Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot
Speaker 1: screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. All right, here we are. It is
Speaker 1: time for another edition of Mick Shots. And as we
Speaker 1: are preparing for this show, my Wi Fi signal is
Speaker 1: much like the deck I think he was getting ready
Speaker 1: to say it was much like that. It goes down
Speaker 1: a little, just gonna have problems. We finally were all
Speaker 1: going to be back together, Bill Jones, Everson Walls, myself,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola, and now Bill his having problems with his
Speaker 1: internet at home. First it was first it was frozen electricity,
Speaker 1: no water, and now the internet. Come on, Bill, He
Speaker 1: don't know. Bill. Bill had water, he had water, but
Speaker 1: it was all it was all frozen. That's what happened.
Speaker 1: He had the water, but it was all frozen. See,
Speaker 1: some people could have build water out of their pool,
Speaker 1: but his pool was frozen. Do we have him? Do
Speaker 1: we have you build my My pool was frozen. My
Speaker 1: pool was frozen. Also. We were we were exchanging stories.
Speaker 1: We were exchanging stories of frozen pool mishaps. I think
Speaker 1: Bill's neighbor had some issues with his frozen pool and
Speaker 1: I had mine. I broke my shovel. I broke my
Speaker 1: shovel trying to to just dig into the ice so
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't it wouldn't go into my walk my
Speaker 1: machine itself. Do we do we have Bill back? Do
Speaker 1: we have them? No? No, Mickey, we I think you
Speaker 1: ought to carry on without me for now because my
Speaker 1: WiFi signal is not looking good right now. But Chris
Speaker 1: is working on the problem. Well, we have you. I
Speaker 1: can hear you, We can see you. Does Chris have you?
Speaker 1: Oh we can hear yeah, I know we can see him.
Speaker 1: But okay, okay, here's that's right. You can hear me
Speaker 1: right now. So how about let's kick things off with
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. What a good ice start, right, a deal.
Speaker 1: It's like we ever said we were gonna you know,
Speaker 1: there's things called mick shots. I was gonna say after
Speaker 1: yesterday and with Dak signing and Bill back, we're gonna
Speaker 1: call it cannon shots because we got some big shots
Speaker 1: to fire today about Dak Prescott. Finally, finally, after all
Speaker 1: these months of haggling over a long term deal. They
Speaker 1: get a deal done yesterday, and we'll try to break
Speaker 1: it down. It's somewhat complicated, but it has a whole
Speaker 1: lot of money in it. Ever, so, when were you
Speaker 1: at all surprised that they got this long term deal
Speaker 1: done before they had to administer the franchise tag, I
Speaker 1: must admit, Spags, I was extremely surprised, but I was
Speaker 1: pleasantly surprised. I just assumed that this was gonna drag
Speaker 1: out again. I thought they were going to have to
Speaker 1: sign them to another franchise. Tag. I'm so glad they
Speaker 1: didn't have to do that. You know, you've got your
Speaker 1: starting quarterback here, regardless of the injuries that we spoke of,
Speaker 1: regardless of some of the ups and downs we've had
Speaker 1: with that Prescott, he's clearly the face of the team,
Speaker 1: just like Romo was, you know, just like Troy Aikman
Speaker 1: was when they were there, and you would think that
Speaker 1: things could be worked out a little bit more amicably.
Speaker 1: I was very surprised that there was so much pushed
Speaker 1: back on both sides. I must say, on both sides.
Speaker 1: I was very surprised about that. All I wanted to
Speaker 1: see was a seamless transition between you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: even want to do the franchise tag last year. I
Speaker 1: was hoping that he would be able to get it
Speaker 1: done last year and be just as seamless. As we've
Speaker 1: known these quarterback contracts to be done in the Dallas area.
Speaker 1: We've never had a problem with a quarterback trying to
Speaker 1: sign a contract in Dallas for the Dallas Cowboys. Am
Speaker 1: I right about that fact? No, they always seem to
Speaker 1: get done. As a matter of fact, if you think
Speaker 1: about it, Troy Aikman's first contract when he was the
Speaker 1: first pick in the draft, was finished before the draft
Speaker 1: even started. Uh. And then he signed two more as
Speaker 1: it went along and there was never really a holdout
Speaker 1: or a long discussion or anything like that. And then
Speaker 1: the next one would have been Tony Romos and his
Speaker 1: first contract not not meaning his undrafted free agent contract,
Speaker 1: but when the Cowboys decided him. I believe it was
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, two thousand and six, when Bill
Speaker 1: Parcels and Jerry cornered him in the locker room before
Speaker 1: a game and said, Okay, we want to sign you
Speaker 1: to an extension and here's the deal. Do you want it?
Speaker 1: It was like they had their hands around his neck.
Speaker 1: And for a guy that was making minimal jersey hit man, right, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: it's in the alleyway. Hey, buddy, you're gonna sign this
Speaker 1: right now. That he had been working for minimum wads
Speaker 1: the whole time, which is relative, right, Yeah, he said, okay, fine.
Speaker 1: And then when they did the next one for I
Speaker 1: think it was seven years, they did it on Good Friday,
Speaker 1: and I remember writing the story and it was in
Speaker 1: so April whatever, and I said, yeah, this was a
Speaker 1: real good Friday for Tony Romo because that's when they
Speaker 1: gave him the big deal. But you're right. The only
Speaker 1: other one that I remember that they had problems with
Speaker 1: was Roger Staubach after the first Super Bowl win, when
Speaker 1: he was looking for an increase and uh tex Shram
Speaker 1: was kind of holding him at bay. He didn't why,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. And Roger would tell
Speaker 1: the story that he went into Texas office and he
Speaker 1: was sitting in the outer office and his administrative assistant
Speaker 1: was telling him, now, Texas, busy, we'll get to you.
Speaker 1: We'll get to you, just wait, and Roger got Roger
Speaker 1: got so impatient. They were at that that office tower
Speaker 1: like seven or eight ten four, yeah or whatever it
Speaker 1: was where their office was were, and Stabox said, I'm
Speaker 1: going in and the lady goes, now, we can't, you know,
Speaker 1: he's not ready, And so he went out the window.
