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Speaker 1: screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Et No. Your hosts Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: Everson Walls, and Bill Jones. We got a full house
Speaker 1: inside the SWBC Mortgage studios here at the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 1: Mickey and I are dressed like twins. Yeah, it looks
Speaker 1: so cute. Rider cub rider cup, full house, four races
Speaker 1: right there you go, There you go. He's back on
Speaker 1: the little little midgic guy. What's his name? Twins? Those twins? Right?
Speaker 1: Was not the name of the movie? Swins? Been a
Speaker 1: few weeks, right, it had all been here it has Yes.
Speaker 1: By the way, Kyle Yeoman's our producer, did a Yeoman
Speaker 1: job last week. Then we ever sudden, Mickey, we're both out.
Speaker 1: We've been two dad jokes off the bat. Thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: We are back. Show is back. My ears were burning
Speaker 1: all while I was on the crew and ever Sin
Speaker 1: was cruising last week. How was that? Because it was okay,
Speaker 1: you know, little super Bowl cruise, black man on boats
Speaker 1: cross the ocean not quite my thing. You know, where
Speaker 1: were you? Never ends? Well? Where are you cruising? We
Speaker 1: went to East Caribbean, uh, not pointing, but Dominican Republic. Uh.
Speaker 1: And of course the first stop I love was the
Speaker 1: Grand Turks. Oh really yeah, yeah, I was shaking hands
Speaker 1: with the fishes. They were cool. You can see him clearly.
Speaker 1: They talking to me, coaxing me out to the deep ocean.
Speaker 1: I had to come back. It's fine, man, very good. Fine.
Speaker 1: I thought about you guys, not once. That's good. You
Speaker 1: should not once. I think about you. Nick you where
Speaker 1: were you last week? I was in Colorado's skiing. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's right, yep, that shave sense? Yeah, following me right, man,
Speaker 1: there's a little Shannon. Channon had the best line here.
Speaker 1: About five minutes ago. He saw me and he saw
Speaker 1: the beard, and he goes, oh, your beard matches your shirt, dude,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit more white than that beard. Every still, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I won't be there testing are you protesting the
Speaker 1: product that you're sponsor me? It won't be there for long.
Speaker 1: This is his pre Blitz beard. Once the Blitz comes
Speaker 1: back on TV. Okay, he shaves, but he looks very distinguished.
Speaker 1: He needs to keep February, so it may go by
Speaker 1: the end of the week. I'm not sure. All I
Speaker 1: have to do is work out once and sweat and
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, I'm gonna tranquilize you in shaving myself. Well,
Speaker 1: anything happened since we last convene? Less well for Robin
Speaker 1: I last. I'm trying to think, Yeah, we talked. Notice
Speaker 1: I've got my super Bowl cap. On the road to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl starts now. Dallas won the super Bowl, right,
Speaker 1: super Bowl that Dallas did wear the super Bowl. That
Speaker 1: was dad joke prediction in past week. Ye. And by
Speaker 1: the way, this is my CBS super Bowl cap. Next
Speaker 1: year's Super Bowl is back on CBS in Tampa. Tampa.
Speaker 1: Great moments for me. I'll be there, Yeah, a few
Speaker 1: but still tamp Do they have enough hotels? No? I
Speaker 1: didn't think so, because the last time I covered the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl there, we ended up staying about ten fifteen
Speaker 1: miles north of the city. You were blessed. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was good. That's and it was one of those hotels
Speaker 1: where the door opens on to the to walk away
Speaker 1: through it's raining hard, then put the towel down in
Speaker 1: from that was a strange trip. So you have a
Speaker 1: pretty good memory from that Super Bowl. I do I do.
Speaker 1: First thing I did was dice and I we got there, like,
Speaker 1: hey man, forget these guys. They've been to the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl before. Let's go check this out. Man. We went
Speaker 1: to the stadium. You know, it was closed, of course,
Speaker 1: it was like got like eight o'clock at night, maybe later,
Speaker 1: and I talked to Guarden to letting us on the field,
Speaker 1: and you know, we went out there and just started
Speaker 1: just reminiscing. Man, you know, like, hey man, we finally
Speaker 1: made it here. We were on a sorry Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: team and years was two and fourteen last year. I
Speaker 1: went through that season and then the one in fifteen,
Speaker 1: three and three and three and thirteen, and we had
Speaker 1: four games, about four games and two years. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you know, here we are.
Speaker 1: And he had gotten there first. So you know, we're
Speaker 1: just realizing just how unless we were to be where
Speaker 1: we were. And he just looked at me and said,
Speaker 1: hey man, don't you screw this up? Okay, So what
Speaker 1: are what are the Kansas City Chiefs feeling right now? Man?
Speaker 1: They're feeling so good. They're feeling so good, especially after
Speaker 1: fifty years of not even being in a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and now here you are. Not only did you win it,
Speaker 1: you went you wanted with what second African American quarterback
Speaker 1: in history, right on the heels of God, the long
Speaker 1: heels of Doug Williams. And then you had a comeback.
Speaker 1: You both came in comeback fashion. Doug had to come
Speaker 1: from behind against the Broncos in a major second quarter
Speaker 1: of like four touchdowns and Timmy Smith running all over
Speaker 1: the place. Timmy Smith, I remember that guy. Oh. I
Speaker 1: was there when he tomorrow's national signing Day. I was
Speaker 1: there in Hobbes, New Mexico, and Timmy Smith signed his
Speaker 1: letter of intent with Texas Tech Us. Now were not
Speaker 1: to be Hobbs with Mexico. And go back to the
Speaker 1: beginning of football, and we'll see Bill sitting there leather
Speaker 1: helmets or no helmets. And Timmy Smith, by the way,
Speaker 1: we're talking Cowboys, he was at Dallas cow here's the
Speaker 1: story about Timmy Smith. Okay, Timmy Smith did not have
Speaker 1: an academic scholarship to Texas Tech. Okay, Okay, it was
Speaker 1: definitely a football scholarship, all right. Well, when he was
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys, my brother in law who's a Texas
Speaker 1: Tech grad. Okay, it was. He was down in Austin
Speaker 1: at training camp. He was just uh, guests for the
Speaker 1: day whatever, and so he's sitting there watching the running backs.
