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Speaker 8: It is Wednesday, March twenty sixth, twenty twenty five, Season
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Speaker 8: Welcome to the show. Glad to have everybody here. Got
Speaker 8: a lot we're going to talk about today. We're going
Speaker 8: to start a little position series today and talk about
Speaker 8: each position from the standpoint of now seeing what the
Speaker 8: Cowboys have done through most of free agency. As we know,
Speaker 8: free agency continues really all the way through training camp
Speaker 8: and beyond. But what they've done so far through in
Speaker 8: free agency, where they stand the players they've lost and gained.
Speaker 8: We'll talk about each position from the standpoint of where
Speaker 8: they are and what they still need to do with
Speaker 8: the draft, what they still may even need to do
Speaker 8: in free agency to get themselves ready to be able
Speaker 8: to play at their best level coming into the season. Today,
Speaker 8: we're going to focus on two positions, quarterback and safety.
Speaker 8: Before we do that, though, I wanted to start first
Speaker 8: by just getting an overall view from each of you
Speaker 8: on what you think of the Cowboys. If you had
Speaker 8: to grade what they've done so far in free agency,
Speaker 8: how would you grade their overall performance in free agency
Speaker 8: as far as getting themselves ready to be able to
Speaker 8: do the things they need to do in the draft
Speaker 8: to be ready for the season.
Speaker 9: I'll start with you, Nick, I'd give it.
Speaker 10: I'd give it a soft bee if I could soft
Speaker 10: soft beat.
Speaker 9: Not a strong beat. Not I've never heard of soft
Speaker 9: beat strong bee.
Speaker 3: Okay, you would that be a B minus? Is that
Speaker 3: what you're saying?
Speaker 10: See, but it's not B minus and it's just a bee.
Speaker 10: I'm going like, like if you were degraded on the scale,
Speaker 10: like an eighty three, you know, like it's not a
Speaker 10: B minus.
Speaker 3: But a.
Speaker 9: Soft beat, a soft beast to it.
Speaker 10: But uh yeah, I would say in that sense just
Speaker 10: because they added depth, and we certainly saw last season
Speaker 10: that they needed depth that a lot of positions whenever
Speaker 10: injuries came about. Now you hope that injuries don't hit
Speaker 10: that hard again in twenty twenty five, but you hope
Speaker 10: to be a little bit more.
Speaker 9: Prepared if they do.
Speaker 10: And they did add an impact pass rusher and Dante Fowler.
Speaker 10: He's a guy who has the upside to be a
Speaker 10: starter for you next season and be a double digitsat guy.
Speaker 9: At the very least.
Speaker 10: He's a violent, rotational rusher that can bring you some
Speaker 10: presents in the past rush game. So I liked the
Speaker 10: addition of Joante Williams. I think he'd be a perfect
Speaker 10: complementary back. If they do add they still need to
Speaker 10: add a strong early down back, and if they're able
Speaker 10: to pair one with Williams, then that's gonna look like
Speaker 10: a pretty solid addition. But you look at guys like
Speaker 10: Solomon Thomas, even Robert Jones, Jack Sanborn, Kenneth Murray. This
Speaker 10: is all a reliable, experienced depth that this that this
Speaker 10: team needs moving forward. That's why I'd give it a
Speaker 10: soft B if the reason I don't give it an a.
Speaker 10: There wasn't a strong splash, right, There wasn't a huge
Speaker 10: impact player at receiver. I still believe that they have
Speaker 10: a big problem at corner. Even adding Kyer Elam, I
Speaker 10: think there's still a big problem there. You're you're gonna
Speaker 10: have to do some things to figure that out. But
Speaker 10: it's it's definitely been worse than years past.
Speaker 11: I'll tell you this. This is I'm gonna go in
Speaker 11: a couple of different ways, sir. I'm gonna give an
Speaker 11: a for this reason. On the going out and using
Speaker 11: trades and free agency together.
Speaker 2: You know this is something.
Speaker 11: And now the draft will be the third third item
Speaker 11: that will come into play here. There was a time
Speaker 11: where this team was only draft depended and they went
Speaker 11: out and maybe by design that they knew that they
Speaker 11: couldn't replace all the debt. But the fact that they
Speaker 11: went out and used the player personnel they talk about
Speaker 11: twenty four to seven all the time around here. They traded,
Speaker 11: they signed, and now they're about to draft. So I'm
Speaker 11: going to give them an A for doing what they're
Speaker 11: supposed to do. That way, I'm going to give them
Speaker 11: a C for the players that they've got, and I
Speaker 11: think there's some players that I think they've got some
Speaker 11: players that are better than hole fillers. I think where
Speaker 11: they're at at running back, and I like what Nick
Speaker 11: saying about Williams at the running back situation. But I
Speaker 11: think they've addressed the running back room and that area
Speaker 11: by the coaches they've hired. I don't think they've helped themselves,
Speaker 11: particularly with the players. Let's see if the third phase
Speaker 11: of what I'm giving them an A four of that
Speaker 11: draft brings them that running back. I like the coaches
Speaker 11: and what they've done in the offseason as far as
Speaker 11: getting those guys, but I feel like they really didn't
Speaker 11: address that very well with the two players that they
Speaker 11: brought in. We'll see if that's the case. I'd also
Speaker 11: like to see him maybe have looked at a veteran receiver,
Speaker 11: and I'm not just talking about Paris Campbell. I'm talking
Speaker 11: about maybe if they had gone out got so maybe
Speaker 11: the market didn't allow that a for execution and plan.
Speaker 11: See right now for the players they've attained, so average
Speaker 11: about it be softie.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be the title of the show.
Speaker 12: Amber Money is just to be playing bee with no
Speaker 12: soft or hardness to it just to be okay, no.
Speaker 12: But I think when you to me this season, and
Speaker 12: I've said it before, it's it feels completely different than
Speaker 12: years past as far as what they've used to do,
Speaker 12: what they're used to doing this year. I mean previous years,
Speaker 12: I feel like we would be sitting first week chilling
Speaker 12: and we as in we in the media, like waiting
Speaker 12: for news to come and signings to happen, and nothing
Speaker 12: would happen. We would wait until that second wave, and
Speaker 12: then that's when they would tend to start signing guys.
Speaker 12: I think this year they started being a lot more
Speaker 12: proactive and making moves. Now, when you start looking at
Speaker 12: those moves and those plays, just like Brian said to me,
Speaker 12: you start pulling some of it, and some of those names.
