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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Micky Spagnola. Well, if it's Tuesday and eleven thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning Central Time, that means it is Mick Shots,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola, Everson Walls, Bill Jones not with us again.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have Everson sing that song, just the
Speaker 1: two of us, right, Just who's Who's sang that? Who's
Speaker 1: sang that? Spags? Tell me good? Come on, man, just
Speaker 1: the two of us. You can make it if you try,
Speaker 1: say you got it better than man? Who is it?
Speaker 1: Who is it? Bill? Was it? Bill Withers? Bills? That's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. But we are old. We are now here's
Speaker 1: how old we are? So last night, uh, there was
Speaker 1: nothing on TV to watch between nine and ten, and
Speaker 1: I saw on public uh public TV k e R
Speaker 1: A k e R Yes, Public Television they had a
Speaker 1: only old people watch that channel. They had a two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven concert from the Troubadour in La with
Speaker 1: James Taylor and Carol King. Carol oh many. Carol King
Speaker 1: was my favorite growing up. When I heard her song
Speaker 1: I Feel the Earth Move under my feet, Come on, man,
Speaker 1: that was one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: They sang all those songs from back in the day. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it was an hour and a half concert, uh
Speaker 1: from the Troubadour And I think it showed in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: but the concert was in two thousand and seven. Uh
Speaker 1: So yeah, uh, I got a little uh go back
Speaker 1: to days, right? I think I still have it too.
Speaker 1: By the way, I had her Greatest Hits album and
Speaker 1: the same thing from James Taylor too, and it was
Speaker 1: they were good. I would get I would get that. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would get that Greatest Hits album. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: while you were back in college you were drinking Boom's
Speaker 1: Farm as you were listening to her and James. I was.
Speaker 1: I wasn't a wine guy back then. I could, I could,
Speaker 1: I could admit that, but I guarantee you there Mickey's
Speaker 1: about Mickey's big mouth. That was the worst the world.
Speaker 1: You know what? I kept one of those. I have
Speaker 1: one on my TV upstairs. Never opened. It's full God
Speaker 1: knows that desperate time and hardly no money. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what we used to call scunk beer. Right, Yes, well
Speaker 1: I think being now bag so I wouldn't. I would
Speaker 1: be too bad. Alrighty, Well here we go. Uh it's
Speaker 1: uh what March second, we are one week into the
Speaker 1: period where teams can uh tag players with the franchise tag.
Speaker 1: One week to go March ninth, next Tuesdays the deadline.
Speaker 1: So uh, maybe we'll have some news by then, one
Speaker 1: way or another one I do our next show. But
Speaker 1: at this point, all eyes still on Dak Prescott uh
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys to see if they can come
Speaker 1: to a long term deal before they have to use
Speaker 1: the franchise tag and not just use it to retain
Speaker 1: his rights, but to stuff thirty seven point seven million
Speaker 1: dollars into the salary cap come March seventeenth when the
Speaker 1: new league year opens. And I guess we can start
Speaker 1: there again since it's it's one of them ever since
Speaker 1: it's one of those topics that just keeps on giving.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't go away. And I've been listening to
Speaker 1: everybody try to analyze all this stuff and the one thing,
Speaker 1: and I think we brought it up last week. The
Speaker 1: one thing no one points out is, you know, everybody
Speaker 1: keeps saying, sign him, you know, they should have signed
Speaker 1: him two years ago, just you know, give him what
Speaker 1: he wants. And my question always is, we don't know
Speaker 1: what they're asking for. What are they asking you know,
Speaker 1: do they because obviously thirty five million year was not enough?
Speaker 1: Do they forty forty five fifty? I don't know. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, And I heard, you know, talk rady, is
Speaker 1: it is it? Is it? Three years? Yeah? Four years? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because I was five, yeah, right, and I heard, you know,
Speaker 1: I heard somebody saying, you know, they probably should have
Speaker 1: done this two years ago, and you know, they would
Speaker 1: have saved money. And I said, well, how do you know?
Speaker 1: Because you don't know what they were asking for two
Speaker 1: years ago. You don't know what they were asking for
Speaker 1: last year. And with with me, you know, I look
Speaker 1: at the comparisons, uh in how I still I go
Speaker 1: way back to when Emmis Smith had to hold out
Speaker 1: to get his money and the next year Troy Akman's
Speaker 1: contract was torn up and uh, Emmis Smith was immediately
Speaker 1: underpaid on his team. After going through all of that,
Speaker 1: then you look at Tony Romo who you know, wanted
Speaker 1: Jerry's favorites, and how he made a big deal about
Speaker 1: signing Amo, tearing up the remainder of his contract and
Speaker 1: signing him to a really nice deal. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, here comes Dad and we got a plow.
Speaker 1: And so as a black man, I'm looking at this like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: come on, let's not be this fight. Let's not be
Speaker 1: this stereotypical. Let's not be this this this predictable. And
Speaker 1: and as I look at the contract and I look
Speaker 1: at what they're offering, man, I could say, as a
Speaker 1: friend of Dax, or maybe just a fan of Dax,
Speaker 1: I would say, wow, that's a lot of money he's
Speaker 1: just signed that, you know. But then at the same time,
Speaker 1: as a as a former union rep and as a
Speaker 1: former player, the devil is in the details. And so
Speaker 1: the not confusing part. But I think the more engaging
Speaker 1: part of it is that we don't hear from Dad.
Speaker 1: We haven't heard from his people. They're sitting back taking
Speaker 1: in offers, you know, but not really despise, at least
Speaker 1: publicly not responding. I don't know what the capitaliz are saying.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's really going on behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: But I just don't want this to turn into another
Speaker 1: Cousins situation, and I think I think it was in
Speaker 1: Washington where they just kept, you know, coming up with franchise, franchise, franchise,
Speaker 1: and then it turns into a volatile situation to where
Speaker 1: no one trusts anybody in the outcome of not just
Speaker 1: that position, but the outcome of the season is hanging
Speaker 1: on these negotiations. So it's not like you're just dealing
Speaker 1: with a defensive back and not to diminish my DBS
Speaker 1: or any other position on the field. Okay, so shut
Speaker 1: ups fair. So all I'm saying is as a as
Speaker 1: a the quarterback position, as much as I despise the
Speaker 1: overblowing of its importance, we gotta have somebody in there
Speaker 1: that's gonna right this ship for good. We gotta know
Speaker 1: who we're gonna settle on. Is it gonna be Andy?
