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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Hey, it's eleven thirty on Thursday, and
Speaker 1: it's time for another edition of mix Shots inside the
Speaker 1: s WBC podcast studio here at the Beautiful Star in Frisco.
Speaker 1: Any news yet today? Yes, sorta, sorta sort the news
Speaker 1: happens after mix Shots. No, it happens. We we we
Speaker 1: we we we are like a prerequisite we instigated. You go,
Speaker 1: oh my god when we finished, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. You know, now we can say it
Speaker 1: because there were a couple of things we brought up
Speaker 1: last week and it happened. The news happened right after
Speaker 1: we brought it up on this show. I think people
Speaker 1: are listening and they you know, that's a good idea, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: that people. People are listening. They and they hear the
Speaker 1: wisdom that comes out of this show and they say,
Speaker 1: you know what, that's a move we need to make.
Speaker 1: So they go so what happened last week? Last week?
Speaker 1: Last week? Come well, it was right after the show
Speaker 1: the Lyle Collins news came out that they decided to
Speaker 1: cut him. M that's right. And it didn't take long
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati to swipe them out, right, and then the
Speaker 1: next one's going to be better than the offensive lineman
Speaker 1: that we're giving up all those hits on bo oh yeah,
Speaker 1: might well come in. And they basically it was not
Speaker 1: too high. They basically paid him on a two year
Speaker 1: deal what he would have made with the Cowboys for
Speaker 1: this year and next year, okay. And then and Frank
Speaker 1: Pollock me, okay before well, we'll dive deeper into that, okay.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing was, I asked you, you know,
Speaker 1: there was no news about Layton vandersh and all right,
Speaker 1: you know, and I meant, asked you, what's going on
Speaker 1: with Laton Vanderish? We talked about late Vanderish, and sure enough,
Speaker 1: within twenty four hours, Late Vanderish was some recent signed
Speaker 1: a one year, two million dollars deal. Yep, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: about that one about you, yeah somewhat, But I bet
Speaker 1: I bet what took place with him is he wasn't
Speaker 1: getting like a long term deal that he thought he
Speaker 1: should get. So it's like, okay, one year deal, let
Speaker 1: me go back and kind of have a prove it
Speaker 1: year and see what I can turn that into. Because
Speaker 1: now he's going to get a chance to play, right,
Speaker 1: sitting him behind Jalen Smith, give me a break, right,
Speaker 1: And they did all these other things, and then finally
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, we got to play this guy. And
Speaker 1: to me, after that he started gaining confidence and towards
Speaker 1: the end of the season started playing better and prove
Speaker 1: that he can do another season without getting hurt. Yeah exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now that did help, I mean, but but also the
Speaker 1: restriction of his plays, the number of plays I think
Speaker 1: he helped. Also with him now reinjuring himself, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he can play passing downs. You
Speaker 1: don't know if nicol And that's just into the next one. Oh,
Speaker 1: there are reports that are the Cowboys are going to
Speaker 1: bring in Brian Schottenheimer as a offensive or a consultant
Speaker 1: from the past. Yeah, take Ben McInnis. Shot by my
Speaker 1: name brings back some memories and of course the Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy Schottenheimer relationship goes back nearly thirty years to San Francisco,
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Kansas City. That's right. McCarthy was on Marty
Speaker 1: Schottenheimer's staff in Kansas City, and I was trying to
Speaker 1: I was trying to track it down and I forgot.
Speaker 1: I was thinking head coach. I forgot about his when
Speaker 1: he McCarthy was at pitt in there. I have to
Speaker 1: look it up by he was at pitt I know
Speaker 1: McCarthy was at pitt then it was at Kansas City
Speaker 1: early nineties. I'm trying to remember if schotten if there
Speaker 1: is a Schottenheimer connection at University of Pittsburgh too, but
Speaker 1: but at Kansas City with the chiefs. He was under
Speaker 1: Schottenheimer for several years. And that's not a new position
Speaker 1: that they're filling a position. Yeah, Ben mcindood last year
Speaker 1: because mcindoo was in the same spot and he got
Speaker 1: hired as the offensive coordinator in Carolina. It's kind of
Speaker 1: the NFL is doing what college is a Saban's been
Speaker 1: doing at Alabama for several years now, which is a
Speaker 1: whether it's an offensive coordinator or a head coach, he's
Speaker 1: out of work right now. You bring them on, and
Speaker 1: at the college level, they bring them on as they
Speaker 1: call him an analyst for a season and then they
Speaker 1: get a job somewhere else the next year. And I
Speaker 1: saw that in basketball, Um, and I didn't know it.
Speaker 1: Larry Brown, Larry Brown's at Memphis, yea with Penny Hardaway.
Speaker 1: Penny Hardaway. I saw him sitting on the bench ready
Speaker 1: for his next doing there, getting ready for his next job.
Speaker 1: At nine. Hey, I think you do a pretty good job.
Speaker 1: He did a pretty good job at Memphis. I mean
Speaker 1: he had one point. I saw him get up off
Speaker 1: the bench and he was running onto the court. You know,
Speaker 1: the job Larry Brown, who doesn't Matt Wherever he's been,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the talent level seems to rise.
Speaker 1: You mean he's a good recruiter. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1: In fact, you go back with something. How can he
Speaker 1: recruit he's ninety years old? How can he recruit who
Speaker 1: remembers him? I mean he must go in there and
Speaker 1: just really be a sweet person. Yeah, he brings in
Speaker 1: a satchel. Bill didn't want to say it. Bill was
Speaker 1: just like one step. Since we're into comedy. So the
Speaker 1: Cowboys since we last talked have been busy bees the
Speaker 1: NFL getting things done. Yes, are you excited about these moves. Well,
Speaker 1: let's put it this way. I remember on Friday, so
Speaker 1: I'm writing, it's a little bit afternoon, one o'clock and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there going, well, we got to look at
Speaker 1: all the holes they have on this roster, like if
Speaker 1: they had to play tomorrow, you know who's playing here,
Speaker 1: who's playing there, who's playing there? In one moment. Please,
Speaker 1: if you'd like a guideline on that, go to my
Speaker 1: Twitter account. I'm tracking for the openings, okay, and CBS
Speaker 1: eleven Bill Jones, go ahead, man, now yesterday yesterday when
Speaker 1: I had to write again, it was like six days
Speaker 1: later and they about filled in all at least somebody
Speaker 1: that could go out on the field and play. So
Speaker 1: if you would like to go through I'd love to.
Speaker 1: I've called it up on my Twitter at CBS eleven
Speaker 1: Bill Jones saying we can go through it. The twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two Dallas Cowboys shopping list. All right, so we'll
Speaker 1: meet to start. You want to go go ahead? All right,
Speaker 1: let's start on offense. You want to go start on
Speaker 1: offense and start on off at the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: They traded Amari Cooper. Have they replaced him? Yet they
Speaker 1: have not replaced him, but they've got a veteran body. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: hold on a second. We got all right, I'm going
Speaker 1: to let me go through the fourth position. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go buy position, and we're not going to do individually.
