy.” The Packers wound up taking Arizona offensive lineman Jordan Morgan at number 25 overall, perhaps Ossenfort and his group were big fans of what Morgan did during his time in Tucson.
Operating under the assumption that Morgan was in fact Arizona’s guy, then he was obviously on the board when Dallas was on the clock at 24 overall. Had the Cowboys taken the Cardinals’ offer then Morgan would have stayed at home, Dallas would have moved back three spots and would have also picked up an early fourth-round pick in the process.
But the Cowboys did not take Arizona’s offer and instead took one from the Detroit Lions. Ultimately the Lions gave up picks 29 and 73. Here was the run of picks from 24 through 29.
- 24 (Detroit Lions): Terrion Arnold, Alabama
- 25 (Green Bay Packers): Jordan Morgan, Arizona
- 26 (Tampa Bay Buccaneers): Graham Barton, Duke
- 27 (Arizona Cardinals): Darius Robinson, Missouri
- 28 (Kansas City Chiefs): Xavier Worthy, Texas
- 29 (Dallas Cowboys): Tyler Guyton, Oklahoma
We discussed a lot in the immediate aftermath of the first round how Dallas likely made the trade that they did with Detroit knowing full well that the one of or both Jordan Morgan and Graham Barton would be off the board when they came around to picking at 29. We do not know for sure, but if Dallas knew that Arizona’s guy was Morgan (again, assuming he was) then it stands to reason that the Cowboys were at least comfortable passing on him and prepared to live in a world where Barton went elsewhere.
It goes without saying that the reason for comfortability making the decision was likely how the Lions sweetened the deal. Aside from the obvious swapping of firsts, the Cardinals wanted to offer Dallas pick 104 where the Lions surrendered pick 73. The difference here is massive. Selection 104 was the fourth one of the fourth round where 73 was the ninth of the third. You are talking about the difference of a full round.
As we all know that pick for Dallas from Detroit became Cooper Beebe, and it is extremely unlikely that he would have been available 31 selections later. That Dallas was able to solve their needs at left tackle and center with one fell swoop makes their decision to take Detroit’s offer a no-brainer, even if that meant sacrificing the opportunity to draft Jordan Morgan or Graham Barton at 24 or 27.
Kudos to the Cowboys. They played this really well and capitalized on how desperate the Lions were for their guy. That is the way you play the NFL draft.
Dallas, TX
Mark Cuban takes legal action against Dallas Mavericks ownership over potential new arena deal
Mark Cuban has gone to court over frustrations that he’s being kept in the dark about the Dallas Mavericks moving forward in their quest to build a new arena.
Cuban’s lawyers have filed a petition in Dallas County district court seeking sworn testimony from a corporate representative of the Arena Development Institute, a company formed by Mavericks ownership in Delaware.
In June, the Mavericks announced that they had entered into an option agreement for the potential purchase of 104 acres of land at the former Valley View Mall site in North Dallas.
The Mavericks’ lease at American Airlines Center expires in 2031, and the team hopes to move into a new building ahead of the 2031-32 season.
Cuban claims that this potential new arena deal could violate contracts he already has in place with the Mavericks’ owners in Texas.
In the document Cuban filed, he outlines his version of how he sold his majority stake in the Mavericks to Miriam Adelson and her son-in-law Patrick Dumont, the Sands Corporation CEO who also serves as the Mavericks governor. Cuban said he began working with them in 2019 to pass gambling in Texas. Their goal at the time was to build a “Venetian style destination resort” somewhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
In 2023, Cuban officially sold his majority stake in the Mavericks to Adelson. Cuban said that they had a handshake agreement in place where he would remain in control of the Mavericks’ basketball decisions while Dumont would be in charge of the team’s business side.
“This handshake agreement was reiterated in multiple emails and orally in the presence of Dumont, Miriam Adelson, another NBA owner, and Mavericks employees,” Cuban’s legal action read.
The Athletic asked Cuban if he could produce these emails. Cuban replied, “Can’t say anything at all.”
