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Speaker 1: We are full steam ahead as free agency and trade
Speaker 1: talks continue in this offseason for the Cowboys, and we've
Speaker 1: got plenty to talk about. I mean, the last time
Speaker 1: that we were on the air on Tuesday, we were
Speaker 1: talking about checklists. We were talking about what you could
Speaker 1: do to set yourself up for success over the next week.
Speaker 1: Safe to say, they have done quite a few things
Speaker 1: on those checklists. Now are they done? Are the Cowboys
Speaker 1: done yet? No, There's a long way to go this offseason,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure by the time we get back on
Speaker 1: the year next week some more stuff will happen. However,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot to talk about, both good, both
Speaker 1: bad and entertaining all the way through alongside Isaiah Standbackpatrick,
Speaker 1: No see Walker, I'm Kyle Yeomen's gentlemen, how are we doing?
Speaker 1: Fantastic fan Tabby Looso. I was on a boat this
Speaker 1: whole week. You were on a boat. You were you
Speaker 1: were out of sales service. I was that's the best count.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was out of the country on a boat. Yeah, Cosumel,
Speaker 1: my friend. Oh, yes, you've been having a great offseason.
Speaker 1: Ye Did I have too many Miller lights? Maybe? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Did I need a couple more black rifle coffees this
Speaker 1: morning to get that? Probably? Yeah? Yeah? Did uh? Did
Speaker 1: I have an absolute blast? One thousand percent? What matters? Oh,
Speaker 1: my gosh, it was so much fun at a blast
Speaker 1: twelve twelve of us and we all just went on
Speaker 1: a cruise nice throughout the whole of cruises. And that's
Speaker 1: that's been my It was my bachelor party, by the way,
Speaker 1: for those listening, the uh that's been That's been my
Speaker 1: favorite part about this, about this whole wedding process. Question
Speaker 1: is in Cosmel, did Denton Kyle show up? Oh? He
Speaker 1: was there far they got there. Yeah. They have like
Speaker 1: a drink limit. Yeah, they have like the fifteen minute
Speaker 1: drink or the fifteen drink limit per day on the boat.
Speaker 1: That was like he just blew right there, Um the
Speaker 1: U turn up. I need a detox, is what I mean.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing about this whole wedding process, the first
Speaker 1: off is being able to spend it with Lorena and
Speaker 1: go through it with her, and this has been so
Speaker 1: much fun. The second best part is being able to
Speaker 1: hang around friends and family, and so I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see that continue. But I had a blast. It was
Speaker 1: so much fun. I'm glad to be back though, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, I didn't have cell service, so you
Speaker 1: few things. That was kind of my point as I
Speaker 1: got back. And this is where we have to lead off.
Speaker 1: So I want you to tell me Patrick news and notes,
Speaker 1: everything that happened over the last seven days, Like I
Speaker 1: didn't know it, and this just imagine not knowing this
Speaker 1: and then getting back to it. Fair enough, Well, let's
Speaker 1: start news and notes by saying this. I did say
Speaker 1: there was a big move that was likely going to
Speaker 1: land by the time we spoke again today, Cowboys doubled
Speaker 1: up on that and said, you know what, No, c
Speaker 1: We'll see your big move and we'll raise you a note, Okay,
Speaker 1: So we're going to do a quick little rundown here
Speaker 1: and forgive me if there's anything that I that I missed.
Speaker 1: But there's been quite a bit of movement over the
Speaker 1: past week. So we have the Ezekiel Elliott release. Obviously,
Speaker 1: that's the headline move for the Cowboys in free agency.
Speaker 1: They opted to move on from the franchise's third best
Speaker 1: all time leading rusher. That's going to obviously clear the
Speaker 1: way for Tony Pollard to take that throne. Pollard is
Speaker 1: still recovering from the fractured leg suffered in the NFL
Speaker 1: NFC Divisional Round, but the Cowboys have resigned as of
Speaker 1: this morning, or he'll be in the resign this morning.
Speaker 1: Rico dowdle so he's going to be back for depth
Speaker 1: to battle Malite Davis behind Tony Pollard. Then, but they
Speaker 1: also met with two time Super Bowl champion, former second
Speaker 1: round pick Ronald Jones on Monday and they really liked him,
Speaker 1: and I'm told the expectations that he signs this morning.
Speaker 1: So past couple of days heavy on the running backs.
Speaker 1: Dalton Shots yesterday signed with the Houston Texas on a
Speaker 1: one year, nine million dollar max deal. So kudos to
Speaker 1: Dalton shots. He got a bag down there in Houston.
Speaker 1: Clears the way obviously here in Dallas for Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 1: hay hinder shot and likely a tight end being drafted
Speaker 1: by the Cowboys. Jake McQuoid, long snapper for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: former long snapper for the Cowboys, is now with the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions ticket Cowboys. Why is that the one freaking egg?
Speaker 1: Why it's Jake McQuaid. I don't give a dog on
Speaker 1: If it's freaking Teddy Brewster, you need dog on the
Speaker 1: long snapper. I agree, long snappers do matter. We let
Speaker 1: go of LP For those that say they don't matter,
Speaker 1: they do. Until they found McQuaid, it was fine. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we can find somebody else well nice seg because they're
Speaker 1: working on one right now, potentially bringing in Trent Siege,
Speaker 1: is am I'm pronouncing that right, Yeah, I believe so yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So there's a very good chance that Trent Siege takes
Speaker 1: the place of McQuaid. Now, Matt Overton is still out there.
Speaker 1: I would expect that maybe they give Overton a look
Speaker 1: closer to training camp if something's not going quite quite
Speaker 1: white with Sigue but they have a formula for replacing
Speaker 1: the long snapper, and they're going younger there because Siege
Speaker 1: it's quite a bit younger and cheaper seven yeah, than
Speaker 1: both Matt Overton and Jake McQuay. So they're going younger there.
Speaker 1: Played with the Ravens and the Raiders see Dead, and
Speaker 1: he was released a couple couple of days ago March nineteenth. Indeed,
Speaker 1: and ladies and gentlemen, keep up, because we're still going.
Speaker 1: This is rapid fire. Donovan Wilson and both Late and
Speaker 1: vander esh are returning. Magnificent, Magnificent, magnificent. Cooper Rush is
Speaker 1: back in the building, yes, on a deal that basically
Speaker 1: financially puts him in the driver's seat for QB two.
Speaker 1: But you can expect Will Grier is still going to
Speaker 1: challenge for that role. Grid did an excellent job in
Speaker 1: doing that in training camp last year before suffering that
Speaker 1: injury that set them back. Does that put the Cowboys
Speaker 1: out of the running for drafting a quarterback late? My
Speaker 1: answer is note to that. I still expect they're going
Speaker 1: to get a developmental guy that can challenge for challenge
Speaker 1: Will Grim maybe Cooper Rush as well. C J. Goodwin.
Speaker 1: This is an understated resigning, but it is very, very
Speaker 1: important because the Cowboys lost Noah Brown to the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: They lost Luke Gifford to the Tennessee Titans. Those are
Speaker 1: two special teams aces bones fossil was bleeding, he was
Speaker 1: hemoraging special teams. So being able to retain C. J.
