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Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 3: Not sure what that means? But we are here on
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Speaker 1: We're gonna wake this place up, all right, pretty quiet.
Speaker 3: Mickey's gonna wake this place up with the shirt he's
Speaker 3: wearing there. Oh nice, right, the bright yellow sleeves.
Speaker 5: I remember that they discontinued that they did in nineteen eight.
Speaker 1: I think this was about twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. It was at the Cowboys Golf Club
Speaker 3: that you got that.
Speaker 1: That's right, right, absolutely, that's.
Speaker 3: Official Cowboys gear that he is wearing there. I've got
Speaker 3: one deep in my closet somewhere.
Speaker 1: Mine was deep too, and I dug.
Speaker 2: Like, let's do something.
Speaker 3: Different, all right, and we're going to dig deep into
Speaker 3: this Cowboys team here over the course of the next
Speaker 3: forty five minutes to an hour, depending on when we
Speaker 3: run out of gas as we close out them up.
Speaker 2: Of may we run out of gas real fast.
Speaker 3: I saw some football players on top of the building
Speaker 3: across the way you did the practice field, having a
Speaker 3: skull session.
Speaker 1: Right now, an unofficial walk through.
Speaker 3: Yes, on top of the building where they do the
Speaker 3: little team though, right outside the offices over there. So
Speaker 3: there are football players on the premises as this is
Speaker 3: the second week of OTAs.
Speaker 1: But they're not officially practicing. That's okay, let me just
Speaker 1: throw that out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's anyone that's listening.
Speaker 1: No one wants to get fined.
Speaker 3: One hundred thousand dollars out of whose pocketbook? The head coach,
Speaker 3: I know it. And the head coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wife to the head coach.
Speaker 1: He the owner, The owner has nothing. They got accused
Speaker 1: of being too physical last year, back to back years.
Speaker 2: So it was a kay.
Speaker 1: So it was fifty then one hundred.
Speaker 3: That'll get you explain that to your wife.
Speaker 2: So McCarthy, right, you have to pay this.
Speaker 1: So he he basically was, you know, when he was
Speaker 1: talking about it on Thursday, he was talking about how
Speaker 1: you know, we're being very careful. And somebody said that
Speaker 1: i'd have anything to do with, you know, getting fine
Speaker 1: last year, and uh and and everybody laughed, right, and
Speaker 1: he goes, well, well, I'm glad you find humor in it.
Speaker 1: My wife and I don't think it's real funny.
Speaker 2: Man, that is crazy. Yeah, I thought they would go
Speaker 2: to the owner.
Speaker 1: So they went uh one eighty to the other side
Speaker 1: from physical to basically might as well we just started.
Speaker 1: We're just talking to that, not even playing touch.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk it out. We'll just talk it.
Speaker 2: I mean when they walk it out and talk it.
Speaker 1: When they did passing drills and they were in eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven, it was like, you go ahead and catch
Speaker 1: the ball and we're not defending anything.
Speaker 5: We'll see now the players probably, you know, to coach
Speaker 5: McCarthy's defense got.
Speaker 2: A little carried away, right camp. Yeah, And they got.
Speaker 5: Out there and started competing a little bit, right, And
Speaker 5: so someone's watching and they said, hey, that's too much.
Speaker 1: If you're telling them you're going to play football, they're
Speaker 1: gonna compete.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got your boy out there. You know, we
Speaker 5: hadn't seen each other in a while. Let's let's let's
Speaker 5: we convene. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: They backed off.
Speaker 2: I would mean it would be I would be passing
Speaker 2: hat in the locker room. Okay, you were. You were
Speaker 2: practicing too hard. I saw you too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They well, the team can benefit from not having.
Speaker 1: His should not get any injuries in.
Speaker 2: That, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a Seawn Lee injury in twenty fourteen
Speaker 3: ORed in the month of me.
Speaker 1: I remember that one. It was a it was a
Speaker 1: run to to the right and he was going, you know,
Speaker 1: to stop him, to turn him back inside. And uh,
Speaker 1: when I think it might have been.
Speaker 2: Zach Martin.
Speaker 3: Zach Martin, he was a rookie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was fourteen, kind of blocked the way he
Speaker 1: turned back inside to try to cut it off, right,
Speaker 1: and uh.
Speaker 2: And didn't they have that video on?
Speaker 3: Uh? It was it was during an opening, it was
Speaker 3: open practice. The media was at Valley Ranch.
Speaker 1: And and basically what he did he tore an a
Speaker 1: c L that was about halfway gone anyway. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I remember it was a week or so later. I
Speaker 1: was in the locker room and he comes walking in
Speaker 1: on crutches. Right, he had just had his had his
Speaker 1: had his surgery, and I looked at him and I
Speaker 1: shook my head. I go, Sean, it was an ot A.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? He goes, well, I was just
Speaker 1: trying to do the right thing on you know, that
Speaker 1: was my responsibility to turn it back inside.
Speaker 5: And that was a testament to how Sean did need
Speaker 5: to down.
Speaker 1: Yeah a little bits, that's him.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, ia all that.
Speaker 1: So so anyway, yeah, it was powder puff o t
Speaker 1: A out there. I guarantee you they.
Speaker 2: And they stayed away. They should they should actually give
Speaker 2: them T shirts.
Speaker 1: Elen o t Yeah. Well, but to you know, and
Speaker 1: and and Dak talked about it, and he said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, he said, uh something to the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, while we can't go full speed, he goes,
Speaker 1: I can go full speed in my mind, and you
Speaker 1: just get mental reps to understand what we're trying where
Speaker 1: he can anticipate, he said, And that's what everybody else
Speaker 1: has got to do. So anyway, we'll have a lot
Speaker 1: of impressions of that. By the way, today's what May
Speaker 1: thirty first, Yes, so that means tomorrow June first is
Speaker 1: the June first releases, remember Ezekiel Elliot, So on June second,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will recoup some salary cap money.
Speaker 3: Not just some, but ten point nine million dollars will be.
Speaker 1: But they also so he was going to count sixteen
Speaker 1: million in change against the cap. Now that five point
Speaker 1: eight has to still be accounted for, so they'll clear
Speaker 1: about ten ten million dollars.
Speaker 2: Has anyone had Zeke Elliott sighting?
Speaker 1: I think maybe at the dak Stadium. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, no.
Speaker 2: So he has been visited.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you want to jump into it right now? Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's go. What do you think?
Speaker 1: So did you see what Mike McCarthy said about.
Speaker 3: Yes, last Thursday is press conference Mike McCarthy talking about
Speaker 3: as they looked back at uh short yardage and goal
Speaker 3: line situations last year. What was the quote?