Speaker 1: There was a ledge outside the window and he could
Speaker 1: walk on that ledge, and he jumps out. He goes,
Speaker 1: I jumped up in front of Texas window and went
Speaker 1: and he said. Texas was sitting with his feet up
Speaker 1: the desk and he almost fell off his chair. But
Speaker 1: the bottom line was he got in and he got
Speaker 1: his raise and they knocked out the contract. But other
Speaker 1: than that, uh yeah, it was always pretty easy, other
Speaker 1: than Danny White trying to get a raise because not
Speaker 1: only had he become the starting quarterback, he was still
Speaker 1: the punter and he thought he should get a little
Speaker 1: extra and every year Gil Bratton would tell him, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give it to you. He goes, and you're
Speaker 1: not gonna punt this year, and he would punt and
Speaker 1: he didn't get and so I think it was like
Speaker 1: the third time he went in and uh and Gil
Speaker 1: told him, well, you know what, I think he needed
Speaker 1: to talk to Tom about it. So Danny said Okay,
Speaker 1: I got my nerve up. I walked into Tom's office
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, Tom, I'm the starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: I've been the starting quarterback for two years. This is
Speaker 1: going to be the third year and I'm still punning
Speaker 1: and I think maybe I should get a little extra
Speaker 1: And he said, you know, Danny, you know in my day, boy,
Speaker 1: guys would do whatever they could and even more for
Speaker 1: their team to help him out. You know, here we go.
Speaker 1: I lost the argument right there. I couldn't do anything.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Uh, you know what, I don't know that
Speaker 1: about those two things that you brought up. The thing
Speaker 1: about those two things you brought up is, uh, in
Speaker 1: two cases. First of all, when you talk about old school,
Speaker 1: that's Gil Brandt. That's old regime, right. They're never gonna
Speaker 1: do negotiations correctly. That's just the way it was. We
Speaker 1: didn't have any any recourse as players. Now you got
Speaker 1: free agency and Jerry Jones with the new regime at
Speaker 1: that when I say new, the most recent regime, then
Speaker 1: they realize that with other options out there, that quarterbacks
Speaker 1: need to be signed quickly. But in both cases, running
Speaker 1: backs had to hold out to get their money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott as well as Emmi Smith if you recalls backs,
Speaker 1: and so you know that goes back to the whole
Speaker 1: narrative to me of why quarterbacks are held in such
Speaker 1: high regard as opposed to running backs, who seems to
Speaker 1: be at back. In the nineties, the running back was
Speaker 1: the leader of the team in the eighties and the nineties.
Speaker 1: Now when you're talking about this time in football, this
Speaker 1: time in the NFL, quarterbacks are the marquee position. So
Speaker 1: it's funny how in what twenty years we have gone
Speaker 1: from Dorset Emmitt Smith. Now everything is my homes Prescott
Speaker 1: and Tom Braider. So here's the deal. And so we
Speaker 1: did a thing this morning on Dallas Cowboys dot com.
Speaker 1: We had to answer the question what was the best
Speaker 1: thing about Dak's deal or your biggest impression of it?
Speaker 1: And my first impression was it got done. That was
Speaker 1: the best part. The second part that was good and
Speaker 1: especially for the Cowboys, was the way they were able
Speaker 1: to structure the deal. So it was a four year
Speaker 1: deal for one hundred and sixty million, sixty six million
Speaker 1: dollars in signing bonus. One hundred and twenty six million
Speaker 1: is guaranteed, and it's guaranteed over the first three years
Speaker 1: of the contract, but they were able to add two
Speaker 1: voidable years to it that will allow them to pro
Speaker 1: rate the signing bonus instead over four years over five years.
Speaker 1: So you divide the sixty six million by five, it
Speaker 1: comes to thirteen million in change. And what it allows
Speaker 1: them to do is lower the cap hit, especially for
Speaker 1: this first year. So instead of the cap hit and
Speaker 1: being thirty seven point seven million on a franchise tag,
Speaker 1: by structuring the contract the way they did, his cap
Speaker 1: hit will be twenty two point two million, So that's
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollar difference than the franchise tag. So that
Speaker 1: was to me the most significant part of this whole deal.
Speaker 1: And even though the base salary is nine million this year,
Speaker 1: it'll go up the thirteen million next year. But because
Speaker 1: of the voidable year, they have the opportunity to automatically
Speaker 1: restructure his deal and put the restructure spread the restructure
Speaker 1: bonus money over five years, which will put the last
Speaker 1: part of it into that last voidable year. So it
Speaker 1: took a lot of work. These things aren't that easy.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm just going to say this
Speaker 1: right now, there were so many people out there it's like,
Speaker 1: why don't they just sign them? Just sign them, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, okay, you got to find out
Speaker 1: what the other side's asking for. Well, now you know
Speaker 1: what the other side was was settling for. And now
Speaker 1: that they got him signed, the narrative is, well, that's
Speaker 1: too much money. If he doesn't win a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: this is a waste. You can't win, can you all
Speaker 1: of a sudden now because he's I know, and just
Speaker 1: because you're making big money doesn't mean well, it's only
Speaker 1: my responsibility to win the super Bowl. Well, even now
Speaker 1: after Mahomes got his money, now he makes it back
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl, and believe it or not, after
Speaker 1: that dismal performance, and of course a lot of it
Speaker 1: is because of injuries and the fact that Tampa they
Speaker 1: had a great defense, everyone is now saying Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: is over paid. Yeah, you say so. As great as
Speaker 1: he is, as much as he's done them amazing things.
Speaker 1: You know, what have you done for me lately? Is
Speaker 1: always gonna be the narrative, especially when you're talking about
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL. Sometimes it's better just to be
Speaker 1: a cornerback, I think than a quarterback. No, it's not smacks.
Speaker 1: Trust me, it is not. I think we have the money.
Speaker 1: I've got to take the money and be criticized. To
Speaker 1: take the heat then to sit back, Yeah, take the
Speaker 1: heat and be under page. I've been there, brother, I've
Speaker 1: been there. It ain't good. I think we have Bill
Speaker 1: back with us. Look at third Hey, how about that?
Speaker 1: Well you how about the yes? Yes? Finally. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's amazing these these the WiFi, the computers. They're
Speaker 1: all so complicated and all it takes and the only
Speaker 1: way to fix them is to turn it off and
Speaker 1: turn it back on. Right. You know that's funny. You're
Speaker 1: living in the hood. You're living in the hood. Bill,
Speaker 1: You're living the hood. That's your You've been moving my neighborhood. See,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm over here with all. But there's so many things.
Speaker 1: There's so many things. We're just well, just to pull
Speaker 1: back the curtains here where I'm using an iPhone to
Speaker 1: communicate with you all, I'm using an iPad owboys dot com.
