WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: All Inaction? 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:03.080 The following. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.080 He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:06.840 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.880 Cowboys. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:17.200 This he's Talking Cowboys Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:18.560 World Course at. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:19.919 The Star in Frisco. 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:27.000 Streaks six seconds, dot Tick twenty Texdown. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:32.560 And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda, 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:34.400 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:41.120 It's a legal tampering period edition of Talking Cowboys presented 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.760 by Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:46.879 Texas and the SWBC Studios. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:47.839 Welcome in, everybody. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.480 It is a Tuesday in the off season, March twelfth, 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:57.080 as we are squarely in the middle of free agency, 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.800 and if you had any questions on what that means, 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:01.640 just open the X app. 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.240 Just open up Twitter, see what's going on. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:05.800 Don't call it X Yeah. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.600 No, I even like saying that just made me like 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.759 cringe a little bit at myself. We've got the whole 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.919 crew back just in time to break down the action 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:16.360 and it action. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.959 Around the NFL when it comes to free agency. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:22.640 We've got Isaiah stand Back, Jommachoda, Nick Harris, I'm Kyle 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.360 Yeomans with Chris Beam running everything making sure we're on 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.440 the air in the back all right, Nick. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.640 We usually start to start this off with news and notes. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.760 Yes, so we can go ahead and dive into some 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:38.520 of the actions that happened around the building yesterday. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.320 There we go, No, but we can start with the 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:42.479 guys who are. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.800 Tony Pollard signed a deal or agreed to a deal 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.800 with the Titans yesterday, Dorn's Armstrong with the commanders, and 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.080 Tyler Byattish with the commanders as well. All these guys 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.800 can only agree to deals. They cannot sign until tomorrow 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.600 when the official New Year begins, I believe around three 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.080 pm yep Central time, Yeah, three pm Central time tomorrow. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:07.640 So you know, things are not finalized, but they may 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.280 as well be. With those three guys, I want to 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:11.839 I want to go through those three guys really quick. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.720 Really cool to see Tony Pollard go back to his 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.280 home state, have an opportunity to play at a backfield 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:16.639 with Tai J. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:17.040 Spears. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.800 I feel like that's going to be a really fun backfield. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.079 They get, they get good protection up front, they draft 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.040 a tackle in front of those guys with Scaronsky. I 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.240 think that's going to be a really a really fun 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.920 a running back duo there in Nashville. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:30.120 Then you look at. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.600 Dorn's Armstrong getting fifteen million a year. It's one of 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.560 the commanders. A big payday for him, obviously deserved. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.840 I think that's the max though he has to really 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.360 I think it's eleven and then it's up. It's as 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:41.600 much as fit as much as. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:42.480 Fifteen, gotcha. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.720 Yeah, So regardless, really big payday there for Dorance. I 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.360 think it's deserved. I mean, he was showing that on 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.440 defense and on special teams over the course of the 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.640 last two seasons, and then Beattish getting three years thirty million. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.760 I was surprised to see him come off the board 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.639 on day one, just given the Center market. But I'm 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:04.160 not surprised with the final conclusion being Washington. But I 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.120 did find it pretty interesting that he was gone off 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:07.880 the board so early. But you know, it is what 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.120 it is. I think of those three, you know, based 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.280 on Twitter reactions beyond, it is probably the one that 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.280 fans are least disappointed about, which I you know, you're 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.320 talking about the running game all off season. You have 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:19.680 to make a change up front, you have to make 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.399 a change at the running back position. You would think 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.480 those two things happened very early yesterday. So whether you 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.200 like it or not, the running game is going to 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.119 get fixed, well, not fixed, changed, It'll be different. It'll 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.320 be different, it'll be changed. We'll see if it gets 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.919 fixed or not fixed as time goes on. But guys 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.680 that are still on the board, Tyron Smith, Stefon Gilmore, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.040 I feel like I'm blinking on a couple of big names, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.400 right Jonathan Hankins. We'll see what the Cowboys could do 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.560 and get involved with thirty one teams made moves yesterday. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.160 One team did not. And we are standing in that building. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:52.640 Today and uh ah, we got a signing. We gotta 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.680 sign it, and we get breaking news already. Trent Sick 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.160 is coming back to the Cowboys. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:58.200 They made a move. 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.560 They made a move. They made a make move. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:06.960 Guys, Hey, that deep snapper helps an All Pro kicker 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.960 and a Pro Bowl punter. That is that is a 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:11.960 that's a good quality signing right there. 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.840 Guys, you're too young to say deep snapper, and I 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.960 think a long snapper I always, I just I mean, 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.760 obviously it's not one hundred percent, but nine percent of 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.240 the time you can tell somebody's age by how they 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:24.960 call that position. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.760 Really deep snapper deep Is that an old yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:29.080 well I. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:29.960 Would long snap. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:30.599 I'm an old soul. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.880 John you are I know you are all right? 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.279 So that is I mean, Trent say coming back, great, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:38.880 you got something taken care of. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.440 That's checking a box. When when it comes to sorry Trent, 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.560 when it comes to the. 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:50.920 Three guys that have left Isaiah Dorance, Tyler Battish, Tony Pollard, 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:53.880 none of those three should surprise. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.360 You that they are no longer with the Cowboys. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:56.240 We've talked about it. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:57.520 Those are guys that. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.760 Either, like you said, in the middle of a change 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.800 at the running game position whenever you've got running back 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.040 in center, and how they've run the ball this. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.920 Past couple of years, and are the value just wasn't 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:15.440 necessarily there for Dorian's Armstrong. So which one do you 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:16.840 think stands out the most? 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:18.960 I would have to. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.640 I honestly think they're both relatively important, and I don't 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.159 think that it was by chance as to where they went. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:34.159 I honestly believe that dan Quinn not only was trying 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:38.960 to obviously improve his team by having these acquisitions, those 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.320 were not obviously his only moves yesterday. They were very 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:47.800 busy yesterday simply acquiring anybody. I'm surprised they didn't sign you, Jam, but. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.520 I think he was very This is just my objective opinion. 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:52.360 It's only day one. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.440 It's only day one. They signed like twelve dudes. I 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.480 believe that was very strategic. Yeah, from Dan Quinn. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:05:59.800 Sure. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.320 I think it was strategic from the standpoint that he 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:06.720 recognizes that the Dallas Cowboys are now arrival to him. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.440 I believe that he understands that they are in his division, 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.080 that they have to face them two times, And I 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.159 think that he knew what he was doing in terms 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:19.960 of making it challenging for this front office this offseason 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.360 to feel even more voids in what they had already existing. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.200 The probability of Tyler Beati's coming back obviously was kind 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.320 of up in the air. I don't think anybody was 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.360 necessarily dead set on having to replace the center. I 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.520 know that I've been in the camp in terms of 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.760 wanting to get bigger and stronger at that position, but 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.520 it wasn't a sure thing that he was leaving. You 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:46.440 had one offensive line position that you had to feel 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:51.640 going into this week. Now he knows that there's two 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.200 very important offensive line positions that you have to feel 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.880 by him grabbing Tyler Biadis, you no longer have somebody 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.240 who runs things up front offensively. Now you have leaders 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.800 up front in Zach Martin. You have leaders up front. 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.799 Obviously you got Terrence Steele. Still you still have Tyler Smith, 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.560 but you now have a giant void in the middle 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.480 of your offensive line that we already talked about previously 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.480 that you don't There's not a huge veteran market out 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.120 there for sinners, so now most likely you're gonna have 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.640 to feel that void. The commander of your office a 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.920 line with the rookie. Most likely you're going to have 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.720 a rookie playing your second most important position, obviously your 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.920 most important position at left tackle. So your two most 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:36.040 important positions on your offensive line now have voids, and 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.880 that your NFC rival over at Washington commanders with Dan 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.280 Quinn made that happen. Whether they could have got somebody else, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.360 sure he could have, but he said, you know, I'm 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.240 going to get Tyler be Odist. What else did you do? 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:50.800 He grabbed Doris Armstrong, possibly next to Micah in my opinions, 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.360 one of your most valuable players on. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:53.040 The defensive front. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:54.760 He's not done yet. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.440 By the way, he's gonna get two or three more. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.520 Yeah, I believe that he will. I believe that he will. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:07:59.760 But he knew what he was doing. 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.280 By Jones on Trump, Sure, not only am I getting 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.600 a good player, a productive player who's had what seven 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:05.920 and a half eight and a half sacks over the 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:06.800 last two years. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.440 Twenty one sacks of the last three campaigns. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.800 There you go, right, but I'm getting probably your most 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.080 I'm gonna go ahead and say he's your best special teamer. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.160 I'm gonna say he's your best special teamer. Okay, So 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:17.600 you got. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:22.680 Your your your your most versatile and dominant single dominant 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:27.000 special teamer in my opinion, and one of your best defensive. 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.240 Linemen off your roster. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:28.560 Now. 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.120 So now that's not only one void on the officer front. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.559 You're you're taking his center, You're taking the Dallas Cowboy Center, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.839 which is huge, leaves a huge void, but you're also 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.640 leaving a huge void in special teams and defense. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:39.880 Now. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.880 So on the Durrance thing, I think that just speaks 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.600 to Sam Williams has to step up, that that's who 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.400 they're looking at that has to take over those reps. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.439 Also with Dorance. He's going to go from being a 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.600 rotational guy to when you pay him that kind of money, 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.440 you're going to be featured at. Yeah, you have to 0:08:55.440 --> 0:09:01.120 be producing, no question. It's funny because leaving it Indianapolis. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.920 My biggest takeaway since I wasn't on the show last 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:08.200 week was that Jerry Jerry shouldn't have set all in 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.000 and he doesn't care because he loves that everybody's talking 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.960 about it, so he doesn't. It doesn't bother him. Most people, 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.680 I think, would have not said that, would have said, hey, 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.319 we were close. I know understanding everyone's frustrated, but we 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.000 think we're on the right path. And while people would 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.880 be frustrated because the way the season ended, they wouldn't 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:28.800 be as mad as they are today because when you 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.600 say all in and then you obviously are asked four 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.120 or five different ways about it when we were on 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.439 the bus in Indy and you're not really shying away 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.600 from it, it just puts fuel to the fire. Because 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.280 while I understand where Cowboys fans are coming from, there's 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.880 no way they lost yesterday. That like surprised me, especially 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.120 after you see the numbers. You know it's what I mean. 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:49.839 I didn't see any of those guys coming back for 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.160 those numbers. I get what you're saying that they are 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.720 gonna their center next year is gonna be a rookie, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.920 It's gonna be somebody that they draft. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.600 Or it's gonna be a second or third year player TJ. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.600 Bass or for sure. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.199 But I would think that it's probably somebody you get 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.120 in maybe the third round, second or third round, yep, 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:10.280 or first if the right guy falls. But so that's 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.120 my whole takeaway from day one, and it is glaring 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.000 when you are the only team out of thirty two 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.960 that doesn't make a move to resign one of your players, 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.480 or will agree to resign one of your players or 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.880 add somebody from another team. Everybody knows first day of 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.640 free agency generally that's the player's day. That's when you're 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.679 gonna get your best deals. So but I totally get 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.320 where fans are coming from. If I was a Cowboys fan, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:36.280 I would be frustrated today too. But leaving Indy Man 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.440 that none of this is a surprise because it's nothing 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.560 is changing. Like they are draft and develop, they want 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.240 to resign Dak, Micah and CD and they don't want 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.800 to do anything that jeopardizes that, and so because of that, 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.120 that's why you're seeing what you're seeing yesterday and probably today. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.200 I think the quicker that fans can get the all 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.400 in statement out of their head, the happier. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:58.040 They'll be in the long run. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.360 The best way I thought of it yesterday was and 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.440 we've kind of sent out the warning flares in the 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.080 weeks prior, and we talked about it last week after 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.520 Jerry was on the bus and kind of going into it. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:16.440 But it was a difference in perspective, not necessarily a 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:21.240 change of philosophy for the all in statement. The perspective 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.800 from the outside looking in is that this Cowboys front 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.120 office has not been all in the last couple of years. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.600 But the perspective from the front office is that they 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.199 have been. They've been building this roster to the point 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.800 where they believed it was good enough to make a 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.640 run to get it done, and it. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.120 Certainly wasn't in the end. 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.280 I mean, that's part of the frustration with the way 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.280 that Green Bay happened and the way that the wild 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.959 card exit happened is the fact that they thought this 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.559 roster was good enough, but it didn't get it and. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:47.199 It was a good roster. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:48.240 It was a good roster. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.600 It's the best out of my thirteen years covering the Cowboys. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.600 So now they put together some bad roster and live 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.520 to us like, wait, no, this is great. No it 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.640 you know, to piggyback on three consecutive years of twelve wins. Yes, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.599 it's obviously good roster. I hate when people try it. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.920 You're frustrated and so you say stupid things like trying 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.679 to all it was overrated. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:05.200 No it wasn't. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:06.560 That was a really good roster. That's why it was 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.679 so disappointing what happened against Green Bay. But with that 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.920 being said, what really hurts them is what you saw 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.600 happen with the teams over the last four years from 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.400 the NFC that have been all in and it was 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.360 the unequivocal all in and they all got to the Super. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:20.600 Bowl Rams Eagles. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:20.920 Right. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.199 But if things ended because this past season is a 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:29.880 good example, because if things ended differently for some of 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:31.840 those teams, I think people would look differently at the 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.240 whole all in because you'd be able to point to 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.360 be like, yeah, that's don't do that, that's bad, like 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.079 you know the Michael Vick or it wasn't even the 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.240 Michael Bay. What was the year when the Eagles went 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.080 real aggressive. I want to say the guy like non 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.400 Diasinwall it was like in the like twenty twelve, somewhere 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.400 in there, and it was a disaster. Vince Young I 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.120 want to say, they got they spent a lot of 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.320 money and it didn't do anything. But because you've seen 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.920 these teams do that it's had success, then you point 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.880 to them and you're just like, oh, well, that's obviously 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:55.360 the way to do it. This is the Dalla's Cowboys. 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.320 Why don't they do it that way? Whereas it would 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.320 have been better for the Cowboys for more of those 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.800 teams to have basically this season that the Eagles had 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.160 last year. Where the Eagles were still pretty aggressive last year. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.880 Obviously they're starting out aggressive again and then but at 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.000 the end of the year, I mean, it knows dive 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.520 for them to the point where they had major changes 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.960 and things like that. But because those other NFC teams, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.400 the Bucks, the Rams, the Eagles, the Niners of these 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.199 last four years have had success, people look at it 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.320 and they're like, no, we know what the blueprint is. 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.280 If you are really all in, it's what they're. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.840 Doing exactly, and their way of looking it all in 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.320 is completely different than the way that the fans and 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.040 that outsiders have looked it all in. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:34.480 And that's not backing up the front office for inaction. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.480 Because that's what's frustrating is thirty one teams in day 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.960 one a free agency did something that they believed would 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.880 make their football team better. Thirty one teams. That's not 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.920 just a couple teams here and a couple teams there. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.280 You're looking at every other franchise in the NFL did 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:53.080 at least something to push their team forward into the season. 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.840 And that's the things our makeup for a loss exactly. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.880 Would I would consider a restructure of deck being a 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.600 great domino that needs the fall first, we've talked about that. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.120 That is probably domino number one, flashing red light number 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:06.440 one that needs to be taken care of. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.520 That has not happened. Ceedee Lamb his. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:14.120 Extension, whether that's before or after the DAK extension. Probably 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.880 after the DAK extension, then you've got to get that done. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.960 Either way, there hasn't been any action other than signing 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:25.960 your deep snapper Trent City back into the fold. Outside 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.160 of that, you haven't necessarily done anything. That's where the 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.920 frustration lies. Oh, we have a question, that's where it lies. 