WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Rookies vs Vets 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.119 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:18.479 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Lunge, 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.239 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:32.960 Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and new He scrugs. Hey, everybody, 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.720 it is day Wednesday right here on the Players brought 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:37.440 to you by Hotels dot Com. We are in our 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:42.479 SWBC Mortgage Virtual Home Studios knew He scrugs. Longtime Cowboys 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.080 reported joined by two former Dallas Cowboys safeties, Barry Church 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.960 and Danny mccraig. Gentlemen, how are we doing on this 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.159 hunt day? Man? Doing good? Doing good? Man? The sun's out, 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.000 it's a little cold, but you know overall, you know 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.120 it's it's it's it's a beautiful day, man, So nothing 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:02.840 can go wrong today, beautiful day. All right, okay, nothing 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.000 nothing can go wrong? All right, nostrada Okay, I feel you. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.039 It's a good day for me too. Man. We made 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.959 it through halfway through another week. It's a blessing to 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.840 still be here. So I'm excited to get into what 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.000 we're gonna talk about today because I know the church 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.800 is gonna say something crazy make us laugh, and then 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.440 we're gonna have to be so with some crazy rational now. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:27.720 So I'm excited for today, Hey, December sixteenth, which means 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.240 we're getting closer and closer to the end of twenty twenty, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:31.800 and I think we'll all be good if we can 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.319 get ahead and get to twenty twenty one. The Cowboys 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.880 will face the forty nine Ers on Sunday. That game 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.120 was supposed to be on NBC's Sunday Night Football, but 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.400 it got flexed out, so it is a noon football. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:47.680 Forty nine Ers are favorite by three points. In this game. 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:53.080 The Cowboys could get some reinforcements back, Okay, so yeah, 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.120 one of the problems for the Cowboys has been that 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.960 defensive backfield whole year long. The man who leads the 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.080 team and interceptions, rookie Travad Digs could be back. Cheeto 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.120 Woozier's off COVID nineteen, so I expect Cheeto to play, 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.880 and Donovan Wilson, the safety he's back in practice, we 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.120 expect him to play. So Barry Church, your thoughts on 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.919 some reinforcements coming in here to deal with Brandon I 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:19.280 Youth and those forty nine receivers. Man, you know what, hey, 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.399 we need all the help we can get. I mean, look, 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.720 I was proud of what the secondary did last week 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.360 against the Bengals, but like we all said, man, it 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.520 was the Bengals and they were down to Brandon Island 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.400 out there. But the secondary did fight and they scratched 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.560 and they showed some competitives out there. So I definitely 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.720 it was happy what I saw from them last week, 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.720 But we need the reinforcements now. If we get to 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.639 the individual players. If I'm Trayvon Day's personally, if I'm 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.760 Trayvon this, I'm not coming back. I'm saying, look, man, 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.560 this season is over with right now. I didn't put 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.960 good tape on there. Yes, I had some ups and downs. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.120 I got beat but it's my rookie year and all 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.679 people keep talking about it just fighting his ability out there. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.760 He leads the team interceptions. I think he's still leads 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.960 a team in pass deflections like four or five. So 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:02.800 if I'm him, I'm like, look, man, I had I 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.000 had a solid rookie season. I'm gonna go ahead and 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:06.760 rest up and get back and get ready for this 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.960 for this next upcoming season. Now, cheto Woozy. On the 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.200 other hand, he gotta come back. He has got to 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.200 come back, and he has got to put good tape 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.800 out there, because right now he's entering free agency with 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.239 some of the worst tape out of scene at a 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.800 corner position. When he came back from from his hamstring 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.040 a couple of weeks back, he looked like he was 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.320 running in sand. Out there. Everybody and their mom was 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.880 running past this kid, and he put on bad tape. Now, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:29.880 going into free agency, that's the one thing you do 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.160 not want to do at all. You don't want to 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.160 put any other bad doubt and any other franchise out 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.120 there that hey, this kid might not be able to 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:38.960 cover or he's too slow to be out there and covering. 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.040 So for me, if I'm Cheeto, I had to come 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.200 out in these last three games, I gotta put good 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.680 tape out there or else, man, he might be looking 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.840 like a minimum contract type. Dude. Listen, listen. From the 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:54.120 player's perspective, sounds amazing, But from a coaching the perspective, 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.280 dig's gotta be out there. I would I probably wouldn't 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.960 put Cheeto out there. But you just pay Anthony Brown, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.200 so you're pretty sure he's gonna be on the roster 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.400 next season. You need to see what your what your 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.000 defensive backfield looks like, what type of potential they have, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.200 See if they've been able to learn anything, and see 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.160 if they can learn anything over these next three games. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.200 You have to you have to you have to see 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.720 that to know like what you have going into the 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.800 next year. Cheeto, you know he's most likely out of here. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.919 But me me as a GM and as a head coach, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.479 I want to know what I have when I want 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.320 to see these guys make a little progression over the 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.719 last three weeks against some live actions. So these guys 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.880 need to be out there plan. Let me ask this question. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:36.160 I'll start with you mcraye. If you're digs, do you 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.200 want to go against some other rookie receiver see Brandon 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.760 I first round wide receiver next week, Jalen rag or 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.200 the Eagles comes into town. It does it become a 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.920 personal thing where you know, you seeing the guy in 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.360 your rookie class and you want to prove something to him. 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.560 And I asked that because I read the book Three 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.840 Ring Circus, and whenever there was somebody in Kobe Bryant's 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.880 rookie class, he always wanted to prove a point to them. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:00.599 So I'm just asking that question. Does that go through 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.320 Dbe's minds at all? Well, listen, listen. Kobe is one 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.560 of a kind guys. So I won't go into too 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.320 Digs's mind and you know, and say who he really 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.680 wants to compete against. I'll tell you this, I'm pretty 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:13.880 sure that he wants to continue to get better as 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.840 we saw him do as the season progressed. Right, So, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.080 we saw him fighting, then we saw him getting beat 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:20.880 a couple of times when we were impressed with how 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:22.960 he never gave up, and he made some hustle plays 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.680 and then they'll start turning into interceptions. So in his mind, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.240 he's like, I was just starting to get better. I 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.000 was just starting to get rolling. I want to get 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.240 out there and finish this all, you know, and show 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.080 these guys what I can really do, hopefully finish the 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.119 season off with a few more interceptions in big plays. 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.320 So in his mind, I think, I think that's what 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.719 he's thinking. He's getting better and he wants to continue 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.360 to show that and lead leave off on a season 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.599 on a good note. Yeah, I guess I'm old, and 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.359 I guess you know I'm the vetting the in here 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.640 because I would have been if if I'm Tafon Days, 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.200 my thought press us would have been like, well, just 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.680 like what I told y'all earlier, hold on, man, I 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.520 had a solid I had a solid rookie campaign. Everybody's 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.200 kind of putting me on this pedal stores one of 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.240 the guys that can that can be a future star 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.479 out there. I'm not risking it by going out there 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.320 and putting any bad tape out there so y'all can 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.080 have me labeled like cho Woozier out here. There's just 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.359 no way that I would go out there and do that. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.360 I would just rest into that next twenty twenty one year. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.839 But hey, hey, that's just me. But I wouldn't as 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:23.440 a coach though. As a coach, get yeah, if I'm 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.200 Mike Nolan, I'm like, Yo, you gotta get out there. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:26.960 I need you out there. I need everybody. I need 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.359 everybody on deck. I'm trying to save my job. I 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.520 need everybody on deck. So if I'm Mike Nolan, I'm 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.560 for sure telling him, hey, you gotta get out there. 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.280 But if I'm Diggs, nah Man, I'm chilling. I did 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.000 what I could these first these first couple of games, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.279 I'm gonna go ahead and relax. But to the point 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.440 that Nui talked about as far as DBS, I'm going 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.160 out there against rookies. My mindset when I was out 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.480 there as a safety, I was more I got to 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.719 outplay the other safety out there. So if we're going 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.640 against you know, the Seattle Seahawks when they had Earl 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.000 and Cam Chancellor or another good safety out there, I 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.599 wouldn't I wouldn't focus myself on, you know, being able 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.159 to outplay the offense. They would be. Let me go 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:04.520 out there and I'll play those all their safeties and 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.680 let them know, hey, I'm in the same realm a y'all. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.359 Did I make just as much as an impact as 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.560 y'all did. So that was just my thought press us 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.360 going into the game against other safeties with timent. Well, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.960 this rookie receiver, Brandon Ayu is the real deal. He's 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.800 a very good wide receiver with bad quarterback play, which 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.240 also is impressive to me because Nick Mullins and c. J. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.160 Bath struggled, and even Jimmy Garoppolo when he's been out 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.120 there this year, he struggled. And so I look at 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:33.680 that young man. I just say, wow, what could he 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.680 do if he had somebody that could actually get him 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.600 to football on a regular basis. He could have some 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.120 more chemistry with this rookie receiving class here has been 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.160 very impressive. And I feel bad for Jalen reagor kid 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.400 over at the Philadelphia because the media and the fans 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.440 are on him because they're like, why do we take you? 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.600 Like we could have had to we had Brandon Ay. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.640 I mean, Philadelphia folks are cold, man. Look at everybody 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.920 else that came after you, but we're stuck. It wouldn't 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.880 I mean, it wouldn't have helped the way Carson Winson 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.520 is playing. It don't matter who out there receiver, they're 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.320 not getting the ball to none of them. Dude. He 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.000 got he got some serviceable guys out there who could 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.240 make some plays. But the way we've seen Carson Wentz play, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.360 he lost his job last two weeks ago and he's 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.600 still not going to be starting this week. So he 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.640 wouldn't have been able to get anything done. With some 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.480 of those type receivers, they would have been wasted their 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.960 first year. So I'm glad my boy, Justin Jefferson did 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:28.000 not end up in phillyd a tremendous campaign with the 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.080 Minnesota Vikings and how well did that work out. Stefan 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:36.040 Diggs is in Buffalo. He's helped Josh Allen their NFC. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.960 She said, AFC East champions. They're going to the playoffs. 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:43.920 Minnesota unloaded the contract, got themselves a number one pick, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.880 and then get they get George Jefferson, who looks like 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.120 he can do everything Diggs is done and does it 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.240 as a cheaper into That's one of the few times 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:52.559 when you look at the team and just say, man, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.800 that was a really good move, because a lot of 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.280 times when you lose a guy like that do you 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:02.840 never get close to replacing himself. Minnesota ended up doing. Okay, there, Church, 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.840 you asked a question when we were bouncing our topics here, Um, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.640 who are some defensive players? If you're the Cowboys, you 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.000 don't bring back who are free agents? So I'll let 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.680 you go first on this unless you want me to, 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.280 because I've got a name of a guy I would 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.920 bring back. Okay, an upcoming defense worth keeping, a guy 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.160 would bring the go ahead? Now he got it, Okay, 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:34.360 here it is Aldon Smith at thirty one years old. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.040 He is second on the team in splash plays behind 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.720 Tank Lords with twenty four He's played six hundred and 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.440 fifty two snaps. Um for a guy who hadn't played 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.880 in five years, I thought he looked well and I'd 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.280 like to see what he could do next year coming 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.640 off this year, especially having a whole all season getting 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.280 his body ready. Um, but I start to look at 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.079 the numbers here. Okay, let's look at the money. You're 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.240 gonna have twenty four million dollars get off the cap. 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.920 Tyron Crawford's nine millions gone, Sean Lee's four point five 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.040 million is gone, Everson Griffins six million is gone, and 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.880 Gerald McCoy's four point five million dollars gonna said, twenty 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.199 four million dollars out the duel. If you give him 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.280 a two two three year contract maybe two, and you're 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:21.080 paying him Tyron Crawford's money nine million a year or 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.160 eight million a year, I have no problem with that. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.960 Being on the other side of Tank Lawrens, especially not 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:27.959 knowing because the draft is in April. I got to 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.040 get this thing done, most likely in March. I would 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.319 like to keep someone in the building at defensive end, 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.160 and we could say Randy Gregory. But I'm not ready 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.480 to trust Randy Gregory one hundred percent there just yet. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.680 So I would bring Alden Smith back. That's the free 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.080 agent defensive player I bring back. I got a couple 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.680 of questions on that. On that one one, you said 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.559 he has twenty four splash plays. What are we considering 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.280 splash plays here? That's a great question. I just ready 0:10:55.280 --> 0:11:03.280 to stay frank it all day. That's good. I was 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.040 I was hoping you would ask that because I was 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:09.440 writing down about But but it looks good. It looks 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.800 like it's like I will rush win, right, you know, 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.000 it looks good. It looks good, and he's number two 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:19.160 behind tanks. Oh bad a little overall if we get look, 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:24.480 I'm with bringing analytics Smith back. Analytics who who wait? Oh, 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.520 pro Football Focus is run back Collinsworth, right, he is 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.280 a part. But this I'm not sure that this came 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.640 for Pro Football Focus. So so I'm not sure. Okay, okay, okay, 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.720 all right, Well I'll say this. I'm with bringing Alden 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:42.080 Smith back on on a on a very teen friendly deal. 