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Speaker 5: You know is a defensive point. There happened to mister
Speaker 5: press conference. I was out covering baseball and surprise Arizona. So,
Speaker 5: uh thoughts on Zim two point oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at me, you look at me. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with you know, I think from the beginning,
Speaker 6: I didn't think that, you know, the Jones family was
Speaker 6: gonna go with an unproven commodity. As much as I
Speaker 6: would have liked for them to look at look at
Speaker 6: some other guys, they were gonna go with somebody that
Speaker 6: they know was proven. And who else better than Zim,
Speaker 6: a guy that they have had plenty of history with
Speaker 6: him and he has survived plenty of head coaches, uh here,
Speaker 6: and so look he was it was a natural to
Speaker 6: bring in a guy like that and look for coach Zimmer,
Speaker 6: he doesn't come in here with having to formulate a
Speaker 6: whole nother scheme and all of that. I think dan
Speaker 6: Quinn kind of showed him the foundation of what he
Speaker 6: has at the base of this defense. The number one
Speaker 6: thing is, y'all know it's gonna be asked, how is
Speaker 6: he going to use Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: That's it, period, Dott.
Speaker 6: The n and I think dan Quinn did all the
Speaker 6: hard work for you.
Speaker 2: No doubt. I don't know about this one.
Speaker 7: I'm not too sure about this one because when we
Speaker 7: look at, you know, Minnesota Vikings defense, you know over
Speaker 7: the past couple of years. Not saying that he was
Speaker 7: a DC or he was call on players or anything
Speaker 7: like that, but you know, it was the last time
Speaker 7: Minnesota was known to have that great Vonnit defense, that
Speaker 7: defense that shut people out. I mean, last time the
Speaker 7: Cowboys went up there to pass. Couple times Cooper Rush
Speaker 7: went up there and put a put put on some
Speaker 7: points on him.
Speaker 2: That Prescott put a forty piece on him. So that
Speaker 2: wasn't that is true. That is true. I will say that.
Speaker 7: So to me, I got to see how he how
Speaker 7: he you know, incorporates himself within this defense. You know
Speaker 7: from hearing all the quotes out there Harrison Smith saying
Speaker 7: he's kind of a guy that gets after players as
Speaker 7: far as toughens them up, and maybe that's what this
Speaker 7: defense needs, as far as a different voice coming in
Speaker 7: here and making people accountable for their actions out there.
Speaker 2: So if he can bring that, I'm all forward. But
Speaker 2: when we talk about.
Speaker 7: Minnesota and their defense, just when was the last time
Speaker 7: it was, like, man, the purple people eaters, they out
Speaker 7: there doing work out there.
Speaker 2: I just haven't seen that. So I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: seeing what Zim can do.
Speaker 6: I'm going to say I like the decision to bring
Speaker 6: in Zim. I think you bring in somebody that's familiar.
Speaker 6: You bring in somebody there, Like you said, around the league,
Speaker 6: people are talking about accountability.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 6: What have we been talking about around here for the
Speaker 6: five years that we've been on this podcast finding a
Speaker 6: way to be accountable?
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, just go listen.
Speaker 6: To some news or some podcasts over the Super Bowl
Speaker 6: week or weeks before that, and you listen to things
Speaker 6: that needs to be addressed by a guy like Zimmer
Speaker 6: holding people accountable right, making sure that people are focused
Speaker 6: on football, and the main thing is the main thing,
Speaker 6: it's football. The thing I disagree with you on is
Speaker 6: Michael Parsons. He got to find him somewhere to put them.
Speaker 6: They need to find out him, Zimmer, how are we
Speaker 6: going to handle this interior defensive line? That is your
Speaker 6: biggest ifs for me is hey, for the for the
Speaker 6: last few years, even before Nolan got here, we have
Speaker 6: not found a way to get one of those big
Speaker 6: one technique, zero, technique three, somebody that's on the inside
Speaker 6: that it's a difference maker. You tried to draft the
Speaker 6: guy didn't work out for you last year. We'll see
Speaker 6: how magic Smith works out this year. But Zimmer is
Speaker 6: gonna have to figure out how to handle this than
Speaker 6: then and get this handled in the trenches. I have
Speaker 6: some I agree with you, man, and so I'm excited about.
Speaker 6: I think you need a new voice. You need a
Speaker 6: guy who's with him to come in here on a
Speaker 6: one year deal essentially, because you don't know what's gonna
Speaker 6: happen after after this year. But the biggest thing for
Speaker 6: me is the accountability and the fact that I'm hearing
Speaker 6: other players say, hey, he's gonna coast the heck out
Speaker 6: of you, and you're gonna appreciate it when it's over.
Speaker 6: But he's gonna hold you accountable no matter if you're
Speaker 6: the top player on the team or the worst or
Speaker 6: at the bottom of the roster. He's gonna treat you
Speaker 6: in a way that make sure he gets the best
Speaker 6: out of you. And I think that's what we need here.
Speaker 6: Shout out to dan Quinn.
Speaker 2: He did. Dan Quinn did an amazing job.
Speaker 6: The voice change here I think would be great as
Speaker 6: long as the players are here to receive it.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the issue that we have. We're
Speaker 2: not sure. We're not sure about that part.
Speaker 5: What I'd like to know from the Joneses is their
Speaker 5: thought process go back to when Kellen Moore was here
Speaker 5: quarterback coach. They elevated an offensive coordinator. They felt good
Speaker 5: and fine about it, and we really didn't know much
Speaker 5: about Kellen Moore. You know, how they had such respect
Speaker 5: for dan Quinn and how he went about this defense
Speaker 5: and changed it. You know, from the first year when
Speaker 5: they got rid of knowing to when he came in here.
Speaker 5: They were paying this man big time money and he
Speaker 5: brought in his coaches. Joey Jr. Dan Quinn got who
Speaker 5: oh by the way, McCarthy worked with, they got eight
Speaker 5: and Dirty dan Quinn got So you pass on those
Speaker 5: guys and they become defensive coordinators for other teams. I'd
Speaker 5: love to know why they didn't think those guys were worthy.
