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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are. It's time for
Speaker 1: another edition of What's on Mickey's Legal Pad this week.
Speaker 1: Oh it's filled up. Welcome to mix shots inside the
Speaker 1: SWBC podcast studio. Here it's a beautiful star in Frisco.
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, Everson Walls, Mickey Spagnola, and oh what a
Speaker 1: beautiful day it is here in Man, Oh my good.
Speaker 1: Little different than last Thursday. It was like the other day.
Speaker 1: I walked in and I realized, Oh, I don't have
Speaker 1: a code. I don't need one. Hey, I didn't need
Speaker 1: this one. Yeah, it's too much. I'm glad you wore
Speaker 1: it though, yes, yes, And so here we are. It
Speaker 1: is well. The combine has been going on in Indianapolis
Speaker 1: all week. But but as far today, but as far
Speaker 1: as those of you at home who can watch what's
Speaker 1: going on, we are t minus three and a half
Speaker 1: hours in counting before NFL Network coverage begins of the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks running forties. Quarterbacks is quarterbacks, wide receivers and tight
Speaker 1: end tight ends. So what have they been doing before?
Speaker 1: Now you said it's been going on, but they've just
Speaker 1: they've been measuring them physicals. Okay, winter reviews, which brings
Speaker 1: up one of the notes. I had the guy, the
Speaker 1: quarterback from is it Pitty Kenny Pikett, Yes, eight and
Speaker 1: a half inch hands that Wow, that would be the
Speaker 1: smallest on the NFL. He throws such a good ball.
Speaker 1: And so when I've heard that, I'm looking at my hand,
Speaker 1: I go, no, wonder, I can't throw a football. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure minor even seven inches? Right? I got an
Speaker 1: excuse eight and a half inches. And so the smallest
Speaker 1: the story I read, the smallest in the NFL right
Speaker 1: now is eight and three quarters and it was Taysom Hill.
Speaker 1: And supposed we saw him against the Cowboys in December. Yes,
Speaker 1: we did. Of course he had an injured hand too,
Speaker 1: and he still threw the ball against him. To all
Speaker 1: the ladies out there, you know what they mean. I
Speaker 1: think I wondered how long it's go? Four? Everson went
Speaker 1: there glad, right, and so which, by the way, that's
Speaker 1: not always true. Is here to tell you that? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking from so, I think I think it was Taysom Hill.
Speaker 1: It was one of the quarterbacks that had their hand
Speaker 1: hands were small. They said they did exercises and they
Speaker 1: got they stretched them out a quarter of watch. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: it's like eight and a half to eight and three quarters.
Speaker 1: So so Picket said, yeah, I guess I got to
Speaker 1: start doing some exercises hand. That's like what the ones
Speaker 1: who they're not tall enough, Okay, you need to be
Speaker 1: a certain height to be a quarterback. Whatever, they're there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're stretching themselves. So they had So that's the
Speaker 1: main that's the biggest story coming out so far, right,
Speaker 1: because everything else has been interviews with the coaches, GMS
Speaker 1: and and and then the biggest thing is is the
Speaker 1: medical Yeah on everyone, right, and seeing that's what people
Speaker 1: don't understand, they go, well, why why have the combine?
Speaker 1: Some of the guys don't work out, You got tape
Speaker 1: on them. They want to work out on their pro day.
Speaker 1: But the key thing at the combine is the physicals
Speaker 1: that go on the measurements because they're legitimate, right, every
Speaker 1: school measures their guys differently. And it's the interviews that
Speaker 1: the teams can go through with the players, because at
Speaker 1: the pro day they don't, you know, if there's thirty
Speaker 1: two teams there, they don't get thirty two interviews. So
Speaker 1: that this is this is that's what's most important. It's
Speaker 1: not who can run a cone drill or anything like that.
Speaker 1: They can't do that in their pro day. Who are
Speaker 1: you looking forward to? Like, if you're gonna say, I
Speaker 1: want to look at this guy, I'm not sure I
Speaker 1: know enough since it didn't start yet. But that's why
Speaker 1: we got to green green notebook. And I have in
Speaker 1: my big green notebook so far I got names. I
Speaker 1: got names, and that's it. Well, who are you looking
Speaker 1: forward to? Who? Yeah, I don't have anybody yet. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no one has. You know, no one has top building.
Speaker 1: Now look out for this guy. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: like Kenny pick It uh is probably and there's Malik Willis,
Speaker 1: the quarterback from Liberty. Uh. There's some other quarterbacks to
Speaker 1: uh corral, Matt Carrall uh Um, Daniel Jeremiah, who is
Speaker 1: well respected. Of course, used to be a scout in
Speaker 1: the league, so he's done this for a living. Okay,
Speaker 1: and he's uh. I think he does a great job
Speaker 1: for the NFL network. His pre Combine mock draft has
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett I think going number eighteen overall quarterback first
Speaker 1: quarterback off. So that there's the and then he had
Speaker 1: Willis going twentieth to Pittsburgh. Obviously Pittsburgh needs a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Most of the better quarterback I've already come out. So
Speaker 1: contrast that to this past year. Yeah, and the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: were these story and you've got teams that are trading
Speaker 1: up and into the top five. San Francisco traded what
Speaker 1: they did to get up to get trade lance and
Speaker 1: you know, so last year was the big year for
Speaker 1: and that that happens a lot when the quarterbacks quarter
Speaker 1: There'll be a quarter quarterbacks who are top ten picks
Speaker 1: one year and then the next year not so much.
Speaker 1: How many went in the top fifteen? Four? Last year?
Speaker 1: Was it four or five? For mac Jones went number fifteen?
Speaker 1: So what about what about the class of the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: eighty three? There you go, my man? How many went
Speaker 1: in the top fifteen then that would be interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll have to go there was at least six or
Speaker 1: seven I think went in the first round Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that was impressive. And let me brag on nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: even though I wasn't drafted me or Mike Downs, but
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one considered the best defensive class in the
Speaker 1: history of the NFL, Hugh Greene and lt topping the list.
