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Speaker 3: Yep, and here we go, Here we go. It is
Speaker 3: eleven am on Monday.
Speaker 2: You know what that means.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 2: It's time to legally tamper right now.
Speaker 3: And that's why Everson Walls is not here on this
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Speaker 3: You know why ever since not here is he tamper
Speaker 3: because he well, no, he takes off. He takes off
Speaker 3: every eleven a m Monday before the start of the
Speaker 3: new year and hopes that his phone will ring.
Speaker 5: That's very true.
Speaker 3: He's so busy, even at age whatever he is, in
Speaker 3: his sixties, he thinks that phone's gonna ring and he'll
Speaker 3: get an opportunity with an NFL team. Here we go, man,
Speaker 3: Savannah began, that's right. You need to be You need
Speaker 3: to be constantly checking that X and seeing what's going
Speaker 3: on out there.
Speaker 2: I know, I am.
Speaker 5: I'm locked in you guys.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: Yet it's eleven, but they can't legally signing, but well agree, yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 4: I am back. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you were on your vacation last week.
Speaker 4: I was went skining.
Speaker 2: Okay, very good, Ready to hit the ground running.
Speaker 4: Now, how was the left it in good conditions?
Speaker 2: I told you Savannah shots last week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we did do Savannah shots last week.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 6: We did change a few things. Uh huh, we almost
Speaker 6: changed the graphics.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 4: It was very hard for me to resist listening, by
Speaker 4: the way.
Speaker 2: But you did resist.
Speaker 6: I did good, good, full vacation time.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to have to call in, you know,
Speaker 4: correct anything.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. Good thing. Dalton Schultz isn't here right now?
Speaker 2: As the tour.
Speaker 5: Goes by, very true. I don't did you hear about that?
Speaker 4: I don't know. Somebody pointed out to me, yes.
Speaker 3: I wasn't going to talk about this on this edition
Speaker 3: of Mixed John's. But the tour walked by the podcast
Speaker 3: studio made me think of Dalton Schultz for some reason,
Speaker 3: and I got some hot sports opinions about that too.
Speaker 4: Still, but hurt that they didn't resign him.
Speaker 3: The second I have to go sign an autographic. Yeah right,
Speaker 3: and someone's banging on the window.
Speaker 4: And hopefully no one knocks on the window to disturb
Speaker 4: me lifting weights.
Speaker 2: By the way, can I say something about that?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Okay, back in the nineties where the Cowboys
Speaker 3: are winning Super Bowls, you know what the media rules
Speaker 3: were in the locker room at Valley Ranch.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine there were many.
Speaker 4: There were none.
Speaker 2: There were none.
Speaker 3: We literally during the season on a Monday, okay, after
Speaker 3: a game, we literally as a TV station would go
Speaker 3: get especially if Troy got injured or got banged up
Speaker 3: a little bit on the Sunday game. We would be
Speaker 3: set up in the parking lot, the players parking lot
Speaker 3: at Valley Ranch with a minicam to get Troy walking
Speaker 3: hobbling into or on crutches or whatever.
Speaker 2: It might be. He didn't even have to be hurt.
Speaker 2: We're just showing up there.
Speaker 3: And then we would go inside the locker room and
Speaker 3: we would sit in the locker room for three hours
Speaker 3: until players players had to report by noon. And these
Speaker 3: players are complaining or one player is complaining about a
Speaker 3: two who are coming by and looking at the weight room.
Speaker 3: I mean, we used to sit in the locker room
Speaker 3: and they had no problem winning Super Bowls back then.
Speaker 4: And once they started winning super Bowls, by the way,
Speaker 4: excess ended every Tom, Dick and Harry was in the
Speaker 4: locker room selling stuff like we ended up being somewhat friend.
Speaker 4: Uh we we nicknamed him jewelry Man. He was coming
Speaker 4: in selling jewelry to the players, custom made, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: the people that were selling like custom made suits would
Speaker 4: be in there selling their wares.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: It was no telling how many people were in that
Speaker 4: locker room selling stuff to players.
Speaker 3: And and there's a supposed there is a narrative going
Speaker 3: around that the culture is horrible.
Speaker 2: Now, yes, I mean, give me a break.
Speaker 4: It's a it's a it's a bad excuse. It's like trying.
Speaker 4: It's like giving them a soft pill to lay their
Speaker 4: heads on for losing to Green Bay. Yeah, that had
Speaker 4: nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 5: Schultz was just a little salty.
Speaker 4: Well he he was.
Speaker 3: And I don't even I didn't even I didn't listen
Speaker 3: to the podcast. I just saw the I didn't even
Speaker 3: see the clip. I just so I don't know even
Speaker 3: know what context he set it in. I'm just seeing
Speaker 3: the headlines that Dalton Schultz saw about the culture and
Speaker 3: so I'm going to assume that he just presented it
Speaker 3: on the podcast as hey, this was kind of weird,
Speaker 3: but you know, didn't think anything of it, because that's
Speaker 3: not distracting to a player to have people walking around.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: And if it is, then go find another job, go
Speaker 4: to Houston. It's a good thing. It's a good thing.
Speaker 4: They're not in that.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, they have had three straight
Speaker 2: twelve win seasons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it only distracts them when they.
Speaker 2: Lose, that's right. It only just strikes them in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Like come to me in the newspaper business when you're
Speaker 4: on deadline at an NBA game and you're sitting courtside
Speaker 4: with sixteen thousand people in the game, and you're trying
Speaker 4: to compose a story while the game's going on. By
Speaker 4: the way, and there's sixteen thousand people screaming, come with
Speaker 4: me and let me know about a distraction, right, you're
Speaker 4: playing football.
Speaker 3: But I mean, it's just so comical because in the
Speaker 3: nineties there was so much better access to these players
Speaker 3: from whether it's media people, as you said, people trying
Speaker 3: to sell them stuff that I mean, now they're in
Speaker 3: a whole separate wing and there's a forty five minute
Speaker 3: availability where the players know when that availability is, so
Speaker 3: if they don't have to go in the locker room
Speaker 3: at while the media is in there and until or
Speaker 3: where others are in there.
Speaker 4: Valley Ranch until the players started like getting in trouble, right.
Speaker 3: That's what That's what stopped the access when they walked
Speaker 3: in the back door of Valley Ranch where they entered
Speaker 3: the facility.
Speaker 4: We each TV or newspaper. We had three offices back there,
Speaker 4: and they had to walk by the door to our
Speaker 4: offices so I could sit in mind. We'd leave the
Speaker 4: outside door open and they would walk in, and I
Speaker 4: can see when people were coming in. I can see
Speaker 4: when they were coming in late, and I can see
Speaker 4: when they were going out on crutches. All right, we
Speaker 4: had but every morning news the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
Speaker 2: You were with the Times Herald then, and I was
Speaker 2: with the.
Speaker 4: Times Herald at the time. So don't give me that.
Speaker 2: Anyways. I didn't I didn't way to go.
Speaker 4: I didn't expect I didn't expect that.