Speaker 1: He wanted to check out his Texas Tech guy, Timmy Smith. Well,
Speaker 1: Joe Brodsky's a running backs coach, and my brother in law,
Speaker 1: Billy Breedlove to this day, still tells the story, says,
Speaker 1: I can just remember that coach barking it Timmy Smith
Speaker 1: saying Timmy, this is your left and this is your right,
Speaker 1: almost Super Bowl MVP, right, and disrespecting him. And that
Speaker 1: was after he had played in the Super Bowl too, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had one of those running backs in high school. Oh,
Speaker 1: we've had a bunch of running backs like that here
Speaker 1: and not just had to take here, had to take
Speaker 1: which was which? All right? So what was your takeaway
Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl? I think, speaking of my homes
Speaker 1: was he not? I think I saw this stat the
Speaker 1: first quarterback ever to overcome three straight double digit deficits
Speaker 1: in the playoffs on the way to the Super Bowl. Interesting.
Speaker 1: I think I think I saw that. I think you
Speaker 1: didn't make sense. It's incredible. It's increat he has something
Speaker 1: else and he's twenty four years I think he has
Speaker 1: thirty six starts in his NFL career, and he's a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP already, And the thought is this is
Speaker 1: the first of many, but this is always like the
Speaker 1: first take reaction the day after the last couple of years. Oh,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are built for the long haul or the rams,
Speaker 1: or they'll be back. Aaron Rodgers hadn't been back in
Speaker 1: ten years, so you just never know, so you got
Speaker 1: to take care of your opportunities. When you got him,
Speaker 1: I thought it was just so weird because you've got
Speaker 1: a player that really, I thought was an average defense
Speaker 1: and you don't really win in the Super Bowl with
Speaker 1: an average defense unless you're quarterback in your offense is
Speaker 1: really clicking. And for them to be able to overcome
Speaker 1: that lack of defensive assistance and with twenty four year
Speaker 1: old that to me, that that that's what really spoke
Speaker 1: volumes for me in the Super Bowl was just how
Speaker 1: much poise he had in one of the games where
Speaker 1: most people just choke and even down ten, Okay, you're
Speaker 1: down ten with seven minutes left in the game and
Speaker 1: you're facing third and fifteen. I was how at least
Speaker 1: he opened? How is he How do you let that happen?
Speaker 1: How is he open? He's wide open. He's not just open.
Speaker 1: But that's when you realize, as a safety, you'd better
Speaker 1: have some cornerback skills, because that was especially drawn up
Speaker 1: for that safety to attack it isolated one right away.
Speaker 1: Here he's thinking he's comfortable fifteen yards back in his
Speaker 1: in his position, in his lineup. As the ball snap,
Speaker 1: that gap was closed on him so fast and now
Speaker 1: here he is isolated basically one on one coverage. I
Speaker 1: think it was an option route. If he would have
Speaker 1: covered him to the outside, they were gonna throw the post.
Speaker 1: He covered him to the inside. And what pressure that
Speaker 1: that guy failed at that time? Thank god, thank god.
Speaker 1: The past wasn't that good. Otherwise he was running with
Speaker 1: it and and he got and Mahomes got hit. He
Speaker 1: was after he delivered. That's the thing with Mahomes. Mahomes
Speaker 1: has such a strong arm. You know, he's starting the
Speaker 1: shotgun and he he dropping further back, and it just
Speaker 1: by being having a strong enough arm where he can
Speaker 1: throw that pass. And when he got strength, that was
Speaker 1: timing as well. Yeah, because he didn't wait to throw
Speaker 1: a hard he had he knew when to throw a hard,
Speaker 1: so you he knew as he was retreating, the best
Speaker 1: time for me to throw this is now or never,
Speaker 1: because he has a strong arm all you want. If
Speaker 1: it's not on time, then he's still gonna be picked off.
Speaker 1: And so fluttered up there. That's why Tyreek had to
Speaker 1: wait for it to wait. But that's how wide open
Speaker 1: he was ye to trade. So what about the corner underneath? Okay,
Speaker 1: he took the um the underneath guy and uh there
Speaker 1: there was some criticism on him that he should have dropped,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what coverage they were. Well, it
Speaker 1: was thirty fifteen, So yeah, you need to go. You
Speaker 1: need to start back. Mentally, you need to start back
Speaker 1: and then work your way up. Prioritize why and he
Speaker 1: could I don't think mentally he was at the sticks,
Speaker 1: so he was you know, they ran and who he
Speaker 1: was taking. He ran across almost a bunch route mentality
Speaker 1: had one across, one out, and of course you had
Speaker 1: the iso from the guy in the middle, and so he,
Speaker 1: like you said, we could have gone either way. But
Speaker 1: they designed it. They designed it where they could be
Speaker 1: isolated on that safety. So if it whether it's in
Speaker 1: man to man or zone, the safety is now in
Speaker 1: the man to man position. Cornerback is the one with
Speaker 1: the least amount of pressure on him. So yes, it
Speaker 1: would have helped if he could have dropped back, played
Speaker 1: more conservatively third and fifteen and that flutter, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be away for him to make the play, probably
Speaker 1: of his entire career. That's why the Chiefs deep I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: that's why the Chiefs of the Ninets defense is known
Speaker 1: for being the best defense in the league. They don't
Speaker 1: make those mistakes in the seasons. Why the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: creates pressures, as you know, best pass defense in the
Speaker 1: league and make a simple mistake like that on third
Speaker 1: and fifteen, and that's that's when it's made to make tunnel.
Speaker 1: Oh right, I was salivating when it was thirty fifteen.
Speaker 1: I might get a duck. Just give me a duck.
Speaker 1: I'm going to pick it off. That was one four
Speaker 1: and then they didn't take advantage of it. Best quarterback
Speaker 1: in the league, one out, best best pass defense. Because
Speaker 1: of that front, they put pressure on quarterbacks and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, in the last seven or eight
Speaker 1: minutes they couldn't get to him. But for three and
Speaker 1: a half quarters they that's why they were struggling. You know,
Speaker 1: I kept hearing, well, my home's not playing well. No,
Speaker 1: he's not playing well because he's running for his life
Speaker 1: too many times, and they would get they were coming
Speaker 1: after him. Yeah, they couldn't get to him. Right, So
Speaker 1: that's the difference. He was able to make the escape.
Speaker 1: That's when the quarterbacks escapability, that's when that X factor
Speaker 1: becomes very important doing the game like this. But then
Speaker 1: the Kansas City defense steps up. Where did that come from? Right?
Speaker 1: Last last day in the league? Now, last day I
Speaker 1: supposed to be the best by the way I saw
Speaker 1: this quote from Andy Reid. It was Monday morning after
Speaker 1: the game. He goes, this is our first year with Spags.
Speaker 1: He's a creative mind as anybody I've seen. So I'm
Speaker 1: cousin Steve right, that's right. Well, mister Walls was one
Speaker 1: of the fastest people in the world. Is it ever soon?