Speaker 1: That's the programming signal, okay, and they're all run on
Speaker 1: Wi Fi of course. Okay, So what the first thing
Speaker 1: you do is you turn off the iPhone and turn
Speaker 1: it back on to turn off the iPad, turn it
Speaker 1: back on. When that doesn't work, you go to the
Speaker 1: whole Wi Fi system. So I had to get up
Speaker 1: and go turn off my Wi Fi at the house,
Speaker 1: and now we get a strong signal. See, Christopher, I
Speaker 1: could have solved that for you, because this morning, when
Speaker 1: my wife turned on the television, there was no volume,
Speaker 1: and I said, well, what did you do? She goes,
Speaker 1: I just turned it on, and so I kind of
Speaker 1: picked it up. I said, did you try turning it
Speaker 1: off and turning it on again? Well, no, why would
Speaker 1: I do that. I turned it off, turned it back on,
Speaker 1: and everything was just fine. So I have learned with
Speaker 1: dealing with the im something doesn't work that with technology,
Speaker 1: you turn it off and then you turn it back on.
Speaker 1: That's right here, here's another story on that. Okay, I
Speaker 1: just oh no, it's stilled out work. And I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask him eleven months it was March eleventh, for
Speaker 1: the last time, anybody is that computer okay? Right? Unt
Speaker 1: we get to return to the office and to back place,
Speaker 1: and of course nothing works. So I obviously down to
Speaker 1: it and say my computer is not okay, got it?
Speaker 1: And all he does he just turns it off and
Speaker 1: turns it back on again, and there it's working again.
Speaker 1: So he gets paid big bucks for that. That is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So head thousands of dollars for that. So Bill yesterday,
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, I sitting here and going, you know, not knowing,
Speaker 1: you know, I saw, you know, I think the announcement
Speaker 1: came out. I loved it the way everybody says, oh,
Speaker 1: I broke the story. Well, no, the cowboys broke the story.
Speaker 1: They sent out an email, right, No one had Scott A.
Speaker 1: Gouldmick broke the story right. And I just happened to
Speaker 1: be on the email at that time. It popped in
Speaker 1: and right. But before that, I was sitting there going, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got to find something to talk about it. How
Speaker 1: much more can we talk about the contract? The franchise
Speaker 1: tag that was supposed to be a have a three
Speaker 1: point three pm deadline? So I got all these notes
Speaker 1: because I watched the Ali Frasier fight on Sunday that
Speaker 1: they replayed fifty years anniversary. Had all my notes for that.
Speaker 1: I said, if we run out of stuff, I watched
Speaker 1: Megan and Harry's interview with Oprah. I said, we could
Speaker 1: talk about that. We got a lot of stuff to
Speaker 1: talk about right now, we're not going to talk about
Speaker 1: any of it right So, Bill, you your thoughts when
Speaker 1: you first saw that the deal got done, Well, I thought, good,
Speaker 1: it's done. Yeah, right now we can talking about Megan
Speaker 1: and Harry on mix sides. Um no, I think it's
Speaker 1: great that it's done. And more than anything, Oh no,
Speaker 1: come on, spend I know. I thought I thought there
Speaker 1: was one thing. They had to create room. Uh, they
Speaker 1: create room as far to to do some work, just
Speaker 1: to to re up their own people as much as anything.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's just not going to cooperate with
Speaker 1: his Oh what's gonna be Um, what's gonna be great?
Speaker 1: And having some issues with my signal again, I gotta
Speaker 1: call it again. Apparent is that there are going to
Speaker 1: be more free agents out there this year at that
Speaker 1: I might be able to fill in some blanks. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're you're exactly right. So I had broke down the
Speaker 1: guts of it that the one of the things that's
Speaker 1: been pointed out is ninety five million dollars of the
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty six guaranteed is guaranteed at signing,
Speaker 1: So that takes up the sixty six million dollars signing
Speaker 1: bonus that he gets immediately. His twenty twenty one salary
Speaker 1: of nine million, and his twenty twenty two salary it's
Speaker 1: thirteen point two million, So those those are guaranteed going forward.
Speaker 1: And if you break down the contract, it's nine million
Speaker 1: dollars signing bonus, nine million dollars base salary in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty twenty two, thirteen point two thirty one
Speaker 1: million in twenty three and twenty twenty for is twenty
Speaker 1: nine million with a five million dollar roster bonus if
Speaker 1: he's on the deal the fifth day of the league year.
Speaker 1: So from the Cowboys standpoint, the good thing on this
Speaker 1: contract is they cleared out some salary cap money for
Speaker 1: this year. You know when the cap begins, and I
Speaker 1: think it's still gonna begin at three pm. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen any I mean at three pm March seventeenth, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen any delay in that. That's when the top
Speaker 1: fifty one will count. And when that counts with Dak's contract,
Speaker 1: they will have a grand total of four They will
Speaker 1: have a grand total of four point three million dollars
Speaker 1: of cap space. And that does and that only includes
Speaker 1: a top fifty one, and that does not include much
Speaker 1: ability to sign their own free agents. So what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen is they're gonna have to restructure a bunch of
Speaker 1: contracts at the top of their pay scale, guys like
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence, Marie Cooper, Zach Martin, Tyrant Smith. They could
Speaker 1: I don't know if they want to do Zeke. They
Speaker 1: probably can do Lell Collins. But those guys at the
Speaker 1: top of the top one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight nine guys take up one hundred and thirty six
Speaker 1: million of one hundred and eighty million dollars salary cap.
Speaker 1: So that just kind of shows you that this was
Speaker 1: necessary to create fifteen million dollars more space than what
Speaker 1: he had been on a franchise tag. But they still
Speaker 1: got a lot of work to do to be able
Speaker 1: to put this team back together again. Hey, here's what
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask the Fags. You know, back in
Speaker 1: the day, I wouldcall when Roethlisberger and Levon Bill were
Speaker 1: kind of going outed in regards to getting him signed
Speaker 1: for the Steelers, and he went through a couple of
Speaker 1: franchise tags, almost like Kirk Cousins did. If I'm not
Speaker 1: mistaken because they just didn't want to give him the
Speaker 1: contract that he wanted, the long term deal, because he
Speaker 1: had really led that team in rushing and really led
Speaker 1: the NFL and rushing as far as certain stats were
Speaker 1: concerned and categories, he was clearly one of the top
Speaker 1: notch running backs in the league. In Levon, bell I
Speaker 1: was a bit critical of Roethlisberger for not being able
Speaker 1: being more charitable in regards to lending a hand salary
Speaker 1: wise as far as being a quarterback getting the big contract,
Speaker 1: and I thought, he should you be more responsible and
Speaker 1: help sign other players by putting off some of his salary.
