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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Guys,
Speaker 1: welcome back to Cowboys Break I remember to see I
Speaker 1: joined by Nick Inman and David Hellman. The Draft week
Speaker 1: is finally here. It starts tomorrow, and yesterday was a
Speaker 1: press conference, first press conference, free draft where we got
Speaker 1: to experience some of these technology issues. Our group didn't
Speaker 1: really get a questioning yesterday, but we gotta put it
Speaker 1: out there. It wasn't yours fault, right, got to address
Speaker 1: the elephant in the room. Man. There's no way I
Speaker 1: promise I was there. Okay, It's not like I'm making
Speaker 1: a sandwich during pre draft press conference. Yeah, but we
Speaker 1: were all there listening. It wasn't all asked Dave going
Speaker 1: to uh, Stephen Jones. You know you you're so insistent
Speaker 1: on addressing the team's needs and free agency so you
Speaker 1: can draft purely, but you don't have a slot receiver,
Speaker 1: So what gives I'm very curious about the fact that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys haven't done anything with Randall Cobs addence, So
Speaker 1: I wanted to know if they were putting a higher
Speaker 1: priority on drafting receiver or did they think they can
Speaker 1: find a veteran and free agency after the draft? But well, well, Dale,
Speaker 1: is it? Dale? Oh? Dave? Sorry, Yeah, we're wrong. We're
Speaker 1: confident in the receivers we have. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of good receivers behind those starting two and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard to replace Randall cop but you know, we're
Speaker 1: confident we could. We could go into the draft, so
Speaker 1: there's some good receivers in there if that's the route
Speaker 1: we want to go. But we're confident we don't have
Speaker 1: to get a wide receiver if we don't need one. Yes,
Speaker 1: a really good impression and a bad answer. Okay exactly,
Speaker 1: which is remember when we had the whole like player
Speaker 1: by comedian thing. Yeah, yeah, I'm landed, and I was
Speaker 1: going to ask to McCarthy. I was like, obviously, you
Speaker 1: don't know that they haven't drafted a safety in almost
Speaker 1: two decades, but you had haw Haw Clinton Dix in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. What are you expecting what type of player
Speaker 1: are you expecting to get in Does that solidify your
Speaker 1: safety position going into the draft? Dave, I guess we
Speaker 1: don't have the answers to that. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: try to do the impression, but I like, I genuinely
Speaker 1: do think like Stephen Jones Um whenever it was that
Speaker 1: he talked, he went, he went on one of the
Speaker 1: fan a week ago and said, you know, we spent
Speaker 1: significantly at safety. We like, we made this significant addition
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh man, I didn't realize four
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars for haha. Clinton Dix was like,
Speaker 1: this insane investment, Like I didn't realize that. So I
Speaker 1: don't know this for sure, but we know the Cowboys
Speaker 1: value a lot of positions more than they value safety.
Speaker 1: And we know that they feel pretty good about Haha
Speaker 1: and darry and Thompson along with Xavier Woods. And I'm
Speaker 1: just after what happened last year, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get my hopes up that they have these big plans
Speaker 1: on drafting a safety. Sorry Amber a trade apparently, because
Speaker 1: he did say, you know, there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: talks about Jamal Adams and a possible trade with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but Jerry Jones were very was very clear yesterday making
Speaker 1: a comment saying that they weren't gonna invest on a
Speaker 1: trade using a trade for a high profile player. So
Speaker 1: there goes Dad, unless they're keeping it a secret for
Speaker 1: I don't know what their plans are for right now.
Speaker 1: You know, if anybody, I'll go back real quick what
Speaker 1: we were talking about. If anybody doesn't understand what we
Speaker 1: were saying. There was the pre draft press conference yesterday.
Speaker 1: They had all the media guys are in girls in there,
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, different questions and it was their turn.
Speaker 1: When it got to my turn, they couldn't hear me.
Speaker 1: When it got to Dave's turn, they couldn't hear me.
