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Speaker 2: Today is Tuesday, January twenty third, and we are officially
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Speaker 2: I'm Kyle Yeoman's Chris Beam in the back as we
Speaker 2: break it down for you today, We've got plenty of
Speaker 2: draft news, Cowboys news, and then coming up very very soon,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be talking about Senior Bowl.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Shrine Bowl, yes, sir.
Speaker 2: Got some good things coming on the horizon here for
Speaker 2: the draft, but we've got got some early things to
Speaker 2: talk about. Brian, it feels like every time the Cowboys
Speaker 2: get to this time of the year and Cowboys fans
Speaker 2: are still.
Speaker 3: Watching NFL playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're looking at these teams that are having success,
Speaker 2: that are moving on and they're saying.
Speaker 3: How can we build that similar direction?
Speaker 2: So I ask you the question, did you learn anything
Speaker 2: from the divisional round weekend? And these teams that are
Speaker 2: going to play for conference championships this week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the things that we like to talk about in
Speaker 5: player personnel evaluations and how to build your team is
Speaker 5: talking about the middle of your team, the middle of
Speaker 5: your say, the middle of your defense. Continue to look
Speaker 5: at what the San Francisco forty nine ers do at linebacker.
Speaker 5: Continue to look at how teams handle the middle of
Speaker 5: the field. You look at what Dallas didn't handle the
Speaker 5: middle of the field well in their playoff matchup against
Speaker 5: Green Bay Packers. Oh yeah, really, yeah, statistically, you're right.
Speaker 5: The look at what San Francisco did against green Bay.
Speaker 5: Everything outside the numbers was fine for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 5: Everything up the middle of that defense was a problem
Speaker 5: for that team. So to me, when we look at okay,
Speaker 5: we all know about the line situation, we kind of
Speaker 5: understand a little bit about the safeties in what's going
Speaker 5: on here.
Speaker 3: The tackles are another thing.
Speaker 5: But I've always it just reinforced to me that if
Speaker 5: you're not solid and dependable up the middle of your defense,
Speaker 5: you're going to have problems in these games. And the
Speaker 5: San Francisco forty nine Ers are the best example of that.
Speaker 3: To me. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You can look at the Baltimore Ravens too, what they've
Speaker 4: been able to do on the defensive side of the
Speaker 4: ball and that linebacking corp that they have, and it's strong.
Speaker 4: It's strong. You look at the teams that are still
Speaker 4: playing and what they kind of have in common, it's
Speaker 4: things that the Cowboys don't have. It's very clear that
Speaker 4: it needs to be addressed.
Speaker 2: It's run game, it's interior defensive line, it's linebackers. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a little bit of everything. I issue whenever you
Speaker 2: look at the teams that are winning these games and
Speaker 2: then the style that they're.
Speaker 3: Winning it too, because they can win in different ways,
Speaker 3: that's part of it.
Speaker 2: And then Cowboys can win in different ways too, Let's
Speaker 2: not get it twisted. But whenever it comes to that way,
Speaker 2: specifically that physical ground game and controlling the trenches, you
Speaker 2: just don't have that.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and one thing that stands out to me,
Speaker 6: and that stood out to me when you talk about
Speaker 6: all those teams, they're good at twelve personnel.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because it counters.
Speaker 6: A lot of what teams like to do this defensively,
Speaker 6: especially when you talk about the nickel and how teams
Speaker 6: use it, and so to me, the lack of Cowboys ran.
Speaker 8: I don't know how much twelve personnel they ran this year.
Speaker 6: They had a lot of success in eleven, which was
Speaker 6: kind of to me the opposite of last year.
Speaker 7: They had more success than twelve personnel.
Speaker 6: I really think moving into next year, I want to
Speaker 6: see them be more stout there to counter some of
Speaker 6: the things that teams do defensively and be able to
Speaker 6: move the ball efficiently.
Speaker 2: Is that possible to revamp that entire physicality though in
Speaker 2: one draft?
Speaker 3: We've been talking about this for two years with the
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys. To be honest with you guys, yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean if we've all covered this team long enough
Speaker 5: and understand it that, you know, it was two years
Speaker 5: ago that the draft was all about going out and
Speaker 5: getting tougher guys. They stood up on the podium there
Speaker 5: and told us about they needed to be tougher, they
Speaker 5: needed to be more physical. We're still talking about it here,
Speaker 5: you know, and you kind of felt like that, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe lst year with the draft with you know, the
Speaker 5: first couple of picks, I was linking up with Mozzie Smith,
Speaker 5: the three hundred and twenty nine pound defensive tackle. I
Speaker 5: was thinking about a physical tight end at the point
Speaker 5: of attack. You know, those things didn't work out for them.
Speaker 5: I think they're still chasing that physicality, you know, demeanor,
Speaker 5: if you want to say, for their football team.
Speaker 7: I have a question to that.
Speaker 6: When you think about the Cowboys roster, who are the
Speaker 6: gentlemen that you think about that are physical?
Speaker 2: The first one I think of is Tyler Smith up front?
Speaker 2: Young in terms of like young guys that you're going
Speaker 2: to have for moving forward for a significant amount of time.
Speaker 2: I think of Tyler Smith Nick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sitting here thinking Tyler Smith ceedee laman route
Speaker 4: running this past year. He showed a lot more physicality
Speaker 4: this past season. But like, if we're talking about guys
Speaker 4: you would like to see on the defensive side of
Speaker 4: the wall be a little bit more physical, like Donovan
Speaker 4: Wilson obviously.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Aside from that, it's it's tough to really you'd be reaching.
Speaker 3: Would you throw Osa in there?
Speaker 4: First eight games? Osa?
Speaker 3: See this is this is the thing that we have
Speaker 3: to figure out too.
Speaker 5: And that's a great point you made, And to your point,
Speaker 5: I think it's Wilson, I mean to.
Speaker 3: Your question, I think is so smart.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think if you said, who's the smartest player
Speaker 5: you have on your defense, I would.
Speaker 6: Say And so my follow up question of that is, well,
Speaker 6: the way that I processed it is the way besides
Speaker 6: Tyler on the offensive side of the ball, on the
Speaker 6: defensive side of the ball, your physical guys.
Speaker 7: Are your older guys, some of your older guys. That's
Speaker 7: a problem.
Speaker 3: That's that's a problem.
Speaker 6: Your young guys should be outlasting and being more of
Speaker 6: that physical presence. And I think that that's something that
Speaker 6: some of what you saw even in the playoffs is
Speaker 6: like you're looking for those young guys with fresh legs
Speaker 6: to come out and give you something because those older
Speaker 6: guys are they're they've been working their tails off, So
Speaker 6: I'm looking that's another thing too. I think this also
Speaker 6: plays back into the lack of contribution that you got
Speaker 6: from your draft class. Sure, and also to just that
Speaker 6: to your point, we've been talking about physicality for a while.
Speaker 6: It's just been some of these older gentlemen, these veterans,
Speaker 6: veteran gentlemen that are setting that zone. I was looking
Speaker 6: for some of the young guys to kind of match that,
Speaker 6: or you bring in some guys to match that.
Speaker 5: I wonder where the disconnect is with Okay, just just
Speaker 5: if you could summarize what do you think they were
Speaker 5: looking for in this last draft class if you had to,
Speaker 5: if you had to say in just a few words.
Speaker 3: You know, it's hard for me to say. I think
Speaker 3: you were trying to pigeonhole needs. I think at some.
Speaker 5: Point see that whatever they did in that regard of
Speaker 5: the prep to build their board that way, they need
Speaker 5: not to go that direction, you know. And this this
Speaker 5: team has done a really good job of drafting the
Speaker 5: best available player they really have.
Speaker 3: When when you.
Speaker 5: Think they're going to take that defensive end from L.
Speaker 5: S U when they really needed and they take C.
Speaker 3: D Lamb.
Speaker 5: You know what, I'm saying that to me, maybe they
Speaker 5: need to go back and evaluate that. And maybe they
Speaker 5: were trying to get tougher and it didn't work out.
Speaker 5: They didn't pick the tough guys like you say, I
Speaker 5: issould maybe the young guys aren't stepping up like but
Speaker 5: I wonder what you guys thought about what you thought
Speaker 5: their plan was.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't qualify this as far as the first two
Speaker 4: picks that they made with Mazzie Smith and Luke scoon Maker,
Speaker 4: but you look at what they drafted to look at
Speaker 4: it on paper, it looked like they were going for
Speaker 4: positional flex. You look at what Tyler was able to
Speaker 4: do in his first season moving from tackle to guard. Hey,
Speaker 4: I like that. Let's look for some more guys that
Speaker 4: could do some things like that.
Speaker 5: That gets in trouble though, sometimes because I saw I
Speaker 5: saw Tyrone Crawford, I saw him get just you know,
Speaker 5: he went from being I thought a really good player too.
