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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that.

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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, January thirty, first, twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: Season thirteen, episode number one oh one. Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: edition of The Break. I am Derek Eagleton and we're

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Speaker 1: here live in the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star.

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Speaker 1: It feels like it's been a little while, two weeks,

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Speaker 1: feels like an eternity in the offseason. But happy to

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Speaker 1: have the crew back here. We're talking Cowboys football here

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Speaker 1: with you guys for an hour. It's super Bowl week,

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Speaker 1: so at some point in this show we're gonna nail

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Speaker 1: everybody down on Super Bowl predictions and see what these

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Speaker 1: guys think is going to happen Sunday for Super Bowl Sunday,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll probably get into I know, we will

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Speaker 1: get into some desk talk. I think that's gonna be interesting.

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Speaker 1: Dave had a little tweet yesterday that kind of sparked

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Speaker 1: my interest a little bit. So we're gonna talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about Dez Bryant, and we'll start in the show.

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Speaker 1: It's some here at the beginning, talking a little bit

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Speaker 1: about some coaching changes that have happened. How's everybody doing today,

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Speaker 1: doing great? Derek good? Good? Great. I saw Dave's tweet

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Speaker 1: and I decided to hold myself and save it for

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Speaker 1: the show. Oh wow, it, But I'm like, I'll just

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Speaker 1: wait till tomorrow we go getting into this. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get into this. We're not gonna get into it right

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Speaker 1: now because we've got a couple of things we need

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Speaker 1: to hit first, but we're definitely gonna get into this.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about this because me and Nick

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Speaker 1: has some interesting conversations too. I think Nick has some

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Speaker 1: interesting opinions there on Dez Bryant. So not not that

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Speaker 1: everybody in the in the whole country that's a Cowboys

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Speaker 1: fan or otherwise doesn't have an opinion. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people talking right now about Dez Bryant. Good point.

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Speaker 1: We'll jump into that conversation. Before we do that, though,

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Speaker 1: catch me up on some news around the coaches. We've

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Speaker 1: heard some reports. Now, of course, we got to make

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Speaker 1: it clear the Cowboys have not made an official statement

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Speaker 1: on any of the coaching changes UM inspecting them to

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Speaker 1: do that sometime around May. Yeah. I think at some

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Speaker 1: big kind of introduction, but what tell me about the

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Speaker 1: last okay that they do. But that's dumb, okay, so

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Speaker 1: that's not you're not announcing anything. Yeah, I mean, well

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Speaker 1: that's just I don't know why they do that. You

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Speaker 1: probably it's probably should be called an introduction. Yeah, not

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It'll be an introduction at some point

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Speaker 1: our coach, but our listeners know what's going on. They follow.

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Speaker 1: So the latest stuff is just that they've UM unofficially

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Speaker 1: officially announced that men Bloom will be the linebackers coach.

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Speaker 1: Jason Witten to be the eighth tight end coach for

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Speaker 1: Jason Witten, I was joking around, I guess yesterday when

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jerry Jones said that they have an agreement

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Speaker 1: And isn't it clear Jason that you really don't are

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Speaker 1: am about to say. I was joking yesterday. I was like,

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Speaker 1: fine in twenty sixteen. I mean maybe it wasn't. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't as good as it was with Tony Romo. Tony Romos,

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Speaker 1: which is to be expected exactly, So don't even come

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Speaker 1: at me with that, because if you expect Dac to

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Speaker 1: be on that level right now, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: hear it. Like the blueprint for the way this team

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Speaker 1: operates changed when Tony Romo lost his job. It's not

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Speaker 1: that team anymore. And by the way, you signed Deaz

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Speaker 1: to play for that kind of quarterback. So no, this

434
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Speaker 1: contract is not great and it would be wise to

435
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Speaker 1: probably try to get out of it maybe next year

436
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Speaker 1: if his play doesn't improve. But I think it is

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Speaker 1: what it is. And like I said, I think with

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Speaker 1: all that stuff being said, this is a team that's

439
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Speaker 1: built a very specific way. There's a very specific way

440
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Speaker 1: for this team to win, and losing your running back

441
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Speaker 1: and your left tackle for a significant chunk of the

442
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Speaker 1: season drastically altered that. Again, not trying to say it.

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Speaker 1: Deaz played well, but I think you have to take

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Speaker 1: all that stuff into account and just saying he's crap.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go and take our first break. When

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Speaker 1: we come back, I think we're going to change the

447
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Speaker 1: conversation a little bit because I think there are really

448
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Speaker 1: two questions here that we need to answer. Number One,

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Speaker 1: is this team really worse off if Dez Bryant is gone?

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Speaker 1: Because I think we need to look back to those

451
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Speaker 1: three games where they missed him in twenty sixteen and

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Speaker 1: see if maybe that gives us some perspective. And then

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Speaker 1: the second thing is, if you really believe they have

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Speaker 1: to replace him, are there better options out there, specifically

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Speaker 1: going to pay top dollar, should you be paying top

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Speaker 1: Back to the Break, Welcome back. It is the second

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Speaker 1: second of the Break live from the s w DC

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Speaker 1: Mortgage studios. At the start, we're talking about Dez Bryant

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Speaker 1: some interesting thoughts. I guess in that initial segment what

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Speaker 1: I wanted to do is I want to focus in

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Speaker 1: a little bit on two specific things. One Michael Loran

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Speaker 1: kind of made and I think actually, Dave, you made

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Speaker 1: this point that you feel as though with Dez being

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Speaker 1: gone there would be a big, gaping hole left without him.

