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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, March tenth, twenty twenty one, Season sixteen,
Speaker 1: episode number one hundred. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break Clive from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at
Speaker 1: the Star, represented by Geico, and it is a good
Speaker 1: day in cowboy Land because the Cowboys get their deal
Speaker 1: done with Dak Prescott. We're gonna talk a lot about
Speaker 1: that deal and what stood stands out as far as
Speaker 1: the deal is concerned, what it means for the future
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys, and then also hopefully we'll see how
Speaker 1: it goes. If we have a little time, we'll get
Speaker 1: into some free agency talk. Free agency starts next week.
Speaker 1: Next Wednesday, we'll be the first day of official free agency,
Speaker 1: and so we'll talk a little bit about some of
Speaker 1: the guys that are on the Cowboys current roster from
Speaker 1: last season that are going to be free agents, and
Speaker 1: whether these guys think the Cowboys should be resigning them
Speaker 1: or making a push to resign them. How's everybody doing today? Great,
Speaker 1: freaking wonderful, Derek. You know, I'm awesome. I watched I
Speaker 1: watched the show that you guys did, the writers show
Speaker 1: the night that the deal was done, And honestly, like
Speaker 1: you would think that that was like days like brother,
Speaker 1: I don't know somebody that like the way that you
Speaker 1: were just so happy. It seemed like you were getting
Speaker 1: some money out of this dude, like you were just
Speaker 1: so he was excited and then he was like ready
Speaker 1: to talk and then make sense it to Rob. Rob
Speaker 1: Let's turn with you. David's just like no, and day
Speaker 1: We're just sitting over there. He was like making faces
Speaker 1: and like, hey, I mean, guys a little bit long
Speaker 1: on that answer. If I remember too, I was like,
Speaker 1: come on, Rob, which is not Rob? You? Rob wrote
Speaker 1: the story. Yeah, and so I feel like I should Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a problem with I just I had
Speaker 1: that thought a few times over the last couple of
Speaker 1: days where I was like, you're not related to Dak,
Speaker 1: He's not your friend. I mean, like we have a
Speaker 1: decent enough relationship, Like he ain't given me any of this,
Speaker 1: Like what am I so freaking happy about? I'm glad.
Speaker 1: It's just I think it's a combination of it's finally over.
Speaker 1: It was two years in the making, we don't have
Speaker 1: to debate about it anymore, and I think it, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously I think the world of dak So yeah, I'm pumped. Yeah,
Speaker 1: honestly I did. Like that night, it felt like a
Speaker 1: weight was lifted, Like I felt lighter, I felt less.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was. It was just kind
Speaker 1: of this cloud that kind of seemed like it was lifted.
Speaker 1: And that kind of tells you when you work around here,
Speaker 1: like the mood of whatever's happening in the building tends
Speaker 1: to affect me. Sometimes it happens with wins and losses,
Speaker 1: happens with this kind of stuff that's really big. So
Speaker 1: it was it was a relief once it was done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's one of those things that, if you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't affect us as far as the final
Speaker 1: financially or whatever, but like we don't have to talk
Speaker 1: about it as much. But from a cowboy fans perspective,
Speaker 1: if he wouldn't have signed. If they let him go,
Speaker 1: if he goes to someone else, it would have been bad.
Speaker 1: It would have been bad around here. It would have
Speaker 1: been you know. Yeah, there's some people and some fans
Speaker 1: have been like, ah good, but not really, you know,
Speaker 1: it would have been a really tough situation. I think
Speaker 1: Cowboys knew that, and they avoided it, and they made
Speaker 1: sure that they got it done. Yeah, Nick, tell me
Speaker 1: real quick, what is tell me the terms of this
Speaker 1: deal laid out for everybody, Like, what is what is
Speaker 1: the term of the deal? I mean it averages it
Speaker 1: will average to be forty a year, you know, over
Speaker 1: four year, one sixty. But the part that really is
Speaker 1: creative about it is that it's really technically a six
Speaker 1: year deal right now that we'll avoid down to four.
Speaker 1: But the say right now, because there's sixty six million
Speaker 1: dollars signing bonus that he'll signed today, I believe it
Speaker 1: right right that spreads out over six years, you know,
Speaker 1: and so they're hoping for TV contracts and a salary
Speaker 1: cap to go back up and all that to kind
Speaker 1: of help with that. But right now, you know it,
Speaker 1: that's the average. I think this year's salary cap hit
Speaker 1: is twenty two point two million. So if you think
Speaker 1: about you know, it was thirty when he was thirty
Speaker 1: one point four last year, and he was going to
Speaker 1: be about thirty seven to thirty eight. You know that
Speaker 1: that I think is the most significant part. There's other
Speaker 1: terms of the deal. I can let Dave talk about that,
Speaker 1: but you know, just the fact of you know, he's
Speaker 1: going to count twenty two point two million. That's rare
Speaker 1: to have a huge contract like that and a guy
Speaker 1: and his number actually goes down. But as we found
Speaker 1: out today, there's a reason probably why it went down.
Speaker 1: And they're not going to save a lot of money.
Speaker 1: They're protecting themselves because of the cap has been reduced.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say that the Cowboys are the
Speaker 1: smartest front office in the league or that they always
Speaker 1: do everything right, but it all it clicks into place
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh man, they they kind of they
Speaker 1: knew what they were doing. I mean, if you take
Speaker 1: you can take it all the way back to last summer.
Speaker 1: They freed up all this cap space, they didn't use
Speaker 1: any of it, and that pissed people off and they
Speaker 1: were like, why why are we triggering all these deals?
