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Speaker 3: and the Cowboys have been very active. So I'll start
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Speaker 4: HEC.
Speaker 3: Harrison. Are you happy with what you've seen so far? Early?
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm not, and I think that we were going to
Speaker 4: make some moves. I felt like we were.
Speaker 3: I was new.
Speaker 4: Y'all was looking for like the rest of the Cowboy Nation,
Speaker 4: I'm looking for game changers, and I didn't. The selective
Speaker 4: aggressiveness is that the word?
Speaker 3: Is it? Selective? Okay? Selective?
Speaker 4: Aggressive and trying to decipher what that actually meant. I
Speaker 4: think I'm getting the definition. We're going to bring in
Speaker 4: guys that are going to be rotational pieces here early,
Speaker 4: and it's early. I understand that you still got a
Speaker 4: long way to go, right, but I'm still looking at
Speaker 4: this team and saying, Okay, based off of your overall needs,
Speaker 4: you haven't hit the free agent market strong enough to
Speaker 4: get those guys that I believe, Okay, as a defensive lineman,
Speaker 4: the offensive guard, or these guys are going to be
Speaker 4: difference makers for this team. They're going to be the
Speaker 4: cog in the wheel that's actually going to get you
Speaker 4: to that next level. And that's what we've been looking for.
Speaker 4: That's what we've been asking for at least so no
Speaker 4: so far. I think if I was going to grade
Speaker 4: where we are right now, I would go see minus
Speaker 4: Trey Man man he came in hot.
Speaker 5: Honestly I would probably I wouldn't be as crucial. I
Speaker 5: would say it's about maybe a C plus B right now.
Speaker 5: For me, being a journeyman, it hits it hits home
Speaker 5: for me when you you're coming in and people are saying, oh,
Speaker 5: that wasn't the big name guy like some of these
Speaker 5: guys that you bringing in are pretty their quality pieces.
Speaker 5: They've shown at different times that they can make plays.
Speaker 5: You know, you got Solomon Thomas coming in. I'm biased,
Speaker 5: you know I played with him, hard working guy, coming home,
Speaker 5: playing for the hometown, being of.
Speaker 3: A Cockpel cowboy, now Dallas cowboy.
Speaker 5: I think that can light a new spark behind you
Speaker 5: because we got to remember that this guy was the
Speaker 5: first round pick. He's been on, he's been to Super Bowls,
Speaker 5: he's gotten the big bag. So this guy can transform
Speaker 5: into somebody. And then as far as the running backs situation,
Speaker 5: we all y'all know how I feel about that.
Speaker 3: It wasn't it was It wasn't.
Speaker 5: It wasn't it wasn't the big It wasn't a big splash.
Speaker 5: It's funny because I looked up that the Cowboys haven't
Speaker 5: brought in anybody and paid them outside of the house
Speaker 5: since Greg Hardy. And so it's like, man like, when
Speaker 5: you think about these numbers, you got to go pay
Speaker 5: to get that quality in. So for you to go
Speaker 5: get the running back that you got, it's like, hold
Speaker 5: on you bringing a guy that had less than a
Speaker 5: thousand yards and you let go a thousand yard running
Speaker 5: back this in house like talent like that for what
Speaker 5: three million dollars shorter and you have the production, So
Speaker 5: I guess it balances out. But for me, it's like,
Speaker 5: when you don't have that many key opponents, why let
Speaker 5: these people leave the building. And then two, like you said,
Speaker 5: if we're gonna let these people leave the building, I'm
Speaker 5: expecting you to bring in somebody and make that big splash.
Speaker 5: And this big splash did not happen. Every team Every
Speaker 5: year they have to have that big splash, whether it's
Speaker 5: in free agency or whether it's in the draft. And
Speaker 5: so I don't want to sit here and say, oh,
Speaker 5: we're waiting or this and that. They added certain pieces,
Speaker 5: like it's still late. There are still some big name
Speaker 5: players that are out there that maybe you can go
Speaker 5: spend for, but historically speaking, it hasn't shown that. So
Speaker 5: if it ends here and it goes on that same path, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm a little upset.
Speaker 3: And it's like, oh, it's like lust.
Speaker 5: They're like for the Cowboys where they want to be
Speaker 5: for all the hype that's behind it being America's team.
Speaker 3: Where's America's player?
Speaker 5: You didn't bring them in and then you haven't paid
Speaker 5: America's player and Michael Parson and that, you.
Speaker 3: Know, just adding that tibbot in there.
Speaker 5: So it's like, hold on, I'm trying to be graceful
Speaker 5: and say, hey, maybe they haven't went out and paid
Speaker 5: somebody that big bag because they're aware they're gonna have
Speaker 5: to pay Michael. And then if they keep waiting the
Speaker 5: way that they're waiting, all these guys, Miles Garrett, all
Speaker 5: these other guys that keep raising that bar to where
Speaker 5: you didn't have to give them that much to now
Speaker 5: that bag is getting hirged. So maybe you can't make
Speaker 5: that splash and free agency. So I'm trying to be
Speaker 5: patient on it. But right now C plus maybe be
Speaker 5: minus because you did add in an offensive guard. You
Speaker 5: did add in some more rotational pieces as far as
Speaker 5: d Lineman, you got your you gotta running back right now.
Speaker 5: You still got other things you need to address in
Speaker 5: the draft. But yeah, it's a little lackluster right now.
Speaker 3: Me make sure I get this trait listening to you too, y'all.
Speaker 3: Greg Hardy in twenty fifteen was the last time they
Speaker 3: went out there and made his flash. Yeah, ten years
Speaker 3: and you expected it to change this year this year? No, No,
Speaker 3: I'm not. Why why why I'm not?
Speaker 5: Why would you you wouldn't because, like you said, we
Speaker 5: see how that situation went, and it's like, ah, I
Speaker 5: got this is who they are, right, and that is
Speaker 5: who they are.