Speaker 1: But the four guys that they had to make decisions
Speaker 1: on at the wide receiver position, you got Amari Cooper,
Speaker 1: they traded away Michael Gallup, they resigned for five years
Speaker 1: at fifty seven point five million, plus. Cedric Wilson went
Speaker 1: to Miami for three years twenty two million, and then
Speaker 1: Malik Turner, who's still out there in free agency. There's
Speaker 1: and Noah Brown. And Noah Brown they brought back. So
Speaker 1: there's your five wide receivers on a one year deal.
Speaker 1: So they, in my opinion, they replace Cedric Wilson with
Speaker 1: James Washington. Yes, and that, and you still have the
Speaker 1: Amari Coopers. James Washington a little bit more credit than that.
Speaker 1: CD Lamb is gonna have to replace Amari Cooper. But
Speaker 1: still there's room at the end. There there's one spot
Speaker 1: that you can't count on Michael Gallup being ready to
Speaker 1: start the season. That's right right. So to me, you've
Speaker 1: got Cede Lamb, James Washington, and the draft is coming up,
Speaker 1: and and and even you. Yeah, but I mean he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to play, but not as my third guy,
Speaker 1: but he's still gonna have to play. Yeah, yeah, I get.
Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna have to play significant plays considering
Speaker 1: the fact that they don't have anybody else. Am I right?
Speaker 1: Am I missing this? Well? That's why I mentioned the draft,
Speaker 1: which I have another have a fifth round. And there's
Speaker 1: another one question. They haven't. They haven't. He hasn't gotten
Speaker 1: You could you could go out and play a game tomorrow, right,
Speaker 1: but it's it's okay, third the third wide receiver. If
Speaker 1: Gallup is not ready, and we don't think he will be,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of up in the air. You could
Speaker 1: put somebody out there, Fjjoko Brown. But what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about is more so than even just this season. You've
Speaker 1: got that position, the Amari Cooper position, and yeah, ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 1: Or the expectation is he's a first round pick, he
Speaker 1: moves up into the number one hole. Okay, that Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper spot is something that has to be filled, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be filled in the drafted right exactly next position, Okay,
Speaker 1: tight end Dalton Schultz, franchise tag Blake Jarwin out there
Speaker 1: in free agency, gone, Jeremy, Jeremy free thing. That's an
Speaker 1: inter But still, I mean, when you look at the
Speaker 1: roster and what was allotted for position you got last year,
Speaker 1: there's a room at the end at tight end, and
Speaker 1: Jeremy Sprinkle comes back on a one year deal veteran benefit, right,
Speaker 1: and so you have that title and you got McEwan.
Speaker 1: But he's a he's he's I'm not going through the end.
Speaker 1: What I know we're we're going through is who's who's leaving.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying you could play tomorrow with But you
Speaker 1: still have the Jarwin position that was right, that needs
Speaker 1: to be filled and whether it's your third tight end,
Speaker 1: your second tight end, and again we're looking at the draft.
Speaker 1: That's right there, you go, there's the draft, and especially
Speaker 1: when you consider the fact right now anyway, Schultz is
Speaker 1: only on a one year franchise to dad, they gotta
Speaker 1: fix that, yeah, and they likely will. All right. Running
Speaker 1: Back Corey Clement is out there in free agency, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I got two guys to play off and and but
Speaker 1: when you look at the draft, Pollard's going into his
Speaker 1: contract year and seeks where he is in his So
Speaker 1: there is a need where you could you could draft
Speaker 1: some running back. All right, offensive line, you've got Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins who has gone tern Steele steps in. But that's
Speaker 1: that roster spot is available there. Okay. At tackle, there's
Speaker 1: a need at tackle. You need a third tack. Tye
Speaker 1: Insecki is out there in free agency and leave him
Speaker 1: out there. But still there's a there's a roster spot
Speaker 1: right there that was had been filled Josh Ball. Okay,
Speaker 1: and you got the Josh Ball got you got the
Speaker 1: Josh Ball roster spot. Then if you want to trickle
Speaker 1: it down, okay. And then Connor Williams signed with Miami
Speaker 1: and you haven't filled that spot yet. But if you
Speaker 1: had to play tomorrow Connorman, you can. But you still
Speaker 1: have three needs on the offensive line. There's three spots, right,
Speaker 1: salary spots, however you want to term it, that are
Speaker 1: available there. Okay, whether it's a free in free agency
Speaker 1: and a veteran minimum guy or in the draft. What
Speaker 1: about that center? What we doing sent and in center?
Speaker 1: I mean that's not taking in to do account whether
Speaker 1: you upgrade upgrade at a position that's a great point.
Speaker 1: You can play with Tyler Beatis. We're trying to improve
Speaker 1: the team here. You can play with trying to lead
Speaker 1: you down the path. Yea, all right, So there's your
Speaker 1: openings on offense. So as far as the shopping list, okay, one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four or five six, they're still seven spots available on offense.
Speaker 1: But you could still play them. You can still play point,
Speaker 1: you can play, which is an improvement from last Wednesday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as you go forward, that's right, because they have signed
Speaker 1: in the meantime since last Wednesday, they have signed James
Speaker 1: Washington and Jeremy Sprinkle, and so they had nine openings
Speaker 1: week ago. Now they're down to seven on offense. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move to defense. And on the defensive line, one
Speaker 1: of the decisions you made was under Marcus Lawrence, and
Speaker 1: he redid his contract three year deal. Randy Gregory of
Speaker 1: course left in free agency, didn't He wasn't doing anything
Speaker 1: with his contract. Well, they want his contract to be touched. Well,
Speaker 1: people were acting like he was going to take a
Speaker 1: pay cut. Okay, Well it seemed like he was acting
Speaker 1: like he had to take a pick. No, they didn't
Speaker 1: want to. They didn't want to pay him signing bonus
Speaker 1: to reduce his base salary. What they did was they
Speaker 1: gave him a new three year deal with all of
Speaker 1: it guaranteed. Okay, he didn't have any more guarantees in
Speaker 1: his contract. So he could play for nineteen million and
Speaker 1: they could cut him at any point. Or you can
Speaker 1: get a new three year deal with signing bonus and
Speaker 1: it's all guaranteed. So you may have taken less money,
Speaker 1: but in the big picture, but you also got all
Speaker 1: your money guaranteed. So to me, at his age, guarantee
Speaker 1: is more important than what the total is for each
Speaker 1: base salary. Well, at one point I heard him complaining
Speaker 1: about maybe future consideration as far as dealing with this salary,
Speaker 1: tinkering with his salary. Now. People were suggesting he should
Speaker 1: take a pay cut. Okay, and you know, as a player,
Speaker 1: if I got a contract, I'm not taking a pay
Speaker 1: He was not feeling that. I mean, you got the
Speaker 1: nerve to cut me, right, I'll take my chance. There
Speaker 1: you go, I continue, William continue, This is like going
Speaker 1: to the grocery store. We got a shopping list your wife. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's like going to the grocery store with my wife. Okay,
Speaker 1: And we've got this shopping list we're trying to and
Speaker 1: then she sees a friend and we're gonna talk to
Speaker 1: this friend for fifteen minutes, you know, instead of that
Speaker 1: finished ever since my friend. I was right, But we're
Speaker 1: trying to do business here. Shopping list. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: why I don't go to the grocery store. Not a gatherer.
