WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Free Agent Primer 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:13.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is nick 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.520 shot screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:22.759 official Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:30.480 and Nicky Spagnola. Well, it is not high noon on 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.599 a Thursday here at the Star in Frisco. It is 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.320 in Rocky Mountain time, but not in Central Time zone. 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.960 We're inside the SWBC podcast studio and we miss on 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:48.800 President's Day on Monday. And Mickey's excited about his Missouri Tigers, 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:53.720 Everson's black and gold banks about his Grambling Tigers. I'm 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.760 not excited about my Oklahoma Sooners, but we are excited 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:02.080 about the NFL off season which continues now. I thought 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.800 maybe you were gonna talk about Missouri women's gymnastics. Oh 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.720 did they do something? I happened to run across the 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:14.320 mead on TV? These girls are they were playing Auburn 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.240 or how whatever the match was against Auburn. Do you 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:24.320 play them in gymnastic competed? Yeah, I mean I'm trying 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:28.120 to move along. What these what these young ladies were 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.800 doing from both teams? Yeah, it's unbelievable. It's crazy, man, 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.920 I can't believe in human bodies can can do the 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.560 things they were they were they were like doing during 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:42.039 their floor exercises and they're running full speed, jumping up 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:46.160 in the air and doing double forward roles and landing 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.320 on their feet. How do you get up that high? 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.080 It's like watching it's like going to Beal Street on steroids. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.240 It's unreal. And I and I must admit, you know, 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.360 I watched the Olympics, but I hadn't watched the College. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:04.640 I mean you to cover that. That's where unbelievable. They 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.800 come from the college and they beat Auburn too, by 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.840 the bag. All right, So there it is your gymnastics reports, 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.280 just the lead off the show. Yeah. Well, it's been 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:20.640 a while since president each other in the week man, right, 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.799 I mean the last time we saw each other. And 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:24.840 I don't remember if even if Everson was here, I 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.400 was not Monday after the super Bowl was not here 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.799 until they at this pace. This off season is going 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.320 so fast it'll be training camp before you got too 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.480 much shows and there would be well, I mean, you 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:45.880 know the the you know, the franchise tag open this 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.359 week on Tuesday, and for two weeks, so that's already 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.360 taken place. Yeah, and no franchise tag has been administered now, 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.840 not in how many days to three days later? I 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.880 told someone this morning, it'll go right down to the wire. Well, obviously, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.760 negotiate until they need to make that decision until they 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.760 have to, because they would like to whoever they think 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:12.119 that they would tag, will try to negotiate a long 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.840 term deal. You don't want to tag anybody. It costs 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.880 too much from a cap standpoint. And then you've got, 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.920 you know, for the Cowboys, several candidates that you know, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.680 you would say, Okay, I could tag him, I can't 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.440 number one spas. Who would that be? Well to me? Um? 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:39.360 I mean everybody's talking about here? So whatever from the 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:45.920 oh no, my decision, okay, right, I would rather not 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.400 tag Tony Pollard if I don't have to, to reserve 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.400 my right of first refusal. Uh. And if not, even 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.960 if I do, I still want to use that time 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:04.680 period to sign him to a multiple year deal. Um My, 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.360 my reservations on him, and I don't know if anybody 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.680 else has reservations is if I'm paying him ten million 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:16.000 dollars on a guaranteed franchise tag. He's got to be 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.119 my number one back. He's got to carry the ball 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.240 twenty twenty five times a game. He hadn't done that 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.279 yet in his career. And I have to carry the 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:31.800 ball twenty to twenty five touches right with him, but 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.599 he hadn't done that. Um. And then the other part 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.800 of this is who's going to sign him to something 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:45.840 when he's limping the wrong trying to recover from surgery. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.560 That was always concerning, right, but if he's not the 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.640 same guy, and that puts us in the quandary. So 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.960 it's hard to do a long term deal on that. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.960 So I guess the safer thing is the franchise tag. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.240 But it's still ten million dollars. And if I give 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.360 him ten million dollars, then what am I doing with Zeke? 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.839 That's my point. And there's this assumption all around that 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:15.120 he's gonna get cut. Okay, fine, who's replacing his twelve touchdowns? 