WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: March Is Here 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:06.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:17.600 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.439 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:29.840 Star in fris Joe. Hello, the live sawcot Teacher, and 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:35.000 now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:42.720 and Kyle Yeoman's. It's a Funday edition of Talking Cowboys, 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:47.400 presented by Geico on Dallas Cowboys dot Com, streaming live 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.000 coast to coast and around the world virtually via RSWBC 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:56.120 Mortgage Studios. And boy, is this an important month for 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:01.280 the Dallas Cowboys as March is here. It is March first, 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.920 and we have March madness to talk about. And I'm 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:08.520 not talking about college hoops. I'm talking about contracts because 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:13.160 Dak Prescott and the deadline, the countdown, all of it 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.520 is coming down to single digits, just a couple of 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.520 days away, March ninth, the tag deadline to find out 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.600 whether or not Dak Prescott will be the Cowboys quarterback 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.000 in twenty twenty one. And we're gonna talk about it here. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.400 I'm Talking Cowboys. Kyle Yeoman's, Isaiah stand Back, Rob Phillips 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.240 and heck, Harrison has always the usual crue, Chris being 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.040 doing a great job from the stars always. But Rob, 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.160 it's kind of crazy. This has come down the pipe 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.200 for like the last two years, last two offseasons, and 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.000 now we're getting into the point where, well, it's do 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.520 or die for the Cowboys and for Dak Prescott over 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.760 the next couple of days. Would we have it any 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.560 other way? Could we have it any other way with 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.840 Dak Prescott? Really? You know a lot of the Cowboys 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.200 deals come down to this. You know, Dez Bryant got 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.720 his deal done in twenty fifteen. It was mere hours 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.720 on July fifteenth before they got it done to avoid 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.040 the tag. So you know, like you said, it's going 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.280 to come down to a matter of days. You know, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:17.880 March ninth is the deadline for teams to last day 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.840 before they'd have to tag a franchise tag player. I 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.440 kind of look at it maybe more an extension of 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:28.600 March fifteenth, something like that, because you know, sure they'd 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.760 have to tag in by March ninth. If no deal, 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.079 it's a placeholder, they could keep talking. The biggest thing 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.440 would be to get it in place by the start 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.359 of free agency or by the start of the legal 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.400 window where you can start negotiating. They've got to create 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.560 some room. I think they understand that. The question is 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.120 can they get the deal done? But I was talking 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.239 to Dave Helmet about this, Isaiah, Heck, you know, we 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.919 can talk about the Cowboys free agents and things they 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.000 need to do and things they'd like to do, but 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.000 everything is tied to this deal because it all depends 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.119 on what the cap hit will be on Dak's deal, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.080 whether it's the franchise tager. You know, hopefully you lower 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:12.240 it and give yourself some type of wiggle room. Isaiah, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.840 how nerve wracking is this from a players standpoint? Whenever? 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.480 It does have a lot to do with the agents, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.840 with the front office, with the team situation. I mean, 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.760 there's so many different factors that go into it. We've 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.920 hit it all before on this show in previous episodes. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.560 But is there any kind of nerves whenever it comes 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.160 to a players standpoint, because you don't really know what 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.960 your future is going to look like. Man from dak standpoint, 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.120 I would say no. I mean, I really feel like 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.960 Dak is in control of this situation. I think he 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.200 has the upper hand and this negotiating, these negotiations, and 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.520 I don't think that the Cowboys necessarily like that. I 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:49.960 think that they're going to try to lean on the 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:51.560 fact that all you're hurt, we don't know if you're 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.360 gonna come back. I think he feels pretty confident that 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.880 he's gonna come back healthy and if they want, they know, 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.240 I think that they know if they franchise tag him again, 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.400 he's not coming back. And that's a leverage that I 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.160 think that he has. He's one of the best quarterbacks 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.160 in the league. They sucked without him. He's getting healthy, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.000 there's reports that he's getting Healthy's a he's a you know, 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.280 the hands down leader of this organization. He is the 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.320 face of this organization. Without him, they have no direction, really, 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.560 So I think that he's in total under control of this. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.440 So I don't think that he has any stress at all. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:22.839 He's like, either I'm gonna get paid a lot of 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.280 money this year and then I'm a I'm a double 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.359 down next year, or they gotta take care of me 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.960 right now. So I think he's perfectly fine. He's focused. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.719 He's probably over there just focused on his rehab hack. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.919 What do you think about that? Well, I mean, I 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.039 think Dak is in the driver's seat. I agree with 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.159 Isaiah and what he's saying about it, but really the 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:47.159 franchise tag kind of doubles as an interim tag for 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:51.239 like interim coach, interim quarterback. All of those things are 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.760 not cultural building, right, And Isaiah, you've talked a lot 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.080 about the culture of the Cowboys and how do you 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.280 build that. It's really hard to build a around the 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.680 guy or guys to get behind him not knowing what 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.880 his future is gonna be. And if you think about, 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.520 you know, the rumblings of other on other teams and 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.800 guys looking at Dak's situation. You know, a guy that's 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.760 a Day three pick that has worked his wi, pulled 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.880 himself up, and done it all the right way and 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.680 still not be rewarded. I think that's got to give 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.880 some guys, even within the organization pause. Why hasn't Dak 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.119 gotten played yet? What are the deals or parameters within 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.039 this contract negotiation that the team does not agree with 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.120 and the reason why we can't get it done. I mean, 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:37.279 I've finally gotten to the point where you know, I've 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.240 always been like, I think we're gonna get this done. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.240 We're gonna get this done. But lately I'm just feeling like, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.400 even from both sides, no one has said anything. And 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.800 with all of the Russell Wilson talk and all the 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.159 trades and all those other things in other areas, it 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.840 just gives you pause because you don't know if this 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.599 is actually the priority or if the front office and 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.240 is looking already in a different direction. I think I've 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.080 gotten to the point where I'm pessimistic for the first 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.479 time about getting a deal done. I thought whenever the 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.800 season was over and we were talking about negotiating contracts, 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:12.479 I thought there was a chance you got it done 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.919 before March ninth. Now, like Rob said to start the show, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.440 March ninth is a placeholder. It's not the be all, 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.600 end all in terms of Dak's contract. But right now 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.359 it just doesn't look like it's gonna get done. And 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.760 if it does, it will get done right up on 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.560 the deadline, prior to the tag deadline, which is March ninth. 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.920 But I still think the Cowboys will end up tagging 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.279 Dak Prescott. And that's just based on my own thought, 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:40.799 my own feeling going into But I'm like fifty fifty Kyle, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:46.360 I'm well, I mean, well, I mean, I think the 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.440 number of days is not very large, so and we're 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.320 going off with two years, so I don't know how 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.239 you can really feel confident about it. To your point, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.200 that being said, I think it does sound like the 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.440 Cowboys want to get it done. I I do believe that. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.760 I assume Dax wants to get it done, get that 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.880 type of security, and so I think especially from the 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.480 Cowboys perspective, I just mentioned, Look, thirty seven point seven 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.560 million dollars to carry on your cap going into free agency. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.760 They would love to avoid that. Now, can they figure 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.760 it out in eight days or do they need a 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.360 little bit more time. I'm kind of with you, Kyle, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.840 like I just I gotta see it at this point. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.760 But I rob if they don't haven't figured out by now, 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:34.960 then there's art. There's that argument too. I mean, it 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.160 has been two years. Yeah, they can't. They can't franchise 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.480 take him. I hear you, I hear you, both of 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.640 you guys, But they cannot. They can't avoid that. This 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.120 deal has to get done or you don't have to 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.600 worry about talking about Deck next year. Not here you're saying, 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.240 even if he gets tagged, just okay, we just need 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.920 a little bit more time. We're not quite done yet. No, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.120 if he gets tagged period, If I'm Dak, noah, No, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.920 I'm not. I'm not doing that because at what point 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:01.960 are you gonna allow them to continue to take advantage 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:06.040 of you? So if I'm yeah, So, if I'm Dak, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:07.840 you've had two years to figure this out. Player, you 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.160 know what I'm saying, like, like, that's what I'm gona 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.120 talking to. Hey, mister Jones, look here, if you ever 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.520 figured it out by now, then I'm gone. You know, like, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.720 I've done everything that I can do. I have given 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.760 everything that I have. I have led this organization, every 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.160 test that I've been given, I've I've knocked it out 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.840 the part. What else do you want from me? Right? 