WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: What To Expect In Indy 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.039 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:19.799 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Lets go, Are you 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.960 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.280 Ready for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:36.320 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:41.200 Welcome into a very indie edition of Cowboys Break. Everyone, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.080 Letsie Draper, Dave Hellman, Kyle Yeoman's right here from Radio Row. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.599 This is so fun. It's my first combine as well 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.320 as Kyle. But Dave the veteran here this is his seventh. Hello. Wow. 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.720 It makes me feel really when you say gunch is 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:00.320 a little bit yeah, you're walking around me. I will like, 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.200 all right, I don't want to sound like old guy 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:08.760 McGee shout out Mickey. Uh sorry, I'm sorry, Mickey. There 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.759 wasn't a Radio Row the first time I came here, 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.280 and like you talk to like old reporters who covered 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.399 this thing in the eighties, and it was like five reporters, 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.520 and then it was like a couple dozen reporters. And 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.640 now like, I mean, every team, every team in the 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.600 league has a radio station set up broadcasting what's going on. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.720 I mean, it's it's the biggest offseason event of the 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.840 year other than the draft itself. So it's it has 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.280 become a monster and it's it's super fun to be here. Well, 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:32.760 here's what we got coming up for you today in 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:34.840 the break. I know you're one wanting to know what 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.720 we've been seeing, what these guys are going to be 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.480 talking about coming up this week on the Draft Show. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.440 We'll give you a little taste. Draft Show will be 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.000 tomorrow at eleven am Central. We're going to talk about 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.640 was Stephen shared with us yesterday, as well as taking 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.840 your Twitter questions that we asked for earlier. We'll get 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.720 to that. So why don't we start with what you 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.720 guys have been seeing. Obviously a ton of buzz around 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.160 Joe Burrow and for the Cowboys, not media, just just 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.440 tu just he's talking about that, talking about the Cowboys. Yeah, 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.680 he is. And it's crazy that see like that narrative 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.200 kind of become at the forefront. I mean it was like, oh, yeah, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.280 two was gonna go as a top five quarterback. He's 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.120 gonna go here and there, and then all of a sudden, 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:13.760 it's like, oh yeah, I love the Cowboys though, and 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.880 then he talked about the Cowboys again, okay, but well 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.520 there's a difference there. He was asked about the cow 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.200 You were the one that I was. I wasn't the 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.480 only one, But I mean, okay, is it super interesting 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.160 that one of the best quarterbacks in the draft is 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.600 a lifelong Cowboys fan and named his dogs Dallas and Star. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.880 Of course it is. But guess what, it's the most 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.200 popular football team in the world. You know how many 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.520 guys in every draft class probably grew up to Cowboy 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.839 fans pretty good amount, Dak Prescott being one of them. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.600 Sometimes it works out and you get drafted by your 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.040 childhood favorite team. Sometimes it doesn't. So I mean it's interesting. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.160 I don't buy the narrative that it means Tonguavilo is 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.200 going to wind up on the Cowboys, but it's fun 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.480 to talk about it. And even with just a narrative 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.920 overall of him liking the Cowboys and growing up as 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.320 a Cowboys fan. Whenever you get drafted by a team, 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.160 what's a former Cowboys fan going to do? Whenever he 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.120 goes to the other team. He wants to put a 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.440 target on the Cowboys back. Absolutely, he wants to beat 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.079 the Cowboys because he grew up a fan of the 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.800 Dallas Cowboys. So even with the narrative that is there 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.320 with two in the entire I guess media row kind 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.880 of talking about the fact that he's, oh my gosh, 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.720 he's a big Cowboys fan. If he gets drafted by 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.720 the Miami Dolphins and number five overall, he's gonna put 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.079 on the Miami Dolphins element and he's gonna want to 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.280 beat everybody else in the NFL. There are no lukewarm 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.680 reactions to the Dallas Cowboys a great point. You love 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.560 them or you hate them, You want to play for them, 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.840 or you want to beat them desperately, and it just 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.279 applies to everybody. So before we get into our conversation 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.880 with Steven Jones yesterday, Dave, we're walking in this morning, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.560 we run into a new running back coach, Skip Pete. Yeah, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.200 Cowboys coaches are rolling in here. McCarthy is supposed to 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.720 be here today. He might already be here early afternoon, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.520 but things have changed, the schedule has changed. They're all 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.720 kind of feeling it out and and wanting to see 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.640 their guys asap. Yeah, we actually just I mean, you 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.800 talk about the changes, and that's you know, we kind 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:10.600 of previewed it on the Draft show last year. This 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.920 is this is the first time the combine been this 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.720 different in a long time. The drills are going in 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.039 primetime now the NFL is trying to turn this into 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.240 a muscy TV event, and it's funny to see, like, obviously, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.560 like we're scrambling, we've got to be adaptable. We don't 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.000 know who's talking and when, but neither do these guys. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.560 That was Skip Pete was like when can I get 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.240 my hands on these running backs? Like when am I 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.080 going to be part of these meetings? Like they got 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.880 drills at night, they got interviews with the league in 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.839 the morning, Like when or when do I find some time? 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.840 And you know, talking to personnel guys around the league, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.640 you talk to the scouts. This thing is a headache 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.920 for these guys because again, this used to be an 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:51.520 information gathering session and it has turned into orma finding 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:56.320 Well it's it's it's must muscy TV for football dorcs 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.479 at least, And so that's that is the adjustment that 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.440 everybody's having to make right now. It's funny to see, 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.880 you know, gms and scouts and coaches are just as 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.599 clueless as the rest of us about how all this 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.120 is going to work because it's the first time they're 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.000 doing all well, and you even talk about the changes 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.440 of the combine, But what about the coaching staff. I mean, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.920 this is the first offseason that this coaching staff has 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.040 had meshing together kind of trying to find those roles. Now. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.120 I know they're professionals, but at the same time, you 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.200 kind of got to get into a rhythm of being 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.600 a staff, being a part of this franchise together and 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.600 doing that while also going through changes of the combine 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.320 and the scheduling and just trying to find personnel. It's 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.920 like you talked about us being adaptable when we talk 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.200 about the draft overall, we kind of it's still a 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.680 guessing game in terms of what this coaching staff is 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.080 going to see as their biggest priorities. Now. I know 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.720 in the off season you're going to look at the 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.640 dat contract in Amari and Byron, But in terms of 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.840 the draft, are they gonna go defensive tackle? Is secondary 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.600 where they want to attack it or would they rather 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.920 attack that in free agency. It's trying to figure out 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.560 those those the an ounce of the off season as 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.120 a coaching staff, but also having to deal simultaneously with 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.320 the changes that the combine has ad period. It's interesting 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.760 to think, can you mentioned all these things are talking about? 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.920 Steven touched on him yesterday. Yeah, so let's dive in. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.920 Let's go down the list. Stephen Jones talked to us 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.760 probably twenty minutes yesterday. Where do you want to start 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.680 in between CBA talk? I want you to kind of 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.839 decode Dave, because I know it's confusing. We've got dates, 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.360 we're trying to get contracts done before, but the CBA 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.400 is kind of hanging around waiting to see what the 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.599 players end up voting on. So can you decode that 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:35.320 for us before we begin? So I'm the NFL owners 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.800 enfranchises are aware of these things before they reach our ears, 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.520 so I doubt that they were as caught off guard 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.960 as the rest of us. But it is a hell 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.760 of a wrinkle for the Dallas Cowboys that a new 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.599 CBA is being considered right now because it throws everything 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.320 in limbo. And that was kind of the tenor of 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.240 what I took away from Steven Jones yesterday is there's 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.359 a lot of different ways this offseason can go based 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.120 on how that's gets decided. So if you need a primer, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.640 the CBA is entering the final year of its deal. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.600 If you remember ten years ago to the lockout, they 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.880 signed a ten year deal. We've been going strong for 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.960 ten years. It's time for a new one. They are 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.840 trying to get a jump on this and put a 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.400 new one in place before it expires in the spring 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.560 of twenty twenty one. For my money, I didn't think 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.160 that would get decided until next year, and it still 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.200 might not. Nothing has been approved, but the NFL owners 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.040 agreed on a proposed CBA. You've probably read about it. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.760 Adding an extra week to the regular season, taking away 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:37.600 preseason game, changing drug testing rules, expanding the postseason, all 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:42.600 of these crazy and massively different changes, and that needs 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:47.520 to be decided the NFL, the nflpa's player reps are 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.880 weighing it right now. They're considering whether they approve it. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.320 If the players approve it, then you've got an all 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.680 new CBA which changes everything heading into the new league year. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.960 And all of that is within the next three weeks. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.000 And all of that is on top of the fact 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.520 that the Cowboys are trying to negotiate a contract extension 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.600 with Dak Prescott, with Amari Cooper, probably not, but maybe 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.680 with Byron Jones on top of all of the other 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.680 business they've got to take care of. And Stephen Jones 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.160 said it at the top of yesterday's interview. He was like, 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.480 we need to wait and see how that pans out 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.200 before we know how to go forward. And that's why, 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.040 you know, sitting here second day that we've been in Indie, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.240 there's not much in the way of updates in terms 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.240 of where things stands with DAK, where it stands with AMAR, 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.520 because they need to see what type of league landscape 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.280 they're working in before they do any of that time, 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:36.880 he seemed very like handcuffed almost and he was willing 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.680 to talk and share, but he was very limited on 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.120 what he knew is going to happen in a few days. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.560 And what was it, seventy nine million dollars. You're working 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.240 with the cap and we're going to be in trouble. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.560 I mean, he said that we are going to be 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.840 in trouble. So, yeah, it's hard to quantify. It's hard 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.360 to quantify just how much it could change, Okay, I 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.079 mean one example of that being, you know, it's the 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.480 rumored talk of if you're in the final year of 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.600 the CBA, you can use a franchise tag and a 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.319 transition tag at the same time. If a new CBA 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.200 is agreed to, it's at least theoretically possible you take 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.720 one of those tags away all of a sudden, that's 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:13.679 a tag you can't use on them. On Amari Cooper 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.800 or Byron Jones for that matter, you change the revenue 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:18.679 sharing plan, you change how it affects the cap. The 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.800 numbers could change based on what's agreed to. And for 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.640 my like, I get stressed out just talking about it. 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.040 And I actually I talked to Stephen Jones after our 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.640 interview yesterday. I was like, Stephen, does this kind of 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.240 freak you out at all? That? Like, you basically have 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.319 to have two, three, four different plans of attack based 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.280 on what's going to happen here in the next three weeks, 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.000 and all you can really do is wait and see 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.640 what happens. And he was like, no, this is just 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.040 this is the world we live in. This business is normal. Yea. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.760 Even at the same time, whenever you guys were talking yesterday, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.280 it was he said, franchise tags. We're not going to 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.679 speculate here. We're not speculating one or way or the 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.600 year we got how many we got five or six. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.960 Not going to speculate a ton of that. Lots of 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.080 that at the same time, even if you wanted to 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.560 speculate which direction are you going to? And that's what 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:05.840 I'm with you. I mean, I'm stressing out over the 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.160 fact of having to deal with all of this, and 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.560 I'm not even the one that has to make these decisions. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.520 None of us are. It's the select group of people 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.440 that have been put into that spot and they feel 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.040 like they have a good grasp on it. But from 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.000 the outside looking in, it looks like a little bit 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.000 of a mess. It's sure is stressful to me. Man. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.080 So we're here in Indy. This kind of marks the 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:31.000 beginning of this time of year. So Thursday, February twenty seventh, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.560 that marks the first day that you can designate a 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.640 player with the franchise tag. Two days that's two days away, 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.200 and then you've got two weeks until the deadline. So 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.640 you hear Stephen Jones. Probably the biggest snippet that came 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.800 out of that is that he reiterated our goal is 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.560 to sign Dak Prescott before we have to put the 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.480 tag on him. Even to heck, I thought we'd do 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.760 it last year. Yeah, yeah, which, and I mean that's 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.360 we can get into that if you want to. Which 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:01.240 is that two sides haven't talked since September, have not discussed, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:05.000 have not made a lot of progress. But Stephen Jones 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.240 is saying we want to have him signed in seventeen days. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.000 That is a lot of work to do if you're 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.440 going to avoid all that you're hearing. And after seeing 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.040 what happened with Ezekiel Elliott and to market, I even 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.720 put it past him, stranger things have happened. I mean, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.000 it would not surprise me, It really would. It surprised me. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.640 It almost feels like we need to gear ourselves up 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.840 for it popping up in the next seventeen days. Well, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.199 and sometimes that franchise tag is used as a placeholder, 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.720 and that placeholder is to get a long term deal done. 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.199 The only problem with using the franchise tag as a 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.640 flip placeholder is that there's four other deals that you 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.320 want to try and get worked out, whether it's be 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.280 with your returning players or with guys in free agency. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.680 And that's that right there is the problem. Because I remember, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.400 you know, you talk about me being an old head. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.520 I come here all the time in twenty fifteen, it 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.040 was Dez Bryant and it was we want to get 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.200 a deal done. If we can't, we'll tag him and 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.120 that gives us until July to figure something out. Not 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.800 very stressful in the grand scheme of things. But now 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.079 you're talking about if we have to tag Deck, does 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.720 Amari Cooper hit the open market? Do we have another 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.440 tag to use depending on the CBA? What about Byron Jones. 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.760 There's there's so many moving parts to this Cowboys offseason, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.400 and they're really important. By the way, a Pro Bowl quarterback, 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.480 a Pro Bowl receiver, and by the way, an All 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.280 Pro cornerback that like nobody wants to talk about just 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.360 shoving Byron Jones offer me on air that we really 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.120 did get the vibe yesterday that Byron Jones might there 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.040 just might not be room. The writing has been on 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.520 the wall, and Stephen Jones echoed yesterday he's you know, 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.400 he's like, we want to I think his quote was 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.080 something along the lines if we want to visit with 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.040 his people and see where they stand, and he had 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.360 a great run was something he said. It's that's rough 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.760 to hear. It does not seem likely that the Cowboys 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.800 think that they can fit Byron Jones into their financial plans. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.240 And it's interesting to get the Cowboys fans takes on 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:56.400 that because I hear so many just opposite perspectives, like 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.880 he should be the number one priority, and then another 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.040 you know, he gets intercept, you know what I mean, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.760 the great cover corner doesn't get picks. It's all like, literally, 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.200 all three of these guys, you would say they've been 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.160 drastically important to what success the Cowboys have had over 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.080 the last two years. They also have enough flaws in 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.640 their game that you can't find a consensus, like there 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.920 are people that don't want Dak, there are people that 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.200 don't want to Mary, and there are people that don't 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.200 want Byron, and yet all three of them would break 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.880 the absolute bank if they hit the open market. Now, 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:28.959 it is a weird spot to be even with all 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.439 of that being said, though, like the priority with keeping 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.520 a franchise quarterback and then having a wide receiver that's 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.480 a by far number one wide out in your offense, 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.800 those two things are gonna still be priority number one 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.240 and two over keeping a cover corner. And I think 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.720 I think Cowboys Nation in the fans out there, kind 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.640 of got a little thrown off guard. Whenever we heard 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.719 Mike Nolan and the car watch that happened with the 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.160 assistant coaches when he was saying, well, I'm not afraid 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.800 of a guy that's going to the corner. I think 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.720 Troy Aikman said something about it as well. He said 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.840 he talked to Troy. He Mike Nolan said, you know, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.640 Troy Aigman said, I'm not afraid of the guy that 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.880 bats down balls exactly, I'm afraid of the guy that 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.360 takes the ball the other way and almost instantly wipe 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.480 the memory of Cowboys fans. You have a lockdown corner 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.679 who's been a great cover corner and all pro on 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.920 your team, the kind of corner that you're going to 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.840 spend the next five years trying to find, whether it 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.200 be in the draft or in free agency. When you're 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.960 letting him walk, they did. They Stephen right after that 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.920 funneled in and said, but hey, we're focusing on defense 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:34.200 for the draft. I'm just going to come out and 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.160 say that right now, we're locked up on offense, we 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.560 have good contracts that we like, We're gonna go young 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.480 for me own defense. It's man, it's interesting because I 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.920 hear what you just said. Yeah, it's so easy to 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.880 make the case that it's easier to find a wide 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.120 receiver in the draft and like replace that production rather 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.120 than give him Maury Cooper eighteen twenty million dollars a year. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.280 It's also easy to make the case that your Pro 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.400 Bowl wide receiver makes a far bigger impact a week 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.520 in and week out then a cornerback, especially a cornerback 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.240 who doesn't take the ball away. I think, yeah, you 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.680 can make a case for either one of them. I 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.160 just know the odds that the Cowboys sign all three 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.000 are very, very smallow, and the writing seems to be 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:14.880 on the wall about which they think is more important. Well, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.600 and even looking at the draft and looking at defense overall, 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.200 the Cowboys have had zero success in finding defense in 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.120 free agency, at least over the last five years. Since 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:28.680 twenty fifteen, I wrote this down Quinn was a trade though, 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:33.480 trade trade, but I mean, you look at three defensive 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.320 tackles and that's a notable position of interest for the 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.480 Cowboys this offseason. Three defensive tackles have been signed since 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.960 twenty fifteen, Christian Covington, Stephen Pio, and Cedric Thorton. Those 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.240 are the three defensive tackles in free agency that have 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.520 been signed by the Dallas Cowboys, I think I don't 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.840 think it's a stretch to say, and I mean, for 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.040 all intents and purposes, they acquired a veteran defensive end 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.600 who got them eleven sacks. Yeah, during the offseason, you 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.960 can't cheap. You can't discount Robert Quinn. But okay, Robert 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:07.840 Quinn Randall Cobb last year arguably the only really quality 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.280 free agent, veteran type additions that this team has made 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.040 in the last five years. I think people that don't 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.160 want to see Byron Jones leave. I get why that 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.280 scares him, because if he's gone, Anthony Brown is also 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.600 a free agent. 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What are you both most 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.600 excited to watch quote unquote watch for the rest of 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.199 the week. You'll be here till Saturday Sunday. What's the 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.960 best part, Dave, No, Kyle, you need more time to 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.280 think about. Man. I'm excited really to kind of get 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.920 to talk to some of these guys, and we've we've 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.040 already started that. Today the quarterbacks and the wide receivers 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.000 and the tight ends came in and did their media 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.800 session and I got to kind of at least talk 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.639