WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: 8-27-24 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.039 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.879 Cowboys. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:18.160 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:23.680 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.600 Hecma Harrison, and Newie Scrugs. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.440 Play rounds. Here. We are rolling with you. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:42.000 Here at the headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys at Prisco, Texas. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.080 All right, s WBC Podcast Center. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:44.599 You know the crew. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.479 Heckma Harrison's in the house, Barry Church is here, I 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:48.559 am Newie Scrugs. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.360 We've got cuts, We've got Ceedee Lamb. We can get 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:52.600 Dalvid Cook potentially. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.480 Now there's a whole lot to get to here, Smorgas board. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.200 That's the word of things. Man to loatch. 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.040 The boys are now back home here to finish off 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.560 training camp. We now know that there's no more preseason game. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.120 The play play is done. We're now getting ready for 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:13.200 the real thing. Let's start with number radio him back. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.039 He gives you super bag. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.600 This show called this numerous. 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.160 Times, especially if you look at the last We said 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:23.119 the deal will get done. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.400 Weeks ago, and it did. And I think you know 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.720 one of our arguments was thirty five was the number. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.440 We started looking at Justin Jefferson's contract and started saying 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.440 to look, you try and fit the deal somewhere in 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.880 between that. There's so many people that have come out 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:38.640 and argue that, look, man, this could have been done 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:40.840 a long time ago, why did they drag their feet? 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.840 They ended up getting the deal that was probably I 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.200 think there's no way to argue with that, especially when 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.400 you start doing the play of comparisons. We argued the 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.480 point on Justin Jefferson versus CD Lamb. But I think 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.000 once you saw the numbers in black and white, it 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.840 made sense. It made sense from an organizational standpoint. I 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.160 don't think they overreached in the deal. And now you 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.640 got Ceedee Lamb underneath this roof with two weeks before 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.160 you see live ammunition out there. So look, I think 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.360 the deal, obviously it was an exact science. There's a 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.160 lot to be argued about, not only the way that 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.360 it was handled for CD on other superstars that you 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.000 have emerging. But glad to see it finally got done. Yeah, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.639 I'm with you on that one. I'm glad to see 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:23.240 that it got done. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.000 And like Luis said, we you know, we've called this 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.359 out weeks ago that it was going to get done because. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.960 Cede Lamb, in my opinion, he is your passing attack. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.000 You know, everybody else eats off of what he's able 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.240 to do out there, creating one on ones for everybody else. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.360 So at the end of the day, we understood that 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.720 the Cowboys had got to get this done, and they 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.520 ended up getting it done with two weeks of spare, 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.320 which to me is a good sign because you know, 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.800 what you worry about with CD is not the connection 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.680 with him and dak Out on the football field, because 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.680 you know, you know, they've been together for years now. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:51.600 The only thing that would worry you would be that 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.440 soft tissue stuff because I don't care how many you know, 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.359 drills you do, working out all that good stuff. You 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.880 think you're in great shape. You know, football shape is different. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.919 You only get to that type of shape by playing 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.040 the actual game. Guys pulling on you, grabbing on you 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.680 while you're running around, tackling, getting up all that good stuff. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:08.440 So with two weeks to spare, he'll be able to 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.120 get plenty of practicing. He's a young man, so I 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.800 wouldn't have to worry too much about those soft tissue issues. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.000 Because he has two weeks to go. But that was 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.000 my only concern going into this. They got it done, 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.280 which you know, thank goodness they did, so now we 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.160 can start this thing with Dak and number one option. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.440 All right, Church, because that was my next question to 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.399 you as a former player, what is that concern level 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:33.640 when when guys come in here because a soft tissue 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.320 injury and bam, you're really you know, you're weeks behind. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.800 Oh yeah, that's we talking ham strings, you know, stuff 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.560 like that quad, stuff that can pull when you don't 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.520 have that, you know, every single day in training CAB 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:44.960 and that's what you know, guys hate the ground of 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.000 training CAB and I'm with you on that, but that's 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.400 where your body gets accustomed to guys pulling on you, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.080 dragging on you, because you can't, you know, simulate that 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.280 going out into the field doing you know, drills and 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:55.960 all that other so you just can't do it. You know, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.000 guys are pulling all different types of angles and your 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.760 body has to get used to those adjustments. And thankfully 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.960 he's in the building now with two weeks, so hopefully 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.760 he can get that work from the scout team. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.120 I'm gonna take everything that he says as Gospel. When 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.400 it comes down to preparing for an NFL season, you know, 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.280 I've heard it being argued several different ways, right, but 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.960 four years and this is just going into his fifth 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.719 year in the NFL. I think it all comes down 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.720 to how you prepare for the season and out. And 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.760 I haven't never asked you this question, but how long 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.440 did it take you to prepare to get ready for 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.160 a season? And I think he's probably to that point 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.520 with the good money that he spends on trainers, nutritionus 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.520 and everything else that he can prepare. Now. Obviously nothing 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.359 simulates live football like live football. I don't know if 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.800 he has twenty other friends to go out and do 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.080 exactly what you were just talking about. But at the 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.640 same time, I think for Ceedee Lamb, he's just he's 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.440 protecting yourself, and for the organization, they're protecting their self 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.400 because the last thing you would have wanted is for 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.400 him to be injured in training camp or something like that. Obviously, 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.320 the investment, you gotta protect the bread and so you know, 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.000 he got it done at the right time. And I 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.040 think for everybody that's making those arguments against him in 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.120 the organization in the time that it took. I think 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.800 that if Ceedee Lamb signs this deal a year early, 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.839 he is pissed when he sees what Justin Jefferson got. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.159 I mean, in the negotiation deal, you have to deal 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.920 with who's being currently paid and whose future to get paid. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.080 And he was right there in that ballparking. Just based 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.159 off of the numbers that he put up last year. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.120 You're like, look, this is one A, one B, but 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.279 not by a long shot. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.320 Heck, I'm going to push back and just simply say 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.520 this deal should have been done last year. Really should 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:34.040 have been the first off, you know you want to play, okay, 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.159 if we know we want the player to get to me. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.760 I look back at Tank Lawrence and Dak Prescott as 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.320 two opportunities where the Cowboys missed the boat where they 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.480 could have got in at good deals, good for the player, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.320 good for you, and they missed it. And then when 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.880 they finally paid them, the player had the hammer and 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.279 they used it right here. Ceedee Lamb was not going 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.080 to play. He knew he had the leverage. He sat out. 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.240 I mean, he's the only winner here from the stand. Boy, dude, 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:01.120 go train ket. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:07.479 And you got a hundred plus meal mister Bingo, I'll guarantee. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.480 And when I sit down here upstairs, it's thirty eight 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.159 million dollars coming to me. This this should have been 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.680 done a while back, and back when you saw the 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.480 Eagles sign there, guys, go ahead and get it done 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.760 too with Dak Prescott. Once you saw Jalen Hurts get 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.120 paid and you saw Lamar jess Miss sign them, you 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.160 already know where it's going. So I don't understand the 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.799 mentality of why they have waited to do these deals 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:30.920 because at the. 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.599 End of the day, they keep paying out more and 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:34.560 more money. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.040 So when I so, when do you not jump in 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.000 here and say, okay, look this is it needs to 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.280 get done, I would say, and you tell me if 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:44.560 you how you feel it. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.440 The numbers felt where we kind of thought they would be. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.120 And here's what I say to that is last year, 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.480 I think the market was set completely different. And I'm 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.400 guessing here A. J. Brown may have had the market 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.440 somewhere at around the thirty two to thirty one mark. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.200 I'm and Ross Saint Brown comes in and his and 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.240 this is within the season, yeah, within the season or 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.800 before the season where it raises a thirty three thirty 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.039 you know, within that number if he had signed and 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:12.720 to say, you know, thirty one million dollars. Man new way. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:17.240 Let's just hypothetically, you're you're my representation, and I'm sitting 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.800 in my locker and I see an ESPN notification that 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.960 says Justin Jefferson just got thirty five million dollars. I 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.320 am going to text you you are fired because I 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.600 would have wanted it. I would have wanted because of 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.800 where I set the market at. Look, you have the 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.200 example right now with Trent Williams. Trent Williams has a 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.040 has a contract that has the most money in it, 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.760 but yet he's not getting the paid He's third highest 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.960 paid left tackle at the point that he signed his deal, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.119 it was record setting, highest paid salary ever. But he's saying, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.320 but he's saying, look, I've outplayed the market. Ceedee Lamb 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:52.720 would have been in the same place. You would have 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.040 been right back here with him unless Justin Jefferson had 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.520 done his deal first, and he was that close to 0:07:58.800 --> 0:07:59.800 Justin Jefferson as well. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.240 I think this is a game. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.320 And Barry, you speak this as a player, you know 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:07.320 when you sign somebody's going to jump you, right. This 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.120 is the name of the game. So somebody's gonna jump you, 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.560 but but I've got my security. Here's my bag. I'm 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:11.960 good with. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.840 It for percentages left, but if it was percentages less. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.840 And let me fishing point here. So you know that 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.960 people are gonna jump you, and one of two things happen. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.679 Either you get a new like Dak Dak Prescott signs 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.840 for forty and then here comes Kyler Murray forty six. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.000 So either you know, supposedly to be a good player, 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.320 I'm going to be able to get a new deal 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.360 coming up, or you do the old Zach Martin. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:34.360 I don't like what's going. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:41.720 On exactly exactly exactly, you know, we need you Patrick 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:47.680 mahone the math math right, the math. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:53.000 Math in a while back right right, And so CD Lamb, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.760 in my opinion, is gonna he's that kind of player 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:02.360 like Zach Martin hold off player and New York takes well, okay, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.040 like the Chiefs realized, yeah, we kind of got overload 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:06.760 bit so we go. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:08.120 Right. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.320 So so if you're that kind of player and you 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.440 see something that passes, you're okay. I mean, if you're 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.880 Dak Prescott, all right, Kyler got forty six. Here's Trevor 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.320 Lawrence in fifty five. I'm feeling good and that's where 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.640 I took the cowboys. Like, you know what, when Trevor 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.520 Lawrence got to fifty five, you should have ran in 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:24.600 the dak his six. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.280 Yeah, finished this thing. The price of the brick keeps going. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.760 Up every time, and for the good. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.560 Players, you're going to still be able to come back 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.319 withhold your services and get what you want. Jamar Chase 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.520 now is looking at all this and unfortunately Chase with 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:41.120 the wrong. 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.120 It's the wrong dude with. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:49.600 But I think in this case with Jerry Jones, we 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.840 know the history he's. 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:54.120 At this point in time. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.560 As far as the offensive weapon, it is, hands down, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.959 Ceedee lamb is the best offensive weapon they had. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:01.120 He was hitting pad. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.400 You got to I mean, he had to make this 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.520 thing happen. Who because who you're gonna rely on with. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.240 We've talked about this for weeks as well. Coach toll 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.000 Bird for there you can't do he. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.160 Lose the guy that camp, Chris Pan who is the 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.040 the three name guys. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:16.559 Billy Johnson. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.920 Yeah, a day. 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:26.480 Like this is what the. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.880 Organization to get you. I've learned they're trying to foolish 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.120 look out here. He's a deep threat, right, you know 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:34.800 we're gonna dive up to play for the media. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.040 Oh yeah yeah, And. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.600 Then he got the dudes who ain't got nothing else 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.360 to report, the bright dame like him, Billy Billy has 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.800 been shotting like, oh my gosh, we could happen next 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:49.680 Robinson Billy time, like they're gonna put some pressure into man. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.680 And then that where at on. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:56.440 The street has to be a financial advice here we 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:04.120 appreciated provided some excitement, some electricity. That's what it was 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.280 because you saw them on socials and Billy Johnson of 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:20.560 the deep right, Philly, don't lose my number again? Get 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:27.160 strange Today's Billy, you know what I mean? Yeah, I'm 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:27.480 seeing that. 