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Speaker 2: It is a Tuesday in the off season, March twelfth,
Speaker 2: as we are squarely in the middle of free agency,
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Speaker 2: and it action.
Speaker 1: Around the NFL when it comes to free agency.
Speaker 2: We've got Isaiah stand Back, Jommachoda, Nick Harris, I'm Kyle
Speaker 2: Yeomans with Chris Beam running everything making sure we're on
Speaker 2: the air in the back all right, Nick.
Speaker 1: We usually start to start this off with news and notes.
Speaker 5: Yes, so we can go ahead and dive into some
Speaker 5: of the actions that happened around the building yesterday.
Speaker 4: There we go, No, but we can start with the
Speaker 4: guys who are.
Speaker 5: Tony Pollard signed a deal or agreed to a deal
Speaker 5: with the Titans yesterday, Dorn's Armstrong with the commanders, and
Speaker 5: Tyler Byattish with the commanders as well. All these guys
Speaker 5: can only agree to deals. They cannot sign until tomorrow
Speaker 5: when the official New Year begins, I believe around three
Speaker 5: pm yep Central time, Yeah, three pm Central time tomorrow.
Speaker 5: So you know, things are not finalized, but they may
Speaker 5: as well be. With those three guys, I want to
Speaker 5: I want to go through those three guys really quick.
Speaker 5: Really cool to see Tony Pollard go back to his
Speaker 5: home state, have an opportunity to play at a backfield
Speaker 5: with Tai J.
Speaker 1: Spears.
Speaker 4: I feel like that's going to be a really fun backfield.
Speaker 5: They get, they get good protection up front, they draft
Speaker 5: a tackle in front of those guys with Scaronsky. I
Speaker 5: think that's going to be a really a really fun
Speaker 5: a running back duo there in Nashville.
Speaker 4: Then you look at.
Speaker 5: Dorn's Armstrong getting fifteen million a year. It's one of
Speaker 5: the commanders. A big payday for him, obviously deserved.
Speaker 6: I think that's the max though he has to really
Speaker 6: I think it's eleven and then it's up. It's as
Speaker 6: much as fit as much as.
Speaker 4: Fifteen, gotcha.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So regardless, really big payday there for Dorance. I
Speaker 5: think it's deserved. I mean, he was showing that on
Speaker 5: defense and on special teams over the course of the
Speaker 5: last two seasons, and then Beattish getting three years thirty million.
Speaker 5: I was surprised to see him come off the board
Speaker 5: on day one, just given the Center market. But I'm
Speaker 5: not surprised with the final conclusion being Washington. But I
Speaker 5: did find it pretty interesting that he was gone off
Speaker 5: the board so early. But you know, it is what
Speaker 5: it is. I think of those three, you know, based
Speaker 5: on Twitter reactions beyond, it is probably the one that
Speaker 5: fans are least disappointed about, which I you know, you're
Speaker 5: talking about the running game all off season. You have
Speaker 5: to make a change up front, you have to make
Speaker 5: a change at the running back position. You would think
Speaker 5: those two things happened very early yesterday. So whether you
Speaker 5: like it or not, the running game is going to
Speaker 5: get fixed, well, not fixed, changed, It'll be different. It'll
Speaker 5: be different, it'll be changed. We'll see if it gets
Speaker 5: fixed or not fixed as time goes on. But guys
Speaker 5: that are still on the board, Tyron Smith, Stefon Gilmore,
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm blinking on a couple of big names,
Speaker 5: right Jonathan Hankins. We'll see what the Cowboys could do
Speaker 5: and get involved with thirty one teams made moves yesterday.
Speaker 4: One team did not. And we are standing in that building.
Speaker 5: Today and uh ah, we got a signing. We gotta
Speaker 5: sign it, and we get breaking news already. Trent Sick
Speaker 5: is coming back to the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: They made a move.
Speaker 4: They made a move. They made a make move.
Speaker 5: Guys, Hey, that deep snapper helps an All Pro kicker
Speaker 5: and a Pro Bowl punter. That is that is a
Speaker 5: that's a good quality signing right there.
Speaker 6: Guys, you're too young to say deep snapper, and I
Speaker 6: think a long snapper I always, I just I mean,
Speaker 6: obviously it's not one hundred percent, but nine percent of
Speaker 6: the time you can tell somebody's age by how they
Speaker 6: call that position.
Speaker 2: Really deep snapper deep Is that an old yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: well I.
Speaker 1: Would long snap.
Speaker 4: I'm an old soul.
Speaker 6: John you are I know you are all right?
Speaker 2: So that is I mean, Trent say coming back, great,
Speaker 2: you got something taken care of.
Speaker 1: That's checking a box. When when it comes to sorry Trent,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the.
Speaker 2: Three guys that have left Isaiah Dorance, Tyler Battish, Tony Pollard,
Speaker 2: none of those three should surprise.
Speaker 1: You that they are no longer with the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: We've talked about it.
Speaker 1: Those are guys that.
Speaker 2: Either, like you said, in the middle of a change
Speaker 2: at the running game position whenever you've got running back
Speaker 2: in center, and how they've run the ball this.
Speaker 1: Past couple of years, and are the value just wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily there for Dorian's Armstrong. So which one do you
Speaker 1: think stands out the most?
Speaker 7: I would have to.
Speaker 3: I honestly think they're both relatively important, and I don't
Speaker 3: think that it was by chance as to where they went.
Speaker 3: I honestly believe that dan Quinn not only was trying
Speaker 3: to obviously improve his team by having these acquisitions, those
Speaker 3: were not obviously his only moves yesterday. They were very
Speaker 3: busy yesterday simply acquiring anybody. I'm surprised they didn't sign you, Jam, but.
Speaker 7: I think he was very This is just my objective opinion.
Speaker 1: It's only day one.
Speaker 3: It's only day one. They signed like twelve dudes. I
Speaker 3: believe that was very strategic. Yeah, from Dan Quinn.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 3: I think it was strategic from the standpoint that he
Speaker 3: recognizes that the Dallas Cowboys are now arrival to him.
Speaker 3: I believe that he understands that they are in his division,
Speaker 3: that they have to face them two times, And I
Speaker 3: think that he knew what he was doing in terms
Speaker 3: of making it challenging for this front office this offseason
Speaker 3: to feel even more voids in what they had already existing.
Speaker 3: The probability of Tyler Beati's coming back obviously was kind
Speaker 3: of up in the air. I don't think anybody was
Speaker 3: necessarily dead set on having to replace the center. I
Speaker 3: know that I've been in the camp in terms of
Speaker 3: wanting to get bigger and stronger at that position, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't a sure thing that he was leaving. You
Speaker 3: had one offensive line position that you had to feel
Speaker 3: going into this week. Now he knows that there's two
Speaker 3: very important offensive line positions that you have to feel
Speaker 3: by him grabbing Tyler Biadis, you no longer have somebody
Speaker 3: who runs things up front offensively. Now you have leaders
Speaker 3: up front in Zach Martin. You have leaders up front.
