Speaker 1: The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick
Speaker 1: Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the
Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. It's Monday at eleven am. It's time
Speaker 1: for Mick Shots and Mickey finally has his head set
Speaker 1: on inside the SWBC podcast studio. He has some technical difficulties,
Speaker 1: but we didn't want to talk to Mickey anyway, because
Speaker 1: it is the day after a Cowtown marathon in which
Speaker 1: Everson Walls ran through the streets of Fort Worth and
Speaker 1: came away victorious. Ladies and gentlemen. You just don't know
Speaker 1: how tough it was yesterday. It's like World War two
Speaker 1: out there. You know, it's twenty six point two miles.
Speaker 1: There's a long way to run. Ever, so it's thirteen
Speaker 1: point one, which is where I went, and it was
Speaker 1: brewed told. I don't know. As much as you can train,
Speaker 1: it just never seems like it's enough training, because when
Speaker 1: you hit the paid pavement, it's it just it just
Speaker 1: wears you down from from step one. You're like oh okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. You know, you can just feel it
Speaker 1: in your bones. See do you start going too fast? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that. No, I was.
Speaker 1: I was. I started off slow, but I ended even slower. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was pretty bad. But but when you start running,
Speaker 1: you know, it's almost like you have this grudge against
Speaker 1: someone because there's always that one person. You see them
Speaker 1: all the time. You know, it's like, oh, they got
Speaker 1: me and there, Oh how did they get past me?
Speaker 1: And I got to pass them? You know, so it
Speaker 1: kind of becomes this little thing, right, And so I
Speaker 1: had to I had to file a complaint on this
Speaker 1: one dude fight. Yeah, I mean you know, he had
Speaker 1: an unnecessary advantage. I mean he was, he was, he
Speaker 1: had wheels, he was on the wheelchair. Can't you know
Speaker 1: when he goes down the hill, bro, I can't catch
Speaker 1: that guy, you know what I mean? But up the hill,
Speaker 1: you know, it just so somebody to catch and he
Speaker 1: goes down the hill, here is flying. You know. That's
Speaker 1: an unfair advantage. Not a flat course, Oh no, it was.
Speaker 1: It seemed to do this the whole time, the whole time,
Speaker 1: And like I said that that got in the wheelchair.
Speaker 1: He had an unfair advantage. That was not cool at all.
Speaker 1: It was nice running weather, though, wasn't It was good
Speaker 1: running weather? Yeah, and you had a toboggan on he
Speaker 1: had at the end you tweeted out a picture. Oh
Speaker 1: some headwear. Yeah, no, no, that was just a pullover. No,
Speaker 1: it was just Duncker Bill Dunckerville, the Dunkerville Panthers that
Speaker 1: the state champions up. Okay, well, because I didn't think,
Speaker 1: how long does it take for you? Because it wasn't
Speaker 1: that cold yesterday? It was not. But this started off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like it was in the forties once you
Speaker 1: started off. But I just know back when I could jog,
Speaker 1: I mean it would have to. I'm taking off the
Speaker 1: pull over everything. That's what you drop people undressing as
Speaker 1: they run. And then there was one long at all.
Speaker 1: You start heating up, and she she's collecting those people
Speaker 1: that throw things. And then I guess she must have
Speaker 1: brought it back to the finish line of something for
Speaker 1: the guys actually do that. I saw one lady doing that.
Speaker 1: She was dressed as a daily cow. Yeah, so it
Speaker 1: was pretty cool. But I mean, you start you start
Speaker 1: doing I got that, you start you really started competing
Speaker 1: against like certain individuals. You know, the wheelchair dude. He
Speaker 1: pissed me off, and then you had the matt dude.
Speaker 1: This this lady ran by me. She was old and
Speaker 1: she had to be like fifty five and that's young.
Speaker 1: She looked at them but a hunchback and she's run
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I can take this chick, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And she left me. Everybody's going up hill.
Speaker 1: She's the only one that didn't walk going up this
Speaker 1: particular hill. I mean, dude, I joke, but she had
Speaker 1: to be close to seventy years old and she was
Speaker 1: killing me. So, you know, for a moment, she and
Speaker 1: I had that Chris Paul moment to where you know,
Speaker 1: she looks like she's just fast walking and I'm actually
Speaker 1: jogging and she's still kicking my ass. So no, jogging
Speaker 1: is very humbling, brothers, very very humbling. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many people passed me with baby carts twins, even like, okay,
Speaker 1: I never saw him again. They kept going and they
Speaker 1: kicked my ass. Maybe they were only doing a half marathon.
Speaker 1: I mean I was too half and a half of
Speaker 1: like that were only two races at that time and
Speaker 1: half and I'm like, damn, I never saw him again.
Speaker 1: Shows your time better than last year? It was okay,
Speaker 1: but but yet I walked more this year. You're like,
Speaker 1: when I did walk, it was like a really serious
Speaker 1: you know power. I could walk about fifteen a mile,
Speaker 1: you know when I'm serious. And so that's kind of
Speaker 1: how I was doing. And sometimes my walking was faster running.
Speaker 1: So that's my story there, right, all right, So, uh, mickey,
Speaker 1: did you have a nice offseason? I did, because the
Speaker 1: season is starting now right now, right, probably started on Friday, right,
Speaker 1: it was Friday when they finally announced the complete coaching
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. Yeah, wow, wait until Friday. Okay, but
Speaker 1: it's combined week this week, yes, and two weeks from
Speaker 1: today is like Bill's big week and a big green
Speaker 1: notebook is here. There's my big green notebook twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: big green NFL Draft scouting. Like you upgraded? Did you upgrade? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: it's just like there's a line of empty pages in there.
