WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: More Dez Discussion 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:04.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.959 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.320 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.680 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:25.799 wa with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:30.880 Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, April nineteenth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.720 April Episode number five. Welcome to another edition of The 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.000 Break Live the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.360 And I'm so happy and I know you guys are 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.760 so happy to have me back on the air talking 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:46.080 about Cowboys football. Do you feel like you still belong here? Wow? 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:52.160 I thought I was talking about like I come fightsty today? 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.240 So that did, Junior? Feels kind of weird. How long 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.040 did it take you to remember whatever stupid episode number 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.560 that was? Actually it took me like about five minutes. Yeah, 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:04.360 I had to. You're like, I think one year? What year? 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.200 Does it say? Twenty eighteen? No? But what season? What? Fourteen? 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:14.480 Season fourteen? Yeah? So what were your season six before 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.920 mister eighty eight got here? Oh? How many years? How 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.880 many seasons have gone by here. That would be right. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.399 He was here eight years, so yeah, that would be right. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.119 That was a segue, so we can get into that 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.560 the news. Thanks Nick, all right, so let's talk about that. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.399 Is that news or the olds at this At this point, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.479 it's the news because, as if Twitter is any judge, 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.399 if you say anything on Twitter about Dez Bryant, it 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.319 lights up, and I think that means it's still relevant. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.000 People are still talking about it. It's one of those 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.120 people still care, but they'll be quick to say, like, 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:50.840 why are we still talking about that, but then they'll 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.080 go on to tweet their opinions about it, right, so, 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:54.480 and and to be honest with you, I think this 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.279 is probably going to continue until Dez Bryant is signed 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.240 by a team, which we'll get into that a little 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.440 bit later about where we think he could end up. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.320 But I want to start first just kind of with 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.320 the basics of the fact that, you know, a week 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.000 ago this time he was still on this team. And 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.880 then obviously the news comes down last Friday, and the 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.000 big question I have for you guys, and it seems 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.520 like the one that's predominantly predominantly what I see that 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.600 fans are still kind of wrestling with is what was 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.520 the reason. Why was it performance? Was it money? Was 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.960 it his locker room presence? Why is does Brian no 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.119 long on the Dallas count Clearly wasn't about the money. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.480 I mean, I'm just saying just because Das did say 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.080 that Jerry didn't even offer him any, like, you know, 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.320 to cut down his salary, so it wasn't even on 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.680 the table. I'm not buying that. I'm not saying that 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.079 they did offer him. I think his agent and Dez 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.800 made it perfectly clear that don't come with that mess. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.280 Don't don't try this when you look at the other 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.280 players around the league. I mean, I think money was 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.400 a factor, and I believe the fact that they didn't 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.799 even get that far because I mean, we watched the meeting. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.560 It wasn't very long. We will watch the arrival and departure. Yeah, right, 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.799 So I don't know. I just I think money is 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:10.880 a factor here. I really do think it's I don't 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.720 think it's everything you just said. I think it's the 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.200 fact that and you put up with certain things. There's 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.080 a lot of expensive players out there. There's a lot 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.400 of players. The productions declining a little bit. And there's 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.320 players that are disruptive in the locker room, but when 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.600 you kind of put them all in one teo, then 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.040 you end up having to make a decision. And I 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.840 think that's kind of what happened here. Yeah. No, I mean, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.639 I don't know why. I don't think you can single 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.320 out any one factor, but I don't I don't think 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:35.760 it was purely about money. I don't think it was 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.200 purely about performance. I don't think it was purely about 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:44.040 the Molotov cocktail that is Dez's personality. But you bring 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.080 all that together and it brings enough people on board 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:48.760 that they decide they want to make a decision. Like 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:53.800 if if Dez was declining and he could be a 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.040 pain to deal with and he only costs six million 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.440 dollars a year like Alan Hearns, then maybe you keep him. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.240 Or if he is costing twelve million dollars a year 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.640 but he's a model citizen and a guy you never 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.000 have to worry about, maybe he's still here, or if 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.360 he's still catching sixteen touchdowns and he's a pain in 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.200 the butt and he's you know, and he costs seventeen 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.880 okay with it. It takes all of those things to 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.159 combine to get enough people on board to decide to 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:20.839 cut him. So I don't think you can single out 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.320 any one factor. I don't think it was purely about money. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:24.880 I don't think it was purely about his attitude. I 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.080 don't think it was purely about his production. I think 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.800 it all kind of holds hands together. I just think 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.960 that even after Jerry saying how they could afford that money, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.040 you know they could afford that technically, but in someone 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.640 that is productive. Aside from that, you go into a 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.240 meeting and the fact that you don't even discuss that 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.200 possibility with someone that has been here for eight years, 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:49.920 I mean, it tells you a lot that at the end, 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.559 money was one of the lower factors of this whole issue. 