WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Who Gets Extended First … Amari, Dak or Zeke? 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:03.840 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:11.640 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.520 for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:21.480 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:26.800 Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:35.640 Just keep talking, yeah, fight through it, just fight on. Actually, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:40.600 I don't think your microphone is on, for whatever that's worth. Hey, Hey, everybody, 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.159 David Hellman here, I'm not I'm here. Yeah, just there you. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.959 Good morning, guys, welcome to another episode of The Break. Uh, 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.760 Derek is not here, but we have Bryan broad Is 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.920 filling filling in for him today. We have a lot 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:58.240 of things to talk about. The the Marcus deal finally 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:03.360 got done after a lot of discussions, and last week 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.800 I think we were headed to the point where we 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:10.399 thought things weren't really gonna maybe not work out. You know, 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.720 things were getting a lot of discussions there where it 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.560 wasn't headed that way anyways. DeMarcus Lawrence basically got the 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:23.080 biggest deal in Cowboys franchise history, with one hundred and 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:28.119 five million dollars twenty one million per year for five 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:33.400 years and sixty five million dollars guaranteed. Now, you guys 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.119 were at the press conference, heard everything that was set there. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:41.160 How did it go from things getting heated too quickly 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.960 getting that deal made the biggest deal in franchise history. Well, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.440 I think obvious there was a phone call a story 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.000 on that, So we'll let you talk a little bit 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.400 more about it. But sometimes these you know, the negotiations 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.320 back and forth that you needed, you know, make it 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.320 a human beings are involved here. It's not just a 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.840 football player and the owner and the agent and all 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.000 that stuff. It's like, let's get this thing down to 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.399 let's talk this thing out. And I believe that's kind 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.560 of what happened when they kind of gotten the room 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.800 and said how do we make this work? Yeah, which 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.799 Steven Jones said yesterday that it's not rare to do that, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.840 but it sure's hell seems like it is, because like 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.600 that doesn't seem like a novel concept to me. And 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:26.080 so often during these during these types of standoffs, like 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.200 you know, you go back to Dez in twenty fifteen, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.440 like you know, they're not communicating, they haven't talked to 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.079 each other in months. It seems like that would be 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.480 a good idea and that sounds like what happened here, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.760 And you know it came out over the weekend. David 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.720 Canter was very open about it. You know, DeMarcus Lawrence 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.200 got on a conference call with the Cowboys and they 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.400 laid out what they want. They were honest about it, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.880 they were respectful. You know, DeMarcus said he wanted to 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.760 be here. It sounds like, you know, his camp was 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.639 trying to get him to not demand a trade, but 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.119 broach trade topics, and DeMarcus was like, no, I don't 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.560 want to do that to be here. And at the 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.480 same time, I love the line from yesterday where you know, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.040 DeMarcus was kind of like, your problems aren't my problems, Like, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.079 I know, you got to figure out the cap that's 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.480 really that's not my job, that's your job. And it's true, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.880 It's absolutely true. We say that all the time. You know, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:18.799 it's on the Cowboys to make all those things work. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.680 It doesn't affect a Marcus's bottom line at all. And 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.320 you know they were able to get on a conference 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.440 call and speak to each other as like you said, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.760 as human beings, And it sounds like that made a 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.680 ton of difference because all of a sudden you go 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.960 from there at an impass to not only have they 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:38.000 hammered out a deal, but it is a remarkably fair deal. 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.600 Like everybody here got what they wanted. DeMarcus is making 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:43.960 more than he would have made under the tag. He's 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.760 getting more guaranteed in the first three years than basic 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.240 like any non quarterback in the league, and the Cowboys 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.160 have him at a number that makes sense, and more 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.080 importantly than that, they can get out from under it 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.720 in three years, which I think is everything. Why was 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.800 this not done the first place? Then that's my point. See, 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.680 that's if that if all it makes, if all it 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.560 takes is to hop on a conference call, then we 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.480 could have handled this thing out a while. If if 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.440 you know, we were starting to hear rumors of discontent 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.800 between the agent and the front office on some things, 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:22.080 and so you know, I can understand, Okay, yeah, you 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.080 know this is the to me, this is this is 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:28.479 the thing. That's that's the if if it was, if 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.159 it if it took just a conference call to get 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.520 this done, you know that doesn't Why wasn't this not start? 