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Speaker 1: Trouble finding the jack, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Gotta find it, but I got it.
Speaker 1: I like this desk. Is this a desk?
Speaker 5: The desk is so bad.
Speaker 1: I was the whole thing. Man, everybody's talking about the
Speaker 1: absence of a desk. I don't know what that experience
Speaker 1: is like. You don't know about struggles, Isaiah.
Speaker 6: You don't know the struggle, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: Stand back, I don't. I've been spoiled by that.
Speaker 6: You didn't grow up on the mean streets of little Elm, Texas.
Speaker 1: Like I did without a desk. I've been sitting at
Speaker 1: the middle of twenty twenty buddy desk list. That's true.
Speaker 1: It's not the beginning of twenty twenty. And the beginning
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. Beamer was sending me freaking microphones and
Speaker 1: Lava mics and all kinds of stuff to my house.
Speaker 5: You're like, who is this guy?
Speaker 1: Yeah? He sent me a pair of Bull's headphones, and
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I like this. I
Speaker 1: like it, you know, I find it interesting. I still
Speaker 1: me to find it interesting that you reappear when the
Speaker 1: desk does, so you can't be with your brothers. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't in the in the Yount fighting the crotch shot.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of mad that I missed that, just saying
Speaker 1: I'm mad that I was a part of I wasn't
Speaker 1: a part of that. I wanted to be a part
Speaker 1: of that. What are you trying to show here?
Speaker 3: I guess next week if you're Derek is like not
Speaker 3: here and he's going to be looking at his phone
Speaker 3: like watching our show.
Speaker 7: We're that's true. You're so bad if you every wonder
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Speaker 1: I can't wait, Varsity if you will select travel travel team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt that's what it's felt like recently. You're
Speaker 3: in l A, you were in Indy. I was any
Speaker 3: like everybody's trying.
Speaker 1: To hold it down for all of us. We would love,
Speaker 1: we would love to travel, you know, with with the team.
Speaker 1: Just speak for yourself that we're talking about for.
Speaker 3: Brazil, I'm good man, oh Man, Welcome back in everybody.
Speaker 5: Glad everybody's back and safe.
Speaker 3: And after what was a tumultuous trip to the to
Speaker 3: the Indianapolis com NFL.
Speaker 5: Scout and Combine Patrick, it was great. We had a
Speaker 5: lot of fun. We saw you there quite often.
Speaker 1: Actually, I say, couldn't walk past the TV screen.
Speaker 3: Every time we walked into radio row or any kind
Speaker 3: of media or any kind of hotel lobby or whatever
Speaker 3: it was. I would just hear Isaiah's voice like a
Speaker 3: ghost in the back of my head, and he was like,
Speaker 3: but what about Michael Pitnix, What about.
Speaker 1: Roman? Why? Why are all these guys not the top
Speaker 1: of the league right now?
Speaker 5: It's like they went you dubbed face yeah and around
Speaker 5: every time.
Speaker 6: So and now it reminds you who the super Bowl
Speaker 6: champions are.
Speaker 5: And then there you have it done.
Speaker 3: Let's get into some news and notes, Patrick, because the
Speaker 3: last time we were on the show was.
Speaker 5: Right before we went to Indy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in my goodness, there's a lot that happened tween
Speaker 3: now and then a little bit.
Speaker 1: All right, let's try to make this as concise as possible,
Speaker 1: so you know, yeah, yeah, no, don't do that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, George Pickens has officially been friends tag
Speaker 1: is done now. I like that. That is what the expectations.
Speaker 1: Style boys are looking by themselves some time. They now
Speaker 1: have until July fifteenth to get a long term deal
Speaker 1: done if he If a deal is not done by
Speaker 1: July fifteenth. Then George Pickens, assuming he signs the tag
Speaker 1: as is expected, if it were to come to that,
Speaker 1: he would be fully guaranteed twenty seven point three million dollars.
Speaker 1: That's for twenty Yeah, that is a lot for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. All of that is sitting against the cap
Speaker 1: as we speak. I don't like those words. Don't like them. However,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have already begun pulling expected triggers. So if
Speaker 1: you follow the science on Dallas Cowboys dot com, you
Speaker 1: ain't been going that long. Come on with it on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot com. You gotta blew through that, you know.
Speaker 6: Isn't it so nice of the players to allow the
Speaker 6: Dallas Cowboys to restructure their own contracts?
Speaker 1: Crazy? The selflessness is jerius, give me a bunch of cash?
Speaker 1: Oh my god. For those that don't understand, there's a
Speaker 1: difference between reworking a contract i e. Paycut and whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be, versus restructure. Restructures are baked into
Speaker 1: the negotiations when the deal is signed. The team has
Speaker 1: that option that is exclusive to the team. They don't
Speaker 1: need the players permission, and it's because the players are
Speaker 1: never going to say no, because it liquid dates, more
Speaker 1: of the contract upfront, cash in the pocket right now
Speaker 1: versus down the road, Old darn Old darn So, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: Cede Lamb, Tyler Smith. They've now had their contracts restructured,
Speaker 1: freeing up roughly sixty six million dollars. And I tell you, Dak,
Speaker 1: Tyler and CD they're not exactly upset at that. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys get salary cap space, the players get
Speaker 1: cash up front. That works. Cowboys have several more triggers
Speaker 1: that they can pull. Oh so Diggie Zuoa comes to mind. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: can you help the people and myself understand what the
Speaker 1: salary cap position of the Dallas Cowboys. I'm I'm glad
Speaker 1: you said that, because the Cowboys now are aware of
Speaker 1: what the NFL salary cap is for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: It is a record setting three hundred and one point
Speaker 1: two million dollars. Does that mean that there's more space?
Speaker 1: There is more space historically more. This is also a
Speaker 1: historic jump. This is the biggest jump in the salary
Speaker 1: cap in NFL history history, literally everdo history now at
Speaker 1: three hundred and one, let's just round it, making it
Speaker 1: an easy number. Three hundred and one million dollar salary
Speaker 1: cap space. The Cowboys before they structured any of these contracts,
Speaker 1: but including the franchise tag already in it, they were
Speaker 1: fifty five million dollars, fifty six million dollars in the hole.