Speaker 1: Goodwin is massive. Keep in mind he led the team.
Speaker 1: He's a franchise leader in special teams tackles. Um. It
Speaker 1: was three years running and then Luke Gifford dethroned him.
Speaker 1: But good when he's back in the building. Now, let's
Speaker 1: get to the fun stuff that really really really it
Speaker 1: wasn't fun. Oh no, that was fun. That's about to say,
Speaker 1: wait wait wait there's more. Oh but wait, yeah, we
Speaker 1: are so all of that was very fun, especially Donovan
Speaker 1: and lv those were my top two in house. Fred
Speaker 1: just to retain they did those. Pretty pumped about that. Wonderful, magnificent,
Speaker 1: great job. Stefan Gilmore and Brandon Cooks are both in
Speaker 1: the building. In the building as in like touring. No, no,
Speaker 1: those guys are on the roster. Those guys are all
Speaker 1: ready to suit up and do some damage. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: acquire Stefan Gilmore for a fifth round compensatory pick in
Speaker 1: twins of those freebies. One of those freebies, right one
Speaker 1: of the they flipped one of the picks they got
Speaker 1: for losing one of their guys, a Connor Williams last year,
Speaker 1: and they flipped it into Stephan freaking gil Moore. But wait,
Speaker 1: there's more. The Cowboys were in on trying to trade
Speaker 1: for Brandon Cooks in October, just ahead of the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: They were unable to do it simply because they didn't
Speaker 1: want to actual yes to the third round pick, which
Speaker 1: is the reported ask of the Texans that some say
Speaker 1: when as high as a second round pick, and the
Speaker 1: Texans were at that point, we're not willing to eat
Speaker 1: any of the salary. Fast forward to March a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a desperate situation in Houston. Houston sent
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks to the Cowboys for a fifth round pick
Speaker 1: this year, a sixth round flyer pick in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: and they're eating six million dollars of that eighteen million.
Speaker 1: But there's more. The Cowboys reworked Brandon Cooks's deal yesterday
Speaker 1: to free up that much more cap space. I think
Speaker 1: they added another eight million to the cap. By rewarding
Speaker 1: his actual deals, they are paying him a base salary
Speaker 1: of six mil. That's it. They got Brandon Cooks on
Speaker 1: the roster for six mils. Is a virtue, yea in
Speaker 1: this in this so much finis scenario, this scenario, this
Speaker 1: scenario specifically, because there are another scenarios plenty of the
Speaker 1: scenario patients doesn't necessarily work out. This is one of
Speaker 1: those scenarios where that they did that thing exactly as
Speaker 1: they should have, because there was conversation that if it
Speaker 1: was I if they held out, they did they held out,
Speaker 1: if they would have bit that at the end of
Speaker 1: not the first date, no, in that in that trade
Speaker 1: deadline scenario probably would have been what a third third
Speaker 1: minimum minimum, a third maybe more and taking on the eighteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So this is the Cowboys absolutely finised this deal. And
Speaker 1: and I just can't I don't want to know what
Speaker 1: you were laughing at. I know he's talking that we're
Speaker 1: going to blow right. It wasn't that homecoming. It wasn't
Speaker 1: that total you know, it was they waited into prom.
Speaker 1: They went into prom slip right turn third, went right
Speaker 1: on the home, right on the right, on the home
Speaker 1: they held out and got what they wanted. You understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying with you right there. When you pick
Speaker 1: up what I'm playing there, you put a good job
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. This is a family show. That's why we're
Speaker 1: keeping in families. Some about dancers, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: To be fair? To be fair? How do you build families? Listen?
Speaker 1: To be fair? How do you build families? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 1: sliding home. So, Um, Cowboys have done some fantastic work
Speaker 1: and actually prior to prior to the expected signing of
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones, and they're likely going to add um offensive
Speaker 1: lineman Chuma Idoga as will former third round pick of
Speaker 1: the just in twenty twenty twenty twenty, I believe, spent
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two with Atlanta, So some offensive line help.
Speaker 1: That really gonna please um. But tell me about that
Speaker 1: one again. What was that? Chuma Idoga former third round
Speaker 1: pick of the Jets. I've spent last year with the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. He worked out yesterday with Ronald Jones, had
Speaker 1: physical work up and everything. You think both of them
Speaker 1: could be signed as early as today? Yes? I do? Wow, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I do believe that. Now do you think they would
Speaker 1: do you think that would stop them from drafting in
Speaker 1: either one of those positions. I don't think so. Neither
Speaker 1: one of those are like cutthroat done. And I'm glad you.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you present that because that's a question coming
Speaker 1: up on Twitter this morning. Um My, my read on
Speaker 1: the situation is adding Rico Doubtle immediately. Make sure that
Speaker 1: you have competition for that RB three, Okay, Malik Davis
Speaker 1: versus Rico Dowdle, which is what it was last year
Speaker 1: before Rico Doubtle season ended on that injury. So let
Speaker 1: him fight again with Malie Davis competitively. Adding Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: having removed having moved on from Ezekiel Elliott. It provides
Speaker 1: you draft and rehab insurance, right, So Ronald Jones is
Speaker 1: here because you never know how the board's gonna follow,
Speaker 1: what your draft hall is going to end up being.
Speaker 1: If for whatever reason, you can't come away with the
Speaker 1: running back that you want that can be an impact
Speaker 1: Day one guy, you've got Ronald Jones RB two instantly.
Speaker 1: If for whatever reason you can maybe first round world
Speaker 1: goes crazy, be Jean falls to twenty six. Well, now
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones is there to compete for RB three, two
Speaker 1: times Super Bowl champion who's still only twenty five years old. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's that's key because it feels like people think Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones is like twenty seven, twenty eight. Somebody asked me earlier,
Speaker 1: why not Leonard Fournette. Will Fournette is three years older,
Speaker 1: with much more much fewer trade, much less trade on
Speaker 1: his tires, and probably more expensive. So Ronald Jones twenty
Speaker 1: five years old. No matter how you slice it, it
Speaker 1: doesn't impact what they're looking to do in the draft,
Speaker 1: but it does ensure against what they might not be
Speaker 1: able to do in the draft. No, I completely agree,
Speaker 1: because there's three scenarios there. He's either RB two RB
Speaker 1: two if Ony Pollard's injury doesn't come back in time,
Speaker 1: which I don't think is a problem, but you never know.
Speaker 1: Things happen, then he's RB two again. And then if not,
Speaker 1: you draft a guy and he's RB three. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you're setting up and we've seen the Cowboys do this before.
