WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Blindsided? 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:06.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.719 Cowboys. 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:17.000 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:22.520 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:27.640 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and new he Scruggs. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:30.280 Play loud off season. 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:35.960 Let's right, Danny Harrison, Barry Church Scrugs. Brought to you 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.400 by Tostitos. Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen. Always a lot to talk 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.600 about here. Yeah, all season doesn't end, baby league. He 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.920 is about to come around here. CAP's gonna have to 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.279 get a place here, So contract's got to be redone renewed. 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.640 We'll start off with with with my guy, Tamo Sam Sam. 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.320 Seventy seventh sh Tyer Smith reports. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.360 Coming out saying, Hey Cowboys, Tyrs Smith didn't I weren't 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.520 able to come together on a contract. He's going to 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:06.360 be a restrict unrestricted free agent, and that this is 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:07.840 most likely going to be it. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.759 Tyring was second team All Pro. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.440 His agent as any agent should, Hey, my guy, second 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:16.080 team All Pro? 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.160 That contract last year where I played a game in 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.960 the game. That doesn't work for us that's what your 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.920 agent should do. Yep, Cowboys, it come up with a 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.080 deal at all, and I just want to make sure 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.759 I put it out here first. What a thank Tyre. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.200 Absolutely, that's fantastic career. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.880 Fantastic career, coming out of the USC taking ninth overall. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.119 Started right tackle, went to left tackle. Fantastic year. Uh, 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.360 fantastic career, and last year fantastic year. Thought he'd have 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.960 a good year. He had a good year. But thank you, 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:48.480 and you got to move on. You got a left 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.760 tackle now, Tyler Smith moves over to the left tack. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:54.200 You drafted him to be a left tackle. I talked 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:55.800 to Will McLay last year, said that's what we did. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.160 We drafted him to be a left tackle. So moves 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.200 on over there. And of course you know you want 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:04.840 to go to left tackle because that's where the money. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.919 So you kick him on out there. Whoever side signs Tiring, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.880 good luck to him. You go in the draft and 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.760 you go find someone else. So I just set my 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:14.800 piece on seven seven. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.600 Look, listen if it is the end, because you know 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.480 a lot of stranger things have happened, So if it 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.639 is the end, Tiring has had a hell of a 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.040 career here, I don't think it's over. I mean I 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.880 think the recipe has been put out there, like, hey, 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.280 this is what you got to do to make sure 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:31.640 that this guy is able to play at the top 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.480 Knights level and that he's healthy. Limit the practices, make 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:36.959 sure that you keep them out of harm's way and 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.600 let him be healthy for the game. And he's gonna 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:39.760 go out there and be one of the best left 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.919 tackles in the game. So I think he still has 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.839 has has some left in the tank. But like I said, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.560 if it's the last, last, last hoo rock for him here, 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:52.079 last season, Hall of Fame career here, uh, game changing 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.600 left tackle for over a decade, So shout out to him. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:59.000 But you know what this is gonna sound crazy. Still, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.560 I would have took him back, told you I said 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.360 last week, I would have money aside. I'm just talking 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.200 about you know, said money aside him as a player. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.120 And now, after all those years then finally figuring out 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.320 how to get it done, I would have said, hey, man, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.120 we didn't. We didn't finally figured out the magic sauce. Okay, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:18.640 so now we go to make sure that we use 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.880 the sauce. And we got us a second team All 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.679 Pro left tackle for the next however many years he 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.720 felt like he wants to play. Are you telling the 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.519 truth when you say Tyrn Smith has been in all 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.720 time like top ten left tackle in this league. Oh yeah, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.720 you know, and all of the the accolades, everything that 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.120 he's accomplished in the league. Actually you know it. But 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.800 I look at a guy played for the Rams and 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.520 played for also played for the Cincinnati Bengals before number 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.040 seventy with big wit right unless you got it. Yeah, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.160 So it played a long time in the league and 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.400 then finally goes to another team he ends up winning 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.360 them a ring. And I'm sure for Tyran that's what 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.240 That's what all these that's what everybody covets. You know, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.200 winning a super Bowl Hall of Fame is gonna be fine, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.160 but winning the Super Bowl and maybe he feels like 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.720 I'm in that position now to be able to look 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.400 at the full gamut of all the teams that are 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.360 out there and pick and choose where I want to go. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.560 I'm with you, Knwie when you say, look, you've had 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.840 a fine career, but we've drafted the guy to be 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.800 the air parent and we understand from watching him play 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.159 that he's that guy and he can make that move. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.240 I think for the Cowboys they have to move on 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.599 in this situation. There are some guys that getting longer 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.760 than two on the offensive line. I loath the day 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.200 when we have to have this conversation about Zach Martin 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.440 because again you're talking about one of the best to 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.360 do it in the league. But it's time. It's time. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.760 And it was also going back to Jason Whitten. When 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.120 Jason Whitten was playing those final years and not allowing 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.320 it for guys to develop in front of him. That's 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.560 another situation. And I think you look at Tyler and 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:51.080 the success that he's had playing guard. Can he make 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.279 the adjustment out to left tackle is what I'm sure 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.960 this organization wants to see, and I trust without having 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.080 the time, proof and consistency that he do it. No, this, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:02.600 this is this is surprising to me. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.720 You know, first off, echo everything you guys said about 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.320 his Hall of Fame career, because we all know he 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.240 was one of the greatest left tackles to ever do 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.599 it in the game. But this is surprising for me 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.919 because you know, when was the last time we saw 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.960 you know this, Dallas Cowboys organization, let an all time great, 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.279 you know, go away. We'll just kind of walk away 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.720 from their organization. I mean you go from the Jason Wittens, Uh, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.040 you know, Romo was here for forever. I mean you're 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.960 looking at guys that have been here and their main 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:29.960 stage was with the Dallas Cowboys, and we see them, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:31.640 like you said, you know, kind of be that blocker, 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.680 and the Cowboys keep bringing them back. So to me, 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.400 this is surprising, and maybe it's you know, going in 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.160 a different direction for the Cowboys as an organization to say, hey, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:40.799 we gotta you know, we gotta keep this thing turning, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.960 we gotta keep it rolling. So I'm surprised when it 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.560 comes to that regard that they let him slide. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.000 But when it comes to Tyron Smith on a new team, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:48.000 I don't. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.279 Know if he's gonna be able to do that that recipe, Like, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:51.799 I don't know if he's gonna be able to say, 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.479 hey man, I'm just no camp for me. You know, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.800 I'm just gonna practice, you know, maybe on Fridays on 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.400 half days, because you got to learn that system. That 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.680 whole news, how they like to block the power, how 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.600 they like to pass protect you know, what is their 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.359 communication out there with the center. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.200 How is he pointing things out? So I don't know 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.000 if he's going to be able to do that recipe. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.400 And but we'll see going forward because we know if 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:12.800 he does a practice during the week of plays in 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.440 the game, the guys are all start, the guys are 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:15.000 the second. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.640 Team off pro. So we'll see what happens with him 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:18.159 going forward. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:19.800 But like you guys all said, I mean, he had 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.760 a Hall of Fame career here and his mustards are So. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.160 My thing is also this okay, because I know last 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.720 week we talked about I watched the rams and then 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.719 put all the players in the right position and give 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.280 up draft picks and do all this stuff. And that's 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:33.960 what I don't know. We'll get to all in, but 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.400 this is just that sounds like sounds like so to me, 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.400 what all in sounds like is you have a hell 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.480 of a player left guard, you have a hell of 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.000 a player left tackle, and you're just looking for the 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:45.760 other pieces to be able to fill in. So this 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.280 could be your all in season and then now you 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.880 got to go find you somebody on that left side 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.279 when you already got the left side shirted up and 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.279 you have some other pieces that you could have you know, 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.200 been focused on. But you know, just it is what 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.080 it is. Where you gonna put them coins at? You 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:00.480 know what I'm saying? 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.159 Like, you know, I don't know what number he was 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.839 asking for, whatever he wanted that left tackle, but you 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.640 know where are you going to allocate those dollars to? 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.680 Do you think it's more important that you know, take 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:10.560 that money and give it. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.840 To you know, running back out there? Like do you 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.240 think it's gonna be that much more impactful? Oh? You 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.960 think that's the case with with four, which it could be. 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.800 It could be with four out there, and we all 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.240 know the quarterback position is the most important position on. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:22.960 The football field. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.960 But if you ain't got nobody holding down that blind side, 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.400 how much of an impact can four have out there? 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.760 So it's gonna be interesting where they where they decide 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:32.520 to put these dollars. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.960 What's more interesting to me is from the center and 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.560 guard position. If you move in Tyler Smith out to tackle, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.280 what are you gonna do with be Odish? Do you 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.440 sign him to a new contract, do you let him walk? 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.800 Or do you go into Because then if you go 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.160 into the draft for the center and the guard position, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.760 then you're you're not fortifying, you're weakening your offensive line 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.840 now with rookies that have no experience, so free agency, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.520 then you're looking to bring in an offensive lineman if 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.800 you don't sign be Odish and so, look, we're starting 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.680 to meet musical chairs early. And I appreciate that rather 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.480 than doing it during the season. But I think something 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.360 something had to change, Something had to change, and you know, 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.520 being to me, in a perfect world, re signing be 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.920 Oddish and then going out and getting the guard would 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.840 be the move. If I had a rookie guard there, 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.239 I would feel better about that having him in between 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:25.200 Beotish and Smith versus do you like I like it? 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.200 And to think about Idoga, Adoga was a guard and 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.760 not a tackle, and we made him play tackle. So 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.800 that's like, that's the mystery to all of that because 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.040 he was playing out a position early in the season. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.720 He did a good job. He did a good job, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.240 and so I understand the organizations is basically saying, look, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.000 timing's long in the tooth man. We need to try 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.640 and move on down down the road and find something 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.280 better here. I think Tyler Smith is the heir apparent. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.800 They get an opportunity to look at that now start 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.719 doing it your way, where you're talking about going all 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.959 in finding those other pieces. I think the hesitancy that 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.680 I have on that is we know that anything can happen, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.800 and if anything does happen, then we're back to square one. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.520 And then my question is this, if he goes out, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.680 he tests the market and he state taxes may be 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.160 a little different, the numbers not what he what he 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.640 had hoped. It'll be. Oh, this is home, he's been 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.400 there for a long time. Then I believe, like, do 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.000 you think that Jerry says, all right, wait, well come 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.280 on back, big fellow, and then we'll we'll hold it 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.400 off for one more year, and Tyler you go ahead 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.719 and staying there Lett left guard and we got our 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.920 We got our guy at the right price over the 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.280 price that we think is fair, and then you move on, 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.040 move on from that point. Or do you think it's 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.640 just hey, man, hey, thank you for your services. You've 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.400 been great. Here, you be in the ring of honor. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.760 But we're gonna move on with with Tyler Smiths all 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.839 left tackle. Man. I think that's I think that there 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.040 would still be a market for Tyrn Smith. I think 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.280 there's a team out there. I think there's a team. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.199 Now I think that wont them. I mean, I mean 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.520 from what we heard. I mean, like we said, we 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.240 don't know the number that he's asked, but it seems 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.000 like it may be high. So it could be a market, 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.600 so it could be a work it out there. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.600 Yeah, you got right again. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.640 Yeah, in a league that is starving for offensive lineman 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.680 and you go to the new team. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.840 Hey, how did I play as many games as I did? 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.200 I don't. I don't practice during the week. They get 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:18.920 me ready to go. Are you good with that? This 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.319 is the way we can get the most out of 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.920 the player. I've just looked up franchise tags. Off it's 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:29.840 the line of twenty million dollars twenty point nine. So 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.160 if I'm the agent, okay, we're looking to get here. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.360 If you're the Cowboys, are you looking to get there? 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.800 You know what I do. What's the what's the minimum 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:47.000 at his at the year? No? No, no, minimum, I's 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:51.360 got it. It's gotta what five six, gotta be So 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.560 you so when you're looking at the number, you at 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.960 least you're at least on minimum, which you're not going 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.319 to pay the guy saying whatever that is and then 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.640 so it's the difference between that twenty and then whatever 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.360 the minimum is what you know you're not gonna be 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.199 able to pay him. So I think, I think when 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:08.800 you look at the market and say, well, how much 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.560 are you willing to pay a left tackle that much? 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.480 I think he's worth that much. I think the injury thing, 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.400 just because he played one full season is still gonna 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.000 be something. What team says, you know what, I can't 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.640 I can't give you a two year, Well, Mike Images 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:25.800 got fifty two fifty. You know what I'm saying. I'm 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:27.280 guarantee the whole. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:31.400 Whole primise too of you basically playing per game. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:32.760 Hey, you're healthy. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.320 If I'm tired, that's a no start. No, no, no, 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.280 We're not so those things. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.120 Hey man, you got that last year that was a 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.760 freebe were not doing that anymore. And I get it 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.640 on Tyrannt's part, but I also get the Cowboys part. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.440 And Danny, you went through that negotiations class when you 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.199 were working on the NBA and you get to that. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.120 Point, what is the bottom line where you say this. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:52.600 Is the floor. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.520 If I'm tying, I have to have guarantees. I'm not 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.960 playing game to game I need guaranteed money. I finished 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.200 second team All Pro. While I may not need twenty one, 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.200 I need something up here to compensates me for what 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.720 I do and what I have done. And if you're 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.480 the Cowboys, as you're trying to pay Dak Prescott, as 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.840 you're trying to pay CD Lamb, as you know Michael 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.720 Parsons is coming up over here, everybody can't get paid. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.599 You got also diggi Zoo some point he's got to 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:22.960 get paid. Deron Bland. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.200 So as much as I like Tyron Smith and you 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.880 know I love some seven to seven, this thing starts 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:29.880 to become financial. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.160 And as I'm looking at the finances and. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:34.719 He's probably gonna be able to get a two year 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.600 deal from somebody, you'll just want to do a one. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.679 That's why I am the opinion I'll let I'll let 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.560 him go. I'll put Tyler Smith there. 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:44.080 Now. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.440 When you talk about the center, I'm going out to 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.960 go try to draft. I want a bigger center, Okay, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.120 that's what I want. I want a bigger center. We 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.160 saw Biatis come in here and play as a rookie. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.199 We saw Travis Frederick come in here and play as rookie. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.600 You can do that. The kid hump free up there 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.240 at Kansas City, I think it was went to Kansas State. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.120 But that kid. You've seen rookies do this. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.600 The guy in Baltimore, his name was talked about a 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.000 few years ago and the Cowboys didn't get him all pro. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.880 So you can find somebody to do this. Plus you've 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.400 got a Zach Martin on one side to help a 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:19.640 young player out. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.280 If it's odougo over there. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:26.000 You're not gonna have five perfect dudes, but you're if 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.120 you run out. Tyler Smith, Zach Martin, Terrence Steele. Those 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.760 are three really good ones. When you start looking across 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.200 the league. We can go ahead and plug some holes. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.600 It's not gonna be perfect, but you cannot go in, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.600 in my opinion, not improving the run game. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.440 You were fifteenth and rushing last year. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:44.440 It ain't good enough. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.440 It was anybody happy with Tony Pollo's production and the 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:48.000 running back. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.800 Present, no serve, no, not at all. But the names 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.800 that you when you say Travis Frederick, all right, let's 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.640 let's take his name and put him up all right 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.480 somewhere else, all right, Because they're talking about another guy 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.800 that comes in and is a great at his position right, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.120 And I think sometimes we get it confused when we 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.200 start mixing those names up or thinking that a guy 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.560 is the equivalent of another guy. I never said beyondish 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.960 was that and out of necessity if we have to 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.320 bring in having a Beyondish, I'm almost like, for who 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.480 for what? Especially if we have a guy that we 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.480 already know what he is, what his strengths, what his 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.960 weaknesses are, and what essentially is he asking for now? 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.520 It's been an embarrassment of riches here for years where 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.480 we've had five across the board, like no other team 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.000 in the NFL has that. The Super Bowl champion didn't 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.520 even have that. So, look, we're talking about the good 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.840 guys that we have. I'm okay with that. I'm just 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.880 talking about where we have the weaknesses in our offensive line. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.600 I just don't feel like smack dab in the middle 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.600 is where you want to go with two rookies right there, 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:44.920 That's all. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:50.320 So I did some research on West Virginia's Zach Fraser. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:51.920 Yeah, so call the. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.440 Contact up there when you're playing a big twelve. I said, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.520 what if the Cowboys to be said the Cowboys got 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.760 him in the second round? He said, he's bigger then 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.920 be Oddish wider can hold it better. Said, he's an 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.600 excellent character guy, said one of the guys that we 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.760 had here is he did everything we want and he's 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.000 got position flex. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.720 That is where that's the kind of player you are, right, 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.120 That's what I'm thinking. No, absolutely, if you could go on. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.280 The second round and go get yourself a starting center. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.080 Who's bigger, because we won't talking about with Hey, nice player, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.520 but boy, you know you can get on passing. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.160 This is what I'm talking at. A high character guy. 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.840 And I'm saving money because, by the way, when you 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.240 talk about bringing Tyler back, we gonna get paid too. 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.680 Right, What does he want to get paid? And that's 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.000 that's that's that's a million dollar question. What does he 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.400 want to get paid? Does it shake up your market? 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.160 Is it something that's comparable and fair? I'm Tyler be 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.480 Oddish is not going in there pounding the table saying 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:50.920 I want to be the highest paid center in the 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.520 NFL or reset the market with my contract. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:54.400 All right, so I come back. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.320 If he is, then I knew it. Hey, all right, 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:58.720 behind you, I count this. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:00.000 We saw Conner Williams. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.200 You go to Dolphins and Connor Williams has been been 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:03.840 a beoutter player at the center position. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.280 He's a he's a good player. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:13.160 But I'm not gonna pay him because I feel if 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.640 you do, and we all, I think we're all in agreement. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.680 The Cowboys know how to draft offensive live. Yes, we 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:21.720 talked about this with running backs all the time. Amen, 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.400 just move on. You can do that with a center 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.040 and when he's watching. We have seen where rookies have 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.200 been able to come in and we have seen now 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.960 two guys who were former guards for the Cowboys go 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:33.960 over the teams to play some. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.200 Center and do just fine. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.200 Is that the other Connor went to Buffalo He played 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:39.640 well too. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.800 That's so, so he's he's he's a good player. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.840 But as I'm trying to look and pay these other cela, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:49.440 he's not just trying to get. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:54.960 A new right. I mean, but you really don't have 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:56.600 an argument for that, right. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.960 So he's not just coming in, Hey man, make me 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:00.560 the average high is paid. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.600 No, he's coming in strong. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.440 So that's where as I'm looking to save dollars, Hey, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:13.119 hey bro, I gotta go right right, and and that's 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.240 that to me is where you have to That's where 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.560 that's why I'm looking at a guy like Zach Frazer. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.720 Let me go in the draft to do this. I 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:25.040 wouldn't be shocked just to see a trade down. Really, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.240 if you're sitting in one and you think you've got 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.760 several players that you could move if you pick up 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.080 a four because you have a four because of the 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.280 trade lanes deal. So if you can move down pick 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.800 up a three or four, and and also you know, 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.320 get gets get two guys in the in the second round, 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.399 that could be something to think about as you're trying 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.000 to plug holes and pay. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:47.480 People and feelings. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.640 What's the old eighty twenty rule you about to have, 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.680 you know, eighty percent of the roster taken up by 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.720 just a few dudes, So you got to. 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.200 Get I want to know what talk about? We could 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.240 we talking about your picks getting taken in on the 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.520 first round the second round. What is he thinking right now? 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.439 Is it free agency that he has some guys that 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.199 he's looking at, or is it hey man, we need 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:11.920 to figure this out in the draft because I'm still 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.840 looking at the same thing we've been looking at it 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.119 which one is more important? I know we need to 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.280 show up the run game, but that ain't been our 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.879 problem for the last four years, three years. It's been 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.800 the opposite side of hey man. When teams come in here, 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:28.000 they know that if they can run the ball on us, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.720 that we are going to have a hard time beating them. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.120 And they have been able to consistently run the ball 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:34.800 on us. So I know, we you know, we want 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.920 the offensive line and all that stuff, and we did 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.000 take a shot at the defensive line last year. So 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.760 hopefully Zima can get his hands on Monzie Smith and 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.159 they could get something figured out. But we like to 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.359 me it is upfront on the defense that is the 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:48.119 most important. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.160 Let's get a break here. And I love what you're saying. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:52.720 I love what you're saying is he's watching some of 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:57.840 these match because we have a couple folks. 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The players are we shrugs, so. 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:01.919 Any based on what you were talking about here before 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:06.040 the Cowboys, you're looking at them sixteenth overall in Rush 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.800 D last year, so middle of the pack when it 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.320 comes to Rush D. Went back and looked at the 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:14.919 numbers on the Green Bay game Packers. Thirty three carries, 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:18.560 one hundred and forty three yards, three touchdowns on the ground. Yes, 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:23.919 we can talk all day long about other positions, but 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.639 as I see these mock drafts and Cowboys fans getting 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:32.520 all excited, guys, this thing is being lost for the Cowboys. 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.080 In the playoffs the last three years because of what's. 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:35.880 Going on in the trenches. 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:37.080 Of course, we can. 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:39.239 Talk about Xavier Worthy all day long. Without all these 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:43.840 receivers all day long, you can't stop anybody in the playoffs. This, 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:46.000 I mean how they get you can put out of 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:50.239 the playoffs the last three years by two forty nine 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.480 er teams and the Packers they ran on you and 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:54.719 you couldn't run on them. 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:57.159 Well, almost every team that wanted to run on you 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:03.200 going all the way back to Denver. So I mean, yeah, 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:06.840 it's not just the playoffs. This is this is every game. 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:08.280 We come in here and we say, hey, man, what 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:10.919 do the Cowboys need to do to be able to 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:14.399 win this game convincingly like they should and stop the 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:16.359 run as always? And we come back in here on 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:18.560 Monday and we're like, you know what, nine times out 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:20.159 of ten they have they didn't stop the run like 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.200 we hoped they would, Right, why do we keep ignoring 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:27.680 this catastrophe on defense? I mean, look, and dan Quayn, 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:32.000 we trusted, ed, trusted, but there was a point that 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:34.040 we came to every season where it was like, look, 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:37.439 our run defense was horrible last season, going just starting 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:40.080 at Arizona game all the way down against the teams 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:43.800 that had a forty five run offense. We couldn't compete. Uh, 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:46.480 and we saw that, and it reminds me like we're 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:49.240 all fathers here, and you know, if you've ever took 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:52.600 your child from going from baby food to solid foods, 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:56.200 it's a transition. And there are some mistakes, some accidents 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:58.800 that happened that as fathers, we will walk right past 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:04.160 and let mama hanma those this is, this is this 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:08.680 reminds me of that problem. Oh, I didn't see that. 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:12.520 I didn't see that, and we got it and the 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:16.000 problem is going to persist if we don't correct it. 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:19.400 And like I've been looking at the looking at the 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:22.359 comebine and I'm sitting there saying like why why is 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:24.119 my Because I saw Michael IRV and he was so 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:27.960 excited about the the Florida state wide receiver and I'm like, well, yeah, 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:30.000 it's cool unless it's you know, second third round something 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:33.359 definitely not first round, because we have to get a 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:37.040 guy we either a linebacker U three tech. We have 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.439 to get that guy that can just solidify us up front. 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:43.040 And KNEWI I completely agree with you when you go 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:44.879 back to the Green Bay tape and you look that 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:48.280 that was our problem. Nothing. We could not get off 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:51.040 the field. And I'm looking at these linebackers and I'm like, man, 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:53.719 I need a good off ball linebacker like the San 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:56.639 Francisco forty nine windows, either Warner or green Law or 0:24:56.680 --> 0:24:58.880 need enforcer. And I thought to myself, I said, Damn, 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:01.800 I already got it, mom te. It's Michael Parson's but 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:04.239 I gotta use him. But I gotta use him at 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:07.560 defensive end. And so how do I go into this 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:09.720 saying I need an off ball linebacker, needs something I 0:25:09.720 --> 0:25:12.480 already have on my team. And then that's Zimmers thing 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:15.480 is how do you use Micah? And when you're going 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:17.760 out here and you're looking at getting another linebacker, we're 0:25:17.840 --> 0:25:20.560 essentially going to be getting a linebacker that can blitz, 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:25.840 that can cover that, you know, because that's what you want, 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:27.639 and that's what you want. You want a guy that 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:30.320 can get you at least eight blitz, get you at 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:33.320 least eight sacks from the linebacker position. I got that 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:36.959 in Micah. So I mean I'm in a situation with 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:39.560 the position flex that I need as far as the 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:42.360 linebacker position. Now, I need a guy I need who 0:25:42.359 --> 0:25:44.200 can put the green dot on like I need that 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:47.280 guy like that guy is usually the difference maker on 0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:50.879 your team, and not just because of his talent or whatever. 