WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Kicking This NFL Draft Around 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.680 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:13.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:17.919 Shot screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:23.200 official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:31.280 and Nicky Spagnolan and Mickey just couldn't wait until Thursday 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:36.000 to talk about the National Football League Draft. He had 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.320 to get in a day early. And so here we 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:42.680 are at one o'clock on a Wednesday with a special 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.360 edition of Mick Shots. And in the case of Everson Walls, 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.239 it will be one oh six on Wednesday that he 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.080 will be along for this edition of Mick Shots. And 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.640 we're happy year along too. And Mickey, how you doing? 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:01.120 Have you? Have you got rested and covered from the 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.440 draft over the weekend? You know, I was just thinking 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.279 when I was kind of looking at all my stuff, 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.480 I'm going, gosh, the draft seems like it was a 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.759 year ago. It was only but three four days ago 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.759 it finished, and it seems like it's been so long. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:19.480 But yes, I have recovered. Oh yeah, and uh and 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:24.559 you've got uh. Let's see copious amount of copy here 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:31.440 between Draft Choice bios last year's stats, round by round 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:37.440 the Cowboys nine picks, and this is my big green 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.920 notebook here. There you go. That's right, I've got my 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.080 big green notebook here, which I haven't put back in 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.959 the drawer for next year. I've still will use it 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.280 for a little bit. Dude, look back and analyze not 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.600 only what the Cowboys did in the draft, but all 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.360 the mistakes that other teams made of the draft. But 0:01:55.440 --> 0:02:00.200 first off, are you disappointed that you will not be 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.000 covering a Cowboys game either in the UK or in 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:09.919 Germany or in Mexico City. Absolutely, especially not in the 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:14.200 UK or Germany, since I haven't been to Germany before, 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.280 I would be a good way to go. And you know, 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.880 I was, you know the Cowboys. There's a Cowboys fan 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.480 club in London, and I was on with him during 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:34.000 the draft and they were they were pretty hopeful that 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:38.000 the Cowboys would be returning for one of those four 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:44.040 games out in Europe, and they were interviewing Will McClay. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.520 I believe it was before I came on and they 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:51.000 asked him to question and Will said, the Cowboys vice 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:55.080 president of a player personnel said, it doesn't look like 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.760 it's going to work out this year. And those guys were, oh, 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:03.679 come on, no, there's four games out here, and so 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:08.640 I was braced for the letdown that came out today 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:13.480 that they won't be returning to London. And here are 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.200 the international games as announced this morning on the NFL Network. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:21.360 Starting on October second, at Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium, it'll be 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:25.239 the Minnesota Vikings against the New Orleans Saints to be broadcast. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.000 That's a Sunday morning game eight thirty Dallas time on 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.040 the NFL Network. The following week, October ninth, the Giants 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.880 will play the Packers at same stadium NFL Network at 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.160 eight thirty. And then the end of October, on October 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:45.640 thirtieth at Wimbley Stadium is when the Jacksonville Jaguars will 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.360 play the Denver Broncos in what is basically their annual 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:54.000 game at Wimbley Stadium this year for Jacksonville. And that's 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.640 where we thought perhaps if the Cowboys were going to 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.600 go to London, it's because they're scheduled to play at Jacksonville. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.120 So they will be playing at Jacksonville and not in 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.680 London against Jacksonville this year. And then the other two 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:11.040 games that are added in Munich first game in Germany. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.120 It's the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.600 I think that was announced actually at the draft, right, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.960 and that isn't on November thirteenth, also a Sunday morning game. 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.880 And then the Mexico City game is a Monday night 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:30.560 game November twenty first, San Francisco and Arizona. That might 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.640 be Troy Aikman's birthday November twenty first. I gotta look 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.440 it up, so he will be spending his birthday in 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.920 Mexico City because it's an ESPNC. That's an ESPN Monday 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.120 night game. I thought when I saw that come out, Oh, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.800 that's right, it's an ESPY and he's a Monday night 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:50.479 football now right, right, And the thought occurred to me, Well, 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.080 for the first time in about twenty years, Troy Aikman 0:04:53.200 --> 0:05:00.720 is going to be home for Thanksgiving, right yeah. And 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.400 at first I was thinking, Oh, Troy's gotta do He's 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.680 he's doing a Monday night game, and then he's got 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.960 to turn around and do Thursday. No, he doesn't do Thursday. Boy, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.480 he's at ESPN. So I heard one theory on why 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:19.400 the Cowboys, you know, because last time they went to London, 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:26.480 they played Jacksonville, and it's it. I heard one theory 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:32.080 that because of the Cowboy fans all over the country here, 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.400 