Speaker 1: They are filling the holes and setting up their roster
Speaker 1: to where when the draft does come around in late April,
Speaker 1: they're able to take the best player available in the
Speaker 1: first round and then from there on. Then they start
Speaker 1: kind of filling in those needs. And they've done it
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Tyler Smith, Michael Parsons, Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 1: I mean, going all the way back, this is the
Speaker 1: most aggressive this front office has been. That's what's different,
Speaker 1: thank you. That's where they've done this every year. Man,
Speaker 1: this chair is sinking. You got They've done this every year,
Speaker 1: Tuckles and Cousin probably actually a lot of tacos and
Speaker 1: other stuff. But I think it's completely different because now
Speaker 1: they're going out and getting impact players. Because I mean,
Speaker 1: you even put it in a brilliant way. The compic
Speaker 1: we got for Connor Williams, the compick the Cowboys guy
Speaker 1: was what they flipped for Stefan Gilman. So that's a
Speaker 1: starter for a starter. Yeah, in a fifth round comp
Speaker 1: pick you would love, and we saw one and Deron
Speaker 1: Bland this year as a fifth round compick coming in
Speaker 1: and having starter caliber play. It's not the norm. But Ky,
Speaker 1: the thing that you said that you blew right by
Speaker 1: is Dallas' front office is going out and getting who
Speaker 1: they want as they're not waiting. Right. My frustration over yeah,
Speaker 1: my frustration over the past years has been what they
Speaker 1: want to discount double check, right, they want to sit around,
Speaker 1: they get the leftovers, right, they see who else falls
Speaker 1: through the cracks, who else is still laying around at
Speaker 1: the crib. Yeah, let's go see what's out there. Let's
Speaker 1: see if these guys still got some trid No, no, no.
Speaker 1: This year the approach is different. This year is like,
Speaker 1: screw this. We're tired of waiting. Were one out. We
Speaker 1: know what we want. We know the impact players that
Speaker 1: we can get, that we can add them to our
Speaker 1: roster in accomplish with the other guys that we have.
Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, we're now, we're now
Speaker 1: we're cooking with We're dog on fire. Right, defensively, you
Speaker 1: add Gilmore. Now you got a three headed monster. You
Speaker 1: got three ball hawks that are starting aft your cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: Don't forget Jordan, Yeah, yeah, jay Lewis hopefully hopefully you know,
Speaker 1: so we got but right off the back, you know
Speaker 1: three three cornerbacks. Right, you got Gilmore, you got Traymond,
Speaker 1: and you got Deron Bland. Those are all ball hawks.
Speaker 1: Those aren't just good defenders. Those are multi interceptions a
Speaker 1: game possible. Guys. You have your you have all your sake,
Speaker 1: there's going to be a takeaway his competition there, and
Speaker 1: he's like, yep, absolutely, you have all your safeties back.
Speaker 1: Right then you flip to the offensive side. Okay, now
Speaker 1: you got a three hitted monster receiver. Gallup's gonna have
Speaker 1: a full off season to get healthy. Case not gonna
Speaker 1: be a question mark or whether or not he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to come back in time. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: a whole offseason to get his confidence back. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna have hopefully renewed Michael Gallup. You're gonna have a
Speaker 1: CD Lamb, and you're gonna have a Cook's and that's
Speaker 1: your three hitting monster receiver. Now now you're loading up.
Speaker 1: What did you lose by losing Zeke? Well, you you
Speaker 1: lost a power back and you lost somebody that could
Speaker 1: protect and pass protection. Well, guess what if you close
Speaker 1: out of this deal like that that's proposed right now.
Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, you have fulfilled that role.
Speaker 1: So now you're literally what you guys are saying, they're
Speaker 1: plugging holes, but they're going out and getting it. They're
Speaker 1: not waiting. I've never seen Dallas this aggressive in the
Speaker 1: first what week, Yeah, first week and real quick and
Speaker 1: out through it to you. And what makes this even
Speaker 1: even more special is outside of acquiring Gilmore and Cooks,
Speaker 1: who have they signed from outside of the building yet?
Speaker 1: Jones isn't on the books. He should be this this morning.
Speaker 1: He dogs not on the book, should be this morning.
Speaker 1: But put those twoth to decide for now. They've not
Speaker 1: brought in anyone from outside the building as far as
Speaker 1: unrestricted free agents yet, and they're still killing it in
Speaker 1: free agents they are. That's I'm elated. I'm actually super
Speaker 1: proud of this front office. Is two things off of that,
Speaker 1: kind of going back to what you started with, how
Speaker 1: many times did we sit on this show and we
Speaker 1: saw Tampa Bay make a move, the Rams make a move,
Speaker 1: Philly make a move, Chiefs make a move, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I would have done that. I would have
Speaker 1: made that move, whether it was a trade or were signing,
Speaker 1: I would have made that move. I would have done that.
Speaker 1: Have watched it? Yeah, the Cowboys we did that fifth
Speaker 1: countless time? Correct? Now other teams are looking at the
Speaker 1: Cowboys two straight times in the Gilmour who's your CB
Speaker 1: two right now? Instantly? And then wide receiver two and
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks. And the thing about Brandon Cooks part of
Speaker 1: it that I like is the expectations for Brandon Cooks
Speaker 1: right now are not to come in and be Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks that was in Houston. You're asking him to come
Speaker 1: in and be a solid number two, which you didn't have.
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup was a below average number two in this
Speaker 1: past season. But guess what, he's going to be a
Speaker 1: solid number three, if if even a really good number three.
Speaker 1: But then you've got Brandon Cooks who's gonna be a solid,
Speaker 1: if even really good number two. And then you've got
Speaker 1: a dog at Cede Lamb. Can you guys expel upon
Speaker 1: what else they have done that hasn't made the headlines,
Speaker 1: that's kind of went underneath the carpet in terms of
Speaker 1: restructuring deals that's allowing them to make some of these
Speaker 1: moves like that. Can you talk a lot of restructures
Speaker 1: And they restructured Dak Prescott, which for those that are
Speaker 1: asking that does not preclude a possible extension landing this year.
Speaker 1: That does buy the Cowboys time because they needed the
Speaker 1: cap space immediately, especially knowing that they're not going to
Speaker 1: get the cap relief from the Ezekiel Elliott release until
Speaker 1: post tuned first anyway, So pull the trigger on Dak.
Speaker 1: They pull the trigger on Zach Martin, pull the trigger
Speaker 1: on Tyron Smith. That's the key. He's back as well.
Speaker 1: Cowboys were able to rework his deal and it will.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen the numbers, go check out a
Speaker 1: Voice of the Star because I've retweeted the numbers from
Speaker 1: Todd Archer. Shouts out to Todd Archer. Tyren Smith is
Speaker 1: the consummate team guy. Go look at what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were able to do with his deal to keep him
Speaker 1: in place. So Tyren Smith, that's more cap space. Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: we talked about Gallop. He restructured. That's more cap space.
