WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Now or Never? 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:16.000 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:16.560 Yes? 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.439 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:19.239 Absolutely? 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:21.360 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:21.720 Yeah? 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:23.599 And so much for that. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.000 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:35.960 with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.880 It is Wednesday, March sixth, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen, 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.600 episode number one fifteen. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:45.159 The Break. We are a lot from the s WBC 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:46.000 Morgan Studios. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:46.400 At the start. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.000 We got our crew back together, Brian and Patrick and Amber. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.800 And today we're talking free agency. We are a week 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.440 from the opening of free agency. Actually next Monday, is it? 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:01.200 I think it is. The tamping tampering period begins and 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.240 and by Thursday we will be full fledged into free 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.320 agency and there will be players signing. We'll see what 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.320 this all means for the Dallas Cowboys. But like I said, 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.759 I've said this since the beginning of the off season, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.520 I will believe that they're going to be aggressive there. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.600 When I see it, well, we'll see, we will see 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.000 how it's going to play out and it will start 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.520 up next week. Before we get to our talk on 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.960 free agency, though, there were a couple of other housekeeping 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:24.839 notes that I wanted to go over with you guys, 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.040 the first being Tyron Smith. There are reports out there 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.240 that it doesn't look like he would come back to 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.240 the Dallas Cowboys, And of course all of that's kind 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.520 of conjecture, because you don't really know if you're not 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.080 in there in the negotiations exactly what's going to happen. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:40.840 And certainly a lot of this has to do with 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.839 is what are other teams thinking with regards to Tyron 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.920 Smith once he hits the free agent market. But I 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.120 want to start the conversation by asking you guys, what 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.240 factors do you think could make it less likely that 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:52.400 he returns to Dallas. 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:58.080 Money. I think that's the prevailing issue right now. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.200 I think Tyrron Smith wants to retire a cowboy, and 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.639 obviously the Cowboys want to retain Tyron Smith for twenty 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.320 twenty four. But it just goes to what the market 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.520 might bear out for him when you talk about potential 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.720 suitors like the Chiefs, and I've read reports that the 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.720 Patriots are trying to reach out to them effective next week, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.799 when legal time perence starts versus what the Cowboys would 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.720 be willing to pay. Now, this isn't to say that 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.680 the Cowboys are low balling him, but I don't know 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.520 that they would you bid against what the Chiefs might offer. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.960 Just hypothetically speaking, this is Tyren's last chance to get 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.239 what he might view as a big contract before he 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.040 ultimately cause it quits in the NFL. But I think 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.720 that that's really just the crux of where they're apart 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.120 right now. I think that as time goes on, and 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.720 what you said earlier, as far as I'll believe it 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.120 when I see it, this is a similar situation for me, 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.240 because we've all been in this game long enough to 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.120 know that when it comes to negotiations, they can get 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.680 ugly before they get pretty right. So his agent and 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.160 himself they feel a particular way, they have a particular onet. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.120 The Cowboys they feel a particular way, they have a 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.440 particular want in The hope is that they can land 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.560 in the middle. So is it likely that he returns, 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.960 Maybe not, Is it still possible. Absolutely, So He's going 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:12.920 to see what you know, the market bears for him 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:13.519 and go from there. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:15.960 Picked a bad time to be a free agent. When 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.239 you look at offensive tackles in the draft, there's nine 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.360 of them in the first two rounds, in the first 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.360 two rounds. And what's gonna happen is team's gonna look 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.440 at this and they're gonna think, Okay, Yeah, Tyron Smith 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.280 has played at a very very high level. Tyron Smith 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.240 has also had seasons where he's played two games, four games, 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.519 three games. You know, he has not played a complete season, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.880 I believe in since twenty fifteen. So you kind of 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.640 look at that as a possibility going forward. Yeah, are 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.560 you willing to also have a player that now is 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.640 figured out by not practicing he could play better. Are 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.960 you going to be willing to do that? You know 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:54.080 some coaches aren't. Guys I talked to, I ask him like, listen, 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:55.960 you know you love Tyron Smith, right? 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.240 Yeah? Do you bother you? Does it bother you that 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.320 he doesn't practice? Yeah? 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.520 It bothers me. He doesn't practice. That's coaching mentality right there. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.360 So he's going to have to go to a unique situation. 