WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Open Season 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.000 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:14.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Nick 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.200 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:23.479 official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:32.920 and Nicky Spagnola. And this is the second most wonderful 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:37.560 time of the year that we're inside the SWBC podcast 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.159 studio and we're all in agreement. I think that the 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.960 holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year, 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.879 but I think this is second best because we're in 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:51.720 March and free agency is about to start, and these 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.200 teams are about to get as symboled and we got 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.600 so much to talk about on this week's Addicks edition 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:03.160 of nick Shots. Additchen it is It isn't somebody here. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.880 Don't you just love this time of y Oh? I 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.600 hate it? Why no? You don't you love those guys 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:15.760 out there on the combine. You love watching the youngsters 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.840 coming up trying to make a way. I mean, in 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.319 the next week or so two weeks, right, these teams 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.479 are going to be put together. We had breaking news 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.920 this morning. We got a new quarterback for the New Orleans. Yes, 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.920 we do did they finally get it done or it's 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.880 there the official it's aficial official, Yeah this morning when 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:40.360 I love it? Pends on who said it NFL network. Okay, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.880 that's that's a good source. Yet out all right, it 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.640 says right now Saints closing in on deal with Derek Carr. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:52.680 There you go, So that's not official. That's why I 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:57.880 don't ye stars on both sides of the You gotta 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.720 figure out who you believe. Now. Next Monday is going 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.760 to be the day when all of this happens because 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.520 that's when the negotiating period opens next month. So how 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.560 are we gonna do the show next week? I mean, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.639 we do the show right when the negotiating window opens? 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.280 Is that what time? And basically I think, yeah, yea, 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.200 we miss everything. It's like we're gonna be right on 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.600 top of this time because all the reports are gonna 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.480 be coming out. That's right. Oh man, that's gonna be 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.640 a great show. Now, nothing official, but it's not that 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.760 this show won't be a great show, that's right. But 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:31.880 got a deadline tomorrow I have since this time of year. Yeah, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.440 we going back to last year, who did you have 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.120 your eye on? In the combines when he had Michael 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.080 Parson before it's going to be the gas here before 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.840 Michael Parsons two years ago. I retired after that one. Yeah, 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.720 you got that right, retire? Yes, yes, I had my 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:55.560 eye on that offensive tackle from Tulsa Tyler Smith kidding. Yeah, well, 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.440 I mean when you look at it, it turns out 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.240 I should have had my eye on everybody. Shut hell 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.880 up about him? He was he your guy? Was he 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:09.120 one of those guys? Who'd you have that? I have 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:14.799 to remember the book. He's got this book, You got 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:19.200 your stuff. You can't remember from last year. I remember 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:23.799 better from twenty ten than That's why I to talk 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.000 to younger people. So yeah, and all the younger people 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:33.440 nobody had Tyler Smith. So they didn't. Oh did all 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.800 this studying for three months? Right, and Tyler Smith probably 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.440 never passed their leave. He wasn't on anybody's especially sixteeth 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.560 on anybody's draft. When we chose him. Everyone said that 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.480 was a mistake. Yeah, they really did. They didn't believe. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:54.000 That's why they're called so called experts. That's why that's 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.960 not what they called themselves. That's why this is not 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.440 the greatest time of year. Well, if you're going with predictions. No, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.880 you're right, it is not the greatest time of the year. 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.040 So who's the who's the Who's that person we had 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.280 the guy from from Georgia? Was that two years ago? 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.360 Last year, the last year the first pick in the 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.360 draft was from Georgia that was Big Walker as Big 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.360 then went to Jackson and it might have been this year. Yep, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:27.960 selling Carter some issues could be Yeah, a little controversy. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:32.200 But and I heard maybe not the sharp because well, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.960 that's probably why he's in trouble. I mean hopefully it's 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.480 because he's you know, that's all part of this process 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.240 is trying to figure out who the sharpest is. So 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.080 when you look at him, if I'm not mistaken, I 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.560 saw him doing caught wheels and flips then I see 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.960 that maybe I'm pretty sure I saw him doing and 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:53.359 then and then make a tackle. No, No, he was 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.279 just coming out for one month. Now he's Wow, that 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.280 would be amazing. He's pretty good. He is. Yeah, as 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.240 a defensive backle Now you got to understand or is 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.120 he I think he's a three down guy. But is 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:08.960 he a three down guy to take at the top 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.680 of the draft? Um? He said number one overall? Yeah, 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.800 every every It's not like the car story. No, this 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.200 is legitimate. They said number one because of the issues 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.880 that he had. Now he was gonna be it was 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.159 just going to be the top four or five teams 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:27.960 in the draft. We're really gonna have to study him 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.280 because he's gonna be long gone. Now, everybody's got to 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:37.240 study him because who might fall. That's right lyle Collins, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:42.240 right right. The troubles uh that was, but that the 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.320 difference on Collins was that it was so close to 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.919 the draft when it happened that everyone panics. Yeah, and 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.719 and teams didn't have time to do their research. But 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.200 one thing on this is they have time now to 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.560 figure it all out. So, yeah, we shouldn't talked to him. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.480 I'm going free agent, right, Yes, the boy signed him 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.599 as a he'll he'll never make up that money that 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.799 he could have had. Which, okay, you bring up loud Collins. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.960 Let's get to the news that the decisions that the 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.360 Cowboys have to make here in the next twenty four 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:20.120 hours with franchetline looming with the franchise, tag and Mickey 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.159 give us an update on what they're thinking. Well, I'm 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.360 sure they're thinking that they would like to sign Tony 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.599 Pollard to a multiple year deal, but it sounded like, 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.400 after listening to Jerry on Friday from the Combine, that 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.880 if that doesn't get done, then they indeed will franchise 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:46.120 him one year, ten point zero one million dollars guaranteed 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:50.159 is the franchise tag to reserve his rights for a 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.760 running back for a running back, and then they're going 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.400 to have to coordinate that with what they do with 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.600 Ezekiel Elliott, and Jerry said, if he had his druthers 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.520 both guys, they will resume just what they were doing 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.680 this year with both guys that he wants them back. Um. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:14.320 You know, Jerry talked about how he gets accused of 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.640 hanging on to his stars too long. I think people 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:24.640 forget he cut Troy Aikman, he cut Emmett Smith. Um. Now, 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.680 he may have signed guys to an extension maybe too 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.760 you know, too late in their careers. But but he 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.520 did cut these guys. He moved on from DeMarcus Ware, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.320 moved on from where. So yeah, somehow he's got this 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.280 reputation that he hangs on too, moved on from Everson Walls. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.920 I was like, hey, Browning over here, Jerry, come on, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:53.480 say me started playing the horn. Good to see you 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.640 go did well so so But anyway, I think those 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.120 are you know, the things they've got to decide. And 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.400 you know, Stephen made it sound like they would use 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.720 the tag if they have to, uh and if it's 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:12.520 not um, if it's not Tony Pollard, they you know, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:17.840 have other alternatives of what they could do. Although Jerry said, um, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.320 you know, I got to decide how important this tight 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.280 end is going to be in this offense. And interesting 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:29.240 Juck supposed that against what those young guys did and 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.480 what they might be able to do to decide what 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.679 market value is for Dalton Shoulder. That is that that 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.720 is to me, that's the most interesting uh story right now? 