WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Free Agency Buzz 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.760 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:14.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.079 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:29.160 Star in Frisco. Scot Tay and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:37.879 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeoman's It is 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:43.240 a Talking Cowboys Tuesday, a TCT here in the off 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:48.120 season presented by Tostidos. As we welcome you into the 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:53.120 SWBC studios at the Star and Frisco. Our favorite chip 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.120 and our favorite tip of talking Cowboys. I'm sorry they 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.360 changed to read on me again, so I forgot about 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:03.000 that one, But welcome in. It is a busy, busy 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.440 week at the Star in Frisco, and we are going 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.120 to get into every single spit of it for the 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:15.520 full hour, entire hour island right now, we have parked 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.959 outside of island. We don't have time like to like, 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.280 you know, bullcrap around the day. We got we need 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.280 three hours, man, we don't need to do There's no 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.360 shows after this. I think we're good. We're just gonna 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.679 keep on rolling. Beam. I know, I know, we've we've 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.679 got places to be, things to do. But guess what 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:36.480 free agency is here. It's the good, the bad, and 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.520 the ugly of NFL free agency. And we're gonna hit 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.160 all three of those throughout the segments, and initially in 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:43.920 the rundown that I sent out to you guys, I 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:45.840 had the good first. I wanted to start off on 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.080 a positive show. I don't think we can now, I 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.480 don't think we can do that magic carpet. We're gonna 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.480 talk about the carpet that was ripped out from underneath 0:01:54.480 --> 0:02:00.440 the Dallas Cowboys, and that involves Randy Gregory. Gregor, at 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.400 least earlier this morning, thought to have agreed to terms 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:09.000 with the Dallas Cowboys in a very not ludicrous, but 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.320 a very large deal, I should say, got his money, 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.240 got his bag, and he looked like he was coming 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.120 back for the Dallas Cowboys. But Rob Phillips as of 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:22.200 the last oh, this is mere pulling up to Rob 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:26.280 pie Island. Yeah, Randy Gregory's going to Denver? What he's 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:31.680 going to? The Denver Broncos apparently tap those brakes, right, spirt. 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:37.440 So we're taping this at eleven thirty three Central time, 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.359 and literally I think about eleven twenty five am Central time, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.640 we're finding out that Randy Gregory's apparently going to the Broncos, 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:49.280 not to the Dallas Cowboys. I'm literally just pulling up 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.160 to the Star right now and hearing that this is 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.079 going down. So I'm I'm still trying to get some 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.320 information on what happened, because as of I don't know, 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.440 about an hour or two ago, he wasn't done, but 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.720 the Cowboys were working on language and trying to trying 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.760 to iron things out and finish it up. That's that 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.640 was my understanding. And now, I mean, the Broncos are 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.280 putting memes out on Twitter that they've got Randy Gregory. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:18.040 So that's where we're at right now. I mean, you 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.760 wanted Pee Island. That's what he not a fun play. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.640 You mentioned how we were at eleven thirty three, it 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.119 was like eleven twenty nine, and then hekma looked over 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.960 at the screen that's got NFL network on and he 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.079 just had the most dejected look on his face. Well, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.120 I thought it was wrong. I thought it was a 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:38.600 type yeah, and uh it's not. And well let me 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.840 just start from where I was. I mean, every the 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.240 media is backtracking on it. Now is backtracking on this. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.400 Everybody had it though, Yeah, everybody had it. S I'm 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.840 looking at the tweet from Schefter right now, Cowboys are 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.600 resigning Randy Gregory because the agent put it out there. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.600 Exact money, Yeah, but now it's the same money, same deal, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.560 different place. It is Ultimately what it is, this is 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.119 a yeah, this is uh yeah, that's that. There had 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.120 to be some type of language in the contract something 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:08.880 I was. I was on my way in here to 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:13.040 just talk about loyalty and you know, and you know, 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.320 the organization showing loyalty to you and then you in 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.200 turn showing that loyalty back. I didn't, honestly, Isaiah, I 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.120 didn't understand the contract from his standpoint because I'm looking 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.320 at other guys signed bigger deals, and I'm saying to myself, like, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.599 wait a minute, that is definitely a hometown deal for 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.080 Randy Gregory to the Dallas Cowboys, and that says thank 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.320 you for staying down with me and believing in me. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.320 But this flip flop over to Denver, obviously without pe 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.280 telling us exactly what the language should have. What was 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.120 that's in the contract that obviously flip flopped him at 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:52.799 the last minute. I'm shocked. I'm shocked, I really am so. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.080 I just want to see what it is. But of 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.560 all the free agents that we had, Randy Gregory was 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.160 tops amongst the guy that you wanted to bring back 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.640 because of his freaky athleticism, his ability to hunt the quarterback. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.520 And now it feels as though we are a sort 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.240 of back too. I know we got Tank we gotta 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.360 talk about, but in a way, I think Tank kind 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.880 of solidified himself on one end as a run stopper 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.760 and not so much as a guy that's, you know, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.960 after the quarterback, which he can do that as well. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.080 I want to take that away from him. But man, 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.839 I'm shocked. I think everybody is who I think everybody is. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.800 Way to go, Denver. What are your thoughts, Isaiah? They 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.160 needed him? I agree they really needed this one hurts. 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.800 I'm happy for Randy Gregory as a person. Let's just 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.320 get that out of the way. Got his bag overcame something. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.760 The story is still there. I still love Randy. He's 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.120 still the guy. I wish he was a Dallas cowboy though. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.800 That's what hurts is I wish he was here. I 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.520 wish he would have stuck with the initial thought process. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.680 And I'm looking at a tweet from rap report and 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.839 of course this is all just reports, but understanding insisted 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.200 on contract language. Dallas did that Gregory did not like 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.920 protecting themselves. So he heads back to Denver. Yeah, and 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.600 it's it's all gonna come out now because the agent's 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.040 gonna well, you know, people are gonna be contacting. They're 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.880 gonna yeah, yeah, so Lang, which matters, it does. Sorry, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.840 I didn't mean to come No, you're good. I just 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.680 I just they needed Gregory. They needed Gregory more than 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.440 they needed d Law. And it's it's nice that they 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.080 have d Law, but they needed Gregory. I will say 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.000 that d Law was a want, Gregory was a need, 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.320 and they got it backwards. Is it because of what 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.040 Heckma just said, the pass rushing ability from Gregory as 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.400 opposed to the run stopping ability from Lawrence? I think 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.920 Gregory dropping down from twenty million dollars a year down 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.880 to ten million dollars a year. I think he asked 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.600 him acknowledging Lawrence. Yeah, d Law. That's sorry, d Law 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.839 making that adjustment in the contract. Wise, he understood where 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.400 where he was at. You know, he had he had 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.080 to come to Jesus moment, and he had acknowledged that, hey, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.479 this is where I am uh and this is what 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.719 my market is, and he took a deal that was 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:05.360 bole to both him and the team. Gregory's deal needed 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.760 to get done because now you don't have Gregory. Now 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.400 you have to go get an end. You have to 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.520 go get a rush in. And not only do you 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.160 have to go get a rush in, its like, do 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.200 you get a dominant rush in and spend that same 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:18.800 money that you're going to spend on Gregory or do 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.520 you spend that money that you're gonna spend on Gregory? 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.480 Go'll get you a B. Wagner and and get somebody 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.520 who can compliment d law right instead of But one 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:27.680 of the two things have to be. You have to 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.720 get a dominant player art getting somebody else. You have 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.360 to get a goon. You have to get a goon 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.040 at the defensive and position or at the mic linebacker position. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.200 One of those two. You can't just have okay guys 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.720 at both Michael Parsons to Marcus Lawrence, Randy Gregory only 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.520 played one hundred and forty snaps together this past season. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.440 In those one hundred and forty snaps, their yards per 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.760 play yards per a tent and QBR allowed would have 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.640 led all thirty two NFL teams in those one hundred 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.160 and forty snaps. Yeah, so they're good on the field together. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.800 And you know, remember we had this conversation about who's 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.960 getting on the magic Micah bus, right, who's the magic 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.400 who was getting on the bus. And we know Michael 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.760 Parsons is on that bus already. We already said Trayvon Diggs, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.880 all right, now Tank is on that bus. Now I 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.920 think they're obviously we want to have curse. These are 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.880 guys that are standing on the outside that we're waiting 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:19.000 to get on. But still this defense, even with everything 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.960 that's happened in the off season, everything that's beginning to 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.400 happen free agency wise, you gotta start to see where 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.160 this team isn't getting any better on both sides of 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.920 the ball. You've lost a key contributor on both sides already. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.480 Mary Cooper's gone. Yeah, then now Randy Gregory is gone. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.720 And so that's that's a that's gonna be that's gonna 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.360 be big shoes to feel for a team no matter 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:48.720 what that's looking for playmakers and we've just lost basically 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.400 a big piece, a big cog in that and that 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.439 will the Cowboys were prepared to sign Gregory to what 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.160 was the what was the money? It was over five 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.240 but it was really a two year, twenty eight million 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.240 dollar deal because all of the money was already precent guaranteed. Yeah, 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.040 and there was an out after the two years. I 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.840 wonder if that's the change between Denver and Dallas. I 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.360 wonder if Denver came in and say, you know what, 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.480 that's really a two year deal. They're kind of protecting themselves. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.839 We're gonna just we're gonna make sure that this is 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.400 a five year deal for you. It could be that 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.040 could be the change, or it could be more upfront money. Yeah, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:27.960 something like that. Um, but that's interesting because you know, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.000 like with Michael Gallup's deal, and we'll get into Michael 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:31.960 Gallup resigning as well. It's been a busy a few days. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.880 That's that's kind of like essentially a two year deal. 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.840 If you really want to drill down on it. Tank 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.319 is a two year deal too, technically, Yeah, so, but again, 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.600 but they're still they were still willing to pay Gregory 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.040 a nice chunk of change, and they're gonna have to 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.880 bad contract. I mean, Von Miller's out there. Our mail 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.440 back question today is a Darius Smith like how how 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.319 active are they going to be and trying to get 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.960 another guy to to Isaiah's point, because man, that you 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.520 thought you had your your your edge rushing duo intact 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.760 and now it's it's yeah, I'm with you. They're gonna 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.600 have to do something, I think, unless they want to 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.640 make it the top priority in the draft, which that's 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.560 not how they operate. They operate by covering themselves before 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.599 the draft and not being I mean, I wouldn't be 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.960 surprised if they go out and sign a wide receiver 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.559 at some point too. Even though you know they lost um, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.880 Cedric Wilson, you think, oh, well they'll draft a guy, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.600 you know, a handful of receiver. They got a lot 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:25.839 of things to do, They got a lot of Yeah, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.680 they got a lot of holes to plug. And it 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.000 seemed like they were on the right track in terms 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.760 of obviously, um, you know, securing Gallop and you know, 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.160 they made their move with Coop, which we knew was 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:37.920 going to come down to that, and we didn't know 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:39.360 what they was going to trade them. We thought they're 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.640 gonna just get released, but they were able to trade 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.520 away Coop and it seemed like, you know, we're hearing 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.680 rumors about their ability to hopefully try to bring curse back, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.440 and it seemed like they were you know, they got 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.520 d laws like Okay, they made it friendly to their 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.120 cap and you know, we're gonna made it him happy, 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.319 and it's like, okay, these boys is they making some 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.840 some moves man, as well as making some cap space 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.800 right and now who that rug just got pulled out, 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.880 that road got pulled out. Now they're in a situation 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.360 where I think they're gonna have to sign it, you 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.640 know with Zadarius, Yeah, somebody like that. You have to 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.280 get him. You have to get a Bobby. You got 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.400 to get a big, a big name like that on 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.760 that side of the ball that is a leader, that 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.800 is a leader and has a motor and has proven 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.680 in this league. And that's it. And it is such 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.360 a player that when you play an opposing team, they say, hey, 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.959 you better freaking get this dude under control otherwise to 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.240 erect the whole game. And I think coming into today 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.280 you felt okay, even this morning, you felt pretty good 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.640 about what things were lining up to be because you 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.079 were putting yourself in a position to get your key 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.800 pieces back and then also have a run at a 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.760 potential couple names down the road that can make an 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.280 impact in their own right. You only had lost guys 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.640 like Cedric Wilson. That's that's we kind of expected that 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.080 he was going to go get that back somewhere. William Connor. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.439 Williams was gone to the Dolphins two years, fourteen million 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.800 for for Connor row number two, which both both guys 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.800 were not expected back now. Cedric, because and I've been 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.319 saying this, he was gonna get a nice deal. I 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:00.760 didn't think he was to get it the first day 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.080 of free agency, but he got it for him Connor, 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:04.800 I think they were looking to change that left card 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:09.200 position exactly. I think really the only thing we were 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.760 surprised about, or that we were upset about, was Amari Cooper, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.199 and even then we had expected it. It wasn't really 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.120 a surprise that he was surprised by d Law. Honestly, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.760 I was. I thought it was a pleasant surprise. Yeah, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.959 a pleasant surprise, I thought. I mean, and Coop was 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.520 I knew, we knew that Coop wasn't going to be 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.440 back here. You wanted some kind of competence, compensation. Didn't 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.400 think they're gonna get conversations. You got a little bit. Yeah, 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.400 they got something. So kudos of them for not just 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.640 releasing him. Right, They got some value for him. So 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.360 if you were going to make that move, now, let 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.120 me standing. I did not want Coop to leave everybody. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.920 Everybody okay, cool, So I just want to make sure 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.199 that people don't take the twister around. But if you're 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.360 not that, you're gonna lose him. Minus will get something 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.280 for him. Great job. They got some value there. Awesome, Okay, 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:58.280 but they lost it right now. That receiver room is 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.959 looking thin, scary, it's very scarce, and you're gonna have 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.319 to go grab a veteran like Landry because who's leading 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.120 that room. You gotta go grab a Landry. You gotta 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.079 grab somebody that's that's proven, not necessarily has to be 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.240 a necessarily a dog, but a contributor that is a 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.400 proven leader in this league, because otherwise that room has 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.839 no leadership. It's gotta be Ce Lamb and Michael gall 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:17.600 That's kind of what I'm thinking. No, no no, no, before 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.679 you do the mic flip, no, I mean Michael Michael 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.520 Gallas for this fifth season, you know, and they just 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.040 paid him sixty two millions. He's got to be a leader. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.800 CD's your guy now, right, But got stuff. But at 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.880 some point we're gonna have the Ceede Lamb conversation. We're 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.600 gonna have a real conversation about Ceedee Lamb whether he 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.120 can be the number one. We're also going to have 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.320 to start having a real conversation about Kellen Moore in 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.120 his offense. This is a real conversation that has to 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.080 be had going into twenty twenty two. So that way, 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.720 we can't deal with any what the alternate facts are, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.560 you know, fake news going on with our team, because 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.240 we're dealing with a lot of that right now. You 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.640 talk about the rug being pulled from under us, that's 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.160 all that was. Let's talk about d Law and the 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:06.200 deal that he that he signed. Come to Jesus moment 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.760 a reality check to go from nineteen million dollars to 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.880 ten million dollars, dude, And not just that, but you 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.920 cut his cap hit for twenty twenty two in half, 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.120 which and I just had this conversation upstairs, like, well, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.120 that's why they should have tagged Randy Gregory, That's why 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.440 they should have given him the franchise tack. No, because 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.240 they didn't want to carry a twenty million dollars cap chart. Now, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.080 I guess you could have tagged him with the expectation 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.000 of trying to get a long term deal done. It's 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.480 not guaranteed when you tag somebody, just like Dalton Schultz, 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.120 is not guaranteed they're gonna get a deal done with 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.640 him before July fifteen. No, that's why they probably didn't 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.280 want to do that. But that's why that's why Tanks 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.600 deal is so big, because now you're opening up some cash, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.080 some space to get some other things done. They want 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.000 to get jay Ron Curse done. That's another guy to 0:14:54.080 --> 0:15:00.880 watch for the next day to the show. If it's 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.640 by the end of the show, I wouldn't be surprised. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.120 He's tweeting out already, thank you God, like he's he's 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:09.360 sending these these cryptic tweets out there saying like something's happening, 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.800 something's going on behind the scenes. So that's curse Twitter. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.400 It's just saves everything, it really has. I mean, it's 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.680 the instantaneous that's breaking their own news. You're right before 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:24.560 with the factor Chine, the dial up tone, all online 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:30.000 morse code crazy. There's a lot going on. This is 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:34.800 this is as crazy a legal tampering period day as 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.960 I can remember. All let's do it is real quick. 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:39.160 I know we probably got go to break he in 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.040 a minute. What was your grade when you walked in 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:46.280 today with the assumption that Kurse was going to be signed, 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:50.560 because that hasn't happened, signed Hooker's back, right, and you 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.320 got d law under under favorable contract, and you expected 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.760 Gregor to be signed. What was your grade on the 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:01.280 Cowboys offseason to part so far? I went being c 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.880 to be with with the expectation of those those guys 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.680 coming in. Okay, so you was at a B. Yeah, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.360 I was probably like a B minus. I was right there. Yeah, 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.880 I felt I didn't feel good about it, but I 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.440 was okay with it. But it still kind of left 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.120 a lot to be desired on the back end. There's 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.360 still a long way to go until we build this role. 