Speaker 5: But yet d Q Boom immediately goes and gets with who,
Speaker 5: by the way, would have liked to have the job
Speaker 5: here because he told talked to him about last year,
Speaker 5: and then Dirty as well. I'm going to be very
Speaker 5: curious to see what happens in those those careers there
Speaker 5: and then people say, well, they know Zimmer and they
Speaker 5: weren't gonna go make anybody first time got but they've
Speaker 5: done it before. Offensively, Jason Garrett was a quarterback coach
Speaker 5: in Miami for a year and then they brought him
Speaker 5: here as the offensive corder. In fact, remember heck, they
Speaker 5: hired Jason before they even hired the head coach. He
Speaker 5: was that sold on. So I'd love to know why
Speaker 5: you'll take a chance offensively with unknowns. But defensively, I
Speaker 5: don't know about that.
Speaker 6: You know, you know, I'm just thinking and this is
Speaker 6: a little bit different, But I think about when rich
Speaker 6: Possoskia left and they put Ko to run rich Posassia's scheme,
Speaker 6: which if you don't bring your own thing in right,
Speaker 6: just bringing in the new voice to do the same
Speaker 6: old stuff. Sometimes that doesn't work. And I think for
Speaker 6: me that was a fear of what may happen. We'll
Speaker 6: elevate somebody else, but we'll still be running the same stuff.
Speaker 6: And we're still in here talking about accountability problems, not
Speaker 6: no uh, not holding up in the trenches trying to
Speaker 6: get that stuff figured out. And I think you bring
Speaker 6: up a guy who's already here, I think you still
Speaker 6: have those same issues. Put hear me out on this man.
Speaker 6: And I only think when I say this about Micah
Speaker 6: and just in general, because I agree with you, you're going
Speaker 6: to have to bring in the personnel around him to
Speaker 6: accentuate who he is as a player. I think we
Speaker 6: got in trouble three years ago and we started using
Speaker 6: the word hybrid with guys like Kean O'Neill and players
Speaker 6: like that, and we essentially we just started drafting guys.
Speaker 6: Oh he's a defensive end of cads, we'n move him
Speaker 6: down to the five. You know, we'll move making him
Speaker 6: a three and all that, and guys were playing out
Speaker 6: of positions. What is his vision as a defensive coordinator?
Speaker 2: Zimmer?
Speaker 6: That is because I think when I look at young
Speaker 6: coaches in the NFL, they coach scheme more. They come
Speaker 6: in with a scheme. For me, I think Zim, he's
Speaker 6: going to be successful if he coaches player. It's like
Speaker 6: you mentioned last week, Dick lebo a play a coach
Speaker 6: like that that goes and he gets number forty three Palamalu.
Speaker 6: He knowed, he knew how to use Palamalu in that system.
Speaker 6: Any other coach wouldn't have been able to use him
Speaker 6: that way. What has Zimmer seen from the outside looking
Speaker 6: in that says I can use Michael like that. That's
Speaker 6: what I'm interested and seeing. Because this defense already top five,
Speaker 6: top ten takeaways, pressures, and sacks. The piece that you
Speaker 6: have to add to this defense isn't as large as
Speaker 6: people think it is.
Speaker 2: You gotta stop the damn run. That's it.
Speaker 6: You gotta stop the run. And to me, I think
Speaker 6: that's that's gonna be his calling card when he went here.
Speaker 6: So he gotta stop the run real quick, though, So
Speaker 6: can we can at anybody?
Speaker 7: When was the last time Zim was like the head
Speaker 7: of the defense, he was Cincinnacinnati And in those Cincinnati runs,
Speaker 7: was it similar to Minnesota where they have those two
Speaker 7: high two high safeties. It wasn't really a lot of
Speaker 7: single high safety out there. And that's what this defense
Speaker 7: in the past couple of years talking about Quinn system
Speaker 7: has flourished in a single high safety because they have
Speaker 7: those pieces like a Donald, like a curse at times
Speaker 7: that can go down there and get into those bodys.
Speaker 7: When you get into that, when you get into that
Speaker 7: too high system, we all understand that's different for safeties.
Speaker 2: That's a different personnel wise.
Speaker 7: Are we gonna trust that if they do type run
Speaker 7: that thing, that Donald can be back in a half half.
Speaker 2: Feel safety of the entire game.
Speaker 7: I know Hooker can do it because he's been in
Speaker 7: the back end predominantly his whole career.
Speaker 2: But do we have those pieces to kind of fit
Speaker 2: into that too high system. I think you would be
Speaker 2: the best person to tell.
Speaker 7: Us, Yeah, I don't think that's something I gotta we got.
Speaker 2: We gotta look at it.
Speaker 6: That's not that's scary. And I'm not talking about Donald.
Speaker 6: The man makes how much money he can't get back
Speaker 6: there and play cover too. That that that that would
Speaker 6: be a bigger issue than bringing in bringing in a
Speaker 6: new He better be able to get back. Yeah, we
Speaker 6: haven't seen it. Ye now I feel you and I
Speaker 6: think you know. The whole thing is changing. So yeah, ahead, no.
Speaker 5: No, just just piggybacking on stopping the run. Defensive line
Speaker 5: coach chefs Agni comes in here with Mike Zimmer and
Speaker 5: then former Dallas Cowboy, former first round draft breg Ellis
Speaker 5: is a defensive line coach. So this is where they're
Speaker 5: starting from. But ultimately we look at these coaches and
Speaker 5: is it the carpenter is at the carpenter's tools and
Speaker 5: right now the carpenter's tools. Uh, the toolbox is lacking,
Speaker 5: and they've got to figure out how they're going to
Speaker 5: address it. And obviously next month was when free agency starts,
Speaker 5: and then the draft will be in April. They've got
Speaker 5: to address that up front. Somebody they asked me about
Speaker 5: Mozzie Smith, and I said, I don't know. Can you
Speaker 5: trust Mozzie Smith. He didn't talk to us. You know,
Speaker 5: mozzid a great job of ducking the media, and so
Speaker 5: I don't know what the offseason program is going to
Speaker 5: be for him and where they're going to go, what
Speaker 5: they're gonna do. But some people like Brian brought us right.