Speaker 1: Kenny Easley, h Ronnie lott Wright, Carlton Williamson, good guys,
Speaker 1: Wright University of Missouri. That's right, all right? You asked
Speaker 1: about quarterbacks. In nineteen eighty three, John Elway went number
Speaker 1: one overall, and who is he? Who is he? Drafted
Speaker 1: by Cockles Baltimore. Coles got Baltimore. Next quarterback taken was
Speaker 1: number seven, Todd Blackledge to Kansas City and yep. And
Speaker 1: then the next quarterback taken number fourteen overall out of
Speaker 1: the University of Miami, Jim Kelly to Buffalo. So there's
Speaker 1: three in the four of the top fourteen. Tony Easton
Speaker 1: went fifteen to New England University of Illinois. That's right.
Speaker 1: So there's four in the top fifteen. And next quarterback
Speaker 1: was Ken O'Brien to the Jets at twenty four. There's
Speaker 1: five out of twenty in the first twenty four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. Where's Ken O'Brien from. You'll never get it.
Speaker 1: You'll never ever ever ever get it. No way, Okay,
Speaker 1: I won't try to California School. I thought it was
Speaker 1: Sandy Go State. No cal Davis, Oh wow, cal Davis.
Speaker 1: So there's five in the first twenty four. And then
Speaker 1: a guy went number twenty seven overall to Miami from
Speaker 1: Pitts Busy Italian Dan Marino goes twenty seven overall to Miami,
Speaker 1: And so that's six in the first round, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking to see the first second tapping it off with
Speaker 1: Dan Marino. That's pretty good. Yeah, right. Guess who went
Speaker 1: after Dan Marino? Twenty eighth overall, not a quarterback but
Speaker 1: a cornerback twenty eight, twenty eighth overall, ninety three in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three out of Texas A and m Kingsville
Speaker 1: or Texas A. And I probably back there. Daryl Green.
Speaker 1: Daryl Green talked to him last night. Did you realize? Man?
Speaker 1: We talked for like an hour? Can I say come? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can. He's just one of those times where you know,
Speaker 1: you just I say pandemic, But you know, like I
Speaker 1: did when we were really on lockdown, I would call
Speaker 1: certain people that. I just know I hadn't called in
Speaker 1: a while. I got the number. I was doing that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: checking on people, man, my entertainment, me too, Me too,
Speaker 1: got bored. I started making phone calls to people and
Speaker 1: didn't hopefully they were born too. So now we just talked,
Speaker 1: he said, he asked how his cousin was doing Roy Green,
Speaker 1: which they're not cousins, but we just talked about so much.
Speaker 1: And you know, I have a foundation ethos education, and
Speaker 1: we were talking about you know, it got kind of deep.
Speaker 1: We were talking about sports, h kids that having sports,
Speaker 1: having suicide problems, and just so happened. He grew up
Speaker 1: with two people that committed suicide. So kind of putting
Speaker 1: a little damp on this, but that just happed to
Speaker 1: me one of the things we talked about. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to invite him onto my podcast because we have
Speaker 1: a panel that discusses that. All right, Okay, So seven
Speaker 1: Hall of Famers. In the first round of the nineteen
Speaker 1: eight three draft, alway Eric Dickerson went number two to
Speaker 1: the Rams, Jimbo Covert Chicago six pick offensive tackle. Bruce
Speaker 1: Matthews twent to Houston at a usc offensive tackle. So
Speaker 1: there's one two three. Four out of the top nine
Speaker 1: picks were hall of famers. Jim Kelly at fourteen. There's
Speaker 1: five out of the top four team we're hall of famers,
Speaker 1: and then Marino and Darryl Green to close out the
Speaker 1: first round. It's pretty good first round. Now, that's that's
Speaker 1: the hell of a draft. Uh huh, Well that ain't
Speaker 1: get the quarterbacks just hall of fame. That's not going
Speaker 1: to happen this year. No, See, as you go, you're
Speaker 1: such a down now. I think if you look at
Speaker 1: when you you know, the projections or mock drafts, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of offensive linemen in the top ten um,
Speaker 1: which is not good for the Cowboys. But by the way,
Speaker 1: I see there's a rating service that the Cowboys don't
Speaker 1: need an offensive line. Oh wow, Okay, before we go there,
Speaker 1: before we go there, mickey my tongue since since Everson
Speaker 1: brought it up, before you talk offensive line whatever you
Speaker 1: top defensive Draft nineteen eighty one. Okay, three of the
Speaker 1: top eight picks hall of famers from the on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football. That would be Lawrence Taylor
Speaker 1: number two overall, Kenny Easily number four, and Ronnie Lott
Speaker 1: number eight. Sorry, I knew what he was talking about.
Speaker 1: So there are only three Hall of Famers in the
Speaker 1: first round. Wow. But there were three more Hall of
Speaker 1: Famers in the second round, all defensive players. Mike Singletary
Speaker 1: number thirty eight to Chicago, Howie Long number forty eight
Speaker 1: to Oakland, and Ricky Jackson fifty one to New Orleans.
Speaker 1: So there you go. There's six defensive Hall of Famers
Speaker 1: in the first two roun. Guess whose name is not
Speaker 1: mentioned on that who was one of the greatest college
Speaker 1: football players to ever play? Everson Walls? Well, Hugh Green,
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Yeah, yeah, I mean he was up.
Speaker 1: He was the first linebackground for the High So no
Speaker 1: wonder get in the Hall of Fame, right, yeah? You
Speaker 1: Green went number seven to Tampa Bay. Yeah all right, Mickey,
Speaker 1: go ahead. You're offensive line, offensive lines. I saw the
Speaker 1: ratings service that supposedly grades every player every play, every game. Uh.
Speaker 1: They rank the offensive line offensive lines in the NFL
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty one season, number one, Your Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: What do you think they watch? What? Come on, man,
Speaker 1: this is what service. It starts with a Homer. Homer service,
Speaker 1: that's where it starts. That's where Is this the one
Speaker 1: that you're always on? Yeah? Really not on I'm on them,
Speaker 1: on them yeah, And I was like, did they did
Speaker 1: they look? I mean, and so you know, you go
Speaker 1: back and it's like so well, So I guess it
Speaker 1: was all Zeke's fault. Zeke did not a run and
Speaker 1: the hole and Dad couldn't read defense because he must
Speaker 1: have been holding the ball getting sacked all the time.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was flabbergasted. Wow. And I heard
Speaker 1: someone say the other day the line must be doing well.
