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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the

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Speaker 1: Star in fris Joe Say now, your hosts, Rob Phillips,

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Speaker 1: heck My Harrison, Danny Serek and Kyle Yeomans. It's another

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Speaker 1: edition of Talking Cowboys here on this Tuesday morning. Glad

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Speaker 1: you're with us from our respective SWBC Mortgage studios. Kyle Yeomans,

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Speaker 1: heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips and the Great Isaiah stand

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Speaker 1: back our residence super Bowl champions. We bring you the

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Speaker 1: recent storylines and talk through this Dallas Cowboys offseason. Heck,

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Speaker 1: you got a big smile on your face. You have

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Speaker 1: a good Mother's Day weekend? Why are you laughing? I

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Speaker 1: don't even know that now? Is that it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a laugh? Is that what you're going with here? Coyle Man, listen.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't ready for the before and after a picture

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Speaker 1: of a child star, but that's what you look like

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Speaker 1: right now, a child star. You look like McCulloch Culkin

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Speaker 1: after the Fame, post post home, Malone mccullar, Oh God, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: Kyle I'm good with it, man, I okay, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: it's it's been like eight weeks of quarantine. I've got

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Speaker 1: like a mullet working back here like it's business and

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Speaker 1: and it's like you just can't. I gotta do something myself.

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Speaker 1: So hey, Kyle, Kyle, I'm actually disappointment. I thought you's

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Speaker 1: gonna come to the dark side with drizz man, but

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Speaker 1: you know, I like to I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: could even I don't think it was long enough first off,

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Speaker 1: to even try that, And second off, I probably would

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Speaker 1: have gotten maybe one of those sit down talks from

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Speaker 1: either my bosses or my family saying you gotta look

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Speaker 1: at your life here. Yeah, you gotta have the intervention.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's fair. Now, Isaiah, you called me Forrest

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Speaker 1: Gump off the air, and I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: Justin Bieber or Forrest Gump better. I don't know. It

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Speaker 1: looked like you was ready to run somewhere, So I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm just going on what I see, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm he just happens to be actually right, yeah, exact

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Speaker 1: more aerodynamic. Tell everybody that's what it is. That's what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing. I'm trying to get it all slim down

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Speaker 1: so that tomorrow's half marathon for Ceedee Lamb is much

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Speaker 1: more enjoyable. I guess if a half mile I can

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Speaker 1: be enjoyable. Now tell him why you are doing the

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Speaker 1: half mile? You don't just know, don't just yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: glaze over that bro you lost. So basically, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty much what it was. It was a tweet for

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Speaker 1: those of you who haven't seen it on Twitter, well

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Speaker 1: before the draft. About a month before the draft, I

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Speaker 1: tweeted or somebody asked me a question and was asking

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Speaker 1: if it's possible that Ceedee Lamb falls with the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: I love Ceedee Lamb, and the fact that he even

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Speaker 1: fell down that far was so far fetched to me

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Speaker 1: that I said, if he does fall to seventeen and

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys select him, I'll run to the Star and

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Speaker 1: back from my apartment in a little elm. Well that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing tomorrow, which just so happens to be

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Speaker 1: about thirteen point four miles. So I'm getting started right

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Speaker 1: actually downhill there, but it's uphill back, which is probably

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Speaker 1: the worst case scenario. So it'll be interesting. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a runner, so that's what makes this thing tough for

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Speaker 1: all thee runners out there. I respect you more than

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Speaker 1: ever now that I'm having to try and do this

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Speaker 1: I'm gona do like I do my wife Beuh every

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Speaker 1: year she runs in the New York City Marathon. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna take I'm gonna take mental rips with you the

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Speaker 1: entire time. Nice. I like that, the quality mental reps,

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Speaker 1: and I thank you. And David Hellman said the same

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Speaker 1: thing yesterday. He quote tweeted my What I said was, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing it on Wednesday, and he quote tweeted it

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Speaker 1: and said, I'm here for this. And so I said,

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Speaker 1: how are you running it with me? And he just said, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm not running with you. He's like, no, you're crazy.

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Speaker 1: I'm not running it with you at all. But enough

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Speaker 1: about the haircut and a half marathon for betting or

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Speaker 1: losing a bet against myself. Some recent storylines around the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys over the past week. Of course, the schedule

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Speaker 1: was released on Thursday, and the Cowboys open up against

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams. They'll open up that beautiful billion

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Speaker 1: But we've kind of looked through the schedule. Everybody's done

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Speaker 1: big time game later on. So let's look at some

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Speaker 1: of the NFC stretch. Now I mentioned after Thanksgiving. So

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Speaker 1: they play Washington week twelve Thanksgiving, and then you turn around,

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Speaker 1: Then you're at the Bengal so back to back cold

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Speaker 1: open weather stadiums in December. Then you return home take

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Speaker 1: on the forty nine Ers and the Eagles before you

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Speaker 1: against the Giants. So just initial thoughts, guys on the

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Speaker 1: crown back from those Eagles. Well, I mean, it looks

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Speaker 1: right away because they always put and it's not just

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, they put the Vision games in that final

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Speaker 1: month to make the race meaningful. But then when you

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Speaker 1: look at this season too, you're talking about the two

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Speaker 1: it's on paper, and you really can't look at last

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Speaker 1: they're always there. So, like I said, the rubber meets

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Speaker 1: the road immediately. I know I went to December as well,

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Speaker 1: Rob to look at that little stretch that I'm sure

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get into it. But man, the Cowboys have

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Speaker 1: play a lot of different schemes and some really tough teams. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: like it. I do not like this schedule for the Boys,

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Speaker 1: especially kicking off in that brand new stadium with those Rams.