Speaker 1: Are I mean, because it doesn't it starts this week,
Speaker 1: I mean, all the other stuff until you get these
Speaker 1: combine times, I mean, you're just wasting time. You are
Speaker 1: wasting time. Okay, that's the beautiful thing about the combine
Speaker 1: we now have and everyone can access it on the internet. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got twenty years of comparisons that we can make
Speaker 1: and understand that. Okay, Michael Parsons is a top ten
Speaker 1: pick because he just ran out four three, eight, and
Speaker 1: so anyway, this is it. And two weeks from today
Speaker 1: free agency starts the negotiations between the players, and a
Speaker 1: week from tomorrow the Cowboys have to and all the
Speaker 1: other teams have to make their decisions on who gets
Speaker 1: franchise tagged. So we got another a little over a
Speaker 1: week left on that decision, and here it is a
Speaker 1: business season is starting now. Speaking of Michael Parsons. Thursday night,
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett at his annual Collegiate Man of the Year
Speaker 1: or yes, did I say he was there? The way
Speaker 1: Jason Witten sorry U award banquet and m one of
Speaker 1: the guys that was the finalist, Sean Clifford, the Penn
Speaker 1: State quarterback. And so when he got done duing his
Speaker 1: little interview, I went up to him and I said,
Speaker 1: so help me with the timing. Here was Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: there when you were there? Oh? Yeah? And I said
Speaker 1: why do you say it that way? He goes, He
Speaker 1: goes that guy, he goes. All he wanted to do
Speaker 1: is be a running back, right, And he would come
Speaker 1: in and always talk to me, like come into the
Speaker 1: huddle and say hey, not during games, but practice. He goes, hey,
Speaker 1: go tell coach that I need some carries, right, And
Speaker 1: he goes, I told him, you go tell coach that,
Speaker 1: then don't come and tell me he's the big guy, right,
Speaker 1: But he said, yeah, he was. He was an amazing athlete.
Speaker 1: Um and he goes in. He always wanted to play
Speaker 1: every position. So I told him the story about calling
Speaker 1: himself mister Football. He was, oh, yeah, that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: So that was a nice, nice ceremony. Thursday night, they
Speaker 1: do it here at the Star and Things in the
Speaker 1: Ford Center. The guy that won, by the way, was
Speaker 1: Deslin Alexandre Pittsburgh born in Haiti and the parents moved
Speaker 1: him to here and got a scholarship to play at
Speaker 1: pitt and turned into pretty good football player and the
Speaker 1: one guy that I didn't know much about alex foresight.
Speaker 1: He was an offensive lineman from Oregon. His dad was
Speaker 1: one of the people that got shot and killed in
Speaker 1: an Clackamous Town Center just outside Portland when they had
Speaker 1: a shooting. Geez, it was just like listening to you know,
Speaker 1: they do a profile of all the guys ahead of time,
Speaker 1: and that was part of his profile, having to deal
Speaker 1: with that, And I was like, oh, my lord, think
Speaker 1: about that. You're thirteen, fourteen years old. But anyway, n
Speaker 1: nice ceremony. Uh and uh yeah, Jason Witten. I think
Speaker 1: what he's trying to do is take this thing nationally,
Speaker 1: making a national award and just sort of you know,
Speaker 1: maybe ESPN actually broadcast it. They actually getting close they
Speaker 1: actually did. No, they don't get it to that point,
Speaker 1: get it to that point. But yeah, when you hold
Speaker 1: stuff here, I mean that that's a good stepney Stone
Speaker 1: two credibility, right, holding it here at the start. I
Speaker 1: remember they had the uh you know the Landry Awards
Speaker 1: that was on the NFL network. It was delayed you know,
Speaker 1: tabe lay or whatever on NFL network. So that's once
Speaker 1: you have it at here at the Star, that's always
Speaker 1: a good, good platform. Yeah, he goes would pick this thing, yeah,
Speaker 1: because they need content, right. Uh. They go to like
Speaker 1: they contact like ninety eight schools, the sports information director
Speaker 1: and have all the schools, uh, submit a guy's name,
Speaker 1: and then he's got a committee and they go through
Speaker 1: all this stuff and come down with the final three.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's pretty neat, pretty pretty nice award. Uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean all the great stories. And in fact, last
Speaker 1: year's winner, Josh Pascal, I didn't know anything about him
Speaker 1: before he won and then started doing research on him
Speaker 1: after he was here for this award and then a
Speaker 1: really good player too, and uh, he's going to have
Speaker 1: a good career in the NFL. Yeah. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: kind of neat because it's not just what you do
Speaker 1: on the field, what you do off the middle serve
Speaker 1: like the NFL Man of the Year. So anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was good. And Witton pontificated about the Cowboys too.
Speaker 1: He did he was asked about the current situation. I
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting. I mean he was talking about
Speaker 1: the change in on the coaching staff and when you
Speaker 1: think about it, with Kellen Moore no longer the offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: and of course it was Jason Garrett's offense going back
Speaker 1: to two thousand and seven. As Witten said, this is
Speaker 1: the first time in sixteen years they haven't been running
Speaker 1: this same offense. Yeah, and Dak mentioned you know, it's
Speaker 1: probably going to change twenty to thirty percent difference from
Speaker 1: what they've been doing. But it's still not what they've
Speaker 1: been doing since two thousand and seven because it's been
Speaker 1: handed down from you know, Garrett to what Lenahan. Well,
Speaker 1: Garrett Garrett even when he was head coach, then Lenahan
Speaker 1: and then Kellen Moore. So yeah, they've been in the
Speaker 1: same offense. I wonder if that makes a difference when
Speaker 1: teams prepare for you, although other teams coaching staff's change
Speaker 1: so much, it's not like, oh yeah, I remember in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight they were doing. You know, those
Speaker 1: coaches aren't the same, and it's it's not as if
Speaker 1: McCarthy did have any input, yeah, the last three years
Speaker 1: to what I think people miss, right, Like I keep
Speaker 1: saying there was a reason he had a headset on
Speaker 1: and a play sheet in his hand during the games, right,
Speaker 1: I still I still hope that there are some visible changes, uh,
Speaker 1: in regards to our play calling habits. Uh, there are
Speaker 1: times when you know things are pretty obvious. You don't
Speaker 1: you don't want your quarterback sitting back in the pocket today.
Speaker 1: You know, your your offensive line, they're having some issues,
Speaker 1: you know, blocking of the run. You know, in this
Speaker 1: particular game, we're not we're not getting any movement up
Speaker 1: front on the line. I wonder if those uh decision makings,
Speaker 1: that the decision making plays that he calls are going
Speaker 1: to be have a different pattern to it. In other words,
Speaker 1: uh uh you know the offensive coordinator we had, he
Speaker 1: may have a certain tell every time he gets in
Speaker 1: this situation. Oh, I'm gonna continue to pass the ball now,
Speaker 1: or continue to go on the ball. You know, the
Speaker 1: the you know, the the uh, the happenstances might be
Speaker 1: a little bit different this time. And hopefully instead of uh,
Speaker 1: cow towering, I would say, and going for the the
Speaker 1: meager yards, sometimes you might want to go for it.