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.400 Who's replacing the short yardage things and all the dirty 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:24.000 stuff that he does? Mcgovernor, he's a free agent. We 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.680 just lost out full back all right before we moved 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:34.720 to Zeke? Yes, okay on the Pollard one okay, Um, Yeah, 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.360 it takes two to tangle, even on a franchise tag too, 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.200 because there's no guarantee he's going to sign it, you know, 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.800 and he would wait. So if you if you were 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.640 to use it as a placeholder, well you figured out 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.920 where he is health wise, where he figures out too. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.720 I mean, I don't know what their strategy will be 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.320 on their end, depending on where he is health wise. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.520 If Cowboy put the tag on him, and will he 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.640 sign it immediately or will he let it play out 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.839 on his end? Well, I'll tell you if I was 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.760 his agent, I'd sign it to media. I think I 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.080 would too, well, simply because he's a little bit compromised, yes, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.720 with himself. They don't know that, and he he's not 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.880 coming from a position of strength right now, and the 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.520 agent has to know what the rest of the lead thinks, 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.719 right like as anybody else interested. Even to the point 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.159 if he doesn't get the tag and he goes into 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.440 free agency, what is somebody going to give a guy 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:35.760 that had a fancy repair on his um on the 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.880 two bones he broke h and then did a surgery 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:44.000 to repair the ligaments in that ankle. So what because 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.960 if you played it out through the offseason and you know, 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.600 the free agency starts whatever, and he has it signed 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.400 that franchise tag and of course this is all just 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.760 speculation here. And then you even get to the draft, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.640 and okay, then what if the Cowboys drafted a running back? 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.680 So um it would I think behoove the player to 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:10.960 go ahead and sign the right tender and and and 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.239 even if he signs it, you can still negotiate because 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.840 they can because the point is they can pull that. Yes, 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.320 if if he doesn't sign it, well, no doctors in 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.600 this room, but we we've heard of a lot of speculation. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.240 How tough is it to come back from the injuries 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.400 that he has? I mean, what's the history on that? 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.160 You know? Is it something that's uh like a tip 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.600 fib We're just talking, you know, something that can be 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.880 fixed without such rods being put in your you know, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.880 like like the iron rods being played. Yeah, because they did. 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.160 They did a fancy repair on the two bones that 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.760 it was called a spiral doesn't have My thing is 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.480 what doesn't have what's the precedence on it? I mean 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.880 the surgery on his ankle was was significant because it 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.960 was a ligament. The bones will heal right? Six weeks 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.160 or so. But again, is he the same guy? Right? 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:07.400 And speed was his deal? Does he still have it? 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.920 And there's no way to test it? Um? It was 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.760 just not the semantics, but it's more the quickness. Yeah, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.600 and the burst that he had when he called upon it, right. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.000 You know, speed is of course one thing, but that 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.400 quickness and that burst through there, it's got to be 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.679 You don't want it to be affected, but you wonder 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.320 how much it's going to be affected by the surgery. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.240 And you've got other guys that if you didn't get 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.559 a deal done, do you use the tag on them instead? 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:41.120 Like if you use the tag on Schultz a second time? 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:47.680 The next guy? That's fourteen million guaranteed um, And what's 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.640 what's the market value for him out there? You know? 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.040 Is it? Is he going to sign a multiple year 0:08:54.160 --> 0:09:00.960 deal that equals fourteen million a year? That's forty two 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.480 forty five million over three years. I don't know. I 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.240 don't know if he's the tight end that Kelsey is 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.000 or Kittle or the guys that are making based on 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.640 the based on the new offensive coordinator. Does he? Yeah? 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.280 I like to look at all of these things. Yeah, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.719 is he tight end friendly? In his offense. Well, you 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.920 got to ask. You're talking about McCarthy. Yeah, he's basically 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.600 the offensive coordinator. No, no, they got there. Yeah, I 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.719 know they got a name, Brian Shot. Now see that. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.839 I knew he was a good company man. See McCarthy 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.679 told you that, didn't he. I hadn't talked to McCarthy 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:41.240 in four weeks. He started, I'm assuming if he's calling plays, 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.320 but is he not going to be Oh no, he's 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.920 calling plays. Bill, Do you agree with this though? That's 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:54.560 my understanding. He's calling plays? Why bringing? Why bringing the NEWFC? 