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Speaker 3: Are you ready for a break?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: Are you ready for a break? Absolutely?

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Speaker 6: Ready for a break?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so much for that.

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Speaker 7: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 7: with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 8: It is Wednesday, February twenty first, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen,

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Speaker 8: Episode number one thirteen. Welcome to the latest edition of

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Speaker 8: The Break. We are live from the SWBC Mortgage studios

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Speaker 8: at the Star. Brian continues this hiatus. He's in a holdout.

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Speaker 8: We'll see how that continues. We'll see how that goes

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Speaker 8: here over the next few weeks. Hopefully we can get

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Speaker 8: a deal done and get him back in studio. Just Joe,

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Speaker 8: I really am Just jo so please don't start texting me.

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Speaker 8: Brian has vacation this week, a well earned vacation, obviously

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Speaker 8: in his role with the radio station. He does baseball

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Speaker 8: and everything else. So it's that one little period he's

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Speaker 8: got before he heads off the spring training next week,

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Speaker 8: and it's all over the place. But Brian will be

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Speaker 8: back in two weeks, not this week, not next week,

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Speaker 8: but the week after that. He'll be back with us

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Speaker 8: and we'll clue him in on all the conversations that

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Speaker 8: we've been having. Got Patrick Walker and Amber Garcia here

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Speaker 8: with us today, and we will get into some talk

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Speaker 8: on DAK Prescott. I promise, I promise we will get

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Speaker 8: to some DAK Prescott talk. We've got some questions. I

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Speaker 8: never I never promised that. I never promised that. I

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Speaker 8: never promised that in past episodes, I said maybe, if

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Speaker 8: time permits, will get to it this week. I am

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Speaker 8: guaranteeing we will get to some talk on DAK Prescott.

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Speaker 8: But we also have some questions, by the way from fans.

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Speaker 8: We'll get to that in the third second, maybe second second.

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Speaker 6: We'll see how it goes.

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Speaker 8: But I did want to start with some talk on

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Speaker 8: franchise tags. It's interesting because most years he with the Cowboys,

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Speaker 8: it feels like there's some players that are like very

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Speaker 8: well like it's like this is just an expectation.

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Speaker 6: He's going to be tagged.

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Speaker 8: That guy's going to be taged, sometimes more than one,

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Speaker 8: and you're like, I don't know who they're going to tag.

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Speaker 6: This is an interesting year.

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Speaker 8: Because I think an argument can be made Cowboys don't

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Speaker 8: use the tag at all. I know you wrote an

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Speaker 8: interesting article there, Patrick talking about the franchise tag. Cowboys

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Speaker 8: and all the other teams in the NFL have until

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Speaker 8: March seventh to make their declarations if they want to franchise.

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Speaker 8: Someone looking at the list of free agents, and I'll

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Speaker 8: throw out a couple names here, Tyron Smith, Tony Pollard,

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Speaker 8: Stefan Gilmour, Dorrin's Armstrong, jay Ron Curse, Jonathan Hankins, Tyler Biattish.

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Speaker 8: Is there any name in that list that you think

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Speaker 8: as a franchise tag.

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Speaker 2: You know, Derek, when I was writing this piece yesterday,

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Speaker 2: when the franchise tag window opened, I really sat with

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Speaker 5: Be expected to use the tag.

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Speaker 2: There's no one on this list that warrants that type

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Speaker 2: that they don't leave, because obviously you don't want Stefan

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Speaker 2: like Jordan Lewis back. You would like guys like Tyrone

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Speaker 2: Smith back, obviously, Tony Pollart, Ricodoudo. That's a conversation. Durran Somstrong,

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Speaker 2: true that if you look at these tag amounts as well,

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Speaker 2: what are we talking about. Darrin Somstrong would bring twenty

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Speaker 2: roughly twenty million dollars fully guaranteed. Stefan Gilmore at his

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Speaker 2: just doesn't make sense numbers wise. So again, it doesn't

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Speaker 2: Stefan Gilmore. I want him back in the building, Duran Somstrong.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I absolutely agree with everything you said. Looking at

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Speaker 9: like you, said Patrick. There are definitely players that you

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Speaker 9: And I don't want that to sound bad, but you know,

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Speaker 9: we've seen it with daltwn Schultz at the time where

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Speaker 6: So let me ask this.

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Speaker 8: I want to make a and I don't even know

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Speaker 8: if I necessarily believe this but I think it's an

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Speaker 8: to me because throughout the time he's been with the Cowboys,

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Speaker 8: He is at a premium position as a pass rusher.

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Speaker 8: Do you project that at some point in his career,

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Speaker 8: And that would make the argument for you to say,

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Speaker 8: let's do a one year franchise tag on him, just

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Speaker 2: I do believe that Duran Sarmstrong can be a high

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Speaker 2: argument is if you're talking about franchise tagging a guy,

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Speaker 2: then you're basically you better be also putting him in

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Speaker 2: a position where he can prove to you what you're asking.

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Speaker 2: He's not in that position in Dallas because the likelihood

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Speaker 2: And then you look at the emergence of guys like

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Speaker 5: And then let me Lucie.