Speaker 1: You understand what. Everyone has their own DNA. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go, right, that's what I mean. I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: And I think that that Kellen's DNA was more throwing
Speaker 1: the football, you know, so that when it comes down to,
Speaker 1: all right, a crunch time of a game, or you
Speaker 1: get in the in the heat of battle, you're gonna
Speaker 1: go for four easier than I can run for four. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that he did hang his hat on that that's
Speaker 1: part of his DNA. I don't know if you know Sattenheimer,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever he does when he comes in, or
Speaker 1: if McCarthy might be a little bit, uh have a
Speaker 1: little bit more different pattern. Well, Witten finished that with saying,
Speaker 1: so if those changes, or he said, if that changes
Speaker 1: meaning the system or does it change, um, you know,
Speaker 1: or what it feels like you know. Uh, There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of top offenses in that system through these
Speaker 1: different coordinators. So he did point out that offenses have
Speaker 1: been pretty good over the years with this with this
Speaker 1: Cowboys team over those sixteen seasons. All right, so, uh,
Speaker 1: did you catch any XFL this weekend? Last night we
Speaker 1: had a matchup of Wade Phillips against Bob stoops the
Speaker 1: Houston Renegades or at the Houston Roughnecks winning over the
Speaker 1: Arlington Renegades. And Mickey has a uncle, Wade l head coach,
Speaker 1: first first wins as a as a head coach since
Speaker 1: his days with the Cowboys. He was acting like, this
Speaker 1: is no big deal. This is what I do deal.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put pressure using quarterbacks. Yeah. I tried watch
Speaker 1: and I went back and forth to what American idol
Speaker 1: was much more. Wow, I just knew you were to
Speaker 1: say something like Eric and Idol was more competitive. The
Speaker 1: offensive lines and the quarterbacks just spray the balls all
Speaker 1: over the place. It was. It was hard to watch,
Speaker 1: about as hard to watch as the second half of
Speaker 1: the Mavericks game. Yeah, so I want to I want,
Speaker 1: I want somebody to point out this stat for me,
Speaker 1: it's just like everybody's pointing out you know, when you
Speaker 1: have a twenty seven point lead. There were one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty something And oh, I want to know how
Speaker 1: quickly a team in the NBA had established a twenty
Speaker 1: seven point lead, Because that's twenty seven point lead was
Speaker 1: in a quarter and a half. Yes, it was right. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a long time to hold the lead in the NBA.
Speaker 1: By the way, that's the status. I got it down
Speaker 1: to fourteen by half time. Half Yeah, absolutely, yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's I know, you're not giving them a pass, all
Speaker 1: you No, No, But I'm saying, not everybody has a
Speaker 1: twenty seven point lead in you know what, twelve or
Speaker 1: however many minutes, but you twenty minutes. The mentality is
Speaker 1: you don't want to maintain the twenty seven Yeah you're
Speaker 1: out of the game, but chances are a professional foot
Speaker 1: of basketball teams not going to continue to shoot down exactly.
Speaker 1: That's why. That's why they w down. They were all
Speaker 1: for fifteen. Defense came through. Yeah, that's how it happened.
Speaker 1: The defense made them shoot shots they don't want to shoot.
Speaker 1: They made the threes more difficult, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you got to make the adjustment, and they decided
Speaker 1: maybe we should just go inside. And big Man was working. Yeah,
Speaker 1: big man with both of them, yes, they would anyway.
Speaker 1: I know, how do we get on conside? It was me.
Speaker 1: I consumed part of it, and I didn't know about
Speaker 1: that Vanderbilt guy. He was a difference in the game.
Speaker 1: My son knew about nothing. He's a Lakers fan. And
Speaker 1: when he when they signed him, when they signed him,
Speaker 1: yes they did. He said, this guy's a Swiss army knife.
Speaker 1: That's what he called him. And he did it yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm looking back after when you're talking about how quickly
Speaker 1: did the team establish a twenty seven point lead in
Speaker 1: the NBA and immediately thought a game seven between the
Speaker 1: Mavericks and the Suns, you know, and no, it was
Speaker 1: a I think it was a thirty point lead at halftime.
Speaker 1: But last night or yesterday afternoon. It was they got
Speaker 1: to twenty s quicker than fourteen point lead in NBA's
Speaker 1: nothing right when you got a half to play. It
Speaker 1: was fifty seven twenty seven at halftime of that game
Speaker 1: seven and they held on to that. Yeah. So so anyway,
Speaker 1: Kyrie and Luca are now one and three when they
Speaker 1: are playing together. But boy, they are exciting as him
Speaker 1: that I can tell you I like watching them more.
Speaker 1: You know. The losing, that's a whole other thing. There
Speaker 1: were some faces in the crowd yesterday afternoon too. You
Speaker 1: saw that. That picks up now, yeah, that picks up
Speaker 1: that afternoon there was a two time Super Bowl MVP
Speaker 1: in the crowd. Getting it back to footballs who was
Speaker 1: in the crowd? All right, So here he is. Mickey
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Speaker 1: All right, what is on your legal pad? Well, you've
Speaker 1: got you've you've got a coaching staff over there that's
Speaker 1: all marked up. It seems like there have been some
Speaker 1: changes here in the last month on this coaching staff
Speaker 1: we need to talk about. I've got ten changes, either
Speaker 1: newcomers or repositioned guys like Jeff Blastco, who was the
Speaker 1: assistant offensive line coach. He is now the run He's
Speaker 1: now the running backs slash run game coordinator, so he
Speaker 1: moved from the offensive line to the running backs coach
Speaker 1: takes Skip Pete's place. Also Chase Haslett, who was I
Speaker 1: think he was one of the oh, what do you
Speaker 1: call it? Quality control coaches? He is now an assistant
Speaker 1: tight ends coach. We've talked about Brian Schottenheimer moving from
Speaker 1: analysts to offensive coordinator. Mike Solari, who was coaching when
Speaker 1: Everson was playing for the Cowboys, is now the offensive
Speaker 1: line coach takes over for Joe Philban And Scott Tolzene,
Speaker 1: who was just kind of an offensive assistant, is now
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach taken over for Doug Nussmeyer. So those
Speaker 1: are the main changes on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Any of that catch your eye, Well, you know, I
Speaker 1: know it's kind of old news, but when you have
Speaker 1: a running bag that makes the Pro Bowl and has
Speaker 1: a great year, you still get rid of the coach.
