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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Oh what a big day? This is?
Speaker 1: How big of a day is it? Mickey Spagnola, Baseball's
Speaker 1: opening tiger teed off this morning and and he parked
Speaker 1: the first hole he did. He did it that And
Speaker 1: we are now how many weeks away? Three? Three weeks
Speaker 1: away from day one of the twenty twenty two National
Speaker 1: Football League Draft. This is Mick Shots. Bill Jones on
Speaker 1: the line, you take it too long? Bill? Whose voice is, hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: if you're not here, you're you're your third out of mind?
Speaker 1: That's right? Who is that? Bill Jones? Mickey Spagnola inside
Speaker 1: the s WBC podcast studio and on the s WBC
Speaker 1: phone line is Everson Walls. Hello, you know you mis me?
Speaker 1: You know you missed me. I miss you guys too.
Speaker 1: I'll say it, man, I'm man enough to say that.
Speaker 1: You know I had stuff for you, but now I
Speaker 1: got to keep it for another week. Oh cool. Cool.
Speaker 1: You can stew on that, you can grant when I
Speaker 1: get back. No, you're gonna stew on it because I'm
Speaker 1: not telling you what I had for you. It's but
Speaker 1: I have something for Bill. By the way, we have
Speaker 1: our Dallas Cowboys Official twenty twenty two Draft Guide. You
Speaker 1: think there's more information inside than the Green Green, Well,
Speaker 1: we're about to find out. You don't have any pictures
Speaker 1: in your No, there's no no pictures in my big
Speaker 1: green notebook. Yeah, but his handwriting is way better than
Speaker 1: what you're gonna be reading in print. I don't know about.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. That's why the Big Green Notebook cannot
Speaker 1: be published. I'm the only person who can read the
Speaker 1: handwriting inside it. So some type of a William hieroglyphics.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, that's exactly right. So it's the
Speaker 1: official twenty twenty two Dallas Cowboys Draft Guide right here.
Speaker 1: And where can we find these drafts? Well, you would ask, ye,
Speaker 1: got that information somewhere here in all my notes. Uh
Speaker 1: So if you would like one, Uh, you can find
Speaker 1: the direct link for the digital issue. Uh boy, it's
Speaker 1: a long deal. You can go to twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: Draft guide. It seems long. I mean, come on, what happened?
Speaker 1: So you can get it on email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Speaker 1: and on the web. And he comes up as b
Speaker 1: I dot l y slash twenty twenty two draft guide.
Speaker 1: I told you it was involved. Okay, all right, so
Speaker 1: do that? All right? So our visit Dallas Cowboys dot
Speaker 1: com slash star. Okay, Mickey's had his time ever since.
Speaker 1: How are things going with you? Everything is great, guys.
Speaker 1: I have been extremely busy, and I think also I
Speaker 1: almost thought I had, as the young people say, the VID,
Speaker 1: the vid. Yes, that's what they called. You got the VID? No,
Speaker 1: I do not. But now I actually took the test
Speaker 1: and everything. I was kind of nervous though I had
Speaker 1: been down for the cow far about a week strong.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, so much better. Nown back on the
Speaker 1: road and take care of it. All right, very good.
Speaker 1: How about you, Mickey? I'm good, rare to go, rare
Speaker 1: to go, twenty one days away from that. Excited about
Speaker 1: all these moves that are happening here behind the scenes. Yeah. Absolutely. Hey,
Speaker 1: the visits started this week, that's right. Uh. They did
Speaker 1: the Dallas Day on Friday, and this week they started
Speaker 1: their thirty National Visits. Guys been coming in daily, so
Speaker 1: have you I've been able to eyeball any of them.
Speaker 1: Uh no, whatever they're doing, it's inside the Ford Center
Speaker 1: or it's in the other wing over there. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: we're allowed on the other side. You need to go
Speaker 1: just walk around and see. Yeah, well you know what
Speaker 1: I had, but you have you haven't looked inside the
Speaker 1: big green notebook, and so you wouldn't know anybody if
Speaker 1: you saw anyway, right, I don't know they have the pictures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't walk around with the d That's what you did.
Speaker 1: That's what the pictures are for. In the draft guide.
Speaker 1: Mickey's walking around the Star with this week with this
Speaker 1: draft guide, and he's trying to match up pictures. There's
Speaker 1: Trey Burkes, wide receiver Arkansas. There he is, you know,
Speaker 1: Fag used to really be the in the know. He's
Speaker 1: kind of gotten demoted, you know, as the cowboy picking
Speaker 1: or the concerned. So he's just like sitting on the
Speaker 1: outside there. William h starting to get in. It's okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's okay, Well, what do you want to know. I've
Speaker 1: got twenty one names here that are supposed to visit
Speaker 1: or have visited Oh, well, what do you You know,
Speaker 1: what you can tell what I have been able to
Speaker 1: tell buy those names in the past, because there have
Speaker 1: been years where the Cowboys don't draft off those visits,
Speaker 1: and there are a number of years where they have
Speaker 1: drafted players who visited. Uh, I kind of look at
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I haven't gone back and researched
Speaker 1: it to see if after the fact, if this is
Speaker 1: the way the draft played out for but you can
Speaker 1: kind of get a feel for positions that they might
Speaker 1: be looking at, which at what at what time during
Speaker 1: the draft. You know, because a lot of those wide
Speaker 1: receivers that they've had in here our first round prospects,
Speaker 1: which tells you that they could draft a wide receiver
Speaker 1: in the first round in that right, So you're saying
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily lean towards a particular position of who
Speaker 1: comes to visit, you know, I'm saying they you can
Speaker 1: kind of get a feel that what they're thinking pre drafted.
Speaker 1: It all changes once once the draft starts and your
Speaker 1: guy gets taken in the first round. Uh. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: but when you've got a number of wide receivers that
Speaker 1: are projected as first or second round picks, who are
Speaker 1: making visits. Then you got a pretty good feel that
Speaker 1: they if they like those guys and some of the
Speaker 1: guys that come to visit their question marks about him,
Speaker 1: that that's the reason they brought them in for visits.
Speaker 1: They need to find out more about him. It's not
Speaker 1: that necessarily that they liked the guy. It might be
Speaker 1: that they've got He's a suspect as much as a prospect,
Speaker 1: so I can know. So what you're trying to say,
Speaker 1: Ben William here on mix shot is that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are looking to draft the wide receivers. Are we going
Speaker 1: public with that right now? That you're saying, well, they
Speaker 1: need to. You know when they went public with that
Speaker 1: when they led him Cooper went to Brown. I tried
Speaker 1: to tell you that two weeks ago, and you kept
Speaker 1: wanting an offensive guard. I'm sticking to that, all right.
Speaker 1: So here, this is an unofficial list, and it was
Speaker 1: projecting guys that either we're going to visit or have visited.