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Speaker 1: They had a disappointing year. Obviously, I think those boys

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Speaker 1: drop down it's like, oh crap, we gotta face these dudes,

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Speaker 1: and I think we're gonna be tested. I think I

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Speaker 1: think the whole year is gonna be tested. It's really

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Speaker 1: like a roller coaster over a year, especially that last

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Speaker 1: exactly with this mental toughness that we've be talking about

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Speaker 1: take on Minnesota. But whenever you look at those those

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Speaker 1: that Isaiah Man, Yeah, you can't look ahead when you

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Speaker 1: really you know, games four or five, six, seven. You know,

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Speaker 1: a row that you're gonna have to deal with, and

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Speaker 1: and they're all dogs, you know, Cincinnati. You know, it

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Speaker 1: that's all that matters. You can't look in the future.

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Speaker 1: you're gonna lose it, lose the current. So um they

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Speaker 1: got they have to be ready to roll. You absolutely

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Speaker 1: can't look in the future. The team started off three

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Speaker 1: I will say, Kyle, I mean, and we'll probably get

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Speaker 1: his conversation. Could this be a little bit of insight

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Speaker 1: release and some of the implications on that NFC some

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Speaker 1: other storylines coming out of this past week. The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: did go out and sign Cam Irving one year, two

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Speaker 1: point five million dollars, and then he has an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to earn some incentives up to a quarter million dollars

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Speaker 1: depending on his play here in twenty twenty overtakes maybe

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Speaker 1: Brandon Night as that swing tackle spot and replaces the departed.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, I'm blanking on a name here. Who was

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Speaker 1: the swimming tackle that Cam flaming? I'm sorry, I'm almost

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Speaker 1: said Cam Irving, even though it's Sam flaming that he's

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Speaker 1: replaced whatever moving forward as the swing tame available Cam. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: best available Cam. How about that. Let's just throw that

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Speaker 1: out there. But he was up there blocking for Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes in twenty nineteen with the Kansas City Chiefs and

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Speaker 1: Rob what do you feel like this does for that

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Speaker 1: offensive line? Because it gives you a little bit extra

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Speaker 1: depth at the tackle spot, but it also gives you

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Speaker 1: a guy who could play interior offensive line if you

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Speaker 1: don't like the battle that's going on there. Yeah, versatility's big,

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Speaker 1: I think based on what he did last year. Though

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Speaker 1: you said it, swing tackle is one of the honestly,

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Speaker 1: coming out of the draft, it is one of the

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Speaker 1: most glaring needs they had left potentially. I know they

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Speaker 1: like Brandon Night, but when you're talking about an offseason

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Speaker 1: that we just talked about, truncated workouts and all that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff, I think having an experienced guy if

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Speaker 1: you've got to move things up and you don't have

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Speaker 1: a lot of practice time. Uh. In Irving, I think

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Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a good get. Eight game started

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Speaker 1: at left tackle for the Chiefs last year, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: you could play a couple of different spots. I think

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Speaker 1: he's played some center too, So you know, having a

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Speaker 1: guy is on your backup lining pretty much play anywhere

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Speaker 1: and has played a lot of football. I think that's good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's what we needed. And like you said, uh Rob,

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Speaker 1: that we were eyeball and now we get it with

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Speaker 1: that veteran. With the veteran guy has obviously championship pedigree

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Speaker 1: and winning the Super Bowl in Kansas City, and so

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. I believe the depth at the

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Speaker 1: offensive line, you know that we're gonna these guys are

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Speaker 1: gonna be fighting it out, especially at the center and

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Speaker 1: guard uh position. But with the new CBA, I do

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Speaker 1: believe that the Cowboys are gonna be able to carry

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Speaker 1: eight uh offensive lineman on this the the on the

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Speaker 1: on the roster, is that correct? I believe they are

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Speaker 1: required to carry eight is what I think it is.

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Speaker 1: And you have your your five starters that everybody kind

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Speaker 1: of goes for and knows about, and then you've also

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Speaker 1: got those backup potentials. Whenever you talk about whoever loses

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Speaker 1: the Connor McGovern, Connor Williams and Joe Looney battle. And

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Speaker 1: then you also have I think you look at the

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Speaker 1: contract for Cam Irving here and I think it shows

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Speaker 1: that he's expected to be on the roster. He's expected

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Speaker 1: like that because Tyrn smiss missed three games in twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: He's missed games in the past couple of years. And

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Speaker 1: then on the other side, you've got Lyell Collins who

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Speaker 1: missed a game last year, and I know he's been

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Speaker 1: probably the most significant part of that offensive line, maybe

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Speaker 1: outside of Zack Martin, but he's gonna miss some games

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Speaker 1: at the same time. Yeah, so Cam's gonna be active

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Speaker 1: for sure to be Yeah, yeah, I think so. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: two and a half million dollars, you're playing, Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: probably gonna be. You're probably gonna be playing quite a bit.

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Speaker 1: Now that kind of leads us into though, the on

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Speaker 1: the other side of the football, the defensive line, Alden's

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Speaker 1: Smith apparently meeting with Roger Goodell. Now this isn't confirmed,

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Speaker 1: but Stephen Jones didn't mention it on Pro Football Talk

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Speaker 1: with Mike Florio yesterday and or excuse me, earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: and I see the positives of Alden Smith meeting with

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Speaker 1: Roger Goodell. But is there any way that this could

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Speaker 1: be a negative rob in terms of the hope for

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Speaker 1: reinstatement for both Smith and then also Randy Gregory. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. Ka. I think that's just part

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Speaker 1: of the process. Okay, guys trying to get back in

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Speaker 1: the league, and from the Cowboys experience with Randy, it's

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Speaker 1: been a face to face meeting with Roger. And then

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Speaker 1: there's a time frame for when Roger gets back to

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the NFL makes his decision. So you know,

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Speaker 1: you hope it's something. It's a it's a window that

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Speaker 1: they get a decision before training camp whenever that starts.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I think it's just part of the process.

