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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys out now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here it is. We are on
Speaker 1: the eve of the NFL's new league year. So I
Speaker 1: guess we can call this new Year's Eve, Mickey, Mickey
Speaker 1: Spagnola inside inside the s WBC Mortgage studios there in
Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco. Everson Walls is not with us
Speaker 1: this week. I am Bill Jones, and wow do we
Speaker 1: have a lot to get to on this edition of
Speaker 1: Mick Shots. As as expected, the Cowboys are not active
Speaker 1: so far in the one. They call this the tempered
Speaker 1: then tampering period or the tampering period of the last
Speaker 1: over a two day period. It's an opportunity for agents
Speaker 1: to do their negotiating with teams, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of players that have already come off the board. But Mickey,
Speaker 1: most of these players are not players the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: eyes on because they're out of their price range a
Speaker 1: little bit. And I think, probably Bill, that's where we
Speaker 1: probably need to start with this to quell the uproar
Speaker 1: out there that well, this is typical Cowboys, they're not
Speaker 1: doing anything. Well, it's hard to do things when you
Speaker 1: don't have very much money available, and that's one of
Speaker 1: the things that continues to haunt them in free agency.
Speaker 1: I understand the caps one hundred and eighty two point
Speaker 1: five million, so that went down from one hundred ninety
Speaker 1: eight point four, but the Cowboys cap space, especially after
Speaker 1: signing Dak Prescott to his deal last week and taking
Speaker 1: up twenty two point two million of the salary cap,
Speaker 1: which was significantly less right Bill than had he remained
Speaker 1: on the franchise tag at thirty seven point seven million,
Speaker 1: they still don't have that much money. And I keep
Speaker 1: seeing this figure being floated out there that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have eighteen million dollars in space. Well, the one thing
Speaker 1: you need to remember is they do have to fund
Speaker 1: a draft and right now, and I can't imagine they
Speaker 1: would they would use all ten draft choices, but their
Speaker 1: rookie pool for the draft is ten point three one
Speaker 1: nine million, So take that off and now you're left
Speaker 1: with eight million, and that's very little space right now,
Speaker 1: not a lot of wiggle room, and they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to basically, unfortunately, do some bargain hunting. Even after they
Speaker 1: did the restructuring of the contracts with Tyrn Smith, Zach Martin,
Speaker 1: and Lele Collins. My understanding is that they've probably got
Speaker 1: a couple more they need to do just to facilitate
Speaker 1: signing back some of their own guys along with you know,
Speaker 1: trying to keep a little nest egg of five to
Speaker 1: eight million going in the season for other costs that
Speaker 1: cop rop during the season. So yeah, I just don't
Speaker 1: see them being big players in free agency. So let's
Speaker 1: just start right there and quell the outroar that happens
Speaker 1: every year at this time. And let's also start with
Speaker 1: what has transpired reportedly up to this point as we
Speaker 1: sit here at just after eleven thirty on Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: and we are constantly monitoring social media to see the
Speaker 1: get the very latest on what might happen as we
Speaker 1: over the course of the next hour, because things are
Speaker 1: happening very quickly, as a lot of you know, following
Speaker 1: it throughout the day on Monday, but most recently this morning,
Speaker 1: it looks like Cheetaowoozier has found a new home with
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. I haven't seen the money figures on
Speaker 1: that yet, but it sounds like it's a three year
Speaker 1: deal deal for a Woozier with the Bengals. And of course,
Speaker 1: yesterday cam Irving agreed to a deal's reportedly with the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers that was reported as two years, ten million
Speaker 1: on I'm not sure where the guarantees was. It was
Speaker 1: eight eight million, okay, eight million, yeah, And so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna go through these then we'll break them
Speaker 1: down here as I after I run through these. Houston
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas one year, two million dollars. And it looks
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys are moving away from LP Lattissar after
Speaker 1: sixteen years and two hundred fifty three games, two games
Speaker 1: shy of Jason Witton's all time record of two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five games played with the Cowboys, as the
Speaker 1: Cowboys reportedly are bringing in the long snapper from the Rams,
Speaker 1: Jake McQuaid, and of course with coach Fossils passed in
Speaker 1: with the Rams organization going back Greg Zurline going back
Speaker 1: basically nine to ten years, and McQuaid came in the
Speaker 1: same time that Zerline did when the Rams were in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, and so he's very familiar with them. But
Speaker 1: LP just turned forty the other day, and it sounds
Speaker 1: like he may like to entertain some offers. If there
Speaker 1: are offers out there, why wouldn't there be, even at
Speaker 1: age forty as good as he's been in his career.
Speaker 1: But boy, he practically perfect. I say practically because there's
Speaker 1: no way you can be perfect, but he is about
Speaker 1: as perfect as you could be at his position over
Speaker 1: the last sixteen years. Mackey. Yeah, I think I saw
Speaker 1: one snap this past season come in like low and
Speaker 1: that's but that's how perfect that was. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't remember anything. You know, there's nothing up here
Speaker 1: or out wide or bouncing in or you know, sailing
Speaker 1: over someone's head. He's been awfully, awfully good since they
Speaker 1: signed him in two thousand and five. He was a
Speaker 1: rookie free agent that I hadn't signed with anybody, And
Speaker 1: I could remember the day Bill at San Jose State
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys were practicing. They had played San Francisco
Speaker 1: on a Sunday and the next Sunday they were going
Speaker 1: to play the Raider. So the Bill Parcels decided to
Speaker 1: stay out there, and he had just about had no
Speaker 1: he already had enough with John Condo, the rookie deep
Speaker 1: snapper that was taken over for Robinson. Uh. Oh, I
Speaker 1: forgot his first day. Jeff Jeff Robinson, Jeff Jeff Robins.
Speaker 1: That's it. Uh. And so it was like, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have tryouts. And it was like, well, you know what,
Speaker 1: there's this kid that was at CAW by the name
Speaker 1: of LP Latissour and he's still out here on the
Speaker 1: coast and he can drive in for a workout because
Speaker 1: he had still remained around the San Francisco area. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he drives in and they worked him out in
Speaker 1: the morning and before practice. He was signed and ready
Speaker 1: to go. And here it is twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 1: he had still been with the Cowboys for sixteen seasons
Speaker 1: before they've decided to move along. So inauspicious beginning for him.