Speaker 2: I just the tour got me.
Speaker 4: Perfectly right, all right.
Speaker 3: So as I continually update what's going on on my
Speaker 3: X account, what are your thoughts as we kick this
Speaker 3: legal tampering period off.
Speaker 6: You know, I actually think we should uh see if
Speaker 6: we want to have any people text in today, give
Speaker 6: us your thoughts. Who should the Cowboys potentially resign? Who
Speaker 6: are some free agents that you would maybe like to
Speaker 6: see as great additions to the twenty twenty four Cowboys roster.
Speaker 4: Now from the Cowboys standpoint, you can resign your own
Speaker 4: guys right. You don't have to wait. Guys that are
Speaker 4: going to be right free agents.
Speaker 3: And by the way, the signings that you're hearing about
Speaker 3: right now, even where Russell Wilson goes to the Steelers now,
Speaker 3: it won't become official until Wednesday. The Broncos gave him
Speaker 3: permission to talk with other teams. But then others have
Speaker 3: been released players, and so that's why signings are happening
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: Even official signings.
Speaker 3: Are happening right now because they're not unrestricted free agents.
Speaker 3: They're street free agents.
Speaker 4: But let's put this in perspective. By the way, because
Speaker 4: the Cowboys were over the salary cap until they restructured
Speaker 4: Zach Martin's contract and put money in voided years down
Speaker 4: the road, that they're going to have to eventually account
Speaker 4: for it's not like free money, and by doing that,
Speaker 4: when it comes to and right now on the thirteenth,
Speaker 4: the salary cap per team only counts for the top
Speaker 4: fifty one players, meaning the top fifty one salaries on
Speaker 4: your ninety man roster. So when it comes to that,
Speaker 4: after that restructure, the Cowboys have eight million dollars in
Speaker 4: cap space, So it's not like they can go out
Speaker 4: and just splurge and start signing guys left and right.
Speaker 4: They've got to be very careful because their priority would
Speaker 4: be right now is to redo ceed Lamb's contract because
Speaker 4: he's counting seventeen million on his fifth year option. You
Speaker 4: would like to sign him to a long term deal.
Speaker 4: You pay him some money so that would give you
Speaker 4: more space in the salary cap because he'll only get
Speaker 4: like a one point five million dollar base salary and
Speaker 4: then the accumulated signing bonus pro rated over five years.
Speaker 4: So to me, when they start spending money, that's somewhat
Speaker 4: the first priority. The second priority would be Michaeh Parsons
Speaker 4: thinking down the line, although you don't really need to
Speaker 4: deal with that, and then deciding what you're gonna do
Speaker 4: with Dak Prescott. Are you going to just restructure his
Speaker 4: base salary and spread it over a couple of years,
Speaker 4: or are you going to try to re sign him?
Speaker 4: And initially from what I was told is they wanted
Speaker 4: to restructure the final year of his contract, so we
Speaker 4: got to see what happens there and then just kind
Speaker 4: of making decisions on what are you going to do
Speaker 4: on your own guys, because they got some tough decisions
Speaker 4: to make. When you have sixteen unrestricted free agents and
Speaker 4: half of those guys are starters, are you going to
Speaker 4: try to resign some of these guys or what kind
Speaker 4: of decisions are you making down the road with counting
Speaker 4: on young guys who haven't been starters yet. So to me,
Speaker 4: those are the biggest things that cowboys have to decide
Speaker 4: along with. You know, it got reported that they gave
Speaker 4: Michael Gallup's agent, uh the right to search for a trade,
Speaker 4: But trade or cut, you still got to count for
Speaker 4: his dead money. And everybody keeps talking about Bill about
Speaker 4: if they cut him post June first, which you don't
Speaker 4: get the money until June first, you're gonna save this
Speaker 4: amount of money. But even if you save that money
Speaker 4: this year, he's going to count eight million dollars in
Speaker 4: dead money next year, and so no one points.
Speaker 3: That out right, And so yeah, you can tell Michael
Speaker 3: Gallup that you give him permission to go seek a trade. Well,
Speaker 3: that essentially tells Michael Gallup what his market value is
Speaker 3: out there right when he find when his agent finds
Speaker 3: out that there's no one interested in that contract at
Speaker 3: that price whatever.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 3: To your point, you trade him and you and if
Speaker 3: the Cowboys do have in mind to make him a
Speaker 3: post June first cup, well, the Cowboys have to accept
Speaker 3: the terms of a trade. Even if he found a
Speaker 3: trade partner, the Cowboys have to accept the terms of
Speaker 3: that trade. And what factors into that is what Michael
Speaker 3: gallup salary cap hit would be, because they cannot now
Speaker 3: save that nine and a half million dollars and make
Speaker 3: him post You.
Speaker 4: First cut the dead money immediately Comedia comes due, So
Speaker 4: you would have to The team trading for him would say, huh.
Speaker 2: They're going to have to pay more of a price.
Speaker 4: You want to get rid of them, So we're only
Speaker 4: going to give you this. But the Cowboys are thinking,
Speaker 4: we got to absorb this amount of dead money. We
Speaker 4: want more in a trade, right, exactly. And so that's
Speaker 4: a tricky deal right there. It's not as easy as
Speaker 4: everybody thinks it is, because when you trade a guy,
Speaker 4: all the dead money immediately escalates into your.
Speaker 3: So I think that that is part of the negotiating
Speaker 3: process with Michael. It gives him if it's true, indeed
Speaker 3: is true, they give you permission to go talk to
Speaker 3: other teams, if to see if there is a trade
Speaker 3: interest out there. His agent finds out there is none,
Speaker 3: let's say, and then Michael is in a position where
Speaker 3: because the Cowboys may be offering him some sort of
Speaker 3: a pay cut to stay on the team, which would
Speaker 3: restructure his deal basically, and they could save that money
Speaker 3: and turn it into because he's got like eight million
Speaker 3: dollars that is his base salary for this year.
Speaker 4: It's eight point five and four million of it is
Speaker 4: due guaranteed on March eighteenth.
Speaker 2: Which is the fifth day of the new year.
Speaker 4: And you would like to have something something by next
Speaker 4: Monday by then, yeah, exactly. So that's probably one of
Speaker 4: their other obviously priorities, other than trying to resign their
Speaker 4: own guys. But again, and even if they you know,
Speaker 4: it's not like they found free money under the cap
Speaker 4: to restructure Zach Martin's deal, because after twenty two twenty five,
Speaker 4: there's three voided years in there where they automatically void,
Speaker 4: but you're dumping restructure money into those three years, and
Speaker 4: your your credit card is going to come do in
Speaker 4: those voided years and five you said after twenty twenty, okay, And.
Speaker 2: That is what they would say.
Speaker 3: If they did a restructure of Dak's contract, Dak Prescott's contract,
Speaker 3: they would be adding voided years on the end of
Speaker 3: it to stack money down the road.
Speaker 2: It's going to come due at some point. It's just
Speaker 2: going to be in a future year.