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:54.280 It's because he's the leader out there. A general. Sean 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:57.960 Lee general type of guy. Warner general type of guy. 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:00.680 Hey man, when everything going bad, they looking at this 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:03.240 guy to get him right or to go out there 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:05.239 and make a play. That's the type of linebacker that 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:06.960 you need. He needs the talent, he needs to be 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:08.879 able to cover all that good stuff. He needs to 0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:10.800 have the instincts to be able to shoot gaps. But 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:14.480 you need a general out there on your defense. And 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:16.560 until we find one, we're gonna be in the same 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:19.200 same issues right now, same issues because it is a 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:21.720 lot of times during the season where sometimes it just 0:26:21.760 --> 0:26:24.119 ain't going right for you. But you gotta have that 0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:25.520 guy where you can look at it and be like, hey man, 0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:27.440 so hey, so what we're doing. 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:32.720 He then got a guy, Ed Cooper, He's a guy. 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:35.480 So so when you talk about the combined numbers and 0:26:35.760 --> 0:26:37.280 I didn't spend a whole lot of time there and 0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:39.840 get excited about the unwear Olympics, but you see it 0:26:41.840 --> 0:26:45.199 sweatwards from here, Edrin Cooper A and m there's some 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:46.959 players there and they've got to figure it out. But 0:26:47.320 --> 0:26:49.000 if you stay in the first round, in my mind, 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:52.800 you have to address and I should. Yes, we're the 0:26:52.840 --> 0:26:55.679 D line with the front seven. That's what the linebackers 0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:57.840 come in here. And so free agency is gonna hit. 0:26:57.880 --> 0:26:59.879 First draft is in April, so free agency hit for 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:02.520 and so that that'll be interesting of what what they 0:27:02.560 --> 0:27:05.040 decide to do. But you've got to go ahead and 0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:08.640 address this problem. We also at some point I need 0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:10.679 to get some kind of update on Misie smith. 0:27:12.240 --> 0:27:16.840 Well eating someone because he looks slip he going out there. 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:18.560 You know what I'm saying, Get you some honey buns, 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:25.760 you know whatever that is raised the flag, put some breaks, 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:28.240 put some breaks in you probably get them a super Pierce. 0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:33.640 I need to get you an endorsement. 0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:39.200 Talk to don't do that's not the right way. Don't 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:41.560 the right way. That's not the right way. He needs 0:27:41.560 --> 0:27:46.640 to got to be don't go, don't listen to We're 0:27:46.640 --> 0:27:48.080 gonna be the first plason to come back. Help me 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:49.760 on the radio. Tell us he saw you in there 0:27:51.600 --> 0:28:01.200 last week walking out ill already ate we're bad. 0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:04.640 Oh yeah, I got the we too, we too. They've 0:28:04.720 --> 0:28:06.680 they've got to address these things. 0:28:06.720 --> 0:28:11.439 And so for me right now, I'm looking at the 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:14.679 at the defense in the first round, barring whatever we 0:28:14.680 --> 0:28:17.560 see in free agency, because just for all of our 0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:20.720 cowboy listeners, when you do something in free agency, you're 0:28:20.760 --> 0:28:22.640 normally not going to do that same thing in the draft, 0:28:22.760 --> 0:28:24.040 usually not going to double up there. 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:26.520 But they've got they've got to address it. 0:28:26.560 --> 0:28:28.360 That's one good thing about Zimmer. We know zimmer Wall 0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:32.440 Zimmer likes to be stout upfront, and he likes his linebackers. 0:28:32.800 --> 0:28:36.000 He likes his linebackers. So that's got to be addressed. 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:36.240 Man. 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:39.080 It's it's just it's been too far gone. You didn't 0:28:39.080 --> 0:28:40.920 try to escape too many times. 0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:44.200 You can't I ask. I'm really and the thought also 0:28:44.240 --> 0:28:46.960 as we talk about our deficiencies in the defensive line 0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:51.160 the running back position is so much has changed in 0:28:51.200 --> 0:28:54.080 the in the climate of the football where now no 0:28:54.120 --> 0:28:56.840 one goes into the first round talking about picking up 0:28:56.840 --> 0:29:00.360 a running back anymore. So, uh, second, third, fourth round 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:02.040 is where you're looking to pick up a running back. 0:29:02.200 --> 0:29:04.560 I think we have to address that. I really do. 0:29:05.240 --> 0:29:07.800 I really I feel like coming into the season even 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:11.560 last season after Tony Poler got injured. You saw it, man, 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:14.200 our running game was pretty much like you know, dead 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:16.320 in the water. There's nothing we could do in San Francisco, 0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:19.360 and even against Green Bay we didn't have a chance 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:21.960 because we could not run the ball first sim and 0:29:22.000 --> 0:29:24.480 then obviously we got too far behind that running the 0:29:24.480 --> 0:29:27.280 ball was senseless. But we have to address that. 0:29:27.960 --> 0:29:31.320 I agree with you. I think we're all in agreement there. 0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:33.600 The Cowboys have done a good job. 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:36.240 When you talk about drafting running backs. Me, Tony Fouk 0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:38.680 was taking in the fourth round. He did a good job. 0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:41.680 And me, you think about where they took Ezekiel Elliott 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:45.200 and what he helped do this franchise. They've made some 0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:47.840 smart choices in the draft with these running backs. 0:29:49.680 --> 0:29:52.840 I trust them to go out and get to get someone. 0:29:53.160 --> 0:29:53.520 I do. 0:29:53.640 --> 0:29:55.960 And you hear Mike McCarthy tell the Beat writers he'd 0:29:55.960 --> 0:29:58.840 like to have Tony Poller back. I wouldn't mind Tony 0:29:58.880 --> 0:30:02.200 Poller back. You need some help around it. Don't ask 0:30:02.240 --> 0:30:03.160 him to carry the load. 0:30:03.360 --> 0:30:06.360 But I can see it they got that one kid out. 0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:08.880 In order to good football player, you take a kid 0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:11.000 like that along with Tony Pollard. Now you got two 0:30:11.000 --> 0:30:12.720 guys out here who could do a little something for you. 0:30:14.800 --> 0:30:16.880 I think that's easy to me. I think that's easy. 0:30:17.080 --> 0:30:21.479 How many picks to the Cowboys having this draft? And no, 0:30:22.360 --> 0:30:23.959 don't have the four before. 0:30:25.320 --> 0:30:30.080 I think he gave up five for Cooks. But you've 0:30:30.080 --> 0:30:31.960 got I got to go back and check this, because 0:30:32.040 --> 0:30:39.040 we look, we love We're talking about offensive line, were 0:30:39.040 --> 0:30:40.320 talking about defensive line. 0:30:40.320 --> 0:30:43.160 We talk about the second level for for linebackers, and 0:30:43.280 --> 0:30:46.560 let's not mistake the secondary. Gilly's a free agent, if 0:30:46.560 --> 0:30:50.000 I'm not mistaken. So is George Lewis as well, if 0:30:50.000 --> 0:30:53.640 I'm not mistaken. And there's a lot of holes that. 