Speaker 1: They've got three wide receivers coming in and this is
Speaker 1: only twenty one of the thirty. They can bring in
Speaker 1: three wide receivers, three defensive tackles, two guards, a center,
Speaker 1: and three tight ends by the way one offensive tackle.
Speaker 1: So they're announcing they need a tied in. I think
Speaker 1: they already said they needed. They also announced that they
Speaker 1: need a kicker Blake Jarwin. Blake Jarwin got hurt and
Speaker 1: then Blake Jarwin got released, and so I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy. There are no surprises on this list. No,
Speaker 1: when you look at positions speaking, all you have to
Speaker 1: do is just follow along with who's left the team
Speaker 1: and look at my shopping list, and there are vacancies
Speaker 1: shot there products that still need to be purchased. And um,
Speaker 1: I did a little bit of a research here and
Speaker 1: went and looked in the NFL where the money is
Speaker 1: going per position? Okay, And I've always said in the NFL,
Speaker 1: if you need answers, you follow the money, right, And
Speaker 1: so they had. I saw a list the average pay
Speaker 1: of the top five guys at certain positions. And obviously
Speaker 1: the highest paid position is quarterback, right, Well, the next
Speaker 1: highest paid position wide receiver. So in the pecking order
Speaker 1: of importance, the NFL teams think that the wide receiver
Speaker 1: position is worth spending the next amount of money on
Speaker 1: average salary. When did you do your research the other day?
Speaker 1: The other day? So it wasn't yesterday after Stefon Diggs
Speaker 1: signed his contry. Well, I think was already in there.
Speaker 1: Stefan was already in there. Yes, okay, twenty six million
Speaker 1: and this was what there basis. I was just gonna say.
Speaker 1: If it was done before Stefan Diggs agreed to his
Speaker 1: contract extension, the money for wide receivers just went up, right,
Speaker 1: And this is this is what their average of their
Speaker 1: contracts is. Okay, and the top five receivers Tyree Kill, Hopkins, Digs,
Speaker 1: Julie Julio, Julio, Julio Jones. Uh, and my handwriting so bad,
Speaker 1: I can't read what the other one is? Twenty eight million?
Speaker 1: Who would have that? Oh? Um, come on, hey, he's
Speaker 1: making twenty eight million a year. Who did you mention? Hill, Hopkins, Digs,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, Adams and Adams. I can read your legal pan.
Speaker 1: I'm not even looking at their average average their average
Speaker 1: salaries together the five twenty six point seven million dollars,
Speaker 1: and that the most most expensive to lease, the way
Speaker 1: you most expensive. DeVante went from the record breakers right, well,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll topped them and then yeah, he's been topped
Speaker 1: a lot. That's my point. Yeah, he's been topped like
Speaker 1: four more times. Whoever signs last usually tops, right, and
Speaker 1: then and then if from Stefan's not on that list, no, Diggs,
Speaker 1: I said, oh you did say you did say twenty
Speaker 1: six million a year? All right, So so that to me,
Speaker 1: that is extremely revealing. I've really I'm kind of surprised
Speaker 1: about that and so disappointed. Got well, running back is
Speaker 1: going to be now back? Are they just gonna be
Speaker 1: like deal, go kickers? You know what I mean? I
Speaker 1: didn't even bother them. Okay, but let's look at that, okay,
Speaker 1: because I need to. And the next two, the next
Speaker 1: two offensive tackles they have twenty one point four million
Speaker 1: the top five, and defensive vans twenty one million, guards
Speaker 1: sixteen point two million. And this can tell you right now, five,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, the only thing cheaper than
Speaker 1: the running back is going to be defensive back. What
Speaker 1: do I tell you? How much do you want to
Speaker 1: bet it's gonna be running back to the bottom. And
Speaker 1: defensive backs on top of running back, cornerbacks are around
Speaker 1: nineteen okay, nineteen million the top five top So that
Speaker 1: just gives you a little bit of idea of who's
Speaker 1: getting paid in this league. Well, and it's interesting because
Speaker 1: on the Diggs contract, with the amount of money they're
Speaker 1: paying for the wide receiver, they've already dealt the money
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen, the quarterback whose cap hit this year,
Speaker 1: I just called it up. He's at thirty nine million
Speaker 1: this year, forty one million next year, fifty one million
Speaker 1: the following year. Are his cap hits on his contract
Speaker 1: that he signed. Right, Davante Adams is with a veteran
Speaker 1: quarterback who doesn't make that money with that car now,
Speaker 1: but he Green Bay could not keep him because of
Speaker 1: the amount of money they're paying their quarterback, Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: Kansas City got rid of him because they've got two,
Speaker 1: you know, salary cap issues themselves, and he was towards
Speaker 1: the end of his deal. And so you're either you're
Speaker 1: making on a lot of these teams, you're making choices. Okay,
Speaker 1: Buffalo has made a choice. They're gonna go ahead. They're
Speaker 1: paying their quarterback and they're paying wide receiver top dollar,
Speaker 1: but they're going to take away from some other position
Speaker 1: on the field. Okay, Kansas City has made a decision
Speaker 1: where they got their quarterback, They're gonna do whatever they
Speaker 1: can at wide receiver, and they're paying They're playing Chris
Speaker 1: Jones a ton of money defensive tackle and others on
Speaker 1: their team, and so you can't pay every position top dollar.
Speaker 1: So the top five quarterbacks their average their contracts Rogers
Speaker 1: fifty million, Watson forty six, Mahomes forty five, Alan forty three,
Speaker 1: and Dak Prescott forty And the only one of those
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who has a wide receiver on that list is
Speaker 1: josh Allen Buffalo. I was just gonna say that it
Speaker 1: seems like all of them had to sacrifice someone for that,
Speaker 1: that's right, which which then explains why the Cowboys made
Speaker 1: the decision they made on Amari Cooper. And and you know,
Speaker 1: and they they got to be right on this that
Speaker 1: the twenty million or the sixteen million they gained on
Speaker 1: the cap was more important than having Amari Cooper back
Speaker 1: on the team. So they made they made to me,
Speaker 1: they made a talent evaluation that his base salary exceeded
Speaker 1: what his production is projected to be in their eyes. Right,
Speaker 1: they got to be right because now they got to
Speaker 1: replace him. And that's why I keep saying, you know,
Speaker 1: in either first or second round, got to have a
Speaker 1: wide receiver, because right now, who are your top three?
Speaker 1: Assuming Gallop misses the first two three four games. Let
Speaker 1: me let's I'll throw this out at you two and Everson.
Speaker 1: Look at the wide receiver room and we're Cede Lamb. Okay,
Speaker 1: with the with the players that were in that wide
Speaker 1: receiver room last year, I'm ARII Cooper obviously the veteran guy.
Speaker 1: He's the leader of that group. Ceedee Lamb in his
Speaker 1: second year last year, Michael Gallop in his fourth year.
