WEBVTT - Draft Show: Adapting On The Fly 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:17.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Is the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:22.560 dot Com Draft Show, your war room for incenter news 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.280 and trapped analysis from deep within the confines of Cowboys 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:31.200 headquarters at the Star in Fresco, Allas, Select running Back 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:37.080 and now your hosts, David Hellman, Jeff Kavanaugh, Kevin Turner, 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:45.600 and Kyle Yeoman's there are forty two days, seven weeks, No, 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.800 six weeks. There you go. The math is hard. Journalism 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:55.480 isn't a math isn't until the NFL Draft six subsposedly 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.640 in Las Vegas. Of course, the Dallas Cowboy question marks 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.280 on web They're or not there is going to be. Yeah, 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:07.640 some drafts festivities overall in Las Vegas. I mean, everything's 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:09.720 kind of been shut down, but we are still here. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.600 We're ready to go. We have lost Jeff Cavanaugh at 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.479 least for the week. He is doing something called baseball. Yeah, 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:21.120 he's a spring training whatever that is. And then David Helmett, 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.280 Katie Kevin Turner across the table. I'm Kyle Lmens. Thanks 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.360 for joining us here on the Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.640 Draft Show. It's been a weird week. It really has 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.520 because one, this is one of the most important weeks 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:37.280 that we've seen in recent Dallas Cowboys news because of 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.679 the contracts. It's it's the Big three cs is what 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:45.080 it is. It's contracts, It's the CBA, and then it's coronavirus. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.480 I was wondering, Yeah, okay, yeah, those are the three. Yeah, 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.400 that's it's been dominating storyline. This week has aged me 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.080 about a year, I think, and I mean, you know, 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.440 you can have whatever opinion you want about the severity 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.520 of all of this, but it's definitely become a story 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.559 of worldwide prominence. Oh and by the way, the NBA 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.680 is suspended its season. Yeah, the NHL looks like it 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.760 might suspend it season that right now. The NCAA tournament 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.520 is currently set to be played behind closed doors, but 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.200 I won't be surprised if that gets suspended as well. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.800 So with six weeks to go, it's totally fair to 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.600 wonder what that means for the NFL Draft, like as 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.640 it sits right now, and obviously, like so much is 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.680 going to change, but it wouldn't shock me if you know, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.920 we were joking before the show, like maybe they'll do 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.560 the draft from a conference room, they might mean, and 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.440 very good point, rightfully, So if it's in the best 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.840 interest of the public, honestly, just take it into a 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.919 convention center kind of like how they used to do it. Yeah, 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:43.440 I mean, throw it in. It's funny to think they 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.760 get auditorium. It's funny to think that this whole thing 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.640 used to just be you know, they called it like 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.120 the Draft convention or something. You know, they're like, no, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.720 they called it the draft meeting. Like back in the day. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.760 They would just sit around a table and be like, oh, 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.720 that guy, that guy, and I just go yeah, And 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:02.040 obviously it's developed into something completely different. Yeah, much like 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.000 the rest of the NFL. But maybe you go back 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.480 to that. I don't know. It's hard for me to imagine, 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:11.799 unless things significantly improve over the next three to four weeks, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.480 that they're gonna want one hundred and fifty thousand people 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.400 crowding into downtown Las Vegas. A couple things interesting that 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.040 the NFL does, as they don't really announce next year's 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.400 draft until, you know, after this year's draft, so they 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.679 do it draft weekend. Okay, so it really wouldn't be 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.600 hard though, to go, Okay, Vegas, you're gonna get it 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.800 again next year and do it the way they already 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.280 make the pics remotely. Yeah, so you know, if it's 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.960 Rich Eyes and of the NFL network for the TV deal, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.520 because that's what they're worried about obviously, not only the 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.480 gathering of people, but they also want to make sure 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.640 that people are watching on TV, which people will be 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.640 doing no matter where are you do it. So that's 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.960 not a problem. You just go one year without having 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.880 the big draft party, well it's it's probably a problem 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.280 in the sense that hotel rooms have been booked for 0:03:55.400 --> 0:04:00.920 months and they were going to they were talking about 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.080 they were talking about having the first round picks crossed 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:08.160 like the Bellaggio fountain on a boat or whatever. So 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.200 I no, I mean there's a lot of there's a 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.560 lot of it. No, I'm not. That's not a joke. No, 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.440 that's not going to bring them in on a boat. 