WEBVTT - The Break: Hurns In...Dez Out? 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.239 Break in production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.200 Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:28.560 Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:32.440 and so much for that. It's time for the break 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:38.400 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Wait with Nick Eatman, David 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:44.280 Hellman and Bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Well you got 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.480 three quarters of it, right, that's the passing grade. Huh? 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.960 Good enough? All right? Where I come from at LSU. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.560 Does that get to your degree? Oh? Absolutely awesome. We 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.360 welcome to the Cowboys Break. We're out here celebrating three 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:59.000 day grand opening events of the entertainment district here at 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.800 the Star. I'm Mike Marsha. I don't know if you're 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:02.960 familiar with me or not. That's all right, you'll do 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.520 my best. This is Nick Eatman to my rights. You're 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.200 left Abar Garcia over here and David Hellman the normal 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.760 crew here trying to entertain you for an hour or 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.760 so as you enjoy all that we have up here 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:21.319 at the Star. Fancy huh, Hey, guys, I'm three everybody, yeo, hey, hey, 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.800 I'll say this this is great weather for any American people, 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.760 my people. This is kind of too chilly for me, 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.080 but this is weather, treny weather. Are you insane? You're 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.240 cold right now? This is too chilly for you a 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.679 little bit, But it's great for American right. You guys 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.679 are feeling good. It's a little worried this morning about 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.000 the fog. But look what we got. Yeah, every got 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.640 people out here walking around. You got you know, ten 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:48.520 different restaurants are open. Guys and coats. Yeah, we wore blazers. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.360 That's how you know it's a big Yeah, I think 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.920 you wore your ordor of light. Now handing out this 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.440 jacket that I see sometimes this is the swag jack 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.559 whenever you bring the rolled shrimp, the bacon rolled shrimp 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.080 around the people. You're wrong? That the jacket that I see. No, 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.360 I think I got the memo. By the way, I 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.920 know this was such a pansy event. You're always dressed backway, 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.520 where's your coat? A little nice? Where's your coat? Well, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.960 as you see behind us, there will be a Pat 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.079 Green concert tonight. We might just go back there and 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.200 break open some instruments and see how bad we can 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.320 sound to drive people away. Pat Green, aren't you it's 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.000 a cool thing, man? Yeah, it's a pretty cool thing text. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.359 Why not it's opening day Baseball. We're like, oh, watch us, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.400 we got our own opening day, got our own opening 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.680 day out here, and it's the entertainment district. We got 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.919 Connie Rossum making some contributions, city Works, Concrete, Cowboy cow 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.920 Tipping Creamery tomorrow. I'm not gonna name them all, but 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:41.920 some fantastic stuff up here. If you want to get 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.080 your buns up here and have a good day this 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.760 weekend Thursday, Friday, Saturday, three day grand opening, Uh, come 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:49.320 join us up here at the Star in Frisco. We 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:50.799 get this stuff every day, so it's kind of old 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.560 hats us. But I think if you come up here 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.600 for the first time, you're gonna go wow. No, yeah, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:56.760 it's pretty neat. Well, even if you haven't been here 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.239 in two weeks, it's like, oh, I didn't know that 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.160 open up or that place opened up, I mean, and 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.240 a new dancing place for you, Well, that's not the 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.160 one I go to. But if it's just this convenience 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.160 right across the street from the office, yeah, how have 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.320 you not? Definitely I'm definitely gonna switch something else over 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.840 here that's right over there. So conveniency is there some 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.480 boots over there. Maybe I can see you in some boots. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:24.800 How many boots you own? Um? Zero, zero boots, no boots. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.360 You've lived in Texas your whole life. People think it's 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.240 weird that I've lived in Texas for five years and 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.760 I don't have a pair of boots. A little weird, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.120 I know. Sorry, Dave and I had this hypothetical. You 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.480 get hired at your dream job. Oh yeah, but you 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.119 have to wear a cowboy hat to work every single day, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.600 and boots and boots the whole get up every single 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.800 do you got dressed like rowdy every day? Like, oh hey, 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:51.760 there's Jaymachick. I'm in the winner. He was the winner 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.680 of our Top Moves of March bracket. Was he the 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.040 real winner though? Or just the people's champ? What's the difference? 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.480 It leads a difference. Okay, you know, um, all right, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:02.880 we'll be here for the next hour. There might be 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.360 a player who knows, I don't know where we're gonna 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.160 fit them over here. They might just stand down there 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:07.800 and just like look at us and yell back and forth. 