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Speaker 8: But and I think I hear what you're saying. I

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Speaker 8: guess again, where I go to is I think, with

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Speaker 8: a young, upcoming defensive end. Look, I love what DeMarcus

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Speaker 8: a Darnce Armstrong and Darrin Armstrong can give me the

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Speaker 8: kind of production that Tank has given me, then I

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Speaker 8: would be foolish to let him walk out of the door,

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Speaker 8: because I don't know how much longer Tank will be playing.

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Speaker 5: Right, you're not wrong.

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Speaker 8: Feel bad, but do you know that at this point

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Speaker 8: it's right market You're not wrong.

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Speaker 5: The problem is the time in is everything?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't time up in twenty twenty four to

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Speaker 2: have a franchise tag conversation on Durrance because Tank is

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Speaker 2: the fact is right now, Durrance is not going to

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Speaker 2: at the fact that Aiden Dirty went to Seattle, Seattle

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so rather it right if you don't franchise tag him,

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Speaker 2: there's a good chance that he leaves. But there's not

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Speaker 2: enough of an argument to franchise tag him because the

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Speaker 2: timing doesn't work out well. If we're talking about last

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Speaker 2: Mike is going to be here, right. If that's the case,

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Speaker 8: But is that not a viable conversation if you're thinking

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Speaker 8: of it from the standpoint of at Tank's age, this

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Speaker 6: You don't know, but you could see a decline.

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Speaker 8: And does that then pressure you to say, Okay, actually

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Speaker 2: That you would need to have seen signals for possible

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Speaker 2: decline looming on twenty twenty four. For for DeMarcus Lawrence,

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Speaker 2: this is a Pro Bowl caliber guy from twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: He had a Pro Bowl worthy season in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 9: He's been healthy.

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Speaker 2: He's been he's been healthy the entirety. I mean, he's

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Speaker 2: battled some little things, but he's been available, he's been

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Speaker 2: which hints at it's coming. It's coming any day now,

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Speaker 2: which is valid. It's coming any day now. But until

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Speaker 2: you see a single sign of it actually happening, you

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Speaker 2: don't have enough evidence to look Tank in the face

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Speaker 2: and say, you know what, We're gonna franchise Daurrance and

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Speaker 2: we're gonna put him in a position that then puts

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Speaker 2: you on a slight back burner so we can see

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Speaker 2: because we're guaranteeing him twenty million dollars this year. So

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Speaker 2: that's basically you telling Durrance that he's going to be

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Speaker 2: your starting edge opposite Michael Parsons, while also looking at

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Speaker 2: the Marcus Lawrence who's coming up for a contract extension

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Speaker 5: It's the timing doesn't work out for Durrance's website.

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Speaker 8: The interesting part for me is I really think they

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Speaker 9: How much do you guys think that Mike Zimmer's evaluation

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Speaker 5: I think it'd be huge.

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Speaker 2: He's shown that he can produce at a starter level.

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Speaker 5: Do what you can to keep that guy.

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Speaker 2: But if the Cowboys can't keep that guy, you better

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Speaker 8: Just to be clear, I took from your question you

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Speaker 6: I think, yes, I think that could be a possibility.

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Speaker 8: But what I personally think is going to be even

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 8: If they choose to have Sam elevated to where Sam's

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Speaker 6: Because I think that you.

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Speaker 8: Look at Zimmer's defenses in Minnesota, they always stop the run.

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Speaker 8: Only he will know that at least as how he

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Speaker 8: made based upon how much does he factor into what

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Speaker 8: know the linebacker's position is a position where they gotta

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Speaker 8: do something. That's just They put Marque's Bell in a

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Speaker 8: a horrible situation. They know they got to figure that.

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Speaker 8: But I really do think everything that we look at

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Speaker 2: I think it all works hand in hand because if

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Speaker 2: I don't see that person in the building right now.

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Speaker 2: So I think that if you're Mike Zimmer, you're saying

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Speaker 5: I know what that is.

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Speaker 8: about Dak Prescott. I want to start with a basic,

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Speaker 8: big picture question on Dak. What would you say after

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Speaker 8: watching him play this season really put watching him play

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Speaker 8: throughout his career. What would you say is the greatest

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Speaker 8: asset that Dak brings to the table.

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Speaker 9: Greatest asset I would say his leadership, his personality, and

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Speaker 9: the way he handles the people are gonna laugh at

462
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Speaker 9: me by saying this, I was gonna say it handles

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Speaker 9: the pressure. WHOA look at that grand Meagan.

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Speaker 6: Oh you know how it goes right now.

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Speaker 8: Recently Bias says that anything we say on Dak, people

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Speaker 8: are gonna roll their eyes if it's a positive statement.

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Speaker 6: But go ahead, I get your point.

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Speaker 5: I get you.

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Speaker 9: No, I think he's a he's a wonderful leader and

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Speaker 9: the way he handles the whole adversity and I get it. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: it's a great story, his story, and I get that

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Speaker 9: fans are over it at some point enough is enough.

