WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Should Dak Take Less? 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:18.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:23.360 Lounge broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:29.000 Now your hosts Bury Church, Danny McCrae, and Newey Scrugs 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:42.440 Yo Players Lounge here on a Friday. Players Labs Time 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.159 brought to you by Hotels dot Com. Undewey Scrugs, longtime 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.440 Cowboys broadcaster, joined by State Cowboys reporter. Joined by Barry 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.440 Church and Danny mccraig, two former Dallas Cowboys safety So 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.600 the beauty of this show is they bring us football 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.800 from their eyes as guys who've been in the locker room, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:59.920 who've played the game and have a better understanding of 0:00:59.920 --> 0:01:03.080 it then a guy like me and most Cowboy fans. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.040 So let us start off the show. Was something that 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:13.240 just absolutely drove me crazy today and that was comments 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.760 from former NFL quarterback Carson Palmer. So it's Super Bowl week, 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.560 and during Super Bowl Week a lot of guys like 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:27.720 Carson Palmer Emmitt Smith go around doing these promos for 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.679 companies and they'll go on radio stations. So guy might 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:36.160 be pitching tequila soft drinks copy inc. Whatever and they 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.480 go on the show. So Carson Palmer was on one 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.800 oh five three, the Fan of the Dallas Cowboys flagship station, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.160 and Carson told Sean and RJ that he thinks because 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.960 Dak Prescott is a Dallas Cowboys quarterback, he should take 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:53.560 less money. That was his thought process, said, well, you 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.240 look at you know, at one point in time you 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.800 had Jason Witt and Tony Romo and Troy Aigman. All 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.920 of these guys had made network TV jobs. It was 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.320 because they all played for the Dallas Cowboys, and that 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.320 Dad should be thinking about that. My first thought is 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:10.720 what if Dad doesn't want to go in a TV 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.480 What if Dax says I don't want it, I don't 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.760 want to be a broadcaster. It's it's it just bugs 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:22.480 me because why does Dak have to take less money? 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.120 Then I'm gonna lay it out here, Okay, Fellas, one 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.200 of my issues is it becomes and it feels to 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.160 me like it becomes the grateful negro argument. Hey man, 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:31.919 you should just be happy that you get to play 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:33.960 for mister Jones and the Dallas Cowboys. You should take 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.640 whatever you can and help them out. No, Zeke didn't 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.639 say you know what, man, I'm gonna take less so 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.080 Dad can get paid. Dank didn't say I'm gonna take 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.360 less so Dad couldn't get it and get paid. Jimmy 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.560 Garoppolo played seven games and reset the market. Okay, he 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.240 reset the market for a quarterback based off seven playoffs. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:51.880 I mean, I mean seven games. None of them are 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.520 in the playoffs. Okay, seven football games. Andrew Luck set 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.040 the market. Matthew Stafford set the market, Aaron Rodgers set 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.640 the market. Russell Wilson set the market. But now Dak 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.839 Prescott needs to be the dude that says, hey, man, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.960 I'm gonna take less money. Fellas, I have a problem. 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.240 Tony Romo didn't take less money either, man, So so 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.920 don't forget to leave Tony out of there. He didn't 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.520 take less money so other people could could could make 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.519 something to make the team better. So that was the 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.120 last Cowboys quarterback that got paid a lot of bread. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.720 So so make sure you love him in there too. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.799 What nobody asking him to do? What they're asking Dad 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.520 to do. And I think it's funny we always go 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.880 into this the old school comment always be like then 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.359 the old school. They always want to look at look 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.240 at stuff how it was done back in the day, 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.600 and they don't want to change and do all that stuff. 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.640 Between him and what he said this week and what 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.120 Brett Farve said about Deshaun Watson making so much money 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.440 that he you know, we make too much money to 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.800 have an opinion that is some old school, crazy way 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.640 of thinking that you just not in the new century 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.000 and we don't think that way. Millennials, jen x and 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.120 all that stuff. They don't think that way. So they 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.880 can say that all they want to, and it's going 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:02.200 to continue to be wrong and people will continue to 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.480 knock them down for it because it don't make no sense. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.240 One get out of their pockets too. You ain't even 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.120 there no more. So stop speaking on this man. You 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.200 don't know him, You don't know what's happening with the 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.520 end of workings of the organization. And when you're speaking 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.839 on that, this dude was a fourth round draft pick, 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.400 hasn't got a chance to get his big payday. And 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.240 when it's time for him to get his big pay day, 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.640 the team hasn't paid him for two years, and you're 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.640 consistently telling him to take less money so he can 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.520 go speak as an NFL broadcasters. Makes no sense. The 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.760 dudes in his twenties, you're talking about what he should 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.480 be doing when he's thirty five and forty years old. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.120 Get out of here. Yeah, yeah, it makes no sense. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:37.960 I mean, Dan mc I agree with you one hundred 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.520 percent on this one. I mean Carson Palmer's his comments 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.360 to me, they were out of pocket. I mean, first 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.360 of all, you shouldn't be in the business of counting 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.240 other man's money, like, you know, let him be him, 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.360 Let him get as much money as he can. If 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.680 it's with the Dallas Cowboys, fine, If it's somewhere else, 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.600 that's great as well. But Dak Prescott deserves his money 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.560 and he should get paid as such. And for all 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.160 these guys telling them to take discounts, take haircuts, and 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.839 all this other stuff, he shouldn't do that because because 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.359 the organizations don't do that. When they're taking TV deals 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.920 and they're doing all these all these different type of deals, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.400 they're not taking discounts off they're not doing haircuts. Jerry 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.320 Jones isn't giving these TV guys a discount. Also, why 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.640 should why should Dak Prescott do that as well? I 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.720 just don't see that in and when they talk about 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.080 off the field stuff when you when you're a Dallas Cowboy, 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.359 you get all this money off the field, that is true, 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.960 but a lot of it is the play on the field. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.560 Like Quincy Carter was a quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.560 Do you think he had all these national programs and 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.440 all these national commercials. No, because he wasn't doing as 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.520 well on the field as Dak Prescott. So for me, 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.880 if I'm Dak Prescott, you gotta get all the money 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.359 that you can and make sure you don't give anybody 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.640 discounts because this NFL thing is not for long. It's 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.400 only a short period of your life, So get as 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.560 much money as you can. Now, as far as the 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.839 Brett five comments, I mean, he's completely out of pocket. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:48.720 I mean this is like, this is like, this is 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.240 a loanal lines of shut up and dribble type argument, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:52.560 and I just can't deal with it. And I just 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.560 can't believe Bret fare would even go out there and 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:59.320 make those comments. Here's the hypocrisy of Brett Farve. For 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.320 a while, Farv was holding Ted Thompson, who was running 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.800 the Green Bay Packers, and a hostage mode. I don't 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:06.160 know if I'm gonna play next year. I don't know, 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:07.800 I got to think about anything about So he was 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.520 kind of waffling in this whole retirement thing for a minute. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.520 And so what did Ted Thompson do without drafted Aaron Rodgers. Well, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.520 now Brett Farvall. So now now now he's in. And 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.680 then Brett decides to retire. Then Brett wanted to come back, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.320 and Ted Thompson said, no, you can't come back. And 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.000 then Brett said, well, let me compete for the job, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.920 and Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy said no, Aaron Rodgers 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.039 is the guy. So then Brett said, trade me to Minnesota. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.800 They're like, we ain't trade you in the division, man, No, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.440 And so they've worked it out that Brett could go 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.320 to the New York Jets, and they traded him over 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.040 to the AFC. So then he decides to retire from 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.480 the Jets. After he plays a year, he retires and 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.920 asked them to release it. Then he comes back, We'll 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.560 guess who he's playing for. He's playing for Minnesota. And 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:54.360 then okay, remember now they ended up. Well, one summer 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.479 he was sitting at his sitting at his farm, and 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:57.919 he didn't know if he wanted to come back, so 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.080 they'd tell everybody to go on down. They tell everybody 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.440 to going down to the Mississippi and convince him to 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.800 come back and play another year. I mean, this thing 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:08.839 is ridiculous. You're talking about the ultimate deva and the 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.960 guy who wanted things his own way, and then he's 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.480 when Aaron Rodgers was drafting, was like, I ain't helping him. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.320 It's not my job to help him. I mean, this 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.440 guy's amazing the hypocrisy he wants to throw out here 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.360 that all of a sudden, you know, Deshaun Watson shouldn't 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.320 be asking for a trade. You know who asked for 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.080 a trade and got one. And he did the same 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.600 thing about Matthew Stafford told lines, I want to play 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.040 you any more. I mean, so so with Matthew Stafford 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.520 supposed to just shut up. I mean, come on, man, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.800 it's it's the constant thing of I'm gonna put my 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.680 finger at this guy. I ain't gonna look at what 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.600 I did. I mean, you well, I know this. I 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.960 didn't forget what. Carson Palmer decided to quit the Cincinnati Beings. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:51.920 He quit, went home, said I ain't playing I ain't 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.880 never gonna play for you again. And then after the 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.160 Bengals played hardball, they ended up trading him to the Raiders. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.960 I just I just find it hilarious, man, when these 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:03.800 guys want to sit up here and tell other dudes 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.520 that they need to take less money. What is one 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.120 thing that we've seen this offseason? The teams are desperate 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.320 for quarterbacks. Okay, they're desperate for him, and we didn't 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.800 bring up Kirk Cousins. But has anybody been paid more 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:21.160 money in the NFL and delivered so little like Kirk Cousins. No, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:38.480 whoever gave anybody Sam Brafer and look never never gave discounts. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.880 So I just find it amazing that other people who 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.400 don't give discounts it's all good, and people who haven't 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:49.000 accomplished what Dak Prescott has accomplished. Now he's supposed to 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:53.560 sit around here and give the Cowboys a discount. Now, yeah, 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.800 what listen, you continue with your point right after this, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.480 Remember it is Dak Prescott went out there, went out 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.200 there this year, gave her everything he got and broke 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.080 his leg, all right, And then coming off of that, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.839 after coming out there and putting your body on the 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.960 line play, giving everything for your team in the organization. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.319 This dude, Carson Parmer says, Oh, by the way, when 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.520 you come back, you should take a discount, man, because 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.520 when when you're done, you might be able to be 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:24.520 on TV. Get out of here. It don't make no sense, man, 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.840 Football players like this is the most physical sport on 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.040 earth to me, and you go out there and you 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.680 risk everything you deserve to get paid what you asked for, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.280 especially when you performed like you like that. Prescott has 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.600 been doing the carrying the team, and once you see 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.719 how the team performed without him, you should say that 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.679 you should be asking for more, not this bs that 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.360 Carson farm whose Carson Parmer? Anyway? What I don't want 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:52.720 to talk about that dude. Look, I like Carson Palmer 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.280 got got to cover Carson as a high school football 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.840 player in southern California, and look, he was asked the 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.240 guys from the fan asked in his opinion, and he 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.839 gave it. I just disagree with the opinion. And there 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.320 are other people out here who's who are backing him up. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.200 I had one guy on Twitter say, well, man, he 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.440 needs to take less so they could keep Zeke and 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.520 keep other people around him and not to beat up Zeke. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.880 But Zeke didn't give him no disc guy, he didn't say, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.520 you know what, man, let me leave by fifteen million 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.199 on the table so we can go ahead and get 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.160 Dak and I got a good quarterback. No, he wanted 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.760 his Tank said it best. It's not my job to 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.920 say the Cowboys money. And if we kind of go 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.320 back eighteen months into this, can we not put this 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.280 on the Cowboys. The Cowboys could have got him, should 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.360 they could have got him, and should have got him 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.680 when Winz got his deal and then Golf got his deal, 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.560 and we were sitting here saying, hey, man, how long 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.360 are you gonna wait? He's in the class of these guys. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.840 You should pay him. But people like, oh, he's not 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.600 worth he's not worth thirty million. Remember that he worth 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.920 thirty million. You shouldn't be paying a thirty million here. Well, 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.439 guess what price, hag went up ten million? Okay, it's 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.280 just gone up ten million, And it's the Cowboys fault. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.199 They're the ones who decided not to write the check. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.520 And if you're Dak Prescott, if they give you a 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.200 franchise tag, you go in the next year and who 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.000 knows where you can end up. Chicago got quarterback probs. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.840 Jimmy Gee's in his last year with the forty nine ers, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.720 and the forty nine ers could move off of them. 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.640 But could you imagine Dak Prescott playing and Dak Kyle 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.640 Shanahan system of the New England Patriots right now don't 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.520 have a quarterback. There's teams in this league who need 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.240 a quarterback. And if I'm Dak Prescott and if I 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.080 can't come to an agreement with the Cowboys this year, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.360 this guy can go in the next year. He will 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.480 find a home and he won't have to take take 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.280 a discount at all. So do you so, do you 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.120 think it's that they don't believe in him as a 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.200 franchise quarterback, because I mean, look, if he's that guy, 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.679 he's the guy that they want so bad. I mean 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.000 a year difference to me between a four year contract 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.439 and a five year contract. If he's that guy, he's 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.079 what you believe in. That shouldn't behold, that shouldn't be 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.320 you know, stopping, that shouldn't be anything that shouldn't be 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:52.800 in the way of getting a deal done to me. 