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.560 But I do think that when you start talking about 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.440 the money from that standpoint, I think a couple of 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.240 things have to be factored in. One. Des made it clear, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.640 and I remember him making it clear back when he 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.920 was asked by media during that at the end of 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.640 the season, will you take a pay cut? And remember 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.640 he kind of talked himself right out of that pay 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.080 cut really quickly. He was like, well, I don't, well 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.080 not hell no, like so hilarious. He made it clear 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.440 that paycut was not an option for him at the time, 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.120 and I think it's kind of convenient for him to 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.920 come back now and say I would have taken a 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.200 pay cut. That wasn't what he was saying at the 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.560 time when the season ended. And I think the other 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.840 thing has to be factored in is if you have 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.120 a guy that you already think is somewhat volatile and 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.400 a little bit unpredictable, and then you say, hey, by 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:35.800 the way we're gonna make we're gonna ask you to 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.000 take a pay cut. We're gonna ask you to do 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.040 it at a time when maybe you feel like we're 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.520 kind of forcing your hand to do it. Are you 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.920 going to get a guy that's even more volable, volatile, 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.720 and more unpredictable once he's on your team the next 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.920 year at a lower salary. So maybe it becomes a 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:50.599 situation where it's like either we're gonna have him here 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.480 at the Mountain we're paying him, or we're not gonna 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.360 have him here. There isn't an in between. It kind 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.040 of makes me think of the Mafia, like it's like, well, 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.640 you don't have to kill me, I'll just move away, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.800 and it's like, yeah, but like you're still you know, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.880 might come back, like still might be a problem. Like 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.200 you once it's true, once you make a decision that 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.560 you can live without a guy, I feel like the 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.280 pay cuts off the table at that point, which I mean, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.880 I don't think I think you're right. I don't really. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.760 I don't know that money was the biggest factor. I 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.960 think it was about more than that. But money partly 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.600 precipitated the conversation exactly. The salary is what starts the conversation, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.640 and then you get working into the rest of the 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.200 dynamics and you're like, all right, let's just is it worse, 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.080 Let's just move on. Yeah, okay, So yeah, I was 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.159 just gonna say that, you know, the timing of it 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.000 has been in question. You know, they tried to get 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.200 Sammy Watkins on the first day of free agency and 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.159 they didn't land him. If they did, they would have 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:44.760 had to cut him on the second day of free 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.039 agency just to probably get him on the salary cap. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.520 So I yeah, I mean I think that they tried 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.040 to make this work, but um, you know, I know, Dave, 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:55.880 you think that they could have done it a little earlier. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.560 Or a lot earlier, and they probably could have, but 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.480 you know, it is what it is. They did try 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.239 to cover their basis, and you know, I think getting 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.560 Alan Hearn's probably helped with that too. It's like, Okay, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.520 now we've got players in here and that we can 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.720 go ahead and do this, and but I don't think 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.760 they're a better, better football Teare's question. My question was 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.200 going to be, as of today, are they a better 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:18.680 worse or are they the same than they were a 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.560 week ago. They're worse than they were a week ago, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.320 but that's okay. It's like if you sold your car 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:29.840 for ten thousand dollars, Okay, that's that's pretty good. But 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.280 if you don't go get another car, you know, I mean, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.360 then you're not really in good shape. I mean you 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.880 obviously obviously obviously need to get another car. You need 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.960 to get another receiver. They're not better right now. But 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.120 if they use that money to something that will help them, 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.520 like a safety or another free agent in any position 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.600 out there that can really help them, then I think 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.360 that you can say this could be a good move. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.520 But as of right now, I don't think they're better 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:56.680 because of this bothered. I saw you tweet that the 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.320 other end, I was like, oh, okay, you kept saying 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.640 that all over see it. I'm like, oh my god, Okay, 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.680 we get it. It's the you are. It's not the 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.640 type of thing that an unbothered person does, is just 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.600 tweet about an unbothered person that's kind of unbothered so 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.400 they don't have time to tweet about it. Has he 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.440 been unbothered about anything? I'm the type of pathetic loser 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.840 that sets up draw notifications for like the Cowboys, big 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.680 time players, because I want to know what they're saying 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:24.360 and when they're saying it. Typically, like Dez might tweet 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.040 or retweet something like once or twice a month, and 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.640 starting last week around the time that the news about 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.839 the meeting came out, I mean, he's tweeted ninety times 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.840 since then. I'm like, you don't seem very unbothered. For 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.960 a guy who keeps saying that you're unbothered, Well, all 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:40.680 you gotta do is look at one of the tweets, 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.559 one of the first tweets he put out after the 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.320 decision was made, which kind of said basically, I need 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.320 fans to know. I think those were the exact words. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.000 I need fans to know that this wasn't my decision. 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.440 And it's very clear that he has a I think 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.880 he wants to make sure that he maintains his reputation 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.719 with Cowboys fans and what for whatever reason, I think 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.040 that's important to him. Um, And so he's going to 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.120 be kind of all over this thing, I think, to 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.959 protect whatever he can protect of his relationship with Cowboys fans. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.760 Well maybe not Cowboys fans, but I think that's very 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.480 perceptive on your part. I hate, I hate to plug 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.560 something that we didn't make, but I highly and and 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.480 you saw me tweet about it last night, I highly 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.280 recommend anybody who likes this team to watch this show 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:28.000 all or nothing that's coming out. I think it's it's 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:32.640 very coincidental that the not it's smart, but coincidental that 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.480 they knew to focus on Dez as much as they 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.440 did with all the hours. If you got an opportunity 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.720 to focus on anybody on this team last year, who 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.080 would you have been focusing? But I mean, and I 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:48.920 think the storyline showed itself, you know, and there's I mean, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.120 if you want to know about the Dez dynamic, it's 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.000 all in there. You know. God what I wouldn't give 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.439 to have like a thirty minute off the record conversation 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:00.599 with Derek Dooley, just that I mean, and you know it, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.920 it's nothing scandalous, but you just get a better sense 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.640 for what that relationship is like. And the reason I 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.160 bring it up right now is because you're talking about 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.560 worried about his reputation with fans. I think never like 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.120 Dez was never able to get over like perception, Like 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.000 it bothered him that people thought he was falling off, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.840 and it bothered him that he wasn't getting opportunities to 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.000 prove them wrong, to the point where it becomes a 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:29.320 factor in his attitude with the team and the attitude 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.200 of the way people deal with him, and the types 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.840 of conversations that are being had, and the ego massaging. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.440 And you know, it's funny because like, I don't I 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.120 don't think of Dez in the way of like a 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.439 typical receiver, like I need my catches, I need my stats. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.200 It's more like I want to win so bad and 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.719 I don't feel as though I'm being given enough of 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.720 an opportunity to help us win. And it comes to 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.320 the point where, at a point it starts to be 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.600 a detriment, and you can see all of that play 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.280 out on that show. I really recommend if you're really 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.240 curious about the dynamics at work there, it's well worth 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.120 your time. So now it sounds like it sounds like 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.080 you all kind of agree, because nobody stepped up to 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.840 disagree with Nick that the team is worse off at 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.400 this moment than they were with Dez. But I want 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.600 to do one. And I've brought this up before, I 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.040 want to bring it up again because I want to 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.720 get your opinions and see if it's something I'm making 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.400 too simplistic or if it really does matter. You go 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.800 back two weeks four through six of twenty sixteen, when 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.839 Dez was out with injury, and you look at how 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.800 this offense performed. First of all, the team went three 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.840 and on that stretch they went to Green Bay and 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.680 gotta win, which I thought was obviously the most impressive 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.480 of those three wins. During that time, they averaged twenty 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.480 seven points per game. Zeke had one hundred and forty 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.840 three yards rushing per game. Dak put up two hundred 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.360 and forty yards and two touchdowns on average. Per game. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.400 Offense was working really really well. Is there at least 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:55.080 some thought that maybe you can get additioned by subtraction 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.720 here removing, and we saw this at the beginning of 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.640 last year. It seemed like in some of the games 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.719 early the season, there was this concerted effort, whether it's 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.280 by Dak, whether it's by the offensive coordinator whomever, to 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:07.960 try to get Dez the ball, and they were trying 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.320 to feed him. It wasn't connecting, but they were giving 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.960 him a lot of targets. Do you think that maybe 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:14.880 taking that out of the mix and allowing the young 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.280 quarterback to just sit back, look for the open guy, 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.160 and get the ball to whoever that is, rather than thinking, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:21.960 I gotta get the ball to eighty eight. Do you 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.520 think there's something that helps this offense on top of 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.760 the fact that this is a running offense and this 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.440 is all about Zeke in my opinion, So what are 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.760 your thoughts from that standpoint on how this team is 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.840 relatively what they were a week ago. I loathe the 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.720 term Dak friendly, like I'm so tired of hearing it. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.360 I don't want to hear it ever again. So I 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.719 hate the fact that I just said it. But a 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:47.640 Dak friendly offense is like five receivers who are gonna 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.400 shut up and do their job and take what he 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.760 can give them and let the running game be what 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.520 it is or what it should be. And Zeke's gonna 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.800 take top billing and Dak's gonna throw to the guy 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.040 that's single covered, and it's going to be hunky dory. 