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Speaker 9: But my thing is last year he proved to me

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Speaker 9: that he had not hit the ceiling, even though some

475
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Speaker 9: people might think so because of how the playoffs turned out.

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Speaker 9: But I think we saw him become even a better player.

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Speaker 9: We saw him still being developed in his how many

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Speaker 9: years is this this.

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Speaker 5: Is going eight?

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Speaker 9: Eight?

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Speaker 6: It's a long time six when he got Yeah, a long.

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Speaker 9: Time, but he started doing things that I think, and

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Speaker 9: I've talked about it before. My issue heading into this

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Speaker 9: last season was like, Okay, you've changed so many moving

485
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Speaker 9: pieces around him. You've changed personnel, you've changed players, you've

486
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Speaker 9: changed coaches, coaches, you've changed so much that at one

487
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Speaker 9: point he has to be everything else is going to

488
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Speaker 9: start pointing at him as the problem. But he was

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Speaker 9: able to be that guy today that he took on

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Speaker 9: certain games where he even though when certain players weren't

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Speaker 9: playing as well, he was able to carry that on

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Speaker 9: his back and still perform at a high level. And

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Speaker 9: that's something that I had not seen from him necessarily before.

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Speaker 9: So just the way he played, and I get it

495
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Speaker 9: that last game just kind of it's easy to wipe

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Speaker 9: everything out, but you have to look at everything else,

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Speaker 9: and you have to remember he wasn't the only the

498
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Speaker 9: only one that played terrible in the Green Bay game.

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Speaker 9: This was a collective mess from everybody that played absolutely bad.

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Speaker 9: But I think the way that every year his mentality

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Speaker 9: is what I'm trying to say, that's what I liked

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Speaker 9: most about him. Last year he talked about the interceptions

503
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Speaker 9: and he came back and absolutely completely proved that that

504
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Speaker 9: he could improve in that aspect.

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Speaker 2: Agreed, it's leadership. We can we can talk about the

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Speaker 2: lack of posts and success and that matters.

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Speaker 5: It is valid.

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Speaker 2: Do you need more from Dak Prescott on the field

509
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Speaker 2: in the postseason one?

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Speaker 5: You do?

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Speaker 2: That is true. But if you're talking about leadership, it's bulletproof.

512
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Speaker 2: It's bulletproof. The way that he can galvanize this team,

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Speaker 2: the way that you know he goes about himself as

514
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Speaker 2: as the consummate professional both on and off the field,

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Speaker 2: The way that he never lets any you know, media

516
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Speaker 2: reports or talk outside the building rattle him or the

517
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Speaker 2: locker room. The way that you know he's able to

518
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Speaker 2: be resilient through all of the things that he's been

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Speaker 2: through in life, the loss of his mom to cancer,

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Speaker 2: the loss of his brother to suicide, to still be

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Speaker 2: able to not only function, but to function at a

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Speaker 2: high level while also you know, being you know, showing

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Speaker 2: his advocacy for like cancer prevention and awareness and mental

524
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Speaker 2: health advocacy and things like that. So when it comes

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Speaker 2: to being a leadership, there are few human beings that

526
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Speaker 2: have demonstrated that better than what Dak Prescott can do.

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Speaker 2: So leadership wise, one hundred percent now if you're talking production,

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Speaker 2: which we'll get into, that's a different conversation as far

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Speaker 2: as postseason versus regular season. But it doesn't matter what

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Speaker 2: part of the calendar year it is. Dak Prescott is

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Speaker 2: a leader.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 8: So here's a I think the question of the day

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Speaker 8: at this point really the question of this offseason.

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Speaker 5: What do you do with that?

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Speaker 8: And I have a few options here, and I want you, guys,

537
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Speaker 8: tell me where you think it works best from your

538
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Speaker 8: eyes with regards to Dak. Number one, Dak's your guy.

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Speaker 8: You stick with Dak. You give him a new, long

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Speaker 8: term deal.

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Speaker 6: He's locked up.

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Speaker 8: You don't worry about what happens next year because he

543
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Speaker 8: is locked up. You have him on a longer term deal.

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Speaker 8: Number Two, you play out this year knowing that at

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Speaker 8: the end of this year he will be a free agent,

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Speaker 8: and at that point he will be able to choose

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Speaker 8: whether he wants to stay here or not. And at

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Speaker 8: the same time, you continue developing Trey Lance with the

549
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Speaker 8: hopes that maybe Trey Lance can develop into something worthwhile,

550
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Speaker 8: or at least give yourself a little more time to

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Speaker 8: see how that works. Now, one of the interesting things there,

552
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Speaker 8: people say, you can't play on the deal. I actually

553
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Speaker 8: saw this. There's actually a pretty simple way for Dallas

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Speaker 8: to be able to absorb Dak's money this year.

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Speaker 6: If they don't do anything with it.

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Speaker 8: You could restructure still Digs, Cooks, and then you could

557
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Speaker 8: do a post June cut on Gallup, vander Esh and Rush.

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Speaker 8: I think all those things are possible, and if you

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Speaker 8: do that, you don't have to do anything with Dax deal.

