Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
Speaker 2: Cowboys Let's go.
Speaker 3: Are you ready for a break?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: Are you ready for a break? Absolutely?
Speaker 6: Ready for a break?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so much for that.
Speaker 7: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 7: with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 8: It is Wednesday, February twenty first, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen,
Speaker 8: Episode number one thirteen. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 8: The Break. We are live from the SWBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 8: at the Star. Brian continues this hiatus. He's in a holdout.
Speaker 8: We'll see how that continues. We'll see how that goes
Speaker 8: here over the next few weeks. Hopefully we can get
Speaker 8: a deal done and get him back in studio. Just Joe,
Speaker 8: I really am Just jo so please don't start texting me.
Speaker 8: Brian has vacation this week, a well earned vacation, obviously
Speaker 8: in his role with the radio station. He does baseball
Speaker 8: and everything else. So it's that one little period he's
Speaker 8: got before he heads off the spring training next week,
Speaker 8: and it's all over the place. But Brian will be
Speaker 8: back in two weeks, not this week, not next week,
Speaker 8: but the week after that. He'll be back with us
Speaker 8: and we'll clue him in on all the conversations that
Speaker 8: we've been having. Got Patrick Walker and Amber Garcia here
Speaker 8: with us today, and we will get into some talk
Speaker 8: on DAK Prescott. I promise, I promise we will get
Speaker 8: to some DAK Prescott talk. We've got some questions. I
Speaker 8: never I never promised that. I never promised that. I
Speaker 8: never promised that in past episodes, I said maybe, if
Speaker 8: time permits, will get to it this week. I am
Speaker 8: guaranteeing we will get to some talk on DAK Prescott.
Speaker 8: But we also have some questions, by the way from fans.
Speaker 8: We'll get to that in the third second, maybe second second.
Speaker 6: We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 8: But I did want to start with some talk on
Speaker 8: franchise tags. It's interesting because most years he with the Cowboys,
Speaker 8: it feels like there's some players that are like very
Speaker 8: well like it's like this is just an expectation.
Speaker 6: He's going to be tagged.
Speaker 8: That guy's going to be taged, sometimes more than one,
Speaker 8: and you're like, I don't know who they're going to tag.
Speaker 6: This is an interesting year.
Speaker 8: Because I think an argument can be made Cowboys don't
Speaker 8: use the tag at all. I know you wrote an
Speaker 8: interesting article there, Patrick talking about the franchise tag. Cowboys
Speaker 8: and all the other teams in the NFL have until
Speaker 8: March seventh to make their declarations if they want to franchise.
Speaker 8: Someone looking at the list of free agents, and I'll
Speaker 8: throw out a couple names here, Tyron Smith, Tony Pollard,
Speaker 8: Stefan Gilmour, Dorrin's Armstrong, jay Ron Curse, Jonathan Hankins, Tyler Biattish.
Speaker 8: Is there any name in that list that you think
Speaker 8: should or could warrant interest from the Cowboys as far
Speaker 8: as a franchise tag.
Speaker 2: You know, Derek, when I was writing this piece yesterday,
Speaker 2: when the franchise tag window opened, I really sat with
Speaker 2: this list, and the more I set with it, the
Speaker 2: more comfortable I was with understanding that the Cowboys should not.
Speaker 5: Be expected to use the tag.
Speaker 2: There's no one on this list that warrants that type
Speaker 2: of fully guaranteed one year money as far as guarantee
Speaker 2: that they don't leave, because obviously you don't want Stefan
Speaker 2: Gilmore to leave. If you want him back, you would
Speaker 2: like Jordan Lewis back. You would like guys like Tyrone
Speaker 2: Smith back, obviously, Tony Pollart, Ricodoudo. That's a conversation. Durran Somstrong,
Speaker 2: you would love to have a guy like Dorrin Somstrong
Speaker 2: back in the building. But while that's true, it's also
Speaker 2: true that if you look at these tag amounts as well,
Speaker 2: what are we talking about. Darrin Somstrong would bring twenty
Speaker 2: roughly twenty million dollars fully guaranteed. Stefan Gilmore at his
Speaker 2: age eighteen point eight million dollars projected, fully guaranteed. It
Speaker 2: just doesn't make sense numbers wise. So again, it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean that the Cowboys shouldn't try to resign guys like
Speaker 2: Stefan Gilmore. I want him back in the building, Duran Somstrong.
Speaker 2: I want him back in the building. But as far
Speaker 2: as keeping them here on a franchise tag, no, I say.
Speaker 2: You go about the negotiation the old fashioned way, and
Speaker 2: the chips fall where they fall.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I absolutely agree with everything you said. Looking at
Speaker 9: the list, there is no name that would make me
Speaker 9: want to give them a franchise tag just because the
Speaker 9: money doesn't make sense for what the player is. And
Speaker 9: like you, said Patrick. There are definitely players that you
Speaker 9: would want back on a contract, but not for that
Speaker 9: amount of money for just one year. You look at
Speaker 9: players are somewhat younger, and then players are on the
Speaker 9: older side that it just simply doesn't make sense to
Speaker 9: put that kind of money. And it's not the type
Speaker 9: of player that it's that you wouldn't be able. I
Speaker 9: don't want to say they're not replaceable or you can
Speaker 9: replace or you can't bring somebody else that can help
Speaker 9: you there, but they're not absolutely a thousand percent essential.
Speaker 9: And I don't want that to sound bad, but you know,
Speaker 9: we've seen it with daltwn Schultz at the time where
Speaker 9: you're like, Okay, we don't really have another tight end
Speaker 9: that can come in and he's being productive and you
Speaker 9: have to do it, Tony pollor what's the whole situation
Speaker 9: where you were trying to figure out what the running
Speaker 9: back situation was after parting ways with Ezekiel Elliott. So
Speaker 9: that kind of makes sense as well. And now we're
Speaker 9: at a point where I don't think anyone right now
Speaker 9: makes sense.
Speaker 6: So let me ask this.
Speaker 8: I want to make a and I don't even know
Speaker 8: if I necessarily believe this but I think it's an
Speaker 8: argument worth having. Drance Armstrong is a guy that's interesting
Speaker 8: to me because throughout the time he's been with the Cowboys,
Speaker 8: he seems to every year get a little bit better.
Speaker 8: He is at a premium position as a pass rusher.
Speaker 8: Do you project that at some point in his career,
Speaker 8: maybe this next year or two, because that's when it
Speaker 8: would happen that he becomes one of the better pass
Speaker 8: rushers in the league, or that he's ready for that
Speaker 8: type of role, because right now they're using him as
Speaker 8: kind of a rotational guy. Do you think that if
Speaker 8: put in a situation where he was a guy that
Speaker 8: was out there for bulk of the snaps and not
Speaker 8: being used in as much of a rotation, but maybe
Speaker 8: obviously all teams will rotate their pass rushers, if you
Speaker 8: think he has gets a little bit more opportunity, Do
Speaker 8: you think he's a type of defensive end that actually
Speaker 8: can develop into one of the better ones in the league.
Speaker 8: And that would make the argument for you to say,
Speaker 8: let's do a one year franchise tag on him, just
Speaker 8: so that we can see if this is the year
Speaker 8: that he takes that next step and we know before
Speaker 8: we let him go if we can't sign him to
Speaker 8: a longer term deal. Before we let him go, we
Speaker 8: at least find out what are we dealing with here
Speaker 8: before we let him walk out of the door.
