Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
Speaker 2: Cowboys.
Speaker 1: This is Mick Shot screaming live on Dallascowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola.
Speaker 2: And it is a Monday here inside the SWBC podcast studio,
Speaker 2: and all my things are starting to shake in the
Speaker 2: National Football League. This is Mick Shots, brought to you
Speaker 2: by Miller Lite without Everson Walls. He's on assignment today.
Speaker 3: So I figured out where he's at.
Speaker 2: Oh did you yes?
Speaker 4: Where the HBCU Draft combine?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: This week?
Speaker 4: And they played the game on Saturday.
Speaker 2: All right, that's funny because Everson just tells us last
Speaker 2: Monday that I'm not going to be here next Monday, right,
Speaker 2: and didn't tell us why. We didn't pry.
Speaker 4: Because I always say business however, secret government.
Speaker 2: So you made it your mission the last week. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's figure out wherever.
Speaker 4: So I'm assuming because they have practices, and I'm they
Speaker 4: bring guys like him there to help.
Speaker 2: Out, that's right, Not just to help out, not just
Speaker 2: to run the practice, but to tutor some of these
Speaker 2: young Draft prospects. And speaking of combines, the NFL scouting
Speaker 2: combine is underway in Indianapolis, and Mickey.
Speaker 3: It's out here. It is.
Speaker 4: It's a fancy green note it's.
Speaker 2: The big green notebook there it is.
Speaker 4: He didn't buy that at Walmart.
Speaker 2: This is where we find five star prospects in the
Speaker 2: NFL Draft fight and we've been doing it for twenty
Speaker 2: years now. It goes back to the old Cowboy Channel
Speaker 2: when Mickey and I discovered DeMarcus Ware and Marcus Spears.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys had two first round draft picks in two
Speaker 2: thousand and five. And for the loyal, long time listeners
Speaker 2: to originally Talking Cowboys, this is the original Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 2: by the way, and now mix shots. You know that
Speaker 2: in two thousand and five, we not only talked to
Speaker 2: the high school coach of Marcus Spears at Southern lab
Speaker 2: and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but also the high school coach
Speaker 2: and I think the college coach of DeMarcus Ware. This
Speaker 2: is where we told you the Cowboys are picking DeMarcus
Speaker 2: Ware and Marcus Spears in the first round of that
Speaker 2: two thousand and.
Speaker 4: Five and we got them in the right order.
Speaker 3: That's right. Unlike Bill Parcells. They got it.
Speaker 4: They must have been listening to us, right.
Speaker 2: That's where it basically all started for me twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: diving deep into the draft. Wow, you know, And what
Speaker 2: it coincided with was I've thought about this, Why has
Speaker 2: the draft become such as Parcels would put it, such
Speaker 2: a cottage industry? And it really I think started with
Speaker 2: the advent of YouTube and for fans to be able
Speaker 2: to easily access video of all these players in college.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know, and where.
Speaker 2: You could spend hours just looking at And it's gotten
Speaker 2: obviously over the course of twenty years, much more advanced
Speaker 2: than what it was in two thousand and five. But
Speaker 2: I really think that is where the NFL draft, the
Speaker 2: interest in the NFL draft just skyrocketed, is because of
Speaker 2: the easy access to videos of these players.
Speaker 4: And then I think the NFL made a really good
Speaker 4: decision to move.
Speaker 3: The draft around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, different places.
Speaker 3: It was here.
Speaker 4: Twenty whatever year it was, it would have been vander.
Speaker 2: Esh's twenty nineteen rookie year.
Speaker 4: I think twenty eighteen, yeah, okay, But moving it around
Speaker 4: like that in different spots you engage more fans from
Speaker 4: different places.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think but that's once it got to draft day.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's when it's the whole combine and all
Speaker 2: that stuff. And obviously, and it was about that time
Speaker 2: that the NFL network got started. In fact, I think
Speaker 2: the Cowboys channel it was actually the precursor to the
Speaker 2: NFL network. You know what happened They couldn't and the
Speaker 2: Cowboys channel was on Comcast.
Speaker 3: Cable and twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Twenty four hours in fact, we used to do during
Speaker 2: the Cowboys season, we would do an hour long sports
Speaker 2: center type Cowboys show Monday through Friday from our little
Speaker 2: closet at Valley Ranch. And it was after that the
Speaker 2: NFL network was born. In the the teams had to
Speaker 2: do away with well, the one team that had its
Speaker 2: own cable TV channel, the Cowboys had to do away
Speaker 2: with the Cowboys chann I.
Speaker 4: Remember that year somewhere we were on the road and
Speaker 4: so they had told us, or I guess it would
Speaker 4: have been the next year that the NFL basically went
Speaker 4: to the owners and said, look, there's no sense having
Speaker 4: a TV channel competing with the other channel you already own.
Speaker 4: So we would appreciate if you didn't.
Speaker 2: Have, especially as widely viewed as the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Channel was.
Speaker 4: So we were in the middle of the season when
Speaker 4: that happened. So it happened the next year and Jerry saw.
Speaker 3: Me, I don't know where we were. We were on
Speaker 3: a road.
Speaker 4: Game and he said, you know, he goes, when we
Speaker 4: get this this this stadium thing settled, We're going to
Speaker 4: get this this channel back.
Speaker 3: I don't care. What that said never came back, well,
Speaker 3: not TV, you know what.
Speaker 2: It came back as what you're doing right now came
Speaker 2: back as podcast and basically you've got twenty four hour
Speaker 2: access to all the Cowboys information that you want through
Speaker 2: the podcast.
Speaker 4: And now with all our cameras in here, right, we're
Speaker 4: back on TV.
Speaker 3: Go's right, all right?
Speaker 2: So much to get to since we last convened, In fact,
Speaker 2: last Tuesday, which was the last time we got together
Speaker 2: after the President's Day holiday, the Cowboys coaches were all
Speaker 2: assembled for the media to talk to and so we
Speaker 2: got to get your take on what came out of that.
Speaker 2: And then we had the breaking news on Thursday where
Speaker 2: Zach Martin made it official informing the Cowboys that he
Speaker 2: is calling it a Hall of Fame career, and I
Speaker 2: think he worded it that way when he went into Jerry.
Speaker 2: I've decided to call it a Hall of Fame career.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I've done enough since trying.
Speaker 2: And then now we fast forward to this week and
Speaker 2: we got the combine going on this week, and we're
Speaker 2: two weeks from today. It's basically the start of NFL
Speaker 2: free agency.
Speaker 4: So I've got two of my tablets here full of
Speaker 4: stuff everything that's going on. So I guess we should
Speaker 4: start with the coaches questions that they made.
Speaker 3: As a group.
Speaker 4: And I know I haven't coached a game yet, right,
Speaker 4: but a very personable group of coaches.