Speaker 1: But he was awfully good during his two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty three games, as Bill pointed out, And you know what, Bill,
Speaker 1: they must have been ready to move along because what
Speaker 1: he had been doing these last couple years is he
Speaker 1: basically is playing on a one year minimum contract with
Speaker 1: a very modest signing bonus so they can give him
Speaker 1: the veteran exception. Like last year he made one point
Speaker 1: seventy five million, but he only counted eight hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty seven thousand against the salary cap. So I would
Speaker 1: imagine he would have been willing at age forty to
Speaker 1: do the same thing. But maybe they decided it was
Speaker 1: time to move along. Who knows, Maybe you know, he's decided. Well,
Speaker 1: unless somebody really convinces me with a contract, this you know,
Speaker 1: could be it. So we'll see what happens there with him.
Speaker 1: But as you said, McQuaid had ten seasons with the
Speaker 1: Rams and several of those with John Fossil, all right.
Speaker 1: In fact, I would assume every year and until last
Speaker 1: year he has been with Fossil, I believe, because Fossil
Speaker 1: was there starting in twenty eleven or twenty twelve, which
Speaker 1: is when McQuoid came into the league same year that
Speaker 1: Zerline did, as well as Johnny Hecker, their punner for
Speaker 1: so many years out there. All right, So let's go
Speaker 1: by player on here. How about Cheeto to Cincinnati. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that? You know that that one.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people were saying Wow, they
Speaker 1: don't want him back. He's no good, And I was thinking, well,
Speaker 1: maybe they can get him back on a prove it
Speaker 1: deal because he only played like five games last year
Speaker 1: between the injuries he suffered and missing a game I
Speaker 1: think it was a game or two with on COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen reserve, and I thought, maybe, you know, somebody might
Speaker 1: shy away. But evidently the Bengals saw how talented he was,
Speaker 1: and you know, and I know he wasn't perfect and
Speaker 1: he didn't have a bunch of interceptions, but to me,
Speaker 1: you know, he was their best, most consistent corner over
Speaker 1: these last several years, and he including the games he
Speaker 1: played last year. So the Bengals kind of saw it
Speaker 1: the same way. It'll be interesting to see the numbers,
Speaker 1: but this just kind of puts a big circle around
Speaker 1: the cornerback position, saying, Okay, they've got to do something here,
Speaker 1: whether it be the draft or at least something in
Speaker 1: free agency as a bridge to whatever they're going to do.
Speaker 1: And I understand everybody's given the Cowboys a cornerback in
Speaker 1: the draft, either filey or certain, but boy, would you
Speaker 1: hold your breath just a little bit that your two
Speaker 1: starting corners as a second year guy in a first
Speaker 1: and a rookie at cornerback. And we saw the transition
Speaker 1: problems Trey Von Diggs had. Uh. And that's not to
Speaker 1: you know, you're the other guys aren't going to come in.
Speaker 1: There's still a transition there. But who knows when you
Speaker 1: find an Everson Walls right as a rookie while you're
Speaker 1: playing up to Everson and he's not even here? He
Speaker 1: did hopefully. Yeah when ever since said he couldn't be here?
Speaker 1: I uh, I said, what Belichick, get a hold of it.
Speaker 1: You're signing with Belichick. Everybody else is signing with the
Speaker 1: Patriots right now, going going back uh in time? Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, good for Cheeto if he uh And again
Speaker 1: we haven't seen the money on that yet. I mean
Speaker 1: good for him if that he got the money that
Speaker 1: he was looking for, apparently signing with Cincinnati. All right
Speaker 1: to Cam Irving and uh, I'm you know, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: where Cam Irving was in his career, although you know,
Speaker 1: it just goes to show, especially offensive tackle position, it's
Speaker 1: very rare that tackles even get to the open market
Speaker 1: unless they've got some wartz injury issues or lack of production.
Speaker 1: In the past, and here's Cam Irving, a former first
Speaker 1: round draft pick. Yeah, he did start eight games for
Speaker 1: Kansas City in a Super Bowl year the year before,
Speaker 1: but and didn't you know, had some injury issues here
Speaker 1: with Dallas and didn't start a whole lot of game,
Speaker 1: didn't see a whole lot of action here in Dallas.
Speaker 1: But he lands two years, eight million guaranteed in Carolina.
Speaker 1: He played here, he managed to play six games in
Speaker 1: five starts, so he basically missed all of training camp.
Speaker 1: I think he had about a COVID that got kind
Speaker 1: of covered up, and then he had knee problems and
Speaker 1: he ended the season on injured reserve. Bill. I just
Speaker 1: didn't think he was very good when he did play,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know that he was better than
Speaker 1: almost average maybe, And he signs like a two year
Speaker 1: deal like that with eight million guaranteed. But you're right,
Speaker 1: the desperation for veteran tackles is high in this league.
Speaker 1: So that leaves the Cowboys, and we're going to assume
Speaker 1: that Tyran Smith is good. Leal Collins is good. I've
Speaker 1: seen Lal working out. He seems to be doing all
Speaker 1: the kind of rehab stuff on the the resistant chords. Well,
Speaker 1: so if we assume that, then what they have here
Speaker 1: potentially as backups, Brandon Knight, Terrence Steele, and Mitch Hyatt
Speaker 1: are the guys that are on the roster. To me, Bill,
Speaker 1: here's what they have to do. If anybody gets either
Speaker 1: of those starting tackles gets hurt, they don't need to
Speaker 1: sit there and deliberate what to do with Zach Martin.
Speaker 1: Just move him to one of the tackle positions and
Speaker 1: insert with Connor McGovern at the other guard. If if indeed,
Speaker 1: Connor Williams is still the starting left guard, because I
Speaker 1: think Connor McGovern showed that he can play well enough
Speaker 1: at guard that you can move Zach Martin to tackle.
Speaker 1: And this doesn't preclude the fact that I always have
Speaker 1: been thinking that third fourth round draft an offensive tackle draft.
Speaker 1: A guy that might be good enough to be the
Speaker 1: backup swing tackle and your tackle of down the line future,
Speaker 1: or maybe a guy that can play guard and tackle
Speaker 1: and challenge for one of those spots. So I think
Speaker 1: in the draft, I'm not a fan of doing it
Speaker 1: in the first round, but third, fourth, fifth round get
Speaker 1: you a tackle. Well, and then you know one thing
Speaker 1: that did come out of the twenty twenty season, is
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele and Brandon Knight got playing time and so
Speaker 1: they are not. Yeah, they're still in their recent past
Speaker 1: college free agents right deemed quality enough to be drafted
Speaker 1: into this league, but they do have And as far
Speaker 1: as competing for a backup offensive tackle spot on the roster,
Speaker 1: you have a little bit of depth there guys that
Speaker 1: have played snaps in this league now. But I'm with
Speaker 1: you on as far as the draft is concerned, they
Speaker 1: really need to comb over these offensive tackles and especially
Speaker 1: guys that can play inside compete right off the bat.