Speaker 1: I'm a hunter, alright. Next on our shopping list, here
Speaker 1: we go down the produce line. Now I think the
Speaker 1: offense was the produce line, okay, all right, off the
Speaker 1: meat line. Defensive the defensive line. All right, Mark, I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna say his name. Okay O, that one
Speaker 1: we got, all right, we saw him. We said hie
Speaker 1: to him for fifteen minutes. Randy Gregory's gone to Denver.
Speaker 1: Dorian's Armstrong is coming back two years, twelve million plus incentives,
Speaker 1: million dollars incentives, second CENTI, Carlos Watkins is coming back
Speaker 1: on a one year deal. And and still out there
Speaker 1: is Brent Urban. So there were five openings. We filled.
Speaker 1: Lawrence Armstrong's filled, Watkins is filled Urban, still out there.
Speaker 1: And did Dante Fowler replace Randy Gregory in a rotation
Speaker 1: with Armstrong. Yeah, there you go, and I'll say it again.
Speaker 1: And the draft is a month away because it's just
Speaker 1: a one year deal for Fowler. I haven't seen the particulars.
Speaker 1: I don't see. I have not seen his show of Yeah,
Speaker 1: but hey, so hey, if it's a one. We're walking
Speaker 1: by the produce section. Yeah, okay, now we can discuss.
Speaker 1: I see you, and I'm wondering about, uh, not just Gregory.
Speaker 1: Uh but I was one then you made me forget Bill.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just Gregy we were dealing with on the
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. I guess we'll just waving going
Speaker 1: back with what I just want to say with Watkins
Speaker 1: coming back right now, you've got Gallimore. You got two
Speaker 1: guys gonna be placed Gregory at this point, two people
Speaker 1: for one man at this point. At this point, well,
Speaker 1: Armstrong was here, and you know Armstrong had five sacks
Speaker 1: last year, Gregory had six. Uh ye had five sacks. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's nice as a as a rotation, Yeah, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it's a rotation there. And um and you still
Speaker 1: got Chauncey Golston. We'll see what he can do. Peppers.
Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna ask you about. Ja will
Speaker 1: is he doing anything? Pepper Cox, Jabal Cox. Well, we
Speaker 1: haven't got the linebacker, all right, so we're going to
Speaker 1: linebacker now. Okay, So they're still stals Okay, they're still
Speaker 1: in the chip there. As far as vacancies on this
Speaker 1: shopping on the the twenty twenty one roster, there is
Speaker 1: still one available there. But you can still I mean,
Speaker 1: if you, as I said, you could play tomorrow, you
Speaker 1: can play tomorrow. And if you if you like an
Speaker 1: edge rusher in that draft, by all means, go get
Speaker 1: that edge rusher. Okay. And so when not talking free
Speaker 1: agency trying to get an edge rusher, well, we've done that.
Speaker 1: I think probably what they've done so far is about
Speaker 1: something lands in their lap cheap, right. Yeah, they're probably done. Man.
Speaker 1: You always got the wild card of the guy with
Speaker 1: thirteen sacks last year who plays linebacker for you? Okay,
Speaker 1: which brings us to the linebacker position, Layton vander esch On. Man,
Speaker 1: if we're talking that, then let's go back to the
Speaker 1: D line position. We are we gonna put him at
Speaker 1: the edge? Are we gonna We're gonna put Micah he's
Speaker 1: a linebacker, but yeah, he is a linebacker. But he's
Speaker 1: also a football player. I thought that's what he said last.
Speaker 1: If you were looking for a guy to be a starter, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not starting a defense event. He's okay, valuable where
Speaker 1: they put him. Well, let's go on lineback and see
Speaker 1: how flexible we can be then, and let's remember, okay,
Speaker 1: and let's remember a lot of his sacks didn't come
Speaker 1: from just lining up as a defensive end. Some of
Speaker 1: them came from lining up as a linebacker. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: he made a big difference sometimes just lining up at
Speaker 1: defensive end and just creating all kinds of because teams
Speaker 1: didn't know where he was going to be, right, right,
Speaker 1: So let's go to lineback on me, see how we
Speaker 1: can hide. If you tell me he's a sixty snap
Speaker 1: defensive end a game, then they're gonna take him out.
Speaker 1: They'll just take him out. So linebacker, they don't know
Speaker 1: where he's going to beat. Well, let's go to lineback
Speaker 1: and see how we can linebacker. When la vander esh
Speaker 1: is back on a one year deal, Luke Gifford is back,
Speaker 1: he was on a one year deal. Keanu'neil, who now
Speaker 1: says he is a safety, but he was a linebacker.
Speaker 1: Here is out still out there, and yes, he's he's marketing,
Speaker 1: marketing himself in every agency and safety and I think
Speaker 1: that's a good move. And so, but there is that
Speaker 1: spot that was spilled last year by Keyan O'Neill at
Speaker 1: the linebacker as a linebacker in this defense, and so
Speaker 1: it is available. Yeah, and j Brill Cox or Bill
Speaker 1: Cox is Keyan O'Neill. They're hoping, yes, injury right right, Okay, Carney,
Speaker 1: how's he doing well? He did it in I want
Speaker 1: to say November, so it was halfway through the season.
Speaker 1: But there is there is certainly a need for a
Speaker 1: linebacker in the draft. Yes, So at this point when
Speaker 1: you're trying to say hide uh Micah, and you're you're
Speaker 1: going to sneak him on the defensive end line, you
Speaker 1: know anywhere left, right doesn't really matter. I really don't
Speaker 1: have that flexibility at the linebacker. And that's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: that's at this point, right, that's why you need if
Speaker 1: you need something there, right, you need Okay, defensive backfield
Speaker 1: safety jay Ron Curse is back on a two year,
Speaker 1: ten million dollars. Safety Malik Hooker is back on a
Speaker 1: two year, seven million dollar deal. Safety Demante CAZy is
Speaker 1: still out there, and cornerback Maurice Kennedy is still out there.
