WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Where Each Pick Fits 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:03.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:07.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.640 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.520 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:21.480 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:28.080 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys, 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:32.240 welcome to another episode of The Break today where there's 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:34.760 no more guessing. There's no more guessing about the draft. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.080 We already know all the picks and we're gonna break 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.279 it down one by one and go over who these 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.159 guys are and how do they affect the guys are 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.800 already here, how do they play into the whole action? 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:48.920 But before we get into it, how are you guys doing? 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.120 I'm doing well and delightful good. It sounded like you 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.840 were kind of just annoyed with the whole process of 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.160 like not not annoyed, but like, hey, well, who's it 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.640 gonna be? Who's gonna be? Now, it's like we're done, 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.000 we know, we know. I thought it was going to 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.080 be a quiet draft. But then on the third day 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.240 the cot was ka kept trading back and they ended 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.800 up with a total of eight picks. So it's funny 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.160 how you say the guessing is over. The guessing of 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.319 who is over, and now it's now there's even more 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.800 question marks about like you know, Cam, but I know 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.640 at least we know the guys names. We got a 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.800 group of guys. If you don't, like you don't deal 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.560 well with uncertainty, do you not for a long period 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.240 of time if we're doing it for like a week 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.960 two week? Nightmare? Basically it's just especially at the at 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.399 fifty eight, that was a nightmare. I love it. I 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.679 love the whole pre draft process, like you know, figuring 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:44.080 out who they like, figuring out who's out there guessing, 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.000 you know, it's fun to speculate. But anyway, for everyone 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.280 dot com, you know you you had, like you guys 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.840 talked about three hundred, four hundred players in this whole 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.800 process and then to come out with eight of them. Yeah, 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:01.240 and had you heard of all eight? Um? Heard of? 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.720 Heard of? No? No? Yeah, no, not all? I mean no, 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.359 because I'm not I'm not Brian and I'm definitely not Dane. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.919 Dane missed. Dane did not have a scouting report on 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.480 one player and he was a long snapper. Oh one 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.200 player than Cowboys one point player in the entire draft. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.240 Was he mad? He was pissed, and he said he 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.480 was like he was like I included the six best 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.720 rated long snappers in my draft guide and this guy 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.760 was not one of them. So like somebody reached on 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.520 a long snapper and Dane was pissed that he didn't 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.720 do the homework. It's like, it's gonna be fine, man. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.480 You got two hundred and fifty three and the two 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.320 hundred and fifty four. Um, yeah, they took They took 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:43.880 a few guys that were kind of off my radar, 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.680 but well, let's get it started, okay. Second round, they 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.920 ended up going at fifty eight with defensive tackle Tristan Hill. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.320 Surprise here, obviously we were already talking about the position. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.800 This was a guy that was mentioned. I came in 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.960 a Thursday and I looked over and Brian is sitting 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.160 there looking at tape and like he has the last 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.680 three weeks or three months, three weeks, three months, and 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.640 he's got guys over his shoulder and they're just watching 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.919 Tristan Hill, and it was almost like, you know this 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.040 was gonna you know, this is definitely gonna happen in fact, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:21.120 the University of Central Florida called someone on our staff 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:25.560 and said, hey, if you draft this guy tonight, just 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.920 just know that it's UCF. We don't go by Central Florida. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.839 We want to go by UCF or University of Central Florida. 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.200 And I'm thinking, okay, that's that's fun. But are you 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.640 gonna call every team in the league or yeah, well 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:40.720 then then sure enough here he ends up. So to 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.360 say a surprise. Now, if you pay attention, this team 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.200 is not afraid to tell you who they want to take, 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.480 if you read between the lines and pay attention to 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.920 what gets out. I think like a week before the draft, 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.240 we were like, you know, nothing is for certain because 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.080 there's fifty seven teams in front of him, but they 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.360 are enamored with this kid. They value three to nique 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.560 about you know, three technique and right defensive end. Those 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.360 are the positions that Rod Marinelli's obsessed with. You know, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.000 I know, you know, there's