WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Football Cornucopia 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:19.079 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:23.240 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.960 Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:35.120 and Nicky Spagnola. And it is a Tuesday at eleven 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.120 thirty and that means one thing and one thing only. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.760 It is time for another edition of Mick SHOT's Bill 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:47.120 Jones along with Mickey Spagnola inside the SWBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.640 at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco. Everson can't 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.600 be here this week, he will be back next week. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.400 And Mickey, I will tell you right off the top. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.920 I have spent a busy morning. Let me get it, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.440 Let me get it out of my briefcase here inside 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.640 my big green NFL Draft scouting notebook, and I am 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:13.240 getting into this stuff now. I sment this morning on linebackers, 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:19.160 outside linebackers, inside linebackers, and I've got some opinions to share, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.039 and I know you do also, and I want to 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.119 hear your thoughts and all that stuff. But first off, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.759 how you doing on this fine Tuesday morning, the day 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.040 after the Baylor Bears went a national champion. How about 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.520 those Baylor Bears. That was pretty surgical last night, wasn't it, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:40.160 the way they were able to play? And boy, you know, 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.840 after I saw Saturday's games and kind of in the 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:48.400 back of my mind, I was going, no, Gonzaga could 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.920 be in trouble because I don't know how well they're 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.720 gonna match up if Baylor plays as well as they can, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.280 and they played better than I thought they could. That 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:03.600 was unbelievable offense defense. I guess I don't know that 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:08.360 their special teams in basketball, but that was pretty darn 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.320 impressive the way their guards were able to play, and 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.400 then their big guys inside kind of dominated the board. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:19.560 So yeah, surprising a little bit, but you know what, 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.320 they were pretty darn good. If they hadn't had that 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.680 their little pause there, they may have been the team 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:31.520 that went undefeated this entire season, that's right. I mean, 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.919 they had the COVID issue that set them out for 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.200 a few weeks in the middle of the season, and 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:41.000 they were unbeaten going into that and weren't obviously weren't 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.560 as sharp and lost a couple of games and then 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.960 but they got over it soon enough to make their 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.520 run and get back on track. You know the thing 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.040 with when watching Gonzaga throughout the tournament, I felt like 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.800 I was watching in most of their games up until 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.560 the Final four, and UCLA just played a fun nominal 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.400 game on Saturday night, But it was like I was 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.560 watching the varsity against the jv when Gonzaga was playing. 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.799 In fact, you know, they played Oklahoma in the second round, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.079 and Oklahoma they were missing their second best player of 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.359 the point guard, but they probably played as well as 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.320 they could play in that game against Gonzaga and still 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.440 lost by sixteen points. But that's the way Gonzaga had 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.680 played all season. It was at twenty seven straight games 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.120 where they had won by double figures. But then when 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.920 you get to the Final four and that Saturday night game, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:41.040 Ucla shot fifty eight percent and Gonzaga shot fifty nine 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.920 percent in that game and Jalen sugs Switching it back 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:49.080 to football here, Mickey, Yes, when I find so interesting 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.880 not only about when I start digging into the Big 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.800 Green NFL draft scouting notebook, but then even in March madness, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.800 when you start learning about the players. I hadn't followed 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.840 college basketball very closely throughout the season outside of the 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.560 one kid from from Dallas drew Timmy from Richardson Pearce. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.200 I didn't know much about their team. Then I started 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.640 digging into Jalen Suggs. You know, Suggs was mister football 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:19.120 and mister basketball at Minni Haha Academy in Minneapolis, and 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.160 he was going to go to Clemson and he was 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:25.279 gonna be Trevor Lawrence's or he would follow Trevor Lawrence 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.680 at quarterback at Clemson if he had gone that route. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.200 And so when he becomes draft eligible, I'm going to 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.039 have him inside my big green notebook here in a 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.919 year or so. And I'm already proposing right now that 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.480 the Cowboys select Jalen Suggs in the seventh round as 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.440 a quarterback, even though he will be starring in the 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.360 NBA at that point. Yeah, he's a boy, just a 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:54.640 polished individual as a freshman. By the way, the way 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.719 he can play, the way he can move, and you 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.960 could imagine if the moves he had as when he's 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.520 driving with the ball in basketball, what he would do 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.560 if the football was in his hands. Um, yeah, pretty impressive. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.080 I don't know that. Uh, we'll see another shot like 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.000 that to win a game and overtime the way he 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.719 did in the semi final game against UCLA. And you know, 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.520 the I thought the best part about it is after 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.240 he let it go, he knew it was going in 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:29.440 because he started running sideways like, okay, this is going 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.159 even though it banked it right, even though it banked 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.839 did he was he was running. I know it hadn't 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.680 gone through the basket yet, and he was he was 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.640 running to go celebrate, h But he just knew that 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:44.839 he had the right arc on it and it was 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.839 it was going in. Um. I mean, don't you don't 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:52.039 you remember? Don't you remember practicing basketball and and and 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.080 goofing around before practice started and taking half chord shots. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.719 You knew when it's going in? You know, you you 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.839 could tell after I don't know if your hands, I 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.359 don't know if I knew that if it was gonna 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:09.120 bake in. I'm not sure right I knew, But you know, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:15.120 but what set Baylor apart not only their three point shooting. Okay, 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.520 so you had offense there, and I'm getting it back 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.599 to football here, mickey. Okay, they've got they had firepower 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:27.280 on offense. But what the difference in that national championship 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:31.000 game was defense. Yes, And Gonzaga is known to be 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:35.400 able to shoot threes also, and Baylor was ten for 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.080 twenty one on threes at one point in that game, 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.800 so shooting basically fifty percent. But they were closing out 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.360 on the Gonzaga three point shooters. And that's what That's 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.560 what Baylor did all season long, is they did it 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.159 with defense, which gets us back to the Cowboys and 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.640 doing it with some defense. You have to be able 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.880 to play defense to win some championships too, Yeah, or 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:02.160 at least halfway decent defense. It's unlike last year. It 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:07.560 was a total collapse and you basically we're needing to 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.360 score thirty to forty points a game to be able 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.080 to win, and that's no way to do business in 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.200 the NFL. So you're right, this whole thing this year 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.600 going forward. You figure, as as soon as the offensive 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.240 line gets back together the way it was supposed to 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.640 be last year, this offense will be fine. The question 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.520 mark will be can Dan Quinn make a huge difference 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:39.000 on what goes on defensively? All right, So we had 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.720 there's so much to talk about the draft where the 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:48.400 Cowboys set after basically what has been the second tier 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.800 of free agency. Now the quarterback carousel in this league 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:57.600 which continues on Monday as Sam Darnold is dealt to 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:02.400 the Carolina Panthers, and it's obvious that Zack Wilson is 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.560 going to be the guy, looks like for the Jets 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.840 at number two, and that we're gonna have at least 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.480 three or three quarterbacks taken in the first three picks, 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.679 if not four in the first four, maybe even five 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:18.520 in the top seven or eight. We'll see. But what's 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.880 on your mind as we kick things off here on 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.000 mix shot? You know when you when you mentioned the 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.920 trade with Donald and what's lined up in the NFL, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.960 and you said that, you know you could have three 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.720 quarterbacks go off the board immediately, could be the first four. 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.520 So I was like, has that ever happened before? The 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:43.280 first four picks in the draft were ended up being quarterbacks? 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.160 And I went back and looked real quickly, and the 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:53.120 best I could find. In nineteen ninety nine, the first 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:59.960 three picks were quarterbacks Tim Couch, Donovan McNabb, and Achille 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.720 Smith uh And there was also five taken in the 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:08.880 first round with Culpepper and and uh McNown and then 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:13.760 in nineteen seventy one before. I guess we knew that 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.840 quarterbacks were so valuable. The first three picks in the 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:23.120 draft were Jim Plunkett, Archie Manning, and Dan Pastorini. Uh 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.720 so it's been three in a row, but I'd never 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.120 found four in a row in the in the first 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.880 first four picks of an NFL draft, And that very 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.360 well could happen this year. Uh if were if we 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.200 assume that San Francisco is gonna take Mac Jones, and 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:45.560 then there's you know, possibility that Atlanta goes with Trey Lance. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:52.760 So uh and who knows that the fifth else right exactly? 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.880 And you know, and and there's other teams that, uh 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.200 maybe trading picks, you might get five quarterbacks in the 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.240 top ten for the Cowboys or the top nine before 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.520 the Cowboys ever picked. So the way this thing's break, 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.800 and that's with with uh, you know, a couple of 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:13.960 wide receivers, a couple offensive linemen. If all these quarterbacks go, 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.320 the Cowboys are going to have their choice of the 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.559 best defensive player in the draft. And I didn't mention 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.840 the tight end too. Uh, there's a chance that they'll 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.000 have the opportunity to pick the best defensive player in 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:32.320 this draft, if they indeed decide to go defense. Yeah, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.480 I mean with the with the with the receivers that 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.760 are up there as well. Um, you know there's about 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.760 three receivers that are that are kind of lumped together, 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.760 kind of like in last year's draft, but they were 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.200 in the teams. Uh. And I don't know if it's 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.840 because there's such an emphasis on offense in the league, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.920 or if it's just there's some question marks about some 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.880 of the defensive players or they or they play because 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.760 you don't have the edge rusher h Miles Garrett or 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:05.559 Boss or Chase Young in this class that would normally 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.640 be a top five, you know, or even number one pick, 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.679 And so maybe that is what's pushing down the defensive 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.280 class a little bit. But there are some really good 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.760 defensive players in this draft, and the Cowboys are gonna 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.240 be sitting pretty I mean, even if you know there's 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.600 such a debate on the quarterbacks. And how about the 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.800 fact you you'd mentioned Mac Jones to San Francisco and 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.600 a week ago or nine days ago when the trade 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.360 was made where San Francisco moved up and then people 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.560 started talking about Mac Jones, Well, well, nine days ago, 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.680 Mac Jones was considered like a top fifteen pick, and 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.720 now all of a sudden, he's a top three pick. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.520 And it's just funny how things change as we lead 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.960 up and get closer and closer to draft Day and 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.720 people find out more information about who teams are interested in. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.840 But it's not unusual to have a quarterback climb like that. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.720 Uh as far as the uh we in the media 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.200 or the fans are concerned, you know, the teams know 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.680 who they're interested in or are really high on early 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.199 on in the process. But once things start leaking out, um, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.000 here Mac Jones is. He's he's the number three pick 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.760 in the draft, and we don't even blink at it now. Yeah, 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.520 and if you look at him, you know, I can 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:28.240 understand it. They're looking for a quarterback that has played 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:32.680 a lot in college, a heady guy doesn't make a 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.560 lot of mistakes. It's very accurate. You know, everybody gets 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:42.079 all enamored with arm strength, right or size, and just 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.640 watch this kid play quarterback. He knows how to play quarterback. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.320 And you're right about the evaluation process, because I'm sure 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:54.600 when Carolina traded for Darnold, everybody's like, what do they 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:59.600 want with him well, Matt Rule and in their offensive 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.720 court Nader Brady. They know a little bit about quarterbacks, 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.000 and so maybe they saw something in him that's like, hmm, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.800 we could work with this, get him in the right environment, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.839 get him around some other good players with a good 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.080 coaching staff, and maybe we can get something out of 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.560 a guy that what did he go like number three 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.720 in the draft when the Jets took him? Um, I 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.839 mean people were two. Yeah, people were high on him. 