Speaker 3: They are right. But you got decade, deca now know
Speaker 3: you we're going shopping kids, they drive past that mall?
Speaker 5: What then you can pass the mall? You go past
Speaker 5: Big T Where are we going? Hold on, we're going
Speaker 5: to the discount outlet. Man, you get some stuff over
Speaker 5: the warehouse. You're going past Burlin warehouse. But you got
Speaker 5: to look for it. You got to it's bargain shopping
Speaker 5: and you better be looking. And you could find some
Speaker 5: good pieces in the bargain shopping. But you can't get
Speaker 5: everything from the bargain shop. You gotta get that one
Speaker 5: focal piece. When you dress, it's like, okay, cheap the
Speaker 5: chief shirt, but hey, my necklace is going to be that.
Speaker 3: Oh hey, my watch is going to be that.
Speaker 5: Thecessory piece, like where's thecessory piece for the cowboys?
Speaker 3: Is where I'm asking. But we know they're not going
Speaker 3: in free agency the first week and signing a name.
Speaker 3: We got a decade now, now, hard, we got a decade. Now,
Speaker 3: don't look for that. What they will do is what,
Speaker 3: let's find complimentary pieces guys can fit here. I will
Speaker 3: say this if I'm Mike McCarthy, m senior, can I
Speaker 3: had some of this last year. A couple of pieces
Speaker 3: last year helped me out. I'm not it's going to
Speaker 3: be the second week if they go and find a
Speaker 3: quote unquote name that you're familiar with to say, hey,
Speaker 3: maybe this guy can do something here or there. As
Speaker 3: far as the running back goes here, Rico Donald going
Speaker 3: to Carolina for basically the same money that Javonte Williams got.
Speaker 3: Here's what I will would love to know. Where were
Speaker 3: those Where were they at in the negotiation? Where was ricoing?
Speaker 3: Where were they at that they decided to say, you
Speaker 3: know what, man Rico, thank you, thank you, We're going
Speaker 3: to go over here to Javonte Williams, who is also
Speaker 3: a better third down back in terms of catching the football.
Speaker 3: I think all three of us are in agreement that
Speaker 3: the first two days a running back needs to be.
Speaker 5: Selected, of course, of course without a doubt.
Speaker 3: And I'm a I'm thinking and if we kind of
Speaker 3: go with what we've seen with backs drafted that high
Speaker 3: this should probably be your RB one. So RB one
Speaker 3: out of the draft. Javonte Williams third down back coming
Speaker 3: in here? Can I live with that? I can live
Speaker 3: with that. You covered Ashton Genty, you want to tell
Speaker 3: me it's Ashton Genty, and then I got Javonte Williams
Speaker 3: here coming on the third. Would you would that upset you?
Speaker 4: Well, Ashton Gensey will be the starter and they would
Speaker 4: be RB one and Williams would be RB two. I
Speaker 4: wouldn't have a problem with it. And I think when
Speaker 4: you asked the question about what happened in the Rico
Speaker 4: Dowble negotiations, I think the negotiation was only only went
Speaker 4: as far as we were thirty second in the league
Speaker 4: in rushing touchdowns. So the script, the narrative wrote itself,
Speaker 4: there's nothing more to add. And here's the thing. When
Speaker 4: you take a running back like Saquon Barkley and you
Speaker 4: put him when he was with the Giants, and he
Speaker 4: runs for eleven hundred yards in the Giants offense, then
Speaker 4: your quarterback with no quarterback and b minus offensive line.
Speaker 3: But then I'm sorry, I'm okay.
Speaker 4: But then you take him and you send him over
Speaker 4: to Philly, and now he's a two thousand yard rusher.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Let's take Rico Dawdle in this offense. Last year ran
Speaker 4: for one thousand yards. Okay, that is documented even with
Speaker 4: the lack of touchdowns, that his ability to hit paydir
Speaker 4: Javonte Williams. You put Javonte Williams in this offense, he
Speaker 4: scored four touchdowns last year. Would he would he have
Speaker 4: more success in this offense. If we're talking about offensive line,
Speaker 4: I think we're going to give our offensive line plus
Speaker 4: se minus and them.
Speaker 3: But I always talking about now, okay, either way.
Speaker 4: Either way, what I'm saying is you could take running
Speaker 4: backs all around the league and put them in different
Speaker 4: offenses and they will have success. All Right, I'm saying
Speaker 4: to you, Look, I just think that Javonte Williams is
Speaker 4: a better running back based off just based off of
Speaker 4: what I've seen from him. The way that he attacks holes,
Speaker 4: the way I mean just on third down. Those are
Speaker 4: different things that we did not get from Rico. And
Speaker 4: I don't want to be I don't want to have
Speaker 4: recency bias. I don't want to see a guy after
Speaker 4: the fact that go, oh, he's valuable to us. We
Speaker 4: should have kept held on to him. No, we need
Speaker 4: game changes. And there were plenty of games Montre that
Speaker 4: we went through. We watched and it was like, damn,
Speaker 4: if we just had a halfway serviceable running back, that
Speaker 4: could be the difference in this game, playoff games the same.
Speaker 5: This is true, And I'm not defending letting Rico go because,
Speaker 5: like I said, you can always get better. You can
Speaker 5: go find those guys that are undrafted, free agent fish
Speaker 5: round pick that are out there doing it and that
Speaker 5: are coming in to be starters. But the good teams,
Speaker 5: the teams that I've been a part of, we all
Speaker 5: know that yes, you have your your star power guy,
Speaker 5: but then you have that second guy, but then you.
Speaker 3: Got to have depth.
Speaker 5: Why not you you're telling me you couldn't have both
Speaker 5: of them on that on that you couldn't have Rico
Speaker 5: and bring in uh him to know.
Speaker 3: No, I don't. I don't think.