Speaker 4: So if that's there a definition of all in, then
Speaker 4: you got all that.
Speaker 3: And so their other option on Dak is okay, you
Speaker 3: sign him. Sign If you're going to sign Dak to
Speaker 3: a contract extension, he is in line to become the
Speaker 3: highest paid player in NFL history, okay, because you look
Speaker 3: at the quarterbacks that have been signed with his resume,
Speaker 3: and all of these quarterbacks are like that, from Joe
Speaker 3: Burrow to Justin Herbert to Lamar Jackson Jalen Hurts, who
Speaker 3: have all signed. You look at the pecking order, and
Speaker 3: the most recent of those franchise quarterbacks to sign with
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow five years, two hundred and seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 3: That's fifty five million dollars a year. And you go
Speaker 3: back and look at the last eight to ten of
Speaker 3: those over the last couple of years, and they're all
Speaker 3: going up. The average annual salary goes up about two
Speaker 3: million dollars a year. So the next one to sign,
Speaker 3: whether it's Dak or Tua or Jared Goff, whoever it
Speaker 3: might be, cousins, okay for a I'm talking for a
Speaker 3: five year contract, right, you know you're going to be
Speaker 3: in the vicinity of fifty seven million dollars a year.
Speaker 3: So five years, two hundred and eighty five million dollars.
Speaker 4: And you better not make a mistake, right, Denver Bread
Speaker 4: And there you go.
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson, he's on that list.
Speaker 3: It was a five year, two hundred and forty five
Speaker 3: million dollar contract that he signed August of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: And they are on the hook for eighty.
Speaker 3: Four million dollars in dead money dead money this year
Speaker 3: and next.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they didn't wait till June first.
Speaker 3: And so the Steelers are just are signing him to
Speaker 3: a one point two million dollar contract, which is the
Speaker 3: veteran minimum, and the Broncos are paid him the rest
Speaker 3: of his money that's due this year too. And it's
Speaker 3: not just dead money he's getting. He's getting money from all.
Speaker 4: The Cowboys did that with oh, the Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton,
Speaker 4: because Cincinnati released him, but he had guaranteed money, so
Speaker 4: he was getting paid millions. And the Cowboys signed him
Speaker 4: for basically the veteran minimum of about one point five million,
Speaker 4: just like you pointed out, because they already's getting his
Speaker 4: money so he didn't need it.
Speaker 2: So here we go.
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Speaker 3: we take a break. Okay, check Twitter and see what's happening,
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Speaker 3: I think this is the first post eleven AM legal
Speaker 3: tampering report of a contract agreement that I've seen. There's
Speaker 3: been rumors out there, but there is This is the
Speaker 3: first I've seen of a contract agreement, and it could
Speaker 3: affect what the Cowboys are looking at here at the
Speaker 3: running back position, as former Eagles running back DeAndre Swift
Speaker 3: apparently is signing a three year deal worth twenty four
Speaker 3: million dollars with the Chicago Bears. So three years, twenty
Speaker 3: four million for DeAndre Swift. The other reports out there,
Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley is being courted by the Philadelphia Eagles and
Speaker 3: the Houston Texans. And so there's the early reports on
Speaker 3: running backs and what the running back market looks like.
Speaker 4: And here's something that I think people need to keep
Speaker 4: in mind. As I pointed out, when it comes to
Speaker 4: the top fifty one, the Cowboys have like eight million
Speaker 4: dollars in cap space. Normally, when you start a season,
Speaker 4: after you pay your draft picks or whatever your rookie
Speaker 4: salary cap is, you like to start the season with
Speaker 4: about eight to ten million dollars in cap space because
Speaker 4: you're going to have things you got to pay for
Speaker 4: as you go, operating costs as you go through the season. So,
Speaker 4: like I said, and it's kind of always a fluid
Speaker 4: moving number, but right now, the estimate is for the
Speaker 4: top fifty one they have eight million dollars in space. Now,
Speaker 4: how about this for comparison, especially when you're trying to
Speaker 4: re sign some of your own guys. The Washington Redskins
Speaker 4: have ninety six million dollars in cap space ninety six.
Speaker 4: Number two is Tennessee with eighty million, the Patriots seventy two,
Speaker 4: the Bears sixty three, and Houston that you just mentioned
Speaker 4: looking for who was it to try to take one
Speaker 4: Barkley have sixty three million in cap space. So it's like,
Speaker 4: not only are the Cowboys short handed, but there's all
Speaker 4: these other teams that have so much money that they
Speaker 4: can't even bargain with a guy if some like to
Speaker 4: compete to sign somebody like Saquon Bartley, because these teams
Speaker 4: have so much money. You saw what Buffalo did, right,
Speaker 4: They cut like three or four starters because they needed
Speaker 4: to get under the salary cap by Wednesday. So the
Speaker 4: teams that have a lot of money can overpay these
Speaker 4: guys to get them, and you can't. You'll lose out
Speaker 4: on the negotiation if it indeed comes down to money.
Speaker 4: So while the Cowboys would like to resign some of
Speaker 4: their guys, boy say Dan Quinn, let's just use this
Speaker 4: as an example, say he wants to go after Dorence
Speaker 4: Armstrong kind of likes a guy that, over the past
Speaker 4: two years has totaled I believe, sixteen.
Speaker 3: Sacks, and they have a need for an drusher there.
Speaker 3: They've lost Chase Young and Montes Sweat here in the
Speaker 3: last couple of years.
Speaker 2: And they got six months.
Speaker 4: They can give him a three year, forty million dollar
Speaker 4: deal and the Cowboys can't even come close to match it.
Speaker 6: And that's why the Cowboys have to be essentially very
Speaker 6: strategic with their decisions here, because you, I mean, you
Speaker 6: have these guys that are now on the market that
Speaker 6: and you have teams with an exponential amount of money,
Speaker 6: and the Cowboys have to play their cards right if
Speaker 6: you want to keep some of these great starters that
Speaker 6: we have.
Speaker 4: As producer Supreme Chris said before we started the show,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys will be shopping at Dollar General.
Speaker 2: He's always good for a good line, his.
Speaker 4: Producer, Supreme, I'm going to steal it too, okay.
Speaker 3: The sixteen unrestricted free agentcy Cowboys have on the offensive
Speaker 3: side of the football, running backs Tony Pollard and Rico Dawdell,
Speaker 3: offensive tackle Tyron Smith, center Tyler Biattish, offensive tackle, Chuma
Speaker 3: Edoga tight end, Sean McEwan defense, cornerback, stuff On Gilmore,
Speaker 3: Jordan Lewis, c J Goodwin's.
Speaker 2: Special teamer, Noah Igbanoghany.
Speaker 3: Safety, j Ron Curse, edge rushers Dorance Armstrong and Dante Fowler,
Speaker 3: defensive tackles Jonathan Hankins and Neville Gallimore, and then the
Speaker 3: long snapper Trent Sig. There are your sixteen unrestricted free
Speaker 3: agents whose phones are ringing off the hook right now.