Speaker 1: You know which? You know Andy's good? You know he
Speaker 1: did decent when you find the guy's legs under or
Speaker 1: are we gonna get back to see what that Prescott
Speaker 1: can do? And once again, the injury I'm sure is
Speaker 1: a factor. And on both sides, I'm sure Dak is
Speaker 1: very stubborn about he's ready to go, And of course
Speaker 1: the Cowboys they won't say it publicly, but during negotiations
Speaker 1: they're gonna say, hey, man, we're not sure what you
Speaker 1: can do on that leg. We saw that horrific break in.
Speaker 1: Regardless of how enthusiastic your workouts are and how good
Speaker 1: you feel about it, we may not feel as good
Speaker 1: about it as you do. So therefore our negotiations might
Speaker 1: be have a little different tone this time arounds past,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's that's one reason why when you
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to sign a long term deal, do
Speaker 1: not play on a one year deal because you never
Speaker 1: know what might happen to you going into free agency
Speaker 1: the next year. Do you want to take that chance?
Speaker 1: And you know what, So a couple of points. One,
Speaker 1: I think one of the positive points is is that
Speaker 1: Dak's been here rehabbing, so there doesn't seem to be
Speaker 1: any butt hurt going on on either side. You know,
Speaker 1: he's eligible to be here rehabbing in the offseason. He
Speaker 1: seems to be willfully doing that, so it's not like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to show you you know where I'm at.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys will have an idea of just where
Speaker 1: he's at with his rehab, which is a good thing.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I got curious of after we
Speaker 1: did the show last week was, you know, remember last
Speaker 1: July fifteenth, when the deadline was going to pass. If
Speaker 1: you didn't sign him to a long term deal, he
Speaker 1: had to play on the franchise tag and they're no
Speaker 1: more negotiations. Well, the reports came out at the last
Speaker 1: minute that they were close, that they were close to
Speaker 1: doing a deal, and supposedly they ran out of time,
Speaker 1: which I can't believe they ran out of time, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they had they had, you know, seven months right to
Speaker 1: be able to work it out. So but if they
Speaker 1: were close, then when you pick up negotiations, now, why
Speaker 1: why aren't you still close? What changed? Nothing really changed.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the Cowboys offered less. Uh, they may
Speaker 1: have asked for more. But if you were close, why
Speaker 1: aren't you still close? And then there's this one. And
Speaker 1: I know you, as you said, you were a player
Speaker 1: rep and you had to deal with agents and things
Speaker 1: like that. But just I don't know if this coincidence
Speaker 1: or what. But his his representative, Todd France, who's been
Speaker 1: negotiating the deal. I didn't realize that come August, early August,
Speaker 1: he left his agency c AA UH and and they
Speaker 1: said it was a sports business journal reported it was
Speaker 1: a mutual decision. So he left the agency he had
Speaker 1: been working for, and a month later he joined another agency.
Speaker 1: Um it was called Sports Sports First. I believe it
Speaker 1: was called UH. And It's like, so, was that just
Speaker 1: a coincidence? Because I'm thinking agents probably have to give
Speaker 1: a cut to the agency they worked for, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, if you know, in the back
Speaker 1: of his mind he was leaving there and he didn't
Speaker 1: want to put money in an old agency when he
Speaker 1: was going to a new agency, right, just food for thought, right,
Speaker 1: you know. So well, I don't know. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not accusing anything. I'm just pointing it out that this
Speaker 1: did take place, right, So maybe now that he's with
Speaker 1: the new agency, they can get this thing done, you know.
Speaker 1: And it would be great if they can get it
Speaker 1: done by by next Tuesday, so the Cowboys don't have
Speaker 1: to start off the league year, you know, or at
Speaker 1: least get it done by March seventeenth, so they don't
Speaker 1: have to start off the league year or with that
Speaker 1: much money stuffed into a new UH salary cap, and
Speaker 1: we should probably know closer at some point, either later
Speaker 1: this week or early next week, what the CAP's going
Speaker 1: to actually be. You know, they they've set a a
Speaker 1: ceiling at or not a ceiling, but I guess a
Speaker 1: basement at one eighty at least the cap would be.
Speaker 1: And I've seen some sites factoring the new salary cap
Speaker 1: at one eighty five, So we'll see what it ends
Speaker 1: up being, and maybe that'll help out. That's maybe holding
Speaker 1: things up, so you know exactly what the CAP's going
Speaker 1: to be. Plus they need a projection also for next
Speaker 1: year because when you you know, work out the UH
Speaker 1: the base salaries, you know, you base him on and
Speaker 1: you continue. You used to base Hmond. Well, this CAP's
Speaker 1: gonna go up, right, and it's gonna go up. It's
Speaker 1: been going up ten million a year, so you're going, Okay,
Speaker 1: whatever the base salaries this year, it could be X
Speaker 1: amount of dollars more next year because the CAP's gonna
Speaker 1: absorb some of that. So we'll see where this thing's going.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have a law I got negotiations? I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I was I was gonna say, you know,
Speaker 1: it got just like anything with you always. Right now,
Speaker 1: I can't hear him. Have you lost me? Have you
Speaker 1: lost me? I'm still here. I'm still here. Can you
Speaker 1: hear me? Can you hear me? No, I'm still You're
Speaker 1: gonna assume he said something really great because I can't
Speaker 1: hear him right now. But we know we'll continue to
Speaker 1: monitor uh this as we uh as we go along,
Speaker 1: and hopefully uh you know the two sides can come
Speaker 1: together because you know what I keep saying is the
Speaker 1: deal benefits both sides. We know it benefits the Cowboys, right. Um,
Speaker 1: but anybody my, ah, there we go? My my airphones
Speaker 1: have a partner on the air. No I knew I
Speaker 1: had a partner. I was worried that I didn't have one.
Speaker 1: I think the year phone plu're talking about? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I talked about about Had you ever had a prolonged
Speaker 1: negotiation with tep Shram or Gil Brandt before you got here?
Speaker 1: Everything is always complicated with ever some walls. You remember
Speaker 1: came as a free agent, right. I bawled out my
Speaker 1: rookie year from preseason all the way to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Must have had about eighteen interceptions and all by the
Speaker 1: time season was over. So the Cowboys came to me
Speaker 1: in the off season, doing me a favor, and so
Speaker 1: they came to me. From a thirty thousand dollars contract
Speaker 1: three years to a they came up with another three
Speaker 1: year deal and the first year was going to be
Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars. Well, gil Brand forgot that I graduated
Speaker 1: from college. Now he may not look have much respect
Speaker 1: for my degree at Gramley State University, but it did
Speaker 1: me well. Speaking of thank you very much, representative representative.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm thinking, Okay, so if I signed this
Speaker 1: eighty dollar deal, eighty thousand dollars deal, I think with
Speaker 1: the thirty thousand dollars signing bonus, I'm looking at ronniey Lot,
Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor, and all of the defensive backs in the league.