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Speaker 8: You could let it ride as it is and you

561
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Speaker 8: could still have some money. I think with all those

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Speaker 8: things done, you would get twenty million dollars under the cap,

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Speaker 8: so you still have some money to work this offseason.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if you'd be all in necessarily, but

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Speaker 8: you have money to work with when free agency starts,

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Speaker 8: So that's your second option. You let this share play out,

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Speaker 8: you don't do anything different with Dak's contract, and you

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Speaker 8: see what happens with Trey Lance.

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Speaker 6: Or number three.

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Speaker 8: You go ahead and say, right now, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 8: ahead and start looking at what my options are on

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Speaker 8: free agency. Are there quarterbacks out there or their quarterbacks

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Speaker 8: that could trade for Not the most likely option, but

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Speaker 8: I needed to throw it out as an option for

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Speaker 8: you guys to choose from. So if you had to

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Speaker 8: choose one of those three options, where do you stand

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Speaker 8: with Dak Prescott?

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Speaker 5: Would you get it? GARCIEA.

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Speaker 9: I think extending the contract, I think would make more

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Speaker 9: sense in the long term money wise, But I am

581
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Speaker 9: more in favor of letting this year play out. If

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Speaker 9: we're on the hot seat, we're all in the hot

583
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Speaker 9: seat this year, we're talking about coaches and everybody.

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Speaker 2: Then yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 6: We did.

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Speaker 11: We did.

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Speaker 9: If everybody is playing on this this is the year

588
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Speaker 9: type of situation, then the quarterback should be doing it too.

589
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Speaker 9: And I love Dak, I absolutely do, and I have

590
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Speaker 9: not given up and on him, and I think what

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Speaker 9: he showed this year, like I said earlier, really made

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Speaker 9: me feel better into what he is. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 9: take like Green Bay loss as who he is. I'm

594
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Speaker 9: gonna take it as crap happens, and it happened again,

595
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Speaker 9: and it happened to everybody from everybody. But I do

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Speaker 9: think just because of the situation of most of the

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Speaker 9: you know Mike McCarthy, you got Mike Simmer too. Wait, Zimmer,

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Speaker 9: isn't it what's the contract on Simmer?

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't no quite yet, but I hear what

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Speaker 2: I'm hearing unofficially. Unofficially, I'm hearing that it's one year

601
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Speaker 2: deal unofficially, but I haven't been most seconds, but I

602
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Speaker 2: haven't been.

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Speaker 8: The other thing too about about coaches is even if

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Speaker 8: let's say it's a long term deal, let's say it's

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Speaker 8: a three year deal, year deal, Yeah, they make a

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Speaker 8: move next year and they bringing another head coach and

607
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Speaker 8: he wants the different coordinators not just move on like

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Speaker 8: that's how to it works with coaching unfortunately.

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Speaker 5: But the point is, I know or the coordinator for

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Speaker 5: a head coaching position, right exactly.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, there's all kinds of scenarios. I don't worry

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Speaker 8: so much about that.

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Speaker 9: I just would one just to add more drama to it,

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Speaker 9: that added pressure.

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Speaker 6: So everybody's on one year, everybody, everybody.

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Speaker 9: That's what all that means. You put it all in there,

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Speaker 9: and if you're now you're screwed, go home and everybody, everybody, everybody.

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Speaker 9: So this is what we're at, This is where we're

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Speaker 9: at this year. That's not to say I don't trust

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Speaker 9: Dak and don't want to see him succeed, but if

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Speaker 9: we're all in the hot seat, we're all in the

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Speaker 9: hot seat.

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Speaker 2: You know it has nothing to do with trust. If

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Speaker 2: you ask me, I think the Cowboys trust Dak Prescott

625
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Speaker 2: as their franchise quarterback one hundred percent. This is about

626
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Speaker 2: playing the twenty twenty four season with the maximum amount

627
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Speaker 2: of motivation for every possible individual. Dak Prescott said after

628
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Speaker 2: the lost to Green Bay. He said, if McCarthy's on

629
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Speaker 2: the hot seat, so should I be. Okay, here we

630
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Speaker 2: are hot seat. I say play it out through twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four because rather you whether you set the market

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Speaker 2: with Dak Prescott in twenty twenty four or you wait

633
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Speaker 2: and you set it in twenty twenty five because he

634
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Speaker 2: went on a playoff run and did everything that you

635
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Speaker 2: felt that he could do in the postseason to come.

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Speaker 5: He's going either way.

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Speaker 2: You're going to set the market now as far as

638
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Speaker 2: are we talking tens of millions of dollars more likely,

639
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Speaker 2: But you're also talking about a salary cap that's tens

640
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Speaker 2: of millions of dollars higher. You're also talking about more

641
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Speaker 2: expiring contracts. In a league of attrition, it's a revolving door.

642
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Speaker 2: So you look at the bottom half of the roster.