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:32.840 Look at these les reports on Okay, okay, you know 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:33.400 last year. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.319 I'm telling man, Jerry got me for the last time 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:35.720 last ye. 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.679 Not off off the darcotic, I'm off that you're not 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.200 paying these people think I'm not worried about. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.959 Od's getting paid. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:49.720 So good for CD had a nice vacation, that's the 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:50.960 off the record questions. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.280 So what did you do with all that time? How 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:54.640 was it. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:59.240 Running on the beach, Jake Chilling? I hope he went chilling, 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:04.240 Please said, don't have been chilling seeking doing the work. 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.600 But you know you're not stressed going to meet absolutely 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.319 from you know, seven to ten at night. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.400 You're getting your work in andything you really now that 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.040 was I think I always said. Now I'm in agreement 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.440 with you on that. But I definitely think the deal 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.280 was gonna get done, and it had to be done 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.640 out of necessity, just based off of the numbers. But 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.720 the other thing that is confusing about it getting done is, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.560 you know, these are two positions that rely on each other, 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.480 quarterback and wide receiver. So you don't pay your quarter 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.640 your wide receiver without paying said quarterback. 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.840 Trying to make sense out of something we've been saying. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:39.440 Just. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.559 Putting that out there. I mean, these things go together, 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.000 is you know, peanut butter jelly. You gotta have one 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:47.480 and the other. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.520 It's like all in and we ain't seen all in. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:13:01.480 So just gotta happen, Just gotta happen. I'm like, don't 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:14.920 lose my number as starts really as n crazy like this, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:15.840 I don't know. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:17.440 Me. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.280 I did do this organization. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.800 They got it all out there and Mike ha been 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:22.720 dyed in the place. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.760 May you Billy look good talking about man, Billy, don't 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:26.480 lose my number. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.760 And then they lost this. Hey thanks Billy, just smer job. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.679 They gonna cout this, Chris b gonna you know the 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:36.679 first thing they're gonna ask you. I need I need 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.720 that iPad. I need I need that I pad. That'd 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:45.040 be the worst to come get it. You need that iPad. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:46.400 But coach wants to see you. But just lead the 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.520 iPad right that bed see too many go out like that. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.280 You make the practice fly. You want to talk about 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:03.360 David Cooking somebody like that? You know, man, I was 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.680 on the Dalvin Cook train man and Dalvin. Dalvin didn't 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.000 make it here, ended up going to Baltimore for for 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:10.240 their little brief playoff. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.840 So so now and I hate these things on Twitter. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.119 I saw him. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.280 Working out how to work out, how to work outside, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.240 to work out. There's anybody go baby. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.480 These thirst videos like the tray Land's thirst videos. We 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.280 saw throwing against air. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:28.320 Oh my gosh, it's trade. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.920 She's like people stop for everybody today was look at 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.240 Dalvin threw a mesh and ball hitting praying the calls stopped. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.000 He still got the juice. That's what they say, right, 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:39.880 he still got it. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:45.040 So so Dalvin Cook, does it move the needle for you? 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.920 How do you feel? What you think when you saw 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:47.200 it hit? 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:48.240 Like? 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.800 I think it's a worthy conversation to be had. But 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:52.760 you're gonna have to have way more than just Dalvin 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.040 Cook coming here. You're gonna have to have it. It's 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:57.720 a conversation to be had. I mean, if you go 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.560 to calm in the streets to find a running back, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.320 you're gonna have to do more than just just Dalvin. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.840 I just don't I don't understand this. I don't what 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.600 is the infatuation with and no disrest? Because these guys 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:10.240 were great. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.800 In their prime, but you know we're relying on these 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:14.520 aging veterans. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.880 Is what is dalvining? You're ten as a runner back? 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:17.600 Maybe nine? 