FRISCO – A near-tragic circumstance in Miami has created a fantasy land in Dallas.

Tua Tagovailoa is sidelined with yet another concussion, and he and the Miami Dolphins obviously must consider all options at this point. For Tua? Miami coach Mike McDaniel is understandably downplaying the idea of the 26-year-old QB’s retirement. But at the same time, McDaniel has been open about the team’s plan to add another quarterback to the 53-man roster.

And that’s where fans (and even media!) involved with the Dallas Cowboys have pounced upon what they see as an opportunity: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones should trade Trey Lance to Miami … and that will fix everything!

Don’t just tap the brakes here, y’all. Slam ’em to the floor board. With both feet.

Dallas gave up a fourth-round pick a year ago in trade for Lance, and he’s now on an expiring contract … and the experiment hasn’t paid off. If there is a way to recoup that investment – after all, he’s now stuck as the third-stringer here behind $60 Million Man Dak Prescott and Cooper Rush – the Cowboys will surely swap him out.

But why does Miami want to pay a fourth-round pick or more for a proven-nothing third-string QB who might, in a Dolphins uniform, only be their third-best QB?

Skylar Thompson – who has started and played well for Miami in a playoff game, putting him a million miles ahead of Lance – will be the Dolphins starting quarterback until Tua returns, if indeed he does.

“I think the way to best articulate where we’re at is for the team and the organization to be very confident in Skylar,” McDaniel said on Friday. “There was a reason he was our backup quarterback.”

The Dolphins, meanwhile, also have a veteran quarterback on the practice squad in the undistinguished Tim Boyle, who has a 0-5 record as an NFL starter.

Is Lance better than Boyle? That’s only a “maybe.” Is Miami giving up a fourth-round pick for that? We’d assume that’s a “no.” And why? Because there are other options across the landscape that are far, far better fits for Miami’s situation than Lance..

“We will bring in someone,” acknowledged McDaniel. “We’re just evaluating the pros and cons of the different situations and getting through all those possibilities to do the best thing for the team.”

Would trading a valued pick for Lance (and his guaranteed $5.3 million contract) be that “best thing”? It wouldn’t be better than the Dolphins calling their former first-round pick and long-time starter Ryan Tannehill, who would come off the couch to back up Thompson.

Nor would it be better than the Dolphins simply bringing back Mike White, who just two weeks ago was competing with Thompson for the No. 2 job … and who is currently on the Bills practice squad.

We think it’s unlikely that Miami will try to trade for a new starter ahead of Thompson; they are looking for a capable body here who could bus-drive them through a game if needed … and the NFL is full of bodies who have proven they can do that better than Lance – who’s never proven anything of the sort. (Want us to name names? OK: Jimmy Garoppolo, CJ Beathard and Josh Dobbs. Oh, and Dallas’ own Cooper Rush! How’s that?)

McDaniel was on the 49ers’ staff that drafted Lance; that’s a fun tidbit. But it’s not a tidbit that is guaranteed to support this idea. Heck, given that McDaniel saw him up close as part of a franchise that gave up on Lance, it might even serve as a tidbit that kills the thought.

And yet … CBS thinks “McDaniel might be able to redraw parts of the offense to work in favor of Lance’s rushing ability.” (Really?)

The SI fan-boy site wants Dallas to trade Lance to Miami for their prized rookie running back Jaylen Wright. (Really?)

If the Cowboys can pull a fast one on the Dolphins and get a piece of value from Miami? More power to Jerry and Stephen Jones. But the Dolphins aren’t desperate. Nor are they stupid. And Trey Lance doesn’t have the allure that some Cowboys Nation observers have deluded themselves into believing.