Speaker 1: I think here is my notion of what took place.
Speaker 1: So Skip Pete been in the league twenty four years,
Speaker 1: also a fact I believe as a fact, and I
Speaker 1: think a couple of things stood out to me. And
Speaker 1: when we go through the rest of it. Number one
Speaker 1: new voice, Number two getting younger, and maybe number three
Speaker 1: getting less expensive because you've got a figure if you've
Speaker 1: been in the league twenty four years, your salary estably
Speaker 1: pretty high. Right. So other than Schottenheimer being forty nine
Speaker 1: and Solari sixty eight, the staff got younger. Um, blastgo,
Speaker 1: I didn't look up, but he's like in his upper
Speaker 1: thirties something like that. Uh. Hasselet's young. Uh, Scott Tolzine
Speaker 1: is young. Um, so they got a little bit younger.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right. Um. But again this staff was
Speaker 1: pretty heavy too, with a lot of assistance to the assistant. Uh,
Speaker 1: and so some of that changed. So did we what
Speaker 1: was the was the final cutdown number? How many the
Speaker 1: positions did we do we save? Did we get rid of? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know if they because they've got so many
Speaker 1: quality control guys, analytics guys that kind of boosted I'll
Speaker 1: give you. Because the special team stayed the same. The
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning staff stayed the same. On defense, Um,
Speaker 1: they didn't resign Leon Latt, who'd been here quite a
Speaker 1: few years, but they brought in Sharif Floyd, who coached
Speaker 1: with him during training camp. I believe he was like
Speaker 1: a part time assistant from training camp, the guy that
Speaker 1: everybody wanted the Cowboys to draft, if you remember, and
Speaker 1: then they didn't do it caused an uproar um also,
Speaker 1: so basically he takes Leon's place, yes, and so he's
Speaker 1: quality control assistant defensive line. And Leon h turns fifty
Speaker 1: five in October. Okay, so they get twenty five years
Speaker 1: younger there probably something like that. Yes, absolutely, Skip Pete
Speaker 1: turned sixty January thirtieth, and Blastco turns forty on July six.
Speaker 1: They got twenty years younger. There said twenty years younger there, right,
Speaker 1: they Tolzine is thirty five and U Smyer is fifty two,
Speaker 1: so you're seventeen years younger. There. They got younger. And
Speaker 1: then they also brought in as a quality control assistant
Speaker 1: linebacker coach Darren Thompson, who had played here. Um just
Speaker 1: last year. Basically he didn't, I mean he didn't play.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one was his last year to end up playing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they did get younger also linebackers. So George Edwards,
Speaker 1: I bet he's in his sixties fifty five six now,
Speaker 1: but he'd been in the league twenty five years, I believe.
Speaker 1: And so they turned that back over to Scott McCurley,
Speaker 1: who's forty two, and he had the job in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: And then when they got George Edwards, who had been
Speaker 1: a linebackers coach defensive coordinator, they called him a senior
Speaker 1: defensive assistant. They basically gave him the linebackers. So now
Speaker 1: it goes back to U for one year. Just for
Speaker 1: one year, just one year. Yeah. Actually that year I
Speaker 1: still think Sean Lee was coaching the linebacker just watching practices.
Speaker 1: That see who was doing all the talking. It was
Speaker 1: Sean Lee. So anyway, ten ten changes. I wonder if
Speaker 1: they talked to Sean Lee about if he would be
Speaker 1: interested in coaching. Yeah. From him, it's because he's got
Speaker 1: a mansion in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Frisco. Working twelve
Speaker 1: hours a day or taking a walk on the beach,
Speaker 1: right him, it wouldn't be twelve hours a day. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: you talk about someone's DNA probably sixteen. Yeah, he's probably
Speaker 1: going crazy. Yeah, probably, we'll just see how keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that. Yeah, same thing with Witton. They asked
Speaker 1: Witten and his his response was basically, you know I'm
Speaker 1: making a difference here in high school, and my kids
Speaker 1: got a couple more. That was the key to go.
Speaker 1: I think his oldest is a sophomore, maybe going to
Speaker 1: be a junior, right, and then the other boy, I
Speaker 1: think he's a couple of years younger, probably going into
Speaker 1: his freshman year. Maybe ye maybe. Yeah. So he pointed
Speaker 1: that out, but he didn't. Still, he didn't totally dismiss
Speaker 1: I think six years from forty five, six years from now,
Speaker 1: either a college job or once Tennessee goes bad again.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, because I bet he could put a staff together.
Speaker 1: I mean Doug Peterson. Doug Peterson did that. I mean
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson. After his playing career, he coached at a
Speaker 1: small private school in Louisiana and probably I don't know
Speaker 1: his family situation. I assume maybe he had kid playing
Speaker 1: and then he got on the Eagles staff and within
Speaker 1: five years he's coaching in the Super Bowl, and now
Speaker 1: he's at Jacksonville. Jaguars. Love that guy Peterson. I always did.
Speaker 1: I always did they get ever in a coaching job?
Speaker 1: Oh no, hell no, Nick, And I'm good right over here.
Speaker 1: Well I could complain without having to deal with others
Speaker 1: that's a good point. So anyway, that's that's the changes
Speaker 1: they made. And you know, we'll see, you know, how
Speaker 1: it turns out, because you know, you don't make all
Speaker 1: these changes without the thought of, okay, now we've been good,
Speaker 1: now can we get better? And there's no regression time here, right,
Speaker 1: there's no honeymoon time for a bunch of new coaches
Speaker 1: that got to get better. You know, it's go ahead.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say the only thing that concerns me.
Speaker 1: And you know, we've been we've all seen a lot,
Speaker 1: been through a lot. I remember in the eighties, we
Speaker 1: lost three in a row, three championship games in a row,
Speaker 1: and Tom decided to start, Okay, we gotta do something different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what he did differently didn't help. It hurts. So
Speaker 1: the moves that he made after that, they were the
Speaker 1: wrong moves, you know, you know verse personnel, you know,
Speaker 1: versus the patterns that you use. And and like you said,
Speaker 1: the DNA that you have as a coach. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that these moves that we made weren't the wrong moves.