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.360 I mean to me and speaking as if I was 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.040 going to if I was in the owner of the team, 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.400 and I see what Polard's going through right now. Franchise, 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:50.720 I mean, I'm just gonna be quick about it. I 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:55.240 wouldn't think too much on it. Franchising and speaking as 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.560 a fan, though, it's hard for me to give up 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.679 Zekiela Elliots. It's hard to me to give zup, not 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:06.120 just you know, sentimental value. He had value on this team, 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.400 still has value in the way he was able to 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.080 run the ball and help us move the change. And Jerry, 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.120 by the way, emphasized that towards the end of the 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:22.400 year he was playing through an injury again, so he 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:30.280 didn't he's not devaluing his talent like what he's capable 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:34.520 of doing. But they're likely needs to be adjustment on 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.760 the base salary, which I think they could come to 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:44.160 a equitable conclusion on that one on both sides right 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:50.120 to not have him with a ten point nine million 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.520 dollars base salaries, say everybody says he costs him sixteen million, 0:09:53.880 --> 0:10:00.040 Well third of that is basically the leftover signing on 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.000 us that and restructure bonus that still needs to be 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.600 accounted for it. He's already paid him that. It's the 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.200 ten point nine that they have to restructure. I'm gonna 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:10.840 tell you what's gonna happen, because it's the way the 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:15.160 fans are and the media as well. Once Poler starts 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:19.920 making big money, then the criticism it's going to be 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.160 much more hard. And they draft guy this year in 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.160 the fourth or fifth round, Okay, and now all of 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.120 a sudden, that guy's gonna be right right. Yeah, they 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.040 love us when we're not making any money. You know, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.319 we're that hard life story, you know, where that person's 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.760 fighting from the bottom, he's trying to dig his way out. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.839 But once you start making the money, now all of 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.160 a sudden, you're bougie. You know, you're you're too good 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.200 for us. You're not You're not that you're not good 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.559 enough for us because of what we're paying you. Well, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.679 I'm looking forward to that changing attitude. That changed the 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:56.000 whole landscape of the NFL. Probably around what would you 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:01.360 say nineteen ninety when salaries became almost who was the 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.520 first public Who was the one to kick it off? 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.880 Like back in free agency with the Baseball's Mester Smith 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.680 or somebody like that. Who who would you say kicked it? 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:17.040 Or what salary? My butt? That gonna go? Kurt Waters? Well, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.800 I mean, come on, as started, but Messter Smith ended 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.360 up capitalizing off of it. But when when NFL salaries 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.840 now they're almost becoming public knowledge, I think that changed 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:33.400 how people were at at players because now it wasn't 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.960 how much you make, it's how well are you playing for? 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.240 How much you make? I do recall you know when 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.760 they put it in USA today, but they were they 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.600 already knew about the salaries, but mis Gary Minds put 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.400 it in the USA today, and I supplied them with 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.000 the with the salaries because there's a union rep. What 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:55.160 you had was teams and players were being dishonest about 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.880 what they were making. You know, if I'm one of 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:02.840 the one of text Ram's guys, you know I'm gonna 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.640 text and I are gonna agree that I'm not making 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.520 as much as you know everyone says I'm making. I'm 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.600 making a hundred thousand less than that. But they went 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:17.840 coots and it damaged the relationship with future teammates because 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.680 now you find out that he's making more when you 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.080 were negotiating and making less, so that you can, you know, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.320 be right there with him. So it probably started then. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.160 That was around eight how about eighty six when they 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:36.080 signed Herschel too. There's always that's that that one moment 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:41.280 kicked everything off. What was it? I want? He got 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.920 one hundred thousand? That sounds silly right now, right, That's 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.680 why I checked myself. Was it a million? No? It 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.960 was one hundred thousand, right, And they asked Tony Dorset 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.760 what he thought about it, and Tony Dorset promptly said, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.400 I feel like one hundred thousand dollars man, Like, if 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.439 he's getting that, that's what I does. Yeah, but they 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.439 that's not what they got. Yeah, it was just a 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.160 sign to come things to come. So but yeah, you're right, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.360 it's it's not how much you make, it's how well 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.840 you played with how much. Yeah, that's certainly started that. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.000 So we'll see, we'll see what happens. Tomorrow's the deadline 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.880 on the on the franchise tender. Uh And like I said, 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.960 and then if they happen to get something done in 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.720 time with Pollard, then um, you know you could use 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.240 it elsewhere, although it's pretty expensive to use it on 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.560 a safety. Fourteen million. I don't think that will sent 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.440 that much on a safety. Yeah, Donovan Wilson. So the 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.959 toughest sign you think would be Wilson versus Sheltz because 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.480 what you just talked about, what those tight ends is 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.640 going to be about the same price on a one 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.360 year deal. Now. Yeah, but he's got a twenty percent 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.520 increase over last year because if he was the franchise player. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.800 But I think what makes it more titilating is you've 0:13:55.840 --> 0:14:00.320 got two other guys at his position, right the extreme 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.520 to me extremely valuable to the Cowboys, and Jerry talks 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.560 extensively about Okay, you can't have everybody. Now, what do 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.120 I have with young guys that we have to count 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:14.360 on stepping up? Somebody to move in. I guess he 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.840 could have used Tyler Smith on that after he struggled 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.320 his rookie year and then when he was forced to 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:24.520 start the next year when Lail Collins got hurt, he 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.560 stepped up and played by the way. I hadn't seen 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.120 this anywhere else, and just doing research while y'all are talking, 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:36.360 this is the thirtieth anniversary of NFL free agency. Wow, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.560 nineteen ninety three is when it started. They had to 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.360 plan B free agents prior to that from nineteen eighty nine, 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:47.880 but the salary captain's start till ninety four. Okay, so 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.880 that's what changed everything. I think guys ended up. There 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.120 was a form of free agency in ninety three, right right. Well, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:01.480 Plan B actually was, because that's how Nova, Nova Check 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.280 and Rob A Walt where the big Plan B free 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:09.080 agent signings. Otherwise I thought this sucked. Well, I think 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.920 they also so ninety three when when free agency or 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.200 ninety four, I mean, you were just you just missed 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:23.720 it once again. I came along too soon that summer. 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:32.960 All all came around, well, James Washington Plan, if I 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.400 remember correctly, I think they brought in like twenty guys 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.800 that year when Plan I started. And back then you 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:44.360 could protect a certain number of players thirty some thirty 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.200 seven or something like that, and then the others were 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:53.640 subject to which also caused problems because feelings got hurt. Right, Oh, 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.120 you didn't think I was good enough to protect and 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.440 then and then no one picked you up. And okay, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.800 glad to be here. He's always watch what you wish for, right, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.560 you just might get it? Yeah, absolutely? And the other 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:11.800 the uh landmark when you talk sports contracts, the landmark 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:19.400 milestone contract was Kirby puckets uh in about eight he 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.480 was the first three million dollar player. He's climbing the wall. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:27.280 Three million dollars a year. That was It wasn't a Yankee, Yeah, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.680 that's usually. It was especially surprising a Minnesota twin would 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.760 be the one of all time. All right about Terren Steele, Yeah, 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:39.120 and it's been reported that they will use the second 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.760 round tender on Terren Steel as a restricted free agent. 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.880 That'll cost him four point three million on that one 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:54.240 year deal. But again you can negotiate out of that. Uh. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.120 And you know, still there's no restriction on signing those 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.040 guys to a long term deal, so you can always 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:05.199 do that with the restricted guys. So we'll see what happened. 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.720 So are you surprised they went with the second round 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.000 tender instead of a first round tender? So I thought 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:16.080 that was yeah, because I think somebody said they went 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.840 with it is an official. Yeah, that would somebody give 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.960 up a second round pick to sign him to a 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:26.199 long term deal. Maybe, But again, he's coming off that 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.320 ACL and they can say, oh, he's ahead of schedule. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.720 How do you know it's two months right? Where are 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.840 we at March sixth? His surgery was mid December, two 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.600 and a half months. They're trying to get him back 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.760 for the beginning of the season. Correct, Yeah, that's what 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.240 they're But since he is a free agent, a restricted 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.159 free agent at that a team would bring him in 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:55.280 and check him out and see he is doing some 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.760 team with a gob of money, and then of course 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.879 the Cowboys would have the opportunat Yeah, he might receive 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.439 out there and if they let him go, then they 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:09.040 get a second round draft pick back forth, and I 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:18.760 figured out that how about this, with still starting the 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:23.480 first thirteen games last year, the Cowboys at least averaged 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:27.879 four yards a carry in each of those games, or 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:33.399 in those games at ten times ten of the thirteen Okay, 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.680 in the final four regular season games with him missing, 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.600 they never averaged more than three point eight and in 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:46.720 the last two games two seven and two four. And 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.360 that continued in the playoffs. So I don't know if 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:54.520 this is coincidence or not, but in the playoffs it 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.080 was three to seven against Tampa Bay and three to 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.960 five in the loss to San Francisco, and they got 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.480 to three to five against San Francisco. Thaks to Dak 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.600 carrying the ball four times for twenty two yards, so 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.840 he averaged over five yards to carry. So they struggled 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:16.240 to run the football when he wasn't in there. You started, 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.119 but you had Tyrn Smith. Okay, well, Tyrn Smith hadn't 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:25.320 done anything for what thirteen thirteen weeks and playing a 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:29.240 position he hadn't played since twenty twelve. The other thing 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.840 that I think people forgot during that stretch when they 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:37.960 struggled to run the football. They lost Beardish in game 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.440 sixteen and didn't play in Game seventeen, and that meant 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.560 they had to start with the line shuffle, right. McGovern 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:50.640 goes to center Tyler Smith to guard Jason Peters, at 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.920 forty years old, is now playing full time at tackle 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:59.720 until Beyotish returned for the playoffs. Thank god, because my 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.600 hip it is killing me. Yeah. So so anyway, Tyler 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.080 Smith I thought was pretty darning. I mean, Terren Steele 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:11.080 was pretty darn important to what they did. And so 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:16.320 you know, this this perception out there that they didn't 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.000 run the ball, or to me, I went back and looked, 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:24.800 you guys, they were and I know it's seventeen games, Okay, 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.399 they ran the ball five hundred and thirty one times. 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.359 You got to go back to nineteen ninety four to 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.800 find the last time they ran more in a single season. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.400 And even if you take away the twenty seven carries 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:44.520 in the seventeenth game, they're at five o four And 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:49.159 there's only been four other times since ninety four that 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.000 they ran the ball more than five hundred times in 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.960 a season. So that's that's kind of surprising. So all 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.240 this talk about well now we're gonna change or we're 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:03.120 gonna run more, no better, run more effectively. Right, that's 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:07.680 the problem. You can run thirty thirty five times a game, 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.080 but if you're only averaging three and a half carries 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.680 a game, it doesn't seem like you're getting anywhere. So 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:17.520 to me, this whole talk about you know, McCarthy wants 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.439 to run the ball more, you know Kellen Moore was 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.760 all he wanted to do was throw was misleading because 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:27.520 they ran the ball more than they had since McCarthy 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:30.400 got here. If you try to put it together and 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.920 maybe look at some different scenarios on why they ran 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:38.639 so much. Could Dak's interceptions be a factor? You know, 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:42.240 let's say he wouldn't have thrown so many interceptions, then 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.520 we'd be we'd have more success with our passing game, 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.920 therefore run the ball less. So do you think it's 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.080 because we had to tone it down during the game, 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.520 like we're killing them with the pass. All of a sudden, 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.480 Dack throws an interception, Like okay, we either back it 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.639 up back right. I wonder if that had anything to 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:04.119 do with those numbers, because his interceptions were unusual in 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:07.159 the right. Yeah, so did we react It was that 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:10.359 the reaction too, those on time return overs. I think 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:12.840 it's not that we could look at I don't have 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.280 an answer for that. 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