1 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 3 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 4 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones and Nicky Spagnola. 5 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: You know this all reminds me of the children's book 6 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: Troy Aikman wrote back in nineteen ninety five. The title 7 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: was Things Change and Boy do they ever change? And 8 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: welcome to our debut of our new podcast on Dallas 9 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com, Mick Shots, kind of an offshoot of 10 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: my weekly column on Dallas Cowboys dot Com that normally 11 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: runs on Wednesday. And yes, I am Key Spagnola and 12 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: joining me on the debut of wing Mick Shots is 13 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 1: Bill Jones. How are you today? Fine? This is a 14 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: throwback to the good old days at the Cowboys Channel 15 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: many many years ago at Valley Ranch. Right, well, Bill, 16 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: I think I've got it right. It's fifteen years ago 17 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: and two thousand and five when we came up with 18 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: talking Cowboys on that Cowboys Channel. I believe it showed 19 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: on Comcast TV and we were doing it in the 20 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: TV studio if I remember correctly, Bill and I and 21 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: we did it for about a year and that was 22 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: the beginning of Talking Cowboys. And now we're back together 23 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: again on a show, and this is Mick Shots. And 24 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: what we're gonna try and do is take a look 25 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: at some of the bullet items that I have in 26 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: my notes column on Wednesday, and then go on and 27 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: discuss anything and everything with the going on with the 28 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. We have some various shots about the Cowboys 29 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: in the playoffs and the new playoff system in the NFL. 30 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: We also have a potential starting date for the NFL 31 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: schedule coming out, along with some other nuggets that I 32 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: was able to bring out. And Bill, I know you're 33 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: keeping busy. You're at home. I'm at home. So that 34 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: certainly has changed in this age of the coronavirus and 35 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: we are sheltered in place, and I assume you're being safe. 36 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: I am. Now I am getting out of the house some. 37 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,839 Speaker 1: With my job at CBS eleven, I actually have a 38 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: hall pass in my truck where because we are considered 39 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: for some reason, we are considered essential media, and so 40 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: I've been actually doing my live shots each night from 41 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: the plaza there at the Star in Frisco. Rather than 42 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: here at home in anticipation of Cowboys news each day. 43 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: We got some last night, but before we get started. 44 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: Here all right, at the end of your mix shots 45 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: this week, Okay, In reference to going back to two 46 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: thousand and five, when the original Talking Cowboys on the 47 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: Cowboys Channel, I cannot believe that you remember the name 48 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,959 Speaker 1: of Marcus Spears, high school coach at Southern Lab in 49 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I remember vividly leading up to that 50 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: two thousand and five draft and interviewing his coach, but 51 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: I could not, for the life of me remember his name, 52 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: Eric Randall, and you remember his name. I had to 53 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: do some research, by the way, and thanks to Google, 54 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: I was able to locate what the name was. And 55 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: it took a little bit of research. But he could 56 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: have just called Marcus and asked, yeah, right, yeah, exactly, 57 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: you know what, and I have his number. I should 58 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: have done that. That would have been easier than my 59 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: ten minutes of research. But that was pretty cool. And 60 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: as Bill was referring to the note, we did this 61 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: before the draft because we thought Marcus Spears was a 62 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: guy that the Cowboys could potentially select in the first round, 63 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: which they ended up doing with their second first round 64 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: pick that year. In two thousand and five, it was 65 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: the twentieth pick they took Marcus Spear after they took 66 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: de Marcus Where. And we remember the kind of debate 67 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,320 Speaker 1: they were having in the draft room with Bill Parcels 68 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: wanting Marcus Spear with that leventh pick and then where 69 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: with the twentieth, and the Cowboys decided to do it 70 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: the other way around, and it worked out just fine. Humville, Hey, 71 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: And you know what, that draft right there is what 72 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 1: got me to start my big Green NFL Draft Scouting notebook. 73 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: I hope you have it with you. Yeah, I do. 74 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,799 Speaker 1: I have it with me right here, you know, because 75 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: because you know, we were we were doing daily programming 76 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,679 Speaker 1: on the Cowboys channel then, I mean, we were diving 77 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: into the draft more than we ever had before at 78 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: that point, and we had targeted both DeMarcus Ware and 79 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: Marcus Spears that year as the guys that the Cowboys 80 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: needed a draft. Of course, they had two first round 81 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: draft picks that year, and if memory serves me right, 82 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: I think we talked to neither Demarcus's college coach at 83 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: Troy or something, and well, obviously we did Marcus's high 84 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: school coach at Southern Lab there in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 85 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: But you know, and the great story obviously that's been 86 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: told and retold now is the fact that Bill Parcels 87 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 1: really wanted Marcus Spears. And there was a great debate 88 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: with the eleventh pick in the draft do they go 89 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: where or do they go with Marcus Spears? And as 90 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: it turns out, they got both of them. And I 91 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: know that things were. They were all on pins and 92 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: needles in that draft room of going from the pick 93 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 1: eleven after the where pick was made and they picked 94 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: him instead of Derek Johnson who went to Kansas