WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Any Money Left? 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:22.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.560 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.880 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:36.240 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:42.600 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:47.560 It is Wednesday, March tenth, twenty twenty one, Season sixteen, 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.199 episode number one hundred. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.720 The Break Clive from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.680 the Star, represented by Geico, and it is a good 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.480 day in cowboy Land because the Cowboys get their deal 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.320 done with Dak Prescott. We're gonna talk a lot about 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.240 that deal and what stood stands out as far as 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.119 the deal is concerned, what it means for the future 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.280 of the Cowboys, and then also hopefully we'll see how 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:12.680 it goes. If we have a little time, we'll get 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.600 into some free agency talk. Free agency starts next week. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.560 Next Wednesday, we'll be the first day of official free agency, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:20.440 and so we'll talk a little bit about some of 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:22.560 the guys that are on the Cowboys current roster from 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.119 last season that are going to be free agents, and 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.640 whether these guys think the Cowboys should be resigning them 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.720 or making a push to resign them. How's everybody doing today? Great, 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.440 freaking wonderful, Derek. You know, I'm awesome. I watched I 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.160 watched the show that you guys did, the writers show 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.720 the night that the deal was done, And honestly, like 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.039 you would think that that was like days like brother, 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.760 I don't know somebody that like the way that you 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.240 were just so happy. It seemed like you were getting 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:53.840 some money out of this dude, like you were just 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.040 so he was excited and then he was like ready 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.840 to talk and then make sense it to Rob. Rob 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.320 Let's turn with you. David's just like no, and day 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.240 We're just sitting over there. He was like making faces 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.880 and like, hey, I mean, guys a little bit long 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.920 on that answer. If I remember too, I was like, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.120 come on, Rob, which is not Rob? You? Rob wrote 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.959 the story. Yeah, and so I feel like I should Yeah. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.280 I didn't have a problem with I just I had 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.000 that thought a few times over the last couple of 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.480 days where I was like, you're not related to Dak, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:29.920 He's not your friend. I mean, like we have a 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.000 decent enough relationship, Like he ain't given me any of this, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.639 Like what am I so freaking happy about? I'm glad. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.320 It's just I think it's a combination of it's finally over. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.800 It was two years in the making, we don't have 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.920 to debate about it anymore, and I think it, you know, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.680 obviously I think the world of dak So yeah, I'm pumped. Yeah, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.679 honestly I did. Like that night, it felt like a 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.680 weight was lifted, Like I felt lighter, I felt less. 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.520 I don't know what it was. It was just kind 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.680 of this cloud that kind of seemed like it was lifted. 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.600 And that kind of tells you when you work around here, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.360 like the mood of whatever's happening in the building tends 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.320 to affect me. Sometimes it happens with wins and losses, 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.760 happens with this kind of stuff that's really big. So 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.799 it was it was a relief once it was done. Yeah, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.560 because it's one of those things that, if you know, 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.040 maybe it doesn't affect us as far as the final 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.799 financially or whatever, but like we don't have to talk 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.800 about it as much. But from a cowboy fans perspective, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.440 if he wouldn't have signed. If they let him go, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.800 if he goes to someone else, it would have been bad. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:29.560 It would have been bad around here. It would have 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.600 been you know. Yeah, there's some people and some fans 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:33.840 have been like, ah good, but not really, you know, 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.560 it would have been a really tough situation. I think 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.560 Cowboys knew that, and they avoided it, and they made 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.480 sure that they got it done. Yeah, Nick, tell me 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.320 real quick, what is tell me the terms of this 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.240 deal laid out for everybody, Like, what is what is 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.640 the term of the deal? I mean it averages it 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.320 will average to be forty a year, you know, over 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.240 four year, one sixty. But the part that really is 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.560 creative about it is that it's really technically a six 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.240 year deal right now that we'll avoid down to four. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:04.520 But the say right now, because there's sixty six million 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:09.880 dollars signing bonus that he'll signed today, I believe it 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.200 right right that spreads out over six years, you know, 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.480 and so they're hoping for TV contracts and a salary 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.280 cap to go back up and all that to kind 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.320 of help with that. But right now, you know it, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.640 that's the average. I think this year's salary cap hit 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.240 is twenty two point two million. So if you think 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.760 about you know, it was thirty when he was thirty 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.120 one point four last year, and he was going to 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.400 be about thirty seven to thirty eight. You know that 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.640 that I think is the most significant part. There's other 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.720 terms of the deal. I can let Dave talk about that, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.960 but you know, just the fact of you know, he's 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.560 going to count twenty two point two million. That's rare 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.960 to have a huge contract like that and a guy 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.640 and his number actually goes down. But as we found 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.080 out today, there's a reason probably why it went down. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:52.680 And they're not going to save a lot of money. 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.320 They're protecting themselves because of the cap has been reduced. 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.520 I'm not trying to say that the Cowboys are the 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.680 smartest front office in the league or that they always 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.560 do everything right, but it all it clicks into place 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.280 and you're like, oh man, they they kind of they 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.000 knew what they were doing. I mean, if you take 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.920 you can take it all the way back to last summer. 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.840 They freed up all this cap space, they didn't use 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.480 any of it, and that pissed people off and they 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.120 were like, why why are we triggering all these deals? 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:21.919 Why are we do it? Like Tom going up for 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.320 Earl and we're going for Earl's Like no, they're actually 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.560 gonna sit on it. And everyone's like, I guess they 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.960 don't want to get better. It's like, well okay, but 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.880 they're gonna need it. And that's the situation that we're 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.000 in right now. Um, and that's you know you are giddy. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.760 I love I love this stuff. I like, I mean, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.360 like we all do this for the games, but like 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.640 roster building and making it like I love team building. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.880 It seem you go work with Todd like that, just 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.320 put you in that department if he would let me, 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.640 I like Todd would hate that so much. Yea, like 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.080 Todd looks like Todd's I like opinion of me is 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.360 like a yappie dog. He's like, okay, please go away, 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.400 like if I if I throw you a milk bone, 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.680 where you shut up anyway. But yeah, So they carried 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.640 over all this space. The cap comes out today it's 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.800 about one hundred and eighty two million, which is an 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.800 eighteen million dollars decrease from last year because of the 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.360 drop in revenue because of COVID. So they carry all 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.960 that over. So they've got about two hundred and seven million, 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:21.920 Like they can spend up to two hundred and seven 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.320 million because of that carry over, and DA's reduced cap 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.359 hit because of the you know, because you can spread 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.159 it out, puts them like right right there, like they're 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.360 right underneath it. It's like, Oh, you guys knew that 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:35.919 this was going to happen, and you knew that you 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.920 could build it to fit into those parameters, which is 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.800 really on their part two or seven on what they 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.159 can spend, yes, more like give or take. And I 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:47.880 want to stress to a lot of people have been 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.760 asking about this since the cap came out, is like, 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.279 this is all kinda yeah, it's all fluid, like you know, 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.200 like and you can look it up on the internet 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.520 if you want to, Like I'm looking at spowtrack right now. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.720 Over the cap is really great, but they use different formulas, 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.720 so the money's off a little bit. So Honestly, if 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.360 somebody other than like the Cowboys front office people tell 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.000 you the number, I wouldn't even believe him at this point. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:13.840 So we're gonna have to keep an eye on that. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.120 And I think you know, they're I think they're going 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.240 to trigger a lot of deals here over the next week, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.960 like Zach Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence Zeke. I did not. I 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.080 learned this today actually from the Dallas Morning News. Um, 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.400 it's built into those contracts. They don't even have to 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.320 ask those guys for permission. They just they'll just email 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.760 his agent and say, we're gonna flip that switch. We're 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.800 going to convert your salary into assigning bonus and we 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.120 can then pro rate that and so doing all of 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:40.920 that can give you, you you know, they could free up 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.640 up to like thirty million dollars. Kind in the world says, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.640 would you like your twelve million spread out over the 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.200 next right weeks? Yeah? We're now, yeah, you're like, oh, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.760 I'll think, Oh I was hoping you would hold onto 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.160 that until October that you don't mind. And then one 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.200 more thing real quick. I know I'm kind of rambling here, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:03.000 but um, but you know, obviously Dak's numbers start to balloon. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.160 You know, he's down at twenty two right now, It's 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.360 gonna be thirty three next year. It's gonna get all 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.600 the way up to forty seven in twenty twenty four, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.840 which is a huge number no matter how you slice it. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:18.120 But what does that coincide with not just life hopefully 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.200 probably getting back to normal, but a new round of 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.400 TV deals that are going to start to get signed 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.760 like now. And I mean, I think if you didn't 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.800 already think that the salary cap was going to explode 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.400 over the next two or three years, this is your indicator. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.600 Because the Joneses are on the competition committee, like they're 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.840 privy to these types of things, and they're I think 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.560 they're probably thinking of themselves, Yeah, we're gonna have to 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.000 you know, we're gonna DA's gonna cost forty seven million 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.559 in three years, but the salary cap is gonna be 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.840 three hundred and twenty million, Like who cares? So right now, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.720 forty million a year is second in the NFL, or 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.480 ahead of Watson. I mean, there's there's any there's so 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.840 many different ways to slice it. Like his guarantees are 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.680 the most in league history, but his average salary comes 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.880 in I think behind Deshaun right now. So yeah, in 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.120 two years, when you say all that, where do you 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.319 think he'll be ninth? Yeah? And I want to say 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.640 I saw something. I said his cap hit this year, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.680 he's like thirteenth or something. Like the way they structured 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.600 this thing, it's not hitting their cap very much at 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.320 all this year, relatively speaking. But again, I think the 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.040 point that Dave made is the really really key point 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.360 is this deal was made I think looking at the 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.559 TV contracts and understanding how that all is going to 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.520 factor in. You listen to some of the reporting out 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.400 there around TV contracts, they're saying some of these contracts 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.599 made double, like that's that's the kind of money. And 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.600 we're talking about big money. We're not talking about double 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.160 from ten to twenty bucks. We're talking about billions of 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.480 dollars doubling, right, So whether that's true or not, who knows. 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.080 But even if it's a fraction of that, even if 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.680 it goes up fifty percent, that is a huge, huge increase. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.320 And all that reflects back to the amount that teams 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.960 will have that they'll be expected to spend on their players. Amber, 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.160 I want to get to you. Tell me what you 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.560 think is the most interesting or the part of this 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:06.079 contract that stands out to you the most. Well, before 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.080 I get to that, my reaction yesterday or a Monday 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.240 when I found that, and I was happy. I wanted 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.320 Dak to stay here, but I wasn't necessarily jumping up 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.240 and down my seat like Dave right away. I could 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.720 And what's the American saying, um, not to be a 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.839 Debbi downer, not to be a Debbie downer, but so 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.800 happy somebody else is doing this instead of me. And 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.760 this is probably not a conversation for today or right now. 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.000 But at the same time, it's like, I can't help 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.640 but think or hope. I'm like, man, I hope he 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.400 doesn't suck this year. You know, It's like we see 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.000 it happen with other contracts. We talked about it. DeMarcus Lawrence, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.160 is Zekiel Jellen Smith wasn't necessarily at that level as 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.840 those other guys, but you know what I mean. So 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.679 it's just like that, and that's essentially going to happen 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.520 with everyone. You don't know what's going to happen in 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.480 the future. But at the same time, it's like, man, 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.520 let's hope that he is guy. Let's hope that he 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.720 is the guy that we did get to see earlier 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:11.280 last season trending upwards in his game. So hopefully it's 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.600 all for the better and at least we don't have 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.960 to worry about trying to figure out exactly what's going 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.960 to happen at the quarterback position. But what surprised me 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.439 the most, and you guys already talked about it, was 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.679 a structure of the contract and what's going to happen 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.959 this year. And I said it all the time, like 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.880 I'm focused about the now today, not the future. So 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.199 I'm looking at this year specifically and what's going to 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.560 happen in free agency and what are some of the 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.920 other weapons that the Cowboys are gonna be able to 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.640 afford during this time. So it was basically that way 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.760 that they structure it, because it makes me think that 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.599 they're going to have some more flexibility and room to 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.880 offer other contracts to these guys that they do need 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.160 to bring back, whether it's their own free agent guys 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.600 or someone else from another team to bring here and 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.880 help the team, because we do need we do know 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.800 that the Cowboys need a lot of help in other areas. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.240 You know, it's interesting here when you start talking about 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.640 next in two years, the salary CAP's gonna go up. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.040 I wonder with free agency, are a lot of players 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.000 gonna want a two year deal. We saw that with 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.240 Lavante David. I think he did a two or three 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:29.360 year deal in with Bucks. Yeah, but that's that's hard 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.400 to do when you're and get paid, because you don't 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:33.840 have a lot of room to spread it out. And 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.760 they did a similar thing to the Cowboys. I think 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.040 it was a two or three year deal and then 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.360 they had two or three avoidable years. At the end, 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.600 we're gonna see something, yeah, which that doesn't really help 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.520 the Cowboys because the Cowboys, if they want to be 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.880 a player and sign anybody in free agency, they're gonna 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.040 want a bigger deal that kind of spreads things out. 