WEBVTT - Draft Show: How Dak Deal's Impacts the Draft? 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:09.680 He's the Dallas Cowboys dot Com Draft Show, your war 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.480 room for incenter news and drafted analysis from deep within 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:17.040 the confines of Cowboys headquarters at the Star in Fresco, 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:23.720 Dallas Cowboys like Ted Lamb and now your hosts. Brian 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:30.600 brought us David Hellman, Bucky Brooks, and Kyle Yeoman's. Ladies 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.199 and gentlemen, It is March ninth, AKA what we have 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.520 been waiting for for quite some time around these parts 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.600 at the SWBC Mortgage Studios and the Star in Frisco, 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:47.680 and the deal has been done. Dak Prescott has been signed. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.720 Welcome into the Dallas Cowboys dot Com Draft shows. We 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.160 talk about the dominoes of the Dak deal one hundred 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:59.240 and sixty million dollars divvied up over four years, but regardless, 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.800 it's done and we don't have to talk about it 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.720 really past the next couple of days, thank goodness, into 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.800 twenty twenty one and the rest of the off season. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.040 Glad you're with us here on the Draft show. Brian 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.560 brought us Bucky Brooks, David Hellman, I'm Kyle Yeoman's and Dave. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.039 It's nice just knowing that, Hey, it's in the past. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.400 And then also, hey, you have your franchise quarterback, and 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.399 the Cowboys, well, thank goodness not have to really look 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:27.280 into drafting a quarterback, especially early in this April's upcoming draft. 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:33.640 Oh my god, It's like my prayers were answered, like 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.080 the degree to which I was unhappy this time last 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:41.240 week listening to Brian brought us in Bucky Brooks try 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.199 to outline the Cowboys future without a quarterback. We don't 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.680 have to listen to it anymore. I made the analogy 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.760 earlier this morning, is like, it's like we can finally 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.800 press play on a movie that's been paused for like 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.560 an hour and a half, Like we can finally start 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.040 talking about building this roster for twenty twenty one and 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.120 for the next few years to come, because we know 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.320 it's all going to revolve around Dak Prescott. You know, 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.400 we don't have to talk about whether they should draft 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.400 a quarterback or trading packages and all that type of stuff. 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.919 We can just build the best team possible with the 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.880 franchise quarterback. And holy cow, is that a relief? Is 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.800 there any resentment from Bucky Brooks? Sir Brian brought us 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.280 on the fact that, hey, there is a franchise quarterback 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.400 here and the money has been dished out because I 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.320 know you guys were trying to draft Mac Jones at 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:35.480 ten last week and that's not happening anymore. I felt 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.280 like Brian brought us and I we're just having a 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.160 discussion that you have to have in a wardroom. At 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.160 some point. You have to prepare for all scenarios. And 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.040 if Dak Prescott wasn't signed, or if he was planing 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.240 on print attack, for just from a due diligent standpoint, 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.880 we have to talk about the quarterback and so it's 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.600 one of the things that you have to do. And 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:55.720 with the deal coming in the way that it came in, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.880 I think one of the under reported aspects of the 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.280 deal the cap space that was saved by putting him 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:07.000 on a deal because the Cowboys, unlike a lot of teams, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.200 they're rich in cash and cash is king. And this 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.639 because they could fork over sixty six million and cash, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.480 they now can reduce his cap down to twenty two million. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.440 It enables them to go out and actually shop a 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.200 little bit on the free agent market, would help them 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.080 build a team. Yeah, I think this is Bucky's rioting. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.600 It just took Bucky Night, you know, two hands to 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:34.040 shove Stephen Jones into getting this deal done, and no, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.280 I'm getting it. But the thing that the thing that's 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.200 interesting about it is that you start to hear the 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.760 deal was done basically in one day. And I know 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.520 there's all kinds of build up and all that, but 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.000 it just goes to show you if you have people 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.000 that are motivated to getting something done, you can get 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.160 it done in this league. And this is what the 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.320 Cowboys needed to have happened in order to get their 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.680 offseason going. They had to get their quarterback done, you know, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:07.440 one way or another, whether it was signed him, the tag, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.360 play on that trade him. I mean, they had to 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.680 get something done. And if you look at it, the 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.040 best thing, the best scenario that could have happened for 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.760 the Cowboys happened. So now you can focus on the offseason. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.479 Bucky's talking about cap space. You gotta probably have to 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.760 flip a couple of contracts to get some more space, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.240 but at least you could play in this game now 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.560 and then now you can worry about the draft. You 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.359 can say, okay, at ten, do we need to take 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:38.080 an offensive player a defensive player? What direction do we want, Hey, coaches, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.440 what do you think Now the Cowboys offseason can get 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.880 going for real and they could work on now fixing 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.960 this football team that last year was six and ten. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.560 And you make a really good point because free agency 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.320 couldn't have started without knowing what kind of piece of 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.840 the pie that Dak Prescott was ultimately going to take up. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.479 You couldn't have started your draft prep without thinking, hey, 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.760 we might have to take a quarterback at ten rather 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.560 than maybe one of these top corners like Patrick's zutan 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.440 or out of Alabama or Caleb Farley Virginia Tech. And 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.599 then then you have to go from there. Dad was 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.360 the starting point. He was that first domino to fall, Brian, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.520 But where do they go now? Because that's the biggest 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.240 question with this football team. There are a lot of spots, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.600 and we talked about it kind of over the course 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.839 of the Trap Show. But now that they can actually 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.240 start looking, what is the next step for this for 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.200 this front office to kind of find a rhythm and 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.520 find the guys that they need in order to build 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.680 around their quarterback. Yeah, they have to. They've already figured 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.159 out that the coaches that they had on their defensive 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.120 staff weren't good enough, you know they you know that 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.480 was that was number one, and you know, really shame 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.160 on Mike McCarthy, And again I suck, I'm hammered him, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.640 and I guess I am. But you know, you had 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.080 a whole year to put together a staff and you 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.560 end up firing three coaches off his staff, you know. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.200 So now you're back to square one with the defense. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.440 But yeah, it's gonna be about Okay, what is Dan Quinn? 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.520 What have hid the traits to characteristics? What is he 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.040 looking for in his defense? You know? What is what 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.120 Joe Wit? What is he looking for in the secondary? 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.000 You know what's going to happen with the defensive line? 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.480 You know, I mean all these things. Now the scouts 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.599 have got to recalibrate in their mind, like, Okay, these 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.560 are guys that I looked at earlier in the year. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.400 Maybe this guy didn't fit. Oh wait, now this guy 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.120 does fit. There's a lot of that back and forth. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.400 But this is going to be a really important offseason 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.479 for these defensive coaches to kind of to tell their 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.600 ideas or their vision of what they want in a 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.880 defensive player. You know, we talk about offensive players that 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.480 seems to be okay, for the Cowboys, it's the defensive 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.160 side of the ball that you need to kind of 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.640 start to worry about again. Coaches, players finding a way 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.279 to get those two things together because they can't have 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.320 what happened last year to them on defense. They again, 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.320 they just it was it was a mess how that 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.960 all shook out last year. You know, Brian, it's funny 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.880 that that you're talking about, like building around the team. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.280 I think championship teams have to have twelve blue chip 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.080 players and they need to be at certain positions. Quarterback, 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.720 you need a running back, wide receiver, three offensive lineman, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.760 two pass rushers, an off the ball playmaker, and then 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.080 two guys in the secondary. And so when you look 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:27.680 at this Cowboys team and you look at the way 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:33.000 their cap has been allocated, Prescott Cooper, Elliott, Tyron Smith, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:37.560 d Law, Zach Martin. We have Jalen Smith who's making money, 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.560 but I don't know if he's necessarily a blue chip 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.880 player based on how he plays on the field. Lell 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.200 Collins could be in that conversation at offensive tackle. The 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.240 issues that I see would be pass rusher, safety, and 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.120 either Trayvon Dix has their merged as an elite corner, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:53.840 or they have to draft in the league corner. So 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.840 we're talking about three marquee positions that need to be 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.040 feeled for this team to on paper it be considered 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:06.000 a team that can buy for a championship. And that's honestly, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.680 that's what makes this whole thing exciting for me, is like, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.400 we finally get this dumb domino out of the way 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.880 and we can have these conversations. You know, now we 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.840 can begin you know, I always compare it to a roadmap. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.760 You can start to look at that map and say, 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.520 all right, what are they going to do in free agency? 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.760 What type of free agents does dan Quinn want to acquire? 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.480 You know, are they going to go after a certain 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.800 type of defensive tackle? Do they maybe bring Gerald McCoy back, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.720 or is there somebody else that they have in mind? 