Speaker 1: Cowboys rework Brandon Cooks. I mean they are freeing up
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars. But more importantly, and this
Speaker 1: is what's exciting to Isaiah and Kyl and myself and
Speaker 1: a lot of the Cowboys fans, they're not doing this
Speaker 1: to sit on the savings, which is what they typically
Speaker 1: do because they like to roll over things from year
Speaker 1: to year because you can roll over unusalary cop. They're
Speaker 1: actually doing this in these moves to make moves, and
Speaker 1: they're showing it every other day now. So not only
Speaker 1: have they put themselves in a great position as we
Speaker 1: go into only day two of the second week of
Speaker 1: free agency. Typically you don't hear a meaningful move from
Speaker 1: the Cowboys until the tertiary stages week three or free
Speaker 1: agency week four. That's when they start, you know, doing
Speaker 1: the salvation army. More hype is gone, right, but these
Speaker 1: Cowboys are firing out of the gate. But here's what
Speaker 1: makes it that much more San Francisco. Notwithstanding, because they
Speaker 1: have gotten better, they are scary. Okay, the Eagles are
Speaker 1: taking a step back while the Cowboys are taking it
Speaker 1: stuff forward. Eagles just lost Gardner Johnson. Yeah, look at
Speaker 1: this here. I've got nine names for you that the
Speaker 1: Eagles have department to them. Big names. C J. Gardner Johnson,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest one. Chavon Hargrave, that's huge, Miles Sanders,
Speaker 1: t J. Edwards, Isaac Somalo because you're white, Marcus Epps,
Speaker 1: and then both of their offensive and defensive coordinators. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's probably the biggest too. Honestly, but you hear that
Speaker 1: though that's parody, come in a knocking. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that the Eagles are going to be terrible. They should
Speaker 1: probably take them. They loaded up for one year run,
Speaker 1: but that not just like they have draft picks. They
Speaker 1: didn't go to rams. They're gonna be picks and they
Speaker 1: have funds. George Davis being one chops out to my dog.
Speaker 1: But they have some younger guys that will probably step up.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this again, I believe that parody will
Speaker 1: arrive instantly for the Eagles, and that's why you have
Speaker 1: to capitalize on these Super Bowl windows when you can.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they're going to go out and
Speaker 1: be trash next year. I put them at around ten wins.
Speaker 1: That's still gonna make them competitive. But there's no way
Speaker 1: in my eye that you lose those that you've just
Speaker 1: listed and you come away with another fourteen and three
Speaker 1: or even a thirteen And it isn't isn't on the
Speaker 1: trade block? Two is got that work? Okay? So how
Speaker 1: didn't have sales service when he was turning up? All right?
Speaker 1: So Darius Slay was on the trade block and then
Speaker 1: he was released but not officially released. So after the
Speaker 1: news came out he was going to be released, Howe
Speaker 1: Roseman stepped in and said no, we want to keep
Speaker 1: you in, so they get him on a big money extension. However,
Speaker 1: that big money extension took money away from what would
Speaker 1: have been CJ. Gardner Johnson, So Gardner Johnson ends up right.
Speaker 1: So Gardner Johnson puts out the tweet the disrespect is real,
Speaker 1: and then five minutes later he deletes it. And then
Speaker 1: two days later he's with another team. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: Eagles are taking massive steps back. Will they be competitive
Speaker 1: next year, absolutely they will. Will they be a fourteen
Speaker 1: win team next season? Absolutely not? And you can clip
Speaker 1: this full receipt because I said it. I got two
Speaker 1: other things that happened. Two other things that happened. Okay,
Speaker 1: that Cooper Rush got resigned. M Okay, that wasn't really
Speaker 1: breaking news, but Cooper Rush got resigned, so that gives
Speaker 1: them some comfort. Okay, you know what it is standing
Speaker 1: out to me, and I know everybody's gonna be like,
Speaker 1: what the heck you talk about this wall all these
Speaker 1: other big names. Isaac alec harton what happened there Big
Speaker 1: Mexico's moving over to the defensive line. Now that that
Speaker 1: news that just came out on yesterday, So thank you
Speaker 1: because I said if it's on the big so large
Speaker 1: human had so much to go through, I probably was
Speaker 1: going to miss something. Isaac aller Cohon his IPP exemption
Speaker 1: International Pathway Program exemption expires this year. Cowboys are going
Speaker 1: to keep him though, but not as an offensive lining.
Speaker 1: They're moving the big boy over to defensive tackle. They're
Speaker 1: they're looking to drop him in there. Now, does that
Speaker 1: mean they're out on Jonathan Hankins? Know, that does not
Speaker 1: mean they're out on Jonathan Hankins. Obviously, you cannot equate
Speaker 1: the experience that Jonathan Hankins has as being that big
Speaker 1: body knows tackle with a developmental situation in Isaac Alacoon. However, Alakhon,
Speaker 1: this is going to be very interesting because anyone who
Speaker 1: stood next to Isaac, and that includes Tyron Smith, and
Speaker 1: if you stood next to Tyron, then you know that's
Speaker 1: a huge human being. Tyrn Smith literally has to look up,
Speaker 1: yeah to Isaac. Yes, it's a big dude. He gives
Speaker 1: up a couple inches in height, and he gives up
Speaker 1: a few pounds of the weight to Isaac ella Cohn.
Speaker 1: So when the Cowboys look at Isaac and they say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, we like what you were doing on
Speaker 1: the offensive line, but you're you're possibly not coming along
Speaker 1: fast enough. But we have an idea. So I'm interested
Speaker 1: to see what this idea because when it comes to
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Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys. We went a little long in the first segments,
Speaker 1: so let's flow through the second segments. We had so
Speaker 1: much to catch up, much so much to catch up.
Speaker 1: On defensive line. We mentioned Isaac Allacrone, We mentioned some
Speaker 1: of those other names like a Jonathan Hankins and a
Speaker 1: Nevill Callum. More do they need to do more than
Speaker 1: retain up front Isaiah? And is that a spot where
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys were going to go next into free
Speaker 1: agency or maybe trades. We've seen trades being very much
Speaker 1: so on the table, and I don't think they're done yet.
Speaker 1: They still have two other comp picks available. Could you
Speaker 1: see the defensive line being a target spot in that
Speaker 1: regard interior defensive line? Okay, I can I think that.
Speaker 1: So you're pretty set at linebacker, I'm gonna throw front
Speaker 1: seven in the mix. Okay, linebacker. There are a few
Speaker 1: linebackers that are still available in free agencies that I
Speaker 1: think would be some great additions for Dallas. In terms
Speaker 1: of the positions that are available, we can say, okay,
Speaker 1: so Devin White still free, right? Okay, so Devin White
Speaker 1: I would love to see and Bobby. Bobby would have
Speaker 1: to bump over yeah, so yeah, okay, so Bobby. Sorry, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been we've been freaking discre We had to wait
Speaker 1: until last week. We've been communicating more so. I think
Speaker 1: Bobby would be a great addition. But Bobby would have
Speaker 1: to play an outside linebacker role. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: had to play that in his career. So that obviously
Speaker 1: because Vanders does not have the ability to bump outside.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have that skill set. So Vanders who had
Speaker 1: to be in the middle. You need somebody to play
Speaker 1: you neither need of Devin White, need a Bobby Wagner,
Speaker 1: you need somebody else. But it's really gonna be depending
Speaker 1: on what Dan quinn is trying to do with that defense.