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.920 And I think, though I'm I'm stealing this right off 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.240 of my Twitter timeline, but I agree with it. I 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.520 think this is this could be a really interesting year 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.920 where there might be more ercenary signings than ever before. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.680 Because the players they're not dumb, they know too. They're like, Okay, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.360 there's not a lot of money out there this year, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.480 but there will be. And I don't want to lock 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.199 myself into something, you know. I want to be able 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.079 to hit the market next year or in two years 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.400 and so. And on top of that, like the I mean, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.599 the blood bath has already started in turn, like the 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.040 teams just can't hold onto these veterans. They're getting cut 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.360 left and right. And I think it's only going to 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.719 get worse over the next week. Yea, Emmanuel Sanders and 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.240 John Brown got cut just within the last like hour, 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:31.880 and so I think a lot of those guys are 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.760 going to be willing to sign, which I don't want 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.680 to give anybody false hope because I got to see 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.640 the Cowboys do it to believe it. But if there's 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.040 talented veterans out there willing to sign not short cheap 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.679 deals just to get on a team and wait till 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.960 next year, like that could favor the Cowboys. But that 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.040 seems like what the Cowboys like to do right this 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.280 See if that's the what happens with a lot of 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.720 these players, that seems like it's right up the Cowboys alley, 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.240 Like they like those short term you know, give me, 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.800 I'll give me a year type deal where you can 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.400 prove it and then go back out in the market 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.400 and try to make money. Well, but that's also because 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.120 but no, that's my point. I think that's because, as 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.280 Dave was saying, most of the best players are want 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.720 a long term deal. This year may be different where 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.959 they look at the economics and they say, hey, we 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.120 know teams don't have a ton of money. I'm willing 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.800 to do a one year deal. 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Welcome back to the second segment of 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:15.879 the Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.600 the start, presented by Geico, we're talking about the DAK 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.440 Presscott deal. Remember to day at one thirty, DAK will 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.560 have his formal press conference where they will formally announce 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.800 the signing and he and Jerry will take questions I 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:32.040 assume from from the media. So next you stay tuned 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.000 for that. We'll have that streaming on all of our platforms, website, 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.600 mobile apps, social, I mean connected TV, of our social channels, 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.560 so anywhere you are, we will be there as well, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.280 and we'll have this available to you. What were you 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.720 laughing about, because I've seen the setup and it's just 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.960 gonna be funny. I know it's gonna look weird. It's 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.159 just presented by Miller Light. Well, but he's not presented 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:54.919 by Miller Light, and so I think it's gonna be 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.960 It's interesting, But I mean, but the cowboys are it's 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:59.959 presented by Miller Light, and it's Miller time as well 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.080 as well. For sure Dac will get that. Maybe he'll 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.600 have that other company's logo on his shirt or hat 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.280 or something. That's that's why I'm afraid of that won't happen. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.200 All right, Let's go ahead and jump into let's get 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.520 back into the conversation of his deal. Obviously, there are 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.520 there are lots of people out there on social media 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:20.159 fans that are like upset with this deal because they 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.680 feel like he got overpaid. I don't even want to 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.400 have that discussion because I really think that the way 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.119 that they're phrasing it is not really what they have 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.600 a problem with. I think really the issue here, and 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.200 this is what I want to get your opinion on, 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.320 is how much does the deal affect what the Cowboys 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.680 are able to do with other things? Because I think ultimately, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.440 I don't think fans really care how much a player 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.600 gets paid just in the dollar figure itself. What they 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.800 care about is how much does it affect the team's 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.440 ability to be able to do other things. So that's 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.159 the question for you, guys. How do you think this 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.240 affects the Cowboys and their ability this year and in 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.560 future years to be able to surround Dak with the 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.280 right kind of talent. Let's suffer us with you, Dave. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.080 I just want to point out, and maybe this is 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.480 my chance to be a downer, and I mean, it's awesome. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.120 It's a win for everybody that he is under contract 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.360 it's certainly a win for the Cowboys, but I view 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.199 this as an unmitigated win for Dak Prescott, Like he 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.119 got every single thing that he wanted. And I think 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.960 that's I think it's worth noting because imagine if we 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:19.840 had just gotten this out of the way two years ago, 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.680 like we didn't have to do this, and like, yes, 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.520 the Cowboys found a way to make it work. They 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.280