that if they show up for an away game, that's 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:42.000 usually a big sellout game for that team. And so 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.120 when they go to Jacksonville, you know, the Cowboy fans 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:49.400 can find tickets to that game, right right, And so yeah, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.719 and you know, I don't know that Jerry still wants 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.520 to give up a home game to go and play 0:05:55.520 --> 0:06:00.200 in London. Yeah, so so yeah, I am disappointed. And 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.599 it is, by the way, November twenty first, it is okay, 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.320 very good. Why do I know that? Yeah? Why do 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:11.200 you because spond with somebody else that's more important in 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.520 your life. No, Troy is very import all right. Do 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.159 you want to know how old he'll be in November 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:25.640 twenty first? I am going to guests, Uh fifty five, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.039 fifty six? That was good, very good? All right? All right, 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.480 So there are your international games for twenty twenty two, 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.760 which means the Cowboys are more likely to play an 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.960 international game in twenty twenty three now, although probably not 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.880 unless they're the visiting team. Yeah. Yeah, So, and since 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.920 we're talking schedules, the NFL schedule is slated to come 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:54.360 out next Thursday, so May twelfth, And as I pointed 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.640 out in mix shots, they're coming out on Dallas Cowboys 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.400 dot com today. They're going to start on May ninth 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:08.960 and start releasing other significant games like Thanksgiving, each team's 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:14.440 home opener. And I'm guessing if all that's coming out 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.960 by May twelfth, before the official announced, we're gonna know. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.520 We're gonna know when we convene for even though it'll 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.440 be official, when we convene for mix shots at eleven 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.320 thirty next Thursday, some seven or eight hours before the 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.040 official announcement, it will be leaked. I guarantee you, as 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.920 I as I pointed out with my little comment that 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.200 if the Supreme Court can't keep a secret, the NFL 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.880 probably can't keep a secret. That's right. Yea usually comes 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.520 out about an hour before they officially announced it. Anyway, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.960 this one's gonna be days you much? Yeah? All right? Okay, 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:55.400 So where do we start? As far as you want 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:00.480 to see my draft order picture, you're one, it's the 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:06.440 nine draft picks, remember Jerry with the holding that sucker 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.920 up there? Yeah? Um? So do we start at the 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:17.360 very beginning? Yeah? Let's you know overall. Um, And I 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:22.480 think one thing that people don't take into account was 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:27.480 the Cowboys were drafting twenty fourth unless you wanted to 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.440 give up draft picks to move up. Um, the reason 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.760 you're drafting twenty fourth is because you ended up with 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.520 a twelve and five record. And they make it more 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.640 difficult for the teams that got into the playoffs, advanced 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:46.000 in the playoffs. Uh, go to the super Bowl to 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:51.120 get the top talent, because this is a league that 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.760 they'll meek shell inherent and so the least be first, 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.000 That's right, And that's why everybody's going crazy about Well, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.920 look what the Giants did, and look what Philadelphia did, 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.120 and look what Washington did. Well, yeah, they were drafting 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:10.040 higher because they were poor, and not so much Philadelphia, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.520 but uh, the Giants in Washington, you know, so that 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.520 they get the opportunity to get the best talent in 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.720 the draft. And the Eagles were poor the year before 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.280 and they made use of that by acquiring draft drafts 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:28.199 and then exactly so they're supposed to get better. That's 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:33.439 that's the idea of this whole socialized uh NFL process. 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:39.079 But I think from where the Cowboys were and what 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.920 they were trying to accomplish. I think they did a 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.000 pretty good job. Now we can argue this, this and this, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.840 but one of the things I think people need to 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.000 take into consideration is, and I'll just take the first pick. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.680 When they took Tyler Smith, uh, the guard tackle out 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:04.079 of Tulsa at twenty four, there wasn't another offensive tackle 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:08.480 taken until the third round. So if you had this 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:13.920 guy high and you took a different position, the talent 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:18.760 level obviously went down after Tyler Smith because no one 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.439 else thought a tackle was worth taken until the third round. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:27.080 And when it came to guards, the only guard taken 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:38.200 after Tyler Smith. Tyler Smith was the infamous cole Very 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.360 Strange pick by the Patriots, number twenty nine. What do 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.600 you think those people did when they saw that pick? 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:50.520 Which people the Patriots the Patriots fans right? And there 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.360 were only two more guards taken in the second round, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.040 and so the talent level at those positions fell off. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.160 And I think there's some folks that think that the 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.079 Cowboys took Tyler Smith like they got the twenty four 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.360 They didn't know what to do and it's like, Okay, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.760 let's take this guy. If they were going to do 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.320 this in the first round with a guard tackle or 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.600 a tackle guard, however you want to look at it. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.560 His name started coming up at least the day before. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.319 I didn't know much about him because the draft experts 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:30.920 didn't know much about him, and they were on to 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:37.439 him heading into the draft. So just because his name 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:42.360 wasn't familiar to everybody that does mock drafts, and some 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.120 of them failed miserably in their mock drafts, I saw 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.520 it an over thirty two. By the way, you know, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.240 they don't know what they're doing either. So I just thought, 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.320 you have to look at if I take this guy here, 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.160 then what's the next position that maybe I need that 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.000 has guys in the second round that I can use 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.199 and maybe into the third round. Because all the wide 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.240 receivers were gone, right, six of them, six went in 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:16.160 the first eighteen picks, right, Uh, and the top offensive 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:21.640 tackles were already off the board. So unless they were 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:26.960 going to go there were six offensive linehind them. So 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.480 that's twelve right of the and so unless they were 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:37.360 gonna go defense, uh, this was I mean, this was 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:41.559 gonna be their pick. Okay. So Tyler Smith, obviously he's 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.240 he's very young, just turned twenty one April third. Why 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.959 do I know that? No? Uh, I know that. And 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.440 and someone very close to me, my mother. So there 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.200 you go, very good, all right. So so I'll always 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.679 remember that he's got April. You know, Michael Parsons is 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.120 May twenty six. You know how I know that someone 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.480 very close to me's birthdays in May twenty six? That 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.800 would be me. You know, I'm gonna give you a funny, Okay. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.680 So I didn't know anything about the significance of April 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:16.560 twentieth except that was my parents' anniversary. And then I 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.200 found out that April twentieth had something to do with 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:28.640 smoking weed all day long. Fight, that's right. I had 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:35.480 no idea. Okay, we know anyway, Okay, all right, So, uh, 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.679 he's so young. He's basically has just started two seasons 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.719 at the group of five level at Tulsa UM. Converted 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.040 to offensive line as a junior in high school, so 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:52.120 he hasn't played the position all that long. Um, But 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.720 why then? And so those are some of the reasons 0:13:55.760 --> 0:14:00.280 that the so called experts did not have him. He's 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.240 not a finished product, Okay, he is. There is a 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.880 projection on what he's going to be in the NFL. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.640 The Cowboys believe that because he has the tools that 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.120 he has, he can start immediately or they're going to 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.440 give him an opportunity to start immediately inside at guard 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.840 and we'll see. But why do you think the Cowboys 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.760 had him ranked as high as they had him, which 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:30.640 was above the two guards who probably who might in 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.360 the case of Kenyon Green, I think he would be 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:37.160 a better offensive guard this season, probably than what Tyler 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.200 Smith will be. And Zion Johnson was considered by a 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.840 lot of people to be the top offensive guard in 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.200 this draft, although he went behind Kenyon Green in the draft. So, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.480 but why did the Cowboys have Tyler Smith rank so high? 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.040 And why was he a priority for them regardless of 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.920 all the tackles being off the board. Why do they 0:14:56.040 --> 0:15:01.200 like this guy? I think this is a out. This 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.520 is like playing craps. You put money on the combline, 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.440 and that's what I think what they're doing here. And 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.240 I think they feel like it's safer for him to 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.440 start off at guard, where you have sure it's like 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.960 playing bumper cars, right, You're in the middle of two 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:21.200 bumper cars and you're a little bit safer and the 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:27.400 fact that it looks like he has some physical traits 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:35.160 that are conducive to eventually playing tackle. And the knock 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.280 everybody gave on him is because somebody once wrote that 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.920 he had all these holding penalties, and I thought, if 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.320 you go to Dallas Cowboys dot com, Nick Eatman did 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.280 a very good job of getting a hold of the 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:55.760 head coach at Tulsa and yeah, and he explained that 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.920 a lot of his penalties came because he was dominant 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:04.320 eating people and that he's got such strong hands. It's 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:10.280 as like when Tyrant Smith got here and they were 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:14.040 like and Nate started this, it was like he's and 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.840 that's you know, the hotel. Once they grab you, you 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:22.160 can't get away. And he felt like the guy would 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.680 dominate people so badly and see somebody on the ground 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.800 and it's like, oh, well he must have held him 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:33.480 or you know, had committed a penalty. So I think 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.760 that's what the Cowboys were looking at for what he 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.480 