Speaker 1: So here's the entire quote. He's somebody else replace Wait
Speaker 1: till next segment, let's go. He said. Somebody asked him
Speaker 1: about what, you know, how is going replacing Zeke? And
Speaker 1: he said, well, I don't think you just go out
Speaker 1: and replace Zeke. I don't view it that way. Kapanominics.
Speaker 1: That's real, and sometimes you have to make decisions. The
Speaker 1: coaches were doing short yardage and goal line last night,
Speaker 1: and you know he just jumps off the tape. It's
Speaker 1: really not about replacing Zeke. It's about opportunities for other
Speaker 1: young guys.
Speaker 3: And they weren't looking at short yardage and goal line
Speaker 3: plays from four years ago. Now we're looking at short
Speaker 3: yardage and goal line plays from last year.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: And so the head coach understands that there were twelve
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns. There were twelve of fourteen conversions on third
Speaker 1: and one, and when they were at the one yard line,
Speaker 1: he was scoring seven touchdowns inside the five.
Speaker 3: So the whole situation changes come Friday as far as
Speaker 3: Zeke's market.
Speaker 1: Right and we'll see what ends up. Well, he could
Speaker 1: have signed it. He could have, yeah, but he hasn't.
Speaker 3: But he wasn't going to get the Cowboys' best offer
Speaker 3: right until.
Speaker 1: Friday, and so they could.
Speaker 3: So that would be he could have offers on the
Speaker 3: table from other teams right now, and he could be
Speaker 3: telling those other teams that I'm waiting till June second.
Speaker 5: And who would those potential other teams be? What's been
Speaker 5: what's been special rumors?
Speaker 1: And then everybody else said, WHOA, no, we we hadn't
Speaker 1: done anything.
Speaker 2: So was it?
Speaker 3: Well, Tampa Bay's got Skip Pete is a running backs coach,
Speaker 3: and they have no salary cap money available. But they
Speaker 3: I don't know if they had a June first cut
Speaker 3: or not.
Speaker 1: They did resign Fournette, right, they.
Speaker 3: Let right four nets out there and as well.
Speaker 5: Right, So wait, skip Pete, that's his name, right, So
Speaker 5: what's he going to coach? I mean, what running backs
Speaker 5: are there? You know who's there? He comes to a
Speaker 5: team with no quarterback.
Speaker 1: Well, they got they got a quarterback.
Speaker 2: Quarter back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's already slim Thickens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it really is. So you sent me down
Speaker 2: to Tampa.
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay has in their running back room. A third
Speaker 3: round pick from last year was Shot White. Chase Edmonds,
Speaker 3: who they signed in free agency. He was cap casualty
Speaker 3: in Denver. Keishawn Vaughan, who is a third round pick
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty, Patrick Laird, Ronnie Brown, not that Ronnie Brown. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And Sean Tucker. Oh, Sean Tucker, who I really like
Speaker 3: from Syracuse. However, he may not play this year because
Speaker 3: he's or he may not play in his NFL career.
Speaker 3: He should have been could have been like a second
Speaker 3: round draft pick, but he was detected with a medical condition.
Speaker 3: At the combine. So what you're challenged, So he wasn't
Speaker 3: even able to run to train for the for.
Speaker 1: The drafts, skip better coaches, asset.
Speaker 3: Coach what so there is room at the end in Tampa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see is a whole if you just
Speaker 1: want to concentrate it on what the head coach says,
Speaker 1: you know, we understand thoroughly.
Speaker 3: My ears perked up when he said that.
Speaker 1: It's right there in college.
Speaker 3: It's it's not just talk that they value Zeke and
Speaker 3: and look at what the Cowboys. I mean, we talked
Speaker 3: about what Tampa Bay has in their running back room.
Speaker 3: What are the Cowboys have?
Speaker 2: No right?
Speaker 3: And you've got Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: And by the way, he was taking part in some
Speaker 1: of the drills, so that was encouraging. And he looked
Speaker 1: like he you know, they weren't going full speed, but
Speaker 1: he was moving so it wasn't like he was out
Speaker 1: there limping through things. Excellent, So that was encouraging.
Speaker 3: And you've got Ronald Jones who they signed in free agency, who,
Speaker 3: by the way, in Kansas City last year played in
Speaker 3: six games and got thirty eight offensive snaps in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: That makes you feel good.
Speaker 3: Deuce Vaughan, of course, the sixth round draft pick out
Speaker 3: of Kansas.
Speaker 1: Date who is as small as advertised.
Speaker 3: Which is five to five one seventy nine pounds.
Speaker 2: I think they got one over the five.
Speaker 1: I think they got him at five six.
Speaker 3: Well, the combine had him at five feet five inches tall.
Speaker 1: Right, and my and this and this thing, this thing
Speaker 1: the roster we got uh has number forty two at
Speaker 1: five six seventy six.
Speaker 3: So maybe you got Milik Davis and Rico o'dowdell and
Speaker 3: Hunter Lipke.
Speaker 1: Don't go to sleep on Malik Davis. They like him,
Speaker 1: and he showed up last year. I think he had
Speaker 1: like thirty eight carries.
Speaker 3: Do they like him on the goal line in short
Speaker 3: yardage situation?
Speaker 2: That's five?
Speaker 1: He's two five?
Speaker 3: And what is zeke? Zeke is to twenty five?
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, I know that says nothing to me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not at all.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, just to be a complimentary, complimentary running back,
Speaker 1: not to.
Speaker 5: Do well, that's one. But we know that Malik Davis
Speaker 5: was a good is a good player. We saw that
Speaker 5: last year when he got some time.
Speaker 2: And see that's what.
Speaker 5: We all remember from Okay is the block that he
Speaker 5: missed but otherwise he had a decent season for someone
Speaker 5: that's playing behind two very good running backs.
Speaker 3: All right, I think the one of the big questions
Speaker 3: here is how many offensive snaps do you want Tony
Speaker 3: Pollard to have in a game. And we'll break it
Speaker 3: down over a season, over a season, basically on offense,
Speaker 3: you have in a seventeen game season, a little over
Speaker 3: eleven hundred snaps.
Speaker 5: Can I make a difference between snaps and touches, because
Speaker 5: to me, it's it's touches. You know, that's when you
Speaker 5: when we give him a lot of touches, then that's
Speaker 5: when you can see.
Speaker 2: Him get fatigued. I don't know about the amount of plays.
Speaker 5: I don't nobody's blocking, but I know when it comes
Speaker 5: to the touches, the more touches that we get him,
Speaker 5: the more he's fatigued and he's calling, he's tapping out.
Speaker 1: And so if he was getting I was doing it
Speaker 1: real quick. If I did it right, fifteen carries a
Speaker 1: game over seventeen weeks, that looks like that comes to
Speaker 1: about two hundred and fifty snaps in the season. Yes,
Speaker 1: that would be about right.