Speaker 1: I just left the Pro Bowl, so I'm gathering information
Speaker 1: on what these salaries are in the Pro Bowl. Their
Speaker 1: salaries up to one hundred and fifty thousand. Already you're
Speaker 1: telling me to come in and sign the eighty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars deal. I'd be just like em, Miss Smith. I'd
Speaker 1: be underpaid by the time the Eagles dropped, Okay, and
Speaker 1: that would be my raid. So I did just like that.
Speaker 1: I held out for greener pastures in regards to finances.
Speaker 1: They came to me again with another deal. I think
Speaker 1: it was like one hundred and ten thousand on top
Speaker 1: of that, and I told Gil he must be out
Speaker 1: of his mind, and they sent they would send the
Speaker 1: troops after you. So they would ask some of the
Speaker 1: players to say something, you know in the media. You know,
Speaker 1: Gil Brad would put his hinchman out there. Gene Starlings
Speaker 1: came to me. Gene Starlings came to me and said, Evie, Evie,
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you. You know, if you
Speaker 1: take that eighty thousand dollars and you put that in
Speaker 1: the bank, shoot man, in twenty years, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: yourself a million dollars. And I was just so flaba
Speaker 1: gassed at the elementary tactics that they were using to
Speaker 1: impression me into signing these contracts. So when you look
Speaker 1: at it, I rolled the dice for two years, not
Speaker 1: just one year. I rolled the dice for two years
Speaker 1: because I was not going to be underpaid even after
Speaker 1: I signed the contract. So yes, this was before you
Speaker 1: got there. You came in eighty four, the middle of
Speaker 1: the eighty fourth season. Yeah, middle, Yeah. By that time,
Speaker 1: my damage was already done. My name was mud in
Speaker 1: the in the management office at twenty four years over
Speaker 1: twenty three years old, I had already ruined my reputation
Speaker 1: in regards to good graces with the three headed monster
Speaker 1: of text round, Gil Brand and Tom Lander. So so
Speaker 1: wait a minute. So three years when you said eighty thousand,
Speaker 1: was it total or eighty thousand a year? They were
Speaker 1: going to give me eighty thousand with a thirty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars signing bonus first year, and it was going to
Speaker 1: go up I think one or five or one twenty five,
Speaker 1: something like that, but starting at eighty thousand or the
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars bonus, and I just you know, it's
Speaker 1: you don't have to be smart, Okay. Ronnie Lot came
Speaker 1: in with me, the LT came in with me. I'm
Speaker 1: at the Pro Bowl with them. So those are my peers.
Speaker 1: I want to be paid like my peers. And I'm
Speaker 1: using an air quote. I don't know why I'm doing that,
Speaker 1: but they're really my peers. And so for me to
Speaker 1: sit up here and sign a contract that would bring
Speaker 1: me one ten including the thirty thousand dollars bonus when
Speaker 1: they're already at one fifty and they their bonus was
Speaker 1: a million dollars, not thirty thousand dollars. So when you
Speaker 1: look at all of that, it's not hard to turn
Speaker 1: something down like that, especially when I went eleven interceptions
Speaker 1: the striker was coming up. I had seven in interceptions
Speaker 1: in nine games. My confidence is brewing, it's not adminishing,
Speaker 1: and that's something that the Cowboys couldn't deal with. And
Speaker 1: I'm wanting to think what people need to understand. Back
Speaker 1: in that day, the salaries work as public as they
Speaker 1: are now. So Everson did his homework with fighting out
Speaker 1: what other guys and it's actually probably a good thing
Speaker 1: you did, because then in the strike, you're you guys
Speaker 1: didn't get paid for the seven games you missed, right?
Speaker 1: We did not. We did not. We did not get
Speaker 1: paid for them. Let me say this, and I've never
Speaker 1: Gary Myers Man put it in his book, but I
Speaker 1: was always sensitive about lack of information, full disclosure in negotiations,
Speaker 1: and management was always about lying to you about what
Speaker 1: your teammate made because everyone was afraid to say what
Speaker 1: they made. So I don't know if you remember Man
Speaker 1: as a union rep. That's the first thing I did.
Speaker 1: And even though Gary Myers and USA today I believe
Speaker 1: capitalize off of that move. I made sure that every
Speaker 1: salary was published so that players who were management lackeys
Speaker 1: wouldn't be lying about what they're making, and management themselves
Speaker 1: wouldn't be wouldn't mislead us about what our peers were making.
Speaker 1: Everybody a negotiations and not everybody had an agent back then, either,
Speaker 1: did they? No? No people, No, everyone had agents. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: this is not the seventies. I came in. I came in,
Speaker 1: made the one spans. Come on, man, come on that
Speaker 1: stop himself. No, No, I made my own decisions. But
Speaker 1: I didn't have an agent. I had Weinberg, who he
Speaker 1: was ready to make trouble. Yeah, he was ready to
Speaker 1: make trouble. Look didn't matter. All I had to do
Speaker 1: was say sick him and he was going to get them.
Speaker 1: So that's what you wanted, an agent. And what that
Speaker 1: did was they put a lot of pressure on management
Speaker 1: because now they couldn't be dishonest in their practices, at
Speaker 1: least not as much as they wanted to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they hated and Steve walk in the building, Gil Brant
Speaker 1: and Steve Weiber could you imagine being a fly on
Speaker 1: the wall any time together? And Steve would be like, well, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that might be while I'm not in the ring of
Speaker 1: other right now, go all right, even fifty one to here,
Speaker 1: mix shots and Reverson and myself will return here in
Speaker 1: a moment, and we're gonna get into a little bit
Speaker 1: more of the Cowboys other free agents, guys that are
Speaker 1: unrestricted coming up here when the league year starts. And
Speaker 1: speaking of Gil Brandt, I've got a his top thirty
Speaker 1: two board and we're gonna go over that and see
Speaker 1: just where the players are falling for where the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: we're trying to have my liquor cabinet. I don't want
Speaker 1: anybody to see what they've got back then, Oh, is
Speaker 1: that the deal? Yeah, I was trying to hide it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was trying to use my picture to count of
Speaker 1: shifted and I can't see my my liquor of the cabinets. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just want to know. I want to make sure
Speaker 1: it's full. Yes, it I finished the rooms, bags, the
Speaker 1: rooms finish. Does that mean the popcorn's off? And you
Speaker 1: painted done? I even got so far as paint the floor,
Speaker 1: paint the ceiling. I did it all. But it's done.