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.840 I was at A based upon what I knew they 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.000 were gonna do with Coop. I didn't obviously I didn't 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:27.840 like that Coup decision. But if you're gonna get rid 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.040 of Coup, they got valid. I think it's impossible to 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.680 be given a grade. Yeah, I would give I'm almo 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.360 as far as they're what they had in terms of retention, Yeah, 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:36.920 I would give an A. I was given an A 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:38.280 because I didn't think that they were gonna be able 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.240 to get both d Law and Greg back on the 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.760 same roster, as well as get Cursed back and Hooker 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:45.360 and you know what saying. I didn't think they're gonna 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.280 be able to get all these guys batch. So in 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.800 terms of what they're doing up their numbers wise, they 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.520 were doing a hell of a job, right, And then 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.160 it's an A on defense you throw in the Coop thing, 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.640 and so it was a huge well yeah, I mean 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.200 but I would probably I would probably say it be yeah, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.440 because I you know, I'm giving it an A basic part. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.640 We knew that Coop wasn't coming back. Yeah, I don't 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.000 like the Coop being gone. No, I mean I think, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:12.919 I mean, what would it be now? Who? Yeah, you 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.480 asked the question. I know you knew that. I think 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.160 I'm dropping it down to a B minus because they 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.320 can still they can reverse course, and they can still 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:23.840 they can still make a big splash at half. I 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.040 came into this with the expectation that they were going 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.240 to make a ginormous splash, like a splash move somebody 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.359 who's not on this roster. And I believe that now 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.600 they even more so have to do that. Yeah, I 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.040 think that's Yeah. I think it's an incomplete because I 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.679 think they still have work to do now, especially to 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.000 be complete until we get to training. But they weren't. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.080 They were going to focus on their own guys first think, 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.320 and now you lost one, apparently the thing would And 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.359 I have to say this about Coop. I was, I was. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.280 I was really numb about the whole Coop deal anywhere. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.159 I told you, I was like, look, man, how we 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.280 didn't figure out a way to use him all the 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.280 time that we had him, and we gave up to 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.160 get him to then trade him away for a five 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.360 or six. It basically said what we thought about him, 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.160 or we gave up all our leverage in the negotiation 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.520 portion of it. It was the leverage and the contract 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.040 were the two biggest things that didn't give him return. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.919 Teams were scared away by the twenty million dollars a 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.200 year over the next three years. I think I think, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.120 I mean, I agree, but I think it was more 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:25.760 so the fact that teams knew that he was gonna 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.680 be released. I think that into it, sure, I mean, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.080 and I think the only reason why Cleveland. Cleveland knew 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:32.720 that he wasn't going to sign with them if he 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.280 went free. So Cleveland was like, let me beat everybody. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.240 That's a great point. We got a mail back question 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.320 a couple of days ago asking what the Jets do 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.160 it because and it's technically this is not official yet, 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.760 it's gonna get done. I'm confident of that. Uh, because 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.800 the Jets, who would they sign? Would he signed with 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:50.600 the Jets? No, so go ahead, and would you give 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.399 up like a second round pick that wasn't going to 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.880 happen because of the contract that that that's that's that's 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.199 why deals like this don't happen that often when they 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:02.520 do amark for a fifth round pick. Yeah, Cleveland was 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:06.920 not destination for Mary Cooper. He was. No, I wouldn't. 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.680 I wouldn't think he wanted to stay here. That's I'm 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.879 pretty kind. Like he has said over and over again, 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.680 he wanted to stay. He loves Dallas, wanted to stay 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:19.280 in Dallas. So that's why do you think the rumor 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.360 has any merit to it? What's that him and him 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.480 in that conversation. None, No, no, I don't want to know. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.680 I don't I don't think someone at all. I'm glad 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.040 you asked that question though, because it's out there and 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:33.760 a lot of people think it's a real thing. It's 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:35.919 not a real thing at all. But we can we 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:37.760 can get into Mary. But but what I was gonna 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.119 say was, I when when I saw what they did 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.800 with Tank, it made me wonder, could they have done 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.200 that with Coop? Should they have done that with Cooper? 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.600 They could have, they could have reworked. Not they to 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:51.800 do that with Coop? I don't know if they see 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:53.719 I don't know if they did. I wonder if they 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.600 just decided, look, we got to save money and we're 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:00.000 gonna yeah we've got a CD Lamb to fall back 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.679