WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Free Agency Recap 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:07.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:20.079 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.800 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.120 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:33.519 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:40.880 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Well, 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:45.320 not exactly. That's not the cast of character for this show. 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.520 You know. We do a little bit of everything on 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.640 The Cowboys Break. I don't think we've actually had this 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.559 combination before. But I'm happy to be here. Nick eat Men, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.440 David Hellman, Jesse Holly joins the shot. What first time 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.600 for the Break? This is the first time you and 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.000 I have ever worked together, really ever on anything. Well, 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.000 not exactly, Man, I did a story with you after 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:11.920 you were going to cover. Yeah, that's different. That's different. 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.160 That's that's that's us both doing work. I just wrote 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.720 a story about you, like like two days ago. It's 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.160 a small story. Yeah, it's for the a book that 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.200 we're working on, the sixtieth anniversary book. So yeah, I 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.520 figured you would be a nice little sidebar. And in 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:31.640 the eleven season, all right, kill Pegras going on here. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.640 Huh understatement you know what, Well, depends on your definition 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.720 of happening. But yeah, go ahead, Yeah, you know what, 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.880 I totally forgotten about one name, big name that's been 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.840 linked to the Cowboys. I'm trying to like throw all 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.759 the names that are in and out all that before 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.679 we get going. I just want to say this. You 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.920 guys can chime in on your thoughts on this. My opinion. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.440 Obviously you know this. There's a lot of stuff going 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.080 on in the world. We know that, we know that 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:59.320 from the outside, and bigger stuff than football. So yes, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.280 that being said, we're not being toned deaf to anything 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.320 that's going on. But you know, this is hopefully maybe 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.440 gives people a little bit of a break. That's what 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.880 the show's called. Gives him a break from some of 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.720 the news that they read. And it can be kind 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.800 of you get tired head doing that. So we know 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:16.880 that there's bigger stuff going on, but we're, you know, 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.040 gonna take this time here and talk about Cowboys, talk 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.760 about football, and hopefully things get back to reality. It's 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.640 been a really weird week because you know, the league 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.480 decided to go forward free agency, and probably for the 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.080 better because there's no guarantee that this is going to 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.520 remarkably improve in the next few weeks. So it's been 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.520 a really nice distraction to think about, Oh man, Okay, 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.040 this guy's going like Tom Brady's going to Tampa, Like 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.399 what's that going to look like? But then like as 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.320 soon as I start thinking about that, I'm like, well, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.440 like can he get his physical Like when are the 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.520 OTA's Like when are we actually going to get to 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.600 see Tom Brady wear a buccaneer uniform. It's just really weird, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.120 But it has been nice to have this stuff to 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:58.200 talk about and think about, for sure. Jesse. Just now, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.120 you were kind of asking what was the biggest thing 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.480 that you thought, you know, in free agency around the league? 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.240 And I think we said Tom Brady, you asked the question, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.800 you really didn't give the answer. What was What was 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.600 your answer? I guess Cowboys related or just anything NFL um, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.400 I mean, of course, And the question was outside of 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:25.720 the DeAndre Hopkins steal steal understatement? Yeah, yeah, um for that. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.320 You know, I would say the Miami Dolphins to me, 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.520 and I know that's kind of like far, but the 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:38.120 Miami Dolphins has I don't know who they bank with 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.240 I don't know who's signed the check over there, but 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.520 they have opened up the vault and have just been 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:49.200 signing guys left and right, giving out big money. Um, 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.480 a lot of the guys have Patriot ties. Brian Flores 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:57.000 has a Patriot tie, but they have they have shockingly 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.480 opened up the check book and been signing guys right. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.400 And you can do that when you spend two years 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.840 offloading all your good players. I mean that's you know, 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.040 they were the team that was tanking at the start 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.680 of last season, and they you know, they shipped Robert 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.080 Quinna Dallas for pennies they got rid of I mean, 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.800 now you know, they got Byron Jones, they got Kyle 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.799 van Noy. They're starting to add these players. But before 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.120 a month ago, I you know, I struggle to tell 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.960 you they even shipped Kenyan Drake out of town. I 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.720 struggled to tell you who was on that roster. So 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:27.920 at least in that regard, it makes sense that they 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.440 had eighty million dollars to give to Byron Jones. You know, 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.719 you mentioned Hopkins. I thought. The funniest thing that I've 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:39.000 seen on social media is when someone said that the 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.400 buccaneer that Chris Godwin, who wears number twelve for the Bucks, 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.919 is going to get more for giving up number twelve 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:51.040 to Brady than Bill O'Brien got forget given nice. Yeah, 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.000 but that's a serious question though, Like that is a 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.560 serious question the number. What is he going to give 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.719 up for that number? Like, where's your what? I mean? 