Speaker 1: Let's assume and hopefully that Tyron Smith and Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: are healthy and good to go and can start. But
Speaker 1: if you if you've got a rookie who can in
Speaker 1: the meantime work in and maybe compete with Connor Williams
Speaker 1: at left guard, someone I'm talking a tackle who's going
Speaker 1: to be a guy that's going to eventually because obviously
Speaker 1: Tyrn and Lyle or getting up there and there's not
Speaker 1: as much tread on the tire anymore for either one
Speaker 1: of the those guys. And so I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: top one hundred pick, first, second or third round where
Speaker 1: you probably need to make an investment in an offensive
Speaker 1: tackle who can compete inside until those guys, until there's
Speaker 1: an opening on the outside with the Cowboys. And you know, Bill,
Speaker 1: here's the other thing that they might consider. If you've
Speaker 1: been watching what's been happening for cap reasons, there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of veteran offensive tackles who have been pretty decent
Speaker 1: in their careers have been released, and I'm sure those
Speaker 1: guys are sitting around waiting for a big deal, right Well,
Speaker 1: if they don't, you might be able to sign one
Speaker 1: of those guys for a prove it deal one year
Speaker 1: and you know, and maybe you can re enter the
Speaker 1: market next year, because look, with the cap going down,
Speaker 1: I'm just be surprised because I don't think there's more
Speaker 1: than a handful of teams six eight that have enough
Speaker 1: cap space to put out some big deals. I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of one year prove it
Speaker 1: deals this year, and maybe you can get one of
Speaker 1: those guys. You know, and you know, and and I
Speaker 1: know what happened in Kansas City, but you know, they
Speaker 1: basically got rid of their two starting tackles that didn't
Speaker 1: play in the Super Bowl. That really cost them. And
Speaker 1: I know Eric Fisher tore his achilles h in the
Speaker 1: in the AFC Championship game. So that was late January.
Speaker 1: You know, in nine nine months or so, he could
Speaker 1: be ready to go. Uh. Speaking from experience, by the way,
Speaker 1: on that injury, you know, you might be able to
Speaker 1: pick him up for one year. And you know, if
Speaker 1: he wants a play now, a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: may be too proud to come in and play for
Speaker 1: you know, one year, two million dollars, even if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have that available. But you might might be able
Speaker 1: to pull one of those off, and those guys could say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna you know, re establish my market value for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two when the salary cap goes back up.
Speaker 1: And then Joe Thomas one year, two million dollars deal
Speaker 1: with the Texans. Texans made a lot of under the
Speaker 1: radar moves yesterday and they so Thomas will play the
Speaker 1: same kind of role with the Texans that he did
Speaker 1: in Dallas as a backup linebacker, special teamer and but
Speaker 1: a dependable guy if you have an injury with one
Speaker 1: of your starters. Uh. He's a guy who can play
Speaker 1: some can start some games for you. So he's a value.
Speaker 1: I know he was a valued member of not only
Speaker 1: the Cowboys organization, but also when he was in Green
Speaker 1: Bay with the Packers as well. What do you think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys when you look at the linebacker situation? Uh?
Speaker 1: What do you what do you think the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: thinking beyond uh Jalen Smith and uh Layton Vanderish right now?
Speaker 1: You know, I would think that depending on how they
Speaker 1: evaluate some of these guys in the draft, if if
Speaker 1: if one of those top linebackers is available in the
Speaker 1: first ground, I'm grabbing him. I'm I'm I'm not sitting
Speaker 1: still and saying, Okay, I've got a couple of young
Speaker 1: guys that came onto the squad as undrafted free agents rookies.
Speaker 1: Uh And and you know I've and you know, you
Speaker 1: guys probably get tired of me saying this, but I
Speaker 1: and one of them, and you know this putting your
Speaker 1: big green notebook together, right that you gotta be larry
Speaker 1: of of relying on highlight film on guys. But this
Speaker 1: Micah Parson is a baller. Uh And if he was
Speaker 1: available at ten boll, I seriously think about doing that
Speaker 1: as long as I can cover myself at some point
Speaker 1: at the cornerback position, because I think linebacker is a
Speaker 1: need on this team, especially now that you know the
Speaker 1: Swiss Army Knight. Joe Thomas, a good play all three
Speaker 1: spots and special teams is no longer here and Bill,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. And this I think just signifies the
Speaker 1: cap problems the Cowboys are facing. Joe Thomas played last
Speaker 1: year for one point nine three million, and it sounds
Speaker 1: like they couldn't cut They couldn't qualify two million for
Speaker 1: a guy that might be a versatile backup for you.
Speaker 1: So and the other thing I'm thinking this year and
Speaker 1: I hope to God that you know they're gonna need
Speaker 1: a third starting linebacker, that they're not going to play
Speaker 1: nickel all the time, that sometimes they'll have to be
Speaker 1: forced to play a strong side linebacker on the field. Right.
Speaker 1: But maybe that extra million they were sitting there going, Ah,
Speaker 1: I don't know about Joe Thomas, but Houston had no
Speaker 1: problems agreeing to a one year, two million dollars deal
Speaker 1: with him. Yep. And the other thing with linebacker, you know,
Speaker 1: first off, you know we've heard it throughout Sean Lee's career, well,
Speaker 1: if he could only stay healthy, if I think if
Speaker 1: you're seeing it early in Laton vander Esh's career where
Speaker 1: he's had a hard time staying on the field. Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith obviously had the devastating knee injury in the Fiesta
Speaker 1: Bowlers last year at Notre Dame. But you look around
Speaker 1: the league in linebacker, it's a very difficult position to
Speaker 1: stay healthy at and I think you're always have to
Speaker 1: be looking at linebackers, and in the meantime, they're always
Speaker 1: good on special teams and with sub packages. In the NFL,
Speaker 1: there's ways of getting even a first round pick, even
Speaker 1: if you have two starting linebackers like the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: with Jalen Smith and vander Esh, there would be a
Speaker 1: way if there's somebody you love at number ten, to
Speaker 1: get him on the field where he's playing, say thirty
Speaker 1: three percent of the snaps his rookie season in the
Speaker 1: regular defense, also contributing on special teams. So I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I think I think it's it's a priority,
Speaker 1: and it gets back to my draft philosophy of best
Speaker 1: player available. When you've got positions of need, whether it
Speaker 1: be cornerback, offensive line, linebacker, defensive line, I think that
Speaker 1: you've got to have your you have to go into
Speaker 1: it with your eyes wide open. But at linebacker, there
Speaker 1: are ways to get that player on the field, even
Speaker 1: if he's not quote unquote one of your starting eleven. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you look at if you look at Parsons,
Speaker 1: you know, and he's one of these guys. And this
Speaker 1: is going to be a difficult part, uh, part of
Speaker 1: the draft this year. He didn't play last year, so
Speaker 1: he's got two years of you know, college experience at
Speaker 1: Penn State. Now do you trust what you've seen? Especially Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, he didn't start every game as a freshman,
Speaker 1: but he played every game and ended up UH. And
Speaker 1: I can't remember if it was this freshman year or
Speaker 1: sophomore year. He ended up being the MVP at the
Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl, the defensive m MVP for UH Penn State.