Speaker 4: And the reason I'm saying it is because I think
Speaker 4: you were going to go into this draft and you
Speaker 4: were going to get a running back anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes you do. But that's heckman. And I are
Speaker 3: sitting here like the RB one is going to come
Speaker 3: day one or day two. Oh no, and you. You
Speaker 3: played in the league, so you know that's probably one
Speaker 3: of the easiest positions to come in as a rookie.
Speaker 5: And b a like. It definitely is, And so that's
Speaker 5: why I said, I'm not really tripping about that. When
Speaker 5: I was alluding to letting stars go. I'm talking about
Speaker 5: more so Jordan Lewis, like we letting him go.
Speaker 3: But just the words you just use start star, what
Speaker 3: what what? Rushing down star one rushing touchdown? Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: That's why I said with the reasoning I would have personally,
Speaker 5: if I can keep them here, and I could have
Speaker 5: low bought them or maybe gave him five mil er
Speaker 5: four mil and been like, hey you stay here. I'm like,
Speaker 5: hey four hey man, I'm gonna have a competition. You
Speaker 5: got to make it out of training camp, get airline?
Speaker 5: How many how many times? Well, I mean, I'm just saying,
Speaker 5: how many times have you paid somebody and then they
Speaker 5: not make it out of the training camp? Like I
Speaker 5: would have brought them. I personally, I would have just
Speaker 5: brought them back in. But that's why I don't get
Speaker 5: paid the big bucks.
Speaker 3: This is another thing that we have to also and
Speaker 3: it gets not confuter. It just gets lost at times.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy wasn't trying to run, No, not at all.
Speaker 3: Schottenheimer's trying to run. And then when I think about
Speaker 3: running and you're a you were former defensive lineman, Javonte
Speaker 3: Williams is going to be a different type of look
Speaker 3: versus most likely what you're going to take at RB one.
Speaker 3: So the ability to bring in more let's just say
Speaker 3: it's gent more of a Brahma bull kind of guy.
Speaker 3: Then Javonta Williams a little different, especially on the third
Speaker 3: down package. If I'm shoddy, I'm trying to run the ball,
Speaker 3: but also give you a couple of different looks as
Speaker 3: I'm doing it, which is what Skip Pete always loved
Speaker 3: to have when he was here, when you had Zeke Elliott,
Speaker 3: and then you have Tony Pollard, he and you know,
Speaker 3: and even in what they do in Tampa, and then
Speaker 3: what Skip Pete was doing with Oakland, I thought, and
Speaker 3: I still think that's a good way to go about
Speaker 3: your running game. But Schottenheimer is going to be different.
Speaker 3: And when I look at ric o'dowdell, what does Rico
Speaker 3: bring you to tell? You know? And you what's he doing? Nothing? Nothing?
Speaker 3: So now he's a jag. He's just a guy. And
Speaker 3: and that's why I said, what was the conversation like,
Speaker 3: because just a guy should have signed for just some
Speaker 3: gags exactly, And that's why I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 3: Now it's real.
Speaker 4: No, and listen, I'm not absolutely not firing any shots
Speaker 4: of guys. This is about making the Dallas Cowboys better.
Speaker 4: We are underachieving, and if we keep sitting here and
Speaker 4: saying to ourselves that these C minus guys are going
Speaker 4: to get us eight plus results, then we're fooling ourselves.
Speaker 4: And I'm not about fooling myself anymore. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You're talking about what Skip Skip Pete's philosophy is having
Speaker 4: a change of pace running back. So to me, I'm hey,
Speaker 4: William says to me, I'm your third down guy. So
Speaker 4: whoever you get in the draft, he's gonna be your slasher.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be your guy that's gonna get up in there,
Speaker 4: and he's gonna be your game breaker. We didn't get
Speaker 4: any game breakers in free agency to me, and that
Speaker 4: leads up to the draft being the end all, to
Speaker 4: be all, and I just having trusted the draft in
Speaker 4: the last couple of years of bringing in that end all,
Speaker 4: the be.
Speaker 3: All type of guy, Michael Parson.
Speaker 4: That was I mean that guy fail to you, you,
Speaker 4: and he failed, he failed to you, just like Seed
Speaker 4: Lamb fail to you. And it's almost impossible to make
Speaker 4: a bad decision when a guy falls to you. So well,
Speaker 4: look at the teams who didn't take them exactly, the
Speaker 4: teams who passed.
Speaker 3: I mean the teams who passed on Michael, the teams
Speaker 3: who on CD.
Speaker 4: They are slapping themselves. They are slapping themselves because they
Speaker 4: they made a mistake. Let's not I'm not sitting here
Speaker 4: acting like teams don't make mistakes Draft night Now we're
Speaker 4: the only ones to do it.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, this is documented, all right.
Speaker 4: But I'm saying, when you get a situation where you
Speaker 4: have a player that good and if hey at twelve,
Speaker 4: if you have the kid from Penn State fall to
Speaker 4: fall to twelve, go get them. Okay, you get one
Speaker 4: of my offensive linemen fall to you as well, Go
Speaker 4: get them. I mean, because that's just fortune being on
Speaker 4: your side.
Speaker 3: And I think that's also by plugging some of the
Speaker 3: holes that they plugged, you're allowing yourself at twelve to
Speaker 3: have several lives. And that's exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: That's why I don't want to be as harsh as
Speaker 5: say that they're a C plus or B because those
Speaker 5: you added coggs, You added cogs and you fix like
Speaker 5: these little small knees. Now, it gives you alleviate some
Speaker 5: of that pain and that pressure to say, Okay, we
Speaker 5: got to go over here and do this, we can
Speaker 5: do this. We could take our time and make that
Speaker 5: right decision. So with free agency still going on, there's
Speaker 5: still chances and there's still some big name out there,
Speaker 5: guys out there that you can go get and you
Speaker 5: add to the offense or defense. And then therefore, once
Speaker 5: you go there, you're gonna kind of see going to
Speaker 5: get closer to the draft, Like, okay, now that we
Speaker 5: do to fix those pieces in free agency.