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:15.960 And then they were going to drop them off on 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.039 a dock and then from that dock they would walk 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.280 up over the stage and so and of course it's 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.000 not necessary, none of this is. But it's Las Vegas 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.599 and it's the NFL. But I'm the point being is 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.440 there's a lot of resources already committed to making this 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:35.039 thing fantastic, and so you know that's money that Las 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.640 Vegas and the NFL will probably have to eat, although 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.320 if you push it back a year at least you 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.880 have a chance to recoup that later. I mean to 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.839 your point. You know, people always ask me, They're like, oh, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.520 are you going to whatever city the draft is in 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.320 for the draft, which on the surface makes sense, but 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.320 not really because if it's our job to cover what 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.080 the Cowboys are doing, everybody important for the Cowboys is 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.640 about two hundred feet that way absolutely during the draft, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.240 and they have press conferences here, they bring the pick here, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.280 so there's no real need to be out there. So 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.320 if push comes to shove, if coronavirus prompts them to 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.040 have to change up what they do with the draft, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.240 other than the lost revenue for Las Vegas, I don't 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.280 think it would be a hard fix to just do 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.280 this all remotely, because that's kind of what it is. Anyway. Well, 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.960 and over the course of today's show, we're going to 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.839 talk about some reckless comps. Of course, the Draft Show 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.160 presented by Miller Line, We're gonna talk about reckless comps. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.719 We're gonna talk about Twitter on the twenty. Of course, 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.640 we'll keep that in the loop as well, But it's 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.680 kind of sticking with this conversation. It doesn't really get 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:40.640 real of a pandemic now, as the World Health Organization 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.200 has deemed it. It doesn't necessarily get real until it 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.400 starts affecting your personal life. Really, Now, some earlier than 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.200 others were affected by this, but we're gonna start seeing 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:56.839 some NFL draft coverage and exactly the entire draft process 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.720 starting to be affected by this. Pro days. What's gonna 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:04.159 be the stigma around that, or we're gonna have media 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:05.920 pro days, or we're gonna have pro days at all? 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:07.680 Are those going to be canceled? I mean, you talked 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.279 about some of these guys who didn't have measurements in 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.279 the NFL combine because they're running at the Pro day, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.200 because they're doing those drills after Pro Days, and we 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.120 may not even get a chance to see some of 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.479 those guys and evaluates. So now I'm sure they'll do 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.520 a workout. I'm sure it'll be streamed or something with 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.200 just minimal people in the building. But that's my question 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:27.920 to you guys, is what are some of the options 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:33.839 now best case scenario for really the entire draft process 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.479 moving forward. That's a really good question. And I mean, yeah, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.760 you're starting to see the effects of that already. You know, 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.640 it sounds like at least a couple of staffs, you know, 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.280 the Eagles, where one of them are like pulling their 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.440 scouting staffs off the road until you get a better 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.960 feel for this thing. You know. I've also heard like, 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.359 you know, if it's possible, and it's definitely not in 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.120 all instances, but if it's possible, I think scouts are 0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:00.320 going to avoid air travel in favor of driving. I mean, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.120 it's a safer, safer prospect. And again, you know, Oklahoma's 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.719 pro day was yesterday. Obviously Cowboys scouts can get to 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.000 that without an air without an airplane. Yeah, and there 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.680 was a crowded house. Yeah, they're no doubt it was 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.800 like knowing for Hurtz and Gallamore and Ceedee Lamb or 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.520 I think it. I think it still will be. I 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.880 don't know. I mean, this is all so much up 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.160 in the air, but I think a lot of this 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.120 stuff And again because I mean I know a lot 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.480 of scouts go to pro days, but it's still you know, 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.239 it's it's not thousands of people. You're probably talking about 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.920 eighty to two hundred people, depending on how big the 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.680 prode is. And so I'd be curious to see how 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.840 many of them actually get outright canceled or or shut 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.640 down or something like that, because the size of the 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.640 crowd leads me to believe you could probably still do 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.680 it with minimal risk. But but they're really just getting 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.320 started like these were in the early days, like they 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.400 kind of hit their peak at the end of March 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.800 in early April. So I'm curious to see how all 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.200 this affects what these schools do. Wisconsin knocked out their 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:04.760 pro day yesterday too, Auburon was like early las week. Yeah, no, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.040 I mean crazy some of them. Some of them knock 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.400 it out the week after the combine, which I always 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.800 I see that as silly because if you can't work 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.040 out at the combine, you're probably not gonna be ready 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:15.800 a week later. Yeah. I s went there for a 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.680 reason because my guy Quintess c fist the wide receiver. Yeah, 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.400 did he run up better? Forty? He turned his four 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.239 seven three into a four five six? Are you serious? 