Speaker 5: Skyboys dot Com says, you know what, hey, I think
Speaker 5: he's gonna be. Okay, don't give up on him yet,
Speaker 5: but you gotta be at some point in time, we
Speaker 5: gotta have some comfort. We saw with jay On Tobert
Speaker 5: where he got better, you know. We saw with Treyvon
Speaker 5: Diggs after forget, we saw where he got better. Right now,
Speaker 5: we don't know how does Mazie Smith get better.
Speaker 2: M Yeah, y'all asked the tough questions and look over here.
Speaker 6: You know what we coming into last season, we figured
Speaker 6: the whole time we needed a guy at the one
Speaker 6: technique that can stop the one. Even though we had
Speaker 6: it got I got in free agency mid season, it's
Speaker 6: still was something that was lacking there. And we thought,
Speaker 6: look if we get this guy number one out of
Speaker 6: the back, coming from uh coming from Michigan, he seemed
Speaker 6: to fit that Bill, but then once you put him
Speaker 6: on the field, none of that came to pass. He
Speaker 6: lost the weight, he didn't fit. No Bill Herd.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 6: Now I hope, I really, I really do hope that
Speaker 6: that Masie Smith comes on this year and he plays better.
Speaker 6: That still ain't gonna be what solves the running game issues.
Speaker 6: You got linebackers that you need to figure out how
Speaker 6: to get to get in the draft or getting free agency.
Speaker 6: You got to help us. You gotta sure up the
Speaker 6: inside with the one and the three or what. However,
Speaker 6: Zimmer comes in here and decides to play it, and
Speaker 6: then I think the whole thing with finding out how
Speaker 6: to play Mike, I think as good as he.
Speaker 2: Is, that's what makes that a strange thing to me.
Speaker 6: Like he's gonna be he should be able to play anywhere, right, Like,
Speaker 6: hey man, you go right there and then you're gonna
Speaker 6: be a different difference maker right there, versus like we
Speaker 6: gotta find a way to put you in a in
Speaker 6: a whatever position to be successful. Nah you you you
Speaker 6: said you're the number one pass rush of the league,
Speaker 6: So we ain't gotta find nowhere to put you.
Speaker 2: You're gonna win wherever you at. I think that is
Speaker 2: the thing.
Speaker 6: So like, let Michael be what he's gonna be, right
Speaker 6: because you know he's a great player, figure out the
Speaker 6: rest of this stuff and then then work off of
Speaker 6: that because you trying to work around and having Mike
Speaker 6: could be successful.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be an issue for you.
Speaker 5: But Michael told Stephen Stephen a swift he's giving Jerry
Speaker 5: some you know. He has his.
Speaker 2: Thoughts on roster, which to me is wild.
Speaker 5: Sister gm he Lebron.
Speaker 6: It's the same dude that said it don't matter how
Speaker 6: far you making the playoffs. If you don't win the
Speaker 6: super Bowl, then it don't matter. It's all participations in trophies.
Speaker 6: He help us losing in the wildcard around. It's the
Speaker 6: same as the San Francisco forty nine is playing in
Speaker 6: the close game with the Kansas City Chiefs, going to
Speaker 6: overtime and losing. Is what he said. Crazy or not,
Speaker 6: it's crazy. It's crazy. It don't make no sense.
Speaker 5: We hear the word accountability. So the same book where
Speaker 5: I read about trust, read about accountability. There's there's not
Speaker 5: the accountability that needs to be on this football team.
Speaker 5: And as great a talent as Michael Parsons is, he's
Speaker 5: doing a lot of talking and the accountability is just
Speaker 5: not there enough for me. For all the things that
Speaker 5: I'm continuing to hear from him, you're trying to be
Speaker 5: the assistant GM when at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: probably be a lot better if you talked about how
Speaker 5: you need to have an impact in these in these
Speaker 5: football games, right in the Packers game where you're not
Speaker 5: getting to the quarterback, you have to be a person
Speaker 5: that is making play your best guys. You two play
Speaker 5: the league and you understand and know the best players
Speaker 5: have to make the plays the playoff games. And if
Speaker 5: your best players aren't making the plays, it's gonna be
Speaker 5: hard to win games, period, hard to win games, and
Speaker 5: in the playoff loss is that the Cowboys have had,
Speaker 5: Like Parsis has not been that guy that you needed
Speaker 5: him to be.
Speaker 6: This is your issue, his issue for me, and I
Speaker 6: think he can do it. It's not just about sacks,
Speaker 6: Like it's not just about that those other players that
Speaker 6: you that you are naming, who well we have a name,
Speaker 6: but we talk about the make big time players. Is hey, man,
Speaker 6: if they not get to the quarterback, are they batting
Speaker 6: down balls, are they getting interceptions, tip balls?
Speaker 2: Are they doing any of that stuff?
Speaker 6: Like if you okay, all right, you don't have to
Speaker 6: get two three sacks every game, but the impact that
Speaker 6: you have on the game has to be consistent no
Speaker 6: matter what. All right, Yeah, it's quick throws. All right,
Speaker 6: I'm knocking five passes down. And you see other players
Speaker 6: around the league be able to do that. Most of
Speaker 6: them are natural defensive ends and they are used to
Speaker 6: that timing when somebody tries to throw a job based screen.
Speaker 6: But those are the things that you have to get
Speaker 6: better at when you're not able to get to the
Speaker 6: quarterbacks them.
Speaker 5: So when you saw you guys with you young, you
Speaker 5: saw where Laurence Taylor made impact everywhere you go. Look
Speaker 5: at special lawis Taylor was playing special team. Yeah, look,
Speaker 5: I mean punk fueld goal. I mean he was everywhere.
Speaker 5: When Danny you talk about that and people try to
Speaker 5: mention his name with Lawrence Taylor, you cannot do it
Speaker 5: because lt was everywhere.