Speaker 3: They started moving him around too much. Is he an end?
Speaker 3: Is he a tackle? You know?
Speaker 5: The position flex thing I think is fine to a point,
Speaker 5: but when it becomes the thing that you're hanging your
Speaker 5: hat on, then I think you get in trouble that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's also interesting thinking that way specifically going into
Speaker 2: this year and having a draft class centered around that,
Speaker 2: and then you have the conversation of Tyler Smith and
Speaker 2: his position flex and they say, you know what, We're
Speaker 2: not gonna move him at all. Yeah, We're gonna situate
Speaker 2: him in one specific spot. So it's almost like going
Speaker 2: counter balancing what you were trying to accomplish in the
Speaker 2: first place.
Speaker 4: What did you did you It was just looking at
Speaker 4: more of the other guys, you look at overshown that
Speaker 4: has that safety linebacker flex, he can even rush the
Speaker 4: passer a little bit. Looking the fourth round, Villiami Fijoko,
Speaker 4: as soon as he was drafted, the word was, okay,
Speaker 4: he can move inside to move outside. Fifth round, you
Speaker 4: look at Austin Richards. Yeah, we think he can move
Speaker 4: inside to guard. We think he has some ability there.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're even talking about Masie Smith. The first
Speaker 4: thing that came out of their mouth was we think
Speaker 4: we can unlock a little bit of a pass rush
Speaker 4: in him. So like being able to have a little
Speaker 4: bit added element to their game. I mean you can
Speaker 4: look at all the draft picks after Schoonmaker and really
Speaker 4: find something as far as versatility.
Speaker 6: Goes, what's the okay, So in order to do that,
Speaker 6: what do you need time?
Speaker 7: Correct?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: All those players you talked about, I mean, besides maybe
Speaker 6: like an overshown, I thought he if he hadn't got injured,
Speaker 6: he could have made an immediate impact. But all those
Speaker 6: things that you're looking you're talking about require development and
Speaker 6: require time. Babe, you didn't have time this year. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 6: and you needed them this year. And so to me
Speaker 6: and again like this is how I viewed this draft class,
Speaker 6: I felt like it was a very support draft class.
Speaker 6: I personally thought the Cowboys looked at what they did
Speaker 6: in free agency with getting step On and then also
Speaker 6: getting Brandon Cooks, I thought they felt like they filled
Speaker 6: those needs that maybe they would have went and attacked
Speaker 6: in the draft, and they were comfortable, maybe a little
Speaker 6: too comfortable with their starters, with their roster, and so
Speaker 6: the guys that they added were, oh, we'll give them
Speaker 6: a year and let them develop or whatever. I personally
Speaker 6: thought they were a little too confident in the roster
Speaker 6: that they had going into this season, even though they
Speaker 6: did some good things. And like I said before, those
Speaker 6: gentlemen that a lot of the gentlemen they drafted require
Speaker 6: time and you should have been trying to win this year.
Speaker 2: So kind of based off that point in switching the
Speaker 2: attention back to the twenty twenty four draft class, out
Speaker 2: of the individuals and the prospects that you guys have
Speaker 2: watched to this point, do you feel like this class
Speaker 2: is better suited for.
Speaker 3: A toughness thought process for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Or maybe a ready made time to play now, like
Speaker 2: ready for the n Pro ready stuff.
Speaker 5: You know what, when I look at these when I
Speaker 5: look at the projections of the guys that could be centers,
Speaker 5: you know, I do. We've talked about Barton and we've
Speaker 5: talked about the Oregon kid. I think there is an
Speaker 5: element of toughness to those two guys. I really really do.
Speaker 5: So I find myself in my notes. I don't know
Speaker 5: about you, guys. When I'm watching, I just type and
Speaker 5: I'm like, man, this guy plays hard. This guy looks
Speaker 5: like he loves the game. I'm typing that a lot
Speaker 5: more on these players than I believe I have in
Speaker 5: the past.
Speaker 3: And maybe maybe.
Speaker 5: That's my fault, Aisha, because I'm looking for those guys.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm looking.
Speaker 5: Because I know this team needs younger, but more of
Speaker 5: that toughness element to it.
Speaker 3: You're looking for grit.
Speaker 6: It's funny that you guys say that, because I literally
Speaker 6: wrote in my notes as I was looking at even
Speaker 6: the wide receivers, I was like, ah, nice to be
Speaker 6: back to normal, because last year, when you looked at
Speaker 6: to your point about the grit and the toughness, I
Speaker 6: do think there's a lot of old school type players
Speaker 6: in this draft. Even when you look at the tight
Speaker 6: end room, I think there are some guys that I've
Speaker 6: received qualities, but these are just tight.
Speaker 7: Ends, you know what I'm saying to me. And even
Speaker 7: with the.
Speaker 6: Running backs that I've looked at, it's not a whole
Speaker 6: bunch of super finess, special stuff. They're just running backs
Speaker 6: like they can just run the ball efficiently. And when
Speaker 6: you talk about the offensive all that stuff, it does
Speaker 6: feel like a kind of turning back the clock less
Speaker 6: fancy schenchy.
Speaker 8: Could it be with older players fundamentals?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well the COVID year of adding another year and
Speaker 5: making guys a little bit fifthier guys or six year guys.
Speaker 6: Now, you do see more polished from certain from certain players.
Speaker 6: I do think since I've been looking, I'm more so like, oh.
Speaker 7: He looks like he gets the position.
Speaker 6: Oh he has a good feel for the position, or
Speaker 6: you can tell he's been doing this for a while.
Speaker 6: I think I do think I see more of that
Speaker 6: this draft so far, so far?
Speaker 4: Can I be a for a moment when it comes
Speaker 4: to toughness as far as.
Speaker 2: Nick goes into from every now and again, and it's phenomenal.
Speaker 4: Okay, So we talked about Jackson powers Johnson last week,
Speaker 4: and all of these are going to point towards warg Yeah.
Speaker 4: Remington Award winner is the nation's best center this past year. Phenomenal.
Speaker 4: I mean, we talked about it last week. I think enough.
Speaker 4: I mean he's a guy that's a maller upfront. CO
Speaker 4: signed Cedric van Pran Granger out of Georgia. So I'm
Speaker 4: gonna give you a quick story on him. He's out
Speaker 4: of Warren Easton in New Orleans, one of the more
Speaker 4: story programs down there in New Orleans. So he was
Speaker 4: in a practic got into a practice fight a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago with one named Bear Alexander. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is public news, so I'm not breaking anything here. Got
Speaker 4: into a public had got into a fight with Bear
Speaker 4: Alexander in the middle of a practice Bear Alexander is
Speaker 4: a bear. He's at a Didton and Ryan High School.
Speaker 4: Six three, three hundred and twenty pounds. There was a
Speaker 4: clear winner in that fight between those two guys, and
Speaker 4: the next day Bear Alexander was in the portal. So
Speaker 4: so yeah, yeah, yeah, Now he's at USC, He's gonna
Speaker 4: be a guy. Honestly, he's gonna be a guy. We
Speaker 4: talked about in the fast three round next year. He's
Speaker 4: a dog, but it was shocking because I mean he
Speaker 4: beat I don't want to say that he got into
Speaker 4: a fight with a guy who entered the portal the
Speaker 4: next day. But you look at him on the field,
Speaker 4: he has that toughness on the field, he has that
Speaker 4: New Orleans grit down on the field. There's there's He's
Speaker 4: a really intriguing guy that I think you could look
Speaker 4: at in the middle rounds if you're still looking for
Speaker 4: a center at that point, really like what he brings
Speaker 4: to the table. Now, if you're looking on the defensive
Speaker 4: side of the ball, I really like Peyton Wilson at
Speaker 4: of North Carolina State. He's a wrestling state champion out
Speaker 4: of North Carolina. He brings that type of you know,
Speaker 4: a type of physicality to the field. Over four hundred
Speaker 4: tackles in his time with a wolf Pack. I mean,
Speaker 4: he could have gone anywhere. Alabama, Michigan, these all these
Speaker 4: programs were all over him. He decided to stay home
Speaker 4: and go to North Carolina State and as a result
Speaker 4: he was able to start all four years. Really stack
Speaker 4: some confidence, stack some reps. He's a guy I really
Speaker 4: like as a lineback, linebacker option in the middle rounds
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: That's interesting. A lot of people comparing him.
Speaker 2: I haven't watched him yet, so if you guys have
Speaker 2: watched him, give your scouting report. But a lot of
Speaker 2: they're saying it's very comparable to Steve Avilah last year
Speaker 2: from TCU in terms of his his footwork.
Speaker 3: And his grit and his size.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of things that they compare
Speaker 2: with just based off of what I'm reading here about.