Speaker 12: They they're a pretty solid guy with veteran experience that
Speaker 12: you feel like, yes, they're gonna come in here and
Speaker 12: bring some impact in one way or another. But some
Speaker 12: of those other guys, you start looking at them and
Speaker 12: taking a deeper dive into their history and recent history and.
Speaker 5: Statistics, statistics, statistics, statistics, statistics. Yes, but you start looking
Speaker 5: at that and you're like, okay, well, this is this
Speaker 5: doesn't look very very impressive. But again, it's hard to
Speaker 5: tell right now, Derek, because you still don't know what
Speaker 5: this coaching staff is actually gonna do. You hope that
Speaker 5: they have a different vision and something that's gonna be
Speaker 5: a lot more effective this year. So I'm just giving
Speaker 5: them the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 9: At least they made moves.
Speaker 12: External moves, and it wasn't just signing their own. It
Speaker 12: was going out and making those bringing you guys in.
Speaker 12: With that come the different background and with those signings
Speaker 12: with internal signings, I think they did as best as
Speaker 12: they could. One of the guys that I hate that
Speaker 12: we lost was Jordan Lewis. But other than that, I
Speaker 12: think they highly focused on the key players that I
Speaker 12: think add the continuity to the team and also the
Speaker 12: there guys that are going to continue to contribute and
Speaker 12: also fight for a spot here. But overall, I think
Speaker 12: they did a pretty solid job last year. I would
Speaker 12: have given them a seat. This year, I think they've
Speaker 12: moved up to a B.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: For me, I look at it and I think this
Speaker 8: is a two year thing. What I mean by that
Speaker 8: is I think last year they lost a lot of players.
Speaker 8: They hemorrhaged players, but they didn't really replace a lot
Speaker 8: of that, and I think this year, what what we're
Speaker 8: seeing is they lost a few more this year, but
Speaker 8: they just they really went out to get a solid
Speaker 8: base of guys. These are not going to be your
Speaker 8: guys who you're gonna next next year, we're going to
Speaker 8: be on Sundays like, oh my god, this guy made
Speaker 8: the great play. I don't think that's what these guys
Speaker 8: necessarily are, other than maybe a Dante Fowler.
Speaker 3: I think more of what we will see is these
Speaker 3: will be.
Speaker 8: The guys that will be your mainstay, solid guys, some
Speaker 8: of them in backup roles. Some of them may have
Speaker 8: opportunities where they start due to injury, some may start
Speaker 8: the beginning of the season. I think they will be
Speaker 8: guys that will be good and they'll be solid, and
Speaker 8: that's what they needed to replenish on this team because
Speaker 8: they do have some stars on this team. Last year,
Speaker 8: what we found is they just didn't have the depth
Speaker 8: because they lost all of it. This offseason to me
Speaker 8: is about re establishing that depth, getting those solid guys
Speaker 8: that can just fill the holes and now the hope,
Speaker 8: at least, I would guess, and I would think their
Speaker 8: plan is that they will get some of those splash
Speaker 8: guys in the draft. Whoever they select in round one,
Speaker 8: in round two, maybe in round three, maybe you can
Speaker 8: get guys that can come in and immediately make an
Speaker 8: impact on your team and provide some of those splash
Speaker 8: type moments that you're really gonna need in addition to
Speaker 8: the players you already have. Who are those splash type
Speaker 8: players or Cedde Lambs or Michael Parsons. I think that's
Speaker 8: the way I look at this, and from that standpoint,
Speaker 8: I would give them a B. I don't know about
Speaker 8: a softbe, but I give them okay.
Speaker 11: I think this thing is going to come down to
Speaker 11: how well these linebackers play. If you look at with
Speaker 11: Samborn and then and then you also look with Murray,
Speaker 11: you know that's gonna be really can you get the
Speaker 11: same play or maybe even a little bit better play
Speaker 11: than what you got from Eric Kendricks. There's so many
Speaker 11: questions right now at linebacker with overshown. Leo Foul seems
Speaker 11: to be if you ask anybody in the you know, hey,
Speaker 11: give me your breakout player for twenty twenty five, everybody's
Speaker 11: gonna mention Leo Foul.
Speaker 2: That's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 11: And I think that you know, if you saw some
Speaker 11: flashes in last year, but he's he can't shoulder this
Speaker 11: thing by himself. This this this free agency period though
Speaker 11: that they went through. If if Samborne and Murray show
Speaker 11: up and play well this this thing, they they did
Speaker 11: a really, really nice job in that area.
Speaker 12: Well, I was just going to ask you, guys, what
Speaker 12: do you think happened with Kendricks.
Speaker 10: I think it's a situation where Kendricks is just he's
Speaker 10: bathed himself in that Zimmer scheme and they needed somebody
Speaker 10: who could come in and you know, be a little
Speaker 10: bit more's what's the word I'm looking for fit for
Speaker 10: the Ibra flu scheme and Kenneth Murray is that Jack
Speaker 10: Sanborn for sure? Is that Sanborn is probably the future
Speaker 10: at that position. If you had had to imagine after
Speaker 10: Kenneth Murray, that's the hope at least, and I certainly
Speaker 10: think he has a talent to do that. I think
Speaker 10: Eric Kendricks will land on his feet somewhere, but I
Speaker 10: think it'll be probably in a scheme that's more fit
Speaker 10: to what he's been used to over the course of
Speaker 10: his career.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know one of things to that point that
Speaker 8: you were making, Brian, I think I look at this
Speaker 8: team and they had a lot of I think they
Speaker 8: have a lot of players who are relatively young who
Speaker 8: are kind of question marks for them, Guys like Sam Williams,
Speaker 8: Guys like Marshawn Kneeland, Leah File, you mentioned Mazzi, Kayln Carson.
Speaker 8: I think what this offseason did is it allowed them
Speaker 8: to be able to continue to develop those guys, but
Speaker 8: not be beholden to them. Right, you don't get into
Speaker 8: a situation where if you want Kaylen Carson to really
Speaker 8: keep developing and you give him that opportunity, if he
Speaker 8: doesn't perform, you're now not stuck. You have an elon
Speaker 8: that you can maybe throw out there and say, he's
Speaker 8: a more of a veteran guy that we can throw
Speaker 8: out there. He has some experience. We can put him
Speaker 8: out there and feel better about what he can do.