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.560 We saw those unnecessarily coaches we saw on the picture 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.840 out there? Can we just like not having no se 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.920 Then if he's calling plays, it's a title? Why why 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.880 you need a title? If I'm calling plays? Well, Bill 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.960 Parcels had an offensive coordinator. He was calling plays, and 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.240 if you remember what his deal was if if if 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.199 am I'm using the players, I'm shopping for the goods, right, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.880 if I'm cooking the meal. I would imagine if I'm 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.920 calling plays, I'm kind of designing the offense. I'm not 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:28.240 letting you this conversation as the season goes. Alright, we'll 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.040 see you like that. Well, I mean, why did you 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.800 think Bill Parcels had a heads I mean Mike McCarthy 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.280 had a headset on and the playsheet in his hand 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.040 on game day. It looks good, yeah, right, like he's 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.599 in charge, you know. So I mean what if he 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.360 had a clipboard? Didn't make him look more major? Even better? 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:53.480 Plus who knows, maybe Kellen Moore wanted out. I mean 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.040 he got hired the next day, didn't he. Oh he 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.760 knew something right, There's no doubt he knew something right. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:03.480 And it was called quote unquote mutual. Uh. And now 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:08.480 he's someplace where he is the offensive coordinator because the 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:13.839 head coach is a defensive guy at the Chargers, right, yes, 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.160 so he doesn't have this guy sitting there. I mean, 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:17.920 why do you think it took so long for Eric 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.920 Bienemy to get a job as offensive coordinators? It was 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:28.920 offensive coordinate and yeah he got something. So it wasn't 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.240 totally a lateral move, right, but there was a reasoning 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:40.240 because they knew Andy Reid was running that offense. So um, yeah, 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.920 I don't think that. You know, they hired Brian Schottenheimer 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.880 and he's going to come in and revamp the entire offense. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.320 I like the style. Yeah, pretty good style of offense. Yeah, 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.800 but they weren't always totally successful, didn't have good players. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:58.080 But again, how many offenses are totally successful? Well, I 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.680 guess if you win the Super Bowl, you're successful because 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.920 if you you know what, if you look at the 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.079 some of the stats this offense put up, they were 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:12.120 pretty good except for one game, right, the playoff game 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:18.319 and that and one stat that colored colored everything. And 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:25.400 yet yeah, and the offense hurts maybe one that that 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:30.239 one stat and they cost the game. Offensive coordinator responsible 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:37.520 for interceptions. I don't know, offensive coordinator. I could you 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.760 could say, you could say that they have a hand in. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.640 It depends on if you put your quarterback or your 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.760 offense in certain situations unnecessarily. Yeah, yeah, they are part 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.679 of the plan. They put them in situations unnecessarily by 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.880 not having another wide receiver that they could count on. 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.480 I looked. I looked. They had a stat of the 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:03.120 number one the top ten UH wide receiver combinations in 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.760 the league. Very good combination. You know what? Mickey did 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.960 not sound like a company man just now. Now now 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.800 he's talking to trash, right, because I'm asking the questions. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.240 I can dig deep down off in there. He just 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.800 doesn't read enough. I see, I'm getting information from you. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.040 I don't need to read you. No, I mean read 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.640 what I write. Oh, that's very true. I do not 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:28.720 see that. There's your downfall. You would get educated sometimes 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.680 when I come in here and talk about something you've 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.240 already said. I wrote that in my story today, Right, 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:41.400 what's some patricole anyway? So going back to this offense, Um, yeah, 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.160 they were They were pretty good. They just didn't perform 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:51.080 well in a playoff game. And you know what, the 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.240 team that won didn't perform that off that well either. 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.280 And once again, it's about moments. We can say all 0:13:58.280 --> 0:13:59.800 we want. You want to have the team you want 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.520 to have. The players are going to keep in position 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.320 so that when that moment comes, you can capitalize, capitalize 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.960 on it because you've practiced it, you've been there, you 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.560 anticipated it. And there's a lot more that goes into 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.720 that offense. Right, how well did the offensive line play? 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.760 And is there a reason why they switched out offensive 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:23.560 line coaches? Okay, you started on Zeke a second ago, Yeah, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.760 and then I got you back on Pollard. Sorry, so 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.640 do you want to continue on ze Yeah? Because everybody 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:34.560 talks about Mishot coming. Yeah, granting, everybody talks about that. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:39.200 He's got a ten point nine million dollars base salary. Now, 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.480 what they don't tell you is that if they just 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:49.720 outright cut them, not June first, cut them, it's eleven 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.200 point eight six million in dead money, all right due 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.480 now do now the day you cut him. Now if 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.240 you if you say he's a June one release, uh, 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.240 then it's five point eight million this year and six 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.520 million next year. So there's a penalty to pay for 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:13.560 not having him, other than not having his twelve rushing touchdowns. 