ESPN analysts Louis Riddick And Dan Orlovsky had trouble understanding the Dallas Cowboys’ receiver trade Jonathan Mingo. The Cowboys made the move on Tuesday’s trade deadline to trade a fourth-round pick to the Carolina Panthers in exchange for Mingo, a second-year player Ole Miss.

Riddick and Orlovsky continued to discuss the trade a consequence of NFL Liveand no one felt that Dallas would get good value for what it had given up. Riddick even went so far as to say that this was a move for next season, not this year, as the Cowboys are currently 3-5.

“The NFL is all about value,” he said. “I like to say added value because I study economics. So it’s always about your performance value in relation to your costs. What do you pay for what you get? If you look at how the market has performed for wide receivers this trading period, it just doesn’t make sense. It just doesn’t look like it’s something Dallas really values ​​much.

“If Jonathan Mingo goes on to be a 70-catch, 1,000-yard player, will we really care about what we said on the trade deadline show? No. But that’s exactly what this is about. I think we know Dallas is building a football team for next year. They are not building a football team for this year. So it’s a longer-term acquisition.”

Mingo recorded 43 catches for 418 yards in his rookie season with the Panthers. So far this year he has only 12 catches for 121 yards. He has yet to score a touchdown in his NFL career.

That’s not to say Mingo won’t develop into a better player over time, but both Riddick and Orlovsky feel the Cowboys could have gotten an equal player if they kept that fourth-round pick and him would have used.

Especially given the way her season is trending Dak Prescott It is now expected that he will miss next week due to injury, but it does not appear that this move was necessary.

“They shouldn’t have made a trade today to acquire a player,” Orlovsky said. “This is a team that is just finished this season. It won’t be the playoff run they expected. They have a head coach whose contract is expiring. Your quarterback goes on IR. He will likely miss the next four games. Not official. So that’s 12 games into the season. This is a bad football team from the start. They are already short of money next year and have to sign Micah Parsons.

“Last year they traded a fourth-round pick for Trey Lance, who you would assume would be the quarterback that would play if Dak Prescott got hurt, but that’s not the case. They play Cooper Rush. Now they take a fourth-round pick and trade him for Jonathan Mingo, who again could be a solid player, but there could be a fourth-round receiver in next year’s draft that would be available for two more years with relatively similar performance least as expected. It doesn’t make sense, man.”

We’ll see what impact Mingo will have next week when he makes his Cowboys debut against the Philadelphia Eagles.