WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Making Money Moves? 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.080 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.039 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:16.360 Ready for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.680 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:28.040 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.080 You're not Derek, I can't be handy. Mike Marshall joined 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:37.440 us for Disney. Derek is not available. He decided to 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.320 leave on a very convenient just like get away from 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.200 spring break. There's really only two weeks in the offseason 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.640 where you like need to be around. You know, this 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:49.560 is one of them. It's probably one of them. Yeah, 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.440 it's okay. We're gonna make do without him. Amber Dave 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:57.840 it might be better. Hey, that's possibility. I like that, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:59.800 jumps in his own chair and says, you know what, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:01.880 this could be better, And it could be. I mean, 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.600 Derek's not that great. Let's go. You're always looking to 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.160 upgrade your team in free agency, right, definitely, hundred sixty 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:12.600 five day year process. Right. Maybe talent acquisition maybe maybe. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.400 Derek said, well, the Cowboys aren't going to do anything anyway, 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.160 so maybe I'll leave. Well, he's not wrong to this point. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:23.440 So so far, Cowboys are a little or taking a 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.000 slower approach. I guess. I actually that isn't really true. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.560 They really they haven't done anything, havn't agreed to anything yet. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.480 But I still think they're being somewhat active. They just 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.040 haven't they haven't hit yet. They were interested in Sammy Watkins, right. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.560 I heard reports from our paper friends yea, that they 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.160 were in on that, and then the money got kind 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.440 of silly and they were like it were good smallis 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.720 whenever it drops a little bit sixteen million for a 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.000 guy with thirty nine Yeah, yeah, I think I think 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.880 the Cowboys had to cut off. I mean I do. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.200 I do think they were in play there. I think 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.120 they wanted around fifteen million per year, and I don't 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.040 think the guarantee as high as what he got in 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.440 Kansas City. And I mean, and that's might be what 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.600 happens here with the Cowboys, is that. Yeah, we like 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.760 him for this. They probably like Hitchens for six million 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.560 a year. Yeah, and well, you know, it's funny and 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.440 I get it. I completely get why a Cowboys fan 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.919 would be frustrated with the way the Cowboys do free agency. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.960 But I mean I can't say you weren't prepared for it, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.000 assuming you pay attention. I mean, this is the this 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.600 is the third or fourth year in a row that 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.720 this has been their strategy. And we've been talking about 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.880 how this was going to be their strategy since you know, 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.840 we started doing offseason shows in mid January. So I 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.960 mean you might not like it, but you shouldn't be 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.079 surprised by what's going on. You can tell me a 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.919 year leading up, and even when that week hits, I'm 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.560 still like, my friends are having a party and I 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.040 wasn't invited. So that's it. You're right. I have to 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.160 walk by the bar that they're having the party yet 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.840 every hour or so and see, Oh, Jaguar is getting better. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.600 Packers pretty much? Yeah, I hear you. I think the 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.360 one question is are they getting better? Are they really 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.600 getting better? Go back and look at last year, go 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.920 back look the year before. These these guys that sign 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.640 that sound good, but do they really help them? I 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.400 mean I don't know. I mean some of them do. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.720 I mean no, look at the Eagles. Congratulations the Eagles. Yes, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.920 But I'm just saying there's a lot of Jags too. Yeah, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.840 there's like, I mean, it does work if you're smart 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.560 about it, it does work. But like who helped them? 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:29.239 Campbell for the Jacks, Campbell, Bury, Church Aju. Who else 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.720 did they bring in? Nobody in the offensive side? Right? 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.400 Not really? I mean those those three guys really were 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.760 I mean Campbell helped them. Campbell for sure, I mean 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.840 I didn't watch him play enough. I mean, I'm sure 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.760 he played well, had five picks, but I think lockdown 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.120 the passing game, go look at go look at around 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.840 the league though, all these all these guys, I mean, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.640 I would say, a year from now, are you gonna 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.360 be like, did Paul Richardson help the Redskins? No? And 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.480 that's the vast majority of the stuff that has happened 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.720 this week is pretty stupid in my opinion. Like, I'm 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.360 there's maybe four deals out of the like sixty that 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.040 have happened where I'm just like, that looks like a good, 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.360 cost effective decision. The vast majority of it not so much. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.200 And that's you know, I mean, one of the first 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.080 things that happened yesterday morning, like six o'clock in the morning, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.440 Anthony Hitchens signed for fifty million dollars which I think 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.800 the world of Anthony Hitchins, and I know the Cowboys 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:25.200 do too, But I don't know fifty million dollars I need. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:29.280 I need more than what he provides for fifty million dollars. Obviously, 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.080 we'll talk about other players that are still on this 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.920 team for the Cowboys, but let's let's go with Hitchens 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.400 right now. Hitchens signs or is expected to sign today 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:43.560 with the Chiefs. Amber, you can't sign everybody. We've talked 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.159 about that last week. Where do you where do you 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.320 think this is as far as Hitchens leaving? You concerned 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.040 with that one or there? Well, I mean, we all 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.599 need we expect that this was going to happen, that 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.320 we wouldn't have Hitchens back on the team. And obviously 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.840 he's a big guy on the Cowboy's defense, and they're 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.080 gonna they already need a linebacker. Now they're in more 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.160 of a need to have another linebacker. So, yes, that's 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.839 tough to see happen. But at the same time, you know, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.680 we listen to fans complain about what is happening in 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.800 free agency, the Cowboys not making moves. We seem like 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.920 you mentioned the guys that we're free agent last year 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.680 or were contracted as free agents, were a failure to 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.000 the Cowboys didn't work out. But I have a question 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.160 for you guys if you were the Cowboys, I mean, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.480 would you be handling free agency the same way that 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.840 they're doing it right now? I don't know if how 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.960 else would you manage this. They're the only team in 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.400 the league that signed a player for that much money. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.800 I mean, they haven't done anything, but who else has 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.000 actually signed a player for seventeen million per season? And 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.560 the fact that people say, well that doesn't really count, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.480 it technically counts onto the cap. That's a big deal 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.920 the Cowboys have done. And whether it's sexy or not 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.960 because no one expected him to leave or that doesn't matter, 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.440 Like that's something that they had to do. They did, 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.919 and now fans are like, well, they're not doing anything. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.840 They had to do that move. I think I completely 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.520 agree with you, And I said last night, you know, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.880 if they hadn't put that tag onto Marcus Lawrence, Adam 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.080 Schefter and Ian Rappaport would have tweeted out at five 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.760 to thirty yesterday morning that he had agreed to a 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:20.880 handshake deal with whoever sixty million and guarantees and what 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.800 I get the counterpoints of that, which is that you're 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.880 not technically making your team better. He was already he 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.320 was already on this team that finished nine and seven. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.279 But I mean it's I mean, fourteen and a half sacks. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.000 You can't let that walk out the door, and you 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.200 can't just discount their willingness to pay him that money 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.680 to keep him on the team. Having said that, I 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.920 do get the counter argument to answer your question, I don't. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.360 I don't hate what they've done over the last couple 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:46.960 of years, which is be really quiet. I don't know 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.240 if they had much of a choice. Their cap sheet 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.280 was so ugly for such a long time, after all 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.080 the restructures and all pushing the money forward. I don't 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.800 hate what they've done. I understand it. I do hate 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.359 closing one of the spouts of talent acquisition because you 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.120 have the draft, you have free agency, right, you have 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.240 which stout afted guys. Oh you're talking about just not 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.960 free agency, Yeah, just not acquiring talent through that avenue. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.320 And I hate that, but I understand it. I understand 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.400 what they've had to do when the restructures and bad 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.000 money getting off of it, and now I felt like 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.680 this year might be the year when you're clear of 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.280 some of that bad money and you have a chance 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.120 to make some kind of splash to be I mean again, 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.960 I got horseshoes only counting horse yet almost only counts 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.560 and horse shoes and handgarnade. Sorry it's early man pass 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.960 rush and that too. I always said that pass rush 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.240 also counts. They were willing to make a splash with 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.040 Sammy Watkins apparently. I mean, if they were willing to 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.200 pay him eight figures, that would have been it would 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.720 have been amazing, just amazingly surprising. It got out of hand, 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.920 And honestly, I don't fault them for not wanting to 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.640 pay that guy sixteen million dollars, but that that's the 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.400 open market, and that's what happens when you've got a 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.720 billion dollars in combining. So the will is there, right, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.680 let's I mean acquire somebody in which well, now that 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.800 shifts us to the elephant in the room as well, 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.800 Sammy Watkins. They wanted Sammy Watkins, not for that price 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.520 he got, but pretty close. Now you look at other 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:17.200 receivers that are signing Alan Robinson, what fourteen million a year? Yeah, 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.880 fourteen average three for forty two and Paul Richardson ten 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:24.720 eight eight year five for forty What has that guy? Don? Wait? 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.680 Is that? Is that how many catches he's had last year? 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.080 A year? I thought you were talking about how many 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.440 catches here? I mean seriously though, And so I said 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.240 that yesterday. I was like, this guy's got half the 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.080 career accomplishments of Terrence Williams and signed for more than 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.880 double what Terrence got in the open market. And somebody said, well, 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.679 he didn't have a chance in Seattle. They drafted him 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.680 forty fifth overall have a chance. They drafted him in 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.160 the top fifty. That that deal, maybe more than anything 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.400 else that happened yesterday, really blew me away. So now 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.360 let's let's get really fun here and try to jump 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.520 into the shoes of Dez Bryant. Geordy gout Cut. Ah, yes, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.480 Seorty as well. Right, So you're Dez Bryant and you're 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.520 making what the average of sixteen million a year, but 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.800 I mean you're not making it now, but that's what 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.600 your contract is. You're gonna take a pay cut. Well, 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.640 I know it's a tough I mean, you meant to 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.840 run in that room and say Hey, let's look at 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.480 percentage of cap. Because the cap this year is one 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.800 seventy seven. When you signed it was one forty. Right, 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.520 that's what the front office is gonna say, And they're 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.480 gonna go, Okay, well, you're actually eight percent of the cap. 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:30.800 These guys are eight percent of the cap. I know 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.280 the money's different, but whenever you're getting that check, Yeah, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:34.880 you walk into the booth and you're getting that check 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.720 every week, and it looks different, it doesn't matter to you. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.120 But to Nick's point, I mean, in light of everything 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.319 that happened yesterday, Dez's deal doesn't look that crazy anymore. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.360 What did Mike Evans get eighty something five for like 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.240 eighty something like that? I don't have it off with 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.000 the cap at one seventy seven and Mike Evans only 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.720 getting five for eighty. I think i'd point to that deal. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.760 I'd go, are you as good as that guy right now? Well? No, 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.040 I mean no, he's not. He's not as good as 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.480 as Mike Evans is right now. But I think, what 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.360 is he better than Alan Robinson? Yeah? I mean not 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.360 about who's younger and has more upside? Like is he 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.400 a better player? Is he a better player than Sammy Watkins. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:21.000 But those guys have question marks. Yeah, Sammy Watkins just 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.200 lack of production overall. I thin injuries. I mean, he's 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.120 had a dozen of them. It's it's fashion, I mean. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.560 But let's also throw this out. We've been told, everyone's 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.480 kind of been reported that they wanted Sammy Watkins. They 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.360 were gonna be prepared to do that deal for fifteen 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.960 a year. You can't do that deal with Dez on 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.040 the team. I don't think absolutely not. So that doesn't 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.360 mean now that they're gonna cut him. You and I 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.600 talked about this before the show. That doesn't mean Wells 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.880 was going to get cut. He's definitely gonna get cut. 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.800 Maybe they look at it now like we wanted him, 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.080 Maybe we have another guy in mind. If that doesn't happen, 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.640 then Dez still falls here and maybe maybe you know, 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.560 they keep him. I think. I mean, okay, they took 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.960 a swing for the fence on a guy. Des Brian 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.320 would not be here if Sammy Watkins was. There's no way. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.920 So now I think it just depends on how they 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.280 feel about how hard it is to live without Des 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.679 because I mean, there's there's guys you can bring in 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.000 to fill that role. I mean, Bryce Butler is one 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.400 who's familiar with this team. I'm I don't have any 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.160 off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.160 a handful of guys that fit that description from that 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.640 are on the open market. Absolutely, Okay, there you go. Yeah, 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.040 I mean, but that better next year if Jordy who 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.400 Neilson's their number one? And that's my point is that's 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:33.960 going to be up to them to look at those 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.240 options and way um and say, are we better off 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.000 just eating this des deal for another year, keeping them 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.040 here and drafting a guy, or do we get better 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.480 by bringing in somebody else for cheaper And I can't 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.880 answer that question, And I think the only way we'll 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.960 know is what they decide to do over the next 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.960 few weeks. And the one thing I am I'm even 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:54.920 more confident now than I ever was that they're going 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.840 to spend a pretty valuable asset on a receiver in 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.840 the draft. I just don't know if it's gonna be 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.040 with Dez on the team or not. You know, throughout 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.200 this whole process, I've been going back and forth where 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.640 I see, no way does it's not gonna be here? 