Speaker 3: Okay, Here here was the breakdown last year. Here was
Speaker 3: the breakdown. Yeah, as far as snaps go, last year, right,
Speaker 3: what what do you think the percentage was of snaps
Speaker 3: divided between Tony Pollard and Zeke Elliott last year?
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it was thirty thirty eight percent to whatever.
Speaker 3: Thirty eight percent for Pollard, yes, and sixty two percent
Speaker 3: for Zeke. Tony Pollard had five hundred sixty seven offensive
Speaker 3: snaps last year and Zeke Elliott had five hundred fifty eight.
Speaker 3: So it was a fifty to fifty split last year.
Speaker 3: But the perception is that Zeke is on the field
Speaker 3: a lot more than Pollard. Well, as it turns out,
Speaker 3: Pollard was on the field as much as Zeke was
Speaker 3: last year. So my point is, and so if even
Speaker 3: if you want to push Paul, where do you want
Speaker 3: to push Pollard?
Speaker 5: Two?
Speaker 3: As far as those snaps go, do you want anything
Speaker 3: to go sixty to forty?
Speaker 2: You keep it.
Speaker 3: I think you wanted fifty to fifty, just like you
Speaker 3: had it. And you can give me more touches as
Speaker 3: you go along here. Okay, I went back and looked
Speaker 3: at the first game of the year last year and
Speaker 3: last night against Tampa Bay, and you know you could
Speaker 3: tell from the get go the very first snap of
Speaker 3: the season, they're going to make a concerted effort to
Speaker 3: have Pollard on the field as much as Zeke. So
Speaker 3: on the first play of the game, both of them
Speaker 3: are on the field and Pollard lined up wide and
Speaker 3: then he went in motion back in the backfield. They
Speaker 3: handed to Zeke. Then on the third play of the
Speaker 3: they're back on the field at the same time time
Speaker 3: and they run an end around with where it's like
Speaker 3: a double reverse, giving it to CD and then he
Speaker 3: kind of passes it over to Pollard and they lose
Speaker 3: ten yards. And I was jayous, Yeah, right, And so
Speaker 3: they were trying to figure out ways to get Pollard
Speaker 3: on the field the same time. Well, you can figure
Speaker 3: out ways to get Pollared the football and more than
Speaker 3: you give it to whoever the other running back is.
Speaker 3: But I think you want him so that he is
Speaker 3: strong throughout the season. Basically a fifty to fifty split
Speaker 3: Pollard versus the other running backs. Now, who on this
Speaker 3: depth chart do you want to take those fifty percent
Speaker 3: of the snaps?
Speaker 1: I would have to spread him out between two or
Speaker 1: three guys, right, And I'll just go back to what
Speaker 1: McCarthy said. Kapanomics that's real. If he wasn't making a
Speaker 1: ten point nine million dollar base salary this year, he
Speaker 1: would have been in that locker room right now.
Speaker 5: And we want we want intelligent touches. Bill, You don't
Speaker 5: just want to just give anybody that touch.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's all right.
Speaker 5: We're just gonna be counting percentages here. Okay, you got
Speaker 5: yours in, all right, this time it might be thirty one,
Speaker 5: But then it's Malik Davis's turn, but it's thirty one.
Speaker 5: You know, we try to move the chain, So you're
Speaker 5: gonna you gotta be smart about the touches, right, you know,
Speaker 5: you gotta be strategic on who's gonna have it at
Speaker 5: the particular time. So touches is one thing, but sometimes
Speaker 5: the flow of the game might predicate that thing.
Speaker 1: You want him in there banging away on third and
Speaker 1: one and you get it now it's first down. Are
Speaker 1: you handing them to the ball again?
Speaker 5: You could have possibly the way a drive could turn out.
Speaker 5: You could have several very important thirty ones. And you
Speaker 5: gotta be smart on who you want to give it to, right,
Speaker 5: and how many times you want to give it to
Speaker 5: him with this backfield.
Speaker 1: And from powered I mean what's his deal? Basically his
Speaker 1: ability to bust the run right. NFL dot Com did
Speaker 1: a deal on top ten explosive runners in the league
Speaker 1: and it was a combination of some next gen stats
Speaker 1: expected you know, yardage, and then they broke it down
Speaker 1: to ten plus runs, ten yard plus runs, percentage, and
Speaker 1: then fifteen plus mile per hour runs okay, and percentage.
Speaker 1: Pollard ended up fifth. He had an overall score of
Speaker 1: eighty seven. The number one guy was Justin Fields had
Speaker 1: a ninety eight, but he had far fewer carries than
Speaker 1: Pollard did. And they're different carries, right of course, because
Speaker 1: a lot with the quarterback it's not designed to run apparently,
Speaker 1: so that gives you an opportunity. But he had thirty
Speaker 1: one ten plus yard runs, so sixteen percent of his
Speaker 1: carries were at least ten yards. And when it came
Speaker 1: to fifteen plus US miles an hour run, he had
Speaker 1: forty three of those. So you don't want that to
Speaker 1: go down because you've given them more carries. You still
Speaker 1: want that explosiveness.
Speaker 5: Those carries are most likely not on the goal line,
Speaker 5: and they are most likely not short yard is placed
Speaker 5: that pilot had. Okay, Those are usually first and ten
Speaker 5: second long, and we learned how to.
Speaker 2: Stretch the field.
Speaker 5: You remember how we used to do it with doorset,
Speaker 5: and we see with Pilot you stretch the field, create
Speaker 5: the weakness, and you cut back inside. Yeah, you can
Speaker 5: do that on second first and ten second long, thirty
Speaker 5: one goal line.
Speaker 2: You can't do that.
Speaker 5: It's hard to create that kind of scenario to where
Speaker 5: you can create softness for a Pilot or any one
Speaker 5: of his size. That's tough to emulate with someone that's
Speaker 5: not Zeke Elliott.
Speaker 1: So two things happen right away when everybody sees June one,
Speaker 1: and so the Cowperys are going to have ten more
Speaker 1: million dollars in cap space. Well, the first thought, well,
Speaker 1: you got to go get DeAndre Hopkins, right. The second
Speaker 1: thought is that, well, my thought is you can use
Speaker 1: that money now. It's not like you can go and
Speaker 1: just splurge. Now you've got available cap space to sign
Speaker 1: guys to extensions. Trayvon Diggs maybe c d Land at
Speaker 1: some point. And by the way, Trayvon Diggs was not
Speaker 1: at the OTA. Now he's done that before, working out
Speaker 1: with his brother and whatever. And I understand it's voluntary, right, Hambrick.