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.480 And Dez was cool with that in twenty sixteen because 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.160 they were winning games. And I mean, I really do 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.800 think that is his bottom line. Like I said, I 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.080 don't think of him as a diva in the sense of, like, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.559 I don't care if we're losing as long as I 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.560 get my one hundred yards. But again, he cares in 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.000 the sense that he wants to win and wants to 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.120 be a part of that. So when you're winning thirteen games, 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.320 it's no big deal. When you're trading wins and losses 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.800 and getting your doors blown off, it's a little bit 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.280 bigger of a deal. And I think when I think 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.560 of Dak friendly, I think of guys who aren't going 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.000 to make noise about what kind of role their plan. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.320 It's like, I got three catches for twenty today, cool, 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.680 I got eight catches for one twenty today cool? And 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.920 know that you are not the primary function of this offense. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.320 So in that regard, I'm reluctant to say that they're 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.120 better right now, but not because of their receiver corps. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.960 Like they need a linebacker, they need a left guard, 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.000 they need us Like that's the stuff that I'm worried about. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:53.839 If you tell me they come out of the draft 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.200 with that stuff, and if you tell me that they 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.959 improve their defense and maybe get a guard and don't 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.520 improve the receiver cord, Like if they don't draft a receiver, 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.800 I still think this team could win games. I think 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.960 they should draft a receiver, but I think this receiver 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.280 corp could could do the job fairly well within the 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.720 structure of how they want to play offense. I think 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.920 Dak friendly. I mean, first of all, the whole Romo friendly, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.640 Dak friendly. I think Jerry created that every quarterback in 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.000 the league Breeze friendly in the Saints, I mean, that's 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.680 what that is. I mean, it's it's the receivers that 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.440 mesh with your quarterback, and in this case, with Dak 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.600 being the quarterback, I mean, they need receivers that know 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.240 where they're supposed to be. That's one thing that Romo 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.720 helped Daz more than anything. Be told him where to 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.200 line up and he did it for eight years. And 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.800 that's you can't expect Dak to do that with all 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.040 the players on the field in his rookie year and 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:44.960 in his second year, and he should be able to 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.440 do that now. But also, you know, I mean Dad's 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.760 not one hundred percent there yet. I mean he's he's 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.240 still learning. He's still got to be a better quarterback. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.680 They took away the short and intermediate easy throws for 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.640 him last year and he couldn't beat him. So they 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.560 need players that can get open nowhere to line up, 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.080 run good routes and be able to kind of move 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.520 the ball down the field. Maybe some deep threats what 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.760 will help as well if he can you know, make 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.000 that throw. But you know, he's not Troy Aikman. He's 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.360 not Romo. He's not Romo at the end of his career, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.000 which is that what everybody's trying to compare him to 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.800 is what Romo was at the end, not what Romo 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.040 was two years ago. But he's a different player. He 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.040 gets it done different ways. He's a runner, he can 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.960 he can flip over the Cardinals defense. He can make 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.840 plays like that. So it doesn't have to be the 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.800 exact same way. But I think what made Dez great 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.080 it just didn't mess anymore. Dez could have a great 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.960 career somewhere else. I just wasn't going to happen here, right, 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.320 not where this quarterback is in just developed they made. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.280 They made the decision. They've grown with Dak, which is fine, 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.240 and I don't think it messes that well with des 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.240 and needs to go and find a quarterback that he 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.080 can mesh with the receiver. The receivers that they have 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.280 here I think can be fine. I mean, I said 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.320 it the other night. A lot of people disagreed with me. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.920 I don't care. They didn't have a thousand yard receiver 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.560 when they won thirteen games. Dads caught fifty balls and 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.160 he was clutch. I'll argue until my dying breath. Das 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.320 was great in twenty sixteen. His numbers weren't, but he 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.720 was great, right, which is what you want in this offense. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.560 You just want to play well receiver that can make 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.560 plays when necessary. Yeah, right, absolutely, yeah, And that's I mean. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.880 So I would draft a guy, but I don't. I 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.480 certainly don't think they need one at nineteen. UM. I 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:24.040 think I'm very intrigued and excited by what Alan Hearns 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.440 might be able to do here. Um and and the 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.280 guys they have here are fine. I don't you know, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.640 like defensive coordinators aren't losing any sleep about them, but 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.440 I think they can do the job, because defensive coordinators 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.880 should be losing sleep about your line and your running 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.840 back hope. I mean, that's the hope, right if the run, 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.520 if the line resumes what it was in two thousand, well, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.360 and that's you know, I don't care about the wide receivers. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.800 If you tell me that they have a badass left guard, 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.600 you know, that's that's what I care about. Ye. All right, 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.360 We're gonna take our first break when we come back. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.720 I'm gonna ask these guys if they think Dez Bryant 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.680 was set up to be the scapegoat in this situation, 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.160 because I think that's another thing that fans are wrestling with. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.520 And then we'll talk a little bit about some of 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.360 the other players on this team and how the Cowboys 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.000 move forward after this release. 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