Speaker 3: Obviously you got Terrence Steele. Still you still have Tyler Smith,
Speaker 3: but you now have a giant void in the middle
Speaker 3: of your offensive line that we already talked about previously
Speaker 3: that you don't There's not a huge veteran market out
Speaker 3: there for sinners, so now most likely you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to feel that void. The commander of your office a
Speaker 3: line with the rookie. Most likely you're going to have
Speaker 3: a rookie playing your second most important position, obviously your
Speaker 3: most important position at left tackle. So your two most
Speaker 3: important positions on your offensive line now have voids, and
Speaker 3: that your NFC rival over at Washington commanders with Dan
Speaker 3: Quinn made that happen. Whether they could have got somebody else,
Speaker 3: sure he could have, but he said, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: going to get Tyler be Odist. What else did you do?
Speaker 3: He grabbed Doris Armstrong, possibly next to Micah in my opinions,
Speaker 3: one of your most valuable players on.
Speaker 7: The defensive front.
Speaker 1: He's not done yet.
Speaker 4: By the way, he's gonna get two or three more.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I believe that he will. I believe that he will.
Speaker 7: But he knew what he was doing.
Speaker 3: By Jones on Trump, Sure, not only am I getting
Speaker 3: a good player, a productive player who's had what seven
Speaker 3: and a half eight and a half sacks over the
Speaker 3: last two years.
Speaker 1: Twenty one sacks of the last three campaigns.
Speaker 3: There you go, right, but I'm getting probably your most
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go ahead and say he's your best special teamer.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say he's your best special teamer. Okay, So
Speaker 7: you got.
Speaker 3: Your your your your most versatile and dominant single dominant
Speaker 3: special teamer in my opinion, and one of your best defensive.
Speaker 7: Linemen off your roster.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 7: So now that's not only one void on the officer front.
Speaker 3: You're you're taking his center, You're taking the Dallas Cowboy Center,
Speaker 3: which is huge, leaves a huge void, but you're also
Speaker 3: leaving a huge void in special teams and defense.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 6: So on the Durrance thing, I think that just speaks
Speaker 6: to Sam Williams has to step up, that that's who
Speaker 6: they're looking at that has to take over those reps.
Speaker 6: Also with Dorance. He's going to go from being a
Speaker 6: rotational guy to when you pay him that kind of money,
Speaker 6: you're going to be featured at. Yeah, you have to
Speaker 6: be producing, no question. It's funny because leaving it Indianapolis.
Speaker 6: My biggest takeaway since I wasn't on the show last
Speaker 6: week was that Jerry Jerry shouldn't have set all in
Speaker 6: and he doesn't care because he loves that everybody's talking
Speaker 6: about it, so he doesn't. It doesn't bother him. Most people,
Speaker 6: I think, would have not said that, would have said, hey,
Speaker 6: we were close. I know understanding everyone's frustrated, but we
Speaker 6: think we're on the right path. And while people would
Speaker 6: be frustrated because the way the season ended, they wouldn't
Speaker 6: be as mad as they are today because when you
Speaker 6: say all in and then you obviously are asked four
Speaker 6: or five different ways about it when we were on
Speaker 6: the bus in Indy and you're not really shying away
Speaker 6: from it, it just puts fuel to the fire. Because
Speaker 6: while I understand where Cowboys fans are coming from, there's
Speaker 6: no way they lost yesterday. That like surprised me, especially
Speaker 6: after you see the numbers. You know it's what I mean.
Speaker 6: I didn't see any of those guys coming back for
Speaker 6: those numbers. I get what you're saying that they are
Speaker 6: gonna their center next year is gonna be a rookie,
Speaker 6: It's gonna be somebody that they draft.
Speaker 1: Or it's gonna be a second or third year player TJ.
Speaker 1: Bass or for sure.
Speaker 6: But I would think that it's probably somebody you get
Speaker 6: in maybe the third round, second or third round, yep,
Speaker 6: or first if the right guy falls. But so that's
Speaker 6: my whole takeaway from day one, and it is glaring
Speaker 6: when you are the only team out of thirty two
Speaker 6: that doesn't make a move to resign one of your players,
Speaker 6: or will agree to resign one of your players or
Speaker 6: add somebody from another team. Everybody knows first day of
Speaker 6: free agency generally that's the player's day. That's when you're
Speaker 6: gonna get your best deals. So but I totally get
Speaker 6: where fans are coming from. If I was a Cowboys fan,
Speaker 6: I would be frustrated today too. But leaving Indy Man
Speaker 6: that none of this is a surprise because it's nothing
Speaker 6: is changing. Like they are draft and develop, they want
Speaker 6: to resign Dak, Micah and CD and they don't want
Speaker 6: to do anything that jeopardizes that, and so because of that,
Speaker 6: that's why you're seeing what you're seeing yesterday and probably today.
Speaker 5: I think the quicker that fans can get the all
Speaker 5: in statement out of their head, the happier.
Speaker 4: They'll be in the long run.
Speaker 2: The best way I thought of it yesterday was and
Speaker 2: we've kind of sent out the warning flares in the
Speaker 2: weeks prior, and we talked about it last week after
Speaker 2: Jerry was on the bus and kind of going into it.
Speaker 2: But it was a difference in perspective, not necessarily a
Speaker 2: change of philosophy for the all in statement. The perspective
Speaker 2: from the outside looking in is that this Cowboys front
Speaker 2: office has not been all in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: But the perspective from the front office is that they
Speaker 2: have been. They've been building this roster to the point
Speaker 2: where they believed it was good enough to make a
Speaker 2: run to get it done, and it.
Speaker 1: Certainly wasn't in the end.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's part of the frustration with the way
Speaker 2: that Green Bay happened and the way that the wild
Speaker 2: card exit happened is the fact that they thought this
Speaker 2: roster was good enough, but it didn't get it and.
Speaker 6: It was a good roster.
Speaker 7: It was a good roster.
Speaker 6: It's the best out of my thirteen years covering the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: So now they put together some bad roster and live
Speaker 6: to us like, wait, no, this is great. No it
Speaker 6: you know, to piggyback on three consecutive years of twelve wins. Yes,
Speaker 6: it's obviously good roster. I hate when people try it.
Speaker 6: You're frustrated and so you say stupid things like trying
Speaker 6: to all it was overrated.
Speaker 7: No it wasn't.
Speaker 6: That was a really good roster. That's why it was
Speaker 6: so disappointing what happened against Green Bay. But with that
Speaker 6: being said, what really hurts them is what you saw
Speaker 6: happen with the teams over the last four years from
Speaker 6: the NFC that have been all in and it was
Speaker 6: the unequivocal all in and they all got to the Super.