Speaker 1: I still think of that every day standing there listening
Speaker 1: him to say what do voluntary mean? But again, you
Speaker 1: also have ten million dollars extra to say, hey z,
Speaker 1: how about two and a half three million dollar base
Speaker 1: to return with his incentives?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: And you can you can do the incentives in a
Speaker 1: way that they won't count against the cap because if
Speaker 1: you give them incentives that he accomplished the year before,
Speaker 1: then they're likely to be earned and you've got to
Speaker 1: pay for it. And if he doesn't get it, then
Speaker 1: you get a rebate the next year. But if you
Speaker 1: give them the type of incentives that he didn't have
Speaker 1: the previous year and he gets them, then they charge
Speaker 1: you next year for that. So there's a way to
Speaker 1: work on that. So yeah, I think that no one's
Speaker 1: brought that up right away. DeAndre Hopkins right.
Speaker 2: He's going to cause more than ten bis.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, absolutely what he was making. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a twenty million dollars wide receiver, yes, absolutely, And you
Speaker 1: spent your money on your wide receiver with Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 1: By the way, in Cincinnati, have.
Speaker 6: Sean Watson wants Cleveland and in fact fact and bring
Speaker 6: that up in regards to Zeke as well, Cleveland could
Speaker 6: use another running back to go.
Speaker 3: With Nick Chubb also, but there are six teams that
Speaker 3: are picking up cap space on Friday, and the Browns
Speaker 3: are one of those teams. Like the Cowboys, estimated ten
Speaker 3: point nine million dollars becomes available for them, and so
Speaker 3: I would think DeShawn Watson has that targeted for DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 3: that extra violence.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting.
Speaker 5: I think he could be back in Cleveland, back in Ohio,
Speaker 5: back in Ohio.
Speaker 3: I mean, Cincinnati was another team that was mentioned because
Speaker 3: they lost some p Ryan, but they did draft Chase Brown,
Speaker 3: rookie out of Illinois to go with Mixon. Good player,
Speaker 3: he's good, Yeah, yeah, he's good. He's a different type
Speaker 3: back than what Zeke is. Zeke is more of the
Speaker 3: I mean, is the Ryan type to go along with mixing.
Speaker 3: So that made a lot of sense too. But they've
Speaker 3: got and the other thing on Zeke is he he
Speaker 3: now knows what the market is for running backs as
Speaker 3: opposed to back in March when he was let go. Okay,
Speaker 3: so he he sees that there's not that kind of
Speaker 3: money out there that there has been in the past
Speaker 3: for running backs, and so I would imagine if I'm
Speaker 3: if I am Zeke's agent. I want to see what
Speaker 3: the cowboys best offer is, and you know, see what
Speaker 3: else is out there, take it to the Cowboys and
Speaker 3: see if they'll match it. And the Cowboys up until
Speaker 3: this Friday haven't had the ability to match it. Well,
Speaker 3: now they presumably have extra money that they may not
Speaker 3: be spending elsewhere.
Speaker 2: How influential you think Dak might be.
Speaker 3: I think very I think just like just like DeAndre,
Speaker 3: just like Shan Watson wants DeAndre Hopkins in Cleveland, I
Speaker 3: would think that Dak wants And I would think Tony
Speaker 3: Pollard wants Zeke Kelly at the right too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would imagine the coaching staff too.
Speaker 3: It sounded like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, everybody, he's like, oh, I got all
Speaker 1: this money. Now we all know because normally, and they
Speaker 1: have around ten million today, you need about that to
Speaker 1: operate through the season because you're gonna have injuries. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have guys you're gonna have to pay on ir,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have guys get hurt that you pay injury
Speaker 1: settlements too. And if you look at what happened last year,
Speaker 1: I think they ended up playing oh gosh, do it
Speaker 1: off the top of my head. They ended up playing
Speaker 1: like seventy two guys at some point during the season
Speaker 1: to get through the season.
Speaker 2: So it seems like a lot.
Speaker 1: Well, when you have injury.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, here's the real thought about the number.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a lot, But the whole landscape on
Speaker 3: it had changed with the pandemic because the rules changed
Speaker 3: as far as injured reserve goes.
Speaker 2: And now about the norm.
Speaker 3: Now, if you've got a guy who's spraying an ankle,
Speaker 3: you don't have to put him on season ending injured reserve.
Speaker 3: He can just be out four weeks. And so you're
Speaker 3: going to naturally use more players, so you need more
Speaker 3: at deft on your roster that way, and you got
Speaker 3: a fund and larger practice squad too, And the practice
Speaker 3: squad rules are different where you can have veterans on
Speaker 3: your practice squad and there's.
Speaker 2: A norm right right now.
Speaker 1: And you got to fund your practice squad and that's
Speaker 1: sixteen sixteen guys over eighteen weeks. And those guys, if
Speaker 1: they're there the whole time, make right at two hundred thousand,
Speaker 1: which is why when you see some of the undrafted
Speaker 1: free agents, you came around too soon they're guaranteeing them
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand. But the guarantee is if you don't
Speaker 1: make the team, you'll at least be on the practice squad.
Speaker 2: Is what is the base salary for a rookie?
Speaker 1: Yeah, first year, it's I think it's almost getting close
Speaker 1: to six hundred thousand and maybe five hundred and.
Speaker 2: Chain so andreft of free agent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if he's on the if he's on the fifty three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, rookie minimum.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what was your what was your rookie minimum?
Speaker 2: I think like twenty eight thirty. I got thirty. I
Speaker 2: think i'd got fifteen signing bonus by god.
Speaker 3: So really, when you look at the training camp rosters,
Speaker 3: and all teams have ninety players on their training camp roster,
Speaker 3: if you look at throughout the course of if you
Speaker 3: chart it throughout the course of the season, with practice
Speaker 3: squads and injuries and all that stuff, I would estimate
Speaker 3: that on every team's camp, eighty of those ninety players
Speaker 3: will be on a roster at some point during the season,
Speaker 3: which is a total difference than what it's been in
Speaker 3: the past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So good stuff.
Speaker 1: Now, all right, I told you we're going to like
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Speaker 2: Up.
Speaker 3: We got a lot more to get to and mix
Speaker 3: shots continues at a moment.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Chris.
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Speaker 3: All right, we've got this breaking news. The according to
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty Collective Barty Agreement, this is the rookie
Speaker 3: minimum salary. In twenty twenty three, mickey, you estimated it
Speaker 3: was around five fifty some k try seven hundred fifty
Speaker 3: way thousand dollars. In twenty twenty three, the rookie minimum
Speaker 3: salary in the in the NFL is now up to
Speaker 3: seven hundred fifty thousand dollars. Last year it was seven
Speaker 3: o five. Twenty twenty one it was six sixty, and
Speaker 3: twenty twenty it was six ten. Okay, it will go
Speaker 3: up to by twenty twenty eight, five years from now,
Speaker 3: the rookie minimum will be nine hundred and seventy five
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. In contrast, ten year, twelve years ago, twenty eleven,
Speaker 3: twenty eleven, it was three seventy five. It's gone up
Speaker 3: from three seventy five to seven fifty and twelve years.