Speaker 1: They freed up sixty six million dollars. They're ten million
Speaker 1: in the green with more triggers that they can pull.
Speaker 1: Kenny Clark and Quinny Williams, if you extend them now
Speaker 1: or rework their contract, one of those two things is
Speaker 1: expected to happen. You free up almost thirty million dollars
Speaker 1: combined between those two guys alone. And I haven't even
Speaker 1: talked about guys like oh so odigge Zoo and oh
Speaker 1: doron Bland, any guys that they might want to rework
Speaker 1: a restructure. So, Cowboys face, do you think that they
Speaker 1: can get to they as of the salary cap being
Speaker 1: announced before they pull the triggers on CD Deck and
Speaker 1: Tyler for that sixty six, they can free up one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one million dollars in salary cap space
Speaker 1: against the negative fifty five. And what is your response
Speaker 1: to those that are like they're just kicking the can.
Speaker 1: I'll kick your can, That's my response listen, everybody is
Speaker 1: no secret Patrick, no Sewalker does not want to hear
Speaker 1: about damn Pie. I don't want to hear about Pie.
Speaker 1: This is not life. I don't know the other pole,
Speaker 1: not that the colored pile, the whites only pole. I
Speaker 1: want to hear about Poppy. Okay, if you know the reference,
Speaker 1: you know the reference south South to Martin Lewrens and
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy. But no, seriously, I ripped. Two things are true.
Speaker 1: The salary cap is real, but the salary cap can
Speaker 1: and has been finessed so many times throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the salary caps existence by teams. Talk about the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints and the Drew Brees era, talk about
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Rams in recent seasons. They know for your Eagles.
Speaker 1: They do it every year, and everyone says, oh, well,
Speaker 1: the bill comes due. Well, yeah, theoretically the bill comes due,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter if the bill comes due. When
Speaker 1: next year the salary cap goes up exponentially again, and
Speaker 1: you have new TV contracts and things like that, sponsorship
Speaker 1: deals that are coming in. It all works itself out organically.
Speaker 1: Plus you have organic attrition in the roster. There are
Speaker 1: players who are on the Cap right now, who won't
Speaker 1: be on the team next year, be it expirational contract
Speaker 1: or waving of that player, so many machinations that the
Speaker 1: average any die hard fan. The fellow capologists also understand
Speaker 1: that this is not an issue as much as casual
Speaker 1: fans would believe. And that's why when you hear Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones speaking from the combine, even before so Stephen Jones,
Speaker 1: they're saying, even if George Pickens was forced, forced, even
Speaker 1: if he chose to play on the twenty seven point
Speaker 1: three million dollar franchise tag, and this is a direct
Speaker 1: quote for Stephen Jones, we can still do everything we
Speaker 1: need to do, end quote Stephen Jones. Jerry Jones saying
Speaker 1: things like that's not going to stop us from quote
Speaker 1: unquote busting the budget, doing everything we can because right
Speaker 1: now needs to be the time.
Speaker 3: And I agree, and I think one of the things
Speaker 3: that people are not necessarily focusing on that Jerry said
Speaker 3: on the bus with us the other day, and the
Speaker 3: quote that came out of that is like, I'm I
Speaker 3: could see us.
Speaker 5: Being aggressive in free agency.
Speaker 3: Like that was the quote that blew up, and everybody
Speaker 3: kind of like hung their hat on that. The part
Speaker 3: of that conversation. I believe it was in the same
Speaker 3: answer he said, I'm willing to wager my future. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he said, I'm willing to dig into the future and
Speaker 3: the budget. This is paraphrasing, of course, the fact that
Speaker 3: he's said that, that's the first time I've ever seen
Speaker 3: heard him.
Speaker 1: I was about to ask the question because you guys,
Speaker 1: you gentlemen, strapping young men, have opportunity to speak with
Speaker 1: him strectly and have been around him for a number
Speaker 1: of years now, there is and obviously we have information
Speaker 1: that we can always you know, put forward to the public.
Speaker 1: But what would you guys say or what would you
Speaker 1: guys convey to the general public about what you guys
Speaker 1: have seen from Double J from the past, you know,
Speaker 1: when he was just you know, kind of throwing out headliner,
Speaker 1: you know, comments and quotes versus the vibes that you
Speaker 1: guys get now and when he speaks like like, can
Speaker 1: you guys, can you guys descriptively convey that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna let you answer, But I've got something like
Speaker 3: cut and dry here that I've I've been really like
Speaker 3: chewing on some Well, I want.
Speaker 6: You to be able to well, I just want to
Speaker 6: say that. I think there's a lot of responsibility taken
Speaker 6: in the response that he's given so far this offseason.
Speaker 6: I think he acknowledged that things didn't go their way
Speaker 6: last season because of the things that they needed to
Speaker 6: go right for them, like the health of Revel, the
Speaker 6: health of Overshown, the signing of certain linebackers that they
Speaker 6: thought we were going to contribute, the signing of iber Flus,
Speaker 6: who they thought was going to turn things around on
Speaker 6: defense for all intentsive purposes. Now the rhetoric is that,
Speaker 6: you know, we can't rely on that anymore. We can't
Speaker 6: rely on the chance that these things are going to
Speaker 6: go our way. We can't take a shot on red
Speaker 6: shirt players that are going to contribute, or guys that
Speaker 6: we have to wait until we tend to start contributing.
Speaker 6: We need guys that are ready to go right now.
Speaker 6: My favorite quote from Jerry in that one hour bus
Speaker 6: conversation was we got to go this year.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, It's the first time I've heard them
Speaker 3: take responsibility, specific specific responsibility, but also specific examples and
Speaker 3: basically say they were wrong. Yes, that's the first time
Speaker 3: I've ever heard them do that in a consistent manner.
Speaker 3: So and we've heard that conversation from Will McLay and
Speaker 3: Stephen Jones and Jerry Jones in.
Speaker 5: The past, where you talk about alignment right top to bottom.
Speaker 3: You're aligned from the front office to the scouting department,
Speaker 3: to the coaching staff to the players. And in the
Speaker 3: past there's probably been one or two of those things aligned,
Speaker 3: but not all four. Every couple of years you might
Speaker 3: see all four aligned, and that's when you get the
Speaker 3: twenty sixteens. That's when you get the twenty twenty threes.