Speaker 4: So to me, their biggest priorities among that from that
Speaker 4: list is they've got to decide what's going to go
Speaker 4: on on the offensive line.
Speaker 6: That I agree, Tyron Smith is the big money man
Speaker 6: right there.
Speaker 5: He's priority.
Speaker 2: And I wonder the name there's Tyler Biattish to your star.
Speaker 4: Those two guys, And I wonder what teams think the
Speaker 4: market value is for a offensive tackle who's going into
Speaker 4: his fourteenth year. Yes he is at thirty three, Yes
Speaker 4: se gonna be.
Speaker 2: Thirty four thirty four in December.
Speaker 4: What's the market value? Because everybody's acting like the Cowboys
Speaker 4: can't And.
Speaker 2: What did he play for last year? It was a
Speaker 2: one year, six million dollar deal.
Speaker 4: Right which, by the way, because of how they structured
Speaker 4: all that. When it comes to dead money this year,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys already have fourteen million in dead money. Six
Speaker 4: million it is restructure bonus for Tyron Smith and six
Speaker 4: million of it is restructure bonus four Ezekiel Elliott. So
Speaker 4: there's twelve million of the fourteen million in dead money.
Speaker 3: And the other thing that has to be factored in
Speaker 3: for any team that's looking into Tyron is they get
Speaker 3: number of games that he's missed. And over the last
Speaker 3: four years he has played in.
Speaker 2: Thirty. So I got it written down well out.
Speaker 4: Here, here's the deal. Though he missed an entire season
Speaker 4: because of a surgery he needed.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked about this last week. He hasn't played
Speaker 6: a full season since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 4: You know what, and that doesn't bother me. If I
Speaker 4: can get Tyron Smith for thirteen to fourteen game, which
Speaker 4: is what.
Speaker 2: You had him last year, for thirteen.
Speaker 4: Games, if the money's right, he's here.
Speaker 3: Well, here's an example to answer your question. And by
Speaker 3: the way, the numbers the last four years, he's missed
Speaker 3: fifty five percent of the games, which includes the one
Speaker 3: year where he was out, so he's missed thirty six
Speaker 3: out of sixty six games the last four years, but
Speaker 3: he played thirteen this past year. Answer your question on
Speaker 3: a veteran offensive tackle is a great example of a
Speaker 3: team that won the Super Bowl, and that's the Kansas
Speaker 3: City Chiefs last year they lost to Orlando Brown. In
Speaker 3: pre agency, actually signed two offensive tackles, Joan Taylor, who
Speaker 3: came from Jacksonville for big money to start on the
Speaker 3: right side, and Donovan Smith, who had played at Tampa
Speaker 3: Bay around the same age as Tyron Smith. He wound
Speaker 3: up playing twelve games, starting twelve games for Kansas City
Speaker 3: this past year, and his contract was three million dollars
Speaker 3: base base. His contract was three million dollars. So when
Speaker 3: Jerry talks about and let's just we can use Tyron
Speaker 3: Smith as an example here. Jerry on the Cowboys bus
Speaker 3: at the scouting combine his annual State of the Cowboys
Speaker 3: press briefing, he talked about being all in and his
Speaker 3: definition of all in and for instance, you got one
Speaker 3: say you've got a free agent and there's X amount
Speaker 3: of dollars that that free agent will command. Okay, Well,
Speaker 3: his definition of all in might be you can get
Speaker 3: three other players, whether it be free agents or draft
Speaker 3: picks who you can pay the same amount of money
Speaker 3: that you would pay for one player you could play
Speaker 3: you could pay for three players. Let's take, for instance,
Speaker 3: let's say Tyron got a nine million dollars a year offer. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm just throwing that out there. Nine million dollars where
Speaker 3: you come a nice round figure. You can make it
Speaker 3: six million like he did last year.
Speaker 2: You can then.
Speaker 3: When I read Jerry on this the way he looks
Speaker 3: at it, look we'll call it six million, which was
Speaker 3: Tyron's contract last year. You could then instead of signing
Speaker 3: that one player, you could have three players. A first
Speaker 3: round draft pick, the twenty fourth pick last year made
Speaker 3: two point four His salary cap hit last year was
Speaker 3: two point four million dollars. That was Tay Banks. Deontay Banks,
Speaker 3: a cornerback. Okay, that's two point four million. You could
Speaker 3: sign a Donovan Smith, a veteran offensive tackle.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's say that.
Speaker 3: Let's say that first round draft pick is a Marius
Speaker 3: Mems or Tyler Goeidon offensive tackle who's projected to go
Speaker 3: about that place in the draft. You could also sign
Speaker 3: an offensive tackle like a Donovan Smith for around three
Speaker 3: million dollars.
Speaker 2: A veteran guy.
Speaker 3: You could also sign a veteran center type. Okay, how
Speaker 3: about Evan Brown who started last year for the Seattle
Speaker 3: Seahawks made two and a.
Speaker 2: Half million dollars last year. You get that's an example
Speaker 2: of it get more for Well, I'm not saying.
Speaker 6: You're getting more bang for your buck with the people,
Speaker 6: and I'm not.
Speaker 3: Even saying that it's more bang for your buck. That's
Speaker 3: another way of looking at it. Okay, it remains to
Speaker 3: be seen whether it's more bang for your buck. You
Speaker 3: have to see how well these players play. But that's
Speaker 3: an example of getting three players, whether they be free
Speaker 3: agents or draft picks, for the price of one free agent,
Speaker 3: and it may be a better deal to go get
Speaker 3: to go ahead and sign Tyron Smith rather than the
Speaker 3: other three. I'm not saying it's one versus the other,
Speaker 3: but that is an example putting names on those positions.
Speaker 4: And if you look at so here's the big decision there.
Speaker 4: Number one, they've got to find out what market value
Speaker 4: is for Tyron Smith. Because Tyron Smith's going to find
Speaker 4: out what market value is for.
Speaker 3: And market value may be different this year than it
Speaker 3: was last year because salary caps went up thirty million
Speaker 3: dollars this year right across the league, go back to Washington.
Speaker 4: They got ninety six million dollars in space. They can
Speaker 4: make a ten to twelve million dollar mistake and it's
Speaker 4: a drop in the bucket. Right. They can speculate and
Speaker 4: they could be wrong, but it doesn't matter because they've
Speaker 4: got so much space. So what they've got to decide
Speaker 4: is what's market value for Tyron Smith? And can we
Speaker 4: match it? If we can't, then what do we do now?
Speaker 4: Immediately the draft knicks out there as well, on the
Speaker 4: twenty fourth pick in the draft, you take this offensive tackle,
Speaker 4: plugging him, he's your starter. What if they decide Tyler
Speaker 4: Smith moves to left tackle? Yeah, and you're already paying
Speaker 4: him first round money. Now what do I do it? Guard? Well,
Speaker 4: guard should be a least expense, a less expensive position.
Speaker 4: Is TJ Bass ready to take over? There? And do
Speaker 4: I draft one in the second or third round as
Speaker 4: insurance and from a salary cap standpoint, Now I've just
Speaker 4: saved some money. But they've got to make that decision.
