WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Know Your Role 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:08.200 The following days dot Com and the Dellas Cowboys Football. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:31.200 He's Talking Cowboys, Cowboys Star and now your OSTs Isiah 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:38.680 stand Back Walker and Kyle Yeomans. It's another offseason addition 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.240 of Talking Cowboys presented by a Black Rifle Coffee Company, 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.200 the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys. We are live 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.199 from the SWBC studios at the Star in Frisco with 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.880 Isaiah stand Back. We've got Patrick No c Walker, Chris 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.240 Beam in the backup Kyle Yeomans as we continue to 0:00:54.280 --> 0:01:00.560 get you up through the Cowboys off season. Yea hey, 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.680 that sounds familiar. Can we can we hear that one 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:10.600 more time? Yeah, it's Chrisp. It's Crisp. We got Rodeose 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:16.800 in Rodeose and let's stats and sponsor h I am 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.479 for that for that. I went. I went to Luke 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.840 Combs at at and T Stadium and it was so good. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.920 I mean, I'm I'm very broad with my music. I 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.280 just love music in general. I'll listen a little bit 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.280 of everything, so Luke Combs and and really I haven't 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.040 started listening to Luke Combs until the last about about 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.240 a year, and he's really really good. I went to 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.560 that concert. He was fantastic. The stadium was gorgeous, it 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.600 was packed, it was loud, it was energetic, a lot 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.600 of really really good show, lots of fun stuff. At 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.040 at you found out why people loved Luke's exactly. Yeah 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.320 he was. He was really good. Yeah, really good. And 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.560 I was the reason. I say that because I was 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.840 sad because I didn't have a cowboy hat to work. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.080 I didn't have the western hat. I'm I'm a born 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:07.600 and raised Texan. Stet born and raised Texan. You have boots. Yeah, 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.320 I have boots, and I wore the boots. Okay, the 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.239 boots he just did. He just didn't have the hat. Yeah, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.000 you were telling us in your head. Next, I do 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.160 have a stets and hat, but it was its lord 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.200 to the show one. Yeah that was not. That one 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.200 was not a sesting. I do have a stetsin tho. Okay, 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.079 yeah that one was not. The stetson looks way better. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.040 I need to see this alleged states and oh it's 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.040 it's nice. Yeah. Next, he almost were for pregame, but 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.440 we had headsets on. If we next, we would have 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.639 had it outside, but it wouldn't work. Stessing you guys, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.799 hear that we're all for it. We're here. I think 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:40.519 I think I'm the only one on this show that 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.200 hasn't worn a cowboy hat because yeah, I was wearing 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.519 Victory Mondays. I was wearing for Victory Mondays. But that 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.400 was the that was the Ford Brandon one shouts out 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:53.000 the Ford. Yeah, um, you know that. Yeah, but yeah, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.079 I need an actual because I've been I've been in 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.079 Texas long enough. And for those that don't know, and 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.720 I don't know how you couldn't know, I am. I'm 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.560 a boy to Bridge, Georgia boy. But I've been in 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.760 Texas about half a decade. Now it's time for some 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.880 some boots, adopted stuts. You're adopted. Yeah, it's time with 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.359 some boots and the Stitts. I agree, I agree, it's time. 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.320 All right. Well, now that we've gotten that out of 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.400 the way, And for those of you who don't don't know, 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.799 that was Isaiah in the Yeehaw and it was from 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:19.480 our last episode where we had a lot of fun, 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:20.880 so you should go back and listen to that one 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.519 as well. I also made a joke in that that 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.840 episode that nothing's gonna happen between now and then We're 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.919 gonna have nothing to talk about coming into this Tuesday 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.920 from a transaction standpoint. I was joking, but nothing has 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:40.640 happened in terms of the Cowboys transactionally well true, but 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.080 it's hirely true. That's kind of where I'm leading. Entirely true. Okay, 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.200 So it was a note what would Rob do and 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.120 we're gonna do it how Rob would do on WrestleMania 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.000 week with coming up coming off the top rope with 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.160 news and notes. So I can't recall if we mentioned this, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.840 but mentioned it just as a fail safe. Dante Fowler 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.480 back in the building on a one year deal. That's 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:06.280 an underrated and probably underappreciated resigning by most Cowboys fans. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.400 But for those that know, no, Dante Fowler absolutely had 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.160 a resurgent year his first season reuniting with Dan Quinn. 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.200 Obviously they spent time together with the Atlanta Falcons. That's good. 