Speaker 3: Uh Van Pran? Is that how you say his name?
Speaker 3: Van Prant?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he'sphenating his name. It looks like he' hyphenating
Speaker 4: his name in the draft process of prand Granger. I
Speaker 4: always knew him as a Van Pran whenever I was
Speaker 4: covered from high school. But looks like we got a
Speaker 4: Granger as a hyphenated name. So school I spelled yeah
Speaker 4: for sure?
Speaker 3: Anybody else that Even on the defensive side.
Speaker 2: I know we're talking offensive line specifically, but is there
Speaker 2: a defensive size side where your your physicality can play
Speaker 2: a factor.
Speaker 4: We're gonna talk about defensive tackles later, right.
Speaker 3: A little bit different save it, save it?
Speaker 4: I don't want to, but we could look at a
Speaker 4: couple of edge guys, I mean, Jared Verse out of
Speaker 4: Florida State. This is a guy that transferred in from Albany.
Speaker 4: I mean, he didn't have anything going on whenever he
Speaker 4: was out of a high school recruit and whenever he
Speaker 4: entered the portal out of Albany A couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: he was one of the hotter prospects in the entire
Speaker 4: portal top five portal prospect with all the websites that
Speaker 4: do portal rankings, and he went Florida State, and he
Speaker 4: shows that. You could also look at Chop Robinson out
Speaker 4: of Penn State. He's a late first early second round
Speaker 4: guy that has a lot of that physicality as well
Speaker 4: that you like off the edge, Like Chop is a name, Yeah,
Speaker 4: thousand percent. And we talked about lotso in his size
Speaker 4: and how he's kind of got a little Joey Bosa
Speaker 4: to him. So, I mean, there's some guys in this
Speaker 4: class I really enjoy.
Speaker 2: So you said Chop Robinson out of Penn State. We
Speaker 2: got to get better at saying that the school names afterwards.
Speaker 3: I got from UCLA.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: What were the other names you mentioned?
Speaker 4: Jared Verse out of Florida State and the man one
Speaker 4: more that I could throw in if y'all remember that
Speaker 4: Colorado Colorado State games. Everybody right now at Kamara, yep,
Speaker 4: Mohammed Kamara. Yeah, man, he's he's a dog and that
Speaker 4: was that was the number one state.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he did.
Speaker 2: He was the reason Colorado State was even in that game.
Speaker 2: And then he had some some personal foul penalties that yeah,
Speaker 2: and I mean he was throwing bows.
Speaker 3: In the in the sideline.
Speaker 4: He made a lot of money that day.
Speaker 5: Yet me tell you this, this kid has got some
Speaker 5: DeMarcus Lawrence to his game and the way he plays
Speaker 5: the run. I mean he is he can rush the passer,
Speaker 5: but you cannot run on the outside.
Speaker 3: Of this guy.
Speaker 5: He's a shorter guy, he's six ' one, he's two fifty,
Speaker 5: but man, he's got some complete traits as far as
Speaker 5: when it comes to getting rid of blockers, getting up field,
Speaker 5: kind of having an ideal of angling inside, making a
Speaker 5: play behind the line of scrimmage. I mean you look
Speaker 5: at him and he's just when he rushed, I mean
Speaker 5: he comes screaming off that edge. And I mean I
Speaker 5: have a lot of respect for his game because again,
Speaker 5: when you brought up Tank, I always think of that
Speaker 5: complete guy, the guy that can play the run, can
Speaker 5: play the pass, smart show, toughness, make plays. This kid's
Speaker 5: got some of those traits to him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to that point, I'm definitely gonna I feel like
Speaker 6: I'm gonna take a deeper dive into edge because now
Speaker 6: that y'all are talking about it and I'm thinking about
Speaker 6: the Cowboys roster as a hole, Yeah, maybe you might
Speaker 6: know you might need to go get one or two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think absolutely you do, especially when you look
Speaker 4: at the size of discrepancy that I think you look
Speaker 4: at with what the Cowboys have versus what other teams
Speaker 4: in the league have. You're probably gonna lose a couple
Speaker 4: of bodies there with Dante Fowler going out being a
Speaker 4: free agent at least, So you're yeah, I think you
Speaker 4: need to beef up the edge. I think you have
Speaker 4: to take a pick somewhere.
Speaker 5: There's a kid you're gonna like at Utah, Jonah Olias.
Speaker 5: He reminds me of Will McDonald and I knew and
Speaker 5: then you and you really really liked Will McDonald a
Speaker 5: lot on that On that, uh, you had some really
Speaker 5: good notes about Will McDonald. But Jonahlias his dad played
Speaker 5: for the Lions and he's currently the coach. Is the
Speaker 5: coach at Utah. His dad's a defensive line coach, but
Speaker 5: he plays. He's an edge for them. He's got some
Speaker 5: you know, when you start to talk about rushers and
Speaker 5: things like that, I think when you get into your edges,
Speaker 5: you're gonna like him.
Speaker 6: Y'all noticed that that it's a lot of legacies in
Speaker 6: this draft.
Speaker 4: There's a couple of them, and it seems like they're second.
Speaker 7: I don't even know.
Speaker 5: I feel like there's a lot of coaches kids yet
Speaker 5: often well the thing that it is though to me,
Speaker 5: and it's and I'm the far oldest guy in this group,
Speaker 5: so I've scouted their dads too. It's nice to see
Speaker 5: their sons have the type of success. There's some players, like,
Speaker 5: there's some players in this draft that their dads were
Speaker 5: really really good players and they're even better players than
Speaker 5: their dad was nice, which is I think is a
Speaker 5: neat thing to see.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 9: All.
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Speaker 13: Twitter on the twenty do we the sounder?
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on in the back back there,
Speaker 2: but we're back here on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 3: It's time for Twitter Twitter, I say, talking Cowboys.
Speaker 4: There's a lot going on right, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 3: Breaking the fourth wall here, everybody.
Speaker 2: We're making it work, all right, welcome back in time
Speaker 2: now for Twitter on the twenty. The first question that
Speaker 2: I have is from Anthony. He says, with the lack
Speaker 2: of middle round picks this year, would you not consider
Speaker 2: trading a high pick for an established player?
Speaker 4: Run so you lack.
Speaker 2: The fourth the fifth round picks, Does that deter you
Speaker 2: from trading a high value pick one, two or three
Speaker 2: from getting an established player that's already in the league.
Speaker 3: Would you rather draft those positions?
Speaker 4: You need the picks you have now, if that's what
Speaker 4: they're asking, trading a pick for a big time yeah
Speaker 4: pick from that, Yeah, you need the picks.
Speaker 5: I don't think you don't, folks, don't get discouraged out
Speaker 5: there without having middle picks. You can get middle picks.
Speaker 5: People will move around in the draft. You can move
Speaker 5: back three spots. You could pick up a third, you
Speaker 5: could pick up a four, you could pick up a fifth.
Speaker 5: You're going to get some compensatory picks. Don't let that
Speaker 5: bother you in this thing. Don't don't, I mean, don't look.
Speaker 5: Don't focus on the number right now you have. What
Speaker 5: you focus on is the number as the draft is
Speaker 5: going along. You know, that's where I've I've never felt like,
Speaker 5: you know, moving picks on. You know, it never was
Speaker 5: a problem for me because I knew. I said, Okay,
Speaker 5: if I want to move back three spots right now,
Speaker 5: I can pick up a four, you know. So don't
Speaker 5: don't let this discourage you. That Stephen Jones and Will McLay,
Speaker 5: those guys, they know how to play the board, They
Speaker 5: know how to play the trade chart.
Speaker 3: You know they can.
Speaker 5: They can get picks back in this thing. Don't let
Speaker 5: this bother you right now. That made me feel so
Speaker 5: much better.
Speaker 3: Really, don't know that room. I've set that room for
Speaker 3: thirteen years doing this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, if somebody will always call you for
Speaker 5: the opportunity to pick up a pick, you know, and
Speaker 5: you can't.
Speaker 3: You can, you can, you could absolutely and you don't know.
Speaker 5: You might be able to trade one you're players for
Speaker 5: a pick, But don't don't feel like that this is
Speaker 5: the final product of what you're going to have.
Speaker 3: There's going to be opportunities of phone calls, the.
Speaker 5: Ability to move up, move back, and you could pick
Speaker 5: up picks along the way. I never it's never the
Speaker 5: final number right now. The final number is when Commissioner
Speaker 5: Cadell stands up there and say, welcome to the twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four NFL Draft.
Speaker 3: Now we're playing.
Speaker 5: Now, we're going to go get some picks, or we're
Speaker 5: gonna sit here and make the picks we got.
Speaker 2: Would you deter away from taking those picks or would
Speaker 2: you try and do what Brian's doing and massage the
Speaker 2: board to go get some more?