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.480 So yeah, and it's pro day. State cut him off 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.520 at thirty eight yards. Wisconsin gave him point one seven 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.280 seconds at the PROD. You know, I'll say this, though 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.840 I don't know. My reckless comp for him is Michael 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.200 Gallut by the way, Yeah you've said it, but we 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.080 know you love quintet. Jeffrey Okuda from Ohio State. He 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.240 said that's the best wide receiver he faced all year. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.520 He did say, keep that in mind. Wow, quintest cefas 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.319 back on the round four radar. I mean, it's funny though. 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.400 I actually I talked to a scout in Indie and 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.120 we were kind of talking about pro days and combine 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.800 times and all that, and I've always thought that was silly, 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.920 like you know, you know, people will say like Ohio 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.200 State has a downhill track or you know, it's a 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.720 fast track. Brought us to tell you that, which I'm 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.080 unreal and I've been rolling my eyes. It brought us 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.160 for six years. And this scout was like, oh, oh no, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.400 Like it's it's a thing like these guys are most 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.600 of these guys are going to run significantly better times 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.280 at their prote is. I just think that's fascinating and 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.960 why run at the combat? Yeah, seriously, it's a really 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.160 good point. Put a bad time out there, probably because 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.840 the same scouts will ding you for not wanting to compete, 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.760 like wanting to stand on your workouts. I don't know, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.400 I'm dinging guys for not washing their hands. Yeah, that's 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.000 I think that's the big one. Now, not having hand 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.079 sanitizing nearby, that's a big thing. Some lights all over 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:41.720 here and that's yeah, we do have a ton of 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.360 ice al and sprayed it down earlier. But with all 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.760 this being said, and kind of going back to that 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.000 conversation we're having earlier and you kind of brought this 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.120 up a little bit, how are guys going to be 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:55.400 tested going into this process because you don't know where 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.920 it's been and what kind of dude sickness and contact 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.160 they've been having. We talk about some of the behind 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.720 the scenes stuff. I mean, Ross Blacklock had thirty seven 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.679 parking tickets during his time at TCU, and it's all 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.280 these background things. What are these things like staff's gonna 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.760 have to look any of these guys been to Italy recently? 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.560 I don't know which. You know, it's it's not the draft, 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.440 but it affects the draft. I was thinking about this 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.880 in regard to free agency. There's I mean, there's debate 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.360 about whether you need to move that back. I don't 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.320 really think you do, because I mean, again, this is 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.200 something you can all do remotely, like free agency has 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.800 done via smartphone these days. But at the same time, though, 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.480 like you, I don't know, do you want to give 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.959 out like a sixty million dollar contract to a guy 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.240 that might have coronavirus? I mean, and I don't. I'm not. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.199 I'm not trying to be flippant or make a joke 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.600 about it. I'm dead serious. Like that seems like pertinent 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.480 information if you're gonna be handing out major contracts. It's 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.319 the same conversation that we've had in the past about 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.920 guys who have injury histories in the draft. I remember 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.480 the Auburn off It's environment if a few years ago 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.960 Sean Coleman and he had cancer growing up, like he 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.280 had cancer as a kid. Yeah, And it was like, well, 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:05.959 do you have to ding him a couple of runs 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.640 because the chances that that comes back greater for him 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.360 than someone else. And like, Okay, I'm sliding this guy 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.680 down the board thanks to something he's gotten no control over. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.679 It's a very hard thing to you know, the hard 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.280 pill to swallow, but it's also something that realistically needs 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.679 to happen. One thing I thought about is think about 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.800 the thirty visits who are going to come in. Oh, 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.000 these guys, not only for the teams who are bringing 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.600 these these kids in, but also I'm got to visit 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.080 with the Cowboys, and then I've got to visit with 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.920 the Raiders. Then I'm gonna visit with the Lions. Oh, 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.000 by the way, the Redskins want to see me, and 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.000 the Panthers want to see me. And then like these 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.200 guys are really visits. They're flying all over the place. Yeah, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.000 I mean, if you are, if you are on a 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.240 lot of lists like that. I remember, um, and obviously 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.480 he's a top five pick, but teams, teams, you know, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.520 the Cowboys bringing guys from every round of the draft. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.720 I just remember in twenty sixteen, z Zeke must have 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.840 hit twelve teams in like in fourteen days he was on. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.160 I mean, just one thing after another, Like he went 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.760 from Philly to Dallas to wherever the hell else Cleveland 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.600 and yeah, I mean that's and and you can't do 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:15.480 all that in a car. So that's a really interesting 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.640 conversation about how they might have to alter this thing 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:23.120 if if this virus is really is as contagious as 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.040 it seems to be. It's kind of too late to 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.960 like sit really locate a thirty visit, you know, schedule 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.920 together like a speed dating things like everybody meet at 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.800 the Omahawk Convention Center and we'll give smack dab in 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:37.760 the middle of the country. You'll give each team a 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:42.440 table and you just ten minutes. But don't you, like, 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.360 don't you want to talk to the guy? Yes? Especially, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.520 I mean like I feel like that's very important. I 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.679 don't think you get enough time before you make these solves. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.720 Isn't then already what they do basically at the combine, 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.320 it's fifteen minutes speed dating, but informal. But that's the 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.200 thing is you don't get you don't get the real 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.480 feel for it. No, and you're limited to forty five guys, 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.640 so you're picking and choosing. Like the thirty visits, it's 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.320 a it's a whole thing. I mean, they're here, they 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:08.959 spend a night here, they're here for a day and 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.200 a half, they meet everybody, and we talk about this 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.560 every year. They almost always draft guys, especially in the 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.080 first round that they got their hands on and really 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:19.920 got a feel for when they came here. Also, not 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.000 to mention, of course coaches, just getting to know a guy, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.960 getting to talk through schemes and boards and kind of 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.200 just look at specific fits. I mean, I know we've 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.480 talked about scheme fit versus best player available and stuff 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.080 like that, but you get to just kind of know 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.120 the guy personally, know what kind of football i Q 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.840 he has, and have kind of just a better overall 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.439 look at these guys instead of just saying, hey, how's 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.160 it going and kind of talk during the NFL combined. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.000 But we'll put all the coronavirus talk in the rear 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.560 view mirror for now. But I do want to add 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.360 a fourth seed to our big three cs. How about 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:56.840 comp picks? Because she buried the lead. Yeah, yeah, there's 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.840 another comp pick, so we got a fifth round pick. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.880 Yeah for Cole Beasley. I said this, I said this 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.720 on the break yesterday. Is you know that that smart 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.040 front office player right there, And it's what I've been 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.800 begging for the Cowboys to do for years, is you 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.280 know you don't have you don't have to spend one 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.760 hundred million in free agency to be aggressive and going 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.400 down going to get Robert Quinn for a sixth round pick, 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.560 a guy who was capable of getting you eleven and 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.880 a half sacks, arguably the best player on your defense 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.720 last year, and they basically got the pick right back. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.480 You know, I think there's a they they got picked 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.600 one seventy nine in exchange for Beasley, and I believe 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.680 they gave up pick one ninety seven, So you're talking 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.160 about a twenty pick difference, So you're actually you're actually 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.880 picking earlier and on the field getting rid of your 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.360 six And on the field, Cole Beasley gave the Bills 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.360 sixty seven catches, almost eight hundred yards, six touchdowns. Randall 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.480 cob give you fifty five touches, You've have catches over 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.920 eight hundred yards. We're gonna say a copy had a 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.800 very comparable season and one year and five billion dollars 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.920 and Cole Beasley signed a long rom deal and Buffalo 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.720 like it was just the smart, smart play. It's it's 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.040 the type of thing I've been begging for the Cowboys 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.880 to do for years. The one I always go back 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.400 to is like the Eagles swapped draft picks three or 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.520 four years ago for Timmy Jernegan like a highly talented 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.400 guy devalued a little bit, but still a good player, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.880 and lo and behold, he goes and becomes a big 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.400 part of their rush, you know, during their Super Bowl year. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.840 That's just that's the type of stuff you have to do, 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.720 and it's it's nice to see the Cowboys pull something 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.400 like that off. They get rewarded for it, so they're 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.160 at their full allotment of draft picks even after trading 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.720 for a pro bowler. Very smart. Hopefully they continue to 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.840 do stuff like that. And it's crazy how overlooked comp 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.400 picks and kind of the strategy and the chess game 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.840 that's around those is kind of It's crazy how overlooked 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.680 it is whenever it comes to the NFL, because look 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.360 at who would you say, over the past twenty years 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.160 has been the best front office? Well, I know the 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.040 answers to these questions. Patriots, Yeah, and they've got four yeah, 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.680 compared to everyone else