WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Predicting the Future 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:06.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:18.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.480 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.800 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:32.200 It's time for the break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:39.479 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Wow, 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.160 looks like we got a new in tril going on there. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.000 New Year, New US, New Year, New US. It's been 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:46.879 that way for a few months. You guys haven't been 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:52.159 on the show. You're right, that's false. But anyways, we 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.280 have there's a lot going on today. We were going 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.160 to have a full group, but Salvid, I think Derek 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.280 is gonna walk in a little late and then leave 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.760 a little early. He's the boss man around here, so 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.679 I guess he can do whatever he wants. But in 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.480 the meantime we'll get the conversation started last week. We 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.760 started discussing Russell Wilson in his contract, what might what 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.360 might happen there and what that might do to Dax 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:22.360 contract and future talks are nowadays. They're talking now. The 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.319 Cowboys are talking with das people and getting that ball 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:32.119 rolling now Russell Wilson becomes the most the highest paid 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:36.039 player in the NFL, which is impressive. He got a 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.440 four year extension worth one hundred and four million dollars 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:47.680 in hundred forty oh I typed it around hundred up there. Yeah, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.760 big difference plus a sixty five million dollars signing bonus, 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:57.320 which is a ton of money. I mean, shoot, that's 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.200 a lot. But once we started talking about quarterbacks and 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.520 where the market is heading there, what do you think 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.200 that does to Dak Prescott and what the Cowboys are 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.560 trying to do here with him. There's a few places 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.760 to go with that. Yeah, it's a topic of much 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.320 consternation among the Cowboys fan base. Um. I think there's 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.240 there's two thoughts there. One. It puts to bed the 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.160 silly notion of Dak Prescott signing an extension for like 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.920 a you know, manageable sum of money. Like you know, 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.000 you think back to like September October, You're talking about 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.360 signing him to like a twenty two twenty five million 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.240 dollar contract. That's not happening. It's just not At the 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.080 same time, you know, people see Russell Wilson's contract and 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.040 they see people saying that Dak is going to break 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.359 the bank, and they think that that means Dak Prescott 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.239 is going to become the highest paid player in the league. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.840 I don't think I'm ready to believe that. His people 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.919 might be pushing for it. I don't know if he's 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.399 capable of getting that deal, but I do think he's 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.160 capable of signing a thirty million dollar contract or close 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.040 to it. Russ isn't the new number one. Aaron Rodgers 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.720 is right behind him. I think Matt Ryan's right after that, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.400 and I would expect Dak to slot somewhere right in 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.440 their top five quarterbacks in the league in terms of salary. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.880 Would not surprise me. And yeah, that's that's just the 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.240 new reality that we're living in. And Russ didn't need 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.720 to sign that deal for that to be true. But 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.119 him signing for thirty five million a year only underscores 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:32.120 the point is the market for good quarterback play is 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.920 insane and Dak Prescott is deserving of a lot of money. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.920 Might not be the highest paid player in the league, 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.960 but he ain't taken some you know, bargain bin deal 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.800 just because you don't think he's proven. Right now, after 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.600 seeing what happened with DeMarcus Lawrence and the weight that 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.880 was going on there and how we thought they needed 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.840 to hurry it up and it didn't happen right after 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.200 the season. And now with Russell Wilson's extension, do you 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:02.000 think that this makes the Cowboys kind of push the 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.480 pedal on the gas to go and do it as 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.640 quickly as I don't. I don't think this team moves 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.240 quickly on anything that they don't have to do. UM. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.480 And I think that I don't think Russell Wilson. I 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.400 just don't believe that it affects the Cowboys one way 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:19.080 or another. UM. You know, yes, it's up there and 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.200 and it sets it, you know, the number for maybe 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.400 other quarterbacks that might need other deals. But I mean, 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.080 I think he's you know, like Dave said, I think 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.760 he's in the range of you know, twenty eight to thirty. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.159 I mean, he hasn't done he hasn't done really anything 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.640 that Russell Wilson has done. So I just have a 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.840 hard time thinking that just because that deal is made, 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.320 that doesn't mean that that Dak is going to get 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.120 that money. I think he's gonna get good money because 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.400 if you just look at don't don't look at Russell Wilson. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.360 Just look at Kirk Cousins, look at Derek Carr, look 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.560 at Matthew Stafford, Jim. Yeah, those guys right there are 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.679 getting this money. That's what a good, young, promising quarterback 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.880 should do. If you're established and you've been to two 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.599 Super Bowls and one one of them, then you get 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.839 to be a higher level and has a case that 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.080 he should have been one NFL MVP at least once. Yeah, 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.800 Russell Wilson, he's been that, which I agree with this. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.880 I don't think this changes anything. It doesn't change their 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.080 line of thinking. I don't think it changes what Dak 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.080 would have gotten. Like I said, the problem is, I 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.680 do think they need to hurry and not I mean 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.720 and when I say that, I mean try to get 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.599 something done before the season starts. They don't have to 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.880 do it next week. But it ain't just Russell Wilson, 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.280 Like Carson Wentz is coming up, Jared Goff is coming up, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.840 Patrick Mahomes is coming up. Pat Mahomes just one NFL MVP, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.360 so he might not be in the same boat. But 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.159 Goff and Wentz are guys with comparable resumes to Dak 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.719 Prescott and if they are all of a sudden breaking 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.320 the bank and making You know, if Jared Goff gets 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.039 thirty two million dollars a year, thirty three million dollars 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.839 a year, then all of a sudden, Dak Prescott is helping. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.839 You know, that helps his case, I think. And so 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.159 the quicker you can get this thing done, the quicker 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.599 he will become a bargain because these deals are going 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.080 to keep going up and up. I mean, Patrick Mahomes. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.560 I would bet we'll sign a two hundred million dollar 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.680 contract next year. He's eligant, he can negotiate starting in January, 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:15.120 and he's twenty three throwing fifty touchdowns a year. For 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.000 everybody that's listening that's not sold on Dak, everyone in 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.240 the world is sold on Pat Mahomes, right, So what 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.200 do you think a team would be willing to pay him? 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.720 If a guy that you're not sold on can command 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.640 one hundred and seventy million, you know what I mean. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.760 So the quicker you can get this done, the salary 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.919 cap will keep going up. Other quarterbacks will start signing. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.719 Dak could be the number three highest paid quarterback in 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.080 the league heading into the season. If he signs in 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.840 July and he would be down at like six seven 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.760 eight a year from now. I just think it's just 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.080 get it out of the way. I think it would 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.919 be better for all parties in my opinion. Now the 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:55.360 Cowboys have started their offseason workouts, have voluntary offseason workouts, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.320 and with that, a lot of people before he got started, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.080 we're asking or wondering whether Sik was going to do 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.000 hold out and all of that. Clearly that was in 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:09.000 the case because he's been out here, uh practicing or 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.120 working out with his teammates and posting things on social media. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.480 He seems very committed to this team and very happy 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.000 to be here. So I wanted to get talking about 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.040 some of the guys I've have been out here at. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.520 Jason Witten, a guy that looks like he never left. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.440 He just looks exactly the same. And Travis, Yeah, we'll 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:33.320 see once they actually doesn't look exactly the same. What 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:42.120 the hair we were trying to Okay, exactly that's my play, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.520 all right. So Travis Frederick a guy that people keep 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.280 asking about and how he's looking, and how he's doing 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.000 and what's up with him in the near future as 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.760 far as his performance and health wise. You know, he Um, 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.840 everyone's just kind of optim about about where things are 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:06.520 with him right now. He's back into the off season. Um, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.120 you know conditioning program, but remember what that is, it's 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.040 it's conditioning. I think, I think which you could see 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.240 from him last year. The problem that he was going 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.600 to have and why everyone was like he's not coming back, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.840 is because he hasn't really been able to work out. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.160 He doesn't have the strength. And if you need anything 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.200 at the center position other than great awareness, you gotta 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.600 have that strength. You gotta have that base to make 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.160 sure that that you're not letting guys like Antoine Woods 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.120 get get past you. And there's nothing wrong with that. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.520 He's a good, solid player. But I think now it 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.360 makes more sense why he was getting beat by Antoine 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.400 Woods at training camp because he was going through the 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.440 illness and losing his strength. So right now it looks good. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.720 Let's see what happens when he goes a little further 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.200 and it does he regain the strength that he had 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.719 that may have been a pro Yeah, and I mean 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.040 all credit to him. It looks like he's made a 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.800 ton of progress. Last season, he just he didn't even 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:04.319 look comfortable walking around, kind of limping and just looked 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:05.959 like a guy who was going to an old man. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.880 Really was. It was to the point where you were like, 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.360 I don't know if he had come back. He looked 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.920 like his nervous system had been through a lot, which 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.800 it had, but he looked you know, I saw him 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.360 the other day. He looks he's moving around normal, he 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.000 looks better. He's out there working out. It's a far 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.960 far cry from football. So and I don't, you know, 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.480 I don't want to throw water on anything. It's just 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.880 it's one of those things you gotta step by step. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.240 Like it's a cliche, but it fits in this case 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.199 because it's a long road between you know, he's doing 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.400 suicides out on the field in April and going against 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.520 Antoine Woods a training camp. Those are just two completely 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.280 different things. But it's a very promising start now, like 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.880 you mentioned, very far from football and training camp and 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.800 them lining up and doing all these things. But we 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.880 that work here get the privilege to see them and 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.160 see how they look out there, and we finally got 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.000 to see them as a group with the free agent 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.000 guys that came in, the guys at the Cowboys brought in. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.000 How did this group look to you? Once you saw 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.840 them all together a bunch stuff and just working around. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.160 I don't look up the window. I don't see anything. Yeah, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.160 I don't know. It's against the rules, so I don't 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.600 I don't even know they're out there. I just let 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.000 Dave tell me what he sees. No, I mean this one, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.480 it's not a big deal. I think that's even but 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.840 even that's premature, Like how do they you know, like 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.320 they're not This isn't football on any level, Like they're 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:33.240 doing agility drills and it's really crazy, like what NFL 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.520 rules stipulate, Like they aren't allowed to have a football 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:40.120 out there, tennis ball out Yeah they can use tennis ball. Yeah, No, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.920 I know they can't. They cannot work, they cannot work 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.680 with footballs. Coaches cannot be like anywhere near them. It's 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.720 all player driven, which they have meetings and stuff. Like 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.720 you know, Jason Garrett had his big I get you know, 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.959 not that we were invited, but like his State of 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.040 the Union. Soundly driven is the new slogan this year. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:10:59.520 You can see it on all the sweatshirts if you 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:04.959 go look at the photo albums. Um but yeah TMS 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.880 that that race already happened. Never mind. Um, the only 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.920 thing that looks really different out there is the fact 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.319 that they put this big wall out there with blue Uh. Yeah, 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.440 there's there's some construction going on at the stars, So 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.360 one of the two look different when you came in 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.800 today and saw all that. Yeah, one of the two 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.360 practice fields is unavailable right now. So yeah, like I mean, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:25.960 for you, I know, a lot of fans like go 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.079 look at the photo albums and stuff makes its way 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.640 to social media. Like if you're wondering what the blue 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.040 fence is there for that you're not used to seeing. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.679 There's some construction going on, so it's roped off right now. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.920 We're just gonna put a seventeen story building there, put 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.880 a high rise. Um. But I mean, you know, we'll see. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.800 You didn't have to be looking out of the window 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.480 to see. All you have to do is go to 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.040 dallascout was out com and see the photo gallery, see 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:52.960 the whole group that they're working out. But you know, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.400 like they'll get together for OTAs and even that'll be premature, 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.600 but like literally as exciting as it is to say 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.440 that the whole team is back in the building like 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:05.600 they're just they're doing sprints and you know, footwork drills, 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.400 which it's really cool to you know, yeah, or is 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.880 the first look of seeing the whole group kind of 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.240 starring come together, like not really though, Like I don't 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.719 know what thanks to each other. Okay, cool, I don't, 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.480 I don't know. I don't know. I don't. I'm just like, Oh, 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.280 Randall Cobb's got really quick feet. Okay, I knew that 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.480 he's been to a Pro Bowl. I mean, you know, 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.400 but your privilege is a great word, Like it's a 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.880 cool privilege just to kind of you know, yeah, going 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.600 back to your point, like people were hinting that Zeke 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.080 might not show up, Like, Zeke's here. I saw him 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.120 in the hallway the other Day's friendly as ever, Like 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.000 he doesn't he doesn't seem like he's got an attitude problem. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.800 He's looking good, yeah, like he is getting in really 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.720 good shape. He went he went to you know, Durk 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.840 Novitski's farewell game was last week, and he was there 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.040 with the rest of the team in the suite. He's 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.040 been at all the workouts. He's hanging out in the 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:59.240 cafeteria being Zeke, like, I mean, if he's if he's 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.959 upset about it, his contract he's doing it now. He's 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.680 doing a good job. Yeah, and I int we go 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.120 into you know, his fourth year. I don't see there 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.839 being that many issues now the fifth year, and if 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.720 you think about it, let's say he has a great season, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.400 Dak's probably gonna have a new deal by then. What's 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.600 the matter? What's going on? Derek? You can't join us here? 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.760 Derek has entered the studio for those of ye all 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.880 that what. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, he's sitting on the floor. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:34.640 All right, you're grounded THEREK he's grading us. So anyways, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.480 I just feel like, let's see what happens to going 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.679 into that fifth year. That's where we might see a 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.640 little bit of an issue. If there hasn't been a 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.040 deal done yet, if he's got a new contract, if 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.480 if Dak will have a new contract, I'm sure, and 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.439 then we'll see about like it. But a list is 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.000 good to hear that they are starting those conversations, specifically 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.880 with guys like that, like for example, Zeke, Yeah, Byron, 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.560 that's another one. I don't know if they're having those conversations, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:02.440 but Stephen Jones specifically said that things are active with 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.280 Dak and Amari right now. Those were the two, and 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.040 that's those are the ones that make the most. I 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.400 thought he mentioned that yesterday, like on defense he did. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.800 He did, he said specifically in regard to Dak and Amari, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:18.520 like those things are active with those two, doesn't mean 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.920 and then I think he even said things can become 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.440 active in a hurry with zeke Er and Byron and 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.400 whoever else. Well, then I definitely mis understood because I 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.640 thought I heard it was like they had also kind 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.840 of started contact with their agents. And I think it's 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.200 safe to say if there's a fifth guy here, I 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.400 think it's Jaylen Smith. I think it's time to start 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.240 talking about that situation because he would be restricted next 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.560 year and I could see them doing something with Jalen. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.520 But it's not gonna be a bargain. I could promise 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.680 you that like that. He that's gonna be a tough one. Well, 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.160 that's an interesting thought, I mean, because they don't have to, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.720 and there's been there's been a lot of confusion about that. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.320 Stephen was asked about that yesterday too. Jalen Smith is 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.240 not headed for unrestricted free agency. They'll have to I mean, 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.080 rest assuming they don't extend him. Now you know, when 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.360 when the next league gear starts, he'd be a restricted 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.840 free agent. That means you apply one of three tenders 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.760 to him. For Jalen Smith, it would probably have to 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.320 be a first round tender, which would pay him a 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.440 salary of like five million dollars I think, and then 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.240 he would become restricted in twenty twenty one. Yeah, so 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.480 they don't have to, but they don't have to. They 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.360 could get out ahead of it if they wanted to. Yeah, 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.440 I think a first round a first round tender would 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.600 probably be a smart thing to do there. I wouldn't 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.880 risk it. I mean, and we say that all the time. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.600 You know, it sounds silly now, but we were like, well, 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.760 maybe they should put a second round tender on David Irving. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.000 And they didn't, and it wasn't a big deal. 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It's been late eight or nine show, and 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.120 I gotta leave early. So let's get it in. Let's 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:52.720 let's get started. Okay, So the stop it guys behave 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.280 The schedule comes out tonight. So that's like exciting time 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.000 for the fans and everybody just want to know when 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:03.119 they're playing and they're what. It's an exciting day for everybody. 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.280 Like I mean, I said, everybody. I said, the fans 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.399 and everybody. Okay, I point it up. Yeah, I just 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.080 I just wanted, like you know, I'm excited too. Okay, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.760 that's I just wanted to say that everybody gets playing 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.520 the rest of the year exactly. It's like it's they 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.760 call the draft football Christmas, but this is close. Like 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.199 it's just you know, you find like when are the 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.359 big games or they is it? When are we playing 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:29.600 at night? Once? The Thursday game? Christmas? What's going on 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.320 with my family? The weather just yet, it's too early 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.080 to predict the weather for one game does not have 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.120 a roof. I just need I don't know, we got 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.000 a lot of cold weather cities. I will get will 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.080 I will tell you at a certainty if we're playing 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.520 in Chicago and December, it ain't gonna be fun. Just 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.280 I'm just gonna tell you that. And I will go 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:50.480 out on a limb on that one, and that won't 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.280 be fun. I just need a home opener. I just 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.960 need it. Oh yeah, Texas the day before. I know, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.359 we gotta have that. I need it. Just praying for that. 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:04.760 That would be nice anyway, Well, home game, home game. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.920 We've known the opponents, and I thought and we've talked 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.159 about that a few months ago when that came out. 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.520 But since the schedule is coming out today and since 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:17.440 the Cowboys have acquire new talent and started forming their 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.199 team for twenty nineteen. I thought it maybe it'd be 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.840 fun to go over some of the opponents and who 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.879 would be which one of those would be the toughest 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:31.200 challenges for the Cowboys this year. I can start Dally. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.879 I don't know what that means, but I'll start the Patriots. 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:39.560 At the Patriots, I think it's I think that's going 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.600 to be a challenge. The word leaking out of Boston 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.880 is that they're opening on Sunday Night Football against Pittsburgh, 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.560 so it won't be Dallas, you know which there it'll 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.000 be a cold weather game. I just get ready. You 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.919 don't see that a lot the AFC NFC game, especially 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.600 when you're talking about marquee teams, because one of the 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:58.679 networks is going to fight like hell for it. And 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:02.160 Fox doesn't get the Patriots that often, and for them 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.600