WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Make The Call 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.200 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:17.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Boys. Let's go. Are 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.440 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:25.600 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.479 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:36.240 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, am Bar Garcia, 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:44.120 and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, March second, twenty twenty two, 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.440 Season seventeen, episode number one oh six. Welcome to the 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.400 latest edition of The Break. We are alive from this 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.520 s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, joined by Nick Eatman. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.960 We've got Amber Garcia. Dave is not with us today. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.600 He is out in Indianapolis covering the combine. He's going 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.600 to join us here in a moment, catch us up 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.640 on all the things that are happening out there, the 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.960 people he's talking to, the information that he's getting. Uh. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.200 And just if you guys have any questions for him, 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.000 you can kind of throw those at him too. I'll 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.319 be good. We got to start the show. What, oh, 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.200 we don't have any glass? Yeah, in case you guys 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.720 haven't noticed, we got like no glass. It's actually a 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.080 good thing. I love this, but we gotta start the show. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:26.520 We wishould go very happy birthday to my dude. Thank you, 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:34.720 Happy birthday. Okay, man, pretty old, you're not old. Yeah, 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.840 it's all about to say story. Sure, it tells the story. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.680 So this seems old, but go ahead. Yeah. When I 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:45.360 was thirteen years old, just a while ago. Um, I 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:50.640 was thirteen and I've just moved from Oklahoma to Dallas. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.160 So I was like, you know, a little small town, Okhom, 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:55.920 very rural, and then all of a sudden get here 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.800 and it's like a little different, little preppy. I wouldn't 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.040 you sed saw that. It didn't have a lot of 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:00.400 friend I hate it, you know, want to move in 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.400 your thirteen seventh grade. So it was like my fifth 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.520 sixth day of school, March second comes around. I'm in 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.000 the history class and the teacher was really nice, like 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.280 I gotta gotta it's a very special birthday to day. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.760 I was like, oh, thank awesome, because do y'all know 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.639 whose birthday it is? And I was about to raise 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.760 my hand. They're like, it's Texas's birthday. It's Texas Independence 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.920 Day and everybody was like oh. I was like okay. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.919 So then they went through that, and then she goes, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.880 hold on, there is another birthday, another birthday, and I 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.280 was like, Okay, finally she's like doctor Seus's birthday is today, 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.320 and I was like, I hate this class, I hate 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.680 this world. I want to go back home. But I 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.239 hate Texas. I hate Texas. I hate forever. So anyways, 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.760 so those two birthday Happy birthday to doctor SEUs, yeah, 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.000 and happy birthday to Texas. And it funny how you 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.080 kind of know, like, you know, celebrities, you know, things 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.920 like world Chamberlain scored one hundred points today. Really you 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:51.799 probably saw it somewhere. Yeah, I put a hundred points 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.280 in a game March second. Yeah. Yeah, you know you 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.360 share birthday with like bon Jovi and things like that, 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.600 do you. Yeah, that's what about you? What do you 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.799 share through it? You know, like the celebrity I want 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.280 to say, Denzel Washington, it's either the same day or 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.200 like a day or two apart. But that's the only 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.679 thing on what I know. I don't know. I don't 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:15.240 think I've looked it up. No, but happy birthday too. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.120 It's a it's always a good right here right here 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.680 day back there. There's something I don't know what it is. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:27.440 Oh gosh, hey, what does Indianapolis feel so far away? 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:32.359 It's like reporting from Baghdad? Like, what's up? Man, That's 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.280 just that's just the cherry picker driving down the street. Sorry, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.839 I got it. Happy birthday, Nick, Thanks Bud, appreciate it. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.000 Mind so isolated here, you know, like you guys in December, 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.720 and so we run back and back to Man, we're 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.320 all together. It's like here here, here, here, Dave eating 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:51.120 this half eating cake that we gave to Broadest. So Dave, Man, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.200 what's going on out there in Indianapolis. Give us an 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.480 update on what what you're seeing, what you're hearing, what's 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.240 going on. You know, it's kind of ironic because, like, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.520 I mean, the combine has started and it's picking up. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.800 But like I've been here since Monday, and the thing 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.960 that people are here for, which is the drills, like 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.600 that doesn't even start until the weekend because they want 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.440 to maximize the TV viewership. So yeah, like people are 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:19.120 talking and then all of the good combine whispers and everything. 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.640 It's just funny to me that we're three days in 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.080 and like nothing has actually happened. But yeah, I mean, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.760 that's the sideshow of the honnestly, the real reason you're here. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.160 Nobody actually cares about the drills. It's all about you know, 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.720 contract negotiations and all that type of stuff, and that's 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.920 going on in earnest We talked to Stephen Jones Monday. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.120 I still don't know when we're gonna talk to Jerry Jones, 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.240 but I actually I have another interview with Stephen set 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.479 up in just a little bit. So all of the good, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.680 all of the good combine storylines of who might be 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.520 getting a pay cut or who might they be targeting 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.560 for an extension, all that fun stuff. So Dave, Dave 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.320 and I have talked about this, like I think, I 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.680 think the meeting is this afternoon, and then after that, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.480 like they got to get off the bus because then 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.039 the agents are coming in. Wait, So the meeting with 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:11.560 Jerry on the bus, no, no no, no, the meeting with 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.680 Steven day. They're gonna meet with Steven and then after that, 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.440 reportedly the agents are coming in to meet afterwards. So 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.360 Dave's gonna go to the bathroom real quick and stay there. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:26.880 I stay there. Well, Jay ron Curses agent or Schultz's 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.240 agent or Gregory's agent come in and meet on the bus. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.040 You got that phone charged up, Dave. Oh yeah, report 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.480 all that. I got a solid I'm gonna hang out 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.200 in the back and see what they'll let all right, Dave. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:39.800 So I'm gonna put you on the spot a little bit. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.800 And I understand as a reporter you can't always talk 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.600 about everything that you hear. But what has been the 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.080 most interesting little tidbit you've heard this week? That that's 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:54.719 safe for for air, safe for radio, that is, I mean, 0:05:54.760 --> 0:06:02.360 that's that's quite a contradiction, um man. So I feel 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.360 like it's it's almost kind of beaten into the ground 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.560 at this point. We've just we've talked so much amar 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:11.919 and so much to Marcus Lawrence, I think, honestly, and 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:16.080 I'll kind of I'll bail myself out because the funny 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.120 thing is, like you hear it, you hear it a 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:19.840 little bit of both ways. Like you know, we got 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.960 here Monday, and again we've been talking about this for 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.160 a month where it's like, oh man, they got some 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.400 decisions to make. This could be a really hectic month, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.039 and and Stephen was very noncommittal about Amari Cooper's shooture 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.640 on Monday. So you start connecting the dots and it's 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.520 like a certainty that Amari Cooper is not going to 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.400 be on the team. And then I was out, you know, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.039 doing the hobnobbing thing last night. You just never know 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.600 who you're going to run into, and then you wind 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.800 up having a conversation where it's like, you know, that's 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.120 don't don't be too quick with that, Like, well, we'll 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.440 see what happen. Yeah. Absolutely, But then the other side 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.000 of it is like, oh, they you know, they're already 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.400 they're already talking about using that money to bring back 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.239 Schultz or a Gallup or whatever. Like it's it really 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.239 is chaos, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.840 But I guess the most interesting thing I've heard is 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.560 I've heard it all Like everybody's got a story that 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.080 they're trying to sell depending on who you're talking to. Yeah, wow, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.800 all right, So you guys did talk to Steven and 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.800 you talked to Mike McCarthy. What were you were out 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.920 takes from that? What were the I guess the things 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.680 that stood out to you from those conversations, from those 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.760 interviews that we've all heard, what was most interesting to you. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.480 That's a man to be honest with. It's funny, like 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.720 again like I was out late last night talking with 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:40.280 Cowboys people, talking with NFL people. We did Steven, We've 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.520 got another interview with Stephen that we've been prepping for. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.240 I completely like forgot. Not only did we get to 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.600 talk to Mike yesterday, but he took us to lunch 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.720 and again like most of the good stuff happened after 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.200 they made us turn our records off. But always, yeah, 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.840 we'll talk about that when you get back. Yeah, no, absolutely, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:01.000 but it's um. It was interesting. I thought I might 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:05.480 talked a lot yesterday about UM about the offense, and 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.080 I mean he did. He made the comment at the 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.120 podium that he was or no, I think he said 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.720 it at lunch. He was like, we've got to find 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.000 a way to improve the most productive offense in the league, 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.280 which is a nice problem to have. That's an interesting perspective. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.480 But he talked about wanting, you know, the walk around 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.040 head coach. You're all about where you need to be, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:23.960 what you need to focus on, and he made it 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:28.080 pretty clear he thought he needed to focus on on 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.360 the offense. And at the same time, though I actually 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.120 I asked him directly how he felt about the job 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.520 that Kellen Moore's done. He was very complimentary of Kellen, 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.280 but talked about I felt very smart for all four 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.440 of us, honestly, because he talked about talk to me 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.000 about a lot of the stuff that we've talked about 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:50.080 in regard to Kellen, whether it's situational stuff, red zone stuff, 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.640 you know, growing pains that any young offensive play caller has. 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.160 I thought it was interesting because I don't I don't 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.079 think he shied away from some of the problems that 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.080 the offense has had. Talked a lot about endencies, um, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.280 you know, being being sure not to give away your 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.000 tendencies to too many people, are not to telegraph them 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.160 too much. Um. So yeah, I thought that was a 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.680 really interesting and it sounds like he wants that to 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.160 be a focal point for his third year. Is not 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.800 to like take play calling away from Kellen or revamp anything, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.440 but just to kind of maybe help him a little 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.079 bit with the expertise that he does have as a 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.920 play caller. Dave, I have a question for you going 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.640 back to kind of switching the conversation to the combine. 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.199 I know you you said that not a lot has 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.760 happened yet, but usually, you know, you kind of tend 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.680 to keep an eye on certain guys or wanting to 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.160 look at certain guys. So as of right now, what 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.240 would be like either a name or a position that 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.360 And I know the Cowboys are kind of all over 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.320 the board, so it's very hard to pick one. But 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.439 at this moment, what would be a position that's kind 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.680 of getting hot for the Cowboys. Well, the interesting thing 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.720 for me is, I mean, like I always say this, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.680 there's like there's several storylines. There's the storyline when the 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.280 season ends, there's the storyline at the combine when you're 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.520 starting to revamp your roster, and then like when free 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.400 agency gets going and the league gear starts, it completely 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:17.000 changes again. And I bring that up because again, like 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.200 what we were just talking about me right now, like 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.760 there's there's like a small list of guys that I'm 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.160 focused on, but I know it's completely going to change. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.400 Like we've talked a lot about Tyler Linderbaum is the 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:34.120 center out of Iowa. Nikobe Dean is a linebacker out 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.800 of Georgia. This team obviously needs help a linebacker next 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.760 to Michael Parsons. But if all of this stuff pops 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.960 off with Amari Cooper and or DeMarcus Lawrence, this is 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:48.400 a super deep edge rushing edge rushing class. Obviously there's 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.080 two guys at the top of it that the Cowboys 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.280 don't have a shot at. But like a guy like 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.720 George Carlostis out of Purdue is a guy that becomes 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.400 very very interesting. If DeMarcus Lawrence isn't on this team, 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.600 how about I joked with Nick about this the other 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.760 day when we were talking about work stuff. I mean, 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.280 if a Maria Cooper is not on this team, Traylan 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.120 Burke out of Arkansas, like he skyrockets to the top 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.400 of my list of guys that I would love for 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.840 the Cowboys to draft. And that's the funny thing. Like 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.880 two weeks from now, we could be hyper focused on 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.720 wide receivers, of which there are a lot of good ones. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.280 Burke's is one. Chris Lave out of Ohio State actually 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.800 just spoke to the media about an hour ago, really 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.319 talented player who I think is going to perform very 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.440 well in the drills this week. So I just I 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.440 always love the way that that shifts is, like, you know, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.000 we're super focused on guards and centers and linebackers right now, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.000 but two weeks from now, it could be a completely 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:47.000 different story. So edge rusher and wide receiver become a 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.400 lot interesting, a lot more interesting to me depending on 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.760 what happens with free agency. All right, Dave, I'm want 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.160 to go back to the roster real quick. And so 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.520 you say, like, I can foresee this conversation you had 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.840 last night, like what everyone's saying, Amar, he's probably going 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.880 to be cut, and then whoever another drink, whoever was 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.319 sitting there like, oh, having some drinks, Like uh contrary, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.719 hold on, you know, like like that's what people do. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:15.880 I felt like Mike was doing that yesterday when Tony 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.760 Pollard needs more carries or Amari Cooper didn't get open. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.760 And I felt like he was kind of defending that, like, well, 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.360 that's just the narrative for you. I thought so too. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.040 I absolutely thought that was the case. Like he was 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.000 just kind of like hold on, you know, yeah, yeah, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.120 yeah he was. Yeah. He basically was like, you know, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.560 what are other guys doing? Like are we doing enough 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.160 to get get him featured? Are other guys doing enough 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:40.880 to take the pressure off him? That's the way I 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:46.120 took it. And here he was like, yeah, you have 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.720 to have these types of football conversations before you can 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.679 have a contract conversation because it all ties in. It's like, 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.160 you know, if he's if he's sitting in your cap 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.240 for twenty millions. Yeah, that's what everybody focuses on. But okay, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.480 let's look at you know, how our teams playing him? 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.880 How are we How are the other guys on this 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.480 offense helping him? And he had a big thing about, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.959 you know, to win playoff games, to win games against 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.360 really good teams deep in the postseason, like you need 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.560 your your third, fourth, fifth perimeter player to step up. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.559 And yeah, I like, I was kind of side eyeing 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:20.240 Mike while he was saying all this, and I was like, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.080 you don't sound like a guy that thinks Amari Cooper's 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.680 abum um. So I don't know. Yeah, Like it's it's 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.160 one of those things that it's it's like I said, 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.800 like everybody's selling a narrative, and I like, I still 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.960 I lean toward thinking something's going on with Amari, But 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.120 who knows. Maybe they really haven't made up their minds. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.160 And that's so honestly, it sounds like to me, across 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.840 the boys, there's a lot of decisions have to be made, 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.640 and I'm not sure that anybody in this building where 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.920 I guess the guys that are down in Indie really 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:51.679 know exactly what they're gonna do with all of them. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.440 That's where the conversations are going to come in. What 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.400 are they gonna hear when they talk to the different agents, 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.040 and what are they gonna hear when they when they 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.199 start thinking about who they can possibly get in the 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.120 draft and who they think you'd be available to them 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.839 that could possibly replace guys. There's a lot of stuff 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.160 that has to be decided. I don't think they know 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.280 the answers right now, no, which that's kind of I 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.000 love that you said that, Derek. I think it's like 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:12.959 you read my story. That's I mean, that's what I 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.960 wrote the other day. And Stephen kind of said that. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.880 He was like, you know, it's still pretty early and 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.960 this is this is typically where you start talking to 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.600 agents and start trying to lay the groundwork for what's 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.520 going to happen. And that's all well and good, but 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.280 you know, I blink. I feel like I blinked, and 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.760 it was March. I mean the league years fifteen days 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.360 away or fourteen days away. Now it's March second. Now, Yeah, 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.960 it's not even the first anymore, So you got two 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.240 weeks to figure it out, or maybe maybe two and 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.640 a half because Amari's salary doesn't become guaranteed until the 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.520 fifth day of the league year. So I mean, you 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.160 can stretch it out if you want to, but get 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.960 you gotta it's time to start figuring this out. You don't. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.720 It seems like a lot of time. It's really not. Yeah, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.200 all right, Dave, real quick, give us a schedule. What's 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.160 coming up here in the next I guess day or so? 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.600 When when can we can Well, those of us that 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.520 will be watching it on TV, do you know when 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.680 those when the players are actually going to be on 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.520 the field and doing the drills. That's the funny thing, man, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.360 to be I'll be very blunt with you. I have 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.840 no clue because like that stuff, that stuff feels so secondary. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.600 First of all, like we're not allowed in we're not 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.960 allowed in the building to watch it, and then they 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.280 stretch it out to the weekend, which honestly is usually 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.000 when reporters leave town. But I like, we have so 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.000 much stuff coming. Like I said, I'll say it for 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.680 the tenth time. We're meeting with Stephen in a little bit. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.720 We're gonna get a nice little exclusive with him talk 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.240 about some draft talk about some free agency stuff. I 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.360 think we're gonna have that on the site, and I 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.080 think we're also going to have it on the Draft 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.520 Show today. Well, we're supposed to record another episode of 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.640 The Draft Show with Dame Brugler later this afternoon. Good stuff. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.720 I heard a rumor that Will McClay is actually gonna 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.280 come and sit down on our set tomorrow, which would 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.280 be amazing. He usually doesn't do that till after the draft, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.320 so for him to take the time to do that 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.200 in the middle of the combine would be really great. 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.600 And then there's the ingering Jerry Jones State of the 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.080 Union is still to come too, So I mean, we're 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.360 gonna have more content and I can even wrap my 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.520 brain around here in the next like three or so days. 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.120 So do me one favorite when you when you talk 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.040 to Steven, I do have one question I'd love for 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.680 you to ask him. I'm just interested to know, do 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.960 they how comparable do they think Blake Jarwin is to 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.480 Dalton Schultz, Because I think there's a lot of talk 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.800 about Dalton Schultz and what he provided for this offense. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.880 I'd be interested to know if they would even say it, 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.600 how comparable they think those two players are. So ask 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.240 him that. Hey, we're the only ones talking to him, 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.040 so I can do that for you. Good, awesome, Let's 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.400 do that, all right, Dave, appreciate you. Man you. We'll 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.880 have you back at the studio with us next week. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.640 You have a safe trip and enjoy Indianapolis, and we're 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.280 gonna take a break when we come back. We got 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.560 lots of questions to talk about here. 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He told us 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.160 all about what he's hearing out there in Indianapolis. I'm 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.600 sure Nick, you've had that experience. Is you know that 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.840 part of the trip we talk about the trip we 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.360 talk about it's the stuff that we get that may 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.679 not necessarily be on camera, that might be just as 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.080 good as the stuff that is on camera and those 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.720 opportunities just to talk to different guys and get to 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:32.720 know things that will help us down the roads. Certainly, 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.440 it's fun and it's it's one of those head on 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.040 the swivel type things because you never know where to 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.800 go and and that's the difference. And I say this 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.560 all the time. And one of the writers who's been 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.560 doing this for years, he told me my very first 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.640 year covering the team. He said, there's a difference between 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.520 covering the team and covering the beat. And I didn't 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.160 understand that at the time, and I certainly understand it now. 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.600 You see people that show up at restaurants. You're like, oh, 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.600 I go to this restaurant every year. Why because Jerry 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.600 and Steven and Jerry Junior and whoever they'll be there. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.120 And then when they're there, then you talk to him 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:09.919