Speaker 1: Why are we do it? Like Tom going up for
Speaker 1: Earl and we're going for Earl's Like no, they're actually
Speaker 1: gonna sit on it. And everyone's like, I guess they
Speaker 1: don't want to get better. It's like, well okay, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna need it. And that's the situation that we're
Speaker 1: in right now. Um, and that's you know you are giddy.
Speaker 1: I love I love this stuff. I like, I mean,
Speaker 1: like we all do this for the games, but like
Speaker 1: roster building and making it like I love team building.
Speaker 1: It seem you go work with Todd like that, just
Speaker 1: put you in that department if he would let me,
Speaker 1: I like Todd would hate that so much. Yea, like
Speaker 1: Todd looks like Todd's I like opinion of me is
Speaker 1: like a yappie dog. He's like, okay, please go away,
Speaker 1: like if I if I throw you a milk bone,
Speaker 1: where you shut up anyway. But yeah, So they carried
Speaker 1: over all this space. The cap comes out today it's
Speaker 1: about one hundred and eighty two million, which is an
Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars decrease from last year because of the
Speaker 1: drop in revenue because of COVID. So they carry all
Speaker 1: that over. So they've got about two hundred and seven million,
Speaker 1: Like they can spend up to two hundred and seven
Speaker 1: million because of that carry over, and DA's reduced cap
Speaker 1: hit because of the you know, because you can spread
Speaker 1: it out, puts them like right right there, like they're
Speaker 1: right underneath it. It's like, Oh, you guys knew that
Speaker 1: this was going to happen, and you knew that you
Speaker 1: could build it to fit into those parameters, which is
Speaker 1: really on their part two or seven on what they
Speaker 1: can spend, yes, more like give or take. And I
Speaker 1: want to stress to a lot of people have been
Speaker 1: asking about this since the cap came out, is like,
Speaker 1: this is all kinda yeah, it's all fluid, like you know,
Speaker 1: like and you can look it up on the internet
Speaker 1: if you want to, Like I'm looking at spowtrack right now.
Speaker 1: Over the cap is really great, but they use different formulas,
Speaker 1: so the money's off a little bit. So Honestly, if
Speaker 1: somebody other than like the Cowboys front office people tell
Speaker 1: you the number, I wouldn't even believe him at this point.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: And I think you know, they're I think they're going
Speaker 1: to trigger a lot of deals here over the next week,
Speaker 1: like Zach Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence Zeke. I did not. I
Speaker 1: learned this today actually from the Dallas Morning News. Um,
Speaker 1: it's built into those contracts. They don't even have to
Speaker 1: ask those guys for permission. They just they'll just email
Speaker 1: his agent and say, we're gonna flip that switch. We're
Speaker 1: going to convert your salary into assigning bonus and we
Speaker 1: can then pro rate that and so doing all of
Speaker 1: that can give you, you you know, they could free up
Speaker 1: up to like thirty million dollars. Kind in the world says,
Speaker 1: would you like your twelve million spread out over the
Speaker 1: next right weeks? Yeah? We're now, yeah, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll think, Oh I was hoping you would hold onto
Speaker 1: that until October that you don't mind. And then one
Speaker 1: more thing real quick. I know I'm kind of rambling here,
Speaker 1: but um, but you know, obviously Dak's numbers start to balloon.
Speaker 1: You know, he's down at twenty two right now, It's
Speaker 1: gonna be thirty three next year. It's gonna get all
Speaker 1: the way up to forty seven in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: which is a huge number no matter how you slice it.
Speaker 1: But what does that coincide with not just life hopefully
Speaker 1: probably getting back to normal, but a new round of
Speaker 1: TV deals that are going to start to get signed
Speaker 1: like now. And I mean, I think if you didn't
Speaker 1: already think that the salary cap was going to explode
Speaker 1: over the next two or three years, this is your indicator.
Speaker 1: Because the Joneses are on the competition committee, like they're
Speaker 1: privy to these types of things, and they're I think
Speaker 1: they're probably thinking of themselves, Yeah, we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna DA's gonna cost forty seven million
Speaker 1: in three years, but the salary cap is gonna be
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty million, Like who cares? So right now,
Speaker 1: forty million a year is second in the NFL, or
Speaker 1: ahead of Watson. I mean, there's there's any there's so
Speaker 1: many different ways to slice it. Like his guarantees are
Speaker 1: the most in league history, but his average salary comes
Speaker 1: in I think behind Deshaun right now. So yeah, in
Speaker 1: two years, when you say all that, where do you
Speaker 1: think he'll be ninth? Yeah? And I want to say
Speaker 1: I saw something. I said his cap hit this year,
Speaker 1: he's like thirteenth or something. Like the way they structured
Speaker 1: this thing, it's not hitting their cap very much at
Speaker 1: all this year, relatively speaking. But again, I think the
Speaker 1: point that Dave made is the really really key point
Speaker 1: is this deal was made I think looking at the
Speaker 1: TV contracts and understanding how that all is going to
Speaker 1: factor in. You listen to some of the reporting out
Speaker 1: there around TV contracts, they're saying some of these contracts
Speaker 1: made double, like that's that's the kind of money. And
Speaker 1: we're talking about big money. We're not talking about double
Speaker 1: from ten to twenty bucks. We're talking about billions of
Speaker 1: dollars doubling, right, So whether that's true or not, who knows.
Speaker 1: But even if it's a fraction of that, even if
Speaker 1: it goes up fifty percent, that is a huge, huge increase.