Speaker 2: I do believe that Duran Sarmstrong can be a high
Speaker 2: quality starter in this league. The problem is with that
Speaker 2: argument is if you're talking about franchise tagging a guy,
Speaker 2: then you're basically you better be also putting him in
Speaker 2: a position where he can prove to you what you're asking.
Speaker 2: He's not in that position in Dallas because the likelihood
Speaker 2: is that you know, DeMarcus Lawrence's going into a contract here,
Speaker 2: but there's a likelihood that DeMarcus Lawrence is going to
Speaker 2: get another extension to hopefully finish his career here with
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. You can pretty much take it to the
Speaker 2: bank that Michael Parsons, I mean, anything's possible, but they're
Speaker 2: going to throw the biggest possible bag of Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: And then you look at the emergence of guys like
Speaker 2: Sam Williams. Of Sam Williams can get his self disciplined
Speaker 2: together as far as the penalties are concerned, his window
Speaker 2: is high as well.
Speaker 5: And then let me Lucie.
Speaker 8: But and I think I hear what you're saying. I
Speaker 8: guess again, where I go to is I think, with
Speaker 8: all those things you just said, if you give me
Speaker 8: a young, upcoming defensive end. Look, I love what DeMarcus
Speaker 8: Lawrence does. But if you tell me you give me
Speaker 8: a Darnce Armstrong and Darrin Armstrong can give me the
Speaker 8: kind of production that Tank has given me, then I
Speaker 8: would be foolish to let him walk out of the door,
Speaker 8: because I don't know how much longer Tank will be playing.
Speaker 5: Right, you're not wrong.
Speaker 8: Feel bad, but do you know that at this point
Speaker 8: it's right market You're not wrong.
Speaker 5: The problem is the time in is everything?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't time up in twenty twenty four to
Speaker 2: have a franchise tag conversation on Durrance because Tank is
Speaker 2: still playing at a Pro Bowl level. Because Tank is
Speaker 2: likely going to be here beyond twenty twenty four, even
Speaker 2: if it's just into twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six,
Speaker 2: the fact is right now, Durrance is not going to
Speaker 2: get the opportunity to prove he's a high quality starter
Speaker 2: in the league with the Cowboys, which then flips the
Speaker 2: tables because free agency is a two way street. If
Speaker 2: you're Durance Armstrong, if you are his agent, you're looking
Speaker 2: at the fact that Aiden Dirty went to Seattle, Seattle
Speaker 2: needs a starting pass rusher. If you're looking at the
Speaker 2: fact that Dan Quinn is in Washington, Washington.
Speaker 8: Need so you're probably I would guess you're probably gonna
Speaker 8: lose him if you don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so rather it right if you don't franchise tag him,
Speaker 2: there's a good chance that he leaves. But there's not
Speaker 2: enough of an argument to franchise tag him because the
Speaker 2: timing doesn't work out well. If we're talking about last
Speaker 2: year definitively being a downturn year for DeMarcus Lawrence, because
Speaker 2: Mike is going to be here, right. If that's the case,
Speaker 2: then that's a much more viable conversation.
Speaker 8: But is that not a viable conversation if you're thinking
Speaker 8: of it from the standpoint of at Tank's age, this
Speaker 8: year we may see a decline.
Speaker 6: You don't know, but you could see a decline.
Speaker 8: And does that then pressure you to say, Okay, actually
Speaker 8: we should maybe move on from Tank and we need
Speaker 8: to keep Darnce way, you would need this year could
Speaker 8: be a pivotal year all the way around when it
Speaker 8: comes to the ans evangel.
Speaker 2: That you would need to have seen signals for possible
Speaker 2: decline looming on twenty twenty four. For for DeMarcus Lawrence,
Speaker 2: this is a Pro Bowl caliber guy from twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: He had a Pro Bowl worthy season in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 9: He's been healthy.
Speaker 2: He's been he's been healthy the entirety. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: battled some little things, but he's been available, he's been
Speaker 2: on the field. There's nothing that indicates other than his age,
Speaker 2: which hints at it's coming. It's coming any day now,
Speaker 2: which is valid. It's coming any day now. But until
Speaker 2: you see a single sign of it actually happening, you
Speaker 2: don't have enough evidence to look Tank in the face
Speaker 2: and say, you know what, We're gonna franchise Daurrance and
Speaker 2: we're gonna put him in a position that then puts
Speaker 2: you on a slight back burner so we can see
Speaker 2: because we're guaranteeing him twenty million dollars this year. So
Speaker 2: that's basically you telling Durrance that he's going to be
Speaker 2: your starting edge opposite Michael Parsons, while also looking at
Speaker 2: the Marcus Lawrence who's coming up for a contract extension
Speaker 2: to say well, we still want you here might not
Speaker 2: be in the starting room.
Speaker 5: It's the timing doesn't work out for Durrance's website.
Speaker 8: The interesting part for me is I really think they
Speaker 8: have to work hard unless their goal is to draft one.
Speaker 6: I think they gotta work.
Speaker 5: That's hard goal period.
Speaker 6: But I think they gotta work really hard to try.
Speaker 8: To re sign him to a long term deal Durrance,
Speaker 8: because I do think that that's a position that's a
Speaker 8: little shaky from the standpoint of how you look at
Speaker 8: it for the future. And one thing I think you
Speaker 8: would hate to do in the NFL is there are
Speaker 8: three positions where you would hate to lose a guy
Speaker 8: and he goes somewhere else and he's better cornerback, defensive end,
Speaker 8: and quarterback. And if he went to Seattle and became
Speaker 8: a starter and turned into one of those guys that
Speaker 8: was regularly putting up ten to twelve sacks a year,
Speaker 8: I think the Cowboys would I think they'd be disappointed
Speaker 8: in the fact that they.
Speaker 6: Didn't do enough to keep him here.
Speaker 8: They developed him to this point to then let him
Speaker 8: go off somewhere and them to reap the benefits and
Speaker 8: he could.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a guy who's fifteen sixteen sacks
Speaker 2: over the past couple seasons as a rotational guy during
Speaker 2: so Armstrong and I've said it a million times he
Speaker 2: is one of the more perennially underrated talents in this
Speaker 2: building from those outside of the building who just don't
Speaker 2: understand what he brings to the table, not only as
Speaker 2: a pass rusher, also as a run defender and as.
Speaker 5: A special teams guy, huge, huge and special teams.
Speaker 2: If you lose Daurriance Armstrong, that's a big hit, and
Speaker 2: that's those some big shoes for somebody like Sam Williams
Speaker 2: and or Junior Foko who has to earn his way
Speaker 2: into the field and or a potential draft pick to
Speaker 2: come in and fill from a rotational role, especially when
Speaker 2: you if you tandemit with possibly losing Dante Fowler as well. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: the Cowboys have they're going to go pretty hard at
Speaker 2: keeping Durrance Armstrong. But Durrance absent the franchise tag, he's
Speaker 2: got reasons to stay, and he's got reasons to be
Speaker 2: interested in possibly leaving. So guys of his caliber, you
Speaker 2: know they're gonna have value in the NFL. And I
Speaker 2: do believe if he goes to Washington he could be
Speaker 2: a double digit sack guy. If he goes to Seattle
Speaker 2: he can be a double digit SAT guy. But does
Speaker 2: that mean that the Cowboys made the wrong move depending
Speaker 2: on what the payout looks like, that he landed elsewhere.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily, because again the timing just isn't here right
Speaker 2: now to franchise tag them, but most certainly do everything
Speaker 2: you can to keep them absent that tag.
