WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Safety First 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:07.320 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:17.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.400 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:26.360 Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:33.960 and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are for another edition 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.000 of mix Shots. And there is so much going on 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:42.199 at the Star in Frisco and elsewhere as we are 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.920 now just over a month away, how about a little 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.199 over five weeks away, I believe from the NFL Draft 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.640 and NFL free agency. We're deep into that, and the 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.640 Cowboys have added some players, several players to the team 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.680 since we last spoke last Tuesday. I'm Bill Joe with 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.559 Mickey Spagnola inside the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.720 in Friscoe. Everson Walls will be joining us shortly. Mickey, 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.039 how you doing. I'm doing fine, Bill and yourself. It 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:16.600 looks like today seem like things back to old times 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.880 here at the Star. I saw the helicopter fly in 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:26.240 transporting Jerry Jones into the facility, and when I showed up, 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.959 I could see about a dozen guys on the field, 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:35.440 either rehabbing or starting to do some aerobic training with 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:40.560 the strength and conditioning staff out there, doing some running 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.920 and different type of stuff. So yeah, kind of getting 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.760 back to old times out here. Yep, that's that right. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:51.520 And we're less than a month away from the start 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.520 of the official offseason program for the Cowboys, which I 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.960 think is around April nineteenth or so this year. The 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.440 other thing that is refreshing to see I'm watching on 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.680 the NFL Network scenes from the Alabama Pro Day. Reportedly 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.680 Mike McCarthy is there, And that's my point. It's it's 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:16.440 it's refreshing to see coaches out on the road at 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:20.320 pro days. And you know, Micky, Alabama's got so many 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.079 NFL prospects that not only have a Pro day to day, 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.280 but they have another Pro day coming up also. You 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.280 have to have two pro days, you know. And and 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.200 the key thing about these pro days is, I think 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.919 everybody needs to remember they are basically replacing the combine. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.080 The NFL did not have a combine, and they basically 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.560 said that the school pro days would replace that when 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.000 they do the official measures and times and things like that. 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.000 So I think I saw the NFL sanctioned one hundred 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:58.000 and one Pro days and so those will, as I said, 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.359 take the place of the the combine. And that's why 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.560 you see a bunch of the coaches and scouts at 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:10.000 these things as many, if not more than usual, because 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.600 they got to look at these players and see where 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.760 they're at at this time in their lives. And the 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.160 other thing that I noticed was taken place bill is 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:25.360 a lot of the the places where guys would go 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.840 to work out, like the Michael Johnson Training Center and 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.600 things like that, where guys would get ready for the combine. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.000 Those places they're having their kind of pro days, but 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:40.800 the NFL is not allowing NFL personnel to attend those, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.400 so they'll have to put those results out for everybody 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.440 to see. So a lot of things changing getting ready 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:52.080 for this draft. But maybe it looks like they'll be 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.600 actual people at the draft this year, unlike last year 0:03:55.680 --> 0:04:02.160 when it was all virtually zoomed, including the commissioner announcing 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.440 the picks from his basement. Sounds like he will be 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.880 in Cleveland. They're going to allow people to watch the draft, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:12.120 so things are kind of moving a little bit closer 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:19.000 to normal. Yep. And that's great to see. And you 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.200 know the other thing that they've taken some of the 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.320 things that they had to do by necessity last year 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.640 and preparing for the draft, like the zoom interviews WebEx 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.479 interviews with the prospects, and they're still doing that this year. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:35.280 And they were over as usual, over three hundred Combine 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:40.640 invitees this year. And as far as the interviews that 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:45.560 the teams do with the players, that's being done virtually 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.760 and and Jerry really seemed to like the virtual interviews 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.200 last year. Hey we got Everson wat Hey, look at there. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.200 I was I was wondering when you guys were going 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.760 to acknowledge me. Thank you very much. Oh my goodness. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.440 We had to wait to see going on. We had 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.919 to wait to see your pictures show up before we 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:09.120 knew you could talk to us. Hey, when you talk 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:13.320 about you have horrible CP time, when you wake up 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:19.080 early and still late, that's bad. It's great to have 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.120 you here every sin. We missed you last week. And 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.480 uh lot a lot has transpired since the last time 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.719 you were with us a couple of weeks ago. And 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.560 he's gone and he's gone right right, yea, yea. And 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:40.279 our free agent signings, our free agent signings still suck, right, yeah, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:46.120 it depends depends where you're getting your information from. Right, Oh, 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.000 this could be interesting. Yeah, let you go. I want 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.760 to hear what's fast gotta say. He couldn't fuss at 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.600 me last week, so it was all on you, Bill. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.440 I want to hear what he's gotta say this week. Well, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.000 if he were just we're just starting to happen last week, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.760 things have happened and things are still happening, Mickey. Uh, 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.279 before we dive in to what's happened in the last week, 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.279 bring us up to speed on what's going on there. 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.560 I understand today and tomorrow is a couple of safeties 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.800 are making their way to the Star in Frisco. Yeah, 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.400 they still even though they agreed to terms or got 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.800 a contract done with cano Neil. Uh is that how 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.679 you say it? Or is it Kiano no I messed 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:38.600 it up? Yeah, correct myself. Yeah, kian O'Neil, who's a 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.520 who's a box safety? Uh, they're still bring in uh 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:47.000 supposed to have visits this week with uh free safety 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:53.279 Malik Hooker and Demante Kazi. Uh so another Falcon that 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.840 played for Quinn just like uh Neil did. So. Uh, 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.360 they're they're you know, to come up with very conservative 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:07.479 contracts for these veteran safeties, which they needed some depth 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.680 at the safety position if you look at because if 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:16.000 they weren't going to sign Xavier Woods back, they basically 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:23.400 had Wilson and that's about it. So they needed to 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.320 restock that safety position. So I would imagine with those 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.880 two visiting, at least one of them will probably be 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.640 signed or try to agree to terms with those guys. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.320 And if you've noticed what they're doing on the majority 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:40.680 of these contracts, they're all basically one year deals, kind 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.640 of one year proven deals for guys that were sitting 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:48.880 there in free agency and maybe coming off of I 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:54.400 muted my phone and it's ringing. Why is that? So 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.880 I'll take up where you left off coming off injury 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:08.200 and that This is what happens. This is what happens 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.560 when you get a new phone, right when you're forced 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.239 to get a new phone because you're other one's not working. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.280 I thought I muted it, and evidently I didn't. So 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.600 there's a lot of things of learning we can we 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.720 can all agree. We can all agree this is what 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.720 it happens when you're sixty something years old. Oh yes, 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:33.280 and a new phone. Too many gadgets too right. I 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.839 guess instead of muting it, I must have turned it up. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.440 So tell me about these two dbs guys. I mean, 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:49.000 you got two with three safeties coming in. I gotta 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.480 weigh in on this. I mean, oh my god, all 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.520 of them, what is this? All of them have Achilles 0:08:54.559 --> 0:09:00.440 problems and both of them and that's why, Hey, safety 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:04.240 has been the Achilles heel of this team for how long? 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.520 Very very well, Bill, Thank you so much, Bill, because 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.960 it is it will continue to be that way. First 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:16.560 of all, I don't know how fortunate it is for 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.480 us to bring in three is it all? Three from 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:26.000 the Falcons? Now? From from the Falcons? Coach? So well hoo, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.240 could not bad. But you got two guys coming in 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.920 from the Falcons. Now, if I recall god, Dak Prescott 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.640 two for almost five hundred yards on these guys that 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:41.360 I do recall, these two safeties coming from that secondary, 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.679 I don't know. They might be the only defense pass 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:49.600 defense that was worse than hours in the NFL. So 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.520 I'm kind of I'm not happy about the signing at all, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.839 but ever the fact that they might not even make 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.480 it through ever since what they're trying to do they're 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.760 hoping that this is the twenty sixteen in two thousand 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.720 and seventeen version of the Atlanta Falcons, and that was 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.920 that was pre Achilles. That was exactly right, Achilles injury, 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:10.880 exactly right. And I don't know if they think that 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:15.400 they're uh Kevin Durant to somebody, but unless they are, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.240 they're not gonna come back from Achilles injuries. And that's 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.160 not their only injuries that I'm concerned about, because I 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.960 think they've got acl problems. It's just a plethora of 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.880 injuries just from these three guys that we signed. That's 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.439 why I look about signings when you do Okay, holy yes, sir. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.160 That's why they're available. And that's why they all signed 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:44.960 one year deals for one point seventy five million. That 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:49.400 should be culative. Spangs, okay, that should be culative. So 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.520 all three this is just add up to one plus seven. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.679 When when when you don't have when you don't have 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.839 money against the salary cap, you gotta do bargain hunting 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.520 and hope. Right, it's not like they're signing these guys 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:05.840 to solve problems. They're hoping, you know, that they come right. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:12.400 That's all they can afford, are you man? Okay? Why 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:17.080 is it the secondary is always that position that is 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:22.000 so low priority. And when we see all the good 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:26.480 teams in the playoffs, they all had great defensive play, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.920 and especially from their secondary, at least they have guys 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:34.760 that can make plays brave, not brave, but Winfield. With 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.480 the with Tampa Bay, you know a guy is back 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.160 there making plays. Uh young at that And I know, 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.320 yes he's the first round draft pick and has got 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.160 the pedigree and all that from his pops. I get that, 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.320 but I don't know, guys, that's still down the drain 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.200 for me, spacts, that's down the drain for me, SPACs. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.800 That isn't money down the drain because most of it 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:00.120 they're not getting signing bonuses. So or if they are, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.880 that signing boldnesses that they can deal with if they 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:07.079 don't make the team. You forgot my point about dan Quinn. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.199 He's supposed to fix everything, all right, and yeah, and 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.960 so will the pressures out of him to make a 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.640 difference in this. He bringing in all his friends. You 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.280 can't bring in all your friends. You know. He's bringing 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.599 in people that he knows, and those people that he 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.600 know they are I'm not gonna say, though, with what 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.440 I was gonna say, they just seem to be such 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.400 a wasted pick. I wouldn't even say it's some lateral 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:41.240 movement in regards to these situations. Otherwise, are you bringing 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.200 them in just for training camp? Are you bringing them 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.640 into contribute at all? Because I don't see. To me, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.840 it's just like the same thing we've been going on 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:56.760 over and over again. We are signing, all right, hoping, hoping. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.520 What would you suggest because one of these I was 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.920 suggesting to get better players? None of these deals will 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:08.120 preclude them from drafting of safety, all right, none of them. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:13.480 The financial well, that's why they've got one signed and 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:19.199 two visited. Oh my god, and not only that, we 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.120 if we're talking about what we had. I would rather 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.440 keep Woods than to sign these three guys. I would 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:30.760 rather keep Woods than to sign those three guys. To 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.959 me that you know, just leave well enough alone in 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.000 that regard. And if you have that luxury to do that, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.839 and you don't know that they don't want to keep them, 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.600 maybe Woods is looking out there in free agency and saying, Okay, 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.839 I need more than a one year deal. I want 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.960 to see if I can get a multi year deal 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.079 and play the field here before making a descent. And 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.400 once again, that's just the lesser of the evils for me, Spags. Still, 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.719 that's the lesser of the evil. And yeah, you know 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.520 you asked me what I would do. First of all, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.079 I would have to know what's out there. Okay, I 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.000 would have to look at what's out there. I have 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.120 not looked at what's out there. But there's not much 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.160 I would have to say. I will. Are they all injured? 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.319 Do they all have achilles? I'm sure you can find 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:23.320 something that have a good here's the benefit of these 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.080 guys that have the achilles. They did it early in 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:32.880 the season, like okay, September, so they okay, should be ready, 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.480 they should be ready to go. Hey, I'm jogging on 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:45.560 the till I'm right, okay. And these guys, these guys 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:50.400 are forty years these guys are I get it. That 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.480 Bill he's he's this is these are all his achilles brothers. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.480 I get it now. I can't even argue with him 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:01.840 because I have good achilles, So continues fans. They're they're 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.560 they're forty years younger, and they're professional athlete, so they 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:11.360 should be far ahead of my rehabilitation. I hope we're 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.320 not comparing them to your weha, that would be a 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.800 bad move. We're not, little bar. I hope we are 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:24.320 not comparing them to Mickey's athletic ability and even that, Yeah, well, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.960 the other thing we're not comparing them to is my 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:35.160 salary either. Okay, I think, well we ought to do. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:39.240 We need to separate the two that are visiting, the 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.920 one who has already signed and the two of the visiting. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.440 Or a Malique Hooker who's a former first round draft 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.600 pick of the Colts and had the achilles injury in 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.480 the third game of the year last year. Uh and 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.680 then Demante Kazi, who was at fifth round draft pick 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.720 in twenty seventeen, was not a starter on their Super 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.600 Bowl the team that went to the Super Bowl for 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.560 the Falcons has been since and had the achilles last year, 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.120 and and so those guys, and the reason that they're 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.000 visiting is because they need to check out where they 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.680 are as far as their achilles are. That's that's probably 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.960 the most important part of their visit is for the 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:20.760 Cowboys to take a look at him and see where 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.080 they are. So Bill, so let me say this. Let 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.560 me let me say this to just go ahead. So 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.680 Hooker played two games last year. He had torn his 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:37.760 acl in twenty seventeen and then tore Richards achilles after 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:43.800 playing two games uh in twenty twenty. Now, because Ze 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:53.480 in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen had ten interceptions all right, 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:58.160 for ten interceptions, h and he only played four games 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:03.080 last year before he RUPs his achilles. So and he 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.800 was just a fifth round pick of Quinn in twenty seventeen, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.480 started one game in twenty seventeen as a rookie fifteen, 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.720 and then the next two years he started twenty nine 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.520 of thirty two games with ten interceptions. By the way, 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.280 seven in one year. I would imagine the Cowboys don't 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.239 have anybody on the roster with seven interceptions for their 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.520 entire career, right, So it's worth taking a look at 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.320 these guys and see where they're at. Heath is already gone. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:40.280 Heath was to that. He's already right, absolutely, and everybody 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.400 wanted to move away from Jeff Heath right wasn't good enough. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.200 And you probably would have liked Jeff Heath back on 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:51.480 the team last year after haha, Clinton Dix failed miserably 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.639 in training camp. So if you look at these two guys, 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:00.920 they've had previous success in their career. Years now you 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.439 just got to take a look at him and say, Okay, 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.440 we're not investing big bucks on you in free agency. 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.399 But if you look at what was available at the 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.200 safety position in free agency, it wasn't that much and 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.520 it wasn't that much to get you all excited. And 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.920 if you look at the draft, the best one probably 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.960 is the kid from TCU and he's probably no better 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:30.720 than thirtieth pick in the draft. So again, you're nibbling 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:35.240 because you don't have enough money to be able to 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:40.440 afford big time contracts on a safety. And I'm not 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:44.000 trying to meet the safety position. But when you've invested 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.440 in your offensive line, you're running back, your quarterback, your 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:52.399 wide receiver, your defensive end, your linebackers, you know there's 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.960 there's just not enough money to go around, especially when 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.720 the cap dropped from one hundred ninety eight to one 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:03.920 hundred eighty two million. I think what my concern is, 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.960 we're trying to move while we're trying to move away 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:15.480 from this culture of just giving up so many yards 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:19.240 and so many big But that happened last year, that 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.159 happened last year. The year before, they finished ninth in 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.520 total defense. So tell me what change. I don't even remember. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.920 I don't even remember that. I don't even remember that. Well, 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:35.000 so many yards running, well, thank you, they have so 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.800 they we have given them so many yards as a defense. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.399 And where I was going was, you bring in guys 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:46.520 from another team who's just as bad, and you understand 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.719 what I'm saying, Yes, the Cowboys deal. Okay, you can 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.960 talk about two years ago, but last year was so prevalent, 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.920 it was so bad, it was ridiculous. So now, okay, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.879 we're gonna improve our past defense, and we come we 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.600 bring in guy from a team that might have more 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.600 given up more passing yards than we did. I just 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.280 don't see how their mentality coming in. Whether we sign 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.040 them or not, I don't care if it's the one. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.840 All these signs the two were bringing in, they still 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:20.960 don't even they help. They didn't play last team, And 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.000 do you think that they would make a difference. Do 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.240 you think they would have made a difference in that team. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:30.719 That's why I truly think they were difference in that team. Well, okay, 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:36.040 so Cincinnati signed Chitubey Elusier for a pretty hefty contract, 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.680 right from a bad defense. Yeah, so what were they right? 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:44.479 Three years nearly twenty two million? Who signed them? Who 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:48.680 signed them? Cincinnati? Who signed him? Yeah? Yeah, they deserved him. 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:54.560 They deserve it. I'm signing guys. You know, we go 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.159 through the same thing every off season, asking you, is 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.200 what changed last year from the team that finished ninth 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:05.200 overall in defense to twenty fourth and finished the eleventh 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.800 against the run in twenty nineteen and finish thirty first 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:13.359 in twenty twenty? What change? Here's here's here's Well, let 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:17.160 me ask you this, what will change between last year's 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:21.119 defense and this year's defense? There is nothing I can 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.439 see that's going to improve us those guys we signed. 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.879 I can't see it happening from the secondary standpoint. I 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.600 just really hope. I was hoping, because we go through 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:36.359 this every off season trying to salvage a secondary. Every 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.760 off season, we're trying salvage the secondary, and every off season, 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.760 spatch you and I see up here on freaking Tuesday morning, 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.200 on Monday morning, quarterback and we're like, oh, well, man, 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.320 the guy couldn't made a play. But he didn't. Oh man, 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.680 I'm so tired of hearing how things could have gone 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:55.040 in one way but they didn't because of one particular situation. Here. 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:57.240 I want guy who's gonna come in and make plays 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:01.560 and did and make let them get take our success 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.800 as opposed to these flukes that we've been looking at 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.240 for the last three preseason off seasons. Bags, you and 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:11.920 I have been having these same back and forth. Okay, 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.200 so here's sound familiar. Here's how you here's how you 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.760 solve it right, get you an edge to tall Jones 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:23.280 out the quarterback want to play? Just rushed the quarterback? Right? 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.960 I gotta say, guys, even if we rushed the quarterback, 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:32.080 I don't see our secondary coming up with anything different 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:35.359 than what they've already head Even if we rushed the quarterback, right, 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.600 even if we do, have you seen anything in our 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.600 secondary where they showed you that if we went to 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:44.280 the cab of rush, Oh, things would have been different. 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:46.760 If we're ahead of rush. You're gonna tell me you 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:49.720 saw that last year? This was This was the most 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:55.680 miscombobulated organized defense I think I've ever seen. 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