Speaker 1: It is done, and I didn't get in any trouble
Speaker 1: because that means that I will never listen to you
Speaker 1: when it comes to tell So you did a good job,
Speaker 1: is what you're telling me. I did an excellent job. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of myself. All right. Well, when I
Speaker 1: need some stuff painted, I may just have to call
Speaker 1: on you. We'll contract out. Yeah, you can call me,
Speaker 1: but I want to be answered. That's okay, all right. So,
Speaker 1: speaking of your your Grambling shirt, I'm just I'm curious.
Speaker 1: I see where Jackson States next game is going to
Speaker 1: be at Grambley? Is it next weekend or this weekend?
Speaker 1: That should be this weekend, this weekend, this weekend. I
Speaker 1: think they headed for this weekend. You know what, I
Speaker 1: think it may because of the freeze. I believe it's
Speaker 1: gonna be changed and the location should be at that
Speaker 1: Globe Life a park. No way, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: Globe Life. Yes, it's gonna be because it was gonna
Speaker 1: be grand the Cotton Bowl. My Coton Bowl was damaged
Speaker 1: doing this. The Cotton Bowl was damaged doing the freeze.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna be playing at Globe Life Park. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be pretty amazing. And I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: it's this weekend or next weekend, but I'll be doing
Speaker 1: a camp this weekend, so I won't be able to participate.
Speaker 1: But now it should be pretty exciting. Dion gets to
Speaker 1: come back home and and let's just face it, his
Speaker 1: regardless of what you think about Dion or whatever he is,
Speaker 1: he is a marketing genius. And I'm loving that he's
Speaker 1: bringing that prowess to the Southwestern Athletic Conference to HBCU
Speaker 1: football because you know, let's face it, we could use
Speaker 1: the infusion, especially with the pandemic. I mean, here we
Speaker 1: are playing ball in the springtime. I just let you
Speaker 1: know that, you know, we couldn't handle the expenses. We
Speaker 1: couldn't handle any of the choice that had to be dumb,
Speaker 1: just because we just don't have that kind of discretionary
Speaker 1: income to make those kind of adjustments in the pandemic situation.
Speaker 1: So he would he should provide a nice infusion of
Speaker 1: excitement and you know, exposure to HBCUs. And before we
Speaker 1: move on, Spags, I want to it's another reason I
Speaker 1: wore the Grambling shirt here, John Mendenhall. We lost a
Speaker 1: great one, not just from Grambling, not just as an
Speaker 1: HBCU athlete, but the entire Giants New York Giants family
Speaker 1: and the NFL family you're talking about. You know, when
Speaker 1: we look at this time, Spags, we are losing people
Speaker 1: who were prominent names in sports and in all of society,
Speaker 1: in all walks of society. And so when all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, and I'm gonna get to him as well,
Speaker 1: John Mente Hall leaves us who was just one of
Speaker 1: those one of those names that when you heard it,
Speaker 1: you never forgot it. When it came to football, you know,
Speaker 1: he was a guy every game he played well, he
Speaker 1: was rarely hurt. He was an old school guy to
Speaker 1: where when you heard when you thought of New York Giants.
Speaker 1: If you're a New York Giant fan, a true New
Speaker 1: York Giant fan, he's going to be one of those
Speaker 1: names that you remember that affected your childhood and your
Speaker 1: upbringing in regards to being a football fan. The professionalism
Speaker 1: that guys like mende Hall show that came from playing
Speaker 1: for Eddie Robinson, came from the pride that he had
Speaker 1: by being an HBCU player, coming from Grammy State University,
Speaker 1: representing the swap, representing all HBC players. You know, these
Speaker 1: are the kind of names that they're just they're just
Speaker 1: leaving us, Spats, They're they're leaving us, and with no fanfare,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, yea. And so it's it's
Speaker 1: happened with so many different types of people. And as
Speaker 1: we moved on to the Great Earth Cross, a guy
Speaker 1: that was a pioneer UH in all of sports, one
Speaker 1: of the first African American men to be on TV
Speaker 1: in a sports UH show with Britain Mussburger. I believe
Speaker 1: it was CBS Sports If I'm not mistaken, it was,
Speaker 1: and he and Briton Mussburger go ahead, Spags, I know
Speaker 1: you know it was. It was in CBR you know.
Speaker 1: The thing I didn't realize about him and uh, and
Speaker 1: he joined uh CBS. Uh and he also, uh you know,
Speaker 1: was on NFL today The Great Show with Brett Musberg
Speaker 1: Phillis George. Right. What I didn't realize about him is
Speaker 1: he is from Hammond, Indiana. And just a little background
Speaker 1: about that. Hammond's about maybe ten ten miles, no more
Speaker 1: than fifteen from where I grew up in the South
Speaker 1: suburbs of Chicago. And as a matter of fact, my
Speaker 1: summer job working in the factory during when my summers
Speaker 1: in college was in Hammond, Indiana. Right, So I didn't know,
Speaker 1: I didn't know he and then he went. He was
Speaker 1: like an all Stars, all state guy from the state
Speaker 1: of Indiana. And he went to Northwestern in nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: seven and was drafted in the seventh round in sixty
Speaker 1: one and played with the Eagles, the Eagles, and I
Speaker 1: think it was the Lions. He played with two different teams,
Speaker 1: and he went back to the Eagles. Uh, and so
Speaker 1: it was the Eagles and Rams. I'm sorry anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, And here's what happens. So you know, when
Speaker 1: when you're young, you know, back in those days in
Speaker 1: the sixties and seventies for us. You know, when people died,
Speaker 1: you sit there and go, oh, well they're really old, right,
Speaker 1: you didn't really know who they were. But now, yeah,
Speaker 1: now when you get older, you know all these people
Speaker 1: that are starting to die, and you're sitting there going,
Speaker 1: oh okay, I think, uh earth and then we were
Speaker 1: disillusion ourselves and say, oh yeah, he was eighty one
Speaker 1: and Mendel Hall was only seventy two. So you know,
Speaker 1: and I remember this quote from uh Joe green uh
Speaker 1: because uh, I forgot who was the last guy on
Speaker 1: there still curtain to pass away? Uh? He was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was Alc Greenwood and so those were his guys
Speaker 1: right for the days in uh in Pittsburgh, and he
Speaker 1: said something like and he said something right, you know
Speaker 1: what happens when you get older is you lose your
Speaker 1: friends because we're all getting old, but you're not making
Speaker 1: new friends. It's like you hold on to those old friends, right,
Speaker 1: but when you get older, you're not making a lot
Speaker 1: of new friends. And he goes in, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling kind of lonely now because I'm the last man
Speaker 1: standing from that. And it made me think, and I
Speaker 1: absolutely when I talked to him. I told him, I said, boy,
Speaker 1: that was so accurate when you think about it, you know.
