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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot

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Speaker 1: screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys out now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,

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Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here it is. We are on

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Speaker 1: the eve of the NFL's new league year. So I

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Speaker 1: guess we can call this new Year's Eve, Mickey, Mickey

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Speaker 1: Spagnola inside inside the s WBC Mortgage studios there in

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Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco. Everson Walls is not with us

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Speaker 1: this week. I am Bill Jones, and wow do we

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Speaker 1: have a lot to get to on this edition of

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Speaker 1: Mick Shots. As as expected, the Cowboys are not active

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Speaker 1: so far in the one. They call this the tempered

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Speaker 1: then tampering period or the tampering period of the last

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Speaker 1: over a two day period. It's an opportunity for agents

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Speaker 1: to do their negotiating with teams, and there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of players that have already come off the board. But Mickey,

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Speaker 1: most of these players are not players the Cowboys had

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Speaker 1: eyes on because they're out of their price range a

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Speaker 1: little bit. And I think, probably Bill, that's where we

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Speaker 1: probably need to start with this to quell the uproar

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Speaker 1: out there that well, this is typical Cowboys, they're not

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Speaker 1: doing anything. Well, it's hard to do things when you

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Speaker 1: don't have very much money available, and that's one of

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Speaker 1: the things that continues to haunt them in free agency.

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Speaker 1: I understand the caps one hundred and eighty two point

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Speaker 1: five million, so that went down from one hundred ninety

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Speaker 1: eight point four, but the Cowboys cap space, especially after

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Speaker 1: signing Dak Prescott to his deal last week and taking

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Speaker 1: up twenty two point two million of the salary cap,

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Speaker 1: which was significantly less right Bill than had he remained

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Speaker 1: on the franchise tag at thirty seven point seven million,

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Speaker 1: they still don't have that much money. And I keep

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Speaker 1: seeing this figure being floated out there that the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: have eighteen million dollars in space. Well, the one thing

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Speaker 1: you need to remember is they do have to fund

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Speaker 1: a draft and right now, and I can't imagine they

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Speaker 1: would they would use all ten draft choices, but their

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Speaker 1: nine million, So take that off and now you're left

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Speaker 1: with eight million, and that's very little space right now,

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Speaker 1: not a lot of wiggle room, and they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to basically, unfortunately, do some bargain hunting. Even after they

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Speaker 1: did the restructuring of the contracts with Tyrn Smith, Zach Martin,

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Speaker 1: and Lele Collins. My understanding is that they've probably got

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Speaker 1: a couple more they need to do just to facilitate

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Speaker 1: signing back some of their own guys along with you know,

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Speaker 1: see them being big players in free agency. So let's

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Speaker 1: just start right there and quell the outroar that happens

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Speaker 1: every year at this time. And let's also start with

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Speaker 1: what has transpired reportedly up to this point as we

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Speaker 1: get the very latest on what might happen as we

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Speaker 1: over the course of the next hour, because things are

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Speaker 1: happening very quickly, as a lot of you know, following

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Speaker 1: it throughout the day on Monday, but most recently this morning,

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Speaker 1: it looks like Cheetaowoozier has found a new home with

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. I haven't seen the money figures on

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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers that was reported as two years, ten million

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Speaker 1: Joe Thomas one year, two million dollars. And it looks

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Speaker 1: like the Cowboys are moving away from LP Lattissar after

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Speaker 1: sixteen years and two hundred fifty three games, two games

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Speaker 1: Cowboys reportedly are bringing in the long snapper from the Rams,

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Speaker 1: signed him in two thousand and five. He was a

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Speaker 1: I could remember the day Bill at San Jose State

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Speaker 1: he already had enough with John Condo, the rookie deep

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Speaker 1: But he was awfully good during his two hundred and

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Speaker 1: But as you said, McQuaid had ten seasons with the

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Speaker 1: by player on here. How about Cheeto to Cincinnati. What

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Speaker 1: And I understand everybody's given the Cowboys a cornerback in

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Speaker 1: But he lands two years, eight million guaranteed in Carolina.

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Speaker 1: didn't think he was very good when he did play,

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Speaker 1: almost average maybe, And he signs like a two year

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Speaker 1: the desperation for veteran tackles is high in this league.