Speaker 3: We know where we're going. We're either going to running
Speaker 3: back or linebacker.
Speaker 4: I just want to say this that the moves and
Speaker 4: I'm saying Solomon Thomas is solid and I saw the
Speaker 4: signing as a rotational piece the linebackers that they bought
Speaker 4: in the guy from Chicago saying, man, I think he's
Speaker 4: been a part of eba Flus's defense. So that makes sense.
Speaker 4: That's like Eric Kendricks last year with Mike Zimmer. You
Speaker 4: bring in a guy that already knows Kenneth Murray Junior.
Speaker 4: I think that's a solid signing, right He is a
Speaker 4: guy that can give you some depth and some pieces there.
Speaker 4: But I haven't seen like when we're If you're not on,
Speaker 4: I don't care who you are. I don't care if
Speaker 4: you played in the league. I don't care if you
Speaker 4: got Emmys.
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 4: If you're going into this season with the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 4: and you're not saying that the Cowboys need offensive defensive
Speaker 4: line help, then you're not seeing what the NFC is
Speaker 4: all about right now. NFC East is all about right
Speaker 4: now because teams like New York, Hey, New York, The
Speaker 4: New York Giants got better on defense, The Washington Commanders
Speaker 4: got better on defense, the fifth Hey, the World.
Speaker 3: Champs are better.
Speaker 4: Okay, So if we're not talking about offensive defensive line,
Speaker 4: because those are the weakest parts of your team right now.
Speaker 3: Let's hit the brake when we come back. The Cowboys
Speaker 3: have said goodbye to Tank Lawrence. How do we feel
Speaker 3: about it? And what's next? We may have different reactions
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Speaker 5: I wish they started talking to me and they had
Speaker 5: Mike Davis and then all of a sudden, I was
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Speaker 3: so hec Harrison. Yes, sir, how we feeling now that
Speaker 3: Tank Lawrence is a member of the Seattle Seahawks three years,
Speaker 3: forty two million dollars for an older football player on
Speaker 3: the wrong side of thirty.
Speaker 4: Okay, first of all, let me just say Marcus Lawrence,
Speaker 4: the Marcus Lawren's out of Boise stage literally gave us
Speaker 4: everything for the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, and a guy
Speaker 4: that I credit coach leon Let for developing him making
Speaker 4: turning him into the player that he is, and he
Speaker 4: ended up being great at stopping the run. Gave us
Speaker 4: a lot of years man. And I know a lot
Speaker 4: of times when guys leave, it's easy to throw shade
Speaker 4: or say what what they were were not right. I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna say he was a great player, a great
Speaker 4: leader on and off the field, and hate to see
Speaker 4: him go. But at thirty two years old to get
Speaker 4: a fourteen eighteen million dollar bag for one year, I
Speaker 4: think that is incredible, and that is incredible and there are
Speaker 4: a lot of players that have played this game that
Speaker 4: are jealous about that bag. Right now, out yourself, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna tell you, I'm a speak I'm a standover.
Speaker 5: I'm thirty two, and I'm sitting over here like I
Speaker 5: look good. I might even go out here and tell
Speaker 5: the EA right that way, let me let me talk
Speaker 5: to you. But that's another topic for another day. But exactly,
Speaker 5: but go ahead keep finishing.
Speaker 3: No man, I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 4: He did his thing, he got paid and shout out
Speaker 4: to the to the Lawrence family, and it's one of
Speaker 4: those players, man you hate to see leave and hope
Speaker 4: that he has success.
Speaker 5: Definitely, I'm gonna piggyback off of that. As far as
Speaker 5: like the player and the person, Hey shout out to
Speaker 5: my boy D law Hey, hot boys all there. As
Speaker 5: a player, you love when you see players get paid,
Speaker 5: especially at this age. Now, whoever his agent is, hats
Speaker 5: off to them. You went in there with no ski
Speaker 5: mask and said, hey, drop out right now.
Speaker 3: It was a for D law He won Seattle.
Speaker 5: I think it was definitely a reach as far as
Speaker 5: the age range and stuff like that. But as far
Speaker 5: as what he has done for the Cowboys organization, don't
Speaker 5: be surprised if you don't see Tank Lawren's name and
Speaker 5: the ring of Honor because of what he was able
Speaker 5: to do. Him being somebody that you brought in your
Speaker 5: own talent. You can put your hand on your face
Speaker 5: all you want to knew, Like as a run stopper.
Speaker 5: He's been that focal piece for them like he has been.
Speaker 5: He's made what he's made, he's made those.
Speaker 4: He's made things. But Ringavon, that's rich Rick, It's rich rich.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous, ridiculous.
Speaker 5: You don't think he's gonna be one of those old
Speaker 5: guys later on you get that phone call and be
Speaker 5: like a.
Speaker 3: Tank for what people do it all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I'm all right, maybe okay, maybe I'm maybe
Speaker 5: all right, maybe I'm reach It's okay.
Speaker 3: How long has he been here? How long has he
Speaker 3: been here? So somebody put on social media and double
Speaker 3: it a few times? I hit back. They said that
Speaker 3: Tank was the most underrated cowboy in history, and you've
Speaker 3: now talked about Cowboy Ring of Honor? Yeah, do you
Speaker 3: realize what they what the criteria is to get in
Speaker 3: there and who's in it? Okay, I'm sorry, I apologize.