Speaker 3: That's when you get the seasons that go really well
Speaker 3: and things are kind of rolling in the right direction,
Speaker 3: but then when one of those.
Speaker 5: Slips out of place, then you're not there.
Speaker 3: I feel like they're getting back to that same spot
Speaker 3: despite what season they had in twenty twenty five, because
Speaker 3: you're hearing the same thing from Shody, you're hearing the
Speaker 3: same thing from the front office, you're hearing the same
Speaker 3: thing from Will McClay.
Speaker 5: Top to bottom.
Speaker 3: They haven't been good enough, that's what they've been talking about,
Speaker 3: and they're changing. They're changing ways that they've done things
Speaker 3: consistently over.
Speaker 5: The last decade. The red Shirt players was a big one.
Speaker 3: I asked that question on the bus for a reason, like,
Speaker 3: have you changed the way that you're looking at medically
Speaker 3: flagged players, whether it be in free agency or the draft,
Speaker 3: And he said, yeah, you're not gonna see us take
Speaker 3: any red shirt players.
Speaker 5: And of course fans love that because.
Speaker 3: I jerked out of the type of thing, and that's
Speaker 3: nothing against the players they've taken in the past. I mean,
Speaker 3: Savona revel is one of the guys they've talked about
Speaker 3: glowingly as a possible second year jump.
Speaker 5: He was a medically red flag player.
Speaker 3: But this year, knowing the type of quarterback that you have,
Speaker 3: the type of offense you have, the type of over
Speaker 3: arching talent you have on defense, despite the lack of
Speaker 3: production as a whole last year, I think they see
Speaker 3: this as a window.
Speaker 5: But this window is going to close quickly. And that's
Speaker 5: why they're saying.
Speaker 3: Forget all the future, forget what we're going to wager
Speaker 3: in the future, We've got to go now. And that's
Speaker 3: the first time I've really heard that. I said this
Speaker 3: on this show a couple of weeks back. I will
Speaker 3: believe it when I see it in free agency, and
Speaker 3: I still feel that way, of course, but this is
Speaker 3: this does feel a little different.
Speaker 5: It really does.
Speaker 1: Listen, this is the moment that it's very much show me, right,
Speaker 1: it's very much show me. Yeah, hear you, We hear you,
Speaker 1: We hear you, show me.
Speaker 3: I would be more disappointed this year if they don't
Speaker 3: get aggressive. But based on the build up and based
Speaker 3: on the way that they're saying things here, then I
Speaker 3: was even in the all in year in the kind
Speaker 3: of actually twenty twenty three and they're trying to push
Speaker 3: the chips to the middle of the table, We're gonna
Speaker 3: spend a lot, and then they don't. If they do
Speaker 3: that this year and it's a dud and free agency,
Speaker 3: I would be more dissip Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I agree because the vernacular that they're using this
Speaker 1: year is different than that year. That year it was
Speaker 1: all in, and then it was Jerry kind of walking back, Well,
Speaker 1: what's your definition of all in? Yeah, Websters defines all
Speaker 1: in as da da da da dad. Now it's it's
Speaker 1: much different and everybody's in lockstep. And when you see
Speaker 1: them being willing to again move on from Eberflus after
Speaker 1: one season, when you see them early get Javonte Williams
Speaker 1: done and now comes to bigger question, Okay, are you
Speaker 1: gonna wait until training camp for this George Pickens thing
Speaker 1: to be resolved or are you not? Brandon Novry, there's
Speaker 1: a great likelihood that at some point today they're going
Speaker 1: to put a second round tender on him, possibly TJ
Speaker 1: Bass as well. Does does that mean those things need
Speaker 1: to continue to roll along intil the summer? No, get
Speaker 1: those deals done, get them out the way, free up
Speaker 1: your salary cap in addition to the other triggers that
Speaker 1: you have, so that when legal tampering starts on March ninth,
Speaker 1: you're one of the first ones out the gate.
Speaker 5: I foresee.
Speaker 1: And I asked that question because it like, like most
Speaker 1: people right kind of show me right. I don't. But
Speaker 1: then when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys, I hear
Speaker 1: what you're saying all to between between the information that
Speaker 1: we get the back end and how I see people
Speaker 1: move around here now in terms of the executives, I
Speaker 1: would be shocked if we don't see action as soon
Speaker 1: as free agency opens up. I genuinely believe that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a heavy hitter day one soon as it
Speaker 1: opens up day one, and I think that is going
Speaker 1: to be the trigger that kind of sends a bat
Speaker 1: signal in the air to the remain of the free
Speaker 1: agents that would potentially be great ad disges for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys that might get a little bit more money
Speaker 1: somewhere else. But if they see that player or players
Speaker 1: come and sign with Dallas, they're gonna be like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I need It's a recruiting tool, the right to get
Speaker 1: in on it. It's a recruiting tool. So the moves
Speaker 1: that they make on day one a free agency, I
Speaker 1: think are going to literally send out morse code to
Speaker 1: the remainder of the free agents that would there are
Speaker 1: in a financial position to take a little bit of
Speaker 1: a hit there to come join something. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about defense. I'm not talking about offense. We're all talking
Speaker 1: about defense, right, So, I think there's gonna be one
Speaker 1: heck of a linebacker that I get signed. I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be one heck of a nickel I guess
Speaker 1: heck of a safety to get signed. And I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be one heck of an outside backer slash
Speaker 1: pass round. Well to that last point, you just said,
Speaker 1: one heck of a outside linebacker slash pass or sure
Speaker 1: don't take trades off the table in this in this
Speaker 1: process as well, because free agency is one thing and
Speaker 1: they're looking at that, but they've continuously said they're not
Speaker 1: unwilling to come up off one of those first round
Speaker 1: picks in free agency if it for the right person.