Speaker 1: So anyway, yeah, those those two guys, So let's do this,
Speaker 1: um the rest of this segment. The Cowboys have seventeen
Speaker 1: players that are unrestricted free agents. They have six other
Speaker 1: guys that they are restricted or exclusive right free agents.
Speaker 1: So the cow Boys do have the rights on those
Speaker 1: other six guys to give them qualifying offers to retain
Speaker 1: their rights. But they do have seventeen guys, sixteen other
Speaker 1: than Dak Prescott. Right, So I thought we'd go through
Speaker 1: this and just kind of real quickly, kind of say
Speaker 1: yay or nay, or what do you think's going to happen?
Speaker 1: And this list is by the amount of money they
Speaker 1: made this past year. So second behind Dak Prescott was
Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford. Nine years in the league, came back from
Speaker 1: two hip surgeries. He's unrestricted. I wonder number one if
Speaker 1: he wants to continue play. And number two do the
Speaker 1: Cowboys you know, you got to get younger at some point, right,
Speaker 1: you can't keep resigning thirty some year old guys. Do
Speaker 1: they bring them back? Or I would imagine this is
Speaker 1: going to be one of those market value ones. Right,
Speaker 1: you see what the markets says, and then you see
Speaker 1: what you know, what you think you can do? H
Speaker 1: what do you think you gotta not only that, not
Speaker 1: only his age, but I would love his experience and
Speaker 1: the spirit that he brought. But you're also talking about
Speaker 1: what two hip surgeries, right, Yeah, and so that's something
Speaker 1: that you have to be aware of. I know players
Speaker 1: want to hang on. We want to hang on as
Speaker 1: long as we can, and well, you know, to be
Speaker 1: so called put out the pasture, that's something that no
Speaker 1: one wants to be involved in. But just from a
Speaker 1: practical standpoint, that would be tough to bring him back, Okay,
Speaker 1: it would be tough for me to make that decision.
Speaker 1: At Next would be Sean Lee. Uh, it's gonna turn thirty. Lee,
Speaker 1: Loving the Death, Loving the Death. Surprisedly came back this
Speaker 1: year and did as well as he did. He was
Speaker 1: always over matched physically. Now those injuries are catching up
Speaker 1: with him as well as age, and I have to
Speaker 1: let him go. Andy Dalton and this one, I think
Speaker 1: we'll have a lot to do with the rest of
Speaker 1: the league. Things of Andy Dalton, because I got a
Speaker 1: feeling the Cowboys would love to have him back as
Speaker 1: the backup corner. Yes, yes, I'd love to bring him
Speaker 1: back for backup if he if he lets us, I'm
Speaker 1: bringing him back as a backup right now. But once again,
Speaker 1: if Dad does a sign, let's go Andy. Next is
Speaker 1: the veteran offensive tackle. He just played one year with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, Cam Irving, and he missed the majority of
Speaker 1: the season, missed all of training camp, was hurt at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, was hurt at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. To me, that's the one position if
Speaker 1: you aren't going to address it by the third round
Speaker 1: in the draft, offensive tackle, then you got to have
Speaker 1: You got to have better than Cam Irving as your
Speaker 1: backup tackle, knowing that your tackles have had injury history,
Speaker 1: especially Tyran Smith. And I'm not saying to give up
Speaker 1: on Tyrann Smith. You know what I keep hearing is well,
Speaker 1: he hadn't. He's missed at least uh three games in
Speaker 1: each of the last four years. I'll take thirteen games
Speaker 1: from him at his level than anybody as the right right,
Speaker 1: But I gotta have that with with with with with Cam.
Speaker 1: With Cam. It's a tough one, it really is. You know,
Speaker 1: you want the big bodies fats. I mean we want that,
Speaker 1: we want that player. Is he as good as he's
Speaker 1: gonna get? That's the thing. Is he as good as
Speaker 1: he's gonna get? What we saw from him last year,
Speaker 1: minus injuries or not? Is this all that we can
Speaker 1: expect from him? You know, sometimes those big bodies, they
Speaker 1: can do well for you if you can somehow tap
Speaker 1: into their mentality to make them understand the game better,
Speaker 1: which will make them better. All right, only because we
Speaker 1: need offensive line. That's a tough We'll see. We'll see
Speaker 1: where that one goes. And again, uh I see a
Speaker 1: lot of people looking at the draft and looking at
Speaker 1: the injuries. The Cowboys had a tackle position and Twatt
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys the draft and offensive tackle in the
Speaker 1: first round. I'm not there at all. But by the
Speaker 1: third round I would take a young guy and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: is this guy good enough to step in and be
Speaker 1: my swing tackle? Yes, like like they did with him exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: Next is Joe Looney, who had been the ended up
Speaker 1: the starting center, but I think, be honest, is going
Speaker 1: to be the starter next year. Uh So, if Looney's
Speaker 1: good to come back as the backup swing guard tackle
Speaker 1: I'd be okay with that, but again that comes down
Speaker 1: to market value, right um, Alden Smith, Alden Smith, can
Speaker 1: you get him back? Does he want to stay? Our
Speaker 1: other team's gonna be offering. That's the unknown at this point.
Speaker 1: Even though even though our defense was horrible, he was
Speaker 1: one of those blank spots and especially spast when we
Speaker 1: finally was smart enough to move him around exactly moved
Speaker 1: him around on that defensive line, he was extremely effective
Speaker 1: and those few shining moments that we had defensively, he
Speaker 1: was a big key in regards to that and his
Speaker 1: movement up and down the line. That was a big
Speaker 1: key to some of our hard to call us success
Speaker 1: on the defense that we had, but it did make
Speaker 1: us more effective. So yes, for me, whatever's in saying
Speaker 1: is yeah, they list him as a defensive end, but
Speaker 1: he got some pretty good efficient snaps at defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: especially in a past rush situation. And at his age,
Speaker 1: if he's over Randy Gregory, with Randy Gregory on around,
Speaker 1: then he should be. That was defensive and Gregory should be,
Speaker 1: you know, for a full season, And if you can
Speaker 1: plan on that, then you're in pretty good shape along
Speaker 1: with Dornsiders and you still don't know what Bradley any.