Speaker 1: A hooky? Kay? You know I was coming back from
Speaker 1: the past, rob you know of herky Walls right over
Speaker 1: my head. Okay, you only explained to everyone else who
Speaker 1: herkey is. Well, my second cousin, and he was God
Speaker 1: could have made the Olympic team. I think that's what
Speaker 1: I remember. He was left fourth in the Olympic trials
Speaker 1: behind Carl Lewis. The entire Houston track team beat him.
Speaker 1: Lee Burrell Bwell was second, Herky Walls was in first
Speaker 1: place in the two hundred meters and boy, they sucked
Speaker 1: him up like this one. The baby drawed him. But
Speaker 1: he was almost there. Oh man, Texas, he's a long horn.
Speaker 1: His nineteen his senior year in nineteen eighty I believe
Speaker 1: he scored eleven touchdowns for the long Lost Bias. Eighty
Speaker 1: two was his last year. I'm looking at his Wikipedia now.
Speaker 1: He was a seventh round draft pick the Oilers in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three. I had to guard him in preseason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had me too. One Moon missed him. You guys
Speaker 1: playing Olympic speed huh? You guys played at Philadelphia. It
Speaker 1: was around eighty five, eighty six, somewhere in there. And
Speaker 1: my other cousin, Spagnola, the tight end for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: He was having a big day the first half. Yes,
Speaker 1: you remember him, Yes, And so just so happened. Our
Speaker 1: sports editor was on the trip with us, and he
Speaker 1: comes up to me at halftime, he goes, okay, Philadelphia wins.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have your name in the headline and the byeline.
Speaker 1: You do a story on that night. And he came
Speaker 1: back and won the game. Spoiled my opportunity to have
Speaker 1: my name in a headline. Can I give you another
Speaker 1: little tidbit on Horkey Walls. It's a lot of Southwest
Speaker 1: Texas Indoor Track and Field Championship in nineteen eighty, finished
Speaker 1: first ahead of Curtis Dickey and Carl Lewis in the
Speaker 1: sixty yard days. Amazing and a member of the Arena
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame. Really and that's why right now,
Speaker 1: and he is now pastor Hooky Wall really, yes, and
Speaker 1: he is the dancing pastor. He comes out, he comes out.
Speaker 1: You gotta see it. Check out Facebook. She probably played,
Speaker 1: He played for the Orlando He probably played for Jay Gruden.
Speaker 1: I don't know if probably did. Yeah, guy was probably
Speaker 1: he was. He was the He was the attraction, you know,
Speaker 1: because he was so short, short guy and just mighty
Speaker 1: mouse man. That was mighty mouse. That's what he was.
Speaker 1: He was amazing. All right, I guess it's time. Last thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: his father, uh we call him Joe boy father is
Speaker 1: in the Garland Hall of Fame with Bobby boy Bobby
Speaker 1: boy he made it right after body right. You know
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl? You want to move on to the Cowboys? Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's move Did your team win? Who picked? I picked
Speaker 1: the Chiefs at the beginning of the season. Did you
Speaker 1: did you? He's lying? I know you picked out I
Speaker 1: know you picked the real Dallas team, right. I don't
Speaker 1: think I picked that Dallas versus Dallas, the Cowboys versus
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, Dallas, Texas tex I think he's like pre
Speaker 1: Dallas Texas. Oh that's right. I had the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers because I thought top the autumn they were a
Speaker 1: more complete team, even though Mahomes is just out of
Speaker 1: this world and he proved he's out of this world
Speaker 1: at the end of you thought you thought so. He
Speaker 1: thought the team that went four and twelve last year
Speaker 1: was going to win the Super Bowl? I did. What's
Speaker 1: wrong with that? Okay? Come on, they was good. They
Speaker 1: had he didn't say at the beginning of the season
Speaker 1: after improving, Jimmy, I don't know. He's not saying. He's
Speaker 1: saying that he picked him on Monday. Have been listening
Speaker 1: while you're on the slopes, you know what. It occurred
Speaker 1: to me for about five seconds. Then I saw what
Speaker 1: time it was, and I said, nah, they're on their own.
Speaker 1: Almost got Wally pipped last week because Kyle Yeoman's was
Speaker 1: a terrific replacement for you, Mickey, How do you know
Speaker 1: he wasn't replacing Everson because he was sitting there Jack Blackery.
Speaker 1: He did the Jack, Yes, he did the Ready. It
Speaker 1: wasn't as good as Mickey's though, but and I sent
Speaker 1: it to you guys, and when he said it wasn't
Speaker 1: as good, I was thinking bad. It was right, it
Speaker 1: wasn't as Channing. Right, Yeah, that's right. I got one
Speaker 1: more thing about the Super Bowl. This can tie back
Speaker 1: into the Cowboys. I guess. I just got curious and
Speaker 1: I counted it up. Since Brady won his first Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and that's about twenty seasons ago, how many quarterbacks
Speaker 1: have won a Super Bowl in this league since then,
Speaker 1: in the last twenty years? Oh wow? Not many? If
Speaker 1: we if we eliminate Brady's well, count Brady. Count Brady. Oh,
Speaker 1: count Brady because he's won multiple He's just won. Not
Speaker 1: how many he's won, but how many different quarterbacks have
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl? Can you want to run him down? Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong here, but let's guess him. Let's
Speaker 1: guess him. Okay, okay, I'm not naming the Brady, Brees, Rogers, Roethlisburger, Wilson, Wilson,
Speaker 1: there's five right there. I can't believe Eli Manning, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Peyton Petting, Nick Foles. Yep, Brad Johnson got one former
Speaker 1: Cowboy and Pat Mahomes. So there's ten. There's ten over
Speaker 1: twenty years, over twenty years. And how many of these
Speaker 1: guys are going to the Hall of Fame? Pretty much
Speaker 1: all of them for Folds probably, and they're not Brad
Speaker 1: Jones and Pat Mahomes as well. On his way and
Speaker 1: it is over and well I started it season after
Speaker 1: when when Brad started his runk over since Okay, it's
Speaker 1: a eighteen years. Probably not Flacco either, probably not Flacco.
Speaker 1: But it is a man, is it a quarterbacks league?
