WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Is This Team Handling Free Agency Correctly? 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:04.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:11.960 a Break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.760 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:21.720 time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:28.040 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and Bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hi, guys, 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.400 welcome to another episode of the Break in studio. Joining 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.120 us today is Brian Brodess, replacing Derek Eagleton, He who 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:41.120 is somewhere at the beach in Mexico and joining the Sun. Meanwhile, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.320 everyone else around the league is worrying of a free 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:48.000 agency and what to do to improve their team. So 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.680 there's a lot of things happening around the league in 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.880 that regard. But first let's start off with the Cowboys 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.560 and what's going on with them and what they have 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.600 done and haven't done so far. One of the free 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.920 agents that was much talked about since the beginning of 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.360 this year was Cole Beasley. What was going to happen 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.480 with him and his contract, wanting some money, It came 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.440 out that he's moving on and going to the Buffalo 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.680 Bills twenty nine million dollars four years and just wanted 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:25.000 to get your impression on this whole contract. Is it 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.720 telling that Derek went to cabone during the week that 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.240 free agency opened, Like, did he know he know part 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.360 of the team. He knew something. It's part of the team. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.960 I mean, if you've been following the Cowboys, I don't 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.919 think you should be surprised that Cole Beasley is gone. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.959 You know, you kind of you can kind of set 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.160 the stage, you can. I mean, you know your surprise 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:47.960 has always happened. I'd bring it up all the time. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.720 I was shocked that Terrence Williams came back two years ago, 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.960 but Cole was pretty confident that somebody was going to 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.160 offer him a bunch of money. He's been saying it 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:00.560 since October. The Bills did fourteen million guaranteed. He turns 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.440 thirty next month. I think, I don't you know, you 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:04.880 can make fun of them all you want. Maybe you 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.520 don't want to live in Buffalo, or maybe you think 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.080 their offense is gonna be bad. But I'll take that 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.160 financial stability every day of the week. Good for him, 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.680 So not surprised at all. That's pretty much my reaction 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.880 to it. It's about par for the course, now, when 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.560 you talk about the slot receiver position and what the 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.600 Cowboys are planning on doing here, maybe utilizing some of 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.720 their own guys or maybe addressing this through the draft, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.440 what could the Cowboys fans expect to be done at 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:36.240 this pacific position? I'm actually sorry, I mean, if one, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.720 I'm actually writing about that as we speak, shameless plug age. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:43.960 I think it remains to be seen. I think. Okay, 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.800 So you know the guys that are on this team. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.679 Alan Hearns is a guy that they've pegged as a 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.079 possibility in the slot. He had a thousand yard season 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.680 playing mainly in the slot for Jacksonville. He's recovering from 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.440 a terrible ankle injury, so that's TBD. Cedric Wilson is 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.880 a guy that people like to throw around. Lance Lenore's 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:03.200 a guy that's done it in the preseason. Haven't seen 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.520 him do it in a real football game yet. Um, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.960 and then there's the draft. I mean, so you're probably 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.079 talking about young production one way or the other. If 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:13.880 I had to guess, But you know, we're three days 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.240 into free agency. Things can change. Go make a run 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.880 at Golden Tate. I know, yeah, that's I knew. Brian 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.320 was going to say that, Yeah, if we're if we're 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.520 getting into a situation right now where we're gonna we're 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.880 gonna start seeing some bargains here and you get some 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.400 guys that are probably looking at some one year deals 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.880 maybe to try and you know, get with a team 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.200 and then maximize, much like we saw with with the 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.920 Honey Badger, you know with Tyren Matthew last year, last year, Yeah, 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.680 last year. But no, you get with a team and 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.560 then you kind of have some production and all of 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.720 a sudden that it can parlay that into a bigger contract. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.920 I don't know what Golden Tate's demands are, but to 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:53.280 your point, you could look at his situation on one 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.240 year deal. You can look at some of the other 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.560 It looks like some of the other slot players that 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.480 you wanted to the crowders of the world. Uh, the 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.800 kid at Tampa, you know, Humphries, Humphries, Uh, you know, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.800 are going to sign back. Keep an eye on that one. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.080 By the way, with Humphries, he might be going back 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.520 to Tampa. Oh you don't think the deal's gonna go. Well, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.360 there's some hearing some whispers this morning that maybe that 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.440 that he might have like the change of heart like 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.240 we saw with Anthony Barr Anthony Barr, So keep an 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.440 eye on that. That's the funny thing, you know. And 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.200 and for the most part, these things are going to 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.560 go through. But like these deals have been happening since 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.960 noon on Monday, and none of them can be signed 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.080 until three o'clock today. Yeah, Cole Beasley could change his 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.120 mind for all we know. So that's definitely something to 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.280 keep an eye on. Is that we're still technically in 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.839 the legal tampering window. But sure, yeah, you're right though 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.480 about there's plenty of options there. And what you can 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.159 also think about, too is how do you how do 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.080 you you know? You you have now Jason Witton on 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.240 your team and he could make up for some of 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.440 the things that you don't the limitations that you might 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.680 have with Cole bees with not having replacing numbers underneath numbers. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.520 That is so I mean, I I don't I don't 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.800 have a problem with Cole Beasley moving on because I 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.200 think there's I think there's other options out there, the draft, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.760 free agency, whatever you need to do, you can fill 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.520 this role. Let's let's pull it back because the Cole 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:16.040 Beasley thing kind of falls right into Cowboys free agency 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.599 conundrum every single year, which is, we're three days into 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.400 this thing, the Cowboys have done nothing. It's a yearly 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:29.160 source of consternation among the fan base. Um, but are 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.480 we not par for the course? And is free agency 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.640 not far from being over? I mean, this is what 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.800 they do every year, and at some point, you know, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.120 at some point the fans are I don't know, I mean, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.359 they're not going to be done with it, because you know, 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.240 they say that all the time, like, well, I know 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.720 I'm not dealing with this anymore, but you still come back. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.560 But I can understand their frustration because you know, they 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.120 keep doing the same thing and it's not good enough. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.320 I meant, what at some point you're gonna have to say, well, 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.720 we're gonna have to go and get some free agents 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.880 to help because just drafting and just doing this and 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.080 we'll get them so far. So I think I think 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.839 this is part for the course, and I think they're 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.560 gonna they're gonna shoot at ninety. I guess if you 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.919 keep doing this. I'm not I'm not ready to be 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.480 frustrated yet, because I mean I'm not frustrated. I just 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.240 know the fans are, and I think they have a 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.760 right to be because you see other teams getting better 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.120 and the Cowboys haven't done anything to get better. The 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.800 problem I have and Nick and you live this with 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.560 us in the early two thousands, as we were god 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.280 awful as a team, and we were got awful at 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.400 evaluating players, and we were got awful at signing free agents, 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.520 and we spent way too much money and didn't get 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.599 anything from it. Give me the team that can draft 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.120 and sign its own. Mean you know my roster, and 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.479 again we need We'll get into this one day, and 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.039 I've tried to get into it before. This roster, to 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.359 me is a top ten roster. You've been saying that 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.760 a lot. But we talk about the coaching. We talk 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.000 about the head coach, and that is another story for 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.440 another day. But this roster, I think if it had 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:04.719 a different head coach would probably be we wouldn't Drafting 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.200 and signing your own would be acceptable. That's that would 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.480 be acceptable to the fans. But to your point, though, yeah, 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.160 I think you have to supplement things. But I also 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.320 harken back to the days when you first started with 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.880 his team and you used to write nice things about 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.240 us when you really didn't mean nice things about us 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.760 when you're trying to all the craft that we signed, 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.800 and you know there's there's there's levels to this. Now 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.480 just let me finish saying yeah, yeah, there's levels to this. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.080 You know, I trust what these pro guys are going 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.360 to do here. I trusted they'll go out if they 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.480 can go out and get a golden tap or get 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.480 somebody on a one year deal. You know, this thing 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.880 doesn't have to be Okay, let's dive into the pool 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.200 head first. Oh we just hit her head on a rock. 