WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: No Time to Weight 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:03.520 The following. 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:05.560 He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:12.320 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.720 This He's Talking Cowboys Straining live. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:22.280 From the Dallas Cowboys World Heads at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:26.920 Touchdown. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.000 It's a Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Black 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.320 Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, Texas 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.240 and the s WBC studios. Welcome in, everybody alongside Patrick 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.199 no c Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah standback. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:50.559 I'm Kyle Yeolmans. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:55.960 This is now the Emmy Award winning Talking Cowboys crew. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.560 Isaiah took home another Emmy last night. 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.960 We've got a new you Emmy winner and Patrick no 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.440 c Walker, congratulations. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:05.800 Sir, appreciate that. Man. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.560 It's uh still hasn't sunk in yet, but you know, 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:13.399 quite surreal to experience that. You know, a lot of blood, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.200 sweat and tears, but at the same time, it also 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.120 goes to the greatness of those around you. So surround 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.400 yourself with greatness that will help you, you know better, 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.960 tap into the greatness that is within you, and then 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.160 you can you can make some big things happen in 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.640 this life. So I'm blessed blessed to be around you, guys, 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.199 blessed to be a part of this, this organization. And 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.360 guys like one sitting at this table, Derek Nick Eatman. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.000 Just you know, the list goes on and on, Ambar Garcia, 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.160 guys behind the scenes, Alex Lily, Chris Bean Jazz. I mean, 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.800 we got so many elite folks here that you know, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.559 without them, none of this, none of this happened. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.160 So go team, no way squad. It really is. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:51.360 It's a it's a team effort. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.080 Do you know what the total number ended up being 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:53.520 last night? 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:54.480 Not at all? Did you? 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.040 Did you bring them all home? Because you made all 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.960 the speeches. Derek came and loaded them up in his vehicle. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.040 Okay, so Derek came and got he had them all. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.360 There's a lot backed up the U. It was a lot. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.080 That was awesome. It was a lot. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.440 Cod truck, if you will. He backed it up and 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:10.080 loaded them up. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.359 At least there was at least forty of them things, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.040 you think, so, Lord, yeah, that's awesome. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.160 Well, congratulations to everybody in the department that ended up winning. 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:20.840 Uh for those that knows how to stick some talent. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.079 I was just about to say, for those that don't know. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:28.160 This department is uber talented in terms of what they 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.000 do on a day to day basis, and we are 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.640 we are just blessed to be a part of it 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.560 along the way, but super happy. And we've we're the uh, 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.240 we're the only show, the only podcast that has three 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:39.560 Emmy winners as. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.280 A part more than two. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.360 We so just wow, I just thought I. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.960 Thought it sprinkled. I mean, there's JV and then there's Varce. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.880 Shot shots fire. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.640 All Right, We've got lots to catch up on because 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.560 since we were on the air Monday, things have happened 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.960 around the build thing, just a. 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.320 Couple things along the way making moves. 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:09.280 Moves have been made, papers have been signed, and it 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.920 looks like there may be some more to come. But 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.959 we're gonna talk about ceed Lamb. He's back in the building. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.640 He was back in practice yesterday. Four years, one hundred 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.080 and thirty six million dollars, one hundred of that guaranteed. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:23.960 Really the deal. 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.800 That I think a lot of us anticipated. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.800 Where it's just underneath the Justin Jefferson highest non paid 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.400 or non quarterback to ever get paid in the NFL. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:37.400 But it is a significant contract and now the first 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.400 Domino has fallen and you're starting to see that pack. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.160 Absolutely, and to say that Ceedee Lamb has earned his 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.960 contract is a gross understatement. And also when you're talking 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.000 about it financially, you have to look at the fact that, 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.200 unlike Minnesota, Texas does not have any state Texas. So 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.839 mathematically speaking, as far as take home greatest concerned, Ceede 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.800 Lamb is actually the highest earning wide receiver in the 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.240 NFL over Justin Jeffer So I'm sure that came into 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.880 the conversation as well. But yeah, now that Ceedee Lamb 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.240 is on the books, and we spoke with him yesterday 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.560 and he talked about how ready he is, quote unquote, 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.040 I'm ready for battle. He added fifteen pounds of lean 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.960 muscle in his workouts between Texas and South Florida. He's 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.320 been working with Dak Prescott in the dakyard. I mean, 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.279 he's been doing everything he can to be ready for 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.200 this moment. So he says he's a full go for Cleveland, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:24.840 and it looks like that's going to be the case 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.120 up next Dak Prescott. 