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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, March twenty seventh, twenty twenty four, season nineteen,
Speaker 2: episode number one hundred and seventeen. Welcome to the latest
Speaker 2: edition All the Break. We are lit from that WBC
Speaker 2: Mortgage studios at the Star got Brian and Amber here.
Speaker 2: Patrick's out today. We'll hold it down. We've got lots
Speaker 2: of different topics that have been floating around the Cowboys
Speaker 2: universe that we'll get into today. We'll talk about some
Speaker 2: rules changes around the NFL. We'll talk about the dak
Speaker 2: con that contract and what we've kind of been hearing
Speaker 2: in that way. I think there's some things I want
Speaker 2: to clear up about that, but we'll have some conversations
Speaker 2: on that, and then we'll talk about free agency after
Speaker 2: the dust is settled. Now in that first wave of
Speaker 2: free agency, uh kind of giving a big picture of
Speaker 2: where the Cowboys are, where they're their their positions are
Speaker 2: of need, and what they are really looking at now
Speaker 2: as they head into latter parts of free agency and
Speaker 2: the draft to really round out their their roster before
Speaker 2: we get here to training camp in July. All right,
Speaker 2: so let's start first. I want to I want to
Speaker 2: start first with the NFL rules changes. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go through some of these and I have some different
Speaker 2: thoughts on it, but I want to get your your
Speaker 2: ideas on kind of what you think. Let's start first
Speaker 2: with that hip drop rule. Basically, it's a move, It's
Speaker 2: a maneuver that they want to get out of the game.
Speaker 2: It obviously can lead to some pretty gruesome injuries. We've
Speaker 2: seen that happen. The question for me, though, I have
Speaker 2: for you guys, is is this a fair rule for
Speaker 2: defensive players? Because as you're running, so if a runner
Speaker 2: gets behind you, what else can you really do in
Speaker 2: order to tackle them, especially if the guy is bigger
Speaker 2: than you are. Let see it's a defensive back and
Speaker 2: you're trying to tackle Derrick Henry. How fair is that
Speaker 2: you now can't use your body weight to be able
Speaker 2: to pull him back when he's a big guy and
Speaker 2: has a full head of steam ahead of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's difficult.
Speaker 6: It's never easy for a defender to have to approach
Speaker 6: a ball carrier from behind and try and make because
Speaker 6: everything now is it seems a bad situation, whether it's
Speaker 6: horse collar and now the hip tackle.
Speaker 3: You know, but.
Speaker 6: I'm for it. I'm for it because I you know,
Speaker 6: I understand it's a technique. There's some guys that are
Speaker 6: really good defensively of wrapping it up, taking their weight
Speaker 6: and throwing them in the back of the legs or
Speaker 6: the back of a ball carrier. And we've seen it
Speaker 6: on a couple of different levels. The Ravens lost their
Speaker 6: tight end last year to one. We've seen the Cowboys
Speaker 6: with Dak Prescott in his situation and how he got
Speaker 6: tackled that one time in the Giants game. You know,
Speaker 6: it's it's a dangerous maneuver. Is it fair for the
Speaker 6: defenders nowadays?
Speaker 3: No, it's not. You know, the defenders seem.
Speaker 6: To be getting all the rule changes against him, whether
Speaker 6: it's contact rules, hands the face, whatever rule that you
Speaker 6: want to make against the defensive player. But to me,
Speaker 6: this is like the horse collar one. I feel like
Speaker 6: it's it's the spirit of it is the right way.
Speaker 6: I don't have a great answer for you as far
Speaker 6: as what do you do differently, because it is it's
Speaker 6: a tough way. If you're behind a ball carrier, there's
Speaker 6: really how else you're going to get a guy down.
Speaker 6: You maybe grab on, hold on and hope that everybody
Speaker 6: else helps you. But man, we've seen some pretty significant
Speaker 6: violent injuries. I mean, Dak Prescott got hit in the
Speaker 6: pocket against the Lions, you know, in a same kind
Speaker 6: of manner, and with you know, with with Hutchinson, Aiden
Speaker 6: Hutchinson with a hip kind.
Speaker 3: Of tackle, and Dak was able to kind.
Speaker 6: Of get his legs up, feet up and you know,
Speaker 6: and not have to suffer that. And you can only
Speaker 6: imagine him having to deal with that again. And you know,
Speaker 6: cowboy fans all going, my gosh, here here we go again.
Speaker 6: But there's no there's no right answer here. But I
Speaker 6: am I'm all about that part of the game because
Speaker 6: I think there is some violence to it that hopefully
Speaker 6: can be avoided in the future.
Speaker 5: I've seen a lot of people online fans being really
Speaker 5: upset and saying, no, might as well just play flag football.
Speaker 5: But when you look at the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think.
Speaker 5: It is for the better of just player health in general.
Speaker 5: And you know, it sucks when you lose a key player,
Speaker 5: not just for that team, but just for the level
Speaker 5: of the game that you're playing. You want to be
Speaker 5: playing against good players because that makes it a lot
Speaker 5: more excited. Now, it is going to be tough to
Speaker 5: retrain that and apply these types of changes.
Speaker 7: We've seen it when.
Speaker 5: A defender is attacking the quarterback and you know, hitting
Speaker 5: them or getting too close and those those yeah, some
Speaker 5: of those are just insane, some of those calls. But
Speaker 5: at the same time, it is hard to be mindful
Speaker 5: of that when you're going through the motion and the movements.
Speaker 5: You know, when you're playing a game, you tend to
Speaker 5: just react and go for it and you're not thinking
Speaker 5: of where my hand placement. These things happen so fast
Speaker 5: that I think it's just it's gonna take some time
Speaker 5: to really get to a point where it's clean and
Speaker 5: you don't get called or other injuries, further injuries don't happen.
Speaker 5: I think it's just gonna take time for players you
Speaker 5: got used to.
Speaker 6: You know, the one the one tackle that bothers me,
Speaker 6: and the hip tackle bothers me. You know, I would hate,
Speaker 6: like I said, I hate to I would hate to
Speaker 6: lose players. I'd hate to be on the player personnel
Speaker 6: side of the coaching side and lose a star player
Speaker 6: because of that. You know, But it's a tackle. The
Speaker 6: one that bothers me the most are receivers coming across,
Speaker 6: tight ends coming across the middle of the field and
Speaker 6: these defensive backs are going for their knees. That's the
Speaker 6: one that you know that I really really cringe about.