Speaker 1: And don't you find it ironic, David, As we're doing
Speaker 1: this and talking about this, the guy that's running this
Speaker 1: whole thing just send us an email that asks us
Speaker 1: if we want to test for tomorrow's thing, which we
Speaker 1: definitely need to test. But yes, the timing is hilarious.
Speaker 1: And to talk about your point, I don't know if
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about Jamal Adams, but I feel like there's
Speaker 1: people well I feel like I'm talking about in the media.
Speaker 1: I think it's being driven by one or two people,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people are picking up
Speaker 1: steam there. I just Jerry said it highly unlikely, and
Speaker 1: I believe that. That's one thing I do believe. And
Speaker 1: you know, these press conferences that yesterday are always so
Speaker 1: frustrating because I'll never forget them telling us in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen the drafting running back really high, Isn't that's smart
Speaker 1: of a move? And then they picked a ze Kilo
Speaker 1: like three days later, So they don't really want to
Speaker 1: give you a lot of information. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: do you think they would get someone day If you
Speaker 1: think they'll they'll no, not at all. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean if they had plans on doing it, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: tell us about it. It's lying season, that's what happens
Speaker 1: in the lead up to the draft. But for the
Speaker 1: cost of what you'd have to pay for Jamal Adams,
Speaker 1: I have a hard time believing the Jets would let
Speaker 1: them go for just one pick, even if it was
Speaker 1: a first round pick. On top of that, I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just another guy that needs a big
Speaker 1: contract really soon. I mean, it's risky drafting players. You
Speaker 1: never know if they're going to pan out, but they
Speaker 1: need to find some cheap talent. They have enough expensive talent.
Speaker 1: That's something that no offense to the fans. It's just
Speaker 1: it takes a long time to really understand that because
Speaker 1: they look at it, and so certain media people look
Speaker 1: at it too, and they and they say, well, he's
Speaker 1: better than anybody. You're going to get a seventeen, which
Speaker 1: is true, but you've got like you said, you had
Speaker 1: a five. You had four years with a quarterback making
Speaker 1: less than two million a year. You should have done
Speaker 1: more with that. I mean, you can't just keep getting
Speaker 1: these players in here. You need cheap players, like you said,
Speaker 1: Layton Vanderesh. You know, he needs to play two or
Speaker 1: three years on a deal like this and be really productive.
Speaker 1: And it hurts when you don't have when your first
Speaker 1: round picks turn into Amari Cooper and he's making twenty
Speaker 1: million a year. So yeah, I mean, it's way more
Speaker 1: likely than not the Cowboys would get a better team
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty with Jamal Adams and no first round pick.
Speaker 1: But you look at the long term, you look at
Speaker 1: what it's going to cost you, you look at the
Speaker 1: you know, the overall health of your roster. One to
Speaker 1: fifty three, like, I mean, they already had they've got.
Speaker 1: You know, their top twelve is among the best in
Speaker 1: the NFL, but it's you know, players fifteen through thirty.
Speaker 1: Those guys do a lot of heavy lifting on good teams,
Speaker 1: and you need draft picks to make that work. And
Speaker 1: you know, if they traded for Jamal Adams, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: hate it. I would I would compliment the move, but
Speaker 1: I understand why they're more committed to try and to
Speaker 1: replenish their roster with affordable I mean, you can make
Speaker 1: the case, would you rather have Jamal Adams at safety
Speaker 1: next year making what twelve million thirteen million a year?
Speaker 1: Quite more than that? Depends on when he would get
Speaker 1: his deal. I mean, he doesn't need to be resigned
Speaker 1: right now. Whatever his rookie salary is like five or
Speaker 1: six right now, but I mean he will be worth
Speaker 1: like fifteen million a year very soon to help it.