Speaker 3: And to Jerry's point on that, those players that are
Speaker 3: taking the place of players who may be departing in.
Speaker 2: Preaching, they may already be on your roster right now.
Speaker 2: It may be that they feel like TJ. Bass is
Speaker 2: ready to be a starter.
Speaker 3: It may be, and it may be that that this
Speaker 3: offensive line coach just decided that Tyler could be just
Speaker 3: as effective playing left tackle then as well as as
Speaker 3: he is at left guard.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then the replace you're you've replaced, let's say Tyler
Speaker 3: Beyottish with someone that's already on your roster.
Speaker 4: Now, Rock Hoffman, do that rather than me going out
Speaker 4: in freezing or trying to match what somebody's going to
Speaker 4: pay Tyler Beyotish, who, by the way, is a pro bowler.
Speaker 3: And you got a factor into it injury issues because okay,
Speaker 3: whether it be Beyoddish, whether it be Tyler Smith. If
Speaker 3: guys get hurt, then who's stepping in to replace him?
Speaker 3: And that's all factors into the equation here.
Speaker 4: And the decision on the offensive line to me is
Speaker 4: so important because the other decision they have to make.
Speaker 4: And I looked this up and I forgot to write
Speaker 4: it down, but they only averaged four yards of carry
Speaker 4: running the football this year. Was it the offensive line?
Speaker 4: Was it the running back? Was it my running scheme?
Speaker 4: What caused that because that was the lowest one of
Speaker 4: the lowest averages per carry for the team in quite
Speaker 4: some time.
Speaker 5: Interesting.
Speaker 3: And here's the other thing that's interesting about that when
Speaker 3: you look at the what's the market going to be
Speaker 3: for Tyler Biottish out there?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Well, the Raiders just signed their center, Andre James three years,
Speaker 3: twenty four million dollars yesterday. Okay, he was going to
Speaker 3: be a free agent. He's got forty nine starts the
Speaker 3: last three years. Beiottish has fifty three starts the last
Speaker 3: three years.
Speaker 2: All right, so.
Speaker 3: That's three years, twenty four million. We just saw DeAndre
Speaker 3: Swift running back go for three years twenty four million.
Speaker 3: So do you want to pay your center three years
Speaker 3: twenty four million dollars or do you want to pay
Speaker 3: a running back three years twenty four million?
Speaker 4: And I also saw where the Jaguars just signed Buffalo's
Speaker 4: starting center. But he's got eight Mitch May years Mitch Morris, Yeah,
Speaker 4: two years, ten and a half with seven million guaranteed.
Speaker 6: Panthers are expected to release their center Bradley Boseman, who
Speaker 6: had seven seven career starts.
Speaker 2: Here, there's a lot of centers out on the market.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so to be interesting to see. What So those
Speaker 4: two decisions, to me are are are just imperative to
Speaker 4: what the Cowboys decide.
Speaker 3: Lions just signed their Graham Glasgow, who's an interior offensive lineman,
Speaker 3: three years twenty million, So your the market is being set.
Speaker 3: And you even look back two years ago, Connor Williams
Speaker 3: got seven or eight million dollars a year with Miami.
Speaker 4: Right, and that's why the Cowboys and last year Connor
Speaker 4: mcgovernn with Buffalo. Right. So those are those that are
Speaker 4: two critical decisions that they have to make, and they've
Speaker 4: got to decide if those backups this year are ready
Speaker 4: to be starters.
Speaker 3: So but your answer to the question, would you rather
Speaker 3: pay three twenty four for a center or a running back?
Speaker 2: Which one?
Speaker 4: I would say the center? If I don't get I mean,
Speaker 4: whatever the case is on Beyaddish, if I would love
Speaker 4: to have him back. There's a lot of people that
Speaker 4: don't value him. I think he's pretty darn good, and
Speaker 4: he was pretty darn good this year. Now does he
Speaker 4: get overmatched at times when he's got to go up
Speaker 4: against a three hundred and forty pound defensive tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but you know what, there's a reason why that three
Speaker 4: hundred and forty pound defensive tackles playing because he's pretty
Speaker 4: damn good. So he's given other centers problems too.
Speaker 2: It's going to be very interesting. So what do you
Speaker 2: think is the most interesting decision or.
Speaker 3: Position? Is it the offensive tackle offensive line? Or is
Speaker 3: it running back? Or is it I mean you look
Speaker 3: at on the defensive side of the football, there's linebacker,
Speaker 3: there's needs every level.
Speaker 4: What about cornerback?
Speaker 2: Cornerback and defensive tackle?
Speaker 4: Because two of your top four guys or top three
Speaker 4: guys this year are free agents Stefan Gilmour Jordan Lewis. Now,
Speaker 4: I know you've got Digs coming back off by the way,
Speaker 4: a torn acl and you've got Deron Bland. But after
Speaker 4: those two guys, what do I have? Because I don't
Speaker 4: see anybody sitting on the bench that's ready to jump
Speaker 4: in there and be a starter.
Speaker 3: I'll throw whether it's free agency or the draft, I'll
Speaker 3: throw another edge rusher out there too. Yes, I mean
Speaker 3: you've got Doran's Armstrong what they're and the Marcus Lawrence
Speaker 3: is how old?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: And so what are your thou what are your thoughts
Speaker 4: on Sam Williams Because followers also an unrestricted.
Speaker 3: So there, Oh, by the way, wide receiver, if Michael
Speaker 3: Gallup's gone, there's.
Speaker 2: There's just so much across the board.
Speaker 4: That's why this assumption out there that the Cowboys are
Speaker 4: gonna win twelve more games. They got a ways to
Speaker 4: go to be good enough to win twelve games with
Speaker 4: all the guys they potentially could lose.
Speaker 2: So what's the most solid position right now?
Speaker 4: Quarterback?
Speaker 2: Quarterback?
Speaker 4: I got three of them.
Speaker 2: You got you got Dak Cooper, Rush, and Trey Lance
Speaker 2: at quarterback.
Speaker 4: And I think the best thing that can happen there
Speaker 4: is Trey Lance has one hell of an offseason. He
Speaker 4: has a great preseason, and some guy, some team gets
Speaker 4: a quarterback hurt and they give me a second round
Speaker 4: pick for Trey Lance.
Speaker 5: Not bad, that could be a move.
Speaker 2: I'm good with keeping Tree Lance right here, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm good with that.
Speaker 4: But he's he's on a last year of his deal too, right.
Speaker 2: He is, yep.
Speaker 3: And if he's if he's holding a clipboard all year,
Speaker 3: what does that do for his market value?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Not much?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And then you got Jacksonville. Jacksonville just traded for a
Speaker 3: first round quarterback to back up their first round quarterback.
Speaker 3: Number one overall pick. Trevor Lawrence mac jones went there yesterday.
Speaker 4: The Patriots have now, yeah, Bailey Zappy.