Speaker 6: Oh no, I personally think the Cowboys are going to
Speaker 6: maybe be a little bit more aggressive than what they've
Speaker 6: been in past years. If you don't feel the urgency
Speaker 6: in this building, I think you're living in a fairy
Speaker 6: tale land as far as what they need to do
Speaker 6: to get to the next level. And I do think
Speaker 6: it isn't the same way that we look at this
Speaker 6: past draft class. They are looking at it too. Yeah,
Speaker 6: they're looking at the lack of production and stuff too.
Speaker 6: So I do think that to next point, I think
Speaker 6: keeping your picks is going to be important. But I
Speaker 6: think when that day comes, you should be you should
Speaker 6: be active, and phone should be ring ding ding And
Speaker 6: you understand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: Stacey asked the bigger priority on the offensive line when
Speaker 2: taking into or taking value and depth into consideration, is
Speaker 2: the bigger priority center or left tackle?
Speaker 7: Center?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 7: For me?
Speaker 4: For me, I think it's left tackle. I think that's more.
Speaker 3: We've got a debate.
Speaker 4: I think it's more of left tackle because let's say
Speaker 4: Tyren Smith is not in the building next year, who's
Speaker 4: your left tackle?
Speaker 7: Probably awesome.
Speaker 4: If Tyler Biatis is not in the building next year,
Speaker 4: then who's your center, we don't know, Probably a TJ.
Speaker 7: Baby.
Speaker 4: I think there's better depth right now at center than
Speaker 4: there would be a left tackle.
Speaker 3: Because you've seen Bass and Hoffman play. Yes, okay, that's fair.
Speaker 6: But I think you can you can't hide no center, honey, Yeah,
Speaker 6: you can help out out of tackle, but.
Speaker 4: They need both. That's that's for sure.
Speaker 7: That's fair.
Speaker 6: But I do think that the center's inability to well
Speaker 6: Number one, I just feel like them getting at the
Speaker 6: second level. I feel like that was a huge problem
Speaker 6: this year. And so for me, I'm looking at and
Speaker 6: when we talk about, Okay, what are these other offenses
Speaker 6: do well in the league. Maybe they get out in
Speaker 6: space and they let their guys that get to the
Speaker 6: second level consistently. We didn't see that this year, and
Speaker 6: I do think it had a lot to do with
Speaker 6: the middle of that offensive line, specifically Sooner.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you one percent to all those points.
Speaker 4: I just think you'll end up having a bigger issue
Speaker 4: if you don't have a starting left tackle.
Speaker 6: No, I mean importance is I mean, that's the blind side.
Speaker 6: And I do get it, and I am sad that
Speaker 6: we need not get to see Awesome in any capacity
Speaker 6: this year. It was kind of weird to me because
Speaker 6: there were times where I thought, you know, if Idoga
Speaker 6: couldn't go, I'm thinking, Okay, well let's see what this
Speaker 6: rookie got, and we didn't get a chance to see
Speaker 6: him play. So I do think it puts you in
Speaker 6: a weird place evaluation wise, of like, we don't know
Speaker 6: what we're getting from this player right now.
Speaker 3: For real, Nick, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna
Speaker 3: kick that.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna kick that left guard to left tackles. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna put I'm gonna put Bassett left guard, and I'm
Speaker 5: going to draft a badass center and we're gonna start
Speaker 5: running the football.
Speaker 7: I think you can get busy with that too, to
Speaker 7: be honest, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well they won't do it.
Speaker 5: But you know, Brian brought his failed scouts sitting here
Speaker 5: on the draft show today, would say that to me,
Speaker 5: I feel like I can protect myself. You're right, they
Speaker 5: one of the I think the two main reasons they
Speaker 5: couldn't run the football. They weren't good enough at center
Speaker 5: and then and at times he was good, but not
Speaker 5: all the time consistently consistency, you know. And he's a
Speaker 5: free agent, right I think they're going to probably move
Speaker 5: on from that. You know, this this team, it's easy
Speaker 5: to say, oh, we'll go out and get Travis Frederick.
Speaker 5: You know, well that's hard to do. But but to me,
Speaker 5: I think you could get more a bigger player, a
Speaker 5: more physical player, and one to Ayish's point that not
Speaker 5: only could work the scoop in the reach game, but
Speaker 5: also get second level. And we always talking about cut
Speaker 5: the defense and half what the Packers do. They cut
Speaker 5: your defense and half ball comes to the presses and
Speaker 5: then it comes behind the center.
Speaker 3: Big game.
Speaker 5: You know, Dallas needs to get back to playing football
Speaker 5: that way.
Speaker 2: And there was really no point whenever you're watching in
Speaker 2: the film of Tyler Biondish cutting the field in half, if.
Speaker 5: He held his ground, that was a good snap for
Speaker 5: he gave you everything he has. I mean, the kid
Speaker 5: is a he's a great human being. He you know,
Speaker 5: he learned along the way. He got better with his calls,
Speaker 5: the protection stuff like that.
Speaker 3: It's just limited what he can do. You have a
Speaker 3: badass center, you can do a lot of things on
Speaker 3: your offense.
Speaker 6: So but in regards to your your idea of maybe TJ.
Speaker 6: Bass being the left guard Tyler, do you want to
Speaker 6: take away from TJ Bass's swing ability?
Speaker 7: Do y'all look at him as maybe.
Speaker 3: I think he could start.
Speaker 6: I think he could start too, But holy crap, it
Speaker 6: was real nice to know that if Warn went down
Speaker 6: or with the value that he has a point about
Speaker 6: the tackle though I do acknowledge that he's right.
Speaker 3: I know acknowledged that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, two things can be true at one guys.
Speaker 2: Are you guys feeling okay at right tackle too? Do
Speaker 2: you feel okay with Terren Steel and what he gave.
Speaker 4: I'm okay with not having to address it until potentially
Speaker 4: next offseason.
Speaker 7: Yes, because you got to get pay the guy.
Speaker 3: I think it's fair a little bit of hesitation there.
Speaker 6: I do think it's fair to give him some time,
Speaker 6: but also too, we talked about it.
Speaker 7: It wasn't just about the players, it was it was.
Speaker 6: A lot of scheme too, And I'm like some of
Speaker 6: the things that he does very well when he was
Speaker 6: able to do them, especially in the run game, you
Speaker 6: saw some of who he was even last year, so
Speaker 6: I'm waiting to see personally.
Speaker 5: Him and Martin were so much better last year together,
Speaker 5: and the tight end really hurt him this year. I mean,
Speaker 5: Ferguson is Ferguson is so much better than Dalton Schultz
Speaker 5: in my mind, you know, just so much better. But
Speaker 5: the blocking aspects of things. They tried to address it
Speaker 5: with Schoonmaker and Tysha's point, and she's absolutely right. Give
Speaker 5: Schoonmaker another year, Give schoonmaker, the opportunity to be in
Speaker 5: the weight room, and not that Michigan has a poor
Speaker 5: weight room and all. Trust me, I've been at Shimbeckler Hall.
Speaker 5: That thing is like a you can It's amazing how
Speaker 5: big that places. But to me, you've got to be
Speaker 5: able to be better at the point of attack with
Speaker 5: your tight ends and also with your center. Those are
Speaker 5: the two areas I think if I could get those
Speaker 5: two areas taken care of, I'll work on the right tackle.
Speaker 3: Getting him right what you.
Speaker 4: Get, Yeah, I agree completely. I was talking about right tackle.
Speaker 4: Whenever we're talking about Terrence Steele. It's like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: think that's something to move on for potentially next offseason
Speaker 4: and things don't go well next year. One quick thing
Speaker 4: I want to touch on as far as TJ. Bass goes, though,
Speaker 4: I mean, I think if you focus him in on
Speaker 4: right guard and let him be the successor to Zach Martin,
Speaker 4: then that's probably your best opportunity. Sure, let him develop.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to throw him in a starting position.
Speaker 4: He could he start next season, I think he could,
Speaker 4: but don't. I don't want to put that position on him.
Speaker 5: You know what it's and I give you a lot
Speaker 5: of credit for this, because you were talking about TJ.
Speaker 3: Bass quite a bit last year.
Speaker 5: You did, and you were talking about why is nobody
Speaker 5: talking about this guy more.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right about him.
Speaker 5: Talking to guys around the league, scouts around the league,
Speaker 5: they're like, we miss this kid. We totally miss this
Speaker 5: kid because he should have drafted. He should have been drafted.
Speaker 5: You know, there's a lot of guys he played better than,
Speaker 5: you know, with the opportunity he had. So I kind
Speaker 5: of feel like that, to me, I think he's a starter.