Speaker 1: That's the only concern about just making moves for the
Speaker 1: sake of making moves. That's not the whole point. But
Speaker 1: if you if you have if if, what you're doing,
Speaker 1: you know makes sense all the way up into uh
Speaker 1: better victories in certain moments, you know, changing the way
Speaker 1: we react in in certain big moments of a game,
Speaker 1: you know, changing our our our habits. You know, once
Speaker 1: we get into a certain situation, you know if that
Speaker 1: makes it? Will this make us better or will it
Speaker 1: make us worse? See, I think the key thing will
Speaker 1: be the changes on offense. Because defensively, with dan Quinn
Speaker 1: coming back, uh Aiden Dirty Distill the defensive line coach,
Speaker 1: Al Harris is still the defensive backs coach and Joe
Speaker 1: Witt still secondary pass game coordinator on defense, So those spots,
Speaker 1: those main spots have stayed the same. And remember dan Quinn, um,
Speaker 1: you know he's the defensive coordinator, but he can help
Speaker 1: out on the defensive line or I think at linebacker too. Question,
Speaker 1: do you guys think the defense got better after we
Speaker 1: had that middle of season slump as we as we
Speaker 1: got towards the end of the season, do you think
Speaker 1: our defense got better? I think I would have to
Speaker 1: look at the scores didn't have I mean, they still
Speaker 1: led the league in takeaways, not as many as last year.
Speaker 1: But I think that in a couple of games that
Speaker 1: they lost that you know, kind of goes on Dak's ledger.
Speaker 1: He put up twenty eight points in the overtime loss
Speaker 1: to Green Bay and thirty four in the over time
Speaker 1: loss to um Jacksonville. Now I understand it was the
Speaker 1: pick six that ended the game, but he still put
Speaker 1: up thirty four and that wasn't enough to win the game.
Speaker 1: So there were times where the defense uh struggled, I think,
Speaker 1: and I think things got better actually after the Jacksonville game,
Speaker 1: and I don't I wasn't necessarily worried about points as
Speaker 1: much as you could see that the defense was really
Speaker 1: starting to take control of games and our offense built
Speaker 1: off of them. Even if you look at the Washington game,
Speaker 1: you look at even the Titans game. Those two games,
Speaker 1: you know, the defense was really playing with one hand
Speaker 1: tipe behind the backs because we wanted to use nine
Speaker 1: time a playbook, and a couple of those games w
Speaker 1: were coming towards the end. Tennessee was playing with two
Speaker 1: hings behind their back right, and so then even the
Speaker 1: Washington game, they were playing the rookie Sam Howe was
Speaker 1: playing quarterback, and I think we've got somehow I think
Speaker 1: it led us, it gave us a better look at ourselves.
Speaker 1: But I think the season but one of the things
Speaker 1: that did I think the injuries to the cornerback position
Speaker 1: kind of exposed a lack of depth there that they
Speaker 1: didn't have. You know, I um Bland stepped up played well,
Speaker 1: but they were still a guy short. And and with that,
Speaker 1: having said that, I thought they salvaged good performances through
Speaker 1: all of that. And I'm talking about maybe including the
Speaker 1: San Francisco game. I'm talking about maybe the last five
Speaker 1: games of the season, including up to the San Francisco game.
Speaker 1: I think they they regardless of what they were going
Speaker 1: up against, they made all the goals, you know, to
Speaker 1: keep the game in hand for the offense. The offense
Speaker 1: just what wasn't doing much in a couple of those games,
Speaker 1: all right, you know, But it's a key thing for
Speaker 1: any NFL team to do is take an honest look
Speaker 1: at what you did during that season, and let's look
Speaker 1: at the last half of the season. So this is
Speaker 1: something that goes on behind the scenes. He went on
Speaker 1: a month ago, you know, as soon as the season ended.
Speaker 1: Back second half of the season after that Minnesota win
Speaker 1: forty to three. Okay, went over the Giants twenty eight
Speaker 1: twenty Giants solid team. Okay, so that's a good win. Okay. Indianapolis, kay,
Speaker 1: was a turned out to be a fifty four to
Speaker 1: nineteen win. It was twenty two to nineteen going into
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Basically, okay or whatever it was. Indianapolis
Speaker 1: is not a good team. Houston not a good team.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven, twenty three win, lost to Jacksonville, which was
Speaker 1: turning into a decent team, and make the playoffs. Okay,
Speaker 1: forty thirty four, it's a loss. Philadelphia forty thirty four win.
Speaker 1: Backup quarterback Tennessee twenty seven thirteen win, backup quarterback Washington
Speaker 1: lost twenty six to six in the last game of
Speaker 1: the season. Backup quarterback. And then you're facing Brady in
Speaker 1: the Bucks in the postseason and then the Niners. So
Speaker 1: I mean you just have to take a ask a question, honestly, Okay,
Speaker 1: second half of the year, and then what's the other thing?
Speaker 1: The production of Parsons and pressure in the quarterback down
Speaker 1: the stretch of the season, right, and using him almost
Speaker 1: exclusively a defensive end. I still like him better at linebacker,
Speaker 1: just you know, if you want to spot him as
Speaker 1: a defensive end, but I just don't know that first
Speaker 1: and second down he needs to be playing defensive end.
Speaker 1: I think he's more valuable at lineback. What can't. You've
Speaker 1: got to find someone that can hold it down as
Speaker 1: he's in the back, you know, playing against the run.
Speaker 1: Right until you find that person, then then Mickey Spagnola
Speaker 1: will not be satisfied. And you might be right because
Speaker 1: Dorin's Armstrong started the season off like he was shot
Speaker 1: out of a cannon and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: it leveled off a long season. Sam Williams all right
Speaker 1: and spots, but he wasn't like a full time He's
Speaker 1: a rookie event right, he was a rookie, and I
Speaker 1: think it showed, especially against the run. Um. And I
Speaker 1: just think it's hard for for Parsons the way he's
Speaker 1: built to play defensive end against the run, taking on
Speaker 1: guys that are eight. There's a reason that most teams
Speaker 1: rotate guys up front, right, It takes a lot out
Speaker 1: of you. So after play interesting to see what they do. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, especially at defensive tackle. Now, they had young
Speaker 1: guys that I thought played decently, but you know they
Speaker 1: did have some struggles stopped in the run. You know,
Speaker 1: when you look at Parsons and you see him at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, he spent. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure all of them are spent, of course, but just
Speaker 1: to what you said, he seems to be just, you know,
Speaker 1: have nothing left down the stretch and when you really
Speaker 1: need him. You know, someone approached me about should he
Speaker 1: change his workouts, should he change the way he prepares
Speaker 1: for a season? You know, should he maybe become heavier
Speaker 1: and play defensive end if you're gonna be playing that
Speaker 1: a lot more right, you know, because he's getting caught
Speaker 1: in space a lot. You know when he when you
Speaker 1: show his weaknesses on the edge. I just like him
Speaker 1: blitzing as a lineman because now they don't know where
Speaker 1: he's lining up. I thought early in the season when
Speaker 1: they were lining him up, they had a four man
Speaker 1: line and he was the fifth outside of DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 1: I thought that was awfully effective. Now maybe they're looking
Speaker 1: at matchups to see, oh, he can take care of
Speaker 1: advantage of this or that, But it's it's when he's
Speaker 1: got his hand underground is one of or not hand
Speaker 1: on the ground, but standing in one of four on
Speaker 1: their front of the defense, the running backs over there,
Speaker 1: the tight ends over there, and it makes it difficult.
