WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Free Agency Preview 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:08.039 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:16.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.239 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:25.520 official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:31.080 and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are, well here, some 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:37.680 of us are inside the SWBC podcast studio. It's eleven thirty, 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.959 a little after eleven thirty on a Thursday, and that 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:46.680 means it's time for Mick Shots featuring Mickey Spagnola and 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:56.920 who and Mickey Slason's missing. No, no, no, Mickey is 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.920 somewhere falling down a ski slope right now. He is right. 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.280 That's right. You got Bill Jones, you got Everson Walls, 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.759 and that is all you need. Who Who would schedule 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.320 a ski trip this week of all weeks leading up 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:17.440 to the start of the NFL's new league years, melted? 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.199 I hope you know sounds like going down a ski slow, 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:30.639 That's exactly that's right. And he was already complaining about 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:34.000 it last week before he left. Because spring break week 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:40.640 so the same time, all the spring breaks. So well, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.240 the good news is we don't have to deal with 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:47.360 Mickey this week that those things much. That's exactly right. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.520 That's right. And so we are here for pretty much 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.040 the next hour to talk about all things that are happening, 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.000 and so much has already happened, and so much is 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.080 about to happen. Uh. And Everson came in here and 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:06.520 he has actually done his homework homework, combine homework and UH. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.239 And if you could pick a position group that Everson 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.239 Walls might have studied or during the combine, you wouldn't 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.840 You wouldn't guess this position. You would not guess this position. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.400 I would have immediately said, you you're checking out those cornerbacks. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.920 They're even the safeties. Well I didn't say that. I 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.120 did not, Okay, okay, but still you know I had 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.600 to hear him to do other things. You're excited about. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.880 Offensive lineman, I am man, Come on, Dad need some 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.440 protection and I want to keep Zeke around. See what 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.280 we can do. I love it when he's got a 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.680 full head of steam. Nobody's in front of him. That 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.480 line has to open up, that whole boone. He's hurting somebody. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.040 That still happens. They can talk on the trash they want. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.119 That still happens with Zeke Elliott. All right, so that's 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.600 something we're going to dive into a little bit later here. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.800 Let's get into um, how about we get into things 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.880 that are pertinent as far as this team is right 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.160 now and what's been going on in the last couple 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.080 of days around the league. Which would you'd like to 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.720 hit first? Would you like to go with the musical 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.600 chairs of the quarterbacks around the league or would you 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:17.200 like to go with what the Cowboys are contemplating doing 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.320 getting ready for the start of free agency next week? 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.960 I want to speak on the musical chairs, All right, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:28.280 let's do that. Where is Russell Wilson gonna get some 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.880 offensive line? Help you tell me that right now? I mean, 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:37.200 I know he's he's a NFL darling. I know he's 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.360 amazing because he wasn't getting it in Seattle he was, 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.600 and he's not gonna get it in Denver because first 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.560 of all, they gave up all the fixed didn't to 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.440 get him. So it is free agency on the market, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.440 you know, is it looming for divid Who else do 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.480 they have who they gonna give up for a good 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.400 free agent? Maybe more than one on that offensive line? 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:05.120 He still can't see over them. Problem he's got to 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.280 move anyway. So that's what it is. That's that's what 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.080 they decided in Seattle. He didn't need offensive linement because 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.680 he could just create space. And that dad got him 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.200 in a lot of trouble. Next day, you know, Metcalf, 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:20.440 doesn't he disappeared and and come on, how's he going 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.279 to disappear? Because he never had time to throw the 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:27.320 ball well, and then uh, he needs a run game 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.160 and he had he had a run game with Marshawn 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.000 there when they were going to Super Bowls. Now, I'd 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.800 like what Denver's got that second round pick last year, 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:41.080 Williams that I like him a lot, yes, yes, from 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.719 last year's draft. But maybe they just need one then 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.119 maybe they could just get I don't know if Melvin 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.279 Gordon's still under contract with them or not, but anyway, 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:54.960 Um so, Russell Wilson goes from Seattle to Denver, Aaron 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:59.920 Rodgers staying in Green Bay. Such trauma, Oh my god, 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.679 and never thought it would have happened. And Carson Wentz 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.520 is now back. You gotta see this guy again, man, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.400 We gotta see him again. We have to see him again. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.920 I gotta say, you know, I guess I'm just an 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.360 optimistic person. You know, nobody ever thought I would make it. 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.600 So I always give someone as much as I can, 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.599 I give a benefit of the doubt. I can never 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.960 I never want to tell a person they can't do something. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.960 And so that's why I'm always holding out whole Bocsson 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.880 wins because you always have to say that about him. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.320 You know, I can't give up on him, even though 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.159 it seems like you should when all signs point that way, 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.480 because you look at his numbers, like his stats from 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.360 last year and it was twenty seven touchdown, seven picks. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.679 He had lowered his interceptions. You know, at one point 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.360 everyone was raving about him one thing, because they were 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.760 making the moves towards the end of the season, they 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.720 were launching slowly upwards towards the playoffs. But what they 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:02.240 remember is what they at last Well, that's what the 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.240 hell counts. I mean, it's not like they're picking on it. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:10.320 What did you do last man? Other failure? I mean, geez, 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.800 when you got an opportunity to just beat the worst 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.599 team in the league, Jacksonville, to make the playoffs, and 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.960 that's one bit, that bit, that's one. It was another one, well, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.640 I think it was like two games. It was too gay. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.600 But but but the last thing that was the Jackson 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.000 that was just that was the cherry on top of 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.240 all of that stuff. Right, yeah, So did you see 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:36.159 what Trayvon tweeted yesterday afternoon? I did not. It was 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:42.000 a little smiley emoji. Okay, all right, he might be 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.280 a little introverted, but something's coming out and when he posts, 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.839 that's when the extrovert comes out, right, uh huh yeah, okay, okay. 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.680 I don't know that it had anything to do with 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.960 the news of the day that Carson went going to 0:06:54.080 --> 0:07:00.279 Washing don't start that tweet. It was like, right, you goes. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.440 It was I think we looked at it. It It was 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.960 like two twenty three pm. When you walk up from 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:15.280 his nap. He checked his Twitter. It's all whoa hey 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.880 man wins to Washington? You know, you know, Aidan keeps 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.920 him on his toes. Man Aiden keeps him on his toes. 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.600 And so I was looked up how Trayvon has done 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.520 against Carson Wentz when they played against each other, and 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.000 so a couple of years ago, when Wentz was still 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:36.040 with the Eagles, how many picks did Trayvon have against him? Two, 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.120 he had two picks two two picks against two of 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.960 his three picks his rookie year game against Carson Wentz. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.840 It's just a coincidence. Yeah sure. Now that was a 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.120 game though that Carson Wentzon. The Eagles won because the 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.240 Cowboys started being to Nucci at quarterback then game so 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:58.120 so so. Actually that game, Carson got the the last 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.400 smiling emoji of that game. Anyway, But look at the 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.040 NFC East. Now you got the dak at quarterback in Dallas, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:11.760 you got Carson Wentz, commander's quarterback in Washington. Okay, what's 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.160 New York gonna get? You got Daniel Jones and then 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.800 whatever they decide to do. Your risky is being rumored there, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.880 and you got Jalen and Philly. You know, I don't 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.240 care what the Giants do. They need an entire team. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.160 I mean, let's just be real. They need and just 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.400 like anybody else, they need to start in the trenches 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:36.240 because that's where Daniel Jones. He's okay, but he's not 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.640 as bad as he's playing. He's just not. He's got 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.080 more ability than that when you give him time, like 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.679 anybody else. You know, he hadn't had the time yet 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.280 from being so young to be able to know how 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.880 to thrive under that kind of pressure. You know, he 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.360 hadn't he hadn't been successful at it yet because he 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:57.040 hadn't had the tools to do that. I mean surrounding him. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.080 I don't necessarily mean yes, physically around and you know 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.559 we've said for a couple of years, I mean, tell 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.400 you what you want about Joe Judge whatever, and and 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.880 and Jason Garrett is the offensive coordinator there. They weren't 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.320 going to do anything offensively until a short up there 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:17.719 Jason left. What the heck happened? What happened when Garrett left? Uh? 