Speaker 1: And he can from some of the stuff I saw,
Speaker 1: he can he can rush the quarterback, he can penetrate,
Speaker 1: So that one will be interesting. And if you look
Speaker 1: at the linebacker position now with Joe Thomas uh having
Speaker 1: look or getting ready to leave the only and Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: you know who knows at thirty five do they want
Speaker 1: him back? Does he want to play again? Might he retire.
Speaker 1: That means the only other linebacker they would have under
Speaker 1: contract would be Luke Giffer, undrafted free agent in twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen and Francis Bernard, undrafted free agent this past year.
Speaker 1: That's it. And and you're two yeah, and you're two
Speaker 1: assume starters, probably not playing special teams at all or
Speaker 1: hardly at all. Uh So yeah, linebacker to me. Uh,
Speaker 1: and cornerback right now our huge needs, especially knowing that
Speaker 1: you're not going to have a woozierum. Jordan Lewis is
Speaker 1: a nice third fourth corner, but I don't think you
Speaker 1: want him starting on the outside. Now. You do have
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, and you can, but you need three of them, uh,
Speaker 1: three guys that are at least four and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure they have that all right, when we come back
Speaker 1: here on Mick Shots, let's take a look around the
Speaker 1: league and uh, let's see apparently Andy Dalton is getting
Speaker 1: some nibbles around the li Let's talk about the backup
Speaker 1: quarterback situation and what else is going on as free
Speaker 1: agency is underway, whether they call it that or not,
Speaker 1: whether it's they have to wait until three o'clock on
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Speaker 1: new league year, This is Mick shots would take you
Speaker 1: all the way to twelve thirty. We are monitoring what
Speaker 1: is going on around the league. A couple of other
Speaker 1: things that the Cowboys did in the last twenty four
Speaker 1: hours or so. Mickey Noah Brown is coming back on
Speaker 1: a one year deal, and they also have placed the
Speaker 1: tenders on restricted free agents as well, Cedric Wilson wide
Speaker 1: receiver as well as Antoine Woods defensive tackle. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: both of those guys, they tendered him at the original
Speaker 1: draft choice level, which means if they sign an offer
Speaker 1: sheet from another team that the Cowboys don't want, they
Speaker 1: would get a six back for Cedric Wilson. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: get anything back from Antoine Woods because he didn't get drafted.
Speaker 1: Those tenders are worth two point one three million, and
Speaker 1: I'll keep an eye on that because both guys are
Speaker 1: fourth year fourth year guys in the minimum in your
Speaker 1: fourth year is nine hundred ninety thousand, and One of
Speaker 1: the things that Cowboys have done previously to try to
Speaker 1: create cap space is they would sign those restricted guys
Speaker 1: to two year deals, give them a little bit of
Speaker 1: a signing bonus to offset the two point one three
Speaker 1: million over two years and lower their cap hit for
Speaker 1: this year. They've done that a couple times with guys.
Speaker 1: We'll see if they try to free up space that way.
Speaker 1: If I was if I was Cedric Wilson and Antoine
Speaker 1: Woods the first time that's official and I don't know
Speaker 1: if that becomes official before tomorrow or at three pm tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I'd be signing right away. Although you take the chance
Speaker 1: that somebody might sign you to a bigger, long term deal,
Speaker 1: that's the chance you take. There's a great example of
Speaker 1: that last year what happened with Cooper I believe it
Speaker 1: was with Cooper Rush. Last year year he had he
Speaker 1: was a restricted free agent, had the tender at the
Speaker 1: two million whatever, and as it turns out, um then
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton gets signed after the draft, and then Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush wound up not having a deal and he was
Speaker 1: he was languishing, basically trying to find a spot. I
Speaker 1: think it's always I think for like Cedric Wilson, especially
Speaker 1: with what the Cowboys have at wide receiver or with
Speaker 1: the depth that they have, I think that he if
Speaker 1: I was his agent, I would be working some sort
Speaker 1: of a deal with the Cowboys to give if you
Speaker 1: get the player more security. Um, it may be less
Speaker 1: money than what the tender is right now, but um
Speaker 1: you know just the way out and how tight it
Speaker 1: is around the league as well, I would be I
Speaker 1: would be looking at doing a deal like that. Well,
Speaker 1: Tomura's cap hit and to me, Cedric Wilson, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought he was a valuable kind of chess piece. Right,
Speaker 1: He's not a starter, but he had the fourth catches
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver and I realized it was only seventeen.
Speaker 1: But he was pretty valuable on special teams, except when
Speaker 1: they hand him the ball on fourth down on a
Speaker 1: fake punch and decides to run it instead of throwing
Speaker 1: it to the wide open receiver downfield. And then Noah Brown,
Speaker 1: you mentioned him on a one year deal and I
Speaker 1: can't imagine he signed for much more than the fourth
Speaker 1: the fourth, the fifth year minimum which is nine hundred
Speaker 1: ninety thousand, And I saw somebody called him their their
Speaker 1: fourth receiver. Well he had fourteen catches, but technically they
Speaker 1: relied a little bit more on Cedric Wilson as that
Speaker 1: fourth receiver than Noah Brown. But you know what Noah Brown,
Speaker 1: and you know, I've always been on them for kind
Speaker 1: of keeping him around. And everybody's saying, well, he's the
Speaker 1: best blocking wide receiver we got, and I'm going I
Speaker 1: don't want my wide receiver blocking if that's his best attribute.
Speaker 1: Put a tight end out there, right. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: he reshaped his body last year, slim down, got stronger,
Speaker 1: and he looked like a wide receiver and he had
Speaker 1: a couple really nice catches last year. So you know,
Speaker 1: if you get Cedric back, you got five wide receivers
Speaker 1: and you would be happy with those five guys. Well,
Speaker 1: the other thing on Noah Brown is keep it. And
Speaker 1: remember how young he was when he came into the league.