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.800 Is can dan Quinn convince this front office to invest 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.439 in a safety? And that you know, Brian said it 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.439 a minute ago. Obviously you never want to speak too definitively, 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:48.160 but offensive tackle is maybe the only offensive position that 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.880 I could see this team drafting with a super high pick. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:55.319 Would y'all agree with that? Yes? I think less and 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.360 less though that they do what they did last year. Yes, 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.079 Like I said, I mean, you can't. You don't want 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.240 to say it as a blanket statement, but just in general, yeah, yeah, 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.400 And so now we're talking, you know, and now that 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.800 now that we've got this Dak Prescott thing out of 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.800 the way, I can sit here and say, yeah, I bet, 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.280 I bet Caleb Farley or Patrick's Artan is going to 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.120 be the pick at ten that helps you address your secondary. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.480 Then we can move down the line. You know, how 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.600 do they feel about Jayalen Smith? Can they fix him? 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.080 Do they need to draft a linebacker highly? Do they 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.520 sign a safety and free agency? Or do they maybe 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.440 go after a Ritchie Grant or one of the guys? 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.040 You know, I don't know the answer to these questions, 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:37.960 but we can start diving into it a little bit 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.880 more now that we've got some clarity. Well, Dave, I 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.720 want to say this, like justin thinking about your draft strategy, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.520 because I think we're so like focused on the defense. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.679 I think the best defense is a great offense. And 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.880 I think if you're the Cowboys, I think if you're 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.600 Mike McArthur, you're looking at your team. It takes a 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.920 lot of work to build a dead defense. I don't 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:00.800 think you would take as much work to make the 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.319 offense a dominant offense where you're thinking about putting thirty 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.000 points a game, and so if you build strength on strength, 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.960 to me, I would go all in on trying to 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.040 find an elite offensive tackle at ten, because if I 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.640 have an elite offensive tackle on ten, I can leave 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.960 this offense alone theoretically for a year or two and 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.360 then put everything else onto the defense, because when you 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.800 give Dak forty two million plus a year, you're seeing 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.160 we need to start the game with thirty on the board. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.280 If we get thirty on the board, I don't need 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.480 the defense to play at a top ten level. I 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.960 just need you to be middle of the pack pass rushers, interceptions, 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.840 those things. And so it just depends on if Mike 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.920 McCarthy and those guys can say, if we're gonna play 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.439 complimentary football, the best way for us to play complimentary 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.720 football is let the offense go and then we'll just 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.559 play from ahead on defense, much like the Kenzie the 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.040 Chiefs have been able to do. And the way that 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.760 Dan Quinn is coming into the defense, you would hope 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.640 that he goes from a thirty second round defense or 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.839 a thirty first ranked defense and puts the middle of 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.040 the pack. You don't need that top ten caliber. Like 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.680 you said, Bucky and Dave, I think I kind of 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.120 leaned more toward what Bucky saying rather than what you 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.319 just said of since the Dack deal is done, you 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.520 could look at corner. I think since the Dack deal 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.120 is done, it puts more emphasis in trying to protect 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.800 him and protect the assets that you have on offense. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.240 It's not just Dak. It's the money with Zeke, it's 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.280 the money with Cooper, it's the tight ends, it's the 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.200 it's the wide receiving corps that's been impressive, and then 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.440 of course the offensive line that you've built in the past. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.880 So don't you think that the Dack deal might even 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.200 lead more so to being enticing to taking a tackle 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.560 or a guy like rashauns Later out of Northwestern up 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:45.120 at that tenth pick. I've done this long enough. Well, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:46.880 I mean, you know you're not gonna get me to 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.280 say one hundred percent yes or one hundred percent no. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.160 You got to weigh these things on a case by 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:56.319 case basis. What fun is that? I come on, stop it, man, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.760 stop it. Heaven Opinion stop it. Neither one of you 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:05.120 have ever neither one of you would have ever predicted 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.959 that Ceedee Lamb would fall to seventeen. So yeah, I mean, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.760 you got to you gotta do this stuff. Case by case. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.560 I think I am much higher. I'm much higher on 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.480 Tyrn Smith and Lyle Collins being okay this season than 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.600 a lot of other people are. And that doesn't I'm 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.280 not saying ignore the depth at the position. That's not 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.040 what I'm saying. I'm saying, Uh, you know, maybe you 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.360 draft that guy in the second or the third ground 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.959 you knowing, Hey, fine, I mean if you if you 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:33.960 don't like it, I mean, if we're gonna do that, 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.640 we might roll Brennon night and tern sill out there 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:43.880 and see the thing. Oh stayed three agent, We're toss 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.880 a fifty pig and test position. Stop. That's shopping to 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.679 sales rereg like, go and get a guy if we're 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.040 gonna get what we're talking about an opportunity to take 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.439 one to the the top two. So you guys, you're telling 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.880 me has been hurt every year? Every year is Gary 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.440 See like the first and the fifteenth you get a paychecks. True, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.080 he is going to miss four or five games. At 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.800 some point, we gotta get a tackle. There's a big 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.040 there's a big difference between missing three games, which is 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.400 what he usually misses, and missing the entire season. And 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.120 you're trying to tell me. You're trying to tell me 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.280 if I can get one of those corners at ten 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.480 and then draft and Alex Leatherwood at forty four, Like 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.960 that's that's not good enough. It's a it's a bigger difference. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.640 Like the Cowboys are the only team in the league 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.160 that has to have a first rounder at every position 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.520 on the offensive line. We're like, they're like the only 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:40.880 team where you can let's trying. Why is that? Don't skip? 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.760 Don't don't skip because you shouldn't need a blue chip 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.600 player at every position on the offensive line to have 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.440 a good offense. That just I think it works out days. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.400 You could say the same too. You can say the 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.160 same thing. So you can appreciate your block form upfront 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.280 this year, that'd be nice for him. He'd appreciate yet 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.160 that y'all are y'all are insane? Hey, if they draft, 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.240 if they draft for Sean Slater or Penay Sewel, I 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.000 won't I will not dislike that pick. But the idea 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.280 that they absolutely have to is ridiculous. So here here, 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.160 here's the difference. Like, here's what you do in the comparison, 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.800 Like we talked about cluster busters in the like. What 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.760 you want to do is what is the separation between 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.920 Certien Caleb Farley and the next tier of corners versus 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:31.120 what is the separation between the offensive tackles Penay Seul 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:35.720 Rashawn Slater and the second tier of offensive tackles. Typically 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.720 there's a bigger drop off and offensive tackles. I'm not 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.200 saying that you can find a corner anywhere, but you 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.240 can find a corner anywhere. We're celebrating dray Bon Dix. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.880 He was a second round pick, you know. So I'm 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.880 just saying it is not as it's not as if 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.080 any of these corners in the draft, or Dion Sanders 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.080 or Jalen Ramsay or anything like that. So if it's close, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.200 you go to the big guy, because you can find 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.480 a guy that you can put out there and play 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:06.280 at corner. I think that's a really simplified idea of 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.720 how hard it is to find good corners play in 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:12.040 this league. I mean, I know Richard Sherman was you know, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.640 a fifth round pick. But like, how many top tier 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.200 cornerbacks fall out of the first thirty or forty picks 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.880 in the draft? Okay, so let me so so so 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:22.920 let me teach you this. Would you want Damon Arnette 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.320 to play corner here's a first round pick? Oh? I mean, 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.400 but we didn't. We all think that was really weird, 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.840 like the Raiders do. We have Raider stuff every year. 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.880 I just know he's a first round pick, like first 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.560 round picks that we're talking about. C. J. Harris wrote that, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.120 or I don't want to say just just guys, but 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.240 I'm just saying, like, I think that position, that position 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.800 is much easier to find in a premiere offensive tackle. 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.560 I would invest in the bigs more so than the locals. Well, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.920 I ask you questions in real quick here, because you 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:57.480 do find work with Daniel Jeremiah old you know, old scout, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.760 old guy. You know. He thought is that there's a 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:06.280 huge drop off between the top corners and the next 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.280 tier of corners. And I mean he was talking about 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.480 this on Peter King's podcast thing. He was saying, Hey, 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.680 you know, offensive tackles all look good, which to your 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.040 point is right. But he's saying, if you don't draft 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:24.240 a corner early, you're not going to get a good corner. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.920 Do you disagree with him on that? Yeah? I disagree. 