WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Filling In The Blanks 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.040 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:13.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:17.279 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:22.560 official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:29.639 and Nicky Spagnola. Hey, it's eleven thirty on Thursday, and 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.519 it's time for another edition of mix Shots inside the 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:37.280 s WBC podcast studio here at the Beautiful Star in Frisco. 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.680 Any news yet today? Yes, sorta, sorta sort the news 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:48.160 happens after mix Shots. No, it happens. We we we 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:53.320 we we we are like a prerequisite we instigated. You go, 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.840 oh my god when we finished, and it's like, okay, 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.320 here we go. You know, now we can say it 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.640 because there were a couple of things we brought up 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:05.080 last week and it happened. The news happened right after 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.480 we brought it up on this show. I think people 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:12.000 are listening and they you know, that's a good idea, Yeah, exactly, 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.360 that people. People are listening. They and they hear the 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.119 wisdom that comes out of this show and they say, 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:20.920 you know what, that's a move we need to make. 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:26.800 So they go so what happened last week? Last week? 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.520 Last week? Come well, it was right after the show 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.679 the Lyle Collins news came out that they decided to 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.800 cut him. M that's right. And it didn't take long 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.000 for Cincinnati to swipe them out, right, and then the 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.199 next one's going to be better than the offensive lineman 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.720 that we're giving up all those hits on bo oh yeah, 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.640 might well come in. And they basically it was not 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.600 too high. They basically paid him on a two year 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.080 deal what he would have made with the Cowboys for 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.680 this year and next year, okay. And then and Frank 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.520 Pollock me, okay before well, we'll dive deeper into that, okay. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.680 And then the other thing was, I asked you, you know, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.080 there was no news about Layton vandersh and all right, 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.640 you know, and I meant, asked you, what's going on 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.280 with Laton Vanderish? We talked about late Vanderish, and sure enough, 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.480 within twenty four hours, Late Vanderish was some recent signed 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.200 a one year, two million dollars deal. Yep, I'm surprised 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.519 about that one about you, yeah somewhat, But I bet 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:24.160 I bet what took place with him is he wasn't 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.560 getting like a long term deal that he thought he 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.040 should get. So it's like, okay, one year deal, let 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.400 me go back and kind of have a prove it 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.639 year and see what I can turn that into. Because 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.680 now he's going to get a chance to play, right, 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:45.359 sitting him behind Jalen Smith, give me a break, right, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.400 And they did all these other things, and then finally 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.720 it's like, oh, we got to play this guy. And 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.800 to me, after that he started gaining confidence and towards 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.239 the end of the season started playing better and prove 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:01.120 that he can do another season without getting hurt. Yeah exactly. Yeah, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.239 Now that did help, I mean, but but also the 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.680 restriction of his plays, the number of plays I think 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.560 he helped. Also with him now reinjuring himself, right, Yeah, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.000 I don't know if he can play passing downs. You 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:20.639 don't know if nicol And that's just into the next one. Oh, 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.640 there are reports that are the Cowboys are going to 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:31.080 bring in Brian Schottenheimer as a offensive or a consultant 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.000 from the past. Yeah, take Ben McInnis. Shot by my 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.839 name brings back some memories and of course the Mike 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:47.320 McCarthy Schottenheimer relationship goes back nearly thirty years to San Francisco, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.240 Kansas City, Kansas City. That's right. McCarthy was on Marty 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.280 Schottenheimer's staff in Kansas City, and I was trying to 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.480 I was trying to track it down and I forgot. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.400 I was thinking head coach. I forgot about his when 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.720 he McCarthy was at pitt in there. I have to 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.440 look it up by he was at pitt I know 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.440 McCarthy was at pitt then it was at Kansas City 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.800 early nineties. I'm trying to remember if schotten if there 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.120 is a Schottenheimer connection at University of Pittsburgh too, but 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.880 but at Kansas City with the chiefs. He was under 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.760 Schottenheimer for several years. And that's not a new position 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.320 that they're filling a position. Yeah, Ben mcindood last year 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.760 because mcindoo was in the same spot and he got 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.920 hired as the offensive coordinator in Carolina. It's kind of 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.120 the NFL is doing what college is a Saban's been 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.719 doing at Alabama for several years now, which is a 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.960 whether it's an offensive coordinator or a head coach, he's 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.200 out of work right now. You bring them on, and 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:44.920 at the college level, they bring them on as they 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.080 call him an analyst for a season and then they 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.159 get a job somewhere else the next year. And I 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.120 saw that in basketball, Um, and I didn't know it. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.680 Larry Brown, Larry Brown's at Memphis, yea with Penny Hardaway. 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.599 Penny Hardaway. I saw him sitting on the bench ready 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.920 for his next doing there, getting ready for his next job. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.680 At nine. Hey, I think you do a pretty good job. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.240 He did a pretty good job at Memphis. I mean 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.040 he had one point. I saw him get up off 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.520 the bench and he was running onto the court. You know, 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.680 the job Larry Brown, who doesn't Matt Wherever he's been, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.840 all of a sudden, the talent level seems to rise. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.359 You mean he's a good recruiter. Is that what you're saying? 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.680 In fact, you go back with something. How can he 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.720 recruit he's ninety years old? How can he recruit who 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.279 remembers him? I mean he must go in there and 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:38.359 just really be a sweet person. Yeah, he brings in 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:43.320 a satchel. Bill didn't want to say it. Bill was 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:51.000 just like one step. Since we're into comedy. So the 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:58.320 Cowboys since we last talked have been busy bees the 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:04.400 NFL getting things done. Yes, are you excited about these moves. Well, 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:09.240 let's put it this way. I remember on Friday, so 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.320 I'm writing, it's a little bit afternoon, one o'clock and 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.479 I'm sitting there going, well, we got to look at 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.720 all the holes they have on this roster, like if 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.039 they had to play tomorrow, you know who's playing here, 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.320 who's playing there, who's playing there? In one moment. Please, 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.640 if you'd like a guideline on that, go to my 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.400 Twitter account. I'm tracking for the openings, okay, and CBS 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:39.920 eleven Bill Jones, go ahead, man, now yesterday yesterday when 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.599 I had to write again, it was like six days 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:49.320 later and they about filled in all at least somebody 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.039 that could go out on the field and play. So 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.080 if you would like to go through I'd love to. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.280 I've called it up on my Twitter at CBS eleven 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.880 Bill Jones saying we can go through it. The twenty 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:08.039 twenty two Dallas Cowboys shopping list. All right, so we'll 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.080 meet to start. You want to go go ahead? All right, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.280 let's start on offense. You want to go start on 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.240 offense and start on off at the wide receiver position. 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.480 They traded Amari Cooper. Have they replaced him? Yet they 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:23.679 have not replaced him, but they've got a veteran body. Okay, well, 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.800 hold on a second. We got all right, I'm going 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.520 to let me go through the fourth position. I'm gonna 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.240 go buy position, and we're not going to do individually. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.000 But the four guys that they had to make decisions 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.280 on at the wide receiver position, you got Amari Cooper, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.320 they traded away Michael Gallup, they resigned for five years 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.720 at fifty seven point five million, plus. Cedric Wilson went 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.080 to Miami for three years twenty two million, and then 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.000 Malik Turner, who's still out there in free agency. There's 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.640 and Noah Brown. And Noah Brown they brought back. So 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.160 there's your five wide receivers on a one year deal. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.280 So they, in my opinion, they replace Cedric Wilson with 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.160 James Washington. Yes, and that, and you still have the 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.560 Amari Coopers. James Washington a little bit more credit than that. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.160 CD Lamb is gonna have to replace Amari Cooper. But 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.360 still there's room at the end. There there's one spot 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:23.200 that you can't count on Michael Gallup being ready to 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.040 start the season. That's right right. So to me, you've 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:33.200 got Cede Lamb, James Washington, and the draft is coming up, 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.640 and and and even you. Yeah, but I mean he's 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.000 gonna have to play, but not as my third guy, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.559 but he's still gonna have to play. Yeah, yeah, I get. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.559 I mean he's gonna have to play significant plays considering 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.440 the fact that they don't have anybody else. Am I right? 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.920 Am I missing this? Well? That's why I mentioned the draft, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.680 which I have another have a fifth round. And there's 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.520 another one question. They haven't. They haven't. He hasn't gotten 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.800 You could you could go out and play a game tomorrow, right, 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:11.160 but it's it's okay, third the third wide receiver. If 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.160 Gallup is not ready, and we don't think he will be, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.800 so that's kind of up in the air. You could 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.680 put somebody out there, Fjjoko Brown. But what I'm talking 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:26.040 about is more so than even just this season. You've 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.720 got that position, the Amari Cooper position, and yeah, ceedee Lamb. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.280 Or the expectation is he's a first round pick, he 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.760 moves up into the number one hole. Okay, that Amari 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.040 Cooper spot is something that has to be filled, and 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:44.280 it's gonna be filled in the drafted right exactly next position, Okay, 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:51.520 tight end Dalton Schultz, franchise tag Blake Jarwin out there 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.400 in free agency, gone, Jeremy, Jeremy free thing. That's an 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.720 inter But still, I mean, when you look at the 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.640 roster and what was allotted for position you got last year, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.120 there's a room at the end at tight end, and 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:08.160 Jeremy Sprinkle comes back on a one year deal veteran benefit, right, 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.000 and so you have that title and you got McEwan. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.960 But he's a he's he's I'm not going through the end. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.400 What I know we're we're going through is who's who's leaving. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.840 And I'm saying you could play tomorrow with But you 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:26.160 still have the Jarwin position that was right, that needs 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.920 to be filled and whether it's your third tight end, 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.280 your second tight end, and again we're looking at the draft. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.440 That's right there, you go, there's the draft, and especially 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.080 when you consider the fact right now anyway, Schultz is 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.280 only on a one year franchise to dad, they gotta 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:45.120 fix that, yeah, and they likely will. All right. Running 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.360 Back Corey Clement is out there in free agency, Okay, okay, 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.640 I got two guys to play off and and but 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.560 when you look at the draft, Pollard's going into his 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.520 contract year and seeks where he is in his So 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.680 there is a need where you could you could draft 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.839 some running back. All right, offensive line, you've got Lyle 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:12.720 Collins who has gone tern Steele steps in. But that's 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.960 that roster spot is available there. Okay. At tackle, there's 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.200 a need at tackle. You need a third tack. Tye 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:23.200 Insecki is out there in free agency and leave him 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:28.480 out there. But still there's a there's a roster spot 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:34.280 right there that was had been filled Josh Ball. Okay, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.600 and you got the Josh Ball got you got the 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.160 Josh Ball roster spot. Then if you want to trickle 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.960 it down, okay. And then Connor Williams signed with Miami 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.560 and you haven't filled that spot yet. But if you 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.839 had to play tomorrow Connorman, you can. But you still 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:54.679 have three needs on the offensive line. There's three spots, right, 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.640 salary spots, however you want to term it, that are 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.520 available there. Okay, whether it's a free in free agency 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.040 and a veteran minimum guy or in the draft. What 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.400 about that center? What we doing sent and in center? 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.880 I mean that's not taking in to do account whether 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:16.600 you upgrade upgrade at a position that's a great point. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:21.280 You can play with Tyler Beatis. We're trying to improve 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:26.600 the team here. You can play with trying to lead 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.839 you down the path. Yea, all right, So there's your 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:37.080 openings on offense. So as far as the shopping list, okay, one, two, three, 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:41.480 four or five six, they're still seven spots available on offense. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.560 But you could still play them. You can still play point, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:50.120 you can play, which is an improvement from last Wednesday. Yeah, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.080 as you go forward, that's right, because they have signed 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.800 in the meantime since last Wednesday, they have signed James 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.800 Washington and Jeremy Sprinkle, and so they had nine openings 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.800 week ago. Now they're down to seven on offense. All right, 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.720 let's move to defense. And on the defensive line, one 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.760 of the decisions you made was under Marcus Lawrence, and 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:13.120 he redid his contract three year deal. Randy Gregory of 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.600 course left in free agency, didn't He wasn't doing anything 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.360 with his contract. Well, they want his contract to be touched. Well, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.080 people were acting like he was going to take a 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.600 pay cut. Okay, Well it seemed like he was acting 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.040 like he had to take a pick. No, they didn't 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:36.480 want to. They didn't want to pay him signing bonus 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.480 to reduce his base salary. What they did was they 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.800 gave him a new three year deal with all of 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.880 it guaranteed. Okay, he didn't have any more guarantees in 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:52.800 his contract. So he could play for nineteen million and 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.480 they could cut him at any point. Or you can 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:01.520 get a new three year deal with signing bonus and 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:06.000 it's all guaranteed. So you may have taken less money, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.320 but in the big picture, but you also got all 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:15.200 your money guaranteed. So to me, at his age, guarantee 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.840 is more important than what the total is for each 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.320 base salary. Well, at one point I heard him complaining 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:28.800 about maybe future consideration as far as dealing with this salary, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.600 tinkering with his salary. Now. People were suggesting he should 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.560 take a pay cut. Okay, and you know, as a player, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.160 if I got a contract, I'm not taking a pay 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.360 He was not feeling that. I mean, you got the 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.440 nerve to cut me, right, I'll take my chance. There 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.520 you go, I continue, William continue, This is like going 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:53.440 to the grocery store. We got a shopping list your wife. No, No, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.280 it's like going to the grocery store with my wife. Okay, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.480 And we've got this shopping list we're trying to and 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.120 then she sees a friend and we're gonna talk to 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:07.760 this friend for fifteen minutes, you know, instead of that 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:11.440 finished ever since my friend. I was right, But we're 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:17.680 trying to do business here. Shopping list. Yeah, this is 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.120 why I don't go to the grocery store. Not a gatherer. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.880 I'm a hunter, alright. Next on our shopping list, here 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.920 we go down the produce line. Now I think the 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:32.000 offense was the produce line, okay, all right, off the 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:39.560 meat line. Defensive the defensive line. All right, Mark, I'm 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.880 not even gonna say his name. Okay O, that one 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.400 we got, all right, we saw him. We said hie 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.760 to him for fifteen minutes. Randy Gregory's gone to Denver. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:53.240 Dorian's Armstrong is coming back two years, twelve million plus incentives, 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.960 million dollars incentives, second CENTI, Carlos Watkins is coming back 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.680 on a one year deal. And and still out there 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:06.840 is Brent Urban. So there were five openings. We filled. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:12.640 Lawrence Armstrong's filled, Watkins is filled Urban, still out there. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:18.200 And did Dante Fowler replace Randy Gregory in a rotation 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:22.640 with Armstrong. Yeah, there you go, and I'll say it again. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.880 And the draft is a month away because it's just 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.640 a one year deal for Fowler. I haven't seen the particulars. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.240 I don't see. I have not seen his show of Yeah, 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.200 but hey, so hey, if it's a one. We're walking 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.120 by the produce section. Yeah, okay, now we can discuss. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:43.920 I see you, and I'm wondering about, uh, not just Gregory. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.000 Uh but I was one then you made me forget Bill. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.560 It wasn't just Gregy we were dealing with on the 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:56.840 on the defensive line. I guess we'll just waving going 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:02.960 back with what I just want to say with Watkins 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:07.320 coming back right now, you've got Gallimore. You got two 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.080 guys gonna be placed Gregory at this point, two people 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.760 for one man at this point. At this point, well, 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.760 Armstrong was here, and you know Armstrong had five sacks 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.760 last year, Gregory had six. Uh ye had five sacks. Yes, 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.520 that's nice as a as a rotation, Yeah, yes, yeah, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:28.600 that's it's a rotation there. And um and you still 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.720 got Chauncey Golston. We'll see what he can do. Peppers. 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:34.440 That's what I was gonna ask you about. Ja will 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:42.919 is he doing anything? Pepper Cox, Jabal Cox. Well, we 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.000 haven't got the linebacker, all right, so we're going to 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:51.760 linebacker now. Okay, So they're still stals Okay, they're still 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.720 in the chip there. As far as vacancies on this 0:17:55.840 --> 0:18:00.159 shopping on the the twenty twenty one roster, there is 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.240 still one available there. But you can still I mean, 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.159 if you, as I said, you could play tomorrow, you 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.119 can play tomorrow. And if you if you like an 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.520 edge rusher in that draft, by all means, go get 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.120 that edge rusher. Okay. And so when not talking free 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.960 agency trying to get an edge rusher, well, we've done that. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.920 I think probably what they've done so far is about 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:25.720 something lands in their lap cheap, right. Yeah, they're probably done. Man. 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.560 You always got the wild card of the guy with 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:35.680 thirteen sacks last year who plays linebacker for you? Okay, 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:40.280 which brings us to the linebacker position, Layton vander esch On. Man, 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.399 if we're talking that, then let's go back to the 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.359 D line position. We are we gonna put him at 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.200 the edge? Are we gonna We're gonna put Micah he's 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.600 a linebacker, but yeah, he is a linebacker. But he's 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.560 also a football player. I thought that's what he said last. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.560 If you were looking for a guy to be a starter, Yeah, 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.800 he's not starting a defense event. He's okay, valuable where 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:03.960 they put him. Well, let's go on lineback and see 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.600 how flexible we can be then, and let's remember, okay, 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.440 and let's remember a lot of his sacks didn't come 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.280 from just lining up as a defensive end. Some of 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.639 them came from lining up as a linebacker. Yeah, but 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.480 he made a big difference sometimes just lining up at 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.840 defensive end and just creating all kinds of because teams 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.120 didn't know where he was going to be, right, right, 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.680 So let's go to lineback on me, see how we 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.840 can hide. If you tell me he's a sixty snap 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.200 defensive end a game, then they're gonna take him out. 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:38.159 They'll just take him out. So linebacker, they don't know 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.040 where he's going to beat. Well, let's go to lineback 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.000 and see how we can linebacker. When la vander esh 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.080 is back on a one year deal, Luke Gifford is back, 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:51.880 he was on a one year deal. Keanu'neil, who now 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.320 says he is a safety, but he was a linebacker. 0:19:55.400 --> 0:20:03.040 Here is out still out there, and yes, he's he's marketing, 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:07.160 marketing himself in every agency and safety and I think 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.479 that's a good move. And so, but there is that 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.120 spot that was spilled last year by Keyan O'Neill at 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:16.360 the linebacker as a linebacker in this defense, and so 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.920 it is available. Yeah, and j Brill Cox or Bill 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:26.639 Cox is Keyan O'Neill. They're hoping, yes, injury right right, Okay, Carney, 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:31.000 how's he doing well? He did it in I want 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.399 to say November, so it was halfway through the season. 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.359 But there is there is certainly a need for a 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:42.080 linebacker in the draft. Yes, So at this point when 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:48.240 you're trying to say hide uh Micah, and you're you're 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.240 going to sneak him on the defensive end line, you 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.800 know anywhere left, right doesn't really matter. I really don't 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.920 have that flexibility at the linebacker. And that's what I'm saying, 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.439 that's at this point, right, that's why you need if 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:04.920 you need something there, right, you need Okay, defensive backfield 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.880 safety jay Ron Curse is back on a two year, 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:12.879 ten million dollars. Safety Malik Hooker is back on a 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:17.000 two year, seven million dollar deal. Safety Demante CAZy is 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:21.520 still out there, and cornerback Maurice Kennedy is still out there. 