Speaker 3: Very easy interviews.
Speaker 4: And when I started listening to everybody and how they
Speaker 4: put this staff together, I got a feeling that there
Speaker 4: was And I said this to Schottenheimer. Now he didn't
Speaker 4: do an interview, but I caught him off to the
Speaker 4: side and I said, there seems to be on this
Speaker 4: staff heavy emphasis on the offensive line and being able
Speaker 4: to run the football.
Speaker 3: And he goes, I think that's fair.
Speaker 4: And if you look at the number of guys that
Speaker 4: are or have been coordinators offensive coordinators not just him,
Speaker 4: but not necessarily in the NFL, but between Clayton Adams,
Speaker 4: Connor Riley, they added Ken Dorsey, who had been an
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator in Cleveland and Buffalo. There's a lot of
Speaker 4: guys that have had their hands into coordinating the offense
Speaker 4: to help him out. But if you look at Clayton Adams,
Speaker 4: so they named him the offensive coordinator, but he's an
Speaker 4: offensive line coach, right And when he was asked, will
Speaker 4: you have a hand in helping out on the offensive line,
Speaker 4: and I don't think his word was absolutely, but yeah,
Speaker 4: of course. And then Connor Riley had coached in college
Speaker 4: twenty two years. He had been a coordinator, but he's
Speaker 4: an offensive line coach. They've got an assistant offensive line
Speaker 4: coach also on the staff with Ramon Chingyong, and there
Speaker 4: just seems to be and then an off running backs coach.
Speaker 4: It just seems like running the football is going to
Speaker 4: be a priority. And if you look at Schottenheimer's history
Speaker 4: as a coordinator, he's had good running teams with the
Speaker 4: Jets and Seattle for sure. So as I was talking
Speaker 4: to the running back the running back coach, I said
Speaker 4: Derek Foster, Derek Foster that it looks like a priority.
Speaker 3: He goes, it is and it will be.
Speaker 4: And I said, now all you need is a running
Speaker 4: back and he laughed, but yeah, it's I don't know
Speaker 4: if that made an impression on you, but it made
Speaker 4: an impression on me.
Speaker 3: No doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2: And in fact, as we've talked about, you know, Schottenheimer's
Speaker 2: team with the Jets, I mean, they made it to
Speaker 2: the AFC Championship game with the number one ranked rushing
Speaker 2: offense in the league back when he was the offensive
Speaker 2: coordinator there and Mark Sanchez was a rookie quarterback coming
Speaker 2: into the league right and then when he had Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson with Seattle, they were also the number one rushing
Speaker 2: offense in the league with the Seahawks. It is interesting
Speaker 2: as you look at the which is a very small
Speaker 2: stable of running backs on this roster right now, and
Speaker 2: literally induced Vaughan Hunter Lepke if you want to count
Speaker 2: him as a as a running back to go along
Speaker 2: with him being a fullback and an HVAC type Malik
Speaker 2: Davis and that's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And so it's an open season, open market for running
Speaker 2: backs starting in free agency two weeks from today or
Speaker 2: maybe even prior to two weeks from today. If because
Speaker 2: they've got one that they can go ahead and negotiate
Speaker 2: with right now in Rico Dawdle and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: And it sounded like from what Stephen Jones said at
Speaker 4: the combine on Sunday where the competition committee was already meeting,
Speaker 4: that Rico sounds like one of their priorities to resign,
Speaker 4: along with Jordan Lewis and OsO Diggi Zoo, who may
Speaker 4: be the hardest one to try to resign, but maybe
Speaker 4: the top priority since they don't have many are hardly
Speaker 4: any defensive tackles under contract.
Speaker 3: Mazzie Smith and maybe there was somebody on.
Speaker 4: The practice squad Justin Rodgers Okay, it was back.
Speaker 2: Okay, Justin Rodgers the seventh round pick last year, and
Speaker 2: then he came back at the end of the season.
Speaker 2: And Denzel Dackson is the other one who is on
Speaker 2: the roster.
Speaker 4: So and Osa had a really good season. And I
Speaker 4: think that I don't know that they do a franchise
Speaker 4: tag on him. It's twenty three million, but they can
Speaker 4: do a transition tag, so at least you reserve the
Speaker 4: right of first refusal if somebody else.
Speaker 2: It's rarely used. Teams don't normally use transition tags, but
Speaker 2: sometimes it can be used. Effectively the issue that the
Speaker 2: Cowboys and the transition tag. It's a little less money
Speaker 2: than what a franchise tag would be.
Speaker 3: But you don't get any compensation.
Speaker 2: And who's the guy, and you can match whatever offer
Speaker 2: that player might get on the open market. The problem
Speaker 2: for the Cowboys is from a salary cap standpoint, if
Speaker 2: you're gonna have Michael Parsons playing on his fifth year
Speaker 2: option at around twenty four million dollars a year, and
Speaker 2: obviously you know all the other salaries that are taking
Speaker 2: up from the high dollar players on the team, can
Speaker 2: you afford a even a plus twenty million dollar a
Speaker 2: year transition tag on a on a defensive tackle.
Speaker 4: And that's why that's why it's you try to do
Speaker 4: a long term deal where the guy gets his money
Speaker 4: up front, but you can spread it out and it
Speaker 4: won't cost as much every year.
Speaker 2: The interesting thing as far as you we just talk
Speaker 2: running backs and we talk defensive lineman defensive tackles, and
Speaker 2: if you listen to the so called experts on this
Speaker 2: dret the deepest positions in this draft might be running
Speaker 2: backs and defensive linemen.
Speaker 4: Right, And so you know you can't get both in
Speaker 4: the first round. But you got to figure out if
Speaker 4: I get this here, there are enough guys at that
Speaker 4: other position in the second and third round to help
Speaker 4: me out.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's the stuff that.
Speaker 4: We'll talk about going forward in decisions the Cowboys made.
Speaker 4: But and the one person I can't believe I forgot this.
Speaker 4: I think we talked about it last week, the secondary coach,
Speaker 4: David Overstreet. Yep, I forgot that he had played in Missouri. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he was a two time All Big twelve.
Speaker 2: And that's his connection with Ibraflus, right, because the Eberflus
Speaker 2: was the defensive cordon over Street played.
Speaker 4: For him, and he had them with the Bear Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's with the Bears.
Speaker 3: Also, maybe with the Colts too.
Speaker 4: But I I and I think when he was playing
Speaker 4: with Missouri, I didn't realize it was David Overstreet's son
Speaker 4: running back or the running back from Oklahoma who ended
Speaker 4: up He was from East Texas Big Sandy, Big Sandy,
Speaker 4: Lovey Smith's hometown and ended up first round.