Speaker 3: In fifteen years, it's gone up five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and six it was two hundred seventy
Speaker 3: five thousand dollars and now it's seven to fifty.
Speaker 1: So now you know why the salary cap keeps increasing, right,
Speaker 1: It's got to otherwise you can't. You can't keep up
Speaker 1: with the increase in the base salary.
Speaker 2: Well, and the TV contracts are doing well for the owners.
Speaker 1: Well, next year, man, that sour CAP's going to go
Speaker 1: up twenty five million.
Speaker 3: Now, let me show you how this benefits veteran players. Okay,
Speaker 3: because if you now look at the difference, and I
Speaker 3: think this is probably something that even veteran players were
Speaker 3: pushing for because veteran players were getting pushed out of
Speaker 3: the league because of the difference in the minimum salary
Speaker 3: for a veteran player versus a rookie in the past,
Speaker 3: where you you could say basically five hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 3: if you take the young guy over the veteran guy.
Speaker 3: This year, seven point fifty for a rookie is the
Speaker 3: minimum base eight seventy for a player with one year
Speaker 3: of service. For a player with six years of service,
Speaker 3: it's one million. There's not that much difference between a
Speaker 3: rookie and a six year veteran.
Speaker 5: That's what the six year veteran would say when he
Speaker 5: goes in to negotiate, hey, hey, I got a lot
Speaker 5: more experience than this guy. Yeah, and this way make
Speaker 5: it almost the same.
Speaker 3: It's going to keep players in the league longer. Those
Speaker 3: third year, fourth year, fifth year guys can now stay
Speaker 3: in the league because a difference in pay has not
Speaker 3: for a you know, these are core players on your team.
Speaker 5: But you're talking about so the bookies are happy because
Speaker 5: they have the minimum went up, and the veterans are
Speaker 5: happy because they get to stay now potentially.
Speaker 3: Now, basically what has happened because free agency has flooded
Speaker 3: the market so much, is that everybody is making the
Speaker 3: minimum once you get past the first wave of free agency.
Speaker 3: That's why you had guys that were signing for one
Speaker 3: year contracts at the minimum, which is one point one
Speaker 3: million dollars for these veteran guys.
Speaker 5: Well, Will McLay is pretty good at that, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean we.
Speaker 3: Doah, so you have to well and that also and
Speaker 3: New England has been good at this over the years
Speaker 3: where it's not necessarily the guys you're drafting this year,
Speaker 3: but the guys that are going to become available two
Speaker 3: years from now, three years from now where in your
Speaker 3: draft preparation you have to get to know all those
Speaker 3: players because you're going to have an opportunity within three
Speaker 3: years to acquire one of those players.
Speaker 1: And the other on their benefit too is if you
Speaker 1: sign these guys to one year veteran exception, you get
Speaker 1: a break on their base salary, Like you can pay
Speaker 1: them that much, but it only counts a percentage less
Speaker 1: And as long as you only give them a small
Speaker 1: signing bonus, like maybe one hundred and fifty thousand, I
Speaker 1: think that's the limit. So you can sign guys to
Speaker 1: veteran exceptions and save some money on the salary cap.
Speaker 1: And you know what, when it comes down to it,
Speaker 1: every ten twenty thousand dollars counts nowadays because it's so
Speaker 1: tight and because you've got to use so many players
Speaker 1: to get through the season.
Speaker 3: All right out well else from because we have we
Speaker 3: got able to watch them on a field.
Speaker 1: And we will get to do that again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: That's right. And we've had media availability since the last
Speaker 3: time we convene. Know, you have filled up your legal
Speaker 3: pad with so many notes. What what next?
Speaker 1: We got to watch the kicker kick and they did it.
Speaker 1: Who's the kicker, Tristan Viscayno, so he's the guy now,
Speaker 1: well he's the only one the guy right now, or
Speaker 1: as John Fossil said, it's Tristan and everybody else on
Speaker 1: the planet Earth that's not on another team.
Speaker 3: Sale or female. Right.
Speaker 1: So they did a kicking you know, it wasn't a
Speaker 1: full rush, but they the only person missing in the
Speaker 1: kicking operation was the holder. So John Fossil was the
Speaker 1: holder and they were kicking indoors. So uh on his
Speaker 1: first oh, I did on his first nine attempts, he
Speaker 1: hit from thirty three thirty five, wide right from thirty seven,
Speaker 1: and then was good on thirty nine, forty one, forty three,
Speaker 1: forty five, forty seven and on fifty one. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he did, but he just did not hit
Speaker 1: the ball. Uh, and it was wide right.
Speaker 3: And shit he did he didn't whiff, No, he just
Speaker 3: didn't hit it.
Speaker 2: Well. It was he hit it two pay like in golf.
Speaker 1: It was it was it was almost like he got
Speaker 1: fifty hit is fat? Yeah, he is fat.
Speaker 3: It's almost like he the Fossil pulled on Charlie.
Speaker 2: I better stop.
Speaker 1: We got got the fifty yards in his head, right.
Speaker 2: I imagine that Coachy doing crap like that. Everybody's out
Speaker 2: there watching it.
Speaker 1: Just the kicking because he had he had good pop.
Speaker 3: He had good pop.
Speaker 1: And then when it was fifty one and he was mad.
Speaker 1: I could see his look on you know, it was like.
Speaker 2: We need it was it was well viewed, right, a
Speaker 2: lot of people out Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we saw it.
Speaker 2: He could feel pressure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that was the longest that was. That was
Speaker 1: the long one.
Speaker 3: And you don't need a kicker with as much pop
Speaker 3: now for kickoffs because of the new fair catch rule.
Speaker 3: If he could just pop.
Speaker 1: It up, if somebody's gonna catch, but you got to
Speaker 1: get it past the twenty five.
Speaker 3: Well they can get it past accurate, but you don't
Speaker 3: have to get it into the end zone. You got
Speaker 3: to be accurate though, right, you can't kick it out
Speaker 3: of bounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll take accuracy. Matt Barr was accurate. He couldn't
Speaker 2: kick long, right, he was accurate.
Speaker 1: Because the idea is they just give me, give me.
Speaker 2: My point, give me my sweet spot, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: make it. Can you kick?
Speaker 1: Can you kick it? You know, to say the three
Speaker 1: yard line or the five yard line between the hash
Speaker 1: and the sideline and pin them in a corner and
Speaker 1: then your chances of covering it are much better. Well, now,
Speaker 1: if you do it, you know, guys can just say okay,
Speaker 1: fair catch and I get the ball to twenty five.
Speaker 1: So but again, the kickoffs, you would like the percentage
Speaker 1: of him to be touchbacks, a high percentage, and you
Speaker 1: got to be pretty good.