Speaker 9: How much do you guys think that Mike Zimmer's evaluation
Speaker 9: and players like those falls into the same lines of
Speaker 9: Mike McCarthy and everybody else.
Speaker 5: I think it'd be huge.
Speaker 2: And one thing that I mentioned when it came when
Speaker 2: it comes to Durrance is that you look at how
Speaker 2: impressive he's been as far as every year taking another
Speaker 2: step up, every year taking another step up. But he's
Speaker 2: also been able to do this no matter who the
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator is, no matter who it is, right, So
Speaker 2: he's been through the Rod Marinelli, Mike Nolan, Dan Quinn.
Speaker 2: So this Mike Zimmer would be his fourth defensive coordinator
Speaker 2: with the Cowboys. That's that's mind blowing to hear that
Speaker 2: out loud, and then look at his numbers and say,
Speaker 2: he's been producing at a higher and higher level every
Speaker 2: single time. So if you're Mike Zimmer and you're coming in,
Speaker 2: that's the guy you want to keep. That's a guy
Speaker 2: that you can say, hey, you know what it does.
Speaker 2: He's so coachable and he's so talented and he's so
Speaker 2: refined that I don't have to babysit this guy. This
Speaker 2: guy's going to be ready for whatever I throwed him.
Speaker 2: He's shown that he can produce at a starter level.
Speaker 2: So if I can get a starter caliber guy as
Speaker 2: a rotational guy and keep him here like you guys
Speaker 2: have before I got here, by all means. So to
Speaker 2: your point, I think he will look at a guy
Speaker 2: like Darnce and say absolutely, I want that guy.
Speaker 5: Do what you can to keep that guy.
Speaker 2: But if the Cowboys can't keep that guy, you better
Speaker 2: believe Mike Zimmer has already started turning wheels and talking
Speaker 2: to Will McClay, Stephen Jones, and Jerry Jones and saying, hey,
Speaker 2: if you can't keep this guy, I got some ideas
Speaker 2: for free agency and possibly a draft as well.
Speaker 8: Just to be clear, I took from your question you
Speaker 8: were asking, do you think that his thoughts on these
Speaker 8: players will be different than what Quinn's. Is that what
Speaker 8: you're asking or are you just say.
Speaker 9: A little No, I think you'll have a certain type
Speaker 9: of say for sure, but he is he looking at
Speaker 9: it the same way and you're welcome and I liked
Speaker 9: your answer regardless. But the thing is, when you see
Speaker 9: a good player, you see a good player, like there's
Speaker 9: no debating it's whether it's good, middle or like average
Speaker 9: or bad. We can all mostly agree on that. But
Speaker 9: what I'm wondering is when you start talking about that
Speaker 9: kind of money in the future or whatever, is it
Speaker 9: a situation where possibly he feels like, Okay, we can
Speaker 9: replace that position with somebody else, whether that's via draft
Speaker 9: or free agency bringing somebody else in. When you're considering that,
Speaker 9: you still have guys like the Marcus Lawrence Micah Parsons,
Speaker 9: which just by having them on the field would then
Speaker 9: elevate the playing level of whoever else is lining up
Speaker 9: against them or alongside them. So that's what I'm wondering
Speaker 9: is this year. I'm not looking into the future, but
Speaker 9: for this upcoming season, is it a situation where yeah,
Speaker 9: we love him and absolutely want him back, but if
Speaker 9: not could somebody else come in be a pluging player
Speaker 9: that just by having two guys like those guys the
Speaker 9: Marcus and Mike, I just simply elevates everybody else.
Speaker 6: I think, yes, I think that could be a possibility.
Speaker 8: But what I personally think is going to be even
Speaker 8: more important is I think Mike's probably looking at this
Speaker 8: defense and saying, the first thing I got to do
Speaker 8: is figure out how to stop the run.
Speaker 5: Which Mike and y I think.
Speaker 8: First thing he says, I got to stop the run,
Speaker 8: so I will be interested to see if they don't
Speaker 8: go hard after Adorance. Does that say something about what
Speaker 8: he thinks his ability to stop the run looks like?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 8: If they choose to have Sam elevated to where Sam's
Speaker 8: gonna get more time in the field, does that say
Speaker 8: something about what he thinks about his ability to stop
Speaker 8: the run?
Speaker 6: Because I think that you.
Speaker 8: Look at Zimmer's defenses in Minnesota, they always stop the run.
Speaker 8: They were always top ten stopping the run consistently. So
Speaker 8: I think the first thought he is is, what are
Speaker 8: these players that are currently on the roster, and the
Speaker 8: players that are potential free agents and the players that
Speaker 8: are in the draft, how are they going to help
Speaker 8: me be able to devise a plan that will stop
Speaker 8: the run. And so I don't know what those answers are.
Speaker 8: Only he will know that at least as how he
Speaker 8: sees it. But the fact is, I think a lot
Speaker 8: of what we see over the next few months will
Speaker 8: tell us what he thinks about that. People like jay
Speaker 8: Ron Curse, I think those decisions are going to be
Speaker 8: made based upon how much does he factor into what
Speaker 8: Zimmer thinks he can do to stop the run. We
Speaker 8: know the linebacker's position is a position where they gotta
Speaker 8: do something. That's just They put Marque's Bell in a
Speaker 8: horrible situation and he performed admirably, but he was in
Speaker 8: a horrible situation. They know they got to figure that.
Speaker 8: But I really do think everything that we look at
Speaker 8: this offseason with regards to the defense, I'm going to
Speaker 8: be looking at through the prism of is this helping
Speaker 8: the defense stop the run? And guys that leave it
Speaker 8: will suggest to me that Mike Zimmer doesn't think they're
Speaker 8: necessary to stop in the run.
Speaker 2: I think it all works hand in hand because if
Speaker 2: you look at it from the aspect of is Zimmer
Speaker 2: coming in saying, well, if Armstrong can't be retained, Well,
Speaker 2: there's possibly someone else who can step up in his role.
Speaker 2: I don't see that person in the building right now.
Speaker 2: Could it be Sam? Zimmer talks a lot about discipline,
Speaker 2: and we know that he's huge on it. So again,
Speaker 2: I say, if you're talking about the Zimmer variable, I
Speaker 2: don't see it as Sam yet. As far as replacing Armstrong,
Speaker 2: maybe after twenty twenty four we feel differently about it
Speaker 2: and we say, Okay, there we go. Sam's that guy.
Speaker 2: But as we have this conversation, can't see it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I think that if you're Mike Zimmer, you're saying
Speaker 2: I want Dorin Charmstrong because I want him in rotation
Speaker 2: with Micah and de Marcus.
Speaker 5: I know what that is.
Speaker 2: But then it goes to the front office to say, well,
Speaker 2: they might come back to Zimmer and say we want
Speaker 2: him as well. He's a great organizational guy, great locker
Speaker 2: room guy. We got to see what the price is, though,
Speaker 2: and if we can't get him at our price, what
Speaker 2: other options are you thinking about?
Speaker 5: Free agency?
Speaker 2: Wise, jriff wise, I think that's the conversation that's that's
Speaker 2: gonna happen upstairs.
Speaker 8: All right, We're gonna take our first break. We're gonna
Speaker 8: come back. We'll get to our much anticipated segment on
Speaker 8: DAK Prescott will do that when we come back Dallas.
Speaker 6: Cowboys dot Com Radio.