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Speaker 1: So that leaves the Cowboys, and we're going to assume

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Speaker 1: here's what they have to do. If anybody gets either

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Speaker 1: Just move him to one of the tackle positions and

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Speaker 1: the Star dot com. On the eve of the NFL's

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Speaker 1: new league year, This is Mick shots would take you

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Speaker 1: all the way to twelve thirty. We are monitoring what

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Speaker 1: is going on around the league. A couple of other

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Speaker 1: things that the Cowboys did in the last twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours or so. Mickey Noah Brown is coming back on

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Speaker 1: a one year deal, and they also have placed the

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Speaker 1: tenders on restricted free agents as well, Cedric Wilson wide

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Speaker 1: receiver as well as Antoine Woods defensive tackle. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: both of those guys, they tendered him at the original

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Speaker 1: draft choice level, which means if they sign an offer

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Speaker 1: sheet from another team that the Cowboys don't want, they

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Speaker 1: would get a six back for Cedric Wilson. You wouldn't

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Speaker 1: get anything back from Antoine Woods because he didn't get drafted.

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Speaker 1: Those tenders are worth two point one three million, and

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Speaker 1: I'll keep an eye on that because both guys are

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Speaker 1: fourth year fourth year guys in the minimum in your

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Speaker 1: fourth year is nine hundred ninety thousand, and One of

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Speaker 1: the things that Cowboys have done previously to try to

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Speaker 1: create cap space is they would sign those restricted guys

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Speaker 1: to two year deals, give them a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a signing bonus to offset the two point one three

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Speaker 1: million over two years and lower their cap hit for

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Speaker 1: this year. They've done that a couple times with guys.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if they try to free up space that way.

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Speaker 1: If I was if I was Cedric Wilson and Antoine

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Speaker 1: Woods the first time that's official and I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that becomes official before tomorrow or at three pm tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: I'd be signing right away. Although you take the chance

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Speaker 1: that somebody might sign you to a bigger, long term deal,

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Speaker 1: that's the chance you take. There's a great example of

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Speaker 1: that last year what happened with Cooper I believe it

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Speaker 1: was with Cooper Rush. Last year year he had he

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Speaker 1: was a restricted free agent, had the tender at the

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Speaker 1: two million whatever, and as it turns out, um then

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton gets signed after the draft, and then Cooper

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Speaker 1: Rush wound up not having a deal and he was

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Speaker 1: he was languishing, basically trying to find a spot. I

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Speaker 1: think it's always I think for like Cedric Wilson, especially

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Speaker 1: with what the Cowboys have at wide receiver or with

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Speaker 1: the depth that they have, I think that he if

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Speaker 1: I was his agent, I would be working some sort

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Speaker 1: of a deal with the Cowboys to give if you

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Speaker 1: get the player more security. Um, it may be less

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Speaker 1: money than what the tender is right now, but um

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Speaker 1: you know just the way out and how tight it

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Speaker 1: is around the league as well, I would be I

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Speaker 1: would be looking at doing a deal like that. Well,

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Speaker 1: Tomura's cap hit and to me, Cedric Wilson, you know,

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Speaker 1: I thought he was a valuable kind of chess piece. Right,

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Speaker 1: He's not a starter, but he had the fourth catches

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Speaker 1: as a wide receiver and I realized it was only seventeen.

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Speaker 1: But he was pretty valuable on special teams, except when

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Speaker 1: they hand him the ball on fourth down on a

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Speaker 1: fake punch and decides to run it instead of throwing

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Speaker 1: it to the wide open receiver downfield. And then Noah Brown,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned him on a one year deal and I

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Speaker 1: can't imagine he signed for much more than the fourth

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Speaker 1: the fourth, the fifth year minimum which is nine hundred

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Speaker 1: ninety thousand, And I saw somebody called him their their

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Speaker 1: fourth receiver. Well he had fourteen catches, but technically they

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Speaker 1: relied a little bit more on Cedric Wilson as that

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Speaker 1: fourth receiver than Noah Brown. But you know what Noah Brown,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I've always been on them for kind

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Speaker 1: of keeping him around. And everybody's saying, well, he's the

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Speaker 1: best blocking wide receiver we got, and I'm going I

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Speaker 1: don't want my wide receiver blocking if that's his best attribute.

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Speaker 1: Put a tight end out there, right. Well, you know what,

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Speaker 1: he reshaped his body last year, slim down, got stronger,

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Speaker 1: and he looked like a wide receiver and he had

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Speaker 1: a couple really nice catches last year. So you know,

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Speaker 1: if you get Cedric back, you got five wide receivers

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Speaker 1: and you would be happy with those five guys. Well,

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Speaker 1: the other thing on Noah Brown is keep it. And

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Speaker 1: remember how young he was when he came into the league.