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Speaker 2: So just like right now, you put together some great

644
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Speaker 2: variables as far as how to absorb Dak Prescott's sixty

645
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Speaker 2: sixty one million dollar cap hit. If you want to

646
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Speaker 2: absorb it as structured, right, that's going to be the

647
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 2: same conversation next year, next summer, and then you will

648
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Speaker 2: also have had a full year and full offseason of

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Speaker 2: development for Trey Lance to at least see where he

650
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Speaker 2: is and can he take over in twenty five Maybe

651
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Speaker 2: maybe not. I think all of that is a perfect

652
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Speaker 2: conversation for next offseason. But the only way that becomes

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Speaker 2: a more meaningful conversation is if you just let this

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Speaker 2: final year of the contract play out. Work the numbers

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Speaker 2: however you work. You can restructure some guys, you release

656
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Speaker 2: some guys, or you can restructure Dak's deal. Yes, that

657
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: pushes money to the back end, but again, salary cap

658
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Speaker 2: is ballooning every single year with new TV deals and

659
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 2: things like that.

660
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 6: You can do whatever you want against right, so you

661
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 6: really can't.

662
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: We see, if you restructure him, then you get twenty

663
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 2: twenty one million dollars. You can get that twenty million dollars.

664
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 2: That way, the numbers game can be played. But I

665
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 2: believe that the Cowboys believe in Dak Prescott, but I

666
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: would tie his twenty twenty four season.

667
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 5: Let's put it this way.

668
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 2: I would tie his future with the Cowboys to McCarthy's

669
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 2: future with the Cowboys and look at that head coaching

670
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 2: quarterback duo and say, we want both of you around

671
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 2: for the long run, but you're gonna have to make us,

672
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 2: make us pay you the amount of money that we

673
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 2: that you know, we know you want, make us put

674
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 2: it on the table, and we're willing to if you

675
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 2: do that. NFC Championship, super Bowl, things like that.

676
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 8: Theoretically, that all makes sense. Let me throw one risk

677
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 8: factor in there. You said, okay, we let this here

678
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 8: play out, and let's say that Dak has a great

679
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 8: year next year he takes him to the Promised Land,

680
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 8: they get.

681
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 6: To the super Bowl. Let's say, okay, here's the problem.

682
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 5: Know where he's going.

683
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 8: Here's the problem. Yeah, you could say we can pay,

684
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 8: we'll set the market. But what if another team's saying

685
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 8: we'll set the market plus some and you create a

686
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 8: bidding war. You no longer have control at that point

687
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 8: because you can't franchise and you can't trade him. So

688
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 8: at that point it is Dak has all the leverage

689
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 8: if at that point, let's say, I don't know, you

690
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 8: named three teams out there that are quarterbacks starved, that

691
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 8: are like, this is our opportunity.

692
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 6: How often do you get a quarterback quarterback and just

693
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 6: want the super Bowl available.

694
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 8: To you, that is a complete free agent and can

695
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 8: go wherever he wants to go. What makes you say

696
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 8: that maybe dak is just like, man, I'm just tired

697
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 8: of all the scrutiny that comes with being in Dallas,

698
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 8: like that, it would be nice to go somewhere where

699
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 8: the media just don't talk about what I have for breakfast,

700
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 8: Like I just want to be able to go somewhere

701
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 8: where I can play football, and yeah, I'm gonna be

702
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 8: on a new sun, but I don't wake up every morning.

703
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 6: That's nice.

704
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 8: I'm saying you no longer have control. Are you comfortable

705
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 8: with the idea that you no longer have control? Especially

706
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 8: if by the way he does all the things you've

707
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 8: been hoping he would do this.

708
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 5: Next year, it's the risk.

709
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 2: It's kind of like what mbar said or not kind

710
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 2: of like it's exactly what she said. When if you're

711
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 2: all in and it's just like Jerry Jones mentioned, he's

712
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 2: all in, for twenty twenty four. He's not worrying about

713
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 2: the future things like they's not necessarily planning for the future.

714
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: Push all your chip proven, push all your chips to

715
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 2: the table, and you're either going to you know, walk

716
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 2: away with some a lot of winnings, or you wanna

717
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 2: walk away broke and upset and you're you're risking it.

718
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a dice roll. You're either gonna

719
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: come up three, You're gonna come up snake eyes, and

720
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 2: there's there's really no in between. Because I also think

721
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 2: about it from the aspect of and for those that

722
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 2: don't haven't lived it the Clint Sterner days and the

723
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 2: Stephen McGee days and the Quincy Carter days. I don't

724
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 2: think people understand exactly how valuable Dak Prescott has become

725
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 2: to the winning at least regular season the winning culture

726
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 2: that wasn't present pre Romo post apmen not whatsoever. I mean,

727
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 2: Google is free by all means, go google it. That

728
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 2: being said, of course, the Cowboys want him around for

729
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 2: the long term. That's why I'm not mad at them for,

730
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 2: you know, possibly extending him this off season. But if

731
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 2: you're asking my opinion, I would absolutely just let this

732
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 2: play out because.

733
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 6: And you're comfortable with that if you lose it.

734
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 2: Right, because I'm not comfortable if he plays well, gets

735
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:48,959
Speaker 2: you to a super Bowl and then you lose them,

736
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 2: You're like, ah, this okay, that that freaking sucks, right,

737
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 2: but at least hopefully you got a ring out of it.

