WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Predicting the Pick 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:05.640 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:07.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:17.000 Cowboys. Are you ready for a break? 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:17.520 Yes? 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.400 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:20.160 Absolutely? 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.160 Ready for a break? 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:22.840 Yeah? 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:24.560 And so much for that. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.960 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:35.680 with m bar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker and 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:36.920 Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.880 It is Wednesday, April twenty fourth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.200 episode number four. It's a lot of twenties and fours 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:45.560 in here. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:46.880 Welcome to the Break. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.640 We are presented by LG and today we're getting you 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.559 ready for the NFL Draft. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:52.520 It takes place. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.880 It starts tomorrow, Round one, tomorrow, Round two and three 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.639 on Friday, and then the remainder of the rounds on 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.680 Saturday will have wald all coverage. Brian will be a 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.279 part of that, Patrick will be a part of that. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:04.240 Amber will be a part of that. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:04.800 Everybody. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.640 It's all hands on deck to cover the draft. We 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.319 hope you will join us for that. But today I 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.160 want to start first by talking a little bit about 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.679 the press conference that happened yesterday. Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.399 and Mike McCarthy all took some time with the media 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.240 to answer questions, and it felt a little less about 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.440 draft and a little more about team building one oh 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.000 one and salary caps and everything else. But I want 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.520 to first go around the room and just get general 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.400 thoughts on what you heard from press conference, any particular 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.080 things that stood out to you that you thought that 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:39.240 you thought were particularly interesting. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:40.280 Briant's start start with you. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.600 Yeah, again, this is my opinion coming from one O 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.160 five to three, the fan from the outside of it 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.440 in you know, I did the work here with you guys, 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.840 But I felt like this is the first time Stephen 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.279 Jones doesn't like to talk about contracts generally. He pointed 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.480 the finger yesterday at the agent community a little bit 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.440 on some of these contracts. And I mean this in 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.520 a way that you know, when he was talking about, hey, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:09.160 these guys talk. These guys, you know, they have ideas, 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:10.440 they know numbers and all that. 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:11.440 You see. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.120 The Cowboys are a team like, hey, we're not going 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:14.880 to comment about that. We're not going to combat I 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.520 sent some frustration with Stephen Jones yesterday and the fact 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:20.720 that he feels like that some of these agents again 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.160 their ability to talk to each other and then maybe 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:27.079 holding up deals. We always, I know, on our end 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.519 of it, give the Cowboys a lot agree for what 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.320 happens with some of these contracts. It's a two way street. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.680 My experience of working in the National Football League is 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.600 you have to have people that are willing to make 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.240 deals with you if you're going to do this. But 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.600 a lot of us blame the Cowboys for not doing deals, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.839 and to me, I sensed frustration from Stephen Jones, which 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.640 I'd never had before. But I felt like he pointed 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.920 the finger at the agent community a little bit yesterday 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.519 and said, listen, we'll do deals. It's going to be 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.800 the right number, but we'll do deals. And so you know, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.720 and I think he's right. I think the first time, 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.440 and this is my opinion, that the first time they 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.800 did the Dak Prescott deal, you had an agent that 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.920 was switching from one agency to another. He was not 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.520 going to put new money with an old agency, and 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.520 I think that's why you got held up on a deal. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.880 I think agents are holding up on deals now. We 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.320 saw a big deal today for a wide receiver, which 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.799 is good. The Lions got their deal done with Saint Brown. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.800 Good for them, but you have to have people that 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.240 are willing to talk to you and willing to negotiate 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.520 along the way. I sense frustration from Stephen Jones on 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:33.440 that front. 