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Speaker 1: And uh, and we'll see what happens. I mean, the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: you know, they don't have a feeling either way. But

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Speaker 1: I think obviously there's hope if they went out and

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Speaker 1: signed Alvin Smith, that that there's a possibility. You know,

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Speaker 1: Jay Glazers, a well respected reporter around the league that

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Speaker 1: has been working out with Alvin Smith and and maybe

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Speaker 1: that's something in Commissioner Goodells, you know, looking into the

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Speaker 1: case or his situation. Uh, he'll take that into account

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Speaker 1: because that's everything we've heard has been very positive about

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Speaker 1: his recovery. Yeah, I think this is just a status check.

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Speaker 1: You know, Rogier Gidel wants to get eyes on exactly

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Speaker 1: the individual that you know, you hear so much about you.

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Speaker 1: You've heard about all the negative, but you know he

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Speaker 1: wants to give this young man opportunity to sit down

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, let me see what your character is

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Speaker 1: right now. You know I'm not going gonna throw you

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Speaker 1: back out there. Um, you know, I just want to

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Speaker 1: evaluate a face to face what I'll any hearsay as

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Speaker 1: to where you're at right now and make my own judgment,

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Speaker 1: and then what'll reconvene and see, um, if you're ready

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Speaker 1: to touch the field again and represent this shield. Just

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Speaker 1: a straight formality is really what it is. As U.

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Speaker 1: You gotta have to go through that process. You gotta

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Speaker 1: get in front of the commissioner and hope everything works out,

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Speaker 1: because if Smith and Gregory are reinstated, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: that right defensive indspot isn't as much of a hole

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Speaker 1: as it is, maybe even a surplus of guys with

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Speaker 1: now the fifth round draft pick and Bradley and I

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Speaker 1: also being added into the mix. But that wasn't the

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Speaker 1: only thing that Stephen Jones talked to Mike Florio about

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. And I'm interested to see what Isaiah

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Speaker 1: has to say about this one as a former quarterback

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Speaker 1: and also as a former player in the league in general,

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Speaker 1: and then also Rob as an insider and heckmas Our

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Speaker 1: Swiss Army Knife. I want to see what you guys

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Speaker 1: think about what Stephen Jones said on Floria or with

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Speaker 1: Florio about Dak Prescott and the contract negotiations. Now, he

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Speaker 1: made it abundantly clear they still want to pay Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott and they want to get a deal done. They're

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Speaker 1: not going to rescind that franchise tag. However, he did

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Speaker 1: come out and say that, I mean, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: what we all know. It's the fact of if you

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Speaker 1: put too much money in one position, especially your quarterback,

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Speaker 1: it really hinders the rest of your roster. What kind

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Speaker 1: of angle is this taking in terms of your negotiations,

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Speaker 1: because the Joneses have been known to negotiate in public,

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Speaker 1: What does this do and what is this insight into

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Speaker 1: how the negotiations are going right now? Well, it's a

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Speaker 1: loaded question. It is definitely a loaded question. And I

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Speaker 1: can tell you right now, Dak Prescott is watching Jerry

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Speaker 1: require to talk about showing me the money. So right

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Speaker 1: now they need to pay this dude. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: need to pay them, and you're not You're not helping

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Speaker 1: yourself now or in the future. Um, you know they're

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Speaker 1: not going to resend an offer. Okay, nobody really resents

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Speaker 1: a franchise tag offer until a franchise quarterback, it doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: So making that statement does nothing for anybody, right, So

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Speaker 1: he's gonna play underneath that franchise tag most likely. But

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Speaker 1: you know you paid You paid your receiver twenty million

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Speaker 1: a year, right, like you paid your receiver twenty million

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Speaker 1: a year. So you're not willing to at this point

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Speaker 1: in time, not willing to double that up and pay

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Speaker 1: the man who gets him the ball, right. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to it's hard to fathom in and I

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Speaker 1: think that Stephen right now in camp have really they

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Speaker 1: threw it on his shoulders there they're there. They kind

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Speaker 1: of threw him under the bus a little bit because

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Speaker 1: they know what what Cowboys fans want, right, Cowboys fans

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Speaker 1: won a championship. That is number one, right, it's the

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Speaker 1: most highly touted, you know, team in the league, in

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Speaker 1: the world, and they know that the pressures from everybody

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Speaker 1: else is going to affect his ability to make sound decisions,

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Speaker 1: possibly right if he doesn't have the right camp. So

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Speaker 1: put it on his shoulders saying hey, you know, you

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Speaker 1: know the analytics show that if you pay your quarterback

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Speaker 1: too much, then your team success rate goes down. Man,

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Speaker 1: that's that's BS, that's BS. We're not in that world.

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Speaker 1: We're not Tom Brady. Nobody's Tom Brady. The only reason why,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously Tom Brady has has just just changed everything. Right,

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Speaker 1: he's the curveball, right, He's taking less money for a

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Speaker 1: number of years to ensure that they have that they

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Speaker 1: have a you know, super Bowl championship team. So that's different.

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Speaker 1: You know, these cats are young. You know, they've seen

640
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: a lot of ownership in the past not treat players

641
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: so well. Right, Um, so you have to go out,

642
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: you get one opportunity really in your career to get

643
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: that big boy contract and get that guarantee money. And

644
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: I really think that's what it comes down to, is

645
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: what's those guarantees numbers? Looking like, we haven't hurting anything.