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Speaker 1: I mean he left Ohio State early, so he was

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Speaker 1: about twenty one years old. He's not very old and

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Speaker 1: sometimes and he didn't have a whole lot of experience

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Speaker 1: because of that, even coming into the league, and so

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Speaker 1: he could be one of those late bloomer types. But

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Speaker 1: I think it's important for players like that to understand

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Speaker 1: where they are in order to The key is to

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Speaker 1: stay in the league. And now, once you get to

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Speaker 1: this point in your career, where okay, like in the

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Speaker 1: case of Cedric Wilson, I do qualify for the two

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Speaker 1: million dollars salary, but where I am on the depth

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Speaker 1: chart right now and where the team my team is

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Speaker 1: as far as the salary cap. And to keep to

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Speaker 1: keep that secure job, you got to factor that in,

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Speaker 1: I think, and then maybe you'll get your opportunity and

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Speaker 1: to be able to show and have a bigger payday later.

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Speaker 1: And you know, all right, how about and let me

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Speaker 1: one last thing on that. And I think for a

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Speaker 1: guy like Cedric Wilson, this is when the player agent

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Speaker 1: is very important because he's got to have the pulse

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Speaker 1: of the market. Is somebody going to pay my guy

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Speaker 1: like the third at least the third receiver on a team,

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Speaker 1: or if if that market value is not there, then

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Speaker 1: just stay where you are and continue to make money,

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Speaker 1: you know, sort of the LP Latticer philosophy. Don't price

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Speaker 1: yourself out of the league if you still want to

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Speaker 1: play even if you're not trying to make big bucks,

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Speaker 1: but you know, keep playing because you're working on a

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Speaker 1: pension too. By the way, also, you mentioned I think

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest needs the Cowboys have when you

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Speaker 1: mentioned Andy Dalton. Yeah, and the other thing. The other

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Speaker 1: thing on all those type of Noah Brown Cedric Wilson

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Speaker 1: type players is understanding as you said, the market and okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's the cap is strapped all across the league right now.

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Speaker 1: But it looks like we're coming out of this the

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Speaker 1: big TV contracts coming, there's gonna be more money to

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Speaker 1: play with. You might get an opportunity to get more

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Speaker 1: as snaps and if you show something then when that

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Speaker 1: when the raps come off the cap around the league,

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Speaker 1: you might be able to really benefit if you but

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Speaker 1: you gotta stay in the league to begin with. All right,

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Speaker 1: as far as the court back situation, how about Andy Dalton.

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Speaker 1: Looks like he is getting some interest around the league.

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Speaker 1: He's been linked to Chicago quite a bit. I saw

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Speaker 1: San Francisco mentioned as well, and then you look at

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Speaker 1: Washington signs Ryan Fitzpatrick. It was reported as a one year,

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Speaker 1: ten million dollar deal, and you know, so Washington made

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Speaker 1: a decision to go that route rather than than Dalton.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what Dalton's price range is, but I

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Speaker 1: would imagine it would be in that vicinity. But it's

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Speaker 1: interesting how things are playing out with Andy Dalton. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the other thing that I saw is likely to

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Speaker 1: take place is the Saints are going to resign Jamis

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Speaker 1: Winston also, so I think if you'll look kind of money,

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's probably the top rated quarterback right now remaining

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Speaker 1: in free agency. I think in the top one hundred.

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Speaker 1: On NFL Network they had Dalton ranked thirty fifth overall.

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Speaker 1: I think Brussel was right behind him, but they had

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Speaker 1: him as the top free agent quarterback. So again, what's

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Speaker 1: the market value? Is somebody gonna pay him the money

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Speaker 1: to be their starter or challenge for a starting job

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Speaker 1: when he knows staying here means he's a backup to

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, And so will somebody offer him enough money

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Speaker 1: to pry him out of where he's living now to

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Speaker 1: starting job. And if that happens, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys can spend that much money to try to

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Speaker 1: resign him or match somebody's one year deal. They might

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Speaker 1: have to settle with Garrett Gilbert and then see what

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Speaker 1: happens after the draft, because again, if there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: think about it. Bill, I don't know what you think,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I've seen mock drafts with as many

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Speaker 1: as five quarterbacks taken, you know, in the top twenty.

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Speaker 1: And if that's happening, somebody's quarterbacks gonna get released somewhere

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Speaker 1: along the line. May not be the starter, but it

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Speaker 1: might be the backup guy. And so there may be

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Speaker 1: more quarterbacks on the market after the draft. So the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to have to judge is Garrett Gilbert?