Speaker 8: But it doesn't slow the progress of somebody like a
Speaker 8: Kaylin Carson. Same things with Sam Williams, same thing with
Speaker 8: Marshawn Nieland you have the question marks, you want to
Speaker 8: give him the opportunity, but if they don't make it,
Speaker 8: if they can't do it. You got a Dante Fowler.
Speaker 8: So I just think that's what I love about this offseason.
Speaker 8: They've given themselves the ability to let those young guys
Speaker 8: continue to develop. If they don't, there are guys that
Speaker 8: are that are steady guys that can put in there
Speaker 8: and they're not losing a ton.
Speaker 11: They might have upgraded at pass rusher with fall Over.
Speaker 11: Maybe he Tank, you know, and we all love Tank
Speaker 11: for what he's done, but let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 11: The run play, the instincts, those things were his calling card,
Speaker 11: but at one time he was a double digit sack guy.
Speaker 11: You just signed a double digit sack guy, is what
Speaker 11: you did in free agency. So that should help you
Speaker 11: going forward.
Speaker 10: Did they put maybe a little too much pressure on
Speaker 10: having to hit on the first two days the draft though,
Speaker 10: by by having you think right now, right now, yeah,
Speaker 10: by not getting an impact starter at receiver, by not
Speaker 10: getting a starter at corner, by you know, still leaving
Speaker 10: some holes in depth at defensive tackle. I think you
Speaker 10: can make a case that you could you need another
Speaker 10: guy for depth at offensive tackle. I just wonder if
Speaker 10: there's maybe a little too much pressure on having to
Speaker 10: hit on those guys.
Speaker 11: I think that the You know, Nick, that you and
Speaker 11: I have studied this scene pretty extensively. Now we're getting
Speaker 11: down to the home stretch where they have where the
Speaker 11: board looks like to me, it has depth as at
Speaker 11: defensive tackle, and the board looks like it's got some
Speaker 11: depth at wide receiver depending on what kind you want,
Speaker 11: and running back as well, right and running back as well.
Speaker 11: But that's that's what I'm saying. I I think that
Speaker 11: they I think the players they grab in those first
Speaker 11: three picks, I think, well, I think they'll all I
Speaker 11: could say this was some certainty.
Speaker 2: I think they're all going to contribute in year one.
Speaker 11: You know, we've seen some in the past where the
Speaker 11: last couple of drafts that necessarily hasn't been the case.
Speaker 11: But I have a feeling with this group that they're
Speaker 11: about to select that those the first three for sure
Speaker 11: give me some hope that, man, hey, if if they
Speaker 11: hit the right guys, uh, that all these guys are
Speaker 11: capable of coming in and being starters for you. And
Speaker 11: that's that's absolutely what they need.
Speaker 9: If it's in those three positions.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I just wear you head to the fifth round
Speaker 10: and you still need a rotational defensive tackle or you
Speaker 10: still need a running back.
Speaker 9: That's that's a that's a possibility.
Speaker 8: There's no way they get to the fifth round they
Speaker 8: still haven't gotten a running back, is there?
Speaker 10: I would say, man, looking at look at how how
Speaker 10: the board could fall.
Speaker 9: I mean, there's there's there's a possibility of that.
Speaker 11: I would take Mullens in from from U Michigan would
Speaker 11: be the guy that I would look at that point
Speaker 11: the starter. Yeah, okay, Well, I mean you've you've you've
Speaker 11: kind of walked me through a plan of Mulling. Okay,
Speaker 11: Mullings and then also though with Williams as a guy,
Speaker 11: so I mean I've got a physical you know. I
Speaker 11: mean Mullins isn't this elusive kind of runner, and but
Speaker 11: he is a physical runner. He protects the football. I
Speaker 11: mean he he is a converted linebacker. I'm telling me,
Speaker 11: if you get down in the fifth round, you know,
Speaker 11: Hunter from Auburn is another one. I mean that might
Speaker 11: be a situation. I mean maybe you have him a
Speaker 11: little higher. But I kind of feel like though that
Speaker 11: I could maybe get a starter.
Speaker 2: Is it perfect?
Speaker 11: No, I'd love for them to address that thing in
Speaker 11: the first three rounds for sure, But if I had to,
Speaker 11: I mean, there's some guys on that board. I think
Speaker 11: that might slide through a little bit into the fifth
Speaker 11: that I had fourth round grades on. That might be
Speaker 11: an They give you an opportunity to get a starter
Speaker 11: out of this thing.
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Speaker 8: Second segment of the Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage
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Speaker 8: blockchain dot Com. All right, let's talk about quarterbacks. I
Speaker 8: have three statements I'm going to roll out for you guys.
Speaker 8: They are true false statements. I want to hear whether
Speaker 8: you think they are true or false. First, they are
Speaker 8: all regarding Dak Prescott. First, he's still the same quarterback
Speaker 8: he was in twenty twenty three when he was the
Speaker 8: runner up League MVP in voting true or false?
Speaker 3: Uh false false.
Speaker 10: He's coming off a hamstring injury. That's tough, and it's
Speaker 10: going to affect his mobility moving forward. You know, how
Speaker 10: does that mobility manifest in his game. That's going to
Speaker 10: be the question he has to he has to answer
Speaker 10: early on. In my opinion, I think that's what makes
Speaker 10: it differ different from twenty twenty three. They were able
Speaker 10: to maximize his movement in a way where it didn't
Speaker 10: put him at risk, but yet it was still able
Speaker 10: to be an impact and offensively.
Speaker 9: For the Cowboys.
Speaker 10: So he's going to have to figure out how to
Speaker 10: you know, manage that now that he's had another leg
Speaker 10: injury quote unquote, So I would say different.
Speaker 9: He's going to have to manage that for sure. That's
Speaker 9: the big thing that pops out.
Speaker 11: To It makes me nervouses. Even when healthy, that wasn't
Speaker 11: a very good offense, you know, early on. I mean,
Speaker 11: and then you know, the defense wasn't great either. As
Speaker 11: a team, they weren't great. They got blown out in
Speaker 11: a lot of games, and you know, you Nick's talking
Speaker 11: about the health of the quarterback. Now we're starting to
Speaker 11: see the age, a little bit of the wear and tear.
Speaker 11: You know, they're going to have to really adjust the offense.