City, 95 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 1: who of course had a great career with the Chiefs 96 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 1: as well. And then they waited until number twenty and 97 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: then Marcus Spears was there, and there's a big sigh 98 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,799 Speaker 1: of relief in the draft room when they got Spears. Also, 99 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: it might be the last time I got a draft 100 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: prediction right. And that'll be another part of our weekly 101 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: show here on Mixed Shots is looking at the draft 102 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 1: and opening up Bill's big green notebook with all his 103 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: information in it. So we'll be able to do that. 104 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 1: So let's get started, built and one of the shots 105 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: that kind of came to me was when the NFL 106 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: owners the other day decided that they were indeed going 107 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: to expand the playoffs, adding an extra wildcard team to 108 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 1: each conference. Your thoughts too on. I think it's a 109 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: good idea. I have no problems with it. I don't 110 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 1: think they're oversaturating the playoffs. I think that it just 111 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: adds to the excitement and adds another game we get 112 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: to watch on Wildcard Weekend, well in two games in fact, 113 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: so you get triple headers on Saturday and Sunday of 114 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: Wildcard Weekend instead of double headers, And I don't think 115 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: it waters it down too much. I think I think it. 116 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: I love the fact that the team with the best 117 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: record in each conference gets a first round by and 118 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: only one team gets the first round by now, so 119 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: it really there's such a great advantage there. There are 120 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: many years where the second team, you know, maybe they 121 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: didn't even deserve the second round, the first round by 122 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: the team with the second best record, So I think 123 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: there's more of an effort that would be made to 124 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: get that first the top record in the conference each year, 125 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: and I really like it, and you know, it's just 126 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: amazing that it's now been thirty years since they expanded 127 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, I expanded them in nineteen ninety And 128 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: someone did the research to show that there were, out 129 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: of the sixty teams that have qualified over those thirty years, 130 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: as if there was an extra wildcard team, you know, 131 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: ten of them would have made it at ten and 132 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: six and the majority I think it was forty four. 133 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 1: Forty four out of sixty would have made it with 134 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: a winning record. And the research showed that only one 135 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: time did the seven and nine team almost make the playoffs, 136 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: and that would have been the Dallas Cowboys, by the 137 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: way back in nineteen ninety. If they had an extra 138 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,079 Speaker 1: team that year, the Cowboys would have made it. They 139 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: almost made it as the second wildcard team until the 140 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: Saints at seven and eight in the final game of 141 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: the season, and it was a night game against the Rams. 142 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: They kicked a field goal with two seconds left and 143 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:20,680 Speaker 1: beat the Rams and that solidified their final playoff spot 144 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 1: and the core out. So if they had expanded the 145 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: playoffs back then to seven, Babe Laffenberg would not have 146 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: had to win that game in Atlanta, the last game 147 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, if I remember correctly, Babe Troy 148 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: Aikman got hurt in the fifteenth game of the season. 149 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: It was a loss to Philadelphia, and Babe came in 150 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: and they didn't win that game. He had to start 151 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: the season finale against Atlanta and they lost that game. 152 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: But had there been an extra wildcard team, the Cowboys 153 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: would have got in at seven and nine, So it 154 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: would have been would have been the starting quarterback for 155 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: that playoff game, that's right, and they would have been 156 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: fed to I think Detroit, right, No, not Detroit. I 157 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 1: don't remember who it was. But yeah, so a little 158 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: bit of history there on the playoffs because even though 159 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: they added a team, you'd have to go all the 160 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: way back to nineteen ninety to find that seventeenth added 161 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: in the NFC with a losing record. So I think 162 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: it's a good thing and it'll be even more exciting 163 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: though even though Bill right, if they had added the 164 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: seventh team last year, the Cowboys still would have been 165 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 1: left out. Yeah all right, we're going through your mix 166 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 1: SHOT's column. But there's some news that happened, Mickey that 167 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: I got to talk about that we're burying the lead here. 168 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: You being a Missouri grad, and the news that came 169 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: down last night that the Cowboys have signed Alden Smith, 170 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: and so that's we got to get the Missouri grad's 171 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: opinion on Alden Smith being a Dallas Cowboy. Well, first 172 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: and foremost, he's got to get reinstated by the NFL. Right, 173 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: So they basically agreed the terms on a contract. It 174 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: sounds like I assume that comes from the agent and 175 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: if he's reinstated, then the contract and they're there and 176 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 1: on Instagram there was he posted a picture of him 177 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: signing a contract. Yeah, so what does so what does 178 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 1: that mean? Is that like a fake contract? And then 179 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: it goes into says he hasn't been reinstated yet, right, 180 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: because he hasn't been reinstated, he's trying to. So now, 181 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: Alden Smith came out of college after three years at 182 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: Missouri and he was awfully, awfully good. Uh, and he 183 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: ended up being a top first round pick of the 184 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers. I think a lot of 185 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: people thought he was going to fall, but they took 186 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: him awfully high in that first round. And in his 187 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: second year in twenty twelve with the forty nine ers, 188 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: he ended up with nineteen and a half sacks and 189 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: it looked like, Okay, this guy is really going He 190 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: is the real deal, and he was for a couple 191 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: of years until kind of fell off the cliff right 192 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: Bill ended up with suspensions and as I counted him out, 193 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: since that twenty thirteen season, he's been involved in ten 194 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: issues with the either the NFL or the authorities, and 195 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: he ended up getting suspended and it seemed like permanently 196 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: after the twenty fifteen season, so he's not played a 197 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: football game. And I looked it up and he hasn't 198 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: played a football game since November fifteenth of twenty fifteen. 