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Speaker 1: Would we settle for him to be the backup from

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Speaker 1: what we saw? And what was it a game and

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Speaker 1: a half? Or do we want better? If i'm Andy

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Speaker 1: Dalton's I'm not settling on that. Yeah, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: say Andy Dalton's not available, Chase Daniel apparently being released

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Speaker 1: by the Lions. Uh. Colt McCoy, I believe as a

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Speaker 1: free agent those type players, would you go that route?

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Speaker 1: And how much would you spend on a player like that?

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Speaker 1: How much would you have available to spend on a

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Speaker 1: player like that? And I think that's the question with

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Speaker 1: their budget. So yeah, gosh, if you if you can

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Speaker 1: get your backup quarterback for I don't know, three million

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Speaker 1: on a one year deal, that's what I'm thinking you

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Speaker 1: might have to do, which is basically what Dalton's deal was, right.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't that like Dalton's deal last year? Yeah, and which

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Speaker 1: if a bunch of incentives if he had played so

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Speaker 1: many games and they got in the playoffs, he made

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Speaker 1: as much as seven million, but obviously none of that

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Speaker 1: took place. See, I'm in favor of that price range.

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Speaker 1: But I think you've you've got to have someone who

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Speaker 1: you have confidence in that can steer the ship if

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Speaker 1: Dak went down for a couple of games. Yep. And

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Speaker 1: and so I think that's why you you know, I

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Speaker 1: know Gary Gilbert played well in the one game against Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: but I want somebody who's who's done a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: Although you know, Chase Daniel had got much opportunity to pay.

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Speaker 1: But but I I mean even going back to his

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Speaker 1: college days, which was eons ago. Now, I mean Gilbert

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Speaker 1: didn't do a whole lot in college either. So I

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Speaker 1: thought you were talking about Chase Daniel. I was going

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Speaker 1: to have to correct you on that. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm saying even going back to his college

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Speaker 1: days though, Yeah, you know, Chase has more skins on

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Speaker 1: the wall, and uh and as does Colt McCoy. And

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Speaker 1: so I would take one of those guys as the

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Speaker 1: backup over you know, bring them in whichever one you know,

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Speaker 1: two to three million dollars there. Uh you know, Chase

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Speaker 1: is from here, Coult basically from here, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would be very comfortable with the backup quarterback situation.

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Speaker 1: And then you got a young guy that you're developing. Also, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I and this is this doesn't mean to just

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Speaker 1: you know, throw throwd Nucci to the curb. I think

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Speaker 1: what everybody needs to run stand. This was a seventh

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Speaker 1: round pick with no offseason work on the field, with

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Speaker 1: no basically a short training camp and no preseason games,

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Speaker 1: hardly got to practice at all with any part of

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Speaker 1: the first team offense, and all of a sudden they

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Speaker 1: had to throw him in there. And it's like did

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Speaker 1: he struggle? Well, yeah, not surprising. So I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can't give your hat, can't give up on that,

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Speaker 1: especially if he should come around for the amount of

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Speaker 1: money he's making, you know, And I'm not gonna throw

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Speaker 1: this guy under the bus, but I saw this tweet

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Speaker 1: in my mentions, and I won't say the guy's name

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Speaker 1: because he's you know, a bunch of guys are right

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Speaker 1: there with him. They say, find it very annoying that

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Speaker 1: Dallas never is active in free agency teams with left

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Speaker 1: cast bait, so why can't the Cowboys be So these

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Speaker 1: are the same people that were probably saying, why is

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Speaker 1: it taken so long to sign Dak Prescott? Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: they were trying to get a deal so they didn't

644
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Speaker 1: have to spend you know, whatever percentage of the salary cap,

645
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Speaker 1: especially in that first year on the quarterback. They were

646
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Speaker 1: trying to do the deal to protect the salary cap.

647
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: They weren't trying to be cheap. They weren't trying to

648
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Speaker 1: undercut whatever his market value was. They were trying to

649
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Speaker 1: figure out how to do a deal so at least

650
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Speaker 1: this year the salary cap would not cripple this team.