Speaker 5: I just do. I just feel like that he showed
Speaker 5: me enough to where you know, it's not going to
Speaker 5: be perfect with your offensive line, but gosh, he's better
Speaker 5: than a lot of guys that got drafted that I
Speaker 5: saw play this year. You know, the opponents with the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: I'm like, man, it's a bad guard. That's another bad guard.
Speaker 5: That guy's really a bad guard. You know, this kid
Speaker 5: when he played, I didn't hold my breath like AIChE Lens, like, Okay,
Speaker 5: let's see what happens.
Speaker 3: But you were right about him.
Speaker 2: You kind of see it in training camp too, just
Speaker 2: the physicality and the tough Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's Ricky in the class.
Speaker 3: He really was.
Speaker 2: And he's got some uh he's got some rapport with
Speaker 2: one Jackson powers Johnson for Morgan ser just by the way.
Speaker 2: Along that same line, Cowboys aunt says, if you had
Speaker 2: to guess the first round pick today, who would it be?
Speaker 2: Position and players?
Speaker 3: I like this.
Speaker 5: It is so early, so I mean you're not we
Speaker 5: figured out late in vandrush in March.
Speaker 3: We did.
Speaker 5: We actually did wed January. We had, we had January got.
Speaker 3: A little bit again.
Speaker 4: It feels like every mock draft on the planet is
Speaker 4: penning Jordan Morgan to the Cowboys. And that's something I'm
Speaker 4: gonna touch on a little bit later on Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 4: dot com. But I mean, you talked about Jordan Morgan
Speaker 4: last week. That's a guy that makes sense at left tackle.
Speaker 4: He's got so many reps, so many snaps playing there
Speaker 4: at Arizona, he'd be a guy that's you know he
Speaker 4: maybe maybe maybe they already watching the draft shows all
Speaker 4: we could do is he's a really good player.
Speaker 3: He is a very good player. But I'm sorry, no,
Speaker 3: you're good.
Speaker 4: As far as that as other other potential first round options,
Speaker 4: I know we stopped it over there. We have potentially
Speaker 4: looked at Amarus Mims if he was able to fall.
Speaker 4: I think if a Marius Mems fall to twenty four,
Speaker 4: that's a guy you take over Jordan Morgan in my book.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there's it's a really good tackle class, and
Speaker 4: I'm very interested to see how quick they fly off
Speaker 4: the board or not quick at all. You know, I
Speaker 4: wonder if there's a first round type talent that could
Speaker 4: slip to in the thirties or the forties whatever.
Speaker 3: So it feels like the last couple of years we've
Speaker 3: been hoping for that.
Speaker 4: I mean exactly, you were kind of hoping that for
Speaker 4: the tight ends in the second rounds.
Speaker 3: You were hoping.
Speaker 2: Hope is never a strategy, but there were times that
Speaker 2: you were looking at this board and you're saying, hey,
Speaker 2: things are shaping up really good.
Speaker 3: We're about ten picks.
Speaker 2: Away and then boo boom, eight of your nine picks
Speaker 2: have gone off the board.
Speaker 3: And then you got to kind of take a point.
Speaker 3: How bad are Peyton Peyton Wilson's injuries.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it definitely scares you. He does have two. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I always factor that in. That's a really important context
Speaker 4: and data point whenever you're looking at you know guys
Speaker 4: and whever you're evaluating them. For me, I look at
Speaker 4: the production that he's had this last season and what
Speaker 4: he looks like as far as movement and lateral movement. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he can still get around. I mean he had one
Speaker 4: hundred and thirty eight tackles in twelve games. So I
Speaker 4: got flies to the.
Speaker 7: Ball to come in.
Speaker 5: This guy's Jack Campbell to me from Iowa. But yeah,
Speaker 5: that's that's Peyton. Peyton Wilson's Jack Campbell.
Speaker 4: Twenty one had a season ning shoulder injury and early
Speaker 4: in the season, and then twenty eighteen he had a
Speaker 4: second knee injury his freshman year, and he had an
Speaker 4: initial knee injury in high school. But he's been healthy
Speaker 4: these last two seasons, hasn't missed a game, been really productive,
Speaker 4: won a Comeback Player of the Ward Comeback Player of
Speaker 4: the Year award in the ACC in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: So I, yes, yes, definitely a point. Yeah, like you
Speaker 4: almost wonder, I wonder if there's value there for a
Speaker 4: guy linebacker enough injury.
Speaker 5: It's right down Dallas's path to take a banged up
Speaker 5: linebacker that's productive.
Speaker 7: They they haven't learned from it yet.
Speaker 3: I hope, I hope.
Speaker 5: You know what if I had to make a if
Speaker 5: I had to make a prediction, they love the plug
Speaker 5: and play offensive lineman. I think they're taking Edjuring Cooper,
Speaker 5: the linebacker from Texas A and M Ooh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it wouldn't be a bad pick either.
Speaker 3: Linebacker twenty four.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not gonna find nobody on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that to me. This this kid, and
Speaker 5: we talked about it. But he's got some overshown tendency
Speaker 5: to him too when you watch him. I mean he
Speaker 5: might be maxed out his way, but the guy had
Speaker 5: ten sacks, He could rush the passer. He does a
Speaker 5: lot of things. But if I had to say a
Speaker 5: January prediction Edrin Cooper Texas A and M at their pick.
Speaker 3: What would be the reaction from the fan base?
Speaker 2: The defensive player, Yeah, defensive player, but it's a linebacker.
Speaker 3: It's a linebacker and that's all.
Speaker 5: Yeah that this team, this team they played dime six
Speaker 5: seventy percent of their snaps this year because why they
Speaker 5: didn't have linebackers.
Speaker 3: I do have a c that's not unforcnate there.
Speaker 7: I'm afraid of though. Is to your week you were talking,
Speaker 7: you mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 14: Nick.
Speaker 6: In regard to flexibility, I do think that the flexibility
Speaker 6: of players is starting to become a band aid more
Speaker 6: for this team.
Speaker 7: WHOA to me, I think I.
Speaker 6: Like that the team has, like the players have flexibility.
Speaker 6: But I'm looking at some of these gentlemen, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 6: they ken so Edrin Cooper, I think he can play
Speaker 6: every spot in the linebacker position.
Speaker 8: I don't want him to do that, though. I want
Speaker 8: him to find a home and do that and do
Speaker 8: that successfully.
Speaker 6: I felt like that's actually what happened to the Marionno
Speaker 6: overshown in his career, is that he was always moving spots,
Speaker 6: different coaches, different whatever. I'm looking at Edren Cooper, and
Speaker 6: that's the only thing. That's what I'm saying. It's the
Speaker 6: only thing I'm kind.
Speaker 7: Of like about.
Speaker 6: If you're gonna bring him in here, is he gonna
Speaker 6: be your mic who whatever.
Speaker 7: He's gonna be.
Speaker 6: Make him that, don't make him start playing out. We've
Speaker 6: seen it with the Monk Clark. We've seen it with
Speaker 6: other players where they're playing position out of necessity. They're
Speaker 6: playing different linebacker roles than what they originally.
Speaker 7: Were good at.
Speaker 8: And I didn't like I know, I know I don't
Speaker 8: like that no more.
Speaker 7: I'm I'm I'm I'm over that you play.
Speaker 3: One position and stick to it.
Speaker 8: Not Parsons don't count.
Speaker 2: I feel like, even now, though you need Parsons to
Speaker 2: pick a side, what what is what does Michael Parsons
Speaker 2: say to your defense. I know he's incredible and he
Speaker 2: can do a lot of things, but like, pick a
Speaker 2: spot and let's let's roll.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I do think it causes confusion and things.
Speaker 7: When there's injuries and stuff.
Speaker 6: You need real backup linebackers. You need real like you
Speaker 6: need that. It can't That's what I mean. It's like,
Speaker 6: I think some of the versatility is great, but with
Speaker 6: someone like Edrin Cooper, I'm looking I'm looking at him.
Speaker 7: I'm thinking he can play every look, he can play Mike.
Speaker 7: He can that's great. What does he do the best?
Speaker 7: Put it in.
Speaker 5: Okay, then I'm gonna I'll give you a guy. I'll
Speaker 5: give you a guy that I think will play just
Speaker 5: one position at linebacker. Tommy I can berg from Ohio,
Speaker 5: so Tommy I can work from Ohio State is a
Speaker 5: Mike linebacker and he plays like he shot out of
Speaker 5: a cannon. He's a full speed player. He tackles really well.
Speaker 5: You know, he covers. I mean he's you can you
Speaker 5: can you can play him in coverage. He's not going
Speaker 5: to be a liability like he can carry routes. You know,
Speaker 5: he's got a feel for how to work through gaps.
Speaker 3: And cracks and mean he attacks.
