First of all, we might have a little difference as to what we were lacking the most. It’s very common, matter of fact the rule, that when you look at a coming season, you’ve got some soft spots in a football team. So it’s a question of the areas that need the most attention. And candidly, I thought in Zeke, we really had an opportunity. I know how badly he wanted to get back with the Cowboys – personally, I thought that his work in New England was better than maybe a lot of other people evaluated it. I thought he did carry the mail in some critical times for them. I have more belief that Zeke gives us what we need in short yardage than maybe a lot of fans.
It’s unlikely that he’ll be anything more than a role player in his return. He simply doesn’t have the same explosiveness or the same agility from the start of his NFL career. His decline has been massive, and his year with the Patriots wasn’t really great.
Zeke was the fourth overall pick of the 2016 NFL Draft by the Cowboys, and he had some excellent years with the team. But it’s clear that, at this point, his ability has diminished.
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