Speaker 1: Is that a true possibility And is that something that
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott can help his team with when it comes
Speaker 1: to creating space and helping redo all those contracts and
Speaker 1: kind of putting his salary aside until later down the line. Well,
Speaker 1: that's why they put the more office salary, more office salary.
Speaker 1: That's why they put those voidable years in there, because
Speaker 1: they can restructure his contract next year and stuff that
Speaker 1: restructure into the sixth voidable year. But those guys when
Speaker 1: they do that stuff, they basically what happens is they
Speaker 1: turn base salary into bonus money. So instead of having
Speaker 1: to wait one seventeenth every week to get paid, they
Speaker 1: take that money and make it a bonus pay you
Speaker 1: right now and then spread out that bonus money over
Speaker 1: the life of the contract. That's one of the things
Speaker 1: that they can do with these other guys I just
Speaker 1: mentioned to create some cap space, because with four million
Speaker 1: dollars of cap space remaining right now the top fifty one,
Speaker 1: by time you get to fifty three, it's going to
Speaker 1: be two million dollars of cap space, and you don't
Speaker 1: have you know, you would have to settle for Garrett
Speaker 1: Gilbert as your backup quarterback. You have no shot at
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton right, You would have no shot at, you know,
Speaker 1: resigning some of the other guys that you would think
Speaker 1: you need for depth, and you would have no money
Speaker 1: to go out in free agency. And this should be
Speaker 1: a good year for free agency because of the lower
Speaker 1: salary cap. As you're seeing teams are having to release
Speaker 1: players for cap reasons because they can't afford them. So
Speaker 1: why don't we take a break here on mix shots
Speaker 1: and maybe when we get back Bill Jones will be
Speaker 1: able to join us, as he tried to join us
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Speaker 1: in the mail real soon. So Ever, since last night,
Speaker 1: I was watching a replay of the Grambling Jackson's eight game.
Speaker 1: Did you happen to watch that? I did not get
Speaker 1: a chance to watch it. I have been coaching kids
Speaker 1: all weekend with FBU camp. I was in San Antonio
Speaker 1: and Austin didn't get to watch the game. I finally
Speaker 1: got back last night. I'm sorry, Sunday night late, really late,
Speaker 1: and I have been beat o man being a coach man.
Speaker 1: They need all take a lot out of it. I
Speaker 1: was there for two days. I could imagine trying to
Speaker 1: coach somewhere for two years, coaching kids for two days.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to go and just have
Speaker 1: a drink somewhere. So so I didn't see who won
Speaker 1: the game though, And no, no, I'm lying, I'm lying.
Speaker 1: I know exactly who won the game. Beyond Sanders and
Speaker 1: Jackson State comes into Grambling. I don't think they've won
Speaker 1: a Grambling in so many years. And it was one
Speaker 1: of the very exciting game. I think it was like
Speaker 1: thirty two twenty nine if I'm not mistaken, and well,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, it was it very exciting. And man,
Speaker 1: when you think about this, all of the not the
Speaker 1: qualified schools, of course, but you're talking about the what
Speaker 1: I call D one D one schools. They are so
Speaker 1: excited to be playing football right now. This is springball
Speaker 1: on steroids. So you've got MacNeice State, You've got the Gramblings,
Speaker 1: You've got the Swack. All the Swack teams are there playing.
Speaker 1: All the HBCU teams are finally getting a chance to
Speaker 1: share what they can do. And it's a it's a
Speaker 1: bit of a weird timing issue playing ball in the spring,
Speaker 1: but they are doing the best they can with it.
Speaker 1: And the only unfortunate thing, Bill, I don't think the
Speaker 1: band comes along with them when they play and sometimes
Speaker 1: that's the best part the ball game is halftime. And
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that any of the HBCUs
Speaker 1: are bringing the bands with them, which you know, that's
Speaker 1: an annimal part of the entertainment when it comes to HBCUs.
Speaker 1: But but I think it's great that they have the spring.
Speaker 1: They're they're the only ones playing and so and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there last night, Uh there were no live
Speaker 1: sporting events. Mavericks weren't playing, Stars weren't playing or anything.
Speaker 1: So I'm flipping around and I landed on Grambling in
Speaker 1: Jackson Satan. I watched them. That Jackson State quarterback look
Speaker 1: pretty good, I thought. But but but more than anything,
Speaker 1: for those kids that are playing in those games. Now
Speaker 1: they've got a stage in the springtime, spring football, uh,
Speaker 1: and they're making the most of it. And uh, I
Speaker 1: can you know, I'm sure they'll go back to a
Speaker 1: fall schedule, but there's there's some advantages then playing the
Speaker 1: spring schedule as far as TV goes so forth. That's right.
Speaker 1: It's almost it's almost like, uh, you know, we had
Speaker 1: the different leagues from you know, trying to challenge the
Speaker 1: NFL an alternative to the NFL they had block as
Speaker 1: far as TV contracts were concern. So, yes, this is
Speaker 1: a great opportunity for those kids to do something and
Speaker 1: show what they can do. So so, Mickey, what do
Speaker 1: you think is the best part of the DAK contract?
Speaker 1: You may have touched on it in our first segment.
Speaker 1: I know you're there. That was what was being talked
Speaker 1: about this morning. Uh you mentioned, but what is it
Speaker 1: that that that you think is the best part of
Speaker 1: the DAK contract. Well, as I said, uh, it's done.
Speaker 1: That's probably the best part. At the next best part
Speaker 1: was the fact that the long term deal, Uhid avoided
Speaker 1: the thirty seven point seven million dollars cap hit on
Speaker 1: the franchise tag, which opened up fifteen and a half
Speaker 1: million dollars more for them to use on the salary
Speaker 1: cap in free agency. Uh So, And you know, as
Speaker 1: I pointed out, you know, they only at this point
Speaker 1: their top fifty one against the cap. If nothing changes
Speaker 1: between now and March seventeenth, they have four million dollars
Speaker 1: in space. That's it. Four million. So the best part
Speaker 1: was that it got done. Now, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: folks out there, you know, going on and on, but oh,
Speaker 1: you know, they could have saved money if they've done
Speaker 1: this before. You know, the truth of the matter is,
Speaker 1: you know, in twenty nineteen they had a starting quarterback
Speaker 1: for two million dollars. In twenty twenty, they had a
Speaker 1: starting quarterback for thirty one point four million dollars. So
Speaker 1: that's two years of starting quarterbacks for thirty three point
Speaker 1: four You know, that's an average of less than seventeen
Speaker 1: million a year for your quarterback. So if you look
Speaker 1: at the totality of the whole thing, you know they've
Speaker 1: spent one hundred and with the next four years, so
Speaker 1: that means Dak Prescott over six years one ninety three
Speaker 1: point four million, and so it's it's less than forty
Speaker 1: million a year for their quarterback. And again, the reason
Speaker 1: why the price went up is because not only do
Speaker 1: the Cowboys know, but Todd France knows too that the
Speaker 1: NFL is getting ready to nail down a huge TV contract.
