Rich: Why the Dallas Cowboys Should Trade for Raiders DE Maxx Crosby

Dak Prescott showed up to work last week in a Super Bowl 30 t-shirt, and Rich could not decide whether it was self-awareness or a dare.

"He's owning it," Rich said, before landing on the Steve Cohen comparison. The Mets owner has learned to have fun with cutting Bobby Bonilla a check once a year. Prescott is doing roughly the same thing with a decades-old championship, wearing the receipt on his chest.

The math is not kind. Prescott was two and a half years old the last time the Cowboys played in a Super Bowl. The league just celebrated Super Bowl 60. Rich did the subtraction out loud and let it sit.

But Prescott also declared this a Super Bowl or bust season, and that is the part Rich actually liked.

"It's not NFC Championship game or bust. It's not NFC East champions or bust. It is Super Bowl or bust," Rich said. "I like the cut of his jib. I like the moxie, and I like the fact that it's a nice little finger roll to set up Jerry Jones at his press conference."

Jones, as ever, took the assist and ran with it.

"I too can say that the fact that Dak is looking at what he's looking at causes me to feel the same way," Jones said. "I think we've got a chance to really be good. It's going to be hard. As old Switzer used to say, we're going to burn some of these wagons on the way to California for firewood. We're going to lose some folks. But the wagon train's going to get there."

Then Jones said the thing that turned the segment into a trade pitch.

"Candidly, I'd be very interested. I'd give up future to add substantive to where we are today," he said. "I think we've got a chance to be worthy of spending some future if we saw an opportunity."

Pressed on whether those conversations are live, Jones offered that he had spoken the day before with another team and another owner.

Rich did not need a second invitation. He noted that the owner in question rhymes with a certain Nevada surname, then asked the only question that matters: is Maxx Crosby in play or not?

The case builds itself. The Rams added Myles Garrett and may be tempting Aaron Donald back onto a field. The defending champion Seahawks are still there. Super Bowl 61 is at SoFi Stadium, and the tenant is favored to be in it. Burning wagons to get to Oxnard is not the goal. Burning them to get to Inglewood is.

So Rich went through the futures. Dallas does not have its own first round pick next year, but it does hold Green Bay's from the Micah Parsons trade, plus a second and a third. And 2028 is fully intact.

Would you trade a 2028 first for Crosby? Rich did not hesitate. Neither did the room.

He also thinks the Raiders would have to at least ask Crosby the question. Do you want to go back home and stay in Texas? Do you want to line up next to Quinnen Williams? Las Vegas reportedly had a deal in place with the Ravens, and Rich conceded Dallas probably cannot match the price outright.

He does not think that ends it.

"You've got Dak. You've got Pickens for at least one more year. You've got yourself CeeDee Lamb," Rich said. Then he ran the front seven fantasy out loud: Quinnen Williams, Maxx Crosby, Rashan Gary against whatever Los Angeles brings.

"Damn the torpedoes, man. Forget about the wagons."

Two big ifs remain, as Rich admitted: available and healthy. TJ, watching hope get handed to him in real time, asked why Rich was doing this to him.

"Because this is it, T.J."