Speaker 6: All right, question, guys, when do we start I mean, look,
Speaker 6: it's not a good look. Let me start with that.
Speaker 6: It's not a good look. You shouldn't do it. You
Speaker 6: do what you're saying, it puts it. Everybody's listening to you,
Speaker 6: going what is this young man saying?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: But when do you separate what he's saying from his
Speaker 6: actions through I'm talking about through the season, all right,
Speaker 6: We can go to the playoffs and say, man, he
Speaker 6: did not have his dynamic a game. But when do
Speaker 6: you separate the player? Because to me, it seems like
Speaker 6: what he's saying is diminishing what he's doing on the field.
Speaker 6: And how can that be when he's putting up numbers
Speaker 6: that's putting him in the same breadth as some of
Speaker 6: the great players that's played in this league.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm like. We don't like what he said,
Speaker 2: but what about his play?
Speaker 6: All right? Dofives? Do offensive coordinator scheme to get those
Speaker 6: stretch runs away from Micah to get him running that
Speaker 6: way and then come behind it and put a screen
Speaker 6: come in. There are ways the scheme guys out of game.
Speaker 6: Am I right or wrong? I mean, I'm just saying
Speaker 6: this is this is a situation to me.
Speaker 2: In top five diminishing what you're doing.
Speaker 6: If you're saying a guy who gets nineteen sacks in
Speaker 6: a season two times you just said, but you just said,
Speaker 6: but you just said, it's not just the se He
Speaker 6: also has a pick six.
Speaker 2: He also has better than balls.
Speaker 6: But those those those other things that Micah does, We're
Speaker 6: not talking about the pressures. We're not talking about the
Speaker 6: other parts of his games that make him a special player.
Speaker 2: I will say this.
Speaker 6: He named all those fats, double team win ray, he
Speaker 6: went into depth on all those stats that let that
Speaker 6: that for the reasons why TJ.
Speaker 2: Watt are is not as good as him.
Speaker 6: So he mentioned that stuff and all I said, well,
Speaker 6: hey man, the man got nineteen sex.
Speaker 2: I don't care who what your name is. He don't
Speaker 2: have to be t J. Watt.
Speaker 6: Any player that comes into the league and has nineteen
Speaker 6: sex deserves the respect to say, Okay, he probably at
Speaker 6: least top five. It's not it's not taking away from
Speaker 6: what Micah does on the field. That's all we're talking
Speaker 6: about now is the game is over. The season's over. Now.
Speaker 6: When everybody talk about when you always talking about the Cowboys,
Speaker 6: and the Cowboys always in the news and y'all always
Speaker 6: want to mess with us.
Speaker 2: Are we talking about? So another issue? Hey man, you're
Speaker 2: a current player. Lead them current players along.
Speaker 6: You' the dude over here talking about former players all
Speaker 6: old and hating and stuff.
Speaker 2: And then we get this, Come.
Speaker 5: On, man, lining up the resume of TJ. Watt and
Speaker 5: Michael Parson. You line it up right now. It's TJ.
Speaker 5: Watt all day long, all day long, because of the
Speaker 5: resume and what you've done and winning defensive player. The
Speaker 5: I mean, it's there. And so when you want to
Speaker 5: start going down that list, start checking the boxes. TJ's
Speaker 5: got the boxes. And ultimately, I think we're all kind
Speaker 5: of just sitting here saying, hey, man, let your play
Speaker 5: and accomplishments. Do all this talking the accountability. You can't
Speaker 5: sit around here, point your finger the man over it
Speaker 5: is and don't who's done checked off boxes? You haven't
Speaker 5: checked off before. It's it's it's not a good look.
Speaker 6: And I'm not trying to say, say not even top five.
Speaker 5: It's making a hardware in his house.
Speaker 6: You don't have think about I think about Kevin Bayern
Speaker 6: or somebody saying that, or whoever was playing with a
Speaker 6: Reed and Palamlau at the time, being like, you get them, dude,
Speaker 6: they got all the picks, but it's because of whatever
Speaker 6: reason they ain't top five.
Speaker 10: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? It's not a good look, right.
Speaker 5: It's just good look and you just and so that's
Speaker 5: when you come back into the accountability. For anybody's thinking,
Speaker 5: Mike Zimmer is gonna hold these guys accountable.
Speaker 6: Really, I think so, you know, I'm hoping, So I'm hoping.
Speaker 6: So why why don't you think so? Why don't you think?
Speaker 2: I think we all understand why.
Speaker 7: It only is a certain number of players can do
Speaker 7: just that, which is, if a coach is coming at
Speaker 7: you say I understand where you're coming, but I'm gonna
Speaker 7: go up top.
Speaker 2: With it and see what the big dolphin. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm kind of like.
Speaker 5: If the owner a tripping.
Speaker 7: And that's the thing, like the coaches can say, you know, no, no, no,
Speaker 7: all they want to, you know, but there's a select
Speaker 7: few guys that can be like, all right, coach, I understand,
Speaker 7: but let me go have a conversation with with the
Speaker 7: big dump and see what he thinks about it.
Speaker 2: Good thing he on a one year deal, so it
Speaker 2: don't even matter. Go ahead and tell me that's that's
Speaker 2: the reality of it.
Speaker 5: That's it's gonna be interesting. I mean, if the current staff,
Speaker 5: who we all agrees are really good, if they couldn't,
Speaker 5: I don't know who is going to rain him in.
Speaker 5: And there by the way, there is a head coach.
Speaker 2: Right well, I do have to say this.
Speaker 6: I don't think his off the field stuff impacted what
Speaker 6: he did on the field this season, like like, I
Speaker 6: don't think I don't think that was the thing. So
Speaker 6: I don't think they really have to really meant for
Speaker 6: him to be able to play better. But I think
Speaker 6: what he's doing now may become an issue and.
Speaker 8: Celebrity talk about the locker round, like let's make that man,
Speaker 8: if you're player and you got your leader over there
Speaker 8: and say hey, I need somebody else, don't doing that job.
Speaker 2: I need somebody else doing this job.