Speaker 1: And all that reflects back to the amount that teams
Speaker 1: will have that they'll be expected to spend on their players. Amber,
Speaker 1: I want to get to you. Tell me what you
Speaker 1: think is the most interesting or the part of this
Speaker 1: contract that stands out to you the most. Well, before
Speaker 1: I get to that, my reaction yesterday or a Monday
Speaker 1: when I found that, and I was happy. I wanted
Speaker 1: Dak to stay here, but I wasn't necessarily jumping up
Speaker 1: and down my seat like Dave right away. I could
Speaker 1: And what's the American saying, um, not to be a
Speaker 1: Debbi downer, not to be a Debbie downer, but so
Speaker 1: happy somebody else is doing this instead of me. And
Speaker 1: this is probably not a conversation for today or right now.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's like, I can't help
Speaker 1: but think or hope. I'm like, man, I hope he
Speaker 1: doesn't suck this year. You know, It's like we see
Speaker 1: it happen with other contracts. We talked about it. DeMarcus Lawrence,
Speaker 1: is Zekiel Jellen Smith wasn't necessarily at that level as
Speaker 1: those other guys, but you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: it's just like that, and that's essentially going to happen
Speaker 1: with everyone. You don't know what's going to happen in
Speaker 1: the future. But at the same time, it's like, man,
Speaker 1: let's hope that he is guy. Let's hope that he
Speaker 1: is the guy that we did get to see earlier
Speaker 1: last season trending upwards in his game. So hopefully it's
Speaker 1: all for the better and at least we don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about trying to figure out exactly what's going
Speaker 1: to happen at the quarterback position. But what surprised me
Speaker 1: the most, and you guys already talked about it, was
Speaker 1: a structure of the contract and what's going to happen
Speaker 1: this year. And I said it all the time, like
Speaker 1: I'm focused about the now today, not the future. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this year specifically and what's going to
Speaker 1: happen in free agency and what are some of the
Speaker 1: other weapons that the Cowboys are gonna be able to
Speaker 1: afford during this time. So it was basically that way
Speaker 1: that they structure it, because it makes me think that
Speaker 1: they're going to have some more flexibility and room to
Speaker 1: offer other contracts to these guys that they do need
Speaker 1: to bring back, whether it's their own free agent guys
Speaker 1: or someone else from another team to bring here and
Speaker 1: help the team, because we do need we do know
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys need a lot of help in other areas.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting here when you start talking about
Speaker 1: next in two years, the salary CAP's gonna go up.
Speaker 1: I wonder with free agency, are a lot of players
Speaker 1: gonna want a two year deal. We saw that with
Speaker 1: Lavante David. I think he did a two or three
Speaker 1: year deal in with Bucks. Yeah, but that's that's hard
Speaker 1: to do when you're and get paid, because you don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of room to spread it out. And
Speaker 1: they did a similar thing to the Cowboys. I think
Speaker 1: it was a two or three year deal and then
Speaker 1: they had two or three avoidable years. At the end,
Speaker 1: we're gonna see something, yeah, which that doesn't really help
Speaker 1: the Cowboys because the Cowboys, if they want to be
Speaker 1: a player and sign anybody in free agency, they're gonna
Speaker 1: want a bigger deal that kind of spreads things out.
Speaker 1: And I think, though I'm I'm stealing this right off
Speaker 1: of my Twitter timeline, but I agree with it. I
Speaker 1: think this is this could be a really interesting year
Speaker 1: where there might be more ercenary signings than ever before.
Speaker 1: Because the players they're not dumb, they know too. They're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of money out there this year,
Speaker 1: but there will be. And I don't want to lock
Speaker 1: myself into something, you know. I want to be able
Speaker 1: to hit the market next year or in two years
Speaker 1: and so. And on top of that, like the I mean,
Speaker 1: the blood bath has already started in turn, like the
Speaker 1: teams just can't hold onto these veterans. They're getting cut
Speaker 1: left and right. And I think it's only going to
Speaker 1: get worse over the next week. Yea, Emmanuel Sanders and
Speaker 1: John Brown got cut just within the last like hour,
Speaker 1: and so I think a lot of those guys are
Speaker 1: going to be willing to sign, which I don't want
Speaker 1: to give anybody false hope because I got to see
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do it to believe it. But if there's
Speaker 1: talented veterans out there willing to sign not short cheap
Speaker 1: deals just to get on a team and wait till
Speaker 1: next year, like that could favor the Cowboys. But that
Speaker 1: seems like what the Cowboys like to do right this
Speaker 1: See if that's the what happens with a lot of
Speaker 1: these players, that seems like it's right up the Cowboys alley,
Speaker 1: Like they like those short term you know, give me,
Speaker 1: I'll give me a year type deal where you can
Speaker 1: prove it and then go back out in the market
Speaker 1: and try to make money. Well, but that's also because
Speaker 1: but no, that's my point. I think that's because, as
Speaker 1: Dave was saying, most of the best players are want
Speaker 1: a long term deal. This year may be different where
Speaker 1: they look at the economics and they say, hey, we
Speaker 1: know teams don't have a ton of money. I'm willing
Speaker 1: to do a one year deal. And if you can
Speaker 1: do a one year deal or two year deal, that
Speaker 1: can get me in the door and I get good money.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think anybody's taking a pay cut necessarily,
Speaker 1: but they want to get paid. But a one or
Speaker 1: two year deal that sounds like the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: to cowboys may be prone to doing if it's not
Speaker 1: a long term commitment, and especially if they can figure
Speaker 1: out a way to free up some money. Let's take
Speaker 1: our first break. When we come back, I do want
