WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Cap Considerations 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:09.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:20.439 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he is Talking Cowboys, 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.880 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:34.960 Star in Frisco. Say, and now your hosts Isaiah stand Back, 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:42.720 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's. It's been 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.840 a couple of weeks, but we are back. It's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:50.000 presented by Geico. Long awaited. After what has been a 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.560 crazy week around the state of Texas. Hope everybody once 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.480 again staying safe. The warmth is not necessarily the issue 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.880 at this point, but hopefully you were able to stay 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.680 warm and say through some crazy times. But we are 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.200 back to talk some Dallas Cowboys and to check in 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.520 on everyone there. Hey, Cowboys Nation. As of course, it's 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.559 a big offseason for Dallas and there's plenty to reset about. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.720 And after a long week, that's what we're gonna do today. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.560 We're gonna reset. We're gonna talk about what the Cowboys 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.840 top storylines are this offseason and how they can be 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.920 successful going in to twenty twenty one. I'm your host 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.240 Kyle Yeoman's alongside Rob Phillips, heck My Harrison. We've got 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.600 our guy, Isaiah stand back, resident super Bowl champion as 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.280 always down in the bottom left hand corner. Guys, how 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.080 are we doing this week? Rob? You able to stay 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.080 warm throughout the last week? I missed you guys on 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:43.000 last Monday. Yeah, we missed you too, Kyle. What was 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.800 the temperature yesterday? Seventy two? So for people that don't 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.640 live in Texas, like, this is what we deal with. 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:50.840 You know, it might be minus two one day, might 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.040 be seventy two one day. But I think we're all good, right. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.640 I think everybody's okay now, hanging in there like a 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.760 hook cap and a fast lane over meging it happened, man. Yeah, 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.520 negative two one day, seventy two to next. Would wouldn't 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.600 be Texas without it, you know, yep, Nope. Now this 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.359 has been the most popular week of weather I think 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:14.120 that we've had to experience as Texans, and I think 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.520 the going trend is no one was ready for the 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.320 arctic blast that took over the metric plates or in 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:24.400 Texas period. So I am. I am loving it. But 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:25.959 it's just one of those things where you see a 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.120 beautiful day like this and you're like, well, where were 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:34.880 you a week ago. We gotta go ended up turning 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:39.080 from just like your normal I mean, not normal, but 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.240 out of the nowhere generational type of ice storm. And 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.240 then it was like, I mean, I was wearing a 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.880 T shirt and short yesterday going to the grocery store, 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.720 so it was just unbelievable. So yeah, the quiet ones 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:55.880 that you bought last Yeah, yeah, yeah, for surety, Now 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.840 I reck the grocery store and back like I did 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.960 to the store and back last year. That's exactly what. Yeah. No, 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.600 I mean, it's been crazy, and feel free to reach 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.079 out if you guys still need help, and we're here 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.760 to help here on top of Cowboys and through the 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.520 Dallas Cowboys. If you want to help others to go 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.880 to the Dallas Cowboys Twitter right now at Dallas Cowboys. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.680 Pretty easy to find on Twitter, and there's a pin 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.760 tweet for those that are interested in donating to those 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.320 in need during the inclement weather and it's all there 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.920 how to help, how to donate blankets, codes, hats, gloves 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.680 plenty you can do for the community and show that 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.160 the Cowboys Nation is always there to help and we've 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.160 known that very well over the last couple of years 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.880 and especially here in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.640 But let's get away from that. Let's talk about some football. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.600 Let's talk some Cowboys here over the next hour. And 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.560 I mean, the biggest storylines this offseason are what quarterback 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:54.400 play right, contracts, garterbacks, salary caps, and rob There was 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.880 news the other day from the NFL that the salary 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.120 cap in twenty twenty one has the new floor. We 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:04.120 expected this. Teams on a Thursday memo said that the 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.839 salary cap floor has been increased from one seventy five 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:11.000 to one eighty following talks with the nfl PA. So 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.200 one eighty is higher salary cap than we really anticipated. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:16.960 We thought it might have a chance to stay the 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.640 same or go down, as Cowboys fans, but this is 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.359 a great sign for the Cowboys who aren't necessarily in 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.920 the best place. Cowboys. Yeah, it's a little little extra 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.000 change in the Cowboys cushions. You know, you reach down, 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.960 you find a little extra five million. That's good. They 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.920 need every bit that they can because we know that 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.479 you talked about it, Kyle. The top priorities around the 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.440 league and in Dallas, our quarterback here, it's Dak Dak. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.799 There's not a whole lot of news right now. Everybody 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.440 wanting to know if and when this deal is gonna 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.880 get done. And obviously an extra five million helps if 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.000 nothing else, you can slot it to help pay for 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.599 your draft class when you have to sign those draft picks. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.440 So there's a lot the Cowboys need to work out 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.200 in the co weeks. What's interesting is, you know, the 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.680 NFL doesn't really have official dates, official official dates. We 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.800 know the NFL drafts at the end of April, but 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:12.200 everything that you know, I think teams are working off 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:16.680 of is a you know, tag window that starts tomorrow, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.440 goes through March ninth, and then you got free agency 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.919 about a week later. And in that time, you know 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.400 the Cowboys guy that find ways to create room. So 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.640 the raise cap floor is good, it might go higher 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.720 if the league decides to try to you know, kick 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.680 the can down the road and eat a little bit 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.280 of that salary cap space in future years when hopefully 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.280 we're out of this pandemic. So maybe there's a little 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.480 extra room the Cowboys will have to maneuver, not only 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.240 to slot Dak either on the tag or on ideal 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.120 Plus give you some wiggle room in free agency because 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.479 we all know they've got a lot of needs coming 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:56.600 up here. He whenever you look at this salary cap 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.200 and you look at kind of the situation that's at 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.120 hand in the NFL, it's positive that it went up. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.680 But at the same time, does it give you any 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.840 pause as to how the Cowboys would have to handle 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.280 the cap issue because of Dak Prescott, because of the 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.760 way these other teams, I don't know. I look around 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.440 the league and I see all these other organizations finding 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.359 ways to maneuver cap money, and I feel like the 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.159 Cowboys haven't necessarily done that. Are you? Are you still 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.400 hesitant on the Cowboys signing Dak Prescott to that long 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.279 term deal, and especially with the salary cap not going 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.240 up as much as it normally would. Well, I like 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.719 what Rob said, kicking the can down the road, and 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.360 that's what we've been doing with our salary cap for 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.280 a little while now. It's kicking the can down the road. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.440 But all of these things have come to ahead, Kyle, 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.840 and we have to make a decision on what we're 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.960 gonna do. And you know, the extra five million dollars 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.920 for the cap from seventy five to eighty is good, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:52.800 but you're looking at a cap that's generally I think 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.520 the twenty twenty was one ninety eight, So that's still 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.200 eighteen million dollars in cap that you've had to sacrifice 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.960 because of COVID nineteen and no one's going to cry 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.000 for us because of that, but boy, we sure could 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.559 use that extra eighteen million dollars right now. And maybe 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.400 that was something that they were banking on, But you know, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.040 when it comes down to do I have pause with 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.120 everything that's going on with the franchise and Dak is 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:22.720 it's yeah, is the answer. And you know, I think 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.080 that when you when you say kicking the can down 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.560 the road. We've restructured a lot of contracts and we 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.720 can still do that. But it's not impossible to get 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.960 the Dak Prescott deal done. But it's going to do. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.240 It's going to stress the hell out of your cap 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:36.440 and it's not going to give you a lot of 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.520 room to get other things that you need. And when 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.320 you talk about need verse one with the Dallas Cowboys 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.320 right now, we have some bigger issues at foot with 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.760 our organization and that's bad contracts and you know, an 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:53.400 aging offensive line and injuries to guys that we may 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:57.320 not even see anymore and the Dallas Cowboy uniform. So 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.280 the priority right now, you can say, would be to 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.800 sign Dag. But again, when you look at your cap 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.240 and you look at the future, kicking the can down 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.520 the road, you may have to start making some bigger 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.960 decisions for down the road, Isn't that what's frustrating the 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.960 most about this situation, though, is that you had so 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.800 many opportunities and you still haven't figured it out. Like 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.440 That's what's frustrating to me. It's the fact that you've 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.560 kicked the can down the road and now you've run 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.800 out of road. It seems like, I mean, you really 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.680 have run out of road to kick it down. Now 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:29.920 you're gonna have to turn around and go to the 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.160 other direction. And I hate that as a fan of 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.960 the Cowboys and as somebody who's been around the organization now, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:41.120 it's really a frustrating from a fan standpoint whenever you 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.679 have a quarterback like that, you have these contract issues, 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.400 And I'm sure it's frustrating from a players standpoint too, Isaiah. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.520 I know you played in the league, You've had contract 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.800 negotiations more so than any of the rest of us have. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:56.120 But is this frustrating. Is this insulting from a player's perspective? 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.280 I know this is something we've probably hit already, but 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.600 I feel like it just continues to be so as 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.720 we get closer and closer than this deadline. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.240 I mean, obviously the injury to Deck did not help 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.160 the situation at all. M complicated things substantially. So obviously, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.520 now you got the curveball, are you going to be healthy? 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.120 When are you going to be healthy? Are you going 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:15.800 to be the same player that you were? All? Right? 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.360 Do we have to put that in a contract so 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.040 that you have to prove it to us? Or are 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.559 we just gonna give you the benefit of the doubt 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.600 because you've been so good to us, you know, in 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.760 the past. So there's so many things now that are 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.240 convoluted um. They we're gonna have to see. But I'm 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.880 interested and I'm curious to see um as to how 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.160 good our general manager skills are. Now, this is when 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.760 you find out exactly how great of a manager um 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.880 you have within your organization. And because you have to 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.000 get so creative, because you have to figure out, Okay, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.079 we have a new coach in, we have a general 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.559 manager who's been there since since since birth, and now 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.720 with a figure out. Okay, what's our vision for our 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.720 for our team? What's the vision for this organization? Do 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.679 we want to win right now? Do we want to 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.719 are we trying to win championships right now? Or are 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.360 we trying to set up our team for the future. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.760 So you got those two those two organizational hands that 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.760 are coming to coming to one and they have to 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.480 figure things out. And obviously the deck situation is the 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.120 most highlighted thing of them all. But there's like, as 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.440 you guys already alluded to, there's so many gaps, there's 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.400 so many things that need to be addressed. And you know, obviously, 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.480 be eighteen million dollars short doesn't help you, but it's 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.400 a lot better to be in twenty three million dollars short. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.120 So we'll see, we'll see what happens. Man. I'm excited 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.320 to see the maneuvers they're making because you see how 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.840 aggressive some of these other organizations are being. Um, let's 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.520 see what our what our organizations made of. And you 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.760 know I do too, and it is it is like, 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.640 this is the biggest offseason for the Cowboys I can 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.880 remember since I've been covering the team because it is. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.840 It's like a crossroads. It's like what's your future going 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.080 to be and what's your outlook for your team? And 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.600 Heck mentioned creating room and getting creative. They can do that. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.920 They can, you know they can. They can slot for 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.880 this tag. It's it's not pretty. It's a monster number 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.600 thirty seven point seven million if they have to do it. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.960 And I think it's a distinct possibility that they're going 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.560 to have to do it in fifteen days or sixteen 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:02.360 days to buy more time, unless less they can figure 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.160 something out in two weeks. I mean, they haven't done 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.280 it in two years, two plus years. I think they 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.600 would probably have to tag him again. And I think, 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.760 you know that can be done. They don't want to 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.680 do that. I'm sure they don't want to do that because, look, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.600 you want to have some flexibility in free agency. A 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.080 week later, but but Heck mentioned the restructures, and there's 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.160 a lot of speculation on what they'll do to create space. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.760 That's the most logical thing. Look, they restructure Tyrann Smith, 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.640 Zach Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence last year and took all of 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.880 that space and saved it for this year. I think 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.760 NFLPA said They've got the third most unused cap room 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.760 carried over into this year twenty five million or so. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.040 So that's that's good, and they can restructure more deals. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.880 They've been doing this pretty much as long as I've 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.640 been there covering the team, and they do they just 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.160 you just kind of you can do this forever. Really, 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.200 you can kick this down the road. The problem is 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.520 when it comes to the back end of those deals. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.680 If if a guy doesn't reach the end of his 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.720 deal or is not playing to the level of his deal, 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.000 then you've got a lot of dead money at the end. 