Speaker 3: Super Bowl champions Hall of Famers, those are the people
Speaker 3: that go into the Cowboys Ring of Honor. Okay, now, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: no, no apology needed because because this is this is my ability,
Speaker 3: because you're a young guy. You're a young guy. Please
Speaker 3: where me back into Hechmanni's time watching the Cowboys. The
Speaker 3: most underrated Dallas cowboy and he, oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: is not in the Ring of Honor and should be
Speaker 3: is the beautiful Harvey Martin. Harvey Martin was a Defensive
Speaker 3: Player of the Year nineteen seventy seven three. He was
Speaker 3: also co MVP of Super Bowl twelve along with the
Speaker 3: great legendary Randy White. When I think of Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame and he's got over a hundred sacks in his career,
Speaker 3: that is a player who should be. I can't imagine
Speaker 3: another organization outside of this one that would not have
Speaker 3: put Harvey Martin already into their Ring of Honor for
Speaker 3: a career like that. Tank Lawrence had a good career.
Speaker 3: The problem of not doing anything significant in the last
Speaker 3: thirty years is people start using the words like legend,
Speaker 3: as I saw many times with disappointed Cowboy fans with
Speaker 3: Tank Lawrence leaving. Tank Lawrence was a good football player.
Speaker 3: He was a part of these teams who won nothing.
Speaker 3: He was a part of these teams that teased us
Speaker 3: that never got over the hump. It was the Yoda
Speaker 3: do or do not? There is no try group thirty
Speaker 3: two years old. Congratulations to you and your agents forgetting
Speaker 3: this deal. But the problem I have with this is
Speaker 3: Jerry through the years has gone out of his way
Speaker 3: to pay this type of player when at a certain
Speaker 3: point in time you need to move on. Once again,
Speaker 3: you're young, But there was a gentleman here play left
Speaker 3: tackle for many years named Flosel Adams. Probably stay ain't
Speaker 3: about three or four years too long because they were
Speaker 3: afraid to look forward. Remember, don't do me like that.
Speaker 3: And when Flow left they were forced and they drafted
Speaker 3: Tyron Smith, who is a guy you want to talk about,
Speaker 3: potential Hall of Famer. He's got that type of resume
Speaker 3: that could be that you could think about in those terms.
Speaker 3: TI knees a gold jacket. I don't care what he'll
Speaker 3: be in the conversation. You know, when they sit around
Speaker 3: here and discuss who's in the Hall of Fame, they'll
Speaker 3: have a conversation for Tyres. There will be no conversation
Speaker 3: for taking once once once again.
Speaker 5: After you just gave me a nice BTA session, I
Speaker 5: apologize and only only and but I'm also going to
Speaker 5: defend what I said. Hey, I was wrong, But with
Speaker 5: me being younger and stuff like that, we all can
Speaker 5: admit that the Cowboy is their organization that goes off
Speaker 5: of the media, the outside noise, what's going out there.
Speaker 5: And so with that being said, for Tank in this
Speaker 5: error to do the things that he done, to play
Speaker 5: here for as long as he did, to get the
Speaker 5: bag that he did and be a fan favorite, I
Speaker 5: think that now knowing who's not in there and they
Speaker 5: could be in there, Yes, of course he should not
Speaker 5: be in there, but I think that, like you said,
Speaker 5: the fan base will be sitting there saying, legendary, this
Speaker 5: is one of our guys. In the last thirty years,
Speaker 5: we haven't had anything to be proud of. So we're
Speaker 5: proud of developing him as a player. We're proud of
Speaker 5: him always representing the Cowboys, having those legendary moments of
Speaker 5: sitting there saying, hey, real talk, being unapologetically him bringing
Speaker 5: back that old cowboy era feeling of hey, we're the
Speaker 5: bad boy. What did he say to the media one day,
Speaker 5: Hey real talk, y'all don't know, but I'll slap all
Speaker 5: y'all like, don't Having those iconic moments are going to
Speaker 5: push the fan base to say, hey, push them in there.
Speaker 3: Now. We all know that the Jones.
Speaker 5: Family don't budge when they don't want to budge, like
Speaker 5: just because you bark at them and doing all that.
Speaker 5: But I'm saying that they will put that pressure on there.
Speaker 5: So from that standpoint, I was coming from there. I
Speaker 5: was coming from him playing for a long time and
Speaker 5: being a good guy.
Speaker 4: But after the criteria, the criteria, you're right right, super
Speaker 4: Bowls in his hall of fame. That's the only way
Speaker 4: you make it. And for me, it's his leadership. It's
Speaker 4: the kind of guy I look at guys like this.
Speaker 4: You know, there's so many of these guys over the
Speaker 4: years that have been menaces outside of the building that
Speaker 4: hasn't been him. He's been a family man, he's taking
Speaker 4: care of his business. He's been in a community, active activists.
Speaker 4: He's done a lot of great things leadership wise, He's
Speaker 4: led the charge on you know, every time the Cowboys
Speaker 4: a problem with Micah, with up the guys, with showing
Speaker 4: them how to be pros in this league.
Speaker 3: And that's what I applaud for him.
Speaker 4: Okay, And to see him again his agent, the people
Speaker 4: involved Seattle to say that hey, maybe there's still some
Speaker 4: juice on the vine. Let's go ahead and bring him
Speaker 4: in the eighteen million dollars.
Speaker 3: That is a lot.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, I applaud any player at
Speaker 4: this point in time in their career that's able to
Speaker 4: go out and get a bag.
Speaker 5: And now that we applauded him, gave him a flower,
Speaker 5: let's talk about stat wise. Do you think that he
Speaker 5: deserved that bag and do you think that he's going
Speaker 5: to live up to that bag?
Speaker 4: I think, coming off of the injuries that he's had,
Speaker 4: if he look Okay, let me just say like this,
Speaker 4: the NFC West is a weaker division with San Francisco
Speaker 4: moving on the way that they have, and so I
Speaker 4: think he'll have some success in the NFC West.
Speaker 3: Okay, So that's what I think. I think.
Speaker 4: I think Tank, if he's healthy, he could come in
Speaker 4: and he can have some Don't don't you go to
Speaker 4: they just saying to you that, hey, he can start
Speaker 4: the season off.