Speaker 1: Bowl Rams Eagles.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 6: But if things ended because this past season is a
Speaker 6: good example, because if things ended differently for some of
Speaker 6: those teams, I think people would look differently at the
Speaker 6: whole all in because you'd be able to point to
Speaker 6: be like, yeah, that's don't do that, that's bad, like
Speaker 6: you know the Michael Vick or it wasn't even the
Speaker 6: Michael Bay. What was the year when the Eagles went
Speaker 6: real aggressive. I want to say the guy like non
Speaker 6: Diasinwall it was like in the like twenty twelve, somewhere
Speaker 6: in there, and it was a disaster. Vince Young I
Speaker 6: want to say, they got they spent a lot of
Speaker 6: money and it didn't do anything. But because you've seen
Speaker 6: these teams do that it's had success, then you point
Speaker 6: to them and you're just like, oh, well, that's obviously
Speaker 6: the way to do it. This is the Dalla's Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Why don't they do it that way? Whereas it would
Speaker 6: have been better for the Cowboys for more of those
Speaker 6: teams to have basically this season that the Eagles had
Speaker 6: last year. Where the Eagles were still pretty aggressive last year.
Speaker 6: Obviously they're starting out aggressive again and then but at
Speaker 6: the end of the year, I mean, it knows dive
Speaker 6: for them to the point where they had major changes
Speaker 6: and things like that. But because those other NFC teams,
Speaker 6: the Bucks, the Rams, the Eagles, the Niners of these
Speaker 6: last four years have had success, people look at it
Speaker 6: and they're like, no, we know what the blueprint is.
Speaker 6: If you are really all in, it's what they're.
Speaker 2: Doing exactly, and their way of looking it all in
Speaker 2: is completely different than the way that the fans and
Speaker 2: that outsiders have looked it all in.
Speaker 1: And that's not backing up the front office for inaction.
Speaker 2: Because that's what's frustrating is thirty one teams in day
Speaker 2: one a free agency did something that they believed would
Speaker 2: make their football team better. Thirty one teams. That's not
Speaker 2: just a couple teams here and a couple teams there.
Speaker 2: You're looking at every other franchise in the NFL did
Speaker 2: at least something to push their team forward into the season.
Speaker 2: And that's the things our makeup for a loss exactly.
Speaker 2: Would I would consider a restructure of deck being a
Speaker 2: great domino that needs the fall first, we've talked about that.
Speaker 2: That is probably domino number one, flashing red light number
Speaker 2: one that needs to be taken care of.
Speaker 1: That has not happened. Ceedee Lamb his.
Speaker 2: Extension, whether that's before or after the DAK extension. Probably
Speaker 2: after the DAK extension, then you've got to get that done.
Speaker 2: Either way, there hasn't been any action other than signing
Speaker 2: your deep snapper Trent City back into the fold. Outside
Speaker 2: of that, you haven't necessarily done anything. That's where the
Speaker 2: frustration lies. Oh, we have a question, that's where it lies.
Speaker 2: And because if you're making some sort of action, you're
Speaker 2: doing some sort of shifting maneuvering, then at least it
Speaker 2: looks like there's something happening.
Speaker 1: But instead it looks like apathy.
Speaker 3: I believe that we're on agreement that the expectation was
Speaker 3: for Dallas to do nothing. Yes, that's the expectation that
Speaker 3: was that was that's based off history. That's that's history, right,
Speaker 3: history says Dallas does nothing when free agency starts, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Can you be disappointed?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely.
Speaker 3: If you're expe dictation is for them to do what
Speaker 3: they've always done, how can you be disappointed.
Speaker 2: Because of inaction and you're oh, but you expect it
Speaker 2: in comparison too.
Speaker 4: I'm with you, Isaiah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: That's why I was really so surprised that the fans
Speaker 5: were melting down yesterday. I was like, what exactly were
Speaker 5: we expecting given the cap situation? And all the fans
Speaker 5: are like, Oh, this cap situation, it's it's been created
Speaker 5: by the front office.
Speaker 4: They can alleviate that. Today.
Speaker 5: It's like, okay, let's let's think about this for a minute.
Speaker 5: Let's alleviate the cap situation today. What are you doing
Speaker 5: restructuring Deck, you're extending CD, You're restructuring dig steel making
Speaker 5: making room with Michael Gallop. One second, you're gonna go
Speaker 5: to five of your employees be like, hey, I needed
Speaker 5: to take a pay cut this next year, but we'll
Speaker 5: give it back to you on the back end, Like,
Speaker 5: don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: I know we've been doing that for the last five years.
Speaker 7: Taking a can.
Speaker 5: I know we've been doing that for the last five years.
Speaker 5: But let's go ahead and do that today because we
Speaker 5: need to spend money today.
Speaker 4: That's not gonna work. That's not how business works.
Speaker 5: Like it's yes, they can alleviate the cap today theoretically,
Speaker 5: but when it comes to personal and that's never going
Speaker 5: to happen. That is why they are in the cap
Speaker 5: situation that they are today. Zach Martin, you were able
Speaker 5: to make that money and get under the cap.
Speaker 2: That was the freedom there, which was surprising because he
Speaker 2: held out in training camp in Oxnard to get his
Speaker 2: money that had been kicked down the road initially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: So Terrance Steell and Zach Martin have both restructured, correct
Speaker 3: terror steel is not not just it's not zach A right, Sorry,
Speaker 3: I have it, Zak Martin has Okay, So there is
Speaker 3: some restructuring, right, And I still stand by my statement
Speaker 3: last week. I know the expectation is for Dak to
Speaker 3: get restructured. I still think there's a high probability that
Speaker 3: they make him play in this fifth year. It's not
Speaker 3: the popular opinion. That's just my opinion. I think that
Speaker 3: they I think they get Ceedee Lamb done probably this week.
Speaker 3: That's my expectation, at.
Speaker 1: Least its action. Yeah, that's that's what I'm asking.
Speaker 7: That's my expectation.
Speaker 3: See, I I was torn between disappointment and frustration, and
Speaker 3: I think I was more frustrated than I was disappointed
Speaker 3: because to be disappointed, there's a level of expectation. And
Speaker 3: it's obviously already stated that the expectation is for Dallas
Speaker 3: to never do anything when free agency first starts. So
Speaker 3: it has to be frustration, right. My frustration is that
Speaker 3: Dallas has been competitive. Dallas has had a great roster
Speaker 3: every year using this strategy. They've done a great job
Speaker 3: of piecing it together. Front office is amazing of feeling
Speaker 3: the gaps right, they go to Trader's village every year
Speaker 3: and get some get some guys that are sitting at
Speaker 3: the house and they and they fill the gaps.
Speaker 7: Okay, they're not going to the premier stores.