Speaker 1: I mean even you know someone said when they interviewed
Speaker 1: him at ticket Stock. You know they said something about,
Speaker 1: you know, defensive ends getting their hands on me or
Speaker 1: on you, and he goes, no, they don't get their
Speaker 1: hands on me because I'm around them. But sometimes getting
Speaker 1: around is further, right, And there ain't nobody rolling out
Speaker 1: to his side either, by the way, you know, it's
Speaker 1: always a way. So now he's chasing backs, but he's
Speaker 1: still had thirteen and a half sacks. All right. When
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Speaker 1: let's make things happy with this roster. All right. Biggest
Speaker 1: needs going into this offseason. As the combine starts, as
Speaker 1: you're watching players workout and then and the workout's actually
Speaker 1: the on field TV presentation will be starting on Thursday.
Speaker 1: As you watch the position groups work out, get your
Speaker 1: first taste of what's available in the draft, and then
Speaker 1: you got free agencies starting two weeks from today. What
Speaker 1: is it? What positions of needs or cowboys looking at
Speaker 1: that they really need to film. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: right off the top of my head. Yes, cornerback, wide receiver,
Speaker 1: tight end, linebacker, quarterback. Con that won't show, That won't show.
Speaker 1: They do need a quarterback. They do need a quarterback.
Speaker 1: So can you find one better than Will Greer in
Speaker 1: the like sixth or seventh round. You always got to
Speaker 1: be looking. I'm not saying right now he's better than
Speaker 1: Will Greer, but I mean that's what you're looking at.
Speaker 1: If you can resign Cooper, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. If Patrick Mahomes is in
Speaker 1: this draft. If Patrick Mahomes is in this draft, you're
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, Scott Tolzine, the scouting brain trust, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: They love this player. This player is has a potential
Speaker 1: to be a Patrick Mahomes. Wow, would you well? Are
Speaker 1: you more brilliant than the other? Andy Reid apparently was
Speaker 1: because they traded up. They trade it up up and
Speaker 1: they gave up draft picks. Okay, and move up to
Speaker 1: number eleven or whatever it was to take Patrick Mahow
Speaker 1: Alex Smith. Alex Smith was their quarterback, okay, and they
Speaker 1: weren't happy with him, but I mean he was at
Speaker 1: wherever it was in his I mean, let me look
Speaker 1: back up Kansas City what they were doing then, how
Speaker 1: Alex Smith was doing. But keep going. I think they
Speaker 1: had problems in playoff games, all right? Or take it
Speaker 1: back to Green Bay ged Bret Farve and he was
Speaker 1: ted Aaron Rodgers, but he was getting close right. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: here it's more and I'm not proposing this, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying it's a it's a contract deal with with Dak
Speaker 1: where he's got two years left on this deal, and
Speaker 1: the amount of money that you're paying for the quarterback
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with his age, right. Yeah. So basically,
Speaker 1: if if you're not trading up and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that this player would supplant Dak Prescott, Dak Prescott may
Speaker 1: play great the next two years, but then you have
Speaker 1: this player either as a backup or guy that you
Speaker 1: can trade. So how's that working out in Green Bay?
Speaker 1: Right now? Yeah, I hadn't got on the field basically, yeah,
Speaker 1: and are you in? But he's not Patrick Mahomes. Are
Speaker 1: you in a win now they keep talking about the
Speaker 1: way they talk about them. They're putting all their eggs
Speaker 1: in this basket. So are you in a win now situation?
Speaker 1: You're winning now at DAK, right, But if you take
Speaker 1: up first round is Kansas City? What's that's what's Kansas City?
Speaker 1: Were gonna move on from Alex Smith? Okay? Are you
Speaker 1: moving on from DAK? That's what I'm asking because you're
Speaker 1: giving up a first round pick right next year, So
Speaker 1: two firsts. I'm looking up Alex Smith right now. So
Speaker 1: so yeah, you give him up, then I don't get
Speaker 1: you don't have him for anything else. You don't have
Speaker 1: any money for another wide receiver, right, I don't get
Speaker 1: a first round wide receiver or a cornerback or a
Speaker 1: tight end. All right? What, okay, Ma Holmes is twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen is that theory came in. You think people around
Speaker 1: here will stand for well, we're looking at the future,
Speaker 1: the future in Dallas, and then you bring in these
Speaker 1: players that they look okay, you know, and just okay
Speaker 1: until the moment comes and then they look horrible. And
Speaker 1: then what if you miss? And that happens with quarterbacks
Speaker 1: a lot, right, because how many how many how many
Speaker 1: good quarterbacks do you think are in this draft? Like
Speaker 1: first round guys? Four? All right, here's what was happening
Speaker 1: in Kansas City at the time that they made the
Speaker 1: decision to draft Patrick Mahomes in the first round, gave
Speaker 1: up picks to do it. They were coming off in
Speaker 1: twenty and sixteen. They were eleven and four and Alex
Speaker 1: Smith made the Pro Bowl eleven and four. Why four
Speaker 1: fit two games? No, I'm sorry Alex Smith, as I'm
Speaker 1: looking at Alex smith stacks. He was. His record was
Speaker 1: eleven and four, good point, all right. So Alex Smith
Speaker 1: as the starting quarterback was eleven and four and he
Speaker 1: made the Pro Bowl. All right, They draft Mahome and
Speaker 1: he was thirty two years old. They draft Mahomes, and
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seventeen, Alex Smith as the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback went nine and six and he made the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl past for four thousand yards. He had twenty six
Speaker 1: touchdowns and five interceptions. All right. Then Mahomes became Alex
Speaker 1: Smith bye bye, and so he when they when they
Speaker 1: drafted Mahomes, he had Smith had one more year at
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, and then he went to Washington the