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.040 I disagree. I disagree because I think corner ability a 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.600 lot is predicated on scheme. I think if you have 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.320 a very clear view of how you want to play, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.360 I don't believe that the separating factors are so vast 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.880 that you can't find a guy. So if we can 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.440 project how this team is going to play based on 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.080 what they did in Atlanta, the corners that you need 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.840 are one of two. They need to be long, they 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.400 need to be ranging, and they can be man to 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.320 man guys or they can be his own guys because 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.720 they could build a lot. It just depends. I mean, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:04.479 we're talking about Greg Newsom from Northwestern being guy like 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.760 whether he's in the first round or whatever. But think 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.600 about the amount of name that we have listed at 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.960 corner that we talked about ast Samuel, we talked about 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:17.119 the Colman kid from George, I mean the guys I 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.360 mean like so to me, it's easier to find those 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.920 athletes to figure out how to play versus the big guys, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.439 And a lot of it is predicated on who's your 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.560 secondary coach. Do you have a secondary coach that is 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.400 an X and o's guy, or he's a teacher. Joe 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:38.080 Witt is a teacher developer type, and so if you 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:39.879 can have someone that you can bring it, I think 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:43.679 you can play with one of those younger guys. I mean, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.480 I was just curious, though Beside's curious because you know, Danny, 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.720 I have the utmost respect for the work you guys do. 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.200 I have the most respect for everybody that sits down 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.800 and watches his tape and has an opinion on this. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.280 I did. I thought it was interesting because I tend 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.399 to agree with you, Bucky on I don't want to 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.520 reach for a corner. But I'll tell you what I 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.919 feel better about corners in that second and third round 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:12.480 then I do than offensive tackles in the second or 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.200 third round. So if you were if you told me 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.720 I have to address I have to address the offensive 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.800 tackle position because of what I think is going You 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.240 know what could happen with Tyrn Smith. You know Lyle 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.040 Collins the hip and all that. I understand what you're 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:29.919 going with right there. I mean that that is a 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.840 hard position to find, but I do think I don't 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.440 agree with Daniel either. I think that this thing could 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.280 stretch a little bit better at corner. So if you 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:43.160 did mean me personally, I'd love taking Pits. I mean, 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.200 I think he is a weapon. You want to start 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.480 talking about putting pressure on it. That's where I mean. 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.720 That's putting pressure on people. That is putting some serious 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.960 pressure on people. And even Daniel yesterday on a tweet 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.320 he was saying, hey, give me the guy you think 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.240 could be a Hall of Fame player in ten years. 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.520 He did, Pits would start thinking, oh, okay, yeah, I 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.000 go maybe he's stupid like me. Then you know that 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.760 he likes this guy. But I'm just saying though that 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.199 I think that to me, the corner position stretches a 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.240 little bit better than what the tackle position. And I 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.720 don't want to. I don't want to reach for a 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.160 I don't want to. I don't if you don't feel 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.960 good about those early corners. If you don't, then the 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.840 safe pick is to go with the offensive lineman. Let 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.560 me say something that's really gonna piss y'all off the Yeah, 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:33.520 it's my turn to, it's my turn to, it's my 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:39.960 turn this. Wow, you don't wanna you like, you don't 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.920 want to draft for need, right, but just think about 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.640 what this team is positioned to handle. Okay, you got 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.960 Tyrn Smith and Lyle Cole. Yeah they're healthy, maybe they're 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:54.359 not healthy if that doesn't happen. Uh, You've got Zach Martin, 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.840 who proved he can do that if he needs to 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.920 at a decent level. You've also got these two deve 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.840 elemental guys who weren't amazing, Terrence Steele and Brandon Knight, 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.520 but like, you feel good they're on your team and 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:08.959 they can come in and compete and continue to develop 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.400 as players. And then maybe you add a draft pick 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.320 to that that seems like a decent amount of help 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:18.240 at the offensive tackle position. Whereas right now, we'll see 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:20.200 what they do in free agency, but we know they're 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.600 not going to spend a ton of money. So you 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:27.359 got Treyvon Diggs, you got Anthony Brown, and then you 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.280 got a whole lot of not inspiring stuff between young players. 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.679 And you know, Maurice Kennedy's coming back, but he's a 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.560 he's a career special teams guy. Like you don't have 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.120 anybody that you can count on to handle their job. 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.360 You're not wrong, and I'm saying, though, to me, if 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:47.280 you're the cabist, and I hate riding the fence on this, 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:50.600 but you know I do. I do. I understand what 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.879 Bucky's saying about your investment at quarterback, but I'm going 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.280 to need the quarterback too to make some plays when 0:20:56.320 --> 0:21:00.320 it's not perfect, you know, when everything up. But I 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.600 also want to be able to say, if I could 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.680 take the best cornerback in this draft, if I could 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:10.280 get the best one, yeah, I mean, I'm all for it, 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:14.320 but I I do. I like, I don't think you 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.199 could go wrong with either spot. I really don't. I like, 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:23.200