Speaker 1: They were hoping they could get it done this year
Speaker 1: before the salary cap came into effect on March seventeenth,
Speaker 1: But next year that's going to cause the cap to
Speaker 1: go back up by a whole lot more than ten
Speaker 1: the usual ten million a year. So basically, this is
Speaker 1: gonna get absorbed. So yeah, you know, and I keep
Speaker 1: hearing this thing about what they should have signed them
Speaker 1: this year. They could have had them for that. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they wanted to sign them. They didn't want to sign
Speaker 1: That was the big deal that was to hold up.
Speaker 1: They were looking for more money, why fast, because of
Speaker 1: that TV contract exactly. You know, dack and is a
Speaker 1: They were smart. They were They knew that the numbers
Speaker 1: were gonna go up, So what they were asking they knew.
Speaker 1: When it was all said and done, no one's gonna
Speaker 1: even think about how much money he has, how much
Speaker 1: money my homes had signed for, because someone's gonna come
Speaker 1: along after this TV contract and they're gonna blow all
Speaker 1: of that money, all of those numbers out of the water.
Speaker 1: Which is a good thing because if the NFL, these
Speaker 1: teams are not paying anything that they cannot afford to pay.
Speaker 1: Trust me, no one is holding them up in the
Speaker 1: corner telling them that they have to sign particular players.
Speaker 1: They signed these players because they can afford to sign
Speaker 1: these players. So you have to give Dak and his
Speaker 1: agent credit the fact that they understood this. They stood
Speaker 1: their ground. They did stand their ground and they were
Speaker 1: able to make some things happen, and now everyone's putting
Speaker 1: that behind them. It's all behind us now, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, here we're talking about Okay, let's move on
Speaker 1: to see if we can keep Andy Dalton. There's a
Speaker 1: number two. Let's move on to really appreciate what we
Speaker 1: did without Dak Prescott from the wide receiver position. I
Speaker 1: thought it was just amazing what Amari Cooper did this
Speaker 1: year for the Dallas Cowboys. This past season for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. I don't know how many quarterbacks he went with.
Speaker 1: The guy had his best statistical year ever. I saw
Speaker 1: him shaker Philadelphia Eagle defensive back down with the best
Speaker 1: crossover move I've ever seen, if you were going to
Speaker 1: look at it from a basketball standpoint. So now everyone's
Speaker 1: looking at putting this behind us, and let's see what
Speaker 1: we can do to improve this team's ability to stop
Speaker 1: the run, hopefully and maybe get one of those linebackers
Speaker 1: from Penn State up. Maybe take spags advice and go
Speaker 1: sign some guys that are gonna be some real dogs
Speaker 1: out there and where we can give our offensive chance,
Speaker 1: just like the Tampa Bay defense gave Tampa Bay's offense
Speaker 1: a chance to win that Super Bowl. Yeah see, and
Speaker 1: and again, the other thing everybody else understand is Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones didn't worry about the money. He's worried about the
Speaker 1: salad cap. Stephen Jones was worried about the salary cap.
Speaker 1: And that's what they needed to worry about. You know,
Speaker 1: they can give them whatever they wanted from from their pocketbook,
Speaker 1: but it was their NFL pocketbook that they had to
Speaker 1: protect and do it. Now, who's says pocketbook says pocketbook?
Speaker 1: It's their pocketbook. Now. The downside is it's only a
Speaker 1: four year deal. It's only a four year deal, and
Speaker 1: you're figuring after three years you're going to be back
Speaker 1: at the negotiating table trying to redo so you don't
Speaker 1: have to go into the last year of a contract.
Speaker 1: Since the other two things included in the contract is
Speaker 1: a no trade clause and a no tag clause. So
Speaker 1: that means in three years you're going to be back
Speaker 1: at this again. So everybody just get ready. If it
Speaker 1: works out, yeah great, but take a deep breath because
Speaker 1: it'll come back at you and again. In twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have a potential out. It would be a
Speaker 1: three year deal for one hundred and twenty six million,
Speaker 1: and if they didn't want them anymore and this didn't
Speaker 1: work out, it would be twenty six point four million
Speaker 1: in dead money. So, as I try to always point out,
Speaker 1: when you do these things with a quarterback, deals like this,
Speaker 1: they're yours, it's real hard to get out from underneath them,
Speaker 1: because that pro rated signing bonus, the guaranteed money, does
Speaker 1: not go away. And so after three years, you know,
Speaker 1: the pro rated signing bonus of thirteen million would add
Speaker 1: up to twenty six point four million if you decided
Speaker 1: not we don't want them anymore. Now, the other thing is,
Speaker 1: and I think this had to figure into it, and
Speaker 1: if it didn't, I can't believe it wouldn't have. Did
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott want to test his football mortality one more
Speaker 1: year on a one year contract because if he goes
Speaker 1: thirty seven point seven million, Okay, great, right, wonderful? But
Speaker 1: what if? What if that injury he suffered last year
Speaker 1: was career ending and he had no future security. That
Speaker 1: had to be in the back of his mind that
Speaker 1: we can't do this again. We gotta get this thing
Speaker 1: done somehow, some way, get my money, but also get
Speaker 1: my security and don't tempt fate again to pass up
Speaker 1: sixty six million dollars guaranteed signing bonus for thirty seven
Speaker 1: point seven. So sometimes you gotta be reasonable at some
Speaker 1: point in these negotiations. He fas you remember, back in
Speaker 1: the day, with no free agency, really no protection players
Speaker 1: would we would use any tool that we could in negotiations,
Speaker 1: and holding out was really all we could do. Gil
Speaker 1: Brand's looking like a genius because you know they've got
Speaker 1: us by the short hairs. I guess it's the best
Speaker 1: way to say it. And so now at that time
Speaker 1: we all we had was Lloyd's of London contracts. We
Speaker 1: recall that, yes, we would get Lloyd's of London contracts
Speaker 1: for the value of whatever the offer was on the
Speaker 1: table that we may have turned down. I know that
Speaker 1: I had to do it back in nineteen eighty three
Speaker 1: before I signed. I did in eighty three and eighty
Speaker 1: four get that Lord's in London contract because that was
Speaker 1: if we were to have that career ending injury such
Speaker 1: as we thought Dak was gonna have that Dak could
Speaker 1: have had last year, then we would be covered as
Speaker 1: far as our family is concerned, as far as financial
Speaker 1: security that. I don't know if they have to do
Speaker 1: that anymore. I mean, even with the franchise tag of
Speaker 1: thirty seven seven, what does Dak Prescott or someone like
Speaker 1: Dak go out and get Lords of London contracts anymore?