Speaker 1: I mean he left Ohio State early, so he was
Speaker 1: about twenty one years old. He's not very old and
Speaker 1: sometimes and he didn't have a whole lot of experience
Speaker 1: because of that, even coming into the league, and so
Speaker 1: he could be one of those late bloomer types. But
Speaker 1: I think it's important for players like that to understand
Speaker 1: where they are in order to The key is to
Speaker 1: stay in the league. And now, once you get to
Speaker 1: this point in your career, where okay, like in the
Speaker 1: case of Cedric Wilson, I do qualify for the two
Speaker 1: million dollars salary, but where I am on the depth
Speaker 1: chart right now and where the team my team is
Speaker 1: as far as the salary cap. And to keep to
Speaker 1: keep that secure job, you got to factor that in,
Speaker 1: I think, and then maybe you'll get your opportunity and
Speaker 1: to be able to show and have a bigger payday later.
Speaker 1: And you know, all right, how about and let me
Speaker 1: one last thing on that. And I think for a
Speaker 1: guy like Cedric Wilson, this is when the player agent
Speaker 1: is very important because he's got to have the pulse
Speaker 1: of the market. Is somebody going to pay my guy
Speaker 1: like the third at least the third receiver on a team,
Speaker 1: or if if that market value is not there, then
Speaker 1: just stay where you are and continue to make money,
Speaker 1: you know, sort of the LP Latticer philosophy. Don't price
Speaker 1: yourself out of the league if you still want to
Speaker 1: play even if you're not trying to make big bucks,
Speaker 1: but you know, keep playing because you're working on a
Speaker 1: pension too. By the way, also, you mentioned I think
Speaker 1: one of the biggest needs the Cowboys have when you
Speaker 1: mentioned Andy Dalton. Yeah, and the other thing. The other
Speaker 1: thing on all those type of Noah Brown Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: type players is understanding as you said, the market and okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the cap is strapped all across the league right now.
Speaker 1: But it looks like we're coming out of this the
Speaker 1: big TV contracts coming, there's gonna be more money to
Speaker 1: play with. You might get an opportunity to get more
Speaker 1: as snaps and if you show something then when that
Speaker 1: when the raps come off the cap around the league,
Speaker 1: you might be able to really benefit if you but
Speaker 1: you gotta stay in the league to begin with. All right,
Speaker 1: as far as the court back situation, how about Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: Looks like he is getting some interest around the league.
Speaker 1: He's been linked to Chicago quite a bit. I saw
Speaker 1: San Francisco mentioned as well, and then you look at
Speaker 1: Washington signs Ryan Fitzpatrick. It was reported as a one year,
Speaker 1: ten million dollar deal, and you know, so Washington made
Speaker 1: a decision to go that route rather than than Dalton.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what Dalton's price range is, but I
Speaker 1: would imagine it would be in that vicinity. But it's
Speaker 1: interesting how things are playing out with Andy Dalton. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the other thing that I saw is likely to
Speaker 1: take place is the Saints are going to resign Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston also, so I think if you'll look kind of money,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's probably the top rated quarterback right now remaining
Speaker 1: in free agency. I think in the top one hundred.
Speaker 1: On NFL Network they had Dalton ranked thirty fifth overall.
Speaker 1: I think Brussel was right behind him, but they had
Speaker 1: him as the top free agent quarterback. So again, what's
Speaker 1: the market value? Is somebody gonna pay him the money
Speaker 1: to be their starter or challenge for a starting job
Speaker 1: when he knows staying here means he's a backup to
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, And so will somebody offer him enough money
Speaker 1: to pry him out of where he's living now to
Speaker 1: have a chance at either starting or competing for a
Speaker 1: starting job. And if that happens, I don't know that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can spend that much money to try to
Speaker 1: resign him or match somebody's one year deal. They might
Speaker 1: have to settle with Garrett Gilbert and then see what
Speaker 1: happens after the draft, because again, if there's gonna be
Speaker 1: think about it. Bill, I don't know what you think,
Speaker 1: but you know, I've seen mock drafts with as many
Speaker 1: as five quarterbacks taken, you know, in the top twenty.
Speaker 1: And if that's happening, somebody's quarterbacks gonna get released somewhere
Speaker 1: along the line. May not be the starter, but it
Speaker 1: might be the backup guy. And so there may be
Speaker 1: more quarterbacks on the market after the draft. So the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to have to judge is Garrett Gilbert?
Speaker 1: Would we settle for him to be the backup from
Speaker 1: what we saw? And what was it a game and
Speaker 1: a half? Or do we want better? If i'm Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton's I'm not settling on that. Yeah, all right, let's
Speaker 1: say Andy Dalton's not available, Chase Daniel apparently being released
Speaker 1: by the Lions. Uh. Colt McCoy, I believe as a
Speaker 1: free agent those type players, would you go that route?
Speaker 1: And how much would you spend on a player like that?
Speaker 1: How much would you have available to spend on a
Speaker 1: player like that? And I think that's the question with
Speaker 1: their budget. So yeah, gosh, if you if you can
Speaker 1: get your backup quarterback for I don't know, three million
Speaker 1: on a one year deal, that's what I'm thinking you
Speaker 1: might have to do, which is basically what Dalton's deal was, right.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that like Dalton's deal last year? Yeah, and which
Speaker 1: if a bunch of incentives if he had played so
Speaker 1: many games and they got in the playoffs, he made
Speaker 1: as much as seven million, but obviously none of that
Speaker 1: took place. See, I'm in favor of that price range.
Speaker 1: But I think you've you've got to have someone who
Speaker 1: you have confidence in that can steer the ship if
Speaker 1: Dak went down for a couple of games. Yep. And
Speaker 1: and so I think that's why you you know, I
Speaker 1: know Gary Gilbert played well in the one game against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: but I want somebody who's who's done a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Although you know, Chase Daniel had got much opportunity to pay.
Speaker 1: But but I I mean even going back to his
Speaker 1: college days, which was eons ago. Now, I mean Gilbert
Speaker 1: didn't do a whole lot in college either. So I
Speaker 1: thought you were talking about Chase Daniel. I was going
Speaker 1: to have to correct you on that. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm saying even going back to his college
Speaker 1: days though, Yeah, you know, Chase has more skins on
Speaker 1: the wall, and uh and as does Colt McCoy. And
Speaker 1: so I would take one of those guys as the
Speaker 1: backup over you know, bring them in whichever one you know,
Speaker 1: two to three million dollars there. Uh you know, Chase
Speaker 1: is from here, Coult basically from here, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I would be very comfortable with the backup quarterback situation.