Speaker 1: At the second level. You want to cover guy, you
Speaker 1: want to sideline the sideline guy. You want a sure tackler. Right,
Speaker 1: those kind of the three categories going down to the
Speaker 1: defensive line. I think everybody saw how important the role
Speaker 1: was for Big Jonathan Hankins. We understood the impact that
Speaker 1: he had. We understood how important his role was when
Speaker 1: he was vacant, right, teams felt like they had the
Speaker 1: ability to run the ball a lot more effectively, and
Speaker 1: they were able to work their offensive linement up to
Speaker 1: the second level and get on those linebackers that we're
Speaker 1: talking about. So I think you need another big dog.
Speaker 1: I e. That's why they're about to do this project
Speaker 1: with mister Adakon. Okay. I think he's a large human being,
Speaker 1: and I think my mind understanding is that he did
Speaker 1: some of this on HEUT team, right correct, So that
Speaker 1: doesn't brand new. They liked what they saw. Dan Quinn's like,
Speaker 1: I could work with that, So that's inspiring, that's encouraging.
Speaker 1: So obviously he's a project. So you want to get
Speaker 1: somebody who's a sure thing. I think at the defensive
Speaker 1: line position, probably you're a younger guy, but you need
Speaker 1: a big boss hoss. You need somebody who's gonna go
Speaker 1: up there and Claude teams up. So when Hankins goes out, right,
Speaker 1: when he cycles out and he's on the sideline catching
Speaker 1: a breather, you're bringing in another guy who now feels
Speaker 1: that voice that you're not giving them the ability to
Speaker 1: gain an edge on you when he's trying to catch
Speaker 1: his breath or you know, knock on wood, he's injured. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's the entry interior defensive line. Offensively, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been beating against the wall, beating my head against
Speaker 1: the wall without a helmet. Okay, talking about how we
Speaker 1: need more offensive line depth. I understand that they restructure tirement.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Okay, So that's gonna be your guy, most
Speaker 1: likely at the left tackle position, most likely him Tyler
Speaker 1: maybe right, but either way, we're shuffling guys around to
Speaker 1: play roles that they don't typically play it, right, it's
Speaker 1: not their thing. I want guys that that's what they do.
Speaker 1: You want a specialist. You want somebody to come in
Speaker 1: who has worked for these specific grads. Yeah, playing kicker,
Speaker 1: I mean Chauncey Golston, Israel, when Kuhama. There's all these
Speaker 1: guys that you pick to transcend to a different direct.
Speaker 1: You pick so their traits will move. Go get some
Speaker 1: guys that do this, that's what they do for a living, right,
Speaker 1: and do this often. So that's what I'm looking for
Speaker 1: at the officeive line position. More more focused on the guard.
Speaker 1: And I know people are always looking at tackles because
Speaker 1: it's so important, but reality, you have you have two
Speaker 1: left tackles you have Tyran and you have Tyler right,
Speaker 1: those are your two left tackles. You go to the
Speaker 1: right tackle position, you have Terren Steell who's coming off
Speaker 1: the injury and you're you're hoping that he is who
Speaker 1: he used to be. And then you also have Matt
Speaker 1: Well let's go right, well, well, let's go. We got
Speaker 1: it's time to go right, It's time to see what
Speaker 1: you're about. Okay, Um, now you look to the inside office.
Speaker 1: Your right guard is solid. You like to have somebody
Speaker 1: backing him up because you you lost your left guard.
Speaker 1: Your left guard went down to where he went to
Speaker 1: where he didn't go to Buffalo, did Hey, Yeah he did, Yeah, Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Connor mcgovernor got paid and went to Buffalo. So you
Speaker 1: have a void there, right, And the only way that
Speaker 1: you can really plug that hole right now is by
Speaker 1: moving somebody from a position that is their traditional position.
Speaker 1: So to your point, Kyle, I would like for them
Speaker 1: free agency. Most of the big name free agency are gone. Right.
Speaker 1: Freaking Sean Payton went on a freaking shopman's free day
Speaker 1: one and took linement okay, and everybody else wouldn't get
Speaker 1: because you just can't find offensive alignement. Much like you
Speaker 1: can't just find cornerbacks. You can find receivers, you can
Speaker 1: find running backs, You can find a lot of these
Speaker 1: skill positions to fit inside your schemes. The offensive line positions,
Speaker 1: you don't find those guys, right, So if they haven't
Speaker 1: already got somebody in free agency, which they haven't, Okay,
Speaker 1: they might get some guys just laying around that are
Speaker 1: for depth. But in terms of starters, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to draft somebody, and you have to draft them high
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and you know the draft better than
Speaker 1: any of us sitting up here, So you have to
Speaker 1: be able to tell us is there a guy at
Speaker 1: twenty six that they will go get or are they
Speaker 1: gonna be looking at another skill position. It's two guys.
Speaker 1: It's two names that you could put there at twenty
Speaker 1: six offensive line wise, right, that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: We're o Cyrus Torrence, Florida. We've we've mentioned him before,
Speaker 1: bigger guy played at three forty six, but he's at
Speaker 1: three thirty at least as late as the combine. He's
Speaker 1: starting to lean up a little bit and so he's
Speaker 1: looking better. The other name is John Michael Schmidtz from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: But he's a center, so he'd be one of those
Speaker 1: guys that, at least this year, would play out of position.
Speaker 1: Tyler Beiottish is a free agent next year, so if
Speaker 1: you drafted him, he might be your center of the future.
Speaker 1: John Michael Schmidtz right now is a better player than
Speaker 1: Tyler Beiottish. In my eyes, he's a better player right now. Now.
Speaker 1: Would he play as the starter, No, They're not gonna
Speaker 1: move Tyler Beiottish out of the way to put a
Speaker 1: rookie up front, if anything, especially off of a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl year. If anything, they would put him as a
Speaker 1: backup guard, so they would play him where Isaiah the
Speaker 1: door out of position, so he would be out of position.
Speaker 1: It would be an odd fit to draft an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman at twenty six right now, it might be the
Speaker 1: best pick. Center in GA are more interchangeable than tackle
Speaker 1: in guard. I'm okay, one way, one way. It's easier
Speaker 1: to go from center to guard. Yes, it's not as
Speaker 1: easy to go from guard to center. No, but you're right.
Speaker 1: Compared to going out to tackle, it's different. Yes, completely,
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be opposed to that, even though I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here saying I don't like guys playing out of
Speaker 1: their position if you have a dog, especially with Tyl.
Speaker 1: To be honest. Listen, I like Tyler to be honest.
Speaker 1: I want to go on record by saying I like
Speaker 1: Tyme to be honest. I don't think that Tyl to
Speaker 1: bet Is has enough size and strength to handle the
Speaker 1: teams that we play against six times a year. That's
Speaker 1: my opinion. I think he does a great job against
Speaker 1: everybody else, but when he comes to those big boys upfront, Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: you have three NFCAST teams that you face twice a year,
Speaker 1: and those guys kind of have dealing with defensive lines, right,
Speaker 1: They got some hogs. So my thing is saying, hey,
Speaker 1: there's nothing against you, but we need some dogs at
Speaker 1: least put on each side of you to help you
Speaker 1: because you can't handle these guys one on one. That's
Speaker 1: no disrespect, that's just acknowledging where you're strong and where
Speaker 1: you're weak. So you need to put a beast on
Speaker 1: your left side because you already got a beast on
Speaker 1: your right side, because that's what you do, combo blocks.
