WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Dak-A-Thon 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.000 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:16.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:21.000 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.720 Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:35.080 and Nicky Spagnola. All right, here we are. It is 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.280 time for another edition of Mick Shots. And as we 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.960 are preparing for this show, my Wi Fi signal is 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:48.960 much like the deck I think he was getting ready 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.240 to say it was much like that. It goes down 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:58.480 a little, just gonna have problems. We finally were all 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:03.240 going to be back together, Bill Jones, Everson Walls, myself, 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.360 Mickey Spagnola, and now Bill his having problems with his 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:13.280 internet at home. First it was first it was frozen electricity, 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:20.319 no water, and now the internet. Come on, Bill, He 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.200 don't know. Bill. Bill had water, he had water, but 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.800 it was all it was all frozen. That's what happened. 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.840 He had the water, but it was all frozen. See, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.240 some people could have build water out of their pool, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.600 but his pool was frozen. Do we have him? Do 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.319 we have you build my My pool was frozen. My 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.960 pool was frozen. Also. We were we were exchanging stories. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:52.480 We were exchanging stories of frozen pool mishaps. I think 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:57.080 Bill's neighbor had some issues with his frozen pool and 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.880 I had mine. I broke my shovel. I broke my 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:04.920 shovel trying to to just dig into the ice so 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.120 that they wouldn't it wouldn't go into my walk my 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:12.960 machine itself. Do we do we have Bill back? Do 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:18.720 we have them? No? No, Mickey, we I think you 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.600 ought to carry on without me for now because my 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.360 WiFi signal is not looking good right now. But Chris 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.800 is working on the problem. Well, we have you. I 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.920 can hear you, We can see you. Does Chris have you? 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.160 Oh we can hear yeah, I know we can see him. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:40.880 But okay, okay, here's that's right. You can hear me 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.079 right now. So how about let's kick things off with 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.920 Dak Prescott. What a good ice start, right, a deal. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.320 It's like we ever said we were gonna you know, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.800 there's things called mick shots. I was gonna say after 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.880 yesterday and with Dak signing and Bill back, we're gonna 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.200 call it cannon shots because we got some big shots 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:10.440 to fire today about Dak Prescott. Finally, finally, after all 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:15.079 these months of haggling over a long term deal. They 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.840 get a deal done yesterday, and we'll try to break 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:23.720 it down. It's somewhat complicated, but it has a whole 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.680 lot of money in it. Ever, so, when were you 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.440 at all surprised that they got this long term deal 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:36.960 done before they had to administer the franchise tag, I 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.000 must admit, Spags, I was extremely surprised, but I was 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:45.600 pleasantly surprised. I just assumed that this was gonna drag 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.720 out again. I thought they were going to have to 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.280 sign them to another franchise. Tag. I'm so glad they 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.080 didn't have to do that. You know, you've got your 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.400 starting quarterback here, regardless of the injuries that we spoke of, 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.480 regardless of some of the ups and downs we've had 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.360 with that Prescott, he's clearly the face of the team, 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.120 just like Romo was, you know, just like Troy Aikman 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.360 was when they were there, and you would think that 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:13.280 things could be worked out a little bit more amicably. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.159 I was very surprised that there was so much pushed 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.400 back on both sides. I must say, on both sides. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.920 I was very surprised about that. All I wanted to 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:30.480 see was a seamless transition between you know, I didn't 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.320 even want to do the franchise tag last year. I 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.560 was hoping that he would be able to get it 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.119 done last year and be just as seamless. As we've 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:43.320 known these quarterback contracts to be done in the Dallas area. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.480 We've never had a problem with a quarterback trying to 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.600 sign a contract in Dallas for the Dallas Cowboys. Am 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.480 I right about that fact? No, they always seem to 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.760 get done. As a matter of fact, if you think 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.320 about it, Troy Aikman's first contract when he was the 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.640 first pick in the draft, was finished before the draft 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:06.520 even started. Uh. And then he signed two more as 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.160 it went along and there was never really a holdout 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.960 or a long discussion or anything like that. And then 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.040 the next one would have been Tony Romos and his 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:22.200 first contract not not meaning his undrafted free agent contract, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.279 but when the Cowboys decided him. I believe it was 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.640 two thousand and five, two thousand and six, when Bill 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.920 Parcels and Jerry cornered him in the locker room before 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.560 a game and said, Okay, we want to sign you 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.160 to an extension and here's the deal. Do you want it? 