Speaker 1: So if you want to max out and doing so
Speaker 1: then you know by all means. But my point being,
Speaker 1: and I love that you brought the soup because we
Speaker 1: were talking about this last week. Options. You have options
Speaker 1: now in safety realm safety doesn't look great and free
Speaker 1: tocy right now. Linebackers linebacker, linebacker like spectacular. Oh there's
Speaker 1: there's two guys. Yeah, I know, and I speak on
Speaker 1: those two guys on Open Market series on Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: dot com. Bro ain't offenses if you add just imagine
Speaker 1: two dred headed linebackers.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, Oh.
Speaker 1: My god, you're a Harris And I know they're getting
Speaker 1: Getting both of the gentlemen that I would love to
Speaker 1: see on this defense would be too expensive, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure at that position. But if you were able to
Speaker 1: get both of those gentlemen at the second level home,
Speaker 1: we credit I will say the energy to Isaiah's point,
Speaker 1: and this is why we have to we have to
Speaker 1: balance what we're saying, because Isaiah, Kyle, Josh and myself
Speaker 1: we are all of the same ilk in that show
Speaker 1: us we heard it all before. That is true. It
Speaker 1: is also true, though, that the air feels different. It
Speaker 1: feels like more than anything, Jerry is he's facing his
Speaker 1: own mortality. He doesn't have time for a bad time,
Speaker 1: and he's realizing it more and more. Dak Prescott, he's
Speaker 1: in his prime. How many more prime years of Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott are you willing to waste? One of Jerry's biggest
Speaker 1: regrets in his career has to do with wasting Tony
Speaker 1: romo career. Does he now want a second franchise quarterbacks
Speaker 1: career wasted on his watch? No, So it feels as
Speaker 1: if they're moving different. They're definitely talking different. Now it's
Speaker 1: time to put the rubber to the road.
Speaker 6: My thing is, as far as free agency goes, I
Speaker 6: don't want another situation where it's like we're talking this
Speaker 6: big game and then it comes free and then it's
Speaker 6: you know, we start signing guys, but it's those guys
Speaker 6: that you don't really know their name, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 6: well he could maybe, and no, we're gonna get some
Speaker 6: really good dudes.
Speaker 5: Familiar names.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I foresee that being the case.
Speaker 6: Maybe some former enemies.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but probably at least one of those.
Speaker 6: Yes, you're gonna start hearing those names. That's like, oh,
Speaker 6: that's a that's a player that is a certified player
Speaker 6: of the league, that has the pedigree that can contribute
Speaker 6: to a defense right now, not the hope that this
Speaker 6: guy can contribute. The proof is in the putting.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I believe there's gonna be two
Speaker 1: or three of those guys immediately. And I think that
Speaker 1: I believe that they're going to use that and the
Speaker 1: timing of day one to grab those guys to let
Speaker 1: everybody know this ain't what has been even to go
Speaker 1: along with you know, with the with the whole, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, still is going to
Speaker 1: be the fact that Christian Parker will have growing pains.
Speaker 1: We know this first year as a defense. But what's
Speaker 1: also true is his connections in this in this league
Speaker 1: is ridiculous coaches and players, and then look at the
Speaker 1: staff he's built. There will be players in free agency
Speaker 1: that look at Christian Parker and that staff and say,
Speaker 1: you know what I want end they've got the artist Dixon,
Speaker 1: the next d line coach for the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look at where these guys are coming from,
Speaker 1: whether it be around the league from Philadelphia for example,
Speaker 1: the defense that they had in Arizona, Scott Simons is
Speaker 1: coming from there. You have guys coming from the collegiate
Speaker 1: ranks UZO in Georgia. And why does it matter where
Speaker 1: these coaches were?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: See, what do you mean? What is it? Man? Why
Speaker 1: does it matter when it comes to free agency? Because
Speaker 1: when you get to reach back and get those guys,
Speaker 1: it's curtain season. You mean, coaches like the coach players
Speaker 1: that they've already coached before from previous teams kind of.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, just it happens, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: it just happened last year. The difference being is that
Speaker 1: where these guys are coming from, now there are players
Speaker 1: there you actually want on this roster.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Okay, I'm looking at the chat right, Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: there's a lot of skeptic on.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 3: Show us completely understands. Jack is like, it doesn't feel different.
Speaker 3: I guarantee you in this building, I get it. It
Speaker 3: does in here, and it might fool us. It might
Speaker 3: we may be fooled by us. We may be just
Speaker 3: too close to the fire and we're feeling the heat
Speaker 3: a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: But what I do though, is it does feel different
Speaker 5: the last we've been here.
Speaker 3: Since I've been here since twenty nineteen, I've seen the
Speaker 3: ups and the downs, and mostly downs in the off
Speaker 3: seasons for the Cowboys. This one feels a little different.
Speaker 3: It does, and that's just how it is as we
Speaker 3: stand here on March third. By the time we get
Speaker 3: here on March tenth next week and we've got a
Speaker 3: Tuesday show one day after the legal tampering period opens,
Speaker 3: we may not feel the same.
Speaker 5: But right now today it does feel a little bit different.
Speaker 5: I just want to lay that out.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times they want us to say,
Speaker 1: show us.
Speaker 5: No respectfully with all of that, respectfully.
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, which is why I'm bringing this up,
Speaker 1: and I wanted you guys to give insight. But like
Speaker 1: for myself, speaking for myself, this is the first first
Speaker 1: time where I feel like they're not going into the
Speaker 1: off season trying to get guys for discount. Double check. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. Now, Like this is the first year I've
Speaker 1: ever felt that. I'm like, I don't think that they're
Speaker 1: I know, I always knew day one. They're not doing
Speaker 1: nothing so far, they're moving differently and they have time
Speaker 1: to prove it. Yeah, they just need to look at
Speaker 1: those other gms and free agencies.
Speaker 5: We're gonna get there.
Speaker 3: We're gonna get here on Tuesday, and we're gonna open
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Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys. Patrick Ocaser Josh Rodriguez stand backer in the
Speaker 3: back real quickly, Pat, I know we kind of like
Speaker 3: upended news and notes. There's a couple more just bullet
Speaker 3: points we probably need to hit, starting with Donovan.