Speaker 7: They talking about you, they're taking food out of you
Speaker 7: your pocket, saying that that's to be that that's wild.
Speaker 6: Last year wanted to get all in this year, did
Speaker 6: you watch the whole thing? Did you watch the entire interview?
Speaker 2: Which one Stephen A. Smith was just a lot of times?
Speaker 2: Which one? And that's what's bad.
Speaker 6: And that's what's bad when you're talking about your star
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Speaker 6: talking about his words diminishing what he does as All
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Speaker 5: All right, Michael didn't talk about this, so we'll just
Speaker 5: talk about this on a row. We've got a free,
Speaker 5: pending free agent and left tackle Tyed Smith.
Speaker 2: Sam. He does not want to retire.
Speaker 5: He does not want to retire, so.
Speaker 2: I got to brush that thing off.
Speaker 5: Free agency happens in March. The draft happens in April.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys brought him back, and it was you know,
Speaker 5: it was a contract where they kind of went game
Speaker 5: by game here. So Sam, what do you do you
Speaker 5: all the Dallas Cowboys knowing that Tyron Smith would like
Speaker 5: to inquiring, Yes, yes.
Speaker 6: Let me let me say this. Let me say this
Speaker 6: about Tyron Smith. Okay, no, no, no, let me say this
Speaker 6: about Tyron Smith. It is it has gotten, it has
Speaker 6: become a more difficult conversation to have now based off
Speaker 6: what they found out last year of all right, man,
Speaker 6: practice a little less, go through the week, and make
Speaker 6: sure you don't put as much stress on yourself and
Speaker 6: be ready for Sunday. And we saw for the most
Speaker 6: part when they did that, he was healthy. He was
Speaker 6: out there, and he was a dominant left tackle.
Speaker 2: All right. So if you can find a way to.
Speaker 6: Make sure that that continues throughout the off season, throughout
Speaker 6: training camp, and throughout the season, you say, Okay, this
Speaker 6: is the formula that we got Britt Brown and Jim
Speaker 6: Male wearing on them and Greg. If that's what they
Speaker 6: got and it works, you don't have no choice but
Speaker 6: to bring him back because he was still one of
Speaker 6: the top tackles in the league. He was when he
Speaker 6: was there. Our issue with him is this My issue
Speaker 6: is like, hey, man, is he going to be healthy.
Speaker 6: We've seen I think after that he missed one game. Yah,
Speaker 6: he missed one game after that after he started doing
Speaker 6: that stuff. So if that's the way he's gonna miss
Speaker 6: one game in a year, yes, bring him back because
Speaker 6: he is still a dominant player. I'm completely torn on
Speaker 6: this one, I really am, because I feel like Tyler
Speaker 6: Smith has shown you to this dude, this point that
Speaker 6: he is your air parent out at the left tackle,
Speaker 6: and sometimes we're holding on to to whatever the ghost
Speaker 6: of what he was, what he is through through injuries,
Speaker 6: through all of that. Look, let's just go forward. Tyler
Speaker 6: Smith is our left tackle, all right. We can find
Speaker 6: a guard. We can go into the draft. We can
Speaker 6: get us a guard. We recognize coming into this draft
Speaker 6: certain components that we needed. We needed to guard our
Speaker 6: tackle coming into this draft, maybe even a center.
Speaker 2: So let's go ahead and get that. And if Tyron.
Speaker 6: Smith can be we talked about swing tackle, a guy
Speaker 6: that can fill in and still be that, and he
Speaker 6: agrees to do that, then do it. But if it's
Speaker 6: time to move on, then I'm okay with that too.
Speaker 6: But I think how the Smith is your left hand.
Speaker 6: So so you go draft a guy or free agency, whatever,
Speaker 6: but you bring a guy in either through free agency
Speaker 6: or through the draft. I get a guard or a
Speaker 6: center or both.
Speaker 2: Gotcha?
Speaker 5: One of the two questions you have to have, one
Speaker 5: of the cost benefit of analysis. Is it a one
Speaker 5: year deal or is he looking for multiple years? So
Speaker 5: you have to figure that out right there. What is
Speaker 5: it the player wants and doesn't fit in for what
Speaker 5: you'd like to do.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 5: They spent money drafting off some Richard's Matt wilesco, Josh
Speaker 5: Ball from your talk to your offensive line code? Where
Speaker 5: are these guys at? You know that? That, to me
Speaker 5: is a pretty integral thing about because you've tried to
Speaker 5: do this, have you failed? Internally? I think that's another
Speaker 5: thing that goes in there. And yes, we can talk
Speaker 5: about trying to draft that position, but remember your other
Speaker 5: free agent here, your center. Yeah, how much money are
Speaker 5: you willing to invest in a center who made the
Speaker 5: Pro two years ago? He's going to come and want
Speaker 5: a nice deal. To me, that's another area you've got
Speaker 5: to look at. There could potentially be some nice centers
Speaker 5: in this draft, and what you're looking for ideally is
Speaker 5: a plug and play guy. The Ravens did this two
Speaker 5: years ago and they've got a player who who's Who's
Speaker 5: Who's been on the award list. So this is this
Speaker 5: is an interesting thing because you could potentially have two
Speaker 5: spots you have to fill your left tackle and your center,
Speaker 5: depending on how you want to spend your dollars. And
Speaker 5: if you do let Tyron go and you put Tyler
Speaker 5: Smith there, you know how do you address it and
Speaker 5: can you save some money as you're trying to re
Speaker 5: sign a ceed Because I don't think Ceedee Lamb is
Speaker 5: gonna play on a one year deal. This is just
Speaker 5: my b. I think he'll sit up here and hold
Speaker 5: on out. And if you might McCarthy, now you're sitting
Speaker 5: around here, Hey, hey, was my team looking like on
Speaker 5: a one year deal here? So this this financial thing
Speaker 5: gets gets really interesting here. And so that's that's the
Speaker 5: great part about the Cowboys. Would I bring Tyrone Smith back? Yes,
Speaker 5: on a one year deal, That's what I would do.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, as I looked at all
Speaker 5: this stuff, because to me, I'll at least get my
Speaker 5: left tackle here, I don't know if I'm bringing the
Speaker 5: center back, that's me. Would I bring the center back
Speaker 5: on a multi year deal versus going into the draft
Speaker 5: and getting because you have to at some point if
Speaker 5: you're trying to pay, if you're restructuring dock, you're paying
Speaker 5: CD Lane, you're looking forward to try to pay a
Speaker 5: Michael Parsons here. You got Diggy's here. I can't afford
Speaker 5: to put more money into the offensive line like that.