Speaker 1: So safety position Demante Casey, Yeah it wasn't. He ended
Speaker 1: up to what you have at safety right now. You've
Speaker 1: got Curse, you got Hooker, you got Donovan Wilson. Darren
Speaker 1: Thompson's still on this team, right, yes, okay, and you
Speaker 1: have mcclamo. That's right. Israel Israel Spookie from seventh round
Speaker 1: drafting last year. But there is still a holy gone.
Speaker 1: Then you have a chance with Javon right, and jay
Speaker 1: Ron is sort of the flexible, he's the Michael Passons
Speaker 1: of the second day, right and take over some of
Speaker 1: the exactly so exactly once again, they could play tomorrow
Speaker 1: with what they have at safety and cornerback. Because Kennedy
Speaker 1: didn't do hardly and he was no he was on
Speaker 1: ir almost or practice squad the whole year. He did
Speaker 1: a lot in training camp and you'll hope, yes he did.
Speaker 1: You'll hope Calvin Joseph, I'm ready to play football. And
Speaker 1: that's that's the key right there, right, What is Joseph
Speaker 1: gonna do? How is he going to play? Because if
Speaker 1: he's the if he ends up being the fourth guy,
Speaker 1: but he would be the backup at both starting spots
Speaker 1: if he's not starting, and he could do that, and
Speaker 1: they would probably mean Lewis could kind of back up
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis in the slot, but Anthony Brown could play
Speaker 1: in the slot if Calvin Joseph had to play. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm wondering. Love Lewis, I love him. Sometimes he
Speaker 1: really disappoint me, but man, he came up last year.
Speaker 1: He made some extremely important plays for us out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: So as much as I like him, I think because
Speaker 1: he's so just. I mean, I'm looking at Brown probably
Speaker 1: taken over for him in the slot. And if Joseph
Speaker 1: can come and play the way he's supposed to, we
Speaker 1: get that two four back out there in that quarterback position.
Speaker 1: So you get that is a very powerful You got
Speaker 1: four second Still, what is for a second round draft pick?
Speaker 1: And keep in mind the second round cornerback from the
Speaker 1: year before had eleven picks his second year in the league.
Speaker 1: At what point do you expect a second round cornerback
Speaker 1: to be your starting cornerback in what year? If he
Speaker 1: would career, I would give him the opportunity to challenge
Speaker 1: for that. This year right now, Yeah, and we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens because he had he always had something last year,
Speaker 1: right and kind of pushed him back, which is what
Speaker 1: he had in college too, right, And so you got
Speaker 1: to find out can I trust him? Is he ready
Speaker 1: to do this? You know? I think this trening camp
Speaker 1: is going to be very important. And finally the special teams, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't. He got he used up all his misses, right,
Speaker 1: Special teams unit. Long snapper Jake McQuaid is back on
Speaker 1: a one year veteran minimum deal. Punter Brian Anger has
Speaker 1: returned on a three year, nine million dollar contract he
Speaker 1: high has paid punter in the National Football League. And
Speaker 1: kicker Greg Zerline is gone. There's an opening at the
Speaker 1: NIT kicker which there has been some whispers that they
Speaker 1: could bring Zerline back on a one year deal for
Speaker 1: far less money than they were paying him or he
Speaker 1: was scheduled. He was scheduled to make over two million
Speaker 1: dollars this year. So they're not going to draft a
Speaker 1: place kicker for the first time since weekend a weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm no, I'm not saying that they would. I'm not
Speaker 1: against you. I just like that that little yeah, one year,
Speaker 1: one year come out. You've got to compete for the
Speaker 1: job this year, not handed to him like they did
Speaker 1: last year. That wouldn't give him another shot. I really wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had this shot last year. He didn't
Speaker 1: cry out very well at all. As far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: a team with the par we even considering him. Why
Speaker 1: would you bring back a bad kicker just because you
Speaker 1: pay him less, just to happen with a team with
Speaker 1: a team that has four fifth round draft picks, Think
Speaker 1: about drafting a kicker with one of those fifth round
Speaker 1: draft picks, two compensatory picks, nine one one trade? Yep?
Speaker 1: Why not? So there you go if there's one worth it. Ye. So,
Speaker 1: But having spoken about that list, do you want to
Speaker 1: tease this forward since we're twenty six minutes into this, Yes,
Speaker 1: because I've got I've got another question to ask. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: spit out your thought. There was a thought you had
Speaker 1: there that's going to be our tease. Wednesday night. Wednesday night,
Speaker 1: it was Wednesday night, it was late NFL network was
Speaker 1: replace in Cowboys New England game, and so I started
Speaker 1: watching it parts and three things stuck out to me
Speaker 1: in that game, And we're gonna hear about them next
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Speaker 1: all right. You also have a point you would like
Speaker 1: to make from the Cowboys Patriots game that you reviewed
Speaker 1: the other night. In fact, there are three points that
Speaker 1: kind of was their high point of the season, right,
Speaker 1: That's what we talked about last week that Everson asked,
Speaker 1: what was the high point of the season. I threw
Speaker 1: out the touchdown pass to Cede Lamb to win that game,
Speaker 1: and then there went back off the field. You know what.
Speaker 1: I watched it real closely. He didn't move around much
Speaker 1: after that throw. He was kind of everybody was celebrating.
Speaker 1: He was kind of standing still. Yeah yeah, okay, So
Speaker 1: that was my third point on just how good Cede
Speaker 1: Lamb can be. You know, we we we talked about
Speaker 1: filling in for Amari Cooper, and they relied on Cooper
Speaker 1: in that game to move the change and then he
Speaker 1: makes that big play. So can he be that consistent
Speaker 1: over the entire game and not just flash, but it
Speaker 1: was that we're going to have to consistently go to him.
Speaker 1: And it reminded me that that they had lined up
Speaker 1: in a similar situation and Tony Romo basically pointed out that, Okay,
Speaker 1: when that guy comes out of the slot, this is
Speaker 1: going to be a touchdown. And then they called time
Speaker 1: out and then they ran the same formation but a
Speaker 1: different play, but off the snap, CD had his yea
Speaker 1: and yes he was and he was wait what was
Speaker 1: he doing outside? Right outside? The second thing Brandy Gregory's
Speaker 1: sack fumble recovered, he came off the left side and
Speaker 1: he smoked that right tackle, and it reminded me of
Speaker 1: just how good he is, how fast, how fast and
Speaker 1: and and how how just brilliant, uh he can play.