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Speaker 1: Whether it's the production or not, there's something that you're

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Speaker 1: missing if you don't have him. I want you guys

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Speaker 1: to discuss for a second the three games period in

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen when Dez wasn't here, when he was out injured,

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Speaker 1: and if you look at those three games, I went

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Speaker 1: back and pulled some of the numbers. They won all

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Speaker 1: three games, cowbel Boys with three and oh in those

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Speaker 1: three games, Dak had two hundred and forty seven two

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven and two hundred and forty five

516
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Speaker 1: yards in the three games, had a total of six

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Speaker 1: touchdowns and only one interception. They played pretty well. Terrence

518
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Speaker 1: william was the leading receiver in two of the games. Zeke,

519
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Speaker 1: which was the big story, played out of his mind,

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Speaker 1: had one hundred and fifty seven, one hundred and thirty four,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty eight. But when you start thinking

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Speaker 1: about how this team was constructed, and Dave you kind

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Speaker 1: of mentioned this as well. Who they beaten here? They

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Speaker 1: beat Green Bay at Green Bay, which is a big

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Speaker 1: win I think, and then they beat Cincinnati at home,

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Speaker 1: and then they beat San Francisco in San Francisco, which

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Speaker 1: San Francisco and whatever, Cincinnati probably whatever. I just feel

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Speaker 1: like here, I mean, I'm just looking at the order

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Speaker 1: is not Yeah snows it was at San Francisco, then

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Speaker 1: at home against Cincinnati, then at Green Bay got it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not missing that Cincinnati game. What happened then? Zeke

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Speaker 1: at Zeke balled out? Nothing? Lead? Yeah? Yeah, right, keep

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Speaker 1: away from them. But my point is that if you

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Speaker 1: look at how this team is constructed, which you guys

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Speaker 1: have all talked about, this team is constructed to be

536
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Speaker 1: a running team, and maybe that means you don't need

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Speaker 1: to have a high paid, top wide receiver in order

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Speaker 1: for this offense to go. Assuming your running backs in

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Speaker 1: place and he's not out suspended for six games, and

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Speaker 1: assuming your offensive line is intact, what do you guys think?

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Speaker 1: I think there's merit to that. And like I, you know, Des'

542
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Speaker 1: contract is not good for this team in the long haul,

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Speaker 1: and I've said it a million times. In an ideal world,

544
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Speaker 1: in my opinion, you would go through this year as

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Speaker 1: best you can, keeping him, and then seek to offload

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Speaker 1: that deal next year because it's easier and more friendly

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Speaker 1: to do. Um I think there's something to be said

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Speaker 1: for that. But again, that's great they played. They played

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Speaker 1: great in that three week stretch. I think I'm just

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Speaker 1: I'm leary about the idea. I mean, let's I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: Bryce Butler is no longer a part of this team

552
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen either, which he had a role in

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Speaker 1: at least two of those games. He had a touchdown

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Speaker 1: against San Francisco and was big for this That was

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Speaker 1: his best game, one touchdown, and he was big for

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Speaker 1: them against Green Bay too. He had a nice touchdown

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Speaker 1: on that drive right before the half, so he played

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Speaker 1: a role there. So you're basically saying, I mean, if

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Speaker 1: if you're not keeping Dez, you're signing a mid tier

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Speaker 1: receiver replacement in free agency who I mean, maybe he's better,

561
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Speaker 1: maybe isn't for the month, and and you're still you're

562
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Speaker 1: overpaying him, so you're still gonna have to pay more

563
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Speaker 1: than you probably want to, or you're drafting a guy

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Speaker 1: who history indicates won't likely be ready to go from

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Speaker 1: day one, especially with a rookie quarterback. And I've got

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Speaker 1: numbers to back this up, just in case you were curious.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't at work yesterday. I spent the entire afternoon

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Speaker 1: researching wide receivers. In the time since Dez Bryant has

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Speaker 1: been drafted, So, going back to twenty ten, two hundred

570
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Speaker 1: and fifty receivers have been drafted into the NFL. Thirty

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Speaker 1: seven of them have made a what I would call

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Speaker 1: a significant impact in their rookie year, which so my

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Speaker 1: cutoff for that was forty catches, give or take six

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Speaker 1: hundred yards, give or take five touchdowns, give or take.

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Speaker 1: Thirty seven guys hit those How many of those were

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Speaker 1: first round picks? Twelve of the thirty seven, and seven

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Speaker 1: of those twelve were in the top fifteen. How many

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Speaker 1: overall were first round picks? Like, That's what I want

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Speaker 1: to know, is, like you you're total number of two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty something that were drafted wide receivers ever drafted.

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Speaker 1: I'm asking how many first round wide receivers were drafted,

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Speaker 1: and then compare that number to how many of those

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Speaker 1: were I can impactful players. I can answer that for you.

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Speaker 1: I can't. I'm not going to do it on the

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Speaker 1: air because I would have to go through but thirty seven.

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Speaker 1: So of the thirty seven guys who have hit that milestone,

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Speaker 1: twelve of them were first round picks, ten were second,

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Speaker 1: So you're you need to draft the guy high, first

589
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 1: or second. Right. Yeah. And by the way of the guys,

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Speaker 1: of those thirty seven guys, nineteen of them matched what

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Speaker 1: you're calling a bad season by Dez Bryan in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen guys in the last eight years. Right. But if

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Speaker 1: you get if you get that production in their rookie

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Speaker 1: year of what you call the bad season, your expectation

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Speaker 1: is that that's their floor. Right, sure, right, but there's

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Speaker 1: an eight percent chance you're going to get a guy

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Speaker 1: who's capable of doing that in his first year. Well,

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Speaker 1: we don't know that because we don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: a first and second round pick. That's why I was

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Speaker 1: asking the total number that are first and second round

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Speaker 1: picks fifteen of the nineteen or first and second round picks.