Speaker 2: Can he can he reach the end zone?
Speaker 1: All? I haven't seen that. I think, Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure he can't. Okay, but again I'm sure that you know,
Speaker 1: at some point they'll sign a veteran guy or somebody
Speaker 1: to come in here and check. We got somebody for you,
Speaker 1: somebody new.
Speaker 3: Yeah, producer supreme. Other than producer Supreme. Chris Beam just
Speaker 3: notified me of a guy who could be a wild
Speaker 3: card in this search for a kicker. Have you ever
Speaker 3: heard of Harry Kane, English Premier League. My son in
Speaker 3: law Collins favorite team, Tottenham Hotspurs. In fact, he gave
Speaker 3: he went and watched one of their games over in
Speaker 3: England just last week and got me some souvenir Hotspur socks.
Speaker 3: Harry Kane on Good Morning America This Morning says he
Speaker 3: wants to explore life as an NFL kicker after the
Speaker 3: after the Premier League? Is he going to retire from
Speaker 3: the Premier League. It's something I'd love to do.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's something that It's something that Jack Jones would
Speaker 5: love to explore.
Speaker 3: I bet Harry King would come in here and try
Speaker 3: out to be a kicker.
Speaker 1: One thing.
Speaker 3: When he makes a lot of money in the English Premier.
Speaker 1: League and when they kick in soccer, they just blasted right,
Speaker 1: there's not two little uprights saying okay, now you kick
Speaker 1: it between They just got a quick kick it.
Speaker 2: Ask me about asking to talk to Brett one hundred yards.
Speaker 5: He talked to Bread if we can find Brett with Brett?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brett, Well, he was in Denver last week and
Speaker 3: they did not sign him.
Speaker 2: Still, I think, jeez boy, that was.
Speaker 3: Quick producers supreme. I I just looked up Harry your salary.
Speaker 9: I don't know the exchange rate, but I know it's
Speaker 9: it's definitely higher. He's making ten point four euros right
Speaker 9: ten ten point four million euros right now playing frostsper
Speaker 9: which is like I don't know, I know it's in dollars,
Speaker 9: it's higher, so basically it's probably making about fifteen million.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he's gonna get the Cowboys get
Speaker 3: ten point nine million available come Friday.
Speaker 1: And what did you say the minimum was for our
Speaker 1: first year player?
Speaker 3: That's right, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Come on down,
Speaker 3: Harry Kane.
Speaker 2: Kenzik Cook?
Speaker 1: Oh can he kick Kenzink too?
Speaker 2: To Zinke Canny kick?
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure, yeah, I kick. Help try to do
Speaker 1: I'm sure Mike could care.
Speaker 3: Tell you what that fan base that that that Premier
Speaker 3: League's got the young guys, not the Mickey Spagnola's of
Speaker 3: the world. They're watching every Saturday and Sunday morning.
Speaker 5: Is it because of the celebrity that's the attached to it?
Speaker 5: Is this the same league where you've got the actor
Speaker 5: from Canada.
Speaker 2: He's one point owner of the lead of the team.
Speaker 5: Oh there, yes, yes, okay, so they made a big
Speaker 5: deal out of yeah, thank you Rex.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they made a big deal out of that. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they were being followed.
Speaker 1: But tell him, tell him, make sure he knows though
Speaker 1: if he comes here.
Speaker 2: The actor is Ryan Reynolds. By the way, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: Newspapers and TVs don't pay for interviews.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, he.
Speaker 1: Gets it's only eleven million there, you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's only eleven million the exchange rate, So that's
Speaker 3: his starting point. Okay, that's good, good idea, all right,
Speaker 3: Time for another break.
Speaker 1: He's a kicker on this earth, all right.
Speaker 3: And there's more mixed shots coming up in a moment.
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Speaker 1: I almost had to you know what I've started doing
Speaker 1: now reading the newspaper when I read, yes, well you
Speaker 1: can you can read online, right. And as I'm reading,
Speaker 1: I'm editing people's copy. I'm editing, putting in what it
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Speaker 1: learned long time ago, they host host is a noun,
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Speaker 2: That was very uninteresting.
Speaker 3: Just give you a little insight anything interesting.
Speaker 1: When I read.
Speaker 2: Insight, I would go with air instead.
Speaker 1: Of But we spent five minutes on some soccer player.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a Vegas drown singer.
Speaker 5: Harry Kings sing.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to skew your audience a little younger.
Speaker 2: No one young people, No one young is listening to this.
Speaker 2: They don't care.
Speaker 1: Oh yes they do. You'll be surprised.
Speaker 9: Even though most punters are coming over from Australia to
Speaker 9: punt in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Huh, well, bring him on.
Speaker 3: There's been a lot.
Speaker 5: How much money are they looking for, that's the thing.
Speaker 5: Are they getting paid over there versus what punds get
Speaker 5: paid over here?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I doubt it.
Speaker 1: Bunch coming through, Okay, so you want to know what
Speaker 1: else I got them?
Speaker 2: Yes, please tell us, please save us.
Speaker 1: This guy's another English lesson. This is I've got a
Speaker 1: bunch if you need them.
Speaker 2: By the way, Grammar.
Speaker 1: Try to even try to help out their TV guys, right,
Speaker 1: go ahead, so one Kelvin Joseph, Yes, my guy saw
Speaker 1: him out there when they went to Nickel and he
Speaker 1: was working in the slot. About that.
Speaker 2: I saw that last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see. They're giving the opportunity. You know what,
Speaker 1: it's not, well, frustrating is not the word. But when
Speaker 1: you see him out there, he's got great feet, man,
Speaker 1: and he's got great speed. Now if he just learns
Speaker 1: what he's supposed to do right, because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of talent there.
Speaker 2: So in the slot.
Speaker 5: I wonder if the Cowboys can can simplify it a
Speaker 5: little bit more for him. Is there a way to
Speaker 5: do that so that he can just play instead of
Speaker 5: thinking because you can't see it, and I tease about
Speaker 5: that's my guy, But I can see the potential. Of course,
Speaker 5: we know about the mistakes, the mental mistakes, but you
Speaker 5: can see the potential in this guy. And I see
Speaker 5: why they signed him. I just want to see him
Speaker 5: come through, you know. I want to see him.
Speaker 1: You know, you know his biggest problem is he hasn't
Speaker 1: played that much football. You know, he didn't play that
Speaker 1: much at LSU. He transfers sits out a year, didn't play,
Speaker 1: and then plays a year and gets towards the end
Speaker 1: of the season and decides when I got to protect
Speaker 1: myself and I'm sitting out and then he gets here
Speaker 1: and he didn't get many defensive snaps, So hey, you
Speaker 1: just need.
Speaker 5: To if they think he's worth it, they should have
Speaker 5: signed someone to watch film with him, because playing defensive back,
Speaker 5: he's got the instincts, you know, he has that.