Speaker 1: It was his precious right and and that's what people
Speaker 1: keep pointing out. While he only had six and a
Speaker 1: half sacks, well look at his pressures, I bet it
Speaker 1: was thirty. He caused other sacks right yeah, and he
Speaker 1: helped other people out. So those things, uh, really stuck
Speaker 1: out to me in that game. Gregory was credited. It's
Speaker 1: from the NFL statue with seventeen seventeen one quarterback hurries
Speaker 1: hurries the Cowboys they have their own, have their own,
Speaker 1: and Gregory's line was six sacks, one tackle for a loss,
Speaker 1: thirty quarterback pressures thirty thirty by the Cowboys and staff,
Speaker 1: which usually they review the tape NFL things come from
Speaker 1: the game. The one thing about the NFL, it's it's
Speaker 1: across the board in the league where you've got the
Speaker 1: same standard across the league, right, and generally the tackles
Speaker 1: on the NFL stats are much higher than what the
Speaker 1: coaches do all out. So and just the the other
Speaker 1: thing was Zerline, right, he tied the game to send
Speaker 1: it into overtime, but he asked it a chance earlier
Speaker 1: to kick that field goal and just shanked it, just miserably.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there going no wonder. At times during games,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, don't let this game down to a
Speaker 1: field goal. And you shouldn't have that thought with your kicker, right.
Speaker 1: So your point about the fifth round kicker, if there's
Speaker 1: one there, and there's a couple kickers in this draft,
Speaker 1: I think that might be worth it. Yeah, But if
Speaker 1: they're worth it, most likely teams don't wait till the
Speaker 1: fifth Well, yeah, I think that's it. I think that's
Speaker 1: the sweet spot. I think that's unless it's Janikowski, who
Speaker 1: was a first round right there. No more Janikowski's out there.
Speaker 1: But I think that's kind of the sweet spot. It's
Speaker 1: about about the you know, middle of the third day. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: having having said all this, the Cowboys are at twenty
Speaker 1: four in the first round, and say everything's equal, like talent,
Speaker 1: what position the offensive line do you want with the
Speaker 1: twenty fourth pick in the first and knowing you can
Speaker 1: still do stuff in the second and third, you want
Speaker 1: a guard. I don't know what I want, but I
Speaker 1: wanted alignment that's going to give my quarterback more time
Speaker 1: to throw and give my receiver it's more time to
Speaker 1: get open. Because the problem we had last year down
Speaker 1: the stretch, a lot of injuries. Offensive lineman not in
Speaker 1: They weren't in in Unison at all. And every time
Speaker 1: you up your quarterbacks getting set with four people rushing
Speaker 1: with a four man rush. That is what I saw.
Speaker 1: Our running back can't run the ball and we can't
Speaker 1: throw the ball because of a four man rush. That's
Speaker 1: what I would call. So if I take an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman there, I don't want a true guard. I want
Speaker 1: to tackle that can play guard and eventually end up
Speaker 1: at tackle. I want Flozal Adams or Solomon Page, Kevin
Speaker 1: Gogan if we want to go way back right, Kagan.
Speaker 1: So you're not interested in the guard that Joe Philbin
Speaker 1: was looking at this week down in college station, Kenyon Green?
Speaker 1: Not at not at twenty four? Can I get a
Speaker 1: guard in the second round? Does it have to be
Speaker 1: a first round guy be a good guard? So where
Speaker 1: it can't be a good guard at twenty four? How
Speaker 1: about Zack Martin at twenty four? Well, yeah, as he
Speaker 1: turned out to be a pro bowler, right, yeah, if
Speaker 1: they I'll just throw Kenyon Green out there. If they
Speaker 1: grade him on the same or close to the same
Speaker 1: level as Zach Martin, who was around the fourteenth fifteenth
Speaker 1: pick whatever he was, he was sixteen sixteenth pick. If
Speaker 1: they would grade him close to that, are you willing
Speaker 1: to take the guard Kenyon Green at twenty four? I would.
Speaker 1: I would consider it. But my point was, what if
Speaker 1: they graded another position equally to that guard? Now, which
Speaker 1: one's more beneficial to me? All right, let's put it
Speaker 1: this way. How about this, because Ceedee Lamb was a
Speaker 1: seventeenth pick, right, and the Cowboys have a need at
Speaker 1: wide receiver too. Ye, all right, this is the debate
Speaker 1: I'm sending to you. I can give you an argument
Speaker 1: for a tackle guard arguments, thank you, just because you
Speaker 1: like to tackle guard. All right, Let's just put it
Speaker 1: this wide receiver, defensive end, linebacker. All right, which of
Speaker 1: those four put it back? Let's put it back in
Speaker 1: Cowboys history. Yet, number twenty four you have, We're all
Speaker 1: in agreement. Zack Martin's going to be in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame something, right, Okay, Michael Irvin's in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. Okay, you have a choice of Michael Irvin
Speaker 1: or Zack Martin at number twenty four? Who you taking?
Speaker 1: I'm taking the wide receiver just because I think it's
Speaker 1: a more valuable possession at any point, We'll say twenty four,
Speaker 1: because that's where the Cowboys are pick. Can't have a
Speaker 1: first round pick at every spot on the offensive line
Speaker 1: you want, but you want wanted the wide receiver on
Speaker 1: this team. You want the first round and wide receiver.
Speaker 1: That No, that was my question. If it's an offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, a defensive end. We talked about all
Speaker 1: the things they still need, and a linebacker. Right between
Speaker 1: those four from a financial and UH value and the
Speaker 1: impact it has on your team, which of those would
Speaker 1: you rather have? If all four from a from a
Speaker 1: grading period, they're all the same tas wide receiver, offensive line,
Speaker 1: and what defensive end and linebacker? Okay, because there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some linebackers out there that are awfully good at
Speaker 1: that spot in the draft. What's your pick bill depends
Speaker 1: on the player. There's some intangibles that players have that
Speaker 1: that I think put them over the top. But everything's equal,
Speaker 1: I know. So which position would you value the most?
Speaker 1: I'll say okay? And I think you also take into
Speaker 1: account where can you find how deep right are certain positions? Okay?
Speaker 1: And I think at the wide receiver position you can
Speaker 1: find other wide receivers who are really can play to
Speaker 1: a pro bowl level. Okay, given the opportunity in a
Speaker 1: second or even third round, it's very hard to find
Speaker 1: an offensive tackle. Now that an offensive tackle of that
Speaker 1: ILK is usually not going to be available at number
Speaker 1: twenty four, and edge rusher at that ILK is not
Speaker 1: going to be available at twenty four usually, but I
Speaker 1: would take my priorities would be an edge rusher. And
Speaker 1: I agree with you number one on the defensive end, yea,
Speaker 1: because you've got the other defensive end right now is
Speaker 1: one guy's on a one year deal, one guy's on
Speaker 1: a two year deal and has never started full time
Speaker 1: in the league. And when I saw in that game
Speaker 1: what Gregory did, I was like, oh, that's different. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the defensive end you know, is
Speaker 1: worthy yet that pick. And I'm just saying, if all
Speaker 1: positions are the same, can I find a guard in
Speaker 1: the second round? Can you find the guard get can
Speaker 1: block in the second round? Yes, you can find what
Speaker 1: you won in the second round if you found one
Speaker 1: four years ago. Connor Williams and played well except for
Speaker 1: his holding out. Sorry, killing me here here, killing me here, guys. Hey,
Speaker 1: that quarterback played well and not for the intersection you
Speaker 1: any type of credibility had stop. Well, that's why they
Speaker 1: beached them. Yeah, and then they put them back in
Speaker 1: there because they realized he was playing better than the
Speaker 1: other guy. And that's why we need an offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Twenty four can't have a first round pick at every spot.
