WEBVTT - Podcast Reaction: Jason Witten Unretires 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:09.720 This. He's hanging with the talking Cowboys brains. They block 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.640 it up beautifully, fade right side of the end. Jason 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:16.480 Witten over the shoulder. That's a goat catch. I think 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.840 that was a one hander, Brad touchdown. Jason Witton the goat. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:27.520 Whoa yo yo. That is not just a memory lane anymore. 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.040 That's not a thing of the past, guys, It's a 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:30.840 thing of the future and of now. Welcome to the 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:35.240 Emergency Podcast. Lindsay Draper and Nick Eatman Derek Eagleton reacting 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:40.120 to Jason Witton coming out of retirement. I have to 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.760 admit my first question was as a coach or as 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.279 a player. Guys. You guys were upstairs, I was downstairs. 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.400 What was your reaction? April fools? First thought was what 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.519 month is this? Wait a second, and were getting punked here? 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.000 Like what? And then I really, you know, I was like, Wow, 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.400 I like it. I like the movie. I mean, I 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.000 like it. I mean because and this is a good 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.320 young football team that made the playoffs and is going 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.399 to enter the season with some issues at tight end. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.880 And you know what, and he and I think that, 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.119 like he said in his statement, you know, he's still 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.479 the fire, still burning there, and you know, he's got 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:16.800 to get those secrets. They're still in the dirt. Let's 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.480 go get them. So, you know, I didn't think it 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.640 was completely shocking. I mean, I was obviously as everybody 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.679 as you're shocked at the initial news of it. But 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.440 then when I thought about it, I was like, you know, 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.039 and I'll take you back to the playoffs in January. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.280 I was talking to Taylor one day and we were 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.039 just kind of talking about the team, and one thing 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.600 I mentioned to her was, I wonder right now, And 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.680 this was in January, like first round of playoffs. I said, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.800 I wonder right now if Jason Witten is having any 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.600 second thoughts is he looking at this team? Because it's 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.520 my personal opinion. I don't know, He's never said this 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.880 to me or anybody I've heard of. My belief is 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.600 that part of the reason that he walked away is 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.240 because he didn't necessarily see that this was a team 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.920 that was right there on the custom of a championship. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.840 And it made me think, is he rethinking that? Thinking? Man, 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:05.600 what I've seen from this team over the last eight 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.200 weeks of the season, when they went from three and 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.960 five to where they are now, what I'm seeing is 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.120 that this team is really good. This team has some 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.440 great potential, and I could actually feel a void for them, 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.119 that maybe the void that could push him over the top. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.120 I wonder if he was having that kind of conversation 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.640 with himself back in January, and so it made me 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.960 when I heard this news. It made me think maybe 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.000 he was having that conversation with himself, and maybe he 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.120 looked at it now like I see this team as 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.400 a rising team. If I jump back in, I can 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.320 feel a void. And by the way, maybe that's enough 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.040 for me to be able to get that at ever 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.640 elusive ring or get get deep in the playoffs. He 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.760 has not been able to do that ironing with that 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.079 if that is true, and I don't know why it 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.440 wouldn't be. Of all that stuff that you just said, 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.000 there's so much ironing because I have sat there with 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:54.040 Witton on two occasions where he has been really visibly 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.840 upset about situations sort of like that. One of them 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.959 was Cole Beasley who decided to quit raining camp and 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.400 go back home because this wasn't for him. But then 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.080 he came back and after a weekend and he was like, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.320 you know what I changed in my mind. I'm sorry. 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.200 I had a little relapse there, and Jason Witten wasn't 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.560 about it. He was like, no, I'm not No, you 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.080 can't just quit on us and come back. And so 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.920 he had to apologize to Witten. And there was a 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.280 tight end way back in the day, Scott sicko same thing. 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.480 Didn't think he wanted to play, then he kind of did, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.160 and Witten play. If you don't think you want to play, 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.480 then you're out. And so it's kind of weird that 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.040 it comes back around like that. If that's what happened, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.040 there's more to it. I mean, there's obviously more to 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.360 it there. I mean a lot of people have already 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.760 asked me and he hasn't gone around too too quickly, 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.320 and they're like, was he gonna get fired by the ESPN? 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.360 Was did he get And I don't think that's the case, 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.560 because I don't think you decided to go play football 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.960 if your sixteenth year, if you needed a job. He 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.440 didn't need. You know, he still had a job. It's 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.920 not like he took that, you know. I just think 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:55.640 that he still wanted to play. I think you're it's 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.320 more what you were saying about still wanting to play football. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.560 Hopefully we are going to hear from our friends up 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.240 at the combine. Ran brought us Rob Phillips, David Hellman. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.880 They are scrambling now like that. Yeah, they're like they 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.560 are on the hunt right now, looking to see if 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.320 there is a Jones or a Garrett there. But we 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.440 went here from you, guys. Garrett eighty eight eight by 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.800 by two two ninety seven is the number. But the 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.560 phone lines will always be freed up for our pals 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.080 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Uh, realistic expectations, guys. I 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.159 want to just get right into it and not even 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.120 beat around the bush because I've I've seen a lot 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.720 of tweets come out and say, well, you know, tight 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.520 ends no longer a priority in the draft, and I personally, 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.640 you know, disagree with that because I think sitting a 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.800 year off thirty seven years old, Um, you gotta be 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.839 realistic with yourself about his contributions. He is one of 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.160 the greatest Cowboys of all time. But we got to 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.919 be real here. I agree with you. I just don't 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.880 think you have to go get a tight end if 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.240 he happens and you're in the third, fourth round and 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.880 you know this guy's rated high. Then, yeah, you look 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.560 at you look at Witten in his age and all that, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.800 but you do think that you know, Schultz and jar 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:04.040 two young players that you know their time is coming 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.040 as well. Now we've seen in the past what young 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.279 tight ends behind Whitten don't always work. I think maybe 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.800 things are going to change some there. And another thing 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.720 at his press at his press conference for the Jason 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.280 Witten College Player of the Year, he was long ago, 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.960 eight weeks ago up here asked about he was asked 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.800 about Kellen Moore and he kind of, you know, and 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.320 talked a little bit about how he thinks Kellen's going 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.120 to really help Dak and do things now that Dak 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.960 is really able to do. Kind of made it sound 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.960 like Lenahan wasn't doing that. It just hasn't really high 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.560 praise for Kellen Moore. And maybe that's part of it too. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.280 Maybe this offense is actually something he thinks is a 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.040 little bit more suited for him. Yeah. I know someone 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.320 that talked him off the record, and he was very 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.839 very he had a lot of praise for Kellen Moore 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.440 and what he thought Kellen Moore could do with this offense. Again, 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.599 maybe that has something to do with this decision that 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.360 And that's not a knock necessarily on Lenahan as much. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.320 It is just I think he as a belief that 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.000 Kellen Moore has the ability to really take this offense 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.400 to another level and he can see himself maybe in 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.239 that role and that that may be something that excites 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.599 him a little bit. And that coupled with Nick, I 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.119 want to rewind to something you said earlier to pull 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.560 him back. I mean, we could talk a full podcast 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.640 alone on what it's going to take to be in shape, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.640 to get ready, to get your body right. But what 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.960 you said that this team actually could be a contender 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.839 that could lure him back, coupled with I mean, Jason 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.360 Witton's been around Kellen Moore. This is a couple of 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.520 things we don't know, you know that that he might 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.280 bring to the table. So that kind of makes this 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.120 Kitten don't forget Kitt Kitna have been teammates, like he 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.200 knows these guys. Well, I'm just going to read the 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.120 quote if we didn't already have seen it already, But 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.200 the quote says exactly that, and I'm I'm actually surprised 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.279 a little bit about it that he that he says 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.520 the fire and side of me to compete and play 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.200 this game is just burning too strong. This team has 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.680 a great group of rising young stars, and I want 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.680 to help them make a run at a championship. This 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.120 was completely my decision. I'm very comfortable with it. I'm 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.160 looking forward to getting back in the dirt, but just 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.039 but just admitting that, Yeah, this team has a chance 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.320 to win and I want to be a part of it. Oh, 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.120 I'm glad. I'm glad. You know he went out and 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.440 said that, because that's kind of what you were alluding 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.840 to as well. I don't think it had anything really 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.360 to do with what was going on in Monday night football. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.520 I mean, it's hard to jump into the booth for 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.720 your first broadcasting gig and be the He had some moments. 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.280 He wasn't polished. He's not Romo. They did him no 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.440 favorite He's not Romo. They did him no favors. I 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.440 think and all of us can probably recognize this because 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.720 we work in media. But it is a difficult thing. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.440 As we're about to do this in just a moment, 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.240 but it is a difficult thing to do a broadcast 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.960 with someone that you cannot see. Yeah, and for his 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.920 first time in the booth, first time doing media. Really 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.600 they asked him to do a game where one of 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.960 the people that was a part of their threesome was 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.320 actually on the field and they could not see him 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.840 to be able to take nonverbal cues of when you're 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.560 gonna talk, when you want to talk, when you want 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.160 to stop, how you want to enhance something that they're saying, 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.800 or they want to enhance something that you're saying. Like 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.280 they did him no favors trying these things with a 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:13.720 relatively freshman group of guys working together in that capacity. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.160 So I don't think ESPN did him any favors. I 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.840 think that is a poor to me, that is a 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.720 poor reflection of what you could expect from when if 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.520 he decides to do that in the future. I think 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.160 that was a learning year, and they put him on 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.640 the big stage and gave him a lot of unexpected things. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.640 It's a very experimental group right in that kind of environment. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.720 I just think ultimately, I think if he wants to 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.960 go back into that, I think another network or ESPN 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.040 will do it in a much more control type of 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.120 environment to let him kind of get more used to it, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:45.560 rather than just storing him out there. I don't think 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.040 they did. The next headset or earpiece he will put 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.760 in will be as a coach. Anyways, I hear we 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.559 have Brian broad Us on the line from ins BB. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.319 Just talk to us, man. What do you got, Well, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:03.040 we kind of located were the head coaches. Yeah, we 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.040 we actually got to visit Dave and I real quickly 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:10.160 grabbed Kellen Moore and we're over here at the Marriott 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.559 across the street from the Jaw Marriott, So wherever h 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.280 at the Marriott and we're staking out trying to get 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.959 to Jason Garrett to give us a little idea. This 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:22.720 was something that obviously just didn't happen today, I don't think, so, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.080 you know, we had opportunities with kind of visit with people. 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.880 So yeah, we're over here kind of hanging out, waiting 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.920 hopefully we'll get something from a coach Garrett about about 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.120 the situation. But kind of one of those traditional things 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.280 that happens to us at Dallas Cowboys dot Com. We 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.040 were all having lunch when this all went down, So 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.320 how it goes the street continues for us, Brian. The 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.600 other than that, other than maybe you know the salad 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.600 that you were eating got cut into that a little bit. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.920 But you love this, don't you. You love going to 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.720 steak out and try to find them. Yeah, no, this 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.360 is a lot of fun actually, because you know, we 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.000 I've got all these connections with the teams, as we 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.200 all do. So I was kind of kind of like 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.280 it was like playing the game of Clue. You know, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.800 I was, I was in the laboratory and I was looking, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.120 and then I had to go to the ballroom and 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.000 then I had to go you know, I guess I'm 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.720 too old for the game of Clue. But yeah, yeah, yeah, candlestick. Yeah, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.080 you know this is plumb all that stuff, you know, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.640 Professor Plumb. There are you gonna hit Dave with the candlestick? 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.160 I should, but but no, we're you know, it's yeah, 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:26.640 we eliminated the stadium, We eliminated the team hotel, we 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.080 eliminated you know, we and finally, like I say, running 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.520 into Kellen Moore, Kellen said, hey, I've got to I've 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.360 got to go meet with coach. So we've we've got 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.520 him cornered up here. But yeah, this is you know, 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.680 this is something that you know, we uh, we're kind 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.719 of all here and you know, we were trying to 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.400 grab Steven Jones. When we've learned Stephen Jones is not here, 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.360 he's back in Dallas, will be back here tonight with 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.040 with Jerry, So again, hopefully we can have the opportunity. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.280 But yeah, this was one of those things that you know, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.120 I know that was not being talked about here. Uh. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.360 You know, even the people that I know at ESPN 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.120 and stuff like that, I think that they were a 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:03.120 little bit surprised about this all went down. And so, uh, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.320 you know, we'll see, uh, you know, we'll see if 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.280 we can kind of get to get to the bottom 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.559 of some of these things. But you know, for the Cowboys, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.680 they like to talk about how now the youngest team, 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.040 the youngest team, the youngest team. Well, you know, they've 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.840 added some age to this team now. And to be 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.679 quite honest with you, I'm really am surprised that they 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.600 didn't make this move. Really, uh what do you think 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.959 it does for the chemistry? And it really and kind 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:28.800 of expand on that, why why are you kind of 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.520 surprised by that? I'm surprised because you know, it's to me, 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.800 it's you know, well, let's be honest, though, you know, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.080 we've kind of during the season that was talking about 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.360 him coming back, and Oben Rodgers from one U five 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.679 three was you know, went out on that limb and 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.800 you know, and took a lot of criticism for it. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.320 And I know everybody we've had contacts with Witten and 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.560 stuff like that, but you know, we kind of heard 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.880 the whispers that maybe things weren't going as well as 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.520 they need to be. And I heard you guys before 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.080 I came on talking about, you know, it was a 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.480 difficult situation, and you know, I totally agree on that, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.920 you know, and you know, Witten is, you know, one 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:03.800 of these guys. I felt like though when he hung 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.560 it up, you know, he was going to hang it up. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:06.920 I didn't feel like that there was going to be 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.160 any you know going back. You know, and usually players 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.640 know when they need to move on. And you know, 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.839 it's very surprising that, you know that he took the 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.280 year off and then now is coming back. And so 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.640 you know, I think when you look at this draft, uh, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.840 you know, I feel like that. You know, we pack 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.880 on the Draft show last night, we were talking about, Okay, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:27.920 how do you find a way to trade back into 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.920 the first round and grab one of these first round 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.640 tight ends? Would you would you consider trading for one 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.080 of these first round tight ends. So you know, I 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.320 think this team was making plans to to go that direction. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:42.280 So again, it's a little surprising to me that they would, 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.440 you know what, they would entertain this. Uh you know, now, 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.400 well they entertained it, I guess earlier or later in 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.600 the year. But now we've full blown got it, you know, 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.880 full circle here, so that you know, that's a it's 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:55.960 a team that you know, it felt like I's always 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.440 tried to get you know, get younger and and uh, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.760 you know, add talent that way. Just a little bit 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.360 surprising to me they went this route. Well, Brian, knowing 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.880 that it's a it's a guy that's an aging player. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.960 Sure do you think that in your opinion, do you 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.920 think it's still the wise and prudent thing for the 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.319 Cowboys to do to still consider tight end as a 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.400 priority during this draft? Well, yeah, I think you know, 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:20.600 you have to look at it, especially if it's a 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.080 one year deal. But you know, maybe this is the 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:27.160 bridge that they needed to get, you know, another year 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.280 with Schultz and another year with Jarwin. You know, usually 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.480 you could take veteran players. I mean, we were thinking 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.760 about you know, Sean Lee. With Sean Lee the kind 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.920 of the bridge to get the other guys ready, you know, 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.400 and these young kids just came in and played from 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.840 the word go, and you know, really, Sean Lee is 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.200 there was kind of an afterthought there for a while. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.400 But yeah, I just feel like though it's I think, 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.000 if it's any other player than Jason Witten, and maybe 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.480 this doesn't work this way, but you know again, I 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.079 I just I thought that they were going to say, okay, 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.400 let's just go with the young tight ends. You know, 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.600 let's draft a young tight end and then you know 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.000 that way you have you know, Jarwin young tight end, Shultz, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.320 you know, and then kind of go that round because 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:12.080 this again, this this this draft one of the really 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.160 you know, we could have two three tight ends taken 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.959 in the first round, you know, with the with depending 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.480 on how this thing falls. So uh and then the 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.160 depth of the position is actually pretty good. Now does 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.720 that preclude them from taking Derek the question you ask? 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.240 You know, I would hope not considering this is just 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.560 a one year deal. Okay, you when you're talking about 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.920 the tight ends, and Brian knows this better than anyone, 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.560 you talking about tight ends three projected guys in the 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.360 first round. You know that that's a position that I 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.600 could that sometimes those guys could slide, you know. Uh 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.560 and and you know they're maybe sitting there at maybe 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.640 not fifty nine, but sitting there in the fifties or 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.360 with a chance to trade up and go man, yeah, yeah, 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.800 that's where you know, you got the extra compensatory four 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.640 and so okay, how do you take you know, fifty 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.560 eight at four and moved, you know, get up. You know, 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.040 we were talking about can you get into the forties 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.320 to get one of these guys? And you know that's 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.760 probably what you're gonna have to do now. You know, 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.440 I would guys, I would hope that this wouldn't take 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.880 them out of the tight end market. You know, we 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.320 talk about you know it's hard to say, not hard 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.480 to say, but it's difficult to say. You know, would 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.120 Jason Witten be a progress stopper? You know, would he 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.640 be you know, would he prevent you from getting a 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.800 tight end? And you would hope not, You really really 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.440 would hope not. But you know, we need to see 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.200 where Jason Witten's role is going to be with this team. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.000 You know, he's excited about coming back. You know, Nick, 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.800 you just read the quote, but you know where is okay? 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.360 Is Jason Witton going to play eighty percent of the snaps? Again? 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.360 Is he gonna play seventy five percent of the snaps? 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.200 You know what number of the snaps is he going 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.320 to play? And then you know that's where I think 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.720 you kind of have to look at things and say, Okay, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.440 is the level of how many snaps are you going 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.920 to play? You know, really really worth it for this team? Brian, 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.880 will you call us back if you track anybody down? Yeah, 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.880 we will. We're hanging out. It's it's so much fun 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.640 just to hang out and look at elevators, you know, 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.880 exciting time. So yeah, but yeah, absolutely, we will check 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.680 back in which you guys appreciate you having me on. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.040 All right, thanks, I appreciate it. All right, guys, we're 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.320 going to take a quick break and regroup, but we 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.240 will be back. The number again is eight eight eight 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.640 by five two two nine seven. Selor has been helping 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.480 Cowboys fans see better since nineteen seventy two, so they 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.840 don't miss a moment on the field. 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