Speaker 1: I need you combo blocking with somebody who's a lot
Speaker 1: bigger and stronger than you. Yeah, that's John Michael Schmidtz. Now,
Speaker 1: with all of that being said, it's funny because on
Speaker 1: my way in this morning, I got a call from
Speaker 1: the great Nate Newton. Oh, he just wanted he just
Speaker 1: wanted to talk shop about these offensive line We had
Speaker 1: this exact conversation. Rank your five starting offensive lineman right now.
Speaker 1: So it'd be Tyrn Smith at left, Tyler Smith at
Speaker 1: left guard, Tyler Bottish in the interior, Zack Martin at
Speaker 1: right guard, Terrence Steal at right tackle. Where would Tyler
Speaker 1: Biottish be in your five? The bottom? He would be
Speaker 1: number five. Yeah, So even if you went and drafted
Speaker 1: John Michael Schmidtz, it's not out of the question that
Speaker 1: he may be your fourth best offensive lineman. John Michael
Speaker 1: Schmidtz might be your fourth best offensive linement. The other
Speaker 1: part of this equation, though, is do you expect those
Speaker 1: starting five to go all seventeen games? We're here and no,
Speaker 1: But if you do, you're in fantasy land. I'll do
Speaker 1: you one worse. You cannot expect those file do you
Speaker 1: one worse to go all season? Are we even certain
Speaker 1: as we sit here and have this conversation. I mean,
Speaker 1: the expectation is that it will be the case, But
Speaker 1: are we one percent certain that Tarrant Steel is here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, let alone beyond twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: For clarity, ladies and gentlemen, Taryn Steel is a restrictive
Speaker 1: free agent. The Cowboys placed a second round tender on him.
Speaker 1: That means they have the right to or match any
Speaker 1: offer sheet he receives. If they don't match it and
Speaker 1: lose him to someone else, they get a second round
Speaker 1: pick as compensation. So that's one angle of it. Another
Speaker 1: angle of it is Tyler Smith not Tomas Smith. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: tarn Steel is recovering from a twin aco, so that
Speaker 1: is kind of hampering negotiations on a multi year deal.
Speaker 1: So maybe that multi year deal doesn't land until the summer,
Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't land at all. I say all of
Speaker 1: that to say this, we have question marks at left
Speaker 1: guard because Connor McGovern is now protecting Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: you don't know what the future lies at right tackle.
Speaker 1: So those are two key positions that you don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on there. This is why I don't have
Speaker 1: a problem with them circling back in the first round
Speaker 1: of another year and getting an offensive lineman. I don't
Speaker 1: have an issue with that whatsoever, But kind of flipping
Speaker 1: back to the defense real quick, because I do want
Speaker 1: to answer this question defensive line, that front four. I
Speaker 1: don't think that if you can get Hankins back in
Speaker 1: the building, I think you're set, okay, because you talk
Speaker 1: about Chauncey Ghost and Nevil Gallimore. Also, Digi Zola had
Speaker 1: a breakout season, Sam Williams on that edge with Durrance Armstrong.
Speaker 1: Tank is still Tank. I mean, the list goes on.
Speaker 1: They got waves of pass rushers. You keep Hankins in
Speaker 1: that middle. We'll see what happens with alicon Im starting line,
Speaker 1: Quentin Bohinda. I think they love one more guys, So
Speaker 1: you're okay having one hank Ish type player here I'm
Speaker 1: Mozzi Smith. But here's where I'm going with you're talking
Speaker 1: draft for free agencies both okay. If we're talking both
Speaker 1: different in free age and see if you retain Hankins.
Speaker 1: I'm totally fine that I get it. That's what I'm saying. Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, don't draft the guy if you keep Hankins.
Speaker 1: I was always speaking specifically a free agents. Now we're
Speaker 1: talking okay, so wide open. If it's defensive lining, you
Speaker 1: keep hankins. I'm I'm set there as far as not
Speaker 1: necessarily bringing in a guy from the outside in free agency,
Speaker 1: but still attack it in the draft. Okay, cool with it.
Speaker 1: Linebacker corps that I can't be more clear, and how
Speaker 1: shaky that is. So for those that are you know,
Speaker 1: replying to my tweets about the linebackers, and well, no, see,
Speaker 1: why are you still in on Bobby Wagner with lv
Speaker 1: EA still in the building, why are you in on
Speaker 1: Miles Jack? As a consolation, They're still in on Bobby Wagner.
Speaker 1: And you know why they're still in because outside of
Speaker 1: ELV which again was my second most important in house retention,
Speaker 1: second only to Donovan Wilson, you kept lv magnificent, wonderful,
Speaker 1: not being sarcastic. Thank you for that. I probably just
Speaker 1: scared it. But outside of LV and Damon Clark, name
Speaker 1: an impact linebacker for the Cowboys, you lost a depth
Speaker 1: guy in Gifford. I love bro Cox, we already know,
Speaker 1: very high on his ceiling. However, even he will admit
Speaker 1: he has a lot to prove to become an impact player. Okay,
Speaker 1: and from there you got three practice squad guys Devin Harper, Malite, Jefferson,
Speaker 1: DeVante Bond. Okay, that means, as you look at this
Speaker 1: Cowboys linebacker depth chart, as we have this conversation, you
Speaker 1: only have two impact guys proven either proven or proven
Speaker 1: to have a high ceiling like in Daman Clark. After that,
Speaker 1: the talent and potential drop off is significant. That's why
Speaker 1: they're still in on Bobby Wagner and fans should still
Speaker 1: be in on Bobby Wagner. And as a not so
Speaker 1: bad consolation prize, if you bring me a Miles Jack
Speaker 1: and put him in this rotation, that's another option. Uh White,
Speaker 1: that's another option. Okay, Well I looked up his contract.
Speaker 1: Did he get released by No? No, no no, no, Devin White.
Speaker 1: Devin White's not an unrestricted free agent. He's under contract
Speaker 1: this year. I no, he's under contracting. My statement about him,
Speaker 1: yeah you attract chick. I mean, I've got it right here.
Speaker 1: It says twenty twenty three. Okay. So okay, So the
Speaker 1: guy that as much as I would love that, but
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna respond for like one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: So I thought he was a free agent, but I
Speaker 1: thought it was free no, eleven point seven. As soon
Speaker 1: as you said that, like a little ding ding ding
Speaker 1: in my head popped up and I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think they picked up this option. So
Speaker 1: we're cleaning it up. We had to clean it up. Okay,
Speaker 1: so White's off the table, not even not an option,
Speaker 1: but Miles Jack is still an option. Bobby Wagner is
Speaker 1: still the primary option. My point is at linebacker, other
Speaker 1: than l v I and Demane, you have to bring
Speaker 1: in another guy. And I would say bring even if
Speaker 1: you get Jack, even if you get Wagner in the draft,
Speaker 1: you still want to have a guy ready. But you
Speaker 1: have to figure out what type. And again that's gonna
Speaker 1: fall upon Dan Quinn to figure out what type of
Speaker 1: player do you want on the on the weak side.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you have to figure out, because
Speaker 1: do you want a larger human being like you went
Speaker 1: out and got with Barr. Do you want a sure tackler?