Speaker 5: If you want a guy that's just a true linebacker
Speaker 5: type player, I think that Ikenberg would be that guy
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 6: Because we were talking about earlier, what's the difference between
Speaker 6: the teams that you're watching now, and hey, guess what,
Speaker 6: Fred dude, Yeah play the same spot.
Speaker 7: That's what green law do ye play the same spot?
Speaker 7: Because I do also to.
Speaker 6: Think when you talk about the development of the player,
Speaker 6: linebackers a lot and so you want them to just
Speaker 6: get that position. But when you're constantly moving them around,
Speaker 6: I think it can be detrimental early for some of
Speaker 6: these players.
Speaker 7: So I'm like, I want you.
Speaker 3: I want Trotter so bad.
Speaker 5: I don't I don't know if I don't know if
Speaker 5: they'll do it with a six foot two thirty linebacker.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what would be so funny if the
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys have a linebacking corps that has a Texas
Speaker 4: guy and a Texas A and M guy. It would
Speaker 4: unite sets.
Speaker 7: Together, would I would probably think?
Speaker 3: Who would be your pick? Who's your who's your first
Speaker 3: overall pick? Twenty fourth overall pick?
Speaker 7: Like a person?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Can I say a position?
Speaker 3: No? A person in a position?
Speaker 6: I want a specific well, because he keep taking, he
Speaker 6: keep taking.
Speaker 7: All of mine.
Speaker 3: I'll give you one.
Speaker 5: I throw like seven guys out there with a hope
Speaker 5: that one of them going to hit.
Speaker 3: Take the same guy.
Speaker 5: If you want no, if you really really believe it,
Speaker 5: I'm taking Graham. It would make me feel better if
Speaker 5: you who do you take?
Speaker 3: Graham? Barty?
Speaker 2: Okay, I got one, but going defensive tackle, That's that's
Speaker 2: where I'm going.
Speaker 3: I mean, you need a big meat to check those
Speaker 3: injuries there too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there might be some injury background, but that might
Speaker 2: be why he's there at twenty four. That might be
Speaker 2: why he's there. So six foot five, three fifteen, he
Speaker 2: moves well. And I like the way he played Center's
Speaker 2: freshman year. I talked to a scout about him.
Speaker 5: I said, hey, am I on am I on my
Speaker 5: drugs thinking this guy could play center. Because now he
Speaker 5: played Center's freshman year. I think he goes the guy.
Speaker 5: My guy said, because I think he has to play inside.
Speaker 5: Oh bit, but that's that's yeah.
Speaker 3: So so then you could you can kick your left
Speaker 3: guard out.
Speaker 2: The left tackle. He can put Tyler Smith out there.
Speaker 2: He's a left tackle the future. Like you initially playing,
Speaker 2: you're playing right now. Nick just totally hates your playing.
Speaker 3: I like it. I like it. Hey, you've got some
Speaker 3: guys up front. I want somebody that can finish.
Speaker 2: And Barton finishes at the point of he plays past
Speaker 2: the whistle.
Speaker 3: He's a dude, what's your position? Just give me the position.
Speaker 3: You're don't have to say a player, just give me
Speaker 3: the position.
Speaker 7: It would be linebacker, okay, cool in the first round. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it would be linebacker.
Speaker 3: From me, it's a good linebacker, man.
Speaker 5: It's I hope we're not doing this on a need thing,
Speaker 5: because I don't think it's a kneed thing. I think
Speaker 5: these linebackers can legitimately play well.
Speaker 6: Yet, did it stand out to you how much of
Speaker 6: the it's just kind of the evolution of the position.
Speaker 7: A lot of them can cover.
Speaker 3: Yeah they can't. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was like, dang, okay, you're.
Speaker 6: Just gonna drop back and covered and be straw with
Speaker 6: the receiver over and over. Okay, like that was One
Speaker 6: thing that stood out to me is that a lot
Speaker 6: of them have coverage ability.
Speaker 7: I think that is that matters now in this.
Speaker 3: R and can rush too, Yes he can.
Speaker 2: Kelly Pearson says, who is the Charles Haley of this
Speaker 2: draft class?
Speaker 3: The Cowboys need that. It's crazy crazy to help set
Speaker 3: the tone on defense.
Speaker 2: Who's got a little uh, little Charles Haley to him
Speaker 2: and good way in a good way.
Speaker 3: Charles's nuts. Yes, yes, in a good way, in a
Speaker 3: good way.
Speaker 7: Huh So.
Speaker 4: Can we do We might need to come back on
Speaker 4: that one last.
Speaker 3: It might be it might be tomorrow from Colorado State.
Speaker 5: That's a good one because he is a little bit
Speaker 5: of get in your face, get personal foul penallees.
Speaker 3: Be little nuts.
Speaker 5: Play the game, you know, play the run, play the pass.
Speaker 5: You know you got one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jersey Newton out of Illinois.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, the defensive tackle.
Speaker 4: Three tackles Florida guy, South Florida, and he brings it
Speaker 4: to the field that that probably be my guy.
Speaker 7: Yeah mine is.
Speaker 6: I'm about to skip because we were talking about DT's later.
Speaker 3: That's okay, go ahead, all right, don't he don't.
Speaker 7: Maybe he don't count.
Speaker 6: But when I seen him, he looked a little luney
Speaker 6: tunes to me. Three tech maybe five tech. Darius Robinson.
Speaker 3: Is he is he is. He from Missouri, Yes, Missouri, Missouri.
Speaker 6: Missouri, six ninety six, not super huge. I love his
Speaker 6: motor his effort. He extends and he extends his arm.
Speaker 6: He stacks well and he shads well. Very violent hands,
Speaker 6: I mean heavy hands where it's he's not the fastest,
Speaker 6: but I do like that. In space, he's gonna he
Speaker 6: thinks he's gonna beat you. He's he has that. This
Speaker 6: is my ball. I'm going to get him. Mentality, I don't.
Speaker 6: I think he realizes on his power a little bit
Speaker 6: too much. But I feel like he if you find
Speaker 6: him a home, he's gonna thrive there. His he has
Speaker 6: a nice little toolbox too, but he plays with his
Speaker 6: hair on fire.
Speaker 7: He's a little, a little little.
Speaker 3: He completely nailed this game.
Speaker 4: Have you watched There's a lot of guys in Missouri
Speaker 4: that are.
Speaker 3: Just like that. Yeah, they play with a chip, those
Speaker 3: Missouri kids.
Speaker 7: That's what I mean.
Speaker 5: That running back, that running back there is is interesting guy.
Speaker 5: If you if you want to start, let the let
Speaker 5: you know, uh, Cody Schrader from Missouri. Okay, you talked
Speaker 5: about a little nuts. You know, we're getting the running
Speaker 5: back Missouri.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what though.
Speaker 5: The thing about it is Missouri and no offense because
Speaker 5: there's a lot of friends that we all have that
Speaker 5: are Missouri grads.
Speaker 3: Great school.
Speaker 5: Their football program has always kind of been in that
Speaker 5: mode of just we're just not quite there yet. So
Speaker 5: what happens is they get players that other teams miss
Speaker 5: Maybe a guy can't go to Nebraska or Iowa or
Speaker 5: these places in the Midwest, and they end up to
Speaker 5: go to Missouri and then you watch them play and
Speaker 5: you're like, somebody missed that kid. It's like watching Deron
Speaker 5: Bland play at Fresno State. Somebody UCLA or Washington or
Speaker 5: what missed Dran Bland as a player.
Speaker 3: Missouri's got a lot of these guys like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they have a lot of.
Speaker 5: These These guys should have, but Missouri finished in the
Speaker 5: top ten. They give me, you know, give them credit.
Speaker 5: They but it's been a program that's been a little
Speaker 5: bit of an.
Speaker 3: Up and down.
Speaker 4: They're starting to recruit a little bit better because of
Speaker 4: the SEC pitch. You yes, you can still stay in
Speaker 4: the Midwest and play in the SEC, but also they're
Speaker 4: able to recruit SEC country. Hey, we're gonna play around
Speaker 4: the corner from your house at right here, you know.
Speaker 4: So it's helped them, but it's taken them a little
Speaker 4: bit of time. But I think they're really starting to
Speaker 4: put its. Saint Louis still a good area. Yeah, see
Speaker 4: Saint Louis. They get kids from Saint Louis. Saint Louis,
Speaker 4: you talk about tough. That is a tough city. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we're gonna talk about Luther Burden. Yeah, next year, and yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the Saint Louis kid who's gonna be wide receiver one.
Speaker 4: There you go, potentially next next year.
Speaker 3: There's some there's some mean kids in a nice way, mean,
Speaker 3: you know, mean.
Speaker 7: Not do what my best friends of Saint Louis.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, tell you to watch them high school football.