Speaker 3: I'm not even gonn name because I don't know who sponsors,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of premier stores that were that
Speaker 3: were shopped at yesterday. Right, Dallas doesn't do that. They
Speaker 3: go to the swap meet and they find they find
Speaker 3: some value deals.
Speaker 7: Okay, so that's it.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: They go to the state sales and they always find
Speaker 3: some good stuff. You can find good stuff at the
Speaker 3: state sales, right, just not necessarily the best stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Last year Dallas proved evidence that that going out and
Speaker 3: being aggressive helps your roster. Right, it gives you a
Speaker 3: one heck of a push. Stephan Gilmour had a big
Speaker 3: impact last year. Brandon Cooks had a big impact last year. Obviously,
Speaker 3: these are guys that they went out and traded for.
Speaker 3: They took care of business in that regard, so it
Speaker 3: was approven. Now not only can can you go to
Speaker 3: go to the swap meet and get good players to
Speaker 3: fill the boys, but you go also go out there
Speaker 3: be aggressive and get players that can actually go out
Speaker 3: there and contribute to the success of your team. So
Speaker 3: if you have been proven to continue to fill the
Speaker 3: gaps and to be aggressive, people are expecting the continuation
Speaker 3: of that. When you obviously make the statement of all in,
Speaker 3: that doesn't help, right, There's a whole lot of ways
Speaker 3: that could be taken. Obviously he backpedal, got his deon
Speaker 3: sanders On and backpedal on that statement the following week.
Speaker 3: But I still believe frustration, not disappointment. Frustration comes in
Speaker 3: because there are always deals. Every single year we sit
Speaker 3: here and talk about it. Okay, I've been here for
Speaker 3: four years now, and you sit back and say, I
Speaker 3: would have did that deal. I would have did I
Speaker 3: would have signed Austin Eckler for five and a half
Speaker 3: million dollars, absolute freaking lutely.
Speaker 4: Zach Moss for four.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, you could have had them.
Speaker 1: Both, trading a fifth for Brian Burns.
Speaker 7: He would have took second, second and ff right.
Speaker 3: But those are deals that you would have done it,
Speaker 3: and it leads you to believe, and I believe this
Speaker 3: is when frustration comes in because we are unsure because
Speaker 3: we're not sitting in the those rooms, we're not on
Speaker 3: the cell phones, we don't have the records what calls
Speaker 3: are being made, right, we don't know what calls are
Speaker 3: being made. We don't know what moves are trying to
Speaker 3: be made. Because fans are left in the dark, because
Speaker 3: staff is left in the dark, we don't know the
Speaker 3: attempts that are actually taking place. We could sit here
Speaker 3: and assume that they're just sitting on their hands, but
Speaker 3: we truly don't know. We just know the result, and
Speaker 3: the result is other teams are obviously getting better with
Speaker 3: their roster with premiere players, not swap meet players that
Speaker 3: are still good, but premiere players that you know you're
Speaker 3: gonna get production out of, and you roll the dice
Speaker 3: and you spend the money. Dallas doesn't necessarily have that,
Speaker 3: but there are things that they can do with current
Speaker 3: guys on this roster to create space without even doing
Speaker 3: the Dak deal and still fill voids. The concern is
Speaker 3: you have gaping holes that have to be filled. This
Speaker 3: is not a situation where you only got a handful
Speaker 3: of spots that you need to take care of. Left
Speaker 3: tackle sent into your defensive line, running back room, linebacker room,
Speaker 3: linebacker room, receiver room.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's a receiver room. I think it's
Speaker 4: one receiver.
Speaker 1: It's probably just one guy.
Speaker 2: They've got Brandon Cooks back and Ceedee Lamb is the
Speaker 2: top receiver in the country.
Speaker 1: Like I'll say one receiver, it's.
Speaker 4: Not it's I don't think.
Speaker 6: I don't think. I don't think you need more than
Speaker 6: one linebacker either.
Speaker 3: Be with you, Yeah, in this in this new system,
Speaker 3: the way that Green Bay random.
Speaker 1: What are they?
Speaker 6: What are they gonna run a legit traditional four three
Speaker 6: with three linebackers out there all the time. You're gonna
Speaker 6: have linebackers out there, are going.
Speaker 3: To see extreme changes on defense, and I don't know
Speaker 3: how they're gonna make it happen. I honestly don't know
Speaker 3: how they're gonna But this roster is not gonna look
Speaker 3: like it looks like now.
Speaker 6: And that's why it's the rosters that could be as
Speaker 6: good as it was last year, not as everybody gets
Speaker 6: their hands around that and and moves forward that. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's just that fact.
Speaker 3: And that's my concern going into going into the draft,
Speaker 3: going into free agency, that's my concern because you're going
Speaker 3: to have.
Speaker 7: To appeal to what Zimmer wants.
Speaker 3: You have to and you have gaping holes offensively, So
Speaker 3: how do you address your gaping holes offensively? Where you
Speaker 3: know you have to at least get four big signings
Speaker 3: left tackle, center, and two running backs.
Speaker 6: You have to think those running two running backs are
Speaker 6: big signings. The league has shown you how the value
Speaker 6: that position is.
Speaker 8: Like.
Speaker 3: When I say big signings, I'm not talking about a
Speaker 3: king Henry. I'm talking about adequate contributors, like an Eckler,
Speaker 3: like a moss, like those guys that got picked up
Speaker 3: yesterday that can contribute, that are proven winners. And now,
Speaker 3: obviously you can get a draft pick, but you know
Speaker 3: you got a draft a left tackle. You know you
Speaker 3: got a draft a running back. You know you got
Speaker 3: to draft a center.
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: How many draft picks do we have? And then you
Speaker 3: know that you have to feel the voice that Zimmer wants.
Speaker 3: He's gonna change dynamically what your personnel looks like.
Speaker 7: So where are you getting all these guys from?
Speaker 6: They're gonna get them off the scrap heap? How to
Speaker 6: swap me?
Speaker 7: I mean Trader's village right out there?
Speaker 6: And Saturday, there's a salary cap. You can't have everything.
Speaker 7: I get what you're saying, but other teams are figuring it.
Speaker 5: Out some names that have been bounced around. And I
Speaker 5: also want to mention you mentioned a good point Isaiah
Speaker 5: about them being on the phone yesterday. Zach Moss was
Speaker 5: an option. I mean, I feel like I talked about
Speaker 5: for a while. I felt like that would have been
Speaker 5: a perfect fit with what Mike McCarthy likes to do.
Speaker 5: They were involved with that with that discussion, but then
Speaker 5: the money became a little bit too much for them.
Speaker 4: He ended up eight million.
Speaker 5: Two years, So if that's too much. Now you know
Speaker 5: where the price the price range is at. When when
Speaker 5: you when you look at that price range, you're looking
Speaker 5: at guys probably like Alexander Madison, Nakei Hines, Corderyl Patterson,
Speaker 5: Deontay Foreman. I mean, this is probably the range you're
Speaker 5: going to have to be okay with one running back
Speaker 5: that I think I'm very interested to see how his, uh,
Speaker 5: his market plays out, and I think it could end
Speaker 5: up being a sneaky good.