Speaker 6: If they if they would have said, oh, at the
Speaker 6: owner's meeting, we're going to eliminate, we're going to penalize,
Speaker 6: we're going to talk about defensive backs going at pass
Speaker 6: catcher's knees.
Speaker 3: Now, you got me really really.
Speaker 6: Interested, because I think that's the one that that's that's
Speaker 6: defenseless right there, you're catching the ball, you're coming across,
Speaker 6: and now you've got a defensive back at maybe a
Speaker 6: five to seven yard run and going at your knees
Speaker 6: to try and get you on the ground. Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: the one that that's the one that always gotten me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard offensive guys say hit me in the head. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and this is this is a right and nor should
Speaker 2: it be the way they do it. But I've heard
Speaker 2: offensive guys say, man, I'd rather you protect my knees
Speaker 2: to worry about my head, and I actually would. I
Speaker 2: actually wonder in that instance if the right answer is
Speaker 2: the cowt. I mean, the officiating committee should really look
Speaker 2: at it. As there's a strike zone essentially, and the
Speaker 2: strike zone is just above the knee and below the head, right,
Speaker 2: and that's the area where you can hit a defensile's
Speaker 2: receiver or you can hit a receiver when they're in
Speaker 2: the air when they're trying to catch a ball. That's
Speaker 2: the area that's the strike zone. Anything above or below
Speaker 2: that gets you a penalty. I think that's probably a
Speaker 2: smart way to do it, to protect those guy's knees,
Speaker 2: because you're right, when you're not seeing that guy and
Speaker 2: he hits your knees, you can't have some very.
Speaker 6: Soon have injuries, and you have some significant injuries there.
Speaker 6: And I like what you're talking about with the strike zone.
Speaker 6: But you know, you have receivers that have different height.
Speaker 6: You know there's some tall guys or some short guys
Speaker 6: depending on their wide receivers if they're tight ends that
Speaker 6: strike zone.
Speaker 3: I guess it's it's.
Speaker 6: Different for every player, but maybe that's something that should
Speaker 6: be reviewable, you know, if you go it's you know,
Speaker 6: we love college football and they have the targeting rules,
Speaker 6: you know, and it stops the game for a few minutes,
Speaker 6: but you know, you learn about Okay, yes he went
Speaker 6: with a shoulder legal hit. No, he led with the head.
Speaker 6: He's fifteen yards an out, you know, and so I
Speaker 6: anything like that to police the game, I'm okay with.
Speaker 2: Let's look at another rule change. They actually changed the
Speaker 2: challenges to where now coaches are able to get a
Speaker 2: third challenge if they get one of the first two correct,
Speaker 2: instead of before it was that you had to have
Speaker 2: both correct in order to get a third one. I
Speaker 2: think that rule is fine. I don't have a problem
Speaker 2: with it. My bigger question is does college get it
Speaker 2: right better than the NFL from the standpoint of having
Speaker 2: somebody in the booth, Yes, literally can just review anything.
Speaker 5: I've been saying this for you absolutely, because it hasn't
Speaker 5: slowed down the game right.
Speaker 6: And no, you know, we've had some college football games
Speaker 6: have lasted four hours or so.
Speaker 3: We've had, you know, but is it just because of that, Like, no,
Speaker 3: it's just.
Speaker 6: Because of all the stoppings after first downs, yeah right,
Speaker 6: you know, and now they've kind of eliminated that, so
Speaker 6: the games have gotten a little bit quicker. Television wants
Speaker 6: a three hour game, and so you know, you have
Speaker 6: to try and get him a fan.
Speaker 2: I'll take a four hour game.
Speaker 3: But exactly the thing, we just want to get it right,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 6: I do feel like though, the ability to buzz down,
Speaker 6: you know, and to say, hey, listen, we need to
Speaker 6: review that play. I do feel like that that is
Speaker 6: the best because we've got coaches, honestly, that don't know
Speaker 6: when to challenge, and maybe they challenge too much, you know,
Speaker 6: maybe they challenge at the wrong time. And if you
Speaker 6: take it out of their hands that way, maybe, you know,
Speaker 6: maybe you could you get it.
Speaker 3: Right more than not. You know.
Speaker 6: But I'm i applaud what college football does with the
Speaker 6: ability to buzz down and say, hey, listen, I need
Speaker 6: to review this one.
Speaker 3: Just give me a minute to look at it, and
Speaker 3: usually they get it right. Yeah.
Speaker 5: That's what I've never understood when you have when you
Speaker 5: watch college football, why not take the things that do
Speaker 5: work or seem to be good from it and apply
Speaker 5: it to the NFL. Like, that's the one thing I
Speaker 5: still don't understand until this day, because I think college
Speaker 5: football does do a lot of good things better than the.
Speaker 3: They do a lot of good things.
Speaker 6: And and and I'm sure Derek is about to get
Speaker 6: into a rule that you're going to take from the XFL.
Speaker 2: We'll get there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's sometimes it.
Speaker 6: You know, the NFL for so many years is we've
Speaker 6: done it this way, We're not. I mean the longer
Speaker 6: you guys have worked in it long enough that when
Speaker 6: the operations manual comes out about what's going on with
Speaker 6: the league, it's they could take the date and just
Speaker 6: erase it and put the new date on there and
Speaker 6: send it and it's the same thing over and over
Speaker 6: and over and over and over again. And you're like, Okay,
Speaker 6: but yeah, that's they're they're they're they're slow to adjust
Speaker 6: two things in the NFL. They just they don't want
Speaker 6: to mess with it that much.
Speaker 2: My thing is getting a call right should never be
Speaker 2: a matter of strategy right, And that's what it is.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 2: Coaches are having to strategize on when should I or
Speaker 2: when should I'm not that should never be a strategy
Speaker 2: thing that should always be. We just want to get
Speaker 2: it right because the calls need to be right right.
Speaker 2: And that's where I think college gets it right.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Where the NFL, as you mentioned, has been willing to
Speaker 2: move is in their kickoff, and they've been doing things
Speaker 2: to take the kickoff out of the game, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: for many years now because of the safety of players.
