WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys Break: Cowboys Acquire Amari Cooper 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:07.440 This is the Talking Cowboys break streaming live on Dallas 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:13.160 Cowboys dot Com and the official Dallas Cowboys app. Breaking 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.320 news from the Star in Frisco. The Cowboys have acquired 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.599 a new wide receiver, a potential number one wide receiver, 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.360 Amari Cooper headed to Dallas for a twenty nineteen first 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.560 round draft pick. Eats emergency podcast time inside the SWC 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.280 more BC Mortgage Studio to break it all down. Rob Phillips, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:35.800 Nick Eatman, Flyboy, David Hellman and thank you. Appreciate that 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:40.279 jacket over there, Maverick, Yeah, Iceman, Mickey Spagnola over there 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:50.280 as well. Brian brought us goose can't help. Oh, I 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.120 love it, I love it. I love it. Football death 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.800 always right. I love you, Brian. You back upstairs breaking 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:01.000 down tape of miss six lighter or something like that. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:06.720 I meant Merlin beat Merlin. Yeah you stink. Ye. That's well. 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.240 This guy doesn't stick, right, No, he doesn't stack. Okay, 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.720 let's let's break it all. You said potential number one. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.720 I was like, hed better be, better be for a 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.800 first round pick, right, yeah, this guy can play, play 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.000 a little bit. Yeah no, And I went through all 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.880 the games of twenty eighteen, he got a concussion in London, 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.119 took a hit right across the middle and it knocked 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.319 him into the protocol. And then I went back and 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.640 watched every single game he played in twenty seventeen, the 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.360 whole season, every ball thrown to him, and people are 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.200 going to talk about this as a guy that is 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.680 inconsistent with his hands. What I found looking at this 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.920 player is he is very capable of making a circus catch. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.920 I mean that is something he can absolutely do. He 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.760 can he can go anywhere you want on the field. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.200 The drops that I found that heat the problems with 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.200 his drops, there were a couple of them in the 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.680 in the red zone where there was a contested ball 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:58.240 with a defender. I felt like I had a really 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.600 good position on him. And in there where a couple 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.760 others where he was on the move where he was 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.160 like going to try and run before he had caught 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.680 the football. And he is a guy that will take 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.120 the ball north and south in a hurry. So when 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:12.639 they throw it to him, he's going to play on 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.799 the move. Like I said, they use him in a 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.080 lot of different levels. He was making plays on all 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.920 the different levels, and so you know that's something that 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.000 you have to think about. Okay, is he just gonna 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:23.440 line up play as the X. No. I think you 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.600 could play this guy a bunch of different spots. But 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.079 this guy is clearly a number one wide receiver when 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.360 you watch him play. He has got those traits and 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.800 he's got the ability and he's got the ability to 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.520 make plays down the field. I mean you, if you 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.440 want to watch a game of him playing last year, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.200 watch the Kansas City game, you know, when they were 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.040 playing in the game in Oakland, and he was outstanding 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.799 in that game. So he's a guy, big body guy 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.200 as far as you know, a guy getting down the field. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.000 The targets to him, stuff like that, he can body up, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:54.560 he can go get it, he can high point. There's 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.800 a lot of really positive things about this guy. So 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.880 will defensive coordinators think the same thing and pay attention 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.480 to him to draw some they will basically coverage off 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.200 the line of scrimmage. They will. And that's why I 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.799 said potential number one, because you got to have that right. No, No, 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:10.400 that you don't make this trade if you don't think 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.079 this guy's a number one wide receiver and he is 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.840 a number one wide receiver. He's got he has got that, 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.640 he's got those those traits. The needle to double him. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.160 I think that you I think that they will have 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.600 to find ways to dub them because the questions will be, though, 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.920 can you get him the football enough? That's gonna be 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.240 the questions you have and you're gonna are you gonna 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.720 make people to get respected? You have to get the 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.920 football to him. But that's but he is capable of 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.560 running every single route you want. He's capable of playing 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.080 in the red zone. He has got that ability. When 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.040 he gets down in the goal line and he and 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.160 he's got to finish, he will finish. That's the type 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.240 of player he is. And I think that's where I'm 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.000 at Brian thinking about this is there's there's a lot 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.440 to break down with the trade itself and the player 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.440 and the needed receiver. But y'all agreement with me that 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.440 just this