Speaker 5: I got some points, I got lets, some folks go.
Speaker 5: Some people ain't gonna be here because you simply cannot
Speaker 5: do it. You've got to go and get dudes in
Speaker 5: the drut.
Speaker 7: It was to me, Mashaw, what's the easier in y'all
Speaker 7: being the easier position to fill? Is it that tackle
Speaker 7: spot or is it one of those interior pieces like
Speaker 7: a center.
Speaker 2: Or a guard?
Speaker 7: Because we know, you know they're gonna bring Tying back
Speaker 7: in my p I mean we all understand. I think
Speaker 7: they're gonna bring him back on a one year deals,
Speaker 7: you know, whatever it is. But if he goes down,
Speaker 7: you can slide Tyler out there. But to the newest point,
Speaker 7: which one's easier to reply? Is it that guard or
Speaker 7: that center? Because we all sat up here and talked
Speaker 7: about Beyonni's. Yes, he didn't make the Pro Bowl, but
Speaker 7: there were times in there when I did interior pressure.
Speaker 7: It just didn't look like he had enough bricks in
Speaker 7: his pocket, Like he just didn't weigh enough out there. Now,
Speaker 7: I could be wrong, could be technique, whatever the case
Speaker 7: may be, But which one is easier to replace? You
Speaker 7: know that center, you got to have that glue piece,
Speaker 7: and then like you got Tyler Smith, who can be
Speaker 7: that two way player at tackle and guard. So I
Speaker 7: gotta go with newie owners when you're gonna have to
Speaker 7: bring in another center, whether it's free agency or draft,
Speaker 7: because we all understand Tyrant's coming back.
Speaker 6: That makes the decision more difficult if you're talking about
Speaker 6: replacing your center if you have because then you're replacing
Speaker 6: your center and your guard, and those two pieces together
Speaker 6: would be pretty much the middle of your offensive line.
Speaker 6: If you're gonna bring beyondish back, then I'm saying the
Speaker 6: thought process in my eyes is let's move Tyler smith
Speaker 6: because that's what I thought. That was what you were
Speaker 6: thinking the whole time, that he's your left tack How
Speaker 6: is awesome, Richards and Ball. I think the ship is
Speaker 6: sailed on Ball and maybe that hasn't Well, let's go
Speaker 6: guys like that. Whatever I'm saying, it's easier for me
Speaker 6: me in my eyes, to go into the draft and
Speaker 6: get get a guard.
Speaker 5: So let me just based on what you said prefaces
Speaker 5: this way, Let's say you take Tyler smithy move out
Speaker 5: to left tackle, and you draft a center who you
Speaker 5: believe is gonna be got more bricks in and can
Speaker 5: a guy that your your guards don't have to help
Speaker 5: you get a guy like that. You got, you got
Speaker 5: Hall of Famer Martin here on the right, and then
Speaker 5: you go fill in another you know, go figure out
Speaker 5: how you feel in that left guard spot. And if
Speaker 5: your center is strong enough, then maybe your left guard
Speaker 5: right right. I mean, you get You're not gonna get
Speaker 5: five All Stars, You're gonna get five Pro Bowls. There's
Speaker 5: gonna be a little bit of hey, we'll have to
Speaker 5: help this one guy there. But instead of having to dude,
Speaker 5: you gotta sit right here. I just think that what
Speaker 5: you did would be honest. You got we talked about
Speaker 5: all the time running backs, right, hey, man, draft them
Speaker 5: when they come on up, let them go. Why can't
Speaker 5: you do that with a center? I said, he he's
Speaker 5: a good center? Is he great? I call him? He's
Speaker 5: going to cost you money?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: What have you seen from the other guys who they
Speaker 5: did not play at center? William right now, Connor mac governluck,
Speaker 5: they're putting him in center play. I mean, so it's
Speaker 5: shown you you can go find another guy to play
Speaker 5: at that.
Speaker 6: Now now now, so we're gonna bring it back to
Speaker 6: the realization here of like Tyrann Smith ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 6: The man said, he wants to play. We know how
Speaker 6: this organization is to where he loves Tyron Smith, and
Speaker 6: he got to see Tyrann Smith be as healthy as
Speaker 6: he seen him in the last four or five years.
Speaker 2: So for me to.
Speaker 6: Say after all this like I'm excited to see him
Speaker 6: be able to be healthy and he is still one
Speaker 6: of the time, it's hard for you to go find
Speaker 6: a guy that that good. I don't think Tylers Smith
Speaker 6: is gonna see left tackle for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: If ever. First of all, I'm shocked. I don't know
Speaker 2: where is that? Who is that? Where are you? Who
Speaker 2: is this guy? What is going on? Because this is what?
Speaker 2: Have I not? Wait? Have I not? Always said? God?
Speaker 2: It was like the fan day the man told his
Speaker 2: part off the boat? Did it? And what? And what?
Speaker 2: And what?
Speaker 6: Card than them? Do they say no more fandam no
Speaker 6: more fandam? So my issue was health. This is the
Speaker 6: healthiest I've seen the guy since they say he ain't
Speaker 6: gonna practice. So if he's healthy, I'm good. If he not,
Speaker 6: he's not, But he was this is he was healthy
Speaker 6: and some man as soon as he go down, all down.
Speaker 6: He missed the whole season after he snapped out and
Speaker 6: no contact.
Speaker 2: I mean what were talking about? We need nothing break.
Speaker 6: Break not that break a franchise tag?