Speaker 11: I think one of the reasons why Brian Schottenheimer got
Speaker 11: this job is because they don't want to run Dak
Speaker 11: Prescott to another different offense. I don't think they want
Speaker 11: to run him to another scheme, and I think Brian
Speaker 11: Schottenheimer probably convinced the front office that I could tailor
Speaker 11: a scheme that could fit his skill set. But he's
Speaker 11: not the same player that he was saved three or
Speaker 11: four years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: During that time, I think the Cowoys were able to
Speaker 12: find a lot of advantage of using his legs and
Speaker 12: mobility and being able to utilize him in the red
Speaker 12: zone and be able to have him escape and get
Speaker 12: in there and help score points for the offense. Now,
Speaker 12: I think that part of the game has been completely
Speaker 12: taken away. You go back to last year, they were
Speaker 12: not doing that with him, and then when it finally happened,
Speaker 12: it just so happened coincidentally that he gets hurt. So
Speaker 12: I think that now that that prompted that injury, even
Speaker 12: though when you listen to what he said during that time,
Speaker 12: he wouldn't blame the injury into the fact that he
Speaker 12: had to run. I think it's gonna it's gonna be
Speaker 12: something that they will try to avoid the most as possible.
Speaker 12: And that's where you now are looking to rely more
Speaker 12: on a running back that is effective and that you
Speaker 12: can bring back that running game, and that way you
Speaker 12: can avoid having to utilize your quarterback as a runner.
Speaker 12: So I think that now that that element of his
Speaker 12: game has been taken away. Not that he was a
Speaker 12: quarterback that ran all the time, but in key plays
Speaker 12: and key moments, it was very effective for the for
Speaker 12: the offense. So I think that, no, that's staying in.
Speaker 12: I would say it's.
Speaker 8: False, all right, statement to any decline and Dak's performance
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty three was more related to the offense,
Speaker 8: particularly coaching and the players around him, the offensive line
Speaker 8: and the wide receivers.
Speaker 10: We'll talk about twenty three or twenty four, twenty four, Sorry,
Speaker 10: twenty four, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9: Can you run that back on?
Speaker 18: Yes?
Speaker 10: Please?
Speaker 8: Any decline and Dak's performance in twenty twenty four was
Speaker 8: more related to the offense and coaching and to the
Speaker 8: players around him, the offensive line and the receivers.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think there's a lot of validity in that.
Speaker 9: I'll say true.
Speaker 10: The offensive line was was a lot, especially when he
Speaker 10: was especially when he was starting before the Atlanta game
Speaker 10: when he got hurt. Personnel around him was and we
Speaker 10: talked about it on the show many times. The personnel
Speaker 10: around him did not help him, and the offseason last
Speaker 10: year did not help him to succeed. I mean, losing
Speaker 10: Tyron Smith is a big deal. Throwing a rookie over there,
Speaker 10: and a rookie that was battling injury from the start
Speaker 10: of camp, it's it's it was. It was gonna be
Speaker 10: something that that hurt the offense, and it hurt Dak
Speaker 10: Prescott and eventually physically hurt Dak Prescott.
Speaker 9: So I would say, yeah, that's that's true.
Speaker 11: Everybody had a hand in this. One front office had
Speaker 11: a hand in this. Misevaluated the running back situation. They
Speaker 11: also misevaluated the second wide receiver on this football team.
Speaker 11: They believed in Jalen Tolbert, and he did not live
Speaker 11: up to what he the expectations that they had.
Speaker 9: Also, Brandon Cook's getting hurt, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, I think so too. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: but you know, like I say.
Speaker 11: The offensive line, the right guard wasn't very good, the
Speaker 11: right tackle wasn't very good.
Speaker 2: You had problems. You know, he had a.
Speaker 11: Rookie at left tackle, you had a rookie at center.
Speaker 11: I mean, I think the left tackle was more of
Speaker 11: a problem than the center. So yeah, I think everybody,
Speaker 11: the front office, the coaches, the scheme, A lot of
Speaker 11: things did not play out very well, and all those
Speaker 11: things ultimately affected Dak Prescott.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I would say as well. I think looking at
Speaker 12: Dak's career overall, I would say everything around him had
Speaker 12: to be working for him in order for him to
Speaker 12: be successful. If you look at the beginning of his
Speaker 12: career till twenty twenty three, that was the first year
Speaker 12: I feel like, in my opinion that we were actually
Speaker 12: able to see a Dak Prescott take things on his
Speaker 12: own in certain games where he put the games on
Speaker 12: his back and he was making those plays for the
Speaker 12: offense and saving them in that way. And then all
Speaker 12: of a sudden, twenty twenty four happens, you see the
Speaker 12: struggles that the offense was having. Overall, I would say, yes,
Speaker 12: every coaching I was not a fan of the play
Speaker 12: caller and the way that McCarthy was handling some of
Speaker 12: the situations happening on the field, and then the players.
Speaker 12: You look at certain plays where it was not on Dak.
Speaker 12: A lot of plays were on Dak, but then there's
Speaker 12: a lot of that were not on him, and it
Speaker 12: was execution for other players, and you talk about the
Speaker 12: protection they're not being there in Dak having to kind
Speaker 12: of continuously having to deal with the pressure. So yeah,
Speaker 12: I think everyone had a hand in that one, all right.
Speaker 8: Third statement, with the changes to coaching, projected changes to
Speaker 8: the offensive scheme, and with new personnel, Dak will be
Speaker 8: closer to the twenty twenty three production and version of
Speaker 8: himself than he was twenty twenty four.
Speaker 10: Are reassuming he's healthy, I assume in the sense, Yeah,
Speaker 10: that's a good point.
Speaker 9: Yeah's you. I'm going to go false.
Speaker 10: I'm going to go false because the personnel still is
Speaker 10: a question for me. You know, they still need a
Speaker 10: starting running back, they still need reliability at that left tackle.
Speaker 10: I'm not saying that they need to go out and
Speaker 10: get a left tackle, but they need to prove that
Speaker 10: Tyler Geiden is ready to take on that challenge right guard.
Speaker 9: What's going to go on there?
Speaker 10: Brock Kaufman I have confidence in, and I'm going to
Speaker 10: stand on the table for brock Hoffman all the way
Speaker 10: through training camp unless he gives me a reason not to.
Speaker 10: I think he will be the starter at that spot
Speaker 10: and he will be good, but he needs to prove
Speaker 10: it as well, So there's a lot of questions on
Speaker 10: the offensive side of the ball, and Dak needs Dak.