Speaker 1: On the office. I get that, I get that, But
Speaker 1: you got business. Do you realize when the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: winning Super Bowls, they didn't hold on, hold on, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on how many Let's for not this year, but
Speaker 1: next year, the year after, in the year after you
Speaker 1: when you drafted first round or you're drafting him for
Speaker 1: five years? I got you. So in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, how many first round
Speaker 1: draft picks are on that offensive line? Well, then you
Speaker 1: can do it. But right now, well, you've got a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer at guard, first round pick. What Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith do his first year in the league. He was
Speaker 1: pretty good, wasn't he What position? Did he play? Right tackle?
Speaker 1: Right tackle? But not left That's right, he wasn't a
Speaker 1: left tackle. Even Tyrn Smith played right tackle first before
Speaker 1: he went to left tackle exactly. So if you want
Speaker 1: someone that is going to eventually replace Tyrn Smith at
Speaker 1: left tackle, it might he might be a guard first,
Speaker 1: and then he becomes a left tackle once Tyrn retires. Okay,
Speaker 1: but but my point is, yes, you have right now
Speaker 1: you have a thirty year old first round draft pick
Speaker 1: at right guard, and you have a thirty year old
Speaker 1: first round pick at left tackle. How many other first
Speaker 1: round picks do you have on that offensive line? Well,
Speaker 1: how many first round picks do you have on your
Speaker 1: defensive line? Well, I'm just saying, we're talking offensive line,
Speaker 1: but no, don't see you were you were saying. But
Speaker 1: what you were saying is you can have too many.
Speaker 1: You can't. I can't have all first round draft picks
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. My point is you've got two
Speaker 1: thirty year old first round draft picks, and beyond that,
Speaker 1: you have no other first round draft picks on In fact,
Speaker 1: you have an undrafted right tackle, you have a fourth
Speaker 1: round pick at center, and you don't and you got
Speaker 1: a third round pick Connor m a government guard. The
Speaker 1: way the team is okay, and put to what do
Speaker 1: you and what do you have at defensive end? That
Speaker 1: I agree? I mean they're in the same boat, right,
Speaker 1: both spots, That's right. So that's why I have a
Speaker 1: thirty year old defensive end and Nebarcus Lawrence turns thirty
Speaker 1: next month. And you have Dorin's Armstrong who was a
Speaker 1: fourth round draft pick, and you have a Dante Fowler's
Speaker 1: actually I think twenty eight, but he's not a one
Speaker 1: year deal, former first round right former first round third
Speaker 1: pick in the draft, and then inside you've got third
Speaker 1: round picks and agents. That's right, So a guard attack stands,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, that's fine. That's why I asked, what
Speaker 1: did you say? He's my pick? Still stands? I want
Speaker 1: that guard. I want that guard man. I gotta have
Speaker 1: a lineman. I mean that was I probably, Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think at twenty four it's the best offensive lineman you
Speaker 1: can find. By the way, that that the offensive lineman
Speaker 1: at A and M. He's played four different positions in
Speaker 1: college now he but he looks like center one of
Speaker 1: those I figured out. Don't give me left and right,
Speaker 1: left and right? All right, Well see, and that's that's
Speaker 1: the dilemma they're gonna face, right that they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to answer that question. So and again my point was,
Speaker 1: the talent is the same, which position do you value more?
Speaker 1: He valued the guard. I valued the defensive end. And
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be bad at him in the second round
Speaker 1: taking a wide receiver. I don't you know, we just
Speaker 1: assume guys recover from acls right, and they're the same player.
Speaker 1: What if I've got I've got no, I'm taking a
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the first round. If he's right, he's
Speaker 1: that good, I know. And I've been looking at some
Speaker 1: of these wide receivers in this draft, and I really
Speaker 1: like many of these wide receivers. I mean, you guys
Speaker 1: realizing when they were winning Super Bowls. The highest drafted
Speaker 1: offensive lineman was Larry Allen in the second round and
Speaker 1: he didn't get there till ninety four. The rest of
Speaker 1: them were just guys that they turned into players. That's
Speaker 1: why a guy like Terrence Steele that really has to
Speaker 1: come through for him, because you can't have top draft
Speaker 1: choices all across the line. You got to develop somebody.
Speaker 1: And obviously they must have some confidence in him because
Speaker 1: they didn't just let Lal Collins go because they were
Speaker 1: mad at him. Let them go because of salary camp relief.
Speaker 1: If I mean they're not saving anything, no, because it's
Speaker 1: still thirteen million dollars in dead money part year in
Speaker 1: part next year. So that tells you what they thought
Speaker 1: of Terrence Steele. You've got to have those art tells
Speaker 1: you what they thought of wild Collins well, and that too.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. And the other thing on the
Speaker 1: wide receivers is I think there's a reason that these
Speaker 1: great wide receivers are getting traded this year because these
Speaker 1: teams are have seen what's in the draft, right, and
Speaker 1: they think that there they can get some wide receivers.
Speaker 1: That said that, like last year, and about all the
Speaker 1: studs coming out of that track, that's exactly what I've
Speaker 1: seen that continue track over and over again. Yeah, yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, think about what the most other than quarterback,
Speaker 1: what's the most valued position in college right now? It's
Speaker 1: the wide receivers because they're playing so many of them, right,
Speaker 1: And see, if it's so many of them, you can
Speaker 1: find one that's not going to come in the first round. No, No,
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Speaker 1: do more? Or how do you think they feel in
Speaker 1: Kansas City today? About the prospects for the Chiefs after
Speaker 1: the trade yesterday, Tyree Hill going to the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: in exchange for five draft picks, first rounder number twenty
Speaker 1: nine overall, a second rounder, a fourth rounder this year
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three fourth and sixth rounders. Do you
Speaker 1: think there's panic in the streets of Kansas City type
Speaker 1: now that Tyreek Hill has moved on. I think they
Speaker 1: probably figure out with all those draft choices they've got twelve,
Speaker 1: I think rebuild this team and all right, okay, let's
Speaker 1: do it this way. Compare the feeling in Dallas after
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper left, okay um, and it's compared to the
Speaker 1: about the prospects for the Cowboys this year, compared to
Speaker 1: the feeling amongst Kansas City fans for the prospects this
Speaker 1: year after Tyreek Hill leaves. Which which fan base is
Speaker 1: feeling better about their prospects Kansas City? And why is
Speaker 1: that they got all those draft choices and they did
Speaker 1: not spend all that cap space on a wide receiver
Speaker 1: and they feel like with their quarterback that they can
Speaker 1: go forward? What about? So? Why why do the Cowboys
Speaker 1: not feel the Cowboy fans not feel the negativity hanging
Speaker 1: over this this team and until they win a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: it's going to be there every year, no matter is
Speaker 1: one of the first round, no matter what they do.