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.679 And I don't consider you know, tying Crawford's nine meal. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.120 I don't know if that's very team friendly, especially when 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.120 you got, like you said, Randy Gregory right there in 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.240 the wings, who these past couple of weeks has come 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:52.960 along and he's come along and he's starting to get 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.280 things rolling. And like you said, with Alden Smith getting 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.120 a full offseason, maybe he would become better. I'm sure 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.000 what Randy Gregory as well. If he get a full 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.480 I'll see him under his belt without anything going on. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:03.960 I think he would be better as well. And I 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.840 think he would be that complimentary piece um to DeMarcus 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.080 Lawrence that we would need. So overall, I don't know. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.440 Just the price would have to be right for me 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.240 to be able to bring back Aldon Smith. It had 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.720 to be extreme. Give me an I would say around 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.680 I was, I would say around four or five five 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.079 being the tops. I pay five a year for Aldon Smith. 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.960 Right now, he just has besides that scooping score, he 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.960 just he just doesn't hasn't done anything since the first 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.120 couple of weeks. And okay, now let's just put it 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:35.080 out here. You're saying give him Sean Lee money, and yes, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.120 and look at okay, and Sean Lee this year as 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:44.520 a linebacker is barely played. I'm sorry if I'm Alden Smith. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.480 I'll go to the market before I take four or five. 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.280 I mean, as a pass running he should. And that's 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.719 what I think he'll end up doing. I think he'll 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.559 hit the market, and I think somebody will pay him 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.640 probably up upwards of ten million to go out there 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.160 and b a d N for them. I just don't 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.440 I think that's a little bit too expensive for a 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.600 guy like that, who I feel is probably a rotational 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.439 piece in a down cap. I mean, remember the CAP's 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.400 going down. Do you think he's gonna get ten millions 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:12.360 cap goes down? It somebo guy who's who's had his 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.360 past issues, who's had his past issue. Yea. I was 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.480 going to say, both of y'all, both of y'all allow 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.920 here acting like Randy Gregory and all the Smith have 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.640 really proved to y'all that for the next few years 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.839 they're going to be on a straight, narrow No, I'm 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.959 not giving all the Smith no three year deal for 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.160 the nine million dollars because he made it through one 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.840 COVID nineteen season where we was on lockdown the entire time. No, 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.520 you can't just push them something to the side. It's 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.520 a it's a it's a good thing that he hasn't 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.400 that he hasn't gotten into any trouble this year, but 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.120 that is still a big thing hanging over him and 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.320 Randy Gregory's head. Are they able to be out there 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.920 on the field? Can you depend on these guys to 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.240 stay available? Same thing I said about Tyren Smith. It's 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.959 nothing against how they play the game, but are they 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.319 going to be available? Do you trust all the Smith 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.560 enough to give him a three year deal and depend 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.280 on him to be your right defensive endor? Danny? I 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.400 can I give you a retort to that? Absolutely? Isn't 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.680 this isn't this the organization that is out here giving 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.559 out second, third, four chances. I mean, if you're talking 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.960 about organ, who's gonna trust him? Jerry, Who's gonna roll 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.000 the dome? On who that worked out for? I think 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.000 the last the last guy we tried that went was 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.440 Randy Gregory, and then before that it was Greg Hardy. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.080 I mean how many times we're gonna try to say 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:35.360 and it's the same position, like this is last chance you? Okay, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:40.920 that's all I'm saying this last chance you man? Lando McClain, Yeah, yeah, 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.240 I'm just saying you mean Alonzo Spellman, I mean, I go, 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:45.720 I go down the list. But I'm just saying this 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.480 is chance. So when you say who's gonna do it, 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.960 the cowboys are gonna know. I'm just saying you, you 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.440 as a GM, is that something that you are doing. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.720 You trust what you've seen from Altar Smith so much 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.480 on the field that sure that you're able to say, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.080 you know what, he played well enough for me to say, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.640 even if he does fall off just a little bit 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.400 or get into some trouble, it's worth the risk, and 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.280 I'll give him three years, not with nine million dollars 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.560 year twenty seven million dollars. Now, now, can I let 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.680 me Now, let me just throw this out here with 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.080 the caveat of what I suggested. Your contract is going 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:22.680 to be set up in a way almost just like 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.040 Greg's Erlin's contract. Okay, I'm gonna set it up in 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.600 this way in which I can get out of it. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.560 And that's something that I believe is more than fair 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.720 for the team and the player is, hey, look we'll 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.240 pay you, but because of what's happened in the past, 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.520 we have to have some insurance and protection for ourselves. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.040 It's almost like the general mccoi contract. Now they put 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.760 some things in because he had that knee issue or 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.800 whatever the leg issue he had. They put some insurance 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.520 in me. Hey, if you heard it, then did we 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.080 get out of it? And they were able to get 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.280 out of the contract. So Danny, you're right. You know, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.560 I'm not sitting here saying, hey, it's a guaranteed contract. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.880 But but what I am going to do is pay you. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.320 But at the same time, I'm going to pay you 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:05.680 with protect actions um for myself because of the past. Listen, 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.080 I'm looking. I'm looking at the defensive end, the edge 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.800 rusher list here for upcoming free agents, and I'm seeing 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.880 names like Olivier Vernon. I'm seeing Trent Murphy, I'm seeing 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.520 Pronell McPhee, I'm seeing Matthew june On. I'm seeing all 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.320 these names, and I'm going to make a run at 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.360 some of these guys before before I think about picking 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.840 up all the smith Somebody on that list is looking 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.160 for a one year, team friendly deal so they can 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.120 play it out. Somebody on that list is looking for 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.920 one of those, and I think we can get one. Okay, Now, 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.240 let me let me ask this. Okay, we just I'm 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.920 gonna push you a little bit more than if you 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:43.000 are trying to sign Dak Prescott, can you afford to 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.600 pay the price tag it may cost you to get 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.000 one of these free agent defensive ends because they're not 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.320 going to be cheap. I'm we need to go with 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.840 my approach. That's why we need to go with my 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.800 when it comes to that. I've been trying to tell y'all, man, 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.880 this this is listen. This is the same thing, all right. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.439 It's somebody like like Jadavian Clowney set out there and 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.240 he ended up getting lucky. It's one of these guys 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.640 on this list. It's going to be sitting out there 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.200 because teams aren't going to be willing to pay whatever 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.800 price tag. They think they're all work and you can 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.080 scoop in and pay them a team friendly deal. The 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.000 list is long. It's I see about thirty forty dudes 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.399 on this list. All right, somebody is going to be 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.520 available for you to go bring in, have a conversation 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.840 with and see if it really fits. Not like you 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.879 did every since Griffin, have a real conversation with the 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.840 defensive coordinated and see if this really fits with something 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:37.840 that you want to do. I would take that look 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.359 first before I thought about giving an Order Smith a 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.160 three year deal. Nothing against him, but I just haven't 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.040 forgotten about the pass the same way I haven't forgot 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.160 about the pass with Randy Gregor. Okay, so Danny, who 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.120 would you have? So who would you pick? Who would 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.160 you pick? D Mac not bad? Now he might bad? 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.280 I need to cut you off my back. No, no, no, man, 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.520 that you know what. It's really tough. I would really 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.040 have to go watch some film monic because I don't 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:00.639 want to pick them just off the name. But I 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.199 know that these guys have been able to make some 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.040 serious plays and they're proven players and they haven't been 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.320 they haven't had any off the field issues. They are 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:13.840 available for you for sixteen games throughout the season. Well, 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.440 then the issue is with these guys, and if their 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.280 agents are smart, they're gonna be pushing to get these 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.879 guys signed in March. With a guy like Everson Griffin, 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:23.440 Look how long you waited. So if you want to 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.679 play that waiting game, sit out free agency, you know, 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.760 go through the draft and then hope, you know, come 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.960 training cantime that you can get a deal on some guys. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.440 Then they could do that. That's something they could do. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.480 It'll be very interesting to see how the Cowboys approaching 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.840 because they want to rebuild this defense. Are they willing 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.080 to wait to try and get that part? Hey, let's 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.159 take a break here. We've got a whole list of 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.560 topics we still need to get to. Back to back 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.560 wins on this team is Zeke on the Training by 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.399 Darren Woodson goes out to the Cowboys. 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