Speaker 10: Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the
Speaker 10: cheatah Savannah. Todd believed the big cat repellent he bought
Speaker 10: online was reliable. And now Todd is trying to be
Speaker 10: faster than this cheetah that can run eighty miles per hour.
Speaker 10: But the good news is Todd has AT and T
Speaker 10: five G. It is fast, reliable, and secure, and he
Speaker 10: learned the best thing to do is stop running and
Speaker 10: toss her the backpack with the beef stew At and
Speaker 10: T five G. Fast, reliable, secure, It's not complicated.
Speaker 11: Five G requires compatible plan and device. Five G may
Speaker 11: not be available in your area. See att dot com
Speaker 11: Slash five G for you for details.
Speaker 12: Cowboys fans, after that move, we've just coined the term
Speaker 12: rowdy replay.
Speaker 6: Let's roll back the tapes.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's our mascot Rowdy cheering on the boys.
Speaker 5: And now he's on his phone on his Bank of
Speaker 5: America mobile banking app.
Speaker 12: Staying on top of his finances with his virtual financial
Speaker 12: assistant Erica.
Speaker 2: Bank of America's digital tools are so impressive. Cowboys fans
Speaker 2: just can't stop banking. Learn more at Bank of America
Speaker 2: dot com. Slash Can't Stop Banking.
Speaker 12: Everica is only available in the English language. You mut
Speaker 12: download the latest version of the Mobile bank app, only
Speaker 12: available on select mobile devices.
Speaker 5: Message dat atesy apply a number FDIC.
Speaker 4: Welcome back into Dear Doctor, the show where I answer
Speaker 4: life's questions with an ice cold can of Doctor Pepper. Sheila,
Speaker 4: let's hear from my next caller.
Speaker 13: Would you, Dear Doctor?
Speaker 8: My friend supported me during a tough time.
Speaker 4: But what's the right gift that says thanks for being
Speaker 4: a soldier?
Speaker 3: To cry out?
Speaker 4: Okay, this one's easy, I say, give her a delicious
Speaker 4: Doctor Pepper. Nothing says thanks good better than one of
Speaker 4: a kind soda. Yes, any Doctor Pepper flavor will do.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: Just a reminder that I don't need to be a
Speaker 4: real doctor to know that Doctor Pepper is the one
Speaker 4: you deserve.
Speaker 3: They say champions are remembered, but legends are never forgotten.
Speaker 3: United Agon Turf offers a winning lineup of John Deere
Speaker 3: equipment built to tackle any challenge on and off the field.
Speaker 3: Legendary John Deere tractors, combines residential mowers, commercial mowers, compact
Speaker 3: construction equipment, cater utility vehicles, and a full line of
Speaker 3: golf and sports turf equipment. United Agon Turf the official
Speaker 3: agonturf equipment supplier of the Dallas Cowboys. Visit United Agonturf
Speaker 3: dot com to find a location near you.
Speaker 5: Back to the break.
Speaker 2: Register now for twenty twenty four Dallas Cowboys youth camps
Speaker 2: presented by visit line athletes of all skill levels ages
Speaker 2: six to sixteen are invited to learn from the best
Speaker 2: this summer at Fort Center at the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 2: Football camps are led by former NFL players, and dance
Speaker 2: camps are talked by the current Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Register
Speaker 2: before May seventeenth to save twenty five dollars. Visit Dallas
Speaker 2: Cowboys dot com Slash Camps Welcome Back.
Speaker 8: It is the second segment of the Break Life in
Speaker 8: that WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. This segment brought
Speaker 8: to you by Blockchain dot Com. All right, let's talk
Speaker 8: about Dak Prescott. I want to start with a basic,
Speaker 8: big picture question on Dak. What would you say after
Speaker 8: watching him play this season really put watching him play
Speaker 8: throughout his career. What would you say is the greatest
Speaker 8: asset that Dak brings to the table.
Speaker 9: Greatest asset I would say his leadership, his personality, and
Speaker 9: the way he handles the people are gonna laugh at
Speaker 9: me by saying this, I was gonna say it handles
Speaker 9: the pressure. WHOA look at that grand Meagan.
Speaker 6: Oh you know how it goes right now.
Speaker 8: Recently Bias says that anything we say on Dak, people
Speaker 8: are gonna roll their eyes if it's a positive statement.
Speaker 6: But go ahead, I get your point.
Speaker 5: I get you.
Speaker 9: No, I think he's a he's a wonderful leader and
Speaker 9: the way he handles the whole adversity and I get it. Yeah,
Speaker 9: it's a great story, his story, and I get that
Speaker 9: fans are over it at some point enough is enough.
Speaker 9: But my thing is last year he proved to me
Speaker 9: that he had not hit the ceiling, even though some
Speaker 9: people might think so because of how the playoffs turned out.
Speaker 9: But I think we saw him become even a better player.
Speaker 9: We saw him still being developed in his how many
Speaker 9: years is this this.
Speaker 5: Is going eight?
Speaker 9: Eight?
Speaker 6: It's a long time six when he got Yeah, a long.
Speaker 9: Time, but he started doing things that I think, and
Speaker 9: I've talked about it before. My issue heading into this
Speaker 9: last season was like, Okay, you've changed so many moving
Speaker 9: pieces around him. You've changed personnel, you've changed players, you've
Speaker 9: changed coaches, coaches, you've changed so much that at one
Speaker 9: point he has to be everything else is going to
Speaker 9: start pointing at him as the problem. But he was
Speaker 9: able to be that guy today that he took on
Speaker 9: certain games where he even though when certain players weren't
Speaker 9: playing as well, he was able to carry that on
Speaker 9: his back and still perform at a high level. And
Speaker 9: that's something that I had not seen from him necessarily before.
Speaker 9: So just the way he played, and I get it
Speaker 9: that last game just kind of it's easy to wipe
Speaker 9: everything out, but you have to look at everything else,
Speaker 9: and you have to remember he wasn't the only the
Speaker 9: only one that played terrible in the Green Bay game.
Speaker 9: This was a collective mess from everybody that played absolutely bad.
Speaker 9: But I think the way that every year his mentality
Speaker 9: is what I'm trying to say, that's what I liked
Speaker 9: most about him. Last year he talked about the interceptions
Speaker 9: and he came back and absolutely completely proved that that
Speaker 9: he could improve in that aspect.
Speaker 2: Agreed, it's leadership. We can we can talk about the
Speaker 2: lack of posts and success and that matters.
Speaker 5: It is valid.
Speaker 2: Do you need more from Dak Prescott on the field
Speaker 2: in the postseason one?
Speaker 5: You do?
Speaker 2: That is true. But if you're talking about leadership, it's bulletproof.
Speaker 2: It's bulletproof. The way that he can galvanize this team,
Speaker 2: the way that you know he goes about himself as
Speaker 2: as the consummate professional both on and off the field,
Speaker 2: The way that he never lets any you know, media
Speaker 2: reports or talk outside the building rattle him or the
Speaker 2: locker room. The way that you know he's able to
Speaker 2: be resilient through all of the things that he's been
Speaker 2: through in life, the loss of his mom to cancer,
Speaker 2: the loss of his brother to suicide, to still be
Speaker 2: able to not only function, but to function at a
Speaker 2: high level while also you know, being you know, showing
Speaker 2: his advocacy for like cancer prevention and awareness and mental
Speaker 2: health advocacy and things like that. So when it comes
Speaker 2: to being a leadership, there are few human beings that
Speaker 2: have demonstrated that better than what Dak Prescott can do.