can give him down the road. And as for Kenyan Greene, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:45.760 the medical report on him suggested that in a year 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.800 or two he may not be in the league because 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.720 of degenerative knee problem that he had, and the Cowboys 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:57.640 were very, very skeptical about taking him, to the point 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.640 they hope that they didn't have to make that to 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.880 see I'm gonna I'm gonna read the Cowboys mind. Okay, 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.960 I don't think that they would have drafted regardless even 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.639 if Kenyan Green was healthy, right, and Zion Johnson. I 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.679 don't think if if let's say Tyler Smith was not 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:18.480 in this draft, wasn't available, and you had Kenyon Green 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.680 or Zion Johnson as your choice is there, they would 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.680 not They would not have taken either one or no. 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:28.400 They would have taken the defensive Lloyd. Even they could 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.840 have even taken Dax Hill whoever. You know, they would 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.680 have taken best player or tried to trade down. They 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.119 probably would have traded down and then taken whatever. See this. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.880 But the reason that Tyler Smith is more valued in 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:45.200 that room than all those other guys is because they 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:50.760 project him to eventually be Tyrn Smith's replacement at left tackle. Right. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.439 That's why he is the first round draft pick. That 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.840 is why he was ranked as high on their board too. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.439 Is that's what scouts do. It's not just what that 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.480 product is right now, it's what this guy can be 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.480 in the future, and that is why that was more 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.320 valuable to them than any other position on the board. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.760 That whether they're going to come out and say it 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.840 or not, they look at him because we'll see how 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.000 much longer Tyrn Smith can play. They but especially since 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.680 he's only twenty one years old. Tyler Smith, right, they 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.000 look at him. It could be four years from now, okay, 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.400 his second contract, even if Tyrn hopefully he'll be able 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.600 to play five more years whatever, But they look at 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:37.320 Tyler Smith as being his eventual replacement. And with Tyrn Smith, 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.600 it's an unknown, right Can he play another year? Can 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:45.120 you play two years? Can he play three years? With 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.359 guys like that that are kind of and he's not 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.600 that old, right, he's gonna turn thirty. He's thirty one, 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.040 I think right now. But it could end any time. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:58.520 And at that point then you're going to be in 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.480 a draft going, oh my god, I gotta take somebody. Well, no, 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.760 I've already got that no matter when it happens. And 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.280 I and if he can play guard, then he can 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:13.880 transition anytime to the tackle position. Instead of saying I'm 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.720 going into the draft and I gotta have this, they 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.440 already have it in place. So it's almost like a 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.920 term insurance policy. And so in the meantime he can 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.119 play guard until he's needed at tackle or if he 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.440 who knows, maybe he won't develop. I mean, that's the 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.800 that's it's a crapshoot. Sometimes you don't know for sure 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:35.640 how these guys are going to develop. That's why it's 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.880 an inexact science. And the guard position we talked about 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:43.160 it last week. The guard position is not a highly 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:47.080 valued spot. See here's what they could have done if 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:48.879 they did not take a guard, if they did not 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.600 value Tyler Smith that great late okay, and they didn't 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.399 want to take a guard in the first round, they 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.520 could have done what the Washington commanders did. Washington at 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.200 a need for a guard, and the day after the draft, 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:04.800 on Monday, they signed Trede Turner, a veteran free agent 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.880 who they are very familiar with because Ron Rivera and 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.560 Carrie when he was at Carolina. They drafted him in 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.840 the third round. He made the Pro Bowl five years 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.560 they signed him to a very economical one year, three 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:20.240 million dollar contract the Cowboy. If the if the Cowboys 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:24.000 did not satisfy that need in this draft, they would 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.879 have been for instance, right in the market for a 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:33.320 trade turner, and so they weren't desperate to fill that position. 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:37.399 They had other alternatives. That's how highly they feel about 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:44.159 Tyler Smith as his eventual uh you know, being a 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.679 guy a fixture on this offensive line maybe for the 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:50.680 next decade. And the other thing that would have happened 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:55.360 is they would have further entertained those trade down offers 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:57.880 because they had them. If they were going to take 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:01.200 somebody else, they could have traded down. But they found 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.960 out one of the teams trying to trade up to 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.239 their spot. I believe that was the guy that yet 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:13.359 they wanted Tyler Smith. So yeah, it's like other people 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:18.040 knew about him, uh and knew about his value at 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:21.000 that point in the first round because they're looking at 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.840 the same board basically that the Cowboys are looking at. 