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.720 Jerry Jones, speaking from the owners meetings, the league meetings, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.719 I should say, in Phoenix on yesterday, yesterday being Monday, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.720 said that there has been quote unquote progress towards the 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:31.839 resigning of Jonathan Hankins. That will be huge pun intended 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.279 if they can get Jonathan Hankins back on the contract, 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.240 So good news for the Cowboys fans. There it is 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.000 in the works. It looks like it could happen. Fingers 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.960 crossed that it does. Stephen Jones yesterday evening from the 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.560 same league meetings in Phoenix, said that not only do 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.480 the Cowboys want Hankins, but they want Carlos Watkins as well, 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.960 another underrated, unheralded guy who did some great things for 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.000 the Cowboys and Dan Quinn in twenty twenty two. So 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.960 the Cowboys are actively working on both Hankins and Watkins 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.480 returning to the Ross tension. Yeah, fantastic because there you go. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.839 As far as those who are hoping that the Cowboys 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.560 shore up that run defense, it begins, for my money, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.200 it begins with keeping Jonathan Hankins in the building and 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.720 then building out from that Carlos Watkins as some other 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.360 guys like Quentin behinded to step up, Chauncey Ghost and 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.840 you saw what osa Odigize was able to do, and 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.000 that's kind of what we talked about in the last show. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:27.160 We talked about Hankins specifically, and what he does so 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.360 well is allow for the guys around him to play free. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.800 Absolutely and Isaiah, you broke it down on film room. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.400 At one point throughout the season. When there are other players, 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.000 these these big nose tackles, these big beefy guys on 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.920 the line of scrimmage, they're getting either pushed back or 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.320 they're staying still. Jonathan Hankins wasn't getting pushed back or 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.360 standing still. He was moving forward. In the comparison to 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.680 that was done Terry Pole. Yeah right, that was that 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:56.400 was the That's who was supposed to be Hankins. Hankins, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.760 absolutely right. So if you Cowboys Nation, if you guys 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.000 remember done Terry Pole, right, we appreciate his services, but 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.840 he's own and gone gone now, Okay, he was going 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.440 backwards or lateral, okay. You don't want a large human 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:11.559 being who's meant to his sole role is to clog 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.640 up the holes, okay, and force the offensive players to 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.720 run around him or your defensive guys to be able 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:23.800 to flow through the lanes without being uninhibited. Right, don 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.599 Terry Pole was getting pushed backwards okay, and sometimes sideways okay, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.200 So he was causing greater holes for the offensive player. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.760 Contrary to that. Now, all of a sudden, you have 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.800 a big Jonathan Hankins who comes in and obviously comes forward. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.280 So now he's literally moving the line of scrimmage in 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.160 the direction that is advantageous to your defense. That allows 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.440 not only for two guys and now have to try 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.400 to stick on one guy. So you're taking two of 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.400 the five offensive linement and isolating them to that one 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.280 player on your defense. But what does that do to 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.840 your linebackers? Now your linebackers all of a sudden, now 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:01.600 they can see clear I can see clearly right now, 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.360 the linebackers can see clearly. Okay, it's important and I 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.000 always relate it back to the times when when Ray 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.240 Right you talk about big Ray Lewis, you talk about 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.080 some of the some of the greatest linebackers in history 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.560 had big horses in front of them. They had dudes 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.680 that were able to clog up those Because those those 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.720 holes and allow for these guys to free flow. Not 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.160 only can they run through, but they can see clear 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.200 right and they can make moves, they can make their 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.600 their proper adjustments necessary to go out there and go 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.559 and make a big play for attackle for a loss 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.800 or or no no yardage at all. So would have 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.840 a clear eye view at that point, I wasn't gonna 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:43.280 go there. I made that mistake one time, so I 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.440 mean that's important. So I hope I hope there goes 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.720 a h word again that they could bring Big Jonathan 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.040 Hankins back and then add on to it because what 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.240 we saw last year, as impactful as he was in 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.360 that role, when he was gone due to injury, it 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.080 was a void. Yeah oh yeah, right. The best case 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.160 scenario for Dallas is to obviously retain him because you 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.240 have the sure thing, and then try to redo what 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.560 they what they rolled the dice on last year. Right 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.200 last year, they they brought in uh help me, help 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.160 me with the name who on the defensive line? Yeah? Yeah, 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:19.240 who they who they draft? Who they drafted? Yeah, you 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:25.280 know what I'm talking about. H Yeah, sorry, Big John Ridgeway. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.680 They tried this last year. So let's let's let's not 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.480 say the front office didn't do their job. That might 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.720 have been tried. They might have gotten rid of him 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.920 a little bit too soon, maybe a little bit too what. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:35.920 I don't want to say that, because the roster was 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.040 they were they didn't want to let go a John. Yeah, 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:40.400 and we and we spoke about it at the time. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.719 It was a pure numbers game. Absolutely, they took the 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.319 risk in thinking that Ridgeway clear waivers and they could 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.120 get him back on the practice squad commanders were like, no, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.160 they So the Cowboys were actually upset that they lost Ridgeway. Yeah, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.480 don't played well last year. He did play well for 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.880 Washington last year. He went to a D line university, 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.440 okay out there in Washington and they they're utilizing him. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.079 But to your point, that was a numbers game. So 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.719 the front office tried to address this last year. It's 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.439 just that at that point in time in his development, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.400 they couldn't afford to roll the dice and risk whether 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.559 he was going to develop or not develop for the 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.280 guys that they had on the defensive line that were 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.600 sure things at that point in time. So I think 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.760 that they're going to try to address it again, but 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.920 they need to find out where they're at, numbers wise 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.280 in each position when the votes well for the Cowboys. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.199 That as we have this conversation now where on the 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.960 second day of Week three or free agency and Jonathan 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.439 Hankins it's still a free agent, which tells me that 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.560 there is mutual interests, not obviously not only from the Cowboys, 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.760 but Jonathan Hankins has interests in returning to the Cowboys, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.880 and as these days progress, you know, business wise, the 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.360 price just becomes more and more flexible, I should say. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.280 So that works in the Cowboys favor and that's why 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.760 I think that this deal gets done. Knock on wood. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.199 And you got to think about the timing of how 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.320 those events conspired last year, because you had you had 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.640 the first release rather or whenever the waiver pickup was 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.840 there for John Ridgeway, that's when you lost Ridgeway. Then 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.560 a couple of weeks later is when you traded for Hankins. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.480 So there was a void there for a little bit 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.040 right where there was nothing up front, and you could 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.400 see it on the defensive line that you could see 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.080 how much that was. So you've seen it all three ways. 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.480 You've seen it with a young developmental prospect with John 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.880 Ridgeway throughout the early parts of training camp, preseason, early 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.080 parts of the season. Then you saw him without one 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.440 of those big hog Miley's upfront, and then you turned 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.480 it around you added Jonathan Hankins, and then you saw 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.240 it without Jonathan Hankins whenever he was injured last year 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.920 as well, go get you a big guy in the middle, 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.960 go get you one. Let's do it for the biggest both. Sorry. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.320 Oh I was about to say hold up, Sorry guys, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.920 somebody went full of rows. All right. So to a 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.120 lesser but also intriguing note in news and notes, we 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:58.640 have Jersey assignments. Okay, So Chimney Dolga offensive lineman recently 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.520 signed last week, I should say he has been a 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.960 sign number seventy one. Ronald Jones, two times Super Bowl 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.600 winning running back, has been a signed number thirty two. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.240 And here's where he gets spicy. So Brandon Cooks, first 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.560 of all, has been a signed number three for those 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.800 that know, that number belonged to Anthony Brown. Anthony Brown 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.600 remains a free agent at the moment, still recovering from 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.960 his injury. This doesn't this doesn't necessarily mean that Anthony 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.719 Brown why not be back, But the Cowboys are taking 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.959 a real cautious approach on that because again, he is 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.120 recovering from a recent injury that he suffered. And we'll 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.839 see how it goes. But put an asterisk next to that, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.960 and what I'm about to say next, because I need 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:41.800 to explain the asterisk the footnote. Stefan Gilmore has been 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:46.600 a signed number twenty one ladies and gentle win number twenty. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.959 I'm sign one more time. Stefani Gilmore has been assigned 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.320 number twenty one if any Dallas Cowboy being a signed 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.920 number twenty one. But but okay, that's a cold world. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.520 So yeah, so this is a cold, cold world. There 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.160 are no twofold on this one. On one note, that 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:08.160 stings because the body's not cold yet. On another note, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:13.240 it's kind of exciting from the cornerback position because the 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.640 last most impactful. I mean, you could talk about some 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.760 guys who had some impact like a Mike Jenkins and 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.760 m pac Mann on the field when in his short 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.520 time with the Cowboys. But Dion coach Prime, Yes, that's 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.040 what I was going. You're right, Coach. You gotta Dallas 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.520 cornerback wearing twenty one. And it's not like it's a 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.480 rookie wearing twenty one that needs to prove himself like 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.520 Mike Jenkins came out the league and got the tw No. No, no, 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.839 no no. This is a former NFL Defensive Player of 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.000 the Year. This is a first team All Pro. This 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.679 is a multi time Pro bowler who's coming to Cowboys 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.120 and he's now putting on Dion's former number, that that 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.880 just markets itself. So that's the exciting part of it. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.319 But the bitter sweet part, the bitter part of the 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.680 suite is most certainly that that number belonged to Ezekiel 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.080 Elliott for seven years and now belongs to Stefan Gilmour. 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.520 So of course that leads everyone to question and does 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.400 that absolutely close the duel on Ezekiel Elliott. Well, gosh darnet. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.840 That takes me to the next piece of news. Wow, 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.240 here's the top rope from the news, and I was 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.680 talking about Jerry Jones said the door is not closed 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.600 on possibly reuniting with Ezekiel Elliott for the twenty twenty 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.400 three seasons. A barn door. So for those that are 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.839 keeping for those that are keeping track Ezekiel Elliott's he's 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.720 gone an interest from several teams and I know there 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.000 are reports that you know the teams that he has 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.120 interest and and trust me, there are more teams since 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.599 being reported, but I'll keep that off the air. And 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:34.880 the teams that were I will say the teams that 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.959 were reported as having interest, those that was an accurate report. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.160 So those teams that are now circling back, saying, oh no, 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.320 we don't that they're playing the game. They don't want 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.640 other teams to know they're in on a particular player. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.880 That's how you get the price down as opposed to 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:48.640 driving the price up. So that game is going to 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.520 play out how it plays out. But as long as 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.959 Ezekiel Elliott remains a free agent, there remains a growing chance, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:59.040 even if it's from small to less than small, to 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.840 list and lest us well. Jerry Jones said the door 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.280 is not closed until he signs with another team. M 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.000 So I know what you're thinking, because I was thinking 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.319 it too. Yeah, if the Cowboys were to reunite with 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.679 Ezekiel Elliott, his number is going well. Ezekiel Elliott took 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.319 the Twitter last week and said that he wants his 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:24.840 Ohio state number fifteen back, So it has if it happens, 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.960 if if the planet's aligned and Ezekiel Elliott is back, 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.720 And of course that kind of goes in the face 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.720 of logic with you haven't signed Ronald Jones and brought 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.760 Rico Dowdo back, and you'll probably draft a guy if 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:41.240 all logic is defied post release and the Cowboys bring 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:42.880 him back and say, you know what, we actually don't 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.520 need to salary cap money anymore savings anymore. We'll just 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.760 eat that, okay, Oh no, the smaller deal. Maybe he 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.320 pays Will Greer to come up off that one five. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.680 Yeah he might, and then there you go. But this 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.200 is a very intriguing situation going on here. I mean, 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.400 this is this is fun. This is fun. I kind 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.440 of not the released part. I said this initially. I 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.240 said there's a there's always a possibility, and even Mike 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.160 McCarthy kind of alluded to it in his interview yesterday. 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.320 He said, you never want to shut the door. You 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.040 never want to burn bridges on things like this. Even 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.360 if Ezekiel Elliott doesn't return for the twenty twenty three season, 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:19.840 I don't think it's out of the question that he 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.120 is done as a Dallas count because he's got some 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.000 years left, he's got he's got an opportunity to come 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.240 back at some point. I just think the money has 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.240 to be right in order for that to happen. We'll 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.160 see what what his money would look like if they 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.440 were to get to that point. Here's Jerry's exact quote 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.120 on the matter. A reworked deal was on the table, 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.840 and you might say that to some degree that hasn't changed, 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.360 and it won't until he signed some place else. End quote. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.000 So basically saying we're here if you want to come back. Basically, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:53.520 we're here if yeah, everything, if nothing goes the way 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.240 you would like, or if you don't like the way 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.160 the market is shaping up, Hey we come home. They'll 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.760 have a seat for you. We'll work out that one 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.600 five and there you go. Now, obviously, if you're Ezekiel Elliott, 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.640 that you have you know, you really have some decisions 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.200 to make as far as what's best for the next 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:11.400 stage of your career, because logistically, speaking from a player standpoint, 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.360 what are you walking back into as Ezekiel Elliot. You're 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:18.240 walking back into a situation where now it's clearly Pollarts throne. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.120 It's no longer you're throne. Even if you are to return, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.240 it's no longer you're throwne. It's Polart's throne at least 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.240 from now. And now you have to figure out, well, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.080 where do you fall in the hierarchy with the cowboys 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.200 adding Ronald Jones, and is your deal going to be 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.240 equal to Ronald Jones a little bit lesser, etc. So financially, 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.200 you might not have the leverage to kind of get 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.400 pushed for those snaps on the field. I don't know. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.320 It's a murky situation from the Ezekiel Elliot standpoint, but 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.480 it's not less murky from a Cowboys standpoint because again, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.520 as the team, if you're looking at it from a 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.560 GM standpoint, you just brought in a guy like you 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.920 release this guy. Brought in a guy because you released 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.560 this guy and this guy that you brought in is 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.720 less expensive, and now you're going to circle back to 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:59.840 that guy. But is that going to cause you to 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.640 at least this guy? So competition is wonderful. We wanted 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.879 at all positions, um except quarterback, you know when, because 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.920 Dak is dead right and there is competition there. But 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.080 for the most part, if Zeke were to come back, 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.920 he would still be the number two guy. Would he 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:15.680 would He would definitely be the number two guy. But 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.159 I don't see Zie coming back. I don't either. I 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.240 see him, I see him leaving. I think he for 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:25.920 Super for a quote unquote Super Bowl and legitimate proven 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:30.080 Super Bowl. And if if I'm putting myself in Ezekiel 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:34.159 Elliott's shoes, I want to prove something. I want to 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.400 show everybody, including the Cowboys, the oranization that you might 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.000 have given up on me a little bit too soon. Yeah, right, 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.880 So I really want to go to that situation where 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:48.160 I'm guaranteed one A or one B have a shot, 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.440 a real shot of the ring. That's the only move. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.960 There's a There's not a long list of teams exactly 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.320 that outside of the team that he was already on, 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.960 there's have a better roster. I can tell you what's 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.119 about that. It's not just about the roster. It's not 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.639 just about the Rocks, right, It's about It's about the quarterback, 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:06.560 no doubt. It's about the quarterback, and it's about the 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.359 organization and what they've done over the last hand a 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.440 couple of years. If you have had to put money 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.359 on it, what do you think he lands Casey? Okay, 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:21.680 I was thinking since that money, but there no, no, no, 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:26.080 I'm saying reports notwithstanding yeah, the Jersey. You think about 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.239 it from an analyst and a former player standpoint. As 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.959 the landscape is right now, you got teams like Casey, 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.639 the Jets. I'm not going to entertain that Eagle's nonsense. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.359 They got shot opinion, it's Casey or Cincinnati. I think 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.720 he fits better in Cincinnati's think New York's in that conversation, 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.280 the Jets are in the conversation. For me, I'm I 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.440 think it's Sinsey. It just makes too much sense, not 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.840 only logistically, but it's poetic. Right. This is an Ohio 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.240 state kid, right who wants to go back to his 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:59.040 Ohio state number. And if he gets that in Ohio 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.560 with Joe, with Joe Burrow, I agree, yeah, and Joe 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.960 Mixon and you got Jamar Chay stretching the field, you 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:10.000 got tight end weapons. It's rebuilding. I totally agree. I 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:16.440 believe that Cincinnati is the best situation. But I do 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.560 think that the dark horse is Casey. It's okay because 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:22.480 okay with that because they've done that too. They have 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:24.920 a track record of doing that. Yes they do. And 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.160 I don't think he's gonna get the money he wants anywhere. Yeah, 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:29.920 let's let's lay that on the tape, no doubt. So 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:31.919 if he's not gonna get the money he wants anywhere, 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:33.960 most people are like, what, you just come back home. 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.480 It's like, well, that's coming home. That's a slap in 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.200 the face almost you know, it's to him. So it's 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.000 like if he's gonna do it. It's gonna be with 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.240 a team that has literally over the last few years, 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.119 Casey Cincinnati had a shot at winning a dog on 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:46.920 ring and that's the only way I see it. I 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:48.680 don't see him going to the Jets. It's too much, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.000 too much in air, there's too much flex, it's too 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:52.880 much dramas, there's a lot going on. He don't even 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.320 have the quarterback on the contract yet. So I see 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.240 it being one of those two teams, Casey or Cincinnati, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.960 with Cincinnati being the best situation. I do think either 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:02.919 one it's a win win. Yeah, you go with since here, 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.040 you go with Casey. If those are two of your options. Yeah, 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:08.760 but it's as simple as you go. You sign that 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.199 one year deal with one of those proven potentially get 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.080 a ring. True, you still got a ton of trail 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:14.760 left on the tires, your back of free agency a 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:16.760 year from now, and now you get to demand a 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.320 little bit higher salary. We didn't really get to hit 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.760 on Zeke a whole lot last week because there were 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:25.000 so many different things that happened along the way. When 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.680 we come back, I want to quickly give our favorite 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.600 Zeke memory or we had I like it throughout his 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:32.879 time as a cowboy. But we're also going to take 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.400