Speaker 3: That's literally all you do that you're gonna go around
Speaker 3: the way he's waltson what you're doing. I don't know,
Speaker 3: you have sweet feet like gonna do that? You know
Speaker 3: she's smart and then she she just says some funny things. Boy,
Speaker 3: she comes into a room and lights it up all
Speaker 3: the time. People really like her all right out there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, man, he could have some success. Shout out
Speaker 3: the thing paid so long, sir, farewell.
Speaker 5: But now we got to talk about who is coming in,
Speaker 5: who's going to replace that.
Speaker 3: What you've got now is you have the first thing.
Speaker 3: And this is what they do is they're looking inside. Okay,
Speaker 3: you've got Marshall Neeland who they drafted, you're number two,
Speaker 3: and then you're gonna have Sam Williams coming back, so
Speaker 3: they're going to look there. And then of course you
Speaker 3: have the ability to go into the draft as well.
Speaker 3: So this is where as they or to look down
Speaker 3: the road at twelve, what do they do? They could
Speaker 3: you know, and we don't talk about it. They may
Speaker 3: decide this year we'll move up.
Speaker 5: I was just about to say, do you think they
Speaker 5: will move Do you think that there's a chance to
Speaker 5: whar the Cowboys will move up and say, hey, this
Speaker 5: is our guy.
Speaker 3: Like if you're going to be selectively aggressive this year
Speaker 3: and you think that there's a particular player that either
Speaker 3: Schottenheimer says can help my offense, which will help my
Speaker 3: defense or vice versa, that could happen, or we could
Speaker 3: see them be as smart as they were with Michael
Speaker 3: Parsons when they traded down two slots and say, hey,
Speaker 3: look you know what, we know somebody's gonna come up
Speaker 3: to take our spot. It was Philadelphia who wanted the receiver,
Speaker 3: and it worked out perfect for Philly, and that Philly
Speaker 3: got a receiver who helped win the Super Bowl. Dallas
Speaker 3: ended up dropping down and got themselves a fantastic player
Speaker 3: in Michael Parsons, so they could do that too, to
Speaker 3: be in a situation where hey, we can play with
Speaker 3: this thing a little bit and add But saying goodbye
Speaker 3: to Tank Lawrence, to me, is just one of the
Speaker 3: moves you have to At thirty two years years old,
Speaker 3: he gets to reunite with eight and Dirty in Seattle.
Speaker 3: Maybe they're going to have a different plant. But right
Speaker 3: now that if you'd have brought him back to do
Speaker 3: what he used to do here at thirty two years old,
Speaker 3: the injuries, I say no.
Speaker 4: My biggest question to you Knew is do you think
Speaker 4: that was two years too late?
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Speaker 3: Is that? Is that leather?
Speaker 4: No it's not, it's not. No no no, it looks
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Speaker 3: It's nice. Did you come in on.
Speaker 5: The Harley what about you don't do that now.
Speaker 4: I got on my I got on my first grade
Speaker 4: teacher cowboy sweater today.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, it's ventus though, thank you. Hey man,
Speaker 3: I just want to be like you.
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to do something when you had a
Speaker 5: questions noted bullying.
Speaker 3: I know I messed up with the ring on her comment.
Speaker 10: Guy, We just we just y'all, we just checked, just
Speaker 10: a little check. Now it's like, let just get messed
Speaker 10: up just like that. W hold on, hold hold on.
Speaker 5: But what you did was going to be w w E.
Speaker 5: Y'all just hit the Dudly brothers. You told him get
Speaker 5: the table.
Speaker 3: Next thing you.
Speaker 4: Climbing up and he's climbing up, and he said, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna just give you idea. I did the Homo Simpsons.
Speaker 4: I just disappeared into the shrubs. Then already pin me
Speaker 4: is once we come back from break, you give me
Speaker 4: another kick.
Speaker 3: Like it really wasn't about you. It was really more
Speaker 3: my my social media engagement with a guy who said,
Speaker 3: you know, when he said Tank was the most underrated
Speaker 3: cowboy in history, that was like no, no, no, once again, definitely,
Speaker 3: and I attribute to say youngster youngsters who don't remember
Speaker 3: the beautiful heart on art, don't group all of us together.
Speaker 3: And and but I'm just saying that was that was more.
Speaker 3: It was, it was more for that. Hey, whoever said that,
Speaker 3: don't ever say that again.
Speaker 4: Remember Harvey Martin, Yesui gonna come for you, boy, Remember
Speaker 4: Harvey get bt a sessions like that?
Speaker 3: No more. Here's what I said, Lord help him if
Speaker 3: they con draft into the Harvey park, if you had another.
Speaker 11: Harvey, Oh boy boy boy like great Iba, Flus would
Speaker 11: get another head coaching job because he'd get a guy
Speaker 11: like that who's that dominant on the defensive line.
Speaker 3: But heck, you had a question.
Speaker 4: My question was is that for many people with the
Speaker 4: injuries and everything, and they signed a deal with the
Speaker 4: Cowboys two years ago, I believe was it two years
Speaker 4: too late for letting go or releasing DeMarcus Lawrence?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yes, And I go back before. This has been
Speaker 3: an issue for Jerry Jones as a general manager. He's
Speaker 3: held on the guys too long. And you know, I
Speaker 3: mentioned Flozell Adams who flows Al Adams coming out of
Speaker 3: Michigan State and the second round. Flozel had a really
Speaker 3: really good career, but toward the end, Jerry just kept
Speaker 3: holding on and the job of a general manager and
Speaker 3: they had old baseball term, better to let them go
Speaker 3: a year too early than a year too late. Bill
Speaker 3: Belichick's your classic example. If a head coach would let
Speaker 3: a guy go too early, I mean Tom Brady being
Speaker 3: one of them, and they will ask you better than
Speaker 3: two years too late, because now two years too late,
Speaker 3: you've spent money, You've you've attached to capital to it,
Speaker 3: especially now with the way the salary cat works. And
Speaker 3: you look at Ezekiel Elliott when they ended up cutting
Speaker 3: them and the money. I mean, people forget they were
Speaker 3: paying twice last year on Zeke. You were paying more
Speaker 3: money under dead cat money because you cut him. Then
Speaker 3: you paid him the actual salary money because when they
Speaker 3: cut him two years ago, they had the dead cap
Speaker 3: space that they spread out. And so yes, this has
Speaker 3: been the issue because the general manager, who's also the owner,
Speaker 3: has become affinity and a like to the player. Your
Speaker 3: GM's got to be cutthroat. Your geam's got to see
Speaker 3: the glass of water, say, boy, that thing is dirty.