Speaker 1: At this point, if we were in the first round,
Speaker 1: I think we're going to be happy. I mean, you know, see,
Speaker 1: here's the difference. The Cowboys kind of somehow let it
Speaker 1: be known that Mary Cooper wasn't going to be here, well,
Speaker 1: which killed his trade value. Well, the other thing is
Speaker 1: they knew other teams knew that they that fifth day
Speaker 1: of the new league year, his contract became guarantee exactly,
Speaker 1: and so they knew that the Cowboys. There was a
Speaker 1: deadline involved where the Cowboys had to make a decision
Speaker 1: if they were going to clear that cap space, and
Speaker 1: so his trade value. Now you can say whatever you
Speaker 1: want to about the abilities of the two players, but
Speaker 1: the reason that the Cowboys get a fifth round pick
Speaker 1: and they exchange sixth round picks and Kansas City gets
Speaker 1: five picks for Tyreek Hill and essence is because of
Speaker 1: that is there was that due date on his guaranteed
Speaker 1: roster spot, and they knew that they were going to
Speaker 1: have to resign Tyreek Hill. Right, he was in the
Speaker 1: last i think the last contract. Right, he wants some
Speaker 1: DeVante Adam's money from them. They weren't going to pay that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: same thing with the Packers, right, same deal. So you know,
Speaker 1: they got what they could before it was the deadline
Speaker 1: over their head. Well, Cooper kind of fell up Hill.
Speaker 1: You know, you go to the Browns. You're thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: the Browns, and then all of a sudden, here comes
Speaker 1: to Sean and now things a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm more interesting now here. Well, here's the other thing
Speaker 1: you can ask the question. Okay, so did the Cowboys
Speaker 1: make a mistake with the Cooper contract where they had
Speaker 1: that even though they could get out of it after
Speaker 1: two years, but you had that deadline date. Well, here's
Speaker 1: the difference between the two players, Tyreek Hill and Amari Cooper.
Speaker 1: Hill's contract, which was a twenty twenty nineteen season. They
Speaker 1: gave him a three year extension of fifty four million dollars,
Speaker 1: but there was only five million dollars guaranteed. The difference
Speaker 1: in the two players his Hill had the off the
Speaker 1: field issues to where he didn't have the same kind
Speaker 1: of leverage when it came time to negotiate his contract
Speaker 1: with Kansas City long term. So they did not have
Speaker 1: to do that with his contract to give him that
Speaker 1: roster bonus going into the last year of his deal,
Speaker 1: because okay, there was no assurances that he's going to
Speaker 1: be eligible to play with this track record of off
Speaker 1: the field stuff, and with Cooper, Cowboys have already invested
Speaker 1: in him with a first round draft pick, and so
Speaker 1: there was a difference in the way you approach both contracts,
Speaker 1: but Cooper had more leverage there when they signed the
Speaker 1: long term deal and knowing that they tried to pull
Speaker 1: this wide receiver by committee which was failing miserably, and
Speaker 1: they tried to resurrect the season, which they nearly did
Speaker 1: in twenty was twenty eighteen. Right in twenty nineteen, it
Speaker 1: paid off. So yeah, um, but again I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear anything about wide receiver by committee. Again. That's
Speaker 1: why I threw out the first round wide receiver. I
Speaker 1: got no problem drafting the wide receiver in the first round.
Speaker 1: You can have all the wide receivers you want. If
Speaker 1: you don't have time, can't throw it to them. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna be looking at last year all over again,
Speaker 1: guys on this was the number one offense. Yeah it was,
Speaker 1: but that's all because of what happened the first ten
Speaker 1: games and the number one scoring off You look at
Speaker 1: the last seven games and they were look at look
Speaker 1: at what number they were in. Then at the Mary
Speaker 1: Cooper's numbers. All the wide receiver's numbers went down because
Speaker 1: they were being pressed. They don't have time to get
Speaker 1: off the ball because the offensive line can't block the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks back there. But the four man of us getting
Speaker 1: hit all the time. All right, I want to know,
Speaker 1: but I want a guard. Yeah, but but here again,
Speaker 1: it's where the Cowboys are picking at number twenty four, right,
Speaker 1: and what it's not number eleven. It's hard. It's hard
Speaker 1: to find that future Hall of Fame type offensive lineman
Speaker 1: at number twenty four. They're usually you got a pretty
Speaker 1: good idea of which ones have have the potential to
Speaker 1: play at that ability, and they usually go in the
Speaker 1: first half of the first round. Can I trade down
Speaker 1: to thirty and get one? You can? You can trade
Speaker 1: down to thirty and get Travis Frederick? Yeah, which is
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys did and got panned. Miss him by
Speaker 1: the way, miss him? Oh yeah, I'm sure they miss
Speaker 1: miss him. Um, you can talk Joe Looney out of retirement.
Speaker 1: I wonder if more stuff will go on next week
Speaker 1: when they go to the owner's meetings more in terms
Speaker 1: of trades. It's something will happened. But what it happened
Speaker 1: with us, that's the deal. So, speaking of that, I
Speaker 1: read a story about all these proposals how to change overtime.
Speaker 1: You know what my proposal is, just play football, don't
Speaker 1: jack up the game. Think about what hockey does in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. During the regular season, they play eighty two games, right,
Speaker 1: so you don't want overtime going two three periods, right,
Speaker 1: so it's three on three. You jack up the game.
Speaker 1: But when they get to the playoffs, you just play hockey.
Speaker 1: Whoever wins, wins, tie, You keep playing, right. Why can't
Speaker 1: they do that in football in the playoffs. Why are
Speaker 1: they suggesting to change in the first place because they
Speaker 1: feel sorry for the Buffalo quarterback. That's turned out to
Speaker 1: be a great game. Okay, that's what over time's all about.
Speaker 1: It came out to be a great game. But you're
Speaker 1: feeling sorry for one quarterback. I don't know why. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean, it's just the way it is. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to sit up here and want to change
Speaker 1: the rules because of this. One guy comes along, has
Speaker 1: a good game and he loses. See if they want
Speaker 1: to life, if they want to change it for the
Speaker 1: regular season, I understand the argument, But in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: play right Initially so initially in in in soccer, before
Speaker 1: they get the penalty kicks, right, they play an overtime
Speaker 1: period and if somebody you know, wins in overtime, they know.