Speaker 5: Azrak Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So over the course of the combine, we were told
Speaker 1: that Donovan Azeraku underwent laboram surgery on his hip several
Speaker 1: weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The expectation is that he will miss OTA's in mini camp,
Speaker 1: but that he will be a full goal for a
Speaker 1: training camp. So as long as he recovers as they expect,
Speaker 1: he will effectively escape the pupp list to start training camp,
Speaker 1: which is going to be huge because he's going to
Speaker 1: be looked at to be a young guy who takes
Speaker 1: a huge step forward as an outside line becker in
Speaker 1: this new three four for Christian Parker. Also, I'm forgetting
Speaker 1: yeahs Rouncle Maris marys lea Foul so Ein Schottenheimer made
Speaker 1: an official the day prior. Kyl and I were speaking
Speaker 1: to the new inside linebackers coach, Scott Simon's and he
Speaker 1: dropped this nugget, which, like I said, was confirmed by
Speaker 1: Shotty twenty four hours later. Marris lea Foul is no
Speaker 1: longer inside linebacker for the Cowboys. He is now an
Speaker 1: edge rusher outside linebacker. He's going to be working with
Speaker 1: Shanero Uzzo Deribay exclusively. I'm not going to be sending
Speaker 1: any work with Scott Simon. Simon's going to focus on
Speaker 1: Shamar James demarionover shown and he said Justin Barron. I
Speaker 1: believe Simon said Justin Barron was an option there as well.
Speaker 1: But they're they're going to look to add an in sidelinebacker,
Speaker 1: be it in the free agency of the draft. But
Speaker 1: Mary Sleafoul is now an edge rusher. He is going
Speaker 1: to have to bulk up. It's going to have to
Speaker 1: put on weight. That's one of the transition things. I
Speaker 1: talked to Christian Parker on Friday. I believe Nicole and
Speaker 1: I did. One of the questions I asked him directly
Speaker 1: and shoddy as well. I said, tell me the challenges
Speaker 1: and the transition planned for Marris lea foul boking up
Speaker 1: and as far as hand placement, learning how to rush
Speaker 1: the passer, the guys have resources, guys like the Marcus
Speaker 1: ware who rushed as a three four guy as if
Speaker 1: that was going to be an option. So both of
Speaker 1: them pretty much were in lockstep in that he needs
Speaker 1: to boke up. But one thing Christian.
Speaker 5: Parkers, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, ohit, sorry,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: One thing Christian Parker said that stood out is that
Speaker 1: this isn't new to uh to merist. He pointed out
Speaker 1: how he was Sam at Notre Dame and that he's
Speaker 1: rushed off theirs before as a stand up guy the NFL.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not at the level a little bit different.
Speaker 1: The challenge is that the ability is there, the length
Speaker 1: is there, the mass is not there yet. The hand
Speaker 1: technique is not there yet, and that is more concerning
Speaker 1: to me than the mass you can put on the muscle, right,
Speaker 1: but learning yeah, but learning how to defeat offensive tackles
Speaker 1: in a phone booth, so to speak, versus having a
Speaker 1: five yard running start that's going to be diff that.
Speaker 6: On top of everything that he's going to be required
Speaker 6: to do on special teams.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be really tough off season for Maris,
Speaker 6: but I.
Speaker 1: Have Oh, he's going to have a off season to.
Speaker 6: I have concerns for Maris, but ultimately I wanted to
Speaker 6: go our way.
Speaker 1: Of course, this it sucks, bron Listen, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it sucks because it's an opportunity, right, So you're blessed
Speaker 1: to have an opportunity to play in this league. But
Speaker 1: it sucks from a standpoint of putting on weight when
Speaker 1: your number one asset is your speed, it sucks. Right,
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to put on twenty pounds and I
Speaker 1: don't know how many people have put on twenty pounds.
Speaker 1: It's a lot on vacation, hey, fifteen to twenty pounds.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of muscle because your calling car has
Speaker 1: always been your quickness and has always been your speed
Speaker 1: and your expilsiveness, right, Like that's his thing. Right, When
Speaker 1: you have to put on that weight, not only are
Speaker 1: you naturally taking away from all those things that have
Speaker 1: been assets from you, you have to work to try
Speaker 1: to maintained that speed, maintain that explosiveness, but now you're
Speaker 1: adding extra stress on your body's ligaments that your body
Speaker 1: has not become accustomed to. Right you Also, if it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out for you, if it does not work
Speaker 1: out for you here, now you're out of size how
Speaker 1: to position for any other opportunity that might might have
Speaker 1: presented itself. Right, So it sucks in that regard. That's
Speaker 1: when I say it sucks. That's what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: it's literally chips all in Hopefully you don't get hurt
Speaker 1: type of situation here in Dallas. And if it doesn't
Speaker 1: work out for you in Dallas, now you're in a
Speaker 1: position where I have to now lose twenty pounds, lose
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty pounds to get back to who I
Speaker 1: was before. It's just it's just ring around the rosie
Speaker 1: situation that people don't necessarily think of. I know he's
Speaker 1: not going to complain about it. He's going to take
Speaker 1: it and say, hey, this is my challenge. I accept it,
Speaker 1: but understand what it is when systems change and you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily fit that system's personnel. We talked about it here.
Speaker 1: For God like him is going to have a tremendous
Speaker 1: impact on the effectiveness that they can have and may
Speaker 1: have here in Dallas. And you bring up special teams, well,
Speaker 1: what does he do on special teams? He's a freaking
Speaker 1: lightning bottle, right, So now all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: puts on fifteen twenty pounds. Is he the same effectiveness
Speaker 1: on all special teams? Probably not right, So I mean
Speaker 1: what it effects not only just his position, but affects
Speaker 1: everything that he does. And I tell you it's it's
Speaker 1: going to be the first major test for outside linebackers
Speaker 1: coach Uzo de Reba. Of course at Georgia. This is
Speaker 1: a guy who coached a guy like Michael Williams into
Speaker 1: being a first round pick last year. So I mean
Speaker 1: he has the ability to absolutely get marriage at least
Speaker 1: in year one. Maybe serviceable, That would be my expectations.
Speaker 1: Try to get him serviceable in year one based on
Speaker 1: where his starting point is coming from, a true inside
Speaker 1: linebacker who needs to put on, you know, twenty plus
Speaker 1: pounds and needs to get hand technique of things. Now,
Speaker 1: I just need him to be at least serviceable. But
Speaker 1: it's a huge first test for Uzo and you know,
Speaker 1: and speaking with Uzoh, he's up to the task. And
Speaker 1: I know for a fact that he's up to the task.