Speaker 1: Russ Wilson's going to Hall of Fame? I think, so
Speaker 1: you got to have a great one. And they're already
Speaker 1: touting the Philadelphia Eagles and costs them wins? Am I
Speaker 1: missing something? They're they're not winning the division. They're looking
Speaker 1: for them to go to the Bowl. They're not going
Speaker 1: to fifteen years with you, William, trust me, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: But this is amazing how this is the same thing
Speaker 1: that happened last year. They would think Couston wentz the
Speaker 1: whole time. I mean, he hadn't even had come off
Speaker 1: of an injury. Still they had confidence in he in
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, not just him, but how this team
Speaker 1: was built. They are already tulling them as the new
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions for twenty twenty one. I just think
Speaker 1: that is just sounds thirsty. You know, It's like somebody
Speaker 1: just loves Philadelphia so much. Not somebody somebody E'SE. You
Speaker 1: guys are out there and that John, What the heck
Speaker 1: is going on out there? Why they Why do they
Speaker 1: feel this way? I haven't I haven't gotten that sense,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure. I'm sure it's out there, because there's
Speaker 1: no doubt it's out there. Yeah. Well, they took a
Speaker 1: step back a year ago, but then they kind of
Speaker 1: withstood them things this past year and and made a
Speaker 1: run to the playoffs. So you're always looking for that
Speaker 1: next team to welling the Cowboys what they're doing. Reason
Speaker 1: why Steve Atwater can go to the Pro Football Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame and Deverson Walls or Woodson think about that.
Speaker 1: Steve Atwater. It was a box safety. More safeties are
Speaker 1: getting in now, though, Cliff Harris, I'm still man. Brian
Speaker 1: Dawkins beat me out when I was there, so we
Speaker 1: gotta get over. You can keep on going, I mean,
Speaker 1: we can keep on going, not just me, I mean
Speaker 1: all the other dB they thought the Brian Dawkins before
Speaker 1: Cliff Harris. Yeah, let's think about that. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: how many free agents are in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: I deserved to be in the Hall of Fame. He
Speaker 1: sure did. Brian Dawkins was no free agent, been tuted
Speaker 1: his whole career. No surprise that he did well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Cliff Harris, now that that's a story. Six Pro Bowls.
Speaker 1: Come on, this guy, captain Captain Crash took this long,
Speaker 1: took this long. Yeah, took the extra ten guys. Okay, So, Rob,
Speaker 1: you said that the quarterback Super Bowl thing might tie
Speaker 1: into the Cowboys Wayne, because you've got to have am
Speaker 1: I making your prediction right now. You've got to have
Speaker 1: a really good to great quarterback. I think that's obvious.
Speaker 1: You got to have players around him. I think it
Speaker 1: just speaks to the Cowboys. They are sold on Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: I know he hasn't been signed to a long term
Speaker 1: deal yet. I think everybody feels like eventually it will
Speaker 1: get done. I think it speaks to once again, why
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's the new head coach here, because they are
Speaker 1: sold on Dak and they found a veteran coach who
Speaker 1: has been around Hall of Fame quarterbacks and they feel
Speaker 1: he can help elevate Dak to another level. That's that's
Speaker 1: a big reason why McCarthy, who was also sold on
Speaker 1: Dak in the interview process. Yeah, Stephen said that he
Speaker 1: had a video reel of Dak going back to his
Speaker 1: combine workout when he met with the Joneses on that
Speaker 1: Saturday and throughout his career and showed the progression and
Speaker 1: where how he's evolved in this league. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: that that played a huge role as well in them connecting,
Speaker 1: you know, absolutely. So the Sunday big news drop on
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Sunday was well, looks like Cowboys are gonna
Speaker 1: be franchise tagging y Yeah, if I see that one
Speaker 1: more time, it's fired up. It's like, of course they're
Speaker 1: gonna If they don't get them signed, they're gonna franchise him.
Speaker 1: And then there's the crawler every day and every day
Speaker 1: I'm on vacation, I said, oh, I guess I missed something.
Speaker 1: So that was are they going to sign him? Well,
Speaker 1: if they will if they don't have a contract. But
Speaker 1: they don't have a contract. I mean, what are the
Speaker 1: odds of them going franchise versus you know, signing him
Speaker 1: to this big deal. Well, you can start franchising guys
Speaker 1: on February twenty fifth, and I think you have to ten.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if it doesn't get done by them, they'll franchise.
Speaker 1: And there has been rumors out there saying, well, Dak
Speaker 1: wants more, the Cowboys are really holding out. What is
Speaker 1: the truth is he does he want more than what
Speaker 1: the what's offered on the table? Is that to hold up? Well,
Speaker 1: if you listened to what Stephen Jones said, dude and
Speaker 1: mans they were going to put they they said and
Speaker 1: I didn't have to come out and say it, that
Speaker 1: they were going to make him a top five paid
Speaker 1: quarterback and it wasn't enough. But what you haven't heard
Speaker 1: is what they're asking for. That's one thing, and we's
Speaker 1: been out of this whole narrative. What are they asking for?
Speaker 1: It must be crazy because it seems like they had
Speaker 1: an impass right and even more so now when Dak
Speaker 1: basically spoke up at the Super Bowl well basically saying yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Mick. What he told the morning he sounded
Speaker 1: you know a little frustrated this hasn't been done. And
Speaker 1: the question was to Dak, what would you show up
Speaker 1: for the voluntary program without a deal, and he said,
Speaker 1: we'll just cross that when we get to it. But
Speaker 1: also and so they also said it's time for them
Speaker 1: to pay me and you can print that. Wow. So
Speaker 1: so you get away from the from the comfis you
Speaker 1: know what happens. Number one, there's an agent telling you, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's our stance. At number two, the NFLPA puts pressure
Speaker 1: on you to make sure you don't give a hometown discount.
Speaker 1: And so because they want to see everybody making it
Speaker 1: much and you reset what the quarterback market is. So
Speaker 1: he has an obligation to all other players to get
Speaker 1: as much right he can get in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: you know, you're there with all the NFLPA guys at
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and specifically all other quarterbacks. He has
Speaker 1: that r yeah and looks so you know, the last
Speaker 1: four years and the Cowboys know this, he's been one
Speaker 1: of the best bargains in the league in terms of
Speaker 1: his salaries a fourth round rookie contract versus what he's
Speaker 1: done in the league. The Cowboys want to get him signed.
Speaker 1: The report came out ever since I think Sunday morning
Speaker 1: ESPN saying it's likely heading that way towards the tag. Well, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: but there are still six weeks weeks until they have
Speaker 1: to make a decision whether the tax. You know, so
Speaker 1: six weeks to try to get something done, A lot
Speaker 1: can happen. And it reminds me a little bit mick
Speaker 1: of the DeMarcus Lawrence thing last year, where we felt
Speaker 1: like players don't like the tag. Okay, they don't want
Speaker 1: to be tagged, they want the long term security. That's
Speaker 1: that's fair and natural. And we thought, we sat here,
Speaker 1: and what if they don't get this thing done with
Speaker 1: the Marcus He's got to have shoulder surgery, all stuff.