Speaker 9: Needs people around him, that is the fact.
Speaker 10: And when he does have people around him, he returns
Speaker 10: to that twenty twenty three production and he is competing
Speaker 10: for an MVP and he does have this team competing
Speaker 10: for a number one seed in the NFC, but without
Speaker 10: people around him.
Speaker 9: You see what happened in the first eight weeks of
Speaker 9: the season last year.
Speaker 11: I'd love to I'm encouraged by the fact that he's
Speaker 11: got a new play caller. I think he's going to
Speaker 11: have a new wide receiver out there with Cede Lamb,
Speaker 11: and I think he saw some things with Turpin, so
Speaker 11: maybe they're eleven personnel. Stuff will be better. I think
Speaker 11: need Jake Ferguson to play a lot better than he
Speaker 11: did last year. I think that would really help Nix
Speaker 11: absolutely right, though they do not have a running back situation.
Speaker 11: I'm with him about liking Williams, but in a certain role.
Speaker 11: You go out and get this guy a wide receiver
Speaker 11: that could play opposite Lamb, that could also play with
Speaker 11: Turpin and help with Ferguson, and then you get him
Speaker 11: a legitimate running back. I think the offensive line stuff
Speaker 11: will take care of itself. I'm encouraged by the two
Speaker 11: coaches that are here, so I think he can play
Speaker 11: at that level at twenty twenty three. But it's going
Speaker 11: to be a lot of things around him have to improve.
Speaker 2: We said it, the.
Speaker 11: Tackle spot, the guard spot, the receiver spot, the tied
Speaker 11: end spot, and the running spot. Is that too much
Speaker 11: to put on Dak Prescott? You know, he's now the
Speaker 11: guy that you know buy if you look at pay
Speaker 11: if you watch his pockets.
Speaker 2: He is the highest paid guy.
Speaker 11: And there's gonna be people to say, well, he needs
Speaker 11: to go out there and play like that. So depending
Speaker 11: on if you're that kind of person not, but he
Speaker 11: is going to need everything that I talked about to
Speaker 11: kind of to show up for him to have the
Speaker 11: season he had in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 12: Yeah, right now, I would say false as well, but
Speaker 12: that doesn't mean that he can't be true.
Speaker 9: There's just so much ann well, it's a soft true.
Speaker 2: It's a soft true or false. True or false.
Speaker 12: I say, you know, you can't easily change my mind
Speaker 12: if you start showing it to me. But right now
Speaker 12: I believe it until I see it. There's a lot
Speaker 12: false yes right now, false with a sense of hope
Speaker 12: for a truth. You know, sports is fluid, Yeah, so
Speaker 12: you know strange lady Brian, you never have But no,
Speaker 12: there's just so much change that you don't really know
Speaker 12: what it's actually going to happen. I will say this
Speaker 12: right now, this coaching change feels very different, like the
Speaker 12: changing energy. You feel a sense of freshness and newness.
Speaker 12: I don't even know if that's a word, but there
Speaker 12: you go. A shot in Heimer. If you're around him,
Speaker 12: you just feel the energy and the desire to be
Speaker 12: here and really put in the work. I think he's
Speaker 12: doing just that, and I think when you do something
Speaker 12: like that, it's very contagious and it carries over to
Speaker 12: the team. So I feel that based on what we've
Speaker 12: heard so far in the off season and the way
Speaker 12: that Dak Prescott has expressed himself in regards to Shotenheimer,
Speaker 12: I think he will put not that he's not ever,
Speaker 12: He's always done that, He's always tried to do his best.
Speaker 12: But I think when you have that kind of relationship,
Speaker 12: you somehow just strive even harder. You're there for each other,
Speaker 12: you work hard, you stay later you put in those
Speaker 12: extra hours to get what you need to do, and
Speaker 12: I think the communication there is going to be a
Speaker 12: lot more effective, and therefore, I would imagine it just
Speaker 12: brings a sense of improvement as far as Dak's game.
Speaker 8: Ye, all right, what should Dallas do to replenish the
Speaker 8: depth on the quarterback position after losing Cooper Rush to
Speaker 8: the Ravens and with Trey Lance still a free agent?
Speaker 3: What does Dallas need to do?
Speaker 10: They're gonna have to go get a guy in the
Speaker 10: draft that they feel confident can be that guy if
Speaker 10: Dad goes down for a couple of games. I mean,
Speaker 10: we talked about it a bit on the Draft show yesterday.
Speaker 10: Is like, Okay, yeah, you gotta go get starters at
Speaker 10: these positions. He's really important. So that's and Zach Walshik
Speaker 10: made a great point. He did, and he was like,
Speaker 10: I need to go get starters at this point. I'm
Speaker 10: not necessarily worried about quarterback, but the sense of it is.
Speaker 10: And the thing I brought up is like, what if
Speaker 10: you start ten to three and Dad goes down and
Speaker 10: you don't have you have a fifth round quarterback that
Speaker 10: you have to rely upon. Granted he would have thirteen
Speaker 10: weeks of season, and you would hope, but you know,
Speaker 10: what does that situation look like? And then do you
Speaker 10: look back on the draft and be like, man, I
Speaker 10: wish I took one earlier. For me, if this team
Speaker 10: acquires another pick on Day two, that pick should be
Speaker 10: used to go get a quarterback.
Speaker 11: Nick, tell me the places that Brian Schottenheimer's visiting.
Speaker 2: Tell me the schools he's going to.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so he's at Ohio State today.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's Will Howard's there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he'll be at Texas A and M tomorrow. There's
Speaker 9: no quarterback, no quarterback there.
Speaker 3: Friday he'll be at been one there a long time.
Speaker 10: Say it again, Friday, Will He'll be at Ole Miss
Speaker 10: Jackson Dart won't be available.
Speaker 2: Jackson Dart won't be available there.
Speaker 11: But yeah, those would be the see I thought that
Speaker 11: there would be a thing the coaches and stuff that
Speaker 11: have gone to like to Oregon, in places like that.
Speaker 11: I think that Dallas is hunting. The one thing that
Speaker 11: Cowboys have shown me over the years. And even it
Speaker 11: goes back when I was in the personnel department here.
Speaker 11: We were always hunting for a quarterback, not always successful,
Speaker 11: didn't have the right mentality to do this. You know,
Speaker 11: didn't have the right focus to do this, but they do.
