WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Problem Areas? 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:18.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:22.440 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.759 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:32.160 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:38.400 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, Am bar Garcia, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.200 It is Tuesday, September third, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.440 number thirty five. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.880 We're live from the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.800 We're talking Cowboys football with you guys for about forty 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.680 five minutes. Got Nick Eatman, Dave Hellman, and a special 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.840 guest joining us today, Danny Serek. She will be with 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.760 us every Tuesday. Um Amber will be out on Tuesday's. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.560 Danny will be in on Tuesdays. Just to get opportunity 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:04.840 to get her on the air. You guys have probably 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.880 seen her around Dallas Cowboys dot Com doing different pieces. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.000 But welcome to the show. Thanks. I'm excited a rising 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:16.360 star in the industry, so sweet. Welcome aboard. Danielle. Oh, 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.040 this is gonna be interesting. I want to see the 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:19.960 dynamic between the two of you. Guys, this is gonna 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.840 be fun. This is my homie. We're good. I know. Yeah, 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.080 it's gonna be gonna have fun. We are gonna have fun. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.240 All right, let's jump right in. And there's so much 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.840 It seemed like there's always some news breaking around here. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.280 But we start hearing this morning of a new deal. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:35.640 Not one of the people that we had been talking 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.000 about previously who was getting a deal, Lyle Collins actually 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.200 signs an extension. He was due to be an unrestricted 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.440 free agent at the end of this season heading into 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.200 twenty twenty. Do you guys know the terms of the 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.440 deal as far as what he actually was paid as 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.320 a as a right tackle for the Dallas Cowboys. Five 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.080 years and fifty million dollars of new money. The whole thing, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.280 when you include the last year of his current deal, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.400 comes around to like fifty nine million dollars. Thirty five 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.359 and guarantees ish. I always like to say ish because 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.720 you know they hide stuff in there, and the full 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.079 guarantee and the injury guarantee are different in YadA YadA, 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.960 but it's roughly thirty five. Does the fact that they 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.959 did this deal with those other three big deals still 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.600 sitting out there. Do you think that at all signals 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.640 that there's plenty of room to sign everyone, or do 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.240 you take the other approach that there's only a certain 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.280 pie and that pie shrinking with the addition of the 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.320 Jalen deal and the and the Lyle deal, that now 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.920 that pie is shrinking and it's less money out there 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.800 for those I don't agree with that at all, because 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.400 that means that would be that would be bad business 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.720 to do that. Yeah, they know where their priorities are. 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.120 I think whether it is is they're telling the other 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.320 guys that the pie is shrinking and next year, who 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.040 knows what it'll be, because they didn't have to make 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.320 these deals right now, Lyle or Jalen. So I think 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.440 it's like this is why it's pretty much going to 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.200 be for the other three guys. And so I don't 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.520 think it's a really I don't think it's a signal 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.799 so much to them. It might be that they might 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.119 be trying to signal that, but I think everybody who 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.200 knows doesn't believe that at all. You'd have to be 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.920 a sucker to believe it. Because the Lyle deal actually 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.840 freed up six million dollars in cap space. And there's 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.280 also the little part about how the cap jumps ten 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.040 percent every March, so if anything, the pie got bigger. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.480 Now it's great to say, well, we're giving out all 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.120 this money. And I do think they didn't sign Lyle 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.560 Collins to send a message, but it should send a message. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.120 It's like, hey, we're more than happy to sign you 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.440 if you're willing to play ball with us. And that's 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.119 what Jalen Smith and Lyle Collins have done. Unfortunately, that's 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.920 not gonna work for everybody. And you know, kudos to 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.120 Jalen and Lyle. They've figured out what they prioritized and 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.200 it worked out. And there is enough money to go 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.200 around if everybody's willing to sign for well below market value. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.640 But that's not everybody. Not everybody's going to do that. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.000 As we're seeing with the other three. That's you have 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.040 to have team friendly deal. So if you're gonna have 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.520 guys that are going to break the bank, and I 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.040 will say this about today, I know you're probably getting there, 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.240 but this is you know, lyall, that's this is the salad. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.560 You know, maybe the entres come yeah, oh yeah, oh 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.760 we're gonna get to that definitely, are gonna get to them. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.000 Might take a little bit, you know, but relatively to 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.720 your like steak and the salad. But it's coming with 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.520 these two deals. With this new deal, four or five 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.040 offensive linemen that start for the Dallas Cowboys are now 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.440 locked up for the next five years until twenty twenty four. Williams, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.000 who is the fifth guy, He's locked up until twenty 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.280 twenty two. Do you think they will all be still 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.799 be around and healthy and dominant to see those five 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.520 years out from now, you hope? So. I don't think 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.880 offensive lines get much stronger than the ones that we 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.760 have locked in. It's just a matter of I mean, 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.400 you never know, like something like Travis Frederick, but in 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.200 terms of like physically you just don't know. Like I mean, 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.919 Tyren Smidman, Zach Martin have already had a little back 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:02.760 issues so far. Such a demanding position, right, That's kind 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.440 of what I was getting to when you think about 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.400 just these are not this isn't like you're working on 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.279 rookie deals. These are guys that are on their second 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.720 deals and you're five years out from having to really 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.800 even talk about contracts on an offensive line that most 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.280 people considered to be one of the most backed offensive 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.320 lines in the NFL. Does that give you a little 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.040 bit of pause that maybe they don't get to the 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.120 end of those deals. That's that's kind of the point 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.560 of the question. I mean, does how many guys really 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.280 get to the end of their long deal? It just 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:33.080 doesn't happen very often and is the most recent example 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.080 that comes to mind, Like, how many games did they 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.800 get out of him after that deal? Like eighteens? Two years? Right, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.720 two years, one of which was severely limited by injury, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.320 or two and a half. Yeah, but it was a 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.599 five year deal. So no, I wouldn't go that far. 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.839 But me personally, and I haven't had a chance to 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.920 talk to anybody. This is just my gut reaction. I 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.839 think they were just like, well, why wouldn't we do 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.920 this like they did. I don't think they planned this, honestly. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.080 I think they you know, they drafted Connor McGovern. They're like, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.320 we could move Williams, we can You think they were 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.320 actually thinking, most likely he was going to walk away, yeah, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.400 because it couldn't afford and like I said, you know, 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.480 we've been saying that all year. We're like, you know, 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.480 he's probably gonna be too expensive, and I don't we 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.600 were wrong. I don't think that makes us dumb though, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.480 Like that's just logical to think a talented player is 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.279 going to seek the most money possible because that's what 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.920 most of them do, rightfully. So this is their moment 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.599 to give a contract, this second contract, especially for a 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.320 guy like Lyaelle. Actually this would be his third contract 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.200 because they already did one, which is rare for a guy, 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.080 you know, at his age, but his whole situation was 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.480 rare coming into the league. So the question was, is 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.120 you know, market value for him is still going to 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.120 be higher than Tyrn Smith, And I think it's right now, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.599 it's about it even. Yeah, So I think the guarantees. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.359 I think I saw a graphic earlier to day that 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.360 sit the and guaranteed money. He is third among he's 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.960 either among right tackles or among tackles overall. I wasn't 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.240 sure on that, but it wasn't like this was a 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.760 deal where he made no money. That's what I'm saying. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.360 He's gotten. He made. The Cowboys now have four offensive 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.679 linemen who are making significant money, which most people probably 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.800 would have thought they weren't going to be able to do. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.720 You weren't going to be able to fit that much talent. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.840 But in the salary cap, again, when you're talking about 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.720 a quarterback, running back, receiver, all these other positions where 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.520 you're paying big money as well, and he is now 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.880 making top five money, let's not act like he's just 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.679 not making any money. But again, with the rising cap 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.320 and the way the open market works, like he probably 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.720 could have gotten fifteen million dollars a year on the 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.280 open market to play what and whatever they want, maybe 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.800 left tackle. That's that's That's what happens a lot of 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.280 times on the offensive line is you get this player 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.680 and you're gonna pay him a lot of money, but 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.960 you have to justify where you want to play him. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.760 And so I think he might have had to play 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.240 go somewhere and play left tackle, which I'm not saying 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.040 he couldn't do that, but the way his body is, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.920 I mean, he was built to play guard. I mean 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.440 he could still play guard. Now, he could play right tackle. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.160 I don't know if he's if his body is at 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.800 the point to play left tackle, but that happens sometimes, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:04.760 and it does. But I get with the way the 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.600 salaries are and I don't have this in front of me, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.280 but I guarantee you he could have gotten more than 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.160 ten a million a year to play right as play right. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.680 I think so. And in today's NFL we've talked about 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.280 this before, too. Right tackle is becoming just as important 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.800 as left because most of the best, most dominant pass 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.240 rushers these days are playing on the left side. But 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.240 what did we say, like, and not to two to 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.120 our own horn too much, but like two weeks ago, 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.160 right after the jail En deal, we were like, you know, 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.400 if a player has that mental makeup to take this 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.240 type of deal, it might be Lyle Collins. Like, he's 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.320 a low key guy. He likes to fish, he likes 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.680 being close to home in Louisiana. You know, it's a 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.520 short flight, not far away at all. That you know, 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.520 it's what he's comfortable with, and it doesn't surprise me 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.520 all that of all the guys in that locker room, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.120 he was cool being like, yeah, I'll take that. And 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.360 if there's another guy that would probably be okay with 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.960 someone playing the same position to him that's not as good, 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.880 that's making just as much money, it would be Tyrn Smith. Yeah, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.240 so you may not have the issue that we talked 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.040 about early and we talked about less week that that 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.040 maybe if Lyle got another deal, then does that affect 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.319 you know, Tyrn wanting to go back to the Well, 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.839 I personally would be a little bit shocked if he would, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.480 just because of what I think I know of him. Yeah, 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.960 I agree, But and to go back to what I 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.400 was saying is like, I don't think that they like 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.760 this wasn't in their plans that you know, like I said, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.520 they drafted McGovern, they've got Connor, and now you know, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.559 people are already talking about it on Twitter like whoa, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:26.920 this doesn't make sense, Like now, what are they gonna 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.920 do with Connor McGovern and well, what figure it out? 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.080 Who cares? You're like, wait, you want to resign to 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.480 play with us for that much? Let's go whatever. We'll 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.000 worry about the rest of that later. As Bill Parcels 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.240 used to say, you were in the talent acquisition business, 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.319 which means you're never in the best situation where you 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.800 got talent, so keep getting more talent. And as Danny said, 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.440 you never know about the situations that pop up when 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.800 you know, like the Travis thing. So if you've got 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.680 oh my god, we got seven great linemen like okay, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.600 sound good to those problems. How much do you think 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.280 this effects or does it affect a guy like Byron Jones? 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.200 Because I kind of put Byron and Lyle in the 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.040 same category of guys that I thought there wouldn't at 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.480 some point there would be enough to sign everybody, and 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.520 so I thought those would be the two guys that 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.440 might be in a position where what they could command 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.559 on the free agent market was going to be significantly 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.400 higher than what the Cowboys would offer, which means they 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.640 probably end up gone. Do you think this changes that 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.520 at all? Seeing that they're they're open to the idea 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.840 of kind of getting these guys and basically signing everybody. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.560 Do you think that does that change your opinion about 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.559 Byron Jones? I could see him, I think doing something 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:31.480 more like Lyle, or maybe you don't take as much 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.000 money as you could elsewhere because you want to stay here. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:35.839 I have to say, I keep kind of forgetting that 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.200 we have to sign him. I feel like that was 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:38.520 one of the off season I was like, Oh, that'll 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.960 be one of the ones. They'll get done rather quickly. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.840 But yeah, you know, but that's a good point. I 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:49.360 mean Byron, like, I don't think it changes anything as 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.040 far as where the Cowboys will want to sign him. Yeah, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.160 just well with anybody you'd like to get a deal, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:11:00.560 you know. But I his is tricky because he's He's 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.920 not the first. He reminds me of a Miles Austin 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.719 or even Tony Romo, to the point where when it 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.680 became time to sign him, he had only really done 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.080 it for one year. You can make the case for 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:14.840 DeMarcus Lawrence too, one really good year. So was this normal? 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.520 Is this the way it's going to be? Or I'd 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:17.960 like to see it again. So it's kind of a 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.600 tricky thing with Byron. I think you kind of play 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.680 it out this year and then and then let it 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.520 go to I've been under that impression too, like, let's 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.160 see if you can do it again. We'll figure that out. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.480 If it costs us, it costs us. You can always 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:35.320 franchise tag him. Although I never, in my wildest dreams 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.800 would have guessed that both Dak and Amari are unsigned 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.000 five days before the season, I just didn't think that 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:42.440 was going to happen. Do you think we get to 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.920 the game and they're still unsigned? Yeah? Actually, I just 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.800 I did a radio interview right before we came on 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.880 here where they asked me that. I was like, I 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.200 shouldn't be surprised on any by anything based on the 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.920 last two weeks. But yeah, like I just I feel 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.720 like you would have heard more movement on that if 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.679 it's all coming from an NFL report that I heard 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.240 about this morning where someone on National sid that there 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.200 is taught that that Dack's going to take a deal 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.320 from the Cowboys sometime this week before they get to 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.200 the game to basically mitigate his risk of getting hurt 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.240 in an actual game before he has a new deal. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:13.720 If he was going to do that, why didn't he 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:15.360 do it? On not I I'm just saying that's where 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.200 a lot of these questions are coming from. I think 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:18.959 is that kind of report? I mean, but the way 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:20.840 the Cowboys work, I mean think about it like back 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.920 way back for some of us when we were in school. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:25.760 I mean, if you have three tests, one of them 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.720 is next week, one of them is next Friday, one 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.240 of them is tomorrow. I mean, you're going to work 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.240 on the one for tomorrow, right, You're gonna start studying. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.640 Well that's why, that's why what it is, this is 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.640 the deadline that there's only one deadline. But that's ultimately 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.160 why I think what Zeke did actually made sense. If 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.000 he misses games, it didn't, it then lacks making sense 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.520 to me. But it actually makes sense because it allowed 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.400 him to jump line because he would have been that 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.280 guy that's not fat for next week. Well yeah, of course, 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.800 but even if he is fat, he's still got the deal. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.200 So no, I'm just saying a point. It's true. It 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.600 works for him. Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, you know, yeah, 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.840 it's going to work well for him. I think it 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.400 looks like he's gonna be here without missing any games. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:05.760 I guess we don't know that for sure yet, and 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.640 that helps him jump the line. But you can't argue 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.840 anything other than that it worked beautifully for him. If 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:15.760 that's how I mean, well done, sir. That's not Yeah, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.560 forty days on the Baja host. 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And then we started 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.480 hearing that kind of slowed down a bit, then pick 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.400 back up again over the last twenty four hours. There 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.280 was even report this morning that supposedly Zeke is going 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.280 to be flying back to Dallas in hopes that maybe 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.880 a deal gets done here in the near future. Are 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.920 you guys getting any indication as to what possibly is 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.880 holding this thing, what the what the hang up is? 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.040 If you were making progress and then it kind of 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.200 kind of comes to a little bit of a slower pace. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.360 Have you heard any thing about what maybe the hold 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.360 up could be or do you have an opinion about 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.440 what the hold up could be? The details and the 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:56.440 contract language, just you know, the guarantee, the average annual salary, 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.960 the nuts and bolts of it, I mean, the indication, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.960 and you know, I guess it was Sunday, which you know, 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.560 I'm I'm so happy it worked out that way. I 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.399 was in the car all day Sunday. I was just like, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.200 I know, I know that this is all going to 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.560 go down while I'm driving a car and can't do 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.879 anything about it. And it held off, But that's because, 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.119 you know, it sounded like they were making progress, and 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.320 then all of a sudden you're kind of fine tuning it, 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.399 and one side is like, hang on a second, right, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.199 that didn't work? Yeah, uh are you sure about that? 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.119 And then seven o'clock Sunday night, it sounded like it 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.840 had kind of fallen apart. And then I think both 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.040 sides were kind of like, oh, wait, the game is Sunday, 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:37.360 Like we don't we don't have time. Yeah, yeah, this 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.879 might have been the plan all along. It might just 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:41.919 be I'm going to show up on Wednesday before the 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.560 game and play. Let's get a deal done. So we've 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.600 heard a lot of things, you know, we've heard a 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.800 lot of different things about what isn't happening, And you know, 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.160 someone asked me on Twitter that like, sometimes I hear 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.160 it's it's close, and then I hear it's not close, 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:58.480 and then I hear it's close, down I hear it's 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.159 not close. Which one is it? I'm like, all of it. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.800 I think it has been close and not close. Yeah, So, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.320 I mean you mentioned Wednesday and you mentioned Sunday. Do 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.040 you think at this point, what do you think is 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.000 the actual deadline by which Zeke can actually play this 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:19.960 Sunday practice tomorrow? I really think so. I mean, if yeah, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:24.800 I'm about he signs tonight or tomorrow, he's often on 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.280 another field doing some conditioning things, get back into it 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:33.400 on Thursday and walk through Friday. He's playing. But even still, 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:34.959 I mean, at that point, is he still playing as 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.119 much as he has every other years? Collard more Still, 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.879 that's a good question. I think I think Alfred Morris 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:45.640 is active. I think I mean, I think Morris um 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.840 you might have all of your running backs active for 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.720 this particular game, you might be a little close. And 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:57.040 as Seun actually been moved to the more Chun for 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.240 special teams though he's got to be off the roster though. Well, yeah, 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.040 and it could. It's probably be one of those backs. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.360 It might be Alfred Morris, that's it. Could. I mean, 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:10.440 you need Jordan Chun to play special teams and you're 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.880 banged up at linebacker, so I don't know if it's 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.080