WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Free Agency Preview 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.559 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.480 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.840 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.000 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:25.319 wa with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.760 Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, March seventh, twenty eighteen, Season thirteen, 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:33.040 episode number one oh four. Welcome to another edition of 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.360 The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.000 the Star. Happy to be back in studio with all 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.879 of our crew here. It seems like it's in the offseason. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.960 See sick, way too much time between our shows. And 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.320 actually we'll have a little bit of a disconnect again 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.680 next week. I'll be out next week and then maybe 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:50.960 back for a week and then out for like two 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.280 or three weeks after that. So we'll figure out something 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.920 to keep us keep us going here. How's everybody doing 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:03.160 this morning? Great? Thanks for asking, We're doing well. You 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.480 didn't say you say it more brand. How are you 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.840 doing guys, Hey, thank you Amber, You did that well. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:15.319 How are you this morning? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, good trying 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.360 to practice my English again. It's been a while. I 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.560 saw that. Was that a dig at us or was 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.240 that a dig at your Spanish? I don't know. I 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.200 mean it was to find out that I was on 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.959 the show again. So those that don't know, I think 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.880 Amber was taking a shot because she wasn't on the 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:34.480 show last week. But yeah, we're okay. Yeah, well she's 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.360 been on vacation though. How that go? It was great? Yeah, 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.600 great time. Uh, glad to be back my land where 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:46.759 people speak my language. So that was good. But I'm 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.440 glad to be back on my other land. Good, my 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:54.560 other homeland. Good, good Land sounds so official land. And 0:01:54.600 --> 0:02:02.200 then this is the homeland U States. Yeah, got it good? Great? 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.320 From when I go through homeline security, you know we're 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:11.560 doing anyways from Cowboys Cowboys, we got a lot to 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.720 talk about. There is um free agency starts next week 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.080 next Wednesday, I think it is free agency will begin. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.560 Cowboys will have some free agents that they will have 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.040 to decide on what they're gonna do with those guys, 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.640 as will all teams around the league. And then but 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.200 before we get to that, and I want to go 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.240 through our list of free agents that the Cowboys will 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.000 have to make decisions on. But before we get to that, 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.480 I do want to talk about DeMarcus Lawrence, who this 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.760 last Just in the last couple of days, the Cowboys 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.960 have made it official. They have put the franchise tag 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.960 on him. So let's start first we kind of the 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.240 basics of that. How much it with this deal? How 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.040 much is DeMarcus Lawrence guaranteed? And what's left for the 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.280 Cowboys from the standpoint of the mouth, they have under 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.119 the cap at this point, twelve dollars. Twelve dollars, that's 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.360 how much they have right now in the cap, maybe 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.000 like ten to fifty depend I'm just kidding. It's down there. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.040 It's not a lot. It's not a lot. Man. They 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.919 can move things around. I mean, it just sounds dramatic. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.040 I've been but like I've been trying to get to 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.560 the bottom of that, because depending on where you look, 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.840 there's about nine different answers, like right, That's why that 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.600 range from like one hundred and fifty thousand or and 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.240 I saw I think the highest one I saw was 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.720 like one point five million. There's some as well as 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.160 twelve thousand dollars. There's some that have them even as 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.119 high as seven million when you include rollover from last 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.600 year's because the Cowboys spent the least of anybody in 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.080 the league against the salary cap last years, and you 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.560 can roll some of that money over. So again, I mean, 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.120 and that all factors in, they're working with not a 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.960 lot of money, however you want to look at it. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.119 I think it's more than twelve thousand dollars, but it's 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.600 not a lot. But I'll be totally honest with you, 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.040 I don't I don't know any projection that I one 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.200 hundred percent trust that is one hundred percent accurate. But 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.560 with the tag, the tag this year set the cost 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.240 seventeen and a half million dollars, it's fully guaranteed, which 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.720 I think this is worth pointing out. DeMarcus has signed 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.520 his tender, which you don't have to do. I mean, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.600 if you remember, Dez famously did not sign it. He 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.720 held out all the way till the July deadline, threatened 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.040 many times not to play unless he got his five 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.159 year deal, which he did I think three hours before 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.040 the deadline passed. So DeMarcus is cool with this. He's 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.320 you know, he's going to play on the one year 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:29.520 deal if they can get something done before the season starts. Great, 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.800 But it's from hearing his quotes that he's given in 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.119 them to a couple other reporters out there, it sounds 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.440 like he's ready to do a prove it deal and 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.320 try to really break the bank next year, which at 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.720 his position is a very doable thing. If he can 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.599 have another year like he had last year his double 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.080 digit sacks again next year, he'll be in position where 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.599 he can command a staggering amount of money, because that's 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.080 one of those positions where it's not you know, defensive 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.240 ends are never really tagged to wins and losses. No 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.919 one cares about wins and losses. You have one stat 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.120 that's really it. You have one stat. No one cares 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.280 about tackles and tackles for loss and where your defense 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.599 was ranked, you could be one of the worst teams. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.040 But if you get seventeen sacks like Dwight Freeney kind 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.920 of made a career out of that, and think about that, 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.320 that means one play a game. How many snaps are 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:19.159 there defensively in again sixty seventy you get one sack 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.640 per game and you're gonna be among the league leaders. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.040 So you're right and it's not, and I don't want 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.160 to diminish it's hard. I think to get the quarterback 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.360 and bring him down, that's hard. But the fact of 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.679 the matter is if you can do that once a game, 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.520 you will set yourself up. He's setting it. He would 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.760 set himself up for a really nice contract. Now here's 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.720 the question. Even after this year, the Cowboys could come 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.840 back enfranchise him again next year? Correct, I could. It 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.640 will be expensive, but they certainly could do it right, 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.000 It would be very expensive to do that, Yeah, but 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.080 yeah they could. I think the vibe in the building 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.279 too is let's let's let them do it again. I 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.120 think they're more afraid of you think they're okay with 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.360 that too, I really do. I think the seventeen million 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.760 is where he's going to play on them. Yeah, they 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.280 could trying to get another deal. But oh, to be clear, 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.600 I agree with you, and that's you know. Stephen said 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.719 this at the combine last week before this happened, that yeah, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.160 it looks dire in terms of the cap when you're 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.520 carrying that kind of charge, But they're fine and they're 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.920 comfortable with where they are. They believe that they can 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.520 get done what they want to get done without having 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.400 to do anything. And somebody asked me this morning. You know, 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.960 people keep saying, like cap casualties, they don't have to 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.719 be any like that. I mean, they could. You know, 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.480 the Dez thing is famous. You know, it's well documented. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.640 People have talked about Orlando Scandrick. But this isn't like 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.880 past years where they've got to make decisions to get 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.160 under the cap. Like even with this charge, they're they're fine, 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.719 Oh well, he doesn't get hurt. That's one of the 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.279 things that I think about. And you know, good for 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.680 him that he got this deal signed, But he's at 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.480 that point where I don't think many people can fully 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.360 just bet on him one hundred percent his health just 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.320 we'll see what happens. I mean, he could have made 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.840 a great deal now with the just a year thing, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.279 the franchise tag, or it would have been better for 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.800 him to try to get the multi annual contract. And 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.680 you know, I wonder how far apart they were, you know, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.840 or are, I mean, like, what is he It's all 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.800 comes down to guaranteed money probably, so I'm curious to 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:22.520 see if they're probably pretty far. I mean, what did 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.160 the guy from the Giants, Olivier Vernon had a similar 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.920 career to DeMarcus prior to leaving for New York and 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.880 has the same agent. The franchise tag on a d 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.760 end when he came out in sixteen was fifteen and 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.240 a half and he got seventeen a year, and do 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:42.720 you know his fifty million guaranteed? So five year? I 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.880 think four, but don't quote me. I'm not sure. But 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.000 if he were allowed to hit the market, DeMarcus could 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:56.120 command nineteen million a year, you know, sixty sixty million guarantee. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.400 I mean, it's stupid, like people, players who affect the 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.960 passing game are worth the stupid amount of money on 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.000 the open market. So it makes a lot of sense 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.560 why they couldn't come to a deal because DeMarcus knows that, 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.360 as it does his agent, and so why would you 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.480 agree to anything less than that if you think there's 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.720 thirty one other teams that would be willing to pay it. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.760 So that's kind of you know, they said that they 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.120 were going to work really hard to get a long 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.200 term deal done during these two weeks, and I never 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.840 bought that for half a second. Yeah, well, let me 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.600 ask you this question. I do think that one of 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.320 the challenges at this point is that you can talk 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.040 about the Cowboys going into free agency, and I think 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.400 most of us agree based on history, it doesn't suggest 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.120 that the Cowboys would be heavy players in free agency. However, 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.360 they do have a list of their own free agents 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.400 and they have traditionally look to bring back some of 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.880 those guys at least And if you look at some 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.839 of the lower projections that are out there, of the 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.000 amount of money the Cowboys have now against the cap 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.840 because of the seventeen million dollar hit, do you think 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.000 that the Cowboys need to make some moves in order 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:58.920 to free up at least money to get some of 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.439 the free agency. And we're gonna go through all those 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.600 free agents that are their own free agents and whether 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.280 we think the Cowboys will have them back, But do 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.199 you think there's moves that they have to make right 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.560 now in order to put themselves a position at least 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:13.000 resign their own guys. Yeah, And that's why you never 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.640 it's not like a scoreboard of what's the score when 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:20.960 you're talking about the cap, because number one, there's nine 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.640 different answers and nine different ways to look at it. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.680 And then also they can do what they want to do, 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.040 like they may not be able to sign three or 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.800 four top free agents. They could sign people they want to, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.960 it's just how much do they want to push into 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.800 next year and front row front load these contracts. But 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.200 so yeah, I think that they have to do a 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.400 couple of things to get you know. But see, they're 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.080 probably already projecting those things. They've already projected. David Irving's 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.320 what they're gonna, you know, put in for him, and 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:51.839 so therefore they're like, that's why they don't have a 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.920 lot of because they've already put that money in. So 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.600 I don't think it's really a tough situation for them, 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.760 right And I mean, you know, the one that gets 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.280 talked about a lot is you can restructure Travis Frederick's 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.839 deal to free up seven million in room. Like, if 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.400 I had to guess, they've probably already done that in 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.120 their head at least, you know, like they're gonna officially 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.520 trigger that clause in his contract and we'll write a 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.240 story about it. But in their mind, it's already done. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.160 They've known they were going to do that for a while. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.480 And then you could mess with Tyrant's money if you 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.480 want to, with his injury history over the last two years, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.160 I'm not sure that's a great idea. You could probably 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.199 mess with Jason Witten's money he signed. I mean, that's 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.280 a pretty team friendly extension he signed. You you would 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.880 imagine he probably won't play to the end of that contract. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.720 Maybe that's Bryant's money. You could very much, you could 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.319 very much mess with Dez Bryant's money. We'll see, I mean, 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.880 but not in the same way probably, I you know, 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.439 I feel like we've covered that pretty extensively. I mean 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.920 I said on this show in many other places that 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.040 I didn't think anything was going to wind up happening. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.679 But reading tea leaves and having some conversations over the 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.040 last you know, a couple of weeks, it sure sounds 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.760 like they're gonna try to get something done. We'll see, 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.480 you know. So does that mean a release or a 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.720 pay cut or I mean, I don't know, but it's 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.160 something to keep an eye on. There's going to be 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.360 a discussion, there's going to something's gonna happen, obviously, you know, 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.280 Jerry said, And in the big headline over the weekend 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.520 for Jerry was that yeah, I want him back. Yes 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.719 that okay, that's fine, but at what price? And I'm 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.160 sure the next question to Jerry. I wasn't on the bus, 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.640 but I'm sure the next question was about the money. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.080 I'll yeah, you want him back, right, but not at 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.960 this price? And he didn't really go there. Well, funny 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.240 the funny thing, you know, Jerry, he made it sound 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.640 very He was like, well, what are y'all even talking about? Like, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.920 but he's like, he's like, we're gonna meet, We're gonna discuss, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:41.880 We're gonna discuss a lot of things, blah blah blah. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:43.559 And you know, I think it was Todd Archer made 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.000 the point that was like, well, if you still think 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.520 he's a number one receiver who's worthy of his production, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.319 why are you meeting with him? Yeah, you're not. You're 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.760 not meeting with your guys who are earning the contracting. Yeah. Yeah, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:54.959 that was one of the things. I think. I came 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.440 in your off these other day and I was like, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.320 you're not You're not meeting with Travis Frederick about how 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:00.959 much money he's getting, right, Because that was one of 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.600 the questions I was asked to Garrett and he was like, well, 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.360 you know, he's kind of noncommittal on it. And I 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.600 was like, if somebody ask you right now, or somebody 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.720 asked Garrett right now, is he gonna be back next year? 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.400 He would say absolutely yes. So yeah, I think I 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.240 think when you listen to all the things that have 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.679 been said, particularly by Stephen, Jason and Jerry, I think 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.000 it's very clear that they're going to have a discussion. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.000 What that discussion will entell, what they will ask of him, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.560 what he will ask back of them. We all don't know. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.120 I don't know if they even know, like I think, 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:30.960 but we do know there will be a discussion, and 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.679 at some point this organization is going to have to 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.280 make the decision as to whether whatever amount of money 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:36.600 is going to be on the books for him is 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.679 worth it or not, and if they're going to move 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.160 forward in that way, and Daz will have to make 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.120 a decision is he okay with whatever amount of money 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.280 that's going to be? The interesting thing is, you know, 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.640 it seems like we're so used to this stuff playing 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.960 out like over a long period of time, you know, 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.160 I mean, it took forever to finally get a resolution 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.320 to the Tony Romo saka, but I kind of feel 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.520 like this one is going to be faster, I don't. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.360 I mean, I don't know if it's going to happen tomorrow, 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.120 but like I don't, you know, because if they're not, 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.640 if Dez isn't on this team moving forward, they gotta 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.160 have a contingency plan they I mean, you know, I 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.040 don't think you're just gonna look at the draft as 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.880 how you're gonna Replacedz. However, I will say this, their 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.960 contingency plan could be one that's very easily put in 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.840 place in April. Yeah, because I do believe let's assume 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.800 for a second that that Dez is not on this 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.319 team for whatever reason. If he's not on this team, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.840 I could see a scenario where they go into the draft, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.680 they get a wide receiver with their first or second pick, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.480 and then they go back and sign a guy like 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.640 a Bryce Butler, and they feel like that's enough of 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.160 a bridge until that guy comes along is ready to 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.080 be there their number one. It's not forget the free 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.560 agency is six weeks before that. I mean, I think 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:47.240 I think it's the other way around. Whoever sitting there 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.240 in free agency after the draft, I don't know if 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.680 I want that guy, well, but you know how I 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.640 feel too, and I think that might be how they 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.400 feel you don't think you think Bryce's gonna get like, no, 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.760 but six weeks? I mean, and I get that, but 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.360 I could see a scenario where Bryce is still sitting 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.400 out there in free agency, say at that point, say 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.559 six weeks. It's probably four weeks, because when you get 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.840 to like April fifteenth, that's where they kind of stop 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.200 with all that. But I could say scenari where he's 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.640 still sitting out there, And again, the reason why he'd 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.640 be valuable to the gal Cowboys may be different than 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.520 why he might be valuable to other teams. He knows 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.640 his system, he's been system. When did that getting if 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.560 they cuts? When would he get cut? Like soon? Right? 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.120 That's like, hey, I was asked to happen soon? I mean, 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.320 because you would be counting with that money based on 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.200 the other decisions you make exactly. But here's anything to 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:40.080 happen makes me think that this doesn't happen quickly? Is 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.440 you've heard we've heard consistently from Jason, Jerry and and 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.480 uh and Stephen that there has not been a discussion 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.520 this point. If there's something happened quickly or soon, Stephen 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.520 as should have been a discussion. I would think at 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.680 this point it's a long could be you think it's 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.720 literally just like, okay, what would be the point of 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.120 how a conversation later on though, and not soon enough, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.280 because the point, in my understanding, would be to count 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.160 with that money to figure out why or where you're 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:10.840 going to spend it on or who you're going to 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.320 spend it on free agency, And no, there was an 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.520 art class and he's not going to be available, So 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.040 I absolutely, I mean, if you're if you are making 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.920 that decision, it's so that you can use those savings 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:24.960 to upgrade your football team, and that's not going to 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:26.640 do you any good. In a month and a half. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.880 Stephen said that conversation was going to happen sooner rather 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.440 than later a week ago, and on Saturday, Jerry said 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.600 it was going to happen in the immediate future. I think, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.960 you know, do you think whatever's gonna happen is gonna 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.520 happen quickly? And whatever the resolution of this situation is, 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.720 I think it'll be decided by the end of the month. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.000 And if he's not on the team. If he's not 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.320 on the team, the first thing I do is resigned 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.240 Bryce Butler. That's the first thing I do. I agree 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.320 with that because I don't want to be Now, he 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.800 doesn't affect what I do in the draft, but I 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.240 don't want to be pigeonholed into saying, oh my odd, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.160 you didn't get a receiver when everyone knows this. So 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.680 the Ridley's gone at twelve, people jump to get Kirk whatever. 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.840 And then you're sitting there going, do I have to 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.760 take yeah, Courtland Sutton here or whatever, just because I 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.480 have to, which I'm not saying is a bad thing, 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.840 but I mean, you don't want to be forced into it. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.320 So I'm getting a guy that knows, that knows the offense, 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.400 and you know he's got some upside still. Yeah, all right, 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.560 let's let's go in and and take our first break. 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