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Speaker 1: Even still, and I can go back and do this,

603
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: but you're still talking. You're talking six second round picks

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Speaker 1: out of probably thirty that have been drafted. And that's

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Speaker 1: why I want to know. The numbers aren't in your favor.

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Speaker 1: It's the point I'm trying to make. Then you go

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Speaker 1: to free agency, who you who are you looking at.

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Speaker 1: I got a name for you, go for it. I

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00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: think Jarvis Landry is a guy that you definitely should

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Speaker 1: look at. If you talk about can you is there

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Speaker 1: a way for you to take the money that you're

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Speaker 1: giving to Dez Bryant? And what's wrong? Nothing? This is

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Speaker 1: where my contract no, and and because he's too I

614
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Speaker 1: don't know. But here's the deal. You think about it

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Speaker 1: from the standpoint of a guy like Jarvis Landry, if

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Speaker 1: you signed him to a long term deal, it is

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Speaker 1: a twenty five year old wide receiver. You signed him

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Speaker 1: to a long term deal, there's a way for you

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Speaker 1: to get him for this year for relatively cheap. Right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's going to count against your cap. So all that

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Speaker 1: being said, would you rather have a guy like Jarvis

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Speaker 1: Landry who is a guy who has great hands, runs

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Speaker 1: great routes that maybe adds that that extra little whatever

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Speaker 1: you need in a in an offense where let's let's

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Speaker 1: face it, what's most important in from a receiver. I

626
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: think in this offense is can you move the chains?

627
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Speaker 1: And I think he is a volume receiver. He fits

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Speaker 1: the bill. I think he checks a lot of the

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Speaker 1: check marks of what would be a great receiver in

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Speaker 1: this particular offense, you're going to spend the money on

631
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Speaker 1: somebody like that, then, does that make make it more

632
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Speaker 1: palatable to not have Dez Bryan on this team. I

633
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: absolutely despise the idea of cutting Daz just to take

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Speaker 1: on another seventy million dollar contract, and that's what it

635
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Speaker 1: would cost. You're talking, Oh, yeah, you gotta have to

636
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Speaker 1: pay him, no doubt about. You have to pay him.

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Speaker 1: Boatrack dot Com puts his market value at thirteen point eight,

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Speaker 1: and teams drastically overpay for market value all the time.

639
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: Franchise tag is sixteen based on what Jarvis Landry's done

640
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: in his career. It's understandable if he tries to demand fifteen,

641
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: and it won't be surprising if he gets it right.

642
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: So you're cutting days to immediately take on a similar

643
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: number with no guarantee that it's going to pay off

644
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: based on what we've seen so far from your quarterback however, Well,

645
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you cut Daz this year, you save about

646
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: eight million on your cap and you could probably save

647
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 1: more if you did them, if you'd cut him after

648
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: June for you know, designated. You can't use that money,

649
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: you don't, Yeah, you don't use it on that, but

650
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: you you use it when you that's when you pay

651
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence and all that kind of stuff, right, you

652
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: can do Zach Martin after June first also, um, but

653
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: but I you know you also you got Romo's money

654
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: that's counting this year as well. So I agree with

655
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: your point about you front you backload the contract a

656
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: little bit where you can kind of make that swap,

657
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: and you're talking about a twenty nine year old receiver

658
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: to a twenty five year old receiver who runs better

659
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: routes and is better a better fit. Like I see

660
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: that part of it there. Because if you say you're

661
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: gonna save eight million dollars if you cut days, but

662
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: what do you I mean, what does Terrence make four

663
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: million a year something like that? Four point five okay

664
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: four point five as as a number two receiver, So

665
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: you got to you gotta replace it somehow, So you're

666
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: not really gonna save a lot of money. I mean,

667
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: that's that would be a bold move. But I kind

668
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: of can see the point because what this team needs

669
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: is a better route runner, a guy that can adjust.

670
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: And you know, if you're gonna keep Dez on this team,

671
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: then sang law this new receiver's coach. You need to

672
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: put him to work, and he's not. If he doesn't

673
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 1: take a pay cut, then Desney needs to spend the

674
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: entire year trying to get better at running routes. That's

675
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: just you wouldn't think that after an eight year career,

676
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: but he needs to. So it's holding him back. Let

677
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: me let me ask you this. Y'all just outline that

678
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: so beautifully, and so I just I feel like we're

679
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: walking into a trap here. You're not. You're not walking

680
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: into like there. I mean, you can have whatever opinion

681
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: you want. It's totally doable. The Cowboys have something like

682
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: twenty million in cap space. Would you agree that they're

683
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: not going to get a long term deal well done

684
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: with DeMarcus Lawrence before free agency, before free four the

685
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: league year starts. Probably yeah, Probably not. It seems unlikely.

686
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: I'd have no idea why it was a report out

687
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: the other day to sit that they were trying to

688
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: that it might, but I don't know. Steve Oh Stephen

689
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: Jones said at the Senior Bowl that he wants to

690
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: get it done as quickly as possible and not have

691
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 1: to use the franchise and if it does, it's that

692
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: means it's a very favorable deal for the organization if

693
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: you and maybe I'm wrong, but if I'm DeMarcus Lawrence

694
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: and I'm done with the Pro Bowl, I would sit

695
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: in my house and not risk injury for anything and

696
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: know that I'm either about to get a one year,

697
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: seventeen million dollar payday or I'm going to hit the

698
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: open market and somebody might get really nuts. I have

699
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: no idea why he would agree to a deal right now.