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.480 We'll make it work. Though, Well, they gotta find a 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.320 way to get it their way up to the front 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.400 here right. Pretty cool and thank you for everybody to 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.919 put this together. Chris Beam working his butt off this 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.320 morning getting this together. Other guys out there. We're gonna 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.000 try and entertain you for about an hour if that's possible, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.720 and do a cowboys break thing like y'all usually do. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.320 And I'm gonna fill in for Derek and see if 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.360 we can get him kicked off the podcast permanently. You're 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:32.600 doing a better job into perpetuity. Just stay in La. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.240 It's totally fine. We got this. Just take some time 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.120 off during I'm beating the one of the biggest weeks 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.320 of the year, no doubt. Me and Dave are working 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.000 on I don't know, six hours asleep. Got in last 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.880 night from the Texas Triangle Tour, which you will know 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.280 more about when they come in days. It was pretty cool, man, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:50.640 It was fun. It was pretty cool. We'll do a 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.400 whole We'll do we'll do a whole block on it. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.800 Here in a little bit Clifshouse version real quick, thirty seconds, 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.200 thirty seconds. Um. A lot of players, not a lot 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.359 of great players, but still fun to stand to a 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.560 scout while they're watching a dude and taking notes and 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.160 going ah, this, this, this, and you're like picking his brain. 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.120 It's pretty neat. Yeah. If you're big on the draft, 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.520 it's it's a good time. Well yeah, and like Mike said, 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.560 we'll have some more content on it soon. But yeah, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.640 I mean more not so much A and M, but 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.000 more players than I'm used to seeing a Texas in 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.039 the time I've lived here. Yeah, I mean we've seen 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.200 some that we've seen them go over a few times 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.640 in the years that I've been down here. I don't 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.599 think that's gonna happen. Four guys got in a truck, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.159 went down to College station, went then went to Austin 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.839 the next day, came back. Yep, good times, and we'll 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.760 have a cool little video. Bug. The heck out of 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.400 some scouts made us give them, made them give us 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.520 some access. I talk to a lot of NFL people. Yeah, um, 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.839 talk to some players I might go first, second round, 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.640 Christian Kirk, Molikue, Jefferson. So a lot of coverage last 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.120 couple of days, and we're gonna turn that into something 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.520 real fancy for you to put your eyeballs on in 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.520 the next coming days. But let's get to some pressing topics. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.520 Owners meetings said it was Chili. She did, but she's 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.120 he's got the got the shoulders. Yeah, you need Seve 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.760 guns out guns out of here, guns out guns out. Yeah, exactly. 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.680 We'll make it work, though. Um, all right, I want 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.760 this Dez thing to go away, and it just won't. Nope. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.960 And I think it's because we all assumed the tough honey, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.320 we need to talk conversation had already happened, maybe a 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.240 week ago. We were we we assumed this was water 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.480 under the bridge. And then we go to the owner's 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.760 meeting in Orlando. We send producer Kent down there and 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.000 he sticks a camera in front of Steven's face, and 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.800 Steven's very uh, hey, we'll talk about Dez whenever we 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.160 need to talk about Dez. Next question, We'll talk about 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.039 Dez whenever we need talk about Dez. If you're ready 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.919 for the Dez thing to go away? Oh, can I 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.480 share a quote with you from Jerry Jones from five 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.240 minutes ago? Yeah, he said, he said, he's kidding, it's 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.320 Jerry Jones. He's not being one hundred percent serious, but 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.640 he said, I actually told Dez not to come in 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:48.720 because I don't want to talk to him, because I 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.200 want the questions to keep going because I want us 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.440 to stay in the news. That's so, I mean some 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.559 truth and some jokes sometimes like the truth is buried 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.279 underneath the joke. Yeah, that's kind of that type of deal. 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.400 I don't I don't know. I want it to go 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.479 away too. I just want to know. I don't know 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.880 what this team's game plan is a wide receiver, because 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.920 you could convince me of anything right now, Like I really, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.440 the only thing I'm positive of right now is that 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.520 Alan Hearns is going to be on this team in 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.000 twenty eighteen. He's gonna wear number seventeen. Other than he's 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.480 gonna play wide receiver. Other than that, you could really 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.600 convince me just about anything. Like I don't think wide 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.680 receivers off the table in the draft. I don't think 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:27.120 DZ's job security is secure. I think this team would 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.160 listen to offers for their other receivers if somebody wanted 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.120 to give them one. Not that they have any, but 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.040 if somebody called, I think they'd listen. As just it's 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.920 clear that they're not satisfied with their wide receiver corps 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.040 as it's currently constructed. That's kind of my impression as 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.880 it is right now, and they're trying to act nice. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.800 They're playing nice, right, Yeah, they're saying one him back, 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.440 He's gonna be here. Love the guy. But then at 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.840 the end of every you know that fourth question that 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.760 gets asked on the same topic. You can't help but 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.480 be a little honest on it. And Jerry yesterday how 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.080 today or not yesterday before yesterday had an interesting quote 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.920 that said, we can live with how much money that 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.480 we have allocated to the wide receiver position right now. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.040 We can live with that so long as we get 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:10.800 better production from that position and that allows Zeke to 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.240 be the player Zeke needs to be. Yeah, I thought 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.520 that was pretty interesting that the focus everything rounds its 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.600 curve and points right back to the running game and 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:25.120 Ezekiel Elliott. So I don't know what it shouldn't. I 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.480 don't think so. I mean we've again, Yeah, Zeke has 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.440 been pretty calm this off season. He hasn't been on 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.160 any headlines or anything like that Cobo trip last week. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.920 Do you see that took offensive lineman. Yeah, that's chill though, 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.840 nothing you know that we're still talking about or anything 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.800 like major You know it's candalous, right, But the point 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:49.400 here is we've seen how this team reacts when Zeke 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.480 is not there on the field, and we've seen how 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.880 they react when certain other players are not there, like 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:58.640 Sean Leet, but specifically Zeke. They need to be better 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.400 at the wide receiver position, regardless of the running game. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.560 So when that time comes that you need to throw 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.160 the ball, you can throw it and not always be 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.480 dependent on the running game. I feel you. I feel 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.480 your third and long comes along and it's we can't 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.240 hand off to Zeke on third and long. We gotta 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.360 have somebody get open. I understand, Yeah, you don Are 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.320 you done guessing? No? I just think that good words. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.600 It's really simple. I mean, even though it's really complicated. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.559 I think it's gonna be simple at the same time, 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.080 I think that, you know, they're not talking about sixty 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:31.920 five other players that they need to have meetings with, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.199 and they need to meet with Dez. They're gonna try 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.040 to lower his salary. That's what they're gonna do. And 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.880 they're gonna say, let's lower this salary, and then when 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.400 he says no, then they're gonna figure out from there. Okay, 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.240 because Jerry just said, we can live with it. Yeah, 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.120 you can live with it as long as the production 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.600 is better, but the production is not gonna be better 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.280 before you have to make the decision. You have to 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.560 make the decision now. So I think it's gonna be 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.480 pretty much take it or leave it, like this is 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.640 what we want to lower your salary to. I think 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.480 that there's strategies why they're waiting. You know that they're 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.280 letting other players and other people sign and spend their 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.559 money and they're gonna I mean, it's pretty much lowballing 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.800 them saying this is this is what's gonna happen. I think. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.480 I think you're right, and it's business and there's a 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.640 strategy to it. But just just do whatever you're gonna do, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.920 like have the conversation, Release him, if that's what you 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.680 want to do, keep him. I just do something. Because 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.520 this wasn't Jerry Jones. This is just a conversation I 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.800 had with somebody over at this press conference for the 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.800 grand opening, and they were like, well, they're gonna figure 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.920 it out. They're not gonna let him twist. And I 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.640 was like, I kind of feel like he's been twisting 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.160 for about three months. Yeah, So for you to say 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.120 that they're not gonna let him twist, what do you 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.600 think's been happening since the season ended, because that's how 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.439 I view it. You know, when the Media Guide and 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.400 the next year comes out and it's gonna have all 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.840 time leading receivers and catches and touchdowns, des Brian's gonna 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.120 be number one on that list. And that's not to 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:56.679 cut you off, but that was kind of my point 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.600 is he's des Brian is not on the level of 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.360 Demark Swear. Uh. Just in turn, you know, DeMarcus Squear 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:03.440 is going to the Hall of Fame. I don't know 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.320 if Dez Bryant is yet, but I mean you're talking 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.680 about a guy that has etched in Cowboy history forever, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.160 regardless of whether or not he plays another down. So 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.640 it kind of like, just be a little bit more 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.440 above board with one of your greatest players in recent memory. 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.080 I mean, Dez is one of the five or six 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.679 best players of the post Triplets era, right, That's that's unquestionable, right, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.560 I mean, he's he is the face of the modern franchise, 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.199 one of them at least that's for sure. Like production wise, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.160 you know, it's debatable top five, but in the fans hearts, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:35.000 he's he's one, absolutely one of them, if not the one. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.520 He's one of about three. So just be a little 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.439 bit more more above board, figure this thing out like 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.959 I would. It would be a shame if they waited 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.200 until after the draft to see what they get in 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.520 the draft. I could totally see it. It's it's smart business. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.160 I mean, that makes sense to me. It's very smart business. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.160 But I just I think there's a certain level of 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.040 decorum expected when you're dealing with a franchise great, and 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.640 I wouldn't. I would be disappointed to see that happen. 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.840 So the assumption is that they are waiting for the draft. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.480 Now that's the only conclusion I can come to. Now 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.679 he knows that they haven't had the talking right. So 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.840 let's suppose they're not able to get a top wide 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.480 receiver that you would want on this team. Are you 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.080 still wanting to make that decision to figure out what 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.280 death or are you keeping him right? I think that's 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.680 why Jerry says we can live with it like that. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.640 Phrasing to me implies, we would like to better our circumstances, 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.079 but we can deal with this if we have to. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.000 One thing Stephen Jones was saying too, is that they 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.080 pretty much they have four or five priorities going into 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.960 free agency. They wanted to get some linebacker depth. This 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.000 is not in order, but they wanted to get some 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.439 wide receiver depth. They wanted to get some depth and 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:45.000 linebacker after losing Hitchens and Wilbur. They wanted to get 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:50.040 some offensive lines depth for sure, and they wanted to 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.360 get a quality safety that can start. So they haven't 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.679 done that yet and that's still out there. Yeah, And 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.640 I think I think this whole thing comes down to 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.480 that Des is that card that they're waiting. If they can, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.440 they can live with playing with Dez, nothing else comes along, 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.000 they go to the draft, they get a safety. Maybe, hey, 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.280 they're feeling good about things. Des can stay on this roster. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.440 But if Seattle calls and says, you know what, we'll 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.760 take just a second. So okay now, but you still 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.560 have to fit that money in the cap. And what's 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.679 the best way to shave that money. So I think 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.560 I think there's still He's not gonna stop the Earl 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:28.160 Thomas thing until he makes it happen. Honestly, it's it's 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:33.240 not just in cloth. Rather have another guy. Actually, Oh, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.280 go ahead, I don't care what he does. Really, I 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.240 know the Cowboys care about what players do before the game, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:44.280 but I don't out in San Francisceric Reed, I don't 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:45.520 think you can sell me on that. I mean, I 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.640 don't think fans do either, you know. I mean, he's 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.520 he's not if he can not, if he's playing well 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.679 at safety, they don't know. I think he's a better 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:58.040 player than than Earl Thomas. Like I'm sorry, he's a 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.480 better investment to make than Earl Thomas. Earl Thomas would 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.840 be better right now. But I think Eric Reed can 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.960 I feel the same way about Kenny Vacaro. And you know, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.280 I don't think he's like the true center field or 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.320 safety that you would prefer, but what he brings to 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.160 the table, and you could package him with the other 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:15.960 safeties on this team. We know they like to play 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.360 three safeties. I think that would be a great signing 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.280 at a fraction of the price. I'm honestly stunned he's 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.680 still available. The whole the whole safety market, to me, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.720 is is stunning. The way that they're getting a raw deal. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.920 They really are. They're really really good players, and they're 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.800 getting left out in the cold. And I've read stuff 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.000 that like they're getting one year, three million dollar offers. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.880 I think the reason why is because there are two 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.240 really good studded safeties that are sitting in the draft 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.000 that for a team that needs a safety and is 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:46.120 sitting anywhere between seven and fifteen, you're like, what if 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:47.680 one of these guys is here? I don't want to. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.120 I don't want to. That's why I'll do a one 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.360 year deal with something with you know, Withcaro or whoever. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.440 Because what if Derwin James is sitting there? What if 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.240 Micca Fitzpatrick is there? Yeah? So I think I think 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.200 those those two really good. That does it drop off 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.840 pretty much after that? Yeah? Yeah? Um and somewhat. I 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:10.160 mean you could make a pitch for like Justin Reid 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.520 out of Stanford. I never heard of him. There's a 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.040 significant Wayne Wayne Golden out of Tennessee is a second 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.160 or third round guy that a lot of people really love. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.400 But if yeah, it's there's a gap. There's there's a 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.280 gully there between the top two if you want to sure, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.200 if you want to surefire day one starter. Hey guys, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.520 it's those two. But yeah, no, it's okay, Hey, what's 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.760 up everybody in the entertainment district at the Star. I 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.160 hope you're having a fantastic first afternoon. Hey are you 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.360 doing out there? No? But I think that's a I 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.720 think that's a realistic thought. I mean, the draft changes things. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.640 That's that just the conversations change, the prices change, and 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.000 like I said, it's it's smart business to wait until 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.760 the draft to do something with Dez. But just me personally, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.400 I would like it's annoying being being hung out there, 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.280 and I'm sure Dez feels the same way right now. No, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.280 like we feel hung out there because we want to 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.760 know and yeah, imagine pretty sorry though he's staying here, 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.600 I think des is just a piece with whatever happens, 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.120 whether he's here or whether something I mean, what what's 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.360 he gonna do? So I think it's more so that 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:20.800 I was talking abrought us last at peace as at 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.320 ever as at pieces he can be. Let's put it 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:24.920 that way. I was talking about us when we were 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:26.480 driving around the last two days and I was like, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.920 I can't imagine the Cowboys without Dez Bryant. Yeah, and 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:34.040 I can't imagine Dez Bryant not having being a cowboy 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.040 as part of his identity. No, I know, like that's 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.400 in him, like that's him, That's Lufkin, that's Oklahoma State, 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.520 that's that guy. If he goes somewhere else, like yeah, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.160 we joke like, oh, he'll blow up for fifteen touchdowns 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.800 and make us through the day that he left. But also, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.400 I mean, different guy, different situations too. It's it's hard 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:55.320 to imagine des commuting to work in in North Pittsburgh, 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.840 but I mean, like it's hard to picture that he's 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.200 such a Texas guy. I think the most damning thing 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.640 that came out of all the information we're we're just 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.960 trying to read tea leaves like one day at a 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.040 time like this and that, and then we got random 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.560 h Yahoo dot com guy saying oh, they'll cut him 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.760 for sure, and I'm like, who are you? Yeah? But 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.639 it's never, never, never once heard your name in a 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.800 respectable manner like who are you? Yeah? And then the 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.720 Sammy Watkins thing. I can't get over that. No, it's 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.879 that's bizarre. I can't get over the we almost had 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.439 Sammy Watkins. Sammy Watkins didn't want to replace Deaz and 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.040 uh no, everything's cool. We still definitely definitely won him 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.160 back forever and ever and ever. Yeah, that's the most 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.320 of that that's my first exhibit. You're saying, if you 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.040 tried to get in for him. Yeah, yeah, you just 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.240 tried to replace me. He didn't want to do it. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.320 But we're still cool, right, So you parted ways with 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.080 him in your mind and your mind you said, you 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.800 said goodbye. It's all right. It's opening day in MLB. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.760 I'll try to use a baseball analogy. You come to 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.200 the plate and you need, you're needing a run. Maybe 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.399 you got a guy on base in a crucial situation. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.120 First pitch, fastball, you just hack at it like you're 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.680 just trying to get it out park. You miss your 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.120 your down one in the count and it's like two outs. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.120 So maybe you change your strategy there. You're a little 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.840 Now you're just just trying to get on base. Now 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.600 you're trying to make the pitcher throw nine balls instead 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.200 of just strike out on three pitches. So you're explaining 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.400 a heat check. This is running a play you basically 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:20.560 you mean you swing for the fences. You don't get it. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.400 You change the strategy a little bit. I mean, that's 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.040 it's pretty that's the way I read it. Okay, question 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.680 when they got off the field at the end of 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.200 last season, which was seems like a whole year ago, 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:34.080 but it's only a couple months ago. Dez Bryant and 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.760 standing Pat or Alan Hearns and a I'm not gonna 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.440 give you a first round wide receiver. I'm gonna give 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.879 you a second round Anthony Miller DJ Chark type character. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:50.560 Is that a better team? Oh, Herns or the second 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.240 round round? Herns and the second round second Rogie or 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.280 de yep and Dez and the rest of the guys 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.800 stay pat like they probably are gonna know. Yeah, I 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.040 think I think it is better sides. I think the 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.600 hern I think Hearns and then because you're getting younger, 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:07.760 you are, you're getting younger all the way around, and 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:11.560 you're getting cheaper eventually once the dead money clears. Yeah, 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.040 I mean, I think that's the better round. I think. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:16.880