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:56.320 This team needs to fill out. And the cap. We 0:30:56.400 --> 0:30:58.680 still ain't even look at the cap situation right now. 0:30:58.640 --> 0:31:00.640 Which is why I talked about Trey down here. Okay, 0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:03.800 so here they have five picks right now. So you 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:06.480 got a first round pick number twenty four, second round 0:31:06.520 --> 0:31:09.080 pick number fifty eight, third round pick at eighty seven, 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:11.600 and then you have two seventh round picks. 0:31:11.640 --> 0:31:13.520 So you do not have a four or five or six. 0:31:13.680 --> 0:31:17.000 Oh goodness, man, That's what I'm like, hold on, And. 0:31:18.760 --> 0:31:22.200 That's where a trade down is something you could think 0:31:22.320 --> 0:31:25.000 think about here out of the first round to try 0:31:25.000 --> 0:31:27.440 to recoup some more picks to get some some other. 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:30.760 Players, and legit, we're talking about free agency. 0:31:31.120 --> 0:31:35.840 You've got first, second, third, sleep. Yeah, this is CD's 0:31:36.080 --> 0:31:40.960 fifth year, right, it's gonna be his his franchise. Yeah, 0:31:41.320 --> 0:31:43.400 but I don't I don't. I don't know, man, I 0:31:43.400 --> 0:31:45.160 don't see him coming in to go play with U. 0:31:45.160 --> 0:31:48.880 That's what I'm saying, Like, I'm good with this. 0:31:49.960 --> 0:31:51.920 I don't know. That's where I said. 0:31:51.920 --> 0:31:55.480 You know, paying a badish and paying a smith is 0:31:55.520 --> 0:31:58.280 really not there. I've got you've got to take care 0:31:58.360 --> 0:32:01.360 of eighty eight and four. Those are going to be 0:32:01.400 --> 0:32:05.120 monster deals. Those are going to be huge contracts. 0:32:05.800 --> 0:32:07.120 CD Lamb is. 0:32:07.200 --> 0:32:10.600 Most likely going to be, if not the highest paid, 0:32:10.800 --> 0:32:12.640 the top three average salard. 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:19.840 Yeah, he's. 0:32:18.680 --> 0:32:21.920 So you've got that, and you've got Prescott and you know, 0:32:21.960 --> 0:32:26.240 we've heard if Joe Burrow got fifty five and Herbert 0:32:26.280 --> 0:32:29.960 got fifty two, So start thinking there at minimum, your 0:32:30.000 --> 0:32:33.920 guy is getting fifty two minimum minimum. 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:37.120 Wow, this is it's a tough it's a pickle. But 0:32:37.160 --> 0:32:39.760 they've been knowing that they had this situation coming for 0:32:39.800 --> 0:32:43.400 a very long time. You could have negotiated redone those deals, 0:32:43.640 --> 0:32:46.280 and we've waited till the eleventh hour. So that who 0:32:46.320 --> 0:32:48.120 do you put the who do you put the fault on? 0:32:48.360 --> 0:32:51.240 The elephant in the the elephant in the room. The 0:32:51.320 --> 0:32:55.520 elephant in the room is Dak in CD's contract. And 0:32:55.720 --> 0:32:59.400 Dak isn't I mean, he's gone radio silid. Basically, I 0:32:59.440 --> 0:33:01.200 guess we saw him with the goatee the other day, 0:33:01.240 --> 0:33:04.240 but we hadn't seen that. We hadn't seen that, so 0:33:04.320 --> 0:33:06.920 we don't know anything from what he's asking for. What's 0:33:06.960 --> 0:33:09.920 going on with that? We know, we know CD, we 0:33:10.000 --> 0:33:14.000 know CD. After seeing Mike Evans, I thought that was 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:15.719 a different person. I ain't gonna lie. I thought it 0:33:15.760 --> 0:33:18.600 was fake. I thought think I was like that, ain't 0:33:18.760 --> 0:33:21.160 you know I have to look at the thing at 0:33:21.200 --> 0:33:26.840 the bottom those black statutes. NA, that's when you when 0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:28.760 you when the video game and that like create your 0:33:28.840 --> 0:33:33.400 character to start off with. Don't do my quarterback like that? 0:33:34.160 --> 0:33:37.680 Look you used to see it a certain way. He 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:42.680 looked different. I did not think that. I'm not saying 0:33:42.760 --> 0:33:46.560 it look bad. That's not my looked different. And so 0:33:46.800 --> 0:33:49.160 he's gonna reset the market. He's gonna reset the market 0:33:49.200 --> 0:33:50.800 he's gonna be the highest one of the highest paid 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:53.400 quarterbacks in the league and for have a long uh 0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:55.800 that's coming this way and you can't. And the thing 0:33:55.960 --> 0:33:57.520 is that, I guess if you look at it from 0:33:57.560 --> 0:34:01.600 a negotiation standpoint with with do they go to the 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:05.040 negotiating table with CD, like most Fortune one hundred companies 0:34:05.080 --> 0:34:07.400 do with their employees and say you aren't what we 0:34:07.480 --> 0:34:09.839 thought you were and you're gonna take that. No, they're 0:34:09.880 --> 0:34:13.000 gonna talk to him as far as the top paid 0:34:13.040 --> 0:34:15.560 guys in the league. So now you're paying not only 0:34:15.600 --> 0:34:19.279 the lion's share to your quarterback, but also to your 0:34:19.320 --> 0:34:23.000 wide receiver. And don't look. Now you probably have a 0:34:23.600 --> 0:34:27.040 resetting of the market defense in all of defense with 0:34:27.200 --> 0:34:30.920 Michael Parsons being the highest paid defensive player ever when 0:34:30.960 --> 0:34:32.320 it comes down to his contract. 0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:35.920 So that means that means somebody got to thank you 0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:36.239 by this. 0:34:36.719 --> 0:34:39.759 So hey did start these conversations with CD last year. Also, 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:44.200 I don't know about that when they were listening to 0:34:44.239 --> 0:34:46.560 the thirteen hundred yard projections man. 0:34:48.280 --> 0:34:56.040 Franchise right now, it's to let it's like they did 0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:57.799 with Tank and Dak. They did it again. 0:34:58.080 --> 0:35:01.160 A wide receiver franchise tag is basically twenty two million dollars, 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:05.080 so twenty six that God, you know. 0:35:05.040 --> 0:35:07.160 That, that's that. This is the market. 0:35:07.640 --> 0:35:08.360 This is the market. 0:35:08.480 --> 0:35:10.799 So somewhere along the way you're going to have to 0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:13.760 try to save dollars to make these two deals happen. 0:35:13.960 --> 0:35:16.280 And why haven't you heard for Dak Prescott. It's real simple. 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:18.719 When you have all the leverage, the best thing you 0:35:18.760 --> 0:35:22.359 can do is say nothing, give nothing away. Because this 0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:23.960 man has all the leverage. 0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:26.920 You got to pay me sixty million either way, have 0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:30.160 to Why would I say one thing to anybody. 0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:33.960 I'm just sitting there thinking about all them times on 0:35:34.040 --> 0:35:37.080 us sign playing on them franchise. Oh he hot, he not. 0:35:37.239 --> 0:35:39.439 I mean he's not giving an inch. He's not giving 0:35:39.480 --> 0:35:41.680 an inch. You don't forget you have to. But playing 0:35:41.680 --> 0:35:44.640 the devil's advocate. What if what if the organization is saying, fine, 0:35:44.719 --> 0:35:47.960 I pay you, well paid a sixty because he has 0:35:47.960 --> 0:35:49.720 a no trade clause. He has a no trade clause, 0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:52.160 any of that in there, and you can get get 0:35:52.239 --> 0:35:54.440 completely out of this deal whole. Next year, I. 0:35:54.400 --> 0:35:58.120 Will tell you I'll answer that. 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Heyly 0:39:23.040 --> 0:39:31.440 watched this by myself. I'm saying. I'm just saying, I 0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:33.920 get a guy. You know what do you get a guy. 0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:36.360 That's went on Survivor and one and that kind of 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:37.640 I can't. 0:39:39.120 --> 0:39:43.759 You were talking about you could guys, since you asked 0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:50.760 bringing something, no getting you thought I brought man? Answer? 0:39:50.800 --> 0:39:59.400 Your were was so dum You still walking with this 0:40:04.280 --> 0:40:09.680 forget this New York City. Yeah, man, you'd be a. 0:40:09.760 --> 0:40:11.120 Hell of a wife if he was a woman. 0:40:11.280 --> 0:40:15.719 Nagg that can't you got all? 0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:18.640 You keep it scoring like my daughter she did in 0:40:18.719 --> 0:40:19.479 the seventh inning. 0:40:20.360 --> 0:40:22.399 That's me. That's me the phone. 