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.200 Same same over think it got worse? Yeah, I think 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:25.120 it got worse. Yeah. So um, but the Cowboys that 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.960 feel pretty good about things in their own division, when 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.719 when don't they? I mean, this is that's not what 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.840 we're worried about. You know, that's not what we're worried about. Matter. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.719 In fact, I wish we'd get challenged a little more 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.360 so when we get to the playoffs, we don't start 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.040 stinking up to join. That would be nice B B 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.400 playoff battle, you know battle already, you know what I mean? 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.600 And I don't know what we challenged enough even when 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.920 we played the teams that were outside of by division, 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:55.480 they weren't necessarily winning teams themselves. High point moment, Tell 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.240 me the high point moment for the season last year? 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.760 Give me, give me the best moment. When did When 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.839 did we When did we peak? When did we peak? 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:09.480 It's so hard to get San Francisco out of your mind? Best, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.960 So let's let's go back a little bitfore. When when 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.240 did we peak? Bro? New England? There you go, Yeah, 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.840 there you go. That was the best moment ever? And 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.120 that was it? All right? Yeah, we thought we were ready, 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.000 little did we know? Ye? Well, in the last player 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.760 of the game. What happened on the last play of 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.800 the game? Yeah, yeah, da to see? Yeah? And what 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.160 else happened on that play? What happened right? Yeah? What 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.559 happened right after that? Didn't you see? Did you see 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.760 Dak hobbling off the field? So things weren't the same 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.560 after that? You think it infected it? You think so? 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.679 I don't know, I mean saying, because he never really 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.560 ran much after you know what I mean. It's almost 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.160 like you have to force him to run. Seems sometimes 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.160 I think that would really help him if he would 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.040 become and I don't mean once again trying to knock 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.400 people over and stay up. I mean if he were 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:05.199 to be very strategic on stop holding the ball and 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.679 giving his receivers a chance, because he wants to reward 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.240 his receivers. But also he loved that passing percentage, right, 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.200 he admitted that once. Already that's that's just where it is. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.760 But I think he could he should also give him 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.719 the team a better chance sometimes by just taking four 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.439 or five yards. Man. And hey, it doesn't have to 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.080 be exciting to be effective. You know, we no excitement 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.200 and we have too much of it already. I want 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:35.640 that kind of excitement to whether it's in our favor. Okay, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.000 So and so, now what does Seattle do at quarterback? 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:45.320 They didn't gino he's free agent? Is he he's free 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.880 agent because they acquired Drew Locke in that trade? Okay? Okay, 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:53.040 and what does that say? Well, he's he's on the team. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.600 I don't even what has he is he relevant? Has 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.800 he been relevant? All Right? The other thing that Seattle did, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.199 oviously not you're not saying, yeah, you think the other 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.680 thing Seattle did was they released Bobby Wagner. Yes, I 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:11.240 was looking at that I really was looking at that. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.559 I thought that would be very interesting. That would be 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:20.400 really really interesting, any connection through coaches? Dan Quinn al 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.960 right there you go. Oh we know what? Then come on, 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.560 we gotta how much money you got called? Not how 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.600 much of somebody else? How'm with you me? You want 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.040 to bet somebody else? Did you see who? I really 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.720 say who? The next talks the Cowboys probably connected to 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:45.000 who is that? Chris be Brandon Collins? Landon Collins? You 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.120 got released in the division? Well, you know, I'm not 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.480 a Spagnola numbers man, but can't we just give them 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.320 some like one year deals? You know how they do it? 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.720 One year deal. Just prove, prove yourself for one year 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.480 and we'll see what's up after that. You impress us, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.360 and that's something that's the possibility. Yeah, under our cap 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.880 you know, you got to sign your own guys right now? Yeah, 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:09.200 you have enough, that's true. So now, okay, considering that 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.640 Dak has uh just in a joking way following on 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:18.559 the sword contract wise, Hey we're structuring, uh, Zach Mardin 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.640 we structuring, right? Am? I correct in hearing that? And 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.480 that was what the way those those contracts were structured 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.520 to begin with, it would be to give cap relief 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.880 in years like this. Well, so it's not like so 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.080 it's not like they they're taking pay cuts or anything. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.440 I understand that. But are they all like that? No? Not, 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.320 not all of them are like that. But the ones 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.160 that you want to keep for a long time. Uh 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:46.880 And Lawrence law Well, Lawrences is one that gets kind 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.120 of a tweeter. It sounds like yeah because Amar's was not. 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:56.040 Amaris is one that that they can go ahead and 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.079 what's been talked about coming back to that, Yeah, we 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.480 are going to come back. I want to know, did 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:08.040 d law express some type of resinsence and restructuring now 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.880 hit now his would be there has been The reports 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:17.559 are that he politely declined a PA politely. Yeah, makes 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.160 a difference. But they don't have ever something. They don't 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.360 have to ask the player to restructure. It's in their contract. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.440 They can just do it automatically, okay. And to be 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:26.920 honest with you, most of the time, what it is, 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.640 it's like a it's a bonus. So they just give 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.200 them a bonus and they spread it out over a 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.400 few years. What what what was the deal? Then? Why 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.200 why come out and be so polite well, now DeMarcus 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:44.120 is what they're what that's a different okay, not oh wow, 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.680 wait wait wait what injuries? What they trying to say? Well, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:53.400 because right now he is set to count twenty seven 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.880 million dollars against the cap. Okay, and so they're trying 0:14:55.880 --> 0:15:01.440 to get relief there and they if I don't have 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.960 the numbers in front of me right now, but if 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:08.120 it's if he was a pre here's the way they 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.680 sell it to de Marcus. Okay, okay, he's got to 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.120 figure out at his age what his market would be 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.880 out there. What do you see? What? Let me as 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.800 you continue fourteen direct Pigs, it's going into his ninth 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.880 year in the league, so let's see thirty yeah, um, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:30.200 all right, so right now he's twenty. Came out boys, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.840 he'll be he'll be thirty April twenty eight. That's right. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.000 I did an interview with him just last month. We 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.360 talked about his milestone birthday coming up in April. All right, 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:43.800 So right now, if he was a June first cut, yes, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:50.520 they would save it's eight million, he would count. Let 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:51.840 me call it up. I don't want to get it 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.520 wrong here, all right? The way they yeah, I just 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.800 need to call it up. Well, First of all, eight 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.400 thirty is a good a good age, not even thirty 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.320 is a good age. His cap hit this year is 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.680 twenty seven years, right, and before it would be nineteen. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.560 So you save eight you save eight. But if you 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.560 were to make him a post June first cut, it 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:19.760 would be he would he would count eight million against 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:24.760 the cap and you save nineteen million. So and if 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.520 if you cut him before June first, he would count 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:32.040 nineteen million, you're saving eight million. Okay. So, but what 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.920 they in selling, and I'm not saying that this is 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.720 exactly what happened, but in selling a okay, he's got 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.440 so in real money that he's got coming this year. 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:48.960 His base salary in twenty twenty two is nineteen million dollars. Okay. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:53.680 Next year it's twenty one million dollars. Okay, So he 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.760 is but just just in terms of this year, okay, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.320 he is due to make nineteen million dollar dollars a 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.680 certain date okay in June, over the course of the season, 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.640 over the course over the course of the season, that's 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.920 his base salary this year, okay. Okay. And so when 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.520 they are asking him to take a pay cut, now, 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.320 they and they could rework the contract where he gets 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.640 more life on the end of it. Whatever. Okay, so 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.119 he's got a way. Do I want to stay here 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:25.240 in or is my market? Can I make nineteen million 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:35.159 dollars a year or someplace else? Interesting? Okay? Interesting? You know, thirty, 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.119 I'm a home But now they think differently. Everyone's moving. 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.520 You know what the Marcus's mindset is. He can play. Yeah, right, 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.679 he just turned thirty. He's just about turned thirty. And 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.000 I don't blame him. He's a proud guy that I 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.360 had a damn good year at thirty years, that's right. 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.040 And then the way he played well and the way 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.119 he played after coming back from his injury at the 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.600 end of the year last year, you know, came through. Yeah. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:02.760 So I mean you're playing on how much does he 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.199 does he want to retire as a cowboy? You know? 