Speaker 1: And just knowing the personalities involved there, Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: who when you project forward this coming season in the
Speaker 1: next year, who is the leader of that Who would
Speaker 1: who would have been the leader of that locker room
Speaker 1: or of that room, the wide receiver room one more
Speaker 1: time today, Like if they'd kept a mari Cooper. Oh,
Speaker 1: if they'd kept a Mariy Cooper in that room, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's as long as he's with the team, he's still
Speaker 1: the leader of that group. Correct. Okay, if it kept Cooper,
Speaker 1: you got Ceedee Lamb, you got Michael Gallup. Okay, where
Speaker 1: were the projections as far as growth, as far as
Speaker 1: being a leader on the team for a guy like
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb or for a guy like Michael Gallup, and
Speaker 1: is that growth stunted if you have I'm talking away
Speaker 1: from Obviously the number one thing is the production on
Speaker 1: the field, but there are some other intangibles that go
Speaker 1: into this too, in the making of the culture of
Speaker 1: your football team. And I don't know that necessarily you
Speaker 1: don't see very many teams that have two wide receivers
Speaker 1: that are the lead dogs. You know, they're there's a
Speaker 1: lead dog in a wide receiver room. You know. Do
Speaker 1: you mean in the room or on the field. I
Speaker 1: got disagree, God disagree. Look at Tampa before god one
Speaker 1: got hurt, right, And let's say, look at Tampa while
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown was there as well. And I'm talking, I'm
Speaker 1: talking as far as a leader, not not production, but
Speaker 1: as this is the guy that's that's looked up to
Speaker 1: in the room, as he sets the tone for the room. Well, initially,
Speaker 1: before I heard whatever I've heard from this past season,
Speaker 1: I would have said that Marty Cooper would have been
Speaker 1: happy to be that silent leader and Ceedee Lamb, because
Speaker 1: he's a lot more versatile, would be the guy that
Speaker 1: he would just really uh let him take that load,
Speaker 1: the verbal load you know what I mean, And I don't,
Speaker 1: you know, based on rumors, that's not how Cooper wanted
Speaker 1: to play it. But before this past year, I would
Speaker 1: have said, uh, CD would be easily being a guy
Speaker 1: seeing Anna and from a personality standpoint, with Cooper gone,
Speaker 1: I don't know that CD's got the personality to be
Speaker 1: the guy that everybody fouls. Michael Michael Gallup is kind
Speaker 1: of quiet, right, and so just and I hadn't met
Speaker 1: the guy. I just listened to his interview, But James
Speaker 1: Washington might be the most veteran personality wise guy to
Speaker 1: kind of lead the room. If you look at it.
Speaker 1: Gallop hardly played what two years in a row. At
Speaker 1: least Washington has played off four years. So to me,
Speaker 1: now he's got to make his way. You're a newcomer, right,
Speaker 1: he kind of mine your business until things start cooking
Speaker 1: right now. But I just think CDs kind of he's
Speaker 1: kind of quiet. He I can't remember who said it.
Speaker 1: It might have been McCarthy said, we got the quietest
Speaker 1: wide receiver room I've ever been around. Me. There's no
Speaker 1: guys that are just boisterous. Me me, me, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Would you have thought that about CD
Speaker 1: Bill Um, Well, I think no, I understand where Mickey's
Speaker 1: coming from on that. He's not He's not the Michael
Speaker 1: Irvin type, you know, raw raw type guy. I believe,
Speaker 1: I do believe. But I really thought that CD would
Speaker 1: be like, you know, coming up this year. Well that's
Speaker 1: that's where That's what I'm getting at, is maybe now
Speaker 1: he can grow into that role, you know, more so
Speaker 1: whereas before he's always going to um, he would follow,
Speaker 1: follow whatever, you know, because because because Amari is the
Speaker 1: leader in the room, because he's got the skins on
Speaker 1: the wall. So I think I think his productivity and
Speaker 1: responsibility is going to lead forward probably about another twenty
Speaker 1: I agree with you on that. And and I think
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy pointed out that with Amari gone, his opportunities
Speaker 1: are going to increase, and what they're hoping is the
Speaker 1: production increases along with it. And by the way, what
Speaker 1: he's done in his first two years, no other Cowboy
Speaker 1: wide receiver is done. If you look at the production,
Speaker 1: the amount of catches, he's got more catches in two
Speaker 1: years than any other Cowboy receivers had in their first
Speaker 1: two years. And that's that's after having a being part
Speaker 1: of a squad that really, like you said, could you
Speaker 1: always did doubt his potential of the target. And then
Speaker 1: and the other point that McCarthy made is now he's
Speaker 1: the flanker, which that's the position where normally the ball
Speaker 1: was going to the first look and then the outside
Speaker 1: guy and then the inside guy. And he played a
Speaker 1: lot inside. Yeah, I also see a lot of him
Speaker 1: in back in the backfield. Again, I think that's going
Speaker 1: to be a steady diet of that in specially key situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they're going to really pick up the usage
Speaker 1: of him. I'll see you land. And you know, if
Speaker 1: James Washington hasn't lost a step, you know he's got
Speaker 1: that potential. Also, they didn't use him in that way.
Speaker 1: And even if he has, even if he had lost
Speaker 1: the step, but he's still fast, right, and there's no
Speaker 1: reason why he hadn't lost a step. He's twenty six
Speaker 1: years old. Yeah, you know. And the thing, the thing
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, we saw Pittsburgh play the last couple of
Speaker 1: years and the quarterback could not throw the ball deep
Speaker 1: and so and that I wouldn't imagine that probably went
Speaker 1: into the decision making process that the Cowboys said when
Speaker 1: they were looking at James Washington, what he can do
Speaker 1: for this offs the deep threat because he's home cooking, right,
Speaker 1: home cooking. Yeah, he's from West Texas. Yeah, there you go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. All right, we're just getting started on
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Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola. The only news of this week. Keyan O'Neil. Yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cowboys had much interest in bringing
Speaker 1: him back, and Keyan O'Neil did not have interest in
Speaker 1: playing the same position and he played last year, and
Speaker 1: so now he's a Tampa Bay buccaneer as a safety safety. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I think they said you're a safety here. I don't
Speaker 1: think that look the Cowboys the way that I think
Speaker 1: they looked at it is the spot his role and
Speaker 1: somebody mentioned it, either Stephen or Jerry uh that you know,
Speaker 1: they've got Jabril Cox to kind of fill that role
Speaker 1: as a nickel U linebacker to go with Parsons and
Speaker 1: you've got vander Ish uh so, I think. And then
Speaker 1: also the way they used Jay Ryan Curse started reducing
Speaker 1: the snaps that Neil got on the nickel, So they
Speaker 1: valued Curse getting him back, I think more so than
Speaker 1: keeping Neil as a true safety since they tried to
Speaker 1: play him at linebacker. Yeah, I kind of. I kind
Speaker 1: of made reference to that a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: So stop trying to steal my thumb to the bag.