Speaker 1: And then you got a young guy that you're developing. Also, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I and this is this doesn't mean to just
Speaker 1: you know, throw throwd Nucci to the curb. I think
Speaker 1: what everybody needs to run stand. This was a seventh
Speaker 1: round pick with no offseason work on the field, with
Speaker 1: no basically a short training camp and no preseason games,
Speaker 1: hardly got to practice at all with any part of
Speaker 1: the first team offense, and all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: had to throw him in there. And it's like did
Speaker 1: he struggle? Well, yeah, not surprising. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't give your hat, can't give up on that,
Speaker 1: especially if he should come around for the amount of
Speaker 1: money he's making, you know, And I'm not gonna throw
Speaker 1: this guy under the bus, but I saw this tweet
Speaker 1: in my mentions, and I won't say the guy's name
Speaker 1: because he's you know, a bunch of guys are right
Speaker 1: there with him. They say, find it very annoying that
Speaker 1: Dallas never is active in free agency teams with left
Speaker 1: cast bait, so why can't the Cowboys be So these
Speaker 1: are the same people that were probably saying, why is
Speaker 1: it taken so long to sign Dak Prescott? Right, Well,
Speaker 1: they were trying to get a deal so they didn't
Speaker 1: have to spend you know, whatever percentage of the salary cap,
Speaker 1: especially in that first year on the quarterback. They were
Speaker 1: trying to do the deal to protect the salary cap.
Speaker 1: They weren't trying to be cheap. They weren't trying to
Speaker 1: undercut whatever his market value was. They were trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how to do a deal so at least
Speaker 1: this year the salary cap would not cripple this team.
Speaker 1: It wasn't because they didn't want to sign them. They
Speaker 1: just needed to sign them to a deal that was
Speaker 1: commensurate with the amount of salary cap they were gonna
Speaker 1: have available and so now you signed them, and it
Speaker 1: took up twenty two point two million, and that was
Speaker 1: a good deal because they put the voidable year in
Speaker 1: there so they could spread the sixty six million dollars
Speaker 1: signing bonus over five years instead of the four that
Speaker 1: they were insisting on signing for. Yep, and it takes
Speaker 1: into account that, okay, the need for for money now
Speaker 1: and uh, and knowing what the TV contract is going
Speaker 1: to be in the future and h so I thought
Speaker 1: it was. It was well worked as far as the
Speaker 1: structure of the contract. All right, us break time again. Uh,
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Speaker 1: I'm monitoring some of the comments on periscope, Mickey, and
Speaker 1: here's a here's a late round quarterback prospect that someone
Speaker 1: mentions on periscope. Sam Ellinger is the twelfth college quarterback
Speaker 1: on somebody's list. Could be picked in the seventh or
Speaker 1: as an undrafted free agent. How about Sam Ellinger as
Speaker 1: one of those developmental guys here, bring him in. Yep,
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. That'd be great. He's got the
Speaker 1: he's got those intangibles that you look for. You know,
Speaker 1: he could be the next Chase Daniel all right around
Speaker 1: the league. How you think Belichick likes going seven and
Speaker 1: nine or the Patriots They're they're spending and bringing guys
Speaker 1: in over fist, right, uh huh, that's right. Well they
Speaker 1: in this morning they signed Hunter Henry after signing a
Speaker 1: tight end John hu Smith yesterday, maybe the two best
Speaker 1: tight ends on the market. So I think they figured
Speaker 1: out that where their bread has been buttered for so
Speaker 1: many years with those two tight ends, and uh and
Speaker 1: maybe uh, maybe that can help Cam out to get
Speaker 1: some couple of tight ends because their tight end production
Speaker 1: was horrible last year, Yes it was, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how well their protection was either. Um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they they've they've they've started off quick. So here's the
Speaker 1: one that surprised me, and I kept using him as
Speaker 1: an example of why Dak Prescott should not try to
Speaker 1: go on a franchise tag a second year in a
Speaker 1: Row Pittsburgh defensive end Bud Dupree. He played had the
Speaker 1: same agent as Dak Todd France. He played on the
Speaker 1: franchis tag, and this is always the downside of the
Speaker 1: franchise tag. He tore his ACL the first week in December,
Speaker 1: so now he's going in the free agency three months in.
Speaker 1: And while his previous market value would have been pretty high,
Speaker 1: you know, who's gonna pay him a lot of money
Speaker 1: when the guy can't even you know, it might not
Speaker 1: even be able to be ready for the start of
Speaker 1: the season, or at least not the off season for sure. Well,
Speaker 1: Tennessee's gonna pay him a lot of money because they
Speaker 1: just agreed to a five year contract. Now it says
Speaker 1: up to eighty five million, So I would imagine there's
Speaker 1: a lot of incentives in there because the guarantees thirty
Speaker 1: five million. Had he been had played an entire year
Speaker 1: on that franchise tag in state healthy, it might have
Speaker 1: been straight five year, eighty five million dollar deal for
Speaker 1: the pass rusher that he has been. But now it's
Speaker 1: got to be five years, but only thirty five million
Speaker 1: and guaranteed. And that's always the downside of plan on
Speaker 1: the franchise tag because you're on a one year deal
Speaker 1: and that's it. And if you get hurt the way
Speaker 1: Dak did last year, he's very fortunate it wasn't worse
Speaker 1: than it was because you know when he talked on
Speaker 1: Wednesday about you know, I didn't feel like I was
Speaker 1: gambling on myself. No, he wasn't gambling on his ability
Speaker 1: to play football. But you're gambling on staying healthy. And
Speaker 1: that's the downside when somebody had just offered you a
Speaker 1: fifty five million dollars signing bonus, as the Cowboys did
Speaker 1: last year. Yea, and especially especially at a position like
Speaker 1: what Bud Dupree plays, where I mean you got to
Speaker 1: have that edge speed to get to the quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: as a quarterback has been proven by plenty of quarterbacks
Speaker 1: through time who have played through injuries. They had injuries
Speaker 1: that have happened in their career. Uh, they're not a
Speaker 1: lot of career ending injuries that happened to a quarterback.
Speaker 1: But for for a linebacker or for a defensive end
Speaker 1: who relies on his speed so much to do his job,
Speaker 1: that that's got a factor in Uh you know. So, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Um, what else around the league
Speaker 1: is uh. Yeah, let's look at the NFC East. You know,
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick to Washington. Uh, they are obviously are still in
Speaker 1: the market for a quarterback. He is a stop gap
Speaker 1: until they find their quarterback eventually. Yeah, that's the way
Speaker 1: it looks like. And um you know, I mean they
Speaker 1: still might be in the quarterback market in the draft,
Speaker 1: you're right, Uh, and and sure and to help you know,
Speaker 1: I think no doubt And and you know you only
Speaker 1: signed him to a one year deal, so maybe he's
Speaker 1: a ridge to whatever future they think they they might have.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, And you know, Philadelphia it's having problems
Speaker 1: resigning guys. Um me, looks like they're you know, moving
Speaker 1: on from zach Ertz, right, and zach Ertz might there's
Speaker 1: an opening in uh with the Chargers now that Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry's gone to New England. Uh, that could be a
Speaker 1: something where ertz uh Ertz was also rumored I think
Speaker 1: to Buffalo, but ERT's obviously wants it sounds like he
Speaker 1: wants to move out of there. Uh. You know, it's
Speaker 1: all there for the taking in this division, as it
Speaker 1: has been for a couple of years now. The Giants,
Speaker 1: when you look at them, I would think they have
Speaker 1: got to improve at the skill position on offense, a
Speaker 1: wide receiver, I would think that they have to be
Speaker 1: in on ju Ju Smith Schuster. Yeah, I think he
Speaker 1: would be a perfect fit there as a wide receiver there.