700
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense. Yeah, maybe he will, but

701
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense to me. So you're spending seventeen

702
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: million of your twenty million on DeMarcus Lawrence for the

703
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: time being. Assuming you don't get an extension done with

704
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: Zach Martin right now, you can restructure Travis Frederick's contract

705
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: to give you something like six seven million. This is

706
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,959
Speaker 1: all coming from spotrack dot com. You can look at

707
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: it yourself. This isn't it's not like. Let me ask

708
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: you this question real quick, just as a point of clarity.

709
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: When you say you have that seventeen million against your cap,

710
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: do you have to be under the cap starting with

711
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: free agency? Once you tag let's say they have to

712
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: tag him. Once you tag him, do you have to

713
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: have that seventeen million allotted against your cap? I believe

714
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: so it's held, it has to be accounted for you. Yes, yeah,

715
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: even if he doesn't sign his tender and until July,

716
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 1: and you have to stay under the cap the entire

717
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: free agency period. Like I thought there was a point

718
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: at which there was like a date with after which

719
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: everybody has to be under the cap. I didn't know

720
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: that there was, like that was always you had to

721
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: be under the cap. Is that accurate? You have to

722
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: be under the cap by the start of the league year, right,

723
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: and then your top fifty one salaries count right? Okay, thanks,

724
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: So with all the finagling and the Cowboys do this

725
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: every year, it's not as drastic as it sounds. Even

726
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: if you have to carry the franchise tag, they can

727
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: probably find a way free up about ten million in

728
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: cap space. If they were to get an extension done

729
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: with Zach Martin, that would probably give him another four

730
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: to five million, Like you're talking about as much as

731
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: like fifteen million dollars in cap space. You can do it,

732
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: no doubt. And then that's not even including cutting Deaz,

733
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: which would free up another eight. So if you want

734
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: to make a splash, you got the money, you can

735
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: make the money to do you absolutely can, would you

736
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: really do you? And maybe you do. I hate the

737
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: idea of doing all that work and then immediately tying

738
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: myself to Jarvis Landry or Alan Maybe Alan Robinson's your guy.

739
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: You can go get him for thirteen million dollars a year.

740
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: I don't love that. And then after there's a kind

741
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: of a steep drop off after those two. You got

742
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: Marquis Lee. There's not a lot of great free agents

743
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: outside those Marquis Lee and Paul Richardson who have never

744
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: had thousand yards seasons, Sammy Watkins, who's had injury issues.

745
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: I hate the idea of turning around and handing that

746
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: kind of money to one of those guys when I've

747
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: already got Dez Bryan on there. I'm already overpaying a receiver.

748
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: He's already been here, he's already comfortable. As far as

749
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 1: I know, he gets along with everybody in the locker room,

750
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: even in light of all this stuff. I mean, if

751
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: he left the team, who knows what would come out.

752
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: But I don't have any reason to believe that there's

753
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: some type of rift in the locker room. What if

754
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry is deck friendly, because it is not. The

755
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: problem I have with Michael Irving's statement about being number

756
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: one is that how many number one receivers have defensive

757
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: coordinators said we'll give you Deaz, we'll give that to you.

758
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: We're not giving you Beasley, and we're not giving you Witten.

759
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: We're gonna take away your easy throw and we're gonna

760
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: make you have a hard throw. That to me. And

761
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it's all on DEAs because I

762
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: think Dak that's where Dak Dad can't make that throw consistent. Now,

763
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: that's where his end experience has come into play. And

764
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: I think when we talked to all years is defense

765
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: coordinators is going to figure him out. I think they did.

766
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: I think they figured it out and they won. They

767
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: said we will will. We're not giving you these short throws.

768
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: You have to go these fifty fifty balls. And it

769
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: was about fifty fifty. He caught what sixty something passes,

770
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: sixty nine passes. It was like one hundred and twenty

771
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty, So it was about fifty fifty

772
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 1: on every ball. And you know we call them fifty

773
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: fifty balls the faith. Everything was fifty fifty with Daz,

774
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: not all Deaz's fault Dak. Dak still has to figure

775
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: that out. But I'm talking about if they're making Dak friendly,

776
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: maybe Dez isn't anymore. And you know, that's the interesting

777
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: thing about this whole conversation. I think if Dak goes,

778
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, if Dez goes to another team

779
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: with a more experience, more accurate, will order back, he

780
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: will light it up and have a great year. This

781
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: is not about Dez by himself. This is about, like

782
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,439
Speaker 1: you say, Nick, this is about is Dez a great

783
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: fit for Dak? And that's why I don't know if

784
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: that's accurate. I think there might be. And that's why

785
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: I bring up the guy the name Jarvis Landry. I

786
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: think a guy like him that gets open more, it

787
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: has more separation, has better hands. In my opinion, I

788
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: think he might be a better fit for this offense

789
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: and what they're trying to do converting those third downs

790
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: moving to chains. I think he might just be a

791
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: better fit than Dez is in this offense. I already

792
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: I think it's a knee jerk reaction to say Dak

793
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: and Dez just absolutely don't fit because I thought, I

794
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 1: don't think anybody saying that. I'm saying, all right, that's

795
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: what it's being sucret. Well, I never got to the

796
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: other half of my hypothetical, which is, would you rather

797
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: do all that finagling, maybe jeopardize your long term cap

798
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: by backloading another deal for another receiver paying him seventy

799
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 1: million that's what it would cost to sign Jarvis Landry

800
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: Or would you rather just grin and Barrett hope that

801
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: des can recover and spend one of your first three

802
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: draft picks on a receiver, because that's again looking at it,

803
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: that's where it says you have to find these guys.

804
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: I think you still you still would spend a pick

805
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: one top three picks on a wide receiver, whether you

806
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: go out and get a free agent or not. And

807
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: if that's I just I don't understand the point of

808
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: putting new money and new deals with new years on

809
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: the table. When so all right, let's you keep Dez.