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.880 I mean once the last time Delvin was was that 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.040 guy in the backfield. I mean, he's very similar in 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.840 my opinion, to what you got in Zeke already. So 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.160 you know, why would you already get would you double 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.520 down on another back that does similar things that Zeke does, 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.720 running between the tackles, three yards in a cloud of doust. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.880 He's great towards the goal line, But you already have 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:36.400 that there. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.120 If you want to go get a back why don't 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:39.720 you get a little change of direction, you know, a 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.880 little lightning to the thunder, somebody that can receive out 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.960 of the backfield as well. I you know, I just 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.520 don't understand this infatuation with these aging veterans bringing them 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:48.920 on to the. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:54.200 Squad once again, with the people who check out the players. Lange, 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.240 we sat around and talked about this with the running 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.840 back room. Come come cut time, you know, start looking 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.720 at some veterans here. To me, this says what we've 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.280 been talking about. You're not sure about this room. Yeah, 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.280 well you can tell me Malik Day I like Malik Davis, Oh, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:14.040 you like him so much? 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.400 And call down and cook ch It's Freeme, all of 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.320 them cats. Make sure you're sure. And I don't blame them. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.240 I don't blame them for doing that, especially when you 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.280 go into last season. Although you went twelve and five, 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.840 Pollard only had one one game where he rushed for 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.280 one hundred yards. Okay, So I think if you had 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.520 any more to that running back room after that one 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.520 hundred yard game, I think you'd feel better going into 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.880 the playoffs. Or if that one hundred yard game came 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.360 in the playoffs, maybe it would have helped you. They're 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.000 looking for more, and again I don't blame them knowing 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.600 that behind Ezekiel Ellen another aging running back, you have 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.800 Duce Vaughan and company. Yeah. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.560 I just it's just it's smelling like it's going to 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.640 be a you know, Dak forty five passes game type, 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:02.560 That's what. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:03.360 It's smelling like to meet. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.359 Well, let me put it this way, Okay, giving your 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.960 choice right now, Malik Davis, Royce Freeman, Dalvin Cook, you're 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:10.480 picking one. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.199 Where do you go? Malik Davis has more juice? I 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:14.439 believe Malik Davis. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:20.000 So you're saying that the fact that they're flying him. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:24.280 In says that they got a thing with Malik Davis, 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.439 not your guy. That's what the question or Royce is not. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:28.520 I mean you know. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.040 So so that to me, it was kind of with 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.280 what what they what they say, and what they the 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:34.400 actions are right now. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:35.960 Completely there's something. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.160 There's something going on that they're bringing that they're saying, 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:39.000 let's bring this guy in. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.080 Now. They can bring in Dalvin Cook and not sign him. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:42.560 They could do that. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.160 I mean, they brought in Carl Lawson and they didn't 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:45.840 sign him, and they signed him and they send him 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:47.240 going with Billy on the way. 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:53.320 Yeah, they they did, they did, And I thought. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.840 He was going, you know, a good rotational piece. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.880 No, you know exactly what, Carl. That's is exactly why 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.159 you just made that argument. And it all started from 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.760 the workout video and I think we all figured it out. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.600 It's like, come on, man, come on, man, is that 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.919 if there's anything that we understand that the the the 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.639 injury to Sam Williams. Man, it's got you in a 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.199 mode where you have to figure out what you have 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.120 kneeling has showing you promise. But at the same time, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:24.000 you couldn't go into the season gambling with an aging veteran. Okay, 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.320 that's the same question that you have about the three 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.119 technique that you Phillips that you just bought off. You 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.160 want to know, Look, how much does this guy having 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.040 the tank, how much Joseph, how much can they help you? 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.679 What kind of rotation can you get going with these guys? 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.720 So so let me also throw this out here, and 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.320 this is this is another kind of he's a veteran, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.400 so if he's on, if he's on the roster, they 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.280 wanted to guarantee absolutely, so maybe hey, hey, just sitting 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.879 the cut for a minute, just just chill so we 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:51.680 can do the game by game kind of thing with you. 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.520