Speaker 2: David Overstreak would have been high school teammates with Lovey Smith.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure back in the because he played at
Speaker 2: Oklahoma in the late seventies, he was part of maybe
Speaker 2: a year or two younger than Lovey, but they would
Speaker 2: have cross paths in Big Sandy for sure.
Speaker 4: And in the same backfield at Oklahoma with Billy Simms.
Speaker 2: And Kenny King and Thomas Lott.
Speaker 4: And Thomas Lott right, which should have come up on
Speaker 4: It was Saturday. The ticket did their ticket stock. They
Speaker 4: had Switzer as a guest, which is another uh segment
Speaker 4: I need to go. He was he was unfiltered as.
Speaker 3: Always in person.
Speaker 4: Uh oh yeah, yeah, he was there that they must
Speaker 4: have talked to him for an hour, it seemed like.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And he had story he had stories going with different
Speaker 4: antennas off of it that he never got back to
Speaker 4: the final part of the stories.
Speaker 3: He was amazing.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I and I talked over street and I
Speaker 4: forgot to point out that, you know, it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: we got some Missouri connections here.
Speaker 3: But anyway, and.
Speaker 2: He believed he went to Samuel High School.
Speaker 4: Yes, he did, so, he grew up in Pleasant Grove,
Speaker 4: he said, Uh. And he has a yearly uh camp
Speaker 4: here for uh some of the underprivileged type players kids
Speaker 4: and uh it's uh, I think he said, July June
Speaker 4: twenty first, Okay, and he's got to find a spot
Speaker 4: because ever he was having I think he was having
Speaker 4: it at the stadium, maybe at Samuel High School and
Speaker 4: it's under construction. So he said, I got to find
Speaker 4: a new place. And we were sitting there talking, I go,
Speaker 4: there's two fields right behind it, there's transportation available.
Speaker 2: Yes, that'd be fun, that'd be a good way of
Speaker 2: doing it. Yeah. But otherwise on the defensive staff, Aaron
Speaker 2: white Cotton is another guy that I'm interested in who
Speaker 2: was with the Jets defensive line coach, and he's got
Speaker 2: a history. Of course, he was with Robert Solo with
Speaker 2: the Jets, and he was also with Solo with San Francisco,
Speaker 2: and so we won't get into names per se. But
Speaker 2: when you're looking at potential free agent types with a lot,
Speaker 2: whether it's White Cotton or any other the Chicago guys
Speaker 2: that become available, guys that these coaches have a history with,
Speaker 2: who will come at an economical price range. I expect
Speaker 2: the Cowboys to be, well, they can't be less active
Speaker 2: or as inactive as they were last year in free agency,
Speaker 2: but they got to do something in free agency this year.
Speaker 2: But it's going to be those low tiered better and
Speaker 2: there's going to be a whole bunch across the league,
Speaker 2: these veteran free agents that are signing for less than
Speaker 2: two million dollars a year.
Speaker 4: Right, and you know, and they did a decent job.
Speaker 4: You know, no one gives them credit. Eric Kendricks was
Speaker 4: a hell of a free agent signing, right, and for
Speaker 4: basically what you've just said. I think it was like
Speaker 4: May three and a half three million, something like that.
Speaker 4: And so, and they tried to get the nose tackle
Speaker 4: that ended up going to Seattle Jonathan Hankins Ankins, and
Speaker 4: everybody said, how could they let him get away?
Speaker 3: They offered him a contract.
Speaker 4: I was told he wanted to go to Seattle because
Speaker 4: the defensive line coaches getting hired there as the defensive coordinator,
Speaker 4: and he felt like it goes to what you just said.
Speaker 4: Sometimes these guys decision is to go with a coach
Speaker 4: they're familiar with and have some insurance that they're going
Speaker 4: to get a chance to play.
Speaker 2: And real quickly, I was just looking up Jonathan Hankins
Speaker 2: last year with Seattle, seventeen games, eight starts. He had decent.
Speaker 2: It was the same type season he's been having. He
Speaker 2: had thirty tackles, and you know, he was a big
Speaker 2: run stuffer in the middle of their defense at thirty
Speaker 2: two years old. And as it turns out, the Cowboys
Speaker 2: had to you know, they brought they wait till training
Speaker 2: camp to make moves to try to enhance their defensive line.
Speaker 2: The criticisms that Mike McCarthy had late in the season
Speaker 2: is if we're going to bring in guys, you'd like
Speaker 2: to have him here throughout the off season program.
Speaker 4: Right right, And so so yeah, we'll see that how
Speaker 4: that turns out. But you know, with with a defensive
Speaker 4: stat Matt Eber Eberflows was able to bring in guys
Speaker 4: he knew for that staff. So yeah, and everybody was,
Speaker 4: you know, really high after talking to him, and I said, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is great until you lose a game. You know,
Speaker 4: you get smacked in the mouth and it's.
Speaker 3: Like, okay, how's everybody doing.
Speaker 2: And among the guys that he brought in from Chicago,
Speaker 2: Andre Curtis the past game coordinator, secondary coach, Dave Borganzi
Speaker 2: linebackers coach, and you mentioned David Overstreet as well as
Speaker 2: secondary coach.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 4: You know, and Nick Sorenson the spell teams coach. He's
Speaker 4: he's quite a talker and there's another guy. He was
Speaker 4: a defensive.
Speaker 2: Courton last year with San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Right, and so he's been a special teams player. They
Speaker 4: brought back Carlos Polk, who had been here as a
Speaker 4: special team's assistant.
Speaker 3: A couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: So I think they've done a pretty good job putting
Speaker 4: this staff together. And there's a lot of it is
Speaker 4: who knew who right, and and the thing with Clayton Adams,
Speaker 4: the connection that Schottenheimer had with Clayton Adams. He was
Speaker 4: at Colorado when Mike McIntyre, the Cowboys' former defensive secondary coach,
Speaker 4: maybe right, he was the head coach at Colorado. Schottenheimer
Speaker 4: knew McIntyre and so he got he kept hearing from
Speaker 4: McIntyre that this Clayton Adams is pretty good.
Speaker 2: Now I'm sitting there trying to think, Okay, where would
Speaker 2: Schottenheimer and McIntyre of cross pads And I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to go look through both backgrounds on them and figure
Speaker 2: out where they But it could be they didn't. They
Speaker 2: never worked together. There is a possibility that guys connect
Speaker 2: with each other right outside of being on the same
Speaker 2: staff together.
Speaker 4: I remember my McIntyre coach.
Speaker 3: Tire you know what.