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.040 And if you don't think that that that is enough 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.800 by this point, don't tell me that you only have 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.600 eight days. You've had these last two years as hecks right, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.839 So don't don't don't try to make it seem like it's, 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.760 oh my gosh, I need more time. No, you know 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.160 if you don't, because if you don't value me to 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.320 this date, then you don't have trust me. You don't 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.160 have to worry about me. You won't have to worry 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.000 about me, And that's that would be my stance if 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.520 I was back. Well, if I gotta say this, guys, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.440 you know it's it's an old saying. If you if 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.680 you don't know your history, you're doomed to repeat it. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.560 And the Dallas Cowboys organization, if you just look at 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.800 the history of the organisation and some of the bad 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:06.040 quarterback decisions that's been made, it is just pretty much 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.439 handcuffed us over the years. I mean, you could go 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.880 all the way back to the eighties of Gary Hogeboom, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:15.920 Steve Peloor. You can go to when you know Vinny 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.959 Testaverde was washed up. You could go to the Clint Stoner's, 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.760 the Anthony Wrights, you could go to the what's this guy? 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:27.360 Matt Castle, uh, Drew Bledsol, Drew Henson and all of 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.640 those names don't do nothing but make your stuff. Give 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.880 you the bubble guts. When I say that, it's because 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.720 because all of those players did not allow this franchise 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.640 to go forward based off of that quarterback play and 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.160 all of man man, I get asked all the time. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.560 I mean, I've been in my community almost twenty years, 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.680 and I got all my neighbors asking when you're gonna 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.720 sign that, when you're gonna sign back, And that's the answer. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.040 So you got the question. But people are on both 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.000 sides saying, oh, well, we don't need them and we 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:03.120 can we can save this money to get who what, what? 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.880 Where are we gonna go? As far as if you 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.240 look around, if you're if you're saying, okay, we're gonna 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.880 go into the draft, we're gonna get a rookie quarterback, well, okay, 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.280 good luck with that. Right, What's what are you trying 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.120 to build off of that? And what can you get 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.960 at ten after Trevor Lawrence is gone? Then that's a 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.000 whole nother conversation. But we have to start asking, like, 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.480 what are we saving this money up for? Because we've 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.640 had two years to get it done. The deal is 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.480 black and white. I believe it's around the forty million dollars. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.040 Mark Right's forty million dollars. Give a take, right, what 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.400 are we trying to save? What are we saying is 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.400 he Russell Wilson is thirty six million dollars? Are we're 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.360 saving four million dollars? But what are we doing? Right? 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.640 And that's the that is my point with this whole 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:48.520 argument about that being good not great, Like guys in 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.880 ESPN are saying, you know, he's good, he's not great. 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.920 Does he deserve Aaron Rodgers. He's not Aaron Rodgers. It's 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.679 just too much going between. Let's get the deal done 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.720 so we can start building for the future around our 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.480 Frank Sis quarterback. Now, you make a fantastic point because 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.840 everything falls in line with the Dak Prescott deal because 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.040 we can talk about Dak Prescott all the way up 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.360 until that deal was signed. When it comes to other topics, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.680 and sure there are other topics that defense, the special teams, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.360 the coaching staff, I mean, there's so many different other topics, 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.160 but until you figure out what's going on with Dak Prescott, 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.200 you can't move on to those topics because it starts 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.160 the domino effect. It starts the talking point for the 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.280 rest of this Cowboys organization. Because we talked about crossroads 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.320 two or three weeks ago on the show, and we 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.960 haven't figured out which way we're going. We're still standing 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:47.679 right the cross roads to figure it out. And Isaiah, Isaiah, 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.720 you kind of started shifting my thought process in terms 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.640 of the leverage in this situation with the Cowboys and 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.760 with Dak Prescott, because specifically with Dak, if they tag 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.360 him at the March ninth deadline, what incentive does he 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.600 have to sign a longer term deal with Dallas after 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.880 the March ninth deadline prior of the draft. There's really 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.440 no incentive. You're gonna make thirty eight point one million 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.520 dollars and you're gonna make a ton of money, which 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.520 is probably more than you would even make on your 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.000 first year as a salary player with the Cowboys. Anyways, 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.160 I'm just saying, so you're gonna make a lot of money. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.040 Look at it like this kind it's kind of like 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:22.800 kind of like you know some of the situations that 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.600 I would imagine, like that that Rob has been in, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.400 or you know, maybe even hack him up back before 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.120 he got locked down by Miss Nikki. You know what 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.280 it's like. You know, you could you could date somebody 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.839 for a long time, right, they had At a certain point, 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.079 the lady's gonna ask for what she said, you need 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.520 to make a commitment to me. Yep, you need to 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.200 make a commitment. And if you if you're unwilling to 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:42.800 make a commitment to me, he right, this That's how 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.360 I did with my wife, right, I can tell y 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.600 all this story. Okay, so my wife, I was dating her, 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.079 might have been dating a couple of people at the 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:49.960 same time, and a certain at a certain point, she 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.840 was like, you know what, if you don't commit to 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.240 me right now, and if I walk out that door, 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.920 you won't have to worry about me. I'm not gonna 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.560 be around. I'm still gonna love you, but I'm gonna 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.240 be going on to the next one. Right. That was 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:08.760 your March Nights, that's marsh Knight. Marsh knightth is d Day. Hey, listen, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.240 you don't commit to me, all right, if you don't 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.040 put a ring on that thing aka forty million, all right, 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.120 I'm gone and you won't have to worry about me. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.439 So that's the same thing as you guys start looking through, 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.640 as we all start looking through all these different organizations, 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.439 it's an identity thing. It's not only just a quarterback thing. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.560 It's literally in an identity thing. So if you go 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.400 through the top the top organizations in this league, right, 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.440 the New England Patriots were they were, their identity was 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.959 who Tom Brady right in Belichick? Right, you think about 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.559 the New Leans Saints after well, we don't know for sure. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.960 Drew Brees walking away, right, but he's walking away. Drew 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:45.000 Brees walks away. What's their identity? What's their identity? Yeah? 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:46.880 You know, so you start you start looking at somebody 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.920 you know, uh, you know, Aaron Rodgers and he walks 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.240 away from Green Bay. What happens? Who are yeah? Right, 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.640 So you start looking at all these different organizations if 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.640 you don't have that guy. Not only is are you 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.360 trying to feel, not only avoid at that position, you're 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.320 now trying to figure out the identity of your team. Yeah, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.840 and we we found out. You know, look, Andy Dalton 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.480 played okay, played pretty good, but look we saw what 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.600 Dak meant to the team on the field and in 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.760 the locker room, and how they struggled and struggled with 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.240 their confidence believing they could win games. I feel like 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.760 without him when he win, he went down with the 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.040 ankle injury. Now I will say this, and I'm getting 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.840 Index's head here. If it were me, you know, coming 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.400 off of that really serious injury, I would love to 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.880 have a one hundred plus million bucks done, signed, delivered 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.760 this spring instead of saying, ah, you know, I can, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.040 I can? You know you do this spring? This out 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.000 for another year and yeah, I'm getting thirty seven million 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.040 guaranteed and then do this next year. I'd rather get 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.800 it now. That's just me. I don't know if Dak 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.040 feels that way. I just feel like there's incentive on 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.120 both sides to get this thing done in eight days. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.360 I don't I don't know exactly where they are with 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.600 these negoti jas, but I think at some point if 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.280 there's a little bit momentum, I agree with you guys. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:06.920 I don't think it should take that long to figure 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.040 it out. As much as they've been talking, despite the 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.480 fact there's questions about the cap this year and all that. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.800 What is what is the next domino to fall Rob 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:21.280 after Dak Prescott? Because I mean, we can sit here, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.960 like I said, we can sit and talk. I haven't 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:29.560 thought that's Far's that's my point because like I, like 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.960 Isaiah said, there's no identity. Then where do you go next? 