Speaker 11: They need to go get a legitimate guy. I think
Speaker 11: Nick's right about taking the extra pick, but you also
Speaker 11: need to to go and look at you know, he's
Speaker 11: gonna have his eyes on Will Howard. Is Will Howard
Speaker 11: a third fourth round guy. You look at him and
Speaker 11: when he was at Kansas State and then you know
Speaker 11: what he's done at Ohio State. Tremendous player there, quinn
Speaker 11: Ewers at Texas. I mean where where do you see
Speaker 11: quinn Ewrs? Dylan Gabriel from Oregon. These are all guys.
Speaker 11: I mean, Dylan Gabriel is a five to eleven guy
Speaker 11: that doesn't really have a lot of power to his game.
Speaker 11: But you know, you're starting to and I and I
Speaker 11: haven't mentioned like guys like Shuck and others that you know,
Speaker 11: there's there's going to be some guys that they need
Speaker 11: to absolutely consider here. I just don't I can say
Speaker 11: that they they gave a fourth round pick for Trey Lance.
Speaker 11: You know, they're always trying to hunt a corp. Back
Speaker 11: go back to to Connor Cook, go back to UH
Speaker 11: to UH to the guy from from Memphis. There that
Speaker 11: that they I'm always forget this kid's name, but uh,
Speaker 11: Peyton anyway, don't worry about it. But you know, but
Speaker 11: Paxton Lynch, sorry, Pax Lynch, I knew I was gonna
Speaker 11: get I was thinking of Peyton something, Paxton Lynch. They're
Speaker 11: always been trying to hunt quarterbacks here, so this to
Speaker 11: me is no different than any of their times. They've
Speaker 11: proven that they want to use resources to try and
Speaker 11: find that guy.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I'm gonna get a little crazy here.
Speaker 8: Give me a name of a player at quarterback that
Speaker 8: would drop in the first or the second rounds that
Speaker 8: would make you say I would pull the trigger that
Speaker 8: early on a quarterback for this team.
Speaker 9: If Jackson dar Sarre at forty four.
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, sign me up. Let's go.
Speaker 8: Is there anyone that would make you I'm assuming this
Speaker 8: wouldn't happen, but if either one of those quarterbacks dropped
Speaker 8: to you in the first round, would you would you
Speaker 8: pull the trigger in the first round?
Speaker 10: No? I would not, not, not with four years left
Speaker 10: on Dak Steel, like if his deal was structured in
Speaker 10: a different way where he maybe had two or three
Speaker 10: years and yeah, but like you would be you would
Speaker 10: be aligning that rookie contract with.
Speaker 11: That's why I think like a Will Howard or something
Speaker 11: like that, even Milrow.
Speaker 3: So really, third fourth is the earliest, you guys.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yes, you know, and it's it's it's fascinating to
Speaker 11: look back and you know, I've even done this in
Speaker 11: my head. If Dak had not signed here, what quarterback
Speaker 11: would I want at twelve? That's the game I play
Speaker 11: with myself and when I'm trying to kind of.
Speaker 2: Feel like, who would I really have?
Speaker 11: Would I rather have Sanders or would I rather have
Speaker 11: Dart Because I don't feel like I'm going to have a.
Speaker 2: Shot at Ward.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and I might not have a shot at Sanders either,
Speaker 11: but I won In my mind, I'm like, Okay, if
Speaker 11: I had the pick at twelve, That's how I'm trying
Speaker 11: to line these guys up, who would I take?
Speaker 10: Since since they took Troy Aikman with the first pick
Speaker 10: in nineteen eighty nine, they have only drafted one quarterback
Speaker 10: before the fourth round.
Speaker 9: It is Quincy Carter.
Speaker 2: Quincy Carter.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, and so it's uh, and.
Speaker 10: You look at the quarterbacks overall that they have drafted
Speaker 10: since O one, you go, Quincy Carter technically they're a
Speaker 10: counting Isaiah standback here, but he was a receiver. Stephen
Speaker 10: McGee and O nine in the fourth round, Dak in
Speaker 10: the fourth round in twenty sixteen, Mike White in the
Speaker 10: fifth round in twenty eighteen, and then Danucci in the
Speaker 10: seventh round in twenty twenty.
Speaker 9: That's it.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 10: So you know it's yes, they have devoted resources into finding,
Speaker 10: you know, some of those those backup quarterback type roles,
Speaker 10: but it's not it's not a Green Bay where they
Speaker 10: go and get a quarterback every year, or they tried to.
Speaker 10: I think in this draft you're gonna have some guys
Speaker 10: there on Day three available to you. But I also
Speaker 10: would not necessarily force it. The reason I say that
Speaker 10: is because veterans available. Do any of these names entice you?
Speaker 10: Joe Flacco, Carson Wentz, Teddy Bridgewater, Drew Locke, those would
Speaker 10: probably be the best names I could throw out as
Speaker 10: far as realistic.
Speaker 2: Well, they like Will Greer, you know, I mean obviously
Speaker 2: Will Greer.
Speaker 3: I that's a good yeah. I didn't even think about
Speaker 3: it me personally.
Speaker 2: I you know, Will Greer could come in and probably
Speaker 2: be fine.
Speaker 8: I mean they may feel like he is he's Cooper Rush,
Speaker 8: their next Cooper.
Speaker 11: I don't Nick, do you think they got blindsided by
Speaker 11: Cooper Rush signing somewhere else or are they think so?
Speaker 2: Were they okay with that? I don't think. I think
Speaker 2: the same thing. I think they're okay. They were like, listen,
Speaker 2: let's just kind of move on from that.
Speaker 10: They had already said that they were devoting resources into
Speaker 10: finding how to get younger at that position behind Dax,
Speaker 10: so I think that they were fully expecting that. And
Speaker 10: you talk about Will Greer, He's gonna be thirty next year,
Speaker 10: so it's it's he's not necessarily the quote unquote younger option.
Speaker 9: Hey watch it, watch it.
Speaker 10: Older for football. But uh yeah, in general, they need
Speaker 10: to go get a the d.
Speaker 9: To go get you know, well, your question was horrible, Derek.
Speaker 12: The question you post with drafting a quarterback in the
Speaker 12: first three rounds terrible question. Why it's nonsense, It's not
Speaker 12: going to happen.
Speaker 3: See what No, here, here's what I here was the
Speaker 3: point of the question.
Speaker 2: The point of the question is it's a good question.