Speaker 4: Market for the Cowboys. It's JK.
Speaker 5: Dobbins because he's coming off all of these injuries. How
Speaker 5: will he be valued in that since he's still only
Speaker 5: twenty five, he was really productive when he was healthy.
Speaker 5: Cowboys could still kind of fall into a situation where
Speaker 5: they get a cheap guy who's just looking to prove
Speaker 5: himself past injury. That could work. But other than that,
Speaker 5: I don't really feel strong about any of these other names.
Speaker 5: Aj Dillon I think is going to be past their
Speaker 5: price range.
Speaker 1: Edwards a layer.
Speaker 3: So speaking to the speaking to getting guys off of injuries,
Speaker 3: how does that work with Michael Gallup Antoni Paul.
Speaker 4: Right, you're right.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm not saying, you know, I'm not saying the
Speaker 5: track is for sure for sure, I'm not saying that
Speaker 5: at all. But I think there could be an opportunity
Speaker 5: there if if they are able to get him on
Speaker 5: a cheap deal, then if they lose and is a
Speaker 5: cheap deal and they still have, you know, guys in
Speaker 5: the running back room and a guy that they're gonna draft,
Speaker 5: so we'll go from there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not gonna be perfect.
Speaker 5: That is not gonna be perfect, but you're gonna be
Speaker 5: chasing how to be okay. And I think that's an
Speaker 5: opportunity to be able to chase okay.
Speaker 3: And that's why I think that what dan Quinn did
Speaker 3: yesterday not only for his team, but to hurt that
Speaker 3: I think it was intentional.
Speaker 7: I believe sure intentional. I think that was very strategic.
Speaker 3: Well, they had caps face too, they have money, but
Speaker 3: there was other guys they could they got from other teams.
Speaker 1: Agreed that they.
Speaker 6: Didn't want to really concerned by the commanders over there.
Speaker 3: And I'm not concerned about what their production is. I'm
Speaker 3: concerned about what they just did to their roster yesterday.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about that a little bit. Let's talk about that.
Speaker 2: There's there's an element of fomo fear of missing out
Speaker 2: for Cowboys fans and looking across the division and seeing
Speaker 2: what other teams have done so far in free agency.
Speaker 2: I want to hit some of the names that are
Speaker 2: going to Philadelphia, New York and Washington because all three
Speaker 2: teams were very active on day one. And how much
Speaker 2: of an impact does it really make. Let's talk about
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna throw my teammate under the bus, but
Speaker 3: I didn't have any oats in here.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 7: You know what I mean. By the time I got
Speaker 7: here at breakfast is over.
Speaker 1: Listen, he's busy.
Speaker 7: I know he's busy. He's the man.
Speaker 1: He's a busy individual.
Speaker 7: He's the freaking man. Yeah, being the man for what
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Speaker 1: Last time I said, I'll get you some oats.
Speaker 8: You're like, oh no, they're gonna be cold by the
Speaker 8: time I get there.
Speaker 7: Like warm oat. You can do cold pizza, you can't
Speaker 7: do cold oats.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't have a microwave back here.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised you don't. Honestly, you got like the cocky
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Speaker 5: It was BEA's oppression of Isaiah for a minute there.
Speaker 5: Why did he sound like Billy Bob Thordon sling blade?
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some of the FOMO.
Speaker 2: Part of the frustration, along with being the only of
Speaker 2: thirty two teams to not make a move in day
Speaker 2: one of the legal tampering period, is the fact that
Speaker 2: the teams within your division made some big moves.
Speaker 1: And we'll start.
Speaker 2: We'll start with the commander since we were just talking
Speaker 2: about it. So Austin Eckler signs a two year deal.
Speaker 2: They get Zach Ertz on a one year deal, Tyler
Speaker 2: Biattish of course, to urn Tomstrong, of course, two cowboys
Speaker 2: now going to play with Dan Quinn as their head coach.
Speaker 2: And basically they signed a linebacker, Frankie luvu Is.
Speaker 1: So how you say his last nimes? He's a fun
Speaker 1: little free agent.
Speaker 2: Three years, thirty six million dollars. The commanders make some moves.
Speaker 2: But John, you were talking about it in the middle
Speaker 2: of the break.
Speaker 7: A little bit.
Speaker 2: Sometimes in day one of free agency, it is spend
Speaker 2: money time.
Speaker 1: It is panic spending.
Speaker 2: To a certain extent, because you're trying to beat everybody
Speaker 2: else to the punch, and a lot of times it's
Speaker 2: reserved for teams that aren't very good and have some cap.
Speaker 6: Space to kill absolutely, and that's why there's a lot
Speaker 6: of teams that you've mentioned that. Frankly, if you're a
Speaker 6: Cowboys fan, I don't know why you rarely would even
Speaker 6: be that concerned about them. I understand a couple of
Speaker 6: murn your division. But for me, when I when I
Speaker 6: look at what goes on in free agency, I'm more
Speaker 6: focused on obviously the Cowboys, but then the other teams
Speaker 6: that are on their level, like you know, the Eagles,
Speaker 6: the Niners, the Lions, the Packers, Like what are those
Speaker 6: teams doing to get better? Because those are the teams
Speaker 6: you're probably gonna have to go through, uh in the postseason.
Speaker 6: So when Washington and New York do a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 6: I mean, that's that's great for their franchise. They still
Speaker 6: need to identify a franchise quarterback, you know, So there's
Speaker 6: there's some pieces that need to be made there before
Speaker 6: you're really looking at them, like, Okay, I'm really worried
Speaker 6: about this. So and they have a bunch of money
Speaker 6: to spend, so you're not going to just sit there
Speaker 6: and not spend it. So they're gonna they're gonna pay
Speaker 6: for players. Sometimes it works a lot of times it doesn't.
Speaker 2: New Hey, coach, just trying to make it in right,
Speaker 2: push an identity, build a culture.
Speaker 6: And and maybe they do and maybe it works out,
Speaker 6: but there's just a lot of times where it doesn't,
Speaker 6: and it just some of these teams stay in the
Speaker 6: same cycle year after year after year.
Speaker 1: What did you think about what Washington did yesterday?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we expected the Commanders to be active with their
Speaker 5: cap space, so you know, they were able to get
Speaker 5: on the board and fill will fill a few needs.
Speaker 5: We'll see kind of how as the draft gets closer,
Speaker 5: what they're again, what their quarterback situation will look like.
Speaker 5: Come back to me in a couple of months and
Speaker 5: we could talk about the Commanders.
