WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Slow Start? 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:07.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:19.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.440 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.800 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:33.160 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:39.479 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.960 Hey us, Welcome back to Cowboys Break, presented by s 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.720 WBC Mortgage Studios. I remember Garcia, I joined by Nick 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.479 Himan and David Hellman. Um. I guess Derek decided that 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.160 free agency wasn't that important. You know, you guys know 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.760 I always have to give him crappit anytime he's not 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.399 on the show. But how are you guys doing? I mean, hey, 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.920 if he's gonna if he's gonna be gone during free agency? 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.040 The Cowboys seem to be a great team to work for, 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:15.440 so it works out probably doing good. You're saying, I'm great, 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.440 I'm lovely, I'm lovely. No, that's good. Well, we are 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.120 gonna try to talk about what's been happening since Monday 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.200 in free agency, relating obviously to the Cowboys, and then 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.080 we're gonna go down the list and kind of talk 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.280 about the guys that are left under the list of 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.320 Cowboys free agents and kind of see what we can 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.160 expect from that. But one of the bigger names that 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.680 has come up is obviously quarterback Andy Dalton. He has 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:46.720 agreed to a deal with the Chicago Bears. So this 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:52.120 leads to the question with what's gonna happen at quarterback? 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.560 Backup quarterback for the Cowboys. So just wanted to get 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.720 started with Andy Dalton and kind of something that we 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.040 kind of expected to go somewhere else and possibly start 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:07.200 for another team. But what happens now here for the Cowboys, Well, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.080 I really don't know if they can do anything other 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.720 than what they've already got. I mean, and you know, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.240 I don't think you can have it all, um, you know, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.960 in this in this area, in this era of siler 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.000 cap I just don't think that the Cowboys can't afford 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.079 to have a forty million dollar, you know, a year 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.400 quarterback and then have a backup that's that's you know, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.959 making a lot of money. I just I think it's 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.799 got to be Garrett Kilbert. I think it's got to 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.160 be a maybe a draft pick. I mean, maybe there 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.800 might be somebody out there on the very, very cheap. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.040 But I just I don't know if they could really 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:45.160 afford that. My rebuttal I guess would be that they 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.919 afforded it while they were paying their quarterback thirty one 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.920 million last year, which obviously is not forty, but you 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.760 can make it work. I don't know if the Cowboys 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.080 will for starters. I'm just happy for Andy, Like I know, 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.440 you know, last season wasn't great for anybody, but he 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.920 took a low contract, partially because of COVID, partially because 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.720 this was home, partially to set himself up, and it 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.320 worked out. He tripled his deal from last year, and 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.639 he's going to have a chance to start. I don't 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:13.799 know what that's gonna look like, because the Bears kind 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.160 of look like a disaster from the outside, but hey, 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.280 he you know, as of right now, I think Nick 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.600 Foles is the only person he's competing against for a 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.880 starting job, So good for him. I mean, I do 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.040 tend to agree with Nick. If you if you made 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.560 me guess right now, I would say Garrett Gilbert and 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.560 maybe Ben Denucci or maybe Mike McCarthy rolls the dice 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.480 on another backup, but I would guess those two young guys. Honestly, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.000 with Dalton and Tyrod Taylor going off to market yesterday, 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:48.640 there's not a ton of like experienced quarterback ability available, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.280 like the two names that really come to mind, or 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.360 Alex Smith and Mitch Drubisky. Both of those guys I 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.320 would assume are going to try to go somewhere with 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.080 a better opportunity to start. But if that doesn't work out, 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.280 maybe they'd be willing to settle for less like Andy 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.160 Dalton did last year. Um, that could be really fun, 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.240 particularly Alex Smith in my opinion, with what Dak Prescott 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.760 said about him during his press conference last week. But 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.479 that's obviously a little premature, and with the with the 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.560 crunch they have against the cap, Yeah, I think I 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.560 think probably cheaper is the more likely option. I mean, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.840 it's gonna have to be somebody, if it's a veteran, 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.760 it's gonna have to be somebody in the same boat 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.840 as Dalton last year. That's like you know, I mean, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.360 Dalton's arrow is pointing up because he got a chance 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.640 to play. It was pointing down last year, which that's 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.320 where the money was. I mean you said that they 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.719 made it work, they didn't. I mean it was thirty 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.080 one million for Dak. I guess what was he counting? 