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.800 He has a logo that says TV twelve. Right, that's 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.920 just logo. They'll make it work. And you're in Tampa, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.640 So TV twelve in Tampa Bay. Oh yeah, I'll give you. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.320 Can I give a quick number story, it's very quickly. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.440 During my time at UNC, I played basketball as well, 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:22.640 and my number was twenty four. UM. And so one 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:27.680 day during like the spring summertime, I'm sitting in a 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.240 bowl Jangles having lunched by myself. I get a call 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:34.640 from an assistant coach, uh CB McGrath calls me and 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.360 he goes, hey, just just out of curiosity, is there 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.600 any other number that you like the size twenty four. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.839 I'm just like, now, man, we're twenty four in basketball 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.359 in high school, Like, that's my digs, that's my number. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.520 He's like, think about it and I'll call you back 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.520 in thirty minutes, I go whatever. I finished eating my chicken, 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.440 and he called it back and says, so, have you 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.200 thought about it? I'm like, CB, no, I haven't thought 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.479 about it. He's like. I'm like. He's like, so, we 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.480 don't want to give you a new number. We kind 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.520 of want you to kind of pick your own number. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.839 I'm like, what are you talking about? Giving you the 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.680 illusion of choice here. At that time, we had just 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.480 signed the number one recruiting the country, Marvin Williams, and 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.200 he won it number twenty four. So they were like, yeah, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.960 we basically promised Marvin that he'll we're number twenty four. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.600 And because you're like the seventh eighth guy off the 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.440 bench and he's the number one recruiting the country, what 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.880 number would you like? Yeah? And I was like zero. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.280 They was like cool, thank you, hung up, and so 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.440 I wore number zero for that that next year. You know, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.640 in college, they can count do what they want, Like 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.680 Chris Godwin will probably get like a charitable donation out 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.680 of it, and maybe Tom will buy him a Rolex 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.520 or something. But he's getting twelve. Yeah, my number starts 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.120 at one hundred grand though, Like that's when I bought 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.400 the floors at one hundred. I mean I think Tom 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.400 can afford it. Oh yeah, yeah, all right, let's get 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.720 to Cowboy News. Let's start where things have done here 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:02.200 in the last few days. Kai for Bath, Anthony Brown, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.480 those guys are expected to sign with the Cowboys. Of 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.599 course everything's a little bit different and dotted one greeted terms. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.520 Maybe some of them have come in and signed it, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.280 but Brown for Bath, Joe Looney looks like he's headed there, 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:19.679 headed back here as well. Maurice Kennedy, Sace Kennedy, Kennedy 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:25.360 cornerback from the Ravens and Jets. Maybe spent some time 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.800 with the Jets. Um, don't forget the one hundred million 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:35.520 dollar guy. What Mari Rope, I'm actually starting backwards. So 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.200 I was like, you know, like I was kind of 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.640 thinking that maybe you covered it some in the show 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.040 you did yesterday, just saying I'm just saying written down, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.240 I was going in with my recent stuff. I feel 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.920 like everyone listening is, you know, they're keeping up with this. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.520 So let's talk about the recent stuff first. Go backwards. Yes, 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.640 we'll hit to the big hitters. Uh in a second, Um, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:59.720 you like the for Bath move for Bath, I guess 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.880 is it's not the only thing they do. Yeah, Like, 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.720 as long as it's not just yeah, Kai's oar guy. 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.840 He was great. He was great for a month last 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.000 year Union ten ten kicks I think, I mean he 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.640 was great, No disrespect to him. He didn't miss a 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.280 single extra point or a field goal, right, I count 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.480 twenty Now he used to be just field goal, No, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.920 for sure. I mean after the struggles everything with the 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:22.960 way the rules are down, especially with him, I mean, 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.800 he's missed some Happy to have him back, but you know, 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.520 I don't like the idea of it's just his job 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.480 him and what's not just him? But was it Tristan 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.280 this guy you know? Or yeah I have another kicker. Yeah, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:41.120 he'll be probably going to camp, but still somebody. I 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.120 want there to be at least two kickers. Yeah, and 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.120 like not like a guy that saves Kai's leg on 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.600 