738
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 6: And then what if he got you to the super

739
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 6: Bowl but lost.

740
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 8: You didn't get right there, you didn't get all the

741
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 8: way there, but you're close enough now.

742
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,719
Speaker 5: I mean, let's say let's say it because of him.

743
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 6: Let's say he's played let's place.

744
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 8: Let's say he plays okay, Let's say he has a

745
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 8: two hundred and fifty yard passing day, has one interception,

746
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 8: a touchdown or two, and that's his day. It wasn't

747
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 8: anything where you're like he was the man. You also

748
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 8: are like, this wasn't necessarily on him. He contributed to

749
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 8: it because he had the interception, but it wasn't on him.

750
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 8: How do you feel about that at that point, because

751
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 8: you feel like you're really close At that point, you

752
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 8: feel like you're there, close enough to touch it. And

753
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 8: even if you start over with a Trey Lance, you're like,

754
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 8: oh god, it's going back to the beginning.

755
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 6: How do you feel about that?

756
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 5: I think you also got a factory.

757
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 2: And I guess my question before we answer that one

758
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: is what's the situation with McCarthy in that scenario.

759
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 8: In that scenario, I think McCarthy's back that three twelve

760
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 8: and twelve and five seasons and then goes to the

761
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 8: super Bowl even if he loses. I don't I don't

762
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 8: see how you fire a coach with that resume in four.

763
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 5: Years, and it's that's very successful.

764
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 2: If McCarthy is back after a season like that, even

765
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 2: if you drop it in the super Bowl, then I

766
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 2: think Dak wants to stay. I'm looking at variables in negotiation, right.

767
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 2: So money is a huge motivator in free agency, but

768
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,879
Speaker 2: that's not the only motivator, especially for a relationships guy

769
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 2: like Dak Prescott.

770
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 8: So you're saying Dak would choose to come back because

771
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 8: he would all finished business.

772
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 5: Right, correct, as long as the money is comparable.

773
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 2: So at that point, now you're talking about he can

774
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 2: either reset the market with a team like Tampa, or

775
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 2: he can reset the market with the Cowboys. But if Tampa, hypothetically,

776
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 2: because you're smaller, market less scrutiny to that point but

777
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: if Tampa's offer is set in the market and the

778
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 2: Cowboys offer is also a market center, but Tampa is

779
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 2: slightly higher. But McCarthy is back, and you're coming off

780
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 2: of a super Bowl run that you just fell short

781
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. I think da Prescott looks at

782
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 2: that and says, you know what, unfinished business, and my

783
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 2: guy's back, and Ceedee Lamb is still here for the

784
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 2: long haul and and yeah, but here what you.

785
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 8: Just said, Ceede Lamb's here for long long term? Does

786
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 8: that complicate matters that now you're in a situation where

787
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 8: you're in a bidding war for your quarterback. And by

788
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 8: the way, you now got to sign one of the

789
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 8: top three to five wide receivers in the league.

790
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 2: No, you got to get Lamb done. That's a different conversation.

791
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 2: I'm willing to let's get.

792
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 6: Let's let's assume you've got in the world, you've already

793
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 6: got Lamb done.

794
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 8: Now let's assume you got Lamb already done. What about Micah?

795
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 8: Like again, you're you're now in a bidding war for

796
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 8: your quarterback. At the same time, you're gonna have to

797
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 8: probably create a record setting type deal for defensive player

798
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 8: in Michael Parsons.

799
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 5: I have an answer. Yeah, we talked about that franchise.

800
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 6: Okay, just franchising.

801
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 8: What you know about Mike If he's on a franchise,

802
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 8: sad you think he signed that showing up?

803
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 5: Yeah you do. Yeah, I don't think that. Okay. Let

804
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 5: me put it this way.

805
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 2: If micah Is is true to the implication that he

806
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 2: put out there that he's willing to be patient and

807
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 2: let like ceedee lamb get his money and things like that,

808
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 2: that tell me that he at least understands the prioritization

809
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 2: here that being sick.

810
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 8: I also think he's a true businessman. Let's be cud

811
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 8: about that one hundred percent.

812
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 2: That also goes to the point of if that did

813
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 2: become a situation where you're in a bedding war for

814
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 2: your franchise quarterback versus a bidding war for your you know,

815
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 2: a generational edge rusher, your generational edge rusher who deferred

816
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 2: to your generational wide receiver just a year prior, I

817
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 2: could see Michael saying, you know what, I'll take this tag,

818
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 2: by the way, fully guaranteed and knock on wool. Mike

819
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 2: has not had any injury issues that has cost him

820
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 2: availability go ahead and pay Dak Prescott, and then we'll

821
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 2: meet at this table offseason twenty twenty six. Oh and

822
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 2: by the way, when we meet at the table off

823
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: season twenty twenty six, if you thought I was going

824
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 2: to be the highest paid in NFL history, go ahead

825
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 2: and add some more to that. So I think, being

826
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 2: a shrue businessman understanding the prioritization between who needs to

827
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 2: be paid win, if it came to Michael versus Dak,

828
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 2: I could fully see Michael saying, go ahead and pay

829
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 2: our quarterback, because I do want to win, and I

830
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: know that if we re there's no guarantee with Trey Lance,

831
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 2: there's no guarantee with a drafted quarterback, and right now

832
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 2: there's no one on the market quarterback wise that is

833
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 2: equivalent to what Dak Prescott gives you. So if Micah

834
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: is going to hold true to that word, then I

835
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 2: think he'd be fine with it.

