Let me see if I'm hearing this right.
So, we spend the entire offseason cutting out people who are me-first, non-leaders, and high-salaried veterans. Then comes along a me-first, non-leader, high-salaried veteran who has lost his speed to separate, and we are expected to throw money at him? And it is considered a good idea even after having added Danny Amendola (productive, team-first guy from a direct rival) and Albert Wilson (productive, team-first, young guy with oodles of speed and great route running) in free agency and drafting two TE's? So how is this pitched to Ross … "unlike Mike Wallace, Dez is a team-player, quick learner, never-going-to-be-tempted-by-South-Beach guy, who offers us size and physicality that we don't have in guys like DeVante Parker or Mike Gesicki" … or something like that?
Oh HAY-ull no.
Dez may be right for some team, but bringing him to South Beach just doesn't sound likely. Gase is doubling-down on guys he KNOWS he can coach and get to do exactly what he wants executing his precision offense. Dez isn't that guy. Dez is a high-risk and high-reward temperamental talent who is a slow learner and never played in Gase's system.
I can see how people would be interested in the upside. I can see how people can envision Tannenbaum making this type of dramatic move. I can see how the Cowboys connection makes it believable. I can see how people would hear a 1-year prove it deal and think of us. I can see how they would think about a past-his-prime player who lost his speed might come here (LAWOLrence Timmons?). I can see how the media puts 2 + 2 together to get 22 (Hmmm, the Dolphins lost Landry and are collecting WR's, so why not write a click-bait Cowboys story about them!). I can even see why Dez's agent would want to connect himself to the always big-money FA participants, the Miami Dolphins. But at the end of the day, it's just not going to happen.
Counterpoints: Dez lost a step and wouldn't be able to make the transition to a new system before his 1 year prove-it contract ends. Chris Grier has been making mostly smart personnel moves. We filled the loss of 1 WR and having 0 TE's by adding 2 FA WR's and drafting 2 TE's. Gase is prioritizing leaders and team-first guys, which are not Dez's strengths. Gase is essentially in a 'contract year' and wants to ride or die with guys that can unquestionably execute his system, which is not Dez.
We still have a hole … it's at DT. We need a DT, not a Dez.