Speaker 1: Do they say? Oh? I think I think they. I
Speaker 1: think they do. I think they I've still or heard
Speaker 1: of them pulling out a contract? Uh? An insurance contract
Speaker 1: is what? Ever? Since talking about uh to protect themselves
Speaker 1: against an injury like that? So if you sign a
Speaker 1: one year deal, you go, Okay, I'm getting out this
Speaker 1: contract insurance contract in case something happens. But you know,
Speaker 1: whatever it pays, it's still not going to pay what
Speaker 1: a long term deal would pay. UH, So you have
Speaker 1: to factor that in. UH. And I think from what
Speaker 1: I understand, Dak was here yesterday, UH doing some sort
Speaker 1: of read uh for a charity or some something, and
Speaker 1: and he already knew this thing was going down. Uh
Speaker 1: and he was in a pretty good mood. So uh.
Speaker 1: And I've saw stuff online uh pick years of sucking
Speaker 1: his dad and everything. So yeah, it was it was
Speaker 1: a big day for It was a big day for
Speaker 1: the family. UM. And you know, a big day for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to you know, it's it's like when you
Speaker 1: you decide to buy a car, right, you sit there
Speaker 1: and you deliberate, deliberate, and you kind of drive yourself
Speaker 1: crazy trying to get the best deal, and then when
Speaker 1: you do it, it's like, uh, Okay, I can go
Speaker 1: on to the next thing, right, I don't have to
Speaker 1: I don't have to have any more anxiety about that.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that's what's uh, that's what's going to
Speaker 1: take place. I gotta say, spag, I know, we gotta
Speaker 1: take a break problem soon. But just think about what
Speaker 1: his family's been through as well. Uh, you know, Dad's
Speaker 1: there for him, you know, of course losing his mom,
Speaker 1: Dad Prescott losing mom years ago, but Dad being there
Speaker 1: for him. His brothers were always so tight. And then
Speaker 1: the incident with his brother. Yeah, I think that was
Speaker 1: this offseason. Uh, you know, just uh, you have to say,
Speaker 1: no matter whether you like his player or not, or
Speaker 1: you know, whatever he stands for, you got to feel
Speaker 1: good about that family that they, you know, able to
Speaker 1: move on and do things the right way, even in
Speaker 1: the midst of some of the tragedy that they've experienced.
Speaker 1: Really throughout his entire life, and really the way I
Speaker 1: mean he's earned it. He is nothing was given to him.
Speaker 1: He comes in as a fourth round draft pick, one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty fifth pick in the twenty sixteen draft,
Speaker 1: and now here we are in going into twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: and he is the only quarterback in that draft who
Speaker 1: is still with the same team. That's something, that's something
Speaker 1: that says a lot right there, that says a whole lot.
Speaker 1: And even going back to his time at Mississippi State,
Speaker 1: I mean, he earned everything he got at Mississippi State
Speaker 1: as well, and so you feel great for him. And
Speaker 1: that is exactly the time person that you want to
Speaker 1: be the face of your franchise. And that's what that
Speaker 1: Prescott is now confirmed as with the h with the
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Speaker 1: You know the other thing that I think this does,
Speaker 1: and Everson can speak to this, I think when the
Speaker 1: teammates see what he got, I think it energizes them too,
Speaker 1: to all right, we got our guy back. This is
Speaker 1: behind us and they know what's going on. Because I
Speaker 1: remember two years ago it was the offseason and we
Speaker 1: were in the locker room and somebody had asked Dak
Speaker 1: about his contracts. It would have been twenty nineteen, and
Speaker 1: somebody said, yeah, but if you take all that money,
Speaker 1: you know, other guys they're not going to have money
Speaker 1: to resign, other guys like Leal Collins. And Dak perked
Speaker 1: up and he goes, Leal, does he need a new contract?
Speaker 1: And and somebody said, yeah, I think so, and he
Speaker 1: yells across the room in the locker room Hey, Lel,
Speaker 1: you need a new contract soon. And Lel comes walking
Speaker 1: over real slow, and you know he's kind of very deliberate.
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, if you don't take all the money
Speaker 1: just like that, right, So guys know what's going on, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: And I think this just helps out the energy because
Speaker 1: guys are rehabbing and and and and starting workouts. And
Speaker 1: I'll guarantee you if you looked at what the reaction
Speaker 1: was online. Uh, these guys were pretty happy that Dak
Speaker 1: got his money. All right, So we took care of
Speaker 1: the starting court of what do we do it backup quarterback? Now? Well,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, you'll hold your breath right because they're
Speaker 1: gonna be at the mercy of market value for Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: Certainly they want him back. But again, what if what
Speaker 1: if some team says, you know, we got a starting
Speaker 1: job available. We'll pay you this, this and with incentives
Speaker 1: for this if you win the job. Or they may
Speaker 1: look at him as we drafted a guy in the
Speaker 1: first or second round to be our quarterback of the future.
Speaker 1: Not sure he's ready. You want to come here and
Speaker 1: be the bridge guy and we're able to pay you
Speaker 1: this that maybe the Cowboys can't afford to pay for
Speaker 1: a quality backup quarterback. So to me, they're at the
Speaker 1: mercy of market value and Andy Dalton and you know,
Speaker 1: and Dalton's got to look at it as you know,
Speaker 1: I'm getting close to the end here. I gotta make,
Speaker 1: you know, as much money as I can, or at
Speaker 1: least make enough money to convince me to move on
Speaker 1: to another city, to another team. That's right, I think
Speaker 1: that's the key. Right, there's facts. I think he's comfortable
Speaker 1: here at this point. It's going to take a lot
Speaker 1: for him to move out of his comfort zone, which
Speaker 1: is being home with his family. You know, when he
Speaker 1: left Cincinnati, no one was really looking at him. You know,
Speaker 1: he was ready to just make that move, I believe,
Speaker 1: and just ride off into the sunset. Well, then he
Speaker 1: had this opportunity. He got his toes wet from being
Speaker 1: able to being forced in for this past season, and
Speaker 1: he did show how well he can play in a
Speaker 1: backup situation. But to me, I think his best chance
Speaker 1: is being here, and I think that Bridge also should
Speaker 1: be here. We don't know what Dack's gonna look like
Speaker 1: when he comes back. I mean, we're happy for him
Speaker 1: and he's signed the contract. I'm sure his rehab's going well.