199 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: So I don't know what you get out of a guy. 200 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: It looks like maybe once again he has turned his 201 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: life around and got himself straight. We're about to find out. 202 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: We're about to find out. If you think the NFL 203 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: thinks he's turned his life around. Yeah, you know. And 204 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: I don't know him, but you know you hear the 205 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: reaction last night from NFL players just on social media 206 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: reacting to him signing with the Cowboys. He seems like 207 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: he's a really good guy of friends with a lot 208 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: of players. Jay Glazer as obviously he's he may have 209 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: been the one who broke the story, but you know, 210 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: he's worked with him over the course of the last 211 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 1: nine months, and some other reporters talk about how he 212 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: has turned his life around. His most recent arrest came 213 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: last summer, and so hopefully things have worked out that. 214 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:45,160 Speaker 1: The biggest concern from a football standpoint is the fact 215 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: that he hasn't played a game since remember fifteen, twenty fifteen. 216 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,839 Speaker 1: And I haven't done the research on this. I would 217 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: I don't know how many players, if any, have not 218 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:02,199 Speaker 1: played an NFL game for full seasons and been able 219 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: to play in the NFL, and that maybe there's somebody 220 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: out there that has that answer. I don't know it 221 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: off the top of my head. And so that is 222 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: the biggest thing is he can be in the greatest shape, 223 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: he can turn his life around, whatever. But as we 224 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: all know what it takes to play in this league, 225 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: that's asking a whole lot and hopefully he can come 226 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: through and the Cowboys taking a fire on it. The 227 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: details on the contract as I saw it last night, 228 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: was it was a one year deal up to four 229 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: million dollars with a base of two million. I don't 230 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: know how much guarantee there is on there. It can't 231 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: be much yeah, I absolutely agree with you, And think 232 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: about it. If you look at when he last played 233 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: a game to now, it's been fifty five months since 234 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: he's played a football game, and even at that, over 235 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: the previous two years, he had only played sixteen games. 236 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: So I figured out that he's played sixteen football games 237 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: in the last seventy se even months. So you know, 238 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what he has left. I don't know 239 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: how long it would take him, and it certainly wouldn't 240 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: help if this entire offseason is canceled. As we know now, 241 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: the NFL facilities are shut down. So if you want 242 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: to call it a flyer, this is a real flyer. 243 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: This is a jet, right, we're taking a huge chance 244 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: on well, they're they're they're not taking a chance. They're 245 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: they're given him an opportunity. And one of the problems 246 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: I think we should point out for his different suspensions, 247 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: and I think with medical people finally figured out, is 248 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: he had some mental health issues that needed to be 249 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: tended to. And that's normally what happens in a lot 250 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: of these cases, whether it's failing substance abuse tests or 251 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: getting in evolved in some domestic abuse. So he's had 252 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: a range of things, as I said, ten incidents. But again, 253 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: if indeed the mental health part of it is taken 254 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: care of, you know, you can take a shot on 255 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: a guy, and the Cowboys have obviously done that with 256 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: other guys along the way well. And obviously the connection 257 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: is Jim tom Sula, the defensive line coach, because Tom 258 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: Sula had him at San Francisco, so he knows what 259 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: kind of person he is. He would be intimately familiar 260 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: with the issues that he's had in his career since 261 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 1: coming into the year. Of course, he played at a 262 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: Pro Bowl level with those nineteen and a half sacks 263 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: in twenty twelve, and that was under tom Sula. So 264 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: if he was going to land anywhere, Tom Sula would 265 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: be the place where he would land being coached by him. 266 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: And so it says a lot about what tom Sula 267 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: thinks of him that they are willing, even after him 268 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: being out of the league for four years, to take 269 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: a flyer on him and Bill, doesn't it seem like 270 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: if you look at this case and some of the 271 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: other signings they've had in free agency, that the Cowboys 272 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: are relying on this coaching staff. Some of the guys 273 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: they are bringing in and you know, everybody said, oh, 274 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: before it was like, oh, the Cowboys were like too 275 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: much on their coaches in the draft and in free agency. 