WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Behind the 8 Ball 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:18.159 Cowboys, Let's go. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:19.760 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:20.279 Yes? 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.160 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.079 Absolutely? Ready for a break? 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.319 Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.720 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:37.199 We were on with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.680 Walker and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.560 It is Wednesday, March twentieth, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen, 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.240 episode number one hundred and sixteen. Welcome to the latest 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.200 edition of The Break Life from s WBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.560 at the Star. And today we're talking free We're talking 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:56.400 free agency here. Welcome to the show. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:56.680 Amber. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.560 We're talking for ee agents. Had a little little spill 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.040 then right we went on there. But we're talking free 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.640 agency today, and as I think everybody in the Cowboys 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:12.319 media world is talking about because of maybe not what's happened, 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.840 but what hasn't happened, I think. But I want to 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.640 start first with that conversation. I want to go around 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:19.560 the table and give each of you guys an opportunity 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.200 just to give your general thoughts on where the Cowboys 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.360 sit right now relative to what's happened in free agency 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.480 from the standpoint of the players they've signed and the 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.959 players that they did not sign. Let's start with you, Patrick. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.520 This is a rough They're in a rough spot right now. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.640 It's not a spot they were unprepared to be in, 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.399 but it's a rough spot nonetheless. I mean, I was 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.200 sitting there this morning and I was trying to figure 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.400 out in recent memory, when have I seen a situation 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.360 where you have a combination of lack of outside free 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.600 agents being added to the roster in combination with such 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.640 a hemorrhaging of in house talent going to other teams. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:57.640 And I'm kind of at a loss as far as 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.920 when recently this has happened prior to this year. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:01.480 Uh So they're in a bad spot. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.840 I mean, you know, I like the the addition of 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.200 Eric Kendricks, and I love even better that they stole 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.440 him away from the San Francisco forty nine ers. You know, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.120 weaken your enemy to make yourself stronger. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:11.560 To love that. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.239 But that's the only outside signing that's occurred because they're 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.399 up against some salary cap crunches. But we talked about 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.040 it last week. I mean, there are triggers that can 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.440 be pulled. They are soft pulling those triggers they pulled 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.400 on on Zach Martin. They did a rework on Dak 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.240 Prescott got about four or five million dollars, but you 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.959 could get more, be it with an extension or full 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.919 on restructure. Nonetheless, but you haven't brought in anyone other 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.600 than Eric Kendricks. You've lost Tyron Smith, which was a 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.440 massive loss. We talked about that. To the New York Jets. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.120 You lost Durrance. So I'm strong someone that I feel 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.160 has been perennially perennially underrated on this roster. I'm fine 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.560 with loser Tyler Biaddish, but it's still a spot that 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.560 you need to feel now. And I'm missing another guy 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.800 who's my twenty dollars to the Nashville to the Tennessee Titan. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.600 So I mean, right now, you got Jordan Lewis, wonderful, 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.400 that's a key react with c J. Goodwins, Special teams, Ace, 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.360 Trent cy Geah. Everybody needs a long snapper. But it's 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.639 been wildly underwhelming and they're going to have to really 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.720 start making some splashes. I'm keeping some eyes on a 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.880 guy like Stefan Gilmore to try to at least make 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.720 me feel better about what I'm seeing, because right now 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.119 it's looking real bad. 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.920 H well for me, after you listed all those guys, 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.959 it just feels like we they haven't gotten any better, 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.240 Like it doesn't feel like we're a better team right 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:33.840 now than when the season ended. So that's my problem 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.760 is we sit here and we start getting expectations, and 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:42.680 you start saying, Okay, now the expectations are very, very high, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.880 to the point where literally it doesn't matter why you're 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.880 doing the season. Let's wait until the postseason see what 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.520 they can actually do in the playoffs. But then we 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.200 get to the free agency, and then you start seeing 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:59.680 and realizing how money tight there really are. And I 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.400 think when Gary Jones went in and made the comment 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.920 about being all in, and that whole phrase took a 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.040 whole like a whole new world like that just it 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:16.960 got over exploded. And I know he was kind of 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.920 referring to like those bigger contracts and the guys that 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:24.799 they have in house, DAK PRESCA, cd MICA, guys like those. 