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.920 And then I say, oh, you know what, this actually 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.920 may seem very possible. Back and forth, back and forth. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.560 Des posted a picture on Instagram of him I saw 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.520 you twittering about it, Dave, and it's not a big deal. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.640 He It was basically a picture of him and a 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:27.160 Starr emoji plus ada equals. He posts that in the 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.719 middle of the opening day of free agency, and then 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.679 he goes on Twitter and he's like, stopped reading into 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.920 my exactly exactly, stop reading into I'm not gonna stop 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.680 reading into your posts. Look at me, look at me. 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.440 Don't pay attention to you have I don't even know 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.360 if you know exactly. No, you're right, like, please pay 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.520 attention to me, but don't read into what I'm saying. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.360 Like so, no, I'm not gonna not pay attention to 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.400 what you say, Das. I'm sorry. I mean that picture 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.000 made me go all the way back to okay, maybe 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:56.040 he's staying, Like he's feeling confident that maybe he is staying, 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.559 because why else would you post something like that at 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.559 that time? I think I think I would want to 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.439 get cut if I was this, you would want to 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.800 get I don't disagree with me, because let's let's be honest. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.960 He's making so much a year, but he's not making 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.679 that that money that he got and he's I'm not 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.920 saying it's all spent, but I mean, you could get cut, 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.880 sign a monster deal with someone else, get that money 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.480 tomorrow and pretty pretty much start over and you're gonna 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.120 get more than what you're doing now. And they want 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.240 him to take less. I think he's looking to get more. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:33.080 Ryan Grant got something like he got seven plus. I 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.440 mean he was He's been the Redskins fifth receiver for 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.319 a couple of years. Like he's I'm not saying he's 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.839 a bad player, but like I was again floored when 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.280 I saw that. If Ryan Grant can't get twenty six million, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.800 you know who makes seven plus for the Cowboys, Shaun Lee? 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.679 Yeah exactly. Oh yeah. I mean well, for that matter, 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.800 Anthony Hitchens, right is now making quite a bit more 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.160 than Shaun Lee is, which is I mean, that's that's 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.200 that's the nature of how many quarterbacks are pissed now. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.559 They're not pissed, but they're looking at it like seriously, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.240 a full guaranteed. I know we're bouncing around here, but 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.320 that's what free agency is. We're bouncing around now. We're 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.560 on to Kirk Cousins and are they Are they pissed 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.920 or are they pumped? Because if if Kirk Cousins can 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.800 demand that, then I think certainly be able. Didn't USh 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.360 try to do that in his last contract, because I 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.440 throw my pin at you, Dave Um Russell Wilson. I 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.560 think he shaid Rush. I was like, no, Russia. Yeah, 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.480 Cooper Rush wants a guarantee that's in a couple of 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.880 years when he's done leading the Cowboys. But I think 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.440 we've been moving towards that for quarterbacks, and that might 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.160 be the only position where it's this is the money, 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.760 it's all guaranteed. If you want me to play here 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.480 long term, I'm a top five quarterback or maybe Kirk 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.400 Cousins top ten, it's guaranteed. That's how the deal's working out. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.040 And I think we've been moving towards that, And I'm 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:45.960 I wish all the money was guaranteed. I wish the 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.120 numbers were what it was. You know, it's so funny 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:53.640 Romo people that hated Romo. They had one argument and 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:58.680 it was always playoffs. But you know, nobody cares about 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.880 that anymore. Like that's not a big deal about playoffs. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.120 It's just so funny how he wasn't very good because 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.600 he couldn't get his team over here. But now it's 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.160 like Kirk Cousins, like you've won no playoff games, like 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.840 caress guarantee every money. I mean, that might be the 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.320 case right now. But the team they've got up there 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.920 in Minneapolis, right we'll find out this year. Well if 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.800 I mean, if I think it's a bad move, I don't. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.880 I don't think that's a good move for Minnesota because 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.800 they just showed that they can win with a rudypoot 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.120 quarterback and they don't know. I don't know if you 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.080 need to go twenty five million guaranteed. And I don't 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.720 know if Cousins is really that good. I mean, I've 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.920 never really liked it. We can't beat the Cowboys, so 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.360 I don't know why he's that good. But I'm just saying, 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.200 if they have the money, I guess that's that's fine. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.720 But they do have a great defense. If a good coach, 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.040 really good coach, and they have a great home field advantage, 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.080 I mean, they're in a good situation. I just don't 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.920 know if they needed Kurt Cousins. I I don't know, Man, 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.640 I guess if they got the money for it. I 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.640 think you can win with an elite defense and adequate defense. 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.800 But that's true, a lot more stuff has to go 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.880 your way, like if you if you have a top 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.480 tier quarterback, you're in every game. And I mean, I'm 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.480 not saying he's the best he's got right there. I 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.520 think Kirk Cousins is really good and I We're gonna 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.040 see how good he is, because that was my point. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.280 I mean, with every they they don't have a weakness 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.360 that I can really think of, and they play in 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.560 that ridiculous stadium, it should be good enough to get 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.280 a couple home games. Like if they don't, if they 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.000 aren't one of the top two or three teams in 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.360 the league next year, then everybody's gonna go. And they 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.720 get their first round running back back. That's what I mean. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.160 They know they're they're loaded. It's unbelievable. I mean, I 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:45.440 do think he's a better quarterback than case Keenum And yeah, 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.720 that guy just continues to steal money to Ben Bradford, 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.760 the best one hundred and thirty four million dollars career earning. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.360 That's my hero. Why didn't I play quarterback? He is 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.119 to wrap put a bow on the Kirk Cousins thing. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.879 It's it's a move when you're one move away, but 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:09.840 that one move away is your quarterback and you just 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.440 invested so much money, like they're locked into this roster. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.600 If this roster does not get you NFC championship on 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.000 the CUSP every single year, like you're getting fired in 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.480 like two years, I would and will gonna draft Will Hernandez. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.920 They might you think you'll be there at thirty Maybe 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.240 I don't know. It's I mean, because that's the one 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.400 position where you don't see a ton of great greatness 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.360 coming out of that team. Why are we talking Vikings here? 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.879 But whatever, it's totally possible. I don't know Kings, but 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.679 I would argue signing Cousins gives you a chance to 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.040 be competitive once you when you have to let your 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:47.399 defenders walk because like Anthony Barr Kendricks to Neil Hunter, 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:48.920 like all these guys, like they're not gonna be able 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:50.840 to pay them all. That's the problem the Cowboys are doing. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.240 And it's not to switch to another team, but it's 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.840 the exact problem Seattle went through. Like remember when Seattle 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.159 was sitting here with this cheap quarterback, and they had 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.720 all these great players. Then they signed Russell Wilson, which 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.120 and then now that they're sitting there, everyone there, thin everywhere, 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:07.760 but they have a quarterback who can keep them in 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.359 any game. I mean that's kind of the it's just 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:11.960 the way it goes. All Right, Well, you don't sign 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.879 Anthony Hitchins for that money long term exactly. You find 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.600 the next Anthony Hitchens exactly. And they, to be fair 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.480 to the Cowboys, they actually tried that. The next year. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.680 They drafted another fourth round linebacker from the Big Ten. 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.040 That's very athletic, that can and he hasn't panned out. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.119 He hasn't developed yet. He has he makes headlines for 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.720 the wrong reasons. 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Back 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:51.760 to the break, we are back in its free agency. 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:57.040 There's so much happening with other teams, but three o'clock 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.520 comes around maybe the Cowboys are going to jump into 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:02.399 this thing a little bit more. We just talked in 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.960 the first segment about they did have some interest with 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.560 wide receiver Sammy Watkins, they have some interest with some 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.359 other guys. I think they'll be proud of them if 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.920 they make a big splash that no one knows about 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.600 until it happens. That'd be fun. That would be no leaks, 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.879 no agent, not gonna hold my breath. That would have 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.840 been one. I mean there wasn't. Oh yeah, no, Sammy 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:27.320 never well, the domino effect with that. We kind of 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:29.280 heard some rumblings in the early part of the week 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.640 that like, don't be surprised if they do something out 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.800 of character. I would and I so I'm thinking, like, okay, like, 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.080 but I would have never guessed Sammy Watkins. They can 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.359 it's a weird one. All this can go away. And 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.920 if you just make some trades with Seattle, see that's 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.800 splashy going well, going back to Amber's question, that's the 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.360 I don't care that they haven't done anything this week, 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:51.520 but I can go back to last week, and you know, 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.320 we talk about the Eagles. It's not really like they're 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:57.800 out here signing all these gaudy free agents. It's just 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:00.280 the type of move they make. I mean, last year 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:03.800 they traded for Timmy Jernegan. Uh, they signed Alshon Jeffrey 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.360 to a small deal. This year, you know, they traded 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:09.600 Tory Smith for Brad Worley. They traded for Day Um 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:12.199 not the Eagles. But there was nothing small about the 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.959 Alshon Jeffrey deal. Was it like one year, nine ten 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:21.080 million dollars. I mean, it wasn't paying Sammy Watkins fifteen. Um, 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:25.959 they didn't. They did. People are so mad about that. 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:29.879 He's like forty years old. Um, um, what you call it? 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:31.920 Michael Bennett for a fifth round pick? You see, the 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:34.639 Browns sent Danny Shelton and a fifth rounder to New 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:37.439 England for a third rounder. That's the type of stuff 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:41.040 that when I see it, I'm like, yeah, hey, do 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.880 that maybe maybe you know, spend small resources to improve 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.520 your team in a noticeable way. I mean, Danny Shelton's 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:49.919 only a one technique. He's not gonna get six sacks 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.560 for this team, but he would be a massive upgrade 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.280 over the one techniques on this roster. And you have 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:58.080 ten draft picks. I mean, that's that's the type of 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:00.359 stuff that I see, and I think the cow Boys 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:02.159 could and should be doing this type of stuff. They 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:04.160 just don't want to do what you did last year. 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.280 But hit on those guys, yeah, I mean hit on 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:13.560 Nolan Carroll, hit on Stephen Pierre, say his name, Hi, Hi, Yeah, sorry, 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:15.520 but you're gone here. Well he was already gone when 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:18.080 you started working right anyway, I mean yeah, never met him. 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:20.960 So it was a nice trifecta right there. We got 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:23.200 three guys. One guy's gonna get a d UI before 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.400 he plays at any game and not even gonna play 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.320 at all, or he's gonna play like a game and 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:30.080 a half and he's done. Another guy's just going to 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:33.320 decide to retire like a couple of games in. And 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.880 then another player, another players already got a two game 0:23:37.000 --> 0:23:40.560 suspension on that's hanging over him, and then he's gonna 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:44.560 have some issues. And that's the strategy. The strategy really 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:47.080 doesn't bother me. It got Byron Bell. He gotta be 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:49.720 a lot better about finding guys that can actually contribute 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:52.359 to Can I ask one question about Hitchins leaving before 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:54.040 we move him. You're on the show. You don't have 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:56.200 to ask if you're just making sure I'm the guest here, 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:59.000 so sum but you said you might be better, and 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:02.959 I thought you said so Hitchings is he's gone right, 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:06.040 he's chief four for whatever it is, somewhere five for 0:24:06.040 --> 0:24:12.000 forty five, forty five damn okay. Um. Have they committed 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:14.760 to taking a linebacker in the first two rounds? Now? 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:16.400 Is that what they just did to themselves? I think 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:19.480 first three for sure, top hundred picks. I think, I don't. 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:22.880 I don't know unless I think. I mean, I talked 0:24:22.880 --> 0:24:24.680 to Steven Jones about this of the combine. We don't 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:26.720 know what's going to happen with Kyle wilbur. I guess 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:29.640 theoretically he could be back, but he played like nine 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:33.000 percent of snaps on defense last year. So I think 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:36.400 Stephen Jones he came, he said, we need two linebackers. 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:38.160 We've got two that are out of contract. We're gonna 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:41.080 need to I think it just seems really obvious to 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:43.480 me that you sign a guy for cheap and free 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:46.720 agency and think justin Durant think you know that type 0:24:46.720 --> 0:24:48.920 of thing, and then I think you've got a draft 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:51.760 one in the first three rounds just because we saw 0:24:51.840 --> 0:24:54.080 what can happen when your linebackers aren't healthy last year. 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:57.679 This week we did on the website We've You and 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:02.159 I went on Tuesday and Brian and uh Rob picked 0:25:02.240 --> 0:25:05.760 four guys yesterday Dave, who are some of the players 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:07.960 that you said, And we said, this was a wish list, 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:10.200 this isn't but but we were pretty I mean, we 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:12.760 weren't crazy about it. We were trying to be Three 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:15.520 of my four are still available realistic. Feel good about that? 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:19.119 Do you remember them? Because I don't really remember. I 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:21.680 had Derek That's I mean, that would be a guy 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:24.880 that I mean, it makes He's from Waco, he played 0:25:24.880 --> 0:25:27.199 at Texas, he's in the you know, he's winding his 0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:29.760 career down. The fact that he still can play as amazing. 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:33.120 He's thirty five. Thirty five, Um, you know, four time 0:25:33.119 --> 0:25:34.840 All Pro. He's not he's not gonna play at an 0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:37.119 All Pro level, but he's good in coverage. He can 0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:41.160 play Will and Mike. He's a veteran guy. I can't 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:43.560 imagine that he would be that expensive to bring in. 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:45.280 I mean, I'm not going to try to ballpark it. 