Speaker 1: It got done, and it got done, and the deadline
Speaker 1: on that was basically when they got it done, because
Speaker 1: he had to have that surgery in order to be
Speaker 1: ready for the start of the season. Yeah, by the draft.
Speaker 1: He basically had to have that thing done otherwise, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even after you tag him, you still got five
Speaker 1: months to get him signed or you can't sign them
Speaker 1: to then of course, you know, but again the voluntary program,
Speaker 1: you got a new coach and a tweaked offense, and
Speaker 1: that's where than normal because it is a new coach.
Speaker 1: So then who's in the driver a seat? Then? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because based on bad information right there, then you would
Speaker 1: say that's in the driver seat if he wants to
Speaker 1: go that route, which is a route he has never
Speaker 1: been shown to take. Right. He's always been the company
Speaker 1: man when it came to the kneeling and the Black
Speaker 1: Lives matter. You know, he was in lockstep with Jerry Jones.
Speaker 1: The entire team was so man, this is different for
Speaker 1: me to hear him being so bold and sounded like
Speaker 1: Everson Walls or somebody. Right, I love him, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's not the Cowboys fault that he got drafted
Speaker 1: in the fourth round, right, that's sort of you know
Speaker 1: the argument. So you were gone Alexander Wright from the
Speaker 1: Cowboys draft wide wide receiver nineteen ninety and he was
Speaker 1: a twenty eighth pick in the draft, but there was
Speaker 1: only twenty seven picks in the first round, so he
Speaker 1: was technically a second round pick, right, And his agent
Speaker 1: was saying, no, he's a first round pick. You got
Speaker 1: to get paid like a first round pick. And the
Speaker 1: Cowboys like, sorry, it says second round here first pick,
Speaker 1: and that he didn't go to training camp along with
Speaker 1: Emmett and he signed first, and then Emmett got done
Speaker 1: the week of the season, but he missed because that
Speaker 1: was their argument. So you're I think the dilemma now is, Okay,
Speaker 1: if we go down this franchise tag route, will Dad
Speaker 1: be that guy? Will he be the one that choses
Speaker 1: to be defiant? And even if he does, and they
Speaker 1: still don't get to sign him and he's he has
Speaker 1: to play the tag out for the whole season. I
Speaker 1: really don't think it makes that much of a difference.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven million guaranteed for the one year tag. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean he wasn't gonna do come in and tank.
Speaker 1: He's gonna do yeah right. I mean I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that he's stuck. I'm saying that's just how he is
Speaker 1: as a player. I'm not gonna come in and let
Speaker 1: my team down because I got tagged. No, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: think so either, And so to me, as much as
Speaker 1: we want to see him get I want to see
Speaker 1: him get paid. I think it would be only fair.
Speaker 1: You can look down, you know, Bills probably can look
Speaker 1: up and see some stats on all the amazing stuff
Speaker 1: that we could say that, Dak, did you know that
Speaker 1: would gold well in negotiations. You know, it really doesn't
Speaker 1: matter when it comes down to it, whether he's tag
Speaker 1: or not, you're going to see the same Dak Prescott. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think it matter. So I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to impact the season none whatsoever. Whether he's on,
Speaker 1: The only thing it'll impact is him not being there
Speaker 1: in the offseason if he chooses not to be there. Right,
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Speaker 1: do you know what Alexander right to do in these days? No,
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Speaker 1: I got yeah, Jimmy, Jimmy at one point after his
Speaker 1: first year a second year and was like, well, this
Speaker 1: guy doesn't catch the ball very well. He goes, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, with his speed, they got to cover
Speaker 1: him because you never know when he might catch it.
Speaker 1: I was kind of a book on Bob Hayes when
Speaker 1: he first came here too. Yeah, he turned the other round.
Speaker 1: Ye all right, Um, why else on the Cowboys? What
Speaker 1: are you thinking? Um? Trying to think? What other days
Speaker 1: to the next other? Jason Witten saying at the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl coming back, don't please don't. You can start resigning
Speaker 1: players with expiring contracts on February eleventh. So is that
Speaker 1: before we do the next show? Or what are we at?
Speaker 1: The third? Fourth? Fourth? So next Tuesday, Next Tuesday, you
Speaker 1: can start signing guys with expiring contracts. Two guys. Why receivers?
Speaker 1: Cooper a right number two priorities behind Randa Randall. Cob
Speaker 1: You gotta get him signed. You gotta get him signed
Speaker 1: unless you're sitting creating the draft and you got one
Speaker 1: of these studs whide receivers coming out that you can
Speaker 1: really count on. I say you stick with these guys.
Speaker 1: I think Cobbs more likely to come back because of
Speaker 1: McCarthy here, I am. Yeah. I think. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's I don't know if you're probably a tip
Speaker 1: him over Cooper, but yeah, I think if he was
Speaker 1: leaning towards leaving now he's he's running towards stage not
Speaker 1: just leaning to McCarthy might have a saying it too.
Speaker 1: It's like, of course I want because because not only
Speaker 1: did he want his own assistant coaches, he probably wants
Speaker 1: somebody that has been loyal to him in that locker room.
Speaker 1: And when when you think about it, Jason Witten's return,
Speaker 1: if if it's a return, would clearly affect Cobb's output. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and and that is not good because I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: last year there were many times when Kyle was saying,
Speaker 1: come to me, it's my this is my time of
Speaker 1: the game, and we were not because we were trying
Speaker 1: to get it to one of our tight ends who
Speaker 1: just happened to be a former commentator. Which, by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, Jarwin's restricted, so they've got to give him
Speaker 1: a tender at some point. And you would think of
Speaker 1: all the time you've spent developing him, you want him
Speaker 1: back and say he Wit did the media car wash
Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl, and I think one of the
Speaker 1: things he said to one of the state maybe Rich Eisen,
Speaker 1: was you know, I understand there's a new coach and
Speaker 1: we've got to have open discussions, and you'd love to
Speaker 1: end it here as a player, but it may have
Speaker 1: to be somewhere else. You never know, so I don't
Speaker 1: really know where it's going to be exactly. I gotta
Speaker 1: say he's you know, just form a player's opinion. I
Speaker 1: guess I'm a pundit now. I just I think if
Speaker 1: he's going to come back at all, it would have
Speaker 1: to be under a player coach type of situation. I
Speaker 1: just don't see how he can help this team going
Speaker 1: forward when we need to start thinking of getting younger
Speaker 1: and have more consistency. I think if he's going to
Speaker 1: come in, it should be clearly to just be just
Speaker 1: in the mentor type of status for these two really
Speaker 1: upcoming tight ends that we have in Cheltzon and Jawin.