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.520 But when you take that phrase and fans take it 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.440 and go along with it and start creating their own 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.000 individual expectations, and then you get to free agency and 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:39.600 don't see any moves, any splashes. I think it's very 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.960 It doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel good. I understand 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.200 the business aspect of it, but right now, if I'm 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:52.159 being one hundred percent honest, nothing about what's happened makes 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.279 me feel like this season it's gonna have a different ending. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.159 And I can be absolutely wrong. Free agency is not 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.000 over the season and hasn't even started. Training camp hasn't 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.960 even started. The draft hasn't happened. But it's just it's 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.920 hard to envision a team that will be better despite 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.839 the coaching changes that have occurred. Right now, it's just 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.560 I don't know, I don't know. I'm I don't want 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.880 to say this, but I'm not motivated right now. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:21.840 Oh, real quick, before throwing Brian, that's what I was 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.919 forgetting Jonathan Hankins expected to sign. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.960 With the Seattle Seahawks. So you're also losing your one tip, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:27.479 all right, Yeah. 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.960 I think the thing that I focus on is that 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.160 it's it's going to put a tremendous amount of pressure 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.280 on the scouts to build their board the right way and. 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:37.800 To have a draft and last. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.080 Year and we'll see what the verdict will be on 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.040 this past draft. They didn't get the production that they've 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.840 gotten from players in the past, and that that you know, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.560 that that in itself, and if you talk to those 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.159 scouts in that room, they'll tell you they've got to 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.120 focus in on. You know, there's going to be a 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.200 lot of needs that they're going to have to address. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.000 How flexible are they going to be able to take 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.280 the best available player when they've drafted. By taking the 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.200 best available player, it's worked out really really. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:06.560 Well for them. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.960 They know how to plug and play offensive lineman in 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.160 the first round. That's something that they can take care of. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.880 But you have to kind of look at where they 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.840 are right now. And I think if you go back 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.240 and look at dead money, you look at dead money 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:20.920 in some of these contracts. You look at a dead 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.479 money contract of Ezekiel Elliott, you know, you look at 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:27.160 a dead money contract now soon of Tyrone Smith, Geort's 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.800 Armstrong is going to have fifteen you know, a one 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.360 point five million dollar dead money Kelvin Joseph second round 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.240 pick didn't work out. Dead money right there, almost a 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.560 million dollars right there, you know, So you know, Michael 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.840 Gallup gonna be a dead money. You're gonna get some saying, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.240 but there's gonna be dead money there. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:44.760 You know. 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.599 This is where you know, and I think that to me, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.520 that's where some of the signings that haven't worked out 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.200 for them is coming back and getting them. Right now 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.720 as we speak that they've you know that some of 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.960 these guys that they put you know, they gave contracts 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.000 two does not is not worked out, and now they're 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.520 dealing with that with the ramfications of that, and I 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:06.680 think that's unfortunate. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.600 I think they're dealing with also two they've. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.800 Drafted really well. The contracts didn't get staggered, they didn't 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.400 get the fifth year on DAK. There's just so many 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.720 things playing against them right now. 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.680 You know. Just think if they didn't get the extra thirty. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.440 Million dollars from that cap, you know, this team might 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.160 be even even worse shape. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:25.880 You know. 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.360 But they're gonna let them draft, and that's the one 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.520 thing that they're really really good at, and that's that's 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:31.880 gonna be your biggest hope right now. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:32.880 If you're a Cowboy fan. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:34.880 Yeah, to your point, one of the interesting things for 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.280 me is you look at this, understand what how many 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.160 teams end up in a situation where they're first and 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.560 second round draft picks. When the shades come on, when 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.600 the first and the second round pick quickly in a 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.720 given year both turn into all pros that deserve big contracts, right, 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.760 which is what happened to them with CD and with 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.320 Trayvon And so it's a great problem to have, it is, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.960 but it is a problem because financially now you have 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.240 to do that and then you follow that up with 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.960 maybe one of the best top three or four defensive 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.679 players in the league in Michael Parsons that you draft, 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.640 you know thereafter, right, It's right, it's those kinds of 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.840 things that, like you said, those aren't things you really 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.040 can stagger. Like you you are a victim at that 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.600 point of your your own success. Right, Your ability to 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.120 draft really well now is costing you. And it's going 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.440 to affect the rest of this roster because you've got 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.600 to take care of those really big stars that you've got, 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.440 those all pro type players that you got. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.000 I think the thing with Dak has been and I 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:32.840 give Todd Frantz credit. He's he's negotiated very tough. He's 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.200 made it very difficult on Dallas. He's got his guy 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.160 back to the table very quickly after we went through 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.880 all this. So yeah, there's a lot of things, you know, 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.440 that they're having to deal with. But the draft part 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.560 of it is is something that they you know what 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.480 they they don't run away from that, I think the 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:48.120 bigger problem. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:49.320 There's a couple of things too. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.000 I think fans are still disappointed about what happened in 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.880 Green Bay with that game. The green Bay game, absolutely, 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.600 but I think fans also look at the Philadelphia Eagles. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.400 You have a similar roster too. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.559 If you if you ask people around the league, whose 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.679 roster would you rather have? And I think their scouts 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.000 would say, gimme Philly, give me Dallas, give me Philly, 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.199 give me Dallas, Dallas, Philly. You know, it's a very 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.240 similar roster. And then all of a sudden, Philly is 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.320 now churning their roster. And you're going, well, we'll wait 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:17.720 a minute. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:17.880 Now. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:18.640 We were very. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.920 Equal to Philadelphia, you know, with you look at capicked 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.480 spenditures and paying a quarterback and all this. 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.760 How do they get to churn their roster and still 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.400 have cap space? You know? 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.880 And then you know, and how wee Harry Rosmand the 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:33.920 GM there he's a kick the can guy. I mean, no, 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.160 but it always seems like he's a kick the can. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.880 But then again, they're signing four or five guys. I 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.400 think that's where Cowboy fans they don't worry about the 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.080 commanders or what the Giants are doing. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:43.880 It's the Eagles. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.360 You look at the Eagles and like, wait a minute, 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.880 we got a roster just like theirs. How are they 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.760 have thirty eight million dollars? And I'm sure somebody will 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.839 text me here in the next five minutes and try 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.360 and explain it to me. But that's you know, that's 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.079 the thing I think that fans really look at and say, 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.040 you know, how do they how are they able to 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.480 have cap space pay all their players and still go 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.920 out and get players, And that that's something that that 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:08.800 the question. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:09.240 You have to ask. 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.079 And the question is is that because they're still in 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:13.920 a position where they can continue to kick the can. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.200 And by the way, the Cowboys have also been kicking 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.480 the can, they've done it in a different way. Now 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:23.440 that's all coming due at point now where they've only 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.680 you only can kicked the can for so long and 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.560 at some point you got to pay the bill. And 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.640 I think that maybe where the Cowboys are. And it 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.240 may be coming for Philly in the future at some point, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.600 but for Dallas right now, it looks like that's where 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:34.959 they are. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.920 I can't tell you, and I'm not a cap expert. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.840 I never was, never, never liked the numbers, never, just 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.280 you know, I tried to find players, and however Adam 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.240 and those guys wanted to sign him. Todd wims, you 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.320 guys do that. But I think it's something to It's 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.440 amazing to me, is though, that that we they I 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.120 keep on the radio talking about impending doom for the 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:57.040 Philadelphia Eagles, and it's never a pending doom, you know. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:58.679 And there's gonna be a point in time where I 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.840 can't talk about like up cap Hell, they've paid all 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.079 those defensive backs they lost, all they got, all those 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.360 defensive linemen, they've got one of the best offensive lines. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.120 They got to pay that. They got a quarterback they 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:08.760 got to pay now. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:10.800 And then all of a sudden, they're adding one of 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.960 the most expensive running backs to their their room. And 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.640 you're going, wait a minute, Okay, that's not very cap smart, 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.560 but but they are adding the best running back to 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.320 their team that's out there. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:22.839 But it does come to at some point. We saw 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.840 it happened with the Rams. The Rams went all. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.760 In and it can do and they had to exactly 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.280 they won a super Bowl. They had to, they had 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:30.600 to pull it back. They pulled it back and they 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.400 got back in the playoffs exactly. So see, that's I'll 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.080 take that. I'll take that if you if but. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.480 This to me, I've said this before on several platforms, 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.920 I never see this team being bad. As long as 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.839 they let these guys draft, I think they'll always be. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.319 Draft will always be the Yeah, they'll always be that nine. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:46.720 And eight team. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.480 They could always be a bad year for them, unless 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.560 something happens injury wise, they'll always be like. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.760 A nine and eight team. And you know what. That 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:56.800 to me, that's fine. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.120 But I you know, the Rams, Sure, Rams went all inn, 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.199 did everything, give up all their draft picks, and you know, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:04.560 and now they're you know, they got. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.400 To a super Bowl, won a super Bowl. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.400 Heck, I'd take that now. If I was a Cowboys fan, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.120 I would absolutely take that. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.320 It's the timing of it is just horrendous for the 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.839 Cowboys as far as optics go, because if the Cowboys 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.480 had made some semblance of a playoff run, because all 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.520 of this that's happening right now, it's it's likely it 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.120 was inevitable anyway that they probably wouldn't pick up anybody 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.960 from the outside for the most part, that they would 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.040 hemorrhage guys from the inside that would leave for other teams. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.400 So let's assume that this part that we're talking about 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.360 was inevitable anyway. If you changed the playoff outcome. Maybe 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.600 if you get to the NFC championship and then you're 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.640 losing these pieces, the fans are looking at it a 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.720 lot different. They're like, oh god, well, we hate to see, 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.000 you know, lose that guy, but we'll re up. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.520 We'll reup in the draft. We got to the NFC championship. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.080 But when you lose fashion in which you lost at 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.160 home in the playoffs against the Green Bay Packers, and 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.800 then you have not only in action, you're losing. So 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.280 to Amber's point, you're moving backwards every other day with 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.560 the talent you're losing and you're not replacing this talent. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.360 Brand said they put so much stress on the scouts 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.680 in the scouting department to try to have one of 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:14.240 the best drafts that you've ever had in franchise that 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.760 all these lookas and the second year guys take these 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.680 massive leaps. That's that's a lot to try to digest 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.040 if you're a fan, and I really, honestly, I think. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.840 It's too much to ask fans to digest. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.400 So between now in the draft, I really hope that'd 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.720 rather it be Stefan Gilmore and or a combination of 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.840 a notable outside acquisition. I think the fans and this roster. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.320 You know, Mike Zimmer, he's coming in, he's on a 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.280 one year deal. McCarthy one final year of his deal. 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.880 DA's not extended just yet. I think that there are 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:43.520 moves that need to be made before the draft. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.439 Ribs, let's take our first break. When we come back. 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:46.800 What I want to talk about is I want to 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.800 really zero in on the conversation around the stars of 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.880 this team. And because when you look at the stars, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.000 I'm talking to all pro caliber players we mentioned a 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:59.520 little earlier, my question would be, is that better or 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.360 as good as any team in the NFL. 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Okay, So, as I 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.880 was teeing up before the break, this team I think 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.920 is blessed with a lot of really great talent, and 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.280 quite frankly, when you look at all the guys they lost, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.000 for me, there's not a single guy in that Maybe 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.080 you could have an argument with Tyron Smith, but there's 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.760 really not anybody else in that list. And I'm like, man, 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:26.880 that's a huge loss. Cowboys. I don't know what they're 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.360 gonna do. It's really the sum of the parts. It's 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.320 as you said, you know, Patrick, it's like you're not 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.160 gaining anybody, but you're losing all these and by the way, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.000 a lot of these are depth pieces, and that's the 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.720 part that's more concerning. But that all being said, when 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.440 you look at the level of talent that they have, 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.280 of people that you would consider to be among the 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.200 best at their position across the league, You've got CD, 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:53.400 You've got Trayvon, You've got Dak, You've got Michael Parsons. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.800