Speaker 2: And I know when when I was coming up, and
Speaker 2: Brian you probably went to this year. Coming up, playing
Speaker 2: football special teams was a special thing. Like you get
Speaker 2: on special teams. That was where you figured out just
Speaker 2: how tough you really were because you were just going
Speaker 2: to run full speed. It was a challenge. And the
Speaker 2: NFL has taken that. They've been trying to take that
Speaker 2: more and more out of the game because it is
Speaker 2: very dangerous. I think they did something really good here
Speaker 2: and trying to figure out, Okay, we still want to
Speaker 2: keep the excitement, but we want to limit the the
Speaker 2: the potential violence. And I think in this way with
Speaker 2: the new rules around the kickoff, what it does is
Speaker 2: essentially takes away that full speed collision that happens, and
Speaker 2: it still gives the excitement of possible returns and I
Speaker 2: think actually makes it better. What are you guys thoughts
Speaker 2: on that and how much do you think this is
Speaker 2: an advantage for the Cowboys based upon what they have
Speaker 2: as far as players and their special teams.
Speaker 6: Coach watched a few XFL games with this. So the
Speaker 6: way it operates, if you've got a ball carrier or
Speaker 6: a returner that can make someone miss. Initially you get
Speaker 6: through that first wave, it's onto the kicker. You know,
Speaker 6: you could you could have some seriously good returns just
Speaker 6: by if you get everybody blocked up and you've got
Speaker 6: a ball carrier that has vision, has some elusiveness, has
Speaker 6: some quickness because it's tough.
Speaker 3: As they're coming down in a line.
Speaker 6: You know, it's you pop that one, and now where's
Speaker 6: the where's the support? It's a kicker who's standing back
Speaker 6: there kind of you know, waiting for you know, whatever happens.
Speaker 6: I've seen some really good returns. You would think that
Speaker 6: that wouldn't be good returns, but they're really were some
Speaker 6: you know, and you know, but if you have to,
Speaker 6: if you have a guy, now I could also see
Speaker 6: with the ball going out to the thirty five yard line.
Speaker 6: If somebody's really bad at this kickoff stuff. Just keep
Speaker 6: pumping the ball into the end zone, and you know,
Speaker 6: and do it instead.
Speaker 3: Of get out kick it.
Speaker 6: Instead of all being the twenty five, it's on the
Speaker 6: thirty five, you know. And we're not we're that bad
Speaker 6: covering these things. And we're not going to let Turpin
Speaker 6: bring back three kicks during a game on us, you know.
Speaker 3: So if the ball.
Speaker 6: Keeps getting past midfield, I'm telling my kicker kick it
Speaker 6: out of the damn end zone here. I'm not gonna
Speaker 6: We're not going to cover any more kicks. So there'll
Speaker 6: be a strategy with this. You'll see who's really You'll
Speaker 6: see who's really good at it, and then the teams
Speaker 6: that are really bad will just go ahead and kick
Speaker 6: the ball in the end zone every single time and
Speaker 6: say we'll play defense from the thirty five.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it's a it's an exciting new change and
Speaker 5: I'm really looking forward to it because over the years
Speaker 5: since I started working here, every year it just seemed
Speaker 5: to get more and more boring, like nothing exciting.
Speaker 6: Well, the Super Bowl was a good example of that.
Speaker 6: Every kickoff went into the end zone was a touchback.
Speaker 6: I mean, nobody wants nobody watching watch.
Speaker 5: That, but now it brings a different element where you
Speaker 5: have a real chance and real opportunity to make a
Speaker 5: game changing play and move.
Speaker 7: So I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you think about it, essentially, what you're doing
Speaker 2: is you're playing defense without linebackers or a secondary right.
Speaker 2: You only have one line of defense, and if you
Speaker 2: can get past that one line of defense, you got
Speaker 2: a chance. So that's where it's going to get really interesting.
Speaker 2: And I love it for the Cowboys because I look
Speaker 2: at a guy like Turpin and that's what Turpin does.
Speaker 2: He has the speed and elusiveness and getting that one
Speaker 2: guy right, and it's the waves that usually trip him up.
Speaker 2: It's not the first guy. He usually can get past
Speaker 2: that first guy, it's the waves of guys that are
Speaker 2: coming at him that eventually get to him. I want
Speaker 2: to see how this works for him. And I love
Speaker 2: the fact that the Cowboys have a special team's coach
Speaker 2: who was extremely creative, because I think those who are
Speaker 2: really creative, especially in this first year, they're going to
Speaker 2: see the greatest success not only on the kickoff returns,
Speaker 2: also on the kickoffs. I think there's some strategy to
Speaker 2: that as well, and I think he'll be thoughtful about that,
Speaker 2: and I think we can see some really cool stuff
Speaker 2: that may happen for the Cowboys on special teams this year.
Speaker 2: All right, Final one. I wanted to get to trade
Speaker 2: deadline move back one week. I don't know that it
Speaker 2: makes much of a difference one week, but Brian, you're
Speaker 2: a personnel guy, you're a former personnel guy. How much
Speaker 2: of does that one week help when it comes to
Speaker 2: being able to have trades for one more week?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think the NFL for so many years was worried
Speaker 6: about teams getting to the trade deadline and not having
Speaker 6: any hope and all of a sudden you fire sell
Speaker 6: your team, you know, and now you know. I do
Speaker 6: feel like though, that by moving it back a week,
Speaker 6: that maybe you give everybody an opportunity to look.
Speaker 3: At the quarterback situation too.
Speaker 6: I always kind of felt like there needed to be
Speaker 6: a different trade deadline for quarterbacks because sometimes you get
Speaker 6: to week nine, week ten and you're like, you know,
Speaker 6: we got six more weeks to play and we're in
Speaker 6: the hunt here, but we just lost our quarterback. You know,
Speaker 6: if you gave me the flexibility of going out and
Speaker 6: getting somebody, I would welcome that a lot. So, yeah,
Speaker 6: anything to give you more time to look at your
Speaker 6: roster and say, listen, we're not going anywhere. You know,
Speaker 6: we're going to get some compensatory picks. We're gonna pick
Speaker 6: pretty high. Maybe we can move on from a guy,
Speaker 6: you know, if the cap, if it makes sense for
Speaker 6: your cap, then that's where I think that I think both.
Speaker 3: Teams will benefit from that.
Speaker 6: The team that's receiving the player will benefit because of
Speaker 6: the efforts that they're making to go get the guy,
Speaker 6: and the team trading will say, Okay, we're not going anywhere.