Speaker 1: I think those two guys are NFL. They're ready to
Speaker 1: be NFL capable tight ends. They are ready now. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Jarwin a restricted free agent, if you don't have
Speaker 1: a deal done with him, what kind of tender would
Speaker 1: you give him? First round? Second round? Or he's a
Speaker 1: free agent, so the low tender I think the second
Speaker 1: second he was he was a college free agent and
Speaker 1: were undrafted. So if you don't, I mean so. And
Speaker 1: the way that works is if a team were to
Speaker 1: sign him. They would not if if he does not
Speaker 1: have a first or second round tender, that team can
Speaker 1: sign him without giving up a draft conversation, whereas if
Speaker 1: it was a second round tender, that team would have
Speaker 1: to pay the Cowboys a second round pick. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: way back here, but I think like when Miles Austin
Speaker 1: was coming up and they wanted to keep him, but
Speaker 1: he hasn't had been really established it, I think they
Speaker 1: put the second round tam. I mean that that kind
Speaker 1: of adequately scares teams off. I feel like from I
Speaker 1: think if you if you really like a guy, because
Speaker 1: it's basically a one year deal and I don't know
Speaker 1: the second what it's going to come to. Probably last
Speaker 1: year and a half million or so. Last year, three
Speaker 1: second round tender was three point one million, first round
Speaker 1: was four point five million, and the low tender was
Speaker 1: two million. Yeah, so you got to do the second
Speaker 1: and I'm sure this year if it was that three
Speaker 1: over three, then probably getting closer to four and a
Speaker 1: half something like that. But it's going to be your
Speaker 1: starting tight end. When do they have to make that?
Speaker 1: Is it by mid March? They have to make that decision?
Speaker 1: Restricted qualifying offers. I think it's by March eighteenth or
Speaker 1: something like that. Right, well, start which is the eighteenth
Speaker 1: or so, you can start doing it at some point
Speaker 1: this month, right, you have to have it. No one
Speaker 1: can give him a bid, like I think it's like
Speaker 1: within two weeks of the draft, right, that's on the
Speaker 1: back end of it establishing the tenders. So you have
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, by time free and they've got
Speaker 1: a couple other guys, right, I think Cooper Rush is restricted,
Speaker 1: but yeah, jar one's the one that really stands out
Speaker 1: what they do there, got a lot of work to do,
Speaker 1: a lot. We look at all the free agents, I mean,
Speaker 1: Everson named Randall Cobb, Maury Cooper, that's I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just scratching the surface. You look on defense. Let's get
Speaker 1: into Byron Jones, Link Collins, Everson, Everson on the Year
Speaker 1: in Special. I was thinking about that coming in Burry
Speaker 1: Church and it's you can watch it online. It's in
Speaker 1: bits and pieces on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. The Year
Speaker 1: and Special with Michael Irvin and Everson and Burry Church,
Speaker 1: and we were talking about free agency and then the
Speaker 1: needs and Burry Church said that secondary was the biggest
Speaker 1: needed upgrade and they started talking about safeties and Everson say, well,
Speaker 1: say what Biban Jones to safety? I said, and your
Speaker 1: Church went off because he's experienced that. And then I
Speaker 1: just start talking my way at cornerback. You've got your
Speaker 1: best corner that I think, I said, can't catch a
Speaker 1: cold in Alaska with ice cubes in his pockets or
Speaker 1: something like that. And I want to say more because
Speaker 1: of course I think we've all heard it before. The
Speaker 1: ice cubes can go anywhere on your body and much deeper,
Speaker 1: and that would be a little bit more graphic, but
Speaker 1: either way, I still can't catch it. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of where we had. So you had a governor on you, yes, so,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think, and I still think this
Speaker 1: guy's I think Biben Jones, but at his experience now
Speaker 1: based on his experience with Barry Church because obviously they
Speaker 1: had a big impact on Barried Church in the psychic
Speaker 1: because he went off. When I suggested that you put
Speaker 1: Bivan Jones at safe, I actually retweeted that, and as
Speaker 1: I quoted, you said, your best quarterback, I can't catch
Speaker 1: a cold in Alaska with ice cubes in his pot
Speaker 1: He can't, he can't, And we're real about this guy
Speaker 1: when the last time Byrn's got an interception of his career,
Speaker 1: and he had he had had two in the last
Speaker 1: two years. But when you're talking about the person who
Speaker 1: was so athletic coming out of the combine, it's not
Speaker 1: hard to take it from cornerback who it's a very
Speaker 1: demanding position in regards to immediate contact with a wide
Speaker 1: receiver to where you're going back ten yards back from
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Now you can use that intellectual
Speaker 1: and that athletic ability to read plays, sniff out bad passes,
Speaker 1: and make more of an impact in the ball game.
Speaker 1: We have not had a safety that can do that
Speaker 1: for us. Heath was doing his best. Heath is about
Speaker 1: to come out with both arms typed behind his back
Speaker 1: next year because that's the way his labors are going
Speaker 1: to have him feeling. And now you're talking about needing
Speaker 1: someone physical, you need someone intelligent in that defensive secondary
Speaker 1: and the safety by and Joe to be the guy.
Speaker 1: He had Jeff Heath playing for them, that Sorensen. When
Speaker 1: one Thornhill went down, then Sorenson got the opportunity and
Speaker 1: that would be the role that you would be looking
Speaker 1: forward for Jeff he but Byron Jones had that role, right,
Speaker 1: and he didn't do anything. And that's what that's why
Speaker 1: Barry Church went off on him. Yeah, and Mike don't
Speaker 1: do that. And let's consider this, Mike Nolan when he
Speaker 1: was asked about cornerbacks, he's or dbs, he said, I
Speaker 1: want ball hawking defensive backs. And when Jones did this
Speaker 1: his rookie year, right, it was his rookie year, did both.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying he played safety his rookie Yeah, he
Speaker 1: dabbled at corner, but I think he was mostly a safety.
Speaker 1: He's got to be having more experience. Now you're telling
Speaker 1: me he didn't learn from his years. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: the same guy that he was his rookie year, maybe
Speaker 1: second year too. But it was a better cornerback than
Speaker 1: he was a safe. But here's no doubt he can cover.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about making plays on the ball. And
Speaker 1: Al Harris, you put him in the position of that
Speaker 1: number twenty for the Cassidy Chiefs last night. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: for the forty nines last night. Right, you can't him
Speaker 1: on the wide receiver like that. You're getting the different
Speaker 1: UH outcome as opposed to a safety back, then what
Speaker 1: do you need that ability to cover? Yeah, in your
Speaker 1: second day. Here's the thing though, he's he's unrestricted and
Speaker 1: usually corners make more money. Does he He has the
Speaker 1: option to go somewhere and play what he wants to play.