Speaker 1: I've already kind of attached on that, all right. But
Speaker 1: uh but he actually said Keanu that he wanted to
Speaker 1: play which position, safety safety. I can't see him being
Speaker 1: a I can't see that. I can't see that. Can
Speaker 1: you guys see that as a strong safety? Well, that's
Speaker 1: a different. Now, that's different. I mean that's what that's
Speaker 1: what he's saying, strong safety. Okay. Well yeah, no, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: which is what he's been. He's not taking your spot on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm still coming bad, guys, I'm not here working out right.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I also saw that Taco
Speaker 1: showed up again. That's right, the Saints. Yeah. When I
Speaker 1: talked Taco, Charlton uh signed with the new Orleans Saints
Speaker 1: on Monday, a signing that should have happened on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? I could even touch it.
Speaker 1: It took like it took like three seconds for Vicky
Speaker 1: a register in Vicky's mind. But anyway, Yeah, you got
Speaker 1: me though, Taco Tuesday. Taco Tuesday. But I don't know
Speaker 1: that they eat a lot of tacos in New Orleans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Todd Bowls thinks thinks a lot of Kean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, they probably had an opening and the
Speaker 1: price and his deal was he was on a one
Speaker 1: year like five. It wasn't a two year deal that voided.
Speaker 1: So he's got some dead money this year because they
Speaker 1: gave him a little bit of a signing bonus. So
Speaker 1: there's a I think maybe a million or so U
Speaker 1: that had to go into the cap this year. His
Speaker 1: I want to say, his money last year was more
Speaker 1: than what jay Ron's money was last year. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. Yes, yes, yes, so, meaning that
Speaker 1: his price tag was going to even though he didn't
Speaker 1: have the same stats here as jay Ron did. Jay
Speaker 1: Ron obviously had a better season stats wise, Keanu Neil's
Speaker 1: price tag was still where he wanted it to be
Speaker 1: Yeah and absolutely so. Yeah, it was so the market
Speaker 1: was not there for Keyoni. Yeah, that was another one
Speaker 1: they lost that they weren't going to bring back. You know,
Speaker 1: I keep reading the Cowboys loss Connor Williams and Lale Collins.
Speaker 1: They weren't bringing Connor Williams back, right, And it was
Speaker 1: their choice to get rid of Lale Collins. I would
Speaker 1: say they weren't bringing Lale Collins back either, right exactly
Speaker 1: because they would have been. I mean, they couldn't trade there.
Speaker 1: They're taking a bigger hit on Lale Collins as far
Speaker 1: as their money situation goes. But it was there. It's
Speaker 1: their choice, their choice. Yeah, that's why I said where
Speaker 1: I started with this with Amari, those are two more
Speaker 1: they better be right, like you better be able to
Speaker 1: replace them with somebody that could at least play as well.
Speaker 1: So they made the decision on Lele Collins that for
Speaker 1: what he was going to cost, they were better off
Speaker 1: with Terrence Steele starting at right tackle. Okay, so by
Speaker 1: by them getting rid of Lyle Colin and Connor william
Speaker 1: So what do what do the tea leaves say about that?
Speaker 1: People somewhere in the first two rounds they need an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. I think I wasn't. I wasn't that far off.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm tipped around off then in regard so
Speaker 1: salary cap guru, how are they sitting at the cap
Speaker 1: right now? Um, they're fine, And they don't get Lele
Speaker 1: Collins based salary until June one, right, so, but they
Speaker 1: do have dead money for him this year and next year.
Speaker 1: I think it's five this year, eight next year. So
Speaker 1: reading the tea leaves I expect a veteran interior offensive
Speaker 1: lineman to be signed yes free agency at some point,
Speaker 1: and it might it might be before the draft, it
Speaker 1: might be after the draft. I was going to say,
Speaker 1: at one point, you do you think that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I think I think like tight end, it might look
Speaker 1: at it and say, okay, let's see what we get
Speaker 1: and then what we can do after the draft. But
Speaker 1: I think to not cause yourself to reach at the
Speaker 1: guard position, you bring in a veteran beforehand, somebody on
Speaker 1: a one year deal, no more than two years, that
Speaker 1: is capable of starting, but doesn't have to start. If
Speaker 1: you get somebody that beats them out, and you don't
Speaker 1: have to follow the money and say well, we paid
Speaker 1: them all this, he's got to start. See. I think
Speaker 1: that there there are probably two three veteran offensive line
Speaker 1: interior offensive linemen out there in free agency that Joe
Speaker 1: Philbin likes, and there may be at different price rangers
Speaker 1: right now. And it may be if one of those
Speaker 1: guys has an offer from another team before the draft
Speaker 1: and they and they say, Okay, we like him this much.
Speaker 1: It's not going to cost us that much. We'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and make this signing before the draft. They could,
Speaker 1: they would do it. But if they're good, okay, go
Speaker 1: sign with Green Bay or wherever you know. Right, we'll
Speaker 1: wait and there may be somebody at a higher price
Speaker 1: range that they see what they're doing at the draft,
Speaker 1: what they're able to get at the draft. If they're
Speaker 1: not able to fill that position in the draft, then
Speaker 1: they go get that guy after the draft. So look
Speaker 1: at what they did at defensive end. They brought in
Speaker 1: Dante Fowler on a one year deal, not costing him
Speaker 1: much at all. So you that doesn't preclude you from
Speaker 1: drafting a defensive end. So to me, when they get
Speaker 1: to twenty four and if they're not moving around wide receiver,
Speaker 1: defensive end, offensive lineman. I think those three positions at
Speaker 1: this point have to be their priority. Depending on the
Speaker 1: talent is what is their bigger need on the offensive
Speaker 1: line in the draft, which I'm talking if I have
Speaker 1: my druthers. My druthers are an offensive tackle who can
Speaker 1: play guard and eventually move to tackle in a year
Speaker 1: or two if I need it. And again that's why
Speaker 1: I did the little thing on following the money. You know,
Speaker 1: the difference between what guards get played and what offensive
Speaker 1: tackles get paid is significantly different, five million dollars different
Speaker 1: in the average. So that tells you where the value is.
Speaker 1: So to me and I keep seeing the center thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know. If the guy is a can he
Speaker 1: play guard or center? Most of them can, or I
Speaker 1: mean most of them. You if you're not playing, I
Speaker 1: mean you're you're you're not the same player, but you
Speaker 1: can fill in and you know, and they can live with.
Speaker 1: He's under size, I would say he's a center. I
Speaker 1: mean he's under three hundred pounds, right, and so that's
Speaker 1: very small what I read about, it's small for a
Speaker 1: center with that he had trouble with big defensive tackles. Well,
Speaker 1: are you going to bring him you're already got that.