Speaker 6: We just got a premium pick for a player, and
Speaker 6: now we're going to use that for next year.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually kind of wish they would allow teams
Speaker 2: to have that fire sell because I think that adds
Speaker 2: excitement when you allow teams that are in the hunt
Speaker 2: to kind of improve their team a little more time
Speaker 2: to do that, and teams that are out of it
Speaker 2: to say, hey, if we're out of it, and maybe
Speaker 2: there's an opportunity for us to get better right now.
Speaker 2: Right from the standpoint of getting rid of some pieces,
Speaker 2: but now going into the next offseason, we got a
Speaker 2: little more capital to work with I actually think that's
Speaker 2: a good thing and it's exciting for me.
Speaker 6: It's funny you say that, because you know my other
Speaker 6: job working on one oh five to three the fan
Speaker 6: we have to talk about baseball.
Speaker 3: And last year they a situation.
Speaker 6: Where the the Anaheim, the Angels Los Angeles, Angels.
Speaker 3: Of Anaheim, or whenever you want to call them out there.
Speaker 6: They they did a fire sale and they put all
Speaker 6: their they put all their guys on waivers Cleveland, by
Speaker 6: a by a mechanism, Cleveland, the Guardians were able to
Speaker 6: claim all the players.
Speaker 3: So they got all the guys.
Speaker 6: All of a sudden, they're getting pitching, they're getting you know,
Speaker 6: they're getting all these things that they and nobody else
Speaker 6: had the option to get these guys. So all of
Speaker 6: a sudden, you're thinking, here we are in a in
Speaker 6: Cleveland with the time, was in a in a pennant race,
Speaker 6: was trying to win a division, and other teams are like, whoa,
Speaker 6: We'll wait a minute. You just shifted the balance of
Speaker 6: power towards you know. So sometimes the fire sale, I'm
Speaker 6: with you on it. I'm also the please give me
Speaker 6: the opportunity to like claim a guy or two.
Speaker 2: Don't don't let no let everyone, don't let everybody, don't let.
Speaker 3: My competitor get every single player.
Speaker 2: No ways can build that, you can go mechanisms into.
Speaker 2: I think the salary cap in the NFL will be
Speaker 2: the biggest detract from somebody being able to pick up
Speaker 2: for someone to be able to dump their team and
Speaker 2: somebody else to pick up the whole team. I think
Speaker 2: that is what you try to guard against. But I
Speaker 2: do think it's exciting for fans. Trade deadlines in the
Speaker 2: basket in basketball and baseball, in my opinion, are far
Speaker 2: more exciting.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and trade.
Speaker 2: Deadlines in the NFL. And I think it's because it
Speaker 2: happened so early in the NFL reletive to those other leagues.
Speaker 7: It's definitely good that they pushed it.
Speaker 5: I wish there was longer, honest, I wish it would
Speaker 5: come at week eleven around there, twelve eleven.
Speaker 3: Like December first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, because that's exactly right at the point where you're like, okay,
Speaker 5: we're either going this way right way, but you're still
Speaker 5: in it. You don't know what the result is going
Speaker 5: to be, and you really could use some kind of
Speaker 5: trade right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The one thing that we all know that working in
Speaker 6: this organization as long as we have is we know
Speaker 6: what this team is after Thanksgiving. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 6: and you're kind of sitting there thinking, well, if we'd
Speaker 6: had this player on number first, you know, maybe this
Speaker 6: guy could help us make that run.
Speaker 3: And so, yeah, I'm totally.
Speaker 2: I just think it would be exciting. It's more of
Speaker 2: a selfish fan thought in mind. I know there's a
Speaker 2: lot of mechanisms you'd have to think about from the
Speaker 2: business part of it, but I just think we fan standpoint,
Speaker 2: it would be exciting because I do think teams would
Speaker 2: do exactly what we're thinking, that those that are in
Speaker 2: the hunt would make themselves better, those that are not
Speaker 2: would be looking for ways to be able to improve
Speaker 2: their chance.
Speaker 6: There was a couple of times that when we were
Speaker 6: covering that Tony Romo team that get when he got hurt,
Speaker 6: that we were ready to trade all the players. At
Speaker 6: the end of it, we were just maybe we could
Speaker 6: trade every one of these guys and we don't have
Speaker 6: to cover this.
Speaker 2: We just thought over next year, YT's start over.
Speaker 3: Next we'll see it. We'll start we'll.
Speaker 8: See the guys, check out the draft guy, and we'll
Speaker 8: kept three days of draft coverage for you, and we'll
Speaker 8: do what we.
Speaker 3: Have to do.
Speaker 2: Well. We're gonna take our first break when we come back.
Speaker 2: We're got to talk Dak. We're gonna talk about his
Speaker 2: contract of some things that came out over the last
Speaker 2: couple of days. We'll discuss that when we come back, Dallas,
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Speaker 2: It is the second segment of The Breakwhee are live
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Dak Prescott. There was a report that
Speaker 2: came out from me in rap report that was saying
Speaker 2: and I think, let me just kind of I want
Speaker 2: to clear some stuff up because I think there was
Speaker 2: the statement that Ian put out gave a lot of
Speaker 2: people to the impression that the Cowboys are basically saying,
Speaker 2: we don't want to sign back to a We're comfortable
Speaker 2: just letting him go into next year and go into
Speaker 2: free agency and we'll deal with it from there. I
Speaker 2: don't think that's necessarily what they were trying to say.
Speaker 2: I think there's been some more reporting that's happened since
Speaker 2: then that's kind of clarified that. I think the whole
Speaker 2: point of it is they've had some extension discussions, and
Speaker 2: I think the point of it is, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: there really is no pressure from either side to get
Speaker 2: a deal done. I don't think either side is really pushing,
Speaker 2: like I got to move off of my position right
Speaker 2: now in order to get a deal done. I think
Speaker 2: they both kind of have what they expect, and I
Speaker 2: think they're sitting there and they're like, well, you know,
Speaker 2: we'll just kind of let this thing play out and
Speaker 2: we'll see where it goes. What I don't think it
Speaker 2: is is that the Cowboys are satisfied at this point
Speaker 2: just to say he's going to be a free agent.