Speaker 1: But just like the injury happened all of a sudden
Speaker 1: when it did, it can happen again. You never know
Speaker 1: what can happen. And Dalton is one of the better
Speaker 1: capable backup quarterbacks to me that you can have in
Speaker 1: the NFL. You know, Bill otherwise, Uh, you know it's
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert for eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars and
Speaker 1: then of course you still have the seventh round pick
Speaker 1: last year in Denucci, correct, you know. I think the
Speaker 1: fact that the fact also that it is a four
Speaker 1: year contract going forward beyond twenty twenty one, This keeps
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys should always, I think be in the
Speaker 1: quarterback business. Is when it comes to the draft, if
Speaker 1: there's a guy that they like on the third day,
Speaker 1: but I think it just keeps them in the mix.
Speaker 1: As far as those type developmental type quarterbacks that you
Speaker 1: can get it in the fifth, sixth, or seventh round.
Speaker 1: Who can can be that guy that you can have
Speaker 1: some you believe in, you got some trust in who
Speaker 1: depended on what happens with Dak even four years from
Speaker 1: now or whatever, can be he can be the backup guy. Um,
Speaker 1: and where you're not spending so much extra money on
Speaker 1: a veteran backup like what you had to do with
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton last year. That's the ideal situation, I think,
Speaker 1: is that you've got someone that you're you're grooming, that
Speaker 1: you've been able to draft in the late rounds that
Speaker 1: you really like. And it's hard to find guys like
Speaker 1: that who who are can make a difference, but that
Speaker 1: it's been proven before and this Scott was a fourth
Speaker 1: round draphic. He was a third day guy, and that's
Speaker 1: and that's what they were, That's what they were drafted
Speaker 1: him for. Right. Their idea was, let's get a young
Speaker 1: guy we can groom to continue being Tony Romo's backup
Speaker 1: for the next couple of years and things change. So
Speaker 1: I think this will be a very important offseason and
Speaker 1: training camp for Ben de Nucci because if they kind
Speaker 1: of have that in mind, you know, Garrett Gilbert's not young,
Speaker 1: uh and you know if he's not, you never know
Speaker 1: if somebody decides, hey, we kind of want this guy, right,
Speaker 1: They've got him for another year. Uh, so you know
Speaker 1: they could go that way. But I think what you're
Speaker 1: saying is very important that they got to see the
Speaker 1: Bend Nucci thing through and not judge him on one
Speaker 1: NFL start when he was basically thrown to the Wolves
Speaker 1: without any uh, you know, previous practice with the team.
Speaker 1: He got three days of practice and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: big boy, you're starting. Uh. Didn't have an offseason, didn't
Speaker 1: have a preseason. It was kind of an unfair test.
Speaker 1: So I think this will be an important offseason for him,
Speaker 1: you know. I look at that situation and uh and
Speaker 1: regardless of when he was thrown in and how things developed,
Speaker 1: I didn't not I still don't see him as an
Speaker 1: NFL caliber quarterback. That's just my opinion at this point. Usually,
Speaker 1: when when teams signed quarterbacks these days, they're almost looking
Speaker 1: for them to do something right away. I mean, within
Speaker 1: the next couple of years. You need to be ready
Speaker 1: and developed to go. They don't really like hanging around
Speaker 1: too long as in a backup situation. It's nice to
Speaker 1: have that luxury, but it's very rare that you have
Speaker 1: someone that's gonna stick around for about four years, that
Speaker 1: was drafted so late and then being able to come
Speaker 1: in and be successful. It's not just his u how
Speaker 1: he looked during the moments that he was in the game.
Speaker 1: To me, I just think physically he's a little bit
Speaker 1: overwhelmed as well. Regardless of how well he would have played,
Speaker 1: he looked physically overwhelmed as a as a quarterback. So
Speaker 1: I think when it's all said and done, as they
Speaker 1: move on, I don't think the news is gonna be
Speaker 1: around long enough to see what he can do. I
Speaker 1: really don't see that. Well, there's not anyone outside of
Speaker 1: ben Da Nucci or not even Ben Da Nucci would
Speaker 1: obviously want anything to happen to Dak Prescott, and so
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll never see what Nucci can do. Well, that's
Speaker 1: why that's why I don't want to go down that road.
Speaker 1: To you, I think that's why the preseason games are
Speaker 1: so important. You know, you can you get a better
Speaker 1: look at a guy that's actually practiced with the team, uh,
Speaker 1: instead of being uh, you know, on the scout team
Speaker 1: the whole time. And remember he was a seventh round
Speaker 1: draft choice, so he barely got drafted. Uh So yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think you got to take a look and
Speaker 1: see um and then go forward from there. So that's
Speaker 1: obviously one of the priorities. Now everybody says, well, what's
Speaker 1: their priority, and in free agency it's it's going to
Speaker 1: be to take care of the backup quarterback spot. And
Speaker 1: then after that, you know, I keep hearing all this
Speaker 1: talk about, wow, they need an offensive tackle. You know
Speaker 1: that we saw what happened when the other guys got hurt.