Speaker 8: One of the questions like do you really what what
Speaker 8: would make you?
Speaker 3: Where are you with quarterback? Are you so starved?
Speaker 8: For quarterback to where you're like, hey, if this guy
Speaker 8: gets to me, yeah, I don't care that I can't
Speaker 8: use him this year, maybe even next year, I say,
Speaker 8: pulled the trigger.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm trying to get to that level. And
Speaker 3: what's that name?
Speaker 12: Looking into their perspective, like, I just feel like that
Speaker 12: just would not happen whatsoever, not after the contract you
Speaker 12: just gave Dash.
Speaker 11: See, you should never you should never go into this
Speaker 11: thinking about building your football team because you gave a.
Speaker 2: Massive contract to somebody.
Speaker 11: Why never do that. It's about building your team. It's
Speaker 11: about it's about having options. You don't know what's going
Speaker 11: to happen in week five or week seven or week ten.
Speaker 2: You don't know.
Speaker 11: You've got to find a way to protect yourself. And
Speaker 11: the whole idea is to go out and get the
Speaker 11: most talented players you know, regardless of the position. That's
Speaker 11: what always talk about. One of the things that Dallas
Speaker 11: is really good at is when it's best available player,
Speaker 11: they go out and they get.
Speaker 2: And it seems to work for them.
Speaker 11: So to me, if you're if you're looking at this
Speaker 11: and saying I'm not going to sign a guy to Okay,
Speaker 11: if they go into this draft and thinking that they've
Speaker 11: got they've got their big receiver in Mingo and don't
Speaker 11: take an other receiver early in this thing. Is that
Speaker 11: do we feel good about that? We should feel the
Speaker 11: same way about a quarterback. You should feel the same
Speaker 11: any position, any position on your football team.
Speaker 2: Don't let don't.
Speaker 11: Let contracts and stuff keep you from getting the best football.
Speaker 12: But that's your scout mind speaking. But when you start
Speaker 12: looking at it, I like all these numbers and contracts
Speaker 12: and like that.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 11: I lost my quarterback in week what eight? Yeah, and
Speaker 11: my season was done. I mean Cooper Rush came in
Speaker 11: and was serviceable. You know, give me a chance to
Speaker 11: win games, give me a chance to be different. I mean,
Speaker 11: give me a chance to where I don't feel like
Speaker 11: that my team is going to completely fall apart.
Speaker 8: And let's also throw this out there too, every one
Speaker 8: of you guys in that first question that I ask
Speaker 8: about Dak Prescott, true, a false? You all sit false
Speaker 8: because of the injury. Yeah, if there are concerns about
Speaker 8: his health, and if there are concerns about what that
Speaker 8: means for this season and going beyond that, then you.
Speaker 3: Better have a backup quarterback.
Speaker 8: And so if the question just becomes how much do
Speaker 8: you want to invest in that backup quarterback? Do you
Speaker 8: want to invest a lot in that backup quarterback knowing
Speaker 8: that at some point he will take over that role
Speaker 8: and maybe it happens before you get to the end
Speaker 8: of that contract. Or do you want to just say, hey,
Speaker 8: give me a Will Greer and I'll be okay. Like
Speaker 8: That's what I'm trying to figure out is where that
Speaker 8: level of concern is with regards to the health of
Speaker 8: your starting quarterback, and that will dictate how much you're
Speaker 8: willing to invest right now.
Speaker 3: In a quarterback.
Speaker 12: But it's also when you looked at all the other
Speaker 12: needs that you still have in other position.
Speaker 11: You're not all fair. You're not all fair. You're gonna
Speaker 11: get you're gonna be able to fill needs. You cannot
Speaker 11: fill every need this football team has in the draft.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 11: Never happen, you absolutely can't. And so the sit there
Speaker 11: and say, oh, well, we're using a premium pick. You're
Speaker 11: not gonna we have twenty holes. Yeah, you have holes
Speaker 11: because you're you weren't very good and you lost and
Speaker 11: you did your best.
Speaker 2: That's why I gave him a an a on the execution.
Speaker 11: Of trying to use drafting or use excuse me, signings
Speaker 11: and trades to their advantage. So that's that's They're doing
Speaker 11: what they need to do, but they're not gonna be
Speaker 11: able to fill all the needs that they have in
Speaker 11: this team. And Derek, I think you even said somebody
Speaker 11: said it was a two year thing, two year project.
Speaker 11: You know, it's still they still have a long way
Speaker 11: to go. But I don't think the draft is going
Speaker 11: to completely fill everything that they need.
Speaker 9: I have a solution, guys.
Speaker 10: It's a guy who I think would work in this scheme.
Speaker 10: He's athletic, he can work out, he's a winner, and
Speaker 10: he's on the open market right now. Sam Ellinger, just
Speaker 10: go get them crickets.
Speaker 3: I like Sam.
Speaker 18: I like Sam.
Speaker 10: I was just trying to throw it.
Speaker 8: But.
Speaker 11: No, they get Vince Young. I like, if you're gonna
Speaker 11: play with what are we doing? That would take Vince Young?
Speaker 11: Maybe samok them?
Speaker 2: But I can I do that?
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Speaker 11: Why are you losing it over the Brian when you
Speaker 11: had these players right I'm just disappointed right now with you,
Speaker 11: some of these grades you got on these guys.
Speaker 9: We'll see, We'll.
Speaker 12: See closer to being more right. Last year we.
Speaker 2: Had we had our missus right.
Speaker 9: I felt pretty good about my board last year. That's
Speaker 9: all I was say.
Speaker 3: You ran pretty close.
Speaker 9: I ran pretty good. And the old guy I like,
Speaker 9: really missed on his bone X.
Speaker 3: That was And what way you missed?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: I was a lot hotter than you thought.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he was a lot better than I thought he'd be.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but I can't really think of a huge Malachai
Speaker 10: Corley was a miss for me last year.
Speaker 2: If you do this long enough, you'll have a few
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but it was beginner's luck last year. I had
Speaker 10: a great I had a great year last year.
Speaker 9: But you know, we gotta keep it.
Speaker 12: Don't hurt your back.
Speaker 9: Yees, sophomore slump, got sophomore slump, softmore slump. It happens, we.