who's at three or less. But 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.640 who had the most over like the last twenty years. Oh, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.480 I do not know that question. Arguably, if not the 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.720 Patriots one of the best run front offices in the league. Baltimore, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.320 they get cop picks every single year they use them 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.040 on good, good players more often than not. I love 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.520 the way they run stuff, but I mean, and it's 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.920 it's a tricky thing to get into because the NFL 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.280 doesn't reveal the formula that's you know, people are asking like, oh, well, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.680 the Cowboys. The Cowboys will get a cop pick for 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.040 Byron Jones if he leaves right, and I'm like, probably, 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.360 but it depends on how much you spend in free agency, 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.680 who you bring in, how much those guys play. But 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.080 I mean, for the size of the deal Byron Jones 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:39.720 is about to get, it's a pretty good guess that 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.160 they'll get. I would assume a third round pick for 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.520 how much you think Byron's gonna get in like ninety 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:48.160 million dollars overall seventeen years. I'm about to say you 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.320 tweeted out a couple days ago. I can't remember if 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.400 it was Monday or Tuesday, but you said something along 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.360 the lines of this contract is gonna be crazy for 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.520 Byron Jones. He's gonna be the highest paid cornerback in 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.520 the league. And you know, he only has two picks, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.440 and a lot of people care about that, and so 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.640 people who don't know his name or Cowboy fans who 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.520 have been watching him for five years and don't think 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.040 that much of him because he doesn't get picks. They're 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.680 going to see that number and freak the hell out. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.640 But he's going to get a lot of money. It's 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.199 gonna kind of turn around the thought process when it 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.800 comes to corners though, right the fact that it's resetting 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.959 the market and he's not a guy who is. I 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.400 think that depending interest. I think that depends on who 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.240 you talk to, because there's a lot of people our 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.840 dear Jeffrey Cavanaugh. Absolutely, there's a lot of people who 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.040 think the world of him and say, look at his 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.880 coverage numbers, look at what teams do when they target him, 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.679 aka nothing. And then there's just as many people that 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.840 are like, you can't give that much money to somebody 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.520 who doesn't help you get turnovers, and so I think 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.560 people are going to be really split. I mean, you 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.440 go back to twenty eighteen, Byron was named All Pro 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.720 off the strength of a season where he had no picks, 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.320 and I remember at the time, the Cowboys coaching staff 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.560 was impressed and stunned that that that that was possible, 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.640 and they were like, good on everybody in the league 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.320 for watching tape, because if you're not watching the tape, 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.640 you're not realizing what Byron's doing. But he was instrumental 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.800 to the defensive success that year, so I think he's 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.080 worth it. But I don't begrudge people who you know, 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.200 say well, you got to at least get your hands 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.080 on a football, Like, yeah, it's a fair criticism. Well, 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.800 it's kind of like and you mentioned the break earlier. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:27.800 We talked about it on Talking Cowboys a little bit 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.800 this week too, and Mickey'spagnola was saying, let's just resign everybody. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.879 It's kind of different whenever you've got a quarterback that's 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.159 about to get paid and potentially a wide receiver and 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.520 then you've got to shore up the depth defensively. Yeah, 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.320 whenever you've got a guy like that, if this was 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.960 any other off season for the Dallas Cowboys, you would 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:49.040 probably find a way to keep Byron Jones. He would exactly. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.560 We'll find that out on And that's kind of where 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.600 I'm leading, is that you don't have that that you 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.920 have to use your tags elsewhere at least so we see, 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.640 And of course, the CBA being decided this weekend, all 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.280 of it being postponed both the CBA vote and also 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:09.720 the start or the transition tag and franchise tag deadlines 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.600 those being pushed back as well to Monday, and then 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.040 we get into free agency or the legal tampering period 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:20.359 one second later. Next week is going to be absolutely bonkers. 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.720 And that is before you throw in the wrench of 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.080 the coronavirus, Like you don't know what could happen or 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:33.240 what could change or I mean, seriously didn't didn't yesterday Wednesday, 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.840 March eleventh. I mean, there were enough stories to fill 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.400 about a month YEP in about an eighteen hour span 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.960 and St. Patrick's Day parade. Who on earth knows what 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:43.720 could be waiting for us on the other side of 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:47.880 this weekend. And that's not without thinking that, like the 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.439 NFL is going to do the CBA, the tags, and 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:53.920 then free agency all in about seventy two hours. It's 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.000