Speaker 3: All right, let's sake our seconds from sequs from the
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Speaker 2: were great today. Position spotlight. We're gonna do this a
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Speaker 2: date on what each position looks like in this twenty
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Speaker 2: Oh right, all right, position spotlight time.
Speaker 3: Defensive tackles. Is this a good class.
Speaker 2: For defensive tackles overall? Based off of what you've seen
Speaker 2: so far?
Speaker 4: Nick, Yeah, I think so. I think when you when
Speaker 4: you compare it to years past, I mean, defensive tackle
Speaker 4: is kind of a spot you would have to reach out,
Speaker 4: especially in the early rounds. But I think there's some
Speaker 4: really good value for some guys. I don't really think
Speaker 4: you'll see that first defensive tackle off the board until
Speaker 4: the twenties or the late teens. At the very earliest.
Speaker 4: But I think once you look into that late first round,
Speaker 4: second round, third round, there's gonna be some guys that
Speaker 4: come off the board that are pretty interesting. You know,
Speaker 4: we've we've looked at Jerseanne Newton. We talked about him
Speaker 4: a little bit last week, got a little Illinois. I mean,
Speaker 4: it has kind of been a thought that he's, you know,
Speaker 4: this runaway DT one. But Byron Murphy out of Tech,
Speaker 4: Byron's a guy. Give me that guy out of De Soto.
Speaker 4: He's coming out of Texas after three years. I mean
Speaker 4: he's he's a little bit shorter than what you might
Speaker 4: want at defensive tackle, but he he looks like a
Speaker 4: grown man, and he looked like a grown man at
Speaker 4: fifteen years old. And this this kid's incredible. He was
Speaker 4: committed to Baylor for the longest and Texas got in
Speaker 4: on him late, was able to flip him and get
Speaker 4: him to Texas. Sorry Waco boy, but yeah, him and
Speaker 4: Tovandre sweat at Texas this past year really did some
Speaker 4: great work. Now I want to talk about these Texas
Speaker 4: guys a little bit, but do you want to ask
Speaker 4: that question to the table really quick before we do that?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, real quick because Sweat specific there're two different types
Speaker 2: of players. They're not the same player. Byron Murphy, he
Speaker 2: does a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3: Three ten.
Speaker 2: I mean he's he's a freak, I mean a legitimate freak.
Speaker 2: To and Andre Sweat is a physical just monster six
Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty plus, I mean big sixty six
Speaker 2: four yeah, three sixty two.
Speaker 4: He's a load.
Speaker 3: I think that's that's at least for Dallas, right. It's
Speaker 3: not a one trick guy though, he's not. It's amazing.
Speaker 2: If you're talking about a guy you need to stuff
Speaker 2: the middle, they need to stop the run.
Speaker 3: I think he would fit perfectly.
Speaker 2: That would work too, Yes, but they're two completely different prospects.
Speaker 2: Don't look at the helmet and say either Texas defensive
Speaker 2: tackles or YadA, YadA, YadA, completely different. Look at him
Speaker 2: separately because they can both be really good in their
Speaker 2: own right.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I mean when I looked at him, I
Speaker 6: felt like he's one of the true run stoppers in
Speaker 6: this in this, in it.
Speaker 7: So what do you mean, Brian.
Speaker 3: Year right?
Speaker 7: You trying to start stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm just asking he would still be three thirty two it,
Speaker 3: But what.
Speaker 8: Do you mean he's not just a one trick guy.
Speaker 8: What do you think he else? What else do you
Speaker 8: think he can do?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5: Man, the thing that the thing that is interesting because
Speaker 5: you could see him rush the passer actually, you know
Speaker 5: you could see him with the because he plays with
Speaker 5: so much power, that upper body strength. I mean, he
Speaker 5: knocks an opponent back and then he's got the footwork
Speaker 5: to kind of, yeah, the footwork. All of a sudden,
Speaker 5: the guy is knocked back and now he's kind of
Speaker 5: dealing with he's dealing with this monster coming at him,
Speaker 5: and then with the footwork to get around him, you know,
Speaker 5: So he's it's it's one of those things. I mean,
Speaker 5: he can he just drives guys back into the backfield,
Speaker 5: but then he's kind of got the nimble feet to
Speaker 5: get around them and then get in on the quarterback.
Speaker 3: So that that's what I love about him.
Speaker 5: I Mean it's sometimes you get these massive guys and
Speaker 5: they just stand there. This guy actually has movement and
Speaker 5: the slide and the agility and you know, I mean
Speaker 5: it's it's kind of like you look at him in
Speaker 5: the way he plays.
Speaker 3: I he's got low pad level.
Speaker 5: You think of a guy that he's just he's kind
Speaker 5: of a taller guy, but he's got he's plays down,
Speaker 5: he bends his knees, and I just I really do
Speaker 5: like the hand used, the strong and the upper body.
Speaker 5: I mean, give me that type of game.
Speaker 4: When I talk about defensive tackles, I want to see
Speaker 4: the lower body mobility, upper body ficiality, and that's what
Speaker 4: I see from both of these guys. I think that's
Speaker 4: what one of the few things that I think they do. Similarly,
Speaker 4: when you look at and Andre Sweat, he was a
Speaker 4: guy that really didn't develop until that fifth year. And
Speaker 4: that's a credit defensive line coach Bo Davis who's now
Speaker 4: at LSU and yes sir, yes, sir. But being able
Speaker 4: to have that fifth season and really develop over this
Speaker 4: past offseason, add that extra weight, it was huge for him.
Speaker 4: I mean we see that. I mean we're looking at
Speaker 4: a second, second, third round guy now. And then you
Speaker 4: look at Byron Murphy. He was able to power that
Speaker 4: strength that he's always had. He's going to be one
Speaker 4: of the stronger guys you see at the combine. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's going to be strong and he's able to pair
Speaker 4: that with that mobility. Now that he has now they
Speaker 4: both needed the other thing as far as like Byron
Speaker 4: Murphy needing the lower half to Andre needing the upper half,
Speaker 4: and they combined both of them and they were able
Speaker 4: to kind of make that work.
Speaker 7: That's what I was going to ask.
Speaker 6: Is it going to be important with when you look
Speaker 6: at tandems, which you don't see a lot in college.
Speaker 6: To me, is like steady, this was a real tandem.
Speaker 6: To your point, they build off of each other. Is
Speaker 6: that something to consider when you are drafting this person.
Speaker 7: To look at?
Speaker 6: Okay, do I need to place him next to this person?
Speaker 6: Because I think you could say the thing about Newton too.
Speaker 6: I do think who he's played next to has made
Speaker 6: a difference in how he's schemed and taken on double
Speaker 6: teams and things of that nature. Is that something you
Speaker 6: look at when you're drafting.
Speaker 3: I think it's a valid question. No, it is.
Speaker 2: You want to see what they're playing beside and what
Speaker 2: they're playing around.
Speaker 3: My first thought when you brought that up was Georgia defensively.
Speaker 3: The last couple of years, you've got Jordan Davis.
Speaker 2: You've seen some of those guys and they've gone and
Speaker 2: played I mean, most of them are.
Speaker 3: In Philadelphia, honestly.
Speaker 2: But most of them have gone on and played well
Speaker 2: defensive tackle wise, defensive line.
Speaker 3: Wise, wherever they end up, and a lot of times
Speaker 3: they're not together unless they are in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: I'll say the one thing about Sweat, he's you talking
Speaker 5: about a guy that's extremely durable.
Speaker 3: Guys played four hundred and sixty snaps the last two years,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, you always worry about guys with that big
Speaker 5: playing in heat and humidity and all that, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sixty, it's a hot stadium to play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and you know that. Yeah, he's and
Speaker 3: he's not coming off the field.
Speaker 5: You throw in the Alabama game, I mean, and you're
Speaker 5: watching Alabama and Alabama's got a good offensive line and
Speaker 5: they it is an all day fight between Alabama and
Speaker 5: Texas on their offensive defensive line. That's I just these
Speaker 5: guys like I say this, Sweat, he he he plays
Speaker 5: the grass eight.
Speaker 3: Dying under his feet.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's he's moving to the outside, he's getting
Speaker 5: up the field. I mean, it's it's it's impressive to
Speaker 5: watch a man that big operate the way he does.
Speaker 4: Huntsville, Texas. De Andre Sweat, by the way, don't look.
Speaker 7: At me, Kyle, because I don't want to say.
Speaker 3: How what you throw a mission? You get through that
Speaker 3: Michigan tackle out there.
Speaker 8: Listen, we just talking about dts.
Speaker 5: We're talking about Chris Jenkins. I scouted his dad at Carolina.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, talk about Chris Drinkins the junior.
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, let me start off that we
Speaker 6: have Yeah, Michigan.
Speaker 7: No people get tight National champs. He was a big
Speaker 7: part of it.
Speaker 6: Yes, it was one thing that stood out to me.
