WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: WR in First Round? 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:20.799 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.520 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:28.880 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:34.240 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:40.559 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:49.120 It is Wednesday, April fifteenth, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, Episode 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.559 number five. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.520 are live at our homes. We're not the s WBC 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.720 Mortgage Studios, but we do appreciate them for sponsoring our studio. 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.240 But I got Nick Dave Amber here with me. We're 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.600 talking Cowboys football. If you guys for the next hour, 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.280 glad you can join us today. We got a lot 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.440 to get into. We're gonna talk about this new virtual 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.240 offseason that the Cowboys and the rest of the NFL 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.760 will be kicking off here in April. We have some 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.440 mock drafts. Nick and Dave both put together mock drafts 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.440 through seven rounds that will let them dive into and 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.720 give us some feedback on what they think the Cowboys 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.560 will do. And then we're gonna continue our position analysis. Today, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.280 we're gonna talk about the wide receiver position. Lots of 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:36.679 things to talk about there. How's everybody doing today? Good? Great, good, 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.560 good good. Let's jump right in. Let's start with this 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.080 virtual offseason the Cowboys at well. The NFL announced this 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.640 week that teams will be able to start their virtual 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.480 off seasons. Tell me how that works. I think April 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.640 twenty is the date the Cowboys can start. What does 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.880 that look like? What is this virtual offseason going to 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:02.040 look like? I think there's an emoji on your phone 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.040 that kind of goes like like that. Like I don't know, 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.240 Like I really I don't know. I have no idea. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.079 Dave might have a better answer, Amber might have a 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.400 better answer, but like, I just think they're gonna try 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.079 to do certain things as closely, you know, to what 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.880 they've done before, and maybe you know, have meetings like 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.320 this and Lisa get the guys to understand the playbook. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.839 But I have no idea how they're able and they're 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.680 going to be able to do this. It's gonna be different, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.600 and hope hopefully everybody kind of understands that. Yeah, I mean, 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.160 i'd laughed when Derek asked the question, because how on 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.120 Earth are we supposed to know for sure what it 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.520 looks like. Um, just reading you know, the league's release 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.480 and having listened to some interviews with Cowboys players about it, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:48.440 I assume it's gonna be a bunch of extensive zoom calls, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.000 for lack of a better term. Get the coaches probably, 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.520 I would assume, buy position group and offense and defense, 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.120 get them in there and go over the install for 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.760 all the different parts of the offense and defense. I 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.200 think there's a stipulation that probably my favorite part is 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:10.680 like for players of a certain experience range, teams have 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.000 to provide like up to fifteen hundred dollars for workout equipment. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.080 So if you remember we talked about that last week, Like, 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.880 if you're not this big money guy with his own home, Jim, 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.000 how do you work out? Well, I guess the Cowboys 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.640 are going to send you a both lex. So that's 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.440 that's pretty great as far as I'm concerned. But I mean, 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.000 it's anybody's guess exactly how this is all going to work. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.080 I hopefully they can get something, you know, meaningful out 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.680 of it. Well, it did sound like from some of 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.040 the reports I read that as you said that players 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.280 can get this fifteen hundred dollars Stipe in that the 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.119 league or that the teams will provide them in order 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.800 to get workout equipment, but there will be a classroom 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.920 part of it where they'll do those on zoom calls, 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.520 it sounds like. And then there's a workout part of 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.280 it that. Again, all of this is voluntary, as it 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.680 would be if the Cowboys were in the facility, but 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.560 if players choose to do the workouts to physical workouts, 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.760 the teams can request as well that they would have 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.080 to have monitor that they could have monitoring equipment that 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.760 monitors their workouts. A little bit so team because I think, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.159 you know, for some of these players, there are parts 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.440 of their contract where they get workout bonuses and the like, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.000 so I think some of that's included in this as well. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.400 So it looks like there's both a physical component as 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.120 well as a classroom component to this. Again, still going 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.960 to be left up to the team to figure out 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.279 how exactly it works, but it sounds like there are 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.159 kind of these two components that players will have the 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.360 option to be a part of. Honestly, I don't think 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.920 it's gonna be that bad. Obviously, this is something that's 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:46.400 definitely not ideal, especially when you're talking about multiple people 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.479 being involved. But me, during this time, I've been taking 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.440 classes online and it hasn't been bad. And I've been 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.480 doing workouts online and that hasn't been bad either. So 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.919 given the situation of everything that's going on, honestly, the 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.800 whole process of it, once they get it going and 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.920 it would take a few days to get it cost him. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.000 But I think it can be done pretty well. And 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:14.320 you know, I'm not necessarily concerned like these guys learning 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.440 the book, you know, the new book and then doing 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.120 their workouts, as long as they stay committed, because it 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.560 takes a lot of commitment of you actually going through 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.320 it and doing it, because when you're at home, it's 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.120 totally different than being in person around people that are 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.680 doing it with you. At the same time, nice humble 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.200 brack about bettering yourself and going to school age. Really, 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:43.040 I'm I'm very impressed because I haven't been doing anything. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.039 You're not doing that. No, yeah, I'm doing that day bro. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.560 I actually Zach Martin at Oh, I'm sorry. Zach Martin 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.800 actually talked about this like last week. He went on 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.800 one of the NFL radio shows and talked about how 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.800 they were setting up the the you know, the frame 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.680 for them to do zoom calls and getting all the 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:06.120 technical bugs worked out. And Zach is really smart and diplomatic, 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.719 but I swear he caught himself because he was about 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.120 to say He's like, if this was the same coaching 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:15.599 staff and the same exact scheme, this would basically be easy. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.320 He didn't say that, but I like, that's what he meant, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.560 is like, if you're not transitioning over, there's not that 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.200 much to worry about if you're a veteran player. So 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.200 it is a little bit concerning. Like even the Zack 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.719 Martins of the world, the All Pros and the Pro bowlers, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.880 like they got an entirely new language and system to learn. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.560 I'm sure guys like that are up to the challenge, 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.120 but I don't think it's gonna necessarily be easy on 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.760 anybody to try to learn a whole new way to play, 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:47.000 you know, remotely. That sounds annoying. I mean that's a 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.760 really great point because and you guys tell me, I mean, 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.719 how many players are left on this team that have 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:58.320 known anything other than Jason Garrett. I think maybe Latticser 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:06.719 and Sean on Lee lp Laddiser that's it right at it. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.000 If it's not, it's dark. I mean, so so when 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.080 you start thinking about it, from that standpoint, everybody virtually 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.400 on this team is going to have to adapt to 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.720 a brand new coach, a brand new uh well, I 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.440 don't know, want to even want to say brand new scheme, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.880 because I do think if if coach McCartney mcartney thinks 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.520 about all this, he may decide that they may want 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.080 to keep doing some of the things they were doing 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:33.040 before now with these circumstances in place, just from the 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.720 standpoint of being able to keep some continuity without having 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:40.600 those guys in the building. I mean, they do have 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.600 a lot of guys too that weren't here that they've 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.680 been with other teams. So I mean, I don't know 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.920 if yeah, I mean, you guys said one or two 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.520 players that have you know, known a different coach, but 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.840 you know that there's just a lot of new new 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.760 faces here. So it's just gonna be kind of messing 0:07:58.000 --> 0:07:59.920 a lot of guys in here when you look at 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:04.440 every position other than maybe you know, running back, but 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.520 every position is gonna have some some new guys, some 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.920 some new faces in here, So you know, I think 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.040 that that's going to be the key to this whole thing, 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.240 is getting everybody united on the same page. And you know, 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.440 we talked about the offensive line. Man, I would like 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.160 to have Travis Frederick right now in a situation like that. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:26.760 You know, I think he's a what he had two 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.280 degrees or whatever. So if anybody knows how to study 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.640 and communicate and all that, I think, you know, he's 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:37.000 gonna be missed at least for this offseason as well. Yeah. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.959 Interesting thing. I think back before all this happened, there 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.560 was a lot of conjecture about Dak Prescott and whether 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.240 he would be showing up for offseason workouts. My question 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.440 for you guys is do you think that or what 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.240 do you think he will do in this instance, since 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.520 since it is virtual and doesn't even really matter, how 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.440 much would the Cowboys miss him if he doesn't take 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:03.000 part in these virtual workouts this offseason? I think so, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:04.760 I think they would miss him, and I think he 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.000 will participate. I mean I don't. Yeah, I know he 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.960 needs to take a stand and he's trying to negotiate 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.000 and all that, but um, I think you know, I 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.360 haven't talked to him or anything like that. I don't 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.240 I don't know, but I would imagine that if you're 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.439 going to be the leader of this football team in 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.840 all situations, especially one that's turned upside down like this, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.880 you need to be there. And I hope he understands 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.400 that he needs to be frontline, front and center. Uh 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.800 you know he can. He can. He has a contract, 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.079 I mean that he can sign and they can pay 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.120 him what thirty two thirty three million dollars. So I 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.480 think he needs to be there, and I would be 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:47.680 I would be disappointed in him if he wasn't. I 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.920 said this on Twitter yesterday, Like I do. I think 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.439 it's important regardless. I think you need your quarterback there 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.240 learning the new you know, the playbook, learning the differences 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:03.280 in the offense, getting FaceTime with the coaches, you know, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.800 being part of the workouts, being bought in. I mean 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:10.600 that is that's one of Dak's best qualities. But I 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.760 just can't bring myself to get worked up if he's 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.760 like not not on a zoom call, you know what. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.280 It just it just doesn't feel the same to me 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.320 as like being in the weight room and like, you know, 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.160 rallying guys or like being in the meeting room, Like 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.280 I mean, I'm sure at some point during this quarantine, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.120 like you've seen a screenshot of a college or high 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.280 school class that's on zoom. It's like thirty little pixelated 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.439 boxes of people all sitting in front of different backgrounds. Like, 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.400 I don't know, it just doesn't feel as big to 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.640 me if the quarterback is not part of that as 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.359 it would if it was like a real life environment. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.559 But what would he be doing having a party? I mean, 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.920 what would he what would he be doing other than this? 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:04.760 I mean, like that's the weird part about money. But Nick, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.319 here's the thing though, It's like with him, this happened 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.520 last year. You know, he was trying to look for 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.720 a contract, obviously didn't stick it out and went ahead 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.920 and went through the offseason, went through training camp and 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.760 was there, was patient and all that, and then you 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.480 get to this point where he still hasn't gotten what 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.880 he wants necessarily. And then when you look at other guys, Zeke, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.599 when you look at the Marcus Lawrence, obviously different scenarios, 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.560 but to me, it looks like, Okay, maybe this is 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.040 the only way for me to get what I really want, 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.040 is for me to kind of hold on and not 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.120 participate in these kinds of things, even though it might 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.679 hurt me later on, you know, but sometimes this is 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.600 the route that you need to take in order to 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.480 get what you're looking for as far as a new contract. Yeah, 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.160 I kind of agree with you, Amber, But I'll say 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:56.760 this too about what Dave said. I just think it 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:02.400 still does matter that if he's not there, because I 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.480 just look at it from the standpoint of any business 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.880 right now and any group of people that typically work together, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.840 it's even more important right now that those leaders step 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.760 up and bring the group together, whether it is in 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.880 those calls, whether actually doing team related stuff or just 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.280 on his own as the leader of this team, being 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.320 the quarterback, is he pulling his offensive guys together, is 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.480 he pulling the whole team together and just kind of 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.960 making sure that everybody's holding each other accountable, that we 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.200 still need to be getting our work done, we still 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.240 need to be communicating, we still need to keep our 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:37.600 relationships intact. Right That's what leaders do, and so him 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.559 not being there I think does matter, and I think 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.840 it certainly is going to matter in a time like this, 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.280 maybe even more so than when they are actually face 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.640 to face, you know, And I'll add to this, and 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.959 I think you guys are right about standing his ground 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.720 and all that, but he also needs to remember this 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.600 is that you know, a wide receiver who's not on 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.520 the same page as you can make you look bad Roma. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.640 That happened to Romo a lot early in or early 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.600 in Dez Bryant's career, and other receivers as well. So 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.000 it does. I mean, I'm sorry, Dak still needs to 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.920 play at a high level. I mean, even if he 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.000 just plays on the franchise tag. So this is an 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.960 important year for him because if he takes another step 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.840 back or a step back, or however you want to 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.000 look at it, then the money that he's looking for 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.560 is certainly not going to be there. I think everyone 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.800 would realize that Jalen Smith got the money when he 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.280 was supposed to last year, because if he doesn't do 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.520 that and he tries to get a deal this offseason, 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.280 I think his price value would have been a lot different. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.320 So it's very important for Dak to have a great 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.880 year and being a part of these offseason workouts it 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.240 virtually or not, I think it's important. I'll say thing 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.679 about go ahead, I just I think Dak Prescott cares 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:54.440 too much about being great to not work like he's 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.720 he's going. He's going to put in the work like 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.760 he's whether whether it's socially advisable or not. Like he's 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.160 been working with receivers over the last few weeks. Probably 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.040 should do less of that for the time being, but 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.439 he's putting in the physical work. Stephen Jones said yesterday 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.200 he's got an iPad. They send him one for the 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.840 install There's no way he's not going to use it. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.400 Like he cares too much about being good to not 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.160 work at it. Whether that means he'll log into these 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.160 full team activities, I have no idea, but one way 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.040 or another, I trust him to get the work done, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.520 even if he does it mostly on his own. Yeah, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.920 that's also the issue though here is I think for 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.560 a quarterback, probably more than any other position in the 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.680 sport of football, it's very difficult to do that in isolation. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.680 You can do the work on your own of learning it, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.600 but it's pulling it together with all the other parts. 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.600 It's pulling it together with the offensive line when it 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:52.080 comes to making adjustments to protections. It's pulling together with 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.400 the wide receivers. And the running backs and the tight ends. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.600 When it comes to routes and making sure everybody's on 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.960 the same page what they're gonna do. I don't think 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.840 he can really do it as well in isolation as 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.160 maybe another position could do it. And that's going to 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.680 be the rub here, and that's always the rub when 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.560 a player decides to hold out or to not take 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.320 part in activities that are in the off season for 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.920 contract response, for contract reasons, it's probably the good thing 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.040 for them to do for their leverage, but at the 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:21.840 same time, it can't hurt them on the field. And 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.160 we'll see just how much that affects Dak if he 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.200 decides to not take part in these offseason workouts. The 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.600 annoying thing is that, you know, if everything was normal 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.400 and we were at the Star, we have ways of 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:38.000 finding out who's there and who's not there. But good 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.840 luck doing that when everything's happening over the phone. I mean, 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:45.320 I have no idea. Well, maybe I can tap those 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.680 and get some information with well, if he keeps hanging 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.000 out with a certain wide receiver. He likes to tweet everything, 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.320 so then you know the point, you'll get to see 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:58.280 what he's doing. Good point all right, hold on, Derek, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.680 you think it is interesting, Daks we need to get 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:06.680 des on a team, not the team, not this team, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.520 but eighteen. Well, I don't. It might have been a 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.160 Freudian slip, like I don't. I don't know if he 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.720 was purposefully trying to do that, but um, it was interesting. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.920 It was interesting that he said a team and not 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:23.480 this team. Oh well, what do you guys think, Dave 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.760 amber I pointed that out last week when we talked 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.680 about this. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. He's He's 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.400 got the type of voice that if he really wanted 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.520 that to happen, he probably could make it happen. So 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.040 read into that, which you will. You see, when Dak speaks, 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.320 he tries to be very political correct, you know, like 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.480 he tries to be very neutral. So a comment like that, 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.200 I wouldn't read too much into it because it's coming 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.840 from Dak. Now, I want to talk to you guys 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.320 one thing, because I've seen people kind of still asking 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.000 about the contract situation with Dak, like what happens now 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.960 until when does he have to sign the franchise tag? 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.040 And as far as like if he doesn't sign it, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:16.520 what happens the tag deadline is fifteenth at three pm 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:22.159 Central time. Once that deadline passes, you cannot negotiate with 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.520 the franchise tag player, Like, even if you wanted to 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.359 give him the contract, you can't do it per league rules, 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.520 which is why if nothing is agreed to by then 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.080 Dack will sign it because it's better to have thirty 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.080 three million guaranteed than nothing. So they've got until July 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.600 fifteenth to hammer something out, and if they don't, then 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.800 he plays the season on the tag or I mean, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.800 he could pull a Levy on Bell and not play, 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:50.080 but I just don't see that happening. So that also 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.280 means that the likelihood of him missing training camp is 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.760 probably not there. It's not the same kind of situation 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.160 as maybe what they faced with Zeke, right right, Yeah, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.920 not training camp, but I mean, we'll see how we 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.439 wants to play it. But there's nothing forcing him to 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:07.360 be part of any of this offseason stuff, right but yeah, 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.400 by training camp, who're gonna do We're gonna go ahead, 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:13.200 in fact, sorry, yeah, go ahead, right, let's go ahead 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.520 and take a quick break. We're we're gonna take a break. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.119 When we come back, we're gonna talk a little bit 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.280 about the mock drafts. Dave and uh and uh Nick 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.320 both put together mock drafts a full seven rounds. 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So here's how we're gonna do this. 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.000 Nick and Dave, I'm gonna have both of you go 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.240 through and tell me your seven round pick, your seven rounds, 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:51.280 I'm sorry, all the picks in your seven rounds, and 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:53.240 then we have a couple of questions we'll ask for 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:57.760 each of you regarding your seven round mac mock. I'm sorry. 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.000 So let's start with you, Dave, give me your seven 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:05.600