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.680 Does he? I don't think there's any of that anymore. Yeah. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.320 I mean maybe with quarterbacks, but that's just not a 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.040 thing anymore. That's that has been a thing for a 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:22.159 long long time. Coaches, players, gems, it doesn't matter. Everybody's 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:26.480 for sale, and rightfully so, I mean that's why I 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.000 held out. You know, we kind of started. This whole 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.520 thing is we have to use all the tricks and 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.280 loopholes we can use to get as much as we can, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.880 because you always find out, I don't care if it's 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.040 your mom tells you, your dad tells you, they're working 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:45.960 for a corporation. They don't care about you, period. That's 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.240 what That's just what you know. As much as we 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.840 enjoy ourselves, that's still the bottom line, we don't dwell 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.320 on it, but we just know if this decision has 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.160 to be made, we know what decision they're gonna make well, 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.920 and so sure what they would probably like to do 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.359 is figure their figure out a way to keep DeMarcus 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.760 and be able to sign Randy Gregory. And so that's 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.399 the other thing that plays on the other side, is 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:13.919 at even just at that position, can they convince DeMarcus 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:19.120 to to understand that he needs to retire as a cowboy? 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.680 Can they or convince him that you can make as 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.280 much money here as what you would make elsewhere? Same thing, 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.399 you know, same thing, right, Yeah, yeah, convincing however you 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:40.200 can So can you know if they can do that, 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.879 that's a tough one. That's well, you know, they and 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.159 and it all has a lot to do with the 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.920 success of this team. Bill, And that's the thing. I mean, 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.440 you have another year like last year, you're gonna have 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:57.160 to You're gonna have to get buckets to bail out 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.560 all the stuff from this this boat. So that's what 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:02.760 you have to think about. How what is the success 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:04.800 That's what he's going to do a long What kind 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:06.800 of chance can I have going somewhere else and get 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.680 at least go to this You know, it's interesting because 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:12.840 and I'm not saying he's a Hall of Fame player 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.760 like de Marcus Ware will eventually be in the Hall 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.480 of Fame, But the Cowboys went through this same thing 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:22.000 in a way with de Marcus Ware when he went 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.280 to Denver. And and that was and in fact, it 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.040 was the same year that Marcus Lawrence was drafted. Okay, 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.080 it would have been. It would have been about basically 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:35.120 a month before DeMarcus Lawrence was drafted in twenty fourteen. 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.520 The Cowboys right up and it was I remember, in fact, 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:46.919 I remember it's distinctly because my wife and sister in 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:51.000 law were at a restaurant and De Marcus Ware the 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.720 night before free agency started, and DeMarcus Ware was in 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:59.000 that same restaurant. Will you remember? I do remember? Okay, 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:04.520 it was delf Frisco and and he and so there 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.240 and I wasn't there. They're texting me saying, hey, DeMarcus 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.680 wears here, like okay, I'll be there to say because 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:15.480 from a news stand, boy, you know, what were you wearing? 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.160 What were you wearing when you I didn't, I didn't 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.240 make it up, okay, but what you didn't ask the 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:23.800 question what were you wearing? I was at the house. 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.159 I don't know. I was wearing shorts about you were 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.240 going to come up there? You know, yeah, yeah ready 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:33.800 for wow. I could be doing any of you right now. Yeah, 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:37.320 but anyway, just happened to have. They're telling he's on 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:39.560 the phone. He's sir, sure is on the phone a lot. 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.120 And I'm like, well, that's because this is a very 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:45.880 big night in its life right down, That's right. So anyway, 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.920 so DeMarcus wear gets let go the next day and 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:54.280 then he signs with the Denver Broncos. And what happens 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:56.720 in Denver He gets a Super Bowl. So that's not 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:01.040 good for you know, basic for the DeMarcus go exactly. 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.320 I wouldn't I wouldn't point that out to law if 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:06.840 he doesn't really know it now if we want to 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:10.760 keep him, if we want to keep him. Yeah, So anyway, okay, 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:14.880 we're uh we dive into well, we're going to dive 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.679 into Amari Cooper when we come back about it. Okay, 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.480 I want to do that when we come back here 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:25.520 on mix Shots Minus the Mick next, brace yourself for 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:29.520 an existential question. 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