Speaker 1: next year, So Mahomes did not play his rookie years,
Speaker 1: sat and then started the following year. So actually into
Speaker 1: the city at that point was a year we'd be
Speaker 1: looking at the twenty twenty four draft like going into
Speaker 1: next year with Dak's situation. Difference is Dak's got two
Speaker 1: years left on his deal here and the age and
Speaker 1: so yeah, but the money is the issue because the
Speaker 1: forty million dollars a year is what straps you from putting,
Speaker 1: which gives a team in more incentive now to go
Speaker 1: looking for that quarterback. Because if you can get a
Speaker 1: quarterback who can come in, even a second rounder like
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, you can look at the team that you
Speaker 1: can put around a guy that who can man, that's
Speaker 1: what started a super Bowl team. So you you bring
Speaker 1: in Mahomes, does the wide receiver position change? Do you
Speaker 1: bring did someone else come in along with him? You know,
Speaker 1: who could make a difference for Patrick Mahomes that maybe
Speaker 1: Alex Smith didn't have. I don't know if their running
Speaker 1: game was different. Did they bring in better lineman? You know,
Speaker 1: things of that nature, Because you know, if it's just
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, based on what I've seen I can get that,
Speaker 1: but everyone's not going to come in like a Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and make a difference, right, you got to bring
Speaker 1: in somebody else with him. If you're receiving coil, your
Speaker 1: office a game plan up to part. Bottom line is
Speaker 1: if you do something like that, you better be right
Speaker 1: on that quarterback. Well yeah, but then you elect at
Speaker 1: San Francisco and they traded so much to go up
Speaker 1: and get Trey Lance, and Trey Lance hadn't contributed yet,
Speaker 1: and yet the forty nine ers are in the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game. And what if you're the Chicago Bears because
Speaker 1: you got the first pick in the draft, but you
Speaker 1: already got fields, right, what do you do? Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you sure he's your guy? And that's what makes
Speaker 1: it so fascinating? And who are Like I said, who
Speaker 1: do you think are the top four quarterbacks in the draft?
Speaker 1: Because I saw a list and C. J. Stroud was
Speaker 1: not on it really and I was like, really, I
Speaker 1: was thinking, well, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe he's got another year.
Speaker 1: He's got to be He's gotta be on that list, right,
Speaker 1: h It must be an interest. Maybe I've misread the list.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was first. And then they missed him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's no way you can say, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: to me, he and Bryce Young y. Yes, that's the
Speaker 1: top two. That's what I thought, the way it goes.
Speaker 1: And I'll go back to Bryce Young how he handled
Speaker 1: his UH interview the Davey O'Brien Award when he had
Speaker 1: to fly from Tuscaloosa to hear UH and he flew
Speaker 1: right back and they interviewed him the next day on
Speaker 1: the ticket and and I think it was Kirby said, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, did you have to go to class that
Speaker 1: or that work out the next morning after you were here.
Speaker 1: I'm sure coach Saban will let you pass on that.
Speaker 1: He goes you obviously don't. No, you don't assume anything. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And in that twenty seventeen draft, there was one quarterback
Speaker 1: taken before Patrick Mahomes, and that was your Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky went number two overall. That's great, and Mahomes
Speaker 1: went number ten overall. I mean, for just a second,
Speaker 1: Trubisky was heralded. So the teams that passed Cleveland had
Speaker 1: the first pick took Myles Garrett. Chicago took Trubisky number two.
Speaker 1: San Francisco took Solomon Thomas number three Jacksonville for Leonard Fournette.
Speaker 1: Tennessee took wide receiver Corey Davis, The Jets took Jamal Adams,
Speaker 1: the safety out of Hebron High School, Chargers wide receiver
Speaker 1: Mike Williams, Carolina running back Christian McCaffrey, Cincinnati wide receiver
Speaker 1: John Ross, and then the Chiefs Mahomes and they gave
Speaker 1: up what um does it say? Yeah, I've got to
Speaker 1: look it up. I really would like to see what
Speaker 1: kind of changes they made along with it? Was tyrenk
Speaker 1: Hill there yet? Not right or tyweek Hill like persons
Speaker 1: you know, someone close? I don't know. Buffalo traded number
Speaker 1: ten overall to Kansas City in exchange for Kansas City's
Speaker 1: first and third round selections. Kansas City had the twenty
Speaker 1: seventh and the ninety first pick, as well as a
Speaker 1: first round selection in twenty eighteen. I dare ask, do
Speaker 1: you know what those two first wash? Okay? The um? Okay?
Speaker 1: So what I say? Twenty seven? Let's say Buffalo and
Speaker 1: that took trade Avious White cornerback from LSU in the
Speaker 1: first round, and then the third round pick was where
Speaker 1: they I say ninety something. Where'd you go? Don't tell
Speaker 1: me they traded? Oh the oh they did? It gets
Speaker 1: too confident. So what about the next year's first? Since
Speaker 1: you got it, it's very easy to get there. No
Speaker 1: not worth from where I am. Okay, Well, if you'll
Speaker 1: just talk for two, I'll get there. When did Tyrake
Speaker 1: Bill get there? Brother? You should have done this reshirts
Speaker 1: ahead of time. I didn't know what it was. I
Speaker 1: was going to ask the question ahead of type. All right,
Speaker 1: and then the next year Buffalo took shoot, they took
Speaker 1: Josh Allen in that draft. The next year the seventh pick,
Speaker 1: but that was from Tampa Bay. Well maybe they where
Speaker 1: was the Kansas City? And they took Tremaine Edwards linebacker
Speaker 1: that was from Baltimore. How many picks they have in
Speaker 1: this draft, I don't know, but they did pretty well. Hmm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So he was in the two thousand and sixteen draft.
Speaker 1: There was there were too many trades. Hill was sixteen sixteen.
Speaker 1: He was there already. Okay, so there you go. All right?