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about what this means for
Speaker 1: the future, because you look at this roster, and as
Speaker 1: you say, at Amber, there are lots of areas where
Speaker 1: the Cowboys need to make some moves. I want to
Speaker 1: know how much this deal that they did with Dak
Speaker 1: affects what they can do this year. Are there ways
Speaker 1: that they can maybe free up some money. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that when we come right back. This is Dallas
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Speaker 1: the Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at
Speaker 1: the start, presented by Geico, we're talking about the DAK
Speaker 1: Presscott deal. Remember to day at one thirty, DAK will
Speaker 1: have his formal press conference where they will formally announce
Speaker 1: the signing and he and Jerry will take questions I
Speaker 1: assume from from the media. So next you stay tuned
Speaker 1: for that. We'll have that streaming on all of our platforms, website,
Speaker 1: mobile apps, social, I mean connected TV, of our social channels,
Speaker 1: so anywhere you are, we will be there as well,
Speaker 1: and we'll have this available to you. What were you
Speaker 1: laughing about, because I've seen the setup and it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be funny. I know it's gonna look weird. It's
Speaker 1: just presented by Miller Light. Well, but he's not presented
Speaker 1: by Miller Light, and so I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: It's interesting, But I mean, but the cowboys are it's
Speaker 1: presented by Miller Light, and it's Miller time as well
Speaker 1: as well. For sure Dac will get that. Maybe he'll
Speaker 1: have that other company's logo on his shirt or hat
Speaker 1: or something. That's that's why I'm afraid of that won't happen.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go ahead and jump into let's get
Speaker 1: back into the conversation of his deal. Obviously, there are
Speaker 1: there are lots of people out there on social media
Speaker 1: fans that are like upset with this deal because they
Speaker 1: feel like he got overpaid. I don't even want to
Speaker 1: have that discussion because I really think that the way
Speaker 1: that they're phrasing it is not really what they have
Speaker 1: a problem with. I think really the issue here, and
Speaker 1: this is what I want to get your opinion on,
Speaker 1: is how much does the deal affect what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are able to do with other things? Because I think ultimately,
Speaker 1: I don't think fans really care how much a player
Speaker 1: gets paid just in the dollar figure itself. What they
Speaker 1: care about is how much does it affect the team's
Speaker 1: ability to be able to do other things. So that's
Speaker 1: the question for you, guys. How do you think this
Speaker 1: affects the Cowboys and their ability this year and in
Speaker 1: future years to be able to surround Dak with the
Speaker 1: right kind of talent. Let's suffer us with you, Dave.
Speaker 1: I just want to point out, and maybe this is
Speaker 1: my chance to be a downer, and I mean, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: It's a win for everybody that he is under contract
Speaker 1: it's certainly a win for the Cowboys, but I view
Speaker 1: this as an unmitigated win for Dak Prescott, Like he
Speaker 1: got every single thing that he wanted. And I think
Speaker 1: that's I think it's worth noting because imagine if we
Speaker 1: had just gotten this out of the way two years ago,
Speaker 1: like we didn't have to do this, and like, yes,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys found a way to make it work. They
Speaker 1: were very smart about it, but they didn't like they
Speaker 1: didn't pull one over on Dak Prescott. He hit the
Speaker 1: forty million dollar mark, which seemed unthinkable. He got a
Speaker 1: no trade clause, he got a no tag clause, and
Speaker 1: he'll be able to hit the open market again when
Speaker 1: he's thirty one years old, which if he keeps up
Speaker 1: this trajectory, he'll be still right in the prime of
Speaker 1: his career. Did you still did you really think it
Speaker 1: was still unthinkable once the Shaun Watson deale got done. No,
Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm thinking back over the whole half
Speaker 1: of years ago. I have a vivid memory of us
Speaker 1: doing a show at camp when that report leaked, and
Speaker 1: we were like serious, like and here we are, And
Speaker 1: I just I think that's worth noting that Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: unquestionably one, and I think the lesson to be learned
Speaker 1: is probably just don't try to play hardball with a quarterback, honestly,
Speaker 1: like you're not gonna win unless you're willing to let
Speaker 1: him leave, which is a risky proposition. But you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think the way this all played out, I honestly
Speaker 1: don't think there's a loser here because I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys paid him what he wanted, but they paid him
Speaker 1: what he wanted under the context of what they needed
Speaker 1: it to be. And we just finished talking about how
Speaker 1: the TV deals factor into this, like when they have
Speaker 1: to pay him the money and how it's going to
Speaker 1: hit the cap. I still think it fits very nicely good.
Speaker 1: I'll put it to you like this, two years from now,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott will probably, I would guess, Dak Prescott will
Speaker 1: be somewhere in the range of six seventh eighth as
Speaker 1: far as quarterbacks and what their average salary is, which
Speaker 1: and I completely agree, And I don't want to paint
Speaker 1: it as if the Cowboys are losers. I just what
Speaker 1: did we really accomplish other than the price going up?
Speaker 1: Like he could already be there right now, like he
Speaker 1: could be way down where you know, where all these
Speaker 1: other guys are. Now, if we had just gotten this
Speaker 1: out of the way, you know, you think about it though.
Speaker 1: You go back to two years ago. The Cowboys offered
Speaker 1: him several things. But I think what was being reported
Speaker 1: was there was about a five year deal I think
Speaker 1: worth thirty three million. I think that's where it was.