Speaker 1: Now we'll see what is what his market value is
Speaker 1: if he tests the market, if he's a game change
Speaker 1: of safety, he can he can make all the money. Okay,
Speaker 1: he may not, he may not want him place. You know,
Speaker 1: he's true. You know he kind of had his coming
Speaker 1: out party as a corner. Here's the bottom baking. Either
Speaker 1: I wanted to sit back there and look pretty at cornerback,
Speaker 1: but you can't do at safety. You gotta go out
Speaker 1: there and make some plays. And now that's what you
Speaker 1: had to do. Here's the bottom line on him. Because
Speaker 1: everybody's saying the Cowboys can't afford to resign him, Well,
Speaker 1: my next question is why can't they afford to resign him?
Speaker 1: Because if other teams are looking at what you just said,
Speaker 1: why are they going to pay so much money more
Speaker 1: than what the Cowboys would offer him? Because he's still
Speaker 1: two interceptions, right, But the problem they look at him
Speaker 1: but a Pro Bowl, I mean you use that reference.
Speaker 1: Was your analogy was Terrence Williams a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago where it felt like, oh they Cowboys can't resign
Speaker 1: Terrence at wide receiver. Well the market cooled and they
Speaker 1: brought him back. It is different, I think with Byron
Speaker 1: because he has proven to be a Pro Bowl caliber player,
Speaker 1: but he's the interceptions are still the same. Right at corner,
Speaker 1: at corner, at corner, you put this man at safety,
Speaker 1: he can roam, he has the ability. Guy. You remember
Speaker 1: when he came out, he was the best thing the
Speaker 1: Combine had seen in years. Amazing athlete, amazing. Everything he
Speaker 1: did was was jaw dropping. Well then if if they
Speaker 1: do that, then you're in the market for a cornerback
Speaker 1: because I ain't trusting Jordan Lewis out there for sixty
Speaker 1: plays a game. Have you ever heard of before they
Speaker 1: before we saw Minnesota, before we played Bfalo, maybe you
Speaker 1: guys had I had never heard of any of their cornerbacks,
Speaker 1: not one of them. And man, which seems Buffalo Okay,
Speaker 1: you can go, Well, I got kid from LSU White
Speaker 1: at corner. Yeah, you got You had guys back there
Speaker 1: making plays not just on the Cowboys but against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I mean, the a formidable secondary. These are not big
Speaker 1: names back there. You just gotta go find some dogs, man,
Speaker 1: they don't have to be names. Just go find some dogs.
Speaker 1: And that's what being the defensive back is all about.
Speaker 1: A guy that's determined. Not necessarily the best playmaker, but
Speaker 1: you got to be determined and put me behind a
Speaker 1: good defensive line. And you're talking about a guy not
Speaker 1: just I'm not just talking about basement bogging basement things.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about guys that can make plays that you
Speaker 1: can depend on. That's all I'm talking about. Al Harris,
Speaker 1: I guess in his interview when I went back and
Speaker 1: listened to it yesterday, said I'm big on touching the ball,
Speaker 1: touching the ball every day. So well they judge what
Speaker 1: they're looking for. I know. I mean, they drilled the
Speaker 1: hell out of no he means in the game and well,
Speaker 1: of course, but somebody that can do it. That is
Speaker 1: the biggest thing holding this defense back my opinion, they've
Speaker 1: been middle of the pack to lower pack. Taways always good, right,
Speaker 1: yeah for you. I mean they've been top ten I
Speaker 1: think in total yards and all that stuff, but they
Speaker 1: haven't impacted the game takeaways. Here's you mentioned Indevius White.
Speaker 1: I know for a fact the Cowboys love Tredevious White.
Speaker 1: They did, Okay, Taco Charlton in that draft in twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen was a twenty seventh pick. Tredevious White was taken
Speaker 1: by Buffalo one pick ahead of them. Second round, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys took Cheetawawoozier, and then they took Jordan Lewis in
Speaker 1: the third round. I bet you if Tradevious White had
Speaker 1: not been taken by Buffalo one pick ahead of Taco Charleton,
Speaker 1: the cow Boys would have taken Tradevious White there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's just kind of the way things work. And
Speaker 1: I'll take it a step further. I also know they
Speaker 1: love Juju Smith Schuster, Okay, and who was taken right
Speaker 1: before Juju Smith Schuster in that draft, Cheeta A. Woozier.
Speaker 1: So let's let's say Buffalo doesn't take Tradevius White, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys take Tradevius White. So they've got their cornerback right there,
Speaker 1: and then they can and then they could have taken
Speaker 1: the wide receiver Juju Smith Schuster in the second round.
Speaker 1: I've talked to guys scouts before, not about those guys particular,
Speaker 1: but just you can play that game. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: and it can drive you crazy if you do it,
Speaker 1: because you could just go back for years and it's always,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a clump of guys and you're not
Speaker 1: you know, but we know that they because they had
Speaker 1: them in for visits and they love those guys and
Speaker 1: it's interesting. Yeah, things could have played out well if
Speaker 1: you go back to was it twenty fifteen when they
Speaker 1: took Martin was a twenty fourteen fourteen fourteen mark, right,
Speaker 1: so you know who they wanted. They wanted the linebacker
Speaker 1: that Pittsburgh right, try Shasier, Shasier and it was like, oh, now,
Speaker 1: what do we do? Pittsburgh took Shasier and that's when
Speaker 1: the whole thing with the A and M quarterback came
Speaker 1: up and then it was like him, yeah XFL quarterback
Speaker 1: l is he in? The L is not now? But
Speaker 1: by the way, anything, guys going to the game next.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to the game, but I'm gonna watch it.
Speaker 1: As the Dallas Renegades opened the XFL season at four
Speaker 1: o'clock on Sunday, Coach Bob Bob stoops coach fifty yard
Speaker 1: line seats, not you know, very healthy enough, to start
Speaker 1: the first game. I don't. I don't think that Landry
Speaker 1: Jones is healthy enough talking to renegades here. Maybe try
Speaker 1: Land stud Yard playing by the way, talking an interview
Speaker 1: with Lance Dunbar. He's got some dreads working night. Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: do they make him cut their hand before the game?
Speaker 1: Can talk? If you do todos for years and years? Okay.