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:48.280 But he's thirty five. The Cowboys have had success with 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:50.239 that type of player in the last I would say 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:52.919 ten years. A couple of times. I mean, Keith Brooking 0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:54.680 was on the downside of his but he still came 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:57.280 came back, played well. Durant was one of them, not 0:25:57.359 --> 0:26:00.720 as old as as Derek Johnson is. But Zach Thomas 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:02.239 came in for a year and did a pretty good 0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:05.359 job in the strategy that I have mapped out. I 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:08.160 only need him for a year. Yeah, because because I'm drafting, 0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:11.640 let's just say Josie Jewel at pick fifty to be 0:26:11.840 --> 0:26:15.480 the Mico, the third linebacker of the future behind Jalen 0:26:15.560 --> 0:26:19.320 and Lee. But if Jalen Smith is sitting here in 0:26:19.359 --> 0:26:23.400 the linebacker room with Sean Lee and Derek Johnson, right, 0:26:24.160 --> 0:26:27.040 He's got to get better. He's got to get better 0:26:27.160 --> 0:26:30.640 up here. I mean every linebacker would, Damian Wilson would 0:26:30.680 --> 0:26:33.680 and should. So I think that that would help your room. 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:35.960 And I need him ideally, I only need him to 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:39.359 play like twenty to thirty percent of the snaps. I mean, ideally, 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:41.760 Jalen Smith is ready to be what they hope he can, 0:26:41.920 --> 0:26:44.960 but you can't bank on that going into the season 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:47.840 without a backup plan. Question about those linebackers is how 0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:51.920 many linebackers can you have that don't contribute a lot 0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:54.800 on special teams. Yeah, it's true, you know. And that's 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:57.200 one question you would have with Derek Johnson, like we're 0:26:57.200 --> 0:26:59.080 bringing this guy in, he's going to play a certain 0:26:59.119 --> 0:27:01.720 amount on defense, but then he's not going to really 0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:04.160 play special teams. I say that that's well, that's where 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:07.159 you got ten picks. That's where my rookie would come in. 0:27:07.280 --> 0:27:10.200 Rookies can play special teams for sure. I mean even 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:12.840 if they drafted a linebacker at fifty, I'd still make 0:27:12.920 --> 0:27:15.159 him play special teams. But to answer your question, and 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:19.520 three rounds or whatever, but nineteen overall, like nineteen is 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:22.000 not a good spot for a linebacker in this year. Right, 0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:25.800 it seems like there's two that are gonna go slider. Well, 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:28.600 it's it depends. Like I actually had that conversation on 0:27:28.600 --> 0:27:31.600 Twitter yesterday, there's two. There's two studs that are gonna 0:27:31.640 --> 0:27:34.399 ta Tremaine Edmunds and Roquan Smith are the two studs 0:27:34.400 --> 0:27:36.680 that I don't think it's realistic to hope for them there. 0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:39.800 And then there's two others. Rashaun Evans out of Alabama 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:41.280 as a guy that gets talked about a lot who 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:44.160 probably fits into that range. And then this kid out 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:48.000 of Boise State, Layton vander Esch, which people are all 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:49.639 over the board on him. Some people think he's a 0:27:49.680 --> 0:27:52.000 top twenty pick. Some people think he's a late second 0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:55.640 round pick. Hundred forty tackles last year. Yeah, so there 0:27:55.720 --> 0:28:02.320 are options, but it's not It's not a slam dunkin's either. Yeah, 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:05.359 it's a slide or a jump for sure. Yeah. Yeah. 0:28:05.359 --> 0:28:08.000 So that's why nineteen just doesn't seem like a good 0:28:08.640 --> 0:28:11.840 Nineteen isn't a great spot for most of what they need. 0:28:11.880 --> 0:28:14.440 That's talk about will Hernandez. I mean they needed a guard, 0:28:14.440 --> 0:28:17.280 and talk about these guards so much because you could 0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:21.320 probably well, Quentin Nelson, he's he's you could probably get 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:24.040 the second best guard in the draft at nineteen, or 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:26.640 you could potentially get the best receiver in the draft 0:28:26.680 --> 0:28:29.840 at nineteen. Other than that, the board doesn't really line up. 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:33.760 I think Ridley is he the best hammer or more 0:28:33.520 --> 0:28:36.720 whichever one you prefer, or I'm probably I don't take 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:39.000 your pick. I don't think more than one receiver is 0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:41.400 getting picked before like pick fifty. I'll give you some 0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:45.000 credit here. He and I know that you're doing the 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:49.120 draft show, but you for like the last month you've 0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:52.479 been saying, hey, watch my guy DJ Moore from Maryland, 0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:55.719 who was like a third round pick or something like 0:28:55.760 --> 0:28:59.840 that projected at that point, my safety Irwin James, he's 0:29:00.320 --> 0:29:02.320 he's gonna go to the Combine. He's gonna kill it 0:29:02.400 --> 0:29:03.960 up there, and he's not even gonna be in the 0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:06.920 equation for nineteen. Now, you look at all these other 0:29:07.040 --> 0:29:10.080 draft experts after the combine and they tell you, watch 0:29:10.080 --> 0:29:12.520 out for DJ Moore, watch out for Derwin James. So 0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:16.320 good job on those two. I'll allow I'll allow myself 0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:19.040 to Dj Moore or backpad. But like anybody who follows 0:29:19.080 --> 0:29:21.720 the draft knew that Derwin was. I mean, he's a freak, 0:29:22.200 --> 0:29:24.400 but at that point he was sitting there at I've 0:29:24.440 --> 0:29:27.120 seen mocks with Seattle, I've seen Dallas at nineteen. Now. 0:29:27.240 --> 0:29:29.640 That's well, that's what makes the draft process so fun. 0:29:29.760 --> 0:29:31.440 Like you, I mean, it's all up on a wall 0:29:31.720 --> 0:29:34.040 and it looks one way in January and it looks 0:29:34.040 --> 0:29:36.400 a completely different way and the way of all that stuff, 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:38.760 and then someone goes, man, I got out that quarterback 0:29:38.840 --> 0:29:41.320 right now. Yeah, and then people trade up and everything 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:44.560 just goes out the window. Ten ten years ago on 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:47.280 this show was probably me and Derek and be like, 0:29:47.520 --> 0:29:49.920 all right, well, uh, I was happy Easter to you. 0:29:50.000 --> 0:29:52.040 It was a good um. You know what, the draft 0:29:52.200 --> 0:29:54.360 is coming up in like two weeks, we should start 0:29:54.400 --> 0:29:59.840 talking about the Cowboys are picking where let's talk about that. 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:03.120 You know, who are some guys now in ten years 0:30:03.120 --> 0:30:05.360 from now, it's going to be like, all right, happy 0:30:05.400 --> 0:30:08.000 Halloween everyone. All right, let's get where. We're about eight 0:30:08.040 --> 0:30:10.560 and a half months from the draft daily draft showing 0:30:10.600 --> 0:30:13.240 October daily getting close to that. Well, I mean that's 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:15.600 kind of how the team's flus. What shifted? What did 0:30:15.680 --> 0:30:17.720 Brian say today to you? I was in the middle 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:20.760 of some other crap, dealing with some other stuff, but 0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:24.840 I heard over here about I hate free agency and 0:30:24.880 --> 0:30:27.440 I hate the games of Like, yeah, what do you like? Then? 0:30:27.520 --> 0:30:31.040 He he just wants to draft, wants the draft everything, 0:30:32.400 --> 0:30:35.800 And that's Brian. Brian would like hate the like you know, 0:30:35.840 --> 0:30:37.680 I'm like, oh, get Danny Shelton. He would hate that. 0:30:37.720 --> 0:30:40.160 He's just like slimmy draft. Yeah, fine, guys, don't trade 0:30:40.160 --> 0:30:43.000 any of my picks. Fine, guys, see I'm the Yeah, 0:30:43.040 --> 0:30:44.920 if I'm sitting here in the third round and I'm like, 0:30:45.280 --> 0:30:47.880 I can get I mean, the value of players at 0:30:47.880 --> 0:30:50.920 that point is so low. Everyone wants the draft picks, 0:30:51.600 --> 0:30:54.320 and I guess I'm just still remember Randy Moss going 0:30:54.400 --> 0:30:57.520 to the Patriots for a fourth Yeah, y'all haven't been 0:30:57.520 --> 0:30:59.400 doing the draft show for too long though, because Brian 0:30:59.440 --> 0:31:01.720 will say one word and he and Dane just had 0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:04.160 these like, oh, one word conversations back and forth. Or 0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:06.040 Brian's like the guy and Dang's like, yeah, the guy, 0:31:06.080 --> 0:31:09.520 and he's like yeah. It's like, what are y'all talking about. 0:31:09.880 --> 0:31:12.840 It's a conscious effort on my partists like they're like, wait, hey, 0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:15.880 such on the same page. You're speaking another language. Remember 0:31:15.920 --> 0:31:18.560 that there's other people here. The runner all right, yeah, 0:31:18.640 --> 0:31:24.040 let's shift gears to the quarterback. Um got some money. 0:31:24.600 --> 0:31:27.640 I'm talking about the Cowboys quarterback. Yeah he got some money. 0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:30.680 Yeah he got some money. Congratulations. Good yea wake up 0:31:30.920 --> 0:31:33.160 on a random Wednesday in March, and you got four 0:31:33.240 --> 0:31:36.560 hundred thousand extra dollars explaining that never happened to me. 0:31:36.680 --> 0:31:41.600 It's it's something. It's add incentive incentive pay. Like basically, 0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:45.200 if you if you outplay you're you're slotting. Then the 0:31:45.280 --> 0:31:47.720 league rewards you. So, I mean a fourth round pick 0:31:47.920 --> 0:31:50.800 is not expected to play as many snaps as Dak Prescott, 0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:53.120 and so they reward him a little bit extra on 0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:58.200 his salary because it's sort of like it's almost unconstitutional 0:31:58.320 --> 0:32:01.440 how little Dak is being paid or his importance in 0:32:01.440 --> 0:32:03.840 the team. And Anthony Brown got a paid a two 0:32:03.880 --> 0:32:06.440 because he hit like seventy percent of the snaps and 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:09.680 he's a sixth round pick. Last year, Anthony Hitchins was 0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:11.760 was set to make six fifty and he made and 0:32:11.800 --> 0:32:15.280 he ended up getting one point eight. JJ Wilcox a 0:32:15.280 --> 0:32:17.560 couple years ago had the same thing because he was 0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:19.520 on the field for X amounts in three years, Sir 0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:21.560 and Rick would be the one that was getting So 0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:24.080 what's the pattern here? A third, fourth, fifth, sixth rounds? 0:32:24.080 --> 0:32:27.080 He's middle rounds. If you if you outperform your draft 0:32:27.080 --> 0:32:30.120 slot by a noticeable margin, then then the league basically 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:35.720 doubled his money, didn't he's making yeah something like that. 0:32:36.120 --> 0:32:38.200 So I don't know how that works with like taxation, 0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:40.520 Like I'm sure he would be March fourteenth, but yeah, no, 0:32:40.600 --> 0:32:44.040 that's awesome here all the sponsors that he gets, Yeah, 0:32:44.120 --> 0:32:47.720 he gets way good for him. He's fine, He's fine. 