646
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: We don't know anything for sure, but I can almost

647
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: assure you that it's all about the guarantee money. Yeah,

648
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: you know what we've been talking about. How the reports

649
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: say it could be the length of the deal is

650
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: the biggest hold up. But I'm with Isaiah, I wonder

651
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: if it's more still about dollars and trying to figure

652
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: that out based on you know, because Stephen's talking about. Honestly,

653
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: what Stephen said to me is no different than what

654
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: he said the past couple of years about under contracts

655
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: they've tried to get done. I mean, you know, talking

656
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: about dividing the pie and trying to create a deep

657
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: enough roster top to bottom to be successful. I honestly,

658
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: I've said this before. I think both sides are right.

659
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: You know, Steven's right, like in the in the today's

660
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: NFL the parody, you've got to be able to have

661
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: a deep roster that can be fielded one to fifty five,

662
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: one to fifty three, whatever it is now, and so

663
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: how do you how do you navigate that with these

664
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: top players that you have. At the same time, Dak

665
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: Prescott is he's a player and he's trying to get

666
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: as much money as he can and maximize his earning

667
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: potential while he can't, especially given the first four years

668
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 1: of his career at his position what he was making.

669
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: So you can't fault him for that. But you also

670
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: can't fault the Cowboys for trying to figure it out.

671
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: You know, what's what's the best way to divide it

672
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: all up. But ultimately, I don't, I don't really sweat it.

673
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: I feel like we've gone down this road with DeMarcus

674
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: and Zeke, and ultimately it always gets done. So we'll see.

675
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: But I don't. I don't. I don't sweat it too much.

676
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: Heck no, you know what, I actually watched the entire

677
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: interview and I didn't take anything from what When he

678
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: made the comment about analytics, that didn't seem like verbal

679
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: sparring to me through the media for Steve and Jones,

680
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 1: I just felt as though he was he was, you know,

681
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: basically stating a truth that all thirty two teams are

682
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 1: dealing with. But they I mean, it wouldn't matter to

683
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: Green Bay if they went to the Super Bowl and

684
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 1: Rogers making them money. They want to shatter that statistic anyway.

685
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: Analytics are not Dak Prescott is homegrown. He's our quarterback.

686
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: If you've been a Cowboy fan long enough to see

687
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: they go through those years of having really horrible or

688
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: borderline quarterbacks, we got our guy. I mean, he's our

689
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: guy that we that the Joneses bench Tony Romo for.

690
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,959
Speaker 1: You know. So I don't see this as a point

691
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: of saying, Okay, sign this or else. I didn't take

692
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: it like that one way or another. Dak Prescott is

693
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: gonna come into this season two ways. He's gonna be

694
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 1: the highest paid quarterback in the NFL, or he's gonna

695
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: be amongst the highest paid quarterbacks in the NFL with

696
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: the franchise to either way, he's gonna be a Dallas Cowboy.

697
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: And so, I mean, I think that the NFL and

698
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: I think that the Cowboys do a really great job

699
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: of owning the off season to keep our name in

700
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: your mouth. Everybody's talking about Dak Prescott in this contract

701
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: except for Dak and his representatives. And so I find

702
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: it very interesting because we don't know what's on the table,

703
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 1: and we keep speculating about it. But at the same time,

704
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: no matter if it's the years, if it's the money,

705
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 1: all of it benefits the Cowboys in the end. Well,

706
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: and I think go for it. No, I was gonna say,

707
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you. Heck and I and I

708
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: totally agree with you Rob as well. That you know

709
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: this is you know that he made some good points

710
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: in analytics. He's not wrong, you know, and you know

711
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: obviously Dak has his time span, he wants to do

712
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: things in But I take offense to it as a

713
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: as a player because as the leader of this organization now, right,

714
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,439
Speaker 1: which is we can all we can all wrest sure

715
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: that he's the leader of this organization now in terms

716
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: as a player, you you did other deals before me, right,

717
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: It was like like you made these other deals happen.

718
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: And now I'm sitting back and I'm being asked right

719
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 1: to take less than what I really want simply because

720
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: oh there's not enough money and now we have to

721
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: save money? Right? Where was where were you save money conversations?

722
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: Save money conversations when when you know when cool paid,

723
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 1: So like, it's not not the conversation, it's the time

724
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: the conversation. Right, These conversations are happening after the money

725
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: has already been handed out to these other camps who

726
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,479
Speaker 1: are very valuable players. But guess what, these guys really

727
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: don't do much unless I'm taking care of my business, right,

728
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: So that's where an issue lies, right, and I'm and

729
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: I'm again, we're all assuming, right, But if it was me,

730
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: I would be up up in the air a little

731
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: bit in terms of, you know, me being the last

732
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: guy to get paid. About it? Now, all of a sudden,

733
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: now we've got to budget, now, Isaiah, I want to

734
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: play Devil's advocate here. You're talking about adding these other

735
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: players and putting money elsewhere. You put the money into

736
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: Marii Cooper. You put your draft stock into taking Cedee

737
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: Lamb in the first round rather than maybe going with

738
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: Calavon Chason and an edge rusher. You went with these

739
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: different moves. Could you use that as, hey, we're giving

740
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: you weapons with these are gifts for you to be

741
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: successful because we think that, hey, if you've got this

742
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: around you, you're a Super Bowl contending quarterback. That's what

743
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,919
Speaker 1: we're doing for you. Now it's time to maybe give

744
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: back here. What are your thoughts around that, because it

745
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: seems like at least over the courts of the offseason,

746
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 1: they've done their job in terms of protecting Dak and

747
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: giving him plenty of weapons in order to try and

748
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: be successful, you know what. And I appreciate and I

749
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: value your point. But then again come back to timing, right,

750
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: who did they who? Who did they just sign at

751
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: his position? That's true, Right, nobody's seeing him as a threat.

