NFL insiders hint Super Bowl move Jerry Jones signaled could still be on the way

Jerry Jones signaled a big move could be coming before the trade deadline. Even though the Cowboys didn’t make a move before then, they still could.

The Dallas Cowboys did not make a move at the trade deadline after Jerry Jones made inciteful comments indicating that if there were a move that would get them to a Super Bowl win, he would.

For weeks leading up to the deadline, Jones repeatedly made reference to the addition of Deion Sanders in the 1995 season — which got the Cowboys to Super Bowl XXX — indicating a similar move could be coming. The Cowboys would win XXX, making it their third title of the decade.

So reasonably, fans were hoping a big splash was incoming, especially on the offensive side. The Cowboys are one of the bottom-five teams in receiving yards per game, and now that Dak Prescott is healthy, backfilling the Amari Cooper loss of the offseason seemed reasonable to expect.

Brandin Cooks, playing in the state with the Texans, was available, but the trade deadline came and went without him being moved.

No such trade deadline move came from the Cowboys, but maybe there’s still time.

Jerry Jones comments on Super Bowl additions may have been misunderstood

Let’s break down the reference Jones was making to Sanders and see if we might have misunderstood in the first place. As mentioned, Jones repeatedly made reference to Deion Sanders, the two-way defensive player that the team acquired and gave them the talent needed to work their way to a third Super Bowl in the 90s.

But there’s an important detail that might be worth recalling. Sanders was not a trade acquisition. Sanders was acquired by the Cowboys in free agency midseason in 1995.

Applying that to 2022, that sounds a lot more like a potential signing of free agent WR Odell Beckham Jr., not a trade acquisition.

This is all just reading the tea leaves, but now there’s legitimate reporting to go behind it now, too. On Sunday morning, Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo reported the Cowboys have OBJ on their radar.

The article does mention that the Cowboys did make moves toward Cooks and Broncos WR Jerry Jeudy, maybe Jones was unknowingly speaking a free agent acquisition into existence when he was hyping up a game-changing Cowboys move.

Beckham is recovering from injury and looking for a multi-year deal. The Cowboys won the Deion Sweepstakes over a slew of teams interested in the 90s, maybe they can come out above the Bills, Giants, Rams, and Packers in the Odell Sweepstakes in 2022.