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.080 Why wasn't it not gone in this direction to begin with. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.800 You know, and again I can understand the the you know, 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.359 if if the agent has a problem with the front office, 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.599 front office has a problem with the agent, you know, 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.840 all that should have been put. He's right though, it's 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.720 not his problem, but it also is this problem because 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.080 you know, the cowboys have to think about what they're 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.000 doing in the future with their contracts. You know, they 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:02.560 have to think about with Dak, with Zeke, with Cooper, 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.800 with all those guys. So it absolutely is you know, 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.840 he could say it's not his problem, but it is 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.440 his problem. It's not it's no, no, it's not his problem, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.960 but I mean it, it becomes his problem exactly exactly 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.800 if they you know, to me, if this was as 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.839 cut and dry and quick as you know, you know, 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.800 they're saying, oh, well, you know we were. I think 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.440 there were some erroneous reports about it, Oh he wants 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.039 twenty three million dollars and all that stuff like that. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:33.520 I think that that that was probably you know, when 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.560 you talk to people behind the scenes, that affected you know, 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.080 Calvin Watkins came out with that twenty three million dollars, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.040 with this demand and all that, I think that affected 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.080 the negotiations I think it did. I think it affected 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.760 the negotiations on the side of Cantor and those guys 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.880 because they were put in a in a in a 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.720 bad light right there. So you know, I mean, maybe 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.960 maybe there were some some hurt feelings as this thing 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.200 went off and then it's like, Okay, we've got to 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.560 get this thing done. But I just don't understand what 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.760 I mean. If Dak is part of this, and Zeke 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.599 is part of this, and Cooper is part of this, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.400 then why wasn't you know, why wasn't DeMarcus part of 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.640 this way back before? Kind of like you just said, 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.160 I mean, why is this going to now? Because they 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.479 don't seem to be dragging their feet on anybody else, 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.400 so why why were we dragging our feet on it? 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.520 And that you know, I think there was problems between 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.240 the groups, I really do. And they can act like 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.680 that there weren't problems, but you you, if you, if 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.800 you kind of sniff around enough, which everybody in this 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.359 room will do, you will find out that, you know, 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.520 it wasn't really all hunky dory, you know. And Steve 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.360 why Stephen Jones kind of hinted at that yesterday. He's like, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.040 you know, if you're not careful, these things can become 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.440 confrontational and you forget that you're actually really on the 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.760 same team. You know, DeMarcus Lawrence is technically he's under 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.480 club control. He is a Dallas cowboy, He's not you're 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.240 in a me. He's one of your best players. But 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.960 it's easy to forget that when you start haggling over money. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:02.720 And I guess my point is, and you know, I'm 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.000 not privy to these conversations, so I don't want to 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.000 be too quick to judge. But like I said so 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.840 many times, it feels like it feels like whenever these 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.000 things happen, the team and the agent are talking to 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.440 the media more than they're talking to each other. Yeah, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.360 you know what I mean, Like you're leaking things to them. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.280 You know, maybe the team side is leaking that the 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.320 player wants too much money, or the players leaking that 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.560 the team sent him him an insulting offer. Instead of 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.320 doing all that, why don't you just hop on a 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.240 conference call and say, hey, it's me, it's DeMarcus, It's 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.560 the guy that you drafted and developed. I'm not trying 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.160 to bend you over a barrel. I just want what's mine. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.440 And the team says, we get that, and here's what 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.240 we're willing to do, and maybe this stuff would be easier. See, 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.120 I know, from the Cowboys point of view, and we're 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.480 in the building every day, I didn't I didn't hear 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.960 one thing reguarding the contract. I never heard, you know, 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:54.960 And it could have been really easy for the Cowboys 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.280 to put it out through one of us said hey, okay, 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.680 his demands are unreasonable. I mean they had it buttoned 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.679 down from their end. Yeah, So everything that we were hearing, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.080 in my opinion, it was coming from the other side, 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.240 you know. That's where I mean, I was the cowboys. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.480 I feel like the cowboys in this negotiation, we're gonna 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.320 put their heads down and go and try and get 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.000 this thing done. And you know, again we we we 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.640 live in this building and there's things you hear. But 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.200 that was something I never heard, never heard anything the 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.200 way the negotiations were going from their end, or the 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.960 money or the numbers or any of that stuff. You know, Actually, 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.880 when you when you think about it, what d laws 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.360 Camp did was pretty good. Because if you stall on 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.560 this thing and you and you say, we're not signing 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.280 anything at all until we get to that point until 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.080 we get you had there's a deadline of the um 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:51.079 I'm sorry, there's a deadline for the surgery when not 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.600 just the surgery, but also when when you've got to 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.840 come up with the franchise tag. So if you just 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:59.800 let that pass that you know the Cowboys are going 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.120 to and once they tag him, then you're at you're 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.280 over twenty million, right. So I think if they would 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.280 have done this beforehand, yeah, they probably would get him 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.560 in at eighteen nineteen or something like that. But as 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.160 soon as you tag me and sell me I'm a 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.880 twenty and a half million, you know, a year player, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:16.880 then that's where it starts. And so I think that's 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.640 probably what their point wasn't it. If that's the case, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:25.000 it worked, Yeah, I mean it. If his goal was 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.040 to be paid Mac money, then I guess it didn't 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.600 work out. But this whole thing worked out in Demarcus's favorite. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.800 To their camp, they'll tell you that that wasn't their goal. No, Well, 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:34.240 and that's my point is I don't think it was. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.200 But I'm saying, you know, you can be as critical 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.560 as you want of the surgery play, but it certainly 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.360 seems like it works. I don't think this deal gets 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.760 done on Friday of last week if he doesn't need 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.800 to have that surgery. I agree, I think it goes 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.360 right up until the deadline. Just liked as Is did so, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.360 and the Cowboys sit all loong. He doesn't have any 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.600 leverage on this. I think he did it sure seems 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.439 like it. Yeah, that I was the leverage. I was 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.400 thinking of it, go get the surgery. Now you're now 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.160 you're forced them to do something. Well, I was, well, 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:07.280 I was gonna does design really love? I was going 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.320 to bring the whole point of you being the one 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.960 to argue starting last week that you thought it was 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.679 the best idea for him to get the surgery right 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.720 and that would help him get the negotiation. So what 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.520 was your output on that whole just looking at the 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.080 difference of what happened out there with the whole negotiation 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.760 part and the injury. Yeah, I felt initially I thought 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.880 that the surgery as he used it was kind of 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.920 going to be something that that would be as he 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:39.960 uses it, it's going to be the hammer for him 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.680 to say, Okay, I'm not going to get the surgery. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.840 That when then Jerry Jones came out and said wait 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:50.400 a minute, I am not paying high dollar, you know 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.520 for you know, for something that's for somebody that's injured. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.840 I mean, it's the here's time about the first year 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.199 of the contract. Then all of a sudden, now you're 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.080 starting to think. At that point, you're going, okay, wait 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.280 a minute, here's the plan. Okay, if you're not gonna 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.760 if you're worried about that, I'll get the surgery. And 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.520 it's a way to maybe you know, Okay, I'm giving 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.000 you something, now you give me something back, you know, 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:17.160 in the negotiations. So that's when when when I heard 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.720 what Jerry Jones said, that made me flip completely, like, okay, Tank, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.480 if you want to make this thing work, go get 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.480 the surgery, go get this done, right But he didn't. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.640 He didn't need to do that. You wound up getting 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:35.320 the deal anyway without without having to have the surgery done. Yeah, 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.560 well that's what I'm saying. I mean, I think the 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.160 deal went a lot faster than we even thought once. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.000 I mean, we thought it was going to drag on, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.480 drag on, drag on, But something changed last week and 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.120 it might have been again that conversation that Stephen Jones 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.880 had with his representatives that like, Okay, you know, this 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.520 is this is where we're going. I'm trying to figure 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:02.160 out what flipped this to make it and maybe getting 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.360 the player involved the way they did. Maybe Tank went 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.400 to them and said, you know, went to his report 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.760 to Canter and said, hey, what's the best deal that 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.000 they've offered us? Well, you know, and let's let's let's 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.680 if we had this number in mind, let's go with it. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.400 You know, we talk all the time about deadlines, you know, 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.800 and maybe this was the deadline if you think about it. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.200 We were we were asked about the draft that but 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.079 also when when will he be ready to play? Yes? 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.240 Do you think he'll be ready? Do you think? I mean, 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.040 we talked about it before the show, and it sounds 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.600 like everyone's kind of like right there, like is this 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.000 a five month? Is a six month? Three? Have so 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.520 to get this thing done with any chance of him 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.920 being ready for week one? Maybe this was a deadline. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.880 I think it was, And so it's an arbit it's 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.000 a it's not a real deadline like the July fifteenth deadline, 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.120 but I think the draft is like the drop dead 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.720 date to have hope of him being ready for the opener. 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.839 And even yesterday Stephen said, you know, I asked him, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.760 you know, what's the plan for the spring in the summer, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:58.960 and he said, you know, we're going to get him 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.959 to work with our with our rehab guy, Britt Brown. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.160 He's one of the best in the business. And he said, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.360 the hope is to have him ready for the opener. So, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.600 I mean, you know, I have all the faith in 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.280 the world, and then in the medical team, but I 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.160 think it's they're going to be working right up until that. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.720 If I had to guess, yeah, that'll be a shame. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.840 It'll be a shame on both ends. If if he's 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.880 misses a week or two, well, yeah, I know. And 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.160 to your point though, if we miss a week or two, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.600 because this deal seems pretty simple to me now, you 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.520 know if you look at the way it was done. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.000 I mean, we all talk. We had this discussion and 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.360 I was kind of getting on you guys when we 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:35.079 had with the argument with Derek when on the show. Yeah, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.240 if you like him, pay him. But but but you guys, 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.000 at the end of the day end up getting the 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.319 number you wanted, you know, So how hard was that? 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.200 That's it? And and if you lose if you lose 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:46.840 a week of the season or two weeks in the 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.319 season because you were you know, this wasn't something. This 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.120 doesn't seem very tricky to me. This doesn't seem like, 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.000 at the end of the day, this didn't turn into 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.199 twenty five million dollars a year. It's twenty one million 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.480 dollars a year. Okay, Well, why did we not get 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.400 to this point? And we I keep saying this. I 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.719 think there was a problem between the front office and 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.720 the and the and the agent itself. I don't think. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.760 I don't know how you could dispute that fact at 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.120 this point. And that's kind of once you get over 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.200 the excitement. Okay, they got tank. You get over the 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.520 excitement and like the relief that this standoff is over, 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.200 you look at the contract and you're like, this is 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.240 so fair and simple for both sides. Like he slots 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.400 in right behind mac miller and Donald, right above Flowers 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.880 and some of those other guys, and it's like, this 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.320 is where it should have been all along again. If so, 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.160 that's my point from the top of the show is 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.120 if all it took was for him to hop on 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.520 a call with Stephen, exactly, why did it take till 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.080 April eighth, when I was at the Pro Bowl. We 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.440 were interviewing d Law and he was kind of not 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.880 trying to talk about the contract and the agent, which 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.480 I didn't really know him at the time. What's his 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.880 first name, David? Okay, he leans into the conversation. He's 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.720 like leaning in and I don't know who this is, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.240 and everyone thinks it's funny. I'm like, now it makes 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.280 sense that, Okay, he's the agent he's trying to hear. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.040 He talked to reporters afterwards and they said it is 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.600 gonna be tough, and he said, I don't know why 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.840 this is tough. It starts at twenty and then it goes, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.320 you know, a little bit over that. That's it. Yeah, 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.960 And at the end of the three months here, that's 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.040 pretty much what if you've ever been in, like trying 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.080 to get a business deal done, If you still have 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.400 the time, you're gonna take that time if you can 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.920 and keep because in your mind you think, oh, let's 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.520 see what's the best deal I can get, And both 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.560 parts are thinking the same thing. So yes, if at 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.200 the end of the day they ended up meeting in 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.440 the middle, and yeah, it ended up being the same thing, 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:42.120 but still you want to take advantage of that extra time. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:46.840 If this week was kind of their deadline for having 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.440 it done, so there was no really rushing in there. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.560 See is this right now? If you look at this, 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.680 did this affect him on other deals? If you could 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.880 have got something done earlier? Does it affect you on 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.960 another deal this or something? Why? I don't see why 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.080 it would. I mean, what, you're not working with a 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.360 deadline on anybody else. And as far as I know, 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.760 I think he's talking about an Earl Thomas. Oh, I'm sorry, 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.040 I was thinking about the other that's something else in 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.840 free agency though, whether again you talk about Earl Thomas. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.080 If this is something you get going right out of 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.240 the gate, is that something that maybe okay, now we 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.600 got momentum and you usually but but I think the 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.920 way that that they're saying this is structure, that this 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.640 is a mainly a three year That means a lot 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.520 of this is hitting right off the bat. So I 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.080 don't that's it freed up nine million in cap space. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.520 But like in your heart of hearts, you know that 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.960 you know what Earl Thomas wound up getting from Baltimore? Right, 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.880 Do you really think that they're going in on that 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.240 even if they had the extra money, I would It's 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.000 not what I asked. No, but I think it's going 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:49.680 to come to a point where they're going to draft 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.160 a safety and they might draft when at fifty eight. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.640 Don't you think that was maybe their hope all along? 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.480 I no, No, I'm fifty five. Put I tried to 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.200 trade this, Yeah, I mean I'm trying. I'm trying to 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:02.880 think about cutting him and doing all this kind I mean, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.240 I'm not saying at all possible. I'm not asking what 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.680 you would do. Do you think they would have gone 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.400 after Earl even with the money that they saved by saying, 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.119 you know what, I should have known better when the 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.680 Earl Thomas Earl Thomas dream died on Draft night last year? Yeah, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.160 last year. Yes. Instead of me trying to like say, oh, well, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.520 they're gonna yea Earl Thomas, I'd do this this that No, 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.200 that dream died in the second round at pick two V. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.440 The visual of him coming to the Cowboys locker room 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.720 was enticing, and the fact that they tried it on 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.520 draft night added fuel to the fire. But this team 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.240 was never gonna jump in for fifty million on a 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.840 free agent. They haven't done it in almost a decade. 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.919 And I'm actually okay with that. I am too, because 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.880 as soon as I saw the price of that contract, 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.760 I was like, I'm out. If you could have done 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.199 three years thirty all right? And to me, and I 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.160 know some people may not think this is a big 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.320 deal or you know, but flipping off your team when 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.640 you're getting carted off the field like that just kind 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.440 of shows a different mentality of kind of what you're 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.919 about and who you're about, and it starts with with you, 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.000 you know, And I just I don't know, I don't 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.359 know if it again, I was all about it, and 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.439 it would have been cool to have him here, but 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.920 but that that didn't sit well with me doing so 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.560 the finger changed her mind. Flipping off your team, Yeah, 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.399 I thought it was awesome. But why because like because, 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.560 but you wouldn't do that. You think Russell Westbrook is awesome. 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.040 You mean, you like that kind of stuff, which is fine, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.439 But I'm saying, but you you're hurt and you're pissed 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.680 and flipping off your team that isn't awesome. It depends 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.639 on the situation. I mean, I think anybody that's on 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.560 his teammates know where that fingers directed. That's how I 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.680 feel like they know he's not off your coach. He's 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:44.639 flipping off everybody above them, from Carol to Schneider to 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.680 who he ain't flipping off. You know, I don't even 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:49.800 know the I don't even know the other dbs and 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.479 the Seahawks secondary anymore, Like they're all gone. But he 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.200 wasn't flipping off his teammates anyway. Okay, it just just 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.040 deals to seem so simple, you know now it was, 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.240 and I'm thinking, Okay, this is gonna be to off. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.320 This is you know, when you look at it, you're 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.760 like going, well, that makes a lot of sense. The 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.160 others they're gonna be hard, yeah, the other ones. Yeah, 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.680 Well everyone's happy now, especially Tank. He's making bank because 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.640 of right now. 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