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:50.040 Like it's not he's not making his value, but like 0:32:50.120 --> 0:32:52.880 he's okay, Yeah, he's okay. This team goes eight and 0:32:52.960 --> 0:32:56.680 eight next year, is he okay? No? See, that's this 0:32:56.760 --> 0:32:59.400 is the issue that I think we have with with Zack. 0:33:00.200 --> 0:33:03.000 It depends. For sure, I was a very blanket statement 0:33:03.040 --> 0:33:06.760 who he could be playing great? He gets he gets 0:33:06.760 --> 0:33:10.520 compared a lot to Russell Wilson, and that could be 0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:15.880 scary because how many great wide receivers are wanting to 0:33:15.920 --> 0:33:19.600 go to Seattle. Yeah, and Sammy Watkins had a decision 0:33:19.600 --> 0:33:21.160 to make. Now he took a little bit more money. 0:33:21.400 --> 0:33:25.080 Jimmy Graham, that's great, the only one, and then he 0:33:25.160 --> 0:33:35.080 left but underrated, saying maybe maybe Russell Wilson doesn't make 0:33:35.120 --> 0:33:38.000 these receivers that much better. Maybe that That's what I'm 0:33:38.080 --> 0:33:40.600 kind of worried about with with Dak. I mean, what 0:33:40.640 --> 0:33:42.400 if if I'm around the league and I'm liking I'll 0:33:42.440 --> 0:33:45.320 get does his worst year is happening when when he 0:33:45.680 --> 0:33:47.560 him and Dak, maybe I need to go to a 0:33:47.640 --> 0:33:50.520 place where the guy's gonna clearly make me better. And 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:53.120 Dak's had a position in his career where he's trying 0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:55.040 to figure out himself out. And I don't think he's 0:33:55.080 --> 0:33:58.440 making other receivers better just yet. That's that's what I 0:33:58.680 --> 0:34:00.840 kind of worry about. I wonder if it's got around 0:34:00.880 --> 0:34:03.640 the league, it'll start trickling around, like, you know what, 0:34:03.800 --> 0:34:07.120 why go over here? This guy's had more success some 0:34:07.160 --> 0:34:09.719 of these receivers. Maybe you are trending down. I mean, Paul, 0:34:10.000 --> 0:34:13.279 start adjusting everything around him, and you replaced this because 0:34:13.280 --> 0:34:15.480 they don't work well together, and you get any tied in. 0:34:15.600 --> 0:34:19.279 That's you know, more effective WHOA WHOA into years in 0:34:19.320 --> 0:34:21.879 two or three years, I'm saying, down the road, down 0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:24.400 the road. You move everything around him, and he's the 0:34:24.440 --> 0:34:27.560 one constant in the passing game. Still hasn't changed. Everything's 0:34:27.600 --> 0:34:30.440 Dak friendly, right, and you're still not the offense you 0:34:30.480 --> 0:34:33.759 think you should be. Yeah, exactly think, Hey, that's saying 0:34:34.080 --> 0:34:36.840 Dak friendly. I cannot stand here, thank you because I 0:34:36.880 --> 0:34:39.320 do too. Yeah, I hate it, doesn't I hate it 0:34:39.360 --> 0:34:41.520 when it was Romo friendly. It gets just to just 0:34:41.600 --> 0:34:45.120 make your team better. About that. I mean, I've said 0:34:45.160 --> 0:34:47.440 this a half dozen times at this point. Not the 0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:49.759 only person who's got more writing on twenty eighteen than 0:34:49.880 --> 0:34:53.200 Dak is Jason Garrett. I mean, because Dak's not playing 0:34:53.200 --> 0:34:55.359 for his job because he's under contract for at least 0:34:55.360 --> 0:34:58.160 two more years. But I mean, if if he if 0:34:58.280 --> 0:35:00.480 he's not good, if he steps further back, or if 0:35:00.520 --> 0:35:02.680 the offense is in a rut, and if they don't 0:35:02.680 --> 0:35:06.239 win games, then you're going into twenty nineteen not sure 0:35:06.280 --> 0:35:10.239 about your future quarterback. I mean, I think if they 0:35:10.239 --> 0:35:12.400 don't make the playoffs next year, and then obviously you 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:15.680 got a new head coach and then they pretty much 0:35:15.680 --> 0:35:20.120 start over. But it depends on how the games go down. 0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:22.759 But I mean I don't think that they would they 0:35:22.760 --> 0:35:25.200 would look at it and go a week that's definitely 0:35:25.200 --> 0:35:29.160 our guy. Well, that's a tough evaluation just because I 0:35:29.200 --> 0:35:31.799 think that based on everything that we've seen so far 0:35:31.840 --> 0:35:35.000 and the things we talked about about coaching and Jason Garrett, 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:38.600 we've seen that it goes way beyond the players that 0:35:38.640 --> 0:35:41.640 are on the field. So you begin to question, Okay, 0:35:41.760 --> 0:35:43.440 is it really the player or is it the way 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:46.560 they're being coached? And I know there were some obviously 0:35:46.640 --> 0:35:50.840 coaching changes, but it's still under you know, Scott Linehan 0:35:50.960 --> 0:35:53.600 and Jason Garrett and blah blah blah, and now is 0:35:53.640 --> 0:35:56.360 it really that is the root of the problem coming 0:35:56.400 --> 0:36:00.239 from there or is it the players? I think you 0:36:00.280 --> 0:36:03.440 look around it. There's been great quarterbacks. I'm a quarterback 0:36:03.520 --> 0:36:07.359 drafted really high that had really great rookie seasons. Their 0:36:07.400 --> 0:36:10.640 second season they kind of struggled somewhat and then they 0:36:10.640 --> 0:36:13.360 snowball to the point where they can't get it flipped around. 0:36:13.360 --> 0:36:15.839 And now now Robert Griffin's not in the league, Now 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:18.680 Colin Kaepernick's not in the league. It could be other 0:36:18.719 --> 0:36:21.880 reasons involved there. But if they were really really good players, 0:36:21.960 --> 0:36:23.799 they would be. But I would I will say this, 0:36:23.880 --> 0:36:26.080 and I'm thinking back to your point about Russ, which is, 0:36:26.920 --> 0:36:30.040 you know, Russ has never needed those guys, because that's 0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:32.200 not I mean, I'm sure he'd prefer them, but that's 0:36:32.200 --> 0:36:35.040 not the way Seattle played anyway. I mean, the first 0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:37.120 four years he was there, it was all based around 0:36:37.120 --> 0:36:39.160 the run. I mean, Marshawn Lynch made it move and 0:36:39.480 --> 0:36:42.040 he made good decisions. He got away from pressure and 0:36:42.360 --> 0:36:44.160 made plays to his receivers. I mean what he had 0:36:44.239 --> 0:36:48.879 Baldwin curse, they traded for Harvin, They didn't bring Jimmy 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:50.560 Graham on to a way late, and so I think 0:36:50.600 --> 0:36:53.959 about let's just assume Dak is actually really good, because 0:36:53.960 --> 0:36:56.200 I think he is. I'm not really worried about his 0:36:56.280 --> 0:37:01.120 long term future. But Colby's is a free agent after 0:37:01.160 --> 0:37:03.920 this season. You can one way or another. We're already 0:37:03.920 --> 0:37:06.879 talking about shedding Dez and his contract. That's not a 0:37:06.880 --> 0:37:08.920 long term issue one way or the other. Next year, 0:37:08.960 --> 0:37:10.959 it's a lot easier to get off there, exactly. So 0:37:11.120 --> 0:37:13.600 what's it really all about. It's all about your running game, 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:17.359 your one hundred and fifty billion dollar offensive line. You're 0:37:17.440 --> 0:37:19.799 running back and your quarterbacks ability to play a role 0:37:19.840 --> 0:37:22.480 in that. And you know, I'm not worried about their 0:37:22.520 --> 0:37:26.080 ability to plug in young, inexpensive receivers who can do 0:37:26.080 --> 0:37:28.920 the job better. I think the way this team's constructed, 0:37:28.960 --> 0:37:31.719 even if Dad continues to take steps forward, I don't 0:37:31.719 --> 0:37:34.280 see a reason why you need to be investing tens 0:37:34.280 --> 0:37:37.560 of millions and dollars in receiver for the time being. Anyway, 0:37:37.600 --> 0:37:40.240 you know what, I'm surprised has not really been mentioned 0:37:40.239 --> 0:37:42.560 a whole lot. But it's always about Dez and what 0:37:42.760 --> 0:37:45.440 they do there. But what if he's not the receiver 0:37:45.520 --> 0:37:47.800 that needs to be released? What if that's not the 0:37:47.960 --> 0:37:50.720 contract I mean, let's think about it. Who can replace 0:37:50.760 --> 0:37:53.560 what Dez has done on this team. I don't know 0:37:53.600 --> 0:37:55.600 if there is a guy that can do that. I've 0:37:55.640 --> 0:37:57.600 been saying this for a while. Look at Cole Beasley. 0:37:58.080 --> 0:38:00.280 Is there anybody that can replace what cold be easy? 0:38:00.560 --> 0:38:03.439 We just drafted one. I mean, I mean, he's not 0:38:03.480 --> 0:38:05.880 there yet, but he Oh, he's got to get on 0:38:05.920 --> 0:38:07.680 the field to have a chance. I know, but I 0:38:07.680 --> 0:38:10.520 mean there was Cole sitting there. I mean, that's that's 0:38:10.560 --> 0:38:12.600 the only one of those three receiver deals that they 0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:15.840 can get off of and not have any dead money, nothing, nothing. 0:38:16.440 --> 0:38:18.120 And you drafted a guy in the fourth round last 0:38:18.160 --> 0:38:21.239 year that you apparently liked enough to get him touches consistently, 0:38:21.239 --> 0:38:24.480 whether special teams or offense, and they obviously tried to 0:38:24.520 --> 0:38:27.600 take that part away. I'm not saying it's a it's 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:30.520 a great idea. I'm just saying, maybe you can restructure 0:38:30.520 --> 0:38:33.040 things a little bit from that standpoint. I don't disagree 0:38:33.080 --> 0:38:36.120 with anything you're saying. I just don't think Cole Beasley 0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:38.520 is not commanding enough money, nor is he like hurting. 0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:41.480 He's not hurting the team. It's just like that idea, 0:38:41.640 --> 0:38:44.279 that's the reason. Nope. The reason we talk about death 0:38:44.320 --> 0:38:46.640 so much is because you see that sixteen point fil 0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:50.920 five million chargs just hanging over everything. Whereas I mean, 0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:55.160 it doesn't drastically alter anything if Beasley's gone. So that's 0:38:55.239 --> 0:38:57.720 I just I don't know. I mean he obviously William 0:38:57.760 --> 0:39:01.200 doesn't it. Yeah, I mean number it saves you some money. 0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:03.719 But again, like it's it's not just like this ah 0:39:03.920 --> 0:39:06.520 like this beam of cap space. And he was the 0:39:06.560 --> 0:39:09.680 one guy that seemed to probably garner the most attention 0:39:09.719 --> 0:39:12.359 from from other But what did we do after they 0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:15.520 started focusing on Cole Beasley? Like we didn't adjust and 0:39:15.920 --> 0:39:19.000 make plays off that. So I put a cheaper guys. 0:39:19.400 --> 0:39:21.200 I don't know why you would even bring him up 0:39:21.239 --> 0:39:24.200 to the conversation when you look out, I get point. 0:39:24.719 --> 0:39:26.919 He's not the first person to suggests that. But it's 0:39:26.920 --> 0:39:29.080 like you look at the group of wide receivers and 0:39:29.120 --> 0:39:31.840 we know how Cole has helped this team, and the 0:39:31.880 --> 0:39:34.840 point was the coverage he was getting. You know, he 0:39:35.040 --> 0:39:39.080 was very limited in that way. And why is that? 0:39:39.400 --> 0:39:41.799 Because he is good and he is one of those 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:44.799 Jason Witten and him is one of those guys that 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:48.239 Dad could easily go to. But he's also limited, Like 0:39:48.280 --> 0:39:51.560 you said limited, he's limited and the things he can do, 0:39:51.640 --> 0:39:54.279 he can only play a certain position. And I think 0:39:54.280 --> 0:39:56.840 you would have to change the structure of your offense 0:39:56.880 --> 0:39:59.600 and how you're doing things if he wasn't there. All 0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:02.319 I'm saying and is is like his contract doesn't hurt you. 0:40:02.840 --> 0:40:05.040 I don't think you would cut him. I mean, he 0:40:05.400 --> 0:40:08.080 seems like that would be a tradable type type situation 0:40:08.160 --> 0:40:10.479 for sure, if you wanted to go that. My thought 0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:13.439 is just like, put someone better somewhere else and leave 0:40:13.560 --> 0:40:20.360 him there. He and great, great point, someone better the 0:40:20.440 --> 0:40:23.880 goal the goal? Right, Yeah, we're in we just fast 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:26.480 forward a year. Well, we are in a we are 0:40:26.480 --> 0:40:28.920 in a weird sort of limbo with that, with almost 0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:32.200 the entire passing game really with the role he fulfills. 