Speaker 2: And they've got the third pick in the draft.
Speaker 6: Okay, you got to go.
Speaker 2: It looks like Drake May would be their quarterback.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to anticipate Caleb goes first, Jaden goes second,
Speaker 3: Drake May goes third to the Patriots. That's the pecking
Speaker 3: order right now.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: So Drake May and Bailey Zappi would be your quarterbacks
Speaker 3: in New England. Okay, so fun to dive into this stuff.
Speaker 4: And by the way, this stuff we're talking about, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what's going on down the hall.
Speaker 2: By the way, this is like we've got a microphone.
Speaker 5: In the right now they're listening in.
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Speaker 3: Okay, would you like some more breaking news from the
Speaker 3: legal tampering period? Absolutely Cowboys related Aaron Wilson is reporting.
Speaker 3: Per a league source, the Tennessee Titans are expected to
Speaker 3: sign running back Tony Pollard. How much a Memphis name
Speaker 3: that it does not have numbers. I'll continue to search that. So,
Speaker 3: how about that Tony Pollard per league source, according to
Speaker 3: reports out there headed to the Tennessee Titans, who had
Speaker 3: a running back who is a free agent out there,
Speaker 3: Ben who has been linked to a local team.
Speaker 6: Not surprised with his move over to the Titans. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 6: at Memphis.
Speaker 2: Grew up in Memphis.
Speaker 3: If you could have predicted okay, if he's not going
Speaker 3: to Dallas, and especially knowing Tony's personality too, you look
Speaker 3: at a comfort zone for Tony Pollard.
Speaker 2: It would be the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 4: Although Memphis is not real close to Nashville, it's in
Speaker 4: the same.
Speaker 2: State, closer than Philadelphia's.
Speaker 4: Is as close as Dallas.
Speaker 2: It's a four hour drive, I think, right for a.
Speaker 5: Half four hours.
Speaker 6: Well, that's interesting news for the Cowboys. But that's the position.
Speaker 4: If I'm an agent, I'm throwing stuff out there, even
Speaker 4: if it ain't true. What used to happen, by the way,
Speaker 4: when somebody had a free agent back in the nineties, Oh,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys are interested, and they weren't, but they'd use
Speaker 4: that to try to drum up interest. So somebody would say, well,
Speaker 4: if the Cowboys thinks he's good, oh, I need pay
Speaker 4: to get this guy, right, I don't want the Cowboys
Speaker 4: to get them. Got to be careful with some of
Speaker 4: the stuff that comes out.
Speaker 3: And especially in this legal tampering period. And it's happened
Speaker 3: before where the reports come out on Monday that so
Speaker 3: and so is about to sign agree to terms, and
Speaker 3: that just sends a message to the team, their former
Speaker 3: team that okay, here's the price for keeping him. And
Speaker 3: sometimes these players will keep the door open and until
Speaker 3: three o'clock on Wednesday when they can actually sign the contract.
Speaker 3: Here's an interesting, a little story I was thinking about
Speaker 3: just past Tuesday Eve before signing day.
Speaker 2: I guess this is.
Speaker 3: About who would have been ten years ago or so
Speaker 3: now when DeMarcus Ware was a free agent. And I
Speaker 3: remember my wife and one of my daughters, maybe two
Speaker 3: of my daughters, were at a restaurant on the Tuesday
Speaker 3: night before the Wednesday at the start of the league year,
Speaker 3: and then they called me and said, we think DeMarcus
Speaker 3: Ware is in here and he's on he's on the phone,
Speaker 3: I said, And they had no clue that Mark is
Speaker 3: where it was a free agent. Yeah, I mean they
Speaker 3: have no idea. So oh, okay, that's interesting. He's on
Speaker 3: the phone. Eh, where is he send me a picture?
Speaker 3: So they send me a picture and uh then there
Speaker 3: so he was across the way from him. It was
Speaker 3: like it was like a bar area in a restaurant whatever,
Speaker 3: and I said, go sit close to it. So anyway,
Speaker 3: so that was the Tuesday night before he wound up
Speaker 3: signing with the Broncos. And turns out he was on
Speaker 3: the phone either with the Broncos or is his agent
Speaker 3: with the Cowboys whatever, And of course it went right
Speaker 3: down to the final hour and he wound up signing
Speaker 3: with the Denver Broncos. But basically the decision was being made.
Speaker 3: I think at that point the decision was being made
Speaker 3: by the Cowboys. It wasn't too it would have been
Speaker 3: to release him.
Speaker 4: They released them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it wasn't an unrestricted free agent.
Speaker 3: It was right before the start of the new year,
Speaker 3: and they released him like the next day because the
Speaker 3: negotiations were going on between the Cowboys and him and.
Speaker 4: What happened was he was coming off of I believe
Speaker 4: it was elbow Century and he had missed, if I remember,
Speaker 4: a bunch of games, and the Cowboys decided that they
Speaker 4: couldn't afford him anymore for where he was in his
Speaker 4: career because they thought it was going to be too
Speaker 4: expensive from what they were getting because he that year
Speaker 4: he had a bunch of injuries. And I remember running
Speaker 4: into him that offseason at some sort of charity function
Speaker 4: and he basically told me when he finished the season,
Speaker 4: he his elbow was shot. He couldn't do anything with
Speaker 4: it and had to have surgery. So I think that
Speaker 4: was the decision that.
Speaker 2: He had his let he was holding his phone with
Speaker 2: his left Len.
Speaker 4: And Bill guess what's coming.
Speaker 2: By had another tour coming through.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we can focus here long enough to give you
Speaker 3: more information on the illegal tampering period.
Speaker 4: I'm hanging in there. They're not distracted, but anyway, it
Speaker 4: is already you heard it here first now NFL Network
Speaker 4: as Tony Pollard agrees to terms with the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm curious how much for And there's an example
Speaker 3: of a guy that Cowboys would love to keep, you know,
Speaker 3: because he's a good guy also, and not only his
Speaker 3: production on the field. Michael Gallup falls into that same
Speaker 3: category of a guy that you love to have as
Speaker 3: part of your organization.
Speaker 4: And no coincidence, but on my list of salary cap availability,
Speaker 4: number two behind Washington is Tennessee with eighty million.
Speaker 3: There you go, all right, some numbers are trickling in
Speaker 3: on Tony Pollard. Would you care to wager a guess
Speaker 3: as to what the numbers would be on a three
Speaker 3: year contract for Tony Pollard? And I'll give you a hint.
Speaker 3: If DeAndre Swift got three years twenty four million dollars
Speaker 3: in Chicago, what did Tony Pollard get?
Speaker 2: What was gonna see?
Speaker 4: I was before you said three twenty four, I was
Speaker 4: going to say three twenty five.
Speaker 3: All right, three years worth twenty four million dollars. It's
Speaker 3: funny exactly if you if you track these things, the
Speaker 3: market got set by DeAndre Swift and okay and especially Wow,
Speaker 3: here's the other thing where it's smart for guys. If
Speaker 3: you're getting offered this kind of money at this point
Speaker 3: in free agency, and when you got as many running
Speaker 3: backs on the market as they're there are this year,
Speaker 3: you better take that and where can I sign?