810
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: You just you don't touch his money, you just leave

811
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: it alone. You restructure Frederick because knock on wood, he's

812
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: never missed a snap in his life. You can go

813
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: get Juju Smith Shuster sixty second overall pick. You can

814
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 1: get Cooper Cup sixty ninth overall pick, Sterling Shepherd forty,

815
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas forty seventh overall pick. And then you got

816
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: your freak shows, Amari Cooper, Sammy Watkins, Mike Evans, Odell Beckham.

817
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: That's probably not realistic. Jordan Matthews forty second overall pick,

818
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry sixty third overall pick. You can find solid receivers.

819
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: You can find really solid receivers even as late as

820
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: the second round. Bring them in here. Don't make them

821
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,720
Speaker 1: do it all from day one, because very few guys

822
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: have proven they can handle that. Let them be the

823
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: third right wide receiver on this team. And if Dez

824
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: doesn't recover, or if Terrence doesn't recover, hell, you could

825
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: cut them both next year and it would be way

826
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: better for you. But my thing about it is when

827
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: you're talking about sticking with what you got, I think

828
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: that what we're seeing in today's NFL is that sticking

829
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: with what you got gets you beat, especially if you're

830
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: offensive or defensive coordinator, is not creative enough to do

831
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: different things with them than what you did before. You

832
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: look at some of the teams now that have had

833
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: success over the last several years, a lot of them

834
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: went out and they got a piece here, piece there,

835
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: or piece there that they added to a team that

836
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 1: kind of pushed them over the top. We saw it

837
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: happen with the Giants couple of years with their a

838
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 1: couple of years ago with their defense. We saw the

839
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos do it. They went out and got three

840
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: a player at each of the levels on their defense,

841
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: and it took their defense all the way to the

842
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. We saw the Eagles last year. They did

843
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: the same thing. They even got a Ji in the

844
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: middle of the year. All I'm saying is if you're

845
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: staying the same, if you're gonna say we're just gonna

846
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: roll out what we got, well, then you better be

847
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: really really creative with doing different things with those players.

848
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: You can't do the same thing in today's NFL, I

849
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: don't think and be successful. The Broncos are a very

850
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: rare example where they just they bucked the trends. I

851
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: mean they did. They went out and plashed a bunch

852
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 1: of money and immediately were in three straight in AFC

853
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: title games and won a Super Bowl. But that's just

854
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 1: three examples I just gave you in the last five

855
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: years the Eagles. I don't chalk that up in the

856
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: same like the Eagles took calculated risks that paid off Alshon.

857
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: Jeffrey was a one year deal, right, That's not what

858
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: we're talking about with Jarvis Landry. How much they paying

859
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 1: for that one year or eight million dollars that was it. Yeah,

860
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: they didn't give him money at all. I mean they

861
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: extended him this year. They didn't. They get some free

862
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: agents on their defense. On defense side of all, Timmy

863
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: Joern again. Timmy Joern again was a trade for like

864
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: a fourth round pick. J giy was a trade for

865
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: a fifth round Yea. All I'm saying. All I'm saying

866
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: is they've changed up their team. So what are you

867
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna It's not just about the draft. I think you

868
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: got to bring in some players and change it up

869
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: or you're gonna be in a gonna be in a

870
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: situation where you're doing the same things. And I don't

871
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: think that works if you've got twelve million dollars on

872
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: your salary cap. I'm all in favor of doing something

873
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: a little more bold than signing Stephen pie Nolan Carroll

874
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: all right, all right, the elephant in the room. Would

875
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: you rather just keep Dez Bryant or would you rather

876
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: let him go and get the safety? Get the guy

877
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: if the safety became available and Cowboys had an opportunity

878
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:36,240
Speaker 1: to go get him. Frederick Zach Martin, all this stuff,

879
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: at the end of it, if you got to make

880
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: a choice between the two, I'd rather go get a safety,

881
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: a really great free agency, I'm sorry, a really great

882
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: veteran safety, than worrying about what I'm gonna do with this.

883
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that you have to choose between the

884
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: two based on everything we just sat to. Maybe in

885
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: a rare circumstance, and for anybody that's not picking up

886
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: what we're putting down, they're talking about going after Earl

887
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: Thomas in a if, which is not tampering, because he

888
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: went after Jason Garrett. He went up to the whole team,

889
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,479
Speaker 1: physically went after him and said, come get me if

890
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 1: if they kick me to the curb in a rare So,

891
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: if they kick him to the curb in a rare

892
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: circumstance where he is available and he wants to be

893
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,919
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys, probably get him for a good deal.

894
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know that I buy that. But if

895
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: not a great deal, I mean, is he still want

896
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: to get paid, but you can get him for a

897
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: good deal. Played Sunday in this far and that's it.

898
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: Don't forget that. And he'll bring that up in the negotiate.

899
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas is from Texas and wants to be a

900
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: Cowboys until the forty nine ers offer him double. The

901
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: Cowboys like, that's nobody's gonna They're not gonna offer him.

902
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: Why not? Remember he played Sunday. There are some roll

903
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: bowls were a We're talking about how well the Cowboys

904
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: are in good shape because they have fifteen million dollars

905
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,720
Speaker 1: in cap sways, forty nine ers have one hundred million dollars.

906
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: They can throw whatever the hell they want around. So

907
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: don't tell me it's a lot impossible. Yeah no, But

908
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: but I'm still saying, though, I think there is something

909
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: to a veteran player that already has a ring and

910
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: him wanting to go and play for a specific team.