836
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 5: Yeah.

837
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 8: I think that's And again I don't know. I've not

838
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 8: talked to Michael about this. I'm not talked to Dak

839
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 8: about this. I don't know what they're thinking. My old

840
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 8: point is, and the point I'm trying to make here

841
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 8: is there's a lot of factors that are involved here

842
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 8: more so than just saying do you pay Dak now,

843
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 8: I'll pay Dak later, because the fact is that decision

844
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 8: will set off a chain reaction of things that will

845
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 8: happen over the next two years that could be franchise changing, right,

846
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 8: And so I just think, you know, this conversation has

847
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 8: a lot of layers to it that go far beyond

848
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 8: just what Dak did in that playoff game against Green Bay.

849
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 8: You gotta really think about what are you doing for

850
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 8: the future and if this happens, then this is gonna happen,

851
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 8: and how does that affect this There are all these

852
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 8: different layers and I think all that has.

853
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 2: To be And then there's the edit layer of let's

854
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 2: say you you go ahead and extend him right now,

855
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,439
Speaker 2: which again I'm totally fine with giving his value. Yes,

856
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 2: you need more from the postseason, but he's earned an extension,

857
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 2: another extension in my opinion. But if things don't go

858
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 2: well in twenty twenty four, and any of it is

859
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 2: on the quarterback, let's say Mike McCarthy is out, you

860
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 2: got a new head coach coming in. You know who

861
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 2: head coaches love to target first, They need their quarterback

862
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 2: they want their guy at quarterback, and you've seen it

863
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:24,800
Speaker 2: all around the league over the history of the league.

864
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,959
Speaker 2: What does that mean for Dak Prescott on a very

865
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 2: long term deal versus a incoming head coach that might

866
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 2: like that but might have other ideas in like a

867
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 2: Cliff Kingsbury kind of way.

868
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 5: Right.

869
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 9: So, but also those conversations from what I've heard in

870
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 9: the past when interviewing certain head coaches, they what's on

871
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 9: the table is can you work well, yeah, first yo,

872
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 9: If not, then you might not be the right option

873
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 9: for it.

874
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 5: That's true.

875
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 2: But now you're also and again this is this is

876
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 2: such a fun conversation that also goes to the understanding

877
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 2: that you're possibly limiting your pool of candidates as well. Right, So,

878
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Speaker 2: if there's a particular candidate that you definitely want for

879
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 2: a head coach and you ask him that question rather

880
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Speaker 2: be Dak Prescott, or if you're a GM of any

881
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 2: other team, your owner of any other team, if you say,

882
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 2: you know Baker Mayfield, Baker Mayfield's got our guy, can

883
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 2: you come in and coach him? You're the guy we want,

884
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 2: and he's like, yeah, that's not who I want to coach. Well,

885
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 2: as owner and GM. Guess what, you just lost your

886
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 2: top candidates, so now everyone else is not a consolation prize.

887
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 2: But that's not your guy. Now you're trying to make

888
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 2: some things work. So it's it's such a leveled and

889
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 2: layered conversation. And I will say that in the past,

890
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 2: I was on record that the Cowboys took too long

891
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:39,160
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Speaker 6: I think we all were yeah, yeah, they.

893
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Speaker 5: Took too long to pay him.

894
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Speaker 2: They took too long to paym But this is an

895
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 2: interesting in a different time frame in that you look

896
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Speaker 2: at what happened in this year's postseason, right, and you

897
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Speaker 2: look at you have to balance that with your runner

898
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Speaker 2: up in the MVP race, Like, oh right, head coach

899
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Speaker 2: didn't get extended.

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Speaker 5: He's on a one year deal. He's on a you know,

901
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Speaker 5: a hot seat to speak. Hmm.

902
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Speaker 2: Defense is still working some things out, Mike Zimmer, new guys,

903
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 2: who's going, who's coming? Player wise, so many, so much

904
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Speaker 2: on the table that if you're I said, if you're

905
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Speaker 2: all in, I'm with them. But if you're all in,

906
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Speaker 2: just push it all to the push all the chips

907
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Speaker 2: in the middle. And that goes for free agency signs

908
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Speaker 2: as well. Push it all to the middle and uh

909
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Speaker 2: and pray that it works out for you. And if

910
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Speaker 2: it doesn't, then you.

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Speaker 5: You work it. Then you work it.

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Speaker 2: However you can work it right, and you you stand

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Speaker 8: Okay, Right, so all right, we got final reck will

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Speaker 8: Welcome back, final segment of the Break Life from that

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Speaker 8: question for you guys before we end the show. We

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Speaker 8: have thirty seconds. Do your best? Which option of those

970
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Speaker 8: three that I gave you is most likely to happen.