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:27.120 When does this happen? 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.120 Ceedee Lamb had a fantastic quote when it comes to 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.640 that he was basically saying that he wants Everybody knows 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.080 that Ceedee Lamb wants Dak Prescott here in the building 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.799 for the foreseeable future. Also said everybody knows Jerry Jones 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.480 wants it to happen, and we all know Dak Prescott 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.440 wants it to happen. So Ceedee Lamb said, let's get 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.480 it done. Let's kill the speculation. End quote. So to 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.680 hear wide Receiver one completely on board as we knew 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.880 that he was. And I think we've talked about this 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.480 on off the cuff on several occasions. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:57.680 It's a package deal for me. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.200 Right, if you're talking about extend Dak Prescott, you should 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.679 be talking about getting the deal done for CD Lamb. 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.719 Now that you have the deal done for Ceedee Lamb, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.880 you need to get the deal done for Dak Prescott 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.040 because of what they are for each other production wise 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:11.960 and in the locker room. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:13.120 So package deal. 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:13.400 Yeah. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.760 So now the question is when does the Dak Prescott 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.479 deal land. I'm not saying if I said when when 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.080 it came to Ceedee Lamb and here we are, I'm 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.120 sticking with when when it comes to Dak Prescott. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.839 When would you get it done? Isaiah by Friday. 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:27.760 Yeah, that quick, I like that. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:28.560 Knock it out. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.280 Yeah, I foresee Friday at the earliest, That's my expectation. 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.839 And at the latest, I would say Wednesday next week. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.680 Wow, So not a long window. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.120 I mean, let's get Isaiah upstairs. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:44.479 Yeah, an elevator. Elevator for a number of reasons. For 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.560 a number of reasons. I mean from the standpoint of 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.240 you do not want to have these conversations, nor do 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.400 you want to take attention away from the team leading 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.240 into your first game of the season. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:56.640 Also, it has to. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:01.400 Get done by next week, by next Sunny Day, by 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.080 the first game. Because I think it's known that if 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.080 Dak Prescott touches the field in Cleveland without a contract, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.280 he the probability of him coming back is slim to 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.400 none because there's a due down in Las Vegas. I 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.560 would pay whatever is in his back pocket to ensure 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.400 that he got down there, along with other teams. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.560 But we know that that guy would pay a ton. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.200 Would he be the most highly yes, yes, yeah, yeah. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:27.800 It would just be the biggest free agent of all 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.200 time if he hit the free agency at least this year. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:36.080 I mean, when Tom's deal was up there and there 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.680 is a couple, there's a couple of guys that have 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.440 been out there like yeah. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:43.119 But a bigger name since since since Tom Bradley. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.840 I mean, he would be the biggest name this offseason, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.760 no doubt, not even close, especially if he has a 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.680 year even comparable to what he did last year, if 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:58.839 he's even in in the MVP conversation whatsoever, that number 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.200 is going to be astronomical, which is part of why 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:01.960 they should get it. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:03.800 Done Friday to Wednesday of this one. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.640 You can't run the risk of having a competition in 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.920 terms of bidding on Dak Prescott. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.320 Yeah, that's not even in the cards. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.440 You can't allow that because, yeah, everybody has deep pockets 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.720 when it comes to these thirty two individuals who run 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:20.560 these organizations. 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.560 So that's the last thing you want. And you also 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:23.600 don't want the distractions. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.800 And we also know that Dak from and Dak and 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.160 any other quarterback when it comes to the regular season, 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.000 I'm focused on winning games now. 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.800 And his cap hit this year would be fifty five 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.000 if the if a new deal isn't done. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.720 Correct, yeah, I mean, I mean I have no Jedi, 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.720 but so I think the deal is probably fifty eighty runner. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.720 Yeah, but I don't think it'll all hit this year, 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.440 No one, no, no, I'm saying I think I think his annual. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.560 Yeah. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.280 And to add to Isaiah's point, one of the reasons 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.840 that you should and another reason you should have urgency 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.360 to get this deal done is salary cap management purposes. 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.600 So I put this out there on Twitter yesterday, Ceedee Lamb. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.400 He was sitting to hit the Cowboys for a little 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.920 bit under eighteen million dollars fully guaranteed on that fifth 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.960 year option. By extending him, which in essence makes it 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.440 a five year deal because he's under contract for twenty four. Anyway, 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.560 they turn that into only a eight point seventy five 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.000 million dollar hit, So you get over nine million dollars 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.200 in savings right there. But wait, there is more. Dak 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.760 Prescott currently set to hit the Cowboys cap in twenty 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.560 four for sixty six point two seven million dollars. If 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.320 you can get an extension done before this season starts, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:32.000 that turns into twenty two million dollars in savings. That 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.520 is a massive financial swing for the Cowboys. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.880 That's like another Pro Bowl caliber player at a different position. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.440 Quite percent, that's exactly, quite literally what it is. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.040 And when you still need to pay Mica down the 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:43.600 road as well. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.560 And the caveat is is that NFL teams are required 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.560 to use roughly ninety percent of the total salary cap 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.840 over a four year period. There's not a hard annual floor, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.800 but that's the general rule, right. But once they hit 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.240 that floor, they can roll over one hundred percent of 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.880 the cap that's up unused to the next year. So 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.320 when you're talking about what does free agency look like, 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.680 we know the Cowboys don't play in the first wave 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.760 of free agency, but they have a whale in Michael 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.760 that they need to resign, and maybe they do want 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.960 to get one or two guys. Nonetheless, these are huge 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.520 salary cap numbers that we're talking about, in addition to 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.079 the fact that the cap is going to go up 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:20.959 in and of itself, right. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.199 So not expecting to go up as much as it happens. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.679 It's not going to jump another thirty million dollars, right, 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.760 but it could. I think the projection right now is 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.360 over to sixty. So because right now it's like two 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:32.160 fifty five. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.360 I think it was like ten million. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.040 Over the next five years, it's not going to be 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.360 It could be a little bit in there. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.000 Just it's not going to be exponentially explosive like it 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.040 was from twenty three to twenty four, but you're still 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.880 going to see that growth. So all things considered, you 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.880 you're talking about pouring Scrooge McDuck money, bend money onto 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:49.720 your salary cap. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.200 And so it's Isaiah's point. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.000 You want to get it done for all the reasons 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.840 I said, Isaiah said, and in addition to a wide 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.480 receiver one saying get it, get her done, and the 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.520 salary cap says get or done, there's no reason not to. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.000 So Dak is the next one up. I think we 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.199 all kind of agree with that. 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.520 Of course MICA's after that, and then of course some 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.000 sprinkled contracts in between there and now, and then back 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.040 to ceed Lamb real quick. Yesterday was our first look 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.240 at him. It wasn't a full practice, wasn't a full 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.840 I mean, they weren't even in pads. They were just 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.439 in helmets and in the jackets. But there were times 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.959 where Cedde Lamb was on a knee and there were 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.960 times where he was off to the side. 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:31.360 And there's I mean. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.440 There's a difference between conditioning and working out by yourself. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.680 And then team, conditioning and running a full practice. Is 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.120 there enough ramp up time that we're now eleven days 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.280 away from the opener? And Isaiah, I'll turn to you 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.600 on this. Is there enough ramp up time for CD 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:49.800 to be in game shape and be in CD LAMB 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.920 form come September eighth against the Browns. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.439 I don't think he'll be one hundred percent. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.520 I just mean give me a ballpark number. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.240 I mean working out on your own, then getting with 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:03.680 the team, you know, resistance, fighting up against guys with pads, hitting, 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.760 all that jazz that goes along with playing ball. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.760 You probably have an eighty five percent. You know, CD. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:11.319 I like that. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.840 I mean that's just the reality of it. That's not 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.160 to say that he's not willing or any of that jazz. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.640 It's just that's just the reality of getting your body prepared. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.079 And I think the biggest threat is not as cardiovascular system. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:23.920 I think his biggest threat is making sure that he 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.280 doesn't have any soft tissue ish in injuries. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.280 Well, on top of what you said, he gained fifteen 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.800 pounds of lean muscle. On top of that, like carrying 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.120 that around while doing drills while conditioning. Now that's going 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:35.880 to be tougher too. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.199 Yeah, I mean, and the game of football when you're 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.040 playing seven on seven or you're playing routes on the air, 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:43.319 like that's cool. 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.760 Even if you're wearing the whole pad, all the pads. 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.959 At dark spot, I was what's the name of his field, dad, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.960 the backyard, even if you're wearing all your pads at 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.040 the dockyard and getting your work, and it's still not 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:53.439 the same. Right when you get up there and start 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.760 pushing up against people and people are able to actually 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.600 get real physical with you, it takes a lot more 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.439 out of you. Also, it puts a lot more stress 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.760 on your body. Right, you started talking about stress. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.520 On your achilles, stress on your calves. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.720 All your all your you know your your your aductors, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.920 your hip flexers, you know your growings. We hear a 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.120 lot of growing injuries come when when guys haven't been 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.839 around playing the actual ball for a while. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:13.800 This is just the reality. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.600 Yeah, definitely knocking on all the wood you can find, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.040 but that's that is the risk. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.319 You run when you give somebody. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.600 But six days of practice possibly about about that, It 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.679 seems about six days of real practice before going out 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.280 and playing a game at that at one hundred percent, 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.000 So I don't expect him to be in mid season 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.880 form by that time. He is behind, That's true. He 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.960 is behind everybody else when it comes to physical conditioning. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.800 That's not that, that's no knock on his off season training. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.480 It's just the facts that he has not been playing 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.079 football against other grown men for the last six weeks, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.760 and everybody else has what would be a realistic to 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.240 expectation week one, because I can already see it, and 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.680 I know Patrick, I know you, you probably know where 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.600 I'm going with this Week one games will for everybody's 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.079 looking up the box score and there's four targets, three 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:08.400 receptions for twenty one yards, no touchdowns, ceedee lamb. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.880 On Week one, everybody's saying, we paid this. 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.480 Guy what there's a probably there's a chance that that happens, 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.400 but that's you shouldn't freak out in him. 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:17.959 No, you don't forge out. There was no freaking out. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:18.679 Good luck with that. 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.480 And people don't want to hear ramp by contract, especially 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.880 with the you have one hundred million dollars, you got 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.880 thirty six million dollars. I just got direct deposits to 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.280 you account. The last thing you want to hear is 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.880 ramping ramping him up. Yeah, and people don't want to 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:30.640 hear that, and we get it. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.120 But hit that go round, Yeah he's going to see. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.240 Yeah, he's not that good. He's not a transformer, he's 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:35.640 a human. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.640 But that's the same man, right, exactly, these guys need 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.960 to be working. And also keep in mind, this is 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.199 a long season, right, Football is a long season, even 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.160 longer now even now. You need him for the long haul. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.760 So while he's he being ceedee lamb, while he said 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.880 he's going to be ready for a full slate, we'll 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.480 see if the Cowboys give him a full slate of targets, 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.840 because there's a difference between targets and reps. I mean, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.040 he could be easily be a decoy on plenty of 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.160 those and still be impactful because he's on the field. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.080 But to Isaiah's point, I mean, and City said it himself, 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.440 he just needs to get thumped. He needs to get thumped, 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.800 and he needs to feel that contact violence, which is 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.360 what he termed it, which is accurate. He needs to 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.160 feel the contact violence. They're not going to be able 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.960 to thump him up over these next several practices like 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.120 they would have in training camp, right, so his first 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.040 actual you know, wreckage when is a slant round over 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.680 the middle of Cleveland and they're like, welcome. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:29.400 Back, Ceedee Lamb. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.840 So I will say, you know, I hope that he 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:36.320 has a phenomenal first week. My expectation though, is that 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.040 it needs to be that everyone's expectations needs to be 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:40.040 tempered as. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.240 Far as what he might do or might not do 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:42.680 in week one. 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.480 If he goes out and he has, you know, ten 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.520 catches for two hundred yards and three touchdowns, fantastic, sensational. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:53.000 If it's only four targets for twenty one and no touchdowns. 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:54.280 Well that means Cooks eight. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.280 That does mean hopefully, it means it means Jake Ferguson, Tober, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.920 I mean Tobert, a other Duke, duce Vaughn, Jalen Brooks. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.640 I mean, you have other guys, don't you do it? 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.720 And that was the benefit, that was the benefit. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.920 Oh you mean, jeez, but no, that's the benefit of 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.000 when you look at the opposing side of it, right, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.400 But Ceedee Lamb not being in camp Brandon Cooks, yes, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:21.040 and Dak Prescott looked like Siamese twins out there right, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:21.520 like they. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.240 Were just joint at the hip these guys were. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.520 These guys were in unisons, right, So that's the benefit 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.240 because now as you're ramping up, Ceedee Lamb, he's still 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.800 a threat, regardless if he's if he's if he's a MIDS, 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.800 he's in former, or no, he's you still better respect him. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.960 With him saying he's gonna Tostito, Yeah, Tostito's plaza, it 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.200 doesn't matter, right, so you better respect. 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:41.640 Him the same way. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.000 And now you have the chemistry of a Dak Prescott 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.800 and Brandon Cooks that might not have been at that level. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.360 Has CD been there, So there's benefit to that. You 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.160 still have CD and what he's capebook doing. But until 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.520 you until we get on that one, accurt I got 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:55.479 you be Cooks. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.560 And don't forget don't forget about the rookie Ryan Flinoy. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.760 I mean he's he's making some ways. We saw him 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.080 make another sensational catch yesterday in practice. So that all 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.000 building all to say that you know, as CD Lamb 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.680 is ramped up, fact is he's going to be on 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.520 the field, which makes him, if nothing else, one of 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.880 the best decoys in the NFL in Week one, and 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.480 then these other guys who were able to take, you know, 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.240 opportunities and turn them into production for the Cowboys in 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:19.880 the preseason. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.080 That gets to lean on those guys as well. Two 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:23.359 million dollar Gay. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.360 Yeah, and and Brandon Brandon Cooks by the way, Sid No, 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.800 he returned to practice yesterday. He missed the final week 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.920 in practice in Oxnar did the personal reasons. He missed 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.800 a couple of practices prior to that with some knee 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:36.840 soor iness, but he was back in full pass yesterday. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.240 So great, great news, great news. Over under seventy five 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:41.800 yards for CD in week one. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.160 Over over, over over over, I'm gonna go under. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:49.720 I think I would go barely under that. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.680 I was going to say, like seventy seven. 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.600 So I'm like, I'm not very good at making CD 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.280 lamb Betts. The last time I did that, I ran 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:58.040 a half marathon. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:06.040 So nothing wrong with we can make a Brandon Cooks Betoks. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:07.120 You don't want to make a brand. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:14.439 You don't want to make a bread gets spicy in here. Listen, listen, 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:18.360 we don't have enough hot sauce. I had somebody bring 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:19.640 that up to me the other day. I was doing 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.040 an event with the Cowboys Club and one of the 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.280 great members there was like I just all the time. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.639 I laugh at the hot sauce. I wanna wear that 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.359 shirt Tuesday. I don't know where I made a shirt 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.520 with nick on on the front of it, with the 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.200 hot sauce. Yeh, just dying spices that guy, poor guy. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.640 Do you remember the mudding shirt catfishing that had your 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.000 face on? We were talking about muddy, Yes, you know, 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.600 like getting in the yeah. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:51.040 The newly yeah shirt. But would you ever do that? 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:51.840 I don't know what that is. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:52.520 We'll talk about it. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.840 We'll talk about it all right when we come back. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.000 Old stuff here on Talking Cowboys. Ceedee Lamb may not 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.280