Speaker 1: So here's how nerdy I a might look at the
Speaker 1: schedule because I don't. I don't think I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: back in time for that game on Sunday. But uh,
Speaker 1: they're on the road the next two weeks, and then
Speaker 1: the next game they're back at home. I'm gonna go, yeah,
Speaker 1: sit and stands. Hey, there's there's guys on these rosters
Speaker 1: that I've heard of, which is different from that Spring
Speaker 1: league last year. The Alliance of American Football, and of
Speaker 1: course Darryl Johnston is the director of player person Get ticket.
Speaker 1: You can get some tickets here? Yeah, I try, all right?
Speaker 1: I think that does it? Yeah, Okay, that do it?
Speaker 1: We talked cowboys, so who else? So last week I
Speaker 1: had to bail out early other free agents, other free
Speaker 1: agents that we need that we really need. Well on
Speaker 1: the cornerback front. Anthony Brown is a free agent. Would
Speaker 1: he be a priority to kind of protect yourself for?
Speaker 1: He missed half the season and I can't imagine he's
Speaker 1: got much market value. It's just hard because with a
Speaker 1: new staff, what they're looking, don't know what they value.
Speaker 1: And when we talk to him last week, I know,
Speaker 1: skip pizza. This is about the running back. So I
Speaker 1: love Zeke and Tony Pollard. But but I was going
Speaker 1: to say, but we haven't really gotten into the personnel
Speaker 1: side of things as of last week. It's more talking,
Speaker 1: you know, philosophy and so good. He's under wrapp. We
Speaker 1: have no problem with him. Yeah, now, and then on
Speaker 1: the defensive line, you got MALIEK. Collins and Robert Quinn.
Speaker 1: Can you get one of them back? I gotta have
Speaker 1: Quinn back, right, Michael, And I'm restricted, I think restricted
Speaker 1: thirty five, going on thirty six, maybe retiring. Do you
Speaker 1: think so at thirty four? He turns it turned thirty five? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't care how I'm looking at the outcome. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at what he did. I don't really care about
Speaker 1: the age itself. If that's right, Brady should have been
Speaker 1: gone a long time ago. I'm talking about if you're
Speaker 1: talking to the age. Yeah, that's one thing. If you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying retire him. He may have that in
Speaker 1: his mind, is what I'm saying. Well, I hope not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope. I hope that he feels rejuvenated with a
Speaker 1: new coach. Sometimes that makes a big difference. And you
Speaker 1: guys are thinking one thing like, okay, if Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: comes back, man, a lot of you, you know, right,
Speaker 1: you're thinking things like that. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you got a new coach come in. Oh hey, guys,
Speaker 1: you know you just thought to feel a little different
Speaker 1: about your chances, and you say, why not roll the dice.
Speaker 1: Here's your defensive line free agents. Michael Bennett, Malie Collins,
Speaker 1: Christian Covington, Kerry Hyder, Robert Quinn, Daniel Ross is restricted
Speaker 1: and Antoine Woods is exclusive rights, which means so everybody,
Speaker 1: he's not going anything everybody. It's a long way. And
Speaker 1: then you gotta add, will Tyrone Crawford come back after
Speaker 1: dual hipster? No? Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: promise you. I'm still a worried about Vandress, I really am.
Speaker 1: And Crawford has a year left, it's at a high number.
Speaker 1: But if he can be if he comes back, he's
Speaker 1: coming at a different salary. Okay, but coming off the
Speaker 1: if you if you're trying to be a multiple defense
Speaker 1: with Mike Nolan, I think he could fit that if
Speaker 1: he's healthy, because he can kind of do whatever you
Speaker 1: need him to do across the front. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: a leader. Man, there's this time if he's willing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to manage his time, you know, somebody coming
Speaker 1: off with those injuries and replace me as you got them. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we sit here and talk about the offense
Speaker 1: and talk about DAK. The problem is the defense because
Speaker 1: they did not win a game when they didn't score
Speaker 1: thirty points. Sometimes you gotta win twenty four twenty one,
Speaker 1: you know, and and they never did it. The Super
Speaker 1: Bowl should have been won, what twenty four twenty right
Speaker 1: until the garbage touchdown? Right? Correct? Well, and if the Niners,
Speaker 1: you know, are able to get some first downs at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, they won at twenty to seventeen.
Speaker 1: What's going back to that. Shanahan's taken a lot of heat.
Speaker 1: He's taken a lot of heat. You know what I
Speaker 1: think I think Atlanta Falcon's Patriots Super Bowl is feeding
Speaker 1: into some of that because they twenty eight three all that.
Speaker 1: But I went back and watched the game again last night,
Speaker 1: Nerdy me, and you know, there were things that happened
Speaker 1: that were out of his control that it wasn't his fault,
Speaker 1: like well, he didn't run the ball enough or he
Speaker 1: threw the ball too much. We're back to the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Whatever works, is right, you know, this whole thing about
Speaker 1: the half that you know, and you know in Troy
Speaker 1: kind of started it by saying, oh, they're not going
Speaker 1: to call time out. You know, I thought the same thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: But as I told you yesterday, it's like, here's what
Speaker 1: it would have happened had had they left they called
Speaker 1: time out, and they don't, and they got a punt.
Speaker 1: How close did that guy come on the punt to
Speaker 1: throwing the ball back and getting it down at the
Speaker 1: two yard line? Right? And now now San Francisco's got
Speaker 1: the ball at the two with a minute to go,
Speaker 1: and Kansas City's got all three timeouts, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to come out otherwise you're punting and they're gonna
Speaker 1: call timeout, timeout, timeout, and they're gonna get the ball
Speaker 1: back at the fifty forty yard line and now, And
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's what he was thinking. He wasn't thinking, Oh,
Speaker 1: I got to take the ball and score. He was thinking,
Speaker 1: I can't let them score. I can't score. I think
Speaker 1: you're you're onto something. Everson talked about how the defense
Speaker 1: didn't make the plays. That's not that's not Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: calling plays. Jimmy Gee's got Emmanuel Sanders deep. He's got
Speaker 1: me right, I mean, play the game. That's to play
Speaker 1: the game. And then he got criticized for throwing the
Speaker 1: ball in the fourth quarter. Well, if you go look
Speaker 1: at their last possession, I counted up eight passes they
Speaker 1: had they threw after it was twenty four to twenty. Well,
Speaker 1: of course you're you only got a minute or so left.
Speaker 1: You got to throw the ball every down. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't like he abandoned their game plan in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: If he hits the receiver, we're not even having this
Speaker 1: conver and he's wide open. Wow, were replaying Montana to
Speaker 1: John Taylor. Highlights from that game. How was I went
Speaker 1: down just to see the end of the last drive
Speaker 1: I did? I was comfortably remember, Yeah you see, yeah,
Speaker 1: you see John. It's a great Yeah. All right, we're
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