Speaker 1: My other conclusion was offensive lines in this league aren't
Speaker 1: very good. Now. I'm not saying they were terrible, but
Speaker 1: maybe in the top ten, but not number one. No,
Speaker 1: we're not that offensive line anymore. I mean we used
Speaker 1: to be that line. And I believe they had Connor
Speaker 1: Williams ranked either the second or ninth best guard in
Speaker 1: the league. Wait that's wait so okay, I said second,
Speaker 1: seventh or ninth somewhere in there. Right, So each team,
Speaker 1: each team's got two guards starting right, that's sixty four. Wow.
Speaker 1: I guess they didn't dock him for penalties maybe, And
Speaker 1: you know what, if you get away from the penalties,
Speaker 1: he wasn't that bad. I mean, he's not perfect. That
Speaker 1: sounds funny. It's like, you know, if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: Niagara Falls, I could walk through Buffalo. Somebody signed him
Speaker 1: in free agency. I bet he gets signed and probably
Speaker 1: for some decent money. Yes, yeah, more than the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will want to pay. Wow. So anyway, Yeah, that one
Speaker 1: caught my eye and I was like, huh, you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta say, guys, I was doing pretty well this week.
Speaker 1: This past weekend, I had a couple of gigs where
Speaker 1: I was able to make a little money. Sound a
Speaker 1: few other graphs. And one place that I went was Batavia,
Speaker 1: New York. I've heard of it. I've never heard of it.
Speaker 1: It's right in between Buffalo and Rochester. Yeah, okay. It
Speaker 1: was so much snow on the ground it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But I met some of the nicest, coolest people out there,
Speaker 1: and they told me to tell you, guys high because
Speaker 1: they listened to me. Why well, I didn't know anybody
Speaker 1: listened to us. And the people in in uh Batavia
Speaker 1: are listening to us, Like, man, you must be boring
Speaker 1: right here. That's great nobody I know really, that's one Wow.
Speaker 1: Hello to the people in Batavia. I had several people
Speaker 1: come up to me and say they love to hear
Speaker 1: us all mixed up, you know, the the and not
Speaker 1: to you know, pat ourselves on the back. But I
Speaker 1: think it was the reception Star Sports Tour reception before
Speaker 1: the playoff game San Francisco U the night before or
Speaker 1: the day before. Um, I had a bunch of people
Speaker 1: come up and say thank you, but well, you know,
Speaker 1: we get there all the time when we when we
Speaker 1: do a little bit a little gig. Yeah, so that
Speaker 1: not that that after there was a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: they were probably all our age too. Well these guys weren't. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: these are younger people. I'd say around fifty much younger,
Speaker 1: much younger enough. So anyway, go back to the quarterback thing,
Speaker 1: because this this just kind of hit me. Um, Cowboys,
Speaker 1: we sit here and talk about the problems in free agency,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, well, at least they've got a quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I was looking at teams that have quarterback problems,
Speaker 1: like they don't know maybe who the starter is going
Speaker 1: to be. Carolina, they're not sure, Denver has no idea. Detroit, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Detroit, Detroit, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what what what What do you mean is that anything new?
Speaker 1: On the first round? He took a team to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Mickey, you think they're sinking his teeth into him?
Speaker 1: Then gonna get rid of him next year? Well, they
Speaker 1: might they find some if they find a replacement that
Speaker 1: you need. Take that one off the list. Okay, Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: there's another one. They're no, they're right. I'm with it
Speaker 1: because I watched Hard Knocks. That was brutal. It was
Speaker 1: brutal watching those last two episodes and the Saints. What
Speaker 1: if Jamis isn't totally healthy every time he looked up,
Speaker 1: he's hurt. Now, how about this one? Houston and I
Speaker 1: looked up to Shaun Watson's contract for the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two season, thirty five million dollars base salary. It's already guaranteed.
Speaker 1: So if they get rid of him before June first,
Speaker 1: his dead money fifty one point two billion dollars. Wow,
Speaker 1: and that means cut or trade. Now you know they
Speaker 1: can make him a post June one cut. So what's
Speaker 1: year some of it? Next year? What does he count
Speaker 1: against the cap as a suspended player? What's his capt number?
Speaker 1: What's his captain But he hasn't been suspected. What is
Speaker 1: his guy, I didn't write down that. Wait, Bill, this
Speaker 1: thing about what he just said. He has not been
Speaker 1: suspended and we have not seen him all year long.
Speaker 1: All sridiculous. So he counts against the cap whatever his
Speaker 1: cap number. They have to if they want to get
Speaker 1: ease that they got a restructure or do something with
Speaker 1: the contract. And if he's on the roster March twentieth,
Speaker 1: permission to restructure, right, Bill, No, they can just do
Speaker 1: they just damn money, okay, yeah, yeah, no, And so
Speaker 1: he will accept that money. Yeah. And if he's on
Speaker 1: the roster like Amari Cooper on March twentieth, his twenty million, uh,
Speaker 1: his base salary of twenty million is guaranteed for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, and they have to pay him his roster
Speaker 1: bonus of seventeen million. This is if they don't do anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he's on the team, yeah, okay, So, which is
Speaker 1: why Houston has to go the economical route at quarterback
Speaker 1: with a young quarterback, because they're already paying a quarterback
Speaker 1: that kind of money, right, and if they have that
Speaker 1: and if he's not playing, yeah with Mills, so who
Speaker 1: by the way, if he was in this draft might
Speaker 1: be the top quarterback taking in the draft because he
Speaker 1: was an early third round pick last year. Well, if
Speaker 1: it's not just a bunch of bs the coach is
Speaker 1: talking about, this is going to be my guy. Oh
Speaker 1: and I forgot one team Washington. M and Ron Rivera
Speaker 1: this week says he feels like they need a veteran quarterback. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: if Garoppolo he's got he had the shoulder surgery and
Speaker 1: if he and I don't know how that affects his
Speaker 1: trade status whatever, but Garoppolo seems like he would be
Speaker 1: a good fit in Washington. Yeah. Good defense. They've been
Speaker 1: able to somewhat run the football and they don't have
Speaker 1: to over expose him if he can stay healthy. Right,
Speaker 1: and he's San Francisco. His guarantees have expired, Okay, so
Speaker 1: he's not. They don't owe anything if they let him go.