entire thing, all levels of it, is about 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:08.240 Dak Prescott. Well, I don't know. I mean, I thought 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.800 you were going to go somewhere else. Yeah, I thought 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.440 was too. Where did you think I was gonna? That 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.080 sounds great? Number One? How good does he have to 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.000 be to be sitting here in April twenty eighth for 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.440 the first round or whatever, and be like this sucks, 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.720 Like how good does he have to be to kind 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.839 of justify that. That's my only issue And I'm letting 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.520 history get to me here because I was all on 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.520 board where Joey Galloway didn't work out. I was pretty 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.919 on board with Roy Williams didn't work out. And I 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.440 know everything is different. I just think, God, that is 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.440 too much, too much for a guy that we think 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.520 is pretty good. I just wonder if that if if 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.839 he's gonna really work here with Dak and all the 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.840 other issues. I like, the two one just seems high 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.599 for me. That's a good point, by the way, to 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.039 bring up this is the third time this century the 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.839 Cowboys have traded at least a first round pick for 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.760 a wide receiver mid season. Joey Galloway in two thousand 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.120 two first round picks. This cost less than that, and 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.680 Roy Williams, I believe Mick it was a first, a third, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.480 and swapping late round picks six and then they got 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.320 a seventh back. Yeah, but yeah, history is playing into 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.520 maybe the reaction to this thing. It's like, Okay, it's 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.960 gonna be worth it this time, and I think I'm 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.640 already I think I'm already making peace with that, to 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:24.640 be honest with you, because Marie Cooper's twenty four years old. Yeah, 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:29.039 he's six months older than Calvin Ridley. Yeah, so he 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.880 is a young guy who's already seasoned in the NFL. 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.280 He's under contract for at least a season and a half. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.320 Now nine games season, twenty five games, you get him 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.160 twenty five games. Average that out, you're gonna pay him 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.520 a minute, so like seven million, it comes out. Well, 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:49.919 his base salary for this year was four it was 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.839 four eleven. Just a reset for guys people that don't 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.880 know about this guy, who don't know a ton about him. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.640 Number four overall pick in twenty fifteen by the Raiders 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.599 out of Alabama. Decorated college career. As Dave said, he's 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.440 on his fourth season and you can lock in his 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.400 you will walk in his fifth year option, so you 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.839 have him for the rest of this year and next 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:13.560 at least, which Yeah, fifty year options guaranteed, Yes, guaranteed, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:18.560 So they pick up to guarantee. Yeah, you can read negotiated, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:20.600 but they're looking at it as a two year deal 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.080 for fourteen point four million, cheaper than Sammy Watkins. Yeah, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.760 which is right to go. If you think about paying it, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.520 paying a wide receiver. They were trying to dish out 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.159 big money. Yeah, I suppose, Yeah, yeah, I think I'm 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.600 at peace with the price. I mean, if you're gonna 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.840 do it, okay, And Amari Cooper is probably better than 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.200 whatever you're going to find in the draft. I mean, yeah, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.080 just go, just go through the history of the NFL draft. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.320 Just go through the last three years of the NFL draft. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.159 Think about the receivers that have been selecting this draft. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.200 I see, you've got a nicely I do. How about 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:56.560 Kevin White, DeVante Parker, Nelson Aguilar, Rashard Perriman, Corey Coleman, 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:02.400 Will Fuller, Josh Dotson, Lakon Treadwell, Corey Davis, Mike Williams, 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.560 John Ross. It's an indictment on college football. It's an 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.640 indictment on people trying to pick wide receivers that aren't 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.600 worth a crap. Well, they look at what they did 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.960 in college and look at numbers, and they're not real 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.400 routes in college that's run into spots and stopping and 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.560 catching the ball. This guy, I mean, I can say 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.760 we were on treadwell. I mean that that's probably one 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.640 of the guys on the draft show that maybe the 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:26.960 one of the one guy that we were probably the 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.960 most wrong about. Yeah, I would agree with that and 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.880 in with this case, assuming that this year is not 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:38.160 an indication of him falling off the cliff. Yeah, he's 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.600 an accomplished receiver where you got to go through the 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.480 growing pains. If you draft a wide receiver, catch ready 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.080 may go, put him out there and play. That's what 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.240 they question. The only question I have. I don't have 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.640 a problem with giving up the pick. I really don't know, 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.520 absolutely not, absolutely not. I'm trying to do all I 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.960 can to help my quarterback. But but the quarterback helped himself. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.560 That's the biggest question we have to ask. And that 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.280 that's kind of where I'm at. That's where I was 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.200 going a minute ago. Is this this whole thing is 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.200 about the future of Dak. Press got him for what 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.160 two more years? Well, you could probably a fourth year 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.560 in a franchise year if you have to. This trade 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.880 changes my line of thinking a lot with what was 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.640 what was trending with Dac. I mean even as recently 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.720 as like three weeks ago, I said on our show. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.520 I was like, well, play this thing out. This is 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.880 like an audition and if if Dak's not good enough, 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.840 you can always draft a guy. Well you can't do 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.199 that in twenty nineteen. Now, yeah, unless you draft Drew 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.160 Brees and the second Sure, if you get lucky as 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.719 hell and strike gold. Probably not yet lucky with the 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.720 fourth round guy, didn't you they're not? Yeah, which, and 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.600 now half the fan base is trying to get rid 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.960 of him, like he's not this, Yeah, he's not the 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.800 unilateral let's not worry about the fan base. Well you 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.760 get my point. Yes, I understand you're not. You are 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.480 not completely sold that you have the answer at quarterback. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.439 But the calcure are going in and like there's I mean, 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.439 Dak is the guy for the time being, is what 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.319 this trade tells. So does this guy help Dak? Absolutely? 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.880 He does. You know you know about that. I was 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.160 looking at a receiver. I was looking at the things 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.720 I like about him? Is what you said, North, going North. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.959 He's got nineteen touchdowns and eleven of them or thirty 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.720 yards or more. He's got an eighty nine yard or 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.760 this is just last year, and he's got a sixty 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.880 eight in that game. You're talking about Kansas City forty 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.440 five and a thirty eight. He's got eleven over thirty 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:37.160 yards and Dez Bryant seventy seventy five touchdowns, the Cowboys 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.360 all time leader, and he played eight years, nine years, 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.960 eight years. He had nineteen at those touchdowns, nineteen touchdowns 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.280 of thirty or more. Different player, different receiver, But just 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.520 saying this is the type of guy that's different. Eleven 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.480 in three years and some change here and nineteen for 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.160 Dez Bryant. So is he gonna go up and make 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.120 plays like him? I don't know, but all I'm I'm 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.040 saying is that he is a different type of guy, 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:03.600 and I think that's the kind of guy that that 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.720 Dak needs. We saw it yesterday, you know they needed, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:08.520 still need to do it more. In my opinion, Is 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.280 he gonna help Dak or is he gonna help Zeke? 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.120 Maybe both? Is he gonna help Michael Gallup cann he 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.520 helped the offensive line? Yeah, there you go. That's a 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.000 bigger question. Well that's for another show. I know we're 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.760 talking about this, and we've said this about no matter 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.120 who's playing receiver, all the pieces have to work for 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.000 you to get the downfield passing game going, and this 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.280 does start up front, and the protection upfront was not 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.280 good in the game yesterday, overall until really the last 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.520 couple series. I felt like, anyone what I want to know? 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.840 And he's looked at the table and I'll just ask you. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.199 When when the ball's in the air and there's four 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.400 hands at least right there is, they're all gonna go 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.440 in his two hands. I mean that he's gonna go 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.320 get it. They don't have anyone that does, No, they don't. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.600 They don't have anybody that make it, can make contested 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.800 catches consistent problem again yesterday. Absolutely well, the only guy 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.040 they can make catches outside his catch radius is Beasley. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.000 That's true. Everybody else gotta be right. He's amazing. That 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.280 third down catch he made to keep the drive going. 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.240 That was incredible. They didn't believe he caught it. No, 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.080 hell no, just to me. I again, wait, wait, which 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.640 one one off the ground? Yeah? Oh no, I'm talking. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:21.920 I'm the one off the ground. And I know we're 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.680 talking Cooper here, but the one off the ground. I 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.640 was sitting next to Rob and they're like, they're reviewing it, 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.400 and I'm like, I hope it's incomplete. This will help 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.360 the two Cowboys if this is incomplete because they only 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.600 got six yards and it took twenty four seconds to 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.319 do it. I will give me my six yards back 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.439 and I'll take twenty four seconds. I can get better 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.040 than that. And and Beasley's over there like I caught it. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.000 I caught it, and I'm like, dangn it would be 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.040 nice if he didn't, but he didn't, and I think 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.120 that kind of hurt him. Actually, Okay, here's a question 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.080 that kind of got brought up a second ago, and 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.840 I saw it on Twitter as we were promoting this podcast. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.920 Is he better? Is it? Marii Cooper better than Dez 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.240 Bryant is right now in his career at least what 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.960 Dez was last year. Absolutely, it sounds like he runs better. Yeah, 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.440 he's His ability to get down the field is a 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.840 lot different than dezs. But I mean, you're talking about 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.440 guys that are violent players though with the ball in 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.760 their hand, and he'll go get this. This got a 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.040 high point. The problem makes say people say, oh, it's 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.000 twelve percent drops, he's got bad hands. Said seriously, I 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.040 watched every single pass thrown to him the last two years, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.439 and there was probably one or two where I go, oh, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.800 that's just a flat drop. That's just a bad flat drop. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.520 And then I'm looking at other ones and I'm going, Okay, well, 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.800 he's trying to run here. He's trying to He's trying 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.960 to take the ball and get up the field as 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.240 quickly as he can. You know, And if you watch 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.960 the Tennessee game opening day of last year, he had 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:43.360 that there was a couple in the red zone he 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.360 probably should have come down with as far as you 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.079 know contested balls. But I this this guy right here, 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.280 he is not anything. He is. He is so much 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.720 different than anything they have right now. You know, you 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.880 can compare him to Dez and I just did it 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.800 earlier and y'all did too. But is it more than that? 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:01.880 This is what I don't know that, Maky. You always 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.000 say this about free agents and you and you're not wrong, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.320 but you say, why are they available? Why is he 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.480 out there? Is it? Is it more than this? You 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.679 know the desk could still play. We know that. And 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.719 there's a reason why the count guy open hates his teams. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.520 He hates his team. He's unloading players, he hates his team. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.800 That's right. He losing up for Vegan. Yeah, he's he's well, no, 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.880 he just he he knows he has to build his 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.880 team and he doesn't and he's not He's not like 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.280 this guy John Gruden is doing it his way. Yeah, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.080 he hates his team and like three first round picks, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.320 Yeah he's got two, he's got two. Why doesn't like 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.959 this guy? He did? His attitude is he would rather 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.400 have his type of receiver and this guy evidently is 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.840 not his type receiver. He hates his team, he really does. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.600 Here's so the numbers have fallen off this last year 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.880 and a half. Yeah, big time first offenses. Okay, that's 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.960 why I went back and watch saw two thousand and seventeen, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.679 and I guarantee if you go back and watch two 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.000 thousand and sixteen and before that, I mean they found 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.920 ways to get him the foot ball. Well for two years, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.040 I mean, a quarterback has not been nearly as consistent 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:10.199 as he's needed to be. Doesn't that concern, like what 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.640 you're saying right now, doesn't that concern? No? Why it doesn't. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.880 It sounds like you're talking about the Cowboys, what the quarterback? Yes, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.800 it's sound like I guess that's my point And that's 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.120 why I'm bringing it back to Dak Prescott again because 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.480 my thing is, and you can't possibly hope to answer this. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.080 It's a season long type of question. But is he 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.480 gonna make this offense noticeably better? That's really I do 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:40.200 think he will? You think that? I do think tomorrow? Yes, yes, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.440 as soon as he yes, I do. They have no 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.720 listen to yourselves talk No, I guys, watch what they 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.120 put out there at wide receiver. I hear you. I 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:49.960 hear what you're saying. I know you are. You just 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.960 gonna sit there and it just you want some numbers 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.280 on that real quick now, I know you have the 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.200 stat nick. They're twenty ninth and passing offense right now, 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.400 one hundred and eighty three yards per game. Cole is 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.800 their top target, thirty three catches, three hundred fifty yards, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.600 a couple of touchdowns. Then their leading receivers are Zeke 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.560 and tight end Jeff Swam and the combination of Alan Hearns, 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:13.120 Deonte Thompson, Tavon Austin who's injured right now, who they 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:17.280 brought in. Is this committee combined thirty two catches, three 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:19.920 nine yards and three touchdowns. And again, I mean the 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.080 snaps are split up, but this committee, it hasn't worked 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.800 out consistently so far. Beasley has been the key guy 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.720 and Gallup is coming on. But yeah, they need some 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.800 juice in this thing. I think it's pretty obvious, right 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.960 And the only reason I asked about it coming is 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.160 he gonna help this team right now? Is the fact 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.640 that you know, I think we all know that this 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.760 is if Jason Garrett, if they don't get in the playoffs. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.880 In my opinion, I mean, I think everyone agrees that 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.280 he's not gonna be the coach next year, and I 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.560 think he might have to do better than that. So 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.440 to be taken right, it is and they needed that 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.240 win and they're not out of it because as I 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.240 said yesterday, I don't think Washing is gonna run away 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.840 with anything. But I just wonder. You see guys that 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.800 don't go to training camp and it's gonna take a 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.000 little bit of time to adjust. Roy Williams got here, 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.960 it took a little bit of time to adjust. I 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.280 just wonder is he ready to come in and will 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.840 he help right now to make a difference where can 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.640 this team make the playoffs or not? I meancause if 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.200 Jason Garrett, he's got to be excited about that. They're 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.520 they're they're going all in. They're not going with the future. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.360 I mean, they're trying to help him right now to 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.280 get this team in the playoffs. Like I said, I'm 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.840 at peace with the price. I really am. Especially, I mean, 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.520 he's he's He's the best receiver on this team right now, 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.520 there's no question about it. But maybe I'm maybe I'm scarred, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:39.120 maybe I have PTSD from twenty seventeen, but we had 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.880 a pretty high opinion of Dez going into that season. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.080 Like all this talk that he had dropped off and 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.400 lost it was not the narrative going into that season. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.360 He was pretty good in twenty sixteen. He was a 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:54.200 part of that. All this he's approaching thirty. Yeah, you 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.920 just you just traded for a twenty four year old player. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.640 I hope you're right, and I think Cooper is better 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.840 than Dez was, But I hope that we're not about 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.239 to watch seven games of them trying to get this 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.639 guy the ball and they just can't quite click. If 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.160 they can't get him, if they can't get him the ball, 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.959 then this is on the front office. This is clearly 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.679 on the front office, because they obviously think that he 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.240 can come in and help them win football games on 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.440 a division. It needs to be taken. I think it's 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.679 unfair to compare him to Roy Williams. By the way 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.959 Roy was done, He couldn't that's white. Detroit unloaded him. 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.119 The Cowboys were just silly enough to pay that pay. 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.040 And then they immediately it's on the front office. They 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.879 immediately handed him a forty five million dollars deal too. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.600 And each was the other part he Roy couldn't run 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.159 and separate, not at all that point when they got it. No, 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.439 this guy is a different player. This guy is a 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.520 much different player than what than anything they've got. And 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.359 unfortunately for Galloway and I know I made a joke 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.359 last week about no more first round pick trades for 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.680 wide receivers. But Galloway got hurt the first game and 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.320 the Mickey we spruit it up. But the first year, 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:02.200 the first year, yeah, price, now we don't about it. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.920 And you didn't give him a quarterback the second year. Yeah, 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:06.640 I mean it was we was killed to have Dak 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.800 Prescott trying to throw him the ball. It was, yeah, 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:10.880 it was a trade for for eight man to throw 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.159 the ball to him, and it didn't like maybe the 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.320 same maybe maybe to your point of what you just said. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.760 If it's a trade for Dak and it doesn't work out, well, 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:20.800 that's that's again on the front off well and then 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.080 giving giving Dak every opportunity here to kind of see 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.440 what he can do. May you need better receivers, but 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.639 then we're gonna give you that. That's my main takeaway 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.240 is you know, like, even like I said a month ago, 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.600 I don't think I was completely sold that Dak would 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.960 be definitely the starter next year. And maybe that was 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.439 naive on my point, but there's no doubt in my 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.040 mind now, like they're they're gonna give him the weapons, 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.880 they're gonna see how he can do. Uh, they got 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:47.760 rid of their first round pick, so they can't draft 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.600 a quarterback now and yeah, and then you talk about 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.560 franchise tag in twenty nineteen, Like this trade just makes 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:55.880 me feel like Dak Prescott's I'm gonna take my chances 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.719 with this guy in Gallop and Beasley. Yeah, I mean, 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:00.720 and at least at least it's not at least the 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.439 hell of a lot better on paper yeah today than 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.080 it did yesterday. And not only any paper, but that 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.560 piece of paper right there. Yeah, that piece of paper 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.840 right there has changed my opinion a little bit. Well, 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.160 I'm not trying to influence anybody, but I'm just saying 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.360 that if you if you want it, if you want 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.359 to sit down and say, okay, they're gonna draft, even 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.880 if they go eight and eight and you're picking what fourteenth? 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.199 Is that? Right? And then I know, I know our 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.840 buddy Stephen Thomas out there listening probably right now, and 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.720 he's gonna fight me on Well, it's four it's it's 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.200