WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Making Sense 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:16.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.480 screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:25.200 Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:32.040 and Nicky Spagnola and it is time for another edition 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:36.240 of Mick Shots. And we are starting a new week 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:40.479 because it's Wednesday. That's right, it is Giants Week. And 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.200 there is so much more than just the Giant. I's 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.479 gonna say, anybody talking about the Giants, Well, I can 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.720 tell you this much. In New York they are not 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.680 talking about the Giants because, as you know, I like 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.720 to listen to I like to go behind enemy lines 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.080 and hear what they're saying about the other team. On 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:03.200 my drive in I tried to listen to and I 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.560 put quotation marks around to try to listen to New 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.400 York sports talk radio. And as you can imagine, wait, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:14.160 let me guess they aren't happy with the Yankees. A 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.720 couple of former Rangers that play for the Yankees did 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.440 not play very well for the Yankees. But what we 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.920 are here to talk about are your Dallas Cowboys. And 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:28.399 of course there was breaking news last night, and we'll 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.760 fill you in on what we know about the breaking 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:36.720 news from last night. Yeah, I'm sure it might have 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:41.280 caught most people off guard, kind of not knowing what's 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:45.800 probably was going on behind the scenes. But as Mike 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.360 McCarthy pointed out today in his press conference, you know, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:55.000 they had a pretty extensive personnel meeting after the game 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.680 and minor standing. He kind of goes through every guy 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.200 that played in the game with the owner and the 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.320 CEO and whoever else has probably got Jones on their name, 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:14.760 including me. Uh maybe not yeah, but because you're not upstairs. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.440 But the coach did meet with me yesterday evening we 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.680 taped the Coaches Show, and I will just let you 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.200 know this much. He tipped you off. No, he did 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.560 not tip He tipped me off that there was something 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.560 important happening, and so he was in a hurry to 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.040 get that Coaches Show taped. He got a phone call 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.320 in the middle of taping the Coaches Show about six 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.400 o'clock last night. But go ahead, this is not going 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.560 to make the Coaches Show, is what you're saying. It 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:46.000 will be another in other parts of other part of Yeah. Absolutely. So. Um, look, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.520 I'm sure it's been hashed already and you know, our 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.000 chance to talk about it. The thing I took from 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.400 Mike McCarthy was he said there was He was talking 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:01.480 about the big picture and multiple factors on why they 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:07.839 made the decision to release Jalen Smith four games, four 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.840 games into the season. And this is the way I 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:17.760 look at it, number one, And this hasn't been pointed out. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.560 You know, every company points out that they were worried 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.280 about his nine point two million dollars base salary next year. 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:29.520 All right, but to do this move, you know, they've 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.200 got to cover his salary cap hit for this year, right, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:39.720 and to show you the dissatisfaction they had with him, 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.160 it's going to cost them six point eight million next 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.720 year in dead money, so you never get away from 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.839 the guarantees that have already been paid, right, So six 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.760 point eight he's gonna he's gonna count against the cap 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.680 next year, next year six point eight. You know how 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.920 when Travis Frederick retired and then there was dead money 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:04.320 for this year, well, next year dead money for releasing 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.160 Jalen Smith is going to be six point eight million. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:13.400 And had they waited until now, you do not want 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.520 to wait until the fifth day of next year because 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.240 the right contract was guaranteed next year on the fifth 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.400 day of the new league year. But if you waited 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.520 and maybe he may June first cut, then you could 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.640 spread that cap hit over two years two next year, right, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.839 And so that's the significance of doing it now from 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.240 a salary came exactly and doing it now because the 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:41.400 contract next year nine point two million was guaranteed against injury. Right, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.400 So what happens if he, I don't know, has some 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.120 sort of injury that he's out for the rest of 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.120 this year, Well, if it's something that he has to 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.719 rehab sort of the way he did this past offseason 0:04:55.160 --> 0:05:01.400 with the wrist surgery, right, And so he wasn't healthy 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.480 at the fifth day of the league year this year, 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:09.960 so that guaranteed his contract. Okay, they couldn't cut him. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.280 Everybody goes, why now, why didn't they do it before? 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.920 And at that point they had still not decided on 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.320 vander Esch's if they were going to pick up his 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.760 fifth year option. They still hadn't drafted Michael Parsons nor 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.320 Jibril Cox, right, So from a linebacker stamped point, basically 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:34.320 hadn't a sign and right, so their hands were tied right, 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:41.159 So to me, um, they were dissatisfied with his play. 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.800 Let's just get right to that. You know, we can 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.839 come up with all this other stuff, but if the 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:49.280 guy's playing well, then you're not doing any of this. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.400 And they gave him a chance over the first four 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.599 weeks of the season to show what they could do 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.159 better into this defense or whatever. He did not. He 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.719 did not if you just watched the game against Carolina, 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.400 they gave him every chance because they opened in a 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:10.080 three four defense with Jalen and Layton in the middle, 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.360 and that's where he belonged. And that was the second 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.680 series of the game. That was the first series of 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.960 the game. Jalen was not on the field. They were start. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.839 They were in that right. Second series of the game, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.359 they came out in a three four. Michael Parsons was 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.159 playing left outside linebacker, I think maybe it was Bash 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.800 him on the other side, and the inside linebackers were 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:34.000 Jalen and Layton exactly. And the first play Cuba Hubbard 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.080 went for fourteen yards and then one play later he 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.040 went for twelve yards, and then they were in it 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.880 one more play and then they discarded the three four. 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.039 The rest of the day, and whenever Jalen was on 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.800 the field the rest of the day, it was alongside 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.760 He was alternating with Layton, alongside Michael Parsons, right at 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.120 the traditional exact spot. And I went back and looked 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.640 at almost every one of his twenty eight snaps, and 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:02.360 he would he was an entity. I saw him make 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:08.720 one tackle, so that had a you know, that was 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.640 the overriding part of the multiple factors. Now the other 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.040 factor was, is my understanding, they went to him and 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:19.560 tried to restructure his contract for next year. And I 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:24.760 don't know if that meant lowering the base salary. I 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.640 don't know if that meant okay, we're going to take 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:33.400 this guarantee away or the injury guarantee away. But when 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.200 they come to you and ask you to do that 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:41.680 and you say no, well they're sitting there going, okay, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.680 Now we got to be careful because what if he 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.720 gets some sort of injury and he needs a surgery 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.480 and now the contracts guaranteed, right, So they didn't want 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:55.920 to risk that chance either. My other point is, just 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.880 look at the roster. Now. They knew Keane O'Neil was 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.080 coming back this week, Brandon and I coming back off 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:09.520 of COVID, So that would have given them that added 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.880 to the roster that they would if Jalen was on it, 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.080 they would have been right at fifty three. But with 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.840 Jalen gone, they're at fifty two. But look at the 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.120 guys that are about ready to come back off of 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:27.440 injured reserve. And I counted between Lale Collin's suspension and 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.760 then the guys on IR, there's like six guys that 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.040 they would like to get back on this roster. So 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.920 they were going to have to start cutting guys right now. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.320 Do you want to get rid of young guys that 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.680 you feel like they've got a future and risked them 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.240 getting picked up because you're gonna wave them and try 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.400 to put them on the practice squad? Or are you 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.600 looking at somebody that's as McCarthy pointed out, he didn't 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.680 say he didn't fit into this defensive system, but he 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.319 said we have a defensive system that we're going forward with. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.360 To me that he didn't fit into what they were doing. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.360 And so if somebody's going to be expendable, well there 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.320 you go, right, And sometimes I think guys have to 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.040 Now I don't know what's going to happen to him. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:13.960 I don't know if somebody's going to sign him, he 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.360 doesn't have to go through waivers. But if you don't 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.280 feel like this guy's got a future with you, well 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:25.720 you're not going to keep him and say cutting somebody 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.480 that you would like to go forward with. But it's 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.880 it might not be there yet. It sounds like jibberral 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.400 Cox is not quite there yet, but he's playing special teams. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:41.360 You don't want to cut him, so or Gifford. Yeah, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.280 so you you got to move forward and you can't 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.880 keep looking backwards. So to me, if you look at 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.040 where your situation is and they ask you to restructure, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.360 probably restructure is probably a pretty good idea because if 0:09:55.360 --> 0:10:01.520 you're not, then this might be you know, the result 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.520 of saying no and um and even from the standpoint 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.720 of I mean, just look at snaps this week against 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.080 the Giants with Neil coming back, and you look at 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.240 the game against Carolina, and when you're grading the film 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:21.320 from that game and you've got Layton Vanderish grading out 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.720 much better than Jalen Smith. You would like to have Layton. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.520 How many snaps did Layton getting that game? Late thirty 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.679 something right? Layton ended up with forty forty snaps. J 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.280 had twenty eight. Okay, those twenty eight snaps. Michael played 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.760 sixty eight snaps. Yeah, okay, if if Layton, if you've 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.200 and and this is even even factoring in Keanu Neil 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.760 coming back and which way. But by the way, sixty 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:50.079 eight was one short of right, all right, And so 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.600 if you if you decide that Layton deserves the playing 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.320 time over Jalen. Okay, so what is Jalen doing? Is 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:01.240 he inactive this week? He's the fourth linebacker, right, and 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.760 he doesn't play special team and he doesn't play special teams. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:08.160 So and you got Jabril Cox who ends up planning 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.240 nineteen special team snap sixty six percent. So that in 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.319 essence is the timing of it that I mean. And 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.040 from a very practical standpoint, he doesn't have a role 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:25.520 this week on this roster, right, And and again you 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.600 know seven point two million base salary, Now you got 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.560 to cover that, right, But if somebody picks him up 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.840 and signs them for say two million dollars, then you 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.440 can take that off the seven point two that's been 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:43.160 guaranteed already. So it sounded like reports where they tried 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.320 to trade him. I don't know well, and you could 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.320 see you could see this coming throughout the off season 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.400 because of the abundance of linebackers they had. The other 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.520 part of this, this was the first game that Parsons 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:59.000 has played the full plays. Yeah, he's been around thirty 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.720 eight forty snaps every game so far. This is the 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.559 first time he's had the full plate of sixty eight 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.760 snaps in a game. Yeah, And they tried to give 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:11.240 because there were some there were some snaps that Parsons got. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.400 They came at defensive end, so they gave him a 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.560 chance to be out there, right, and it works out 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.200 so well. And there was some alignments I saw in 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.600 the second half where when they had Parsons at a 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:29.199 defensive end, Layton was the only true linebacker on the 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.280 field and then they were playing Curse kind of as 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.480 a highbred type linebacker slash safety guy in the slot. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.480 It would be interesting to know if how much they 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:44.800 tried or at least inquired with other possible trading suitors 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.720 throughout the summer and leading up to the start of 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.040 the season, because I was looking at it going and 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.760 I thought all along, you know, he's from Indianapolis or 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:59.920 Indiana and the Colts middle linebacker signed elsewhere and they 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.920 had a need, and then you've got Ebraflus familiar with them. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.280 I thought that would be a good trading partner, if 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.520 I remember you bringing that up. And yeah, and so 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.920 I was looking because you could just see that there 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.680 was more inventory than playing time on this roster at 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.840 the linebacker position, barring injuries and so forth. And so 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.040 now we've gotten basically a quarter of the way into 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.840 the season and it's has sorted itself out fortunately, and 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.040 knock on wood, of their fine health wise at that position. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.880 But even if they do suffer an injury that position, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.440 they feel good about the depth obviously that they they've 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.560 got there. And you know, and the other guy, and 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:43.560 I know they like him for special teams purposes, but 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:48.439 the other guy that's on injured reserve, Francis Bernard, they 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.760 like him. Remember they kept him on the fifty three 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.920 last year, right, they'd give him some snaps other than 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:59.240 special teams. So, yeah, it's about going forward. And you 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.480 know when the head coach says, you know, we got 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.200 to look at the big picture, well that kind of 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.839 says it without saying it, right, right. You know, he 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:08.880 said all the nice things about him that you could, 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.120 and then it comes down to can you play? Can 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:17.680 you produce? And it wasn't happening, So he gets he's 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.800 expendable well as we were. And by the way, I 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.800 did not mention off yop that there is a vacant 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.880 seat here. Everson told us at the end of the 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:30.240 show yesterday that he was traveling today and would not 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.720 be able to make it, but he'll be back on 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.920 Thursday and Friday. And don't you know, he's just chomping 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.640 at the bit to be able to talk about this 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.080 because we know that because he was texting as soon 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.240 as it happened last Yeah, how did he know? First? 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.640 I gotta, I gotta what the heck text or whatever 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:54.080 that thing is wth But yeah, he'll be joining us remotely. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:58.000 So yeah. So now they went out there in practice today, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.800 so you know, but one of the questions that kept 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.400 coming up was how's this going to affect the locker room? 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.320 And that's what I was about to say right now. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.480 As we began this show, Michael Parsons and Layton vander 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.920 Esch were talking. Okay, so that'll be we need to 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.600 listen to right afterwards, you know, And I'm sure, but 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.400 it will say the right thing. I just I never 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.520 and I so, look, we haven't been in the locker 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.560 room since twenty nineteen. I don't know what happened last year. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.560 I don't know what's happening this year. But if I 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.000 look back to twenty nineteen, I just didn't think he 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.520 was like a locker room guy that everybody gravitated to. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.160 And I'm not sure he gravitated to anybody else. And 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.720 I've said that before, and I said this year, I 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.160 saw a change in him in training camp. He seemed 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.560 more engaged with his teammates. You know they who was 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.440 running around pattent guys on the back, and but that 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.960 wasn't him those other years. So I don't know that 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.320 it affects the locker room. And somebody tried to suggest 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.840 the Cowboys were sending a message now. They weren't sending 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.360 a message like, oh, you guys better start playing well 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.840 because otherwise we're gonna cut you. This was not a 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.520 Jimmy Johnson move, right, And you don't do that when 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.480 you're gonna get six point eight million stuffed in your 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.920 cap next year. In fact, I look at it as 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.560 they gave him every chance to by keeping him on 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.200 the roster the first quarter of this season gave him 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:28.200 every chance to show that, yeah, that he belonged exactly, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:33.520 and uh, you know, and you know, the story is 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.440 a great one as far as the way he came 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:40.000 back from his devastating injury his senior year or last 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:44.680 year at Notre Dame and rehabbed and so forth. But 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.200 at a certain point, um, you know, if you're not 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.920 getting better, uh yeah, you know, it's there's it's like 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.400 it's like the roller coaster was going uphill and then 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.400 it hit the top, right, and then what happens. So 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.880 he got to be able to stay up there, right, 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.879 and I'm not sure he did. Yeah, So that's the 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:09.360 bottom line. 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All right, we 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:46.359 continue on mix Shots and the other little bit of 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:50.159 news that broke this morning around the National Football League. 