Speaker 2: So leadership wise, one hundred percent now if you're talking production,
Speaker 2: which we'll get into, that's a different conversation as far
Speaker 2: as postseason versus regular season. But it doesn't matter what
Speaker 2: part of the calendar year it is. Dak Prescott is
Speaker 2: a leader.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 8: So here's a I think the question of the day
Speaker 8: at this point really the question of this offseason.
Speaker 5: What do you do with that?
Speaker 8: And I have a few options here, and I want you, guys,
Speaker 8: tell me where you think it works best from your
Speaker 8: eyes with regards to Dak. Number one, Dak's your guy.
Speaker 8: You stick with Dak. You give him a new, long
Speaker 8: term deal.
Speaker 6: He's locked up.
Speaker 8: You don't worry about what happens next year because he
Speaker 8: is locked up. You have him on a longer term deal.
Speaker 8: Number Two, you play out this year knowing that at
Speaker 8: the end of this year he will be a free agent,
Speaker 8: and at that point he will be able to choose
Speaker 8: whether he wants to stay here or not. And at
Speaker 8: the same time, you continue developing Trey Lance with the
Speaker 8: hopes that maybe Trey Lance can develop into something worthwhile,
Speaker 8: or at least give yourself a little more time to
Speaker 8: see how that works. Now, one of the interesting things there,
Speaker 8: people say, you can't play on the deal. I actually
Speaker 8: saw this. There's actually a pretty simple way for Dallas
Speaker 8: to be able to absorb Dak's money this year.
Speaker 6: If they don't do anything with it.
Speaker 8: You could restructure still Digs, Cooks, and then you could
Speaker 8: do a post June cut on Gallup, vander Esh and Rush.
Speaker 8: I think all those things are possible, and if you
Speaker 8: do that, you don't have to do anything with Dax deal.
Speaker 8: You could let it ride as it is and you
Speaker 8: could still have some money. I think with all those
Speaker 8: things done, you would get twenty million dollars under the cap,
Speaker 8: so you still have some money to work this offseason.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you'd be all in necessarily, but
Speaker 8: you have money to work with when free agency starts,
Speaker 8: So that's your second option. You let this share play out,
Speaker 8: you don't do anything different with Dak's contract, and you
Speaker 8: see what happens with Trey Lance.
Speaker 6: Or number three.
Speaker 8: You go ahead and say, right now, I'm gonna go
Speaker 8: ahead and start looking at what my options are on
Speaker 8: free agency. Are there quarterbacks out there or their quarterbacks
Speaker 8: that could trade for Not the most likely option, but
Speaker 8: I needed to throw it out as an option for
Speaker 8: you guys to choose from. So if you had to
Speaker 8: choose one of those three options, where do you stand
Speaker 8: with Dak Prescott?
Speaker 5: Would you get it? GARCIEA.
Speaker 9: I think extending the contract, I think would make more
Speaker 9: sense in the long term money wise, But I am
Speaker 9: more in favor of letting this year play out. If
Speaker 9: we're on the hot seat, we're all in the hot
Speaker 9: seat this year, we're talking about coaches and everybody.
Speaker 2: Then yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: We did.
Speaker 11: We did.
Speaker 9: If everybody is playing on this this is the year
Speaker 9: type of situation, then the quarterback should be doing it too.
Speaker 9: And I love Dak, I absolutely do, and I have
Speaker 9: not given up and on him, and I think what
Speaker 9: he showed this year, like I said earlier, really made
Speaker 9: me feel better into what he is. I'm not gonna
Speaker 9: take like Green Bay loss as who he is. I'm
Speaker 9: gonna take it as crap happens, and it happened again,
Speaker 9: and it happened to everybody from everybody. But I do
Speaker 9: think just because of the situation of most of the
Speaker 9: you know Mike McCarthy, you got Mike Simmer too. Wait, Zimmer,
Speaker 9: isn't it what's the contract on Simmer?
Speaker 2: Well, we don't no quite yet, but I hear what
Speaker 2: I'm hearing unofficially. Unofficially, I'm hearing that it's one year
Speaker 2: deal unofficially, but I haven't been most seconds, but I
Speaker 2: haven't been.
Speaker 8: The other thing too about about coaches is even if
Speaker 8: let's say it's a long term deal, let's say it's
Speaker 8: a three year deal, year deal, Yeah, they make a
Speaker 8: move next year and they bringing another head coach and
Speaker 8: he wants the different coordinators not just move on like
Speaker 8: that's how to it works with coaching unfortunately.
Speaker 5: But the point is, I know or the coordinator for
Speaker 5: a head coaching position, right exactly.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, there's all kinds of scenarios. I don't worry
Speaker 8: so much about that.
Speaker 9: I just would one just to add more drama to it,
Speaker 9: that added pressure.
Speaker 6: So everybody's on one year, everybody, everybody.
Speaker 9: That's what all that means. You put it all in there,
Speaker 9: and if you're now you're screwed, go home and everybody, everybody, everybody.
Speaker 9: So this is what we're at, This is where we're
Speaker 9: at this year. That's not to say I don't trust
Speaker 9: Dak and don't want to see him succeed, but if
Speaker 9: we're all in the hot seat, we're all in the
Speaker 9: hot seat.
Speaker 2: You know it has nothing to do with trust. If
Speaker 2: you ask me, I think the Cowboys trust Dak Prescott
Speaker 2: as their franchise quarterback one hundred percent. This is about
Speaker 2: playing the twenty twenty four season with the maximum amount
Speaker 2: of motivation for every possible individual. Dak Prescott said after
Speaker 2: the lost to Green Bay. He said, if McCarthy's on
Speaker 2: the hot seat, so should I be. Okay, here we
Speaker 2: are hot seat. I say play it out through twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four because rather you whether you set the market
Speaker 2: with Dak Prescott in twenty twenty four or you wait
Speaker 2: and you set it in twenty twenty five because he
Speaker 2: went on a playoff run and did everything that you
Speaker 2: felt that he could do in the postseason to come.
Speaker 5: He's going either way.
Speaker 2: You're going to set the market now as far as
Speaker 2: are we talking tens of millions of dollars more likely,
Speaker 2: But you're also talking about a salary cap that's tens
Speaker 2: of millions of dollars higher. You're also talking about more
Speaker 2: expiring contracts. In a league of attrition, it's a revolving door.
Speaker 2: So you look at the bottom half of the roster.
Speaker 2: So just like right now, you put together some great
Speaker 2: variables as far as how to absorb Dak Prescott's sixty
Speaker 2: sixty one million dollar cap hit. If you want to
Speaker 2: absorb it as structured, right, that's going to be the
Speaker 2: same conversation next year, next summer, and then you will
Speaker 2: also have had a full year and full offseason of
Speaker 2: development for Trey Lance to at least see where he
Speaker 2: is and can he take over in twenty five Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe not. I think all of that is a perfect
Speaker 2: conversation for next offseason. But the only way that becomes
Speaker 2: a more meaningful conversation is if you just let this
Speaker 2: final year of the contract play out. Work the numbers
Speaker 2: however you work. You can restructure some guys, you release
Speaker 2: some guys, or you can restructure Dak's deal. Yes, that
Speaker 2: pushes money to the back end, but again, salary cap
Speaker 2: is ballooning every single year with new TV deals and
Speaker 2: things like that.
Speaker 6: You can do whatever you want against right, so you
Speaker 6: really can't.
Speaker 2: We see, if you restructure him, then you get twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one million dollars. You can get that twenty million dollars.