Speaker 1: Or Xavier McKinney for you know, a million, maybe, I
Speaker 1: absolutely yeah. And Davian McKinney and Grant Delpit might not
Speaker 1: ever be as good as Jamal Adams like I I mean,
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams unquestionably makes you better in twenty twenty but this,
Speaker 1: like this draft, I can't. I just keep going back
Speaker 1: to how important I think this draft is for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys chances of competing on a higher level. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, they need to find three or four, you know,
Speaker 1: starters or heavy contributors in this draft class if they
Speaker 1: be a playoff caliber team, a team that's capable of
Speaker 1: winning playoff games. Also, I love Will McClay to death.
Speaker 1: I like all the guys in the Cowboys personel department,
Speaker 1: but this is a big draft for their reputation. You know,
Speaker 1: they they really earned their stripes and got a lot
Speaker 1: of well deserved accolades for how well they drafted from
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen. Twenty seventeen draft looks, I mean, yeah, terrible.
Speaker 1: I think terrible is a stretched because you got three
Speaker 1: starters out of it. You got Jordan Lewis, you got
Speaker 1: um Fido Woozier, and you got Xavier Woods. They're not
Speaker 1: like amazing players. They found three starter caliber players. Obviously
Speaker 1: Tacos a bust. Yeah, but those three starting caliber players
Speaker 1: or players that the Cowboys are looking to upgrade with
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen is not good by any stretch. Twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: you got gallop and we'll see about Layton. Jury is
Speaker 1: still out. Twenty nineteen looks pretty rough. Like they need
Speaker 1: to hit on this raft. You know, if if the
Speaker 1: if the narrative of the Cowboys being among the best
Speaker 1: drafting teams in the league is true, this draft is
Speaker 1: really important. They need to kind of get back on
Speaker 1: the horse because the last two or three years have
Speaker 1: been mediocre to bad. So this is important for a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons. I mean, twenty sixteen, there's more good
Speaker 1: players that have come out of that combined in seventeen,
Speaker 1: eighteen and nine together, right, which, yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: I mean twenty sixteen. I don't know if it's fair
Speaker 1: to say twenty sixteen is the standard. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: one of the two or three best passes in Cowboys history.
Speaker 1: But you know, twenty fifteen you found an all Pro
Speaker 1: corner and Byron Jones. You have found a four year
Speaker 1: contributor in Damian Wilson. Twenty fourteen, I mean, you're two
Speaker 1: big picks from twenty fourteen are still on the team,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin and DeMarcus Lawrence. I mean, you gotta and
Speaker 1: and even you know, Anthony Hitchins was a four year
Speaker 1: star while he was here. That was a great pick
Speaker 1: for where you found him. They need that, They need
Speaker 1: their first, second, third, and preferably fourth round pick to
Speaker 1: all have to start. But those are guys that need
Speaker 1: to be contributing big time from the get It's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting to see because I was having a lot
Speaker 1: of hopes on hopefully getting the players from last year's
Speaker 1: draft to have a good offseason, get a lot of workout, team,
Speaker 1: gain some power, get health, you know, and start training
Speaker 1: camp off pretty well. But with everything that's going on now,
Speaker 1: it makes me wonder how much this virtual life is
Speaker 1: going to affect their physical performance when they do get
Speaker 1: back on the field. So we'll see what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: decide to do now. Staying on the topic of the
Speaker 1: defense just for a moment, we're still having some confusion
Speaker 1: here as to what the Cowboys plan to do there,
Speaker 1: whether it's a four three defense or three four. I mean,
Speaker 1: they say it's a four to three, but then you
Speaker 1: get talking about different players that look more like a
Speaker 1: three four. So what did you guys gather from one
Speaker 1: McCarthy said yesterday, it was pressed pretty hard about that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, what, what is it? What's it gonna be
Speaker 1: three four or four three. I mean, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: that much. You just nailed it, Amber, thank you. Doesn't
Speaker 1: really And I think there's only confusion if you're obsessed
Speaker 1: with the label as this black and white thing that matters,
Speaker 1: like and you know what, it makes sense why people
Speaker 1: feel that way because the last defensive coordinator had a
Speaker 1: very rigid black and white approach to things. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have four down linemen. The right end is going to
Speaker 1: have this skill set. I need this from my undertackle.
