WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Amari's Future 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.440 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:16.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.680 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:24.800 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.680 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:34.800 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:42.559 Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, February ninth, twenty 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.560 twenty two, Season seventeen, episode number one oh three. Welcome 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.360 to the latest edition of The Break. We are alive 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.639 in that's WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We got 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.840 the full crew, or we did have the full crew. 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.600 We uh, we have every back. See we're back. We 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.440 have everybody in the studio. Day Davis back from Senior Bowl. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.200 I don't think you have. You didn't catch a cold, 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.520 did you? Like? I was got out there? You told 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.200 you're out there in the right. The temperature changes of 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.080 reeked havoc on my sinuses. But I'm I'm okay. It's 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.040 too worse for wear good. Nick and Dave Boat dressed 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.360 looking good job interviews the day we ready to go 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.160 that we know something that I don't know that's what 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.120 Nick told me. He was like, job interview, I got 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.319 some things I'm working on. So there we about a 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.959 fast food chain. I was gonna be the district manager 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.360 I've I was working. Oh sweet, Okay, it's probably not 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.319 a sponsor for us, So yes, you probably shouldn't say it. Yeah, 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.240 I probably won't get the job. We'll see, we'll see. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.360 Let's try and get a reference. Yeah, I don't know that. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.839 I don't know that being a writer for the Dallas 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.360 Cowboys necessarily makes you a great candidate for a job 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.360 like that. But who knows. Maybe maybe we'll see press releases. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.280 You're about to say something. No, no, not about to 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.520 say I got nothing and if I was, I now 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.280 keep it to myself. Yeah, all right, let's let's start 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.320 with our opener and what we do every day here 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.480 in the off season. Get me a sports story right now, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.120 just in random over the last week. Something that's interesting 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.120 to you that you want to just talk about. Nick, 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.280 Let's start with you. Well, you can talk about your boy. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.360 I mean, yeah, I am that all of win I'm 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:16.040 gonna talk about them. Hellab a win yep, Arkansas beating 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.919 the number one team last night in overtime. Great game. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.560 First time that Arkansas has beaten a number one team 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.000 since Michael Jordan was playing for North Carolina. Wow, I 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.639 was eight years old. I remember that game. Hadn't beat 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.720 a number one, to beat Auburn, no fingers, fingernails left, 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:38.160 but yeah, got it done. That's that's big. I appreciate 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:42.720 how much you like Arkansas basketball, Like love really Arkansas. No, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.840 but like he really loves Arkansas basketball. Oh yeah, Like yeah, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.800 Like you would have asked me you could win a 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.760 football national championship or a basketball It's like, for you 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.560 would be no brainer. It's not like it's laugh even 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.520 ask the question. Not for me, because man, you're going 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.480 through six weeks of Final four and all that. Like 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.960 what a ride that is. I've even been I've actually 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:10.240 experienced it. Yeah, but man it's Awesomelan Richardson Yeah, so 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.080 it was good. It was good win. Which that's my 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.600 point is Kentucky's probably the only fan base in the 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.359 SEC that really feels that way. Like everybody else, it's 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.600 all football all the time. I'd rather win a College 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.520 World Series than a Final Four probably, but that's it's 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.360 all unique to your own fan base, though. I mean 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.840 if LSU would Actually LSU was pretty damn good when 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.600 I was a kid, but by the time I was 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.840 old enough to really basketball, yeah, I mean, they had Shack, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.880 they had Stanley roberts Um Yeah yeah, I mean they 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.760 had some really yeah, but by the time I was 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.280 old enough to really appreciate it, they were kind of trash. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.400 So and this year they started, you off thing having 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.240 ey hopes and as long as they make but that's 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:49.840 as long as they make the tournament. I don't care, 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.000 which I mean, if they make the tournament, I'll be happy. 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.600 That's where my expectations are. With LSU basketball, I don't 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.680 really care beyond that. Where like the baseball team, I'm 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.360 already they're playing preseason games. I'm like, Okay, how's our 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.400 cleanup hitter doing? Like, what's going on here? It's just, yeah, 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.320 that's how you're raised. I guess, give me a sports story. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.240 Ye oh, I don't know. We'll just continue along that line. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.320 I mean, my son's playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.320 I'm just I'm excited about it. For those that don't know, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.479 you don't really have a son, but you're talking. Anybody 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.880 that knows me knows what I'm talking about. Um, I'm yeah, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.719 I'm excited for Joe Burrow. It's it's really cool. It's 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.960 funny like have you ever like had a band that 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.080 you were on too early and then they kind of 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.120 start to get popular and you're like, okay, like I'm 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.119 happy for your success, but everybody's hey, I was here first, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.599 outcast for me. Yeah, yeah, that's a great that's a 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.880 great point. And that's kind of how I feel about Joe. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.640 I'm like, the whole feels like he's captured the whole 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.800 sporting world's attention, and I'm like, Okay, I want y'all 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.719 to root for Joe, but like we were here first, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.159 like we we claim we found him. He's ours. Yeah, 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.839 Like Ohio State fans are like, oh, he was molded 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.080 by Ohio. I'm like, shut up, Okay, he's ours. But 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.320 I'm very excited. I hope he wins the super Bowl. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.479 That would be great. And just so you guys know 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.440 this kind of funny. The other day, Dave walks by 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.120 my office. He has a package and he kind of 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.720 holds it up to my window and kind of sneaks 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.960 it out, and it's like the Cincinnati Bengal hood I 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.599 guess was a hoodie sweatshirt. I was like, that's real, Like, 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.680 that's real. That's how you know that's his boy? Like 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.720 I he is all in. I will be wherever he 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.640 goes as long as he's playing and when he's done playing, 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.200 like and like, and you know, we did a documentary 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.120 about Dak and it was mainly about how Mississippi State 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.040 fans feel the same way about him. Yeah, it's real, man, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.760 And then win your national championship, You're gonna cut form forever, 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.559 right and and I'm not. I don't know something about 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.360 It's just different in the pros. Like everybody, you love 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.320 your quarterback in the pros. But when you see these 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.479 guys come up from being like a literal kid, I 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.680 mean that sounds stupid. Joe was like twenty two when 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.000 he got to LSU. But I don't know, to just 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.200 kind of come from nothing as like a Okay, who's 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.960 this kid? He's from bfe Ohio. Guess he can't be 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.440 worse than what we've got. And then to get here 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.440 in such a short amount of time, it's just swild 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.599 amber goat for us. Best love right there? He is 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.320 my son. Obviously I did not follow because I don't 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.440 follow up college football whatsoever. But the more I see him, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.560 the more I like him. And he has this cockiness 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.719 to him, but it's like an appealing kind of cockiness, 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.400 saying like there's you know, it's not the kind of 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.880 cockiness that you just hate it. I wouldn't be I 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.920 wouldn't be shocked if if anybody was like, yeah, your 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.000 boy Joe's seems like kind of an a hole, I'd 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.120 be like, I get where you. I understand where you 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.839 get that from. But like, it doesn't seem like it 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.880 bothers very many not off putting because some people it 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.920 can be, but it's not off put us because he's 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.280 backs it up every step of the way. That's the thing, 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.560 is like, why wouldn't you be cocky with what he's 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.000 accomplished in such a short period of time, And it 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.279 doesn't seem like he does it at the expense of 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.520 his teammates, I guess is the best way to it all. 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.279 And we don't know these guys, by the way, we 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.719 don't know if he really does or doesn't. But the 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.960 way it appears, the way it seems is like he's 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.680 still a good teammate. His teammates like him, so it's 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.880 like he's you could see the little bit of arrogance, 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.160 but it's like he still seems like a good guy, right. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.720 And I don't necessarily have a sports story, but something 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.280 that I did see this morning, staying on topic, was 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.600 the whole news on Gronk and what he said. What 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.680 do you say? He said that, you know, with Tom 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.600 Brady leaving and all that, I guess he mentioned somewhere 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.320 that a guy that he would like to go and 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:32.400 play with would be him Burrow Burrow. I didn't see that, Okay, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.440 so that's trending on Twitter. Yeah, he's like, I'll go 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.120 play next to him. So if he's like the other 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.160 guy that it's not Tom Brady, he would go with 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.400 Joe Barrow. It's great. You kind of get to a 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.280 point in your career where you're just ring hopping, like 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:47.920 I'll go play for this guy that I like who 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.960 might be able to help me win another super grenade 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.880 out there and see what happened. That's amazing. I didn't 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.840 hear that. I saw the clip that's the headline that 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.440 said the quarterback that that Gronk wants to play with, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.320 And I'm like, I'm not giving it to you. I'm 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.040 not clear clicking on that. Oh they were baiting you 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.360 in right, whatever, I'm not Yeah, I'm not doing that. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.320 Along a similar line, though, like and I do. This 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.120 is something I've been thinking about a lot, because, like, 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.560 I'm emotionally invested in Joe's success. I really want him 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.120 to win. But like, it's easy to be a prisoner 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.000 of the moment, and it's easy. I mean, he's great, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.240 and I assume he'll be back on this stage at 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.360 some point, but it's not a given. I've been thinking 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.280 about that a lot, Like, you gotta take advantage of 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.600 these opportunities. You know, the example, right, the consummate example, 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.920 Dan Marino, Yes, exactly, made a super Bowl in his 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.120 second season in the league. Never went back, and it's 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.400 and had good teams, Yeah, never went back. It was 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.439 it's it's that always bothers me, Like it's like that 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.120 the condescending thing that the graceful winner says, or they're like, oh, 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.920 y'all be back, y'all be back, like let Stafford have 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.600 this one because he's older, Like, y'all will be back. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.640 You don't know that, Yeah, so you gotta make this 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.200 stuff count. Yeah, absolutely, and they're you would think they're 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.160 they're playing ahead of schedule. With all the young as 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.360 they got on that team, it's easy to say like, oh, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.600 they weren't supposed to be here. They'll get better and 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.199 be back, but who the hell knows? Yeah, all right, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.040 so I don't really have a sports story. I got 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.680 something that's you could say, it's kind of competitive. But 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.000 am I the only one that's addicted to word all 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.000 at this point? Like I am all in on this game, Nick, 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.480 I've gotten you, I think semi addicted at this point. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.439 For those of you out there listening, if you haven't 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.560 heard about this, it's everywhere right now. But basically, there 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.079 are these guys that developed this website that is it's 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.679 a five letter game word I mean word game. Basically, 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.200 you put in a random word and then it tells 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.520 you which ones of those letters in that word you 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.040 picked are either in the right spot or a word 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.720 that a letter that's in the word but not in 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.920 the right spot, and you have six tries to get 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.000 it right, but you only get one time to play 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.320 every day, and the whole world has the same word. 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.120 So it just becomes this thing where you kind of 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.040 figure out your word and then you send it to 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:57.800 whoever you want to say it too and say, see, 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.560 it only took me three, it only took me four, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.719 it took me five, whatever. And I am just completely 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.040 addicted to the game. I think it's just it's just 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.280 so random and so much fun. So if you haven't 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.199 done it, go doing it. I know what it is. 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.120 I haven't really spent a lot of time with it. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.000 It sounds like something that would I would get addicted to, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.040 so I'll go take a look at it. Go take 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:17.640 a look at it. I got Nick into it now, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:23.440 and I showed Amber, sign me up. I started doing 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.760 I started doing the New York Times crossword every day 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.960 during quarantine as a way to pass the time, and 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.720 now it's like an essential part of my routine. I 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.000 think I read that New York Times actually bought Word. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.000 I think somebody bought it, Like literally, they made this 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.800 game and it's not a very high tech game at all, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.240 but I think it was New York Times went and 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.840 bought it. And obviously the people that made it now 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.640 just made a little loot off. They've got a whole 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.160 puzzle department, so that makes sense. All right, let's let's 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:50.800 take our first break one and take our an early 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.280 break here when we finished. When we come back, we're 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.720 going to dive in deep. 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It is the second segment of 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.360 The Break Life and Nest WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.000 we're talking salary cap today. Cowboys are in an interesting 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.439 situation this year, and I want to preface this conversation 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.480 just by saying, you always hear this time of year, Oh, 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.679 this team's this much under the cap. This team's this 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.559 much over the cap in a lot of instances, and 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.800 I really haven't seen a lot of instances where this 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.240 is not the case. If they're players at a team 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.719 wants to keep on their team, they will find a 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.959 way to keep them on their team. You can look 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.440 at the team that's in the Super Bowl right now 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.079 at the Rams. Nobody knows how they keep adding all 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.040 these high price free agents, but somehow they figure it out. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.360 And so I think there are there are games you 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:00.959 can play with your cap to be able to get 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.640 to where you want to be and have the players 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.559 you want to have. But I do think for the 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.079 let's sake of this conversation, we got to talk about 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.800 the Cowboys right now being twenty million dollars over the cap, 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.400 and within the next month or so they are going 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.079 to have to find their way out of that and 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.600 back to above or below the salary cap. That all 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.360 being said, let's start first with what do the Cowboys 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.880 need to do? What are some just initial low hanging 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.240 fruit that the Cowboys can kind of do in order 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.120 to get themselves in a better situation with their cap. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.640 I mean, restructuring Dack's deal is basically a given and 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.160 would free up I think fifteen or to seventeen million dollars. 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.080 I mean, you can do the vast majority of that 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.240 simply by pushing his money, which is something that they 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.760 were always going to do anyway, if you remember, there's 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.320 there's an avoidable year added on to his deal that 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.560 helps you absorb that. So I mean the minute that 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.200 that deal was agreed upon, you could kind of bank 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.640 on that probably happening. So at some point it's it's literally, 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.400 you know, it's a button that they click and send 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.720 it to Dak's agent. Like it's not it's not stuffy 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.000 happen to negotiate. It's already been built into the deal. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.040 I would expect that will happen at some point in 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.320 the next you know, five or six weeks. Nick. Are 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.760 there any ramifications of that with regards to what that 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.600 means in future money for Dak or how it affects 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.040 the cap in the future. I don't think No, I don't. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.240 I don't think so. I mean, you're, like Dave said, 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.800 you're built in. This contract is with structured that way. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.440 That's why these these contracts take a lot longer than 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.640 people think, because there's a lot of those variables in there. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.640 But no, I mean, they're expecting Dak to be the 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.520 quarterback of this team for the next five years or 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.800 so four or five years, and I don't think anything 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.360 changes with that. So this is just part of the deal. 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.440 You gotta remember, there's a lot of window dressing going 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.880 on when these deals, and you know, what's important to Dak. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.560 I want forty million a year that kind of stuff. Well, 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.600 in order to get that, you have to be creative, 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.800 and how it's structured, and how it's structured is to 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.000 hit these little trigger moments like that. But but you 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.680 got to remember though, that this is get they can 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:05.960 get under the cap. But Randy Gregory, Dalton Shoult Sarn curs, Yeah, 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:10.200 it's not just about getting nobody under Nobody's nobody's counting anything. 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.480 Those guys don't count anything for this cap. So they yeah, 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.280 they can get there no longer. Yeah, they can get 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.560 under their quick and then call it today and go 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:23.000 go hunting in March, which they might do they've done 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.440 in the past. You know. But I thought you meant 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.240 hunting for big name free agents and I was like, no, 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.720 they don't know that hunting literally hunting, all right. So 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.720 so that being said, there have been two names that 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.160 have been thrown around a lot in the media, I 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.240 think over the last week because of the amount of 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:41.960 money not only that they make, but the amount of 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.240 money the Cowboys can save by releasing them. Amark Cooper 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.560 get these numbers, he can be if they cut Mary Cooper, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.560 they could save sixteen million dollars against the cap. If 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.360 it is a June first cut, they can save twenty 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.240 one million, about five million more than than cutting him 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.040 in normal. Basically, the idea is when you do a 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.560 June one cut, you can and extrapolate the cut the 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.879 hit to your cap over two years, which gives you 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.480 a higher amount that you can that you can realize. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.720 And then DeMarcus Lawrence he has he would be it 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.119 would be an eight million dollars savings if they were 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.920 to cut him. This one is the most important part 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.960 of that. But if it's a June one cut, they 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.879 could save nineteen million dollars. So a significant amount of 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.800 money for both these players that you can that you 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.320 can save if you're willing to cut them. My question 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.080 for you guys is of those two, which would you 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.080 think is more likely to be cut if the Cowboys 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.960 choose to go that route. I'm Mari. I mean, he's 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.360 a'm Maori Cooper. And the thing is how I see 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.000 him more. I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, just 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:49.680 do it. Save the money. But because and I like 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:51.960 Amari Cooper and I see the value in him. I 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.120 think he's a really good player and he can still 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:59.560 contribute in this team and be do a lot for you. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:04.480 But the Cowboys weren't really even utilizing him the right way. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.120 And I know that might change with things with having 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.480 a new wide receivers coach coming in and then different 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.560 things that Kellen Moore might do with his offense and 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.760 all that. But you weren't even using him as much 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.159 as you could. And then at the same time you 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.520 were though able to use other wide receivers. And I 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.840 know Cedric Wilson, he's going to be a free agent, 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.480 Noah Brown as well, right, everyone but CD and Semi 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:33.159 Fajoko and Michael Gallup too. Yes, that is true. If 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.040 you cut Amari Cooper, you have two receivers under contract 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.800 and only one of them is actually really even played 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:43.520 in the NFL. Which she's right, No, she's she's right. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.639 If you're not using him, how you should Well, no, 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.000 if you're not right about that, you're right about if 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.119 you if you're telling me to pick one of these guys, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:55.080 that's if you've been paying attention. They're sort of leaving 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.360 you breadcrumbs as to why this might happen. They haven't 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.080 touched his money, and that's the big thing they and 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.960 they love to push these deals back. They restructure the 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.720 offensive linemen all the time. They've restructured tank in the past, 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:10.080 they've restructured Zeke, which that's like the guy that maybe 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.199 you wouldn't want touch his money because it's the position 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.520 that wears down the fastest. Amid all of this, they've 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.520 never touched Amari's money because they know his guarantees are 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.320 up after this season. They can free up a boatload 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.399 of money by releasing him. Throw on the fact that 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.720 Jerry Jones did not bother hiding his frustration with the 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.760 vaccination stuff when he missed games because of COVID, and 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.600 it's easy to see why that might happen. Do I 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.080 think it's a good idea? Absolutely not. And all I 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.240 can think about is why why do we want to 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.760 do this again? Because my memory is still very fresh 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.040 of them trying to sell me on Deonte Thompson and 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:56.359