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.080 Andy Dalton? Like two three, three million? It was Yeah, 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.479 I mean it was a It was a base of 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.279 three with a bunch of incentives tactics. He probably hits 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.280 some of those, I would imagine probably yeah, I made yeah, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.039 I think he yeah, he upped it up to like 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.760 five I think. But with the cap going down and well, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.320 go ahead, No, I was just gonna say that we 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.440 know how big since the moment Mike McCarthy got here, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.560 we know how big he is some quarterbacks and all 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.400 that and the importance of it, and given the fact that, okay, 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.560 he cares so much about quarterback. We know that Dak Prescott, 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.440 he's coming back from an injury. He looks and he 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.920 seems healthy. We've seen the video of him working out. 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.560 He says he's gonna be ready when the moment matters 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.360 and all that. But as of right now, what would 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:31.080 like how big? Giving all the necessities that the Cowboys 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.360 currently have on the roster in other positions, where would 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.480 you rate quarterback? Backup quarterback? I mean, are you really 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:42.560 looking at backup quarterback as a really important need right now? 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:48.560 For the Cowboys. No, I mean I think, oh, go ahead, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.360 well I disagree again. Yeah, I just don't. I don't 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.240 think it's not when it's you know, not when it's 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.760 related to the other positions. I wouldn't put it up 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.839 there that high. I mean, we saw last year that 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.800 it was important to have, but they got the best 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.280 backup quarterback they could probably have last year and they 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.040 didn't didn't help them. I mean, if you lose Dak 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.000 it's you're playing for a draft pick probably anyway. So 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.360 I'm not I'm not putting that as a super high priority. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.760 See I disagree because, first of all, I mean the 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.760 difference between I think the difference between what Dalton was 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.920 able to provide over the second half of the season 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.880 and what you saw from Ben Denucci. I know people 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.720 are super high on what Garrett Gilbert did against Pittsburgh, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.719 and that's fair, but it was one game a week 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.039 after one of the most atrocious performances I can ever remember, 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.839 So I handicapped that a little bit. But my point 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.039 was going to be, you're not always going to lose 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.960 your starter for the season. You know, that's pretty rare, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.800 but it's not that uncommon to lose your starter for one, two, three, 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.760 four weeks. You know, the Rams didn't have Jared Goff 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.480 and the Cardinals didn't have Kyler Murray going into their 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.800 season finale with the playoffs spot on the line last year. Uh, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.320 you know, the Saints treaded water with Teddy Bridgewater for 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.240 five or six weeks a couple years ago when Drew 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.320 Brees was hurt. And I think, you know, Andy Dalton 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.800 starting nine games is probably not going to get you 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.160 where you want to go, but if he had only 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.000 been needed for three, it could have been huge. And 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.360 so that's that's where my head is. Um Again, first 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.600 of all, there aren't that many options. You know, there 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.960 aren't very many quarterbacks left that have a significant amount 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:31.440 of starting experience. It would probably have to be Alex 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.240 Smith or Mitchell Trubisky, which you know, if they kick 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.120 around for a few more weeks and can't find a 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.920 deal they like, maybe it's possible. But like I said, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.280 I think I think the overwhelming likelihood is that they 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:45.200 go with youth, just because of the constraints they have 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:52.280 on their salary cap. Y go ahead, And I think, 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.120 you know, but I think that you can make that 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.440 argument both ways. Like if it's only if he's only 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.720 probably going to be hurt two or three games, then 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.440 you could say, well, if it's two or three games, 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.800 you know, maybe you know we're gonna we're not gonna 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.160 win those anyways. I mean, you're not gonna win them. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.720 I don't I don't think those backup quarterbacks that you get. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.680 You know, Andy Dalton came in in his first week 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.320 and he was he was terrible against Arizona. That wasn't 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.280 you know, that wasn't his best game. And he didn't 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.800 play that well the next week against Washington even though 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.680 they didn't have a chance. But so, I mean, I 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.800 think you could mismake the argument both sides, like, well, 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:25.480 if it's only gonna be two or three games, then 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.920 maybe you can get by with with And Garrett Gilbert 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.000 is kind of intriguing because he is a veteran, but 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.960 he's still he's been around, he just hasn't played a 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.960 whole lot, and he's cheap. He's a cheap veteran that's 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.640 that's been around. So that might that might be the 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.280 only way, the only option that they really have anyways, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.040 just because they just don't have a lot of money. Yeah, 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:48.800 And I think I made I think I made that 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.480 joke back in like January that I mean, for the 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.960 circumstances he was in. Garrett Gilbert played great against Pittsburgh, 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.120 and I think the Cowboys are gonna use that, plus 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.920 his cost, his very team friendly cost, to say, well, 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.760 we feel good about what he can do, and we'll 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.880 keep you know, we'll keep developing Benda Nucci or you know, 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.560 maybe we'll use another flyer on a draft pick. That's 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.959 that's what I expect to happen. But me personally, I 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.079 have a lot more appreciation for the value of a 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.440 quarterback who's been there and done that. And you know, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.000 maybe it's probably not in the cards for the Cowboys 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.480 this year, but I still think it would be a 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:31.280 good idea. Well, Gilbert did show some potential in that 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.400 one game that we did get to see from him 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.000 last year. But Dave In, you know, another position that 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.400 can help the quarterback position, and we know it's very important, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.320 is the tackle position. The Cows are expecting to have 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.400 Lyell Callins and turning Smith back into lineup and all that, 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.959 but one of the moves that did happen during free 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.960 agency earlier this week was swing tackle Cam Irving he 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:57.080 agreed on a two year deal with the Panthers. The 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:01.040 Carolina Panthers, and although he wasn't necessarily a guy that 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.360 contributed much to the position, he because of injuries and 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.600 all that, it's still another body to add depth there 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.040 at the position. The Cowboys did agree a one year 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.680 deal with tackle Tie and I cannot. I was like, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:23.920 let's let's hear it, Insecki. It's actually once you once 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.680 you hear it and see it, it's like, oh, that 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:30.800 kind of makes sense. It's Tie insecky. But I'm sek 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.760 all right coming from the Buffalo, So I just wanted 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.440 to get your input and kind of your evaluation. I 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.520 know he's not necessarily a big name guy, but what 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.360 do you guys think about him? And that near addition 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.680 to to the position? Uh, you know in the in 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.760 the press conference that they that they're going to have 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.800 later today and to explain all these moves. I can't 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.600 wait to ask him about it. Um, I'm joking because 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.040 they're probably not doing that. UM. I don't understand it, 0:10:58.120 --> 0:10:59.920 and I don't have to understand it because no one's 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.400 really explaining it. Does doesn't make sense to me. He's 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.760 got seventeen starts in seven years. I don't know anything 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.280 about him, and I know that he hasn't been good 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.640 enough to start. I know he's from Arlington, Texas, so 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.040 that's cool, but you know, I don't know. I mean, 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.600 it doesn't make a lot of a lot of sense. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.800 And so you know, as Rob Phillips I think pointed 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.600 out when we talked about it, he's got one more 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:28.960 start than Terrence Steele. So I don't know. I'm not 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.400 expecting a whole lot out of him because he hasn't. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.679 He hasn't been that guy in his career. Does does 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.200 he at least have less injury history as Cam Irving? 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.800 It harder to tell. He's only Yeah, I mean he's 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.920 he's that's he's he's been available, but yeah, he hasn't 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.600 been a regular starter. Yeah. Without trying, without trying to 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.920 sound too much like a smart alec, I mean, you 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.559 can sort of just do the cowboys off. You can 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.600 do their free agency, like as Phil in the blank, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.440 Like the story is the same, the name is different. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.760 It's the same signing as Cam Irving or or Cam Fleming. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.120 In my opinion, like a you know, a guy that 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:09.120 has been around the league has started is not very expensive. Uh, 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:13.320 probably doesn't thrill you if he actually has to play 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.400 a lot, but can be here. And you know, if 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.920 the Cowboys did have a press conference, which they probably won't, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.080 but if they did, they would say something along the 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.120 lines of, well, you know, this opens us up to 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.400 be true in the draft, and you know we don't 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.240 have a glaring need at offensive tackle because we have 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.200 this guy, but we could still draft one if we 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:35.199 need to. It's like like the Cowboys basically have a 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.599 manual at this point and they check it off. They're like, 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.840 all right, we resigned some key special teamers. We got 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:45.720 a vetter great but might be good enough, and you know, 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.800 hopefully it works out better than the other ones have 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:52.120 because the other ones haven't been awesome. Hopefully that's not 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.840 all they do at the position. So I think the draft. 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.640 I think in the draft, yeah, I thought you were 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.559 making like a three eight. Yes, yeah, I don't think 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:08.040 they expected. What did what did Irving get? Like? Nine? 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.760 Did he get nine? Two years, five million years? I 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.200 think it's two for ten with eight guaranteed or something 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.240 like that. Yeah, good for him, I mean that, he 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.560 I'm I'm I think that I think that was being 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.240 him being a first round pick because he didn't do 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.320 anything last year to kind of show that, oh, you know, 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.040 he's a really good player. I mean he you know, 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.440 he was he was sick when he first got here 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.840 and then he got hurt twice and m he played okay, 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.720 I think when he was here, but I mean he 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:42.040 was battling with Terrence Steele for playing time. So um, 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.400 you know, I think that's what this is. I think 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.840 that they covered themselves with a little bit more of 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.080 a veteran guy. But I think that if whatever depth 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.120 chart they have on their board, I would imagine Terrence 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:58.760 Steele is still he's probably ahead of this guy. It 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:02.520 wouldn't surprise me based on everything we saw from Terrence 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:06.480 Steele last year. And I'm yeah, like I I you know, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.559 and I'm at like, I'm somewhat familiar with Niseki because 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.840 he was he was a reserve for Washington for several 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.640 I got that was where he got the vast majority 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.120 of his playing time was with Washington. Whenever Trent Williams 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.600 or Morgan Moses was unavailable, Um, he would step in 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.720 and he seemed fine. But yeah, like I'm I'm not 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.440 about to sell this as the Cowboys solving their swing 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.000 tackle problem. If anything, I think, you know, it's probably 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.280 a three way competition right now between him and Brandon 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.800 Knight and Terrence Steele, and you know, maybe they'll add 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.880 a guy in the draft as well. I hate saying that, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.880 especially coming from me talking to you guys, But why 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.400 is he so old? Like he's thirty five years old? 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.320 I don't, well, it don't. It didn't add up, Like 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.120 where's this? I mean, seven year pro thirty five, I 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.560 mean played baseball for six years. I mean, what's going on? 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.320 I'm I think he did it. Actually, Uh, he had 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.200 an extensive like he's been out of college since two 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.960 thousand and nine. He played, Yeah, he played a lot 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.720 of like Arena league football. I think, yeah, he played 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.840 a lot of Arena league football. And I don't think 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:18.920 he got to the NFL until twenty twelve, and then 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.120 he went back. He went back to Arena league for 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.480 a little while too, Like he's, oh andy, there's some 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.840 CFL on this resume. Yeah, my man. I mean, you know, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.320 it's easy to crack jokes, but like, good on him, 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.480 Like that's a hell of a success story to turn 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.360 that into. You know, you've been on three or four 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.840 NFL teams and signed three or four contracts. I mean, 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.480 good for you, so I have in my story then 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.080 I said that he played high school ball right right 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:49.440 next to or near AT and T Stadium. Uh, not 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.360 exactly true. He probably like he played it next to 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.680 the construction. He's probably an it next to the construction site. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.160 I got it. Hang, I thought that was safe there. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:04.800 This places it open eleven years all right. Well, definitely 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:10.400 not not anything, not anything, not anyone exciting, but an 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:15.040 extra body and quote unquote some veteran experience, if you 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.520 can call that veteran experience. But we'll see. Hopefully the 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.680 Cowboys do better in this free agency. So far, there 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.800 hasn't been any splash right now, which people hate, but 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.120 we know that's kind of the Cowboys trend and what 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.080 they usually do by moving on to the on the 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.640 list to the wide receiver position. We know that the 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.960 Cowboys did agree on a contract and on a one 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.200 year deal with wide receiver Noah Brown, and then they 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:47.680 are expected to give Cedric Wilson the tender. So two 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:52.360 guys that we've talked about on the show. Any surprises here, 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.880 good or bad? Are you guys happy with kind of 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.480 those decisions that the Cowboys have made. With those two guys. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.800 You know, there's been like a there's been a tone 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.840 of sarcasm, I think to the entire opening of the show, 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.320 which is totally fair in my opinion. But I genuinely 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.320 they have done a few things that I genuinely love. 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.440 And bringing back Noah Brown and Cedric Wilson or two 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.119 of them, because I neither one of them was expensive. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.520 They've both you know, they're both well familiar with everything 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.159 that's asked of them here. You know, Noah's been here 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.919 since twenty seventeen, Cedric's been here since twenty eighteen. I 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.840 hesitate to use the term break out because you know, 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.160 they were still role players last year, but they certainly 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.919 made their biggest contributions yet to the team, and it 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.320 certainly looked like they were both going to have bigger 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.600 roles before Dak got hurt. I think you kind of 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.560 pair things down when you lose your starting quarterback. Obviously, 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.679 Cedric had that amazing game in Seattle, you know, a 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:52.199 week or two before Dak went down, and now you know, 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.560 you keep your receiver corep intact and it keeps you 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.639 from really having to do anything. You know, maybe maybe 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.200 they want to draft a guy to deal with maybe 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.679 losing Michael Gallup, but that could also be a problem 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.159 for next year. You know, you could tag Gallop, you 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.959 could do something with a Mari's contract. So I like 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:09.960 this because it keeps the group in tac for at 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.480 least one more year, and you know, you can make 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.920 some hard decisions next year. But on a team with 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.680 this many holes to fill, it's nice to think that, 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.359 you know wide receiver, you don't have to do anything 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.440 with it right now, because I think one through five 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.000 that's about as good as you could ask for, in 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.960 my opinion, Dave, I didn't even I should have looked 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.479 this up. What is the Noah Brown's salary? What did 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.359 they pay for him? I honestly, I don't think the 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.560 terms have even been disclosed, because you know, it's technically 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.440 I know, you can resign your own like you can 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.680 resign your own during the tampering period. But I don't 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.320 think any of these guys have actually signed their deals. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.639 But I have a hard time believing Noah Brown is 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.240 going to make more than you know, a million or two. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.359 Like I, it just you know, Cris Cedric's tag is 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:01.560 for two million dollars. I can't that would be more 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.800 than that. I thought that was a little high. Actually, 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.480 I don't think I would have done that if I 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.520 was the Cowboys. You know, you don't have to you 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.960 don't have to give him a restricted tender. You could 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:14.200 just sign him to whatever you want. I think I 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.720 probably would have done that two point one million dollars. 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.399 I'm okay with doing that for Antoine Woods, but I 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.320 mean for Cedric Wilson. I'm you know, I hear what 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:26.600 you're saying about having that intact, but you know, I 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.960 just I feel like you could probably they could probably 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.639 get him cheaper than that, and I don't believe that's guaranteed, 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.880 so they don't necessarily have to to to keep him 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:36.399 if they if they want to, you know, move him. 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.600 He did make some good strides though last year, especially 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.920 when with with dak So. I would imagine he'll be 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.440 a regular at the at the Prescott Ranch or whatever 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:49.920 they they're calling his his his field over there, Yeahike Yard, Yeah, 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.920 that's das guy, no doubt. So hey and may you know, hey, 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.960 when you're the when you're the forty million dollars face 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.920 of the franchise. Maybe maybe Dak's got that cache where 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.040 he's like, how about y'all under my guy and just 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:07.840 make sure he doesn't go anywhere. That's true, he's got that. Now, Well, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.359 let's go ahead and take a quick break. When we 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.440 come back, we'll just keep going down the line on 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.640 this list. And Nick, you did mention Antwoine Woods, So 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:21.639 he's up next on the right Cowboys free agency list. Honey, 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.920 big news. 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