0:40:32.280 --> 0:40:35.480 That's someone on a rookie contract fills that role. But 0:40:35.520 --> 0:40:37.279 alrty catch a year guy. That's a guy in a 0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:39.719 rookie contract, Like that's what you expect from them, not 0:40:39.800 --> 0:40:41.719 from your guy you just re up for. I mean 0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:44.600 four years, he had seventy something in sixteen. I mean 0:40:44.640 --> 0:40:48.319 he can yeah more. Well, yeah, I haven't seen him 0:40:48.360 --> 0:40:51.640 do more recently. I I just so Daz and Terrence's 0:40:51.680 --> 0:40:54.120 deals are easy to get out of next year. Easily's 0:40:54.200 --> 0:40:57.359 deal is over next year. 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You're a spokesperson. There 0:44:43.280 --> 0:44:46.759 you go, I got real. I got called out. Um well, no, 0:44:46.960 --> 0:44:49.800 Dave al Shan's deal with Philly was for fourteen million, 0:44:49.880 --> 0:44:53.239 so idency I undersold the worth of that. But still 0:44:53.239 --> 0:44:56.040 a one year prove it deal like that's nowhere near 0:44:56.080 --> 0:45:00.160 as gross to me is committing three to five years, 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:03.040 you know with whatever I looked at Uparantinas, y'all said 0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:05.640 that I looked it up because the number fourteen was 0:45:05.680 --> 0:45:07.879 always in my head with Alison, I get, I get 0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:11.840 Jeffrey and Pryor confused probably for less. There's a reason 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:14.759 why you said that it was a one year he 0:45:14.880 --> 0:45:18.360 got nine million last year. They put a lot of 0:45:18.400 --> 0:45:21.040 other years on there that that he could he could 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:25.239 get that like with a option it all averages to fourteen. 0:45:25.400 --> 0:45:27.920 Looks pretty for fourteen. If he would have sucked, that 0:45:27.960 --> 0:45:29.239 could have cut him. It would have been a one 0:45:29.320 --> 0:45:32.480 year nine million. So you're you're kind of right about that, 0:45:32.719 --> 0:45:34.799 kind of like the Henry Melton deal that we did 0:45:34.840 --> 0:45:37.960 here a few years ago exactly, and the deals that 0:45:38.480 --> 0:45:41.239 Haynesworth got with And there's a lot of that going 0:45:41.320 --> 0:45:45.880 on right now where Sherman Richard Sherman's deal in San Francisco. 0:45:46.000 --> 0:45:48.120 Like at the end of the day, it's like one year, 0:45:48.400 --> 0:45:50.960 nine million dollars unless he doesn't hit all of his stuff. 0:45:51.040 --> 0:45:53.480 Let's talk about that one real quick, because over the weekend, 0:45:53.719 --> 0:45:56.760 cowboys were getting crucified at least through my Twitter timeline 0:45:56.760 --> 0:45:59.080 about why they didn't go that route. Just remember there 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:02.400 they're his position coaches here, Chris Richard, he's here, he 0:46:02.840 --> 0:46:05.000 knows what kind of player he is. That doesn't mean 0:46:05.040 --> 0:46:09.040 that they didn't like him, but coming off an Achilles injury, like, well, 0:46:09.080 --> 0:46:11.520 I mean with that kind of money, I don't know. Thanks, 0:46:11.600 --> 0:46:13.799 I'm here. I'm here for you if you want to 0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:16.399 wind to me about almost anything, like I'll at least 0:46:16.440 --> 0:46:19.640 listen to it. But Richard Sherman's almost thirty. He blew 0:46:19.680 --> 0:46:23.040 out as Achilles, and he's gonna want a sizeable deal 0:46:23.120 --> 0:46:25.560 to come here. And I'm not saying the Cowboys are 0:46:25.600 --> 0:46:27.839 loaded with all pro corners, but the whole point of 0:46:27.840 --> 0:46:30.560 what they did last year is they've got four to 0:46:30.719 --> 0:46:33.719 five solid defensive backs who were playing for pennies on 0:46:33.719 --> 0:46:36.640 the dollar. Like you're you're trying to be efficient here, 0:46:36.680 --> 0:46:40.520 and that's just a completely inefficient signing. You invested heavily. Yeah, 0:46:40.640 --> 0:46:44.080 Jordan cheated of your woods, Like, let those guys turn 0:46:44.120 --> 0:46:46.000 into something like the Saints did last year and Anthony 0:46:46.480 --> 0:46:49.080 that matter. Yeah, Saints played all their rookies when they 0:46:49.080 --> 0:46:51.160 were young last year. They reaped the benefits of it 0:46:51.200 --> 0:46:53.520 because those guys got experienced, they were good. If if 0:46:53.560 --> 0:46:55.879 they are good enough to hold those jobs, then you've 0:46:55.960 --> 0:46:59.240 got a starting secondary that you're paying the same amount 0:46:59.280 --> 0:47:01.640 of money that Rman is making off of one year 0:47:01.680 --> 0:47:03.440 of his deal. I mean, that's the whole point. You're 0:47:03.480 --> 0:47:06.719 trying to find talent for cheap. Let's talk Scandrick real quick. 0:47:06.760 --> 0:47:10.160 Scandrick apparently has has let it be known that he 0:47:10.239 --> 0:47:14.200 wants to get traded. Release right. I mean, I'm sorry, 0:47:14.239 --> 0:47:17.759 release trade whatever he wants to go to another team. No, no, 0:47:17.800 --> 0:47:19.759 he doesn't want to get traded. You're right. He wants 0:47:19.760 --> 0:47:21.840 to get the same thing with Dez. He wants to 0:47:21.840 --> 0:47:25.320 get another contract. Um bet Dez would like another contract. 0:47:25.400 --> 0:47:28.239 I bet, I bet you know Zeke would like maybe 0:47:28.280 --> 0:47:30.000 another guy to kind of help him. I mean, that's 0:47:30.000 --> 0:47:32.520 cool that he requested that. I don't think the Cowboys 0:47:32.600 --> 0:47:36.920 will or should do anything there. Thanks for your input, Orlando. 0:47:37.120 --> 0:47:39.880 I think not. I think he'll will do what we 0:47:39.920 --> 0:47:41.560 want to do. I think he'll get his wish at 0:47:41.600 --> 0:47:44.399 some point. But when people stop talking about him, that's 0:47:44.440 --> 0:47:47.440 when he puts something into get people start talking. He 0:47:47.719 --> 0:47:49.920 acts like a former player, and he's not a former 0:47:49.960 --> 0:47:53.719 player yet, but he acts like that. Like that, those 0:47:53.719 --> 0:47:56.360 guys will just throw out some outlandish headline just because 0:47:56.360 --> 0:47:58.360 it's really more like, don't forget about me. I was 0:47:58.360 --> 0:48:01.319 a good player once, and he does. He's like he 0:48:01.400 --> 0:48:03.600 wants to get involved with the free agency stuff. If 0:48:03.600 --> 0:48:06.680 I'm the Cowboys, I'd wait two weeks. I think he'll 0:48:06.680 --> 0:48:08.440 get his wish. But yeah, I don't see any reason 0:48:08.520 --> 0:48:10.160 why you have to do it right now. He's seen 0:48:10.200 --> 0:48:12.680 the writing on the wall, right, Yeah, they've invested so 0:48:12.760 --> 0:48:14.680 much in the other cornerbacks that are around all it 0:48:14.800 --> 0:48:17.160 last year. Yeah, he'd probably been banking on this for 0:48:17.200 --> 0:48:19.399 a year. He probably saw this happening when I think 0:48:19.400 --> 0:48:21.759 you're trying to replace him. Okay, so let's say he's 0:48:21.760 --> 0:48:25.920 not on this team, you still need a veteran cornerback 0:48:26.040 --> 0:48:28.160 or something. I mean, I don't. I don't like just 0:48:28.239 --> 0:48:33.120 going with those two rookies plus Anthony Brown plus whatever 0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:37.440 Byron Jones is going to be. Uh, I don't think nobody. 0:48:37.440 --> 0:48:39.000 How many more do you want? I mean, I think 0:48:39.000 --> 0:48:41.200 I'm fine with it. Yeah, I think so you're probably 0:48:41.200 --> 0:48:43.719 only going to carry five on a team, right, I mean, 0:48:43.880 --> 0:48:47.200 and don't I'm again not draft one, but you don't 0:48:47.200 --> 0:48:50.000 feel comfortable enough with got Duke Thomas hanging around two? 0:48:50.080 --> 0:48:52.680 I mean, he's still here. I'm fine with it. I 0:48:53.640 --> 0:48:56.080 think a safety needs to be and the safety needs 0:48:56.080 --> 0:48:57.640 to be added to the mix one way or the other. 0:48:57.719 --> 0:49:02.879 But I don't think you don't think. I don't think so. Man, 0:49:02.960 --> 0:49:05.600 if if it didn't cheat on the outside, Xavier playing slot, 0:49:05.640 --> 0:49:08.000 Byron Jones playing slot, and then you've got Jeff Heath 0:49:08.040 --> 0:49:10.080 and whoever you want to work at Byron and Cheeto 0:49:10.160 --> 0:49:12.719 on the outside, Jordan in the slot. Brown is your 0:49:12.800 --> 0:49:16.000 number four either way, and then Woods can do a 0:49:16.000 --> 0:49:18.360 little bit of everything, well, at least in like probably 0:49:18.400 --> 0:49:20.839 not outside, but Anthony Brown still there. I mean, that's 0:49:21.200 --> 0:49:23.600 that's the one position I really liked their dipths if 0:49:23.600 --> 0:49:26.680 it fell to where you know, we talk about how 0:49:26.680 --> 0:49:29.120 the board doesn't line up with their needs. If if 0:49:29.160 --> 0:49:31.360 Mike Hughes at a UCF is there at nineteen and 0:49:31.400 --> 0:49:33.279 he's the best guy on your board, okay, but I mean, 0:49:34.120 --> 0:49:37.440 look at it is this gigantic cornerback is the least 0:49:37.480 --> 0:49:41.080 of my word, Josh Jackson, where's that? Where's he going? Yeah? 0:49:41.120 --> 0:49:44.120 That area too, probably late first round, first or at 0:49:44.120 --> 0:49:48.080 the second. I don't think cornerback should never ever, it 0:49:48.080 --> 0:49:50.959 should never be the least of your concerns because that's 0:49:51.000 --> 0:49:53.440 the position that gets you beat that. I mean that 0:49:55.320 --> 0:49:57.440 I don't know. I mean, I'm not saying going get 0:49:57.440 --> 0:50:00.719 another Nolan Carroll because that bombed. I'm just saying get 0:50:01.280 --> 0:50:03.880 somebody else in. There's some some more veterans. So the 0:50:03.920 --> 0:50:07.279 fact of maybe not having our Lando Scandrick bag troubles you. 0:50:08.120 --> 0:50:12.879 Somebody that can say, Hey, like we just got off 0:50:12.880 --> 0:50:17.640 the bus and Green Bay, where's the locker room? I 0:50:17.640 --> 0:50:19.560 don't know. I haven't been here. I haven't been two years. 0:50:19.600 --> 0:50:22.239 I don't know anything. I mean, not just that, but 0:50:22.320 --> 0:50:26.160 like I've played this quarterback before, I've played this guy before, Scandrick, 0:50:26.200 --> 0:50:29.040 You're gonna lose a lot with terms of a smart 0:50:29.640 --> 0:50:32.880 cornerback that kind of knows the league. He understands a 0:50:32.920 --> 0:50:35.719 lot of concepts. He's seen a lot. Say what you 0:50:35.760 --> 0:50:38.360 want about him being grumpy and Oscar the grounds or whatever. 0:50:38.719 --> 0:50:42.759 He's a smart player. He reminds me smart guy like 0:50:42.880 --> 0:50:46.799 smart guy. He reminds me a lot of ways of 0:50:46.920 --> 0:50:50.200 Richard Sherman. He's not as loud as as him, but 0:50:50.320 --> 0:50:53.080 he is very smart. I could see where Scandrick could 0:50:53.080 --> 0:50:55.880 be his own agent, just like Sherman. He understands the 0:50:55.880 --> 0:50:57.799 concept of things. I don't want people to mistake us 0:50:57.800 --> 0:50:59.800 saying we don't have to replace him for saying he 0:50:59.840 --> 0:51:02.200 has no value and he's not a good player. Yeah, 0:51:02.239 --> 0:51:04.520 he's a good player. I could just see some value 0:51:04.520 --> 0:51:07.120 in the room because I don't think Byron. I think 0:51:07.120 --> 0:51:08.760 they did that last year. I think that's they saw 0:51:08.840 --> 0:51:12.640 this coming and they took a sledgehammer after it. Added 0:51:12.640 --> 0:51:16.680 three rookies. Yeah, and you know, retain They're keeping Byron. Obviously, 0:51:16.840 --> 0:51:19.919 they're keeping Jeff Heath. They're they're deep. Who can never 0:51:19.960 --> 0:51:22.040 have you can never have enough corners. But it's not 0:51:22.160 --> 0:51:25.040 something I'm losing sleep about. I think I would look 0:51:25.160 --> 0:51:27.160 at the potential I can't move about to say this 0:51:27.920 --> 0:51:31.120 about signing and free agency, which would really be resigning 0:51:32.080 --> 0:51:36.840 Mo Claiborne. Okay, anythink but why I love to have 0:51:36.880 --> 0:51:39.120 another Tiger in the room. But but I mean I 0:51:39.120 --> 0:51:42.080 don't I don't know. Man didn't do anything for you, 0:51:42.200 --> 0:51:45.440 not really? How much? Yeah, it's always the question, Yeah, 0:51:45.480 --> 0:51:47.960 how much discount deal to come? Hey, if it's a 0:51:49.920 --> 0:51:51.719 give it to me. Yeah. And if I told you 0:51:51.840 --> 0:51:54.440 the Cowboys would move up the sixth overall pick. I'm 0:51:54.520 --> 0:51:58.320 the best defensive player and he wouldn't do anything four years. 