651
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Speaker 1: It wasn't because they didn't want to sign them. They

652
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Speaker 1: just needed to sign them to a deal that was

653
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654
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655
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656
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657
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658
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659
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Speaker 1: it was. It was well worked as far as the

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Speaker 1: I'm monitoring some of the comments on periscope, Mickey, and

710
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Speaker 1: here's a here's a late round quarterback prospect that someone

711
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: mentions on periscope. Sam Ellinger is the twelfth college quarterback

712
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: on somebody's list. Could be picked in the seventh or

713
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: as an undrafted free agent. How about Sam Ellinger as

714
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 1: one of those developmental guys here, bring him in. Yep,

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Speaker 1: I'm all for it. That'd be great. He's got the

716
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Speaker 1: he's got those intangibles that you look for. You know,

717
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: he could be the next Chase Daniel all right around

718
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: the league. How you think Belichick likes going seven and

719
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: nine or the Patriots They're they're spending and bringing guys

720
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: in over fist, right, uh huh, that's right. Well they

721
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: in this morning they signed Hunter Henry after signing a

722
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: tight end John hu Smith yesterday, maybe the two best

723
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: tight ends on the market. So I think they figured

724
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: out that where their bread has been buttered for so

725
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: many years with those two tight ends, and uh and

726
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,839
Speaker 1: maybe uh, maybe that can help Cam out to get

727
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: some couple of tight ends because their tight end production

728
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: was horrible last year, Yes it was, and I'm not

729
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: sure how well their protection was either. Um. So yeah,

730
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: they they've they've they've started off quick. So here's the

731
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Speaker 1: one that surprised me, and I kept using him as

732
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: an example of why Dak Prescott should not try to

733
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Speaker 1: go on a franchise tag a second year in a

734
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: Row Pittsburgh defensive end Bud Dupree. He played had the

735
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: same agent as Dak Todd France. He played on the

736
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Speaker 1: franchis tag, and this is always the downside of the

737
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: franchise tag. He tore his ACL the first week in December,

738
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Speaker 1: so now he's going in the free agency three months in.

739
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: And while his previous market value would have been pretty high,

740
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: you know, who's gonna pay him a lot of money

741
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: when the guy can't even you know, it might not

742
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: even be able to be ready for the start of

743
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 1: the season, or at least not the off season for sure. Well,

744
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: Tennessee's gonna pay him a lot of money because they

745
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: just agreed to a five year contract. Now it says

746
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: up to eighty five million, So I would imagine there's

747
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: a lot of incentives in there because the guarantees thirty

748
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: five million. Had he been had played an entire year

749
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: on that franchise tag in state healthy, it might have

750
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: been straight five year, eighty five million dollar deal for

751
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: the pass rusher that he has been. But now it's

752
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: got to be five years, but only thirty five million

753
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 1: and guaranteed. And that's always the downside of plan on

754
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: the franchise tag because you're on a one year deal

755
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: and that's it. And if you get hurt the way

756
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: Dak did last year, he's very fortunate it wasn't worse

757
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: than it was because you know when he talked on

758
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 1: Wednesday about you know, I didn't feel like I was

759
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:24,240
Speaker 1: gambling on myself. No, he wasn't gambling on his ability

760
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: to play football. But you're gambling on staying healthy. And

761
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 1: that's the downside when somebody had just offered you a

762
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 1: fifty five million dollars signing bonus, as the Cowboys did

763
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: last year. Yea, and especially especially at a position like

764
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: what Bud Dupree plays, where I mean you got to

765
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: have that edge speed to get to the quarterback. You know,

766
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: as a quarterback has been proven by plenty of quarterbacks

767
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: through time who have played through injuries. They had injuries

768
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: that have happened in their career. Uh, they're not a

769
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Speaker 1: lot of career ending injuries that happened to a quarterback.

770
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: But for for a linebacker or for a defensive end

771
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: who relies on his speed so much to do his job,

772
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: that that's got a factor in Uh you know. So, Uh,

773
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Um, what else around the league

774
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: is uh. Yeah, let's look at the NFC East. You know,

775
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick to Washington. Uh, they are obviously are still in

776
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: the market for a quarterback. He is a stop gap

777
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: until they find their quarterback eventually. Yeah, that's the way

778
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: it looks like. And um you know, I mean they

779
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,280
Speaker 1: still might be in the quarterback market in the draft,

780
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: you're right, Uh, and and sure and to help you know,

781
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: I think no doubt And and you know you only

782
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: signed him to a one year deal, so maybe he's

783
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 1: a ridge to whatever future they think they they might have.