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.560 So what do you think Louie and Danny, like, what 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.559 is it the belief factor or is it really just 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.160 this four to five year thing, because I just really 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:04.480 don't believe that if he's your guy. Listen, I'm going 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.080 back to what I said a couple of years ago. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.600 It's the belief factor to me. I mean, I think 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.040 I think this year was one of those proven years 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.200 and then he got cut short because he ended up 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.880 breaking his leg. I think if he takes the team 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.959 to the playoffs and going to deep run, that four 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.240 year deal is on the table. I think if they 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.920 if he played the entire season, they end up seven 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.559 to nine, six and ten, then that that four year 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.120 deal is not on the table and they're looking at 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.240 other options that quarterback. You know, it just so happens 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.000 this year that he only made it through a portion 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:33.960 of the season, so now they have to kind of 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.240 way way the options of which way they want to go. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.079 But I think it's the belief factor, and it was 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.679 a proven deal that he was playing on this year. 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.400 I think you have to look at history and you say, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:46.640 who are some of the players that Cowboys have used 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.040 the franchise tag on Tank Lawrence? They use it on 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:54.160 Anthony Spencer, and what was the message show us show 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.280 us one more year. That that was the message. And 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.600 while the Cowboys can say, hey, look, we thought we 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.319 had a deal at one time, and then the agent 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.960 changed his mind, and then we wanted a deal at 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.120 five years agent wanted for he's not signed, And you're 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.640 now in a process where you've got to get a 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.760 deal done here in the next seven to eight weeks 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.960 or you're gonna risk, you know, really just blowing this 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.400 thing up. And having looked for a quarterback in twenty 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.040 twenty two, they can't. They cannot do another franchise tag 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.080 with Dak Prescott. It's gonna be too cost prohibitors. So 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:23.680 they're at this point time where they're going to have 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.360 to get a deal done. And I don't care what 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:31.160 anyone says. It favors the quarterback. Okay, some people like, oh, 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.800 Jerry's got leverage because he got hurt. No he doesn't, No, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.280 he doesn't. I didn't think that Jared Goss contract could 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.960 get moved and got moved. I didn't think anybody would 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.079 give up a high one for Matthew Stafford. And there 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.120 are a whole bunch of high ones that Detroit had 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.480 that they could have gotten for matt Stafford. Outside of 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.160 that two first rounders and a third round pick that 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.640 they got from Matthew Stafford, you added Dak Prescott. The 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.839 way this league is going to a mobile quarterback and 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.480 a guy who's put up some good numbers here, this 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.959 guy's gonna get he's gonna get a payday. He's gonna 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.200 get to pay that. So either Cowboys are gonna give 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:03.680 it to him or they're gonna risk somebody else giving 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.040 it to him next year. By the way, I forgot 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.800 to mention the gonna need a quarterback. If that if 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.800 that was the first it was a first round pick, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:12.680 I believe he would have been signed. He would have 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.520 been resigned to the Dallas Cowboys already. I think that 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.480 that draft position is something that that that kind of 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.560 just seeps in the head of owners in the top 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:26.080 of the organization, because I don't know if that tag 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.040 just sticks with him. But I believe that if he 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.160 was he was the first round pick, like some of 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.720 these other guys that are resigning early and getting four 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.560 year deals for one hundred plus million dollars guarantee, I 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.960 think that he would have been paid already. And that's 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.280 what I don't understand why they didn't get it done. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.600 They had such a bargain for the first four years. 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.720 I mean, he's a fourth round pick. If you after 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.640 his first two years, if you were to throw money 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.720 at him, like a bag of money like that golf 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.520 for that wins tape two, I'm sure he would have 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.880 jumped all over that. You know, any performed better and 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:56.920 better as it goes on each year. So for me, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:58.800 I just you know, I think that's just a mistake 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.720 in front office. They should have gat him, gat him 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.840 sound earlier, like Newly said, and then you know, we 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.760 wouldn't be in this predicament as we speak. Now, let's 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.160 kind of let's let's go back here a little bit 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.080 of revisionist history because you bring up a good point Church, 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.320 But come back to this. Remember when Ezekiel Elliott was 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.840 holding out. At that time, there are a lot of 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:21.440 people saying this offense can't work without Zeke. It's all 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.440 about Zeke. It all revolves around the run game. And 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.520 he sits out, they decide they want to pay him. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.120 They pay him. First three games. Dak Prescott goes off. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:36.400 I mean, he's sensational. Was the Giants Miami and that 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.640 I forgot who the others. He maybe was Washington, Maybe 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.680 I think yeah was Washington. So those first three games, man, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.040 he was on fire. And then the price tag just 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.200 just shot up. And we saw that Dak Prescott had 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.440 improved as a player. So a part of that, you know, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.160 we're not sure is Dak able to carry the team? 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.400 Is it all the offensive line? And Zeke? I mean 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.520 you still had some of those people saying that and 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.120 they worked thirty mil and the guy just went out 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:04.160 there prove folks wrong. So the Cowboys are going to 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.000 pay one way or the other. You're going to pay 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.720 for a high number that's gonna be around forty million 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.080 a year, or you're gonna be looking for a quarterback 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.320 in twenty twenty two. And I'm sorry that's a scary 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.280 proposition because there's a whole lot of folks who are 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.800 trying to look for a quarterback. It's hard to find 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:28.480 these dudes, man, It's hard. This is true. Yeah, I 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.600 don't know. You got lucky, man, You struck gold in 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.040 the fourth round, and somehow you're gonna let that goal, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.240 you know, be disappointed and feel a certain way about 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:37.760 you and possibly get up out of here. I don't 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.400 think that makes a lot of sense. You know, you 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.720 keep on saying that that's he's the he's the guy, 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.920 he's the most important thing. And you went back from 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.040 saying that, you know, the pie is not big enough 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.280 for everybody to get some. He gave everybody something, but 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.200 that you know, this guy's looking at all that stuff, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.800 he's seeing all this, he's remembering that he's coming off 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.480 of ankle injury where he put it on the line 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.760 for his team. And if you keep this up and 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.960 these negotiations get drug out, I think we can see 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:03.880 a real issue here with Dak Prescott in the future. 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:11.800 Did I mention the Colts need a quarterback? I mean, 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.480 you know, the Pittsburgh Steelers go be in the market 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.600 for a quarterback, if not this year, next year. I mean, 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.639 there's plenty of teams right now that are in a 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.000 position where if they don't need one this year, they'll 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.399 need one next year. If you're Tampa Bay, you know what, 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.600 Let's say Tom Brady comes and plays in twenty twenty 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.399 twenty one, Well what about twenty twenty two if the 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.520 Cowboys franchise Jack and he gets out on the market. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.199 I mean, this thing, the more we look at it, 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.359 the more and more you see that if you're the 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.480 Cowboys not signing him, it's gonna put you in a spot. 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.480 And who are you gonna go get that? That's the 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.720 big thing. Who are you gonna get? When people are 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.560 talking about, hey, man, nui they should trade Deshaun Watson 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.960 get all you can, I'm like, who are you going 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.680 to get if you let Deshaun Watson go? It's hard. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.000 You can talk about draft people all day long. You 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.399 guys played in this league, these draft picks, man, we 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.000 like to look at the successful dudes. People don't want 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.920 to talk about the Trabiskys and Blake Bordles and these 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.439 guys and teams are like, man, we messed up. Or 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.200 even you look at golf, Hey, they got rid of golf. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.440 They ran the guy off. It is hard to find 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.760 the dudes and mahomes. I mean, that's the g d 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.280 in the bottle. These are the outliers, man, there's more 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:28.520 of these guys. Well, look at Josh Rosen. So remember 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.679 Arizona traded up to ten to select Josh Rosen. In 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.920 a year later they ran this guy out of town 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.000 because the number one picking they took Kyler Murray. So 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.960 they took first round quarterbacks back to back years. So 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:44.280 if you've got one man, write the check, write the 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.040 check and be done with this. It is hard. Miami's 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:49.800 still looking for a quarterback. I don't care that they 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.239 draft to it. Since Dan Marino left, They've still been 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.560 looking for a quarterback. Man. Look at Washington. Washington is 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.200 hard up trying to find a quarterback. I think just 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:01.959 at the end of the day, I think it just 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.720 comes down to how much the Joneses believe in Dak 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.600 as a franchise quarterback. And you know, I think they're 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.639 like Daby I said, I think there's still rumblings going 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.879 on in there that they don't think without without a 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.159