Speaker 5: Should anybody get the franchise tag? Will do it next?
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Speaker 5: players of Barry Church, Danny Krabnewy scrugs all right franchise tag.
Speaker 5: Last year they used it on Tony Pollard. Here before that,
Speaker 5: they use it on Dalton Schultz. Neither player was as
Speaker 5: good on the franchise tag as they were the previous year,
Speaker 5: so I'll start with you. Danny would go around the table.
Speaker 5: Who would you use the franchise tag on this year?
Speaker 6: I want to say that Dalton Shows got hurt, so
Speaker 6: but he probably still Tony Pollard and Dalton Shows a
Speaker 6: little different franchise.
Speaker 2: So who the options we got CD? Wait? Wait, wait?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Who do we have options for? Franchise?
Speaker 5: Erly, I wouldn't put it just I'll go first. I'm
Speaker 5: not putting on that franchise any.
Speaker 2: Who options though, so we got you can do Tony
Speaker 2: Poller again? Who else? I can't do that?
Speaker 6: I mean we knowing that now, I'm not franchising one
Speaker 6: of those. No, why wy you learned already with TP
Speaker 6: you learned that. Uh? And then how much is the
Speaker 6: center franchise?
Speaker 5: If you want to.
Speaker 6: Curse the cornerback, the cornerback tag would be high to
Speaker 6: And I'm not I'm not exercising that franchise tag this season.
Speaker 2: You don't, I mean, you don't have a reason to
Speaker 2: Tony Pollard.
Speaker 6: Tony Pollard got you last year because you were wondering
Speaker 6: how good he could be if he got more carries,
Speaker 6: because how explosive he was. And then he goes out
Speaker 6: with the injury, so that that is a different thing.
Speaker 6: I'm not franchise off with the tag on. I ain't
Speaker 6: tagging nobody, nobody who. No, I'm not definitely no, I'm
Speaker 6: not tagging anybody. And the thing is, if I use
Speaker 6: the tag, I use it as a placeholder to get
Speaker 6: a deal done.
Speaker 2: That's it, you know. But I'm not. I'm not tagging.
Speaker 6: I don't see a player that we have that we
Speaker 6: absolutely have to make this deal work for me. If
Speaker 6: I'm especially if I'm Tony Pollard, I'm trying to get
Speaker 6: in and negotiate early and often to get the best
Speaker 6: deal that I possibly can to stay on the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 6: because if he goes anywhere else, I don't think he's gonna.
Speaker 2: Get nowhere near.
Speaker 6: He's definitely won't get the same deal he got ten.
Speaker 6: They don't get ten again, so not anyone else. And
Speaker 6: I think, man, you gave me the willies when you
Speaker 6: said that about CD not playing on that one year deal.
Speaker 2: Because it's just I can that fifth year option.
Speaker 6: That would that would that would be so I mean no,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say And if I use it again, if
Speaker 6: I use it on Tyler be Hottish, I would only
Speaker 6: use it as a placeholder for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm with y'all.
Speaker 7: There's nobody I would The closest person may be if
Speaker 7: they showed a little bit more in a rug game,
Speaker 7: maybe O'diggie Zua, But yeah, no, nobody even remotely.
Speaker 2: Close by the way, Tyron Smith, what's the tackle? Friends?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, wanted I'm just making sure that talk about.
Speaker 5: You already said. I'm not franchising anybody. You can go
Speaker 5: to work on these deals, but I just don't think
Speaker 5: if I'm the Cowboys, I would franchise anyone as much
Speaker 5: as hey figure out how do we More so, I'm
Speaker 5: looking at there might be some a name player got
Speaker 5: to cut. It should be a couple, okay, some folks the.
Speaker 7: Space got a lot of cats to be paid.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 5: All over here, we appreciate you had a hell of
Speaker 5: a run. We got a hell of a run. We
Speaker 5: gotta let you go. And that's I just believe that.
Speaker 5: I do think that will be the case this here.
Speaker 5: I mean, because at some point in time, some people
Speaker 5: that you paid money to that you like, you're gonna
Speaker 5: have to look at him and say, hey, thank you, bud.
Speaker 5: We can't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you still gotta I mean regardless of all that.
Speaker 6: And I think that I was going to ask you
Speaker 6: about the cap and how they've increased it. How much
Speaker 6: does that help this team, especially with the Dark Extension
Speaker 6: still looming, with all of this.
Speaker 5: Going on to France, trying to take everything else. Oh,
Speaker 5: it's going up.
Speaker 2: What we need that?
Speaker 5: I mean, look, Todd Francs, it's gonna cost you minimum
Speaker 5: minimum fifty two a year, that minimums.
Speaker 2: Fifty five sixty million dollars quarterback. Yeah, no, absolutely right,
Speaker 2: So so that's what that is.
Speaker 5: What's going to happen.
Speaker 2: It's gonna happen. That's what it's gonna be.
Speaker 5: They put them in the situation. So you had that
Speaker 5: other ist, why make a play on one year deal? Okay, fine,
Speaker 5: So when you're paying him fifty nine million dollars and
Speaker 5: you have no wiggle room to go do other things
Speaker 5: and you sell it, you said you're all in, then
Speaker 5: tell me what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Now, we can't do that.
Speaker 5: The guy, the guy was second team All Pro last.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we can't do that.
Speaker 6: We can't procrastinate again, we can't kick the can down
Speaker 6: the road and hope that something happens. We have to
Speaker 6: get him resigned. We have to because there's so much
Speaker 6: money that we need to move around. If we're gonna
Speaker 6: be all in and bring in these players that we say.
Speaker 6: We say we're trying to get.
Speaker 5: So Burrows what fifty five a year? I believe I
Speaker 5: don't know, George, he's about fifty five. So that's that's
Speaker 5: that's where you're going. And and Dak Prescott is in
Speaker 5: his agent may say, hey, look, we were second team
Speaker 5: All Pro, we finished second in the MVP. I don't
Speaker 5: care what anybody else says. This is what happened in
Speaker 5: the first year. Mike McCarthy, what could happen in year two?