Speaker 1: So my opinion on the offensive tackle thing, and I
Speaker 1: would have no problem with them drafting one in the
Speaker 1: third or fourth round to kind of groom for the
Speaker 1: future if he's good enough to step in and be
Speaker 1: my backup swing tackle. But if that happens again and
Speaker 1: one tackle goes down, Zack Martin's my backup swing tackle,
Speaker 1: and he immediately goes to the starting spot at tackle,
Speaker 1: and they can use Connor McGovern, who I think showed
Speaker 1: pretty well when he finally got his feet on the
Speaker 1: ground laid in the sea, and that he can handle
Speaker 1: that guard spot. But they can't mess around with that
Speaker 1: backup you know, just kind of nibbling to find a
Speaker 1: backup swing tackle who's a veteran who's washed up. They
Speaker 1: need better than that, and I think Zack Martin's got
Speaker 1: to be that guy. Or when we started talking go ahead, Bill,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Bill, Well, I was gonna just say, or
Speaker 1: you find somebody in the draft who can be a
Speaker 1: starting tackle in this league, but he can start off
Speaker 1: as a starting guard in this league, or at least
Speaker 1: compete to be a starting guard in this league with
Speaker 1: Connor Williams and left guard. Uh, and swear you're not
Speaker 1: just you're you're just not scraping the bottom of the barrel,
Speaker 1: you know, and having undrafted guys that you have to
Speaker 1: start for fifteen games like you did this year. Oh no,
Speaker 1: And I agree, But I don't think I need a
Speaker 1: first round pick to do that when I've got other
Speaker 1: needs on defense to take care of. And and that
Speaker 1: was my question. Are we saying, Okay, if we're going
Speaker 1: to prioritize backup quarterback first, then we're talking swing tackle second,
Speaker 1: and then we're talking maybe linebacker and and defensive backs third.
Speaker 1: Is that is that how we're putting it? Because to me,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a linebacker as top priority over a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. Uh. And maybe even a defensive lineman who
Speaker 1: can come in and show that up and keep those
Speaker 1: offensive lineman off of my linebackers who seem to have
Speaker 1: a problem anticipating, uh, what they're gonna how they're gonna
Speaker 1: stop the run. I think that should be a probably
Speaker 1: or over backup quarterback. Is that what you're you're saying,
Speaker 1: you want to go backup quarterback first? Yeah? No, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, yeah, but yes, Bill said no. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, if if you if you think Garrett Gilbert
Speaker 1: is good enough to be your backup quarterback, and then okay, fine,
Speaker 1: because you've got them signed. But if you if you
Speaker 1: have a priority and you want Dandy Andy Dalton back,
Speaker 1: then you got to see what kind of financial funds
Speaker 1: against the cap you have to bring him back. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I don't know that another guy going to come
Speaker 1: in here. I think what we need to get at
Speaker 1: is what is our definition of top priority? Well, they
Speaker 1: just took care of it, my top pit exactly. That's
Speaker 1: why I laughed at that. No, that the top priority
Speaker 1: is not the backup quarterback. I mean because when I
Speaker 1: look at the definition of top priority is Okay, this
Speaker 1: is a position that I would take with the tenth
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. H And that ain't That's not
Speaker 1: gonna be at quarterback. No. I was talking about top
Speaker 1: priority in free agency because you're not going to get
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback in the draft. We're talking, we're talking
Speaker 1: free agency here and and and I'm just talking overall
Speaker 1: top priority, Yeah, but I'm not. I just I just
Speaker 1: think with all the resources I've devoted to the offensive line,
Speaker 1: I can't sit here. And if I'm convinced that Lele
Speaker 1: Collins and Tyron Smith are good to come back after
Speaker 1: their surgeries and they're ready to go, then I gotta
Speaker 1: go with that. I can't take another first round pick
Speaker 1: on an offensive tackle at this point. And there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a couple that are available, but they didn't play
Speaker 1: last year. And that's another concern that we can get
Speaker 1: to as we get closer to the draft, is how
Speaker 1: you evaluate guys who opted out last year and didn't play.
Speaker 1: So we can all agree that top priority free agency
Speaker 1: or draft, we're gonna we're just gonna say top priority
Speaker 1: period overall. Then we're looking at defense, correct, We're looking
Speaker 1: at trying to show up that the either the secondary.
Speaker 1: To me, if we can find the hell of a linebacker,
Speaker 1: you know, depends state. Guys around are really like I said,
Speaker 1: you don't need to go to a top notch qualified
Speaker 1: school to find a balls out defender, especially at the
Speaker 1: linebacker position. The coach showed you that with their Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year being from an HBCU, the defensive Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year being from an HBCU. So we know
Speaker 1: that you can find linebackers out there, but they don't
Speaker 1: have to necessarily go to a five school. But that
Speaker 1: is still to me our top priority, either a linebacker
Speaker 1: or looking at a heck of a defensive bat and
Speaker 1: and see that they the problem. Oh I'm sorry, go ahead,
Speaker 1: I just saw the time. We're up against it here. Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: My last question for you, Mickey is what are you
Speaker 1: anticipating as far as a Dak Prescott press conference tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Are we looking virtual or in person? What do you think?
Speaker 1: You know? I sort of started thinking maybe a real
Speaker 1: spaced out press conference. We're the seats are spread That's
Speaker 1: what I meant, and and and and we're spread out
Speaker 1: sort of the way they did, uh for you know,
Speaker 1: those NFL press conferences during the Super Bowl. Um, maybe
Speaker 1: the way they've you know, done with some other sports
Speaker 1: where you know, you see it a seat here, a
Speaker 1: seat way over here, a seat way back there, and
Speaker 1: everybody spread out. I think that's maybe Jerry, Maybe Jerry,
Speaker 1: you'll invite the governor to the press conference to tomorrow
Speaker 1: is the first to day that he's dropped the mask mandate,
Speaker 1: and maybe the governor can show up. Stop bill, stop bill,
Speaker 1: stop bill. Don't try. I can't do that, so you
Speaker 1: can't either. I can't do that, so you cannot do that.
Speaker 1: Otherwise we're gonna go way off the rails here. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to let you do that. Don't draw me offsides.
Speaker 1: That's not fair, all right, But and we have not
Speaker 1: seen any details yet as of this hour at twelve
Speaker 1: thirty on Tuesday afternoon. I'm just checking my email to
Speaker 1: see if there's been an announcement of a press conference
Speaker 1: time tomorrow, and I have not seen one yet. But
Speaker 1: keep it tuned in here to our so so media
Speaker 1: channels and you'll be able to watch it live. And
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Mickey, I'm thinking it's an in person somehow,
Speaker 1: some way mask on in person press conference tomorrow and
Speaker 1: spaced out and maybe they'll have somebody here offering vaccines
Speaker 1: as we go. There you go, that's all right, that's
Speaker 1: a joke, doesn't That? Does it? For mix shots for
Speaker 1: a Tuesday and dak Prescott Tuesday and wow, next Tuesday
Speaker 1: is gonna really be something. Because free agent negotiations actually
Speaker 1: begin on Monday, there's gonna be so much to talk
Speaker 1: about next Tuesday here on the mix Shots, the day
Speaker 1: before the new league year, for Mickey and Everson. I'm
Speaker 1: Bill and we'll see you again next time on Mick Shots.
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