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.760 You know that. That's where I think that a lot 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.520 of teams. You look at some of the teams that 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.360 are making early moves, it's teams that traditionally don't draft. Well, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.520 look at all the craft that John Dorsey had to 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.600 deal with with roster at Cleveland. Now he's having to 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.400 turn the whole team over, you know, and that a 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:02.840 lot of it is. And that's a team that had 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.080 a lot of draft picks and had ability to go 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.000 sign guys, which no you you playing at my point act, 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.560 I agree with both of you, and people have been 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.040 saying this for the last few days. There has to 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.239 be a happy medium somewhere, right, because have you seen 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.440 a deal gets signed or agreed to in the last 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.200 three days that you're like, yeah, I wish I wish 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.760 the Cowboys had done that because honestly, like honestly, I 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.880 haven't three and a fifth for Antonio Brown and you 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:33.760 got to take that contract. See no avendolas on the 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.720 wrong side of thirty Uh what I mean? I'm not 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.200 trying to give Tyron Matthew fifty million dollars to be paid. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.560 And you know I went to LSU. I'm that amount 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.440 of money scares the crap out of me. One that 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.000 really stands out. Um, Philly got Malik Jackson for thirty million, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.600 and I don't know, I don't know the guarantees off 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.320 the top of my head, but that one intrigued me, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:55.160 especially with the needs that this team has a defensive tackle. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.320 But the main point being the huge gobs of money 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.600 that are getting lash around. I'm not interested in that. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.920 But it's Wednesday. Now we're heading into the second phase. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.680 This is where I would like to see something get done. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.920 And this is what you know. Let me let's I 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.760 can't believe I can get off you get off their back. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.160 If they signed Earl Thomas. Yes, you guys, yes, are 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.120 you kidding, especially for safety the whole year. So I 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.080 know which, I know where you're going. Well, Nick, Nick, 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.000 you don't come on the break. But Nick is that 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.680 Nick has been the cheerleader for Earl since January of 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.120 twenty Okay, and today it's done. Okay, it's a done deal. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:30.760 It's not going to happen. It's a dead deal, is 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.679 what I meant to say. Which that's frustrating to hear 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.480 because at this point, now you see the cowboys are 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.800 dead here. That's what I've been told. But I mean, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.600 who knows. I'll believe it when I see, believe all 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.080 of it. But but dead from the count. Let me 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.000 finish here. I mean, he's you know, he's this is 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.800 the story here, he's got stuff to say today. No, no, no, 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.480 this is a story. This is what he's heard, something 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.160 that we need to know that. They're not interested right now. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.439 They're just not interested. Right They're not interested because of 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.040 the money, because the money, because of it sounds like 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.120 he's doing something now it's going to go somewhere else. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.000 But my issue there and I know you had a point, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.520 you were still finishing, but my issue goes back to 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.800 DeMarcus Lawrence way back in January. Why are we sending 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.160 offers in late February early March to them when they 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:14.960 know what they need to do. If they could have 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.480 got a deal done here, you could free up maybe 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.200 eight to nine ten million dollars this year to go 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.160 get a guy like an Earl Thomas or somebody when 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.160 when they can make they can structure this thing. Right now, 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.520 he's sitting at twenty million, and I know that they 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.600 might get him off the books at some point, but 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.320 they're not looking to go make a deal right now. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.160 And some of these deals could go by when I 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.200 feel like they haven't done everything they need to do 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.280 and get DeMarcus into the contract he needs to get into. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.200 So no intention to ever signed Earl Thomas here then, right, No, 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.040 I'm not saying that's no intention. I just was told 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.160 today that it's I don't like, it's I don't not 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.000 happening right now. I don't think you can say that, 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.480 but yeah, and that's it's not surprising to hear because 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.360 they're always going to want to do it at their price, 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.240 which the fact that Earl Thomas doesn't have a deal 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.720 on Wednesday morning tells me that his price is already 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.319 lower than it was expected to be, which that's where 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.440 it starts to get frustrating. I don't mind the cowboy 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.480 same age and as Collins, by the way, whose deal 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.240 do they get done first? Same agent? Is that dude's 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.839 got like every safety? Yeah? Um funny last name by 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.880 the way, mug mugg Alatta Yeah, yeah, it's like a muffalatta. Yeah, 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:25.040 great sandwich with I don't begrudge. I don't begrudge the 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.840 Cowboys for not wanting to splash fifty million guaranteed on players. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.880 But when you're talking about being able to sign an 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.560 all pro safety at a discount or some of these 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.120 others killed by fans killed your boy Car? Didn't they 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.319 kill him? Be Car? Yeah? Yeah, they killed him well, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.880 and they killed Crawford. Right, that's the type of contract 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.800 that they should be avoiding deals out there that they 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.920 that they could get done. We're the fan base. If 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.400 we know how much money you're making, we'll remind you 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.959 that that's fans in general. That's not a Cowboy specific thing. Well, 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.520 what's up with Levan Bill? What am I hearing there? 