911
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: I think that happens a lot in the end, in

912
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: a rare in a rare circumstance, And honestly, I think

913
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: I think that's a better scenario because didn't see it

914
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 1: would get something, it would have. It would have to

915
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: be something like this Alex Smith thing where he agrees

916
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: to a new deal immediately, not absolutely one year. Absolutely,

917
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 1: that's part of the deal. Um in a rare sur

918
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: round pick, fourth round pick. They're gonna lose them anyways, No,

919
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: they're not. He's under contract for a year. I mean this, Okay,

920
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: I would I would give a third. I'm just laying

921
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: out and maybe I'm a homer when it comes to

922
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: but I would give a third. No good text for

923
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 1: every person that says, God, you can get Jason Witten

924
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: in the third. You can also you can get j. J.

925
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: Wilcox in the third. You can get Terence We're going

926
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: to play that game. Yeah, I mean third and fourth.

927
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: I would give a third for Earl Thomas. I would too.

928
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: Absolute in again, if if it was between Deaz or

929
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: you can have Earl, I'd probably roll the dice and

930
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 1: go after Earl Thomas. But that doesn't change my opinion.

931
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: Then I think it's it's knee jerk and shortsighted to

932
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,200
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933
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,640
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934
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935
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936
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939
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Speaker 1: real real quick. I looked this up during the breaks, Joe,

1004
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Speaker 1: I would thank you. Since twenty twenty nine, teams have

1005
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: spent a first round pick on a wide receiver twenty

1006
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: nine total, twelve of them, like I said, hit that

1007
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: six hundred yard in the first year. In the first year,

1008
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: and of those twelve, about a little over half, I

1009
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 1: mean little under half. Of the twelve that did it,

1010
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: seven of them were top ten, top fifteen types picks.

1011
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: So if you take the Cowboys pick this year, five

1012
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,399
Speaker 1: guys drafted in that range have done that. So you're

1013
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: looking at a seventeen percent chance that your pick at

1014
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: nineteen this year and one of them is ready to

1015
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: go immediately. One of those guys is Dez Bryant, Yes,

1016
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: one of one of the five is death, which Damarius

1017
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: Thomas says to be another one. He had three hundred

1018
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,479
Speaker 1: yards as a rookie. Oh are you talking about guys

1019
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: who hit forty forty catches, six hundred yards five six touchdowns.

1020
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 1: That's why I guess my argument, like if I'm wrapping

1021
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: the whole thing up, my argument is, your decision is

1022
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: either you keep Dez Bryant, or if you're gonna get

1023
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: rid of Dez Bryant, you go get yourself the best

1024
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: free agent wide receiver that's out there in Jarvis Landry

1025
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 1: and and if you're not to me, those are really

1026
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: the only two options. I don't think that you can

1027
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: count on a on a rookie wide receiver necessary to

1028
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: come in here and be what you wanted to be

1029
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: for first. He might be better in future years, so

1030
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: I still think you draft him. You just can't count

1031
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: on him for this year. And if you get one

1032
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: that that shows up this year, great, but you can't

1033
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: count on the fact that this year he's gonna be

1034
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: He's gonna replace the production that Dez with this Sorry,

1035
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,720
Speaker 1: go ahead, I would do something though, in free agency,

1036
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: I would do that type of I'm not saying get

1037
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: the eagle receiver Alshan Jeffrey, but that type of player.

1038
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: Can you do that with Alan Robinson? I don't know,

1039
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:06,959
Speaker 1: because of his injury last year. I just I'm paying

1040
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: my starting quarterback a million dollars. I'm gonna take advantage

1041
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, I'll take advantage of it. Now. It's

1042
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: gonna come back victually of that fact right now. Well,

1043
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,879
Speaker 1: depends depends of what he does and he balls out

1044
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: next year, maybe you try to get a deal early.

1045
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: If I'm saying, wines deal up two more years. But

1046
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't, can't. We can't have a good year.

1047
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: He had a pretty good year. But if he has

1048
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: a better year and they was zeke back and they

1049
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: do better, who is there's no way you can just

1050
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: go in with fourth fourth round pick who franchise wasn't

1051
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: convinced about his deal. I'm trying to make a Kirk

1052
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 1: Cousins comparison here. Is that a dumb deal to you guys?

1053
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: It doesn't make it seem it doesn't make any sense

1054
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: to me. It just says the Redskins knew behind closed

1055
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: doors that just Kirk Cousins absolutely did not want to

1056
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: play there, and so they were like this, this isn't great,

1057
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,240
Speaker 1: but we gotta do what we gotta, dude, to protect ourselves.

1058
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,000
Speaker 1: Aren't there aren't there other options out there as far

1059
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: as veteran quarterbacks that will be available this year that

1060
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: you could maybe if you want to spend money on,

1061
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: you could spend money on. I mean, this is a

1062
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: thirty four year old quarterback in Alex Smith, and you

1063
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,879
Speaker 1: gave up, in my opinion, one of their best cornerbacks.

1064
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: If I was them and a third round pick, it

1065
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: makes sense to me if you're gonna have Alex Smith

1066
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: for a year or two and draft a guy. But

1067
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: I mean, they signed him to a four year deal

1068
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 1: extension today, so they got him five Smith like thirteen.

1069
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: I feel like you could maybe get Baker Mayfield. They

1070
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: need to get a running back. To me, Alex Smith

1071
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: is better in a balanced offense. You don't like some

1072
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: no do you like big Rob, No, bat Rob Rob whatever,

1073
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: same thing. Thompson's good, But I'm just saying they need

1074
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: a balanced offense that will help Alex Smith. Thompson is good,

1075
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 1: really good. Yeah, he's good. He's a receiver. He's a

1076
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: little receiver back. But I mean the way they run

1077
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: their offense, I wouldn't be surprising a couple of years

1078
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: if he's their primary guy, because they did that is

1079
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,720
Speaker 1: a pass heavy offense. They could like, why the offense

1080
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousins. Is it going to be a pass

1081
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,399
Speaker 1: heavy offense with Alex Smith? I'll tell you this right now.