Speaker 3: We need to clean it out. And it may be
Speaker 3: a crack in the glass. Your general that's what your
Speaker 3: general managing, your owner needs to be to do. Hey, man,
Speaker 3: you know what, that's half full. I like that water.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna taste fine, Fans gonna like it.
Speaker 3: But when you the same guy you can compete against, yeah,
Speaker 3: who wins out. The owner usually went out of course
Speaker 3: over the general manager because he knows the team and
Speaker 3: he may like to play. And then the smart cowboy
Speaker 3: players go right up to the exactly.
Speaker 4: That's that's been the history. That's been the history with ownership,
Speaker 4: and I think for years people are documented that, you know,
Speaker 4: owner general manager Jerry Jones becomes enamored with certain players
Speaker 4: and they may hold on too long.
Speaker 3: This I just felt.
Speaker 4: I just felt like at the point in time where
Speaker 4: Tank Lawrence was in his career, you kind of felt
Speaker 4: like you could have gotten more out of him during
Speaker 4: those two years, and then the foot injury obviously sidelines everything.
Speaker 4: Now the Zeke example is that's an example of another
Speaker 4: bad decision bringing back a player that was now a
Speaker 4: shadow of himself. And there was no way to know
Speaker 4: that other than you make that bad decision. You bring
Speaker 4: and you recognize he ain't what he used to be.
Speaker 3: I mean, he wasn't what he used to be when
Speaker 3: he was here.
Speaker 5: So if you're being if you're being completely honest, you're
Speaker 5: you're living on that sword and you're dying on that sword.
Speaker 5: Like I love it. As a player, you would love
Speaker 5: it when you meet those owners that you say, hey,
Speaker 5: you got my back and you're gonna keep me here.
Speaker 5: But as a fan, as somebody that wants stat production,
Speaker 5: you hate it because, like you said, your job to
Speaker 5: be a GM is to be cutthroat, like you want
Speaker 5: to let him go early and still get some bang
Speaker 5: for your buck to where it's like, hey, if you
Speaker 5: would have let Tank go earlier, two years earlier, you
Speaker 5: possibly could have got a first round for him. You
Speaker 5: possibly could have got second, third round, somebody to pick
Speaker 5: up that capital, and then you go over there spread
Speaker 5: that money out and then have some high bap picks.
Speaker 5: But now it's like you let him go for tools
Speaker 5: of fuels and somebody else paid him a big bag,
Speaker 5: so it's like, what are we doing?
Speaker 3: Go back to Zeke. The thing about Zeke at the
Speaker 3: end of the first tenure was you once you decided
Speaker 3: to bring in Mike McCarthy as the head coach, a
Speaker 3: guy who was a passing guy who never really hit
Speaker 3: the Yes, the per contract was it wasn't the same
Speaker 3: because what do we see the best of him twenty
Speaker 3: plus carries. That's not what Mike McCarthy was trying to do,
Speaker 3: and so that was in some ways, I have a
Speaker 3: sympathy for Zeke in terms of people, oh man, you're
Speaker 3: not this, you're not that. But the game changed once
Speaker 3: you brought in Mike McCarthy. His value went down, and
Speaker 3: then we saw him as a player dip down too.
Speaker 3: So you got two things happening. One, you're paying a
Speaker 3: guy to do something that they're not going to ask
Speaker 3: him to do anymore. Too, the talent level just went
Speaker 3: down because you're as a running back, you only have
Speaker 3: so many hits in the body. And he just wasn't
Speaker 3: the player he used to be, So now it just
Speaker 3: turns out to be a whole tough thing. And now
Speaker 3: people are killing him personally and not always looking at
Speaker 3: the whole thing. Yes, your game has gone down, but oh,
Speaker 3: by the way, the head coach is not one of them. Now.
Speaker 4: Now here's the thing. At the version of Zeke that
Speaker 4: Mike inherited wasn't the Zeke that was on the down
Speaker 4: side of his career.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're still I think till at the end
Speaker 3: with his last last year, the last two years he
Speaker 3: was there and so you weren't. You weren't. I don't
Speaker 3: think you were on the show then. But they Barry
Speaker 3: used to call him a fullback, okay, And you said
Speaker 3: he sounds like, yeah, he'd gained weight. He wasn't. He
Speaker 3: wasn't what he used to be. And Danny was right
Speaker 3: there in terms of.
Speaker 4: They in twenty twenty he was, though in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: he was. He was more of a I mean, I
Speaker 4: understand this.
Speaker 3: This after this was this was the feeling of the
Speaker 3: show at the time. They wasn't. He wasn't what he
Speaker 3: used to be, okay, And the head coach came in here.
Speaker 3: Obviously it was a disastrous year with Mike Nolan. The
Speaker 3: whole thing just it just wasn't what it used to be.
Speaker 3: And then on Skip left it was really bad because
Speaker 3: now remember Tony Poler started coming up. Remember that Tony
Speaker 3: Zeke's last two years, it was clear Tony was the
Speaker 3: better player, and then they were doing well, he's a
Speaker 3: star running back and that kind of thing. But Tony
Speaker 3: was the better player. But they were trying to respect
Speaker 3: Ezekiel Elliott what he which, which spits in the face
Speaker 3: all day long. And when we talk about competition, yeah
Speaker 3: we talking about the best guy playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's ever the bag gonna play. I don't care
Speaker 4: what nobody say.
