WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Pending Disaster? 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.360 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:07.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:10.400 Cowboys. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:17.119 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:22.600 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Darry Church, 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.280 Danny McCrae, Hecma Harrison and Newie Scrugs. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:30.120 Let's make it hap a CV. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.920 Your eyes are not deceiving you. Yeah, I know you're thinking, like, 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.720 what's going on right now? Everybody's in a different place, 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:39.840 But hey, man, we in the place to be. My man, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.199 BC is up in here, hagh Man, d mac is 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:46.000 up in here. And NBC's own was it five, six, seven, 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:52.479 eight ten, get it wrong? Now, a time Emmy winning 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:58.480 Newly Shrugs is in the building, reported live from One Cowboy. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.400 Wayne, you are now rocking with the best. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.680 This is the Plans Lounge in the s w BC 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:08.360 Mortgage Studios. And fellas, like I start this show as always, 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.119 I need a mental check in from all of you fellas. Man, 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.680 just to know how you're doing, how you're feeling. New 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:16.960 it you You traveled the furthest distance this morning, so 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:18.720 I'm gonna start with you. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.880 So the eleven year old had her first day at 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.440 TC soccer camp. So you had to go sign up. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.559 They said get there early because the line is long. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.080 Nobody lied. It was a long old line. I didn't 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:29.319 think I was gonna be able to make it because 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.560 the long line and get everything situated. But man, I 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.360 give them credit. They had they well oiled machine. You know, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.040 got the student athletes where or bless the student athletes 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.920 making that dollars, but they were getting it done. Man, 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.319 So got her all checked in, watched it. Look, you know, 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.600 she lined up four drills. I looked at I said, man, 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.480 I can make this. I'm I have to hustle, but 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.320 but I think I can make it a worse I'll 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:51.200 be bury church late. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:52.320 And you got. 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.880 Y'all here before. Hope y'all wasn't. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:01:59.280 Gonna say nothing. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.600 So so b see that's on you. Now what you got? 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.960 How you doing doing great? Going great? 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.120 You know, about to go on vacation with the wife 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:08.880 for a little bit. So it's gonna be a good 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.960 time and uh looking forward to a nice little breath. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.919 Stay si, so you're not gonna say where stay. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:16.639 For the passport? 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:17.560 Then come on? Man? 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.120 Oh yeah, So we're going over the overseas for a 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:20.640 little bit. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.919 Over a little for a little bit like Africa. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.640 We're going to roam in Sicily. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.080 Okay, just make sure you can just a little north that. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.800 Godfather House and all that. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:38.560 Yeah, you got Tony in that season finale, you know, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.000 bring bringing back something. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.640 Like listen, I'm good man, quick story. This summer about 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.480 my life is going Listen. I'm sitting there, I'm talking 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.440 to my daughter. She's two and a half, and she's, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.880 you know, acting up a little bit. And I was like, hey, Zoe, listen, 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:55.480 Daddy be being nice to you, right, do you want 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.320 daddy start being mean? She said, I could be mean 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:03.000 to daddy. All right, Okay, I see what we're going 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.280 with this r So fatherhood is kicking in. I'm trying 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.800 to find the fine line between discipline and you know, 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:09.799 trying to keep it fun. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.320 But you know, I feel played at the moment. I 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:12.320 feel like she tried. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.360 She laid out his hachitake. She just laid out the 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.680 way it's gonna be, you know, just like she. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.760 Lets you know right there, that's one of the moments 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.959 when you just laugh because I was like, well, she said. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.720 Take take it in. Taking She's telling you how this 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:28.400 houw is gonna be. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:36.720 She really just laid the groundwork, laying the groundwork for 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.839 what it's like to raise their daughter. And she, I mean, 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.400 she's already up up the speed on how to get 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:44.080 this done with you? 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:44.480 Daddy. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.720 You said one thing and she had an ill comeback 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.480 right behind that wasted no time, didn't even have to 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.400 go too thought about it. Imagine that she's a half 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:55.720 and that half, well, wait till you add a. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.160 Teen to that. Checked my instagram not you see she 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.240 was running the hills yesterday. I said the. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.680 Check back continue. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:11.440 That's how you want to be me. Come on, she 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.520 canna be watching protest? 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:15.839 Yeah? 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:16.839 Running? 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.920 He had got the protest yet protest. She's like cookies 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:21.480 and ice cream. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.880 They're gonna tell her, Mama, what did you do to Zoe? 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:26.800 Look? 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.880 Man, cookies and ice cream and everything in between. It 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.640 was first Sunday, last Sunday for me, And I'm sitting 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:37.039 in church thinking to myself. I'm like, as the don't 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.360 even ask me why the prepastor is doing this his 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.640 sermon and I'm thinking to myself, man, we got a 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:43.880 disaster coming our way. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:51.240 The Cowboys. I'm in church thinking disaster us coming, and 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:52.240 man focused on. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:55.080 Taking to church with you. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:56.120 I did, I did. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.120 It is popped in my head. It's popped my I 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.159 got my cracking, my juice and all that. You know, 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.640 it's for a Sunday, you know, pray for your name. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.760 For me and death. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.560 Because I met, I had the thought in my head, 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.039 I'm like, you know, this cap space problem that we're 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.240 about to experience. This may be the last looking people 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.440 have said this over the years that this this roster 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.640 isn't going to look the same. But with the guys 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.760 that you have to sign with Trayvon Diggs and also 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.000 Ceedee Lamb, that could wreck you for sure, right and 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.040 being a guy that's wrecked someone's cap. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.840 That's why I got some cap records in the building 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:39.600 Roman sicily. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.720 Record cap record b C Shall still had recovered for 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:46.720 what you did to this. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:49.040 Guys. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.480 When you think about this front office and the job 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.279 that they have to do to get these guys signed, 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.880 and I mean, I think for the most part, you're sixteen. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.080 I believe Cowboy's sixteen million dollars over the cap under 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.720 the cap right now, so they're not cat Strap got 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.760 four million dollars. You gotta get your rookie signed with, 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.159 so that's gonna leave you right at about twelve million dollars. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:10.039 But what's looming is the Trayvon Diggs. You have to 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.520 get something done with him. Then, oh, by the way, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.120 behind that CD Lamb. So guys, I got to open 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:16.840 the floor up and just ask you how do you 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.000 deal with that as an organization knowing that you have 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.760 maybe some market setting contracts looming on the horizon. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.080 Well, good thing for the Cowboys they got you know, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.200 Will McLay here, and they've been able to draft well 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.520 throughout these past couple of years. But to me, that's 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.239 the only way you get around this because in my understanding, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.719 you're not gonna be able to pay you know, it's 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.039 Dig's top dollar and the wide receiver CD Lamb top dollar. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.159 And then you got a backdoor near comes Parsons, who's 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.440 gonna probably be the highest paid defensive player when he's 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.440 able to come up for his compensation. So to me, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.040 you're gonna have to draft well because those guys, you're 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.520 not gonna be able to get the curses, the hookers, 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.320 the guys that are the payer, the pieces around the 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.640 stars out there to make this team what it is. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.279 So it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be extremely tough. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.919 But I guarantee you Das is gonna be one of 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.520 the top two, if not the top paid corner in 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.240 the National Football League. You know, Ceedee Lamb's gonna want 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.440 his bag as well. And we all know what Parsons 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.240 is gonna come when he comes around the corner. So 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.640 it's gonna get Caps tracked here for a little bit. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.040 But they're gonna have to draft extremely well because those 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.640 you know, bargain choosing free agents here and there, they're not. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.640 Gonna be able to get those guys when those guys 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:23.080 come up. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.920 About that man, yoh, yeah, that was that. But putting 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.720 Digs into perspective, you have J. C. Jackson that just 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.640 signed a big deal with the Los Angeles Chargers, all right, 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.440 then Denzel Ward one hundred million dollar contract with the Browns, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.760 and so I don't I don't think that anything other 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.480 than that is gonna be satisfactory for Diggs because they 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.920 at twenty four years old, he's played in ninety percent 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:47.600 of the snaps. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.800 That means he's gonna be asking for give me all 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:51.239 of mine. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.040 He's taking the ball away better than any corner in 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.240 the league. The past couple years. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.000 Absolutely, how do you deal I mean, how do you 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:56.480 deal with that? 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.480 I mean, listen, if we're looking at the future, I'm 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.120 looking at some other guys who are taking up a 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:02.280 lot of cap space right now. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.000 Who probably won't be here all right. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.480 What happens is when you sign those type of guys, 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.760 then you gotta let some other guys go. All right, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.440 So you got guys I don't even want to say 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.200 no names, but you got guys on the D line 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.600 who are making a lot of money annually who will 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.480 probably not be on the roster. If you have to 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.840 sign all three of those guys, all right, you gotta 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.559 figure out what you're gonna do with Dak as well. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.880 Probably gonna extend them, but it's probably gonna be in 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.000 a way that helps you create some more cap space. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.400 If you look at a guy like Jaylor Hurts or 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.400 Patrick Mahomes, the way that their contracts will set up, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.240 so I know that they're gonna be some creative ways 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.040 for them to get it done. So I'm not really 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.040 worried as much as maybe a heck, but I know 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.200 there's some guys that I you know, a guy that 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:41.920 I talk about, he probably not gonna be on this 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.640 thing and then some defensive line guys, so it'll look 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.000 totally different, but those will be your main stay guys. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.040 So they say, hey, man, I don't know what we're 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.160 gonna have around them with the curses and the hookahs 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.160 and stuff, but we know we need to get digs 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.079 Ceedee Lamb and Michael Parson sign and then we'll figure 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:56.559 the rest. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:57.000 Of it out later. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.960 So so you start looking, you know, I think to 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.040 all right, your twenty twenty four cat, you know, just 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.560 looking at uh, I go over here to spotrack dot 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:13.000 com and you start to say, okay, chances of Tony 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.520 Pollard making ten million next year slim? 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:17.959 Okay, so none, okay. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.319 So you got that, looking at Michael Gallup making thirteen 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:25.040 million dollars next year, Brandon Cooks on the book for ten. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.000 You know, there's there's ways, and you can people that 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.839 you're looking at and say it may not be here, 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.760 and they'll be here in different lighton Vanders four point seventy. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.600 There's ways that you can get guys down. Man, you're 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.480 a punter next year twenty twenty four making three point 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.760 six mil. There's ways that they're going to look cut 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.000 extend people, the cat will go up. So there's going 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.040 to be ways around it. As every team in the league, 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.920 you gonna have to make some tough decisions. Somebody's not 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:54.280 going to be here, right. We'll see play that will 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:59.520 determine who is here and who is not. Jordan Lewis, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.520 you know, look at George Lewis's contract and just you know, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.920 there's there's things today. It's gonna be guys that they 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:10.360 just say hey, Steven Jones and I don't think they 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.400 get enough credit at times. They're gonna figure out who's 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.320 got to be here, who's not. They're gonna be a 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.800 I think heck right now with this cap space because 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.520 somebody said me, hey man, what about de Hop. I 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.160 ain't trying to sign d Hop as much as I'm 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.040 trying to sign Digs. I'm trying to get Digs or Lamb. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.240 I need to get one of these two under contract 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.040 before or at training camp. That that to me would 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.960 make me feel good because at the end of the year, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.480 I don't what I don't want to do is to 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.320 take Pollard's ten for a franchise. I have to throw 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.160 that towards Diggs. It's gonna be cost you a lot 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:43.080 more to franchise corner. So I'd love to get Digs 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.559 done if possible from the Cowboys. And then you've got 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.320 Lamb's contract. Of course he gonna want to, you know, 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.360 get it done quicker. But Digs to me that that's 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:51.840 the one I really would feel good about. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.320 But you have to explain why you have the urgency 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.120 on Diggs's contract versus on Lamb. One longer than the other, right, no, 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.160 one longer than the other because of the way that 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.719 they were drafted four years versus exactly, and so how 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.000 they can extend him and they don't have the same luxury. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.040 But historically the Cowboys have kind of drugged their feet. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.679 At this particular particular time, we saw that with Dak's 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.360 contract that ended up costing him more. Would they do 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:20.240 the same thing with Diggs's contract where you know that 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.960 they may franchise tag him. That's a bad word, but 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.800 that's how you kick the can down the road if 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:28.520 you're the cowboy. 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:28.880 I don't know. 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.920 With the quarterbacks, yeah, I think it's been an issue 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.719 with them, not necessarily with other positions, all right, d 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.200 Law they made him do franchise Tack twice, which is 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.120 a win when you look at it, you know, in 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.120 the hindsight of like he was making almost eighteen to 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.880 twenty million dollars per with that one, But you look 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.040 at I don't remember specifically do this thing, but I 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.360 don't remember being that much of an issue to where 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.640 we were like, they are they gonna continue to are 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:55.960 they are they gonna sign the guy? 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:56.840 We're not really sure. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.280 I think when you talked about Dak and those guys, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.600 Jerry and Steven know, hey, man, we're gonna get it 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.880 figured out. I think it's us in the media who's like, yeah, 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.199 I'm not really sure, Like we had a whole discussion 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.560 about back for like a year. Yeah, and Jerry and 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.360 Stephen like you'all worried about the wrong thing. We're gonna 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:15.920 make sure we get this thing figured out. So I 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.000 think I think they're okay. But that's just me having 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.479 that that that hope in the organization. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.640 I can see him playing hardball a little bit though 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:25.679 they did. I can see this playing horrible. He got 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.120 the older brother who's who's been, you know, the highest 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.560 paid guy. He understands like, you gotta get all your words, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.760 so you know, he's feeding him a little bread comes, Hey, man, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.720 make sure you get the top dollar only on discounts nowhere. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.600 So I can see him, you know, talking to his 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.600 older brother, getting that knowledge in there and saying, hey, 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.600 you know what, I deserve to be the highest paid 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.880 corner in the national football and we understand what. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.040 You know, the Cowboys bringing the negotiation table. 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.240 You got that stone, your help. You can get a 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.480 lot more money off the field as well. So they're 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.000 gonna play horriball, in my opinion, a little bit going 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:54.280 into this negotiation process. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:55.120 But I'm with you, d Mac. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.040 I think at the end of the day, it's gonna 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.800 get done because they understand that this guy is a 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.280 cornerstone of the defense. He's young, he's a productive guy 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.200 out there, So I think they'll get done. But I 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.360 can see them battling a little bit negotiations. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.240 When's the last time Jerry Jones lost a key player? 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.360 You want? That's never? 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:11.920 Never? 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.880 And the truth is they knew this when he set 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:20.160 the record, so not like it's just coming up this year, 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.680 but they've been in the room for a minute, like, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.440 you know what, we know that we have this one 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.720 and we got a whole year year and have to 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.600 get this figured out they know Ceedee Lamb. On the 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.960 other side, they've already extended the fifth year option for him, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.520 and Ceedee Lamb has already gone on record that Dallas 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.200 is where he wants to be, but it is in 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.800 the back of his mind. He's worried about it because 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.040 he wants to know, Man, how do I fit into 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.360 my position group? Well, in his draft year, you have 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.120 a guy like Justin Jefferson that's gonna kill everything when 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.200 his time comes. And Justin Jefferson was picked after CD Lamb, 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.400 so let that sink in. But when you see CD, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.920 do you believe that he's one of those guys that 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.120 right now could at the market as you know that 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.160 you're gonna have to do with tray Von Diggs. And 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:07.080 how if he is that and how important is this 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:08.959 year for Ceedee Lamb If he is going to get 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.920 that market setting contract, he better reset it before Justin 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.720 Jefferson because I think it's gonna be hard for somebody 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.280 to go in there and say, hey, man, I want 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.760 more than this guy, just based off what Minnesota may 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.760 do for a guy like Justin Jefferson and the record, 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.800 the number all that speaks for itself and that's no 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.840 shot at CD, Lamb one has just been way more 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.680 productive than the other. Right, So I know everybody wants 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.480 to have the like we're gonna reset it and whatever. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.560 But I think whatever Justin Jefferson is about to get 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.640 is going to be so outraged that teams are gonna 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.400 look and be like, I don't know, Deshaun. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.440 Watson exactly, that's what. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:41.840 They like. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:43.320 I don't know. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.320 But because what like basically, what Justin Jefferson has done 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.600 over the last few years has been remarkable. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:54.200 Historic, It has been a historic level. Ceenee Lamb, and 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.200 I kind of go back to what you said, wants 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.400 to be here, so you at least have that that 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.280 you in my mind, knowing that a player wants to 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.840 be here, you can find some way to get there. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.120 Even with Dak Prescott, see the whole time, I want 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.760 to be here, and I still maintain that he believed 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.080 that he wants to be here. I think there's certain 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.720 guys who understand the power that star and the seven 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.720 you know appearing national appearances on I think, you know 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:24.400 CD a Texas guy. I'm not worried about that one 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.600 as much as I'm worried about Diggs that's the one 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.960 I'm concerned about, Cede Lamb. I think they're gonna find 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.040 a way to get it done. And then you know, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.320 if I'm Jerry, Joe or Jerry seems like, hey, may Lean, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.680 you can go to dak Leland on your boy. But 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.040 Diggs is the one I do worry about because I 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:47.160 that's going to be a very interesting conversation. Yeah, and 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.440 I just that's that's to me and how you guys 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.760 feel and being weigh in here as well. How many 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.960 years have they been searching to find a player like this? 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:01.360 He's a young. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.560 Really, that's really the last mainstay at corner for us. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.040 You know, this is not a guy that you can 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:08.680 let out the building go well, we'll just get a 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.200 camp pick and we'll go out. No, man, these dudes 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.000 are hard to find. They're very insa passing league. I 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.320 really put a priority on that. To me, I would 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.680 I would if I own this football team, I'd be 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.640 corner Stephen. Get this thing done. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:22.880 Man. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.520 We cannot be out here searching for corners in the 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:26.520 National Football League. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:27.560 No, not. 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.720 When you have one that's good, like you can go 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.800 search and then you're gonna end up with you know, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:34.840 submit to your guys. But when you got a guy 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.720 who could turn take the ball over like that and 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.920 continues to get better year in a year out with 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.840 whatever it was his weakness the year before, then you 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.520 got to make sure you keep that guy on your roster. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.680 And that is Trayvon Diggs. That is there's no question 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:47.240 about it. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.760 When you want, like when you're playing the game and 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.040 you're offensive coordinator, you're looking at Trayvon Diggie saying I 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.240 don't know, like I don't know what rocks we can 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.520 run over there, But make sure make sure before you 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.240 throw it there your comfort that your receivers in the 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.480 right position, that you got the right velocity on the ball, 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.640 because if you don't, it's likely coming back and you're 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:06.280 gonna be trying to. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:06.680 Make a tackle. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.080 And he plays now, he plays. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.840 Done miss games, has played ninety percent of the snaps 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.320 and just again based off of his number since he's 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.880 coming to the league, league leading in interceptions. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.480 So, like you said, you can't find that. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.479 And there's no one more polarizing as far as their 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.399 opinion of a guy's talent than Trayvon Diggs. A lot 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.240 of people's a double moved, you know, all of the 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.560 other things, but still is a playmaker on your defense. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.359 But the elephant in the room, guys, we're not just 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.280 gonna gloss over this, because it's an elephant in the room, 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.840 all right. And when I was a little kid, I 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.919 used to go to the circus and the guy with 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.480 the big shovel, he'd be scooping up the poop. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.080 Stephen Jones is right. Steven Jones is right there with 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:48.880 scooping up the poop right now. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.159