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, and so, which is another reason why
Speaker 1: they went ahead and drafted their quarterback of the future
Speaker 1: last year, thinking young player Trey Lance. He'll red shirt
Speaker 1: and then they can get Garoppolo off the books this
Speaker 1: year or he would have been really expensive if they
Speaker 1: got rid of him this last year. Yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 1: past season and then the other one I noticed is
Speaker 1: his name keeps bouncing around. Russell Wilson in Seattle his
Speaker 1: captain this year thirty seven million, but if they move
Speaker 1: on from him, twenty six million dead, so everybody goes
Speaker 1: one more. The Cardinals, Oh yeah, right, now he would
Speaker 1: be movable. Kyler Murray, Uh yeah, because he's he's basically
Speaker 1: in the last year of his contract if they have
Speaker 1: if they don't pick up the fifty year option, right,
Speaker 1: which is why he's doing what he's doing exactly. You
Speaker 1: know my note in mix shots today on Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: dot Com. You know that his agent released this long
Speaker 1: That's what I was talking about. He wants to be here,
Speaker 1: he needs to develop. And I said, right, and the
Speaker 1: and the GM basically, uh, what was his comment? His GM.
Speaker 1: The GM's comment was something like pretty simple. It was simple.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, we have to work, you know, And
Speaker 1: basically it was about money, right, he wants a new
Speaker 1: country and and so I wrote, I said, so this
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of uh was it Rod Tidwell
Speaker 1: in in in the movie Jerry McGuire. Oh yeah, right,
Speaker 1: show me the money. That's what he might as well.
Speaker 1: Just he could have saved that long tweet he had
Speaker 1: out there and just put the stay on the team.
Speaker 1: Who's that till now? Bidwell did Wells? That's good? Do
Speaker 1: they stay alone them? They stay on the Michael Bidwells
Speaker 1: still still because they were known at one point is
Speaker 1: one of the cheapest organizations. And they just extended Kingsbury
Speaker 1: in the G seven. Yea, So take that all right?
Speaker 1: So does Kyler Murray? Does his style fit with every
Speaker 1: NFL offense? I would say no, especially what narrows the
Speaker 1: field down down the shot. They have surrounded him with
Speaker 1: some good people. I mean, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: excuses are. The second half of that season. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean Hopkins got hurt at Hopkins yeah yeah, but even
Speaker 1: with even with Hopkins, if I'm not mistaken, they had
Speaker 1: their faults in the latter part of the season. Well,
Speaker 1: he was gone when they started. Was that when it happened? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was halfway through the season, wasn't it when he
Speaker 1: got hurt because they started off ten and two? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well then and then Murray was out and McCoy started
Speaker 1: three games I feel right, like three games in mid season,
Speaker 1: and so um and he came back and they weren't
Speaker 1: quite the he weren't the same and he was just
Speaker 1: making bad decisions. But yeah, because I know. But the
Speaker 1: GM said, yeah, this is just business, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like it's about money because he doesn't want him. He
Speaker 1: doesn't you know, if they don't pick up that fifth
Speaker 1: year option and he's playing the last year of his
Speaker 1: contract and he don't want to take that chance, well
Speaker 1: then Russell can leave. They can just switch. Russell can
Speaker 1: come to Arizona and he can go up to Seattle,
Speaker 1: right just and that would be hand off kind of cool.
Speaker 1: It really wouldn't be kind of cool. Everybody wants, right.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine Seattle, especially within the division. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my good. If we just came up with something that's drama,
Speaker 1: that's drama that that there would bring the NFL probably
Speaker 1: a billion. Okay, So the perspective of the two fan bases,
Speaker 1: how much would Arizona like Russell Wilson over Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: First of all, Russell would be closer to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and he can be he and his wife can not
Speaker 1: how much Russell would like The Cardinal fans like it.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, the Cardinal fans would love it, don't you think?
Speaker 1: And then how about Seahawk fans Kyler Murray over Russell
Speaker 1: was just as excited, but right, just as excited. The
Speaker 1: grass is always greener on the other side. But if
Speaker 1: you trade, they would both be both fan based, would
Speaker 1: be extremely If you trade for him, you better have
Speaker 1: a buttload of salary cap space because that's going to
Speaker 1: count the salary. And he's only got after this coming season.
Speaker 1: He only has one more year on his contract, So
Speaker 1: Russell is more U it's safer to take as far
Speaker 1: as financially well less if a financial risk for us anybody,
Speaker 1: if I mean, if you look at it, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty seven million dollars cap hit. Who is he on
Speaker 1: this contract? He's got this year and next year, which
Speaker 1: is why Kyler has two if they picked up the option. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's a match, I'm telling you man. We just
Speaker 1: we just made a deal, right, a deal, all right?
Speaker 1: And one more Okay? Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: says he stayed. His base salary this year is twenty
Speaker 1: six point four million, and if he's not there and
Speaker 1: his cap numbers forty six point six million, and if
Speaker 1: he's not there, twenty six point eight million in dead
Speaker 1: money Okay, okay, I know we gotta take a play.
Speaker 1: But giants are they solid? Well, they're gonna go with Jones.
Speaker 1: I don't know that they've sunk their teeth into No,
Speaker 1: they have new new head coaches. Yeah they have not,
Speaker 1: I promise you they have not. But they probably almost
Speaker 1: got it. The guys had a different offensive coordinary every year. Right,
Speaker 1: he was going to get two years in a row
Speaker 1: with Jason Garrett and then they got h The judge
Speaker 1: got him right here, come to judge stories about that guy.
Speaker 1: Can we hear him? Yeah, he knew everything we can.
Speaker 1: We can hear him. Next here on Mick Shutts. Oh maybe,
Speaker 1: Oh we'll get that all right. That's when we come
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Speaker 1: And this story does not say it, but our producer
Speaker 1: Chris Beam informs us that there will be media returning
Speaker 1: to the locker room soon. Oh I bet there's a
Speaker 1: lot of celebration going on in that library, right, coming back.
Speaker 1: We missed up, missed up, no piss all right, breaking
Speaker 1: news to go ahead, go ahead. Browse resigned. Well a
Speaker 1: couple of days, I know, but it's it's breaking for
Speaker 1: this for my ground author author couldn't hang in there. Man,
Speaker 1: Well you can put that on Doug Williams. Yeah, once
Speaker 1: he said that. Yeah, that was pretty much it for him.