Speaker 1: I know Jason Garrett loved him in the draft. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys brought him in for a visit when they even
Speaker 1: when they didn't feel like they needed a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: So he would be a great fit there. Whether he
Speaker 1: would want to play there or not, I don't know. Um.
Speaker 1: But and so then as it relates to the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of activity amongst their division rivals
Speaker 1: right now, and so it's just going to be very
Speaker 1: interesting to see what the Cowboys can do to be
Speaker 1: being judicious and economical with their money because I as
Speaker 1: you've pointed out earlier, I think that there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some veteran players to be had that at a reasonable
Speaker 1: rate that that can really contribute even more so than
Speaker 1: what a draft pick can this year to get the
Speaker 1: Cowboys back on track. Yeah. Absolutely, And one of the
Speaker 1: I think there was a big port floating around out
Speaker 1: there that Cowboys he's had interests in the Atlanta safety
Speaker 1: Demante caz Is that how you say it, Caze. You know,
Speaker 1: he's played four years for Quinn in Atlanta, and the
Speaker 1: first year he started in twenty eighteen, it was a
Speaker 1: second year in the league. He had seven interceptions and
Speaker 1: so as as a and I'm guessing a free safety.
Speaker 1: So it's his four years. He had ten picks, thirteen
Speaker 1: passes broken up in one hundred ninety nine tackles will
Speaker 1: be twenty eight and he was a three year starter.
Speaker 1: Now the downside is, but this is where you can
Speaker 1: pick up a guy maybe on the cheap. He ended
Speaker 1: up suffering a season ending another guy, by the way,
Speaker 1: a season ending torn achilles four games into the season.
Speaker 1: So that means his injury occurred the first of October.
Speaker 1: October to basically the start of trening camp in July.
Speaker 1: He should be ready to go rehabbing that achilles and
Speaker 1: if if all went well, then maybe you get that
Speaker 1: guy on somewhat of a more inexpected I can't say
Speaker 1: it inexpensive, inexpensive, yes, thank you, deal that would allow
Speaker 1: him to you know, be affordable because he needs maybe
Speaker 1: a proof of deal. We'll see, especially knowing that he
Speaker 1: only played four games last year. So those are the
Speaker 1: things I think the Cowboys and everybody goes, wow, they
Speaker 1: take these chance as well, as long as they're inexpensive chances,
Speaker 1: it's okay. Right like last year, you know, I understand
Speaker 1: the veterans they brought in basically flopped, right except for
Speaker 1: zerline h for sure. But again, when you're not these
Speaker 1: guys big deals that you're you're basically rolling the dice.
Speaker 1: You're you're you. You can't afford to buy a sure thing.
Speaker 1: Like think about the Packers right now. They just lost
Speaker 1: or gonna lose their starting Pro Bowl center, Corey Lindsley
Speaker 1: us supposedly as signing a five year, sixty two point
Speaker 1: five million dollar deal with the Chargers. You think Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is happy to hear that his starting center is
Speaker 1: no longer going to be there. But when you're an
Speaker 1: established player like that, especially on the offensive line, boy,
Speaker 1: those are big contracts. So people would say, wow, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys overpaid Lale Collins. Well not really, because they got
Speaker 1: him on the cheap the first several years of his
Speaker 1: career and then you got to pay and that guy
Speaker 1: was on his way to be in a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: tackle before he missed the entire season with the back
Speaker 1: problems that he had that were eithering him all off
Speaker 1: season and they were hoping rehab would improve and it
Speaker 1: didn't do it. But that just goes to show you
Speaker 1: how how how valuable offensive lineman are when they become available.
Speaker 1: All right, there's been talk about Richard Sherman to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? And don't want to
Speaker 1: keep getting older? It can't be a big deal. And
Speaker 1: you better you better be playing zone uh coverage because
Speaker 1: he's not. He's no longer a man demand cornerback. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's got to play he's got to play cover two
Speaker 1: and he needs help over the top. So but again,
Speaker 1: what's the price, right? Is he willing to play? Uh
Speaker 1: for a million or two dollars three at the most
Speaker 1: with incentives incentives that he didn't match the year before
Speaker 1: so that he he doesn't those incentives don't count against
Speaker 1: the cap. You know, normally, if you if you get,
Speaker 1: if you give an incentive laced contract that they didn't
Speaker 1: achieve those incentives the year before, then you can push
Speaker 1: back that money to the next year's salary cap. But
Speaker 1: if it's something they'd already done, like played ten games
Speaker 1: or started ten games, then that incentive counts against the
Speaker 1: salary cap this year. Okay, let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: all right, Obviously the Cowboys need to fix this defense. Yes,
Speaker 1: if they draft, if they If the Cowboys draft, Let's
Speaker 1: say the Cowboys draft a cornerback in the first round,
Speaker 1: they draft a stud defensive lineman in the second round,
Speaker 1: and a stud linebacker in the third round. Well, when
Speaker 1: they need a safety too, Okay, we gotta okay, we
Speaker 1: get a safety in their two You got the nine
Speaker 1: of the cop pick at ninety nine also, right, so
Speaker 1: you got four picks in the first ninety nine picks. Okay,
Speaker 1: So let's say they get a cornerback, a safety, and
Speaker 1: a linebacker and a defensive lineman. How much will that
Speaker 1: improve the defense? Considering these are rookies. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, are every one? Are those guys going to
Speaker 1: be a starter? You know? Look here, here's what I
Speaker 1: wrote last week, And they've already made the best move
Speaker 1: they're gonna make on defense by hiring Dan Quinn as
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. Because they've got to believe, and they
Speaker 1: answered my question in the press conference last week that
Speaker 1: this could be the biggest move they make on defense
Speaker 1: was hiring Dan Quinn as the defensive coordinator, and and
Speaker 1: my thoughts are built that in twenty nineteen they finished
Speaker 1: ninth overall total defense, eleventh against the run, and gave
Speaker 1: up twenty points a game in one year. I understand
Speaker 1: they lost three starters, Byron Jones being the best one,
Speaker 1: but then they end up twenty four thirty first against
Speaker 1: the run and dead last and points allowed, giving up
Speaker 1: more points than any team in franchise history. And you
Speaker 1: had seven eight starters that were the same. What changed?