Speaker 2: Schottenheimer lives in Nashville. McIntyre's father was a head coach
Speaker 2: of Xanderbilt. He grew up in Nashville and Bill was there,
Speaker 2: that's right, So I bet it's a Nashville connection on
Speaker 2: Odd McIntyre. I love Mike McIntyre. It's you know, when
Speaker 2: he was here and then he went on to Duke
Speaker 2: and then San Jose State and that's where Clayton Adams
Speaker 2: was first on his staff at San Jose State and
Speaker 2: then followed him to Colorado.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a lot of connection. So it wasn't
Speaker 4: like they were just putting their hand in the hat
Speaker 4: and drawing a name out right. There was always some
Speaker 4: sort of connection or somebody vouching for these guys and
Speaker 4: how good they were all.
Speaker 2: Right, And we didn't even mention Junior Adams, the wide
Speaker 2: receivers coach who has a great reputation as a college
Speaker 2: receivers coach and now making the step into the NFL.
Speaker 2: In fact, Cooper Cup just swears by him, said he
Speaker 2: no coach in his career had more of an impact
Speaker 2: on him than Junior Adams when he was at Eastern Washington.
Speaker 4: And there's nothing wrong with bringing some fresh ideas.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: I love the energy because there's a mix of experience
Speaker 2: and youth on this staff. And as it relates to
Speaker 2: the draft, where you've got guys who have as recently
Speaker 2: as two months ago coached in college and they're very
Speaker 2: familiar with the players, either they they themselves coached, or
Speaker 2: they went up against or they tried to recruit the
Speaker 2: exactly and not only out of high school, but out
Speaker 2: of the porch. We know how much the coaches are
Speaker 2: involved in the draft process here, and so that can
Speaker 2: be big and just communication and plus they as you
Speaker 2: mentioned off the top, they all seem to be really
Speaker 2: good communicators. Yeah, and have a want to to let
Speaker 2: the scouting staff know this is what I'm looking for
Speaker 2: in a player and so forth.
Speaker 4: You know, when I asked people their impression of the
Speaker 4: coaching staff, and you just mentioned the word, they said energy.
Speaker 4: It's like, hey, we're here to prove ourselves and these
Speaker 4: guys are. Not to say the other staff wasn't fired up,
Speaker 4: but a lot of energy and emotion on this staff.
Speaker 4: And one person told me when I asked about Schottenheimer
Speaker 4: and one of the other's assistants what they knew about
Speaker 4: them or what they felt that they did best, and
Speaker 4: the word was teacher.
Speaker 2: So and I think that's a big part of it,
Speaker 2: is being able to connect with the players.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, so so having to put together almost an
Speaker 4: entirely new staff, it looks like at this point they've
Speaker 4: done a pretty good job.
Speaker 2: All Right, We're gonna talk Zach Martin when we come
Speaker 2: back here on mix shots in just a moment.
Speaker 6: Cowboys Football and Miller Lite. What a pairing can cracks
Speaker 6: a kickoff? Tailgate's going way past postgame Sunday night overtimes,
Speaker 6: followed by Monday Morning Swagger, Brisky and the Smoker, Miller
Speaker 6: Lte and the Clue, America's team playing America's greatest sport.
Speaker 6: Miller Lte the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys and
Speaker 6: Dallas Cowboys Football Taste like Miller Time, Celebrate Responsibly. Twenty
Speaker 6: twenty three, Miller Brown Company, Fort Worth, Texas.
Speaker 7: How do you tell the world about all the great
Speaker 7: gifts in the Yetti Star letter?
Speaker 4: Rip Troy?
Speaker 8: All right, folks, let's get started with the Yeddy, French
Speaker 8: Press and Jor Calvi. This stay's hot Friverers and French
Speaker 8: Press thirty four ounds for U six four with the
Speaker 8: cruise of Yetty French press. What mixed waterproof bags bags?
Speaker 8: Water Somewhere's waterproof, Devil's waterproof bag bag sports mostly waters
Speaker 8: should get a waterprove Yetie bag. Dont smell something cooking
Speaker 8: pole new cast iron skillets made to be passed down
Speaker 8: like marbles recipes. Take a state Cornbeck, commerce, pot, pine
Speaker 8: and patatoes. Next over well three sizes of the Yetty
Speaker 8: cast Iron.
Speaker 4: Skillers, gear, gifts, and product experts.
Speaker 7: Visit the Yetti Store on McKinney Street and at South
Speaker 7: Lake Town Square today.
Speaker 9: Hey Cowboy fans, I'm Dak Prescott, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 9: but lately I've been learning a new game. Crypto sound confusing,
Speaker 9: don't worry. Even US pros were rookies and crypto once.
Speaker 9: That's why I trust blockchain dot Com. They make crypto easy,
Speaker 9: no confusing jargon, just the tools to help you win.
Speaker 2: Scott Kitchen slides for the first down.
Speaker 9: Investilate your icons where everyone is a rookie in crypto
Speaker 9: with blockchain dot Com perfect.
Speaker 2: Throw My goodness, wow did he ever thread the needle?
Speaker 9: Visit blockchain dot Com Slash Cowboys to get started.
Speaker 7: The Medal of Honor is our country's highest military award
Speaker 7: for valor in combat. More than forty million individuals have
Speaker 7: served in the armed forces since the Civil War. Fewer
Speaker 7: than four thousand have received the Medal of Honor. The
Speaker 7: National Medal of Honor Museum will be a place to
Speaker 7: preserve these legacies and inspire America. It's being built right
Speaker 7: next door to the Dallas Cowboys in Texas. Help us
Speaker 7: honor our country's greatest heroes. Learn more and get involved
Speaker 7: at mohmuseum dot org to.
Speaker 4: Mixed shots, the most action packed mortorsports experience in the
Speaker 4: world returns to Arlington. Head to AT and T Stadium
Speaker 4: on Saturday, March eighth for the Monster Jam.
Speaker 3: Get ready to.
Speaker 4: Cheer, scream, and be amazed as massive Monster Jam trucks
Speaker 4: take over Arlington. Tickets are on sale now at seek
Speaker 4: geek dot com, the official ticketing partner of AT and T, and.
Speaker 2: My phone is about to blow up. My daughters are
Speaker 2: going to start saying, Dad, can you get us Monster
Speaker 2: Jam tickets for my grandsons? They get involved in that.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, the noise, Oh it's they've got monster talks
Speaker 2: themselves they play with all the time. Oh, they love it.
Speaker 3: Mickey, have you ever been? No, it's a blast. Really,
Speaker 3: that's great.
Speaker 2: Oh, it sounds like Producer Supreme has not only been there,
Speaker 2: but planning to go again this weekend.
Speaker 3: Probably not going to go this weekend. I do have plans.
Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I can't miss theater. Okay, okay, all right,
Speaker 2: Before we talk Zach Martin, A little item that's making
Speaker 2: news is the interview that I think David Moore did
Speaker 2: with Stephen Jones at the Combine. I was in the
Speaker 2: Morning News this morning and as now making the rounds
Speaker 2: on social media that it looks like Cowboys moving on
Speaker 2: from Trey Lance, but they are Steven Jones indicating that
Speaker 2: they have thoughts of drafting a quarterback.