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.520 If you think about twenty eighteen, I think it was 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.520 a year after they released Tony Romo, he counted nine 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.959 million on their cap. Travis Frederick retires in twenty twenty, 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.600 and it's like an eleven million dollar cap hit spread 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.800 over two years. So that's you know, you gotta you 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.840 gotta think about the back end of those things. But 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.240 other than cutting players, I don't know what else you 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.240 do to create space and still keep kind of the 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.360 cord your roster together and try to go win football 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:32.680 games with Dak Prescott as your quarterback. Hey, Ron, go ahead, now, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.480 I was gonna say the other the curveball here, right, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.600 and obviously we addressed it last year. Was you know 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.640 they're now also managing Dax Dax emotions, right, what are 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.640 Dax emotions? If he gets tagged? Understand, we all get it. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.840 Sometimes you have to tag to buy more time. But 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.079 if I'm DAK, I probably have I'm probably having my 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:49.920 foot in the ground. As like, hey, if y'all tag me, 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.400 uncle Drew alluded to the other day, if you tag me, 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.400 just no, I'm not I'm not coming back. Do you 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:57.440 just know that you know what I'm saying. Just just just 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.160 know it can as disrespect. You guys have had two 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:00.960 years of work on his d you know, say, I've 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.280 proven to you guys what my worth to this organization. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.040 I've shown you guys, obviously through unfortunate the circumstances that 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.960 when I get injured, what happens to the organization, what 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.040 happens to the team. Right, So if you guys tag 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.920 me again, just no, just know what's gonna happen on 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.520 the back end, right, So they have to manage that 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.840 as well, And that's something that's not being address obviously. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.960 Everybody's just talking about how oh you know they'll have 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.360 this much time to figure it out. Dak might not 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.040 want to figure it out. Dak might be on a 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.559 two week on a two week count down. I'm saying, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.520 y'all got y'all have two weeks to figure this sting out. 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.920 I'm with you in terms of, uh, you know, if 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.079 if it's still the mid July deadline, that's still the 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.079 count of the NFL working off of and there's no 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.080 deal in place by then, I mean, yeah, you can't 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:42.040 imagine he'll be back in twenty twenty two because it's 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.000 a fifty four million dollars franchise tag or something like 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.440 that next year for Dak and and that's not gonna happen. No, 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.560 I mean, you can't fit that, so he would be 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.640 ready to hit the market. And I agree there's there's um, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.760 there's pride, and there's feelings involved. Guys want long term 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.720 security and understandably so. UM, But I I still think 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.640 they all want to get it done. I believe that. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.560 I just don't know, Um, I don't know how you 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:07.760 Maybe they can get it done by March ninth, but 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.960 something's got to give here both sides to try to 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.200 work this out for the Cowboys to get some relief, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:14.920 to try to build a team in the free agency 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.720 for Dak to get that security. Um, it's man, it's time, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.040 it's time to get working on it. Noah, I loved 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.560 Rob when you said we're at a crossroads, and it 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.760 just gave me that visual of us in the car 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.720 said sitting at a crossroads and which way do we go? 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.000 Because if you look at it on the cow for 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:36.760 the organization, the price for being mediocre is just getting expensive. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:41.240 And that's that it just continues to build on. You 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.120 look at the bad contracts that we've we've we have 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.120 and there are a few of them that you can 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.280 go to where these guys are once they signed their deal, 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.320 their production depreciated, and we have these bad deals on 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.680 the book books. And yes, you can look back two 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.360 years ago where we should have gotten Dak's deal done 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.640 and it's been very costly not getting Dak's deal done. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.400 But Isaiah, I don't know if if the organization would 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.400 even care, if you know, if they have to give 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.800 him another tag, if he's if this is gonna be contentious, 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.960 and he's already like, look I'm out of here. If 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.400 you do that, then I think that the organization does 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.240 that knowing full damn well that he's gonna walk in 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.040 twenty twenty two. So, I mean, the art of the 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.760 deal and the song and dance is very fragile right 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.880 now with the organization and his representatives. But I am 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.160 hoping that they can find a way to get this 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.400 deal done and if it's gonna be something for the 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.040 long haul, especially if you look at not having an 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.240 offensive line or anything like that, look at how bad 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.360 it's gonna be if you don't have that quarterback to 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.840 build around for the future. I think that Dak is 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.400 the future of the franchise. But again, if the if 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.720 the organization doesn't see it the same, then who the 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:56.120 hell am I I mean? Because I think he's good 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:00.200 enough to sign right now. Are are we worried? And 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.200 I'm not even talking about the Cowboys when I say we, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:05.600 I never would say we whenever it comes to the Cowboys, 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.080 because I don't wear a jersey. But are we as 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.680 a group or as a fan base, are we worried 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.640 about Dak Prescott's ankle? Because are we worried about the 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.640 injury at all? Because if we're worried about it at all, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.400 what are the Cowboys feeling? What is the front office feeling, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.240 because that's one of my things is it's been so quiet. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.080 That's what's weird to me. It's it's been definitely silent 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.360 and you haven't heard a single thing about either side 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.160 of the negotiations. So is that a good sign or 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.560 is that a bad sign? As nothing's getting done or 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.680 something's about to get done, because Rob, I mean it's 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.840 giving to the point, like you said, we're getting down 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.280 to this deadline. It's a time clock. I mean, time 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.680 is ticking whenever we get to this moment, and then 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.120 what happens whenever it reaches zero? Yeah, I mean I'll 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.160 throw in one thing there too, is that we don't 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.400 we mentioned the floor for the salary cap. We don't 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.680 know the salary cap level yet, and we may not 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.440 know it till after March nineth. So that's the problem 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.280 here is it's it's this weird offseason with the dates 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:11.720 and this crazy cap with the pandemic, and so there's 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.440 just a lot of when you talk about a deal 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.560 with this magnitude, you need to know everything that you're 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.200 dealing with, and I don't think the Cowboys know everything 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.560 they're dealing with yet. Yeah. The ankle too, I mean 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.280 that that is another layer. You know, we've referenced that 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.920 on past shows where it's a serious injury. Everything we've 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.080 heard he's gonna make a full recovery. The Cowboys aren't 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.119 concerned about it. But that is another part of the 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.520 negotiations that I don't know that we know everything involved 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.840 in it because we really haven't. There hasn't been, like 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.280 you said, Kyl, hasn't been a lot of public discussion 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.160 since this nothing really since the season ended on any subject. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.280 So there's a lot of a lot of speculation, a 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.320 lot of sources. All I know is I still feel 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.880 like both sides would like to get this done. I 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.600 just personally don't have as much confidence as I did 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.640 last year because I've maybe I was naive last year 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.439 because I feel like every time the Cowboys want one 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.760 of these deals done, they get it done, and this 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.200 hasn't for whatever reason. I think you can talk about 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:12.040 both sides for you know, reasons for that um But now, 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.240 like you said, the clock's ticking. So until it gets done, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.359 I don't think you can say with confidence that that 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.119 it that it will be, and that that this is 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:24.960 going to be a long term deal. Heck, oh, it's 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.919 just it just sucks to continue to do this. You know, 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:33.040 this is the second offseason we haven't gotten yeah, third 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.120 we haven't gotten this done. And it becomes the same argument, 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:42.520 what is the organization looking to see to feel confident 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.000 in getting the deal done? And there's so many people 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.280 that's going to comment and say, oh, that's not worth 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.280 the money. And then you know, well, who else do 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.840 you have? Do you think that you could just go 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.520 into the draft and pick anybody that could come into 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.840 this organization and lead you to the playoffs in the 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.879 super Bowl, Because this is a right now sort of 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.720 situation for every team in the NFL. Everybody. This is 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.359 a right now business. And if we're saying that, look 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.359 we can just go outside and get anybody to be 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.159 the quarterback here, I think you're delusional. Dak Prescott if 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:12.919 he's not the top five. And yeah, there are a 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.520 few guys you say their name, Pat mahomes all, the 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.520 guy Aaron Rodgers on down, but he's not far down 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.240 on that list. If there are going to be a 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.680 lot of guys that get contracts that are going to 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.679 be the highest player quarterback in the league that don't 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:27.919 that are not on the same level as some of 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.280 those guys. So we can't keep moving the goalpost in 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.680 this conversation about Dak because anytime you have a conversation 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:38.960 with somebody about Dak Prescott's contract, you sound dumb and 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.200 they sound dumb because no one agrees with the cap. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.959 No one agrees with the cap, and no one agrees 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.320 with the talent. There's the difference on each level. But 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.040 the question is what do you do if you don't 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.399 sign him? Well, we sound dumb all the time. So 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:59.200