Speaker 6: But I think what's the biggest move that they've made
Speaker 6: this offseason that really concerns you, like you like at
Speaker 6: the Washington Washington's franchise last whatever ten years, really since
Speaker 6: post RG three, Like, what move have they made to
Speaker 6: where you were just like, well, this could be a
Speaker 6: this could be a big problem.
Speaker 4: Drafting RG three, I guess I mean or before that.
Speaker 6: No, No, I'm saying I'm saying. I'm saying recently recently.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they draft I'm the fourth round of that same draft.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: There was a long time where where I was like,
Speaker 6: you know, it could be concerned for them is having
Speaker 6: Montes sweat, Chase Young, Allen Payne. I'm like, Oh, they're
Speaker 6: gonna build that defensive line, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: now those pieces are gone, and again when you don't
Speaker 6: have the franchise quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: If I had to rank like the most quote unquote
Speaker 5: concerning things that happened for the Cowboys around the NFC
Speaker 5: East yesterday, I don't think I would get it to
Speaker 5: a commander's note until.
Speaker 4: Probably like fourth or fifth.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you're talking about out Bryce stuff going
Speaker 5: to the Eagles, Brian Burns getting traded to the Giants,
Speaker 5: Saquon Barkley going to the Eagles.
Speaker 4: I feel like there was another big signing for the
Speaker 4: Giants yesterday. But I mean the division got better overall.
Speaker 5: Commanders, they have obviously a bigger gap to close, so
Speaker 5: it's gonna take them a little bit longer to put
Speaker 5: the pieces together, but I think I think they will be.
Speaker 5: I think they will be a lot better than they
Speaker 5: were last year. I think that's that's a fact. Like
Speaker 5: I think they're they're improving to be teetering on that
Speaker 5: six seven win territory as opposed to three to four
Speaker 5: last year. And what it depends on the quarterback that
Speaker 5: they get is to whether they're a winning team or not.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, it's funny.
Speaker 2: Nick Eatman was the one that brought this up yesterday
Speaker 2: just in conversation, so I'll give him credit for this,
Speaker 2: but I thought it was perfect. It's like next year
Speaker 2: whenever Isaiah and I or get ready for a Sunday
Speaker 2: afternoon matchup, noon kickoff at FedEx Field and we're breaking
Speaker 2: down the pregame live notes. I don't think we're gonna
Speaker 2: lead the show off with Dorence Armstrong. We're not going
Speaker 2: to lead the show off with Tyler Biattish. Like it's
Speaker 2: gonna be whoever they take it quarterback. It'll be Drake
Speaker 2: May out of North Carolina, It'll be Jade and Daniels
Speaker 2: out of LSU.
Speaker 6: Whoever's their quarterback is Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 2: Marcus Mariota is the Yeah. Whoever it ends up being,
Speaker 2: it's not gonna be. These aren't big name signings. The
Speaker 2: one thing we will talk about, though, is on the
Speaker 2: Philadelphia side of things, Sakuon Barkley. We'll talk about Saquon
Speaker 2: Barkley going to Philly and what he looks like.
Speaker 1: Going into it.
Speaker 2: Signs a three year, thirty we'll say, just thirty eight
Speaker 2: million dollar contract.
Speaker 1: According to Ian Rappaport.
Speaker 2: They also signed Alberta Quebanam the tight end, Landon Dickerson
Speaker 2: offensive guard. They re signed him, brought back Brandon Graham,
Speaker 2: signed Bryce Huff the edge rusher, and then Julian Aquara
Speaker 2: the free agent linebacker as well.
Speaker 1: So that's what Philly did yesterday.
Speaker 6: And that's on the heels of they lose DeAndre Swift. Yes,
Speaker 6: Jason Kelsey retires, Fletcher Cox retires some big pieces.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like they've done enough to fill that
Speaker 2: void just based off of their first day?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: Maybe not. I mean, I think a lot of Kelsey
Speaker 6: so and Fletcher Cox has had a phenomenal career. Swift,
Speaker 6: I think they obviously exceeded expectations by replacing with Barkley.
Speaker 6: I can't sit here and say, like one day it
Speaker 6: does that for me with the Eagles, but it's the
Speaker 6: fact that you just you have this track record. You
Speaker 6: know how aggressive they are. It's not just about yesterday,
Speaker 6: not just about today, it's about the next whatever, three, four, five,
Speaker 6: six months into the season, you know they're going to
Speaker 6: be aggressive. They operate very aggressively to where you know
Speaker 6: they can make shirts that say all in and people
Speaker 6: would believe it.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 3: I agree with everything. James just said that the Philly
Speaker 3: is just a team. They don't relax. They don't relax.
Speaker 7: You can't.
Speaker 3: There's not a point where I feel like when you're
Speaker 3: dealing with the Dallas Cowboys in their current state, You're like,
Speaker 3: all right, they're done making their moves, like that's their roster.
Speaker 7: Philly not the case.
Speaker 3: You just you never feel secure all the way through
Speaker 3: the trade deadline, and Philly is always looking to do something.
Speaker 3: I feel like they're all We talked about the feeling
Speaker 3: and not knowing whether teams are on the phone or not.
Speaker 3: You feel like Philly's always on the phone. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Like like Philly's like, hey, is Nick available?
Speaker 3: How much Nick?
Speaker 2: Want?
Speaker 13: All?
Speaker 14: Right?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 7: All right? Talk you later. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 7: My price? How about now?
Speaker 6: Nick?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 3: Like like you can just you get the sense that
Speaker 3: they're always pursuing and always asking and always trying because
Speaker 3: some of the things that they get accomplished, it's just like, dang,
Speaker 3: how the heck they get that?
Speaker 6: And then you know what they're part about is that,
Speaker 6: Like it's the Eagles and Niners have both also, they've
Speaker 6: swung in midst They've made bad moves, They've done the
Speaker 6: wrong thing to take the risk. Yeah, well, and then
Speaker 6: they make up for it with other moves. You're just like,
Speaker 6: how did they get out of that? I was told
Speaker 6: if that didn't work out that that they were going
Speaker 6: to be in a hole forever, and that hole is
Speaker 6: not at all and they just fill in those holes
Speaker 6: and move on to the next thing. It's crazy, like
Speaker 6: how aggressive and and how successful they've been.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I feel like Dallas is like the old
Speaker 3: thirty five millimeter camera and every other team in the
Speaker 3: NFC that's competitive has like the new digit joints, and hey,
Speaker 3: you take pat as, you could delete it, you know, like, well,
Speaker 3: let's ask still trying to be perfect with every shot.
Speaker 6: And to be honest with you, that's fine if you
Speaker 6: if your results are like what Kansas City's been doing,
Speaker 6: Like Kansas City doesn't have to go out and sign
Speaker 6: anybody else. They're trying to keep everybody that they have
Speaker 6: because they have had that ultimate success. And I'm and
Speaker 6: even that is ridiculous. I'm not asking for three super
Speaker 6: Bowls in five years. But if with this cores right now,
Speaker 6: you had won a super Bowl within the last two
Speaker 6: or three years, I think it's a lot more sitting
Speaker 6: back being like, hey, why would you want to get
Speaker 6: rid of why would you want to shake this up?
