Jerry Jones: Dallas Cowboys are working on ‘two pretty substantial trades’

Jerry Jones noted that the Cowboys are still working the trade market.

The NFL draft begins on Thursday, and to this point all talk about the Dallas area from a professional sports standpoint was centering on the Mavericks (bad!) and Stars (somewhat good!).

Have no fear, Jerry Jones is here. The Cowboys held their annual pre-draft press conference on Tuesday and for the most part it was about as chalk as it could be. The front office said that they wanted to draft the best player available and noted that they believe in their process, all standard operating procedure type of stuff.

Something interested emerged from the post-presser media quotes from Jerry Jones, though. Jerry threw some chum in the rumor waters and noted that the Cowboys are currently working on two different trades. He even called them substantial ones.

For the record this is quite believable relative to this offseason specifically for the Cowboys. So far we have seen them execute three different trades for veterans Kaiir Elam (who was mentioned a lot during the presser), Kenneth Murray and Joe Milton.

That Jerry noted the trades could occur after the draft suggests that they are related to other veterans as it is obviously known who is on what team at the moment, but perhaps it is a matter of waiting to see if certain teams end up fuller at certain positions through the draft.

Jerry noted that the Cowboys were working on these trades on Tuesday which means that they were extraordinarily busy at The Star. In addition to the press conference they were (apparently) working on these trade ideas and had Stephon Gilmore stopping by. Who knows what comes of that.

Maybe this is simply gamesmanship from the Cowboys and they have no plans on executing anymore trades.