Speaker 1: I think it's somewhere. So let's just say that was
Speaker 1: the case after through five years. That takes us through
Speaker 1: the nineteen, the twenty season, twenty two, and twenty three.
Speaker 1: At the end of twenty three, that would have paid
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty five million dollars today, one sixty
Speaker 1: five At where we stand right now, at the end
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, he's gonna get one fifty three.
Speaker 1: And I've said this all along. You can't forget that
Speaker 1: two million that he left on the table. I mean,
Speaker 1: he left thirty one million on the table. So I
Speaker 1: don't think it's necessarily a win for either side. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys, you know, they saved a little bit there. Now,
Speaker 1: let's don't forget the deal isn't over at twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: He gets another forty million after that, so I think
Speaker 1: it kind of washes itself out a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think Dak necessarily just dominated this whole thing,
Speaker 1: because when they were offering him thirty three, he took
Speaker 1: two million so he could eventually get to forty. And
Speaker 1: it kind of evens itself out almost. Yeah, once you
Speaker 1: figure out all the money he's gonna make on this contract,
Speaker 1: black a white way to look at. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, once you'd got all the money is going
Speaker 1: to be in this contract. Though, once he gets to
Speaker 1: the four years, I think he still comes out ahead, right, yes,
Speaker 1: and sorry if he if let's just say, okay, let's
Speaker 1: go back to that five year thirty three. The next
Speaker 1: year wherever, if with the Cowboys or someone else, do
Speaker 1: you think he'll make twenty eight million per year more
Speaker 1: than that? Okay? So then no, the answer is no,
Speaker 1: that it doesn't, you know what I mean. And it's
Speaker 1: my math is terrible, but I'm just saying. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying he was at one sixty five if you would
Speaker 1: have done it that that way, he's at one fifty
Speaker 1: three he did it this way, you know, So there's
Speaker 1: twelve million fifty three for the whole deal. Yeah, one
Speaker 1: fifty three. Yeah, I'm talking about it in twenty twenty three. Nine,
Speaker 1: he's got another forty, he's got another forty. Talk about
Speaker 1: can you do the whole deal? Though I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about just ended a twenty three the whole deal? Then
Speaker 1: give me Okay, that's one ninety three, that's three, and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting at one sixty five. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Give me that next year he's gonna make more than
Speaker 1: twenty eight. I know I lost a lot of people myself. Definitely,
Speaker 1: I think I'm pretty decent in mathmic You did you
Speaker 1: lost me for suthing. But I think I think I'm
Speaker 1: getting out, which is saying yeah, I mean again, I agree.
Speaker 1: I actually agree. Though I agree that you know what
Speaker 1: was accomplished here, I don't know. I think I think
Speaker 1: Dad getting hurt gave him a lot more money. I
Speaker 1: really do. If Dad doesn't get hurt, this team is
Speaker 1: gonna finish seven and nine, eight and eight, nine and seven.
Speaker 1: Maybe they make the playoffs, but they're not gonna see
Speaker 1: how much they missed him. They saw Holy, yes, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to say, holy that we need this guy.
Speaker 1: We can't do without him. We can't score touchdown without him,
Speaker 1: and even the guy we thought was going to help
Speaker 1: us come in here and eventually did, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: ready to play right then, and they weren't gonna let
Speaker 1: that happen. I think he made more money because he
Speaker 1: got hurt. That's an interesting thought. I mean, I get it,
Speaker 1: and there's there's two ways. You know, there's two sides
Speaker 1: to the argument. But I saw a line from Bob Sturm,
Speaker 1: something he wrote recently, and I completely agree with it.
Speaker 1: It's like, if if you have a quarterback who falls
Speaker 1: in this age range of being in the prime of
Speaker 1: his career, and he meets a certain threshold, just cut
Speaker 1: the check. You gotta do it. Just cut the check
Speaker 1: because you're not going to beat him, like you're not
Speaker 1: going to outleverage him if he fits that criteria. And
Speaker 1: not everybody's going to agree that he that. Not everybody
Speaker 1: loves Dak the way that I do. But like the
Speaker 1: numbers say that they are what they are and you
Speaker 1: can't beat him, and I don't know what you're supposed
Speaker 1: to do about it. I do think you also have
Speaker 1: to factor in though that market factors changed. When you
Speaker 1: go back and say, well, two years ago, he could
Speaker 1: have got this for cheaper. Well, yeah, but the problem
Speaker 1: back then, that was before the Shawn Watson deal, that
Speaker 1: was before the Patrick Mahomes deal. You had Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: was averaging thirty five, where the Cowboys just gonna match
Speaker 1: him up with Russell Wilson based upon what they had
Speaker 1: seen at that time. Like there, it was hard to
Speaker 1: make that argument that you should do that, but they were.
Speaker 1: They were willing to give him thirty three, which would
Speaker 1: have been above those two guys that were drafted ahead
Speaker 1: of him, So I think they felt like that was
Speaker 1: a fair deal. Sure, so once market factors changed, and
Speaker 1: then now you got Mahomes, you got Watson, they're making
Speaker 1: forty plus now, giving deal for a DAC of forty
Speaker 1: million average year deal seems like it's plausible. Like he's
Speaker 1: in there, he's in there. I think he and Watson
Speaker 1: are similar type quarterbacks, right, so I think it makes
Speaker 1: sense and you have to factor that in. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's fair just to say, well, they could have
Speaker 1: done this for cheaper, because the market market factors changed
Speaker 1: quite a bit all those years. And I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see what this looks like when he comes up again.