1082
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: I don't think their positioned to be a run heavy offense.

1083
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: So if they're not gonna be passive, what are I

1084
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: going to do? Well? Yesterday I thought the Redskins are

1085
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: the worst team in the NFC from the Cowboys perspective.

1086
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: You know, teams that you have to worry about, and

1087
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: today I think they're the worst team. I mean, I

1088
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 1: think it's the same either way. You know, I'm not

1089
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: a big Kirk Cousins guy because he hasn't ever beaten

1090
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. He's bet he's always been in a one

1091
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: dimensional offense. I think if he finds a more balanced offense, yeah,

1092
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: all things being equal, Like, you know, if you're just

1093
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,360
Speaker 1: assuming Cousins will play where you want them to and

1094
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,280
Speaker 1: like you're just taking all that out of the equation,

1095
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 1: I'd way rather have Kirk Cousins at twenty seven million

1096
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: than Alex Smith at twenty three. I agree with this.

1097
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 1: It's just me. I agree with you. Okay, let's get

1098
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: back to the question that Amber posed before the break

1099
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: has with regards to Des Brown. We've talked a lot

1100
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: about what our thoughts are and what we would like

1101
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: to see happen. But let's talk about the Cowboys. You

1102
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: guys know this team, well, you know the front office. Well,

1103
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: what do you expect that they're going to do with

1104
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant? And Saul said done. I think when it's

1105
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: all said and done, I don't think Dez is on

1106
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: the team next year. Wow, I don't. I mean, if

1107
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: I had to just guess, I don't. I'm not going

1108
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 1: to sit here and say that that's a better move.

1109
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: I'm really on the fence with it because I see

1110
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 1: all the points. But I think if you're asking what

1111
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,240
Speaker 1: I think they will do, I think they will try

1112
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: to give a pay cut. I think Des has got

1113
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: too much pride for it. I don't think he said,

1114
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: you know what, cut me and see what happens. I

1115
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: think he's going to an NFC team and to face

1116
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and I think I think that would happen.

1117
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: But if I had to just guess, I think I

1118
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: don't think he's on the team, all right, Dave the

1119
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: Jones's comments at the Senior Bowl don't give me a

1120
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: lot of confidence that I'm right. And I mean I've

1121
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:47,479
Speaker 1: talked to plenty of other people who agree with Nick too,

1122
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 1: So I don't know when where there's smoke, there's fire,

1123
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 1: But I just I gotta see it to believe it.

1124
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: Maybe I should, maybe I should be more cynical. I mean,

1125
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: this team cut to Marcus Ware and Tony Romo, so

1126
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: anything's possible. But these types of things, it just seems

1127
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 1: like there's always a lot of sound and fury signifying

1128
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,359
Speaker 1: nothing Like I just I think he's gonna be here.

1129
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:12,399
Speaker 1: Maybe they can, you know, if they draft a guy,

1130
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: maybe they can badger Room into taking a pay cut

1131
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: or something. Maybe, but maybe that's the badgering has already

1132
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: started in Senior Bowl. Yeah, maybe that's what those comments were. Yeah,

1133
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: but I think he'll be here one way or the other.

1134
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:29,959
Speaker 1: Amber Well comments on the Senior Bowl, Yeah, it makes

1135
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: me kind of doubt. But at the end of the day,

1136
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,439
Speaker 1: I think he'll just stay here. I mean, I find

1137
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: it hard to believe. With the Cowboys, Yeah, they've made

1138
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: crazy moves, like you just said, Dave, but at the

1139
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: same time, it's like how they feeling they make a

1140
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: bold move in the coaching staff. I doubt they're gonna

1141
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: make a bold move with Des. I don't know. I

1142
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:54,439
Speaker 1: just he'll be a good headline. It'll be a lot

1143
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 1: of news to talk about that, but I don't think

1144
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. I waffle every time I talk about this. Today.

1145
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: My feeling is, I think I agree with Day that

1146
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: he's going to be here, but I think it's kind

1147
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: of a combination of what Nick saying. I think they're

1148
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: gonna ask him for Pacup, but I think the way

1149
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 1: that they're going to structure the new deal gives him

1150
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: a clear path to be able to make the money

1151
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: if he can get those numbers back up, And I

1152
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 1: think that will allow Dez to say face on this okay,

1153
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,720
Speaker 1: because I think Des will look at it as okay,

1154
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 1: I'll show you that I could hit those numbers, and

1155
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: then we're gonna talk some more after this seasons done,

1156
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: and I think that's how he ends up staying here.

1157
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: We talked about this the other day. So Dez Bryant

1158
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 1: obviously wants the football a lot. Yeah, you give him

1159
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: a incentive base. I'm not saying it's a good idea. Yeah,

1160
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 1: what happens when the Cowboys defeat the Bears twenty eight

1161
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: to seven? Zeke has one hundred and eighty all purpose

1162
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: yards and Dak I mean, and Dez has four catches

1163
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: twenty nine yards, two catches for fifty five yard pass

1164
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,720
Speaker 1: interference penalty down to the one that helped but doesn't

1165
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: really show up on the stats. He's not hitting in

1166
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: center base. But Dez was a big part of that.

1167
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: Are you angry Daz at this point? What kind of

1168
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: des are you getting that? Now his money is tied

1169
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: to his numbers. Yeah, did they win? They won the game.

