Skip Bayless doesn’t seem to be a fan of Dalvin Cook joining Cowboys

Noted Dallas Cowboys super fan Skip Bayless seemingly has an opinion about everything the team does.

24 hours before the Cowboys signed running back Dalvin Cook and after they brought him in for a workout, Bayless offered his thoughts on the pending move — one that he doesn’t seem to be a fan of.

“My fear if the Cowboys sign Dalvin Cook, even to just the practice squad, is that I'll soon be forced to decide who looks more washed up, Dalvin or Zeke,” Bayless tweeted.

While Bayless is usually a hot-take machine, his point on this topic is spot on.

Ezekiel Elliot just turned 29, and he’s coming off the least productive season of his career (184 carries, 642 yards, three touchdowns). Conversely, so is Cook (67 carries, 214 yards, zero touchdowns), who’s also 29.

Fans and media pundits alike had been on the Cowboys’ case for weeks to add another rusher to one of the more mediocre running back rooms in the NFL, and that’s precisely what they did.

The problem is that Dallas seems content to roll with two past-their-prime RBs as its 1A and 1B options, with 26-year-old Rico Dowdle as the third back. Dowdle has just 96 career carries for 361 yards and two touchdowns in three seasons.

Few would argue that both Elliott’s and Cook’s best football is behind them, and in a year where the Cowboys are still projected to be a playoff team, rolling the dice on two running backs close to the age of 30, both of whom have troubling injury histories, seems like too much of an unnecessary risk.