Speaker 1: I mean it's gonna be insane. Oh yeah, once those
Speaker 1: TV deals kick in, Like those guys right now that
Speaker 1: are still sitting out there waiting for deals, Lamar Jackson. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know guys like that that are that next wave,
Speaker 1: their numbers are just gonna be sick. I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna it, qu Dak will quickly become you know,
Speaker 1: push down that. I think he's gonna be in that
Speaker 1: sixty eight range as far as quarterbacks are concerned, because
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna get paid to answer your question
Speaker 1: a little more directly after that huge tangent that. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why it's such a big deal that they got
Speaker 1: this done, especially with the rollover. I think I read
Speaker 1: this morning Dak's cap percentage and that everybody freaks out
Speaker 1: about the cap percentage, like nobody who's ever won a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl counting for more than thirteen percent of the
Speaker 1: cap until Tom Brady did it. And then well he's
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. He can do whatever you want, like whatever, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's never done until it's done. But he's only hitting
Speaker 1: them for like ten or eleven percent of the cap
Speaker 1: this year, and it would have been like twenty if
Speaker 1: not for getting the deal done and having the rollover
Speaker 1: from last year. So yeah, and again I fully expect
Speaker 1: him to free up of some money over the next
Speaker 1: week by restructuring some guys and who knows what they'll
Speaker 1: do with it, But I mean they should have and
Speaker 1: we know, you know, the compics are going to be
Speaker 1: announced today by the way, so we will know. You know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have ten or eleven draft picks, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have enough money to add talent and free agency,
Speaker 1: like they should have plenty of opportunities to make this
Speaker 1: roster better. And those two offensive tackles should come back.
Speaker 1: And if they come that's the key. That's the key,
Speaker 1: that that helps Dak be better. Even when you said,
Speaker 1: even when you said Dak being hurt probably helped this
Speaker 1: deal along. To me, I personally think this last year
Speaker 1: was so much more about those two tackles. I think
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton would have been a better quarterback but for
Speaker 1: the fact that he didn't have two tackles he could
Speaker 1: rely on. Yeah, and so I think that was huge.
Speaker 1: So it actually probably helped Dak those two were out too,
Speaker 1: because it made it look even worse without Dak, Like
Speaker 1: Dak could actually function without those two tackles. He wasn't
Speaker 1: maybe at his best, but he could at least function.
Speaker 1: Those other guys could not function without. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: i've seen it but or they've been out there, but
Speaker 1: I think those all three of those guys you just
Speaker 1: mentioned have been out there working. Yeah, we're good. From
Speaker 1: what we hear in the building, things are going good,
Speaker 1: going well. Sorry and uh, Dave would correct me on
Speaker 1: that things are going well there, So that that's that's definitely.
Speaker 1: Every year things are going well around this time, we
Speaker 1: go no, no, no, no no, because if if we're
Speaker 1: being real, okay, and I love these guys obviously, but
Speaker 1: if we're being real, it's like every year we go
Speaker 1: into training camp thinking that these guys are gonna be
Speaker 1: absolutely fair, they're gonna be healthy, they're ready to go,
Speaker 1: and then something pops up. So it's again, it's not
Speaker 1: about being like the downer again or whatever. It's like
Speaker 1: remembering every time you get excited about these guys, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, just hold up, wait until we get into
Speaker 1: training camp and we start the season. Because it happens
Speaker 1: every year, and if it's not one guy, it's the other.
Speaker 1: It's always someone in the in the old line. So
Speaker 1: hopefully they can stay healthy and hopefully we can have
Speaker 1: it at least towards the last month of the Samberg
Speaker 1: going into the postseason. So but yeah, you have to
Speaker 1: keep that in mind and don't get too excited. Prepare
Speaker 1: yourself and be ready for what can happen there you're learning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think it's absolutely fair. Slap in the face
Speaker 1: too many times. Yeah, him with those tackles, I think
Speaker 1: it's absolutely fair, especially tiring at the age that he
Speaker 1: is and the number of years that he's had consecutively
Speaker 1: where he's had issues with his back, with his neck, Like,
Speaker 1: I think there are things that right now you like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want him to be progressing well. But I'm a
Speaker 1: big believe if the Cowboys don't go into this season
Speaker 1: with a reliable, I mean a really really reliable swing tackle,
Speaker 1: they're doing themselves a disservice like that that you cannot
Speaker 1: rely on the fact that those guys will be available
Speaker 1: to you for an entire sixteen game season. And we
Speaker 1: saw last year just how imperative it is that you
Speaker 1: have yourself a really good swing tackle. When you can't
Speaker 1: rely that, you're rely on the fact that your starters
Speaker 1: are going to be there good day. I agree with
Speaker 1: everything you just said, but I'm just I just want
Speaker 1: to call my shot. I've been saying this and thinking
Speaker 1: this for a long time, but I think I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fine. I would love it, I think,
Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, make make an adjustment for
Speaker 1: knocks and bumps that you pick up. But I bet
Speaker 1: they'll both play thirteen or more games and and and
Speaker 1: be awesome. I don't I just I don't know. I
Speaker 1: feel this sense of optimism about it, which is weird
Speaker 1: coming for me. I just hope if they're playing, if
Speaker 1: they both played thirteen games, I hope that they're not
Speaker 1: playing the same thirteen games and then those other four
Speaker 1: or ones they're both out, Like that's either one of
Speaker 1: them from one month of the season, right. I think
Speaker 1: you want to have them and you want to be
Speaker 1: by the way you're playing football. It is a contact sport.