to be perfectly blunt, there's 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:09.720 a little bit of a backlash about the pick. I 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:14.880 think there were there were probably guys with higher pure 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.880 grades on the board. I don't know that for sure, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.320 but there probably were. Um but they value the hell 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.640 out of that position. They need it. MALIEK. Collins is 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.480 in a contract year. You know, basically all of their 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.279 defensive tackles are in a contract year, and they think 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.200 that this can be you know them, they haven't had 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.400 a pure, you know, sack getting three technique since Jason 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.080 Hatcher's contract year in twenty thirteen, and they think this 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.640 guy can be that, and they thought it was worth 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.320 the pick. A lot of people disagree with them. There's 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.320 no way to know for sure, but they kind of 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.760 they clearly they circled this dude's name with a red 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.239 sharpie months ago. Yeah. They you know that they haven't 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:56.440 addressed the safety position at a high pick, first or 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.600 second round in a long time. And it's because they 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.760 don't want to. I mean, they clearly just don't value 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.960 that position at that at that price. It reminds me 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.840 a lot of nose tackle too. Yeah, like they you know, 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.680 they're never going to draft a nose tackle up here. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.479 Nose tackle in the first round? Was it Jerry Jones 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.239 who said mentioned, okay, if you have a great line, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.560 but I mean pressuring the quarterbacking and getting to it 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.279 that really helps the safety position. And it all It's 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.080 a domino effect from from what it sounds like. And 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.680 I'm sure this has been told on you know, Yesterday 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.000 show and some of the other shows, but I mean, 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:33.840 it sounded like they got in the room and one 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.040 Thornhill from Virginia was the guy that they were wanting 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.919 to take, and you know, they went around and I 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.400 think they just felt better at safety, better with the 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:47.520 guys that are there, with Heath and Woods. Um, then 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.800 maybe they did in the long term um, you know, 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.400 long term process of the defensive tackle position. They just 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.880 felt better at what they had. It's another, you know, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.039 another reason I love the draft so much. It creates 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.320 these subplots every year. We know who they liked and 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.479 who they might have taken this year. So all eyes 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.680 will be on Juan Thornhill in Kansas City to see 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.440 how he does. If he becomes an All Pro. That's 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.599 gonna be interesting. You know. Famously, they picked Taco Charlton 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.680 over t J. Watton. Looks like a pretty bad pick. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.839 Right now. They picked Zach Martin over Johnny Manziel and 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.000 that was a great idea. Zeke and Jalen Ramsey, every 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.039 single pick could have been another guy. So for the 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.479 next four years everyone. I mean, we'll have a close 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.039 eye on wan Thornhill to see if they were right 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:35.800 about Guy Ridley. Probably l Ridley or DJ Moore. That's 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.720 a good question because I think they were so hell 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.640 bent on Layton vander esh which speaking of safety, you know, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.960 I say that all the time is well, they could 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.200 have traded up for Derwin James, Like it's pretty obvious 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.680 that if Derwin James had been there at nineteen, they 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.880 still would have taken Layton. Yeah, that's how much they 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.960 thought about him. So, I mean, they both look like 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.520 they're gonna be really good players. But I can't I 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.920 can't knock. I can't knock the pick based on how 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.880 great Layton was. And you said, I'm probably Ridley or 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:03.880 DJ Moore if I had to guess. I think all 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.080 the way back to Zach Martin in twenty fourteen, it's 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.160 the last time I kind of think that we were 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.920 a little surprised. Maybe or he came out of I 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.800 don't know about out of nowhere, but there were so 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.000 many defensive guys they wanted that it's like, well, I'm 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.520 not sure who they're going to take, and they took 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.920 Zach Martin and it was a somewhat of a surprise. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:24.160 But the next few years Byron Jones in fifteen Zeke 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:29.280 and sixteen Taco, well, Tac Taco was a surprise. Was 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.520 a surprise. I don't remember who was there. We knew 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.600 thought of it might be that big talk foreigner. Oh, 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.000 Kevin King, y, Yeah, we knew they were not high 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.000 on t J. Watt. Kevin King was a consideration. I 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.240 was surprised by the Taco pick. Yeah, that's true. I 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.360 was gonna say that we hadn't been surprised. So we 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.960 pretty much have the thing. If not to pat us 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.160 on the back, but if you listen, I mean, if 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.560 you're dialed into us in the weeks leading up to 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.200 the draft, we might not one hundred percent nail it, 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.720 but we're gonna give you the name eventually. I mean, 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.680 one of the names we have circled will be the 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.760 guy they pick every year. So this guy, and just 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.360 by what I've seen briefly of him, he just seems 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.480 like he's just a pain in the ass for the center. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.960 He just he just lines up over him in a 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.920 in a you know, just all right off the ball 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:19.360 and center guard. He just he's a problem. And you know, 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.760 he's one of those high motor guys that really needs 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.040 to be in an eight man rotation where he can 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.200 just come in and be a part of it, which 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.320 is what he'll have here. If you watch him on tape, 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.840 he's always busting his butt to kill the quarterback like that. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.920 That's definitely true. And he you know, Dane Brugler, he's 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.920 got a great line, Like there's only so many human 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.080 beings on earth who are that size, who can move 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.079 that quickly. He's six two and a half three hundred 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.079 and eight pounds and can get off the snap. So 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.880 I get why Rod Marinelli's enamored with him. I totally 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.000 get it. Um you know, I might have drafted a 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.080 safety in that spot, but they don't care about my opinion, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.640 so I would have taken to safety too. But you know, 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.040 this draft more than any shows us that, and I 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.640 know we're gonna get into the next picks too, But 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.640 it's just it's, yes, it's about right now. But I 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.040 think they did some projecting here in the future of 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.000 like what this team is going to look like in 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.439 a year, and really glad that we did this and 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.280 this and this because of that, Well, I thought that. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.960 Rob Phillips wrote a pretty interesting article on Dallas Cowboys 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.240 dot Com which where he mentions how this team has 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:27.839 been picking for several years, how they reconstructed their offensive 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.880 line and how that came out to be pretty solid 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.559 during the end times of Romo and then transitioning to 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.480 Dak Prescott. Now their focus seemed to be unleas in 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.640 the first three rounds to be on the d line, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.320 and Rob mary Nelly and what he's doing. So he 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.440 goes to show what they're doing here, obviously drafting a 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.720 guy in the second round defensive tackle, which we just mentioned, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.040 and then you got on the fifth round defensive end 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.600 Joe Jackson, and then you go on to the last 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:03.839 round defensive end Jalen Jump. Leave that. Leave that orphan 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.200 talk at the door. In twenty nineteen, I don't want 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.320 to hear it anymore. Yeah, no more. Got that one 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.640 hundred and whatever million, DeMarcus Lawrence. You got second round 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.000 pick Tristan Hill, third round pick Maleiue Collins, first round pick, 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:20.079 Taco Charlton, third round pick. Crowded group, pretty Randy Gregory 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.240 if he's there, Pretty pretty crowded room full of guys 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.240 that they spent resources to get, so don't come at 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.440 me with that stickery. It reminds me a lot of 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.720 what Carolina did a few years ago when they just 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.840 kept picking Yeah, second and third and first round guys, 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.360 just just loading up the defensive line and before you 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.079 know it, they have a really good team. I didn't 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.640 last for that long and they and they didn't. It 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.040 never does, you know, unless you're in Foxboro, Massachusetts. It 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.319 just never lasts that. But it seems like this is 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.480 the year for it. I mean, you got so many 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.400 guys within the group to compete. A really good a 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.280 really good player is going to get cut from this 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:00.240 defensive line and that's in September. Like, there's just not enough. Yeah, 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.160 there's not enough space. Even if they keep ten, you're 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.560 probably I mean, you know, you drafted three defensive linemen 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.400 this year. You have Dorian's Armstrong, who's still coming on 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.560 from last year. Like like, I I mean, are you 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:17.320 surprised by how much resource they've put into this whole 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.920 position group? Not really, because since they cut to Marcus Ware, 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.320 their lack of pass rush has killed them on a 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:28.480 number of occasions. Rod Marinelli clearly has a ton of 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.240 influence in this organization and he's a past rush guru, 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.160 so no, it doesn't surprise. And you know, if you 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.040 think about the end of this season, I mean, the 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.760 whole David Irvy thing was was weird, but but there 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.960 was always a spot for him. And if if Irving 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.880 ever showed up to practice and was there for a 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:45.840 couple of weeks in a row and then they he's 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.560 ready to play, that there would have been a spot. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.040 I don't know, he probably just takes because remember Karen 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:54.079 Reid was playing, Daniel Ross was active, so there's a 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.960 spot for Tristan Hill. You know, David Irving's gone Tristan 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.640 Hill with his spot. But I think when you look 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.679 at the whole like eight man rotation, let's just say 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:07.040 that Gregory is active for week one, which is gonna 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.800 be that's quite a story. Well, then with him back 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.200 into the mix and all this story, Garry Jones has 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.560 said that he's confident that he that he can be. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.719 Don't know how or what or how that's gonna work. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.520 But let's say he is defensive end. You're you're a 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.360 rotation for that first game against the Giants. You've got 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:31.480 what DeMarcus and Quinn DeMarcus and Quinn and then Gregory 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.679 would probably be your number two right end. And then dude, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.400 just depends on what Taco and figure out I would 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.760 say Taco at left end. But figure out what you 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.640 want to do with Tyrone. Is he in it? I 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.480 mean I assume he's going to play in It's just 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:45.760 you know, people talk about kicking him inside to tackle 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.360 like that's not a six month project to bulk yourself 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.160 up like that. You know, So he plays in, then 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.560 I mean you just put doorn Armstrong is not not available. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.400 I didn't kick him off the team, just not kicked 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.120 him off the team, just not in that group the 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.800 to tackle the two ends they just drafted. You know, 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.280 we'll see what happens with them. But then on the inside, 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.400 you've got no particular order. But you've got Hill, You've 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.600 got Malite, Collins, You've got Woods, Antoine and um see 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:16.119 that's where that's where I think I think the Tyrone 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:20.480 needs the better start feeding him twinking right now. Yeah, 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.080 he looks like an end. I was trying to go 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.280 over the sponsor. I could come. He's at the facility 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.240 all the time. He doesn't look he looks like an end. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.719 So he needs they need to. Yeah, it sucks for 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.720 important guy. He's always having to go back and forth. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.920 I know that's tough. All right, Well you said you're 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.000 not surprised, Okay, yeah. Do you like it? Do you 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.000 like that they use all these resources on this whole group? Well, 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:47.960 like I said, I mean, you know, there's plenty of 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.480 people who think that they reached and you know this 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.079 was you know, they got over excited about this player 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.480 and went up for it. Like basically, it's it's a need, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.240 it's something they needed to do. It's a position they 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.480 needed to do something about. They don't have any defensive 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.680 tackles under contract, and I just keep going back to 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.880 Will mcclay's track record is worth trusting for me. You know, Yeah, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.959 you know, Taco looks like a bad pick, but basically 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.400 every meaningful pick they've made since twenty fourteen when he 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.880 started running the draft board has been pretty good. Zach Martin, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:25.560 DeMarcus Lawrence, Byron Jones, even even mid rounders like Anthony Hitchins, 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:30.640 Damian Wilson, Jeff Swaim, Zeke Elliott, Dak Prescott, MALIEK. Collins. 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.160 Like the track record is there, Anthony Brown, Anthony Brown, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.520 Xavier Woods, you know, and it sucks that he, you know, 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.080 every everything about Randy Gregory turned out to be true, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.600 Like he's talented enough to justify that pick, and he's 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.480 troubled enough that maybe they shouldn't have done it. So 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.880 but by and large, the track record is there that 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.840 I'm not going to kill them for thinking this guy's special, 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.760 Like I mean, until we have a chance to see 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.240 him play. Why. I know, tomorrow on the Draft show 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.240 at eleven and Will McClay is supposed to them in 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.560 and talk with them, and not only are they going 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.640 to talk about this year's draft, but the twenty sixteen draft, 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.640 Because if you're talking about really evaluating what a draft is, like, 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.640 we can't evaluate this draft yet until they get on 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.600 the field takes about three years. Twenty sixteen. It's a 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.400 it's a good draft to evaluate because it's like one 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.520 of the best drafts in modern history. Yeah, I mean, 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.840 not only did you get a franchise quarterback and running 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:26.200 back out of it, but I think everybody but Tapper 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.960 is on the team right now. Yep, that's amazing. It's unprecedented. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.000 Like half, i mean, probably two, if not more of 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.880 the guys they just drafted on Saturday, you know, won't 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.520 be here by September, and all their guys, you know, 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.880 Darius Shackson did leave, went away for a while. When 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:45.360 he came back, Rico and Cavan and missing somebody in 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.720 the middle there, probably Mary Brown. Yeah, yeah, well, speaking 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.720 of Rico, I mean, we'll keep going down the line. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:55.000 But surprised that the tight end position wasn't addressed. I 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.560 mean that was one position that there was a good 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.680 amount of people talking about it and that the complice 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.720 should drafted tight end. I think I think if you 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.120 get one early, like in the second round, if somebody 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.280 falls to you and you take one there, that makes 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.560 sense at anything after that. I just don't feel like 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:14.400 they're going to be that much better than Schultz and Blake, 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.240 Darwin and Rico. I just feel like they've been here 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.560 enough time where it's gonna be hard for anybody else 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.840 to jump in and take that spot unless you have 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.320 just an ultra talented guy that was like, well, he's 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.120 going to be better than all of them. The difference 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.000 between like I'm sorry, I'm gonna throw shade, I don't care. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.000 The difference between following like national coverage of this team 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.680 and following US is as soon as Jason Witten came 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.920 back in February, you just removed tight end from the 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.200 draft board, like unless something crazy happened, like Noah Fan 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.200 fell to fifty eight, which was never gonna happen. He 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.960 went twentieth. Overall, they weren't going to do that. They're like, 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.080 you know this band aid here, Witten's not coming off 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.840 the field that much. And even if he does, you 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.520 got these two promising young guys and Rico's still there. Maybe, 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.800 like they just I don't think they were going to 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.920 do that. Yeah, like a guy that you draft that late, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.320 like where where are the snaps coming from? Where? Like 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:03.840 when is he going to be on the field? And 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.520 so I just laugh, like in April when national outlets 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.399 are like who they need to tight ends? Like, no, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.800 they stopped talking about that three months ago. They didn't 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.080 draft the tight end. And then looking at the free 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:18.800 rookie free agents, they didn't bring one in, did they not? Where? Nope? 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.080 They did not. This it's you know, that's a little surprised, 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:23.840 and I thought they might do that, you know, just 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.720 just Sternburger. Did they bring him Sternberger? I have the 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.320 list right now. I'm talking rookie in the rookie free 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.399 agents that they signed. No, no, but Fremberger was the 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.439 second round pick when yeah, I thought they brought him 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.399 in thirty visits. Oh yeah, oh oh no, we were talking. Sorry, 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.960 we were talking about after the draft. You're good. The 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.600 rookie free agents that they signed. They usually will get 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:49.000 a couple of those, um just just for depth purposes. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.520 But that's I mean, they did sign a guy and 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.639 they it goes off, it goes contrary to everything. You know, 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.200 you're like draft for three years from now, not for today. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.560 But like again, witness ye he's gonna play a lot, 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.280 and then you got two guys you got to figure out. 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.800 Let's just assume and then you're getting rid of one 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.879 of them. Right, Well, I would be kind of surprised 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.320 if Frico's still here in September, but I think we 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.600 said that a year ago and two years ago too, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.560 so this is probably it for him. But but what 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.200 if the light bulb comes on. Let's just assume Witton 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.280 retires after the twenty nineteen season, then you still have 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.600 then you you know, make the press Conference's good. Hopefully 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.960 we won't plan our biggest staff outing of the year. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.320 For that weekend this time, Um, let's just assume he retires. 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:38.560 Then you've got a three year player in Jarwin and Schultz, 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.760 So you've got two guys who can conceivably handle the 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.680 job at least adequately. And then you have a chance 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:46.760 to draft a guy high who can come in and 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.720 get snaps immediately rather than a guy who's just going 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.439 to waste away and maybe maybe even be like a 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.880 game day inactive, Like, Yeah, you're supposed to make these 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.920 decisions with the future in mind, but I just don't 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.760 think it made sense for nineteen with Whitten being here. Yeah, 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:03.600 let's go ahead and take a quick break. 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