Speaker 1: You got that at at center already, right, So don't
Speaker 1: bring in another guy that's going to have the same thing.
Speaker 1: You know everybody's talking about. Way he was the Rimmington
Speaker 1: Award winner, well so was Beadih by the way, and
Speaker 1: he's only played two seasons and he started full time one.
Speaker 1: So to me, I'm willing to give him some leeway
Speaker 1: as another year as the starter. But I gotta find in.
Speaker 1: If somebody's better than Connor McGovern, then I got to
Speaker 1: find somebody that can play guard. But I just don't
Speaker 1: want a guard guard. I want a tackle who can
Speaker 1: play guard because I need him. Sort of the way
Speaker 1: Lele Collins did at the beginning of his career, the
Speaker 1: way Flozell Adams did the beginning of his career, the
Speaker 1: way Solomon Page did at the beginning of his career.
Speaker 1: These guys went inside before they went outside, and they
Speaker 1: were extremely inexperienced as well. If you look at it right,
Speaker 1: you're exactly at the end of the season, big time
Speaker 1: we're getting You know I was fussing about it, isn't it.
Speaker 1: We know, poor man Rush giving us credit a pressure,
Speaker 1: consistent pressure, especially towards the lady. Part of the season
Speaker 1: where we really needed them to come through and give
Speaker 1: us some time and give us that luxury of even
Speaker 1: mclock and I advantage. We just never could do that.
Speaker 1: And seeing the other thing that stuck out to me,
Speaker 1: and I'm probably going to write about it tomorrow in
Speaker 1: my column is Stephen Jones. When he was talking about
Speaker 1: drafting offensive linemen, and I can't remember if I mentioned
Speaker 1: this last week or not, so stop me if I did.
Speaker 1: He pointed out that it's very difficult these days to
Speaker 1: project college offensive linemen into the NFL because of the
Speaker 1: way college offenses are run. And so to me, that
Speaker 1: would give you pause because they're not running the football
Speaker 1: in college. They're basically throwing almost every down. And when
Speaker 1: I start reading about some of this stuff, these guys
Speaker 1: are good pass blockers, but they're weak against in run blocking.
Speaker 1: So when he said that, to me, that almost seems
Speaker 1: to give him pause on taking a first round offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and maybe waiting to the second round. So if
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out, your loss is not as big
Speaker 1: as failing. I mean, think about all the offensive tackles
Speaker 1: that have failed lately in the first round. Right, there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that they drafted and they haven't
Speaker 1: done anything. And it's because the game is so different
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, even a few experienced offensive lineman
Speaker 1: themselves tackles. I was I was disappointed with the signing
Speaker 1: of when Kansas City picked up the guy with the
Speaker 1: brown and they that's the left tackle. Remember after the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl when Tample just really rough shot over the
Speaker 1: whole offensive line. Yeah, because it was all backups, right, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think he did much better. Uh, I think
Speaker 1: they signed Uh, I can't. I just can't remember that.
Speaker 1: It was that they signed a Brown and they brought
Speaker 1: him in at the free the signing the next year,
Speaker 1: um to help protect my homes backside. It didn't. I
Speaker 1: don't think it wasn't much Orlando Brown. Orlando Brown, good piece.
Speaker 1: Sooner which, by the way, speaking of the Sooner, I
Speaker 1: see that on this list I found online of people
Speaker 1: visiting here. Yeah, Perry on Winfree. Oh really, yes, I
Speaker 1: would love him on this team. That tells you a lot.
Speaker 1: Talk to him about who that was the guy we
Speaker 1: saw last week this highlight filed when he made that tackle?
Speaker 1: Was it last week here? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? It was
Speaker 1: with us? Yeah, right, that was on the Blitz. It
Speaker 1: was on the Blitz. Yeah. Perry On Winfrey, defensive lineman
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma. He was a Senior Bowl MVP. He he
Speaker 1: just ate everybody up at the Senior Bowl. I mean
Speaker 1: in workouts, drills, one on ones, in the game everything.
Speaker 1: I think he had a couple of sacks in the game.
Speaker 1: And it's a testament to why I'm elated that there's
Speaker 1: a new coaching staff at Oklahoma because they didn't they
Speaker 1: didn't even use this guy like they making a tackle.
Speaker 1: First round talent and go ahead, I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: They showed him making a tackle when we were taping
Speaker 1: and he comes out of nowhere and just it was
Speaker 1: like a mack truck ran into this guy. And I'm
Speaker 1: going that had to And I asked Bill, I go
Speaker 1: where did he played linebacker? And he goes, no, he's
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle. I think I saw that, guys, I
Speaker 1: think I saw and I think he had a really
Speaker 1: good Pro Day workout. Also, by the way, well he's
Speaker 1: one of those guys that you know if he if
Speaker 1: he actually hits you, actually like flight you and half
Speaker 1: if he goes he is he's a decleaner. He is
Speaker 1: there you go there. He's six or two hundred ninety
Speaker 1: pounds with thirty five thirty five inch arms. Ran at
Speaker 1: two hundred ninety pounds, ran a four eight nine forty
Speaker 1: with a one sixty eight ten yards split. Last year
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma and eleven games, he had eleven tackles for
Speaker 1: loss in five and a half sacks twenty twenty nine games,
Speaker 1: only half a sack, which is to my point. That
Speaker 1: to my point, okay, why aren't they using this guy?
Speaker 1: He was a juco transfer from Iowa Western Community College
Speaker 1: his first two years of college, but he was anyway,
Speaker 1: so he's kind of a late bloomer type there, but
Speaker 1: only twenty one years old. He didn't turn twenty two
Speaker 1: until August. And this guy, he will not only light
Speaker 1: up a running back or a quarterback, he will light
Speaker 1: up a room too. He's got that kind of a
Speaker 1: personality where he is really fun. I mean, his enthusiast
Speaker 1: climbed up. You know, Daniel Jeremiah has him as his
Speaker 1: forty fifth ranked player in the draft, So that's middle
Speaker 1: of the second round. Hold it right there, Y gil
Speaker 1: Brandt just came out with his top one hundred and
Speaker 1: he had him forty eight Okay, so middle of the
Speaker 1: second round is what they're saying. And so we'll see
Speaker 1: Gil's description of him was another big defensive lineman with
Speaker 1: good speed. Mentioned the four point eight ninety Winfrey finished
Speaker 1: second among sooners and tackles for a losses eleven, and
Speaker 1: third in sacks with five and a half. So anyway,
Speaker 1: when I saw his name come up on that list,
Speaker 1: I've gone, yeah, bring that guy on. All right, So defensive, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have drafted the last couple of years. Well,
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore out of Oklahoma two years ago in the
Speaker 1: third round, last year in the third round, OsO Digga Zua.