Speaker 1: Guys are gonna get hurt. I get that. So if
Speaker 1: you're missing a couple of games a year and you're
Speaker 1: that caliber player, you just build that into the process
Speaker 1: and note that's going to happen, and be prepared for
Speaker 1: it and That's why I say you gotta make sure
Speaker 1: they got a good swing tackle, just to be prepared
Speaker 1: for I mean, Tyren Smith did not get hurt anymore.
Speaker 1: In that Cleveland game that he played, he was hurt,
Speaker 1: he needed surgery, he was gonna have it. He played anyway.
Speaker 1: He played really well. Yeah, and the other side was
Speaker 1: a mess. But I mean he played well and then
Speaker 1: he went and had surgery and was out for the year.
Speaker 1: That's a surgery he's needed for about two years. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have some issues with his back. That's just that's
Speaker 1: a thing, and they're going to hope to manage it
Speaker 1: the best they can, but they're hoping with the neck
Speaker 1: that surgery should really help. And you tell me you're
Speaker 1: going to give me Tyren Smith at the level that
Speaker 1: I've been accustomed to seeing Tyren Smith, and I get
Speaker 1: him thirteen games a year, sign me up. I'm taking that.
Speaker 1: I'm good with that, um. But the fact is, like,
Speaker 1: you better have a good swing tackle, because we saw
Speaker 1: this year when you don't have him, you better have
Speaker 1: a good replacement that can at least steady the ship
Speaker 1: and not somebody. Maybe not the first round, but I
Speaker 1: hope it's a draft pick of somebody that that could
Speaker 1: be the future there. He also could play guard. You
Speaker 1: know what, if Tyran and Lyle play great and they're
Speaker 1: healthy and everything's great, well maybe this guy that you
Speaker 1: took in the second or third round can actually play
Speaker 1: guard for you until you need to. That's happened before.
Speaker 1: Flowzell Adams, who comes to mind, he played guard for
Speaker 1: a little bit before. He was a really good tackle,
Speaker 1: you know. And there's other guys that have done that too.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go and take our final break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna get into the free agency
Speaker 1: conversation just a bit. I do want to talk particularly
Speaker 1: about Andy Dalton, who is a guy that played I
Speaker 1: think decent for the Cowboys last year. Question is do
Speaker 1: the Cowboys need him? Do they need to go that
Speaker 1: big with regards to their backup quarterback, especially now that
Speaker 1: they know Dak will be here and he will be
Speaker 1: under contract in a contract that favors the Cowboy this year.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little free agency now let's we've
Speaker 1: talked about Dax deal and obviously the Cowboys were able
Speaker 1: to get it to a point where it's not killing
Speaker 1: their cap this year. UM So, my question first starting
Speaker 1: off with you guys, is knowing what you know now
Speaker 1: about the cap, knowing where the Cowboys are right now,
Speaker 1: knowing the kinds of deals that are out there, as
Speaker 1: far as the players that they have on the team
Speaker 1: and some of the maneuvering that they can do, do
Speaker 1: you think the Cowboys have enough space right now to
Speaker 1: be able to be players in a free agency Nicholas,
Speaker 1: are you No? I don't think they're going to be
Speaker 1: players in free agency. I think they just don't have
Speaker 1: it as much as other teams because you know, it's
Speaker 1: not just that. I mean when you think about go
Speaker 1: to every position and go do the Cowboys have a
Speaker 1: top five, top seven or eight player in the NFL
Speaker 1: at that position? Receiver yes, running back yes, guard, yes, Tackles.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's top five, but I mean
Speaker 1: I think guard yeah, yeah, I mean guard yeah, guard
Speaker 1: for sure. Defensive end yes, inside linebacker I think so
Speaker 1: with Jalen what I think he's getting paid for it? Yeah? Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought you're meaning like play like they're playing. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about the player, Okay, yeah, okay, yeah. I
Speaker 1: actually I took issue with the tackle thing too, because
Speaker 1: I was like, if he's healthy, Tian's definitely yea. They
Speaker 1: have contracts at all of these positions, tight end, it's
Speaker 1: up there. They're paying a lot of guys. So they're
Speaker 1: paying a lot of guys, and then you know they're
Speaker 1: paying Dak now number three overall at quarterback. So I
Speaker 1: just don't know if they're going to be able to
Speaker 1: be players from what I've heard and the players that
Speaker 1: are like, oh, is he coming back for sure? And
Speaker 1: they're like, I don't know. And this was like number
Speaker 1: nine or eleven on the list of free agents. I'm like, well, dang,
Speaker 1: who is coming back then? So I just don't know.
Speaker 1: I bet that conversation might be different now that Dak
Speaker 1: is under contract like that, I mean, when if they
Speaker 1: they would be so screwed if they had to carry
Speaker 1: him on the cap right now, Like that's part of
Speaker 1: what makes it to go back to that, Like that's
Speaker 1: part of what makes it exciting is they don't have
Speaker 1: to really mess with the roster now because they would
Speaker 1: have had to not like not just restructuring, but maybe
Speaker 1: even cutting some guys, and now they don't have to,
Speaker 1: which is great. So one of the things that's interesting
Speaker 1: about this, and I'll pose this question to you, Amber,
Speaker 1: is if you know, when you start maneuvering with these
Speaker 1: guys contracts and basically giving them money now and spreading
Speaker 1: out the years, that means you're now spreading out the years,
Speaker 1: and that means that those guys have to stick around
Speaker 1: a little longer for it to be palatable for you
Speaker 1: to part ways with them. Are there certain contracts right
Speaker 1: now that you would be like, absolutely, don't touch this contract.