Speaker 4: And obviously they were going to do that. I would
Speaker 4: imagine even if, well even if they keep or try
Speaker 4: to resign Cooper Rush, you need another.
Speaker 2: And I think the quote on Cooper Rush is obviously,
Speaker 2: if you're paying the starter what the Cowboys are paying
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott, the money is tight as far as signing
Speaker 2: a veteran free agent. They love Cooper and it's just
Speaker 2: we're just gonna have to see where where the market
Speaker 2: goes on Cooper.
Speaker 3: Rush market value.
Speaker 4: And you know, and I think when teams understand the
Speaker 4: importance of having a backup quarterback that can at least
Speaker 4: hold down the fort if you lose your starter, and
Speaker 4: who knows, somebody may look at him and say, well,
Speaker 4: if we don't get somebody in the draft, we like,
Speaker 4: maybe he's our starter until someone else is developed or
Speaker 4: comes along. So yeah, market Valley is gonna decide a
Speaker 4: lot of things for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: And when you look at this draft and so what
Speaker 2: we're talking about here is a third day quarterback you
Speaker 2: would imagine, but when you now it's not out of
Speaker 2: the question, and you can make some moves whatever, pick
Speaker 2: up an extra draft pick, and if there's somebody that
Speaker 2: you like in the third round, whatever, because when you
Speaker 2: look at Dax contract, you need someone you would love
Speaker 2: to have a situation like what Detroit had this year
Speaker 2: where they had Jared Goff, they had drafted Hinton Hooker
Speaker 2: and Hooker never gets on the field, but he is
Speaker 2: a developmental quarterback that you have spent a second day
Speaker 2: draft pick on. And then it got to the end
Speaker 2: of the season and Detroit was like, you know what
Speaker 2: if our quarterback goes down in the playoffs. I don't
Speaker 2: know that we want to throw this young guy in there,
Speaker 2: and so they signed Teddy Bridgewater late this season.
Speaker 3: But you would love to have.
Speaker 2: Someone who you're grooming to be the eventual replacement once
Speaker 2: your starter gets up there in years and gets even
Speaker 2: retirement age.
Speaker 4: But if you think that was the Cowboys philosophy when
Speaker 4: they drafted Dak Prescott, right, yeah, that's right. They had
Speaker 4: Kellen Moore as the veteran backup and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 4: maybe this guy can developed to be the backup to
Speaker 4: Tony Romo and then lo and behold.
Speaker 3: Everybody gets hurt and Dak Prescott. So you're and what
Speaker 3: was he?
Speaker 2: He was the number one thirty five pick in the
Speaker 2: draft in the fourth round, so I think their second
Speaker 2: fourth round behind Charles Tappan. And so that is the
Speaker 2: area you're probably looking at. And when you look at
Speaker 2: this this quarterback draft, there could be someone like that
Speaker 2: in the fourth round. So we'll see.
Speaker 4: And you've got basically two quarterback coaches with Ken Dorsey
Speaker 4: also to help out, so that that certainly, you know.
Speaker 3: I would I would think they're somebody.
Speaker 2: They are in the market, just like it running back,
Speaker 2: they're in the market for a veteran backup quarterback as
Speaker 2: well as if it's not crack brush right and a veteran,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about a guy that's not making much money,
Speaker 2: right yeah, or needs a job all right, So Zach Martin,
Speaker 2: I don't think any of us were surprised with the announcement,
Speaker 2: and the Cowboys not caught off guard. But it you
Speaker 2: knew it was going to come eventually. Just the way
Speaker 2: things played out last season, it seemed obvious. And then
Speaker 2: after his Zach Martin's ankle surgery, he wanted to give
Speaker 2: it time just to make sure. But apparently he went
Speaker 2: into Jerry's office on Thursday and said it's time.
Speaker 4: And the Cowboys had braced for this when they restructured
Speaker 4: his contract last year to save some cap money and
Speaker 4: push it down the road. And one of the things
Speaker 4: that I think got overlooked when they restructured his contract
Speaker 4: is they added a couple voided years, but the voidable
Speaker 4: year for this year he had a one point two
Speaker 4: million dollar base salary. So they did that because while
Speaker 4: he has basically told them he wants to retire, nothing's official.
Speaker 3: And what the Cowboys are going to do.
Speaker 4: Is release him once the league year starts and make
Speaker 4: him a June one cut. That gives them the opportunity
Speaker 4: to spread out the dead money that would take place
Speaker 4: in one year if he just retired and left. So
Speaker 4: his debt money's going to be significant. It's a total
Speaker 4: over two years of twenty six million dollars. So I
Speaker 4: think they take a nine around a nine year, a
Speaker 4: nine million dollar hit this year and the rest next year.
Speaker 4: So they were kind of preparing.
Speaker 2: For this now according to over the cap. Now you
Speaker 2: tell me whether I'm reading this correct.
Speaker 4: I know they've got it nine million in nine.
Speaker 2: Million and then and then in Okay, so what they
Speaker 2: have is nine point four million in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: This is with Zach Martin being a post Une first cut,
Speaker 2: nine point four million again in twenty twenty six, four
Speaker 2: point four million in twenty seven, and three point twenty
Speaker 2: five million in twenty eight.
Speaker 4: That's that all comes seven next year, goes seventeen million
Speaker 4: next year next year.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: That's the way it was explained to me. Okay.
Speaker 4: So so yeah, so you know when when everybody says that, well,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys don't know how to manage their cap, well,
Speaker 4: when you restructure bonuses to keep your guys. That money
Speaker 4: gets spread down the road, and when they leave or
Speaker 4: the contracts up, you still got to account for the
Speaker 4: pro ration.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And the same thing's going to take place with DeMarcus
Speaker 4: Lawrence if he's not here or if he decides to
Speaker 4: also retire, although he kind of intimated to me that
Speaker 4: he wants to still.
Speaker 2: Play, and then let me correct myself on that. You're
Speaker 2: exactly right, and it says it on the over the
Speaker 2: cap website as well. The cap number, right is the
Speaker 2: cap number actually as a post June first cut is
Speaker 2: ten point six five million for this year and then
Speaker 2: it's seventeen point oh six million for next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it costs.
Speaker 2: So now if you don't designate him a June first
Speaker 2: cut and it is twenty twenty six point four to six.
Speaker 3: Million, yeah, I rounded it off.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so I think, you know, good for him.
Speaker 4: A lot of guys when their careers are done, they
Speaker 4: either are told they're done or you have an injury
Speaker 4: that ends it. He's been able to make his own
Speaker 4: decision like this is what I want to do. He's
Speaker 4: played eleven years at an awfully high level, married three kids.
