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So it is high time the Dallas Cowboys purchase Hall of Fame caliber insurance policy
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and all they've got to do is call up an old friend. Hey, what's up, everyone? It's Mauricio Rodriguez here at ADS Sports Dallas on the road
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We are talking Cowboys Free Agency today. That is right, we are almost two full weeks into
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free agency, but there is still some moves that the Cowboys could make. And there is one in particular
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that I think would solve a problem they have yet to address, would be inexpensive
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and it would low-key be a low-risk, high-reward type of gamble, which we have established the Cowboys Absolutely Love
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If we look at their free agency signing so far, the Cowboys have addressed some problems in the trenches
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They've reinforced defensive tackle debt. They've added some edge rushers on the offensive side of the ball
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They got Rob Jones to improve that interior. depth in the O line. Now you're going to have T.J. Vass and Rob Jones is kind of your potential
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swing guards in there. Swing tackle, though, remains a little bit of a question mark. I know
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the Cowboys have a Sim Richards He actually handled some significant snaps last season when he was rotating with Tyler Guyton and he looked pretty decent I would expect the Sim Richards Right now I think he a favorite
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swing tackle basically on the Cowboys, but you could get better. And with your setup with Tyler
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Guyton on the left side and Tarynsteel on the right side, there is some risk, right? We have not seen
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Tiler Guyton take that next step and obviously we're being patient with him because he was always
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perceived as a project. But that doesn't mean he's going to be a guarantee. He's a
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second year in the NFL. And with Terran Still, we have not seen his best football in a long
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while, even though he improved at the later stages of the 2024 season. So this brings me to the
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proposal of buying some insurance policy. And I'm talking about none other than Tyrant Smith
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Let's recap what happened last year when the Cowboys allowed Tyrant Smith to hit free agency
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At the time, I was very critical of the decision. Why? Because I agreed the Cowboys needed a long-term
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project at left tackle and I agreed they had to start planning for the future. However
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when the Cowboys put themselves in a position where they didn't have a left tackle, it was always
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going to have to be a project like Guyton And the problem with that for me was you not going to have quality tackle play on the blind side protecting Dak Prescott And that essentially what ended up happening So my argument at the time was
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let's pay Tyrant Smith, still draft somebody in the first round, and have Smith be that
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rich player while your rookie developed. And maybe it would take a whole year, maybe it would have
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taken until week nine, or maybe Tyrant Smith would have suffered an injury like he did with the New York
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jets, but at least by that time, your rookie had developed a little bit more and had had more time
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to really translate into the pros. What I am proposing in 2025, however, is a little bit different
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I am not going to argue to stop guidance development and send him to the bench. I think that would
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be a mistake. You're now a team that is looking into the future that is building for the next four
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years. You're not precisely in Winnow mode like maybe you were last year. So instead, why not
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see Tyrant Smith as a backup and as an insurance policy. If you sign him on the chip
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which I think that's what he's going to sign for. At the end of the day, he's 34 years old
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He had another neck injury that ended his 2024 season and only played 10 games. He should
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be cheap and you might get away with an incentive heavy deal with incentives that he not likely to earn because he going to be a backup But he would serve two purposes Number one he would be one of the best backups
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in the entire NFL hands down. He might be far from his prime
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but if Tyrant Smith is your backup left tackle, you are in a good spot, my friend
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And number two, he's going to be insurance policy in the event that Tyler Guyton doesn't progress
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Now, I'm not saying that's my expectation, but I'm saying that is a risk that right now the cowboys are taking on
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Guyton had his moments as a rookie, but also he had some very, very bad moments and was even
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benched by the Cowboys multiple times because of penalties among other things
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If for any reason, you need someone to step in for Guyton, man, I would love for that to be
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Tyrant Smith. Now granted, this might not only be a Cowboys decision, right, because Smith might get himself
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a market. He might be one of those free agents that is going to wait until the beginning of the season
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to see if any injuries pop up and then maybe he's prize his race
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or he also might even consider retirement, right? He's at that stage of his career where that is an option every single year
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So we'll see how it all plays out. But if Tyrant Smith is interested in playing football again
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I think the Cowboys should absolutely be calling him up