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.320 And because if you're making some sort of action, you're 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.160 doing some sort of shifting maneuvering, then at least it 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:38.720 looks like there's something happening. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:40.160 But instead it looks like apathy. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.400 I believe that we're on agreement that the expectation was 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.000 for Dallas to do nothing. Yes, that's the expectation that 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.760 was that was that's based off history. That's that's history, right, 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.880 history says Dallas does nothing when free agency starts, right. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.240 Yeah. Can you be disappointed? 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:58.280 Yeah? Absolutely. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.120 If you're expe dictation is for them to do what 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.400 they've always done, how can you be disappointed. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.640 Because of inaction and you're oh, but you expect it 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:10.720 in comparison too. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.440 I'm with you, Isaiah, one hundred percent. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.320 That's why I was really so surprised that the fans 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.120 were melting down yesterday. I was like, what exactly were 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.600 we expecting given the cap situation? And all the fans 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.360 are like, Oh, this cap situation, it's it's been created 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:23.080 by the front office. 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:24.280 They can alleviate that. Today. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.720 It's like, okay, let's let's think about this for a minute. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.400 Let's alleviate the cap situation today. What are you doing 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:35.920 restructuring Deck, you're extending CD, You're restructuring dig steel making 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.760 making room with Michael Gallop. One second, you're gonna go 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.480 to five of your employees be like, hey, I needed 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.080 to take a pay cut this next year, but we'll 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.400 give it back to you on the back end, Like, 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:45.120 don't worry about it. 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.400 I know we've been doing that for the last five years. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:47.920 Taking a can. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.000 I know we've been doing that for the last five years. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:51.560 But let's go ahead and do that today because we 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:52.520 need to spend money today. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.880 That's not gonna work. That's not how business works. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.479 Like it's yes, they can alleviate the cap today theoretically, 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.600 but when it comes to personal and that's never going 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.200 to happen. That is why they are in the cap 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.960 situation that they are today. Zach Martin, you were able 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.440 to make that money and get under the cap. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.800 That was the freedom there, which was surprising because he 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.280 held out in training camp in Oxnard to get his 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.640 money that had been kicked down the road initially. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:16.840 Yeah, I mean. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.400 So Terrance Steell and Zach Martin have both restructured, correct 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.840 terror steel is not not just it's not zach A right, Sorry, 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.480 I have it, Zak Martin has Okay, So there is 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.120 some restructuring, right, And I still stand by my statement 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.200 last week. I know the expectation is for Dak to 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.440 get restructured. I still think there's a high probability that 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:33.880 they make him play in this fifth year. It's not 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.440 the popular opinion. That's just my opinion. I think that 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.360 they I think they get Ceedee Lamb done probably this week. 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.320 That's my expectation, at. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.640 Least its action. Yeah, that's that's what I'm asking. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:44.520 That's my expectation. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:51.400 See, I I was torn between disappointment and frustration, and 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.080 I think I was more frustrated than I was disappointed 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.600 because to be disappointed, there's a level of expectation. And 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.240 it's obviously already stated that the expectation is for Dallas 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.680 to never do anything when free agency first starts. So 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.439 it has to be frustration, right. My frustration is that 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.720 Dallas has been competitive. Dallas has had a great roster 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.240 every year using this strategy. They've done a great job 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.159 of piecing it together. Front office is amazing of feeling 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.320 the gaps right, they go to Trader's village every year 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.119 and get some get some guys that are sitting at 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.119 the house and they and they fill the gaps. 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:22.840 Okay, they're not going to the premier stores. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:24.640 I'm not even gonn name because I don't know who sponsors, 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:26.520 but there's a lot of premier stores that were that 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.560 were shopped at yesterday. Right, Dallas doesn't do that. They 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.200 go to the swap meet and they find they find 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:32.040 some value deals. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:33.480 Okay, so that's it. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:33.679 Right. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:35.640 They go to the state sales and they always find 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.200 some good stuff. You can find good stuff at the 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.639 state sales, right, just not necessarily the best stuff. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:40.159 Okay. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.119 Last year Dallas proved evidence that that going out and 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:48.240