Speaker 1: He really didn't get a chance. So from a defensive
Speaker 1: end standpoint, you could be okay. This next one I
Speaker 1: think is a no brainer. Blake Bell the backup tight end.
Speaker 1: I think he was very serviceable and if you can
Speaker 1: bring him back as the third tight end with a
Speaker 1: guy that's very versatile, I'd have him back very versus.
Speaker 1: I like that fast, very versais. I could see him
Speaker 1: doing the same things that Rudolph was doing for the Vikings,
Speaker 1: who they had the other tight end that was playing
Speaker 1: against us they lined up on the center. We can
Speaker 1: do all of that with Bell because he was a
Speaker 1: very accomplished running quarterback at Oklahoma. So to ask him,
Speaker 1: I'd love to keep him as a capable not just
Speaker 1: tight end, but he can do many many things on
Speaker 1: special teams as well. Now here's your guy, Joe Thomas,
Speaker 1: backup linebacker. Good veteran guy to have, right, Yes, he's
Speaker 1: good to have, but we didn't use him. Wow, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's let's not just keep him around for a veteran guy.
Speaker 1: I'd love to use him more. And maybe once again,
Speaker 1: we don't want don't let me go off on this
Speaker 1: nickel thing again. Because I think I may have gotten
Speaker 1: in trouble last week, but I just you know, I
Speaker 1: feel that the guy deserved better than last year. And
Speaker 1: as much as you know he may not be well
Speaker 1: heeled in regards to a lot of talent, I thought
Speaker 1: he feeled in well for us when we finally decided
Speaker 1: to play three linebackers. LP Latticer no problem bringing him back.
Speaker 1: He's still doing the job and the good thing about
Speaker 1: him is he's willing to play for that veteran benefit
Speaker 1: against the CAP, where you can give him a little
Speaker 1: bit more, but he doesn't cost us much against the Cap. Okay,
Speaker 1: now here here's gonna be a one that they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to make a decision about chittaby A Woozier. H Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. After last year and the injuries,
Speaker 1: you kind of you almost ready to dismiss him off
Speaker 1: the bat, because when you're with a bad defense, as
Speaker 1: always is, and you you came back as a veteran
Speaker 1: offer injury, and when you came back and played it
Speaker 1: didn't make a difference in your defense, then you know
Speaker 1: you're not really looking at necessarily keeping him. But if
Speaker 1: the new DC comes in and feels that the woozier.
Speaker 1: Can you help him and maybe put him in position
Speaker 1: to make some plays. If he's attractive to Quinn, then
Speaker 1: he's attractive to me. Yeah, that's gonna be I think
Speaker 1: that'll be another one of those market value things. You
Speaker 1: got to kind of judge how much it would cost
Speaker 1: to bring him back. I'm sure you know he's he's
Speaker 1: done with his rookie contract, and you know, can can
Speaker 1: he cash in? Does somebody think, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the other thirty one teams think he's worth you know whatever?
Speaker 1: But if not, you know, if he wants to re
Speaker 1: establish his market value, maybe you bring him back on
Speaker 1: a one year kind of deal uh, and say, okay,
Speaker 1: we can handle this amount now, maybe you can re
Speaker 1: establish your market value for the next year. If you're
Speaker 1: not getting a big a big offer U C. J.
Speaker 1: Good one, uh, kind of a special teams ace. If
Speaker 1: you can afford him, bring him back, uh. And again,
Speaker 1: but a lot of this is market value. Same thing
Speaker 1: with Justin March. The outside linebacker Jordan Lewis is another
Speaker 1: tough one. He played, He ate up a lot of
Speaker 1: snaps for you, played in the nickel. But again, how
Speaker 1: much you know and and and in this especially this year,
Speaker 1: that's going to be a determining factor for these guys.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought he was misused a lot once again,
Speaker 1: playing nickel way too much. You're asking me a slightly
Speaker 1: built young man to get in there against tight ends
Speaker 1: and the running game and pulling guards on his first down,
Speaker 1: second down. We're not even talking about pass defense. We're
Speaker 1: talking about first and ten, second and five. And he's
Speaker 1: got to stick his nose in there, and he did
Speaker 1: his best in regards to that. If you would just
Speaker 1: if we could just keep his responsibilities to a more
Speaker 1: finite level and stop trying to ask him to do
Speaker 1: too much, I think he could do well for us.
Speaker 1: I don't look at him as a starter, I never have,
Speaker 1: but I do think he could be that capable defensive back,
Speaker 1: that fifth and sixth defensive back that we need. Now.
Speaker 1: Once again, all of this is predicated on how we're
Speaker 1: going to improve our pressure up front. If we can
Speaker 1: improve our pressure up front, guys like Julian Lewis have
Speaker 1: shown that they could be that guy to make important
Speaker 1: plays for us, doing critical parts of the game. So
Speaker 1: it has to be laid out for them just right.
Speaker 1: So three other guys real quickly here that played significant,
Speaker 1: somewhat significant roles. Xavier Woods, you're starting safety. Now there
Speaker 1: was another guy. Everybody talks about his production, but they
Speaker 1: weren't playing them at free safety that second half of
Speaker 1: the season. They were playing on like a strong safety
Speaker 1: that he was their nickel. He was there, he was
Speaker 1: their strong side linebacker, right, And it's like, I'm getting
Speaker 1: so tired of hearing the word nickel to see. That's
Speaker 1: the problem. So tired of hearing the word nickel because
Speaker 1: once they start using it so often, you're almost piecemeal
Speaker 1: and where you're putting your players right, you know, goy
Speaker 1: like Donovan Wilson that came along that really kind of
Speaker 1: turned things, uh upside down for the old secondary and
Speaker 1: there the high lucky the total pole that was established,
Speaker 1: which is a good thing. That's why docthor Wilson was
Speaker 1: back at safety free safety as opposed to Xavier Woods.