Speaker 1: My left end is going to do this. We're gonna
Speaker 1: play these coverages. I get it. But Rod Marinelli is gone,
Speaker 1: and I just don't think that Mike Nolan and Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy are going to approach their defense that way. It
Speaker 1: is a four three front. They are going to have
Speaker 1: four down linemen at least for the time being. But
Speaker 1: from the sounds, they want to bring pressure with players
Speaker 1: that aren't necessarily always pass rushers. Jalen Smith comes to mind.
Speaker 1: Alden Smith and Randy Gregory are also obviously versatile guys
Speaker 1: that could play in either front. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of everything, and it should be exciting
Speaker 1: more than confusing because for years and years in years,
Speaker 1: we kept hearing, Oh, that guy's not a scheme fit,
Speaker 1: that guy doesn't do what we've fit what we want
Speaker 1: to do. Well, we'll see you mean they like it.
Speaker 1: Sounds like they just want to draft good football players
Speaker 1: and figure out what to do with them later, which
Speaker 1: is how everyone in the world should approach this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited it's going to look like yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: I mean when you when you look at Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: and Alden Smith, if those two guys get reinstated, and
Speaker 1: it sounded like Jerry and Stephen didn't really want to
Speaker 1: be the ones to talk about that because it's a
Speaker 1: touchy situation and they don't know. And I guarantee the
Speaker 1: NFL's thinking about bigger things right now than than reinstading
Speaker 1: some of these players. But you know, they look like
Speaker 1: three four pass rushers. That's what they look like. Their
Speaker 1: body types are. DeMarcus Lawrence looks like he is a
Speaker 1: four three pass rusher. He's not. He doesn't have a
Speaker 1: great fit in a traditional three four scheme. Ontari Poe
Speaker 1: looks like a three four guy. Um Durri McCoy to
Speaker 1: me a four three but that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can make these switches in between a series,
Speaker 1: in between a play, and I think that that's just
Speaker 1: saying what Davis is pointing out, just get good playing.
Speaker 1: A really good example of this is two of the
Speaker 1: guys that we're talking about a lot at the top
Speaker 1: of the draft, Caleb and Jason out of LSU and
Speaker 1: Zach Bond out of Wisponsin. I wouldn't be shocked if
Speaker 1: under the previous regime both of those guys were out
Speaker 1: of consideration because we don't know if he can put
Speaker 1: his hand on the ground and play right in does
Speaker 1: that remind you of T J. Watt at all? Like
Speaker 1: that was the bit like is can he play? Can
Speaker 1: he put his hand on the ground and go? Whereas
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys were to draft Zach Bond, they would
Speaker 1: probably say, all right, we're gonna find some looks for
Speaker 1: you where you can rush as an outside brusher, can
Speaker 1: play a little bit of sam lineback, or you can
Speaker 1: do this, that and the other, and by the time
Speaker 1: it's all said and done, you'll be playing seven percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps. And that sounds awesome to me, rather
Speaker 1: than just saying, oh, he's never really been a four
Speaker 1: or three end, so get him out of just get
Speaker 1: him off the board. We don't like him. When we
Speaker 1: went to a restaurant in Indianapolis at the combine, we
Speaker 1: were fortunate enough, Dave and I were fortunate enough to
Speaker 1: go with some of the other media guys and we
Speaker 1: were just kind of talking a little bit on the record,
Speaker 1: mostly off the record, and McCarthy said exactly that. He said,
Speaker 1: you know, if you got a player that doesn't really
Speaker 1: fit your scheme but he's a great player, then you
Speaker 1: need to change your scheme. And I like, look over