Speaker 2: I think there's still the chance that he gets a
Speaker 2: deal done this off season. There's still a chance maybe
Speaker 2: he gets a deal done in season. I just don't
Speaker 2: think either team, either side, is really at a point
Speaker 2: yet where they are ready to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, move off of the No, you're right. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Justina Anderson who covers the league, and you know, I
Speaker 6: don't know if you saw her her tweet, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, her tweet was and I'm reading it from
Speaker 6: her actual tweet. Regarding the Cowboys and Dak Prescott, I'm
Speaker 6: told the team does intend to work out a contract
Speaker 6: for their three time Pro Bowl quarterback and has also
Speaker 6: not closed off potential to consummate a deal for him
Speaker 6: this year, per source. While there's currently no offer or
Speaker 6: intimate talks, the team has not presently charted a path
Speaker 6: to let Prescott go to free agency, despite some chatter
Speaker 6: to the contrary. I'm told so that, you know, I
Speaker 6: think she's onto something here. We had on Nick Harris,
Speaker 6: who very talented reporter for Dallas Cowboys dot Com, yesterday
Speaker 6: on the one oh five three of the fan on
Speaker 6: the g Bag Nation, and he throughout a theory that
Speaker 6: he had and I've learned this over the years working
Speaker 6: for you guys.
Speaker 3: These walls talk sometimes.
Speaker 6: And I asked him a question and he was talking
Speaker 6: about listen, think about maybe something in November. You know,
Speaker 6: Nick's a smart guy. Nick's probably heard some things. Nick's
Speaker 6: probably got some ideas, you know, maybe Novembers. And I
Speaker 6: like that. That's the first time I've kind of heard that.
Speaker 6: You know, you got what's going to happen maybe next year,
Speaker 6: you know, as you get towards closer towards free agency,
Speaker 6: that possibility as well. So I don't think this thing
Speaker 6: is closed off. I will say this and Bobby Belton
Speaker 6: I had this conversation. If I'm the Cowboys, though, I
Speaker 6: don't let him get to free agency. That's that's it.
Speaker 6: All those things that I said about what Josina said,
Speaker 6: and what you know I just talked about and what
Speaker 6: Nick Harris said all true.
Speaker 3: But if this thing gets to free agency.
Speaker 6: I think all bets are off then for me personally,
Speaker 6: you know, that's just how I feel like it. But
Speaker 6: I feel like that those guys upstairs, the guys and
Speaker 6: the gals that work on these contracts, I think they'll
Speaker 6: do everything they can, and I think Dax Camp will
Speaker 6: try and do the same.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it's an It's a very interesting situation because
Speaker 5: and we've seen it before where even with his first
Speaker 5: time extension that we it felt like it took too long,
Speaker 5: you know, to happen, and then it gets dragged out,
Speaker 5: and then it gets there and then time passes.
Speaker 7: You know, man, they should have done that probably sooner.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So it's just it does take me back to thinking
Speaker 5: that maybe we're sitting here several months from now, thinking, oh,
Speaker 5: they really should have taken care of that in free
Speaker 5: agency this year around this time, right now, and get
Speaker 5: that done.
Speaker 7: But it also presents the option of allowing yourself.
Speaker 5: To give you some times, and I know that the
Speaker 5: Cowboys are fully bought into Dak.
Speaker 7: They've said it once.
Speaker 5: They've repeatedly said this, they want Dak as their quarterback
Speaker 5: long term and extend him. But at the same time personally,
Speaker 5: and I've said it before in previous shows that I'm like,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be opposed to waiting it out and see
Speaker 5: when free agency hits just because it gives me one
Speaker 5: more excitement, or like, oh, let's see how this turns out.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, Oh my god. Yes, and I love.
Speaker 5: Dak and I want him here, But it's like, Okay,
Speaker 5: last year it was a career year for him where
Speaker 5: we saw him really take a next step, I thought,
Speaker 5: and this year it would allow me to just either
Speaker 5: confirmation as to Okay, yes, I'm a thousand percent let's
Speaker 5: ride this wave even when the team because we.
Speaker 7: Know a lot of a stake this year.
Speaker 5: So if you're gonna start making a bunch of changes,
Speaker 5: are you wanting him as your quarterback to stay here
Speaker 5: while you restructure the whole team? Knowing that McCarthy is
Speaker 5: on his last year, knowing Mike zimmer one year deal,
Speaker 5: knowing that a lot of things might change if you
Speaker 5: don't get to the super or yeah, if you do, yeah,
Speaker 5: pretty much.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I see both sides.
Speaker 5: I see benefits to both sides to getting it done
Speaker 5: as soon as possible, but also allowing yourself to kind
Speaker 5: of get another extra peak, sneak peak of what he
Speaker 5: has this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say right now, I would still say
Speaker 2: it's probably eighty five percent chance that the Cowboys and
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott get a long term deal and ends up
Speaker 2: being here. Now, one thing I would say, Roan, you
Speaker 2: said there's no way I would let him get the
Speaker 2: free agency. I agree with that. There's one caveat I
Speaker 2: have to that, and this is the I think the
Speaker 2: little thing that's lurking in the back of a lot
Speaker 2: of people's minds is what is Trey Lance. You went
Speaker 2: out and you got him. You went out and you
Speaker 2: got him, and you're going to have this whole off
Speaker 2: season with him.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: They've been evaluating him since you got here, so they've
Speaker 2: been seeing what he is. They'll go through this offseason'll
Speaker 2: see what he is. They'll get the training camp, they'll
Speaker 2: see what he is. They'll hell it and plan some
Speaker 2: preseason game. They'll see what he is. If they think
Speaker 2: and this will be their determination, if they think Trey
Speaker 2: Lance is a player and they think he has the
Speaker 2: capability to be a good starting quarterback in this league.
Speaker 2: That gives them some flexibility because now you may still
Speaker 2: want to sign Dak, but it does, in the back
Speaker 2: of your mind make you say, eh, we're not willing
Speaker 2: to go above our budget to do that because we
Speaker 2: fuck we got an option, right and right now, I
Speaker 2: don't know that they can say they have an option.
Speaker 2: I don't know any of us feel con certainly don't
Speaker 2: feel comple saying you got an option. But they will
Speaker 2: have that determination to make as they go through this
Speaker 2: offseason and go through the preseason and into the season
Speaker 2: to determine whether they think Trey Lance is a player
Speaker 2: or not, and that will, I think also color their
Speaker 2: decision on how much they're willing to give, not if
Speaker 2: they'll give them a deal, because I think they'll offer
Speaker 2: Dak a deal and they want Dak to be here.