752
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: And I don't see him as a threat either. But

753
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: guess what he is a what if? Right? What if

754
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: this doesn't go the way that we wanted to What

755
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: if you don't get your way, or what if you

756
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 1: throw a fit and you don't want to sign this

757
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: tenor guess what? We got somebody that can step in

758
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: and do your No, no, no, I'm saying, I'm just

759
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying it might it may

760
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: not be the way. It might not happen that way,

761
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: But the worst case scenario, they can do that. Right,

762
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: that's not I mean to me, even drawing that scenario

763
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: isn't realistic because the Cowboys have groomed Dack to this

764
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: point and you don't get you don't groom a quarterback

765
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: and get to the time that you have to sign

766
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 1: this guy and throw them to the wolves. This this

767
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: is the time that we know. Look, we've owned the offseason,

768
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: all of this speculation. Really, guys, July the fifteenth is

769
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: where we gotta wait on all this, right because if

770
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: nothing happens in between now and July fifteenth, then we

771
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 1: can hit the panic button. Then we can start talking

772
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 1: about disrespect. But all of this is just speculative. I mean, look,

773
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: and here's the thing. Dak went from being a fourth

774
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: round guy to now being the face of a franchise,

775
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: a marketing name that's out there. I mean, the advertising

776
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: dollars are coming in. All of that has nothing to

777
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: do with the contract that the Cowboys are gonna get

778
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,800
Speaker 1: him give him. But at the same time, every throw

779
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: that Dak makes this season is gonna be under the microscope.

780
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: If he bet on himself last year, he's gonna have

781
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 1: to bet on himself again. He's gonna have to That's

782
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: gonna be a tremendous amount of pressure on him to succeed,

783
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 1: all right, and that microscope is going to be hot

784
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: and right under him. Every quarterback that he has on

785
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 1: the schedule, I mean, Jared Goff, Russell Wilson, also Matt Ryan,

786
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: big Ben, Roethlisberger, all of these guys, all his contemporaries,

787
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: these are guys that he that have made more money

788
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,439
Speaker 1: than him, and he's wanting to make more money than them.

789
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: He gets an opportunity to go out and show it,

790
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,919
Speaker 1: just like everybody else did. And I don't think Dak

791
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: Prescott wants to bet on himself again. I don't think

792
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,399
Speaker 1: he wants to go into another contract year, whether it's

793
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: on the franchise tag or whatever. He wants the long

794
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: term deal, which is why ultimately I sit on the

795
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: side of the fence that I think it's going to

796
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: get done. A lot of people forget that with the

797
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: NFL Draft and all of the production and all the

798
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: work that goes into getting and leading up into a draft,

799
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 1: it takes away time from the contract negotiations and things

800
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: like that, and I think that was one of the cases.

801
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: And then also the terribly tragic passing of his brother

802
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,280
Speaker 1: kind of put a hold on it. After the draft,

803
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 1: you're not going to see those conversations as you would

804
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: normally expect because of the morning and the sad this

805
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: around that, And you got to give him as much

806
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: time as he needs. You gotta give him a ton

807
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: of time. That's something that nobody really wants to bring

808
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: up because it was. It was tragic and it was sad,

809
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: but it also just puts a little bit of a

810
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: hold there. You've got till July fifteenth, Like you said,

811
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: hack Mo, there's plenty of time to get this done.

812
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: But I was asked on we were asked on Twitter

813
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: as a as a group, yes or no? Do you

814
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: think the long term deal gets done with Dak Prescott.

815
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 1: We'll start with you, hack R. Okay, it's asked me again.

816
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I was thinking to ask Rob does he

817
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,399
Speaker 1: think he's worth the money? Well, yeah, if you want

818
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: to go with that, Rob, and I think he's worth

819
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 1: the money. Rob, you're thinking sign Okay, No, I think

820
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: he's earned a new contract. And I think the Cowboys, Kyle,

821
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: you just said something that you got to. You gotta

822
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: point this out. I mean, I think he didn't bet

823
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 1: on himself last year. I think that he's definitely something

824
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: done and he decided he wanted to he wanted to

825
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: play it out, and I think he did. I think

826
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: he was right. I mean, he made the Pro Bowl

827
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 1: and had a good season to try to keep maximizing

828
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: his earning potential. But the Cowboys have been trying to

829
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: get this done. I mean it's it's I think maybe

830
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: that was part of Steven's point, is it's not that

831
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: they're trying to to delay this. I think you want

832
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: to try to get this done. If anything, I think

833
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: trying to get him done first would have been easier

834
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: because then you could have slotted things around the biggest

835
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: deal on your roster first. Um. But but Isaiah, I'm

836
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: with Isaiah. I mean, I think he's earned, he's earned

837
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 1: a new contract. And but again I don't I don't

838
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: sweat it. To answer your question, Kyle, yes, I think

839
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: it gets done by July fifteen. The answers yes, The

840
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: answer is yes, Kyle, it gets done before July fifteenth.

841
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: No way they go into two of days with this looming,

842
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: or of the season, with this contract looming. It has

843
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,720
Speaker 1: to get done. And yes, I again, when my brother's

844
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: over there, yes it gets done. But again I am

845
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: to your point where I timing, you know, timing time

846
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: and timing, and and there was a there was a

847
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: there's always a better way that something could have been done,

848
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 1: and I feel like this should have been. They could

849
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: have really communicated to him, you know the importance of

850
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932
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask all of our great analysts. You've got

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941
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Speaker 1: and Isaiah swished him in Swiss Army knife over here.