Speaker 1: at Dave, and Dave is you didn't do it? But
Speaker 1: about as well then like the Dion Sanders, it was
Speaker 1: just like, oh, thank you, thank you, We'll see you
Speaker 1: can actually do that. But it's they've said everything I
Speaker 1: want to hear. But now this is like the first
Speaker 1: true test. Obviously we haven't seen any actual football under
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, but the decisions they make this weekend could
Speaker 1: go a long way about, you know, shaping what they
Speaker 1: actually want to do. So that's really exciting. Now. Another
Speaker 1: thing that was discussed yesterday, actually Jane Slater was pressing
Speaker 1: on pretty hard. It was about that. Dak Prescott was
Speaker 1: the topic of discussion yesterday. The whole franchise tag number
Speaker 1: was recalculator recalculated, and he finally came out with a
Speaker 1: total what was it, thirty one point something point four
Speaker 1: thirty one four and four around there, which was kind
Speaker 1: of around the amount we were expecting. Now. When asked
Speaker 1: if Dak has been participating in this virtual voluntary offseason program,
Speaker 1: McCarthy kinda he tried his best to kind of not
Speaker 1: answer it. Basically said that Dad has been in communication
Speaker 1: with the coaches, but he's not going to be taking
Speaker 1: role of all the players that do take part on
Speaker 1: this program because it is voluntary. Now in the way
Speaker 1: that I thought I heard it, I mean, that didn't
Speaker 1: make me feel like it sounded as if Dac was
Speaker 1: participating in the voluntary program or not. What do you
Speaker 1: guys think I think that there? I thought, I think
Speaker 1: that Mike mccartthy answered that question as best as he
Speaker 1: can because it is a volunt Like you said, it's
Speaker 1: a voluntary program. The minute the Cowboys, especially their head coach,
Speaker 1: start revealing to the media who's who's participating and who isn't,
Speaker 1: then he's subject to you know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a fine or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but but you certainly don't want the league jumping in
Speaker 1: and saying, why are you throwing out these players business?
Speaker 1: Because he said we're definitely not going to be taken role.
Speaker 1: But he also mentioned that he's doing everything he's communicating,
Speaker 1: so I looked at it like he is participating somewhat,
Speaker 1: but he can't say whether or not he's there or not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think talked about this last week, like if
Speaker 1: if this was the real offseason program and we're doing
Speaker 1: workouts and on field learning and all that stuff, I understand,
Speaker 1: but like I don't care if if Dak is on
Speaker 1: the zoom call, I don't care, Like like I said
Speaker 1: it last week, like he's got his iPad, it does
Speaker 1: because like you know, I mean, it's you know, do
Speaker 1: I need to be Do I need to be on
Speaker 1: a zoom call with Derek and Nick at all hours
Speaker 1: of the day for them to know that I'm like
Speaker 1: handling what I'm supposed to be handling, you know, No,
Speaker 1: Like we're all we're mature adults and we can accomplish
Speaker 1: what we need to accomplish. Without having somebody virtually breathing
Speaker 1: down our neck, Like I don't care if Dak logs
Speaker 1: into a single call. He's got his iPad, and like
Speaker 1: I said last week, like I think he cares way
Speaker 1: too much about being good at quarterback to like throw
Speaker 1: his iPad across the room and not ever look at it.
Speaker 1: Like I'm sure he's looking at it. I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: gonna handle what he needs to handle. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: as long as all this weird stuff going on, I
Speaker 1: don't care if he's logging in or not. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: alone in that, but it just seems silly to quibble over. Well.
Speaker 1: Another thing that was interesting though about that whole conversation.
