Here’s how the NFL works, in a nutshell.

Every year, teams draft players. Each pick is a scratch-off lottery ticket. And when you get a winner, you don’t trade it in for more tickets.

Dysfunctional teams try to play that game, like the Bengals. And now the Cowboys.

Owner and G.M. Jerry Jones can filibuster all he wants (and he has . . . and he will), but the truth is that he screwed the pooch. He drafted a player who turned out to be great, and he turned him in for two chances at a player who isn’t a bust.

Jerry should know better. He’s an oilman. He never would have swapped a gusher for two possibly dry holes.

It doesn’t help that the Packers’ picks likely will come late in round one, in 2026 and 2027. While the pass/fail rate in that range remains roughly 50-50, the chances of findi

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