Speaker 1: But it's so funny though. Duck said in his statement
Speaker 1: that he had already expressed his disappointment to athletic director
Speaker 1: to the president. I mean, you know, isn't like he's
Speaker 1: he's Moses around there. But still here was the Here
Speaker 1: was the mistake they made because they probably caught grief
Speaker 1: on social media and they tried to respond to it
Speaker 1: and qualify and you just got to let that stuff go, right,
Speaker 1: you can't say. And I think one of the things
Speaker 1: they said, well, this is calling bringing in attention to
Speaker 1: this to make sure that everybody doesn't do this, and
Speaker 1: that's going to help out. And it's like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I think the main thing was when you when you
Speaker 1: have someone like Hugh Jackson, he's got a big heart,
Speaker 1: he really does. He's one of those guys that he's
Speaker 1: going to give you that second chance if anyone's going
Speaker 1: to do that, because he got screwed a lot in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He was let go unceremoniously a couple of
Speaker 1: times in the NFL, which is why he's in the
Speaker 1: position he is now trying to work his way back
Speaker 1: in through grambling. But I don't think a lot of
Speaker 1: people appreciated the fact that Art Brows was going to
Speaker 1: work his way in after just the reputation that followed.
Speaker 1: True or not, take all the blame or not. You
Speaker 1: can put it here and put it there percentage wise,
Speaker 1: but when it's all said and done, they just felt
Speaker 1: that Grahamlan didn't need it here. We already fight enough
Speaker 1: enough battles up there trying to get some money. Be
Speaker 1: kind of tough to to try and raise some money
Speaker 1: up there with someone on our brows who brings the
Speaker 1: baggage with him, not necessarily as he uh you know,
Speaker 1: implicit in any way, but he brings baggage with him.
Speaker 1: That was the tough part about it. Radioactive, what's it
Speaker 1: whether he likes it or not. Um, Okay, we're not
Speaker 1: to be concerned about Dak's shoulder surgery that he had
Speaker 1: a sound that way. I mean he played it was
Speaker 1: left shoulder, left shoulder, non throwing shoulder. It was scoped
Speaker 1: and he probably got it. He got hit so many times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but other part of the season that could have been
Speaker 1: a problem, which, by the way, when I was talking
Speaker 1: about the offensive line, yeah, speaking of I pointed out
Speaker 1: that maybe they didn't watch the Kansas City game when
Speaker 1: he was sacked five times and hit eight other times,
Speaker 1: and maybe the playoff game against count you can keep
Speaker 1: it when he was sacked five times and he was
Speaker 1: hit fourteen times. I wonder his shoulder. Another game that
Speaker 1: was similar to that as well. Yeah, goodness gracious, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, you know, we sit, we hear
Speaker 1: it's a scope, right, Well, a lot of surgeries are scope,
Speaker 1: but it's still surgery, except when it's you know, when
Speaker 1: it's you, it's like, oh no, that's a little different, man.
Speaker 1: You know, when you look at these guys, they're younger,
Speaker 1: you know, their their bodies are shite. That's why you
Speaker 1: see some scopes I got might comeback in two weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, just depending on the kind of ship and
Speaker 1: what it is and how young he is. All right,
Speaker 1: next thing on your legal pad? What do you get there? So,
Speaker 1: oh wait, we were going to get him to talk
Speaker 1: about Joe Joe Judge. Yeah, man, talk to someone. Told me, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got all the answers. He knew everything, and that's
Speaker 1: why he's fired and and and and supposedly his practices
Speaker 1: were just ridiculous, way just from an organization standpoint, from
Speaker 1: chaos what they did or how hard they practiced. Yeah really, yeah,
Speaker 1: so it bees old school. Huh yeah, so here here
Speaker 1: was on my on my list, and this is this
Speaker 1: is a weird thing, cowboys, you know, one of the things, Uh,
Speaker 1: I think Steven pointed out at the combine. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: pointed out that they got to emphasize penalties this year,
Speaker 1: you know, when they're preparing too many penalties. They led
Speaker 1: the league with one hundred and twenty seven penalties for
Speaker 1: one thousand, one hundred and three yards. And that's regular season, right,
Speaker 1: he didn't count the fourteen more in the playoff game.
Speaker 1: But here checked this out. So the Cowboys were penalized
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty seven times in seventeen games. Their
Speaker 1: opponents were penalized one hundred and twenty one times, only
Speaker 1: six less. So what is every game that we play?
Speaker 1: Do we check this out? Are we magnets for yellow flags?
Speaker 1: Are it's it's the cruise that you you, you know,
Speaker 1: pulled up. The Cowboys had sixty three penalties on offense,
Speaker 1: their opponents had sixty four. They had forty seven penalties
Speaker 1: on defense, their opponents had forty four. And on special teams,
Speaker 1: the difference was Cowboys seventeen point opponents thirteen. So and
Speaker 1: how about this goodness? Now, how about the Cowboys. Three
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys opponents Chargers Vegas, Arizona. They were the
Speaker 1: other three in the top four in most penalties, Yeah, Vegas,
Speaker 1: I can see. And seven of the Cowboys top seven
Speaker 1: of the top eleven most penalized teams in the league
Speaker 1: were Cowboys opponents Minnesota, Kansas City, Carolina, and Philadelphia. What
Speaker 1: does that say? That's what I said. I said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, how did they got all these penalties? But
Speaker 1: the teams they were playing got all these penalties? And
Speaker 1: usually to me, when you're in current penalties, it's not
Speaker 1: all pre snap right. Some of it you're getting your
Speaker 1: ass beat right and you're just grabbing on. So were
Speaker 1: the Cowboys beating up on their apologies? Defense was causing
Speaker 1: and they were causing penalties? Are they were causing false
Speaker 1: starts because you're you're start and get jittery up there.