Speaker 2: He just needs the knowledge right and it.
Speaker 5: Shouldn't be that hard to be able to just sit
Speaker 5: down with him one on one and show him exactly.
Speaker 5: First of all, when I coach the kids, I tell
Speaker 5: him these are the things we don't do first. Now
Speaker 5: you cannot do this, okay, and you go from there,
Speaker 5: you dumb it down from there, don't do this.
Speaker 2: Then you got all this other stuff available to you.
Speaker 5: That should be a way to approach this guy, because one,
Speaker 5: once again, he's got just as much talent as anybody
Speaker 5: in the secondary.
Speaker 1: And if he could just use it not be so jumpy. Yes,
Speaker 1: the other thing at corner that I noticed is uh
Speaker 1: my dark horse Eric Scott. Yes, yes, there was a
Speaker 1: couple of times I saw that with Trayvon Diggs not there.
Speaker 1: He got a couple of snaps with the first team
Speaker 1: defense on the right, Stevon Gilmour on one side, and
Speaker 1: he was on the other for a few snaps because
Speaker 1: they were using the Sean Wright over there quite a bit.
Speaker 5: But yeah, when you when you have the depth of
Speaker 5: this secondary and then you go straight to him, Yeah,
Speaker 5: when Diggs is not there, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Tom didn't put you out there.
Speaker 2: Well I was over there playing with myself.
Speaker 3: But he wasn't a draft.
Speaker 1: Pick, that's right, and not one that they traded up
Speaker 1: to the first pick in the sixth round. So we
Speaker 1: got to remember that. And uh uh. And he looked
Speaker 1: right too. He's a I think they listed to him
Speaker 1: at six ' one.
Speaker 5: He just looks like he has he has their awareness about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so did see that. Matt will let's go, who
Speaker 1: basically missed all last year. They had him working at
Speaker 1: left tackle with the kind of the second team guys.
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith was at right tackle with.
Speaker 2: Really with the first team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was out there and he was participating too.
Speaker 1: They kind of held Zach Martin out. Terrence Steele was
Speaker 1: out on the field but he's still rehabbing.
Speaker 2: And who was on the left tackle.
Speaker 1: Some guy named Tyler Smith. So this is it's where
Speaker 1: he's going to be. This is I think. So that's
Speaker 1: crazy and we'll see what happens, and not as much as.
Speaker 5: Tyler Tyln tyronn over here that.
Speaker 1: That's right and we'll see what happens. And Matt Farniac
Speaker 1: was at left guard.
Speaker 5: You know, when I went to the Giants, I realized
Speaker 5: that I was a better I felt more comfortable on
Speaker 5: the right corner than the left corner after playing left
Speaker 5: corner here all my career, because I guess I'm just
Speaker 5: more comfortable on the right side, you know, from playing
Speaker 5: different sports and things of that nature. And maybe Tyrant
Speaker 5: has figured out the same thing.
Speaker 1: Also, the supposedly defensive end from Florida A and m
Speaker 1: Isaiah Land, he was playing linebacker. Just what I thought
Speaker 1: they would.
Speaker 2: Do with them. What's going on with Marquis.
Speaker 1: He's still at safety and he you know, they were
Speaker 1: changing everybody. Marquis Bell, Marquise Bell is his teammate. Interesting
Speaker 1: and I can't remember if we talked about it last
Speaker 1: week or not. When we talked with Dan Quinn, he
Speaker 1: said he first noticed Isaiah Land when he was scouting
Speaker 1: Marquise Bell.
Speaker 2: And he saw him and.
Speaker 1: That would have been his big year when he was
Speaker 1: a junior, when he was the FCS Defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the year and he said so when he when they
Speaker 1: got to the combine and guys were working out or whatever,
Speaker 1: and he said he called Marquise and say, hey, what's
Speaker 1: up with this dude? You know, you know about him
Speaker 1: and he said. Marquise said he's a dog and he said,
Speaker 1: I kept yeah, And he said, so I kept an
Speaker 1: eye on him. Now, they didn't draft him, but they
Speaker 1: surely went after him right away, and and and dan
Speaker 1: Quinn talked about how you know, you have to have
Speaker 1: a vision for guys, and he said, my vision was
Speaker 1: I've got a guy that can rush the quarterback but
Speaker 1: looks like a linebacker and he's like two twenty five.
Speaker 1: So at times and they were working like two sets
Speaker 1: at a time, the veteran guys over here, the rookies
Speaker 1: on this end, and they had overshone in Land playing
Speaker 1: linebacker with the young guys. Yeah, look it looked good.
Speaker 1: Now we'll see, you know, obviously we have to qualify
Speaker 1: everything we saw with helmets, jersey, shorts, no contact, but
Speaker 1: just you can see how guys move, right, he can tell. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to get another look tomorrow when they
Speaker 1: get back out there. Michael Gallup was running really well,
Speaker 1: catching the ball. They were doing some drill and they
Speaker 1: were throwing the ball into the end zone and it
Speaker 1: wasn't against anybody was just catching the ball and the
Speaker 1: ball was overthrown and he just reached out with one
Speaker 1: hand and grabbed it and brought it in.
Speaker 5: You know, you think about Michael Gallup, He's got to
Speaker 5: be one of the most important guys on the team.
Speaker 1: I think so this year he'll be good. Good we
Speaker 1: got a tour.
Speaker 2: Number two receiver.
Speaker 5: That would be so cool him coming back the way
Speaker 5: he was, because before his injury, we saw him do
Speaker 5: some crazy crazy stuff, right, I remember him going down
Speaker 5: the sidelines for a touchdown. I don't know how he
Speaker 5: did it, almost like it felt like look like he
Speaker 5: tried to almost caught wheeled himself into the end zone
Speaker 5: one time. And so his balance, his athleticism before that injury,
Speaker 5: it was it was pretty freaky.
Speaker 3: I like the fact that they're using him in a
Speaker 3: variety of rights.
Speaker 1: Now, moving them around and Cooks can do the same thing.
Speaker 1: He can play inside outside, and he is as quick
Speaker 1: and fast as advertising have.
Speaker 2: They been walking Gallop in the slot.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that I saw him line up in
Speaker 1: any of those but again.
Speaker 5: And see that's the thing about the receiver. You give
Speaker 5: him an advantage if he can play different sides and
Speaker 5: of course play the slot right, and you can't be predictable.
Speaker 1: And you almost got if he can, and you've got
Speaker 1: three receivers that are totally interchangeable. That's because you know
Speaker 1: CD can go inside. Yes, So yeah, that part looked
Speaker 1: pretty good, seeing what he can do.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then one DeMarcus Ware was hanging around helping the
Speaker 1: guys with some of their pass rush, teaching them things,
Speaker 1: and and he looked good. I was like, come on,
Speaker 1: you don't need to go in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: You could still play, right. He goes, well, I showed
Speaker 1: those young guys that I could still get around him.