971
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Speaker 8: I know what we've given is our opinions on it,

972
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 8: And what do you think is more likely to happen.

973
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 8: They stick with Dak, give him a new deal, They

974
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 8: play this year out and don't give him a new deal,

975
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Speaker 8: but with the hopes that they will maybe do something

976
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Speaker 8: next year or look at other options in free agency

977
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Speaker 8: or the draft.

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00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 2: I think it's more likely they extend him this offseason, especially,

979
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Speaker 2: you know, if you're Jerry Jones and you're looking at it,

980
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 2: and of course, if you're Jerry Jones, you've lived through

981
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Speaker 2: the Sterner and the McGee years and things like that.

982
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 8: I want to Steven McGee feels about you're just throwing

983
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 8: his name out there like that.

984
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Speaker 5: You should have played well, so you don't really care. No,

985
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 5: not at all, Sorry, Steve. It's the objectivities thjectivity. You

986
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 5: should play better. Same for you, But no knocking.

987
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 2: They're not going to miss a human beings. That's football

988
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 2: player what the Cowboys needed. But also, if you're Jerry Jones,

989
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 2: I harken back to the fact that you know, he

990
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 2: said I don't have time for a bad time. He

991
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 2: senses his mortality. He doesn't want to hit the hard reset.

992
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 2: He knows, like you said during the break, this decision

993
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 2: could impact the Cowboys in one direction or another for

994
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 2: the next ten years. The reality is Jerry doesn't know

995
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 2: if he has another ten years or not. You hate

996
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 2: to say it out loud, but that's the reality of it.

997
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 2: So I think it's likely that the Cowboys don't want

998
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,720
Speaker 2: to reset that quarterback or don't want to risk resetting

999
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 2: that quarterback anytime soon.

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Speaker 5: I think that gets the deal this off season.

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00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that's the most likely to happen, just

1002
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 9: because of everything we've heard heard the Cowboys say, Jerry Jones,

1003
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 9: Stephen Jones, everybody like people like him. This is not

1004
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 9: and there's no bad blood happening there. The relationship is

1005
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 9: strong between Dak and the franchise, and another big thing

1006
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 9: like Dak has never lost the It's funny how every

1007
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Speaker 9: time I'm gonna say something, like an image pops in

1008
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Speaker 9: my head, and the one that just popped in my

1009
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 9: head was City being all pissed on the sideline with

1010
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 9: Dak and all of that. But where I was going

1011
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 9: at is like he's never had that kind of beef

1012
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 9: with players. He's always had players back, So I think

1013
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 9: the more likelihood. And I was here when it was

1014
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 9: Brendan wheedon Matt Castle Mud, so I experienced a little

1015
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 9: bit of that and it was not fun at all.

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Speaker 9: And I think Dak if anything, he yeah, he is

1017
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 9: a good quarterback. He is a good quarterback, and yeah,

1018
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 9: most likelihood they'll extend him. But I still would like

1019
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 9: to take the risk and gamble. Let's gamble. No, No,

1020
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 9: we cannot gamble.

1021
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 6: We cannot.

1022
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 8: I was about to say, I don't get against the wall,

1023
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 8: but no, I do think this will be a very

1024
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 8: interesting offseason. I think this decision will have far reaching implications.

1025
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Speaker 8: Next week, we're going to start talking a little bit

1026
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Speaker 8: about free agency, because that's coming up here fast and furious.

1027
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Speaker 8: We're going to talk about the Cowboys free agents next week,

1028
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 8: the players that are on that were on the roster

1029
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 8: this last year that will become free agents, and what

1030
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Speaker 8: we think will happen with those guys. The week after that,

1031
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 8: we'll start talking about some guys that are not on

1032
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Speaker 8: this roster and maybe some free agents that the Cowboys

1033
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 8: should be looking at. To get everyone ready for that

1034
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 8: March eleventh week when free agency will begin.

1035
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Speaker 6: A spring break week, So that'll.

1036
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Speaker 5: Be perfectly all right.

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Speaker 2: We'll really quickly before we go, and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: try not to get emotional here as we breathe through this.

1039
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Speaker 2: I'd be remiss if I did not offer my condolences

1040
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Speaker 2: to the family of Mark Lane. Close close friend of mine.

1041
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 2: I considered him a brother one hundred percent. His passing

1042
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 2: earlier this week has has been devastating for both his family,

1043
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 2: me and my family, and just the Cowboys fandom and

1044
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 2: Cowboys beat as a whole. Lost not only one of

1045
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 2: the best to ever do it from a professional standpoint,

1046
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 2: but also one of the best human beings ever. So

1047
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Speaker 2: love you, brother, Rest well into the Lane family. I'll

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Speaker 2: see you soon for his services. Us said with that,

1049
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Speaker 2: we will in the show. We'll be back with you

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Speaker 2: guys next week for Patrick Walker, Ambergarci. I'm Derek Eagleton.

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