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.080 And then he gets to the Jets, and I don't 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.080 know if the Jets should be the litmus test test 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.360 for the quality of a quarterback since they seemed to 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.840 struggle with the quarterback position since Joe Namath. It seems like, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:48.200 and I believe I heard this, uh right, Um, someone 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.120 said he's young. He's actually younger than Trevor Lawrence. I 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.120 don't know if that's true. I think he's I think 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:58.360 I think I was ready he was twenty four. Yeah, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:03.079 he's older than Trevor Lawrence. Lawrence's turns twenty two October six. Yeah, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.360 I think he's twenty four, I think, but it's still 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.840 a similar age. I mean, or he'll be twenty four 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:12.760 when the season gets going, and you know, and think 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.680 about talk about the school of hard knocks being the 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:23.160 Jets quarterback. You know, he's he's you would think if 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.920 he is going to make it eventually in this league. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.240 You know, the schooling that he has gotten the last 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.680 couple of years with the Jets puts in a position 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.200 where you feel like you can do more with a 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.560 guy that's already has had as many NFL snaps as 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.480 Sam Darnold has had than a rookie coming in. And 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.000 so I think Caroline, I can understand why Caroline is 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.520 doing it. And you know, they'll pick up his fifth 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.240 year option, so they'll have him for two years and 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.240 then they'll be able to make an adjustment. And the 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.040 beautiful thing for Matt Rule at Carolina is that he 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.000 signed a seven year contract and so yeah, they want 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.560 to win as as soon as possible. But he's got 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.120 some job security there too. Yeah, absolutely, And and and 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:12.680 you know in this and he he comes relatively cheaply, right, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.600 I mean I understand it was three picks in a 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.720 second in and four next year, but only a sixth 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.600 this year. Yeah, sixth rounder. Yeah, and his and his 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:27.560 his base salary. He's still on his rookie his rookie contract. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.960 So they're from a financial standpoint, all they got to 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.320 do is deal with the base salary. So I think 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:39.040 it's just a little over four million. That's that's nothing. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.120 Now they've got to decide if they want to pick 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.040 up the fifth year option, which will be eighteen million. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.680 But you could also you know, when a guy gets 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:53.960 traded like that and he understands basically his football mortality, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.240 you know, he restructure that if they like what they 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.600 see once he gets there, and restructure the next year. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:07.120 And this is why you know, and we've talked about 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.120 this bill about what took the Cowboys so long to 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:16.400 sign Dak Prescott. Right, Well, these quarterback contracts, boy, they 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.400 will they will put your hands around the neck, right 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.600 because if you don't get it right. And just look 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.960 at what Carolina did with Teddy Bridgewater. They signed him 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:30.720 to a three year, sixty three million dollar contract with 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.040 a fifteen million dollars signing bonus in thirty three million 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:39.800 dollars guaranteed. Now, if they just cut them outright, get 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.280 rid of them, it's a twenty million dollars of dead money. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.120 They need to trade them if they don't want him 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:51.240 to count an enormous amount against the cap. If they 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.040 trade him, it's down to twenty million. But can they 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:58.240 keep the guy at what he's costing up seventeen million 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.640 this year as a backup? Be interesting to see how 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.880 they treat that. But I'm just saying, this is why 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:10.080 the quarterback contracts are so significant in your salary cap 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:16.479 and how you dole out the money. Well, but to 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.720 your point on that's the big thing about Darnald as 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:25.520 opposed to say the Lions or the Colts. Colts picking 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.480 up WinCE, the Lions picking up Golf, who are They're 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.119 already on their second contract and already making upwards of 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:36.119 twenty million up to thirty million um. That's where the 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.720 beauty of picking up Darnald with two years of two 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.959 years left on his deal. Uh, you know they can, 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.879 They don't. They don't have to get rid of Bridgewater. 