Speaker 6: This is this is heading the right, everything's here. But
Speaker 6: when you have that, forget even the last two or
Speaker 6: three years, just that showing against the Packers, yep, should
Speaker 6: make you question everything.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like, actually ask this question on the
Speaker 2: other side of the break, do you feel like what
Speaker 2: happened against the Packers has affected the way the things
Speaker 2: have happened in free agency whatsoever so far?
Speaker 1: And maybe what it'll do in the next couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: I asked the question a little bit there. How much
Speaker 2: does the loss to Green Bay affect the mindset going
Speaker 2: into free agency moving forward? Does it affect it in
Speaker 2: the action that we've seen so far? Saying maybe maybe
Speaker 2: we are questioning everything. Maybe we don't know from a
Speaker 2: front office standpoint, who to bring back, who to extend,
Speaker 2: who to really put out there on the trade market.
Speaker 1: There there are a ton of different.
Speaker 2: Options you can have when it comes to building this
Speaker 2: roster for the future. It could either be retain guys
Speaker 2: and try and battle to be good. Like you said, Nick,
Speaker 2: it could be go all in. I think that one's
Speaker 2: pretty much out of the window at this point by
Speaker 2: signing some big name free agents and saying screw the cap.
Speaker 2: We'll figure that out later down the road. Or you
Speaker 2: can blow it all up and start all over. But
Speaker 2: how do you feel like it's affected things based off
Speaker 2: of that Green Bay loss?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, we're it's sitting right now. I don't
Speaker 6: think there's any difference with what they're doing as if
Speaker 6: they would have lost the Niners in NFC Championship Game.
Speaker 5: I agree, Yeah, I don't. I don't feel like that
Speaker 5: the loss is yeah, no, I don't. They could have
Speaker 5: won the Super Bowl, they'd still be in the very
Speaker 5: same situation.
Speaker 2: There's a point to me asking this, by the way,
Speaker 2: I want to just get everybody's answers.
Speaker 1: First. Have you ever.
Speaker 7: Accidentally put foil in a microwave? Oh?
Speaker 6: Yeah, huh yeah?
Speaker 7: Was that a traumatic event for you?
Speaker 1: It was?
Speaker 6: It was fun looking.
Speaker 7: Did it Did it change how it was? Did it
Speaker 7: change the.
Speaker 12: It was?
Speaker 1: My wife will not because of that.
Speaker 3: Okay, So did it change how much attention you place
Speaker 3: on looking at what you put in a microwave from
Speaker 3: that point forward?
Speaker 6: Not as much as it made me think. I can't
Speaker 6: believe that, Like, you're so panic that you would grab
Speaker 6: something on fire to throw it into the sink, not
Speaker 6: thinking about how it would burn your hand. But it's like,
Speaker 6: I gotta get the zire before you remember.
Speaker 3: But you remember that every time, Yeah, every time you
Speaker 3: get ready to put something in the microwator to warm
Speaker 3: it up, Like you think about that one time that
Speaker 3: you freaking almost burnt up down the house.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: I can give a similar comparison on what was total
Speaker 5: the car because I was driving over a puddle and
Speaker 5: there was a sinkhole under that puddle and it flooded
Speaker 5: my edge.
Speaker 4: And so every time I drop drive around.
Speaker 3: And don't you exactly absolutely so, when you get smacked
Speaker 3: up in the first round like that, yeah, that should
Speaker 3: be a traumatic event and that should impact how you
Speaker 3: go forward from that. After that, that should be the
Speaker 3: foil event for the Dallas Cowboys. They should be uber aggressive.
Speaker 3: They should be doing things that they've never done before
Speaker 3: because they don't want that to ever happen again. That's
Speaker 3: how much that should have hurt. It hurt us.
Speaker 7: I saw looking our eyes.
Speaker 3: I've never seen a look in Jerry Jones's eyes like
Speaker 3: I saw after that game. That pain right there should
Speaker 3: affect everything that you do going forward, and to date
Speaker 3: it hasn't.
Speaker 7: We hope, we keep using that word every year.
Speaker 3: We hope that it does going forward, but as of today,
Speaker 3: it hasn't had enough of an impact.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up because both John and
Speaker 2: Nick saying it hasn't changed anything, and it won't change anything,
Speaker 2: and nothing's going to change regardless, and you saying it
Speaker 2: should change based off of how jarring and how dramatic
Speaker 2: that entire sequence was losing to the Packers and getting
Speaker 2: bounced the way that you did.
Speaker 1: What does change even look like. I think change.
Speaker 2: Would frustrate fans more than it would actually make them
Speaker 2: excited moving forward. I think change would be trading Micah Parsons.
Speaker 2: Change would be not extending Dak Prescott, leting him play
Speaker 2: out the fifth year option and then he's gone at
Speaker 2: the end of the year, next year or whatever it
Speaker 2: ends up being, along with your head coach, along with
Speaker 2: your defensive coordinator, along with one of your.
Speaker 1: Top wide receivers, Deep Shepherd. You're one snapper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's on a one year deal, so like that
Speaker 2: one hurts that losing your deep Snapper.
Speaker 1: That's what change would.
Speaker 2: Look like as a whole as a blow up, as
Speaker 2: a let's let's scrap this thing, take it out of
Speaker 2: the fridge, or take it out of the microwave on
Speaker 2: fire and throw it into the scene.
Speaker 1: That's what that would look like.
Speaker 6: It's easier, dude, nobody wants a lot of that. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but it's easy to do a whole whole sale type
Speaker 6: change like that. If the team's really bad exactly, you know,
Speaker 6: but when it's just it's kind of in a spot
Speaker 6: where you're like, you don't want to break it all
Speaker 6: up because you feel like it's knocking on the door
Speaker 6: or hanging around the rim. Then you don't want to
Speaker 6: do that. And I feel like that's where they're at,
Speaker 6: where they're just like, well, how can we sit here
Speaker 6: and roll out twelve consecutive or three consecutive twelve win
Speaker 6: seasons if it's that bad?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the thing is like jam Like it's kind
Speaker 3: of like fitness, right, like the fitness industry, and I
Speaker 3: know we all get our work out on like speak
Speaker 3: for yourself.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 3: Most most listeners can probably you can probably relate to
Speaker 3: this if they have a consistent workout regiment.
Speaker 7: There's lulls that you hit.