Speaker 1: More needs, um you said, cornerback, cornerback and wide receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tight end and it maybe running back, depending on where
Speaker 1: they go and what they do that's the most confusing
Speaker 1: to me. I mean, right, yeah, that's the one that's
Speaker 1: most up in the air. But I think we do
Speaker 1: know that wide receiver's got to be one of my
Speaker 1: top two needs. But you just said in an earlier
Speaker 1: segment that you needed somebody so that you could play
Speaker 1: Parsons more linebacker. Well, I don't have I mean, I
Speaker 1: can't get all these guys in the first We need
Speaker 1: another offensive lineman. Do we need the right guard? I
Speaker 1: left guard? Do we need a left guard? You see?
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I needed in the first round.
Speaker 1: Now there you go. See that last year though you
Speaker 1: needed that guard. It was last year. We can't bring
Speaker 1: up last year. It was a tackle that played guard.
Speaker 1: He's not playing tack, I mean guard, he's playing tackle.
Speaker 1: Huh so, um, well, you can't have a first round
Speaker 1: pick at every position on the offensive line. Why not?
Speaker 1: What do we do with the last decade? Come on?
Speaker 1: We we concentrated on the offensive lineman. I mean what
Speaker 1: get Sometimes? Can you develop a guy? Was Zach and
Speaker 1: it didn't work. You didn't win a Super Bowl? Oh right,
Speaker 1: but you established a culture around here. You had some
Speaker 1: running backs with some good numbers behind that offensive line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the running numbers weren't as great last year, that's true,
Speaker 1: But this the offensive line I'm talking about that we
Speaker 1: almost had in front of him that you know, was
Speaker 1: that about Murray had in front of him. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come on, well, what are you? What are you doing there? Though?
Speaker 1: Are you keeping Tyrn Smith? Are you giving him another shot?
Speaker 1: We'll see that's sighting himself. And whether he's gonna tern
Speaker 1: still ready to start the season. I think I think
Speaker 1: if if, if he'll if Tyran and Smith was Gonnas
Speaker 1: gonna quit, I think he would have done it already.
Speaker 1: Don't you think you think he would be that person
Speaker 1: that would drag something like this out and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm out. You know you gotta have
Speaker 1: some communications. Well, well let me don't you don't know
Speaker 1: what's been told behind the scenes, right whether they publicly
Speaker 1: said or Travis Frederick retired in March. Let me put
Speaker 1: it this way, if he stays his base salary thirteen
Speaker 1: point six million, I don't know that. I'm walking out
Speaker 1: the door on that. And so yeah, I would say
Speaker 1: he'd be here, you know, I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's that person that would drag something like this out.
Speaker 1: I think we would have known by now what he
Speaker 1: was gonna do, and the fact that he hadn't done
Speaker 1: anything that means he's gonna be hire. That's that's just
Speaker 1: my opinion. And if they can somehow convince them to
Speaker 1: reduce a little bit of that um and give him
Speaker 1: guarant because he's out of guaranteed money by the way, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's one of the things that they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to look at. You know, it's the same thing
Speaker 1: with Zeke. He's out of guaranteed money. So so it
Speaker 1: could be a situation where there's negotiating going on and
Speaker 1: then the player has to make a decision is it
Speaker 1: worth negotiations? You got it? Psychological games like hey man,
Speaker 1: how do you feel? Are you okay? And then got
Speaker 1: to know what your market value is, Like if I'm
Speaker 1: a free agent, they cut me, is somebody gonna pick
Speaker 1: me up? And how much will they pay me? And
Speaker 1: I think that's where the agent has to earn his money.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, that's not as hard as it
Speaker 1: used to be back in the day. Right, That's something
Speaker 1: he can find out very quickly, right, yeah, because as
Speaker 1: an agent, as an agent because someone someone said, I
Speaker 1: read someone pointed out that market value for Tony Pollard's
Speaker 1: eleven point nine million a year, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: are you sure about that? What would his franchise be
Speaker 1: ten one? And it's somebody gonna pay him that coming
Speaker 1: off his injury sight unseen, you got a factor that
Speaker 1: in too. The other fallacy I see and some of
Speaker 1: this stuff where they say, okay, here are the top
Speaker 1: people that need to either be reconstructed contracts or cut.
Speaker 1: They point out what the cap number is. I don't
Speaker 1: care about the cap number. I care about the base
Speaker 1: salary because the cap number is going to be some
Speaker 1: of it's gonna be dead money if you let him go.
Speaker 1: So it's not like, oh, his cap number sixteen, And
Speaker 1: if you cut him, you know you're gonna say no,
Speaker 1: you're gonna save the base salary. You're still gonna have
Speaker 1: probably eight million in dead money. Interesting, and you know
Speaker 1: there's only so many so much dead money you can
Speaker 1: account for that. We need to have a class, a
Speaker 1: SPAGS class on dead money and how all of this work.
Speaker 1: You need to come in with the apologists or maybe
Speaker 1: we need to we need to get we don't get
Speaker 1: that we need to get Todd Williams in here. We'll
Speaker 1: recruit Todd Williams, right, the guys that keep trafting that money,
Speaker 1: and you come in and just explain it, not to
Speaker 1: say this is what we can do or can't do.
Speaker 1: Just Okay, here's how it's gonna work. Yeah, because that's
Speaker 1: what they have to do. That's what we'll right, That's
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing right now. Right, they're getting ready
Speaker 1: for not only the franchise tag, but then free agency.
Speaker 1: What March fifteenth? Would we at twenty Well, it's free agencies.
Speaker 1: The negotiating periods March thirteenth, thirteen, But you can't do
Speaker 1: anything officially until I mean you don't become a free
Speaker 1: agent until the fifteenth. You can negotiate, but the signings
Speaker 1: are going to be that's at Schifter's Big days March thirteenth, right,
Speaker 1: and then twelve, which is two weeks from today, twelve
Speaker 1: o one a m. On the fifteenth, when it all
Speaker 1: becomes official. Yeah, because they'll have these But you gotta know,
Speaker 1: you gotta know what market value is before you make
Speaker 1: some of these decisions. And the player needs to know
Speaker 1: that too, because you don't oh no, I'm not taking that.
Speaker 1: And you go out and somebody signs you to less
Speaker 1: unless you have two teams bidding on you. All right,
Speaker 1: we're two minutes past no, yes, okay, Mickey is going
Speaker 1: to continue talking, and you will not throw at the combine.
Speaker 1: Oh by, there's breaking news from the combine. Bryce Young
Speaker 1: will not throw. And I'm gonna be filling up my
Speaker 1: big green notebook this coming week and i'll have some
Speaker 1: of those reports for you next Monday. And I want
Speaker 1: to know who's throwing and who's not here. You go,
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