Speaker 1: So I just passed. I just saw that when they
Speaker 1: talked about the pet and I called up to make
Speaker 1: sure they were number one, because I thought they were
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty seven. So one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: one if you count the sand we beat, we beat
Speaker 1: the Raiders, we bes. Look who's here? Did you want
Speaker 1: to inform the masses making it's missus Romo and Romos
Speaker 1: wearing their nine jerseys. Well, you know, in case the
Speaker 1: kids getting lost, you know, right, yea, they returned hands
Speaker 1: who used to work with us. By that's right, that's
Speaker 1: exactly of course, she started beating Tony. Yeah, get the
Speaker 1: whole crew. There another good journalism graduate from the University
Speaker 1: of Missouri. Yeah, like that in Missouri. She was in
Speaker 1: TV by that, Okay, okay, yeah, she was acceptional. She
Speaker 1: was actually missus Missouri. I'll see, she was acceptional. I
Speaker 1: thought they all like she, by the way, I thought
Speaker 1: they all looked like that. Obviously not and looking at you.
Speaker 1: By the way. We used to do the Jerry what
Speaker 1: was it was the Jerry Jones Show, right, we did.
Speaker 1: We used to do it together. She hosted it and
Speaker 1: I was for special edition, special edition. Yeah, beauty and yeah,
Speaker 1: you know the other thing when Canadas started in this business,
Speaker 1: I mean she worked her way up where I remember
Speaker 1: on Friday night she'd be at high school football games
Speaker 1: with the camera. High school, by the way. I went
Speaker 1: to a playoff game and she was covering it on
Speaker 1: her own. Same thing. She's running up and down the
Speaker 1: sideline with the camera taking notes. And then I saw
Speaker 1: her a halftime do a stand up on her own.
Speaker 1: No came one man person. And that's how they taught
Speaker 1: you at the universities. Okay, here goes you know what.
Speaker 1: We had her on talking cowboys one time. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I don't know if you would with us
Speaker 1: at that point when we were at Valley Ranch. I
Speaker 1: think she had some charity going on and we had
Speaker 1: her on and she gave us words charity, Valley Ranch,
Speaker 1: Valley Ranch, and she gave us some pretty good insight
Speaker 1: to what Tony was like after games and she goes, oh,
Speaker 1: home games, everybody was required to watch the game with him, right,
Speaker 1: win or lose, and he would go through the entire game.
Speaker 1: If we were having people over the house, it was
Speaker 1: like he was almost practicing post career job. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: he just needs somebody to listen to him, fust himself,
Speaker 1: you know, that's what he needed. By the way, the
Speaker 1: deal came up with Troy Hickman. Yeah. In fact, I
Speaker 1: saw Candice the other day at North Park they had
Speaker 1: the heart She walked by when they were doing the interview.
Speaker 1: She was, she was there. It was part of the
Speaker 1: for Children's Hospital, the charity gala where they they announced
Speaker 1: to the patients the children who are going to be
Speaker 1: models for the fashion show, the annual fashion show that
Speaker 1: draws over a million dollars and uh fundraising for children's hospital.
Speaker 1: She was there, but Troy was there with Rogers Staubach
Speaker 1: and they are the chairman once again of the event.
Speaker 1: Roger's been at it since its inception over thirty years ago,
Speaker 1: and Troy has for over twenty years now. It's a
Speaker 1: great event that comes up April twenty second at the
Speaker 1: Hilton Anatole. But to your point, then, the question of
Speaker 1: the day for Troy was, you know, with free agency
Speaker 1: in the NFL, who's the who's the biggest name free
Speaker 1: agent out there right now? Will it's Troy Aikman in
Speaker 1: broadcasting circles which they're talking about. If he gets the
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's on the way right Well, he
Speaker 1: did not. He didn't deny it. He did not. He
Speaker 1: basically said that the reports out there are not untrue.
Speaker 1: I think I think whatever, I think that what I
Speaker 1: saw as they I guess Fox Fox would have a
Speaker 1: have a barbecue, a barbecue dinner. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was before Thanksgiving or before a game or whatever
Speaker 1: for him and Joe and the crew. And somebody asked him,
Speaker 1: so does you know, will you be going to Doucy
Speaker 1: asked Docy. Mike Doucy asked, are we going to see
Speaker 1: you at the company Picknick this year? And he said,
Speaker 1: if I'm invited as a guest, So anyway, it maybe
Speaker 1: so the five it was five years ninety million, right,
Speaker 1: So I looked up his contract that you know, the
Speaker 1: first one with the Cowboys was five years, eleven million
Speaker 1: and total money he made playing for the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: twelve years with fifty five million, and now you're talking
Speaker 1: eighteen a year for five years. Come along. It's a
Speaker 1: matter of fact. Mirrors. Harris anderss h I guess we
Speaker 1: could ask her. Yeah, Tony's only eighty, right, Which made
Speaker 1: me think back to the first time Troy came to
Speaker 1: training camp in Thousand Oaks. Myself and I think it
Speaker 1: was Edward or we were standing on the side of
Speaker 1: the road in front of the remember the old Gymnasium
Speaker 1: where John Wooden would do this camp. We were standing
Speaker 1: there and here comes Troy pulling in and he's in
Speaker 1: this old pickup truck, right, and he gets out because
Speaker 1: we're gonna do an interview with him, and he's basically
Speaker 1: got Remember the old Grace sweats. We used to have big,
Speaker 1: oh heavy hot thing. Yeah right, that's what he was wearing.
Speaker 1: And I'm going he just got like a five million
Speaker 1: dollars signing bonus or whatever it was, and he showed
Speaker 1: up like you know, like we would have shown up
Speaker 1: in high school, right. You know who the first person
Speaker 1: he met was, the first cowboy he met, It was me, Troy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? Uh? When Lee Steinberg and he
Speaker 1: came to town right after they signed, the jones Is
Speaker 1: invited myself in Trurell to meet them. I was a
Speaker 1: captain of the team at that time, and we met
Speaker 1: Troy and Lee Steinburg like even before the draft because
Speaker 1: they signed him before the draft at Foosies. That was
Speaker 1: before you met Jimmy. Oh yeah, you're you're a captain
Speaker 1: of the team before. No, obviously we met them after
Speaker 1: after he signed, but definitely before. Why do I remember
Speaker 1: Foozies because it's a great place. What do you mean
Speaker 1: why where it was on the Uh that was down
Speaker 1: wasn't great McKinney. It was on McKinney. Oh oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Because they used to have that special drink that's Troy.