Speaker 7: Number one. I wanted to look into the character.
Speaker 6: A lot of a lot of really good character witnesses
Speaker 6: for this guy who he is and his work ethic.
Speaker 7: They talk about how much he's in there. He was
Speaker 7: in the weight room. He came in at what two forty,
Speaker 7: he's at three oh five.
Speaker 6: Now you get to see that player is willing to,
Speaker 6: you know, sacrifice in that way to put the weight
Speaker 6: on and everything that he needs to do. He transitioned
Speaker 6: from d N to D tackle. You could see some
Speaker 6: of that in his game.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 6: And also to you you mentioned the fact that his
Speaker 6: father he had come from a football family. Ye, his
Speaker 6: dad was a nose tackle DT for four time Pro bowler,
Speaker 6: very successful. His uncle culin. Jenkins thirteen years in the league,
Speaker 6: so he has the lineage of a football player, but
Speaker 6: when you get into the player, this is a run
Speaker 6: stopping defender. I mean, I do think that he takes
Speaker 6: on double teams well, he takes them.
Speaker 7: He takes them on a lot. He got double teamed
Speaker 7: a lot.
Speaker 6: More this past year because of Mazi's absence, and I
Speaker 6: felt like he handled that pretty well.
Speaker 7: At times.
Speaker 6: He does have to focus on and Ryan mentioned it earlier,
Speaker 6: what the heck is going on?
Speaker 7: Is it the scheme?
Speaker 6: It's the get off and the technique, and he said
Speaker 6: that his uncle's his uncle, his dad have even pulled.
Speaker 7: Him in aside and to talk to him about the game.
Speaker 7: So it's the scheme. Maybe it's the stance, it's a stand.
Speaker 5: It's he plays a lot more elongated than what than
Speaker 5: what Mozzi plays. Mozzi was a little bit more narrow,
Speaker 5: and Will McLay even talked about kind of opening up
Speaker 5: Mozzie's stance a little more from Michigan.
Speaker 3: But when you watch Jenkins play, he's a little bit longer.
Speaker 3: But it is a scheme. They are a tick late
Speaker 3: coming off the ball.
Speaker 5: They seriously I watch it and that it's the last
Speaker 5: damn thing I put in my notes, and I said.
Speaker 3: Let me get to it here if I could real quick.
Speaker 3: I said, that's the last thing. I go. I go this.
Speaker 5: I said, like to see more explosive when coming off
Speaker 5: the ball as a pass rusher. I go, this is
Speaker 5: likely a scheme thing. After Mozzie Smith struggles with the
Speaker 5: same thing. It's a combination. This guy's got a combination
Speaker 5: of raw strength and athletic potential.
Speaker 8: That's what this guy is.
Speaker 5: But they but they are. You watch it play against Washington,
Speaker 5: play the run. They don't. They can't block this guy.
Speaker 5: And in a big game he was. And I know
Speaker 5: you're going to see the maze and blue and the
Speaker 5: helmet and f Michigan defensive lineman.
Speaker 3: I get it. It's a scheme thing with these guys.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 5: The more now you watch, you understand after watching Maszie
Speaker 5: play this year, I get it. I get it watching
Speaker 5: Michigan football. That's that's what you're going to have to
Speaker 5: deal with coming out of out of a Michigan If
Speaker 5: you're drafting their defensive lineman.
Speaker 3: Does that make you feel about No, Mazzie still needs
Speaker 3: to get off the ball. Quicker yeah. I feel like
Speaker 3: either way, you're still you're kind of you're.
Speaker 5: Still yeah, you got the ball is right there when
Speaker 5: it's snapped, goat, don't don't like snap and then wait,
Speaker 5: I can't Tammy times.
Speaker 3: I know we all did it.
Speaker 5: His hands on the ground, their linemen are moving, his
Speaker 5: hands still on the ground. It's a it's a Michigan thing.
Speaker 4: I think it's even worse with Mazzi too, because it's
Speaker 4: very clear that he has been relying on his strength
Speaker 4: is entirely question and he can be okay with you
Speaker 4: having the slogan off, but now he's reached that point
Speaker 4: to where you can't.
Speaker 7: And that's what I would say.
Speaker 6: The difference between if you wanted to try Jenkins, I
Speaker 6: think the difference between him. I think his functional strength
Speaker 6: is better than Mazzi's was to start, Wow, who's our guy?
Speaker 4: Clemson or A horror I haven't gotten there yet as
Speaker 4: far as a horror ho rookue A horror ho?
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely not right, No, No, it's seriously, I think you.
Speaker 3: Say it a horror, A horror horror. I think it's
Speaker 3: how it's pronounced. I think it's how it's pronounced.
Speaker 5: I'm going to their media, Yeah, give me yeah, Clemson, Okay,
Speaker 5: real quick, this guy, I mean, there's he's six forties
Speaker 5: two ninety. Here's another three technique that you're gonna have
Speaker 5: to kind of deal with here. He can to play
Speaker 5: a little high for my liking, but you could see
Speaker 5: blockers they get under him a little bit. But his
Speaker 5: best pass rush techniques and stuff are like that when
Speaker 5: he's on the move. I mean, he's a bull rushers.
Speaker 5: He needs a little bit better plan. But this is
Speaker 5: a guy that people are kind of talking about a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 3: Six four, two ninety.
Speaker 5: You know, he plays in a rotating Clemson's got all
Speaker 5: those rotating defensive linemen. But you're gonna see a funny
Speaker 5: name and you're gonna have to study this kid because
Speaker 5: I mean, he's he's a guy that has the ability
Speaker 5: to make some plays, and he made some plays for
Speaker 5: Clemson in these games.
Speaker 3: Will we have it? No, go for it?
Speaker 4: When we do these positional spotlights? Can I do a
Speaker 4: stay away from this guy?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 4: All right? Stay away from lind Taylor to the third
Speaker 4: out of Miami. Not a huge fan of what he's
Speaker 4: put on the put on the field this past year
Speaker 4: in Miami. He was a Miami Palmoudo kid stayed home,
Speaker 4: went to University of Miami, was a five star prospect,
Speaker 4: top five in the in his class, and I just
Speaker 4: have not loved the production from him since he's been
Speaker 4: at Miami. I say stay away because he's starting generated
Speaker 4: like that second third round ye and I just I
Speaker 4: don't see that. I see a guy who's kind of
Speaker 4: lazy off the ball, which is oddly enough, he has
Speaker 4: a crazy motor he does he could stay on the
Speaker 4: field for quite a bit of snaps. Kind of similar
Speaker 4: since de Andandre sweat in that way. But I just
Speaker 4: don't love the guy. I think he's He's not a
Speaker 4: true defensive tackle either. I think you would have to
Speaker 4: move him out to like a three or a five.
Speaker 4: Even He reminds me of Villiama Fojoko from last year
Speaker 4: as far as the draft process goes, and I think
Speaker 4: the Cowboys kind of reached some Fojoko taking him in
Speaker 4: the fourth. I thought it at the time. I mean
Speaker 4: obviously I think that now too, So I think this
Speaker 4: is more of like a fifth, sixth round guy. I
Speaker 4: don't see him right now as a second third round.
Speaker 2: By the way, uh group que or or oh, there's No,
Speaker 2: the hes are silent, A.
Speaker 3: Very good a oreo or Aura watch him number thirty three.
Speaker 7: I'm watching that.
Speaker 5: And then you'll be like, why did you make me
Speaker 5: waste thirty minutes of my life? Or or it's or
Speaker 5: or or yeah or for different You'll go up, you'll
Speaker 5: text me, you'll go, I hate this guy, Brian, I
Speaker 5: just I just I'm interesting, you know me. At this point,
Speaker 5: I think I think I'm getting an understanding.
Speaker 7: I'm a watch.
Speaker 4: So it's basically all the ages are silent.
Speaker 3: Or I can do that. I can do that here,
Speaker 3: got it? Everybody, Well done, y'all you can do you
Speaker 3: can do.
Speaker 7: Understand.
Speaker 3: Albert Equabanam from Missouri tight end.
Speaker 7: Yeah, now you're pushing it.
Speaker 3: Got it all right. We'll be back at Lineman in
Speaker 3: Alabama too. Yeah, there's a couple of them I bora. Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll attack that one on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Class on Thursday, eleven am Central Time Draft Show. On Thursday,
Speaker 2: we're gonna preview the Shrine Bowl, preview the Senior Bowl coming.
Speaker 3: Up as well. Be sure to join us.
Speaker 2: Glad you're with us today for Chris Beam, Jasmine Marshall,
Speaker 2: Paul in the Back, Nick Harris, Brian brought us Ayasha Morrison.
Speaker 2: I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long. We'll see you on
Speaker 2: Thursday with more of the Draft Show.
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