Speaker 1: It is okay, yes, they said that they're still in
Speaker 1: the work so in the hopes of getting a long
Speaker 1: term deal with Dak Prescott, but they are not kind
Speaker 1: of not canceling the possibility of drafting a quarterback in
Speaker 1: this draft. Jerry Jones mentioned how Mike McCarthy likes to
Speaker 1: have extract quarterbacks in the room, get them to develop,
Speaker 1: and hopefully in the future, use them as a trade
Speaker 1: or just you know, as an investment overall for the future.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on this whole quarterback drafting. If
Speaker 1: they do draft one, what would be like around what
Speaker 1: round would you be looking at? Well, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy likes to do that, and that's what's something
Speaker 1: Green Bay has on that they drafted five quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the time he was there, and they had five and
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. But that's not what Jerry Jones likes to do,
Speaker 1: and so it'll be interesting to see that he's done
Speaker 1: it once or so with Mike White, and I don't
Speaker 1: think you know that that didn't work out, But that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you stopped trying. Some of those Packer guys
Speaker 1: didn't work out either. How's it going to work out
Speaker 1: when you have a Pro Bowl quarterback there? So I
Speaker 1: just think that that if we're looking at it, I
Speaker 1: would say fifth or sixth round. That's that's how you
Speaker 1: develop a quarterback, because anything higher than that, these guys
Speaker 1: should be somewhat ready to contribute. They still need development,
Speaker 1: But I think fifth or sixth round because you have
Speaker 1: other needs. You have guys, like Dave said, you got
Speaker 1: to hit on these top four picks. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask based on all the other needs.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you would you Dave think that there
Speaker 1: is room for a quarterback to be drafted in this draft.
Speaker 1: I don't not high not in that, not enough. I know,
Speaker 1: you know they talk to Jalen Hurts. That's a name
Speaker 1: that keeps getting brought up. But you probably have to
Speaker 1: draft him with or maybe eighty second. Maybe he falls
Speaker 1: that far, but he I mean yeah, like we keep
Speaker 1: saying they need they need pass rushers and cornerbacks and
Speaker 1: safeties and a receiver. They could probably use some linebacker
Speaker 1: depth like all, I mean, where, how how are you
Speaker 1: justifying that on a guy that you hope is not
Speaker 1: going to trust the field? Um? And I mean I
Speaker 1: get it, I get it. The higher you draft from,
Speaker 1: the more likely he is to be good. But if
Speaker 1: they want to do it on Day three, that's fine
Speaker 1: with me. I think you know some guys you could
Speaker 1: draft in the fifth, six or seventh round that I'd
Speaker 1: be fine with. But a premium pick on a quarterback
Speaker 1: when your quarterback is only twenty six is scary to me.
Speaker 1: And it's hard to convince Jerry Jones otherwise when he's
Speaker 1: got one of the best quarterback that he's ever had
Speaker 1: here in the last ten years that he got an
Speaker 1: eighth round, if you will, and there wasn't one an
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent Tony Romol. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: when you get to that point, you might as well
Speaker 1: just get you know, get it undrafted. But I honestly,
Speaker 1: I would rather, I would rather draft a punter. I'm
Speaker 1: not joking. I would rather. Yes, and we're gonna go,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get that excited punter. We're gonna go draft
Speaker 1: to A and M kid. Yeah, it's the Braden Man
Speaker 1: in the six or seventh round. I'd be on board
Speaker 1: with that for sure. Yeah. I just think, you know,
Speaker 1: I think at that point you might as well just
Speaker 1: get an undrafted free agent, knowing that he's probably not
Speaker 1: gonna be better than Cooper Rush anyways. Cooper Rush enough
Speaker 1: that he's been around for four or five, you know,
Speaker 1: four years whatever it is at this point, and he
Speaker 1: was undrafted. So and I you know, I don't dislike
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, but drop off between him and some of
Speaker 1: the Day three guys is so severe that you just
Speaker 1: have to grab him in the top one hundred. I
Speaker 1: mean again, you know, if if your quarterback needy, I
Speaker 1: get it. But Prescott's never missed a game. I'm comfortable
Speaker 1: betting on that. I mean, you've got one of the
Speaker 1: You've got one of the most productive college quarterbacks on
Speaker 1: the roster in Blake Belle. Yeah, I'm holding out he
Speaker 1: didn't throw a pass. I don't even know if he
Speaker 1: threw more than five passes his whole career, but you
Speaker 1: didn't have to. I am holding out hope that they
Speaker 1: you've got fun package for him lined up, like you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's goal line or just something to throw defenses off.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying he needs to throw passes
Speaker 1: or whatever, but it would be fun if they could
Speaker 1: find a way to utilize that. Do you know the
Speaker 1: two players on the roster that have thrown a touchdown pass?