784
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:09,240
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, And you know, Philadelphia it's having problems

785
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:13,720
Speaker 1: resigning guys. Um me, looks like they're you know, moving

786
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:19,439
Speaker 1: on from zach Ertz, right, and zach Ertz might there's

787
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,439
Speaker 1: an opening in uh with the Chargers now that Hunter

788
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: Henry's gone to New England. Uh, that could be a

789
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 1: something where ertz uh Ertz was also rumored I think

790
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 1: to Buffalo, but ERT's obviously wants it sounds like he

791
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: wants to move out of there. Uh. You know, it's

792
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: all there for the taking in this division, as it

793
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: has been for a couple of years now. The Giants,

794
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 1: when you look at them, I would think they have

795
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 1: got to improve at the skill position on offense, a

796
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: wide receiver, I would think that they have to be

797
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: in on ju Ju Smith Schuster. Yeah, I think he

798
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: would be a perfect fit there as a wide receiver there.

799
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: I know Jason Garrett loved him in the draft. The

800
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: Cowboys brought him in for a visit when they even

801
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: when they didn't feel like they needed a wide receiver.

802
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: So he would be a great fit there. Whether he

803
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: would want to play there or not, I don't know. Um.

804
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: But and so then as it relates to the Cowboys,

805
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of activity amongst their division rivals

806
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: right now, and so it's just going to be very

807
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: interesting to see what the Cowboys can do to be

808
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 1: being judicious and economical with their money because I as

809
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 1: you've pointed out earlier, I think that there's gonna be

810
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: some veteran players to be had that at a reasonable

811
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: rate that that can really contribute even more so than

812
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 1: what a draft pick can this year to get the

813
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: Cowboys back on track. Yeah. Absolutely, And one of the

814
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: I think there was a big port floating around out

815
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Speaker 1: there that Cowboys he's had interests in the Atlanta safety

816
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: Demante caz Is that how you say it, Caze. You know,

817
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: he's played four years for Quinn in Atlanta, and the

818
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: first year he started in twenty eighteen, it was a

819
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 1: second year in the league. He had seven interceptions and

820
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: so as as a and I'm guessing a free safety.

821
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: So it's his four years. He had ten picks, thirteen

822
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: passes broken up in one hundred ninety nine tackles will

823
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Speaker 1: be twenty eight and he was a three year starter.

824
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: Now the downside is, but this is where you can

825
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: pick up a guy maybe on the cheap. He ended

826
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: up suffering a season ending another guy, by the way,

827
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 1: a season ending torn achilles four games into the season.

828
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: So that means his injury occurred the first of October.

829
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: October to basically the start of trening camp in July.

830
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: He should be ready to go rehabbing that achilles and

831
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: if if all went well, then maybe you get that

832
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:17,919
Speaker 1: guy on somewhat of a more inexpected I can't say

833
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: it inexpensive, inexpensive, yes, thank you, deal that would allow

834
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Speaker 1: him to you know, be affordable because he needs maybe

835
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: a proof of deal. We'll see, especially knowing that he

836
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 1: only played four games last year. So those are the

837
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: things I think the Cowboys and everybody goes, wow, they

838
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: take these chance as well, as long as they're inexpensive chances,

839
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: it's okay. Right like last year, you know, I understand

840
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: the veterans they brought in basically flopped, right except for

841
00:53:52,880 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: zerline h for sure. But again, when you're not these

842
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: guys big deals that you're you're basically rolling the dice.

843
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:08,399
Speaker 1: You're you're you. You can't afford to buy a sure thing.

844
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:13,720
Speaker 1: Like think about the Packers right now. They just lost

845
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: or gonna lose their starting Pro Bowl center, Corey Lindsley

846
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: us supposedly as signing a five year, sixty two point

847
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: five million dollar deal with the Chargers. You think Aaron

848
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: Rodgers is happy to hear that his starting center is

849
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: no longer going to be there. But when you're an

850
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: established player like that, especially on the offensive line, boy,

851
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: those are big contracts. So people would say, wow, the

852
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: Cowboys overpaid Lale Collins. Well not really, because they got

853
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 1: him on the cheap the first several years of his

854
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: career and then you got to pay and that guy

855
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: was on his way to be in a Pro Bowl

856
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: tackle before he missed the entire season with the back

857
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: problems that he had that were eithering him all off

858
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: season and they were hoping rehab would improve and it

859
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: didn't do it. But that just goes to show you

860
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: how how how valuable offensive lineman are when they become available.

861
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:19,840
Speaker 1: All right, there's been talk about Richard Sherman to the Cowboys.

862
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? And don't want to

863
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: keep getting older? It can't be a big deal. And

864
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:31,920
Speaker 1: you better you better be playing zone uh coverage because

865
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: he's not. He's no longer a man demand cornerback. Uh.