Speaker 2: That way, the numbers game can be played. But I
Speaker 2: believe that the Cowboys believe in Dak Prescott, but I
Speaker 2: would tie his twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 5: Let's put it this way.
Speaker 2: I would tie his future with the Cowboys to McCarthy's
Speaker 2: future with the Cowboys and look at that head coaching
Speaker 2: quarterback duo and say, we want both of you around
Speaker 2: for the long run, but you're gonna have to make us,
Speaker 2: make us pay you the amount of money that we
Speaker 2: that you know, we know you want, make us put
Speaker 2: it on the table, and we're willing to if you
Speaker 2: do that. NFC Championship, super Bowl, things like that.
Speaker 8: Theoretically, that all makes sense. Let me throw one risk
Speaker 8: factor in there. You said, okay, we let this here
Speaker 8: play out, and let's say that Dak has a great
Speaker 8: year next year he takes him to the Promised Land,
Speaker 8: they get.
Speaker 6: To the super Bowl. Let's say, okay, here's the problem.
Speaker 5: Know where he's going.
Speaker 8: Here's the problem. Yeah, you could say we can pay,
Speaker 8: we'll set the market. But what if another team's saying
Speaker 8: we'll set the market plus some and you create a
Speaker 8: bidding war. You no longer have control at that point
Speaker 8: because you can't franchise and you can't trade him. So
Speaker 8: at that point it is Dak has all the leverage
Speaker 8: if at that point, let's say, I don't know, you
Speaker 8: named three teams out there that are quarterbacks starved, that
Speaker 8: are like, this is our opportunity.
Speaker 6: How often do you get a quarterback quarterback and just
Speaker 6: want the super Bowl available.
Speaker 8: To you, that is a complete free agent and can
Speaker 8: go wherever he wants to go. What makes you say
Speaker 8: that maybe dak is just like, man, I'm just tired
Speaker 8: of all the scrutiny that comes with being in Dallas,
Speaker 8: like that, it would be nice to go somewhere where
Speaker 8: the media just don't talk about what I have for breakfast,
Speaker 8: Like I just want to be able to go somewhere
Speaker 8: where I can play football, and yeah, I'm gonna be
Speaker 8: on a new sun, but I don't wake up every morning.
Speaker 6: That's nice.
Speaker 8: I'm saying you no longer have control. Are you comfortable
Speaker 8: with the idea that you no longer have control? Especially
Speaker 8: if by the way he does all the things you've
Speaker 8: been hoping he would do this.
Speaker 5: Next year, it's the risk.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like what mbar said or not kind
Speaker 2: of like it's exactly what she said. When if you're
Speaker 2: all in and it's just like Jerry Jones mentioned, he's
Speaker 2: all in, for twenty twenty four. He's not worrying about
Speaker 2: the future things like they's not necessarily planning for the future.
Speaker 2: Push all your chip proven, push all your chips to
Speaker 2: the table, and you're either going to you know, walk
Speaker 2: away with some a lot of winnings, or you wanna
Speaker 2: walk away broke and upset and you're you're risking it.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a dice roll. You're either gonna
Speaker 2: come up three, You're gonna come up snake eyes, and
Speaker 2: there's there's really no in between. Because I also think
Speaker 2: about it from the aspect of and for those that
Speaker 2: don't haven't lived it the Clint Sterner days and the
Speaker 2: Stephen McGee days and the Quincy Carter days. I don't
Speaker 2: think people understand exactly how valuable Dak Prescott has become
Speaker 2: to the winning at least regular season the winning culture
Speaker 2: that wasn't present pre Romo post apmen not whatsoever. I mean,
Speaker 2: Google is free by all means, go google it. That
Speaker 2: being said, of course, the Cowboys want him around for
Speaker 2: the long term. That's why I'm not mad at them for,
Speaker 2: you know, possibly extending him this off season. But if
Speaker 2: you're asking my opinion, I would absolutely just let this
Speaker 2: play out because.
Speaker 6: And you're comfortable with that if you lose it.
Speaker 2: Right, because I'm not comfortable if he plays well, gets
Speaker 2: you to a super Bowl and then you lose them,
Speaker 2: You're like, ah, this okay, that that freaking sucks, right,
Speaker 2: but at least hopefully you got a ring out of it.
Speaker 6: And then what if he got you to the super
Speaker 6: Bowl but lost.
Speaker 8: You didn't get right there, you didn't get all the
Speaker 8: way there, but you're close enough now.
Speaker 5: I mean, let's say let's say it because of him.
Speaker 6: Let's say he's played let's place.
Speaker 8: Let's say he plays okay, Let's say he has a
Speaker 8: two hundred and fifty yard passing day, has one interception,
Speaker 8: a touchdown or two, and that's his day. It wasn't
Speaker 8: anything where you're like he was the man. You also
Speaker 8: are like, this wasn't necessarily on him. He contributed to
Speaker 8: it because he had the interception, but it wasn't on him.
Speaker 8: How do you feel about that at that point, because
Speaker 8: you feel like you're really close At that point, you
Speaker 8: feel like you're there, close enough to touch it. And
Speaker 8: even if you start over with a Trey Lance, you're like,
Speaker 8: oh god, it's going back to the beginning.
Speaker 6: How do you feel about that?
Speaker 5: I think you also got a factory.
Speaker 2: And I guess my question before we answer that one
Speaker 2: is what's the situation with McCarthy in that scenario.
Speaker 8: In that scenario, I think McCarthy's back that three twelve
Speaker 8: and twelve and five seasons and then goes to the
Speaker 8: super Bowl even if he loses. I don't I don't
Speaker 8: see how you fire a coach with that resume in four.
Speaker 5: Years, and it's that's very successful.
Speaker 2: If McCarthy is back after a season like that, even
Speaker 2: if you drop it in the super Bowl, then I
Speaker 2: think Dak wants to stay. I'm looking at variables in negotiation, right.
Speaker 2: So money is a huge motivator in free agency, but
Speaker 2: that's not the only motivator, especially for a relationships guy
Speaker 2: like Dak Prescott.
Speaker 8: So you're saying Dak would choose to come back because
Speaker 8: he would all finished business.
Speaker 5: Right, correct, as long as the money is comparable.
Speaker 2: So at that point, now you're talking about he can
Speaker 2: either reset the market with a team like Tampa, or
Speaker 2: he can reset the market with the Cowboys. But if Tampa, hypothetically,
Speaker 2: because you're smaller, market less scrutiny to that point but
Speaker 2: if Tampa's offer is set in the market and the
Speaker 2: Cowboys offer is also a market center, but Tampa is
Speaker 2: slightly higher. But McCarthy is back, and you're coming off
Speaker 2: of a super Bowl run that you just fell short
Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. I think da Prescott looks at
Speaker 2: that and says, you know what, unfinished business, and my
Speaker 2: guy's back, and Ceedee Lamb is still here for the
Speaker 2: long haul and and yeah, but here what you.
Speaker 8: Just said, Ceede Lamb's here for long long term? Does
Speaker 8: that complicate matters that now you're in a situation where
Speaker 8: you're in a bidding war for your quarterback. And by
Speaker 8: the way, you now got to sign one of the
Speaker 8: top three to five wide receivers in the league.
Speaker 2: No, you got to get Lamb done. That's a different conversation.
Speaker 2: I'm willing to let's get.
Speaker 6: Let's let's assume you've got in the world, you've already
Speaker 6: got Lamb done.