942
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Speaker 1: Swiss Army knife. Heck, but Harrison played by the way

943
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944
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945
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Speaker 1: And our first question actually comes from a fan on Twitter,

947
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Speaker 1: and he said, could the Cowboys use Tony Pollard as

948
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Speaker 1: their Tavon Austin slash fourth wide receiver backup role in

949
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Speaker 1: addition to his duties as a backup running back. And

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Speaker 1: Rob will start with you, I hope. So I'd love

951
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: to see that. I mean, I think use him on

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Speaker 1: punt returns and then also use him in different ways

953
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Speaker 1: out of the backfield. I don't know if he would

954
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Speaker 1: be your full time fourth receiver, but but yes, I

955
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Speaker 1: mean I think his skill set allows for that. A

956
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Speaker 1: guy that can line up in different spots, line up

957
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Speaker 1: in the same backfield as z and and help in

958
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Speaker 1: different ways. The way they used him last year was interesting.

959
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: It was more so, you know, when they had a

960
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Speaker 1: lead and they kind of salted away games with him

961
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,439
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. But but yes, I think he could

962
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Speaker 1: be more involved as a receiver isah. Yeah, I think

963
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Speaker 1: he could be more involved as well. I don't see

964
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Speaker 1: him being a four time just like Rob said, but

965
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Speaker 1: I mean I can definitely see him coming out of

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Speaker 1: the backfield or even just lining up and doing some

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Speaker 1: some two man concepts and him kind of just pulling

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Speaker 1: some of that underneath coverage. I don't really foresee him

969
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Speaker 1: going down field too much, but him working on linebackers.

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Speaker 1: I think he could do that all day, all day long. Yeah,

971
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Speaker 1: he's a He's a package guy. You know, Tony, you

972
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Speaker 1: gonna have the Tony Pollard packages. Before we drafted Ceedee Lamb.

973
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Speaker 1: I think we talked about that a few episodes ago

974
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Speaker 1: about him actually being maybe that guy that to replace

975
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Speaker 1: Cobb is that third receiver in certain packages. Now with

976
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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb, most of those yards are gone and Ezekiel

977
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Speaker 1: Ellen is gonna need that bona fide backup to give

978
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Speaker 1: you that thunder lightning. And Tony Pollard showed you that

979
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Speaker 1: he has the capacity to take on that load as well.

980
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Speaker 1: So I mean, I'm excited for a young player like him,

981
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Speaker 1: and hopefully, you know, the the Cowboys have those different

982
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Speaker 1: packages to keep him involved, but also keeping him involved

983
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Speaker 1: in special teams, just keeping that rhythm goal. With Tony Pollard,

984
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to be important. You want to

985
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Speaker 1: get the ball question? Sorry, Kyle, now go for a rub.

986
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Speaker 1: It's just an interesting question though, because you get past

987
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Speaker 1: those top three receivers and it's like it's a lot

988
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: of young guys trying to get those maybe last two

989
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: or three spots. You know. Oh yeah, it's John Day

990
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Speaker 1: Johnson who was on IR last year. It's it's Devin Smith.

991
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: It's I'm trying to Cedric Wilson. Yeah, so you know,

992
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: it's you know, there's opportunity I think for Tony and

993
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: maybe help in that area. Well, and you look at

994
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Speaker 1: some of the stats that he's had over his career. Now,

995
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Speaker 1: last year was a little bit different. He didn't necessarily,

996
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: I don't think he was utilized as well as he

997
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Speaker 1: could have been in the passing game. Fifteen receptions, one

998
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: hundred and seven yards. However, you go back to what

999
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: he did in Memphis. He had at least twenty nine

1000
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Speaker 1: receptions each of his three years as a starter, and

1001
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Speaker 1: he had at almost almost or over three hundred yards

1002
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,720
Speaker 1: each season, and he averaged over ten yards per catch.

1003
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Speaker 1: So I think you could absolutely use a guy like

1004
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:07,399
Speaker 1: that and just get the ball in his hands. That's

1005
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,720
Speaker 1: kind of what I was gonna talk about with Heckma.

1006
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: You want to get your playmaker the ball, and he's

1007
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Speaker 1: one of those guys who is so lightning quick and

1008
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 1: so shifty that he could be a playmaker when need be. Yeah,

1009
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Speaker 1: that's you know, like you hit the nail on the

1010
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:22,800
Speaker 1: head when you talk about what he did at Memphis.

1011
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 1: He was I mean, they had a running back, they

1012
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Speaker 1: had a guy his full time running back, and Pollard,

1013
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 1: even though he was a running back, handle most of

1014
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:33,399
Speaker 1: the receiving duties for the running back. So I see

1015
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: him being able to have it already, that skill set there.

1016
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: But Isaiah alluded to it just him in those little

1017
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Speaker 1: small spaces up against a linebacker. I mean, that's a

1018
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: good night, Irene. You know that Tony Pollard is gonna

1019
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: win that battle every time. And so you know the

1020
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: Cowboys have a good problem. But once Cede Lamb came

1021
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: into the equation, man, those yard, that yard is just shrank.

1022
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Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah. I mean that's what I was gonna contest to.

1023
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: It is just how often do we really you know,

1024
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Speaker 1: I hate this because there's so much talent on every

1025
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Speaker 1: NFL team, right, I mean, I mean you're if you're

1026
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: in the league, you can ball, right, And what happens

1027
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: this guy's like polar get buried and you know they

1028
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: get they get buried. They get buried on rosters and

1029
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: they don't get the tick that they need. They don't

1030
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: get the tick that they need in order to develop

1031
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: into the players that they that they should be. And

1032
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: I think this is possibly another one of those scenarios, right,

1033
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you got those three receivers. Those guys aren't

1034
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 1: coming off the field, right, You got you got a

1035
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,879
Speaker 1: gallup coup and CD. They're not coming off the field.