Speaker 1: We're not. Yeah, can I say it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, but but go dogs. But I'm not. But I'm
Speaker 1: not going to objectively sit here and say that Isaiah
Speaker 1: is wrong at any of his points. There is a
Speaker 1: lot that is going to go into this transition and
Speaker 1: not a lot has to go right. What we do
Speaker 1: know is marriage is high football. Like you, his work
Speaker 1: ethic is through the roof. He's going to give it
Speaker 1: his all and just have to see where it lands. Now,
Speaker 1: if it does work out for him, which we all
Speaker 1: hope it does, then it also works out for him
Speaker 1: in the bank is where his edge rushers get paid
Speaker 1: more than absolutely. But I also say, I mean, and
Speaker 1: people might take this the wrong way, but it's the reality. Genetically,
Speaker 1: he has an advantage talking about just.
Speaker 5: Just built muscle.
Speaker 1: Well what I'm saying, yeah, I mean being a Polynesian,
Speaker 1: he has the ability to put on masks faster than
Speaker 1: other people do it. But I would say Polynesians, I
Speaker 1: would say Nigerians. There are certain people based upon your
Speaker 1: and some of the German cats that I play with. Right, Genetically,
Speaker 1: you're more opt to be able to put that weight
Speaker 1: on struggle. That's just fast, right, so that he does
Speaker 1: have that to as advantage.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that was the thing.
Speaker 1: Oh heck, yeah, I got to look up to science.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, typically some big bull I know,
Speaker 1: I've seen it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've called you trinity, and that's happened in Baltimore
Speaker 3: Ravens game.
Speaker 5: It's been a couple of areas. All right. I've got
Speaker 5: a bracket for everybody. It's March. It's March Madness. We're
Speaker 5: gonna rank the number one need for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3: But we gotta go single elimination all the way down,
Speaker 3: and then when we get to the semi finals.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have a double elimination. We have to be unanimous.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So there's a debate that will ray John and we
Speaker 3: will fill out this bracket. It's got to be unanimous.
Speaker 3: Some of these early ones will be unanimous.
Speaker 5: But then I think when we get to the semi finals,
Speaker 5: things are gonna.
Speaker 3: Get a little bit crazy. Okay, Okay, that's off the table.
Speaker 3: Here are the positions that are off the table. Kicker
Speaker 3: is one Brandon Aubre. You're sticking around, You're gonna be
Speaker 3: here dog like quarterback, running back and interior to five
Speaker 3: of line. And the reason why I do that is
Speaker 3: because you've got Dak Prescott. You just resigned Jvante Williams.
Speaker 3: We believe in Javante. It's the most recent acquisition. So
Speaker 3: let's just take it off the table for now. And
Speaker 3: then so is interior defensive line. I think they've made
Speaker 3: the acquisition. You're okay there, traded for Kenny Clark, traded
Speaker 3: for Quinn Williams. Phil, you could totally add one more.
Speaker 3: That's not the point. The point is number one need
Speaker 3: and we're gonna try and get there. These are eight
Speaker 3: seated positions. Game one, linebacker and tight end. Go linebacker, linebacker, linebacker.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good one. Moving on tackle versus safety
Speaker 3: is sure?
Speaker 5: Oh wait do you do?
Speaker 1: You do you disagree with the number one?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: No, that's just the first that's the first thing that's.
Speaker 5: Between the two are so you agree? So tight ends?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay?
Speaker 5: Tackle and safety is game two?
Speaker 1: Safe? Safety, safety?
Speaker 2: Safe?
Speaker 1: Three on one Coyle safe you lost.
Speaker 5: I will say safety, but I don't think it's that
Speaker 5: cut and dry.
Speaker 1: It's I think have some options at tackle.
Speaker 5: That's probably the hardest first round.
Speaker 1: They don't have the options that safety to move around.
Speaker 1: They just they have You've got some options at time,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Okay, I thought you mean like to grasp what I
Speaker 3: said safety in the feats tackle, and I agree.
Speaker 5: You don't have the guys there.
Speaker 3: You need a safety, especially for this defense and what
Speaker 3: you're trying to build with Christian Parker completely understand, and
Speaker 3: I'm okay with putting them in through to the next round.
Speaker 5: Wide receiver and edge rusher.
Speaker 1: This is the three six that's not even close and
Speaker 1: really quick to the chat. We're not saying there's just
Speaker 1: the guy opposite Azrakl. We're saying he's a guy they're
Speaker 1: putting in the chart. So yeah, you still need to
Speaker 1: add a guy. They're just telling him so he had
Speaker 1: time right now, they're telling him where you're not going
Speaker 1: to be, right, We know where you're not going to be,
Speaker 1: So we're not going to waste your time with this.
Speaker 1: This is going to be your position. Do what you
Speaker 1: need to do to be prepared to play that position.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: The two versus the seven seed corner and interior if
Speaker 3: or interior offensive line.
Speaker 5: Corner that's an easy one. So there's the first round.
Speaker 3: Okay, So your five need is offensive tackle, your six
Speaker 3: need is wide receiver, your seven need is interior offensive line,
Speaker 3: and your eight need is tight end.
Speaker 5: You feel pretty good about.
Speaker 1: Those, Chris.
Speaker 6: If you could put the bracket on screen, yeah, can you.
Speaker 5: Just throw that up there forrest? Beamer?
Speaker 3: Appreciate you, dude. I made this in the middle of
Speaker 3: the last brow like, what the hell's going on? Peamer's like,
Speaker 3: what graphic?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: Game five?
Speaker 3: This is the first semi final, and this is where
Speaker 3: things are gonna get dicey linebacker and safety linebacker. I
Speaker 3: still think linebackers number one in that need. Yes, I
Speaker 3: think I'm there too, so maybe not.
Speaker 5: As dicey as I thought.