Speaker 8: Won't have time to get to safety. We'll do that
Speaker 8: on our next show. But real quick, I did want
Speaker 8: you to talk about one particular safety. Uh Macouba out
Speaker 8: of Texas, give me a got a report on him.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so a native of Zimbabwe, he moved to the
Speaker 10: United States when he was nine years old. Got to
Speaker 10: know this kid pretty well during his recruitment out of
Speaker 10: Austin LBJ High School, a talented young player who chose
Speaker 10: Clemson over Texas in the sense that it was around
Speaker 10: the Tom Harmon era Clemson. He felt better about development
Speaker 10: at that time in the Dabo Sweety defense and he
Speaker 10: certainly got it. Played four years or played three years
Speaker 10: in that Clemson defense and was a key piece for
Speaker 10: them in that secondary battle injury, I believe in his
Speaker 10: second season, but made his way back from that and
Speaker 10: was really productive and transferred to Texas and got better.
Speaker 10: And the defensive back development at Texas last.
Speaker 9: Year was was awesome.
Speaker 10: And if you don't believe me, look at where all
Speaker 10: those coaches are getting hired now.
Speaker 9: It was really strong.
Speaker 10: And you talk about John Ay Barron being in at
Speaker 10: the corner spot. They had a guy Hmed Michael Taff
Speaker 10: who I think we're probably gonna talk about next year
Speaker 10: on Day Elite. Muhammad is another guy that's going to
Speaker 10: get drafted high when his time comes around. Really strong
Speaker 10: secondary in Macouba kind of was help helping to dictate
Speaker 10: what happened in that secondary and mccooba came in as
Speaker 10: the new guy, but he grew up playing with John A.
Speaker 9: Barron.
Speaker 10: He grew up playing with Michael taff I mean, these
Speaker 10: guys have a ton of experience together. You saw that
Speaker 10: experience hit the field immediately. Now, what does what does
Speaker 10: mccouba bring to you. He's a guy that has space
Speaker 10: on that back end. He's a guy that is quickly
Speaker 10: rising in this draft process. I think when and maybe
Speaker 10: I do need to do a second evaluation, Brian, in
Speaker 10: the sense that I gave mccouba the evel right after
Speaker 10: the Cotton Bowl. Yeah, and I put a third round
Speaker 10: great on him. But it would not surprise me if
Speaker 10: this guy ends up getting taken in the second round.
Speaker 10: This surprises me that the Cowboys are taking him in
Speaker 10: for a thirty visit because they still have Mollie Cooker
Speaker 10: and Donovan Wilson locked up. They just re signed Janie
Speaker 10: Thomas and Marquise Bell to the depth of that position.
Speaker 10: Let's just say theoretically, like, hey, mccooba's available to you
Speaker 10: at you're not taking him at forty four. So if
Speaker 10: he's available to you at seventy six, where does he
Speaker 10: fit in that that that?
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think they're married to Hooker
Speaker 2: and Wilson.
Speaker 3: I was about to say I don't know. There's nothing
Speaker 3: that tells me there.
Speaker 11: Maybe you'll tell me contracts there's something that you can't
Speaker 11: get out of and all that. But I'll say this
Speaker 11: about mccuba. I mean, when you watch him play, and
Speaker 11: I'll do this quickly, this is one of the best
Speaker 11: safeties in the country. When you when when quarterbacks went
Speaker 11: after him. You look at the metrics and stuff about
Speaker 11: this guy. He was the quarterback rating the fourth best
Speaker 11: in the country defending these quarterbacks and these receivers and
Speaker 11: stuff as a safety, and like twenty six percent of
Speaker 11: his targets were incompletions.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: I mean, this kid is got, he's got the way
Speaker 11: he's the way he handles himself and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I mean he.
Speaker 11: Could he could really cover some ground as a safety,
Speaker 11: and I think did. If you're the Cowboys, Yeah there's
Speaker 11: a guy. Boy, we got a guy who played with
Speaker 11: some range, guy that could trigger quick, guy that plays
Speaker 11: on the ball, guy that can cover, guy that can tackle.
Speaker 11: Yeah there's you could. Andrew mccuba is a guy you
Speaker 11: absolutely need to study.
Speaker 10: It's the one concern I did have was tackling. I
Speaker 10: feel like his play strength probably could improve, especially at
Speaker 10: the next level. But you talk about his boss being
Speaker 10: that range everything six in or.
Speaker 2: Siven he is built like a Cornery six foot six.
Speaker 9: Is maybe that the thought process?
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know what we saw what that guy Detroit does.
Speaker 11: You know, we saw what Brian Branch does. We saw
Speaker 11: the ability to play safety, playing coverage, play down play,
Speaker 11: you know. I mean, there's there's This is a really
Speaker 11: twitchy kind of a player. I really like the change,
Speaker 11: the direction, the burst and things like that.
Speaker 8: This is one of those instances where I think sometimes
Speaker 8: you get into the offseason and people start breaking guys
Speaker 8: down and looking at their size and the measurables, and
Speaker 8: I could tell you, say, somebody that watched every single
Speaker 8: game at Texas that this guy played, he is a
Speaker 8: player like he's one of those guys that just was
Speaker 8: around the ball all the time, always making plays and
Speaker 8: and those kind of guys like it's just that's just something.
Speaker 8: There's something to that in the game of football. Knowing
Speaker 8: where to be, knowing how to get there, knowing how
Speaker 8: to make the play when you get there. I think
Speaker 8: that's one of the things I love about this this guy,
Speaker 8: and I think whoever gets him is going to look back,
Speaker 8: and it's gonna be a lot of team's gonna be like, dang,
Speaker 8: we should have picked him, because I think he's that
Speaker 8: kind of player.
Speaker 11: Nick, I think the media scouts, when part the media
Speaker 11: scouts are behind on this guy.
Speaker 2: I think the media scouts, I think that. I think
Speaker 2: the NFL.
Speaker 11: Teams, No, no, come about, we're all we're media scouts.
Speaker 11: But I'm saying I think a lot of guys and
Speaker 11: gals were behind on this guy.
Speaker 2: They're they're all learning he's a really good football.
Speaker 3: Good player.
Speaker 8: All right, appreciate you guys joining us. We'll be back
Speaker 8: next week. We'll continue our player evaluation. We'll get in safety,
Speaker 8: couple other positions. Uh, we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 3: Then.
Speaker 9: For Nick Harris, we're getting.
Speaker 14: Through the whole run training camp, but we're gonna get there.
Speaker 3: And Ambergari and Derek Eavenson.
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