Speaker 1: I can't remember it. Yeah, yeah, you remember they were
Speaker 1: I mean they were called why I remember that, I
Speaker 1: called the foosies. Well that's good. Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1: That's cool. He had chew, of course, and Lee had
Speaker 1: chew in his mouth too, just because Troy had it, which,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, Lee never had two in his
Speaker 1: dog gonna light. But that day they they signed the contract,
Speaker 1: they had you. That's funny, all right? Time for another
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Speaker 1: got what about eleven minutes left here in this edition
Speaker 1: of mix Shots. Okay, it's March third, I'm doing the
Speaker 1: math here on Okay, March sixteenth is the start of
Speaker 1: the new year. The whistle goes off, but it actually
Speaker 1: goes off March fourteenth where teams can start negotiating with
Speaker 1: free Bag as if they're not doing it all. That's
Speaker 1: the day that that's Adam Schefter's big day where he
Speaker 1: announces all the deals. Right, and so that's a week
Speaker 1: from Monday, So we're closing in on it. Franchise tag
Speaker 1: deadline day is this coming Monday or Tuesday? Right? Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean we've talked a little bit last week about
Speaker 1: or is there anyone on this Cowboys team that they
Speaker 1: would put a tag on? And we determine that likely no, right,
Speaker 1: probably not because the salary cap starts on the sixteenth,
Speaker 1: and you've got to be able to cover the franchise tag,
Speaker 1: so they would have to make room for that. Okay,
Speaker 1: what do you make of what I said at the
Speaker 1: combat what Stephen Jones in particular, was asked about it?
Speaker 1: And Jerry will be talking at the combine here in
Speaker 1: the next day or two. Yeah, either I think tomorrow
Speaker 1: or Saturday. Typically in the past he's done it on Saturday,
Speaker 1: but that was when the combine ended on Monday. Combine
Speaker 1: ends on Sunday this year, so he might do it tomorrow,
Speaker 1: mightbe do it Friday. And he had his hands full
Speaker 1: yesterday boxing. Um a matter of fact, he said they
Speaker 1: he flew back just for that press conference by the
Speaker 1: way out at the stadium. Errol Spence Junior. Right, how
Speaker 1: do you say the other guy's name? Yeah, Ugas, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's good. I have no idea. Yeah, yeah he didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. So so the big question was Amari Cooper, right,
Speaker 1: because March twentieth is the deadline for his contract being
Speaker 1: guaranteed if he's on the roster. Um, so what are
Speaker 1: we Today's the third so we're seventeen days away from that.
Speaker 1: So whatever they do, they got to make a decision
Speaker 1: before that. If they're keeping him, okay, fine, he gets
Speaker 1: his twenty million dollars base salary, two million dollars count
Speaker 1: two mile and more on his provided signing bonus, so
Speaker 1: twenty two million dollar cap hit. If they let him go,
Speaker 1: they get the base salary back, and then they'll occur
Speaker 1: six million dollars in dead money. So everybody talks about
Speaker 1: what you saved when you release a guy, right, nobody
Speaker 1: points out they already got seven million dollars in dead
Speaker 1: money to account for six point eight of it Jaalen
Speaker 1: Smith's by releasing him. And you can't just keep releasing
Speaker 1: guys and saying, okay, well we're getting this money back.
Speaker 1: The other thing I noticed on March twentieth, six point
Speaker 1: four eight million of Lale Collins ten million dollars base
Speaker 1: salary guaranteed on that day if he's on the roster.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I heard somebody say, well they
Speaker 1: can release him, Well, that's fourteen million in dead money
Speaker 1: because not only is it signing bonus, it's restructure bonus.
Speaker 1: And the same thing with DeMarcus Lawrence. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: it's nineteen million dollars based salary. Will guess what, Release
Speaker 1: him and you're gonna get nineteen million dollars in dead
Speaker 1: money either all this year or part this year, part
Speaker 1: next year. And then the other question that I keep
Speaker 1: posing is, okay, say you do it. Who's playing wide
Speaker 1: receiver for you? Ceedee lamb? And what other guarantee do
Speaker 1: you have? None? Right, they're all free agents. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: Gallop free agent. Come Cedric Wilson free and coming off
Speaker 1: in ACL. He's gonna end up on pop. Do the
Speaker 1: math on that. If he gets back in seven months,
Speaker 1: which is a very fast recovery from a torn ACL
Speaker 1: that takes you to September, he's gonna miss September. He's
Speaker 1: gonna end up on pup uh. And there's no he
Speaker 1: may take eight months, he could take nine months. So
Speaker 1: you really can't count on that. Um, Just thinking about
Speaker 1: how quickly we forget right. When Mary Cooper came, he
Speaker 1: turned this team around. Remember remember it was wide receiver
Speaker 1: by committee. My you know what the committee didn't work
Speaker 1: out so well until he got here. Uh, Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: he's up, Noah Brown's up. Malik Turner is out, a
Speaker 1: league turner like the league turner. So how do you
Speaker 1: don't know you're gonna get all these guys? And who's
Speaker 1: playing wide receiver? Are you spending your first round pick
Speaker 1: on a wide receiver now? Because we need four? We
Speaker 1: need four? Right? Yeah, at least at least So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're saving money, but you're not helping your roster out.
Speaker 1: And the same thing with DeMarcus Lawrence. Oh well you
Speaker 1: can save all that base salary, and everybody keeps I
Speaker 1: don't understand that. And here's the one I don't understand
Speaker 1: what people keep saying that is like, well, look what
Speaker 1: his numbers were. Well, do you realize he only played
Speaker 1: seven games? He missed nine ten games, right, and when
Speaker 1: he came back he was bawling, right, And so and
Speaker 1: okay take him out. Who's playing defensive end for you?
Speaker 1: Because Randy Gregory, you have no assurance at this point
Speaker 1: that you can get him resigned. Dorin's Armstrong's unrestricted. I
Speaker 1: don't know what other teams think about him, but you
Speaker 1: never know what happens with market value. As I pointed
Speaker 1: out last week, we saw what happened to Anthony Hitchens.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, yeah, he's good, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let's see what market value was. Well, market value was
Speaker 1: forty five million over five years, and the Cowboys couldn't
Speaker 1: afford that, right, And and so if those three guys
Speaker 1: are gone, you're looking at Chauncey Golston and Terrell Basham.
Speaker 1: How you feel about that? And you still got problems
Speaker 1: at safety because three of your top four safeties are
Speaker 1: free agents. And you've got problems at linebacker because not
Speaker 1: only is vander esh unrestricted, but so is Kean O'Neill.