1036
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: You gotta drawing at you know at tight end he's

1037
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: not coming off the field. You know, then you got Zeke.

1038
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: He's gonna get his touches. So how many touches do

1039
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: you honestly see Polar getting even if you go into

1040
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,800
Speaker 1: a five or five you know, five out, you know set,

1041
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 1: you know, you know what he's doing. He's running underneath routes.

1042
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: You know if he comes in the game, you know

1043
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 1: as at running back, is he really tolding the ball

1044
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: that much? Nah? You know, because we bringing Zeke back

1045
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: in so as a defense, you know that he's going

1046
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: to be limited in terms of what they're gonna allow

1047
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: for him to do. So you know, it kind of

1048
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: cuts down his productivity. So I like to kill. I

1049
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: like I think he's I think he's dope. But again,

1050
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: you know, you got some other do is that at

1051
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: you that you're paying it have to touch the field.

1052
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,439
Speaker 1: If there's one hope I have for twenty twenty, and

1053
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: there's plenty of hopes that I have for that offense

1054
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of high expectations around it. But

1055
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,760
Speaker 1: one of those hopes is. I don't want Tony Polar

1056
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 1: to get lost in the shuffle. I really don't. I

1057
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: know you have those weapons. Like Isaiah just rattled off,

1058
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: all of those guys are going to get their chance.

1059
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Speaker 1: I just want Tony Polar to make sure he gets

1060
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: his chance too, because he didn't get an opportunity last year.

1061
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: I don't think to really show what he had. And

1062
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: whenever he did have an opportunity, whether it was a

1063
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: small one or latent games, he showed out. And I

1064
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,879
Speaker 1: think that's something you should at least reward and try

1065
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: and fit into what should be an explosive offense, because

1066
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: I think he can add that to the table. Now,

1067
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: switching to the other side of the football, who are

1068
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: your starting corners? Of course, the Cowboys go out and

1069
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 1: take a second round selection in Treyvon Diggs. They add

1070
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 1: Reggie Robinson in the fourth round. You add that already

1071
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: to the cheetah Ooozier. You add that to the Jordan Lewis,

1072
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: the Anthony Browns of the world. Who is your starting corner? Oh,

1073
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: your three starting corners? Right now? Thinking about if you're

1074
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 1: in the shoes of Mike Nolan rob Well, it depends

1075
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 1: to me on what they do with Cheeto. You know,

1076
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 1: if he stays at corner, I see him as a starter,

1077
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: especially I leaned towards experience early given the state of

1078
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: this offseason, you know, I think I think Kevin Cheeto

1079
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: and having you know, maybe Anthony Brown too as starters

1080
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: might make sense early. But I you know, I think

1081
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: I could see Treybon Diggs as a starter down the

1082
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: stretch or playing starter caliber snaps down the stretch, just

1083
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: like those young corners did three years ago, Jordan Lewis, Cheeto,

1084
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,240
Speaker 1: those guys, those guys, it kind of became their secondary

1085
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,240
Speaker 1: as the year went on. But I think Isaiah's spoken

1086
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:46,759
Speaker 1: in this it's hard for a corner to step in

1087
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 1: right away, you know and play starter snaps, and they

1088
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 1: do have experience ahead of him, So I would lean

1089
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: on that early at least. I'm surprised that you said

1090
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: that Diggs is not an instant starter. Honestly, is he

1091
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 1: not maybe the best corner on the team right now? Well,

1092
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna have to go out and earn it,

1093
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 1: and and they're in a situation right now where there's

1094
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: not on field reps for him to take. So that's

1095
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: a great deal kind of I'm kind of factoring that

1096
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: in this year into how quickly can a rookie be

1097
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: ready to play NFL football if things continue the way

1098
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 1: they are. Obviously we're counting on having a training camp

1099
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: or at least, you know, I think the week is

1100
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 1: very hopeful of that at some point. But but I

1101
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,319
Speaker 1: gotta factor that in when I talk about, you know

1102
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: what a rookie can do right away? Now he's Trayvon

1103
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 1: Diggs is a day one starter for the Cowboys. Man,

1104
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: you might as well pencil in me and right now

1105
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: he's in flready, uh, every and it's everybody else after that,

1106
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 1: you know. So, I mean, tray Bon Diggs, I want

1107
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 1: to just Trayvon Diggs, Lewis and Woozier. In my bet,

1108
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: you know Brown is going to be, you know, third cornerback.

1109
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: That's that's just my belief. I think you just circled

1110
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 1: Trayvon and just say, hey, he's our starting guy right now,

1111
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: and everybody else is by it out on the other side. Yeah,

1112
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: I don't think you guys forget about the veteran that

1113
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: we picked up a couple of years ago. Daryl Worley, Yeah, yeah, Daryl.

1114
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: I mean I think I think you brought him in

1115
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: to do just that right. You brought him in, um,

1116
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 1: because he is a vet. You brought him in because

1117
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 1: he's lengthy, because he's feisty. He's gonna he's gonna be

1118
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: the representative of what you're trying to enact on that

1119
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: side of the ball. So I think that he starts.

1120
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: I think that, Yeah, that I believe that that Digg

1121
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 1: starts as well. I think those two guys are in there, um,

1122
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: and then you know you got Brown possibly in the slot.

1123
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,280
Speaker 1: I think he is gonna be back there to safety.

1124
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see him playing a corner too

1125
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 1: much more. I think you're gonna throw him back there.

1126
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: So I think you got those guys really competing. And

1127
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: then Robinson's gonna come along too, depending on how fast

1128
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 1: he develops in training him. Yeah, and I kind of

1129
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:46,319
Speaker 1: I think I wrote about this a week or two ago,

1130
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 1: talking about the shift of thinking in terms of Mike

1131
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: Nolan in the corners and wanting to go longer. I

1132
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if you see a combination of Darryl Worley,

1133
00:56:56,360 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 1: Trayvon Diggs and maybe even Maurice Kennedy and as well,

1134
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,320
Speaker 1: you talk about experience, Robin wanting a guy with experience.