276 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: But in this case and several cases, right they're relying 277 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:20,719 Speaker 1: on this coaching staff's recommendations well, and you know, and 278 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: I think that's one of the reasons they've hit on 279 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 1: draft picks as well. Now they've obviously missed on some 280 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: draft picks too with coaches input, but I think it's 281 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,959 Speaker 1: so important for the scouting staff and Will McClay had 282 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: met up to know what those is, what those coaches 283 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: are looking for in players. Now this specific case, obviously 284 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: it's the recommendation of Tom Suli because he would be 285 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: intimately familiar with this player. But I think that was 286 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: one of the critical things that they had to do 287 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: early on in this offseason was for the scouting staff 288 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: to meet with the coaches and under get a full 289 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: understanding of what they are looking for scheme wise, both 290 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: on offense and defense and special teams, but also what 291 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: type players that they want to have. And so I 292 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 1: think even this year, the coaches probably have to be 293 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: really connected with what's going on with scouting as much 294 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,439 Speaker 1: as anything, just for them to become familiar with what 295 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: they're looking for in a specific player. Yeah, and we 296 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: can look right to what they seem to have agreed 297 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: to terms with with defensive tackle Don Terry Poe, who 298 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: played for Mike McCarthy at Green Bay. Certainly a bigger 299 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: defensive lineman than the Cowboys are used to having. These 300 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 1: three hundred and forty six pounds. And if you look 301 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 1: at the guy that played that one technique in the 302 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: four to three this past season for the Cowboys, Antoine Woods, 303 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: I think he checked in at three ten, so a 304 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: significantly bigger body. We haven't seen that he's actually signed 305 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: the contract yet, but you know, this will be his 306 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: third team in four years, and I'm not sure he's 307 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: the same player that was going through those Pro Bowls 308 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: back in the mid to the teams of this year 309 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: when he was playing for Mike McCarthy. All Right, Chris Beam, 310 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: our producers has pointed out to me, and I'm sure 311 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people out there may have that's the 312 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: same thought. Roger Staubach would be one who has sat 313 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: out a number of years before before getting back into football. 314 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 1: Of course, after with his naval commitment back in the sixties, 315 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: and into the Cowboys. So there you go. I'm looking 316 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: to see how long Chad Hennings sat out before with 317 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: his military commitment before starting with the Cowboys. He started 318 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: with the Cowboys in nineteen ninety two and he was 319 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: drafted in nineteen eighty eight, So there's a four year 320 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: four year period there, four years span there, of course, 321 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,439 Speaker 1: and Hennings would have been twenty six and not thirty 322 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: at that time, right, And you know, and Staubach kind 323 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: of kept his hand in it, right, Yes, he played 324 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: a lot uh in when he was in the military too, 325 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: at the NFL label level, Navy pickup football, right exactly 326 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: exactly that the Cowboys was the ship ship in footballs 327 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 1: wherever he was stationed, including Vietnam, by the way, that's right. 328 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: So yeah, that has been has been a while. So 329 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: going back to Poe, as I told you when we 330 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: spoke last night, I went back and looked at four 331 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 1: of the games that he played with in Carolina this 332 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: last year, and I've seen these scouting reports on what 333 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: he is supposed to be, Uh, this run plugger in 334 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 1: the middle of a guy, I'll hold up double teams, uh. 335 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: And he did that the second time they played Tampa Bay. 336 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: But in the games against Houston, San Francisco and the Packers, 337 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: I just thought the guy disappeared. Now, I don't know 338 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: if he was having problems with the injury, had the 339 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: leg injury, I believe it was. It was a ham 340 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: or a hamstring or quad and he ended up missing 341 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: the last five games and needed surgery, which, by the way, 342 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: is also a concern when you can because when you 343 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: start approaching thirty years old, those injuries tend to pile up. 344 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: But I didn't see him make much of a difference, 345 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: if any at all, in those other three games that 346 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: I watched. Yeah, and I watched you after you pointed 347 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: out the Tampa Bay game. I watched that one, and 348 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: he looked that may have been, as you pointed out 349 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 1: those games you saw, that might have been his best 350 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: game of the year, and it was. But it's it's 351 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: great for everybody to right now with it been free 352 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 1: on all Access on NFL dot Com, you can go 353 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: back and look, and it's great because you got McCoy 354 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: and Poe side by side there with Tampa Bay and 355 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: go back and look at those games and you can 356 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: make your own judgment on where you thinked on Terry 357 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: Poe and Gerald McCoy, for that matter, are in their careers. 