Speaker 1: That's the way I saw. So if you're gonna bring
Speaker 1: back a Xavier Woods, then Donogan Wilson needs to be
Speaker 1: back there as well. Uh. Noah Brown, he's been a
Speaker 1: guy that's been on their practice squad and he finally
Speaker 1: kind of carved himself a role, but again, you're not
Speaker 1: going to spend a lot of money trying to bring
Speaker 1: him back as a fifth wide receiver. And then the
Speaker 1: other guy in that boat is Cedric Wilson, who I
Speaker 1: think is you know, uh but White. I take it back.
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson's a restricted free agent, so they can give
Speaker 1: him an offer probably would give him a qualified original
Speaker 1: draft choice because he was a six So if somebody
Speaker 1: signs him to an offer sheet and you don't want
Speaker 1: to match it, then you get a sixth round pick
Speaker 1: in return, and another versatile guy as well player as well.
Speaker 1: And here's another guy that once they put him back
Speaker 1: on the field and he's restricted this year, Antoine Woods,
Speaker 1: your defensive tackle. Uh, this guy should have been playing
Speaker 1: from the start, messing around with don Terry Poe out
Speaker 1: there and costing this guy's snaps right, and he's restricted
Speaker 1: and he and he's he was not a draft choice.
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, if if you don't want to
Speaker 1: match whatever you the qualifying offer, then you know you
Speaker 1: wouldn't get anything back for losing him. But maybe he's
Speaker 1: one of those guys where you just give a little
Speaker 1: bit of money to and you sign him to a
Speaker 1: very inexpensive two year deal, but he gave him a
Speaker 1: little signing bonus to give him something to come back,
Speaker 1: because remember last year, he didn't sign his exclusive tag
Speaker 1: until the last minute. He was hoping that they valued
Speaker 1: him a little bit more than h or at least
Speaker 1: as much as he had valued himself. It didn't work
Speaker 1: out that body, So so that's kind of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: list here. Uh And when we return here on mix shots,
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Speaker 1: And if anybody's just joining us, which you should have
Speaker 1: long time ago, right, Mickey Spagnola Walls. So I've got
Speaker 1: Gil Brandt's top thirty two board and he's not suggesting
Speaker 1: that this is a mock draft. Okay, like this is
Speaker 1: the order these guys are gonna be picked, but he
Speaker 1: ranked them in how good he thinks these guys are.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna read them off and you tell me. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys need that guy, right, So Number one Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence quarterback. Number two, yeah, right, Number two ten a
Speaker 1: Sewell offensive tackle. I don't know that they could qualify
Speaker 1: taking an offensive tackle in the that high first ground. Okay.
Speaker 1: Number three wide receiver Jamar Chase probably don't need that.
Speaker 1: Number four quarterback Zach Wilson probably don't need that. No quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: all right, No, we don't need any quarterbacks. Number five
Speaker 1: is Kyle Pitts a tight end. That seems a little extravagant,
Speaker 1: knowing that they have high right right. Number six offensive
Speaker 1: tackle were Sewn Slater that was offensive tackle, was looking
Speaker 1: goods facts Number seven Trey Lance quarterback, Number eight quarterback
Speaker 1: justin Fields. Number nine, number nine Elijah vera Tucker offensive
Speaker 1: guard in the top ten. I don't think I could
Speaker 1: qualify that. Oh no, Andy, Now then we just talk
Speaker 1: about the employance of an offensive line. I'm with you,
Speaker 1: and we're dealing with offensive guard problems. Well, if Zack
Speaker 1: Martin you still say no, just think if Zach Martin's back,
Speaker 1: then you've got a combination of Connor McGovern and Connor
Speaker 1: Williams to take care of the guard backup guard position.
Speaker 1: And by the way, This is what I was going
Speaker 1: to point out when we were talking about cam Irving.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys can't mess around anymore if they get another
Speaker 1: offensive tackle, hurt Zach Martin's got to go out to tackle.
Speaker 1: No messing around with undrafted free agents trying to fill
Speaker 1: in that spot. That's why I say, and that's why
Speaker 1: when you name off these linemen, especially tackles, and I am,
Speaker 1: I am intrigued. Yeah, you can get one in the
Speaker 1: second or third round. You don't need them in the
Speaker 1: first round when you have so many defensive Yeah, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: think about think about the Great Wall of Dallas. There
Speaker 1: was one guy that was drafted in the second round
Speaker 1: and the rest of them were basically undrafted free agents.
Speaker 1: Right that they develop. Okay, Number number ten, DeVante Smith,
Speaker 1: you can't do that again. Right wide receiver, Number eleven,
Speaker 1: Jaylen Waddle wide receiver, and at number twelve on Gill's
Speaker 1: list is the first defensive player listed, Jalen H. Phillips,
Speaker 1: a defensive end number thirteen. Number thirteen is the guy
Speaker 1: I pointed out last week, linebacker Micah Parsons. Uh say,
Speaker 1: I I really think he's awfully talented, But again, you
Speaker 1: got to decide is he a three down linebacker or
Speaker 1: two down linebacker? And he's another one of these guys
Speaker 1: that you know didn't play last year. So now what
Speaker 1: is your evaluation level on him? And now fourteen and
Speaker 1: fifteen we found before you move on, before you move
Speaker 1: on with that, you can also find great linebackers in
Speaker 1: the lower rounds, right spag. It happens all the time.
Speaker 1: You got humpy guys coming from small schools and they
Speaker 1: coming to a big time program, but it's Cowboys, Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: or whatever, and they make a difference. So you're not
Speaker 1: I'm not really worried about UH linebackers in the first
Speaker 1: round as well. I feel like that the way you
Speaker 1: feel about the office offensive tackles. But what if this
Speaker 1: is a generational Lawrence Taylor type linebacker, Well, then if
Speaker 1: you say it is, I haven't evaluation, but I don't
Speaker 1: know you you you you put your stamp on him
Speaker 1: last week. Be consistent. And the one evaluation I read
Speaker 1: about him, and this was a guy's opinion I respect.
Speaker 1: He compared them to Rolando McClain. And if you think
Speaker 1: about Rolando McClain when he before he had his off
Speaker 1: field problems, this guy wasn't stud right big. This guy
Speaker 1: Parsons six four two forty five, and he runs, you know,
Speaker 1: he runs like a defensive back. So anyway, one thing
Speaker 1: you have to have with linebackers bags before we move on.
Speaker 1: One thing you have to have with linebackers. You don't
Speaker 1: need just studs looking good, but they have to have
Speaker 1: football instincts. Linebackers are like running backs. You have to
Speaker 1: know where the hole is once the ball is snapped,
Speaker 1: you see. So some guys don't get that no matter
Speaker 1: how much how high they're drafted. You can find that.