off days, but like a guy that's competing to be 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.040 the Cowboys kicker. It's a little bit crazy that we've 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.800 come to a point in NFL football now where we 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.600 have discussions about kickers because they've been so sporadic, Like 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.400 this wouldn't have been a discussion ten years ago, Like 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.320 we would be like oh, we would have even mentioned 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.080 the kicker. Yeah, like he wouldn't have been. He wouldn't 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.520 have been in any other mentions of signs, he wouldn't 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.000 have been. He wouldn't have like he might have a 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.200 small sentence if you were lifting all the signs. But 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.320 now because of one where the NFL is at and 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.640 how kicking has become so crucioe and so crazy at times, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.400 and then when there's team has been the last year 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.160 or so with the inconsistency of kicking, now we have 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.240 to have this conversation about is this guy going to 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.880 be good enough for the long haul? How many times 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.880 did the Cowboys blow out a team? It means few, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.600 isn't it. Yeah, Well, last year it felt like they 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.400 were either blowing people out in wins or losing. The 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.120 last five or six years, though, they don't blow out 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:45.680 of teams down and they don't get blown out. But 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.040 that was the philosophy of Jason Garrett. Though. But Jason 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.120 Garrett always wanted to be as long as I'm within 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.560 a puncher's chance at eight and eight type of guy 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.280 at the end of the game. That was always this philosophy. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.000 He was never looking to blow anyone out. He was 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.520 always saying no, And so that's why kick comes important 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.439 and you know when, and it's not just at the 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.240 end of the games. I mean, think about it, if 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.120 you got if a team gets the ball with a 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.080 minute thirty to go before halftime, you kind of think 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.840 with their two minute offense, they're gonna get down at 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.800 least getting positioned in kake a field goal. So field 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.200 goals always matter at the end of the half, end 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:19.400 of the game. So you know, I think it's it's 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.040 it's good to have four bath back, but I agree 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.320 with you, like, let's let's see what else, because all 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.120 it takes for him is one missed extra point in 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.000 the season opener, and then you're already thinking, okay, not 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.440 to jump the gun on your talking points, like I 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.360 already did. But like, that's kind of how I feel 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.520 about everything they've done so far, all right, I'm like, 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.360 I like that as long as it's not the only 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.040 thing they're gonna do. Let's go down the list. Then, um, 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.640 let's Anthony Brown. I mean, obviously that won't be the 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.400 only thing, but I love it. You need four corners, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:52.120 right right, so they've got three for sure, that three 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:57.480 with starting Slash major playing experience Brown Cheeto and and 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.600 I mean, and you know when Brown resigned or agreed 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:02.679 last night, like a lot of people were dogging him. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.640 He's that. I mean he's been I swear to god. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.439 There's people that just like there's this cornerback out there 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.520 that's never been beaten for like, oh, he just gives 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.640 up play. I'm like, well, yeah, like that's what happens. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.680 Like teams throw the ball forty times a game. But 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.080 I love is. I had someone say I would rather 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.760 have kept a lumba and let this guy go, And 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.880 I was like, seen him race. I know this isn't 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.880 like fifth grade, but have you seen the guy's race? 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.200 Because if you would have seen if they would race 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.320 Anthony Brown and Donovan a lumba, would Anthony Brown would 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.440 be able to turn around at the end and kind 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.800 of like wave to I mean, it's probably the difference 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.400 of four three and a four six four seven guy 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.400 that was a lumbus problem. He just couldn't run. It's 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.960 absolutely that's that's ridiculous. Like Anthony Brown, He's honestly for me, 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.240 like if he's your third corner, then your secondary he's 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.440 probably pretty damn good, like four year starter. He's played slot, 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.840 he's played outside. I think, I mean he's he's adequate, 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.960 if not outright good. And what the new changes that 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:02.360 this cowboy's defense will be making. Al Harris is one 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.000 of those guys who wants to get up and press 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.560 you like he's the new dB coach. So you're gonna 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.920 need to have that recovery speed. You're gonna need to 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.760 be able to, you know, child got the line of 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.440 scrimmage and then be able to run and track guys out, 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.160 hopefully this year turning to look for the ball. Yeah, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.640 hopefully hopefully. But that's going to be a methodology of 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:24.120 how Al Harris and that you know, Mike Nolan, they 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.120 teach that up in your face pressed the line of scrimmage. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.240 So that speed that you're talking about is going to 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.679 be necessary. And a guy like a Lumbo wouldn't fit 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.280 into the screen of what they want to do because 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.920 once you get beat from the line, you have no 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.920 recovery speed. Which I can hear the rebuttal coming at 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.280 me right now, and I get it. I said, if 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.760 ab is your third best corner, you're feeling pretty good 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.800 even to easily make the argument he's currently the best 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.960 corner on this team, and that's a little troubling. Yeah, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.200 it's not like I don't feel good about the cornerback 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:54.920 group on this team. I don't. I don't feel great 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.000 about it. I do like the decision to bring Anthony 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.320 Brown back. I would love for them to go get 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.320 another free agent or draft a guy highly, or maybe 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.360 even both. But I think it's a nice step in 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.760 the right direction. You know, we always talk about free 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.520 agency being able to cover, you know, the basis on 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.839 these positions. So you go into the draft and you 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.920 don't need a guy, you don't have to have that position. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:17.960 I think if they don't do anything else at corner, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.839 I still feel like you've got to get a cornerback 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.800 in the first two rounds. That's that's kind of where 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.600 I'm at. Is no disrespect to Jordan Lewis or Cheeto, 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:29.959 but I don't look at those three and I'm just like, well, 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.520 if we don't do anything else to this position, we're fine. Like, 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.440 I don't know how you could feel that way. Yeah, 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.640 they're free agents. Two of them are free agents next year, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.880 and yeah, I mean, if you're looking at the big picture, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:40.760 then you're just setting yourself up to be in deep 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.599 trouble next year. So I really I wanted them to 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.240 take a look at Desmond Truffont, but it looks like 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.040 he's off to Detroit. So I think the market is 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.400 you know, it's crazy how that happens. It's technically the 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.160 second day of official free agency, and the markets kind 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:56.800 of would you have traded a third and a fifth 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.520 for like Philly did for Darius Lay, I would have 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.600 traded a third and a fifth, But when you then 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.400 you add paying him fifty million over three years, I 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.040 don't hate that deal, but I you know, I'm not 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.320 sitting here thinking the Cowboys blew it by not doing 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.360 that either. Now, now they've got a guy, know, they've 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.480 got a guy that he actually did a really nice job. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.200 If I remember against Amari Cooper of course, into in 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.200 two career matchups, he's done really well against Coop. Are 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.280 they both on the road, Yeah, well I don't know 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.160 about one of them. But they played the Lions in 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.040 Detroit last year and Cooper actually had a really amazing 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.640 catch on him if it was going around Twitter last night, 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.480 the sideline catch. But that was it. Though he had 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.960 three catches for thirty eight yards play, did a pretty 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.800 good job. Yeah, all right, let's keep moving here. Um, 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.840 Joe Looney looks like that's going to happen. That's you know, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.680 that's a That's another good solid move there, because remember 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.360 on game day, he can play three positions. He's your 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.560 backup center, he's your backup guard. Everybody on our social 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.000 media team, I'm sure loves to have Joe Looney back. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.360 He does. They ask him to do everything, and he does. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.400 He's great. Well, I mean, but he's a good We 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.240 love him for his personality, but I think that matters 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.280 in the locker room too. I think he's a widely 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:09.480 beloved guy. I mean like he he's a backup and 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.280 sort of has this elevated presence because of how much 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.640 his teammates love him and respect him. Played really well 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.240 for Frederick a couple of years ago. Yeah, yeah, I 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.320 love that. I love that. Your deep snaps will be 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:24.240 good next year. Fine with that. I'm totally fine with that. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.400 LPs is going to be doing this for ten more years. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.200 I feel like, and what do you say, nobody's nobody's 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:34.320 winning life better? Nobody million years ago, the best years 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.440 ago other than backup quarterback it's the next best position 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.280 in football. But I will say this, and people just 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.440 think the snapping that's what you have to do most 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.400 of the time. But if he if he was a 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.280 liability to run down on a punt, I mean, you 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.120 still have to run down forty yards and and you know, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.600 you'd like to think other guys will make that tackle, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.720 especially if the punt's high enough and all that. But 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.960 he's still able to go and do that, and he 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.160 keeps his body good and all that. But don't discredit 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.080 that's snapping like that is. So when you watch a 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.080 guy come off the edge for a field goal block 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:10.640 and there are I mean millimeters from blocking it, yeah, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.600 it's simply because the snap got that back there and 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.600 it wasn't high, and it wasn't left or right. I 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.280 mean it got to the point so that the catcher 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:18.720 can get it and get it down and get it kicked. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.360 It doesn't even have to slept. That is so important 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.400 when you're talking about And then also for special teams, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.800 because I played with LP, when you come up for 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.600 a punt, LP will sometimes help you get into the 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.160 right call right because a personal pacton might come up 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.560 and call the wrong call. And he'll go hey, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.920 fifty three fifty three You're like, oh, okay, yeah, that's better. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.080 So he'll he'll adjust you sometimes at the line of 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.080 scrimmage to get you in the right call. What is it, 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:48.080 he's like thirty eight something. I mean, if his snaps 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.640 don't drop off, like he can just keep resigning one 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:52.960 year deals and for ten more years. I don't care. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.200 So he's played two hundred and thirty seven games. If 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:59.520 he plays sixteen more, that's what two fifty three. Yeah, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.200 and Jason Witten's at two fifty five. And I'm just 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.399 going to segue into the fact that I think Jason 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:09.320 Witten has done it two fifty five for the Cowboys. Yeah, 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.480 there's been reports that he's going to the Raiders. So 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.480 we'll see how. It's a weird it's a weak. I mean, 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.360 it's it's a weird week for everyone because and you've 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.520 seen teams kind of poking fun at it on Twitter. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:25.200 Is like, the NFL's not letting teams announce these signings, 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:30.560 so there's a lot of room for there. They're letting 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.919 teams announce the signings. They're not letting teams announce agreed 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.520 to terms. Ah, yeah, you're well, yeah, if you do 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.560 actually get physical and sign right, you can announce it. 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.640 But because of COVID nineteen, a lot of guys aren't 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.679 getting their physicals therefore are not signing. So it's a 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:50.000 strange week. And I do understand that, yeah, they agreed 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:51.439 to terms with this guy or this guy, and then 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.040 all of a sudden you're like, well, I guess we 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.080 can't call him, and when in reality it's really not 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.000 done yet. But one of those guys will just skip 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.040 it around here. One of those guys that that it's 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.199 it's kind of interesting on what will happen with with 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:07.000 him is Gerald McCoy, defensive tackle. Six time Pro Bowler, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.240 played for mostly for the Bucks, also with Carolina last year. 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.080 And you know, he's a guy that I think penning 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.760 a physical that that's a guy that the Cowboys will 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.000 sign if they, you know, can get him in here. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.080 Do we like to move there? MALIEK. Collins younger moves 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:26.240 on McCoy, more established, older guy, but a different type 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.120 of player, different fit now will he'd be playing inside 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.560 or outside because he played a lot of um outside 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.000 rushing off the edge for Carolina last year. I would 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.439 have imagine, and he did, but I would imagine he 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.639 will primarily be their three technique with some versatility to 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.560 move outside. That's what I that's that's the position that 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.199 I thought he was playing. I really didn't know he 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.600 played some of them. He did, like they moved him 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.960 out a little bit Beacon, but I would he's their 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:58.679 three technique. I'm with this general McCoy. I'm like David, 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.880 I'm okay with the signing, but this can't be all 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:05.280 that they do. I think I think this one is 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:09.560 a couple of years late for me, um because I've 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.080 been one of him a couple of years ago. Yeah, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.199 and he's finally gotten here, he said. He seems to 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.479 be extat. It's crazy. He has a son that's going 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.280 to Oklahoma next year, step son. I mean, it's not 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.760 as crazy as it could be. Okay, but I was 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:24.280 like when I saw that, was like, wait, he has 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.719 a son going to Oklahoma. But I'm okay with this. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:31.080 I think this is a piece that will that will 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:32.879 help on the inside. Yeah, I don't know what the 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.679 deal is with Tyrone Crawford. Is he gonna, you know, 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.919 forgotten man? I think he's back. I do now. They 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.399 might have to restructure his deal a little bit, supposed 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.119 to make eight million I think next year. But I 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.960 do think he's back now. The question with him, which 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.440 has been the question forever, is what position does he play? 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.280 Does he play in? Does he play inside? I mean, 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:55.359 how are they going to use him? But from what 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.520 I have been told about what the what they wanted tackle, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.160 it's not Rod Marinelli's defensive tackles anymore. Obviously. They want 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.399