Speaker 5: There's very few organizations that have that mantra, that competition
Speaker 5: is gonna play. And those guys that have that mantra
Speaker 5: and really believe in that philosophy are your champion winning organizations.
Speaker 5: Other people have the they say competition and stuff like that,
Speaker 5: but let's be realistic.
Speaker 3: It is the bag. If I pay you this money,
Speaker 3: I'm expecting you to play.
Speaker 5: And then not only that, they're gonna live and down
Speaker 5: that where it say, ah, maybe he's gonna show us
Speaker 5: what he was like whoever decided to give them the bag?
Speaker 5: Where there's owner GM, not talking about just the Cowboys, everybody.
Speaker 5: They're gonna try to make that decision right. And that
Speaker 5: is what we've seen is Ezekiel Elliott. They tried to
Speaker 5: make that decision right and it wasn't right. Not only
Speaker 5: the players, the guys that were talking about it that
Speaker 5: were on the show, but most of the players around
Speaker 5: the league felt that sentiment he is. He was a
Speaker 5: fragment of itself. He was still leading the league in
Speaker 5: fumbles before then before he got paid. It after he
Speaker 5: got paid, he was one of the highest fumbling guys there.
Speaker 5: And then after he got paid. Like you said, the
Speaker 5: mini fridge came in to him. It wasn't explosive and
Speaker 5: on getting out of there, and you have horsepower. Now
Speaker 5: you have the Pony Express when you bring that miniature
Speaker 5: pony in there and you say, Mommy, I want a horse,
Speaker 5: and then you say, oh, I think I'm about to
Speaker 5: get a Cloudsdale coming through here. The Coca Cola horses
Speaker 5: coming through there, and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 5: pull up with the circus mini pony.
Speaker 3: You're like, yo, what is this? And now you.
Speaker 5: Think that this is going to transform. This is not Cinderella.
Speaker 5: They should have my bad. I'm sorry of getting off
Speaker 5: the rail. It wasn't a Cinderella moment. You should have
Speaker 5: let it go. And then even when you had that bag,
Speaker 5: you should have traded him or did something else and
Speaker 5: realized where it was at because he was not there.
Speaker 3: Get ready to get out of here. Thoughts on Cooper
Speaker 3: Cup the Rams letting him go he'll be a free agent.
Speaker 3: He's had family members who've been Cowboy part of the
Speaker 3: Cowboy organizations. Players go ahead. I think.
Speaker 5: I feel like my thoughts are going to be like
Speaker 5: X when he sit there and say, hey, what are
Speaker 5: we doing with bringing in all these cog pieces and
Speaker 5: stuff like that. But also in the same regard, Cooper
Speaker 5: Cup has proven that he can make the plays. He's
Speaker 5: proven to be a good quality piece in the locker
Speaker 5: room and being a VET. And you don't need somebody
Speaker 5: to come in here and be that number one guy
Speaker 5: when you have CD Lamb, but you also need to
Speaker 5: have a guy that has that power.
Speaker 3: And yes, does he have that power? But is he
Speaker 3: still there?
Speaker 5: So I'm a little I'm a little on the fence like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm glad you got the connection here in the family
Speaker 5: base and you have the former stardom. But I think
Speaker 5: there's better quality receivers that you possibly can go out
Speaker 5: there and reach for.
Speaker 3: But we'll see when win healthy.
Speaker 4: Cooper Cup is one of the best wide receivers in
Speaker 4: the league. Yes, when healthy, And that's the biggest question.
Speaker 4: I mean, we were just talking about a guy in
Speaker 4: Tank Lawrence, when what was the cap win to get
Speaker 4: to move on. And it looks like the Rams have
Speaker 4: come to the conclusion with a guy that obviously was
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago two thousand yard receiver to
Speaker 4: move on from that pooking the coup is showing what
Speaker 4: he has and now they bring in Davonte Adams. Look,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna say it straight up, the Cowboys have
Speaker 4: to make a move to get a solidified number two
Speaker 4: wide receiver in the building with CD. You have to
Speaker 4: you have to get him some help, whether you get
Speaker 4: it in the draft or whether you get it in
Speaker 4: free agency. You have to make a move to open
Speaker 4: this offense up. Because last year showed you man, you
Speaker 4: were Hams. You were You were handcuffed by the fact
Speaker 4: that teams could double team your star wide receiver. So
Speaker 4: do you think Cooper is that guy? You didn't say that.
Speaker 4: He danced around the question. Do you win healthy? Win
Speaker 4: healthy win healthy? But what do you think you're getting
Speaker 4: right now in Cooper Cup?
Speaker 3: I don't know. And that's the and that's the minds
Speaker 3: are the same. Added added to this caveat if you
Speaker 3: could give him basically your branding cook salary of ten
Speaker 3: million dollars, but you paid him last year.
Speaker 4: I think it could be a better branding cook. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 4: I think so for sure.
Speaker 3: And that's how I see it. I see you if
Speaker 3: you could get Cooper Cuff at ten eleven million dollars
Speaker 3: a year, Oh, still him over there with Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 3: and and a trusted type of player for Dak Prescott out.
Speaker 4: There, because what do we what do we need Cooper
Speaker 4: Cup to do? We need him. We need him to
Speaker 4: be move the chains. Yes, we need to be a
Speaker 4: possession receiver and we need him to be solid in
Speaker 4: red zone and one on one coverage. He's what he'll get,
Speaker 4: and I think he will. But the only thing is,
Speaker 4: I don't want to see you overpay for him. I
Speaker 4: don't want it to be a Tanglorean situation where you
Speaker 4: go out here and give him all this bread and.
Speaker 3: Then you're sitting here the same thing. You don't think, Well, no,
Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna be. It's gonna be. We
Speaker 3: gotta get out of here. Try good stuff. Heck, good stuff.
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