Speaker 1: And a guy Mit Brown who was just extremely intelligent
Speaker 1: and was a leader of his team for four years
Speaker 1: at I don't know, South, some Central university somewhere. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We can find that guy. All right,
Speaker 1: here's here's gonna be your homework assignment. You call up
Speaker 1: his film and I understand highlight films, they're all gonna
Speaker 1: be great plays, right so, but his instincts in that
Speaker 1: highlight in those highlight films to me were amazing. All right,
Speaker 1: Now it down that we finally get to what everybody's
Speaker 1: giving the Dallas Cowboys in their mock drafts at fourteen
Speaker 1: and fifteen cornerback Patrick Certain and cornerback Caleb Farley Virginia
Speaker 1: Tech and Alabama by the way. So that's how Gil
Speaker 1: kind of put his power rankings together. Now, well, Caleb
Speaker 1: Caleb was a guy that he sat out part of
Speaker 1: out also, yes, he did not play last year, so
Speaker 1: you got worried about that. Certain with Ballom the entire time.
Speaker 1: But he's got problems against speed. You know, sometimes the
Speaker 1: fast guys can can get by. And I mean, you
Speaker 1: know how it was I had the same problem. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to speed up your brain when you're out
Speaker 1: there going against faster players. I have one for your spags.
Speaker 1: If the Cowboys might want to sign, can I can
Speaker 1: I mention this one? Go ahead? Honorable mentioned h Larry Roundtree.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know of this young man. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a running back from from what where is he
Speaker 1: from a zoo? Right? Is he from a zoo? Yes?
Speaker 1: But he'll be come on, what you think he'll be.
Speaker 1: He'll be a second third round Uh Frank Gore, a
Speaker 1: Frank Gore type with major doability runs downhill. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, I mean thirty seven carries against who was
Speaker 1: that Mississippi State? Was it? Yes? But I mean, this
Speaker 1: guy's a stud man, but you're not bringing him up.
Speaker 1: Come on, represent the Tigers. He's not. He's not in
Speaker 1: Gill's top thirty two. The only guy from Missouri in
Speaker 1: the top thirty two, uh is linebacker Nick Bolton from Frisco.
Speaker 1: By the way, Uh nice, And but he's an inside
Speaker 1: guy and I don't know that he's a three down linebacker,
Speaker 1: but he's awfully good. He's got him ranked nineteenth. But
Speaker 1: here's the deal on if you're trying to get an
Speaker 1: idea of what people think of what's available in the draft.
Speaker 1: We went through the top eleven and no defensive player
Speaker 1: was listed right, and then between twelve and twenty they
Speaker 1: were all defensive players. Before he had Alabama quarterback Matt
Speaker 1: Jones at twenty one, and then the next guy at
Speaker 1: twenty two, Christian Barmore, the defensive tackle from Alabama that
Speaker 1: had one heck of a national championship game. Right, No, An,
Speaker 1: that's a championship year, right career. Let's just say, your
Speaker 1: whole career was amazing, and I had him circled and
Speaker 1: if that's something you would be interested in, then you
Speaker 1: could probably trade down, you know, five or six spots
Speaker 1: and probably still be able to pick him up. But
Speaker 1: I continue I continue to see in these in these
Speaker 1: mock drafts like Charlie CASTLELEI. Whatever you think of Charlie
Speaker 1: and his player evaluation he had, he had Parsons going
Speaker 1: number seven by the way, um, and there's some people
Speaker 1: that had bar Moore going uh in their top twelve.
Speaker 1: So uh, those are positions I think the Cowboys obviously
Speaker 1: keeping an eye on not only you know, cornerback, but
Speaker 1: I got no problem taking a defensive tackle, defensive end,
Speaker 1: you know, linebacker. As long as that linebacker's versatile and
Speaker 1: can play all three downs, I don't want him off
Speaker 1: the field on the nick. Well, the draft itself shows
Speaker 1: me that running backs are still not considered to be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, premium, which I still think. It's a shame.
Speaker 1: You got guys like Naji Harris and Bama. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, who wouldn't take that guy? Another another Henry
Speaker 1: in the making? Uh? You bought from Oklahoma State? Right,
Speaker 1: Just a guy that the one of the best, Travis
Speaker 1: and ten from Clemson. Man, this guy he's done things
Speaker 1: on the field that I've never seen anyone doing. He
Speaker 1: reminds me of Cede lamb just playing in the backfield
Speaker 1: a little bit bigger, and like I said, your boy
Speaker 1: brown Tree, right, he's a guys. He's ranked right after
Speaker 1: Naji Harris, And that sang a lot because Naji Harris
Speaker 1: is a great athlete. Larry brown Tree. Guys like that there,
Speaker 1: they won't be appreciated. They're just like the Frank Gulas.
Speaker 1: They won't be appreciated until their career is old. And
Speaker 1: he's got Naji Harris ranked twenty fifth, the only running
Speaker 1: back in his top thirty two. That is amazing to me.
Speaker 1: The only running back. Yes, absolutely, that makes no sense.
Speaker 1: Come on, you could You could put that on Gil.
Speaker 1: And here's that's another thing I'm gonna put on Gail. Yeah. Right,
Speaker 1: And here's a guy, his thirty second guy. But when
Speaker 1: I watched this guy play, oh my, uh, Cadarius Tony,
Speaker 1: the wide receiver from Florida. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: ever seen him. He will cause some team team's headaches.
Speaker 1: I'll guarantee you that. And he may go higher than
Speaker 1: thirty second. He's not big, but boy, uh he's the
Speaker 1: next coming of the Kansas City's Guy Hill. Right. Uh,
Speaker 1: this guy, yeah, this guy is all over the place
Speaker 1: with the football. So anyway, well that's two shot, two
Speaker 1: Mick shots in a row of very informative, a lot
Speaker 1: of innovation, right, yes, absolutely. I gotta look on my
Speaker 1: list and see if I forgot anything, but if I did,
Speaker 1: there's always next week, right yeah, and once again to
Speaker 1: cross Boy. I loved listen to earth Cross on that
Speaker 1: on the team moves. Yeah, really spoon NFL today he
Speaker 1: was he was awfully, awfully good. All right, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Everson Walls, Chris Bean, thanks for keeping us afloat.
Speaker 1: And now I'll try keep my headset, my headphones plugged
Speaker 1: in well next time so we don't have a lapse
Speaker 1: in the action. And we will be back next week
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