Speaker 2: How much they're willing to give, I think will depend
Speaker 2: on what they think Trey Lance is.
Speaker 6: Man, it's just such a slippery slope that these teams
Speaker 6: now navigate because if you have a quarterback that's on
Speaker 6: a rookie deal, that extra forty million dollars makes a
Speaker 6: sept difference on your team. There's so many things that
Speaker 6: you can do right now, if you you know, that's
Speaker 6: why says, hey, you got to find a way to
Speaker 6: get things done when that quarterback's not getting paid fifty
Speaker 6: million dollars. And I think there's you know, there's people
Speaker 6: out there too that you know, I think Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 6: you look what he got with Atlanta. And I know
Speaker 6: he's a few years older than Dak, but there's a
Speaker 6: lot of similarities.
Speaker 3: Between the two guys.
Speaker 6: They're both capable quarterbacks. They both win in the regular season.
Speaker 6: You know, they both seem like they're into the MVP
Speaker 6: conversations everybody. They have MVP moments where they play at
Speaker 6: a very very high level. But here's one making forty
Speaker 6: five million dollars and the others looking to maybe make
Speaker 6: sixty million dollars. You know, that's the thing about it
Speaker 6: is you have to and I've said this before about
Speaker 6: the Cowboys. I just really believe this, you know, with
Speaker 6: the way the front office is structured here, they should
Speaker 6: just continually roll the quarterback through. Just just keep trying
Speaker 6: to churn the quarterback, you know, and play on these
Speaker 6: rookie deals if you can, because to me, it's man,
Speaker 6: it's when you look at how well they draft and
Speaker 6: how will they Okay, they have to pay. It seems
Speaker 6: like everybody you know, you know, having that extra forty
Speaker 6: million dollars would go a long way right now for
Speaker 6: the Cowboys when it comes to Michael Parsons and it
Speaker 6: comes to Ceedee Lamb and others that they're going to
Speaker 6: have to deal with here. So to me, if I'm
Speaker 6: if I'm in the front office here, I'm thinking, I've
Speaker 6: got to get a new quarterback in every four years,
Speaker 6: you know, I got I gotta find. Now, you might
Speaker 6: get blessed and find you know, the Pat Mahomes, or
Speaker 6: maybe you get the guy at Cincinnati, but you know
Speaker 6: those are few and far between. Now, you know, you're
Speaker 6: you're dealing with a quarterback that's probably the sixth seventh
Speaker 6: best quarterback in the league right now to some people,
Speaker 6: you know, can you afford to pay him, you know,
Speaker 6: fifty something million dollars that's the determination.
Speaker 2: Of the market sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I've.
Speaker 6: Always felt like that when with Stephen Jones, the way
Speaker 6: to work with Stephen Jones, in my opinion is and
Speaker 6: Diggs did it perfectly with his quarter corner back contract.
Speaker 6: Don't reset the market if you want to come in
Speaker 6: three or four that Stephen Jones appreciates that about you,
Speaker 6: and you're probably going to get the type of deal
Speaker 6: that you want.
Speaker 3: You're going to like, Okay, well, I'm the.
Speaker 6: Third highest paid guy in the league at corner, but
Speaker 6: you know, what's still a significant amount of money.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: I think that to me that it's just that resetting
Speaker 6: of the market. You know, Michael Parsons is going to
Speaker 6: probably reset the market, and you know, I don't know
Speaker 6: how comfortable the Cowboys are doing that, you.
Speaker 2: Know, and especially if you have also at the same
Speaker 2: time CD trying to reset the market or DAK trying
Speaker 2: to reset the market. Like you've got three of those
Speaker 2: guys that are trying to reset the market, it becomes
Speaker 2: very very tough from.
Speaker 6: A salary cap stand right, And I just think that
Speaker 6: to me that But like I said earlier, guys, if
Speaker 6: DAK gets to free agency, I don't think it's going
Speaker 6: to end well for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3: I just don't.
Speaker 2: And that's that's we're agreeing on that point because my
Speaker 2: thought is the only way you should let that happen, right,
Speaker 2: is if you have a viable option.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and for him not to do. And that's what
Speaker 3: we've talked about with Trey Lance.
Speaker 6: And the problem is though with you know, now you're
Speaker 6: you've got so many things that you have to look
Speaker 6: at with the coaching situation is like, Okay, you make
Speaker 6: a decision on Dak, you're moving on. Okay, are you
Speaker 6: moving on for Mike McCarthy too? Now does the new
Speaker 6: coach is he okay with the evaluation of Trey Lance,
Speaker 6: you know, the staff.
Speaker 2: And continuing to develop.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the staff that was here for the previous two years, no,
Speaker 6: Trey Lance. A potentially new staff would not have that understanding.
Speaker 6: And now you're going backwards there or you know, so, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's a that's it's a it's it's a tough They
Speaker 6: put themselves in a tough spot, but you know, that's
Speaker 6: what they're gonna do.
Speaker 3: They're going to try and do the best they can
Speaker 3: to kind of figure it all out.
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Speaker 15: Finally, you remember like when they were when they had
Speaker 15: all the trailers, I'm sorry parked, remember all the like
Speaker 15: it was like the it was like the lot out
Speaker 15: here on the field with all the trailers and stuff
Speaker 15: like that, where all the people hanging out and I'm
Speaker 15: sure you can walk around and have some fun with
Speaker 15: some of those people in there.
Speaker 2: No, it seemed like a good time out there. I
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Speaker 6: I was just walking by. I'm like going, Okay, Who's
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Welcome back. Final segment of The Break Life from
Speaker 2: the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Let's take
Speaker 2: a question real quick from Ryan Corman. He should he says,
Speaker 2: should we be as torn up as we are about
Speaker 2: not signing free agents? To be honest, there were only
Speaker 2: a handful I was interested in, and once I saw
Speaker 2: what they got, I was glad we didn't get them.
Speaker 2: I'll reserve judgment until I see this thing in Oxnar.
Speaker 2: Should fans be as upset as they.