Speaker 4: I think he's very satisfied for what he did. And
Speaker 4: I got an opportunity to talk to Jason Garrett. And
Speaker 4: if you guys remember Jason when he took over as
Speaker 4: head coach, realized that the one thing they needed to do,
Speaker 4: and this kind of corresponds with what's going on now,
Speaker 4: they needed to rebuild the offensive line. In one year
Speaker 4: twenty ten, they got old and expensive and they had
Speaker 4: to start moving on for guys. So if you remember
Speaker 4: twenty eleven, ninth picking the draft, they take Tyron.
Speaker 2: Smith, could be an announcement from him coming soon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because he's probably close to the end. In
Speaker 4: twenty thirteen, they traded down. They got Travis Frederick, your
Speaker 4: starting center, and also to go along with the trade down,
Speaker 4: you got a starting wide receiver, Terrence Williams.
Speaker 3: That same year.
Speaker 4: And then twenty fourteen, and this is the part that
Speaker 4: everybody does it everybody remembers that, Oh, Johnny Manziel was there. Well,
Speaker 4: Jason reminded me that they were looking for defense in
Speaker 4: that draft. The first guy they were looking at was,
Speaker 4: by the way, Anthony Barr, linebacker out of Ucla. He
Speaker 4: went number eleven to Minnesota. Their next guy they were
Speaker 4: looking at was Aaron Donald. He went number thirteen to
Speaker 4: the Rams, and then they were all prepared at sixteen
Speaker 4: to take Ryan Shazier out of Ohio State, the linebacker,
Speaker 4: and at fifteen Pittsburgh took him. And so now they're
Speaker 4: at sixteen, and it was like what to do?
Speaker 3: What to do?
Speaker 4: And Jason basically said, there was a blinking light out there.
Speaker 4: Zach Martin. Zach Martin. Zach Martin was the kind of
Speaker 4: the quote, he told me. And so after that brief
Speaker 4: conversation about Johnny Manziel, they decided that this guy, he said,
Speaker 4: there was a consensus in the room that you couldn't
Speaker 4: pass up Zach Martin, and they rebuilt that offensive line.
Speaker 4: And I've got a SoundBite here from Jason when I
Speaker 4: asked him, what, how do you describe the makeup of
Speaker 4: Zach Martin who ended up playing eleven years for the Cowboys,
Speaker 4: nine Pro Bowl or Pro Bowls, And here's what he
Speaker 4: had to say.
Speaker 5: The last thing memory I will always have of Zach
Speaker 5: Martin is we've driven the ball down the field a
Speaker 5: mix of run and paths. We get down in their clothes,
Speaker 5: we run it in with Zeke Elliott, you know, right
Speaker 5: behind him and just his look when he comes running
Speaker 5: off the field, and the smile that he has on
Speaker 5: his face, and the love that he has for the
Speaker 5: game and playing and his teammates and all of that
Speaker 5: was just remarkable to me. And and and you know,
Speaker 5: I saw it so much, this look that he had, like, God,
Speaker 5: I absolutely love playing football and and so for me,
Speaker 5: that was such a distinguishing trait for him. And and
Speaker 5: and trust me, we tried to build our team with
Speaker 5: guys who are absolutely like that, passionate about the game,
Speaker 5: work hard, all the stuff. You know. He used to
Speaker 5: hear me talk about the right kind of guy, that's
Speaker 5: what we're looking for, and he just embodied that.
Speaker 4: Jason Garrett on Zach Martin, and I thought that pretty
Speaker 4: much summed it up, because you know, if you remember
Speaker 4: even during the week or after games, when you interviewed
Speaker 4: Zach Martin, he had this look in his eyes, right,
Speaker 4: and it's like very intentional he did.
Speaker 3: He just loved playing football.
Speaker 2: Now, the lasting memory I will have of not only
Speaker 2: Zach Martin, but Tyrone Smith and for that matter, Travis
Speaker 2: Frederick is a Cowboys training camp and they would all
Speaker 2: walk on the field together.
Speaker 4: And it was like Okay, it was like the charge
Speaker 4: of the light brigade, right, all three together, Uh huh. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I had to be intimidating for the opponent when you
Speaker 4: have those three walking in together. And it was a
Speaker 4: pretty good offensive line that they added the next year
Speaker 4: Leale Collins, who ended up being, because of circumstances, a
Speaker 4: free agent signing, and they rebuilt that offensive line and
Speaker 4: what happened They were able to run the football right,
Speaker 4: and was it important? And Jason said, did you watch
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Right? It's still important.
Speaker 4: It's still important, old school football, right, And then he
Speaker 4: had Ron Leary also on that offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Line in twenty sixteen and Doug free was was the
Speaker 2: right tackle going back to the early time when they
Speaker 2: first came and.
Speaker 4: Ended up being a holdover from that line ended up
Speaker 4: getting pretty you know, flows Al Adams got a little
Speaker 4: bit in age.
Speaker 3: Kozier was there, koz are how's are yeah? So yeah?
Speaker 3: But yeah, what a career? What a career?
Speaker 2: Put it Here's this puts it in perspective. There are
Speaker 2: three Cowboys in the history of the organization who were
Speaker 2: named First team All Pro seven times in their career.
Speaker 2: And those three, two of them are first ballot Hall
Speaker 2: of Famers, right, Bob Lilly and Randy White, and Zach
Speaker 2: Martin is the third one.
Speaker 4: And the only offensive lineman they had with more than
Speaker 4: nine Pro Bowls was Larry Allen with ten. He had
Speaker 4: more than rayphiel Wright. And then I think the next
Speaker 4: guys were like Nate Newton, John Nylan that had six
Speaker 4: Pro Bowls.
Speaker 2: And I asked it eleven time Pro bowler Jason Whitten
Speaker 2: about Zach Martin and the first words out of his
Speaker 2: mouth maybe the best teammate I ever had, which tells
Speaker 2: you a lot about Zach Martin.
Speaker 4: And you know the other thing is, and I don't
Speaker 4: know if the thought was in the Cowboys mind. He
Speaker 4: was their nomine need for the NFL Walter Payton Man
Speaker 4: the Year Award, and he made it.
Speaker 3: To the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: YEP. I don't know that that that you get to that,
Speaker 2: but I guarantee you that they knew that this was
Speaker 2: likely the end. Yeah, So all right, we got much
Speaker 2: more mix shots coming at you in just a moment.
Speaker 10: Star Sports Tours is the only official fan travel partner
Speaker 10: of the Dallas Cowboys, offering exclusive game weekend travel packages
Speaker 10: for pregame sideline access and photo ops with current players,
Speaker 10: cheerleaders and Cowboy legends. Want to stay at the Team Hotel,
Speaker 10: Attend the best tail game party in Texas, tour the
Speaker 10: Star and talk ex'es and o's with me Everson Wallas.