Speaker 3: But I am going to move safety into a consolation
Speaker 3: bracket for like the third place game, like they do
Speaker 3: in soccer. So it's gonna be down there and we'll
Speaker 3: talk about safety here in a second. Edge and corner
Speaker 3: is yeah. Okay, so this isn't really a super debatable
Speaker 3: topic at this point. But I'm also gonna throw a
Speaker 3: corner and safety into the console bracket, which is where
Speaker 3: we are now. So you got safety versus corner who's
Speaker 3: the number three?
Speaker 1: Need safety? Safe?
Speaker 2: No, number three over corner corner safety is corner safety.
Speaker 6: I think I'm going corner.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the debate you were looking for.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's a debate. Why do you say safety?
Speaker 1: I say safety because you need you need a captain, bactor,
Speaker 1: you need a commander.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: I think you currently versatility of being able to play
Speaker 1: back and play up.
Speaker 6: Okay, I think I'm going to change to safety. Yeah
Speaker 6: because No, genuinely, because I think you have some pieces
Speaker 6: there at corner that you can rely on and hopefully
Speaker 6: a year or two jump improves that whole scenario for you.
Speaker 6: I think you don't have any answers currently at safety.
Speaker 6: You don't have a lot of uh, you don't have
Speaker 6: the same bodies that you had now as you did
Speaker 6: last year because of free agency and how that's going
Speaker 6: to turn out. We don't know how it's going to
Speaker 6: turn out. But at least right now, I don't think
Speaker 6: there's an identity there at safety that you can really
Speaker 6: rely on that needs to be completely there's overhaul.
Speaker 1: There's not a safety that you be safe without a
Speaker 1: shoutout of a doubt. That's my guy. No, there's a
Speaker 1: corner with a shadow.
Speaker 6: There are two of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you hurt? Okay, So we talked about reliable.
Speaker 3: He said, it's not a reliable option safety. I don't
Speaker 3: know if there's a reliable option a corner.
Speaker 1: I would love to say that Darron Blane get back
Speaker 1: back to prime form. I would love to say he'll
Speaker 1: be durable. He might had consistent issues with that foot.
Speaker 5: That is.
Speaker 1: Don't disagree now, so as we have this conversation, because
Speaker 1: Kyle rightfully so he likes to point out the date
Speaker 1: that we're having this conversation. So March third, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Dron Bland has durability issues with that foot as a cornerback.
Speaker 1: I agree that is concerned. That is Savonevel has yet
Speaker 1: to have a full off season that we've seen the potential,
Speaker 1: especially under Christian Parker and Ryan Smith and Derek Anstley.
Speaker 1: The potential is there, but hope is not a strategy. Okay,
Speaker 1: So we're hoping Revel can get a year or two jump.
Speaker 1: We're hoping de Ron Bland can stay durable. Ready Stewart's exclusive, right,
Speaker 1: So let's say they keep Ready in the building. But
Speaker 1: at corner, what else are you really working with at safety?
Speaker 1: Who's your cover safety? Thank you? No, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not No, I'm in the corner. I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out if pick anybody can try. I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out up and cover the safeties. I need somebody to
Speaker 1: walk up and put their hands on the tight end.
Speaker 1: Elijah Clark till hit you. We'll see you got to.
Speaker 1: I have concerns about one year Thomas that safety as well,
Speaker 1: because the migraines. We need to know that the migraines
Speaker 1: are behind him, you know. And he's a restricted free agent.
Speaker 1: So here you negotiate with other teams as well, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can match that offer. But we're not saying
Speaker 1: safety is not a top need. Oh, I know you
Speaker 1: put that. That's the part actually in the bracket when
Speaker 1: you put safety versus corner bag. I also do think
Speaker 1: they do wrong. But what's making it harder on the
Speaker 1: safeties is that your cornerbacks have been struggling, right, So
Speaker 1: the guys are getting past your cornerbacks, and now your
Speaker 1: safeties don't pass rush to strap what's going on. And
Speaker 1: now it's too late because now it's like, no matter
Speaker 1: what hurts, but my thing is like, no matter what
Speaker 1: safety you name, you're you're not. You're gonna have bubble
Speaker 1: guts about them. That's that's my thing. There's not one
Speaker 1: safe that you can name that you say I feel
Speaker 1: good about them.
Speaker 5: I feel the same about corner. That's that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And that's what that's where there's a spo even when healthy.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. Understand you guys are looking at
Speaker 1: the injury when healthy position group versus position group. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have bubble guts about the safeties, you know what.
Speaker 3: I see what you're saying here, and I agree with
Speaker 3: that factor. But in my head, I'm thinking I would
Speaker 3: rather have healthy bodies.
Speaker 1: Then absolutely, I would rather have your safety cover And
Speaker 1: also shouts out they play man. Can they play his
Speaker 1: own No?
Speaker 7: Probably not, But it's it's understand some saying, so what
Speaker 7: are your safeties doing that you guys feel good about
Speaker 7: not selecting them?
Speaker 1: Number one, as it stands right now, you have your
Speaker 1: two starting corners, two starting boundary corners as we speak
Speaker 1: in this conversation right now, can your backup guys aboudy ability?
Speaker 1: Can your backup guys plays own defense? Your corners name
Speaker 1: me backup corners. Don't I'm saying a bad about Ready
Speaker 1: Stewart out there. I mean, you got alive out there,
Speaker 1: you got Kevin Carson, All those guys can play zone.
Speaker 1: I could teach those guys to play his own. Can
Speaker 1: you teach the safety that it plays on? Didn't you
Speaker 1: want to move Stewart to safety to safety? Absolutely? But
Speaker 1: right now, as of right now, he's a corner as
Speaker 1: we sit on right now. Yeah, yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. There is no safety that you feel confident
Speaker 1: putting on the field and saying play ball. Get a
Speaker 1: man or zone? All right.
Speaker 3: So here's how we're going to settle this. Since we're
Speaker 3: split in the table to to in the chat, give
Speaker 3: us your vote safety corner, Which is the biggest need
Speaker 3: safety or corner? I'll decide that on the other side
Speaker 3: of the break will count up the votes when we
Speaker 3: come back the championship. Who is the biggest need linebacker
Speaker 3: or edge rusher?
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Speaker 3: we have our official count. I am stopping the votes
Speaker 3: by a score of fourteen to six. Safety moves on.
