WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: QB Bags Secured 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:06.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:10.000 Cowboys. 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:16.840 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:22.360 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:27.560 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and Newie Scrugs. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.120 Cowboys Nation. Here we are players last. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:41.720 I hope your team win. Come on stars. 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.400 He goes, he goes, he goes. Okay, Uh, Barry Church. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:46.720 Is not here. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.960 He's yeah, it's very VERI is off. And that's okay. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.800 It's okay because we got birthday boy Danny McCrae in 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:58.080 the house. But still were gonna keep selling looking celebrate Cray, 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.160 Happy birthday. Heckm Harrison good in here, fresh off a 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.440 visit his son. Little Heck was over TC. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.280 Get that frog going out there loving do it again? 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:07.960 How you do it like that? Like that right there? 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:13.760 You hey man, come on now do it right. We 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.440 got time, Okay, we figured out, we got time. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.640 We got hey, look man, it'd be it would be 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.560 a big old thrill to see heck with the games 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:23.160 baby up there. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.119 In the stag and you know, get you and get 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.759 you on the sideline. With me. Man, she just walk 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.160 around there and just stay all day. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:34.800 He get I'm moving. No, man, that's all I like. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:36.400 Is that all we had to do? 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:37.880 Like it? Come on now? 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:38.320 Yeah? 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.520 Yeah, I took my kid out there. She's walking around 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.600 with me. Yeah. We get that, man, We get that 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.640 kind of access. But uh my, man, what's up? 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:47.840 Happy birthday brother? 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:49.680 I know it was yesterday, but just you know, another 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.280 trip around the sun. Thirty six? 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.720 Man turned thirty thirty six? Boll you look good man 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:55.760 thirty six minutes? Why are you getting out there? 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:56.320 Boy? Up? 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:57.600 What you mean up? 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.400 Well? You know what up there is? See these? 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.320 Yeah, you're not close to way y'all. Don't you wear 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:08.000 don't you were ringing my grades out? Your grades? As 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:09.839 soon as I see it, I get it as soon 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:11.040 as I see it. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.520 I just try to get the ones I can and 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:19.560 then losing telling him about the battle I know you 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:19.840 don't do. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:21.960 Never make a man when you start plucking on the stroke. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:28.280 What is that? What is this? Young like that? 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:29.799 And it's dark and one of them stick out? 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.480 Yeah, because only one of the times, so you'd be like, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.200 oh man, that one, this is so obvious. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:36.640 Joy, Why you can't man? 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.079 Joy? Enjoy. What what did you do for your birthday? Danny? Man? 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:41.560 I had a crumpus ball. I do. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:46.800 I do a crumpus ball, crumpers ball every year. A 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.880 lot of family came in town White's friends and stuff, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:59.880 you know. But he asked me. I was another one 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:01.960 that sall see, you didn't got me some donuts. Now, 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.680 so because I asked him for some cake, I couldn't 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.160 even get it. I couldn't get a piece of cake 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.120 made of me. You know, hey, man, you know I 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.120 messed with you. Man, y'all would have nothing on the 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:12.560 menu for the Harrison family. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:18.680 Man. Yeah, chicken. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. What is it? 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:22.440 I went on with my people through yesterday. So yesterday 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.560 I went out to the attorney, had a barbecue. Yesterday 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.120 I spent my day and I spent my day just 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:26.960 rolling around eating. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:29.639 Well, now that I know you, because the last time 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.160 I invited you something, you to make it. So now 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.400 that I know that you're actually showing it's your birthday. 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.440 Birthday is that's a different thing. Yeah, that's that's that's 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.960 a whole special day I survived. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.800 Watch party was a big thing too. It's not every 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.200 day that was doing the weekday. We had that one 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.160 because don't you worry. Don't you worry? But I got 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.480 a birthday coming because I ain't. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:55.760 Don't you wear get that bigness. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:04:00.000 So Russell Wilson one year deal to go to the Steelers, 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.080 Kirk Cousins. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.040 So the free agent tampering. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.920 Period at noon gets rolling, so you can officially tamp 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.800 they have been tampering. So it's about Kirk Cousins going 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:14.080 to Atlanta, talk about possible forty million dollars and Baker Mayfield, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:15.520 Congratulations the baker. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.160 Baker's back with the Bucks, got himself a big old deal. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.839 They took care of that. They took care of receiver 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:25.159 Mike Evans. Congratulations to him. So moves are being made here. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.200 And if kirk Cousins gets forty million dollars, I really 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.040 don't want to hear any Cowboy fans start morning and 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.520 growing because guess what, Dak Prescott's gonna get his money. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.280 And if it hits up into the sixty million, it's 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.159 going to hit up in there. It is now there 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.920 are no cheap quarterbacks in this league, guys. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:46.880 Russell one team, yeah, somebody else is bearing the bill 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:47.479 on rush. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.120 So yeah, Russ pocketing thirty nine. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.560 But at the same time, Russ is sitting here in 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.320 that point where Baker Mayfield was last year. Okay, you're 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.480 leaving a situation it was kind of cloudy, so you're 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.640 doing that one year kind of pillow deal. It's all 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.039 a baseball pillow deal. You fall right here for a 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:05.960 year and then get back in the market. So if 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.560 Russell Wilson has a good year, boom, he can get 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.919 right back in here and start start dealing. But I 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.760 just keep laughing as I read social media of fans 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.200 who want to get mad at Dak Prescott and Dak's money. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.600 This is what the market is, and you're mad at 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.520 the player, when essentially you should be mad at the 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.080 team because the team gave the player all the leverage, 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:27.560 so the player's gonna use it. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.240 Yeah, listen, I think we all talked about it with 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.960 four years was it four years ago when for your 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.080 franchise and we sitting there saying, hey, man, go ahead 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.280 and get it done. Then you put the franchise tag 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:38.960 on it, so that kind of pushes it to where 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:39.520 you are now. 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.039 So I mean, as a former player, I'm. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.600 Like, hey, hey, somebody got to figure out a way 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.479 to get it. I think Dak Prescott has put itself 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.400 in a a in a position to where he's coming 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.480 off of MVP type year leading the league in touchdowns, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.800 interceptions are down. And you look at it and you say, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.520 when you look at a Baker Mayfield or whoever else 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.920 is getting paid, I want to be higher than them 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.600 because this is what I did in. 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:03.240 The previous year. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.080 So this is the Cowboys fault that then in the situation, 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.280 And to me, I think the strangest thing about it 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.120 is you have a couple of three players on your 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.400 team that you're going to be resetting the market with. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.839 And I guess that's a testament to the way that 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.680 you draft. You're going to reset the market at wide receiver, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.480 You're going to reset the market at the linebacker position. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.880 Is it lineback is a defensive end or is it linebacker? 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.520 It got classified as a defensive end. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.679 Better if you want that money because it. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.039 But I think under the fifth year option, isn't it 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.400 lower as being a defensive end as it was a 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.840 line Either way, it is. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.520 Lower, it is, but he's that But that distinction thereamer 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.000 Todd Archer had had had a long thing he rode 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.359 up there available on social media. But bottom line is 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.080 he is classified defensive end. Would have made more as 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:49.960 a linebacker, but. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.240 In his in his fifth year option, he would have 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:52.640 made more. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.640 Well, just the the tag linebacker was more. 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.560 But in his in his contract negotiations, when he's negotiating 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.040 as a defensive end versus the linebacker will to be higher. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:03.400 Here's what I think. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.240 At the end of the day, when he negotiating, it's 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:07.720 gonna be what's the highest number. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.600 Band he gonna the defensive end is one? What's your one? 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:12.000 I mean. 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.240 But but the distinction itself as it came down, I 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.120 thought when I when I saw it, it's like, what 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.360 are the Cowboys doing? But then then as it was 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.040 explained to me, it's not the Cowboys that make that distinction. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.360 It's the players Association that that does that. And so 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.720 look again, looking over the league, there's so many moves 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.880 being made and the ones that you were just talking about, 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.400 especially at the quarterback position. With Russell going to Pittsburgh, 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:34.960 it was a no brainer in our group chat, I 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.520 said Pittsburgh online one because it was a natural fit 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.000 for me, and I look at their coach and I'm 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.120 like look, man, that that was the guy that you 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.040 needed to bring in that hopefully can get your offense going. 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.800 If I'm a receiver at Pittsburgh, I'm thanking God that 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.520 we finally get a quarterback at Russell Wilson's arm hasn't 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.880 diminished that much that he still doesn't have anything on 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.480 the deep ball, intermediate routes. Maybe that deep out he 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.320 can't put that thing on the rope like he used to. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.400 But other at the same token, when you turn over 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:10.560 to my guy Raheem Morris kirk Cousins, you know, in 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.400 that situation, if I'm Rohie Morris, like, do me a favor, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.640 don't do me no favors right now, just to get 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.520 things started here. And look, you have enough talent around 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.720 and I do believe in the running game. I think 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.680 that running game is going to be sufficient enough to 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.880 support which whoever comes in there and plays quarterback. But 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.240 we got to get talking taking care of cowboy business. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.920 You have to get Dak's deal done if you're going 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.880 to have any luck in free agency period. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.960 You're correct, You're correct, And. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:48.280 Once again I go back to just the way quarterback 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.360 contracts are set up. And then also you have to 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.600 talk about the agent. Here this game of agency. When 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.600 we talk about agents, you keep your job by being 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.760 able to go tell other free agents look at what 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.720 I do, and it gets used against you if you don't. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.679 So when you look at Justin Herbert Fuller of fifty two, 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.679 Joe Burrow high right now fifty five, it's an agent. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.760 If you can't get those things beat, it gets used 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.440 against you. So the Cowboys got that working get against them. 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.199 And once again I go back to a guy like 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.800 Kirk Cousins. If you're gonna pay forty million dollars for 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.920 Kirk Cousins and we know his what he produces for you, 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.320 which is disappointment. And I say disappointment for the stairpoint 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.600 that they had went to the NFC Championship game with 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.320 Case Keenum and their whole thing was thanks Case, But 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.440 we need to go next level. We need a guy 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.040 that can get us over the hump. They never got 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.600 over the hump. They never got back to where they 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.960 were a Case Keenum. So maybe keep your own guy. 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.319 And here's the problem. I think about Atlanta. For forty 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.400 million dollars, you could have Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson was 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.319 available last last year and the owner said, well, we're 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:52.480 worried about him getting hurt. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.400 But that was the weirdest negotiation of any player that 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.120 I've ever seen. Last season, when Lamar could, teams would 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.720 not touch Lamar. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.280 So go back to what that was. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.800 Remember, DeShawn got all that guaranteed money from Cleveland and 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:08.760 the owners were hot. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.960 They were hot in the hasls, like he what are 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:12.679 we doing here? 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.640 We're not doing this, and so it's kind of said, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.760 not said that, hey man, nobody, don't nobody else go 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.280 do this? And so Lamar has any smart player, Oh 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.800 he's getting that. I want that too, And it was 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.920 almost as though, hey man, nobody give this guy that. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.000 But eventually he signed a contract. He didn't get the 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.320 guarantees like Watson did. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.040 He didn't get them in that collusion. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.840 In that collusion we had to prove it was said, Okay, 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:50.960 this man looked. I'm just saying, if Deshaun Watson was 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.960 able to walk away with the bag like that, and 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.000 then you have an MVP in the league that's a 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.480 free agent, has an opportunity to have to reset the market, 0:10:58.600 --> 0:10:59.040 and we're. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.280 Still in a situation with Deshaun Watson. Is what is 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.200 still at the top of the food chain. Why why 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.280 is there even any discussion when we talk about dak 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.200 in restructuring his deal, And that's that's that's where I 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:12.600 have a disconnect in all of this. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.840 You're you're correct, But it's the it's the fan base 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.800 and the fan base in general, and then of course 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.560 those fans who are anti Deak. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.040 Okay, so you got that out there. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:28.240 But just overall, when I think about Atlanta, what you 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.000 could have had in Lamar Jacks. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.880 You about to pay forty you about to pay forty 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:32.680 million dollars. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:37.760 For a guy that is who he is coming off 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.559 an injury that Oh, by the way, your team is 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:41.040 letting you go. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:42.360 We'll miss you. 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:48.319 Thanks Kirk, good luck. Yes to me, that's that's wild. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.400 And Dak Prescott, as we all saw. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.080 Had a career year, second team All Pro last year. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.959 So in the first year of the offense, so I 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.000 just this is the business. Then the Cowboys and put 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:02.559 themselves out. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.480 I think that's the saving grace, like first year of 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.920 the offense, because outside of that, I think some of 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.440 the frustration goes of the performances in the playoffs. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.880 Oh man, So I think. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.280 It's if Dak was able to turn what he's done 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.959 in the regular season into a couple. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:19.520 Of playoff wins. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.320 I don't think you will be getting as much pushback 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.720 for a sixty million dollar contract when the recency thing is, okay, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.920 sixty million for what we just saw over the last 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.480 three years going twelve and five. It doesn't add up 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.800 in some people's eyes. But it's not even that. It's 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.520 more of this is the situation you put yourself in 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.720 as an organization because of how you did him on 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:39.640 his first contract. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.080 So that is the issue. Do I have an issue 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:42.679 with them paying it. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.560 I don't, But as I'm looking at it as a 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.720 Dallas Cowboys fan, I'm still saying the same thing some 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.199 of those fans are saying. I'm like, hey man, it's 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.360 three years of twelve and five, and we need this 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.320 type of performance in the playoffs in order for me 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.760 to feel comfortable with you moving forward for the next 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.319 four or five years. Because if I got to look 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.640 at that for the next four to five twelve and 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.640 five and then expect to be out in the first 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.640 round of playoffs, then I'm not seeing the sixty million 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:04.079 dollar work. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.400 ROI I get it. I get it. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.920 But it becomes two situations where playoff playoff production, and 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.320 I would put Lamar Jackson was he. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:14.880 Two and four? 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.320 I think of the playoffs in two and five, So 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.280 so you know, money, playoff production. But then you're just 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.440 that whole contract thing. That's almost that's a separate deal. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.760 It's a separate dealer. Fans don't see it that way, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.360 but but you truly have to when you do this. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.520 Michael Gallup, by the way, the team apparently reportedly said, hey, man, 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.040 go seek a trade. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:38.559 We talked about it right here on the playoffs. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:39.840 Liane probat to buy two Stevens. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.440 Michael Gallop a guy we like, but thirteen million dollars 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.280 last year and you were if we include Jake Ferguson 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.400 as a target, you were target number four. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.440 You can't do that. No, paid him way too much money. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.760 And I think coming in the expectation for him coming 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.440 off of the a cl Andrew Will two years removed 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.000 from the ace Yell injury, we just never seen. We 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.560 never got that Mike g from before, and the expectation, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.199 the money and all of that. You know what that's 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.880 gonna It's gonna be your undoing here and being the 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.360 fourth target at thirteen million dollars is a cush gig, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:16.640 almost like a. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:17.800 Back you know. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:22.400 I mean, And I went way out on the limb 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:28.320 with that right there, right just saying I'll take it. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.200 You know, I'm sure all year he was looking at 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.160 his chake like, you know, they really shouldn't be giving me. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.760 He never said that, by the way, but I just look, 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.320 I wish him luck. I think that, you know, hopefully 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.360 there's maybe there's a way. But I think going forward 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.200 for the Cowboys, they have to find a guy at 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.520 that position. We've gone over that agnolzium, but they're just 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:53.080 basically talking about needing that guy playmaker, a difference maker 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:54.040 behind ceedee Lamb. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:55.080 We just didn't get it. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.400 And we can try and put three guys in a 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.120 barrel to be that one guy if we want to, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.440 but we understand and when you go into the playoffs, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.400 we did not have that secondary target that we could 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.640 rely on. And look, it's just Cowboy fans, you know, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:13.000 I being amongst them, just feeling like like, man Dak 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.400 needs more from these guys. When it gets to playoff time, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:20.200 they do. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:21.920 Listen. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.120 At some point, it's gonna be hey, you at some 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.840 point it's gonna say, man, because you are who you are, 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.320 this gotta be enough. At some point, I do agree 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.800 that we need that second guy outside of CD Lamb 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.840 to be more productive than we had in the previous year. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.400 But it's just hard when you looking at sixty million 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.440 dollars and I know Patrick Mahomes is an outlier of 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.000 like you can look at what they have on offense 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.760 and you say, well, he can get it done. But 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.960 at some point I'm looking at that and I see 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.120 him play through the regular season, I'm saying I believe 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.320 that he can still get it done with the players 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.120 that he has on the squad. Like I think that 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.960 Ceedee Lamb, Ferguson, the emergency of Ferguson last year, had 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.320 at Zeke and Tony Poller, Like, you've had opportunities where 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.640 you had enough weapons to at least get further into 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.240 the playoffs, and we still haven't. We haven't seen And 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.800 it's the performance that he puts out there in the playoffs. 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.280 It's not like those other guys not showing up. It's 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.480 some of the things that are on just on him. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:22.960 Quarterback, the quarterback Brandon cooks his resume and what he's 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:27.200 done in his career. Last year there was a disconnect, 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:28.560 and I've got to come back in here to the 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.480 coaching staff. You had a player who's been putting up 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.000 a thousand, thousand and thousand, and been putting up a thousand. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.760 With some Jag quarterbacks. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.920 So I look at that last year as a failure 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.320 of the use of the player overall, because the player's 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.400 resume shows you he can he can perform, and there 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.080 were times where we saw Brandon Cook's perform. 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.560 So I'm not as sold as. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.600 I say some people talking about a wide receiver and 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.760 second to third round for the Cowboys, like, I really 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.320 don't think that's the issue to me. To me, the 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.520 issue still on the front lines. You you you can't 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.200 stop them running, okay, And what do we keep seeing 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.000 in these playoff games, these teams bullying them. I mean, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:08.720 I go back to when Jason Garrett was here and 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.639 they went out to Los Angeles and the Coliseum and 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.320 they got two dudes rushed for one hundred and ten 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.560 on them. I mean, just this thing's been You've been 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.960 getting bullied up front for ages, San Francisco, Green Bay. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.920 They just we're gonna run on you and cut your heart. 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.399 Out, Yeah, this is and and so that so, so 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.120 follow that up with your offensive line issues. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.479 Too, So we can talk all day long about a receiver. 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.480 To me, that's one of the last things I'm gonna 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:36.720 fix at address here. If I come back with Lamb 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.360 Cooks Ferguson, I'm gonna try to find somebody. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.399 I got told bon I'm gonna try and. 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.040 Find somebody at that level because I think they've got 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:47.720 enough here. 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.159 You gotta fix these You got to fix it up 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.600 front now, I mean absolutely, I absolutely agree with you. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.280 I think the conversation just evolved around gallop in the 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.760 way that the offense was last season. But when you 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.639 go back to the Green Bay Law, it was I 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.320 put that in the lap of the defense. I think 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.920 your defense lets you down in so many ways. The 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.840 ball game was out of control before you even could 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.080 get your offense in any rhythm. They had twenty one points. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.760 So let's just I mean being realistic about it. I 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.360 don't think that a big time wide receiver is going 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.560 to fix all of our problems. I think a running 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.920 back is going to fix your problems. That's what that's 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.280 So let's let's let's take a break and hit on that. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.680 Okay, let's take a break hit on that and I 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.800 We'll start with a free agent and somebody of the 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.399 Mavericks game hit me up with this Derrick Henry. So 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.120 when we come back, I want to get your thoughts 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.560