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And Bill, I didn't know 408 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,880 Speaker 1: that because I contributed it to the draft issue wrote 409 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: a story about the Cowboys history, how it started way 410 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: back in nineteen sixty of making trades during or before 411 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 1: the draft. So it's a kind of a look back 412 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 1: that and I'll just tease it right now, because the 413 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 1: Cowboys traded away there what would have been their first 414 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: draft pick ever ever in nineteen sixty to acquire Eddie 415 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: LeBaron from the Washington Redskins. Wow, and how tall was 416 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: Eddie LeBaron? About my size. So if you can picture 417 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: Mickey Smagnola quarterbacking the Dallas Cowboys that you got a 418 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:47,959 Speaker 1: good picture of Eddie LeBaron, so probably different then yeah, 419 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: absolutely probably with the size of centers. Now, my head 420 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 1: might just come over the guy leaning over the football, right, 421 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,239 Speaker 1: So let's go. Let's go on. You know we were 422 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: talking about and I'll just throw this note out, nothing 423 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: controversial about it. NFL officials said yesterday that the schedule 424 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: that bill probably would come out here and maybe two 425 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: weeks right before the draft. They're postponing that to around 426 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,959 Speaker 1: May ninth, So they'll go through the NFL Draft April 427 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: twenty third through the twenty fifth, and then maybe a 428 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: week or two later they get around to actually releasing 429 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: the schedule. And who knows right where we're at right 430 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: now if there is an off season, if training camp 431 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: starts on time. We did know that the Cowboys should 432 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 1: have been able to start their offseason programs April sixth. 433 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,479 Speaker 1: I believe that's this coming Monday, but that's certainly not 434 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 1: going to happen with all the with the league shutting 435 00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: down all the NFL facilities. Okay, and I'm look, I'm 436 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 1: reading your mix shots right now. Okay, you say at 437 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 1: the end of that that is if indeed there is 438 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 1: a season. I'm just keeping all positivity that there will 439 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 1: be a season. We've got to have a season, and 440 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to stay as positive i can be 441 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: that this thing's gonna be licked and we're gonna we're 442 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 1: gonna return to some sense of normalcy sometime during the summertime. 443 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 1: But again May ninth on, that's anticipated when the new 444 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: schedule would be released. Now, what is your understanding from 445 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 1: a virtual standpoint, whether it's doing zoom conference calls or 446 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 1: whatever that the NFL is going to allow the teams 447 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: to do, because even in a in a regular year, 448 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: it wouldn't be until Monday, April six that this new 449 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: coaching staff could get hands on with these players. Are 450 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 1: what's your sense of how that's all going to work 451 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: now from a virtual sense, Well, they've they've actually, it 452 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: sounds like, started some virtual conferencing with potential draft picks too. 453 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 1: By the way, they can't fly guys in. We normally 454 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 1: would have already had pro days, we would have had 455 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: Dallas Day, but that's not going to happen. So I 456 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: saw some teams doing a video conference with love the 457 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 1: quarterback and checking him out first. And they've got they've 458 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: got rules established for that too, Mackey, they've got rules 459 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: established for that where they where they are able. I 460 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: believe it's you can meet with one player three times 461 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 1: a week for an hour or something like that. There 462 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: are established rules in place trying to keep a level 463 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: playing field for everybody. Did they check in with the 464 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: NCAA to see how many funk calls you can make 465 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: with your recruits? And you mentioned with the teams, and 466 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: it sounds like they're going to allow to teams so 467 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: many hours a week to basically, as you said, use 468 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: some video streaming to contact players. Could thick about it. 469 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,959 Speaker 1: I'll guarantee you. Mike McCarthy has met very few of 470 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: the Cowboys Kerr players that were already under contracts, So 471 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: it'd be a way to have some meeting, get some 472 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: sort of play installation going, which is going to be 473 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: significantly serious in this offseason. You know, Bill, this kind 474 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: of reminds me of that twenty eleven offseason that got 475 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: wiped out by the lockout when they were still negotiating 476 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: for a new CBA, and if I remember correctly, they 477 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: didn't come up with the new ratify a new CBA 478 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: until late in July, and two days later they opened 479 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: up training camp, So it was a shotgun start to 480 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: that season two. And I don't know if this is 481 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: going to be the same, but they've done it before 482 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: without an off season, right, And of course then it 483 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: was really up in the air because of the free 484 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: agency hadn't really happened. And yeah, that's what I was 485 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: referring to with the It's like with the NCA restrictions 486 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: on recruiting. They have a similar type thing with the NFL, 487 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: trying to make it where it's a level playing field 488 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: for everybody as far as the draft is concerned. You 489 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: know how, I would think that they would need a 490 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: month of quote unquote training camp in order to be 491 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: ready to play a season. So I mean, if this 492 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: went all the way to August, first, you could start 493 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: the season still on time. If you can get together 494 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: for a training camp starting at that time. It would 495 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: affect the preseason obviously if that were the case, and 496 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: it might be a situation where teams would have scrimmages 497 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: instead of preseason games if we got that laid into it. 498 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: If say it was mid August, or September first, we 499 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: had to delay the start of the season, but hopefully 500 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: we don't get to that point. Yeah, And if I 501 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: remember correctly, going back to twenty eleven, the Cowboys opened 502 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: up training camp on July twenty seventh. They did play 503 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: their first preseason game on All eleventh, so it was 504 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 1: about two and a half two weeks. Yeah, two weeks 505 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: to play that first preseason game. And who knows, if 506 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: you're right and it doesn't start till August first, you 507 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 1: might cancel a preseason game or two to allow these 508 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: teams to play, which again the Cowboys thought it was 509 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: a benefit to get that fifth preseason game and play 510 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: in the Hall of the I guess play in the 511 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game. Give this coaching staff an extra 512 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: game to work with the players and kind of get 513 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: to know these guys actually play in football. All right. 