Speaker 3: I don't disagree.
Speaker 1: I really do not nothing, John Snow.
Speaker 3: I think safety is a massive need, and I agree
Speaker 3: with every point that you make. I think, just for myself,
Speaker 3: I think corner is such a question mark, and.
Speaker 1: I think it's close. Yeah, you know, you know how
Speaker 1: I feel about corners. You gotta have some corners, but
Speaker 1: at least have some guys that you can say, okay,
Speaker 1: go out there, plays on, right, Like, at the very least,
Speaker 1: plays on. I know you can't cut, I know you
Speaker 1: can't get out the break all just plays on. Just
Speaker 1: sit there in your little five yard box. Safeties or
Speaker 1: don't they don't have that. They don't have a five
Speaker 1: yard box. They got to cover a lot more than that, right.
Speaker 1: So these guys that you saw this past year, it
Speaker 1: was told me on Friday he was like cornerback though
Speaker 1: he was like there's no Wi Fi. Yeah, he's like,
Speaker 1: you're on an island.
Speaker 6: So yeah, question though, and this kind of a loose
Speaker 6: to what you said earlier about safety is not being
Speaker 6: a big asset and free agency currently like, yeah, there's
Speaker 6: not a it's so is it something to where you
Speaker 6: can a lot of the middle of the pass a
Speaker 6: corner and free agency and then wait for the draft
Speaker 6: for safety?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, absolutely, safety.
Speaker 6: It's kind of a blanket, say, because we don't know
Speaker 6: who's going to be available to.
Speaker 1: Pick the I don't think they're gonna wait for the
Speaker 1: draft for safety.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have to get somebody.
Speaker 1: I think they'll grab a safety and they think they'll
Speaker 1: grab their safety before that dot com dot com yesterday
Speaker 1: literally my open market series focused on safeties. I have
Speaker 1: several safeties that you, guys and gals, I want to
Speaker 1: take a look at. What I'm saying is this crop
Speaker 1: of free agency safeties there's maybe one that's above and
Speaker 1: beyond two tops. The rest are all kind of conglomerated
Speaker 1: into the middle. I think I think they grab you
Speaker 1: will kind of like in the seven million dollar range.
Speaker 1: I think they grab one of those in free agency. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we all know the one that they're most
Speaker 1: likely going to. We feel like this, who is that rap?
Speaker 1: And then they're I think they're gonna draft one. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to read between your lunes. Is there one that's
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think they're then the draft one?
Speaker 5: All right, we got a championship game. Yeah, we gotta
Speaker 5: go linebacker and edge edge?
Speaker 1: Well, what do you lie outside or backer?
Speaker 5: That's that's my question. Linebacker, linebacker, linebacker, line backer.
Speaker 1: That kind of outsounds both now right outside line, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of both.
Speaker 5: It kind of now, it's kind of one.
Speaker 1: No, put inside linebacker, outside inside, it's like bugs and
Speaker 1: daff dunk season, rapid season outside linebacker. If you don't
Speaker 1: you you could not. Who's your commander in chief? Who's
Speaker 1: your commandal chief on the edge? I understand that, But
Speaker 1: to that point, is it more you who's your green dot?
Speaker 1: Who's who's your guy that they're scheming against on the edge?
Speaker 1: As we have this conversation March third, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Rushing the passer, getting home not just pressuring pressures are great,
Speaker 1: but also getting home against the passer, which is something
Speaker 1: the Cowboys struggled mightily to do. That is going to
Speaker 1: dictate how your linebackers can play, how your corners can play,
Speaker 1: how your safeties can play. And right now you have
Speaker 1: a high upside guy in Donovan Nezraku who's coming off
Speaker 1: of laboring surgery. You have a guy in Mary Cliophile
Speaker 1: that you need to transition to a whole new position.
Speaker 1: And then hear what else you got? I agree, I
Speaker 1: agree how the personnel, the lack of personnel's outside line,
Speaker 1: but at least an inside linebacker. You got a promising
Speaker 1: guy Shamar James tomorrow and overshowing if he remains available, kaboom,
Speaker 1: and then you can mix in a guy like Justin Barron,
Speaker 1: and then you can still address the position. You were
Speaker 1: just talking about it after the quarters.
Speaker 6: You were just talking about health issues on the cornerbacks
Speaker 6: and how that would make it a bigger need. You
Speaker 6: don't have a solidified the Marvin overshown as far as you.
Speaker 1: Know, that's right, okay, So using that logic, let's pluck
Speaker 1: him out and I still say it.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow, Ve shows coming off of hip surgery to mar.
Speaker 1: No breaking.
Speaker 5: I promise that's not I meant, Donovan.
Speaker 1: There you go, I do.
Speaker 9: I can get.
Speaker 1: Shown out. But then that's a wash by the fact
Speaker 1: that as Rock was coming off of labor surgery. So
Speaker 1: I know we gotta get out. I will get on
Speaker 1: board with Edge, but I believe wholeheartedly that the first
Speaker 1: person that we signed will be a middle linebacker.
Speaker 5: I'm okay with that.
Speaker 6: Yes, I was literally just about to say that, like,
Speaker 6: I think the priority is going to be linebacker in
Speaker 6: free agency and not edge.
Speaker 1: And then take a trip to Miami for your edge rusher.
Speaker 1: Now we're cooking, we're Vegas.
Speaker 5: All right. That does it for us? Here on talking
Speaker 5: lots of fun. Our bracket is filled out. So is
Speaker 5: it Edge? Is that the winner? Edge? Edge wins? Did
Speaker 5: you have line look at come on over?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 5: Okay, so edge wins.
Speaker 3: So it's edge linebacker's your safety, corner, offensive tackle, wide receiver, interior,
Speaker 3: offensive line, tight end. That's how it filled out. I
Speaker 3: hope you had fun with it. It's March madness. We'll
Speaker 3: be back next week. It'll be one day after the
Speaker 3: legal tampers.
Speaker 1: All right, let's.
Speaker 3: All right for Patrick No see Walker, Josh Rodriguez for
Speaker 3: Isaiah stand back.
Speaker 5: I'm Kyle Yomas for Chris Beham in the back. We'll
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