Speaker 1: Do you want a fast guy? Do you want somebody
Speaker 1: who can cover? You're using three safeties? Do you need
Speaker 1: a cover linebacker? Who? What do you think they need?
Speaker 1: I think they need a sideline the sideline guy. I
Speaker 1: think they'll speak I think they need a little four
Speaker 1: four guy. I will say, you know who covers will
Speaker 1: sideline a sideline? Bobby Wagner. You know who else covers
Speaker 1: sideline the sideline? He gonna hit you really well off
Speaker 1: of his college table, really well off his college table.
Speaker 1: Devin Harper. Yeah, Nora, he had a good cramp camp
Speaker 1: last year. I like he did. I liked him last
Speaker 1: I think he's if you don't go get that guy.
Speaker 1: I have a competitive guy. You have him in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you. I like him. For people
Speaker 1: that did not see his camp in preseason last year,
Speaker 1: he had one heck of a camp. He didn't have
Speaker 1: a big name Becau. There's a lot of stuff going
Speaker 1: on with the old line and Dak and all that jazz.
Speaker 1: But he had a great camp last year with in
Speaker 1: terms of availability and actual realistic opportunities, what is a
Speaker 1: cap situation looking like now in order to go sign
Speaker 1: a free agent? In terms of what you have to
Speaker 1: take on to go into camp, right, those are all
Speaker 1: things that now this this organization has to try to
Speaker 1: figure out what money do we actually have to play with.
Speaker 1: They've restructured, didn't seemly have to all one team already.
Speaker 1: So this is per over thecap dot Com as we
Speaker 1: have this conversation, the Cowboys have roughly sixteen point two
Speaker 1: million dollars in available cap space, and you need how
Speaker 1: much of going to camp to cover the joy year
Speaker 1: drafty couple? Usually it's no, it's like twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: I think, or even just total, yeah, like to cover
Speaker 1: the whole draft class. Who it's like twenty something. No, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, I'm wrong, right, No, it's twelve, it's twelve
Speaker 1: one two. Yeah. So I'm saying so, like now, so
Speaker 1: as you're looking towards a draft as it stands right now,
Speaker 1: you really have about four million dollars to play with
Speaker 1: right now, as you as you yeah, yeah, as it
Speaker 1: seems right now without having I don't know who else
Speaker 1: you can really restruct your but they still have a few,
Speaker 1: you know. So what I'm saying, like, you got four
Speaker 1: million dollars to really play with in terms of going
Speaker 1: out to be able to acquire free agents, big name
Speaker 1: free agents that you guys are mentioning. Yeah, so there's
Speaker 1: not a lot there's not a whole lot of big
Speaker 1: impact players that you're getting at the positions we're talking
Speaker 1: about at least keep keep in mind. And I guess
Speaker 1: I get the luxury of of saying this now. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys have shown an ability to finesse the cap this
Speaker 1: offseason in a way that's reminiscent of what the Saints
Speaker 1: do annually. I have always wanted them to be, well,
Speaker 1: it's the Dennis Allen Saints now, but they instance on
Speaker 1: Payton blueprint, right. I have always wanted the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: get to a point where they understood that the cap
Speaker 1: is not a pie as much as it is just
Speaker 1: this mythical number that the league would like you to
Speaker 1: stay under. But there are so many ways you can
Speaker 1: pull rabbits out the heat. They're showing me in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three that they know how to execute pulling those
Speaker 1: rabbits out of the heat. Look at the Cooks deal,
Speaker 1: for example. So I use that as an example to say,
Speaker 1: I could see them striking a deal with a Bobby
Speaker 1: Wagon or a Miles Jack or whomever else they need
Speaker 1: to bring in that might be admitted to big ticket guy,
Speaker 1: and then before that deal is even on the books,
Speaker 1: here comes another restructure. If they were able to if
Speaker 1: they are able to close on Bobby, I don't think
Speaker 1: people understan a magnitude of that. I've been I've been
Speaker 1: talking about Bobby. I mean your entire life. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: entire life. You're a Seattle guy. I know Bobby. He's mean,
Speaker 1: he's awesome, I mean, but the thing is, he's such
Speaker 1: a cerebral player, it's ridiculous. A couple couple things before
Speaker 1: we take it to our second break, because we're running
Speaker 1: along again. Um. First one, the according to to spo track,
Speaker 1: the projected draft class cap space needed seven point seven
Speaker 1: so not that bad. So you got you got a
Speaker 1: little bit extra about nine million. You can work with
Speaker 1: seven point can work that's projected. That can change, of course,
Speaker 1: depending on what deals work based upon that you got.
Speaker 1: You have two impact players that you can get seven
Speaker 1: points seven nine million, give or take available. You can
Speaker 1: do some get two year deal to drop the cap
Speaker 1: hit for the first year, adding another guy, like you're saying,
Speaker 1: magic can be made. The second one, though, is even
Speaker 1: the best magicians run out of hat or rabbits to
Speaker 1: pull out of that hat sometimes, so you can't restructure.
Speaker 1: Everybody's fair. But nine gives you enough and not how
Speaker 1: That's where I'm at too, all right, second, second break,
Speaker 1: when we come back, which one of the new additions
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys could make the biggest impact or do
Speaker 1: you think will make the biggest impact in your one.
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Speaker 1: the rodeo you went to the road fire here. That's
Speaker 1: why I asked pickups to whoever upgrade in my seats,
Speaker 1: because those were not the seats that I purchased. I
Speaker 1: purchased some seats not on the first level. And because
Speaker 1: there's a family of five, college is very expensive. I
Speaker 1: got you and electricity bills, and so we get there
Speaker 1: and I'll bring up my tickets and it says VIP
Speaker 1: been upgraded, and we had tickets like right down there
Speaker 1: but where home plate would have been at noise, not
Speaker 1: complaining it at all, And somebody was sitting in our seats,
Speaker 1: and I said, excuse me, we're for I P I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know that or not. Card with
Speaker 1: the head shape. Yeah, I had the head shape. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this or not. Yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 1: And I explained to my kids why people sitting seats
Speaker 1: at aren't there. There was a whole conversation, I'm riding
Speaker 1: a ball or not? Yeah, exactly, No, it was awesome.
Speaker 1: I loved I'm happy that this rodeo season they had
Speaker 1: me ride a mechanical bull on bourbon. No way, how's
Speaker 1: there a video footage? We know how it ends? Actually
Speaker 1: there is, we're not telling you. Oh yes, I could
Speaker 1: find it now. I just want to know how long
Speaker 1: you were up there? We know how it ended, but
Speaker 1: how long were you up there? Beamer? Hey? Can I
Speaker 1: get that full eight seconds? My friend? Can I get
Speaker 1: a clear ye from you again? You need one right now?