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:28.640 So safety position Demante Casey, Yeah it wasn't. He ended 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.120 up to what you have at safety right now. You've 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:33.720 got Curse, you got Hooker, you got Donovan Wilson. Darren 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:37.119 Thompson's still on this team, right, yes, okay, and you 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:43.800 have mcclamo. That's right. Israel Israel Spookie from seventh round 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.000 drafting last year. But there is still a holy gone. 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.440 Then you have a chance with Javon right, and jay 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.160 Ron is sort of the flexible, he's the Michael Passons 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:59.879 of the second day, right and take over some of 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:05.119 the exactly so exactly once again, they could play tomorrow 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:09.040 with what they have at safety and cornerback. Because Kennedy 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:11.359 didn't do hardly and he was no he was on 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:14.439 ir almost or practice squad the whole year. He did 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:17.000 a lot in training camp and you'll hope, yes he did. 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:22.159 You'll hope Calvin Joseph, I'm ready to play football. And 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:24.879 that's that's the key right there, right, What is Joseph 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:26.600 gonna do? How is he going to play? Because if 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.840 he's the if he ends up being the fourth guy, 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:32.919 but he would be the backup at both starting spots 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:36.080 if he's not starting, and he could do that, and 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:40.199 they would probably mean Lewis could kind of back up 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.320 Jordan Lewis in the slot, but Anthony Brown could play 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:47.040 in the slot if Calvin Joseph had to play. That's 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:51.000 what I'm wondering. Love Lewis, I love him. Sometimes he 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:53.359 really disappoint me, but man, he came up last year. 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:56.960 He made some extremely important plays for us out of nowhere. 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.320 So as much as I like him, I think because 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:02.760 he's so just. I mean, I'm looking at Brown probably 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.800 taken over for him in the slot. And if Joseph 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:07.720 can come and play the way he's supposed to, we 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:10.200 get that two four back out there in that quarterback position. 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.000 So you get that is a very powerful You got 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:17.720 four second Still, what is for a second round draft pick? 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:20.600 And keep in mind the second round cornerback from the 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:23.879 year before had eleven picks his second year in the league. 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:28.480 At what point do you expect a second round cornerback 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:32.240 to be your starting cornerback in what year? If he 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:35.840 would career, I would give him the opportunity to challenge 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:39.200 for that. This year right now, Yeah, and we'll see 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:44.240 what happens because he had he always had something last year, 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:46.679 right and kind of pushed him back, which is what 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:49.800 he had in college too, right, And so you got 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:52.040 to find out can I trust him? Is he ready 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:54.960 to do this? You know? I think this trening camp 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:59.760 is going to be very important. And finally the special teams, yeah, 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:02.479 you can't. He got he used up all his misses, right, 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:07.040 Special teams unit. Long snapper Jake McQuaid is back on 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:11.240 a one year veteran minimum deal. Punter Brian Anger has 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:15.840 returned on a three year, nine million dollar contract he 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:19.119 high has paid punter in the National Football League. And 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:22.639 kicker Greg Zerline is gone. There's an opening at the 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:27.439 NIT kicker which there has been some whispers that they 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:30.240 could bring Zerline back on a one year deal for 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:33.760 far less money than they were paying him or he 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:36.199 was scheduled. He was scheduled to make over two million 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:39.159 dollars this year. So they're not going to draft a 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:42.800 place kicker for the first time since weekend a weekend. 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:47.800 I'm no, I'm not saying that they would. I'm not 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:50.480 against you. I just like that that little yeah, one year, 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:55.879 one year come out. You've got to compete for the 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:58.600