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:27.720 They all basically have these players graded about the same 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.040 and they saw that the next true offensive tackle on 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:34.119 the board was Bernard Ryman, who wound up going in 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.360 the third round, right, you know, And so they did 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.359 not have a as high you know they they were 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.560 which the experts going in the first round, yeah, some 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:47.320 some did. Yeah. So anyway, so that's that's the first pick, 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:52.320 and I think after that the value picks. I you know, 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.840 the Sam Williams thing. Guy's pretty talented pass rusher. Now 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:00.360 I don't know about playing the run, but he can 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.959 get to the quarterback. That was twelve and a half sacks. 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:05.639 I think ten and a half in the regular regular season. 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.560 Twelve and a half sacks. No nobody had Old Miss 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.000 has had that many sacks in a single season. And 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:13.080 by the way, that was playing a five technique in 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:17.520 a three man front, right, And I think that you know, 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:21.080 with his hand on the ground as a four technique, um, 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:27.960 he might be even more explosive there. Um so. And 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:33.360 then maybe the steel of the draft is the third 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:41.080 round pick Jalen Tolber, wide receiver South. I started looking 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:47.680 at his stuff, and he had speed, he had catch radius, 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:53.680 and he has the ability to play all three wide 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:58.119 receiver spots. And I had it on good authority of 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:03.240 someone that's seen him play multiple times that they didn't 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:07.480 understand why he wasn't a higher draft pick than twenty 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:11.280 fourth in the third round eighty eight eighty eight overall 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:16.720 couldn't understand it. So we'll keep an eye on that guy. 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:21.400 If he can come in and do what he did 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:24.520 at South End, and evidently he had some he had 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:29.360 some bigger schools interested in him, and they came in 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:33.480 late and he had committed to South Alabama and decided 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:38.280 to stick with his uh, stick with his commitment there. 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:42.040 As if you're watching on Dallas Cowboys dot Com here 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:46.120 you can see some of that video of Jalen Tilbert. 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:48.879 You know, he's he was a late bloomer also because 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:51.240 he didn't he didn't really play much his first couple 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:54.040 of years at South Alabama, but then started the last 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:59.719 three years there. And I'm told go watch this. He 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:03.080 was at the Senior Bowl. Yes, go watch the Senior Yeah, 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:07.080 in fact, I watched it this morning. Yep, he was 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:10.120 impressive at the Senior Bowl. And of course eighty two 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:13.280 catches nearly fifteen hundred yards and eight touchdowns is last 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:17.679 year at South Alabama six one and a quarter one 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:20.679 ninety five ran a four four nine. I've got him 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:23.600 down with a ten yards split up one forty nine, 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:31.080 which is really quick, and I'm looking to see. I 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:34.359 don't have in my notes here the other offers that 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:38.119 he had. But yeah, he's from Mobile, Alabama and wanted 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:40.320 to stay close to home and played at South Alabama. 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:43.479 Of course, he also had the option then after his 0:24:43.640 --> 0:24:46.760 junior season, in which he had sixty four catches for 0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:50.280 over a thousand yards and eight touchdowns at the transfer portal, 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:53.120 he could have transferred to a bigger school even last 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:56.800 year and decided to stay at South Alabama. He should 0:24:56.800 --> 0:25:00.720 have held out for more money. I saw I read 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:04.640 a story today about the coaches wanting to fix that 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:09.520 transfer portal, to put a limit on when and when 0:25:09.600 --> 0:25:15.320 you can transfer, have a transfer portal season. And then 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:17.840 after they've done that, I mean they've May first was 0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:20.439 the deadline, right, And so that's why it came to 0:25:20.480 --> 0:25:24.400 a head here the last few days and why they're 0:25:24.640 --> 0:25:27.200 the last of the transfer portals are now coming out, 0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:30.320 including the pit wide receiver, right. I think they wanted 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:35.720 to shorten that so college know their number of scholarships available. 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:39.200 You know what's interesting about that, not to fully digress 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:43.840 to that, the fact that it's May first is which 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:47.040 has got to be very frustrating to college coaches, is 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:51.280 that's after spring ball. So you've worked with these these whoever, 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:54.160 whether it's a receiver or anybody, you've worked with them. 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:57.960 You've you've invested all the time into them throughout spring ball, 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:00.680 and then they decide after after this spring game that 0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:04.320 I don't want to be here anyway, right, and they 0:26:05.040 --> 0:26:07.280 transfer someplace else. And if they do, so, if you're 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:09.960 going to do it, make it a spring break deal. 0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:12.199 I mean, make it like March fifteenth, or you can 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:14.440 do it at the signing day, you know, the high 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.080 school signing day, which is the first Wednesday in February. 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:20.639 Actually that would be more fair because now they're handing 0:26:20.640 --> 0:26:24.840 out scholarships. You know, Okay, I got two more available. 0:26:25.080 --> 0:26:27.920