Speaker 8: Now let's assume you got Lamb already done. What about Micah?
Speaker 8: Like again, you're you're now in a bidding war for
Speaker 8: your quarterback. At the same time, you're gonna have to
Speaker 8: probably create a record setting type deal for defensive player
Speaker 8: in Michael Parsons.
Speaker 5: I have an answer. Yeah, we talked about that franchise.
Speaker 6: Okay, just franchising.
Speaker 8: What you know about Mike If he's on a franchise,
Speaker 8: sad you think he signed that showing up?
Speaker 5: Yeah you do. Yeah, I don't think that. Okay. Let
Speaker 5: me put it this way.
Speaker 2: If micah Is is true to the implication that he
Speaker 2: put out there that he's willing to be patient and
Speaker 2: let like ceedee lamb get his money and things like that,
Speaker 2: that tell me that he at least understands the prioritization
Speaker 2: here that being sick.
Speaker 8: I also think he's a true businessman. Let's be cud
Speaker 8: about that one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: That also goes to the point of if that did
Speaker 2: become a situation where you're in a bedding war for
Speaker 2: your franchise quarterback versus a bidding war for your you know,
Speaker 2: a generational edge rusher, your generational edge rusher who deferred
Speaker 2: to your generational wide receiver just a year prior, I
Speaker 2: could see Michael saying, you know what, I'll take this tag,
Speaker 2: by the way, fully guaranteed and knock on wool. Mike
Speaker 2: has not had any injury issues that has cost him
Speaker 2: availability go ahead and pay Dak Prescott, and then we'll
Speaker 2: meet at this table offseason twenty twenty six. Oh and
Speaker 2: by the way, when we meet at the table off
Speaker 2: season twenty twenty six, if you thought I was going
Speaker 2: to be the highest paid in NFL history, go ahead
Speaker 2: and add some more to that. So I think, being
Speaker 2: a shrue businessman understanding the prioritization between who needs to
Speaker 2: be paid win, if it came to Michael versus Dak,
Speaker 2: I could fully see Michael saying, go ahead and pay
Speaker 2: our quarterback, because I do want to win, and I
Speaker 2: know that if we re there's no guarantee with Trey Lance,
Speaker 2: there's no guarantee with a drafted quarterback, and right now
Speaker 2: there's no one on the market quarterback wise that is
Speaker 2: equivalent to what Dak Prescott gives you. So if Micah
Speaker 2: is going to hold true to that word, then I
Speaker 2: think he'd be fine with it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think that's And again I don't know. I've not
Speaker 8: talked to Michael about this. I'm not talked to Dak
Speaker 8: about this. I don't know what they're thinking. My old
Speaker 8: point is, and the point I'm trying to make here
Speaker 8: is there's a lot of factors that are involved here
Speaker 8: more so than just saying do you pay Dak now,
Speaker 8: I'll pay Dak later, because the fact is that decision
Speaker 8: will set off a chain reaction of things that will
Speaker 8: happen over the next two years that could be franchise changing, right,
Speaker 8: And so I just think, you know, this conversation has
Speaker 8: a lot of layers to it that go far beyond
Speaker 8: just what Dak did in that playoff game against Green Bay.
Speaker 8: You gotta really think about what are you doing for
Speaker 8: the future and if this happens, then this is gonna happen,
Speaker 8: and how does that affect this There are all these
Speaker 8: different layers and I think all that has.
Speaker 2: To be And then there's the edit layer of let's
Speaker 2: say you you go ahead and extend him right now,
Speaker 2: which again I'm totally fine with giving his value. Yes,
Speaker 2: you need more from the postseason, but he's earned an extension,
Speaker 2: another extension in my opinion. But if things don't go
Speaker 2: well in twenty twenty four, and any of it is
Speaker 2: on the quarterback, let's say Mike McCarthy is out, you
Speaker 2: got a new head coach coming in. You know who
Speaker 2: head coaches love to target first, They need their quarterback
Speaker 2: they want their guy at quarterback, and you've seen it
Speaker 2: all around the league over the history of the league.
Speaker 2: What does that mean for Dak Prescott on a very
Speaker 2: long term deal versus a incoming head coach that might
Speaker 2: like that but might have other ideas in like a
Speaker 2: Cliff Kingsbury kind of way.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 9: So, but also those conversations from what I've heard in
Speaker 9: the past when interviewing certain head coaches, they what's on
Speaker 9: the table is can you work well, yeah, first yo,
Speaker 9: If not, then you might not be the right option
Speaker 9: for it.
Speaker 5: That's true.
Speaker 2: But now you're also and again this is this is
Speaker 2: such a fun conversation that also goes to the understanding
Speaker 2: that you're possibly limiting your pool of candidates as well. Right, So,
Speaker 2: if there's a particular candidate that you definitely want for
Speaker 2: a head coach and you ask him that question rather
Speaker 2: be Dak Prescott, or if you're a GM of any
Speaker 2: other team, your owner of any other team, if you say,
Speaker 2: you know Baker Mayfield, Baker Mayfield's got our guy, can
Speaker 2: you come in and coach him? You're the guy we want,
Speaker 2: and he's like, yeah, that's not who I want to coach. Well,
Speaker 2: as owner and GM. Guess what, you just lost your
Speaker 2: top candidates, so now everyone else is not a consolation prize.
Speaker 2: But that's not your guy. Now you're trying to make
Speaker 2: some things work. So it's it's such a leveled and
Speaker 2: layered conversation. And I will say that in the past,
Speaker 2: I was on record that the Cowboys took too long
Speaker 2: to pay Dak Prescott.
Speaker 6: I think we all were yeah, yeah, they.
Speaker 5: Took too long to pay him.
Speaker 2: They took too long to paym But this is an
Speaker 2: interesting in a different time frame in that you look
Speaker 2: at what happened in this year's postseason, right, and you
Speaker 2: look at you have to balance that with your runner
Speaker 2: up in the MVP race, Like, oh right, head coach
Speaker 2: didn't get extended.
Speaker 5: He's on a one year deal. He's on a you know,
Speaker 5: a hot seat to speak. Hmm.
Speaker 2: Defense is still working some things out, Mike Zimmer, new guys,
Speaker 2: who's going, who's coming? Player wise, so many, so much
Speaker 2: on the table that if you're I said, if you're
Speaker 2: all in, I'm with them. But if you're all in,
Speaker 2: just push it all to the push all the chips
Speaker 2: in the middle. And that goes for free agency signs
Speaker 2: as well. Push it all to the middle and uh
Speaker 2: and pray that it works out for you. And if
Speaker 2: it doesn't, then you.
Speaker 5: You work it. Then you work it.
Speaker 2: However you can work it right, and you you stand
Speaker 2: in front of deck and said, my bad, here's a
Speaker 2: whole here's a whole bunch. Here's a whole bunch more
Speaker 2: money to make it.
Speaker 8: Okay, Right, so all right, we got final reck will
Speaker 8: come back. We'll get one question here before we end
Speaker 8: the show. We'll be back Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio.
Speaker 10: Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the
Speaker 10: cheatah Savannah. Todd believed the big cat repellent he bought
Speaker 10: online was reliable. And now Todd is trying to be
Speaker 10: faster than this cheetah that can run eighty miles per
Speaker 10: But the good news is Todd has AT and T
Speaker 10: five G. It is fast, reliable, and secure, and he
Speaker 10: learned the best thing to do is stop running and
Speaker 10: toss her the backpack with the beef stew At and
Speaker 10: T five G. Fast, reliable, secure, It's not complicated.