Speaker 1: I mean, other than Dak there's only one more, I believe.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm guessing it's Blake bell based on the conversation.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Don try Poe. Yeah, okay, if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen that YouTube that it's one of the
Speaker 1: coolest things you've ever seen, I've watched it. I forgot
Speaker 1: about that. Well. I've been receiving questions about this draft
Speaker 1: and how it's gonna be handled. It's definitely gonna be
Speaker 1: a challenge just putting everything together virtually. But in yesterday's
Speaker 1: press conference, Jerry Jones he said that they've done some
Speaker 1: practice runs and they don't seem to have had any
Speaker 1: issues with it. Well, they've had issues, but they've addressed
Speaker 1: it and tried to perfect it to where tomorrow it
Speaker 1: shouldn't be a problem. Even if they were needing to
Speaker 1: trade for whatever reason, they can make that happen. How
Speaker 1: comfortable are you feeling about this whole process when it
Speaker 1: starts tomorrow as far as looking at how the only
Speaker 1: example we have is basically the press conference that we
Speaker 1: were able to witness yesterday. So after that, how comfortable
Speaker 1: are you with tomorrow's process? Do you expect this or
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to experience difficulties that would affect then and
Speaker 1: when it comes to their turn to draft. You're talking
Speaker 1: to two guys who couldn't get in on the press
Speaker 1: conference call. I didn't see Steven Jones for the first
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. Not sure why, but I don't think he
Speaker 1: I think he was having some problems too. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean Dave and I argued with Derek I think a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. It's going to be chaotic. How
Speaker 1: can it not be? It is going to be chaotic
Speaker 1: for what they're used to doing. Yes, they'll figure it out,
Speaker 1: but they'll be trades probably left on the table because
Speaker 1: they just can't communicate with everyone. You know, other teams
Speaker 1: honestly might have more of a problem than the Cowboys
Speaker 1: because they've got an owner and a GM that they
Speaker 1: need to talk to with the coach, Jerry's going to
Speaker 1: make the call if they really need to. So you know,
Speaker 1: the owner in the GM are in the same head.
Speaker 1: So I you know that that's an advantage right there
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. Yeah, I'm not I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but just from the league as a whole,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I mean Jerry kind of glossed over that.
Speaker 1: He was like he was like, yeah, I mean we
Speaker 1: had glitches during the draft, but we sort of threw him.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well, but like it didn't matter, you know,
Speaker 1: like it was fake. But you're probably gonna have glitches
Speaker 1: when teams are on the clock and when teams are
Speaker 1: trying to trade. And I saw it somebody one of
Speaker 1: the GMS has like the team's it guy is going
Speaker 1: to be living in a Winnebago in the draft, something
Speaker 1: goes wrong, and I think I heard John John Schneider
Speaker 1: is like ripping down walls in his house to like
Speaker 1: boost the Wi Fi signal. Like, I don't know, there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of crazy stuff going on, and you just
Speaker 1: can't convince me that we're gonna make two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty five picks and a couple of dub trades without
Speaker 1: some craziness. I just feel pretty good about that. Like,
Speaker 1: if it goes completely smoothly, I'll be shot. I was
Speaker 1: expecting to hear something from the NFL saying that maybe
Speaker 1: they were going to extend the time that teams get
Speaker 1: to make the decision, you know, thinking that because of
Speaker 1: these technologies that are now being used, I would imagine
Speaker 1: that there is some error. Errors are gonna happen. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have glitches. So I was expecting there to be
Speaker 1: a longer time period where the teams just have more
Speaker 1: room for, you know, to mess around in case something happens.