Speaker 1: And they are three technique types. Okay, So where does
Speaker 1: Winfrey fit in then? Well, I bet he could play
Speaker 1: at that size, he'd be a nice one technique and
Speaker 1: they kind of played both of them kind of the same.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got I think he's got enough athleticism
Speaker 1: he could actually play a strong side defensive end kind
Speaker 1: in a run situation whatever, in slide inside as well.
Speaker 1: I think he's I think there's probably from five technique
Speaker 1: to zero technique. He could play all along the defensive
Speaker 1: line myself at that size and the way he ran
Speaker 1: I'll give you the same answer I did when I
Speaker 1: was promoting Parsons and somebody asked me where does he play?
Speaker 1: And I said, on the field. Just put him out there,
Speaker 1: let's go. You know, when we were at our best,
Speaker 1: though we have looked like a bunch of hybrids out there.
Speaker 1: You know, we were at our bet Uh that worked
Speaker 1: for so a certain situations. It's good for you. So
Speaker 1: I want to start running the ball. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: we started getting isolatedn't that's where you you know, your
Speaker 1: your words reigned true spec Nola. You know, yeah, but
Speaker 1: then you got a three hundred pounds out that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, all right, and you're basically you were right
Speaker 1: in the end. You were right because all of those
Speaker 1: guys that we had on that line, they never could
Speaker 1: stand up to the pounding that the eventual you know,
Speaker 1: kings late in the season. So we've we've mentioned the
Speaker 1: importance of a wide receiver. We've mentioned the importance of
Speaker 1: an offensive lightman by the way, for sure bringing in uh.
Speaker 1: They brought in uh Trey Line Burke of Arkansas the
Speaker 1: wide receiver, and also Chris is an alive UH. He
Speaker 1: came in also for a visit and with offensive guards
Speaker 1: Kenyon Green and Zion Johnson Boston College. I believe it is.
Speaker 1: And they did bring in Jordan Davis, the defensive tackle
Speaker 1: from Georgia who basically disrupted that game. Right, Oh wellie,
Speaker 1: he ran forty eight two six six three. I got
Speaker 1: him down with a four seven eight at the combine.
Speaker 1: Jordan Davis, Okay, four seven eight was his best. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, get this, Everson, This guy, Jordan Davis,
Speaker 1: number ninety nine for Georgia, first team All American and
Speaker 1: by the way, Daniel Jeremiah has him as the number
Speaker 1: one defensive tackle and number seventeen overall. All right, six six,
Speaker 1: three hundred forty one pounds and ran a four seven
Speaker 1: eight forty three hundred and forty one pounds. I ran
Speaker 1: a four seven eight with a thirty two vertical and
Speaker 1: a ten three broad. Jem, I thought I should somebody
Speaker 1: somebody wrote it by him. Yeah, at three forty one.
Speaker 1: But you know what he's played at three to sixty. Okay,
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this. You look at that
Speaker 1: Georgia defense and Kirby Smarts defense was so good. Hey,
Speaker 1: that was that was lunch back, all right. They not
Speaker 1: only have Jordan Davis as an interior guy. But Devonte Wyatt,
Speaker 1: right is another guy who I love, and he's gotten
Speaker 1: this Gil Brandt list too. Right, and Devonte Wyatt Jordan
Speaker 1: Davis number ninety nine, Davonte Wyatt number ninety five, and
Speaker 1: Jeremiah's got him listed as the number two defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: number twenty nine overall. He ran a four to seven
Speaker 1: seven at three hundred four pounds, and he had twenty
Speaker 1: seven quarterback hits, thirty nine tackles, seven tackles for loss
Speaker 1: in fourteen games at Georgia this year. All right. Then
Speaker 1: they've also got Treyvon Walker, who number forty four, who's
Speaker 1: probably going to be the second pick in the draft
Speaker 1: as an edge. He's sixty five, two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: pounds and he they reused him at Georgia all along
Speaker 1: the defensive line. He played on the edge. There are
Speaker 1: times where he ran. He played as a nose as well. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, And then it gotten to Kobe Dean, the
Speaker 1: linebacker who if if if teams valued line inside linebackers more,
Speaker 1: he would be up there in the top half of
Speaker 1: the first round. I mean, he may be the best
Speaker 1: player on the team all right. But you look at
Speaker 1: the Georgia defense and I go back to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: teams of the nineties. What was the strength of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defenses in the nineties, Mickey, The defensive lineman, position,
Speaker 1: what positions? What what position group? Was the best on
Speaker 1: that defense? Tea line? Because they can rotate exactly. So
Speaker 1: why is that? Why is that, George? Why was that
Speaker 1: Georgia defense so good? It's what they had up front
Speaker 1: on that defensive line. Does that translate anymore with the
Speaker 1: NFL out? I believe it. I believe it does, especially
Speaker 1: when you can get big guys to move like that
Speaker 1: and they don't have to be just two down lineman,
Speaker 1: they don't have to come out on nickel. You leave
Speaker 1: them on the field and you don't get pushed around,
Speaker 1: and you know, we can go back and and remember that,
Speaker 1: you know this defense was not solidified last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: they got room to grow. So you'd be fine with
Speaker 1: drafting number ninety nine, Jordan Davis, number twenty four overall
Speaker 1: or number ninety five. Devanty I no. Number eight. Perry
Speaker 1: On Winfrey, Yes, number eight. He ever said he wore eight.
Speaker 1: That's why I thought it was. I just thought I
Speaker 1: just thought he looks you know, it makes them look small.
Speaker 1: It's really weird. Just bring me a player, you know,
Speaker 1: and don't get carried away with this position. I'm yeah,
Speaker 1: you're talking my language. Right. There's enough knee on this team.
Speaker 1: Get the best player there that you can use exactly,
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Speaker 1: And what's that phone number again at eight eight eight
Speaker 1: five five two two nine seven. For those of us
Speaker 1: who are slow, say it again eight eight eight five
Speaker 1: five two two nine seven eight five five still works
Speaker 1: with Troy Aikman and Star like Leroy Jorde, We'll go,
Speaker 1: Leroy Jordan King, We'll go. So twenty two ninety seven,
Speaker 1: what do you want to go with? You want to?
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's there's a couple of twenty two.
Speaker 1: Bob he's a Rimmett. Yeah, okay, And then are you
Speaker 1: going with ninety seven? Uh, come on Jones, right, Jimmy Jones.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Jones, Jimmy Jones, or Leroy Glover, Jason Hatcher, Jason Hatcher. There, Oh,
Speaker 1: there you go, there you go. So so everything's going
Speaker 1: with Jason Hatcher. So um by the way, Uh, I
Speaker 1: looked at some of the top signings the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence being not in this group. Okay, that was
Speaker 1: one they had to get done, right. Uh. Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: said that was a pri already bringing back to Marcus Lawrence.