Speaker 4: And the key the key thing is the guarantee.
Speaker 2: And I haven't seen what the guarantee is.
Speaker 4: Because I bet it's at least half guaranteed, which would
Speaker 4: mean you know, I'm going to make twelve million dollars
Speaker 4: this year at least.
Speaker 6: I think A Swifts was sixteen million guaranteed.
Speaker 4: Okay, and who signed him?
Speaker 12: Chicago, Chicago, So I've bet wait Pollard is to let
Speaker 12: me look at my list. Number four in availability was
Speaker 12: the Chicago Bears with sixty three million dollars.
Speaker 3: The Minnesota Vikings are signing Texans pass rusher Jonathan Grenard
Speaker 3: had a big year last year. Danil Hunter, their pass rusher,
Speaker 3: will not be returning to the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2: So if you want to look at now.
Speaker 3: This obviously is a very high dollar pass rusher. He
Speaker 3: is not coming to Dallas.
Speaker 2: Right. I can't even know Mike Zimmer drafted him. Yeah right,
Speaker 2: I would love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I loved I loved him in the draft, Big
Speaker 3: Green Notebook, loved them some d'aneil Hunter and couldn't figure
Speaker 3: out why he went late third round. That's why I
Speaker 3: love Mike Simmer. Mike Zimmer was the one figured it out.
Speaker 4: Ye, which, speaking of that, when the Cowboys uh picked
Speaker 4: up Michaeh. Parsons fifty year option, they picked it up
Speaker 4: as a defensive end because the defensive end fifty year
Speaker 4: option was twenty four million dollars, No, twenty one million dollars.
Speaker 4: And if they picked it up as a linebacker, it
Speaker 4: would have been twenty four million dollars. And if you
Speaker 4: look at the season in review here and what do
Speaker 4: they list the Cowboy Michael Parsons as a linebacker. But
Speaker 4: they picked him up as a defensive end, and the
Speaker 4: leading that they're thinking he's playing defensive end.
Speaker 13: Either by the way, the league sets that, by the way,
Speaker 13: make you know that right the position that you played
Speaker 13: the majority of it. Yes, the the NFL, the league
Speaker 13: will set that that that mark for the team. So
Speaker 13: they do not have a choice in that.
Speaker 2: So oh okay, it depends on yeah.
Speaker 13: Yes, so the number number of snaps, the league will
Speaker 13: come in and say, this guy is set as this.
Speaker 4: So you can't do what I was suggested.
Speaker 13: No, No, the league set him as a defens is
Speaker 13: a guard? Now the league, the league sets.
Speaker 4: That for the player. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 13: And also, by the way, Bill Callahan is the off
Speaker 13: of the line coach for the Tennessee Titans now, so
Speaker 13: I think Tony will have a very good year with
Speaker 13: the Tennessee for sure.
Speaker 4: So that suggests that they're not bringing back Derrick Henry.
Speaker 2: That would suggest say, yes, yes.
Speaker 13: Well, I think the last game he did like a
Speaker 13: speech in the middle of the field saying goodbye.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I kind of figured that was when.
Speaker 2: He was leaving.
Speaker 3: So let me see where the how the Titans look
Speaker 3: at offensive tackle with Bill Callahan there?
Speaker 4: How old is and how much?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, how much?
Speaker 4: Guess who was his first offensive Linton?
Speaker 3: Uh huh?
Speaker 4: The way Tyron Smith's first offensive line Callahan and became
Speaker 4: the offensive coordinator if I remember for one year?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 4: How about that? And oh, let me continue to point
Speaker 4: out how much money they had available?
Speaker 2: How much was it eighty? I think you said eighty?
Speaker 4: I said eighty.
Speaker 2: Yes, their left tackle is Nicholas Pettit Frere Fatituere third
Speaker 2: round pick two years ago. Not Patiti, Rob Petiti.
Speaker 4: That Patiti, uh huh or this pa Tity.
Speaker 2: What a great story.
Speaker 3: Rob Patiti was for one year, for one year he
Speaker 3: was started at right tackle and then he left or
Speaker 3: he was this pit he could Bill Parcells. That's right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, did we use up our No?
Speaker 4: We got over time.
Speaker 3: We know we got we got plenty of times.
Speaker 2: I'm just waiting to see who's gonna sign next, you know.
Speaker 2: So when do the Cowboys enter the fray?
Speaker 5: I think it'll be a slow.
Speaker 4: When does the dollars next week?
Speaker 13: Jim?
Speaker 4: Well, they got to make a decision, and you know,
Speaker 4: cornerback too. You got to decide what you're doing.
Speaker 3: A former Green Bay or a former Mike McCarthy player
Speaker 3: in Green Bay. A left tackle is being released by
Speaker 3: the Green Bay Packers, David Bactieri.
Speaker 4: He's been hurt, Yes, he has been heard. Is more
Speaker 4: than the and Tyron Smith. So on your long list
Speaker 4: over there, Savannah.
Speaker 5: Yes, is there our free agents?
Speaker 4: Those are the free agents you got?
Speaker 6: I mean a couple guys that are on my list
Speaker 6: right now that are pretty up there for me, is
Speaker 6: Jonathan Hankins being one of them. I think that's a
Speaker 6: big move that the Cowboys need to decide on, especially
Speaker 6: when it comes to our run defense and then what
Speaker 6: are we going to do with you know, I think
Speaker 6: Dorance Armstrong, Jordan Lewis, those are kind of the guys
Speaker 6: I'm keeping my eyes on.
Speaker 4: Well, if you think about it with Jonathan Hankins, now
Speaker 4: you've got to decide number one, what is market value
Speaker 4: is number two, what sort of trust do you still
Speaker 4: have in Mozzi Smith because you've got him on the team.
Speaker 4: You're going to pay whatever his second year salary is
Speaker 4: as a first round pick. Now do they really think
Speaker 4: he can second year make that jump to be that
Speaker 4: guy or does Jonathan Hankins have to be signed as.
Speaker 5: Insurance and then Stefan Gilmore And.
Speaker 4: Then Gilmore is there, and we mentioned the cornerbacks, right,
Speaker 4: you need four corners and right now they have two
Speaker 4: and one's coming back from a torn acl right, So
Speaker 4: that's a position of I would think of somewhat concern
Speaker 4: because you can't fake that position there, you can't cover
Speaker 4: that position. You will get exposed, as we saw by
Speaker 4: the way in the playoff game, because they did not
Speaker 4: have another corner to replace that they trusted to replace
Speaker 4: Stefan Gilmore who's playing with a harness on his shoulder
Speaker 4: that needed surgery.
Speaker 6: And then I think also there's the need to fill
Speaker 6: the linebacker position, yes, and I think it's signing a
Speaker 6: very good veteran free agent, and then you draft someone
Speaker 6: in the second or third round.