Speaker 10: With Star Sports Tours, you can visit Cowboys Travel dot
Speaker 10: com to book your travel package today.
Speaker 9: Hey Cowboy fans, I'm Dak Prescott, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 9: but lately I've been learning a new game. Crypto sound confusing,
Speaker 9: don't worry. Even US pros were rookies and crypto once.
Speaker 9: That's why I trust blockchain dot Com. They make crypto easy,
Speaker 9: no confusing jargon, just the tools to help you win.
Speaker 9: Slid for the first down, investigate your icons where everyone
Speaker 9: is a rookie and crypto with blockchain dot Com.
Speaker 5: Perfect throw My goodness, wow did he ever thread the needle?
Speaker 9: Visit blockchain dot com Slash Cowboys to get started.
Speaker 10: Star Sports Tours is the only official fan travel partner
Speaker 10: of the Dallas Cowboys, offering exclusive game weekend travel packages
Speaker 10: for pregame, sideline access and photo ops with current players,
Speaker 10: cheerleaders and Cowboy legends. You want to stay at the
Speaker 10: Team Hotel, attend the best tail gay party in Texas.
Speaker 10: Tour the Star and talk.
Speaker 3: X'es and o's with me Everson Walls.
Speaker 10: With Star Sports Tours, you can visit Cowboys Travel dot
Speaker 10: com to book your travel package.
Speaker 6: Today Cowboys Football and Miller Light. What a pairing can
Speaker 6: cracks a kickoff tailgates going way past postgame Sunday Night overtimes,
Speaker 6: followed by Monday Morning Swacker Brisket and the Smoker. Miller
Speaker 6: Lyte and the Kick, America's team playing America's greatest sport.
Speaker 6: Miller Lyte the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. Dallas
Speaker 6: Cowboys Football Taste like Miller Time, Celebrate Responsibly. Twenty twenty three.
Speaker 6: Miller Brown Company, Fort Worth, Texas.
Speaker 1: Demit Shuts.
Speaker 3: Cowboys Nation.
Speaker 4: Cowboys United, presented by Globe Life is now exclusively in
Speaker 4: the Dallas Cowboys app. Joining the Official Fan Club today
Speaker 4: to receive access to all new Cowboys Drop features, team
Speaker 4: news and pre sale axis and Fan and Kid of
Speaker 4: the Game.
Speaker 3: Download the apps now to join. I need to start
Speaker 3: putting commas and period.
Speaker 2: Okay. Twenty fourteen Draft Jack Martin first round and then
Speaker 2: what the Cowboys do in the second round.
Speaker 3: They traded traded up.
Speaker 2: For de Marcus Lawrence. That's pretty good. And that who's
Speaker 2: used the third round.
Speaker 3: By the way, who.
Speaker 2: Was running that draft for the first time in his career,
Speaker 2: Will McLay. That was his first home. That's first draft
Speaker 2: with him in control of it. Twenty fourteen.
Speaker 4: Did we ever point out in one of the shows
Speaker 4: that they re signed Will for another five years?
Speaker 3: That was the first big free agent. That's right of
Speaker 3: the office.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, all right, So now we'll go, yeah, what are
Speaker 4: we doing at guard?
Speaker 3: Well, if we look at what's there now.
Speaker 2: And let me start with this. Yeah, Connor Riley new
Speaker 2: offensive line coach coach Cooper bb at Kansas State where
Speaker 2: he was in tackle. That's right, and as we all know,
Speaker 2: because he practiced shutgun snaps to his mom in his
Speaker 2: backyard in Kansas City this summer, this was his first
Speaker 2: time playing center. When you hear Connor Riley talking about
Speaker 2: Cooper Bebe, did you get any inkling about where he
Speaker 2: thinks Cooper Bebe might best fit long term in the NFL?
Speaker 4: He mentioned it's always good to have flexibility, but then
Speaker 4: that comes down to if you move him to guard,
Speaker 4: then who's your center?
Speaker 2: Because I think actually when they drafted Cooper Bebe in
Speaker 2: the third round last April. It was with the idea
Speaker 2: that eventually, whether depending on when Zach Martin retires, he
Speaker 2: would be plugged in at right guard for Zach Martin.
Speaker 2: But in the meantime he's now played center and now
Speaker 2: got that position versatility, which puts them in a good spot.
Speaker 4: And I think when the Cowboys look at it, their
Speaker 4: other swing backup offensive lineman was Brock Hoffman, who had
Speaker 4: played center but could play guard.
Speaker 3: And then you also have TJ. Bass, who is a guard.
Speaker 4: And I think they liked Hoffman better at guard than
Speaker 4: they did at center.
Speaker 2: And then is that based on the fact that he
Speaker 2: was then filling in at the end of the year
Speaker 2: at guard, or were they just did that be of
Speaker 2: course there's a different offensive line coach, and or did
Speaker 2: they do that because they're just not changing up.
Speaker 4: To positions right, Yeah, exactly. And BB hadn't played guard,
Speaker 4: and you got TJ. Bass that got some work at guard,
Speaker 4: and then Awesome Richards who had done both as a
Speaker 4: backup guard and tackle. And I'm just wondering if they
Speaker 4: turned that left tackle job up for competition between Geyiton
Speaker 4: and Awesome Richards.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just wondering.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it'll take place, but it's a
Speaker 4: new staff.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: You alluded to this in the last segment that the
Speaker 2: Cowboys are kind of in the same boat, or have
Speaker 2: been for the last couple of years, really in the
Speaker 2: same boat that they were a little over a decade
Speaker 2: ago when they drafted a future Hall of Famer in
Speaker 2: Tyron Smith. Then they drafted Travis Frederick and a future
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer in Zach Martin. How does this rebuild
Speaker 2: It doesn't compare with that. You can't compare it with that.
Speaker 2: That was an ald timer. But where are they now
Speaker 2: in rebuilding this offensive line? How far along are they think?
Speaker 2: And I would throw this out the key on that
Speaker 2: is what happens with Tyler Geydon right right. They started
Speaker 2: this rebuild actually in twenty twenty two when they drafted
Speaker 2: Tyler Smith, who is now after starting at left tackle
Speaker 2: by necessity his rookie year, has established himself as perhaps
Speaker 2: a perennial Pro Bowl player at left guard.
Speaker 4: And I think that as good as he is, you
Speaker 4: had to be happy what BB did at center. I
Speaker 4: know Terrence Steele, He's not probably a pro Bowler at
Speaker 4: right tackle, but he's kind of entrenched there with a
Speaker 4: contract that he has, so you got to decide what's
Speaker 4: going on at right guard and left tackle.