0:51:58.960 --> 0:52:01.600 I'm not watching at thirty for thirty. You know it's 0:52:01.640 --> 0:52:04.799 really a five for five. It's a short. I'm not 0:52:04.880 --> 0:52:07.719 alluding to who you think I'm alluding to, but just 0:52:07.840 --> 0:52:10.000 what if they I mean, bring in a veteran safety instead. 0:52:10.000 --> 0:52:11.879 I mean, it doesn't have to be a cornerback. Et 0:52:12.080 --> 0:52:13.759 come home. No, it's not who I'm talking about what 0:52:13.840 --> 0:52:16.319 you're saying talking about. It. Just told you he'd signed 0:52:16.360 --> 0:52:19.239 Kenny Vacaro. He could sign anybody. Just add. I mean, 0:52:19.239 --> 0:52:22.000 they need a safety, whether it's the draft or free agency, 0:52:22.040 --> 0:52:23.920 they need one. I agree, I agree with. Then I 0:52:24.080 --> 0:52:26.560 go veteran safety there before I go veteran corner. I 0:52:26.600 --> 0:52:28.239 do think it's a it's a bigger need. I just 0:52:28.320 --> 0:52:31.680 I just somebody in the room. I think they'll probably 0:52:31.680 --> 0:52:35.120 do a Nolan Carroll type deal something like that. Just 0:52:35.320 --> 0:52:37.840 have some veteran. I was so upset a couple of 0:52:37.880 --> 0:52:40.800 years ago whenever they didn't go after Eric Wettle whatever. 0:52:40.880 --> 0:52:42.839 He got free, and I'm like, I want that type 0:52:42.840 --> 0:52:45.000 of duty. He doesn't have to play every snap. He's 0:52:45.000 --> 0:52:47.480 a Nickels safety guy, and he balled out for ball. 0:52:47.560 --> 0:52:49.520 Then you got here and you said, he looked up 0:52:49.560 --> 0:52:52.560 at our social media coordinator and you're like, damn, they 0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:59.879 did get Eric good point shifted jobs. Yeah, yeah, it's 0:53:00.040 --> 0:53:03.319 five minutes left. The one thing the Cowboys have done 0:53:03.400 --> 0:53:05.719 other than tag to Marcus, which for the end, did 0:53:05.719 --> 0:53:09.239 we figure out how they got there? I don't. I 0:53:09.280 --> 0:53:11.440 don't think they needed to get there. I think that 0:53:11.560 --> 0:53:16.120 was miscellaneously or erroneously reported. Not. That's why we don't 0:53:16.160 --> 0:53:19.799 talk about this um salary cap a lot, because I 0:53:19.800 --> 0:53:21.719 think a lot of fans treat it like they're at 0:53:21.719 --> 0:53:24.160 a basketball game and there's a scoreboard and says that's 0:53:24.200 --> 0:53:27.520 exactly what they have left. You can look at contracts 0:53:27.560 --> 0:53:31.719 forty four different ways, probably more than that, and there 0:53:31.760 --> 0:53:33.560 might be a figure that says they were for twelve 0:53:33.600 --> 0:53:36.040 thousand dollars. Yeah, that was not and it might have 0:53:36.040 --> 0:53:39.279 been plugged in with a two point nine million, one 0:53:39.360 --> 0:53:42.279 year tender for David Irving, which is what he got. 0:53:42.360 --> 0:53:45.520 So second round tender two point nine to one million dollars. 0:53:45.680 --> 0:53:49.279 He will explain the process of how what happens from here. 0:53:49.960 --> 0:53:52.320 Their team could sign him, say somebody wants him, anybody 0:53:52.600 --> 0:53:55.359 nine ers won him. Let's forty nine ers can take 0:53:55.560 --> 0:53:58.520 that number and make him an offer sheet. It famously 0:53:58.520 --> 0:54:01.279 happened a couple of years ago with c Anderson. Think 0:54:01.320 --> 0:54:03.880 Miami tried to sign him to a three year, eighteen 0:54:03.920 --> 0:54:07.319 million dollar deal. Denver said, nope, we want you, which 0:54:07.360 --> 0:54:09.440 is ironic because they're talking about cutting him right now. 0:54:10.000 --> 0:54:13.400 What happens in free agency. But so they matched that, 0:54:13.520 --> 0:54:15.000 or actually I think they beat it out, but they 0:54:15.000 --> 0:54:19.440 gave him a better deal. So theoretically, David Irving could 0:54:19.440 --> 0:54:21.160 play this year on a one year, two point nine 0:54:21.200 --> 0:54:24.160 million dollars deal if nobody offers him anything. The Cowboys 0:54:24.280 --> 0:54:26.920 don't have to give him any another dime. But the 0:54:27.000 --> 0:54:28.960 forty nine ers will say, come in, they want to 0:54:28.960 --> 0:54:33.960 go four years sixteen. Okay, okay, four year sixteen. The 0:54:33.960 --> 0:54:36.239 Cowboys says, well match that. If they don't, they will 0:54:36.239 --> 0:54:38.359 get a second round pick from the forty nine ers 0:54:38.400 --> 0:54:41.239 this year. This year's which I don't think the forty 0:54:41.320 --> 0:54:43.279 nine ers actually have one because they traded it to 0:54:43.280 --> 0:54:45.640 New England for Garoppolo. But witch it up to the 0:54:46.360 --> 0:54:48.680 let's let him go right if someone comes in with 0:54:48.719 --> 0:54:51.040 a second round pick, there is only there is only 0:54:51.120 --> 0:54:54.759 one explanation. There's only one explanation. For why they would 0:54:54.960 --> 0:54:56.759 if you're giving him a second round tender, it's because 0:54:56.760 --> 0:54:59.280 you don't actually want him that much. You'd be fine. 0:54:59.320 --> 0:55:01.399 If nobody makes an offer, great, you got him back 0:55:01.840 --> 0:55:04.640 if they I mean, you know, I thought about it 0:55:04.640 --> 0:55:06.600 in this terms, like if you somebody was like, oh, 0:55:06.600 --> 0:55:08.320 do you want to ensure this purchase? You got a 0:55:08.360 --> 0:55:10.880 new car, you want to ensure this purchase. I mean, 0:55:10.920 --> 0:55:13.120 if you really want to ensure it, wouldn't you buy 0:55:13.160 --> 0:55:15.800 the top of the line everything, one hundred thousand miles 0:55:15.920 --> 0:55:18.799 and no matter what happens to it, you're good. But 0:55:18.840 --> 0:55:21.040 if you're really like, yeah, you're not really thinking about 0:55:21.120 --> 0:55:22.640 keeping it for a long time, You're like, now we'll 0:55:22.680 --> 0:55:26.399 take the bargain insurance plan and you know, maybe I'm 0:55:26.440 --> 0:55:28.920 not covered for flood, but I'm covered for theft, you know, 0:55:29.000 --> 0:55:32.200 like that type of stuff. So if they're not willing 0:55:32.200 --> 0:55:35.160 to give him the best possible tender, it means they 0:55:35.239 --> 0:55:38.600 don't really want him. They'd kind of like they'd be 0:55:38.600 --> 0:55:40.799 okay with him being on the team, but they would 0:55:40.840 --> 0:55:42.680 take that second round pick in a heartbeat. That's I 0:55:42.719 --> 0:55:44.360 think that's the only way you could read. That's a 0:55:44.360 --> 0:55:46.759 lot of people in like so late second round pick 0:55:46.800 --> 0:55:49.640 for David Irving. Are you going no, I know what 0:55:49.680 --> 0:55:51.680 this guy can do. He's a splash player. He makes 0:55:51.719 --> 0:55:53.880 big plays, he just rubs stuff, he raises hell in 0:55:53.920 --> 0:55:56.279 the backfield. Or are you like, yeah, I'll take that 0:55:56.360 --> 0:55:58.360 cheap contract for that second round pick and hope I 0:55:58.400 --> 0:56:01.280 can find a guy. It's it's running the point almost 0:56:01.360 --> 0:56:03.040 it's six to one half a dozen to the other. 0:56:03.120 --> 0:56:05.000 I really I hate the idea of letting go of 0:56:05.000 --> 0:56:07.280 a guy who can put up seven sacks in eight games. 0:56:07.360 --> 0:56:09.600 I hate. I mean, we've been whining about the pass 0:56:09.719 --> 0:56:11.919 rush on this team the whole time I've watched the soup. 0:56:11.960 --> 0:56:14.640 I can change your mind in three minutes. All right, 0:56:14.680 --> 0:56:17.040 go for it. We have two but right that's why, Okay, 0:56:17.480 --> 0:56:20.400 go no, I'll I need three. Oh, I hear you, 0:56:20.480 --> 0:56:24.080 I hear I mean you think about it, though, I mean, 0:56:24.960 --> 0:56:26.719 if it's a top if it's as if it's a 0:56:26.760 --> 0:56:29.160 second round pick, so it's gonna be a top seventy pick. 0:56:29.200 --> 0:56:31.840 I mean you shouldn't. Regardless of the cowboys woes in 0:56:31.840 --> 0:56:33.880 the second round, you should be able to hope that 0:56:33.920 --> 0:56:37.200 you can find that really good player. That pick also 0:56:37.360 --> 0:56:39.839 moves you into the to the spot of I mean 0:56:39.840 --> 0:56:42.360 you you can take that and sit there with somebody 0:56:42.400 --> 0:56:45.440 at thirteen or fourteen and go, I'm using this second 0:56:45.520 --> 0:56:47.680 round pick that I got for Irving. I'm moving up 0:56:47.680 --> 0:56:49.799 here and oh you know what would happen use if 0:56:49.840 --> 0:56:51.640 someone gives us a second round pick. We're sitting there 0:56:51.680 --> 0:56:53.879 Week six and we're like, hey, we can't get any sex. 0:56:53.920 --> 0:56:56.239 I wish I had someone that could disrupt thee the 0:56:56.280 --> 0:57:00.440 passing game, but nine used you use that extra second rounder, 0:57:01.480 --> 0:57:03.839 you use him to trade up and get Derwin James. 0:57:04.360 --> 0:57:07.600 He's got six picks, but six but you now that 0:57:07.640 --> 0:57:11.600 you don't have David Irving, where's your defensive tackle situation? 0:57:11.680 --> 0:57:14.279 Look like? No? I know, I mean it won't look great. 0:57:15.440 --> 0:57:18.800 I think Crawford going to move back there. The ideal 0:57:18.880 --> 0:57:22.160 scenario that I'm hoping for in the Brian Price, Sorry 0:57:21.800 --> 0:57:25.760 sorry Price, how did we bury the leader there? I 0:57:25.800 --> 0:57:27.880 think the ideal way for all this to work out 0:57:27.960 --> 0:57:30.080 is if every other team in the league is aware 0:57:30.440 --> 0:57:33.800 of the problems with David Irving that prevent the Cowboys 0:57:33.880 --> 0:57:37.720 from loving him, and if hope the ideal scenario is 0:57:37.720 --> 0:57:40.000 that nobody tries to sign him long term, and he 0:57:40.040 --> 0:57:42.000 plays out this year on a two point nine million 0:57:42.000 --> 0:57:45.280 dollar contract. If he balls out, then you've got a 0:57:45.480 --> 0:57:48.280 question to answer next year, and you either sign him 0:57:48.320 --> 0:57:50.240 long term, which I doubt happens, or you let him 0:57:50.280 --> 0:57:52.320 go and you get a third or fourth round compick 0:57:52.400 --> 0:57:55.800 for him, or he struggles or has issues again next year, 0:57:55.840 --> 0:57:57.600 and then you've got the leverage when it comes time 0:57:57.600 --> 0:58:01.000 to negotiate a contract. I think without the suspension, people 0:58:01.000 --> 0:58:03.680 would get pretty interested. Say he played just yeah, played 0:58:03.760 --> 0:58:06.280 last year, yeah, and misstime because just an injury, not 0:58:06.320 --> 0:58:08.960 a suspension, right, I think people come sniffing around him. 0:58:09.040 --> 0:58:11.600 I ate that late second. I would be on him 0:58:11.840 --> 0:58:15.640 like he's a great player. I mean, he's a great player, 0:58:15.880 --> 0:58:18.880 and there are a litany of reasons why you might 0:58:18.920 --> 0:58:21.720 not want to trust him with a sizeable contract. Yeah, no, 0:58:21.840 --> 0:58:25.160 I agree, I agree, But maybe one year type of 0:58:25.200 --> 0:58:28.960 thing or exactly what they did. Yeah, I'll be interested 0:58:29.000 --> 0:58:31.480 to see. I will. I won't be surprised if somebody 0:58:31.520 --> 0:58:33.680 makes him a handsome offer, and I won't be surprised 0:58:33.720 --> 0:58:35.880 if nobody touches him and he plays out this year 0:58:35.920 --> 0:58:38.400 on a one year deal, which I wouldn't be surprised 0:58:38.440 --> 0:58:40.640 if that's what he wants, because if he goes out 0:58:40.680 --> 0:58:43.440 and plays, you know, sixteen games and has ten sacks 0:58:43.440 --> 0:58:47.360 as a d tackle, he's gonna get ye hey, next year. 0:58:47.400 --> 0:58:49.640 What I will be surprised with Irving is if he 0:58:49.680 --> 0:58:52.280 gets an offer sheet from another team in the Cowboys 0:58:52.440 --> 0:58:55.600 matchet that was surprised, would surprise they'll take the second. 0:58:55.640 --> 0:58:57.920 This is a case of like the CBA working perfectly 0:58:58.200 --> 0:59:00.480 because I feel like that's right on the nose second 0:59:00.480 --> 0:59:02.560 for him. Two point nine is played riding the nose 0:59:02.560 --> 0:59:05.160 for him. I'm like, good job, guys, Yeah, we figured 0:59:05.160 --> 0:59:07.280 this one out. For that one, give me pick fifty 0:59:07.280 --> 0:59:09.600 five and we'll qull it you all right. Well, earlier 0:59:09.640 --> 0:59:11.640 in the when we first started, you said we were 0:59:11.640 --> 0:59:13.880 going to get better. There was one area will be better. 0:59:14.040 --> 0:59:19.040 Definitely got better. Tommy John Reid was better, the man better. 0:59:19.120 --> 0:59:21.520 Every single day we got better. There. No, it's good Mike, 0:59:21.600 --> 0:59:23.920 thanks for joining us. Course sure for our day. If 0:59:23.920 --> 0:59:25.920 an Amber, I'm nick what Derek will be back next 0:59:25.920 --> 0:59:28.480 week's state. It's been replaced Dallas Cowboys dot Com for 0:59:28.520 --> 0:59:33.200 all your free agent needs. This has been a production 0:59:33.320 --> 0:59:36.800 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 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