Speaker 1: Do not maneuver with this contract. And you know, obviously
Speaker 1: the big ones that you throw out there are your
Speaker 1: your zekes, your tanks, your your Jalens. Those are the
Speaker 1: big contracts where you can make make up some difference
Speaker 1: and create some room, but you also are linkedining out.
Speaker 1: Is there a contract that you would be like, I'm
Speaker 1: just I don't feel like that's a good idea to
Speaker 1: lengthen that contract. I don't know. I'll let them to
Speaker 1: answer that question, because you know, I don't know much
Speaker 1: about these contracts or whatever. When it comes to the future,
Speaker 1: and long term type of stuff. But what I'm curious
Speaker 1: about when speaking about free agency and what's going to
Speaker 1: happen here and these deals, it's I genuinely don't fully
Speaker 1: know exactly how this coaching staff thinks. Like I know
Speaker 1: Jerry and Stephen Jones, I know they will McLay and
Speaker 1: all that we know kind of their mentality and what
Speaker 1: they usually tend to do. But it makes me wonder
Speaker 1: like right now, I really don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: voice this new coaching staff really has and how do
Speaker 1: they think and look and evaluate these players as far
Speaker 1: as like who do they think is good or who
Speaker 1: do they think is bad? You know, It's like we,
Speaker 1: at least me, I don't really have a clear a
Speaker 1: view or idea of what that really looks like, which
Speaker 1: makes me really not know what could happen this free
Speaker 1: agency and if we might start seeing something different from
Speaker 1: the Cowboys as far as moves or maybe you know,
Speaker 1: not necessarily what we usually expect. So it's just more
Speaker 1: about player evaluation from this coaching staff, especially obviously on
Speaker 1: the defensive side. With Dan Quinn, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know this thing he can really develop all these
Speaker 1: guys or does he think like some of these are
Speaker 1: terrible and definitely need to get out of here and
Speaker 1: need to bring someone else in. So it's just it's
Speaker 1: very hard to really have a clear idea as of
Speaker 1: right now. But yeah, I'll let them answer. The whole
Speaker 1: contract aspect of things, Nick, you mentioned Zeke, is that
Speaker 1: your is that your number one guy? You're like, I
Speaker 1: don't mess with this contract. I don't. I don't really
Speaker 1: want to do that. But more than I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: it is is that you know, it's it's just like
Speaker 1: football games where you just take one game out of time,
Speaker 1: and yes, yes you do look ahead of the future
Speaker 1: a little bit, but you're taking the season for the
Speaker 1: salary cap as it is, and so you just kind
Speaker 1: of push it a little bit. And that's what got
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in trouble in the nineties. They just kept
Speaker 1: pushing these deals and then to the point where they
Speaker 1: weren't good enough. And you're sitting there like, Wow, this
Speaker 1: guy's not a very good player and he's counting a
Speaker 1: lot because you keep pushing the deal with Zeke, though
Speaker 1: I don't really want to do that. I think you know,
Speaker 1: he's not cutible right now or the next couple of years,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to keep pushing him. We're already
Speaker 1: starting to see a little bit of a a client here.
Speaker 1: We don't know just yet if it's if it's just
Speaker 1: because of the injuries in the line and all the
Speaker 1: stuff around him, or is it just him. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's starting to get in that close. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to keep pushing it and adding years to this deal. Dave. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Zeke and Zeke and Jalen are the ones. Just they're
Speaker 1: they're long deals for guys that you're not convinced have
Speaker 1: it right now, and so if you mess with that,
Speaker 1: it messes with your ability to get out out of
Speaker 1: it quickly. So yeah, those are those are the two.
Speaker 1: But everybody else restructure away. Like, I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: Tank or Tyring. Honestly, Tyrant's deal is so ridiculously team
Speaker 1: friendly at this point that even if you mess with it,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna screw you over. So same thing with
Speaker 1: Lyell M. I do wonder about Amari. I do like
Speaker 1: as it's structured right now, like they're done with his
Speaker 1: guarantees next year, and they could release him if they
Speaker 1: wanted to. But I don't. I don't know. That doesn't
Speaker 1: bother me a lot, so really, anybody but zeker Jalen
Speaker 1: is fine with me, and I did. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to throw say as well, like I don't. They could
Speaker 1: have sixty million dollars in cap space and I would
Speaker 1: like whatever. They're not going to be players, that's not
Speaker 1: what they do. So I think this year I am
Speaker 1: trying to identify good players that might be able to
Speaker 1: be had at a bargain because that's who they that
Speaker 1: is who they've shown that they are willing to go after,
Speaker 1: and fortunately for them, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that fit that description. All Right, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and wrap the show. We do have the press
Speaker 1: conference coming up here at one thirty, so make sure
Speaker 1: you stay tuned for that. You can check all of
Speaker 1: our platforms. You'll be able to listen and watch that live.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott signing his deal, we'll talk about that next week.
Speaker 1: We'll also get into more free agency talk that begins
Speaker 1: next Wednesday. That'll be the actual start a free agency
Speaker 1: actually next Monday, as win teams can start the unofficial
Speaker 1: tampering period. I guess, for lack of a better way
Speaker 1: to put it where they can start actually talking to agents.
Speaker 1: But signings will actually start next Wednesday, so we'll be
Speaker 1: back next Winday. We'll talk a little bit about some
Speaker 1: of the free agency stuff happening with the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: happening around the league. Till then for Nick Eatn, Dave Hellman,
Speaker 1: Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eakleton. This has been The
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