514 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 1: One of your mix shots I want to ask you 515 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: about is you got a note about Travis Frederick And 516 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: there were some talk some references to the Cowboys possibly 517 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: trying to recoup some of his pro rated signing bonus. 518 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: What can you tell us about that? Yeah, and he 519 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: only has one year left of his actual pro rated 520 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: signing bonus and it's like six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 521 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: so I don't know that it would be a big 522 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: deal to go after that. The reason he has just 523 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: over eleven million dollars in dead money right now counting 524 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: against the cap, is because of this restructure bonuses, and 525 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: that's money that he was gonna earn. And basically what 526 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: they do with a player is they take part of 527 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: the base salary for that year turning into signing bonus 528 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: so they can spread it over the length of the 529 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: of the contract. But he's already received that money, and 530 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 1: so that I don't believe would count against trying to 531 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: get that back because he did the club of favor 532 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: by lowering his base salary and then they gave turn 533 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: that what he gave up in base salary for that 534 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 1: year as signing bonus. So the majority of that is 535 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: still the reconstruction bonus. And I think it's gosh, it's 536 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 1: almost ten million dollars because they restructured his contract twice. 537 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 1: So and then the other thing on that bill. While 538 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: he is counting eleven million in dead money, they do 539 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,479 Speaker 1: get back his seven million dollars base salary, but that 540 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 1: won't happen until they turn in his papers, and they 541 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: likely won't turn them in until after June first, so 542 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: they can spread out that pro ration instead of taking 543 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: the entire hit this year. I've told him that's the 544 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: route they're thinking of going. Uh and again though, even 545 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: when you do that, you don't get that seven million 546 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: dollars base salary back until after June first, So that's 547 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 1: one of the things that I think people need to 548 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: be aware of. Now, this wasn't a mix shot, but 549 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: I think Bill, we also need to put in perspective 550 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 1: the contract that was signed by Steve Zerline, the kicker 551 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:55,160 Speaker 1: who by the did I say, Steve greg Zerline? You 552 00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: must know? And again it was another connection, right because 553 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 1: John Fossil, the special team's coach, was with Zerline with 554 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: the Rams for the majority of his career there, so 555 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,000 Speaker 1: that was another kind of insight they got from one 556 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 1: of the assistant coaches. Now, it's been reported three years, 557 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:22,719 Speaker 1: seven point five million, but we know that that's not 558 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:27,399 Speaker 1: the total structure in that first year, right, Bill, that's right. 559 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,360 Speaker 1: I think it's a million dollar signing bonus, so that 560 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 1: would be guaranteed money and then one point five million 561 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:38,360 Speaker 1: salary of his salary for this year is guaranteed, So 562 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 1: two point five million dollars guaranteed. You know, I think 563 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,680 Speaker 1: the way I look at it is, you know, for 564 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 1: Bath is basically a veteran minimum salary guy, and and 565 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: for Bath is he's the fallback in case Zerline got 566 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: hurt or didn't perform up to his expectations. And let's 567 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 1: say four Bath outperforms Zerline in preseason. Well, then as 568 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: a team, you just kind of look at it. Okay, 569 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,839 Speaker 1: we'll even though you're not paying for Bath the zerline money, well, 570 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,400 Speaker 1: that's the money that you've got allotted to the kicker position, 571 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,760 Speaker 1: and then you're basically just paying If Forbath made the team, 572 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 1: then you're just all you're paying is a veteran minimum 573 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,359 Speaker 1: salary above what you've already got invested in the place 574 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 1: kicker position. Yeah, and with a lot of these contracts 575 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,360 Speaker 1: right now, some of them have only been agreed to, 576 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 1: not signed. So what the Cowboys have available left on 577 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: their salary cap is kind of a floating number, and 578 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: it looks like it's anywhere between about seventeen million to 579 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: thirty million, So it's it's a pretty fluid thing. If 580 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,239 Speaker 1: you count all this stuff up. But I think what 581 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 1: people need to understand is they don't have an unlimited 582 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,640 Speaker 1: amount of salary cap space. 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As we continue here on our last segment 636 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:20,920 Speaker 1: of mick Shots, Mickey Spagnola and Bill Jones from our homes, 637 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:26,239 Speaker 1: we are practicing social distancing two and uh, Bill, will 638 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,280 Speaker 1: you be on site again tonight for your CBS eleven 639 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,520 Speaker 1: show or tomorrow night. I think that is the plan 640 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,319 Speaker 1: that will probably be from the plaza there at the 641 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,919 Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Do not a lot of activity out there. 