Speaker 1: Your proposal is, then just play football, but for how long?
Speaker 1: I don't care how long because somebody you've got, somebody's
Speaker 1: got to win in the playoffs, right, you can't have
Speaker 1: a tie. But so just play if it's ten minute
Speaker 1: or fifteen minutes. But it's not. You're not the first
Speaker 1: team that scores. No, no, just play football. There's got
Speaker 1: to be a time give me another period. By speaking though,
Speaker 1: I went to the Stars game the other night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the three one, Yeah, I was there the empty nether
Speaker 1: right remembers the motion saw on what happened last, don't
Speaker 1: I've never seen one before. I mean, that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Let me shot the way down there. You can do that.
Speaker 1: You can do that from from the other goal. I
Speaker 1: can't get on the skate, and I mean, to me,
Speaker 1: that was just I can't get on skates without its brother.
Speaker 1: My brother took me, man, my baby brother Greg. He
Speaker 1: took me to the to the Stars game and I
Speaker 1: was a great time. Let me come on. We were
Speaker 1: like the only black people in the stands. Man. So
Speaker 1: Stars have been here since nineteen ninety three. I went
Speaker 1: to two. Okay, you have been before. Yeah, but that
Speaker 1: was a reunion. Okay, yeah, it wasn't it that long ago,
Speaker 1: that long ago. You sound like my brother he was
Speaker 1: all the time. So yeah, that long ago. He treated
Speaker 1: me to a game, you know, stars, match with a
Speaker 1: match game? What do you call it in hockey? Is
Speaker 1: it a match? The game? It's a game. It's a game, okay,
Speaker 1: well yeah, it's it's not a ball, not playing with
Speaker 1: the ball. Everything. You saw some quick scoring too, Stars
Speaker 1: one fighting stuff man, and then they gave up two
Speaker 1: goals in yeah a minute. I saw another black guy too,
Speaker 1: he was playing hockey. Was on the floor. Did you
Speaker 1: know that's been going on for something. Yeah, I heard
Speaker 1: about that, like we even floor. Yeah, on the ice,
Speaker 1: on the ice. Yeah, there you go. I gotta give together.
Speaker 1: Well when the ice isn't okay, So what do you
Speaker 1: hope the Cowboys do by next Thursday when we reconvene.
Speaker 1: Last week, we wanted them to sign Bobby Wagner. He's
Speaker 1: still out there, still out there. He's getting No, he's
Speaker 1: gonna cost too much. He's getting too much fishing the Rams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's visiting like he's spending like three days with the Rams. Exactly.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't skill cost him, was hope and
Speaker 1: they and see they don't. It looks like they have
Speaker 1: a lot of money, but they don't. They don't get
Speaker 1: Leal Collins ten million dollars to June first, by the way,
Speaker 1: so that's their draft. H and all these guys that
Speaker 1: we just talked about them signing the From what I
Speaker 1: can tell, unless something jumps up the the highest, this
Speaker 1: just ends the highest uh cap hit for the show's over.
Speaker 1: Thank you. It is sick of this overtime. He doesn't
Speaker 1: getting paid overtime. That reminds me of an old story.
Speaker 1: To go feed the meter. That reminds me of an
Speaker 1: old story. And I'll go ahead and say the names.
Speaker 1: Tom Grief told me this story about a former Ranger
Speaker 1: player named Alex Johnson back in the seventies, and uh
Speaker 1: he his saying was, when they got to the ninth
Speaker 1: inning of a tie game, he was either gonna hit
Speaker 1: one in or let one in. He played left field,
Speaker 1: and he was like, I don't I don't get I
Speaker 1: don't get paid over time. So I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 1: hit one in or I'm gonna let one in. So
Speaker 1: so he set that alarm, and ever said, just set
Speaker 1: that alarm. He's out of here. He didn't get paid overtime.
Speaker 1: My last thing is happy birthday to my son Cameron.
Speaker 1: Today's birthdays, his thirty fourth birthday. So I gotta get
Speaker 1: that out there too. Boy, you must be old as
Speaker 1: you see. I sound tired as I said it. Then
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and say happy birthday to my youngest daughter, Jordan,
Speaker 1: who turns three, oh tomorrow, tomorrow. Yes, what a day?
Speaker 1: What is what is this time? What? What sign is this?
Speaker 1: What do we in? Mark turist mark bull? I don't
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I barely mind. Yea the worst
Speaker 1: now again, so, by the way, since he brought up baseball, yes,
Speaker 1: and Alex Johnson, home running hitter, by the way, actually
Speaker 1: led the league in hitting one year. But go ahead,
Speaker 1: and um, so you're a fan of putting a guy
Speaker 1: on second base to start extra innings in baseball and
Speaker 1: jack up the game? Continue with my point? There you go,
Speaker 1: You just play for there was a proposal you guys.
Speaker 1: For by the way, Alex Johnson hit seventy eight home
Speaker 1: runs career. But he was a batting chip, yeah, in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy. And by the way, I think he's got
Speaker 1: his brothers, Ron Johnson, I think, yep, remember Ron Johnson
Speaker 1: playing Giants. Yeah, Ron Johnson, Alex Johnson brother Ron Johnson thirty.
Speaker 1: He was a good player. Now I forgot what I
Speaker 1: was gonna say. We're talking about ghost runners in baseball.
Speaker 1: There was a proposal that is coming up that the
Speaker 1: team wins the toss elects to put the football on
Speaker 1: a certain yard line and they can choose to play
Speaker 1: offense or defense. What has that got to do with
Speaker 1: the game of football or these two point conversions. It's
Speaker 1: a playoff game. Just play football, Just keep just play football.
Speaker 1: I like the two playing conversion thing though, Why no,
Speaker 1: So if you in overtime, if you if you score
Speaker 1: a touchdown, you kick the extra point, then they get
Speaker 1: to you have to play again, right, they get the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you go if you go for two, which is
Speaker 1: a harder play, right, and you don't get it, I
Speaker 1: think they do. They still get the ball at the
Speaker 1: game's over. The game's over if you get two, So
Speaker 1: again you don't get too then the team gets the
Speaker 1: ball and they can score, right, Ron, Ron Johnson was
Speaker 1: number thirty. You got it right ever since? Got that?
Speaker 1: All right? I think that does it. So we can
Speaker 1: talk about this over time and see if they talk
Speaker 1: about it in the meetings that start Tuesday, Monday, and
Speaker 1: it's next week. I believe right, yep, Okay, West Palm,
Speaker 1: you're not going to cover it if I am. They
Speaker 1: haven't told me. I've got a flight to get there.
Speaker 1: All right. That does it for this edition of mix Shots,
Speaker 1: and we will shout at you again next Thursday at
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