866
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 1: He's got to play he's got to play cover two

867
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 1: and he needs help over the top. So but again,

868
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: what's the price, right? Is he willing to play? Uh

869
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 1: for a million or two dollars three at the most

870
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: with incentives incentives that he didn't match the year before

871
00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 1: so that he he doesn't those incentives don't count against

872
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 1: the cap. You know, normally, if you if you get,

873
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,800
Speaker 1: if you give an incentive laced contract that they didn't

874
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: achieve those incentives the year before, then you can push

875
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: back that money to the next year's salary cap. But

876
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: if it's something they'd already done, like played ten games

877
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: or started ten games, then that incentive counts against the

878
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: salary cap this year. Okay, let me ask you this,

879
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 1: all right, Obviously the Cowboys need to fix this defense. Yes,

880
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: if they draft, if they If the Cowboys draft, Let's

881
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: say the Cowboys draft a cornerback in the first round,

882
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: they draft a stud defensive lineman in the second round,

883
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: and a stud linebacker in the third round. Well, when

884
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: they need a safety too, Okay, we gotta okay, we

885
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: get a safety in their two You got the nine

886
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: of the cop pick at ninety nine also, right, so

887
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 1: you got four picks in the first ninety nine picks. Okay,

888
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: So let's say they get a cornerback, a safety, and

889
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: a linebacker and a defensive lineman. How much will that

890
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: improve the defense? Considering these are rookies. Yeah, I was

891
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: gonna say, are every one? Are those guys going to

892
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: be a starter? You know? Look here, here's what I

893
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: wrote last week, And they've already made the best move

894
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna make on defense by hiring Dan Quinn as

895
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. Because they've got to believe, and they

896
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: answered my question in the press conference last week that

897
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: this could be the biggest move they make on defense

898
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: was hiring Dan Quinn as the defensive coordinator, and and

899
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: my thoughts are built that in twenty nineteen they finished

900
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: ninth overall total defense, eleventh against the run, and gave

901
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:10,240
Speaker 1: up twenty points a game in one year. I understand

902
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 1: they lost three starters, Byron Jones being the best one,

903
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 1: but then they end up twenty four thirty first against

904
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: the run and dead last and points allowed, giving up

905
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: more points than any team in franchise history. And you

906
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: had seven eight starters that were the same. What changed?

907
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: So to me, dan Quinn has to come in here

908
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: as the new defensive coordinator and make the biggest impact

909
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: on this football team, either side of the ball or

910
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: special teams. He has to be the guy. And he's

911
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 1: been pretty good as a defensive coordinator right He cut

912
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 1: his teeth in the NFL and Seattle as a defensive

913
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: coordinare and the other thing that has been his specially

914
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: he's been the defensive line coach. So maybe he's doing

915
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: both sort of the way Marinelli did with the help

916
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: of like Leon Letton, and I believe they did. They

917
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: did sign a sort of defensive line assistant type. But

918
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: he's the one that has to make the difference. And

919
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 1: then if you draft well in those first couple rounds

920
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: and you get Tristan Hill back playing the way he

921
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: was before his turn towards ACL, you get Randy Gregory

922
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: for an entire season, not a half a season, and

923
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 1: with an offseason that he can work out with the team,

924
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: And who knows what happens with Alden Smith if they

925
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:52,919
Speaker 1: can get him back. If you do, if all those

926
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: things fall into place, yeah, if you pick up a

927
00:59:55,680 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, but Neville Gallimore was coming on that last

928
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:08,280
Speaker 1: quarter of the season, so you know, linebackers still out there.

929
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 1: Linebackers still out there as a need. And so if

930
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: I'm looking at their needs right now, they got to

931
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 1: figure out the backup quarterback thing for sure, and then

932
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: linebacker and cornerback before even they worry about the defensive line.

933
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: If they can get Alden Smith back signed and they

934
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: don't have to overplay him amount of snaps as they

935
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 1: did early in the season, and he's healthy and not

936
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: dealing with a knee problem that he dealt with probably

937
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 1: three quarters of the season. And you know, but my

938
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 1: point on that is that, Okay, you can draft all

939
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: these brookies coming in and as you've you've mentioned earlier

940
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: in the show. I mean, they can have all the

941
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: potential in the world, but it is tough making that

942
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 1: transition into the NFL the first year. I think it's

943
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:06,600
Speaker 1: gonna be key. And I'm not talking about spending big

944
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: money at all. I'm talking they can even be veteran

945
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: minimum type deals or close to it. That's key having

946
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 1: veteran guys, and the Cowboys have done a real good

947
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: job of this. I think in free agency in the

948
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 1: past they didn't. Last year, they struck out on their

949
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 1: free agent guys. Last year one Gerald McCoy, they struck

950
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 1: out on him because of his age, and you know

951
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 1: it is you know, quad goes out the first practice

952
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 1: that he suits up in, you know, and by the way,

953
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 1: they were gambling on Gerald McCoy because he had a

954
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: pre existing condition with that Quad exactly that's right, That's

955
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 1: exactly right. But in the past they have done a

956
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: good job of in free agency without spending a whole

957
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 1: lot of money where they could go into the draft

958
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: and if they had a game on Draft weekend, they

959
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 1: could go play a game. And that way you can

960
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 1: be true to your board during the draft. And I

961
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: think that's always important. Got a little bit of breaking news.