1170
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,840
Speaker 1: They won't worry about it later. No, no, no, I

1171
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: don't yeh. But But the question is the question is

1172
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: for there are there are some players, there's some players.

1173
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: There's some players that you don't worry so much about

1174
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: whether they're happy or upset about whatever. Dad is one

1175
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,439
Speaker 1: of those players. As as as Stephen talked about Senior Bowl,

1176
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: he can be volatile at times, and so do you

1177
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: get do you start to worry worry that now you're

1178
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: gonna have angry days, even in a locker room where

1179
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: maybe you're winning. If you go, if you read between

1180
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: the lines on things that he said in twenty sixteen,

1181
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: I would suggest to you that he wasn't completely happy

1182
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: then he I mean, he finished with fifty catches and

1183
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: less than a thousand yards. He ain't cool with that,

1184
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: But I think he had just gotten paid. Now you're

1185
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: talking about his money, and now his money's tied to it.

1186
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 1: I think if if the team is winning, I think

1187
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 1: and he'll be all right. I think he's such a

1188
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 1: competitor and it's wired to his personality. He might not

1189
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: be happy. But if the team is winning, I don't

1190
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: buy that. He was not going to call it like

1191
00:55:57,800 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 1: a bunch of noise. And I don't want to be

1192
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: crazy here, But what if the Cowboys were like a

1193
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 1: eight and eight, nine and seven type of team. You know,

1194
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 1: we haven't seen that really around here, but let's say

1195
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,280
Speaker 1: they're kind of back and forth. Yeah, I'm getting crazy.

1196
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:10,879
Speaker 1: Now we're getting crazy with the Yeah. I'm not saying

1197
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna fish eight and eight or anything like that,

1198
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: I hear you. I'm just saying I think that's it

1199
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: sounds good to make it incentive base, But well, this

1200
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:22,359
Speaker 1: is not a friendly offense for Decked. I mean, does

1201
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: the throw poll. What if they're gonna get him to

1202
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: cut his salary, They're gonna have to make it incentive base.

1203
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: That's a part of it. Like they're not gonna just

1204
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:30,439
Speaker 1: say we're just cutting your salary out right, They're gonna

1205
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: give him a way to be able to earn it back.

1206
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: That's that just seems like what you do in these

1207
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 1: kind of situations where you have a veteran player, right,

1208
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: and that money goes on the cap too. Yep, However,

1209
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 1: however happy or unhappy he is. When DJ Moore's done

1210
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: having his thousand yard rookie breakout season, you can move

1211
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: on from Dez next year. But it's nice to have

1212
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,399
Speaker 1: that security blanket. All right, real quick, we got about

1213
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:52,880
Speaker 1: a minute. I need you guys to give me some

1214
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: Super Bowl predictions. New England Patriots face to Philadelphia Eagles.

1215
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Amber. Who wins the game? Patriots?

1216
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 1: They better? I hope. So wow? All right, Nick, I

1217
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 1: think the street continues, um. I think the Patriots win.

1218
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles stay at zero. I think Cowboy

1219
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,959
Speaker 1: fans will be more excited about that. Uh. And also,

1220
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: I just think that the Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.

1221
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: I think if they're playing, they win good year for

1222
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: the Eagles. That's David, That's not true, though. I mean,

1223
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: they've lost two. They've lost two of them, and I

1224
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: don't know, man, I feel dumb. I feel dumb going

1225
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: against the I think Tom Brady's the best quarterback ever.

1226
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: And I mean Bill Belichick's awesome. Everybody knows that. But

1227
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: you better not say no, don't even how do how

1228
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 1: don't even say it? How the Giants? How the Giants

1229
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: win those two? What they have defensive had a pretty

1230
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 1: nasty pass rush, didn't they Just saying, Man, these Eagles,

1231
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: these Eagles front sevens gross in a good way. And

1232
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 1: I don't trust Nick Foles, but if they can run

1233
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: the ball with a giant and blown and you get

1234
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: a few sacks and maybe get a sack fumblers, I

1235
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: just kind of feel like the Eagles might win this game.

1236
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy, but it's just kind

1237
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: of You're not the only person that's saying that. I

1238
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: heard other people say it, and you're absolutely right, Like

1239
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 1: it's not and it's not. It's not just like they

1240
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: have like this one badass in They've got like eight

1241
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: guys who get after the passer. And when the Patriots

1242
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: have lost in the Super Bowl, it's been because the

1243
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: defensive front for the other team, the Giants, was appreciably

1244
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: better and they beat Brady up. As long as the

1245
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,919
Speaker 1: Boys has that. You think the Cowboys have ever been

1246
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl winning team's last loss? Like, like, it's

1247
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 1: a good question. I lost to the Cowboys then they

1248
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: won Super Bowl. Definitely wasn't a shutout. Yeah, I know

1249
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 1: that game doesn't matter six nothing, baby, But it's like,

1250
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 1: after that game, you can still not looking them like

1251
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna go win. So you're going for the Eagles too. Oh,

1252
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: I'm not going for the Eagle, make no mistake about it.

1253
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: I have never ever in my life rooted for the Patriots.

1254
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: I will be rooting for the Patriot. Who do you

1255
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: think is gonna win? Yeah? I think the Patriots ultimately win,

1256
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 1: just because I say, do you think it's gonna be?

1257
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: I still believe Belichick is just so good. I just

1258
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: don't think the Eagles have enough to beat him. Yep.

1259
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: So that's that's kind of how I look at it,

1260
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 1: and that's that's probably the safe pick because you look

1261
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 1: at history and history says that that's usually what happened.

1262
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: So says the Eagles don't wines are full. That's a

1263
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: good point. That's a great point. All Right. We appreciate

1264
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: you guys. You want us to be back next Wednesday.

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