Well, Jerry Jones is trying to do whatever he can to keep all of us fans into this season, because just a few moments ago, he made a blockbuster trade for Pro Bowl defensive tackle Quinnen Williams.
The Jets have been busy. About an hour before this, they traded Sauce Gardner.
Dallas is sending a first-round pick and more to NYJ, per The Insiders,” Ian Rapoport said. “A new home for one of the NFL’s best to team that values interior DLs, as NYJ builds for the future.”
Williams, a former first-round pick from Alabama, has racked up 322 tackles, 101 QB hits and 40 sacks since joining the Jets in 2019.
He was the Jets’ 2019 first-round draft pick, has been a key piece of the defense since his arrival.
He has gone to the Pro Bowl in each of the last three seasons and was first-team All-Pro in 2022.
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The Jets receive a 2026 second-round pick and 2027 first-round pick and DT Mazi Smith.
Thank goodness the Mazi show is over. I was starting to think that they would never let him go.
Source: Cowboys get 3-time Pro Bowl DT Quinnen Williams
Jets get 2026 second round pick, the better of the Cowboys’ two first rounders in 2027, and DT Mazi Smith
— Jon Machota (@jonmachota) November 4, 2025
Look, let me put it this way, Williams has two years left on his deal, so they might be able to hang onto him for those years, but they are trading more than likely their pick instead of the one they got from the Packers in the Micah Parsons trade before the year started.
I give Jerry Jones for making the trade, but this trade would feel a heck of a lot better if they won that game yesterday, but they did not.
This has to be a move for the next few years because the NFC is loaded and Dallas is not going to make the playoffs.
He has two years left on his deal, I would have to double-check again, but Dallas should have full control for those years now that they made the trade.
It’s a good move!! And just because he’s only under contract for the next 2 years, it doesn’t mean we can’t extend him!!
And why do you people keep on with the Mazi crap!! That just shows none of you know what a good player looks like!! Mazi will be a good player, he just needed a chance to play for the same defensive coordinator for more than a year, and he needed to keep the same weight for more than a year!! I don’t think he would have a problem getting going if he just had to learn a new scheme for a new defensive coordinator, he’s that’s not all he had to do…. He pretty much had to learn how to play every year because he had to lose weight after getting drafted, and then the next year he had to gain all that weight back, and then this year Eberflus made him lose a bunch of weight again!! Losing weight like he did means he has to learn a new way of playing every time he loses the weight, which means he had to learn a new way in his rookie year, and then his 2nd year Mike Zimmer let him play close to the way he played in college, and it started working by week 10, but then Zimmer leaves and Eberflus comes in and makes him lose weight again and then Mazi is stuck learning a new way to play again!! And learning how to play, plus learning a new system and playbook every year isn’t how a young player gets going in the NFL!! And you people wanna keep calling him a bust when the facts are that he just couldn’t get going because of the defensive coordinators!! So it’s actually kind of a good thing that Mazi got traded, now maybe he’ll get to play for a defensive coordinator that will let him play at his normal weight for more than a year at a time, and then he’ll finally get to show why he was drafted in the 1st round!! The defensive coordinators that had him on our team are gonna be wondering what they did wrong and why Mazi couldn’t play that good for us!! And you people that kept putting him down are gonna be wishing we still had him!! And y’all are happy we got Quinnen Williams, but your gonna be turning on him the same way when that idiot Eberflus makes him lose a bunch of weight too and he starts looking like Mazi has been!! Plus this stupid scheme that Eberflus is running won’t do Quinnen any favors either!! Our biggest problem wasn’t the players, we have a lot of good players on defense, the problem is Eberflus’ scheme!! Nobody will look good in that garbage!! But after trading for Quinnen and Logan Wilson, if our defense is still bad, then maybe Eberflus will be smart enough to change his scheme!! And if not then maybe Schotty will make changes himself!! And if Eberflus don’t wanna make the changes Schotty wants him to make, then maybe Jerry will find somebody else that will make the changes!! But until Eberflus makes those changes, there’s no player good enough to turn this defense around!!
Had wished that Jones would have pulled a trade for a safety at the deadline. Bland looks like a has-been recently.
a Dallas Cowboys fan, since the 70’s DT Quinnen Williams wasn’t very smart he went from one losing team the New York Jets to another losing team the Cowboys