Speaker 4: And that's regardless if they think Overshown can come in
Speaker 4: and be productive, which, by the way, he's coming off
Speaker 4: a torn.
Speaker 6: AC and that's going to be a lot of development
Speaker 6: for him in that position, right, getting used to things
Speaker 6: after the ACL injury, and then getting accustomed to playing
Speaker 6: that position.
Speaker 4: As a full time linebacker, not a guy that they
Speaker 4: thought they could rotate in in Nixon packages Nickel situations.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so a lot of eyes on defense for me
Speaker 6: in free agency and the draft.
Speaker 4: This here, Well, if I gave up forty one points
Speaker 4: in that playoff game, I'd be looking at my defense too,
Speaker 4: and everybody's not really focused on that.
Speaker 2: You know what's top of mind from me? Okay, Derrick Henry?
Speaker 4: You want him? How old is he?
Speaker 2: Let me look up how old Derrick Henry?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 6: Wait, wait, I think I have it. Actually he thirty,
Speaker 6: he's twenty nine.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking money here. I have no idea what
Speaker 3: the money is I want?
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's say the money's it's more. It's going to
Speaker 2: be more than what Pollard signed for.
Speaker 5: I believe he's thirty.
Speaker 4: Do you want what going on thirty one or thirty?
Speaker 3: He January fourth he turned thirty, so he'll be thirty
Speaker 3: thirty throughout the season basically.
Speaker 4: And Tennessee would rather have Tony Pollard than Derrick Henry.
Speaker 4: Is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 2: Well? At what price is Derrick Henry asking for?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 2: So, yeah, they would.
Speaker 3: Rather have Tony Poulard. Obviously, they would rather have Tony
Speaker 3: Pollard at three years, twenty four million dollars than whatever
Speaker 3: Derek Henry's asking for.
Speaker 4: Since I'm already paying six million dollars for Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 4: in dead money?
Speaker 2: Did you just go ahead and bring Zeke back for.
Speaker 4: Can I bring them back for three million?
Speaker 5: Not a bad thought?
Speaker 4: That's what he made with New England.
Speaker 2: That's right, I'm home.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: So do you think the Cowboys will let the Wave
Speaker 3: pass on running backs?
Speaker 2: And then because there's a bunch of them out.
Speaker 4: There and I could draft one day two, yep, And probably,
Speaker 4: as we've seen, you can find a good running back
Speaker 4: on day two and if there's a great one on
Speaker 4: day one, bring them in. I don't want to hear
Speaker 4: that anymore. What what did Detroit do last year? First round?
Speaker 3: They went running back and linebacker, two positions you're not
Speaker 3: running back and inside linebacker, two positions you're not supposed
Speaker 3: to draft in the first round, right, and they did both.
Speaker 6: And that now being a plot, I feel like a
Speaker 6: paid off for am Let's be honest.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that turnout to the player is That's why I'm
Speaker 3: intrigued by Derrick Henry. It's because of who the player is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be fine, but I can't afford eight
Speaker 4: million dollars for a running.
Speaker 2: Back, right.
Speaker 5: I like Austin Eckler.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now that I like Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 6: I like him and I think a lot of people
Speaker 6: miss the fact that he led the league in touchdowns
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5: I think last year he had the injury issues.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 4: I think I think it could be a good thing
Speaker 4: they are charging See.
Speaker 3: I think what has happened is sort of a secondary
Speaker 3: market has been set with the three years, twenty four
Speaker 3: million on running backs with Swift and Pollard. Now it's
Speaker 3: going to be interesting what's Barkley getting. Henry thinks that
Speaker 3: he's in even at his age, he's in Barkley territory.
Speaker 3: Barkley's what four years younger, and he is I don't know,
Speaker 3: probably twenty six, Okay, Josh Jacobs, Austin Eckler, whatever, that's
Speaker 3: that bunch right there are probably going for more than
Speaker 3: three for twenty four unless.
Speaker 6: They're now you have the market set, so yeah, now you've.
Speaker 3: Got you've got the bottom end of the top market set.
Speaker 3: I think because bottom bottom end of the top end.
Speaker 4: If I, if I had the money available, Barkley would
Speaker 4: be top of my LIGs right age.
Speaker 2: Pretty effective catching, I mean running in receiving.
Speaker 3: That's the thing on Henry is that he didn't catch
Speaker 3: the ball out of the backfield much.
Speaker 4: And Barkley played on a offensive line that wouldn't all
Speaker 4: that great. But I like them.
Speaker 2: But there is an injury factor with Barkley too. Yep.
Speaker 6: So however, also, I think last year too, a lot
Speaker 6: of the conversations were around having a running back that
Speaker 6: was a bigger build to.
Speaker 5: Run through.
Speaker 6: I think Tony Pollard he had more of the abilities
Speaker 6: to catch the ball and then make some runs. But
Speaker 6: I think conversations last year where we didn't have like
Speaker 6: a bigger body to actually get down there.
Speaker 3: We can do it, but to ask him to do
Speaker 3: it on a regular basis over a seventeen game season.
Speaker 2: Is a lot.
Speaker 4: What I like about Eckler, by the way, is he
Speaker 4: has the ability to make people miss. And if you
Speaker 4: watch the playoffs, the running backs that were productive made
Speaker 4: people miss. And I didn't think the Cowboys had that
Speaker 4: ability this last year. Like, get in the hole and
Speaker 4: make somebody miss. You don't have to break, but how
Speaker 4: about making somebody miss? And we didn't see a heck
Speaker 4: a lot of that, right, So that's my priority running back.
Speaker 3: All right, So I'm taking one more swing through to
Speaker 3: see if there's anything else of note that we need
Speaker 3: to pass along.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying anything right now.
Speaker 3: We're running saying anything on Savannah that needs not a.
Speaker 5: Whole lot at this moment.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, Ever, since says as soon as we
Speaker 3: sign off, there will be a big.
Speaker 2: Thing that happens.
Speaker 6: I'm waiting for the Everson Walls news to come in.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, that might be it right there.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, it's gonna things are going to change quite
Speaker 3: a bit between now and the next time we convene
Speaker 3: next Monday at eleven am.
Speaker 2: Which that's when the Cowboys enter the Dollar Store, right, and.
Speaker 4: Bill will be entering baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in.
Speaker 3: I'm headed to surprise Arizona this afternoon as a matter
Speaker 3: of fact, to check in on those world champion Rangers.
Speaker 3: So you can watch on TXA twenty one tomorrow afternoon
Speaker 3: at three.
Speaker 4: I will Okay, make sure you take care of that
Speaker 4: pitching staff.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, they've got some injured, injured arms on that
Speaker 3: pitching staff that won't be along until after the Lustro.
Speaker 4: That's why they need some guys to take care of
Speaker 4: it for half the season.
Speaker 3: All right, That does it to for Savannah Shots for
Speaker 3: this Monday, we will shout at you again, or they
Speaker 3: will shout at you again next Monday at eleven am
Speaker 3: when Derrick Henry is a Dallas Cowboy, Oh Cowboys.
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