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.680 By the way, and we talked about that, like seven 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.560 of them were one yard runs. What it did to 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.560 his average his average per carry would have raised from 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:28.760 three point eight to three point eight five. Oh yes, yeah, 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.800 but he didn't. He also didn't count all the third 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.560 and ones he picked up as not that were touchdowns, right, 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.640 because he was at a pretty high rate there. Let's 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.680 be real, we don't have that guy if Zeke leaves, right, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:52.600 because you're drafted because Davis was Davis a bug eighty five? Maybe, yeah, 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.640 I mean he's he's he's got that same style that 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.040 Polot has. But we don't need two polots back there, right, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.920 we need we need a headbanger, and you saw him 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.760 come in a lot of times in passing situations because 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.080 they knew he could pick up the blitz or the 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:15.000 loose guy, which Malik Davis missed we talked about in 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.800 that game. So then, what's what is your suggestion on 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:24.280 what to do with the Zeke ze Elliott. My suggestion 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.560 is they do something similar to what they did with 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:32.760 DeMarcus Lawrence, when Lawrence had like a seventeen eighteen million 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.440 dollars base salary and they basically said, Okay, here's what 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:40.840 we're gonna do. You're out of guarantees. Zeke's out of guarantees, right, 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.680 we're going to sign you. And what they did with 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.800 Lawrence they signed him to a three year deal guaranteed 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:52.640 him thirty million, but they were able to spread it 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.880 out over four years on that deal with a phony 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.360 void at the end, and then it brought his average 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:04.080 down to ten million. So with Zeke, if he's supposed 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.639 to make eleven million, all right, we'll just say, okay, 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:12.040 we're gonna guarantee you eight million over two years. Will 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.600 you take it? Because you don't have any more guarantees 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.639 and if if I'm an aging running back and I 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:24.000 get rather than an aging journalist, that's right, because I 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:28.520 don't have any guaranteed money either. By the way, my 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:33.280 bargaining power is not that high. His guide's got to 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.159 know what market value is out there? Right? Can you 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.479 get a better deal somewhere else? So what can they 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.800 do with his cap number? Well, the cap number? Do 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.480 with his cap number? If let's say they he was 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:50.600 agreeable to what you're suggesting the cap number? Can you 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.879 get his cap number? Two? Is like and it's like 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.360 I want to, I don't have it exactly. It's like 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.400 ten point nine plus the five point eight. So it's 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:06.760 like sixteen seventeen million, sixteen point seven two million right now. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.880 And that's because of restructure bonus and signing bonus. Right, 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.000 you still got account for that because you already paid 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:19.160 that money, so that doesn't go away. So maybe if 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:23.000 you signed him to a guaranteed four million dollar deal 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:28.359 with incentives that he didn't earn the year before, then 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.480 you can reduce it to about nine million dollars. Okay, 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.840 So and what would he see this year? You said, Well, 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.360 you would give him you would give him a signing 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.960 bonus or it would be guaranteed, so either in base 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.200 salaries over the next couple of years, or you pay 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:50.320 him a signing bonus and reduce the base salary to 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.000 one point five millions something like. So you're looking at 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.680 how much in his pocket? I think that's what I'm saying, 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.560 Money in my pocket. I think at that point in 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.240 his career is more important than the big picture. That's 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.760 not guaranteed. Now you want to bet on yourself, Okay, 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:11.320 go do it. So you then just lowered his cap 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:15.760 hit from sixteen point seven million to around can I 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.119 get it to nine or ten nine and a half million, 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:22.240 let's say. So, now that leaves you with Pollard, right, okay, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.399 and what as far as a franchise tag on the 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.720 running back. The franchise tag on a running back or 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.200 for him is ten point one million. Okay, So now 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:37.280 you are paying roughly twenty million dollars for your two 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:45.160 running backs. It's complicated. But if okay, you let Zeke go, 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.600 and as you said, if you made him a June 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:51.680 first cut, he's still five point eight this year, six 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.920 million next year, and so it's still let's say, even 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.479 with a franchise tag on pollar. That would be fifteen 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:01.080 or sixteen million. You're spinning on one running back rather 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:05.440 than two runners rights. Yeah, so it's not easy. And 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:10.040 and and do you just want to let Donovan Wilson 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.679 walk into free agency? Do you want to let Layton 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:16.720 Vanderish walk into free agency? Now? The tag on Vanderish 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:21.320 I looked at for linebackers like twenty million. Um, they're 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.480 probably not going to do that, and they don't they 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:29.280 don't have them uh specified in inside linebacker versus outside linebacker. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.200 I think this as linebacker and edge rushers, I think 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:37.640 is what it comes down to. Edge rusher should be. Yeah, 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:43.280 that's like twenty million probably right, and more and then 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:52.000 but the least expensive one is if you franchise Donovan 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:56.320 Wilson as a strong safety, it's only like six million 0:20:56.320 --> 0:21:01.600 dollars for a strong safety. Now the free safeties near 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:06.280 twenty million. Where you are free or strong I'm scared 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:12.800 to say, Okay, all right, I don't think I even know. Okay, 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.960 this is not complete, I don't think. But I've got 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.080 linebackers twenty point and it just specifies linebackers. Yeah, I'm 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:21.800 so how did they come about this? This? This uh 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:26.920 formula of linebackers versus for a franchise DAG. It has 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.080 to do with the average of the top five or 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:34.560 ten guys at that position, So we don't have any like. 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:39.240 So the safety, the safety is fourteen point four six million, 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.040 and it just says safety because I saw it was 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.760 broken up to strong and free. Well that what I'm 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:50.240 reading right here is which was from field yates U 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.119 for twenty twenty three. Just as safety fourteen point four 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:58.280 six million, cornerback eighteen point why do you go, Yeah, 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:03.160 linebacker twenty point nine, defensive end nineteen point seven. Wow. 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.600 So the linebackers in general are more. But what happens 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:11.119 some of those linebackers are three four linebackers, right, And 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.480 that's that's what I'm saying. A three to four outside 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:18.120 linebacker right is more valuable than an an inside right 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:23.080 traditionally right, exactly. So So again, now Layton Vanderesh wouldn't 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:28.800 agree with that, Yeah, I'm sure, And you know, as 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:30.959 far as I'm concerned, he won his bet on himself. 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:33.960 I mean, he played for two million dollars and would 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:36.119 have led the team if he didn't miss those final 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.040 three games, and he probably could have played the least 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:42.679 the last one um and then played well in the 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:46.240 in the playoff game. And again the running back franchise 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:50.040 tag is Mickey mentioned is ten point zero nine million, 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:53.159 tight end is eleven point three million. But in the 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:57.879 case of show more, yeah, so it comes to fourteen yeah, which, 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:01.680 by the way, fourteen and what he made last year, 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:05.640 which was ten, comes to twenty four over two, right, 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:09.800 And basically, no, I take that back. He was he 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:13.520 was nearly twelve, so now it's fourteen twenty six. He 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:16.760 would have averaged thirteen million a year on a long 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:19.199 term deal, and that those guys that got paid that 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:23.080 were tight ends last year averaged around fourteen million. So 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:26.160 it almost became a push if you've franchised him two 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:29.880 years in a row. So an answer to Everson's original questions, 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:38.120 franchise tag candidates for the Cowboys are Tony Pollard and Shultz. 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:47.560 And I think that's it, okay, because because I don't 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:49.879 know that you're going to do the franchise tag on 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:54.639 on Layton, right, that's not going to happen, not at 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:59.040 twenty point whatever million. Now, the other decision they need 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:03.320 to make, by the way, it's restricted free agents. Terrence 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:10.000 Steele because there's three levels to that. You guarantee yourself 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:13.880 write a first refusal if you don't sign him, if 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:17.400 he signs with somebody else at a first, a second, 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:20.840 or original draft which he was drafted the same round 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:25.320 Everson was. That's right, so there's no there's no compensation, uh, 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:30.080 if you don't tag him for a first or a second. Right. 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:33.280 In fact, let me rephrase them. He was drafted the 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:38.240 same round Everson, Mickey and Bill work. That's right, right, 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:42.879 and you know how hard that road was Avante Turpin 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:51.000 two by the way. Anyway, so he's a pro bowler. 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:55.760 He's ready to be the deep threat wide receiver. There 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:58.160 you go, paid attention. He's been ready to interview. He's 0:24:58.200 --> 0:25:01.960 been ready. Yeah, that's time. Why that offensive coordinator is 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:07.639 offensive coordinator? Isn't here anymore shots to Dylan the battle 0:25:07.680 --> 0:25:10.320 of that guy more. You know, he said he's ready 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:12.000 to go. 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