Speaker 3: And I think those are two things that they have
Speaker 3: to look at this year.
Speaker 4: And you know, in the draft, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: beat Nate.
Speaker 3: Newton to say this, but.
Speaker 4: He will be a proponent of taking an offensive lineman
Speaker 4: in the first two days and properly prefevably the second
Speaker 4: the second day, or at least the first three rounds
Speaker 4: to help out and to create some depth if nothing else,
Speaker 4: and a guy for the future.
Speaker 3: And again I'll say.
Speaker 4: It like I said when they drafted Tyron Smith or
Speaker 4: Tyler Smith, is that I want to tackle that can
Speaker 4: play guard and then eventually end up as a tackle.
Speaker 4: I think that's the best way to go. And I
Speaker 4: think they'll need one of those among all the other things.
Speaker 4: And we can do that next week on all the
Speaker 4: decisions they have to make that will impact what they
Speaker 4: do those first two days of the draft.
Speaker 2: But they really need Guidon to be.
Speaker 3: Yes what they got drafted to.
Speaker 4: And they the coaches talked highly of him, and I
Speaker 4: want imagine I think it was Connor Riley pointing out
Speaker 4: that and he knew Guidon's background and pointed out that
Speaker 4: he just hasn't played that much tackle. What fourteen games
Speaker 4: at Oklahoma I think it was, And then on and
Speaker 4: off here trying to start as a rookie, got hurt
Speaker 4: a couple of times, missed games.
Speaker 2: You just hope you're just not in the same position
Speaker 2: that Kansas City obviously is in, right, And they drafted
Speaker 2: the guy juan Ye Morris, who started ahead of Tyler
Speaker 2: Geidon at Oklahoma.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then they also spent a second round draft pick
Speaker 2: this past year in twenty twenty four on a left
Speaker 2: tackle from BYU who wasn't able to get on the field,
Speaker 2: and they wound up having to play their Zach Martin
Speaker 2: and Joe Toney out at left tackle in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: And you saw how that made what happened.
Speaker 4: There, paid the price for not hitting on those draft choices.
Speaker 4: And again we got to point out, and I think,
Speaker 4: you know this another discussion for another day to get
Speaker 4: into it, but when you're they were at twenty and
Speaker 4: they traded down to twenty nine, that's a second round
Speaker 4: great r right. Everybody looks at well, that's a first
Speaker 4: round game. Did you bust on a first round pick? Well,
Speaker 4: and he was like the eighth offensive tackle taken right. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they were all taken by them, right.
Speaker 2: So now that's why they were in the same boat
Speaker 2: when they drafted Tyler Smith where it was the last tier,
Speaker 2: you know, the last of that tier, and they hit
Speaker 2: on that. Okay, but the.
Speaker 4: Percentages of hitting after probably twenty it goes down.
Speaker 2: But the key on guiding is that potential. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: tapping that potential. That's why this is such a big
Speaker 2: off season. But it's in the weight room as well.
Speaker 2: It's the whole it's getting his body to where he
Speaker 2: can play a full seventeen game season plus, because that's
Speaker 2: the other concern that I had on him coming out
Speaker 2: is that, as you pointed out, in his two years
Speaker 2: at Oklahoma, it only played in fourteen games and had
Speaker 2: a problem staying on the field, and that surfaced again
Speaker 2: this year. Competition committee met in Indianapolis. Stephen Jones a
Speaker 2: part of that. You got a couple of notes from that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Rich McKay, who's the chairman of the Competition Committee,
Speaker 4: said that they did discuss moving the touch back on
Speaker 4: the kickoffs up to the thirty five yard line because
Speaker 4: there had been so many touchbacks kicking the ball into
Speaker 4: the end zone. Although the kickoff returns there were three
Speaker 4: hundred and thirty two, he pointed out, and it was
Speaker 4: a thirty two point eight percent returns and it was
Speaker 4: like almost ten percent more than the year before, So
Speaker 4: that part of it helped with more returns. And I
Speaker 4: thought the other thing pointed out was that they used
Speaker 4: the replay assist this year to help immediately for calls.
Speaker 3: On the field.
Speaker 4: Well they're thinking of expanding it to potentially penalties two,
Speaker 4: so that was interesting.
Speaker 3: Interesting. The other thing is.
Speaker 4: That they're probably going to be some sort of discussion
Speaker 4: on on side kicks on what to do there to
Speaker 4: kind of put that back into the game somehow, some way,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: It seems like it would it should be something where
Speaker 2: teams have the option of doing it whenever they want
Speaker 2: to do it, I know, And it's like it's kind
Speaker 2: of like the two point conversion, but how do you.
Speaker 4: Change where you're at.
Speaker 2: Or you just have to It takes out the element
Speaker 2: of surprise, right right and so.
Speaker 4: Oh and by the way, also moving the kickoffs back
Speaker 4: to the thirty yard line to try to make it
Speaker 4: a little bit more difficult to get touchbacks.
Speaker 2: To move it back to the thirty and in addition,
Speaker 2: the touchback rule right out to the thirty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my golly, we're going.
Speaker 4: One way or the other words, we're going to get
Speaker 4: kick off returns. The other thing that I think brought
Speaker 4: up when I talked about the on site thing, there
Speaker 4: was a discussion of adjusting the on side kick to
Speaker 4: the fourth and fifteen or fourth and twenty conversion.
Speaker 3: So I don't think the owners. I think the owners.
Speaker 3: Let's see, that's a little too gunked up. That's my word, gunked.
Speaker 2: And you could just do that in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: It didn't go that farre.
Speaker 4: It just said let the UFL experiment with right, see
Speaker 4: how that works, sort of like the automated ball and.
Speaker 3: Strike thing and the major experiment.
Speaker 2: All right, got anything else?
Speaker 3: No next week?
Speaker 2: Man, can you imagine how full this green notebook is
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 4: Be after I'm buying and you get all the numbers,
Speaker 4: the real.
Speaker 2: Height and start watching workouts on Thursday. Now that it
Speaker 2: is and it's a prime time event now, oh.
Speaker 4: Really though, so better not getting away of any of
Speaker 4: our basketball our hockey games. Well, you can record it
Speaker 4: our college or college basketball by the way.
Speaker 3: All right, so that does it.
Speaker 2: Everson says he'll be back next week, and we appreciate
Speaker 2: you joining us here. Four mix shots brought to you
Speaker 2: by Miller Lit. And at the end of the when
Speaker 2: I quit talking, Mickey's gonna say go Cowboys.
Speaker 4: We're going to leave that to Chris.
Speaker 2: See you next Monday at eleven.
Speaker 3: Go Go Boys.
Speaker 1: This has been a production of dallascowboys dot Com and
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.