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.480 And unless yet or it's Jets, it's Jets, it's Jets. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.200 Why I was just showed something very at the last minute, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.080 right before we did this, that he he put something 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.800 on Instagram like to Adam Schefter like I need a 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.680 lot more money than that to go to the Jets. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.400 Is that a joke? I don't know. I didn't see that. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.400 But again, I don't know what's going on. I don't 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.360 know nothing. I don't know. There's a lot of stations 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.760 devoting time right now to talking about Leveyon Bell. I 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.199 guess they're all wrong. Then. If that's the case, well, yeah, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.120 that's what That's why I thought it. Just I saw 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.719 something that he had tweeted to Adam Schefter or sent 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.320 something to him that said he's with the Jets. So 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.120 that's interesting though with the Jets, I don't know if 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:37.960 that's where you were headed. But I mean some of 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.120 these deals do affect the Cowboys. I mean, when you're 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.439 looking at Zeke needing a new contract and here comes 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:47.040 Leveon Bell with four for fifty two, Yeah, well seems 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.319 lower than I than I thought you would sit out 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.839 a whole year for to get that. I talked big 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.160 about the D four trade last night, you know, and 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:00.000 the and that ended up being like seventeen five seventeen 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.960 five a year. I think the Cowboys would love to 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.680 do a deal like D four just did with San Francisco. Yeah, 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.240 I mean I don't. It's a big problem there. DeMarcus 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.400 Lawrence is a way better player than D four. I'm 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.920 just telling you though that. You know, people like to say, well, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.720 does that make the deal better or worse for the Cowboys? 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.400 Which that's one of those better deals for the Cowboys. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.760 If you look at that, how do you figure seventeen 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.599 and a half a year, seventeen and a half for 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.720 a year for a guy that's not doesn't have half 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.680 the resume? Is tank this this for the Cowboys? Okay, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.920 he couldn't have signed for twenty two or twenty three 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.840 if I would have been far. But who's the other end? 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.520 Who's the other end? That's oh, Trey Flowers, Trey Flowers. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.040 If I'm DeMarcus Lawrence and I see what Trey Flowers 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.240 and D four just got, I'm saying, are ain't away 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.560 in hell? I'm signing for less than twenty something. If 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:51.319 these guys are getting eighteen eighteen, he got five ninety 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.720 over five, So yeah, yeah, like eighteen, what's the guarantee 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.400 of it. I'm sorry, I asked a question that no 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.480 forty off the top of my head. I like your 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.920 cap all just for the looting. I try. But some 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.439 of these moves, you know, they are affecting the Cowboys. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.160 They were there. I mean, the wide receiver move is 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.880 the one that's going to affect them the most. I 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:15.959 think the Brown contract because of Amar Yeah, yeah, I 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.760 mean maybe. But see that's a tricky one because you're 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.200 talking about what a guy's going to do versus what 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.200 a guy has done. But Antonio Brown, I don't I mean, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.440 I don't know. That's a lot of money for an 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.240 old man. I can't bring myself to worry about. You know, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.320 you brought up Belle and Zeke, and that's an interesting conversation. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:34.840 I can't bring myself to worry about any of it 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.520 until they figure out what they're doing with the Marcus, honestly, 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.520 and that and that's a good point. Is like you 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.160 get lost in the stories of free agency. But that's 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.760 the big one for me, and it everything kind of 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.360 dominoes off of that. Is like I don't understand why 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.120 they're playing hardball with this guy, and that's gonna color 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.280 every other thing they do because it's eaten up twenty 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.720 million of their cap, so it makes him even less 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.080 likely to spend money. He's not going to be part 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.560 of the office season program until he gets a deal. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.880 And I just don't really get it. I don't understand, 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.360 really really upsetting to me. It's like, you know this 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.200 is what you've got, you know, this is what it's 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.760 going to happen. You know this is a timeline. You 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.920 should be prepared, you should have done this way in advance. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.880 And like you were saying, Nick, this is going to 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.880 factor in on what you do here in free agency 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.320 because now you're trying to figure out how the whole 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.000 money situation plays in to everything. How you had that 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.520 done already. Now you're looking at what free agent can 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.480 you bring in here and better this thing and what 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.160 else is happening if you would have done that way before. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.720 You're also got a surgery already in place for d 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.200 law True and you tell him, hey, we have a 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.440 chance to get you some players, especially on defense that 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.240 maybe in the back end that can help you. He 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.160 would sign. What's up? Let me break some news for 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.280 you guys here on the break Earl Thomas back in 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.720 the mid earl Thomas intends to sign a four year, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.440 fifty five million dollar deal with thirty two and guarantees 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:07.800 Baltimore Ravens. So, yeah, that dream is dead. And is 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.640 this a blue check mark? Guy? This is Adam Schefter. Okay, 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:14.360 that's a blue check Marks Adam Schefter, which that is 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:20.120 more than everybody but Landon Collins got. Yeah, that's a 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.560 that's a wow. I almost curse. That's a boatload of money. 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.520 How much did you say? Again? Fifty five with thirty 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.480 two and guarantees they lost Weddle right, yeah, which if 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.040 we're being real that, I mean, you know, we're sitting 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.040 here saying, oh, maybe you could get him two for 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.480 two for twenty or two for thirty. Yeah. Not so 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.440 we're kind of thinking that the longer this went that 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.920 he didn't have a market there, and maybe we were wrong. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.120 Maybe he's just being very selective with a bunch of 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.680 nice deals. Because what's so fifty five over four? I 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.880 can't do math, guys, that's thirteen points sets so four. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.000 I mean, he's not set in the market, but he's 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.040 right up there with it. Do we think the Cowboys 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.840 we're gonna go anywhere north of eleven. No, I don't think. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.360 I don't think he's surprised the number of years there 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:05.960 a little bit. Yeah, I thought, well, I'd like to 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.040 see the contract now that I can just sit there 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.480 and look at it dissect. You don't know how easy 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.880 it is to get out of And it's twenty two 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.919 million guaranteed in the first nine months, so it sounds 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.000 like it's front loaded to help out with his age. 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.760 All right, next year we'll be talking about Earle again. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.480 I thought, if anything, No, there's no question. I thought, 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:27.240 if any two million and nine months day. I thought, 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.160 if anything, he might want to sign a short deal 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.960 because he's older. Yeah, he's of that caliber of player 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.480 that he can kind of name his terms and you know, 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.440 maybe he would rather try to sign multiple contracts, but 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.800 doesn't sound like it. Yeah, and so a good deal 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.560 for him though, No, great for him. Yeah. And honestly, 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.920 you know, it sucks to say, but like, if that's 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.880 what it was going to cost, I don't I don't 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.200 really blame the Cowboys. I was not doing it. Yeah, 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.280 fourteen fifteen million dollars was not my cup of tea. Yeah, 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.560 I was trying to and I thought, if you could 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.639 do it for two years, twenty two million, gar and 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.280 gart Tee It. Yeah, maybe that's what you do. I 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.240 just it's it's strange that that that the Ravens, well 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.680 they you know, they waited and they got the guy. 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.840 Maybe that's exactly what they want. I'm interested what they 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.040 would have paid Wettele because in wet right, I mean, 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.480 Wettle is similar similar. Yeah, what's the difference there for 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.840 for Wettele and for Earl Thomas. It just seems like 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.680 maybe it's you know, just somebody look at differently here. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.400 But I don't know, I don't know how many safeties 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.119 are left. I mean, I think there's wine that we 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.720 have a drop of. Maybe Clinton Dix's still out there, 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.960 has out There's still out there. Yeah, Jalieladai is out there, 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.280 Trey Boston is out there. There's several those safeties though 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.159 that the Cowboys didn't want anything to do. That's and 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.399 that's where I think that people need to kind of, 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.719 you know, catch an idea about you know, Earl Thomas 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:52.440 about to sign Darien Stewart. Lebroncos is out there still. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.480 Grober Quinn, I find I find myself having deja vu, 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.000 just because if I had to guess, for one reason 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.239 or another, they won't be interested in any of these guys. Yea. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.639 And about our star valuation on the website of Jeff 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:11.040 Heath today, good time, really good timing, really good timing. Um, 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.160 not really because I have to go and update it now. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.840 It's it's it's I mean, like I said, I don't 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:21.159 expect the Cowboys to drop fat stacks, but this is 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.480 it's it's interesting because you know, at the combine last month, 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.600 Stephen Jones said the phrase next step roughly eighteen times, 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.199 and it's hard to buy that right now when you 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.720 when you basically know that, you know, the star defensive 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.560 end doesn't look like he's going to be in the 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:43.920