Speaker 5: That's what if I'm the agent, that's what I'm gonna
Speaker 5: put out there, and you're Jerry Jones and just go
Speaker 5: back to what the way he operates. Yeah, the man
Speaker 5: is not going to let a quarterback go who has
Speaker 5: got who's put together that kind of season. And he's
Speaker 5: consistently said Dak is the guy that can take us
Speaker 5: where we want to go. We will go as far
Speaker 5: as Dak Prescott goes. So to me, I'm of the
Speaker 5: opinion it's going to get done. Listen to him, it's
Speaker 5: going to get done. Go fix some of your offensive line,
Speaker 5: go help your running game, to help the player at quarterback.
Speaker 2: Man, you need a linebacker. You need to stuff too, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you need a lot man.
Speaker 6: You know you got looking need you lie man, it
Speaker 6: got stuff you made no better than me. Is Jimmy
Speaker 6: about to be a consultant up here? Jimmy Johnson, So
Speaker 6: I saw it on the website today, he said, He
Speaker 6: up and Jerry a little bit.
Speaker 2: Is that what you got called upstairs for a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago?
Speaker 6: He can't say, You can't say on the Yeah, it
Speaker 6: was no I went upstairs.
Speaker 5: It was it was for me, for anybody else.
Speaker 6: Okay, it came back down giving our shirts and uh.
Speaker 2: Okay, thankful.
Speaker 5: I'm thankful. I'm thankful to Jerry for that. But that
Speaker 5: was about a thirty five fifty thousand dollars conversation that
Speaker 5: gave me.
Speaker 6: Go here we go scruggs old scrugrug.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but it wasn't on the consulting board. It wasn't.
Speaker 5: You know. We never talked about the team. It it
Speaker 5: was about me. But I would hope, I would hope
Speaker 5: that Jerry Jones is listening to what Jimmy and Troy
Speaker 5: Aman and Emmitt Smith are saying right about now and
Speaker 5: even Michael it's because it's it's it's problematic. You're losing,
Speaker 5: You're going you're starting to lose the fans. And I'll
Speaker 5: say this again, I said it to you before. I
Speaker 5: just came back from Surprise Arizona Pictures and Catchers Texas
Speaker 5: Rangers World champions First off, it's amazing when you see
Speaker 5: all the signage about winning the championship and the trophy
Speaker 5: all that, Man, how would just changes things? But there's
Speaker 5: drastic differences. Drastic differences. You'll see nobody in the Rangers
Speaker 5: clubhouse talking like Michael Parns. You not see that at all.
Speaker 2: O winning cures all that.
Speaker 5: Well, well you don't have to talk, you go do.
Speaker 5: It's a total that. There's total different atmospheres, man, and
Speaker 5: there's a act. I can tell you their style and
Speaker 5: substance the end of the day. Substance is what people
Speaker 5: care about. Styles come and go. Styles don't win titles.
Speaker 5: Substances you could beat. You can have a lot of talent,
Speaker 5: but are you talented and are you willing to go
Speaker 5: out and do your job? The one thing about that
Speaker 5: team Boach, he kept talking about different guys. He said,
Speaker 5: you know what, he did whatever we wanted him to do.
Speaker 5: He didn't bitch about it. He did it. I had
Speaker 5: to do this. This was and you started to ask
Speaker 5: those guys, well, why did you take on that role?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 5: I just want to win. I kept here it. I
Speaker 5: just want to win. I don't care what my role.
Speaker 5: I just want to help this team win. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: it's a whole different deal. And literally, if I were
Speaker 5: if I was consulting Jerry, I would say, tell some
Speaker 5: of your guys to go have coffee or go walk
Speaker 5: around the club back and see how those guys operate,
Speaker 5: because that is what you want to do. And I
Speaker 5: can say this because I'm old enough to know because
Speaker 5: I covered a Super Bowl team. Here, it's drastically different.
Speaker 5: Drastically different.
Speaker 2: Dude, do you have them to win another World Series
Speaker 2: this year? No?
Speaker 5: Okay, no pitchings. The starting pitching is an issue. But
Speaker 5: here's what you want. Get yourself to the playoffs and
Speaker 5: see where you go. And right now, you know where
Speaker 5: they're sitting at. They're going to probably have to make
Speaker 5: some more additions and they know that. But right now
Speaker 5: the pitch starting pitching is not there. But with the
Speaker 5: manager and the attitude they have. Heck, they should make
Speaker 5: the playoffs again. And in baseball, like all sports, right now,
Speaker 5: you get yourself in here, you get hot at the
Speaker 5: right time, you can make a run. I mean, we
Speaker 5: look at the Green Bay Packers. They got hot at
Speaker 5: the right time. They had a whole bunch of dudes
Speaker 5: on the same page about where to go, what to do.
Speaker 5: But you got a manager there in baseball, that's the
Speaker 5: thing matter. When you got a dude who can punch
Speaker 5: the right buttons and get people a due things. Hey man,
Speaker 5: not this barrier. This ain't necessarily what you do. But
Speaker 5: I need you to do that. And Barry says okay,
Speaker 5: and everybody else in the clubhouse look at you, Barry,
Speaker 5: you doing it. Yes, I'm doing it, and you go
Speaker 5: get it done. And nobody got to patch you on
Speaker 5: the back like, hey, Barry, thank you. No, this is
Speaker 5: what you this is what we expect you to do. Accountability,
Speaker 5: let's go Zimo.
Speaker 2: It could be that boy.
Speaker 6: Hopefully I feel about dan Quinn, but I feel I
Speaker 6: feel okay, I feel don't care about Ziom.
Speaker 5: All right, So back Monday, right, back man, Monday next month.
Speaker 5: It's Monday Monday, no holiday right Monday straight, Okay, Damie Craig,
Speaker 5: see you next week. Hey, here's see you next week.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, but man, I'll be here, pressure, you'll be check
Speaker 6: you sched.
Speaker 2: We're about to run about it.
Speaker 5: Let me know, let me know, let me know, new
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