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.920 If he's chasing money, Dallas can't help him, right, If 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.800 he's chasing a ring, we'll see Dallas the last thirty 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.640 years has not chased a ring, you know, or been 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.719 able to get to a point where they can get 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:18.640 in position to. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:19.320 Grab a ring. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.080 So those are the things that are probably working against 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.920 you there. But if like I say, there's some teams 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.560 that are looking at this, we just got done with 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:33.080 a combine nine to ten college players tackles, quality, plug 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.720 and play guys. Kind of a bad time to be 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.039 a free agent in this market. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.880 Yeah, I think it doesn't matter how great you are 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.279 if you're not available, and that, like you mentioned Brian, 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.120 that has been a problem most part of his career. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.200 And I think he's obviously when you talked about what 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.919 he's chasing, I think he's definitely chasing money because he 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.640 is nearing the end of his career. And we saw 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.720 it even last year how important for him to was. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.200 I don't know how much of a public knowledge this is, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.120 but we know that he would get paid if he 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.920 was even dressed up and for the uniform. So there 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:11.840 was a game where he didn't get to play and 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.960 he was in uniform, and that was important to him 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.080 because it means money. We all want money, we all 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.680 need money, and that's just part of it. So I 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.119 think for him, I do see it very very hard 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.240 for him to go into this with the mentality of 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.560 let let me be a team friendly, let me be 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.480 you know, money friendly for the team, and do it 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.119 for the team because I feel like we can get 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.200 to where the end goal is. I don't think that's 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.440 and I'm not trying to speak for himself, but if 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.920 I was him, that would not be my mentality. I 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.240 would look in I would be looking at who can 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.600 pay me most right now? 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.640 Yeah, Tarren Smith, he signed a long term contract. You 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.159 know he was making. He was making well below the 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.960 market value for a long time. He also missed forty 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:57.320 five games for you exactly. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:57.719 You know. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.280 So the thing that you think about it if you're 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.000 the cowboys, like well, you know he's looking at, well, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.680 you need to pay me. Well, we paid you when 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.440 you missed over forty games. You know we were paying 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.960 you then too, And so it really was it was 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.360 a two way street here. He played at a very 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.360 high level, played thirteen games very high level last year. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.359 So now see if he could take the opportunity. But 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.279 you know what Dallas is, they're in a situation right 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.080 now where they have to kind of give it some 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.560 priority to direction they're going to go, and they do 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.120 have options at twenty four, and I think that they're 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:34.160 clearly looking at those. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.040 One of the things that's interesting to me is, I 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.560 think you look at last season you say, Okay, maybe 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.640 the Cowboys figured out the magic way to keep him active, 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.960 which keep him healthy, which is not practicing during the weeks. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.520 Here's my question, though, when you look at the at 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.320 other teams, he would be going into a situation where 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.320 it's a new scheme, he's got new offensive lineman, and 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.440 we hear from coaches all the time offensive line continuity matters. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.919 How much can you really expect that a new system, 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.479 with new offensive lineman, he's going to be able to 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.440 miss that much practice time and the offensive line still 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:07.840 be able to be as effective and him still be 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:08.600 able to be as effective. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.200 Yeah, that's that's the question that I pose to a 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:12.880 couple of the head coaches that I know around the 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.640 league that I asked, I, go, does does that make 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.800 it like, Yeah, we want all our guys to practice, 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.240 you know, it's important, and especially with that position. Stephen 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.000 Jones has come on one O five three the fan. 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.400 I've asked him about continuity. They always want continuity. They 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:27.640 always want the same guys. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.600 We're living in an era now where we don't play 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.120 with the same five guys every week. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:33.800 It seems like on any team. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:34.679 It's on any team. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.160 So yeah, you know him going in and out of 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:37.720 the lineup. 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.840 Uh, yeah, I don't think it's he He is a 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.880 unique player. You're willing to bend over backwards to get 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.720 him on the field. So some teams are going to 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.840 have to pay him and then they're going to have 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.560 to I'm gonna use the word baby him to get 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.000 him to the games each week. Some teams could do that, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:07:59.200 others probably won't. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.000 Amber you mentioned the fact that his contract was very 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.840 incentive lateen last year based upon his playing time or 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.480 games that he was active. If you were the one 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.080 making the decision, would you guys be willing to say, Okay, 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.760 I will give you a an exchange forre you giving 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.320 me a short term deal. I will guarantee that one 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.640 year deal, knowing that you know it doesn't matter how 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.120 many games you play, I'm going to guarantee this amount. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.680 Or do you would you stick with Hey, I gotta 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.600 have some I gotta have some leverage in this, which 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.960 means that when it comes down to how you get paid, 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.000 it has to be based on the amount of games 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:30.480 that you play. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.520 When it comes to Tyron Smith, and I can't stress 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.920 enough how much I love Tyron Smith for what he's 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.440 done for this team and what he can still do 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.360 for this team if he is actually going to resign eventually, 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.319 but if you look at his lack of availability over 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.160 the past several years, I'm not fully guaranteeing like you 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.760 have to be able to do for one year, not 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.760 even for one year. I need, I need your money 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.800 tied to the incentives, especially because it goes to what 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.439 Ambro was saying, which is funny that you mentioned that, 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.520 because yesterday Nicki, Mian and I we were having a 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.800 conversation about this and this is something and I brought up, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.360 which was the Arizona game, as one example of the 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.640 organization being able to look at Tyron and saying. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:06.640 Hey, we gave you. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.560 That was a million dollar check that we cut you, 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.800 and you were on the sidelines with your pads on, 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:12.640 so we got it. There's got to be some give 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.840 and take here and that to that point, that would 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.560 be a situation where it's like, listen, I understand the 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.840 fully guarantee for the one year deal. It seems like 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.839 splitting the difference. But I would be wildly uncomfortable fully 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:26.120 guaranteed a full year knowing I'm not going to get 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:27.160 a full year from you. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:28.760 So I'm out on that one. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.720 Why would Dallas do anything different? It worked fast? Actually 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:33.520 well it worked. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.440 The reason I bring it up is because if that 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.000 is a sticking point, which I don't know, I mean, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.200 got the sticking port for Tyrant where he's like, I'll 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:40.920 go out somewhere else and they're willing to give me 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.080 more of a guarantee of my money. You're not willing 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:44.000 to negotiate. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.480 Out Hello, Hello, I mean I actually found a way 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.360 for him to play thirteen games. 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.360 I figured it out. You throw the carrot out in 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.600 front of him about the incentives and you. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.120 Don't practice it. That's I figured it out. I unlocked 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.240 Tyron Smith, is what I've done. Why would I want 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:01.800 to change that? 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:03.520 Nah? 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.040 Good Luck's been a great player for us for a long. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.760 Time, and you'll be in the Ring of Honor in 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.920 the Hall of Fame. I think he's question that level 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:10.640 of player. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:10.920 No question. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.480 You know, and you know you have the options. Do 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.800 they want to move Tyler Smith, We'll see. Do they 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.320 want to drive somebody. We'll see. Do they have somebody 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.720 currently on the team, an awesome Richards or somebody like 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.800 that that they really like. We'll see they have options. 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:25.360 This is not. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.160 Something that's going to uh, I don't think it it. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.640 You know, they've got that didn't run the ball worth 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.560 a damn last year with him in the lineup, you 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.400 got to figure something out with that first. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.840 By the way, Yeah, and also if you're because again, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:38.880 let me put it two ways. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.240 One, I'm a player advocate. 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:41.880 I want players to get as much money as they 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.840 can go get you back one hundred percent. But the 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.760 question that you're posing is, let's put on the GM 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.520 and the owner head. If I'm the GM and the owner. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.000 Number one, I'm out on fully guarantee and someone who 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.640 can't who hasn't played a full season in over you know, 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.080 half a decade. Number Two, I don't want to set 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.439 the president. I don't want to set the president because 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.320 that's going to come back sooner or later. Guess what, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.199 It's almost time to talk to Zech again, right, and 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.240 and it goes so forth and so on. So between 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.360 those two things, No, sir, no way. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.560 I agree. I'm I'm not guaranteeing it. 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.280 Actually already held out every one time. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:20.040 But I'm not guaranteeing anything when it comes to contract 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.439 them with him because he's not guaranteeing me his availability. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.000 He cannot do that. So if you can't meet that 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:30.199 expectation for a fact, and again, nothing is you know, 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:34.160 an anything can happen. But given his history with the 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.880 Cowboys and his career and everything, and I I love 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.760 that they were able to figure out the whole, Hey 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.000 rest him. But what do we talk about so often 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.319 when it comes to the old line consistency the reps, 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.280 the reps out there matters. Even if he is who 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.200 he is and he does not need the reps, you 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.240 still need it as a team altogether. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:55.240 You need that. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.400 I think that is very important. It did work last 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.360 year towards the last month of the year, and we 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:04.640 saw that how effective he was. But I just I'm 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.559 tired of the and I've been saying this, I've I've 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.680 been wanting to retire Tyring since I got. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.079 Here, and not because and I love him. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.319 I love what he brings to the table and everything, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.160 but one it sucks to see somebody not fully healthy, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.400 you know, him walking around with those braces, knee braces 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.320 and all that. You want what's best for him, and 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.600 I'm sure he knows what's best for himself too. But 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.200 at the same time, I hate the unknown. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:32.240 I hate not. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.040 Being sure are you gonna be there for me? Are 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.880 you gonna be there available, available for us? So that's 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.880 the part that I That's why I've been in so 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.200 many years, even though he's as great as he is, 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.880 I just hate not knowing whether he's gonna be. 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.160 Wa you should really hate is the fact that somebody 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.000 practiced for him all those weeks and didn't get better. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.360 That's what you should hate. That somebody didn't step up, 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.079 that they went out there with a doga and and 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.160 all of a sudden we're watching games and go, okay, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:03.199 this looks a little. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:07.600 Iffy, a little shaky out there. Nobody got better as 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.080 this thing went on when he wasn't practicing. You know, 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.240 that's that's the work you were getting development. Where are 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.520 we on that? Where are we on the evaluation of 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.800 our players? Maybe they they've got to figure that out. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.280 Maybe what they realize is that they don't have anybody 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.840 that's necessarily there. And as you talked about, that option 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.400 will be on draft day kick it, kick it or 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.920 drafted and guy that you can immediately throw in and 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:31.720 and get going. 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.640 They can get draft plug and play guys their offensive line. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.600 They figured out how to take offensive lineman and plug 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:38.079 and play those. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.760 Yes, And the thing was, and I know that this 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.480 is the boat that I was on and I'm still on, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.960 is you re signed Tyrant, but you don't allow that 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.160 to preclude you from taking potentially taking his replacement in 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:48.840 the first round. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.680 So that would you kill me? That would kill me. 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.480 And you sat there and didn't play Mozzie Smith the 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.800 whole year to think about that, think about taking another guy, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.360 especially the first round. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.640 This guy, this guy's going I think we talked about this. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.400 This guy's going to play because Tyron's isn't going to 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:05.520 play the entirety of the year. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.120 I get it. But if I got a guy in 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:08.760 the first round, I want him out there. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:09.680 Give me a damn center. 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.200 That's the other conversation. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:13.720 But that's also why you want to try to get 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.160 Tyrone back, because if you lose Tyron, and let's say 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.600 you part ways with Baddish, now you have two yeah, 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.600 you're you're in trouble. You're in trouble because you can 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.520 you you kind of address them in the draft, but 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.280 you can only dress one in the first round unless you, 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:26.960 you know, trade back. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.160 Don't tell you brock hawfla. Oh yeah, they will tell 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.720 you brock Hoffman can play. They think brock Hopp, Now, well, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:33.360 we might. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:33.720 Not know that. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.680 I know what we saw a guard gives me hope. Like, 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.880 I think what we saw he didn't make me think 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:39.400 he can't play. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:39.680 Yeah. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.520 See, to me, the best I think the best thing 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.080 for them to do, and I don't think they'll do 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.960 it is kick Smith to tackle, put basket guard and draft. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.680 I think that would be the best way. But they'll 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.400 tell you listen to hey, don't sleep on brock Hoffman here. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.840 And I'm like, okay, I trust you guys. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.760 Yeah, you know you guys are in the chair. I'm 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:58.480 just doing radio. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.560 All right, let's take our first break. When we come back, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.440 we're gonna jump into free agency. 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