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.640 It was like they had their hands around his neck. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:48.440 And for a guy that was making minimal jersey hit man, right, yeah, exactly, 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.159 it's in the alleyway. Hey, buddy, you're gonna sign this 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.840 right now. That he had been working for minimum wads 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:59.799 the whole time, which is relative, right, Yeah, he said, okay, fine. 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.640 And then when they did the next one for I 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.360 think it was seven years, they did it on Good Friday, 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.600 and I remember writing the story and it was in 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.279 so April whatever, and I said, yeah, this was a 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.240 real good Friday for Tony Romo because that's when they 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.760 gave him the big deal. But you're right. The only 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.720 other one that I remember that they had problems with 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:29.400 was Roger Staubach after the first Super Bowl win, when 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:34.360 he was looking for an increase and uh tex Shram 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.560 was kind of holding him at bay. He didn't why, 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.520 I don't know. I don't know. And Roger would tell 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.080 the story that he went into Texas office and he 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:48.480 was sitting in the outer office and his administrative assistant 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.240 was telling him, now, Texas, busy, we'll get to you. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.400 We'll get to you, just wait, and Roger got Roger 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.200 got so impatient. They were at that that office tower 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.120 like seven or eight ten four, yeah or whatever it 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:08.039 was where their office was were, and Stabox said, I'm 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.880 going in and the lady goes, now, we can't, you know, 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.320 he's not ready, And so he went out the window. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.600 There was a ledge outside the window and he could 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.520 walk on that ledge, and he jumps out. He goes, 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.360 I jumped up in front of Texas window and went 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.880 and he said. Texas was sitting with his feet up 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.520 the desk and he almost fell off his chair. But 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.600 the bottom line was he got in and he got 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.920 his raise and they knocked out the contract. But other 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.080 than that, uh yeah, it was always pretty easy, other 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.480 than Danny White trying to get a raise because not 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.840 only had he become the starting quarterback, he was still 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.760 the punter and he thought he should get a little 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.560 extra and every year Gil Bratton would tell him, yeah, yeah, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.600 we're gonna give it to you. He goes, and you're 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.280 not gonna punt this year, and he would punt and 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.760 he didn't get and so I think it was like 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:07.000 the third time he went in and uh and Gil 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:08.960 told him, well, you know what, I think he needed 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.480 to talk to Tom about it. So Danny said Okay, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.560 I got my nerve up. I walked into Tom's office 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.120 and I said, you know, Tom, I'm the starting quarterback. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.640 I've been the starting quarterback for two years. This is 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.280 going to be the third year and I'm still punning 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.720 and I think maybe I should get a little extra 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.840 And he said, you know, Danny, you know in my day, boy, 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.760 guys would do whatever they could and even more for 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:38.320 their team to help him out. You know, here we go. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.240 I lost the argument right there. I couldn't do anything. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.920 So anyway, Uh, you know what, I don't know that 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.880 about those two things that you brought up. The thing 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.079 about those two things you brought up is, uh, in 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.320 two cases. First of all, when you talk about old school, 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.880 that's Gil Brandt. That's old regime, right. They're never gonna 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.560 do negotiations correctly. That's just the way it was. We 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.360 didn't have any any recourse as players. Now you got 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.719 free agency and Jerry Jones with the new regime at 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.520 that when I say new, the most recent regime, then 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.200 they realize that with other options out there, that quarterbacks 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:20.080 need to be signed quickly. But in both cases, running 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.000 backs had to hold out to get their money. Yeah, 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.719 Zeke Elliott as well as Emmi Smith if you recalls backs, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.960 and so you know that goes back to the whole 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:33.760 narrative to me of why quarterbacks are held in such 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.520 high regard as opposed to running backs, who seems to 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.880 be at back. In the nineties, the running back was 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.520 the leader of the team in the eighties and the nineties. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.320 Now when you're talking about this time in football, this 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:52.760 time in the NFL, quarterbacks are the marquee position. So 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.319 it's funny how in what twenty years we have gone 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:02.840 from Dorset Emmitt Smith. Now everything is my homes Prescott 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.720 and Tom Braider. So here's the deal. And so we 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.920 did a thing this morning on Dallas Cowboys dot com. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.160 We had to answer the question what was the best 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.320 thing about Dak's deal or your biggest impression of it? 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:20.440 And my first impression was it got done. That was 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:25.600 the best part. The second part that was good and 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.760 especially for the Cowboys, was the way they were able 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.000 to structure the deal. So it was a four year 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.360 deal for one hundred and sixty million, sixty six million 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:38.080 dollars in signing bonus. One hundred and twenty six million 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.600 is guaranteed, and it's guaranteed over the first three years 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:47.120 of the contract, but they were able to add two 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:52.240 voidable years to it that will allow them to pro 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.160 rate the signing bonus instead over four years over five years. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.440 So you divide the sixty six million by five, it 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.920 comes to thirteen million in change. And what it allows 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.920 them to do is lower the cap hit, especially for 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.120 this first year. So instead of the cap hit and 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.680 being thirty seven point seven million on a franchise tag, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:19.680 by structuring the contract the way they did, his cap 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.920 hit will be twenty two point two million, So that's 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.920 fifteen million dollar difference than the franchise tag. So that 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.959 was to me the most significant part of this whole deal. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.240 And even though the base salary is nine million this year, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.320 it'll go up the thirteen million next year. But because 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.000 of the voidable year, they have the opportunity to automatically 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:47.400 restructure his deal and put the restructure spread the restructure 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.920 bonus money over five years, which will put the last 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.000 part of it into that last voidable year. So it 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.319 took a lot of work. These things aren't that easy. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.160 And by the way, I'm just going to say this 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.360 right now, there were so many people out there it's like, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.400 why don't they just sign them? Just sign them, you know, 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.959 and it's like, well, okay, you got to find out 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.480 what the other side's asking for. Well, now you know 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.520 what the other side was was settling for. And now 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.840 that they got him signed, the narrative is, well, that's 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.079 too much money. If he doesn't win a super Bowl, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:26.120 this is a waste. You can't win, can you all 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.040 of a sudden now because he's I know, and just 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.760 because you're making big money doesn't mean well, it's only 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:38.160 my responsibility to win the super Bowl. Well, even now 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.319 after Mahomes got his money, now he makes it back 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.160 to the super Bowl, and believe it or not, after 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:48.480 that dismal performance, and of course a lot of it 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.280 is because of injuries and the fact that Tampa they 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.280 had a great defense, everyone is now saying Patrick Mahomes 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.400 is over paid. Yeah, you say so. As great as 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.920 he is, as much as he's done them amazing things. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.560 You know, what have you done for me lately? Is 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.960 always gonna be the narrative, especially when you're talking about 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.600 quarterbacks in the NFL. Sometimes it's better just to be 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:14.720 a cornerback, I think than a quarterback. No, it's not smacks. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.680 Trust me, it is not. I think we have the money. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.079 I've got to take the money and be criticized. To 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.160 take the heat then to sit back, Yeah, take the 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.439 heat and be under page. I've been there, brother, I've 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.600 been there. It ain't good. I think we have Bill 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.320 back with us. Look at third Hey, how about that? 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.040 Well you how about the yes? Yes? Finally. You know, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.880 sometimes it's amazing these these the WiFi, the computers. They're 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.840 all so complicated and all it takes and the only 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.040 way to fix them is to turn it off and 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.800 turn it back on. Right. You know that's funny. You're 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.040 living in the hood. You're living in the hood. Bill, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.760 You're living the hood. That's your You've been moving my neighborhood. See, 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.559 I'm I'm over here with all. But there's so many things. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.240 There's so many things. We're just well, just to pull 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.480 back the curtains here where I'm using an iPhone to 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:14.560 communicate with you all, I'm using an iPad owboys dot com. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.720 That's the programming signal, okay, and they're all run on 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.640 Wi Fi of course. Okay, So what the first thing 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.800 you do is you turn off the iPhone and turn 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.120 it back on to turn off the iPad, turn it 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.560 back on. When that doesn't work, you go to the 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.600 whole Wi Fi system. So I had to get up 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.600 and go turn off my Wi Fi at the house, 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:36.400 and now we get a strong signal. See, Christopher, I 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.000 could have solved that for you, because this morning, when 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.720 my wife turned on the television, there was no volume, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:43.600 and I said, well, what did you do? She goes, 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.880 I just turned it on, and so I kind of 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.760 picked it up. I said, did you try turning it 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.360 off and turning it on again? Well, no, why would 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:54.240 I do that. I turned it off, turned it back on, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.880 and everything was just fine. So I have learned with 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:03.120 dealing with the im something doesn't work that with technology, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.600 you turn it off and then you turn it back on. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:12.560 That's right here, here's another story on that. Okay, I 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:20.880 just oh no, it's stilled out work. And I wanted 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.320 to ask him eleven months it was March eleventh, for 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:29.480 the last time, anybody is that computer okay? Right? Unt 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.720 we get to return to the office and to back place, 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:38.160 and of course nothing works. So I obviously down to 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.560 it and say my computer is not okay, got it? 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.400 And all he does he just turns it off and 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.280 turns it back on again, and there it's working again. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.120 So he gets paid big bucks for that. That is ridiculous. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:58.440 So head thousands of dollars for that. So Bill yesterday, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.720 yesterday afternoon, I sitting here and going, you know, not knowing, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.800 you know, I saw, you know, I think the announcement 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.200 came out. I loved it the way everybody says, oh, 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.880 I broke the story. Well, no, the cowboys broke the story. 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.120 They sent out an email, right, No one had Scott A. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.240 Gouldmick broke the story right. And I just happened to 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:22.240 be on the email at that time. It popped in 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.320 and right. But before that, I was sitting there going, Okay, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.000 we got to find something to talk about it. How 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.480 much more can we talk about the contract? The franchise 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.600 tag that was supposed to be a have a three 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.040 point three pm deadline? So I got all these notes 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.320 because I watched the Ali Frasier fight on Sunday that 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:43.800 they replayed fifty years anniversary. Had all my notes for that. 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.640 I said, if we run out of stuff, I watched 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.520 Megan and Harry's interview with Oprah. I said, we could 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.000 talk about that. We got a lot of stuff to 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.360 talk about right now, we're not going to talk about 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.640 any of it right So, Bill, you your thoughts when 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:04.080 you first saw that the deal got done, Well, I thought, good, 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.640 it's done. Yeah, right now we can talking about Megan 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:12.720 and Harry on mix sides. Um no, I think it's 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:22.760 great that it's done. And more than anything, Oh no, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.520 come on, spend I know. I thought I thought there 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:31.320 was one thing. They had to create room. Uh, they 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.320 create room as far to to do some work, just 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.920 to to re up their own people as much as anything. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:47.280 It's not like it's just not going to cooperate with 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:54.160 his Oh what's gonna be Um, what's gonna be great? 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:58.520 And having some issues with my signal again, I gotta 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.720 call it again. Apparent is that there are going to 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.639 be more free agents out there this year at that 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.040 I might be able to fill in some blanks. Yeah, no, 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.040 you're you're exactly right. So I had broke down the 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:17.160 guts of it that the one of the things that's 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.000 been pointed out is ninety five million dollars of the 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.920 one hundred and twenty six guaranteed is guaranteed at signing, 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.879 So that takes up the sixty six million dollars signing 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:32.000 bonus that he gets immediately. His twenty twenty one salary 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:38.480 of nine million, and his twenty twenty two salary it's 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:45.040 thirteen point two million, So those those are guaranteed going forward. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.760 And if you break down the contract, it's nine million 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.159 dollars signing bonus, nine million dollars base salary in twenty 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.560 twenty one, twenty twenty two, thirteen point two thirty one 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.920 million in twenty three and twenty twenty for is twenty 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.560 nine million with a five million dollar roster bonus if 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.560 he's on the deal the fifth day of the league year. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.560 So from the Cowboys standpoint, the good thing on this 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:15.240 contract is they cleared out some salary cap money for 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.399 this year. You know when the cap begins, and I 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.800 think it's still gonna begin at three pm. I haven't 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.399 seen any I mean at three pm March seventeenth, I 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:29.160 haven't seen any delay in that. That's when the top 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:34.000 fifty one will count. And when that counts with Dak's contract, 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:41.320 they will have a grand total of four They will 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.639 have a grand total of four point three million dollars 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.560 of cap space. And that does and that only includes 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.400 a top fifty one, and that does not include much 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.640 ability to sign their own free agents. So what's gonna 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.040 happen is they're gonna have to restructure a bunch of 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:04.280 contracts at the top of their pay scale, guys like 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:10.920 DeMarcus Lawrence, Marie Cooper, Zach Martin, Tyrant Smith. They could 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:12.760 I don't know if they want to do Zeke. They 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:17.159 probably can do Lell Collins. But those guys at the 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:21.080 top of the top one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:24.440 eight nine guys take up one hundred and thirty six 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.560 million of one hundred and eighty million dollars salary cap. 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.520 So that just kind of shows you that this was 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:35.119 necessary to create fifteen million dollars more space than what 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:37.879 he had been on a franchise tag. But they still 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.400 got a lot of work to do to be able 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:45.440 to put this team back together again. Hey, here's what 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.480 I wanted to ask the Fags. You know, back in 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:54.680 the day, I wouldcall when Roethlisberger and Levon Bill were 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.480 kind of going outed in regards to getting him signed 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.320 for the Steelers, and he went through a couple of 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.159 franchise tags, almost like Kirk Cousins did. If I'm not 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.000 mistaken because they just didn't want to give him the 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.560 contract that he wanted, the long term deal, because he 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.840 had really led that team in rushing and really led 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.720 the NFL and rushing as far as certain stats were 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.800 concerned and categories, he was clearly one of the top 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:24.720 notch running backs in the league. In Levon, bell I 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:29.040 was a bit critical of Roethlisberger for not being able 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:35.680 being more charitable in regards to lending a hand salary 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:40.040 wise as far as being a quarterback getting the big contract, 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.560 and I thought, he should you be more responsible and 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:49.280 help sign other players by putting off some of his salary. 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.159 Is that a true possibility And is that something that 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.160 Dak Prescott can help his team with when it comes 0:21:56.160 --> 0:22:01.280 to creating space and helping redo all those contracts and 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:05.880 kind of putting his salary aside until later down the line. Well, 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:09.719 that's why they put the more office salary, more office salary. 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:12.800 That's why they put those voidable years in there, because 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:17.040 they can restructure his contract next year and stuff that 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:23.000 restructure into the sixth voidable year. But those guys when 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:27.160 they do that stuff, they basically what happens is they 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:32.359 turn base salary into bonus money. So instead of having 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.480 to wait one seventeenth every week to get paid, they 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:39.040 take that money and make it a bonus pay you 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:42.440 right now and then spread out that bonus money over 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:45.080 the life of the contract. That's one of the things 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.120 that they can do with these other guys I just 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:52.000 mentioned to create some cap space, because with four million 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:55.280 dollars of cap space remaining right now the top fifty one, 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:58.840 by time you get to fifty three, it's going to 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.160 be two million dollars of cap space, and you don't 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:04.760 have you know, you would have to settle for Garrett 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:08.000 Gilbert as your backup quarterback. You have no shot at 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:11.879 Andy Dalton right, You would have no shot at, you know, 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:15.040 resigning some of the other guys that you would think 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:18.359 you need for depth, and you would have no money 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:21.040 to go out in free agency. 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