Dumont, of course, leaned on former general manager Nico Harrison to make basketball decisions, which went well — at first. The Mavericks made separate moves for P.J. Washington and Daniel Gafford ahead of the 2024 trade deadline, which resulted in them catching fire to close that season and making a surprise run to the NBA Finals.
But all of that goodwill was erased when Harrison decided to trade Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers in February 2025 — a failed move that eventually cost Harrison his job.
In May, Dumont hired Masai Ujiri — a championship-winning executive who spent 12 seasons running the Toronto Raptors — to take over in Dallas as president and alternate governor. Ujiri will clearly wield significant power in Dallas. In one of his first major moves, Ujiri chose to fire coach Jason Kidd, despite Kidd having more than $40 million remaining on his contract.
Cuban maintains a 27 percent stake in the Mavericks but has minimal say in the day-to-day operations of the team. In the petition Cuban filed in court, he claims that Dumont once told him, “Why would I give you control of a $4 billion asset?”
— Melody Gutierrez and Nathan Fenno contributed to this report
Dallas police officers and firefighters are being praised after rescuing a homeless woman who was trapped in a ravine for days. First responders said the rescue pushed them to their limits, but they never gave up.
Paramedics and police officers responded to a call late last month in searing afternoon heat after a man working out near Conrad High School reported hearing faint cries for help.
“When we got the initial call with DPD, we were seeing notes that said that there was someone deep back beside the ravine,” Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedic Robert Kober recalled.
A recent storm had turned the terrain in the area into a thick, sticky mud. “You stepped in it, you sank past your ankles, sometimes halfway or more up to your knees. Nasty, nasty conditions,” Dallas Police Sr. Cpl. Mark Gnewuch said.
They hiked nearly a quarter mile through the muck, thick brush and even sewage to find the woman. A one point they even needed to fashion a makeshift bridge, Kober said.
“By the time I got out there, I’d already slipped and fell once and my thought process was ‘wow, she has been out here for a while,’” Gnewuch said.
“I was expecting to see someone who was barely coherent, possibly deceased, but when we arrived on location and I saw her, she was actually carrying on a conversation,” Kober said.
The woman was taken to a hospital suffering from severe dehydration, prolonged sun exposure and other injuries, but was in stable condition.
“I have been on similar situations where individuals who are in that type of environment for that long, they don’t survive, so it was definitely a miracle to make it through,” Kober said.
The rescue was proof of what can be accomplished when first responders work together.
FC Dallas announced today that forward Logan Farrington signed a contract extension through the 2027-28 season, with club options for the 2028-29 and 2029-30 seasons.
Farrington was previously under contract through the 2027 season. This new deal updates his contract options through the 2029-30 season.
Farrington has appeared in 14 matches this season, scoring a career-high six goals and recording a team-leading four assists. He was named to the MLS Team of the Matchweek Starting XI for Week 5 after scoring a brace and one assist in the Texas Derby against Houston on March 21.
For the first time in his professional career, Farrington scored in back-to-back matches from March 21 to April 4, finding the net in the Texas Derby victory and the road win at D.C. United.
The Racine, Wisconsin, native was drafted No. 3 overall in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft and signed a new contract on Jan. 22, 2025. Farrington has recorded 15 goals and 16 assists in 75 appearances since joining Dallas, the most by any 2024 MLS SuperDraftee across the league. He won the MLS NEXT Pro Cup with North Texas SC on Nov. 9, 2024, scoring a goal in the final. He also became one of six players in MLS history to record multiple games with both a goal and an assist off the bench in a single season in 2024.
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Quick BDS Take
There is no doubt in my mind that we’re going to see more of these types of announcements over the next few weeks as the club begins to reposition itself for the upcoming calendar change in MLS. There are still a lot of players on deals that run through 2027, so addressing what part of 2027 has to be done here.
Either way, I am all for adding more years to Farrington’s contract. He’s been one of the more underrated strikers in MLS and his partnership with Petar Musa has really been fun to watch over the last three seasons.
His numbers alone this year show that he’s been improving year over year with the club, too.
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