Speaker 11: Five G requires compatable plan and device five G may
Speaker 11: not be available in your area. See att dot com
Speaker 11: Slash five G for you for details.
Speaker 13: Don't put off getting your oil change. Dallas. Take five
Speaker 13: Oil Change, a proud partner of the Cowboys, is faster
Speaker 13: than you think. There's no appointment needed and no waiting room. Yep,
Speaker 13: you hurt that correctly. Take five is so fast you
Speaker 13: don't even have to get out of your car. You
Speaker 13: can take advantage of Take five's fast, friendly and simple
Speaker 13: service at any of their locations across the Dallas area.
Speaker 13: And remember at Take five you stay in your car
Speaker 13: because they're faster than you think. Take five the official
Speaker 13: oil change of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 12: It's the official men's skincare brand of the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 12: Jack Black and right now, Cowboys fans can get fifteen
Speaker 12: percent off their seventy five dollars order. Plus because every
Speaker 12: deal needs a playmaker, your order will include a free
Speaker 12: five piece skincare set and free shipping. The Jack Black
Speaker 12: Playmaker is four of Jack's and a full sized intense
Speaker 12: therapy wipball. Make a play for the playmaker at Getjack
Speaker 12: Black dot com slash Cowboys with the code Cowboys VIP.
Speaker 12: That's get Jack Black dot com slash Cowboys with the
Speaker 12: code Cowboys VIP.
Speaker 3: They say champions are remembered, but legends are never forgotten.
Speaker 3: United Agon Turf offers a winning lineup of John Deere
Speaker 3: equipment built to tackle any challenge on and off the field.
Speaker 3: Legendary John Deere Tractors combines residential mowers, commercial mowers, compact
Speaker 3: construction equipment, cater utility vehicles, and a full line of
Speaker 3: golf and sports turf equipment. United Agon Turf the official
Speaker 3: agonturf equipment supplier of the Dallas Cowboys. Visit United dagonturf
Speaker 3: dot com to find a location near you.
Speaker 2: Back to the break Patrick Dallas Cowboys. Game Time powered
Speaker 2: by Lenovo, the official gaming platform and community of the
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys. Sign up now to compete in Fortnite for
Speaker 2: a chance to win a VIP experience at the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four Dallas Cowboys Draft Party. Qualifiers begin on February
Speaker 2: twenty fourth and run through the twenty eighth. Learn more
Speaker 2: and register at Dallascowboys game time dot com.
Speaker 8: Welcome back, final segment of the Break Life from that
Speaker 8: WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, I got one final
Speaker 8: question for you guys before we end the show. We
Speaker 8: have thirty seconds. Do your best? Which option of those
Speaker 8: three that I gave you is most likely to happen.
Speaker 8: I know what we've given is our opinions on it,
Speaker 8: And what do you think is more likely to happen.
Speaker 8: They stick with Dak, give him a new deal, They
Speaker 8: play this year out and don't give him a new deal,
Speaker 8: but with the hopes that they will maybe do something
Speaker 8: next year or look at other options in free agency
Speaker 8: or the draft.
Speaker 2: I think it's more likely they extend him this offseason, especially,
Speaker 2: you know, if you're Jerry Jones and you're looking at it,
Speaker 2: and of course, if you're Jerry Jones, you've lived through
Speaker 2: the Sterner and the McGee years and things like that.
Speaker 8: I want to Steven McGee feels about you're just throwing
Speaker 8: his name out there like that.
Speaker 5: You should have played well, so you don't really care. No,
Speaker 5: not at all, Sorry, Steve. It's the objectivities thjectivity. You
Speaker 5: should play better. Same for you, But no knocking.
Speaker 2: They're not going to miss a human beings. That's football
Speaker 2: player what the Cowboys needed. But also, if you're Jerry Jones,
Speaker 2: I harken back to the fact that you know, he
Speaker 2: said I don't have time for a bad time. He
Speaker 2: senses his mortality. He doesn't want to hit the hard reset.
Speaker 2: He knows, like you said during the break, this decision
Speaker 2: could impact the Cowboys in one direction or another for
Speaker 2: the next ten years. The reality is Jerry doesn't know
Speaker 2: if he has another ten years or not. You hate
Speaker 2: to say it out loud, but that's the reality of it.
Speaker 2: So I think it's likely that the Cowboys don't want
Speaker 2: to reset that quarterback or don't want to risk resetting
Speaker 2: that quarterback anytime soon.
Speaker 5: I think that gets the deal this off season.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that's the most likely to happen, just
Speaker 9: because of everything we've heard heard the Cowboys say, Jerry Jones,
Speaker 9: Stephen Jones, everybody like people like him. This is not
Speaker 9: and there's no bad blood happening there. The relationship is
Speaker 9: strong between Dak and the franchise, and another big thing
Speaker 9: like Dak has never lost the It's funny how every
Speaker 9: time I'm gonna say something, like an image pops in
Speaker 9: my head, and the one that just popped in my
Speaker 9: head was City being all pissed on the sideline with
Speaker 9: Dak and all of that. But where I was going
Speaker 9: at is like he's never had that kind of beef
Speaker 9: with players. He's always had players back, So I think
Speaker 9: the more likelihood. And I was here when it was
Speaker 9: Brendan wheedon Matt Castle Mud, so I experienced a little
Speaker 9: bit of that and it was not fun at all.
Speaker 9: And I think Dak if anything, he yeah, he is
Speaker 9: a good quarterback. He is a good quarterback, and yeah,
Speaker 9: most likelihood they'll extend him. But I still would like
Speaker 9: to take the risk and gamble. Let's gamble. No, No,
Speaker 9: we cannot gamble.
Speaker 6: We cannot.
Speaker 8: I was about to say, I don't get against the wall,
Speaker 8: but no, I do think this will be a very
Speaker 8: interesting offseason. I think this decision will have far reaching implications.
Speaker 8: Next week, we're going to start talking a little bit
Speaker 8: about free agency, because that's coming up here fast and furious.
Speaker 8: We're going to talk about the Cowboys free agents next week,
Speaker 8: the players that are on that were on the roster
Speaker 8: this last year that will become free agents, and what
Speaker 8: we think will happen with those guys. The week after that,
Speaker 8: we'll start talking about some guys that are not on
Speaker 8: this roster and maybe some free agents that the Cowboys
Speaker 8: should be looking at. To get everyone ready for that
Speaker 8: March eleventh week when free agency will begin.
Speaker 6: A spring break week, So that'll.
Speaker 5: Be perfectly all right.
Speaker 2: We'll really quickly before we go, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: try not to get emotional here as we breathe through this.
Speaker 2: I'd be remiss if I did not offer my condolences
Speaker 2: to the family of Mark Lane. Close close friend of mine.
Speaker 2: I considered him a brother one hundred percent. His passing
Speaker 2: earlier this week has has been devastating for both his family,
Speaker 2: me and my family, and just the Cowboys fandom and
Speaker 2: Cowboys beat as a whole. Lost not only one of
Speaker 2: the best to ever do it from a professional standpoint,
Speaker 2: but also one of the best human beings ever. So
Speaker 2: love you, brother, Rest well into the Lane family. I'll
Speaker 2: see you soon for his services. Us said with that,
Speaker 2: we will in the show. We'll be back with you
Speaker 2: guys next week for Patrick Walker, Ambergarci. I'm Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 8: This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot
Speaker 8: Com Radio.
Speaker 1: This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.