Speaker 1: I need one right now? Clean? Yeah? Now that will
Speaker 1: go in. Now we gotta go like three seconds. Yeah
Speaker 1: that's the cut. All right, I'm gonna go back and
Speaker 1: get that. I love it. Thanks Being for anyone of
Speaker 1: the new drafts. There's Chris Being doing fantastic work as always.
Speaker 1: All right, question, everybody wants to know which one of
Speaker 1: the new editions, and I'll throw free agents in there
Speaker 1: as well. I guess they're all trades, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: we haven't until two trades, until until now. But which
Speaker 1: one of the two Stephan Gilmore Brandon Cooks who has
Speaker 1: the bigger impact in year one? Gilmore? Why is that?
Speaker 1: Because you all you have no good place to go
Speaker 1: with the ball? M You know what Stefan told me,
Speaker 1: what's you gotta throw the ball somewhere somewhere. I gotta
Speaker 1: go somewhere. M. Yeah, that's a problem. And in the
Speaker 1: wisdom that he brings, the wisdom that he brings, he's
Speaker 1: now the leader in that room. Yeah, you're not asking
Speaker 1: Curse to be the leader in that room. You're not
Speaker 1: asking any those guys to be the leader. Any mc
Speaker 1: gilmour has the most wisdom in that room now, not
Speaker 1: to say that other guys can't play leader and they
Speaker 1: got no. Everybody's going to look to him now for leadership.
Speaker 1: So you have two young bulls in Trayvon and Duran
Speaker 1: Bland that are hungry, they're growing, they're developing. They have
Speaker 1: a great defensive back cooach, right, but now you have
Speaker 1: a freaking chief on the field. That can go out
Speaker 1: there and direct these guys when they need it. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Based off of the Twitter reaction, Trayvon Diggs
Speaker 1: is pretty pumped to have Stephan Gilmore in the phone. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well they were fighting over his freaking jersey. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's even more fun as Gilmore is just as
Speaker 1: pumped to play alongside Trelan Diggs because Gilmore said he
Speaker 1: because he wasn't able to get Dig's jersey in that
Speaker 1: funny little jersey swap battle with Michael Parsons, that he's
Speaker 1: going to make sure he gets uh one of Dig's
Speaker 1: jerseys now that he's here. So it tells you that
Speaker 1: the love goes both ways. So I think the chemistry
Speaker 1: is going to be instant though, But I'm willing to
Speaker 1: go with Gilmore as well for all the reasons that
Speaker 1: Isaiah said. Along with that shiny thing that's on his finger.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl ring right, he knows not only how to
Speaker 1: get there, because Cooks knows how to get there, but
Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore knows how to get over that hump and
Speaker 1: get that Lombardi Trophy. For those that don't really know
Speaker 1: Cooks and Stefan Gilmore played together, right, So here there,
Speaker 1: y'all kind of reuniting hearing Dallas, Yeah, forgot about that.
Speaker 1: It's a cold combination when you know that you can
Speaker 1: your pass rush can get to the quarterback. And if
Speaker 1: your pass rush gets to the quarterback most of the time,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a highly inaccurate throw. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: be the best ball they could throw. And now when
Speaker 1: the ball's in the air, most likely it's gonna be
Speaker 1: going to somebody who can intercept it. That's a problem.
Speaker 1: Here's here's where it just gets so fantastic. And this
Speaker 1: is again why Gilmore is and both are just massive additions.
Speaker 1: But gun to my head, I'm taking Gilmore as far
Speaker 1: as the bigger impact guy for minute one. And that's because,
Speaker 1: like Gilmore himself said, you have to throw the ball somewhere,
Speaker 1: so that basically intimates you can't what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1: You're gonna aim at Digs, that's a problem. You're gonna
Speaker 1: aim at Bland, that's a problem. You're aiming at Stefan
Speaker 1: and that's a problem. Oh well, maybe you go deep. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: there's Moleague and Donovan and jay Ron Curs right there now,
Speaker 1: keep in mind, you're trying to do all of this
Speaker 1: as a quarterback while you have Michael Parsons, Tom Strong
Speaker 1: to Marcus Lawrence, Sam Williams, Chauncey Ghost and the list
Speaker 1: goes on and all coming at you. It's just the
Speaker 1: only the glaring I should say, the most glaring opportunity
Speaker 1: for improvement for the Cowboys is the void they just
Speaker 1: filled because once Anthony Brown went down at cbtwo, the
Speaker 1: talent drop off there was enormous, and the Cowboys basically
Speaker 1: held a tryout for the rest of the season at
Speaker 1: that position. But teams knew and opposing quarterbacks knew. All
Speaker 1: we had to do is attack the young guys. Draw
Speaker 1: circle around the young guy. Kelvin Joseph was the first
Speaker 1: one to get the circle. Nashaun Wright, who acquitted himself
Speaker 1: fairly well, but he was the next guy. And then
Speaker 1: Israel mcquama, who also played well in the playoff game
Speaker 1: against Templa, didn't. Again, you can't do that now. Now
Speaker 1: when they line up, it's not Okay, where's cbtwo, Let
Speaker 1: me draw us. Oh that's that's Stefan Gilmore in digs Well,
Speaker 1: Let's attack us. Oh that's Dan. So does this fully
Speaker 1: solidify it has to write that Durn Bland is your
Speaker 1: starting spot him and Jordan Lewis. I don't know that
Speaker 1: it solidifies it completely because because you have Jaylu and wow,
Speaker 1: this is a great problem to have, but it's a problem. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: you don't know just yet who's going to win out
Speaker 1: in camp between Jay Lou and Dron Bland, and both
Speaker 1: are both deserve the honor, right Durron Bland deserves the
Speaker 1: honor because of his breakout season as a rookie and
Speaker 1: as a rookie fifth round comp pick No. Less Okay
Speaker 1: led the team in interceptions last season. But Jay Lou
Speaker 1: has been one of the resident ball Hawks, and there
Speaker 1: was a time when he was the only ball Hawk
Speaker 1: on this defense. And outside of coming back from a
Speaker 1: season ending injury, the list Frank fracture and for those
Speaker 1: who need an update, he's out of the boot, he's
Speaker 1: off the scooter. He's all smiles. He tells me he's
Speaker 1: on track to not hit pup, but we'll see if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are cautious and put him on pup anyway.
Speaker 1: So good news there, But the slot battle is the
Speaker 1: only real question in the secondary for me, because I
Speaker 1: don't think that it's guaranteed that Bland would be the
Speaker 1: slot over Lou or Lou would be the slot over Bland.
Speaker 1: That's a training camp decision to come yep. And we
Speaker 1: will have plenty of time to talk about that moving
Speaker 1: forward as well. But that's gonna do it for us
Speaker 1: here on Talking Cowboys. We're gonna have nothing new to
Speaker 1: talk about next week, so you might as well just
Speaker 1: wait on till next week. We'll just go We'll go
Speaker 1: back at it again. We'll hit all this again next
Speaker 1: week because nothing's gonna happen between now and then. Yeah
Speaker 1: at all? All right for Chris be Mysaiah stand bad Patrick,
Speaker 1: No see walk around, Kyle Yoman saying so long. We'll
Speaker 1: see it for another impacted episode next week on Talking Cowboys.
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