The Dallas Cowboys had an offseason plan on offense and executed it to near perfection. The team’s belief in wide receiver Michael Gallup and tight end Dalton Schultz provided a blueprint to what the Cowboys were going to do in constructing the offense moving forward. Dallas’ faith in both players will prove to be a wise, or foolish, decision beginning in September.
It was no secret the team was set to move on from wide receiver Amari Cooper, that they were going to try and trade him for whatever they could get and turn to CeeDee Lamb as their No. 1 WR. Trading Cooper to the Cleveland Browns for a fifth-round pick, as well as the swap of sixth-round selections, didn’t excite the fanbase.
That frustration was further enhanced while watching the price other teams paid to acquire a top-tier WR this offseason. The Cowboys were never going to get the high round drafted picks fans coveted, and the team’s bigger goal was to shed salary. Getting anything for Cooper was a bonus in the organizations eyes because the Cowboys just wanted to recoup the cap dollars to spend elsewhere.
The money saved on Cooper went to two players. Fellow wide out Michael Gallup was signed to a new five-year, $62.5 million deal, with $27 million guaranteed, and the breakout TE Dalton Schultz was given the franchise tag at a cost of $10.9 million for his 2022 services. The goal remains to get Schultz a long-term deal before the deadline closes in July, but it’s clear the Cowboys think highly of their new No. 1 TE.
Cowboys fans can argue about the merits of the strategy, but it seemed to work out how the organization wanted. Cooper’s deal when it was signed in the 2020 offseason was essentially a two-year deal the team could get out of, and when they drafted Lamb, for all practical purposes, it all but assured Cooper would be playing elsewhere in 2022. Before Lamb, Dallas was hoping Gallup would turn into a consistent receiver and he would take the reins. With Lamb now in the fold,…
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