FRISCO – The NFL trade deadline of October 31 is coming. The Dallas Cowboys at 4-2 believe they are on the rise. Saquon Barkley’s New York Giants are 1-5 and cannot pretend the same.

Does that mean there can be a trade match that would nudge the Giants into parting ways with their star running back and arguably their best player?

It’s certainly a “sexy” idea and it is being pitched by FS1’s Nick Wright, who is suggesting that the Cowboys should reach out to the Giants and try to grab Barkley.

Before we fall too deeply and inextricably down the rabbit hole here, a handful of qualifiers: Wright has no known insight into the Cowboys thinking here. Nor, as is so often the case in these made-for-TV trades, is there much time spent on salaries and cap implications,

And when Wright sort of dismisses the presence in Dallas of Tony Pollard by insisting that “You could have both of them on the field at the same time.”?

That’s fun Fantasy Football stuff. For the record … Here’s what Wright said on FS1:

“If I were (the Cowboys) I would try to make a dramatic move. I would call up the Giants about Saquon!”