Speaker 5: Are, well, it's understanding. It's understandable to be upset because
Speaker 5: when something doesn't work out the way you hope it
Speaker 5: works out, and you don't see any type of big changes,
Speaker 5: it leads you to assume that the result will therefore
Speaker 5: be the same or worse as before. So I understand
Speaker 5: that because I catch myself kind of feeling that way
Speaker 5: at times of being like, okay, right now, what have
Speaker 5: we actually done other than and you tend to forget
Speaker 5: your own people that you signed because you're like, okay,
Speaker 5: that's what we already were used to and you have
Speaker 5: to look at those I mean, they have signed a
Speaker 5: few players, our key players, but it's still I feel
Speaker 5: like I haven't received enough because I don't want to
Speaker 5: rely in the assumption that they draft well and that
Speaker 5: those players, those rookies will be ready set go for
Speaker 5: when the season starts. That's you hoping and assuming that
Speaker 5: that's how it's going to play. It out because of
Speaker 5: your record and experience that you've proven to show. So
Speaker 5: it just it reminds me of Mazzi. No shot against him.
Speaker 5: I'm just using him as an example, and we're hoping
Speaker 5: that he can take that step up and take it
Speaker 5: to the next level this year, and they're definitely showing
Speaker 5: that they're wanting to rely on him this season. But
Speaker 5: that's just an example. You draft someone in the first round,
Speaker 5: comes in and it's not necessarily the player that you're
Speaker 5: hoping or wanting them to be in that first year,
Speaker 5: and it's right now because of the people that have
Speaker 5: left and the people that you've brought in other than
Speaker 5: the linebacker position, I don't feel like the team is
Speaker 5: currently better than before. I don't feel because before, with
Speaker 5: everybody that you had, you felt that you were so close,
Speaker 5: you know, and I feel like it always kind of
Speaker 5: feels that way, but last year really did feel that way.
Speaker 5: You're like, Okay, the defense, you think they can be
Speaker 5: that and take that next level. And then Quinn what
Speaker 5: he's doing, Dak, He's showing what he's got. You're thinking,
Speaker 5: you're so close. And I don't want to talk about
Speaker 5: that Green Bay game, But as far as weapons and
Speaker 5: talent on the team. You always feel like you just
Speaker 5: need one more guy or two more players to be
Speaker 5: the key players and just the extra boost that you need.
Speaker 7: And now you feel like.
Speaker 5: You're you're taking a few steps backwards in my personal opinion,
Speaker 5: as it tends right now with the team.
Speaker 6: I'll talk about the green Bay game that was awful
Speaker 6: and the fact that everything fell in place for you.
Speaker 6: You know, the health of your team, the collapse by Philadelphia,
Speaker 6: the last month of the season, the way you won
Speaker 6: the division, you beat Detroit, now you're the second seed.
Speaker 6: Everything was set up for you to potentially get the
Speaker 6: two games at home, maybe have to go to San Franciso,
Speaker 6: who knows, who knows what was going to happen. Maybe
Speaker 6: San Francisco loses, and then you get to host all
Speaker 6: three games. You know the fact that you've lost so
Speaker 6: many players, you know, a lot of your depth.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 6: You know you're mad about the Green Bay loss. Okay,
Speaker 6: now you're mad about losing all your depth. You know
Speaker 6: you're losing your dept to you lose your coach and
Speaker 6: your debt to a division rival. So now you're really
Speaker 6: mad about that. You know, the draft has did not
Speaker 6: work out last year. You're mad about that, but you
Speaker 6: should also be mad the fact that Tolbert needs to
Speaker 6: play better. That also Sam Williams needs to play better.
Speaker 6: You know, there's some guys other than Jake Ferguson, there's
Speaker 6: a lot of guys in this team need to play better.
Speaker 6: You know that we've seen here. The thing that bothers
Speaker 6: fans the most is, you know you kind of saw Listen,
Speaker 6: you you you understand about not signing a one technique,
Speaker 6: but was there one out there that you could have
Speaker 6: gotten de Kwon Jones from Buffalo, DJ Reeder from Cincinnati?
Speaker 6: Do we not have any money to go get one
Speaker 6: of those guys? Now you've put yourself in a situation
Speaker 6: where at twenty four and the draft you're thinking, damn,
Speaker 6: we are we going to take another one technique here
Speaker 6: because we really don't.
Speaker 3: Have one on the roster.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a good one sitting there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Kendrick signing was really good.
Speaker 6: You know, that was that was a rally, that was
Speaker 6: a always going to San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Damn.
Speaker 6: But then you know, Zim gets on the phone and
Speaker 6: starts to recruit a little and some of them like, hey, listen,
Speaker 6: I need you. You're going to start blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: You know so that. But I think fans have a
Speaker 3: reason to be upset. I do.
Speaker 6: I just they don't. They see their rival. They see
Speaker 6: Philadelphia who seems to be always in cap hell finding
Speaker 6: a way to sign guys, and you continually sit there
Speaker 6: and get nothing done, you know, or they'll trade for guys,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 3: It's just it's just it's a it's a different.
Speaker 6: Way of operating, you know. And it's not for everybody.
Speaker 6: It's not for a fan base that's disappointed about how
Speaker 6: the season ended.
Speaker 2: I'll say this, I will never be a person that
Speaker 2: tells fans how they should feel.
Speaker 3: Never.
Speaker 2: You have a right as a fan. You invest your time,
Speaker 2: your money, your resources into being a fan of a team.
Speaker 2: So whatever you feel is fair, that's fair for you.
Speaker 2: The one thing I will say, and I tend to
Speaker 2: be and this is I'm going to take my own
Speaker 2: criticism on this. I tend to tend to be the
Speaker 2: most optimistic of people. When you think about pretty much anything,
Speaker 2: I always think optimistically, well, this is kind of good,
Speaker 2: so why would you worry about it. The one thing
Speaker 2: that keeps playing in my mind is is I think
Speaker 2: the Cowboys this offseason. Story of this offseason for me
Speaker 2: so far with the Cowboys is you lost your depth.
Speaker 2: That's the right because when you look at this team,
Speaker 2: how many teams out there in the NFL you could
Speaker 2: probably only name a handful. If that have a top
Speaker 2: five player at edge, cornerback, you could maybe say you
Speaker 2: got two of those wide receiver, left guard, right guard,
Speaker 2: and then if you wanted to extend out to maybe
Speaker 2: top ten quarterback, tight end. So you start thinking about
Speaker 2: the level of talent they have, the All Pro level,
Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl level, They got a lot of talent.