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.720 Yeah, there was definitely some frustration and a little bit 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.360 of defensiveness from both Steven and Jerry as far as 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.560 the team building, the questions that they were kind of 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.960 violding back and forth, and it seems like it's a 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.960 situation where if you go back and you look at 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:48.400 last summer, you look at what they were able to 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.960 do with Trevon Diggs and getting that deal done early, right, 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.240 that's ideally with the Cowboys and how they would like 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.120 to handle their cornerstone players. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:56.520 But it's a two way street. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.560 As Bran's saying, the agents, the representation for these players, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.720 they have to agree with the numbers that you're presenting. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.440 You have to agree with the numbers they're presenting. And 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.040 then it's bigger than numbers. It's how how's the money 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.320 breaking down, what's the term, et cetera, et cetera. So 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.920 clearly there's some frustration there. It seems as if there're 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.040 some frustrated with where they are in the cap as well, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:20.400 Jerry saying something like we we're embracing not having cap space. Obviously, 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.640 that's not gonna go over well with fans because the 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.680 fans are looking around the league. They're looking at teams 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.040 like the Philadelphia Eagles and Howie Roseman. They're looking at 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.200 what the Rams were able to do, you know, in 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.000 the years preceding what ultimately turned out to be a 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:32.440 Super Bowl. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.800 Then picks right and push the cap all right. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.440 They want to see the Cowboys be that kind of 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.160 aggressive and finesse and massage the salary cap in those capacities. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.840 But Steven said, you know, the Cowboys, they're focused on 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:46.920 making this draft one of the best ones ever. 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.320 And now you don't really have a choice. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.280 That's that's kind of where you are because it has 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.400 to be your defacto free agency. So biggest takeaway for 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.680 me for me is that the Cowboys are frustrated that 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.760 they don't have these deals done on at least one 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.880 of their cornerstone players of the Big Three Micah, which 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.880 is has a little bit more time, but CD and 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.520 Dak you want those done right now. But interesting and 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.520 interestingly enough, when I positioned the question in front of Jerry, 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.599 Steven and Mike regarding the possibility of drafting a quarterback. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.560 If there's a premier quarterback steering you in the face 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.080 at twenty four, you have uncertainty with Dak Prescott going forward. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.560 You have uncertainty with Trey Lance going forward. If it's 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.320 steering you in the face, what do you do? And 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.599 hence Jerry's reply, we want Dak Prescott And that was 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.719 one of the more definitive statements that Jerry said on yesterday, 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:34.520 and we'll get to that. 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.240 I did have one question for you when you were 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.479 talking about kind of how they've constructed the team. I 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.000 kind of took the impression, or got the impression that 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.520 what Jerry was saying was we've spent the last three 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.000 four years being what they now. We can all question 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.840 whether it really is aggressive, but they think over the 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.800 last three or four years, they think that's been the 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.160 period when they have been aggressive and they have surrounded 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.040 Dak with premier talent and had one of the best 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:00.280 rosters in the league. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.000 And now it's time to pay that bill. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.840 Like he kept going back to, hey, it's that credit card, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.839 like we've been paying, Yeah, we've been paying on that 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.760 credit card roll and didn't work right. Exactly, That's exactly 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.200 that it sounded to me was that essentially they were 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.680 going these last several years, they've been pushing and we 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.400 know every year we get to Austin and they'd be like, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.200 restructure this guy, restructured this guy. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:20.680 And it's not they were just trying. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.960 They were trying to hold it all together and give 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.159 themselves a little more chance and keep that roster together. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.080 And now they're gonna have to embrace the fact that 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.600 they don't have that flexibility anymore because the rules of 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.840 NFL don't allow them to have that flexibilitynymore. And they 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:33.520 got to pay the bill. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:34.960 It's not how you took it, that is how I 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.160 took it. But it's two things are true. That's true, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.640 the bill will always come due. It's also true that 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.880 there are levels of footness when it comes to the 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.200 salary cap that I feel like the Cowboys could slightly 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.320 improve upon. We talk about teams like the Eagles of 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.400 the Rams. There are teams the New Orleans Saints in 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.479 the Drew Brees era. There are teams that have shown 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.560 that they're operating within the same rules, the same parameters 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.480 that Jerry Jones and the Cowboys mentioned yesterday so vehemently. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:01.919 They've done that though, I guess is the question because 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.960 the way I understand it, that day is coming from 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.720 for the Eagles here in the next one, two three years. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.920 There's but and again we'll see, and I've said this 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:16.280 on Twitter, Will hear Will we will see. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:17.240 Whether it gets the waiting. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.680 But that's where I look at it, and I'm like, 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.640 if if I do know what happened for the Rams, 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.800 and the Rams have to reset, and we saw that happen, 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.600 but they want a championship and effectively, yeah, and they 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:30.960 did a nice reset, but they also they did it 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.360 with the draft. After they said f and picks, right, 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.080 they figured out how to do it with the draft. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:36.440 They get a guy like pooking the coup and now 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:37.920 they're back in the playoffs and ready to run. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:38.160 Right. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.800 But but I think I think teams do have to 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.880 go through this reset. It's a matter of how effectively 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.000 they go through the reset when they get to this 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.880 point where the bill comes due, because I think the 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.200 bill does come to But it's also. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:49.240 The timing of the reset. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.360 So if you look at it contextually, for the Cowboys, 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.720 look at the timing in which this reset is occurring. 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.920 You are a head coach on this final year that 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.760 you've not extended a quarterback of GB one, MVP front 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.920 run under all pro record setter, final year of his 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.560 deal not extended, Ceedee Lamb, arguably the best wide receiver 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.480 in the league. You want to get him extended, Michael 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.040 Parson's generational talent. The list goes on and on the 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.520 timing of such a reset. It's working against them. But 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.400 what also makes it that much worse. And we talked 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.280 about this, and we talked about it offline all the time, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.880 and this is why they've been defending this statement. And 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.000 Jerry kind of trolled everyone a bit with the statement 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.240 all in the fact that Jerry said all in at 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.440 the Senior Bowl, and he did playfully troll everyone by 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.800 saying that again if he didn't attach that label to 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.480 this offseason, only to find out that this offseason was 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:37.000 going to be. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.800 The antithesis of that. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.120 That's what makes it that much more difficult for fans 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.120 to try to compute what's the vision here, because you're right, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.000 this is likely a soft reset, maybe not a hard reset, but. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.080 They're not getting rid of all their parts, but it 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:51.160 is somewhat, but the. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.480 Timing of it is just very, very bad. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.440 I think the thing that they're really they won't admit it, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.440 but they're pissed off that some of these contras didn't 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.000 work out for him. I think that's the thing that's 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:03.600 bothered them. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.160 Yeah. I think I think if if you if. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.000 You had you pulled Steven aside and you had a 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.679 scotch with him, the one thing if he said can 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.000 you do something over he said, yeah, maybe some of 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.120 these contracts I wouldn't have gone the. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:16.720 Way I did. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.839 You know that that didn't work out that And and Jerry, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.440 I think, brought it up about the money with Zeke 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.160 and how it prevents you from signing Tyrant Smith. You 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.760 know that maybe maybe some of these bad contracts that 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:34.480 they Yeah, exactly, Zach Martin and we're at training camp. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.800 Were all sitting there and it's oh, it's day twenty 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.800 six of Zach Martin holding out. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.280 You know, yeah, oh look out, yeah, you're about to 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:42.240 get hit the ball. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.680 But but see, that's that's to me where I think 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.359 that the fact that the bills come due, they're frustrated 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.120 with the agent community, and that they're also in a 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.440 situation where they made some bad deals. And I think 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.840 that's the one thing that pisses them off. They they've 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.600 made a bunch of bad deals in their life their 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.679 business man. They've also made some great ones too. But 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.720 I think if you, if you pulled them aside, they 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.280 would say, if we had to do something over there 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.800 are probably two or three incidents that they would look 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.920 at and say, we would be better, we'd be in 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.400 better shape if we just had done this. Our plan 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.600 was this, but it wasn't good enough. 