1135
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,319
Speaker 1: I think those three guys could start. And the fact

1136
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: that Daryl Worley has started the majority of his games

1137
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: in his four years in the NFL kind of leans

1138
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 1: to the fact of maybe throwing him into this conversation

1139
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: a little bit more seriously. But I think that's a

1140
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: great point that you made about the fact that without

1141
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 1: this offseason, without these rookie training camps, at least in person,

1142
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: and then all of these different lead in events, it's

1143
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: going to be tough for a rookie to step in

1144
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: and start immediately. So last question here before we wrap

1145
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 1: things up for the day. Biggest hole to fill for

1146
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys still. You've addressed the interior offensive line,

1147
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: you attest the backup swing tackle, you've added hopefully something

1148
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: at right defensive end. Are any of those still the

1149
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: main concern when it comes to the Cowboys in twenty twenty.

1150
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 1: Heck no, We'll start with you, Ah, you know, obviously,

1151
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: you know the contingency plans at the edge. We want

1152
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: to know what Roger Goodell thinks about you know, Smith

1153
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 1: and Gregory um safety. I'm still I still think that

1154
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: their question marks at the strong safety position. I believe

1155
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods is, you know, the incumbent that we're just

1156
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: going to right now. But they're still may be an opportunity,

1157
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 1: uh to find some other guys in free agency are

1158
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:20,439
Speaker 1: after cuts final cuts are made. So I don't think

1159
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 1: that you know, I wouldn't say the biggest hole, but

1160
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: I think that that's just another position that you still

1161
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 1: have to be looking at upgrading. Example, I'm gonna go

1162
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: with depth at at outside linebacker and a tight end.

1163
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: Those are those those are two areas that I'm gonna

1164
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: go with. I think that we have pretty much all

1165
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: the other spots pretty much. You know, we have we

1166
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: have a lot of depth. Yea, yeah, you did continue

1167
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: to find depth that officer line. Um, they have depth

1168
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: at D line. I don't see a problem there. We're

1169
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: gonna get one of those ends, right you know, Smith

1170
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: or you know, Hopefully or whoever, you know, We're gonna

1171
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: get one of those guys back. No, they're not gonna

1172
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: He's not gonna not allow both of them back in

1173
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: the league. We hope back. They might come four games

1174
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: after after the season starts, but but one of those

1175
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: guys be in there. So I'm not worried about that anymore.

1176
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: But I am concerned about our depth de linebacker. You know,

1177
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: I think I think Sean Lee gets hurt or or

1178
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 1: you know, the Wolf or Jalen one of those guys

1179
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: getting hurts, Like who's stepping in that cauld fulfeel it

1180
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: the way that those guys work, right, I know we

1181
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: have a solid three, but if one of those three

1182
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 1: big three get knocked out, then you're then you're setting

1183
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:21,200
Speaker 1: up there stret Thomas right in the middle of the

1184
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 1: mix right there. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. So yeah,

1185
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: so that that and tight end, those are those are

1186
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: my picks. I got a totally echo when Isaiah just

1187
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,080
Speaker 1: said I was thinking a linebacker and because you know

1188
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: vander Esch, we'll see what he's able to do is

1189
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: the off season goes on, if he's gonna be ready

1190
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 1: for for training camp. Uh, and then yeah, tight end.

1191
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: You know, to me, it wasn't Uh. I didn't rule

1192
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 1: out the fact they could have drafted a tight end

1193
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 1: even though they got Blake Jerman, just because you know,

1194
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: I think not having Jason Witten, I think that that

1195
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: does leave a holder that's a guy that can block.

1196
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: He's an experienced player there, Blake Bell signing him, I

1197
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:58,439
Speaker 1: think that gives them some experience. But I think that's

1198
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: that's a spot to watch and see how those guys developed,

1199
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: because you know, look, Jarlin's not used to playing as

1200
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: many snaps as he's probably gonna play this year. I mean,

1201
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 1: he's usually playing about twenty five snaps a game, and

1202
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: now you're asking him to play Witten Droll. That's a

1203
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:15,439
Speaker 1: big difference now this year. Absolutely, And I think Blake

1204
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: Bell adds a little bit to that backup tight end

1205
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 1: spot because he's a better blocker, and I think he's

1206
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 1: somebody who's still an ascending player, much like Blake Jarwin.

1207
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: I think both blakes have an opportunity to be an

1208
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 1: ascending player in the early parts of their career. You've

1209
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: got Dalton Schultz back there. I agree with Isaiah on

1210
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 1: the linebacking corps, though, I think the fact that you

1211
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 1: need maybe one more guy in the mix there to

1212
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:40,439
Speaker 1: go along with the uncertainty of that position with Laton

1213
01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 1: vander Esh's health, the age of Sean Lee, and then

1214
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: also even the health and just play making ability of

1215
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, I think all of those kind of question

1216
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: marks add to the fact that you need another linebacker.

1217
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: But that's my opinion on that overall. But that's going

1218
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 1: to do it here for Talking Cowboys. It's been a

1219
01:00:57,080 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 1: fun Tuesday morning as well. Hope everybody's staying say out

1220
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: there and continuing to look forward to the fall. We'll

1221
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 1: be back next week. So for heck Ma Harrison, for

1222
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:08,479
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips and Isaiah stand back. I'm Kyle Yeoman saying

1223
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 1: so long here on Talking Cowboys. This has been a

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01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 1: production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys

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