Speaker 1: And they did so and save money against the cap.
Speaker 1: They saved thirteen million dollars against the cap. The way
Speaker 1: they structured his contract and the reason he did it,
Speaker 1: everybody says he took a pay cut. Basically, they guaranteed
Speaker 1: him thirty million dollars more than he had guaranteed on
Speaker 1: his original previous contract, and the thing was worth thirty million,
Speaker 1: so they basically guaranteed he was out of guarantees on
Speaker 1: his other contract. So that's what enticed him to sign
Speaker 1: the deal that he did. But I looked at they
Speaker 1: ended up bringing back eight guys and in no particular order.
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz counts in there, okay, and his cap pit
Speaker 1: for the franchise tag, which still can be adjusted, was
Speaker 1: ten point nine million. Then they also brought back Layton
Speaker 1: vandrus Dorrence Armstrong. They signed h James Washing to the
Speaker 1: veteran exception deal, brought back Jay Ron Curse, They signed
Speaker 1: Dante Fowler, Brian Anger, and brought back Carlos Watkins on
Speaker 1: the veteran exception. So if you add up those eight
Speaker 1: cap hits, they ended up with eight guys for a
Speaker 1: total of twenty six point three million dollars. So that's
Speaker 1: people said, what did they do in free agency? Well,
Speaker 1: that's what they did in free agency. Now did you
Speaker 1: include Watkins on that? Carlos Watkins? Noah Brown? I didn't.
Speaker 1: I um and so nine guys and you just add
Speaker 1: another million dollars to it? Yeah, I did, say Jay run.
Speaker 1: So here we're Chip McQuaid. You have to have a
Speaker 1: long snip. I know I didn't include I took the
Speaker 1: eight guys that I thought were important that they brought you.
Speaker 1: You don't think LP was important for seventeen years here
Speaker 1: or whatever. Okay, I didn't throw that one in there,
Speaker 1: Jake McQuay. Uh Ever, and if I had put him
Speaker 1: in there. Everybody goes, well, it makes it would make
Speaker 1: it a nice even ten ten. Why why you stop
Speaker 1: at eight? Right? Okay? And ten? And it would add
Speaker 1: another two million, okay, right, okay, So the most expensive
Speaker 1: one obviously Sprinkle cap hit. No, he doesn't make my list.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, why not? Because he's on the team. It's
Speaker 1: another veteran. I mean, you got you need a third
Speaker 1: tight end, right, He ain't gonna be the third tight end?
Speaker 1: Third tight ends in the draft? You don't think so?
Speaker 1: I think there would be a third tight end. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So anyone's between Sprinkle and McEwen for the third tight end.
Speaker 1: The most defensive cap hit of all those guys they
Speaker 1: signed other than Schultz was jay Ron Curse at three
Speaker 1: point seven two million, and then Armstrong at three point
Speaker 1: three eight million, and the rest of it. They just
Speaker 1: kind of nibbled against the cap, bringing guys in in
Speaker 1: necessary spots. Where does Michael Gallup fit into this equation?
Speaker 1: He he was a necessity. They don't fit the narrative.
Speaker 1: I wanted to show what they did with some of
Speaker 1: these guys and how they spent their money, like basically
Speaker 1: eight guys, you know, and everybody's like, well, why didn't
Speaker 1: they signed Bobby Wagner. Well he was five years fifty
Speaker 1: million with a five year, five million dollars signing bonus
Speaker 1: and twenty million dollars gart Well, okay, so there it
Speaker 1: is there, it is right there. Do you want Bobby
Speaker 1: Wagner at five years fifty million or do you want
Speaker 1: Michael Gallop at five years fifty seven million? Right? And
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Yeah, So there there's yeah, and
Speaker 1: Michael Gallops what twenty six? This guy's going to be
Speaker 1: thirty two the end of June. And basically, if you
Speaker 1: look at his contract the way it's structured, they can
Speaker 1: get they can turn it into a three year, twenty
Speaker 1: eight and a half million dollar deal and get out
Speaker 1: of it after three years with two million of dead money.
Speaker 1: And you're right, Bobby Wagner's a Hall of Famer. And
Speaker 1: if Bobby Wagner were twenty six or even twenty eight,
Speaker 1: then yet you would take Bobby Wagner. But you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been able to get him at twenty eight because
Speaker 1: Seattle would have kept him. Yeah, so he's averaging nine
Speaker 1: and a half million a year plus plus he's got
Speaker 1: incentives that he can make and and earn another million
Speaker 1: a year each year in incentives. So just to show
Speaker 1: you when see why didn't they signed Bobby Wagner, Well,
Speaker 1: they basically signed eight guys and it didn't cost him
Speaker 1: that much. All right, Before we go, I want to
Speaker 1: ask Everson, Hey, what do you Everson? What do you
Speaker 1: think you know? Tyron Matthew visited the Saints this past week? Okay,
Speaker 1: what do you think of Tyron Matthew as a cowboy?
Speaker 1: If he fits salary wise, if he came here on
Speaker 1: a you know, economical deal one year, seven million something
Speaker 1: like that, I would I would like that because he's
Speaker 1: that guy that can make those he could decipher those
Speaker 1: plays that in that key situation you say, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is why we bought him here for that moment
Speaker 1: right there. You see. I think he would be one
Speaker 1: of those vestans that could play solid all year long
Speaker 1: and if he had, if he had to, he would
Speaker 1: know exactly what the what the opposition is gonna run
Speaker 1: before they run. It's a lot like U ty Law.
Speaker 1: Did you know when he went to the Patriots US
Speaker 1: A lot like I did when I went to the
Speaker 1: Giant is nothing can substitute someone who's still capable and
Speaker 1: yet has that experience hell varn Miller and for the round.
Speaker 1: You know, when it was time, he stepped up and
Speaker 1: did what he was supposed to do it and did
Speaker 1: what he was brought there for. Okay, and be great.
Speaker 1: Everson didn't get seven million when he went to the Giants.
Speaker 1: It was it was more like seventy thousand. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody asked me that question. I go, yeah, just how
Speaker 1: much does he want? You know, how how much does
Speaker 1: it take to get him? And he's getting up in
Speaker 1: age now, isn't he? And now, like Bill was saying,
Speaker 1: one of you guys just said, doesn't one year so
Speaker 1: much something millions offer? But look at uh barn Miller
Speaker 1: end up getting like six years and Bobby Wagon. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I did not see that coming for guys who's still
Speaker 1: are still good. But dang, that is a lot of money.