962
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: I have to go here we go a little bit

963
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: of breaking news as we close it out. The Cowboys

964
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: have agreed to terms Mickey with c J. Goodwin on

965
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:26,240
Speaker 1: a two year, three and a half million dollars deal

966
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:30,680
Speaker 1: that includes two million dollars guaranteed. So c J. Goodwin

967
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: remains a Cowboy. According to Adam Schefter, Mickey, well, they've

968
01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 1: got their their special teams guy. And basically, you know,

969
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,959
Speaker 1: his salary last year was nine ten, so you said

970
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: it was two years, how much? Two years, three and

971
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 1: a half million, two million guaranteed, So the two year

972
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: guaranteed is probably the majority of that, a little bit

973
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 1: of signing bonus so they can spread it over two

974
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: years with a probably close to a minimum base salary.

975
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:06,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, if the cap hit ends up being a

976
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 1: million and a half, well okay fine. And you know,

977
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 1: and he was a valuable special teams guy that they

978
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:17,720
Speaker 1: used in a lot of different ways. So that's a

979
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: and those are the type of deals they're gonna have

980
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 1: to do, you know. And they're gonna have to take

981
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: a chance on a guy coming back from a season

982
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: ending injury at a low value and and hope they

983
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 1: you know, get high production. But that's what their situation

984
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:37,959
Speaker 1: they're in right now, and I think everybody just needs

985
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:41,840
Speaker 1: to understand that and not start, you know, jumping out

986
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 1: the window. Oh they're not signing anybody, you know. I

987
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 1: mean they kind of did the same thing to what

988
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: was it two years ago with Randall Cobb who had

989
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 1: an injury plague last year twenty eighteen season in Green

990
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: Bay and came here in twenty nineteen and turned out

991
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 1: to be one of the best free agent guys they

992
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: had ever signed. The only problem was he was too good,

993
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 1: and he got signed away in the next year's free

994
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: agency last year by Houston. All right, we're out of

995
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 1: time on this edition of mix Shots. Imagine how much

996
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:19,000
Speaker 1: news will be made by the next time we get

997
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: together next Tuesday. I would imagine it'll be even more

998
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 1: than this. And we had no problems doing this with

999
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 1: two of us. Right, Everson to be back next week.

1000
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,439
Speaker 1: He has not signed with the New England Patriots by then,

1001
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:37,360
Speaker 1: and and we'll start digging into the draft. We'll be

1002
01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 1: close to a month out from the draft, and my

1003
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:43,760
Speaker 1: big green NFL Draft scouting notebook will be starting to

1004
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:46,919
Speaker 1: really fill up by then, So it's gonna be fun

1005
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:51,600
Speaker 1: for the next month. So and without Everson here, I'll

1006
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:58,920
Speaker 1: sign off by saying, go Tigers, go. Oh, I tried,

1007
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 1: I forgot we a matchup on I can't prepare Saturday night. Yeah,

1008
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:08,040
Speaker 1: I can't prepare. Just in case you had brought out stuff. Well,

1009
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: I've given up them since since my team hasn't won

1010
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: a game since January. Now, they knocked off four top

1011
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 1: ten teams in January, but they haven't won since then.

1012
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: I don't think, I don't I don't. Uh, you can

1013
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:24,880
Speaker 1: have that game, all right. I'm I'm into football. I'm

1014
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:27,440
Speaker 1: not into March madness. And by the way, and good

1015
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:30,440
Speaker 1: luck in your second round matchup, Mickey, Yeah, I saw that.

1016
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:34,800
Speaker 1: You know you got Gonzaga in the second round. Well,

1017
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:38,000
Speaker 1: then there's no price, right, you'll throw caution to the wind,

1018
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 1: that's right. Well, maybe Chase Daniel will be a Cowboy

1019
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: by next Tuesday. All right, all right, we'll we'll see

1020
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:50,480
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1021
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 1: a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas

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