Speaker 1: I think, Okay, well, are you gonna say something I
Speaker 1: was gonna I just yeah, I would just say, you know,
Speaker 1: just just the part about communicating trades to the league.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be one thing that's that you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: they can talk with amongst themselves and going to the
Speaker 1: league and getting all that in. I bet you the
Speaker 1: league is going to be a little bit more lenient
Speaker 1: when it comes to trade and pass the deadline and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. All right, Well, to wrap up the show, Um,
Speaker 1: you guys had your predictions last week. Have they changed
Speaker 1: since then? Do you have a better gut feeling of
Speaker 1: what's going to happen tomorrow? Who the Cowboys might be drafting? Dave,
Speaker 1: what is your gut telling you? I mean, I've been
Speaker 1: on this train for about a month and a half,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna get off now. I think if
Speaker 1: he's there, I think they'll pick calevon Chason. It's good
Speaker 1: value for pick seventeen. He's not a slam dunk prospect,
Speaker 1: but he's twenty years old. He's an ascending, highly talented player.
Speaker 1: They do not have much in the way of like
Speaker 1: proven options at right end. Again, you're talking about a
Speaker 1: versatile guy. If you're going back talking about the versatility
Speaker 1: of Mike Nolan, you know, having multiple fronts. The only
Speaker 1: question is whether he lasts that long. Because he's the
Speaker 1: second best ad dresser in this class, and that's valuable,
Speaker 1: so he might not be there. If he is, I
Speaker 1: think he'll be the pick. I think CJ. Henderson would
Speaker 1: be in consideration too, but I don't expect him to
Speaker 1: be there. He's the second best corner and those don't
Speaker 1: last long either, So I'm thinking Jason. If he's gone,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if Jerry tries to get out
Speaker 1: of the pick. Based on the way he was talking yesterday, yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounded like trade down was a possibility. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just say my prediction is a cornerback. I just think,
Speaker 1: you know, they've tried to cover themselves with defensive end
Speaker 1: and hoping that those guys get reinstated. But you know,
Speaker 1: and you've got Jelson, you've got Joe Johnson or Joe Jackson.
Speaker 1: Joe Jackson, Yeah, Joe Johnson's great basketball player, by the way.
Speaker 1: I think that if you I just think cornerback, and
Speaker 1: if they don't get uh, you know, Henderson, I see
Speaker 1: him trading back, maybe faulting from LSU. Maybe the kid
Speaker 1: from TCU Glad Me and A Tarrell from Clemson are
Speaker 1: both names to know too. That would be a tradeback.
Speaker 1: But I just can't imagine them not getting a cornerback
Speaker 1: high if you have a possibility to get a corner
Speaker 1: tomorrow and I I think they should all right, Well,
Speaker 1: we don't need to keep guessing because we will find
Speaker 1: out tomorrow and I finally will get to know what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys decide to do with their first round pick,
Speaker 1: a number seventeen. Dave, do you want to just go
Speaker 1: ahead and tell what time the draft show is starting tomorrow?
Speaker 1: We will be going live at six thirty Central Time,
Speaker 1: So if you're on the East coast seven thirty, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be me, Kyle Yeoman's Kevin Turner. And then Dane
Speaker 1: Brugler is coming back for the entire three days, so
Speaker 1: the fourth Rust will be on. We'll have you covered.
Speaker 1: And then Friday and Saturday we get Jeff Kavanaugh, Brian
Speaker 1: brought us or coming over from the fans, so we
Speaker 1: will have all of the usual suspects from Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got the whole team together. It's gonna be a ton
Speaker 1: of fun. Hopefully we don't have any glitches together together together,
Speaker 1: Hopefully we can make all the technology work. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be a lot of fun. We will be there
Speaker 1: all three days all two hundred fifty five picks. Well,
Speaker 1: there you have me, guys. Make sure to tune in
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Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for joining us. Thank you Nick, Dave,
Speaker 1: thank you. See you guys next time next week, once
Speaker 1: we have all the Cowboys draft picks and we can
Speaker 1: talk about them. So this has been the break on
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