Speaker 1: So you can't start just and there are other defensive
Speaker 1: linemen that are free agents, and Carlos watch. Yes, so
Speaker 1: I gotta say that just lets you know that this
Speaker 1: past year was the year? Was the year? Right? You
Speaker 1: let it get away from it? Obviously you're telling me,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're supposed to be talking about how many
Speaker 1: people were losing after we just made it to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. That's what we should be talking and you'd
Speaker 1: feel good about yes, right, yes, So yeah, they've got
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do now. They'll start um
Speaker 1: as soon as I guess it kicks in, they'll they'll
Speaker 1: redo Dak's twenty million dollars based salary, so pick up
Speaker 1: anywhere from I don't know, fifteen million right there. They
Speaker 1: might pick up enough too, because they're in the rears
Speaker 1: right now to kind of come even. And then they
Speaker 1: got to restructure some contracts, you know, and they can
Speaker 1: restructure Lale Collins again. They can restructure Tyring again if
Speaker 1: they wanted to. They can do to Marcus Lawrence again
Speaker 1: and reduce that nineteen million dollars base the way they
Speaker 1: did the previous year. My bold statements is that Tyling
Speaker 1: may not be back well. And that's say he would
Speaker 1: count twelve million dollars against the cap if you didn't
Speaker 1: have them so and he's only got a thirteen point
Speaker 1: five million dollars base. And by the way, he was
Speaker 1: the cowboys number one graded offensive lineman on that analysis,
Speaker 1: higher than Zach Martin. You know, I think I don't
Speaker 1: think either one of them played up to their full potential.
Speaker 1: I really don't. I'm not sure anybody did on that
Speaker 1: offensive line. Um. I thought they struggled. That's why I
Speaker 1: was very surprised by that ranking and say what you want.
Speaker 1: But Conrad Williams is unrestricted, so they have enough of
Speaker 1: enough of those contracts that they can restructure where they
Speaker 1: can create enough space to do business. I believe they can't.
Speaker 1: And then put a team together and then just grit
Speaker 1: your teeth because where they don't don't they don't have
Speaker 1: to get rid of any of the veteran guys that
Speaker 1: aren't free agents right now in order to and see
Speaker 1: And I guess what you have to weigh is what
Speaker 1: what am I getting for my twenty million dollars with
Speaker 1: a Marie Cooper? Now, everybody like Wally they only had
Speaker 1: sixty eight catches or whatever it was. I think that's right.
Speaker 1: But because you're basically you missed three games, what you're
Speaker 1: basically going to have to do with that twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars that you're saving on Amari Cooper is you're going
Speaker 1: to sign or draft a wide receiver class that takes
Speaker 1: up that twenty million dollars. Basically, you know, yeah, and
Speaker 1: and and just because you're drafting them doesn't mean you're
Speaker 1: hitting right. Michael Parsons doesn't come around every year with
Speaker 1: your first and they don't have the what was the
Speaker 1: eleventh they traded down to Twitter. They were or CD
Speaker 1: Lamb there was around sixteen or seventeen. Was sixteen or seventeen.
Speaker 1: Parsons was twelve. And what are we looking at twenty four?
Speaker 1: Twenty four? You can get in Everson Wallace, get Bryan
Speaker 1: Bryant that you could trade down to thirty one and
Speaker 1: get traps and you probably need help on the office
Speaker 1: of line. But are you gonna use and everybody? I
Speaker 1: saw some of these mock drafts and they're giving him
Speaker 1: a guard, not using my first round pick on a
Speaker 1: guard unless he can play tackle. If it's a tackle
Speaker 1: that can play guard and then eventually go to tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: flows Al Adams, did that? Do we have a star?
Speaker 1: There's no stud tackle out there coming up? That's what
Speaker 1: I was asking you about the Green Book. There's a couple.
Speaker 1: Maybe you have an offensive lineman. I'll get to work.
Speaker 1: I'll get to work on it. I mean, I've seen
Speaker 1: as many as three offensive tackles taken in the first ten. Hey, look,
Speaker 1: but they ain't gonna be there. This this is this
Speaker 1: is Batavia. That's your snows in New York. They have
Speaker 1: they have a race track. Can you see this stuff?
Speaker 1: They have a race track. That is the race track.
Speaker 1: It is a stock car. Oh that's probably where because
Speaker 1: they've got they got a Yeah, that is all. That
Speaker 1: was all snow. I mean that was that was crazy
Speaker 1: upstate New York. Yeah. Man, that's that's Cannada, Cana. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, So by this time next week, well, well
Speaker 1: you won't. You're going to be here next week, but
Speaker 1: that'll be our free agent preview. That'll be I'm sitting
Speaker 1: in your chair. Here you go. You're more than well,
Speaker 1: thank you. Make sure you fill it. I'm gonna spray
Speaker 1: it with quality, and I'm gonna fill it up with quality,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start filling up this big green notebook
Speaker 1: with quality. But three o'clock this afternoon when I start
Speaker 1: watching the combine. All right, so what's what's my what's
Speaker 1: my Uh? You got an assignment? Yeah, what's my assignment?
Speaker 1: That's my assignment. You need to watch the linebackers. Okay,
Speaker 1: which is Saturday? I think I think you're linebackers are Saturday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: schedule is today, Quarterbacks, wide receivers tight ends Tomorrow is
Speaker 1: three o'clock. Three o'clock is what they pushed it back
Speaker 1: to get it more into prime time because it's a
Speaker 1: TV of it now, and then the tomorrow is tight ends,
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, and then Saturday will be defensive linemen
Speaker 1: and linebackers, and then your DBS go on Sunday. They're
Speaker 1: always I'm doing both. I'll do both. What happened to
Speaker 1: the running backs? Running backs tomorrow tomorrow? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, No tight ends were today. It's it's quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: wide receivers, tight ends today, running backs and offensive linemen
Speaker 1: tomorrow morrow. Yeah. Come on, y'all, let's get out of here.
Speaker 1: I got a copy some papers, as can we have
Speaker 1: a TV show to that's right, and it's the return
Speaker 1: of the Blitz. He right o'clock on CBS eleven. I
Speaker 1: think it's the nineteenth year of the Blitz and it
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