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:38.160 Where do you go? And so that's what's Yeah, you 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:43.120 can find out, Yeah, Exam Becker. He So that's what's 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:47.520 frustrating to me, looking as an outsider, is if you're 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.440 that focused and you're that intent on trying to get 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.720 your franchise quarterback taken care of over not only just 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.880 this off season, but the last two off seasons, and 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.000 you know that this is going to be a repercus 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.800 should have not being able to take that next step 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.760 because I don't know if the Cowboys know what the 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.480 next domino would be once they get this deal done, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.240 because you can't really figure that out. And and heck 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.680 but like you said earlier, if you don't figure it out, 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.040 there's no identity, there's no next step, and there's really 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.000 nowhere else you can go. Yeah, Kyle, you have to 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.280 figure that out. That's what you're getting paid the big 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.280 bucks for. You gotta know where you're gonna go. I mean, 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.600 nine days to get this deal done. I expected to 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.800 get it get done. I hope that you get it done. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.200 And Isaiah, that was boy, you got some cohonas on 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.240 you when you, you know, do the comparison on how 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.120 you got married and all of that and the whole 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.080 competition by committee deal. You know, I would just think 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.520 that you know, you were sitting there and you were 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:53.720 evaluating as Lisa I'll tell you. But either way, you 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.600 know what's best for you. And I feel like everyone knows, 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.800 or at least I feel like those that understand for 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.920 ball realized that DAK is in our problem. We have 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.800 gaping holes on defense that we have to fix, and 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.960 we are shining the spotlight on DAC. But guys, we 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.399 are forgetting about the elephant in the room, and that's 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.240 our defense. If you want to go over the first 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.320 five games of the season and look at the points 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:25.120 that were scored, historically bad defense played those first five games. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.639 All right, we scored thirty points, but the other teams 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:33.800 were averaging forty points. You can't win many football games 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.919 that way, and you can't even align the rest of 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:41.480 your roster or anything else unless you get this piece done. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.000 The salary cap did not do us any favors. And 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.639 I don't know what the whole mind state is behind 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.399 being under the salary cap, but still it's getting us 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:58.080 a losing season if we don't have our all stud quarterback. Hey, hey, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.919 you know what to that point, you're absolutely right. We 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:02.760 all know that the gaping hole in it on this 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.960 tired organization right now, it's a defense. However, we're gonna 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.040 have to build our defense through what maybe a couple 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.160 of draft picks, but mostly through what free agency? Free agency? Yeah, 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.640 I don't free agent. Am I for free? If I'm 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.480 a free agent, am I going any anywhere where there's 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.400 not a good quarterback? That's boy, that's a good question, 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.639 that's a good point. I am I going? Is JA 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.920 answered me? This is jj wat gonna pick a team 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.920 that doesn't have a super Bowl caliber quarterback? No, no, 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.280 just he just picked a team. By the way, he 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:38.040 just Arizona reasoning Arizona retracked my statement. Then I retract 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.760 this in Kyler Murray. Goodness gracious, No, he's joining it 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.760 up with That's what he's doing. He's joining he's running 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.520 it back in Arizona with de Hop. But hey, but 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.040 I that yeah, that's that's why they got to get 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.560 this thing done and the next because it affects everything. Now, 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.919 the cat might go up above one eighty, right, but 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.159 it's not gonna go They reports are not above like 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.560 one eighty five this year. If he's at thirty seven 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.920 point seven, that's twenty one percent of your cap. That's 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.320 almost as much as as Pat Maholmes was on on 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.239 Kansas City's cap. There's nobody else even close. And so 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.560 how do you WHOA I'm not, I'm not. I'm not 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.320 blaming Dak. I'm just saying that's that's the reality of 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.800 trying to rebuild your defense. If that's the cap truck, Yeah, 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.000 I mean it's um. Now, it could be a weird 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.879 offseason where guys are taking one year deals and taking lass, 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.760 you know. But but that's not a lot to bank on, 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:40.439 you know. Damn. Everybody just needs to take a big 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:45.600 sigh of relief. Who's big deep breath in, deep breath out, 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.159 because there's still a long way to go. I mean, 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.200 we've still got nine days of this to talk about it. 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.080 We're gonna we're gonna have another show next week, by 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.640 the way, Monday at eleven thirty Central Time. Where will 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.920 you say, oh, well, you know now there's forty eight 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.919 hours until this Dak deadline. No, he's signed, He's signed 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.960 by next show. He signed. That would be nice. I'd 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.960 be really I'd be okay with that. 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