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:26.440 See for me, it's easy. And if you guys, those 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.720 who have not listened to the press conference, I highly 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.760 suggest it because, like you guys mentioned, it's something different, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.520 very different than what we are used to watching and 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.640 hearing from those guys Jerry Jones, Stephen jones E, and 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:38.360 Mike McCarthy. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:43.120 So it was barely Jerry drugg him in. 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:49.480 Yeah, I'm good, Jerry made. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.600 Jerry made him an offensive line expert. 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.160 What I was gonna say, so to me, And I've 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:02.040 been one of those, and I'm not a cap expert, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.400 don't care to be one. It's very because so many 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.200 different factors of it. It's so complicated. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:09.160 But I was one of. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.400 Those sitting on this show with you guys several months 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.200 ago of like, Okay, why they have the ability or 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:21.320 that they can restructor X, Y and Z, and they haven't, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.120 And it's easy to judge that way. And sure, maybe 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.440 there are some contracts that is like, okay, they didn't 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.640 pan out. And I highly, highly truly believe that they 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.520 missed their chance last year. That was the year where 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.160 they had everything needed to get. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.240 And they missed it in a way that was so. 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:45.560 Just exactly so where I'm trying to get at. Once 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.640 you start peeling all the layers and laying everything out, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.760 all the contracts and everything, and you start going through 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.200 it and really analyzing everything, you start giving them some 0:11:55.360 --> 0:12:00.520 grace and thinking, okay, well crap, like you really you're 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.440 really tied. You cannot do anything because it's not a 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.800 one year it's not this year thing. You have to 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.360 look at next year, the following year. You have to 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.320 look even sometimes four years out to where things and 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:16.520 the money is affecting you. So even though I don't 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:21.440 know all the disclosures in contracts and all of that, 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.679 it's not as simple. It's not as simple as because 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.880 I've been there myself getting upset and being like why 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.120 you see other teams doing this and that. But I 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.280 do know this, Jerry Jones, he's a great businessman, so 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.280 I know he has great people that know how to 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.120 handle money and distribute and all of that. So I 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.160 know there's a history there of people that are actually 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.840 very very knowledgeable on the job and how to move 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:55.000 money around. So anyways, the point is they had their chance. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.200 They're all in was last year, and then now they're 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.320 just having to pay all the receipts. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.160 This is Jerry even said it. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.360 It's like you have your bank account, but you know, 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.360 you have all these bills, and now you're giving plasma 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.160 so you can get ten bucks so you can eat 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.360 dinner that night. You know, you know your bank account 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.719 looks really good, and then all of a sudden you 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.120 realize you've got a month's where the bill's coming up. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.920 I think they're to the point now, and maybe it's 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.880 maybe it's going to be sacrificed in the quarterback here. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.200 Maybe it is. I'm just I'm just saying they're looking 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.200 at it. I think that we can't kick the can 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:29.480 any further down the road. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:30.440 We can't. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.439 We've kicked it as far as we can as a group. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.640 We agreed last year was their best opportunity. Now you 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:38.960 have to pay the bill. We've all had a great dinner, 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.120 you know, we're all we're all liquored up and ready 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.040 to go home, you know. But somebody's got to pay 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.439 the bill. And now they're having to pay that bill. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.920 And they, yeah, do they have the money, do they 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.640 have the switches? Sure they can't. I think they're to 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.959 the point that they've made the decision like we've kicked 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.280 this can as far as we can. We can't do 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.599 it anymore. And so that's why I think they're in 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:00.800 the position from there in right. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.880 Now, I was going to say, here's here's because I 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.640 like to put on different hats to look at things 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.240 from different angles. So from a Jerry Jones Stephen Jones' perspective, 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:10.920 salary cap, yes, they don't want to kick the can. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:15.800 They can restructures digs and Malik Hooker and it can happen, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.120 but they don't want to because that bill is the bill. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.480 But then put on Mike McCarthy's head. Now, he will 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.520 never show this visibly, and he might not even it 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.200 might not even be an internal thought for him. But 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.560 if I'm Mike McCarthy and I know that I only 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.040 have this final year to prove myself what you're basically 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.920 asking me to do, which is fine because I'm up 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.240 to the task. But the reality is the reality is 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.960 that you're asking me to deliver you at a super 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.200 Bowl esque. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.280 Run with a lot of young talent. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.160 Well that you're asking to step up, which you will 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.320 include a class full of rookies. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.400 But you but you know, last year, I gave you 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.640 a team with all these pro bowlers and so you 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.960 know what, Mike McCarthy, really, honestly, and I'm not saying 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:59.760 this to be mean, he doesn't have a leg to 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.840 stand on right now. If you look at the way 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.840 we're talking right now, if you look at last year 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.880 as the all in best chance as as an organization, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.000 they didn't deliver. And he's he's at the top of that, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.520 the general managers at the top of the list, but 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.280 then the head coach is the next. So Mike McCarthy, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.760 as he looks at this, he's now going to have 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.520 to play the hand he's dealt. He had a winning hand, 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.880 He had a winning hand at the table, and but 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.960 they drew the dealer drew a straight flush on him 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.880 or something, you know, I mean, cards you know how 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.400 that goes. He had the hand to win, they didn't deliver, 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.600 and now he's got to look at this and say, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:37.920 I had my chance. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.040 If they move on, you know, I don't like it, 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:42.360 but I understand. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.600 But I think also I'm growing a little tired of 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.880 the conversation that paints the picture that the Cowboys are. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.000 Now this team that has no talent like. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.080 That is, they'll never be bad. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.840 They when you say, when you say, well, he's kind 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.000 of dealt his hand with the team, I look at it. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.520 I really saw this and it was interesting. It was 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.400 on one O five dot three the Fan the other morning. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.160 I heard Sean and r J and Bobby. They were 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.800 citing an article where this this rider had done used 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:14.080 artificial intelligence to be able to identify the rosters and 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:15.840 rate the rosters a crown in the NFL. 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.040 You want to know a Dallas fell in that number seven, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:20.440 number seven, And. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.040 I'm like, okay, so yes, it's not as good a 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:24.960 roster as last year because it lost a lot of 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.280 its depth. One thing we know about this scene is 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.320 they tend to draft pretty well, so they'll. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:30.840 Replenish some of them. They will never be bad for 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:31.280 that reason. 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.280 They will of that. Maybe they won't get it all back, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:34.280 but they'll replenish some of that. 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.960 This is still a good enough roster to go where 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.480 you want to go this next year. Now, who knows 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.160 what it'll be beyond that, Because again I look at it, 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.000 when people start saying they have all these levers they 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.800 can pull, it's like a person that's now falling into well, 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.040 they're already in a hole and you're throwing them a 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.760 shovel instead of a rope, like if you Yeah, they 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.240 can push these levers, but pushing these revers stuff is 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.160 just going to worsen the problem, is going to put 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:58.400 them farther down in that hole. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.600 I agree, It just doesn't solve the problem. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.960 So it's not really a solution to say you can 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.919 push these you can pull these levers and restructure these 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:07.720 guys and push the money down the road. You really 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.680 don't have that flexibility anymore. It's best to say, let 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.800 me pay my bill, let me get out of debt, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.879 let me be fiscally responsible, and then I can restart 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.800 and say, Okay, now I can get aggressive again. I 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:19.080 got my money back to where I need to have 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:20.480 it right now I can get aggressive again. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:21.520 I think that's how you have to. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.600 I just never feel like I feel like this team 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.679 will always be in this I don't mean this is 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.679 a slam to Jason Garrett. They'll always be an eight 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.680 and eight team. As long as they let these guys. 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.680 Drafty, they will figure this out. 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.639 They will find a quarterback, they will find talent around 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.080 as long as they let them pick players, you know, 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:42.920 give them compensatories, let them assign you to undrafted free agents, 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.000 maybe dabble in the free agent market a little bit 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.040 if they can. They're just too good at personnel here, 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.399