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:54.399 There were some speculation that the Cowboys perhaps could be 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.760 on the radar of this certain player who is about 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.640 to be released by the New England Patriot, Stefan Gilmore. Well, 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.520 as it turns out, it didn't even get to three 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:08.200 o'clock this afternoon, and Stefan Gilmore is now instead headed 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:12.400 to the Carolina Panthers for a two thousand and twenty 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:18.080 three sixth round draft pick. Do other teams need any 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:22.040 players other than the Cowboys every time somebody comes available, Well, 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.439 the Cowboys got to be interested in him. Well, what 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:28.639 was being talked about locally on sports talk radio is 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.240 the fact that, okay, we need to do something about 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:36.280 that other cornerback spot opposite Treyvon Diggs. And okay, we 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:40.240 got Anthony Brown, but you know, Gilmore Sherwood look good 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:44.240 over there. Have we forgotten that Kelvin Joseph is coming 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.120 back at some point? Yeah? And you know they used 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:52.240 the second round draft pick on him, right, So, and 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.320 how much is he going to cost? Like going forward? 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:59.080 Are you going to run him for? It's nearly with 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:03.119 his roster bone us and I'm sure that has tied 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:08.359 to games played. He wouldn't be available until Week six 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:12.640 seven on PUP and he would cost six million dollars. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:20.240 So that's half your cap right there, that you supposedly 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.159 have available. And then you know, are you going to 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.400 resign him next year now for a six? You can 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.600 throw a six the way I guess for three quarters 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:33.679 of a season if you want. And that might be 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.359 what Carolina's doing because they've had so many injuries and 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.879 they lost JC Horn and of course they signed or 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.920 they traded for CJ. Henderson last week. Yeah, and c J. 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.960 Henderson being a second year player in the league, they've 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:50.399 got him under control for a couple of years at least. Now. 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.400 Everybody's saying Gilmour is healthy because he got put on pup. 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:57.280 It was a supposedly a quad I believe it was, 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:01.240 And but he was unhappy with the contract, right So 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.800 if five million or six million a year weren't enough, uh, yeah, 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:11.359 he's gonna want, you know, double digit figures. And sure, 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.680 and you you would like to use some of your 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.639 salary cap if available next year, you would like to 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:23.879 at least entertain the possibility of resigning Layton Vanderish, you 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:28.880 might want to resign um um Michael Gallup. I don't 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.720 know if it's affordable. And then Randy Gregory's up too. 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:36.200 By the way, so this money that they freed up, 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.240 not to mention the free agents that they signed this 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:46.040 year on one year deal, right and Demante Casey, who 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:49.000 are all playing pretty well right now. Yeah. Absolutely, So 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:52.840 you got to think ahead, big picture, right, it's not 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:56.800 all about today. You've got to plan ahead. So you 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:00.280 can't be keep spending money at the same position or 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:03.960 draft capital at the same position all the time. Sometimes 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:07.199 you got to have a fifth round pick, start, a 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:10.040 sixth round pick start. I think Anthony Brown was a 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.560 sixth round pick. You know. Sometimes you got to have 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:17.440 a Terrence Steel step up as a rookie free agent 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.240 and the next year look like, Okay, I've got to 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:23.120 save some money. I don't. And by the way, tying 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:25.520 the SEC's back out on the on the practice field, 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:28.800 we'll get into a practice And by the way, with 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:31.359 a month left before the trade deadline, you don't know 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:33.800 where where your needs are going to be leading up 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:36.720 for the next month, because something else that you might 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:43.199 need more importantly, right, might show up. Right, your folks 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:46.879 at Pro Football Focus, who was tweeting where they were 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:50.920 tweeting about Stefan Gilmore signing with Carolina, and it just 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:54.439 caught my eye. The Carolina Panthers have these second best 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:58.640 defense in the I saw your tweet accord to EPA 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:03.159 per play. How mighty you can fall right from the 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:06.560 first best to the second best. That's where it's so 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:09.400 early in the year. I just laugh at it because, oh, 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:11.320 they got the best offense in the league. They got 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:13.840 the best, second best defense in the lady whatever it is. 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:18.520 And it doesn't take into account strength of schedule, right, 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:21.280 And as we talked about leading up to that Carolina game, 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:25.000 they had played whom yeah, played the Jets and the 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:30.640