642 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,720 Speaker 1: Of course, the the the NFL still has it in place, 643 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 1: the work at home measures across the league as far 644 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:51,719 Speaker 1: as inside the facility and uh and then they you know, 645 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,279 Speaker 1: right by the Omni Hotel there in Frisco and the 646 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,520 Speaker 1: Tostito's Championship plaza, there are signs up that it is 647 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 1: closed was due to an event, and that event, of 648 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,080 Speaker 1: course would be COVID nineteen and however were during our 649 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,800 Speaker 1: live shot last night there were some kids who showed 650 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,680 Speaker 1: up to play some a pickup football game. They may 651 00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,680 Speaker 1: have been all from the same family, so it may 652 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:17,000 Speaker 1: have been they may have been within the restrictions. I'm 653 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,040 Speaker 1: not sure. And I was trying to stay at least, 654 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,880 Speaker 1: if not six feet away from them, sixty feet away 655 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,520 Speaker 1: from them. So you didn't call the police at him 656 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,799 Speaker 1: until no, I didn't gathering. I was trying to see 657 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 1: if security came out though. Right talked about when we 658 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,560 Speaker 1: hit the break about how Jerry Rice almost became a 659 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:43,279 Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy and found this out. Gil Brandt told a 660 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: story and it was in relation to one of the 661 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:51,799 Speaker 1: cowboys former scouts, Ron Marsignact passed away last week at 662 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,000 Speaker 1: the age of eighty seven. And Ron worked for the 663 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,279 Speaker 1: Cowboys during the eighties and I think he made it 664 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,520 Speaker 1: into the nineties. I couldn't find out how long he 665 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,280 Speaker 1: had lasted with the Cowboys. He went on and became 666 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,879 Speaker 1: one of the top scouts for the Baltimore Ravens when 667 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:12,840 Speaker 1: that franchise came into existence. But Gill tells the story 668 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:19,200 Speaker 1: on how Ron had scouted this wide receiver from Mississippi 669 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,440 Speaker 1: Valley State and was just adamant that this guy could 670 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:30,399 Speaker 1: play in the NFL. The Cowboys draft guys were basically like, oh, 671 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,200 Speaker 1: I don't know, he doesn't have much speed. And Gill said, 672 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,920 Speaker 1: he kept making this skinny kid run the forty and 673 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,880 Speaker 1: the best he could do was four or six, and 674 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 1: he made him run over and over and over again. 675 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 1: And when they had their pre draft meeting, he said 676 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,960 Speaker 1: that Ron literally literally not only pounded the table but 677 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,080 Speaker 1: got up on top of the table and yelled at 678 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,160 Speaker 1: him to say, you need to draft Jerry Rice with 679 00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:00,920 Speaker 1: the seventeenth pick in the NFL draft that year. It 680 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:05,680 Speaker 1: was a pretty funny story. And as we know, with 681 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,400 Speaker 1: the sixteenth pick, the San Francisco forty nine Ers took 682 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:15,560 Speaker 1: the NFL's all time leading a receiver, Hall of Fame player, 683 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:22,319 Speaker 1: all sixty year anniversary player in the NFL, and the 684 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,920 Speaker 1: Cowboys were one pick away because Gil maintains that they 685 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:30,840 Speaker 1: were going to take Jerry Weiss with the seventeenth pick. Unfortunately, 686 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,480 Speaker 1: they ended up with Kevin Brooks. He was a defensive 687 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:39,080 Speaker 1: lineman from Michigan, lasted four years, and he was a 688 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,200 Speaker 1: guy bill as I remember, I don't know how much 689 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,520 Speaker 1: he liked football because the day of the draft, and 690 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,240 Speaker 1: think about this, back then, there was no TV coverage 691 00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,759 Speaker 1: of the draft. You had to call the guy you 692 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,719 Speaker 1: drafted to let him know you got him. And when 693 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:58,040 Speaker 1: they called Kevin Brooks, they couldn't get a hold of them, 694 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,319 Speaker 1: and evidently found out that he was. He wasn't even 695 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,680 Speaker 1: worried about the draft. He was out roller skating, and 696 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,960 Speaker 1: I'm going, I don't know if I watch my defensive 697 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:12,600 Speaker 1: linemen roller skating. Okay, So I think you probably remember Ron. 698 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,840 Speaker 1: You probably ran into him. That was that old that 699 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,360 Speaker 1: old crew of scouts. That boy, they were the funniest 700 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:24,160 Speaker 1: guys and had the best stories. Yeah and uh and 701 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,440 Speaker 1: and get a lot of credit to them for what 702 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,040 Speaker 1: the Cowboys did with the drafts going back to the 703 00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,560 Speaker 1: seventies and even before that in the sixties too. I 704 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,520 Speaker 1: was looking at the nineteen eighty five draft and what 705 00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:39,560 Speaker 1: was available after Jerry Rice and Kevin Brooks went number seventeen, 706 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:45,200 Speaker 1: I'm looking at names. Jerry Gray, cornerback out of Texas 707 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,799 Speaker 1: went to the Rams at twenty one, Refrigerator Perry went 708 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:53,040 Speaker 1: number twenty two to the Bears, and Bernie Kozar was 709 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,120 Speaker 1: the last pick of the first round to Cleveland. Well 710 00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:00,160 Speaker 1: he was supplemental draft, so um and Randall cunning him 711 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,040 Speaker 1: went in the second round, so there was Yeah, So 712 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,640 Speaker 1: I guess we'll take Gil's word for it. The Cowboys 713 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,680 Speaker 1: were gonna take Jerry Rice. And how would that have 714 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,120 Speaker 1: changed things in the eighties if Jerry Rice were with 715 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,120 Speaker 1: the Cowboys? How might it change things? As far as 716 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:19,200 Speaker 1: Danny White, Gary Hogeboom, Steve Blur concerned, all that all 717 00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,640 Speaker 1: that right, and and think about it at the Cowboys 718 00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:27,400 Speaker 1: needed another lead wide receiver at that point, Drew Pearson 719 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,560 Speaker 1: had already retired and they were looking for lead guy 720 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:36,279 Speaker 1: and ended up drafted Mike Sharad In nineteen eighty six, 721 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:40,000 Speaker 1: with their first round pick, and unfortunately he broke his 722 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,120 Speaker 1: leg a couple of times and moved on and the 723 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,560 Speaker 1: Cowboys the lead receiver at that time would have been 724 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,680 Speaker 1: Tony Hill. Correct, Yeah, it would have been all right. 