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This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowherr on Fox Sports Radio.

Oh, here we go on a Thursday. This is the herd wherever you may be and however you may be listening.

We are live in Los Angeles on iHeartRadio FoxBordsRadio and FS1. I look at my sheet today. I've got Hugh Jackson, former NFL coach Wilp Blackman, former NFL player Peter King, Josh Norman, cornerback Fred Skins Pro Bowl.

Jason McIntyre. Here we go. I'm all fired up. Joy Taylor is joining me. Joy, how are you?

I'm doing great. It's not up on us. The NBA did an amazing job of leading us right into the NFL season.

And today is going to be a big football show. We got a ton of football. Certainly in herd dying news. We'll talk about some other stuff as well.

I want to start with Dallas Cowboys because I've been on the Dallas Cowboys all week. This is what I've led my show with all week.

And so I just for those of you and I know that many of you listen to me. Maybe once or twice a week you have a busy life.

It's the summer. Your schedule is different. But for the last couple days, I've let in the Dallas Cowboys.

I've led the show with the Dallas Cowboys and I've said the same thing. Trade Zeke. I know he's great.

But the NFL's all about trading very good players when they're still good. Jimmy Johnson did it with her.

So Walker and it started this avalanche of trades. Giants just did it with Odell Beckham, Jr. Niners that it would go Montana.

Packers moved off a Brett Farve. The Colts had to move off of Peyton Manning.

You move off players in the NFL all the time that are really, really still good off in pro bowl or superbowl winning talent players.

So a lot of pushback on my takeaway that he's too good and he's too valuable to the Cowboys until you read this this morning.

He's not as valuable to the Cowboys as you think without Elliott Zeke drawing defenders into the box.

Dak Prescott wouldn't be as effective as a passer. That's what everybody says.

Because Zeke, he forces everybody to jump up in the box and that leaves big spaces for Dak to throw the ball down the field.

Oh, wait a minute. You've heard that trope before says the article. A great back forces defenses to load the box, which opens up space in the passing game.

The problem is there's a new stat out. There's no evidence to suggest that Zeke does that.

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