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:51.320 Obviously they will, but from a salary cap standpoint, they're 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.520 they're in the same boat as everybody else as far 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.800 as there the amount of money that they are paying 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:01.080 the quarterback position. Even if Darnald making so much less 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.400 than Bridgewater is the starter, but he's But to your point, 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.480 I mean, Bridgewater is not going to stay there and 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.399 they and trading him is the way they can manage 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.320 its salary cap wise where it doesn't have as big 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.040 of an effect. Yeah, and so basically, you look at 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.879 what Carolina did, you get a free It's almost like 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.680 a free look right for one year. And even if 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:25.400 you decide, well, let's just roll the dice and see 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.919 how he does and not pick up the fifty year option, 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.800 if you indeed want to do that, well, you can 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.359 also negotiate with him. You get, you know, into the 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.919 season and he's playing well, and it's like, oh, okay, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.440 let's sign him to a long term deal. But it's 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.280 almost like for that little bit of money and draft picks, 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.920 you know, you get a free look at the guy 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:49.359 and see if coaching makes a difference indeed how he 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:54.280 plays and the players you have around him. And of 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.840 course they'll have to make that decision on the fifth 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.199 year option right after the draft, by May third or 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.600 whenever that day. Yeah, Hey, of course the Cowboys have 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.399 a decision to make on Layton Vanderish as far as 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.480 his fifth year option. What are your thoughts on that, Vicky? Yeah, 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:11.399 and his isn't quite like a quarterback, right His fifth 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.720 year is nine it's just a little bit of I 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.720 think it's nine point three million. H I would think 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.439 that they would pick it up just looking at the 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:27.440 quarterback situation they have and everybody's like, wow, he's injury prone. Well, okay, 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:32.200 the next thing you fixed it, you can't deal It's like, oh, 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.400 did he have a weak collar bone? Is that why 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.240 he broke it? You know that that's silly. So to me, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.679 once they got the next thing taken care of and 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.360 he didn't seem to allow that to affect him once 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.400 he got back on the field and was playing, I 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.000 think you get you got to pick that up. Because 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:55.359 you don't pick that up and you don't fortify the 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:59.679 linebacker position this year in the draft, you're gonna you're 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.960 gonna have some significant problems the following year. And nine 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:07.119 million for a starting quarterback, I mean a linebacker is 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.200 not outrageous. You you should be able to handle that, 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.560 and you've already factored that in at the time that 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.480 you drafted him or anybody in the first round. You're 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.880 factoring in as far as your budget goes going forward, 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.239 that you're picking up the fifth year option on that 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.639 guy in the in the fifth year of his contract. 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:32.600 So I think unless there was an injury or poor 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:37.040 play that that told you that we were not picking 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.720 it up. From day one, when you draft the guy, 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.520 you're expecting it to be a picking up the fifth 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:45.760 year option. Now, you do have some some people that 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.960 you're you're out on early, and twenty seventeen was one 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.520 in Taco Charlton. But you know, Layton has played at 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:54.200 a high level and the only thing that is setting 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.280 back has been the injury issue, which is a significant concern. 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.119 But as long as you've got that resolved in your 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.400 own mind, and apparently they do after the surgery, um, 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.040 you know that, I think it's a no brainer. You 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.520 you pick it up because, as you say, it's not 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.920 that big of a financial burden for one year next year, 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:15.480 Hey Bill, before we go, just one last thing on Darnold. 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:22.440 Unfortunately the Cowboys got to face him again, right Yeah, 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.920 I thought of that about that. That's right. Well, what 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:29.680 a second they played Carolina. Yeah, that's that's right, that's right, yeah, 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.239 and he he kind of did it was that was 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.000 his first game back. It was his first game back 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:38.560 after Mono, right about was it Mono? Yes? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:40.960 that's right, And what did he throw? A did he 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:44.560 throw one hundred and five yard touchdown pass? I was like, 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:49.520 what ninety something touchdown? Yeah? I see, it was like 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:54.480 ninety six, ninety five, ninety four something like that, and 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.440 that's all he needed to do to win? Yeah game? Yeah, 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:00.560 so yeah, I'm sure that would be on the Cowboys 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.040 mind when they have And he actually played the rest 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:08.320 of the game pretty well too, by the way, All right, 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:15.439 linebacker position. 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