Speaker 2: They probably got as much talent as anybody else. The
Speaker 2: question becomes, how are you going to fill in this
Speaker 2: depth because inevitably one of those guys I just mentioned
Speaker 2: probably is not going to play a full season this year.
Speaker 2: What do you have as far as depth to be
Speaker 2: able to handle that. And that's also where in my
Speaker 2: optimistic brain I think, Okay, well, you do still have
Speaker 2: that second wave of free agency that happens where you
Speaker 2: can get some there's some quality guys out there. Some
Speaker 2: of the guys that left from last year that were
Speaker 2: on this team, like Gilmore, are still out there and available.
Speaker 2: So there's that second wave and third wave of free
Speaker 2: agency where you may be able to pick up some
Speaker 2: veteran guys that can come in and provide that level
Speaker 2: of depth. I have to believe they're going to be
Speaker 2: better in the draft this year because their history says
Speaker 2: they don't miss often. If you call last year miss,
Speaker 2: then I'm gonna bet on the fact this year they
Speaker 2: don't miss, because last year that was a miss. So
Speaker 2: when you start thinking about it like that, I can
Speaker 2: paint a scenario in my mind where I can be
Speaker 2: less upset about what's happening. But again, fans have a
Speaker 2: right to feel what they feel, and I can understand
Speaker 2: why some may feel the way they wan.
Speaker 7: Well, in my non optimistic.
Speaker 2: Mind, that's all you around. You keep me that other tha.
Speaker 7: All I can think about is also next year.
Speaker 5: All I can think about is next free agency, and
Speaker 5: how I keep hearing that next free agency is supposed
Speaker 5: to be even worse than what it currently is right now,
Speaker 5: and I can possibly imagine something worse than what it's
Speaker 5: been right now. So if it's not happening now, when
Speaker 5: because next year sounds like a nightmare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But that's the thing though too, if if they're
Speaker 2: keeping these guys who I just mentioned are those top
Speaker 2: players around the league, If they're keeping those guys together
Speaker 2: as the core of the team, and if they have
Speaker 2: another a good draft this year, then again their philosophy
Speaker 2: still remains the same. We're not going to go out
Speaker 2: and spend big in free agency. We're gonna draft well,
Speaker 2: and we're going to develop those players. And when those
Speaker 2: players become free agencies, we're all free agents and have
Speaker 2: a much bigger value. We're okay letting them walk because
Speaker 2: we feel confident that we can keep replentishing. That puts
Speaker 2: a ton of pressure on your scouting department and on
Speaker 2: your on your drafting ability. But so far they've been
Speaker 2: pretty good, and they've been good enough to keep a
Speaker 2: really good roster using the strategy.
Speaker 5: But when do you take that next step, because that's
Speaker 5: again they keep replenishing so that it's not worse.
Speaker 7: Here's a question I don't.
Speaker 5: And that's just me saying I'm like, I'm wondering, like,
Speaker 5: what what is the Mason key ingredient for it to
Speaker 5: finally happen?
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this question. Do you think
Speaker 2: the Cowboys as they were constructed last year, were a
Speaker 2: player or two away from having more success in the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Man, they know they got overwhelmed. I think, yes, I
Speaker 6: think that was a collapse. I think that was just
Speaker 6: an overall team collapse. There's what that was. Defensively, that
Speaker 6: wasn't the same defense that played in won twelve games,
Speaker 6: and they've had some problems against some really good teams.
Speaker 3: Green Bay was a hot team at the end. Green
Speaker 3: Bay was.
Speaker 6: Playing a lot better. They did a great job of
Speaker 6: scheming you. You know, I felt like you got overwhelmed
Speaker 6: in that game. I don't think that was a player away.
Speaker 6: I think that was I think you just got your
Speaker 6: ass kicked.
Speaker 2: And that's where I look at it and say, the
Speaker 2: strategy of going all in, as people say in free agency,
Speaker 2: wouldn't have helped you last year. Because if you were,
Speaker 2: if you say we were a player or two away,
Speaker 2: then okay, maybe you should have gone out at some
Speaker 2: point last year and gone for that big free agent
Speaker 2: or gone for that big player before the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: That wasn't the case last year. Because I agree with you, Brian,
Speaker 2: I don't think they were a player to a way.
Speaker 2: I think that that was a collapse.
Speaker 3: As you say, they couldn't run the ball.
Speaker 6: They couldn't run the ball, and they couldn't stop the run,
Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden, you got it against
Speaker 6: a quarterback. And then they picked the worst time to
Speaker 6: have breakdowns in the secondary. You know that they had
Speaker 6: bus where guys are running free. And so I think
Speaker 6: that part of it that that game, that game was
Speaker 6: not going to be about one player that was that
Speaker 6: was just a total meltdown by the whole entire team
Speaker 6: in that.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you something real quick.
Speaker 6: I think with free agency now, the Cowboys will draft,
Speaker 6: they'll sign college free agents. Those guys would come off
Speaker 6: their board. They'll spend money on that. Watch how much
Speaker 6: money they spend on draftable players that they that they
Speaker 6: circle back on. But I also feel like that they're
Speaker 6: very mindful of the compensatory game. We probably won't see
Speaker 6: anybody sign here until after that compensatory period ends, where
Speaker 6: you can start to sign guys for where it doesn't
Speaker 6: cost you compensatory.
Speaker 2: Picks because they may eat those picks next year for sure.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 6: So I when it's after the draft, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 6: sure it's it's well after the draft. There's a there's
Speaker 6: a I gotta get the date of it. But I
Speaker 6: know they're very mindful of compensatory picks, and you do
Speaker 6: not want to jeopardize that because.
Speaker 2: They got some pretty good You would think they have
Speaker 2: some pretty good. Yeah, compensatory they will should be coming
Speaker 2: their way.
Speaker 6: They will and that and that, and they don't want
Speaker 6: to sign anybody now, They'll just they'll draft, they'll sign
Speaker 6: undrafted free agents. Those guys are generally on their board.
Speaker 6: That's the first place they start. They might have a fifth, sixth,
Speaker 6: seventh round guys on the board. Those are the first
Speaker 6: guys they'll go after, and they'll get that done and
Speaker 6: then maybe supplement with some other veteran players after after
Speaker 6: that compensitory period. Ghost by the wayside, all.
Speaker 2: Right, we appreciate you guys. Jonas will be back next week.
Speaker 3: Till then.
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