Speaker 1: That is a good luck with that, you know they
Speaker 1: ain't good luck. Okay. So then as far as what Matthew,
Speaker 1: where Matthew fits into this defense? You've got you've got
Speaker 1: at Safety, You've got Curse, and you've got Malie Cooker,
Speaker 1: and you've got Donovan Wilson, Demante Kazy has not signed anywhere,
Speaker 1: and so that there's a vacancy there at your in
Speaker 1: your safety room. Kean O'Neill has left. Obviously he was
Speaker 1: a linebacker slash safety here. Uh, and then yet as
Speaker 1: a slot corner to be your slot corners. Jordan lewis, So, so,
Speaker 1: how does how does Matthews? You know, I gotta look
Speaker 1: it up here? You keep talking because he how can
Speaker 1: I put it? A guy that has put it all
Speaker 1: on the line, like to have a bit on the side.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he has taken out to hit and you could
Speaker 1: kind of see, uh. You know, he turns thirty in May.
Speaker 1: He's an old he's an old thirty. Yeah, he's been
Speaker 1: through a lot. He's been through to his credit, but
Speaker 1: that's when you really have to draw on more of
Speaker 1: your U was the word guile? Wow? No, I like
Speaker 1: that word gu I l e that. You know? Hey,
Speaker 1: do y'all play wordle? No? You know what I'm talking about? Word?
Speaker 1: That would be a great good word. It's a five
Speaker 1: it's their five letter words. Guile would be a great one.
Speaker 1: G U I l E this morning? What was the word?
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the word was. I got it
Speaker 1: on the first try, well, he's bragging out himself in fact. No, no,
Speaker 1: here's what No, No, here's what I do. Here's what
Speaker 1: I do. I do it with my daughters and my
Speaker 1: wife and so my youngest daughter Jordan, you know, because
Speaker 1: what you do is you you you figure it out
Speaker 1: and then it says how many trice it took for
Speaker 1: you to to get the word right? Okay, and so
Speaker 1: Jordan's uh text first and it shows what her guesses were,
Speaker 1: basically how many you get right in her first guest
Speaker 1: And then my second oldest daughter, Jessica, she did hers well.
Speaker 1: They we went on a family trip to Broken Bow, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: and they revealed what were what their first word is
Speaker 1: that they use every time, Like, um, I can't say
Speaker 1: what Jessica what her first word is, but uh, Jordan's
Speaker 1: first word is ghost, and so I could go off
Speaker 1: of I can go off of what by studying there
Speaker 1: what happened on their guesses that there's a couple of
Speaker 1: times now I've been able to get it on the
Speaker 1: first guess just based on what they missed whatever. So
Speaker 1: this is like talking about fantasy footthall. It's actually pretty fun.
Speaker 1: It's a great family thing to do. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: what do you think Tiger is doing right now? Is
Speaker 1: he still even part? Oh yeah, let me see what
Speaker 1: the heck is going on, Tiger? That would be another
Speaker 1: five letter words. Great, it would be very timely for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Let me suggest that to the New York Times for
Speaker 1: your next work. Going back to going back to wait, wait,
Speaker 1: what about walls? Come on? Yeah, that's I've noticed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I noticed they don't do plural like like Rhodes with
Speaker 1: an S on the end of it. There, Apparently they
Speaker 1: don't do they don't do plurals. So and some walls
Speaker 1: walls would not qualify then. And I haven't seen a
Speaker 1: proper name yet either. Yeah, what about Jonas Jones? I
Speaker 1: have not. I was talking about the commercial. I got
Speaker 1: one that went right over your head. All right, let's see,
Speaker 1: Oh whoa wow, tight, right, before you go on, before
Speaker 1: you go on, before you go h called some people
Speaker 1: at Grambling to get some information, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people down there listen to our podcast. All right, black
Speaker 1: people are into that's why we need you in studio.
Speaker 1: That's right. Ever, since that's why that's why you're we
Speaker 1: can't have you on the phone. We got to be
Speaker 1: able to see you in studio. So wherever you found
Speaker 1: that out, make sure they know eight eight eight eight
Speaker 1: to two night seven. Okay, So so look I brought,
Speaker 1: I brought all of was it was it? What was
Speaker 1: that Bakla Baklava? Remember I was in baklover, New Jersey?
Speaker 1: Or uh about Buffalo? That was about bad chast I
Speaker 1: told you about that place. Yeah, yeah, and people that's
Speaker 1: right there, that's right. So yeah, man, that's that's only
Speaker 1: because of me. Guy, Let's get that straight. It was
Speaker 1: the dry Fish you were talking about Italian restaurants, Baca
Speaker 1: of all. Yeah, and yes, who guess who is tied
Speaker 1: for third at the Master's right now? Wow, let me
Speaker 1: look at this. Through seven holes Tiger Woods is one
Speaker 1: under par and he's tied for third at the Masters.
Speaker 1: Come on, guys, what do we do? We dare speculate?
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I heard the guys on the
Speaker 1: radio and I was driving in. He hit his first
Speaker 1: shot and he wasn't happy with it, and I think
Speaker 1: he kind of sliced it and it wasn't on the
Speaker 1: fairway and they were all going, oh god, look at this.
Speaker 1: Well he ended up paring the hole. Right, he was
Speaker 1: in trouble and he parted. He was even par after three,
Speaker 1: I think I saw do we dare? Yeah? No, come
Speaker 1: on now, it's a matter of this can't be real.
Speaker 1: This can't be He birdied six. He birt like, this
Speaker 1: is like Will Smith slapping Chris Rock. It was this
Speaker 1: is this is fake? Come on, the accident was fake.
Speaker 1: Which Gronkowski had a funny line last night on Jimmy Kimmel. Uh.
Speaker 1: Kimmel said something about, yeah, what's your personality? You could
Speaker 1: you could host the Oscars, and he goes, yeah, and
Speaker 1: he goes, I want to see somebody come up and
Speaker 1: slap me. He goes, they ain't getting away with it.
Speaker 1: He'll meet them. He'll meet them halfway, meet them halfway.
Speaker 1: But it's pretty funny, all right, So that doesn't for
Speaker 1: the special two hour version one under Now the question
Speaker 1: is can he walk eighteen holes two days? And that's
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking, what I'm thinking fu on these practice
Speaker 1: rounds as well. Yeah, he's been really trying to yep.
Speaker 1: All right, So that's what you're doing for the next
Speaker 1: couple hours there, Everson, keep an eye on. No, no,
Speaker 1: you know I don't want Okay, that's you guys, you
Speaker 1: can have it. You had to do something. You had
Speaker 1: to do something I couldn't do. Hey, if I was
Speaker 1: the PGA and he was playing in my tournament and
Speaker 1: I knew all the eyeballs were going to be on it,
Speaker 1: it's like, if he makes the cut, I give him
Speaker 1: a golf cart. Just keep keep keep playing, just keep playing.
Speaker 1: All right. That does it for this edition of mix
Speaker 1: Shots and more of our draft preview, and Everson is
Speaker 1: going to do his research over the course of the
Speaker 1: next week and we'll get his take on some of
Speaker 1: these draft prospects next Thursday at eleven thirty here on
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