725 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,360 Speaker 1: One more thing on wide receivers. Okay, the Cowboys have 726 00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,480 Speaker 1: not replaced Randall Cobb in free agency, So how are 727 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:02,440 Speaker 1: they going to replace Randall Cobb? Well, I think that 728 00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,839 Speaker 1: that's certainly a possibility in the draft. I think they 729 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,520 Speaker 1: have to look at it. I don't know how high 730 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:12,840 Speaker 1: you would want to go with another receiver in my 731 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:17,000 Speaker 1: estimation that defensive end spot. Even though they have these 732 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:23,480 Speaker 1: contingency plans with an Alden Smith, with a Randy Gregory, 733 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:27,040 Speaker 1: who they do have the rights too, I just don't 734 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:31,120 Speaker 1: know that you can bank on a defensive end coming in. 735 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:36,399 Speaker 1: They need a defensive end. I know Gerald McCoy has 736 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,440 Speaker 1: dabbled in that a little bit. He did it in 737 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:42,600 Speaker 1: Carolina and some passing downs. They lined him up outside 738 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,440 Speaker 1: as a defensive end pass rusher, but I don't know 739 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,600 Speaker 1: if they've got a ready made guy to step in. 740 00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,640 Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford has started at that right defensive end spot, 741 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,080 Speaker 1: but he's not the pass rusher. You would have to 742 00:45:56,120 --> 00:46:00,240 Speaker 1: have him and somebody else at that defensive end spot. 743 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:04,680 Speaker 1: So be interesting to see just how much they value 744 00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:09,120 Speaker 1: a defensive ended if you open up that big green notebook. 745 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,719 Speaker 1: I don't know where the defensive ends stack up in 746 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:15,320 Speaker 1: the first round, but I would think in those first, first, second, third, 747 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,840 Speaker 1: round they've got to find a defensive end there, maybe 748 00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:22,200 Speaker 1: more so than a wide receiver. Yeah, they need a 749 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:25,480 Speaker 1: guy who can pin his ears back and get after 750 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,840 Speaker 1: the quarterback like Robert Quinn did, and what a find 751 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,520 Speaker 1: he was. And it was about this time last year 752 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:34,960 Speaker 1: that the Cowboys pulled that trade and gave up a 753 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,160 Speaker 1: sixth round pick with the Dolphins to come up with 754 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,960 Speaker 1: Robert Quinn, who played at such a high level and 755 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,760 Speaker 1: parlayed that into a huge contract with the Chicago Bears. 756 00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,280 Speaker 1: One guy, as far as the slot receiver position goes, 757 00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,279 Speaker 1: that I would like for them to take a look 758 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:56,560 Speaker 1: at is Taylor Gabriel as a veteran guy. You know, 759 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,080 Speaker 1: the way this market is playing out, and especially with 760 00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,479 Speaker 1: what's going on with coronavirus, there are so many one 761 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,560 Speaker 1: year contracts being signed around the league, and you know 762 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,920 Speaker 1: Gabriel is from right here in the Dallas Fort Worth area, 763 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,600 Speaker 1: and I think he would be a great fit as 764 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,920 Speaker 1: a veteran guy there, because really, when you look at it, 765 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,960 Speaker 1: they're not only replacing. When you look at their roster 766 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,440 Speaker 1: at the end of last season, they have they're replacing 767 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,319 Speaker 1: Randall Cobb, but they're also replacing Tavon Austin. And I 768 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,480 Speaker 1: think Taylor Gabriel could be a veteran guy that fills 769 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:29,200 Speaker 1: that need, not for a lot of money. And since 770 00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,960 Speaker 1: he hadn't signed yet, I'm assuming that he hasn't got 771 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,120 Speaker 1: a lot of good offers for a lot of money. 772 00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:35,799 Speaker 1: Maybe he is a guy who would want to play 773 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,759 Speaker 1: at home for a year and take it from there. 774 00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:43,399 Speaker 1: And let's close this debut of mixed shots on this note. 775 00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:48,359 Speaker 1: If you were a free agent and you haven't had 776 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:53,080 Speaker 1: an offer yet, and what do we two weeks into 777 00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:58,160 Speaker 1: free agency almost three if you got an offer, would 778 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,000 Speaker 1: you get real choosy or would you just go right 779 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:04,279 Speaker 1: ahead and sign something? Yep? Yep. You know you want 780 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,239 Speaker 1: as much upfront money as you can get because you 781 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,040 Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen as far as this 782 00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,960 Speaker 1: season is concerned. But you know teams are looking at 783 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,520 Speaker 1: it that same way. They may probably aren't offering a 784 00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,719 Speaker 1: lot upfront money because of the uncertainty as well. But 785 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,920 Speaker 1: I think that's why you're seeing a lot of one 786 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,680 Speaker 1: year deals getting off the board just to get something 787 00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,920 Speaker 1: in your pocket. And before you know it, it's going 788 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,239 Speaker 1: to be twenty twenty one, and so you might as 789 00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,399 Speaker 1: well get what you can get right now because we're 790 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,440 Speaker 1: getting late in the game. We're three weeks from today's 791 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,880 Speaker 1: start of the draft, and think about it, who knows 792 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:42,120 Speaker 1: when the season's going to start, if it starts on time, 793 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,279 Speaker 1: or how many games you play. And I don't know 794 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:49,040 Speaker 1: what the rules will be, but if if you're getting 795 00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,200 Speaker 1: paid on a weekly basis and you're missing games, you're 796 00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:56,279 Speaker 1: missing paychecks. My guess is so that signing bonus or 797 00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:01,640 Speaker 1: whatever roster bonus you get would be awfully important. We're 798 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,120 Speaker 1: gonna have to step away now from mix Shots the 799 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:09,000 Speaker 1: Draft show. We'll be coming up next on Dallas Cowboys 800 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,680 Speaker 1: dot com if I have my schedule correct and appreciate 801 00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,400 Speaker 1: everybody being with us. Bill, thanks for joining me, and 802 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,040 Speaker 1: we'll do it again next week. Right, all right, sounds good? Mickey, 803 00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,640 Speaker 1: all right, thanks for joining us on mix Shots. Take care. 804 00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,640 Speaker 1: This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 805 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:28,719 Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.