0:40:26.280 --> 0:40:31.439 So Hetna was speaking about Dak Prescott and why Dak 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:34.200 if they say if they tell that, we'll do fine, 0:40:34.239 --> 0:40:36.040 We'll let you play fifty nine million, and Dak says, 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:39.880 go ahead. You can't improve your football team. You what 0:40:40.080 --> 0:40:42.320 you want to do is sign into a contract and 0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:44.640 then that first year, well he's making like two million 0:40:44.719 --> 0:40:46.919 dollars because you put all the money into a signing bus. 0:40:47.160 --> 0:40:48.759 That's how you work the cap and you make it 0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:52.080 and you and you get to sign other people. So 0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:55.080 it is in their best interest. And the way they 0:40:55.160 --> 0:40:57.640 set up the contract, they basically put themselves in the 0:40:57.680 --> 0:41:00.120 position that they have to get something done with it to. 0:41:00.120 --> 0:41:02.600 Improve the I think it's imperative that they get the 0:41:02.680 --> 0:41:05.520 deal done for all of those reasons. If you let 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:08.279 him play on that and he comes in and you 0:41:08.360 --> 0:41:10.800 can't improve the team, he looks horrible. He didn't have 0:41:10.880 --> 0:41:13.360 any pieces around him, didn't have you know, other guys, 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:16.120 you're not able to improve your offensive line. I think 0:41:16.160 --> 0:41:18.799 all of those things does not bold well. They're tied 0:41:18.840 --> 0:41:20.880 at the hip in this situation if you look at 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:23.880 Dak and the organization. So but like I said, we 0:41:23.960 --> 0:41:26.480 hadn't heard anything from Dak because he has all the leverage. 0:41:26.520 --> 0:41:29.680 He wants his money to me, the Cowboys should definitely 0:41:29.760 --> 0:41:32.520 make sure that they get that done because you're only 0:41:32.600 --> 0:41:34.800 a few players away. I feel like you're getting to 0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:40.319 this level and you're only a few Come on, guys, now, lord, whoa, whoa, whoa, 0:41:41.120 --> 0:41:43.520 Let me say something. If you paid Dak sixty and 0:41:43.680 --> 0:41:46.319 this is you pay Dak sixty, he go out there 0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:51.160 and have a year in trouble, you're gonna pay him anyways, 0:41:52.080 --> 0:41:53.680 Well you're gonna let him go after that. Years all, 0:41:53.760 --> 0:41:55.680 we paid you sixty because you know whatever, And then 0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:56.839 all of a sudden, you have a year. Now you're 0:41:56.840 --> 0:41:59.960 finna go out there and paying fifty five the next year. Anyway, 0:42:00.520 --> 0:42:02.719 you're gonna get it. And and I think in the 0:42:02.840 --> 0:42:05.840 organization's mind they believe that we will go as far 0:42:05.920 --> 0:42:08.399 as that Dak Prescott is gonna take us. I don't 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:11.520 see them looking at next year being a year where 0:42:11.520 --> 0:42:14.279 you don't have Dak Prescott. So I see them paying 0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:16.560 I see them paying a guy. How many players are 0:42:16.600 --> 0:42:26.040 we away from the NFC Championship game? Guys we're talking 0:42:26.080 --> 0:42:34.200 about say twenty ye? Man, why y'all doing this? Man? Twelve? 0:42:35.800 --> 0:42:38.360 Think about how many guys you had this year? How 0:42:38.440 --> 0:42:40.359 many guys that you have on the squad this year. 0:42:40.480 --> 0:42:42.239 We were sitting there saying, Okay, we got Cooks, we 0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:44.759 got Gilmore, we got this, that, that that that, And 0:42:44.840 --> 0:42:46.399 then we come out of see and say, you know, man, 0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:52.160 we need offensive line, defensive line, linebacker, running back. You 0:42:52.239 --> 0:42:52.799 need you need to. 0:42:52.960 --> 0:42:55.960 Running backs free agent right now. So you need to dudes, 0:42:56.239 --> 0:42:59.279 because right now the guys you got can he sold, 0:42:59.360 --> 0:43:01.360 you sold. Let's you need to run. You need to dudes, 0:43:01.719 --> 0:43:05.800 uh your center? He free agent, probably gonna lose left tackle, 0:43:07.480 --> 0:43:08.000 at least. 0:43:07.880 --> 0:43:14.880 Two linebackers, interior, the slock corner, lose free agent Gilly. 0:43:15.960 --> 0:43:18.560 And it's my understanding that every team in the NFL 0:43:18.680 --> 0:43:21.440 has these same set of issues. You can even go 0:43:21.600 --> 0:43:24.279 to the Kansas City Chiefs and start going down your 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:27.160 fingers and saying what they're losing. I'm telling you right now, 0:43:27.200 --> 0:43:29.239 with the team that you have, where you got in 0:43:29.400 --> 0:43:32.400 this season to even being close to winning the NFC, 0:43:32.760 --> 0:43:35.600 come on, guys, come on, guys. Don't don't tell me 0:43:36.000 --> 0:43:39.040 that we are twenty players away from from winning the championship. 0:43:41.040 --> 0:43:45.040 I said nine, look at you, guys. Yeah, I need that, 0:43:45.360 --> 0:43:49.040 but you need at least six. Sure, God, you need 0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:51.520 not bridge not bridge players, like a guy to bring 0:43:51.600 --> 0:43:53.760 in it like, because that's what you would You consider 0:43:53.840 --> 0:43:57.080 Gilly to be the bridge player that you because you 0:43:57.200 --> 0:43:59.560 were he was a bridge player, I believe, okay, And 0:44:00.440 --> 0:44:00.799 for me, you. 0:44:00.880 --> 0:44:03.800 Think with Gilly is we're assuming Diggs is going to 0:44:03.880 --> 0:44:08.319 come back, but we don't know how he comes back. 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.400 When does it happen? When is he gonna feel like 0:44:10.520 --> 0:44:14.080 he used to be. He fe the leadership that he 0:44:14.239 --> 0:44:16.439 brings the Gilly's broads as well. I mean, there's there's 0:44:16.600 --> 0:44:18.680 there's some issues there right now that I'm looking at. 0:44:18.760 --> 0:44:21.839 And look, I was Imitt and Troy over the weekend. Man, 0:44:22.400 --> 0:44:24.319 Emmy is hot. He's still mad about this. 0:44:24.400 --> 0:44:27.399 Team, still about this team because he mad. I've seen 0:44:27.520 --> 0:44:30.960 him put Florida to about the d man. 0:44:31.200 --> 0:44:35.759 He not playing, but that the client the culture, that's 0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:38.000 another thing you bring us. What about this culture of 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:41.800 dudes act like they've won something here? We have not 0:44:41.920 --> 0:44:44.200 seen them come through when they needed to come through. 0:44:44.800 --> 0:44:46.960 And I don't even know how many people are pained 0:44:47.120 --> 0:44:49.120 by what's been happening. 0:44:48.800 --> 0:44:49.520 With these exits. 0:44:49.600 --> 0:44:52.759 So I just think there's there, there's there are some 0:44:52.840 --> 0:44:56.799 players away, and then there's a culture shift of. 0:44:58.320 --> 0:45:01.560 How many people want to play and just be cowboys 0:45:01.600 --> 0:45:02.720 and want to actually go out. 0:45:02.560 --> 0:45:06.239 Head and win some games and hate losing. There's stuff here, man, 0:45:06.840 --> 0:45:08.640 because it's been this way. I mean, think about it, 0:45:08.840 --> 0:45:10.000 super Bowl thirty. 0:45:11.520 --> 0:45:12.120 Do that here? 0:45:13.960 --> 0:45:18.560 Yeah, Brush, I didn't have children, right, I mean these 0:45:18.640 --> 0:45:20.000 dudes are what elementary. 0:45:19.640 --> 0:45:20.840 School he was watching? 0:45:21.239 --> 0:45:26.440 He was washing stone coolers, right, think about that? So 0:45:28.640 --> 0:45:29.600 there's problems here. 0:45:29.640 --> 0:45:34.680 Man, there's there's sevenths and that is not cool. 0:45:34.760 --> 0:45:39.240 But the whole premier, the premise of three twelve win seasons. 0:45:39.280 --> 0:45:42.640 If you're just going throughout the league, the regression comes. 0:45:43.920 --> 0:45:47.080 It's hard to have, you know, four of these in 0:45:47.200 --> 0:45:47.480 a row. 0:45:48.400 --> 0:45:50.200 It's hard. The league is not made for you to 0:45:50.280 --> 0:45:50.520 do that. 0:45:51.400 --> 0:45:54.520 And when you when you go back to the success 0:45:54.600 --> 0:45:56.880 that Kansas City is having, it's because you look at 0:45:56.920 --> 0:45:58.919 a Patrick Mahomes you say, look, he is the lynch 0:45:59.000 --> 0:46:02.040 Pian of everything. And Andy Reid. They have a system 0:46:02.120 --> 0:46:04.799 that is unbeatable. They figured out a way to get 0:46:04.840 --> 0:46:07.040 through the regular season, which was the worst regular season 0:46:07.239 --> 0:46:10.320 that they had, and was able to roll through the playoffs. 0:46:10.400 --> 0:46:12.480 I'm looking at this Cowboys team and just saying, look, 0:46:12.520 --> 0:46:14.640 there's so many other things that we need to build around. 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:16.880 We didn't have the running game that we needed to 0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:19.960 get through those points in the season where we absolutely 0:46:20.120 --> 0:46:23.359 needed our running game to come through. Secondary wise, I'm 0:46:23.360 --> 0:46:26.320 with you, Like Marquise Bell to me as a linebacker, 0:46:26.360 --> 0:46:27.759 he's going to be the guy that's going to move 0:46:27.800 --> 0:46:29.640 out to safety. I don't know if we're going to 0:46:29.880 --> 0:46:33.320 resign curse. He's been and he even played for zimmer 0:46:34.280 --> 0:46:36.279 So we don't know how that's going to go. I 0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:38.839 think you have some of the pieces here, but I'm 0:46:38.880 --> 0:46:40.840 making that point to say, as you look around the 0:46:40.920 --> 0:46:42.840 league and you look at teams like Buffalo, the teams 0:46:42.880 --> 0:46:44.960 that you think are going to be in contention, they 0:46:45.000 --> 0:46:48.080 don't have all the pieces. And so I don't expect 0:46:48.120 --> 0:46:50.239 for this to be perfect in the end that we 0:46:50.360 --> 0:46:52.560 have a guy at each position, but I don't feel 0:46:52.600 --> 0:46:54.000 like we are nine players away. 0:46:54.280 --> 0:46:56.240 Okay, all right, that's. 0:46:56.080 --> 0:46:59.040 This edition of the Players Lounge with Barry Churchich, Maharis, 0:46:59.160 --> 0:47:01.920 Dann Kravenewis's brought to you by Tostitos, thanks to Chris 0:47:02.080 --> 0:47:03.040 Joshi Jazz. 0:47:03.080 --> 0:47:05.800 Everybody's in party. We'll talk to you again next Monday 0:47:05.880 --> 0:47:07.359 right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:12.200 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:47:12.400 --> 0:47:14.200 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.