Speaker 1: So to me, dan Quinn has to come in here
Speaker 1: as the new defensive coordinator and make the biggest impact
Speaker 1: on this football team, either side of the ball or
Speaker 1: special teams. He has to be the guy. And he's
Speaker 1: been pretty good as a defensive coordinator right He cut
Speaker 1: his teeth in the NFL and Seattle as a defensive
Speaker 1: coordinare and the other thing that has been his specially
Speaker 1: he's been the defensive line coach. So maybe he's doing
Speaker 1: both sort of the way Marinelli did with the help
Speaker 1: of like Leon Letton, and I believe they did. They
Speaker 1: did sign a sort of defensive line assistant type. But
Speaker 1: he's the one that has to make the difference. And
Speaker 1: then if you draft well in those first couple rounds
Speaker 1: and you get Tristan Hill back playing the way he
Speaker 1: was before his turn towards ACL, you get Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: for an entire season, not a half a season, and
Speaker 1: with an offseason that he can work out with the team,
Speaker 1: And who knows what happens with Alden Smith if they
Speaker 1: can get him back. If you do, if all those
Speaker 1: things fall into place, yeah, if you pick up a
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, but Neville Gallimore was coming on that last
Speaker 1: quarter of the season, so you know, linebackers still out there.
Speaker 1: Linebackers still out there as a need. And so if
Speaker 1: I'm looking at their needs right now, they got to
Speaker 1: figure out the backup quarterback thing for sure, and then
Speaker 1: linebacker and cornerback before even they worry about the defensive line.
Speaker 1: If they can get Alden Smith back signed and they
Speaker 1: don't have to overplay him amount of snaps as they
Speaker 1: did early in the season, and he's healthy and not
Speaker 1: dealing with a knee problem that he dealt with probably
Speaker 1: three quarters of the season. And you know, but my
Speaker 1: point on that is that, Okay, you can draft all
Speaker 1: these brookies coming in and as you've you've mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: in the show. I mean, they can have all the
Speaker 1: potential in the world, but it is tough making that
Speaker 1: transition into the NFL the first year. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be key. And I'm not talking about spending big
Speaker 1: money at all. I'm talking they can even be veteran
Speaker 1: minimum type deals or close to it. That's key having
Speaker 1: veteran guys, and the Cowboys have done a real good
Speaker 1: job of this. I think in free agency in the
Speaker 1: past they didn't. Last year, they struck out on their
Speaker 1: free agent guys. Last year one Gerald McCoy, they struck
Speaker 1: out on him because of his age, and you know
Speaker 1: it is you know, quad goes out the first practice
Speaker 1: that he suits up in, you know, and by the way,
Speaker 1: they were gambling on Gerald McCoy because he had a
Speaker 1: pre existing condition with that Quad exactly that's right, That's
Speaker 1: exactly right. But in the past they have done a
Speaker 1: good job of in free agency without spending a whole
Speaker 1: lot of money where they could go into the draft
Speaker 1: and if they had a game on Draft weekend, they
Speaker 1: could go play a game. And that way you can
Speaker 1: be true to your board during the draft. And I
Speaker 1: think that's always important. Got a little bit of breaking news.
Speaker 1: I have to go here we go a little bit
Speaker 1: of breaking news as we close it out. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: have agreed to terms Mickey with c J. Goodwin on
Speaker 1: a two year, three and a half million dollars deal
Speaker 1: that includes two million dollars guaranteed. So c J. Goodwin
Speaker 1: remains a Cowboy. According to Adam Schefter, Mickey, well, they've
Speaker 1: got their their special teams guy. And basically, you know,
Speaker 1: his salary last year was nine ten, so you said
Speaker 1: it was two years, how much? Two years, three and
Speaker 1: a half million, two million guaranteed, So the two year
Speaker 1: guaranteed is probably the majority of that, a little bit
Speaker 1: of signing bonus so they can spread it over two
Speaker 1: years with a probably close to a minimum base salary.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if the cap hit ends up being a
Speaker 1: million and a half, well okay fine. And you know,
Speaker 1: and he was a valuable special teams guy that they
Speaker 1: used in a lot of different ways. So that's a
Speaker 1: and those are the type of deals they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do, you know. And they're gonna have to take
Speaker 1: a chance on a guy coming back from a season
Speaker 1: ending injury at a low value and and hope they
Speaker 1: you know, get high production. But that's what their situation
Speaker 1: they're in right now, and I think everybody just needs
Speaker 1: to understand that and not start, you know, jumping out
Speaker 1: the window. Oh they're not signing anybody, you know. I
Speaker 1: mean they kind of did the same thing to what
Speaker 1: was it two years ago with Randall Cobb who had
Speaker 1: an injury plague last year twenty eighteen season in Green
Speaker 1: Bay and came here in twenty nineteen and turned out
Speaker 1: to be one of the best free agent guys they
Speaker 1: had ever signed. The only problem was he was too good,
Speaker 1: and he got signed away in the next year's free
Speaker 1: agency last year by Houston. All right, we're out of
Speaker 1: time on this edition of mix Shots. Imagine how much
Speaker 1: news will be made by the next time we get
Speaker 1: together next Tuesday. I would imagine it'll be even more
Speaker 1: than this. And we had no problems doing this with
Speaker 1: two of us. Right, Everson to be back next week.
Speaker 1: He has not signed with the New England Patriots by then,
Speaker 1: and and we'll start digging into the draft. We'll be
Speaker 1: close to a month out from the draft, and my
Speaker 1: big green NFL Draft scouting notebook will be starting to
Speaker 1: really fill up by then, So it's gonna be fun
Speaker 1: for the next month. So and without Everson here, I'll
Speaker 1: sign off by saying, go Tigers, go. Oh, I tried,
Speaker 1: I forgot we a matchup on I can't prepare Saturday night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't prepare. Just in case you had brought out stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: I've given up them since since my team hasn't won
Speaker 1: a game since January. Now, they knocked off four top
Speaker 1: ten teams in January, but they haven't won since then.
Speaker 1: I don't think, I don't I don't. Uh, you can
Speaker 1: have that game, all right. I'm I'm into football. I'm
Speaker 1: not into March madness. And by the way, and good
Speaker 1: luck in your second round matchup, Mickey, Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 1: You know you got Gonzaga in the second round. Well,
Speaker 1: then there's no price, right, you'll throw caution to the wind,
Speaker 1: that's right. Well, maybe Chase Daniel will be a Cowboy
Speaker 1: by next Tuesday. All right, all right, we'll we'll see
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