Speaker 3: There's times where you're used to doing the same workouts,
Speaker 3: you know, International Chess Days, Monday, whatever it might be,
Speaker 3: and you're going through your regular workout regiments, right, and
Speaker 3: there's a lull. You can't get over a hump, right,
Speaker 3: you can't get to the physique you want, or you
Speaker 3: can't lose the body of five percentage that you want, right,
Speaker 3: But you're doing the same things. It's been working, right, Like,
Speaker 3: I know, if I keep doing this, I'll at least
Speaker 3: be here. But I don't want to just be here
Speaker 3: right And if I want something different, then I have
Speaker 3: not been attaining. Then I have to change up my regiment.
Speaker 3: I have to change my nutrition, I have to change
Speaker 3: up my work, and I gotta jege up my conditioning.
Speaker 3: There's something that has to change if I want to
Speaker 3: get to the level I haven't been.
Speaker 6: I get that, But my argument with that comp is that,
Speaker 6: but at least, if you're doing something in the gym,
Speaker 6: you're probably not all of a sudden going to show
Speaker 6: up and just like, man, I've been working out every
Speaker 6: day and I lost fifty pounds, I'm skinny, Like where
Speaker 6: did all this way go?
Speaker 1: Where?
Speaker 6: Like, there's not that downside or the opposite of it.
Speaker 6: You're not gonna work out every single day and be like, man,
Speaker 6: how did I gain seventy five pounds of fat? Like
Speaker 6: you're at least if you just show up every day,
Speaker 6: that's not gonna happen. There's no guarantee like that. When
Speaker 6: you're running an NFL team, you can be doing things
Speaker 6: all the time thinking that hey, I'm just showing up.
Speaker 6: I'm punching the clock, I'm showing up, and guys can
Speaker 6: get hurt. You can you cannot resign your franchise quarterback
Speaker 6: and then when he's gone, you can spend the next
Speaker 6: decade looking for another person like that. Like, that's not
Speaker 6: gonna happen in the gym if you just keep showing
Speaker 6: up every day, if you just keep showing up every day.
Speaker 6: In the NFL, there's no guarantee you'll get another Dak
Speaker 6: Prescott for the next decade if you let him go.
Speaker 6: So there is a downside to.
Speaker 7: That risk versus reward.
Speaker 6: Absolutely for sure.
Speaker 2: It's a motivation by John Macholda everybody. We just talked about,
Speaker 2: why get the gym. You're gonna be better if you
Speaker 2: get in the gym every day.
Speaker 6: If you go every day, you're gonna get good results.
Speaker 6: Saying you're gonna get some kind of results.
Speaker 3: We just talked about other competitive NFC. NFC teams, Yeah,
Speaker 3: rolling the dice, sure for sure. And sometimes you hit
Speaker 3: and usually said it, and sometimes you don't hit.
Speaker 7: The only way you know is if you wrote them down.
Speaker 6: To be honest with you, it's the one part of
Speaker 6: the franchise where it's it's this has been beaten to death,
Speaker 6: but it has to be set again. The big difference
Speaker 6: is that they have general managers that aren't the owner
Speaker 6: and that and whether you're you're hitting home runs or
Speaker 6: not in that position, that has to be pointed to
Speaker 6: because that is the one common difference between them. So
Speaker 6: it has to have some type of an impact.
Speaker 5: I think an argument can be made that they rolled
Speaker 5: a lot of dice last year and trading for Stefankill more,
Speaker 5: trading for Brandon Cooks, you know, restructuring Martin and giving
Speaker 5: him what he wanted at the end of training camp,
Speaker 5: pushing money back into this year for Dak Prescott. I mean,
Speaker 5: they've been all in for the last two to three.
Speaker 1: Years in there.
Speaker 6: And then here's the other the argument definitely.
Speaker 3: Last year was the most aggressive I've season a lot
Speaker 3: of time, and it put them in a great position.
Speaker 6: And another one I think about that too is if
Speaker 6: Mazie is solid and it helps improve the run game,
Speaker 6: like just to a point where like you would have
Speaker 6: that going into this offseason, like man like that we
Speaker 6: shored that up. That was a big issue. Now we
Speaker 6: can add on to that and everybody because you got
Speaker 6: nothing out of that pick, and now we're sitting here
Speaker 6: talking again about man, you need another run stopping defensive tackle.
Speaker 6: And this is a team that is draft and developed.
Speaker 6: When you have a draft class that you don't get
Speaker 6: anything out of in that season, yep, that's another thing
Speaker 6: that people will point to and be like, man, that
Speaker 6: that hurts big time, you know.
Speaker 1: And it does.
Speaker 2: It did hurt, yeah, because now you're looking at this
Speaker 2: draft class and you're saying, Okay, if you whiff on
Speaker 2: a draft class for the second straight year, which doesn't
Speaker 2: happen often. Like we said, this is a draft and
Speaker 2: developed franchise for a reason because they've built their identity
Speaker 2: on drafting. Well, if they whiff on a draft class
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, this is gonna be a wild
Speaker 2: next couple of years because you don't you don't know
Speaker 2: what it's gonna look.
Speaker 4: The rebuild is coming, it might be.
Speaker 2: It might be until then, We're gonna be here to
Speaker 2: break it down every week Tuesdays at ten am Central Time.
Speaker 6: That's what we're gonna be every day.
Speaker 1: We're every day, show up, show up. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: a little bit better, and we're gonna move this podcast
Speaker 1: to the weight room.
Speaker 2: We're gonna sounds good. Mean, let's get it going. We
Speaker 2: did it from a coffee shop. We can make it
Speaker 2: half fat in the weight room. We can get over there.
Speaker 2: That that that one sided glass window that Dalton Schultz
Speaker 2: is working talking about.
Speaker 4: I want to feel like I'm in a zoo beam.
Speaker 2: Listen by the way, Dalton window. The one time somebody
Speaker 2: maybe knocked on the window in the history of the Star.
Speaker 2: I guess Dalton Schultz was doing squats like I don't
Speaker 2: even know.
Speaker 1: It's just nobody knocks on windows around here. Dalton, that's
Speaker 1: a bit even if they did. Even if they did,
Speaker 1: it's part of it.
Speaker 6: It only kicks in though, once the playoffs start. Yeah,
Speaker 6: because it's fine when we can win the twelve games.
Speaker 6: Once January hits, it's like whoa, whoa.
Speaker 13: Knock on that one here, guys listen doing Hey, I
Speaker 13: will say, we've had windows behind our studios for every
Speaker 13: every show and it doesn't affect us.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I get rid of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe you should go to Houston.
Speaker 6: All right, Hey, hey three years thirty six, Yeah, you'll
Speaker 6: make it work. Yeah, I walk there.
Speaker 1: I agree. Next week John won't be here.
Speaker 2: He'll he'll have signed or agreed to terms with the
Speaker 2: Washington Commands and covering they're.
Speaker 1: Gonna take him as well. That'll do it for talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys today.
Speaker 2: I hope you had as much fun as we did.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, Cowboys Nation, It'll get better. Wait, possibly when
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