WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Who's Coming Back? 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:18.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:23.000 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:27.360 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:32.720 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:39.000 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.720 It is Tuesday, December thirty, first, twenty nineteen season fifteen, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.160 episode number one on nine. Welcome to the final edition 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.120 of The Break for the two thousand nineteenth season. After today, 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.800 we will start our offseason schedule next week. We'll be 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.120 going once a week. We're still putting that schedule together. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:55.560 We'll let you guys know as soon as we get 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.760 that figured out. I got only got to one hundred 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.880 and nine episode. Yeah, but we still got more shows 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.440 that will be a part of this season. Yeah, Derek 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.200 doesn't turn it over till we'll turn over to the 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:10.520 NFL season changes. But this football scout a whole system. Yeah, 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.680 I do. I've been doing this fifteen years. Don't worry 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.679 about it. I got it. That's sad. Wow, is kind 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.240 of sad, kind of confetit all right, I got Nick Woodman, 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.560 Dave Amber, We got Danny joining us as well. All 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.120 five of the crew here today that have been a 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.080 part of the break for this season, and today we're 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.240 gonna recap. Actually what we're gonna talk about is is 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.959 expiring contracts. We're gonna talk about coaches that are up. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.000 We're gonna talk about players that are up. There are 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.920 a ton of them on both sides of those. And 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.560 I'll want to know from you guys what you think 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.440 will and should happen with all those guys. But before 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.680 we do that, as a way to start off the show, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.720 I'd like to go around the table and I want 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.560 each of you just give me a quick little minute 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.720 on just your thoughts on where this team is based 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.160 on what you saw this season, based upon what is 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.960 expected to have to happen this offseason. Just where you 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:03.320 think if you had to give a state of the 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.920 Union right now, Uh, well, where would you be right 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.280 now with this team. I'll start with the older statesman, Nick, 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:14.000 start us off. Um, what I like a little heads 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.240 up on that one? Well, I want it really there 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:17.679 is why I didn't tell you before is because I 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.480 really wanted you're off Just what was on top of 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:25.960 your mind about this team right now. They need I 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:30.720 think they need better play on defense. I think that. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.000 I mean you can say, I mean coaching, Yeah, you can, 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.120 you can say that. I mean, they're gonna need to 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.440 figure this out with the staff, But um, I think, 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.960 you know, more than anything, I think that they need 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.639 better play. The offense was good enough at times, but 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:45.799 the defense I think is going to be where the 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.160 focus needs to be. They need to figure out question 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.040 marks on defense persual with the defensive line and the secondary. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.120 A lot of a lot of moving parts there as 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:54.720 part of sels we used to say, and I think 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.880 that that defense is need needs to be addressed more 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.440 than anything, all right, Amber, Hmm, Well, you know what, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:08.720 I'm feeling a little emotional today, and I just every year, 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.760 you know, I just hate the fact that our youth 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.880 is going away. You know. Every year that pass every 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.080 year that passes by is another last year, you know, 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.600 And I feel that in my short time that I've 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:28.720 been here, I genuinely really felt very, very excited about 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.800 this specific season. We went into training camp and I 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.000 was like, Okay, wow, Chris Rushar. I was so excited 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.880 about Chris Rashard and everything that he was doing in 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.400 the defense and everything that was going on as far 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:46.360 as the offense and what Amari Cooper was bringing into 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.680 the team, seeing Dak developed into a better passer, you know, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.680 throwing those long passes down the field. I was just 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.720 very excited about the future of this team and right now, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.080 I mean, obviously the season came to an end, but 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.360 as of right now, I have absolutely no idea what 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.760 this team is going to look like next year, not 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:12.080 just within the players but also the coaching staff. I 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:16.440 have no clue or anything, any sense of like what 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:21.200 to expect moving forward. So I think it's just getting 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.240 over that disappointment of just another year kind of wasted 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.000 and the talent that we thought we had and then 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.400 the unknown, just not knowing what's going to happen next Danny. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.520 I feel like they were almost kind of like knocking 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.560 on the door, like we saw so many good sparks 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.560 of what this team is capable of, especially on offense, 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.200 and so I still have faith in that sense of 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:45.719 like when you look at this roster, you still know 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.920 what these players are capable of, but for whatever reason, 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.440 they were never able to play complimentary football. And I 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.320 agree with Nick, I think The biggest issue from this 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.240 team has been defense on the line and the secondary 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.680 of special I mean and even really all over, I 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.359 mean every position was struggling with tackling for most of 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:04.920 the season, and so I think that's where most of 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:09.240 it needs to be the focus, whether that's acquisitions or 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:10.920 the draft. Whenever we get to that point, I think 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.560 defense is going to have to be a really heavy 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.320 area they focus on. And I think it'll be just 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.200 interesting to see what happens because there are so many 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:20.960 coaches and I think if we do get a new 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.479 head coach that overhauls I mean everything, and so we'll 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.800 have to see what happens there. But I think just 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.880 disappointment from this year of knowing what this team was 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.080 capable of and they all said that to themselves, and 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.719 just not being able to get the job done. Dave 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:39.040 round the Cell, I'm not an overly like sentimental person. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.760 I don't buy into the whole kind of I don't 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.880 buy into the whole like concept that like New Year's 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.360 really means anything, you know, like it's it's a fresh slate, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.400 blah blah blah. I don't really buy it in general, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:53.760 but it's really crazy and fitting Jason Garrett oversaw literally 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.320 this whole decade that's about to end, like almost the 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.719 whole thing, with the exception of like six months in 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.240 twenty ten, and it seems like it's over now, which 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.880 lining up very well for the start of a new decade. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.720 And so this whole franchise feels like it's at a crossroads. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.599 You can take it as a positive because I do 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.880 think there's a lot of talent on this roster. They 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.640 could make a fantastic higher You've got a quarterback that 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.279 wins games, You've won a playoff game with him. I 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:20.840 think there's all the reason in the world to think 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.000 that this could trend upward. We've also just gotten done 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.800 with a season where a team with talent just couldn't 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.440 get it together and couldn't make the playoffs. So success 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.360 is never guaranteed in this league, and if you want 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.200 to look at it as a negative, that's kind of scary. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.760 If they bungle this, it could be the start of 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.960 a downward trend and all of a sudden, you're good 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:43.200 young players are good old players or not good old players, 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.760 and you're sitting there thinking about the glory days where 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.440 they were a Dez catch away from the NFC title 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:55.360 game or etc. I choose to be optimistic because I 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.840 believe in the talent on this team, and I trust 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.520 the jones is to make the right higher when that 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.520 finally happens. But it's just, you know, we're here on 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.320 New Year's even I just feel like we're at a 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.800 big crossroads where it could go in a really really 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.400 good direction or a not so good direction. All right, 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.280 So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna dive into this. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:19.840 You got anything else. I mean, honestly, if I had to, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.640 if I had to say what my thoughts are right 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.560 now on this team, it would be I'm a little 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.280 confused and uncertain. That's the best way to put it, 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.880 because I look at this team and I really do 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.680 believe they got a lot of talent. But there's nothing 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.320 that will corroborate that for me right now, because what 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.640 I've seen from this team this season suggests that maybe 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.880 some of the people I thought were really talented aren't 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.560 as talented or they weren't being put in the right position. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.280 And that's what I don't know. That's the part that 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.840 makes me really just I really don't know what to 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.320 think of this team right now. I'm interested to see 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.520 if and when they make this move and they get 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.960 a whole new let's let's say it's one new head 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.440 coach or a whole new coaching staff, or whatever they do. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.120 I'm interested to see how the team performs next year 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:05.800 because that'll tell me a lot about this year. So 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.360 I'm deferring my opinion on this team until I see 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.640 next year's team and how they perform, and that will 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.320 tell me what I need to know about this final 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:16.320 season of this decade. All right, so let's jump in. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:17.600 Here's I want to do. I want to go through 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.480 the roster of all the guys that are going to 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.240 be unrestricted free agents. I have three categories. I want 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.119 you to put them in for me. There is the 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.640 priority that means that Cowboys should do whatever they need 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.880 to do to get this guy resigned. There are the 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:30.840 guys that if it works, if you can get a 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.400 deal that works for both sides, make the right amount 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.360 of money, that's where I want this guy to be. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.719 And then they're the guys just let them walk. It's 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.880 all good. We don't. We don't. We can move on. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.520 We can find barel talent. We should find better talent 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.040 than what this guy presents. What was the mental category? 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.559 I'm sorry. If it works so I get money, right, yeah, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.439 and we stick, then we do make the deal. So 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.760 let's start with the one. We didn't do really good 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.640 last year at this I can't remember how to within 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.719 a free agency. Oh, I can't remember how the show went. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.280 I know we did this last year. Remember this year? 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.080 All right, let's start with the big one. Obviously, Dak Prescott, 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.400 tell me whether you think he's a priority, if it's 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.160 if the money works, or if you should let him walk. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.920 I think he's a priority. I agree, I mean, obviously 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.080 it's if it works. I mean, but yeah, I guess 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.240 he's the priority, but it better work finance. Its kind 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.280 of both, right, yeah, I mean I don't know if 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.000 the Cowboys are gonna I mean, if they play hardball here, 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.160 if they're gonna just let him walk, but I probably, 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.079 I mean, they can always franchise him if they have to, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.640 so that that's that's what they have in their back pocket. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.400 And you can throw I mean, if it works, as 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.439 always part of it, because I mean I don't want 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.760 to give up the farm. I don't want to give 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.280 Dak Prescott whatever he wants. If his people want forty 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.040 million dollars a year, I don't like that, Yeah, and 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.680 that's why I won't be surprised if this draws out. 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.800 But I think he's a good quarterback. I do think 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.040 he took a step forward this year. Not as far 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.120 forward as you would prefer, but I mean, I think 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.560 you can accomplish your goals with him as the quarterback, 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.520 and and once you sign him, it'll all fall into place. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.960 He won't be the highest paid, YadA YadA, all that 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.280 stuff we've talked about, and it's too hard to start 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.320 over really with another quarterback. I think I think he's 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.880 good enough. With some guys around him, then he can 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.120 take this team where they want to go. So all right, 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:20.079 let's go to Tavon Austin wide receiver already, lad block, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.760 Bye bye bye everybody. Yes, you should have been gone 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.240 earlier in the season. I think they didn't even use 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.400 him till the end of the games anyway. I just 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.240 I don't think he brought anything that you didn't have 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.360 in your other receivers you can't get from other guys 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.760 coming in this year. Does that does that turn into 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.080 a position now that you have to fill because he 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:38.959 had a role on this team. Is that now turn 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.280 into a guy? You got it? Because you got a 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.040 lot of and a growing list of people that you're 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:44.920 a roles you're gonna have to replace. You have to 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.240 fill it. But I just assume you can find a 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.760 fifth receiver and punt returner without I mean, you don't 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.080 have to spend this crazy capital to accomplish that fifth 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.839 receiver or whatever he is fourth for where you want. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:02.000 It's like, what, what nothings like that? I don't I 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.680 didn't see that first, but go ahead, Oh it looked 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:10.840 like wow, Like no, I was just gonna say what. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.240 I don't know. Whatever coaching staff that comes in here, 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.040 what's gonna be their opinion? Because with Tavon Austin, I 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.120 feel like with different coaches, every coach thinks that they 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:26.040 can make and take Tavon Austin's talent and make it 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.320 work on the field, and it just has not worked 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.640 anywhere where he's been. But every coach thinks he can 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.200 they can turn him into something better. And by the way, 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.800 he has some skills that makes a coach think I 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.600 can get get out of him right because he can run. 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.199 We know that he can run, and so there might 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:42.880 be a coach that's out there and says, hey, give 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:44.040 me a year with that guy. I think I can 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.840 do something. But there was a coach that said no, 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.960 thank you, and that was Sean mcvagh. I mean once 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:49.920 he get jumped in and saw him for a little 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.640 bit and I said, oh, we don't need that guy. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.880 I feel dumb for not even saying this at the start. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.120 Tony Pollard can do everything. Tavon Austin can. Good point 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.320 I and it's not up to me, but I would 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.000 have Tony spend the whole offseason working on fielding punts. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.040 Why can't he do that? Yeah, So, actually, like the 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.120 way runs in that kind of stary, I think he'd 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.000 be really absolutely all right, let's jump act. Let's take 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.880 our first break. When we come back, we'll talk a 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.319 little bit more about another wide receiver, Randall cop that 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.520 won't come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.199 I'm Jay Novachik, former tight end for the Dallas Cowboys 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.480 back in the day. I was a guy who always 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.000 got the tough yards, and that's why I run with 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.720 John Deer today. 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It is the 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.080 second segment of the Break Life in the s WBC 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.880 mortgage studios at the Star, we're talking about unrestricted free agents. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.400 We've gone for a few We're going to get back 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.200 into a conversation on the wide receivers Randall cop So 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.360 your priority is a guy they'd bring back the works 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.760 or you just let him walk if it makes sense. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.880 I would bring him back, preferably on a similar deal 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.200 to the one he signed this year. One preferably no 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.240 more than one, maybe two years, not a lot of money. UM, 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.200 I thought he worked in this offense. I thought he 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:47.840 left a lot of players on the field. Him and 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.840 Dad couldn't ever seem to get on the same page. 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.320 You know, it seemed like he had a drop, a 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.480 key drop in every second or third game. But I 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:56.720 do think he was a good player, and I think 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.080 he's a good locker room dude. So if it with 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.320 all that, I mean, I would also I'd be open 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.280 to drafting a slot receiver too, that's fine, but if 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.760 it could be done for a good price, I'd before it. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.800 Now the big one Marii Cooper. I we feel about 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.360 a Marik Cooper. He's a priority. He got because I 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.200 think that I'll just say this real quick before you 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.840 get to that. I think before the last few games 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.840 of the season, I think this would have been a 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.800 no brainer. He's a priority. Of course, he's a priority, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.320 and it seemed like it seemed like as those last 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.240 few games played out, I think that seemed to change 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.320 for some people. So where do you fall at this 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.400 point after what you saw towards the end of the season. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.840 I still think he's a priority. I know that he 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.440 had some whether that's drops or they didn't have him 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.720 to feel for whatever reason, he wasn't performing near as 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.240 well as he normally does the end of the season. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.080 I also don't think he's fully healthy. Clearly, he was 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:48.800 healthy enough to be out there the trainers would have 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.400 put him ou there. He would have put himself out there. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.880 He's had so many lower body injuries that I don't 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:55.560 think he's fully healthy, and I'm not sure how much 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.760 of that pays into it, But I still think he's 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.800 a priority. We know what he's capable of. When he's 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.400 on the feel he's even a decoy. I like him 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:06.600 opposite of Gallup. He needs to be eating some meat 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:12.800 and this he he I did not notice. Let me explain. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:18.200 He became a vegetarian and a while back before this season, 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.000 talked to him about it. In the off season, Yeah, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.400 I get it. In the off season, I was talking 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.040 to one of my friends I used to be one 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.760 of the nutritionists here, and she was kind of explaining. 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.760 I'm like, what are your thoughts on this, And she's like, well, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.040 there are very biased opinions and this and that, but 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.280 some studies have shown that that kind of can affect 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.960 as far as injury. It can make your body be 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:46.280 prone to more injuries when you're not in taking protein 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.520 the way that it should be taken. So if he's 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.760 not replacing it with the right kinds of proteins or 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.000 the right amount of proteins, I am not an nutritionist. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.560 I don't know. I'm not a trainer, so I don't 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.160 know about any of that. But you know, when you're 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.400 trying to make sense as to why all these different 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.920 injuries that he's gone through this season, I'm like, Okay, well, 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.840 maybe switch up the diet and try some meat and 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.919 see how that works. But again, I'm not a professional 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.359 on that, but I just my thoughts have kind of 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.720 changed as far as him bringing him back. For me, 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.520 it would be if it works with the money and 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.679 all that, because I don't feel comfortable with the injuries. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.960 I don't feel comfortable having getting a great player for 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.159 half of the games and then not so much for 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.879 the other half of the game when we play away 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:44.600 from home. I don't know why that was. How was 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.080 he playing last year when we had the like it 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.760 games away? It goes back to last year. It wasn't 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:54.080 home splits or it's still it's weird how I don't 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:59.000 get it. But if the money is good, then why 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:03.600 not the other wife is something crazy? Then I'm like, Okay, 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:08.359 maybe not okay. I think he's a better candidate for 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.320 the franchise tag or transition just because there's so many 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.440 question marks still and even if you can't do that, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.960 then I would. I would sign him to maybe three 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:24.040 year deal and and hopefully that you know, just because 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.800 you're you're still trying to evaluate him. But he is 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.240 a guy you invested your first round draft pick in, 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.080 and you know it's hard to let him go. But 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.679 you know Danny's point about him being hurt, he actually 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.879 said yesterday he felt better the last day games in 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.040 the first eight games and he played, you know, he 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.560 didn't play as well down the stretch as he did early, 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.800 so it's hard to tell. He has said some things 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.200 about he knows the left plays on the table and 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.399 he wants to you know, get better next year and 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.600 all that. But you know, I would probably sign him, 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.960 but I think getting Dack done as a as a 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.400 long term deal is important to lower that value so 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.840 you can maybe do a franchise tag with him. It's 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.400 a good I'm glad you brought that up, because it's 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.760 a good guess that whoever the Jones is hired to 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:11.679 be the next coach is they're not going to do 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.880 it without that person signing off on Dak like that. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.160 I would guess the next coaches and be like yeah, 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.440 I'm happy to work with Dak. Well, let's go forward 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.959 with Dak. Will that be the case for Mari Cooper? 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.720 And I only wonder that because it was just a 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:26.800 year ago that a new coach in Oakland came in 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.640 and was like, I don't need this guy, I don't 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.480 want him. Let's send him somewhere for a first round pick. 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:36.240 So what will the new regime think of Amri? Me personally, 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.200 I think he's worth resigning, and I know he was 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.320 if he on the road and he left plays on 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:43.960 the field. I get it had some bad games. I 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.399 like what he's about. I like his approach, I like 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.120 his presence in the locker room. He's made a ton 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.920 of big plays over a year and a half. So 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:55.639 I don't feel one hundred percent great about it. I 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.399 understand the concerns. I think I'd still do it, but 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.240 I am cure is what a new coaching staff will 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.840 see in him, because it was just a year ago 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.239 that a new coaching staff didn't see it see here 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.600 he would be. My challenge with those who wouldn't think 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.520 of a Mari as a as a priority is when 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:18.200