Speaker 1: So he shows when I can do that. Then they listen,
Speaker 1: Uh that he was talking about how the process is
Speaker 1: really something else, sitting there posing for them to make
Speaker 1: his bust. But he's all in, he goes, they keep
Speaker 1: me busy. So so one more OTA practice and then
Speaker 1: the following week is mandatory mini camp. But I would
Speaker 1: imagine the amount of physicality will be about.
Speaker 2: The same powderpuff.
Speaker 3: So are you surprised at all that the Cowboys haven't
Speaker 3: brought in a young developmental quarterback.
Speaker 1: I thought they might.
Speaker 3: As you look at the Cowboys quarterbacks with Dak turns
Speaker 3: thirty in July, Cooper Rush turns thirty in November, and
Speaker 3: then Will Greer he's twenty eight years old. They don't
Speaker 3: have a quarterback on their roster under age twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and all they did for the rookie mining camp
Speaker 1: was bring the guy in for a workout and then
Speaker 1: they didn't bring him back for the OTA.
Speaker 3: So clearly there's not anybody that they right, you know.
Speaker 3: And I just did a little search through all the
Speaker 3: rosters and there's probably about ten teams in the league
Speaker 3: that ten to twelve teams that only have three quarterbacks
Speaker 3: on their roster. And maybe some of that too is
Speaker 3: they're not doing much in the off season, you know,
Speaker 3: but maybe they're waiting maybe during the season there's somebody
Speaker 3: they like who gets let go of whatever. As far
Speaker 3: as a practice squad type.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you don't need to know the system. He
Speaker 5: just needs to come in and be a practice player.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're looking at someone like that for the future,
Speaker 3: so developmental for them, but clearly there's nobody that they
Speaker 3: really like. Beyond, you know.
Speaker 1: And you know the NFL is trying to help out
Speaker 1: with the new rule that you can have the emergency
Speaker 1: third quarterback not count against your game day actives.
Speaker 3: But again, now the rule on that, though you is
Speaker 3: he has to be on the fifty three.
Speaker 1: Yes, cannot be out of the practice Yeah.
Speaker 3: He's not. Can't be a call up from the practice squad.
Speaker 1: So, I mean I went back and look, I was
Speaker 1: trying to refresh myself. Greer basically was on the fifty wasn't.
Speaker 1: He was on the practice squad the first week of
Speaker 1: the season, and then he was on the fifty three
Speaker 1: all the way through, So he was already on Because
Speaker 1: somebody asked the question, will this cause teams to keep
Speaker 1: a third quarterback on the fifty three instead of the
Speaker 1: already doing it here? But they were already doing it here.
Speaker 1: Because you got to be able to figure out if
Speaker 1: I waive him to get him on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: is somebody else going to grab him from me? You've
Speaker 1: got to be pretty good at deciding how that.
Speaker 3: And if you look around the league, there are teams
Speaker 3: that I think would pick up Will Greer.
Speaker 1: I think so too, you know, I mean there's barely
Speaker 1: enough quarterbacks to be a backup. I mean the fact
Speaker 1: the fact that I just went through rosters and I
Speaker 1: found about twelve teams that only have three quarterbacks on
Speaker 1: their roster in May tells you that there's the pickings
Speaker 1: are slim as far as quarterbacks unless you're waiting for
Speaker 1: the USFL.
Speaker 3: And I looked at it this morning. I looked at
Speaker 3: the USFL rosters and they got guys that are thirty
Speaker 3: four years old starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: And the XFL.
Speaker 3: The XFL have enough quarter because I was thinking, well,
Speaker 3: maybe they're looking at a guy that's playing in the
Speaker 3: USFL that they might sign after the season's over. And
Speaker 3: I didn't find it.
Speaker 1: Nothing caught your attention. But they could quarterbacks, not enough
Speaker 1: of them out there.
Speaker 2: I'm a cornerback. I don't.
Speaker 3: Are you surprised they only have sixteen cornerbacks on there.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised you got the fussing about not having enough quarterbacks?
Speaker 2: Who cares?
Speaker 1: Who cares better for you?
Speaker 3: Right? Well you'll care come October.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of Hector High School out.
Speaker 3: Of Actor Odessa Actor? Yeah? It now defunct high school?
Speaker 2: I think true.
Speaker 5: My cousin, he's come to hang out with me today.
Speaker 5: He was on that nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, championship squad had Odessa as a starter.
Speaker 2: Old Mitchell he was the man. He ended up going
Speaker 2: to Texas Tech and met, of all people, Bill Parcells. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Parcells was a defensive.
Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah. Wow, he's upstairs waiting on me.
Speaker 3: He probably knows the Shepherds.
Speaker 5: Of course I knew them Tony four. I know the
Speaker 5: that's the uncle, and I was in.
Speaker 3: Love Woody Shepherd and Darryl Shepherd.
Speaker 5: Was in love with the Unfortunately the mother died. I
Speaker 5: was in love with her when she was we were
Speaker 5: both like ten years old.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course that's a sterling Shepherd's family, Derek Shepherd.
Speaker 3: They're all from Odessa.
Speaker 2: I knew them way back then.
Speaker 1: So Parcells was there with Steve Sloan was the head coach,
Speaker 1: that's right, because I remember the story. Steve Sloan left
Speaker 1: there to go to Old Miss and when I was
Speaker 1: working in Jackson, he was at Old Miss and Parcells
Speaker 1: didn't want to go there and he went Vanderbilt. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was I think, or was it Vanderbilt?
Speaker 3: I think you remember that. Did Sloan may have gone
Speaker 3: from Vandy to Tech.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then too, oh, yes, that's right, and.
Speaker 3: So Parcels was that's yeah, what's the connection?
Speaker 1: And the story was Bear Bryant told Steve Sloan because
Speaker 1: he was Alabama and he was like Bear's son, and
Speaker 1: he said, take that job. It's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a job killer. And sure enough you got fired third
Speaker 1: year or second year.
Speaker 2: I was there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got fired because they couldn't recruit. They were
Speaker 1: getting out recruited because they have money. No, they were
Speaker 1: late to the game on integrating their football.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, yes, that's what I was
Speaker 2: going to say.
Speaker 1: Oh and the negative recruiting that was going on by
Speaker 1: the other schools, Oh my, And you just couldn't overcome it.
Speaker 1: Cutting over come Colonel Rail, you couldn't overcome playing Dixie's
Speaker 1: just amazing when.
Speaker 3: I got that's why the Shepherds wound up at Oklahoma
Speaker 3: because Barry Switzer was ahead of the games as far
Speaker 3: as grading you very proactive. That's right, all right? Does it?
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