WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Draft Intensive 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:17.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.320 screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.000 Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.640 and Nicky Spagnola. And how about this. We are live 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:37.519 in studio inside Mortgage Studios at Ford Center at the 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:42.199 Star in Frisco. This is mix Shots. We've got a 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.440 new team with all the draft picks. We've got a 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.279 new season staring us in the face. We might even 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.960 have a new schedule coming up next week. And we've 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.960 got a new show for you right here. And wow, 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.680 it's great. You know what the best thing about being 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.520 back live in studio is that I'm not using my 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.360 iPad as my camera, so I can actually look things. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.040 I can look things up on my iPad and every 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.479 feel stump, Yeah you feel this. I feel the same way. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.399 If we can't get Everson office phone over here, and 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.440 you don't have to worry about your WiFi, Everson doesn't 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:21.319 have to worry about connecting his volume. That's right. And 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.440 I had to switch seats, but I've got all this 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.200 plexiglass in front of me. I feel like I'm at 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.520 a hockey game. I have to wear pants. So yeah, 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.640 oh no, Ma, it's wet, but it looks good. You 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.280 guys look good. Everybody looks the same cowboys share on 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.840 I love this color. I just came from working out, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:49.480 So you go, hopefully you shower, no work out shirt offely, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.640 grab the golf shirt and put it on. And here 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.120 we are. Man, there's a bunch of guys around here. Man, 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:59.760 we'ren't not that vain. So yeah, to talk about on 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:01.920 this edition to Mix show, I think we got a 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.720 bunch of you played the draft, some of the picks. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.480 What you like, what you didn't like? Let you know 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.280 how let you know how bad my pick was with 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.400 the Cowboys. Well we found out a little more about that. 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.800 It wasn't that you had a bad pick. There he 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.640 had an issue apparently. Yeah, that made him had a 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:24.320 medical issue. Yeah, a medical issue that apparently. Who did 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.799 he go to Cleveland? Yes, I believe so, Yes he 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.480 did Cleveland. They got to the bottom of it and 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.400 he got cleared in time to be drafted in the 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.600 second round. You know, of course we're caught talking about 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:39.320 jok Jeremiah Usu Coromoau and as we go forth in 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.960 the career of one Kelvin Joseph, the Cowboys second round pick, 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.280 the cornerback, will be also charting what jok does with 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.000 the Cleveland Browns in his career. That's one of the 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.119 great things. Well he should do. Well, that's a nice 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.080 young team there. I think he'll fit in real good. Then, yeah, Hill, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.560 and we'll get rid of the elephant in the room 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.520 right now, because Mike pick was their pick about that. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.680 In fact, in fact, Mickey ever since he saw that 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:18.320 first Highlight film, Mickey, because he's so busy during the season, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.000 doesn't look at any of these guys. And I was 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.520 kind of like that this year. The college season was 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.079 so disjointed that I wasn't paying that close of attention. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.959 And so as soon as as soon as the Cowboys 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.800 season was over, I think Mickey got on YouTube and 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.200 that he had heard about this Michael Parsons character and 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.720 he said he immediately said, well, I got my pick 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.440 for the Cowboys sure enough. Yeah, I wanted to see 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.200 somebody else that showed up better than this guy, because 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:48.080 he was the best defensive player in the draft and 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.960 most versatile. You know, they keep showing the uh, the 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.120 highlights from this this Memphis game at AT and T 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.840 Stadium the Cotton Bowl, Right, but I saw highlights against 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:03.240 other teams, like the Big ten teams, and he's just 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:07.600 so instinctive and so versatile and so big and fast flooding, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.760 and it's like he had fourteen tackles in that game, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.560 two for losses. He had a couple of sacks, he 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.600 had a forced fumble, a pass broken up, and they 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:23.040 still score thirty some points, I guess and stated they really, Yeah, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.880 it was like a fifty three thirty nine game or 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.120 something like that. Fifty three. I mean if you look 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.600 at all of his games, they all look just like this, right, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.719 I mean they all look like this. To where he's 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:36.240 making tackles for losses, it seems as if he intimidates 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:41.520 the opponent as he approaches them, because his aggressiveness is 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.440 so quick. It's so fast, it's in your face and 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.840 before you know it, you know, you're like a deer 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.040 in headlights and they just stand there and he takes 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.120 them down so quickly. It's not like he hash he 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.960 sizes them up or anything like that. No, he goes 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.679 directly for it. He's heat seeking. I think he said, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.200 did the water boy, Yeah, seaball go to ball and 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.520 something like that, and that's pretty much how he does it. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.920 He looks like water boy out there, and I'll tell 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.560 you what, when you see him in person, he doesn't 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.039 look that big. But they he measured six to three 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:21.880 and a half two forty six and three six. Yeah, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.760 and see that's where it comes from that not only 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.360 does he have speed, it's controlled speed. It's not like 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.919 he's just out of control. They had a lot of 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.800 criticism about j Ok in regards that in space sometimes 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.080 he is out of control. He's going so fast for 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.159 it that he misses a lot of tackles. Parsons doesn't 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:48.240 necessarily have that critique because he's more of a sure 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.120 tackler and he approaches at just the right angle and 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.680 he approaches it quickly. And that's what I like about Yeah. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.440 And I didn't know if he was that instinctive or 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.159 if he prepared so well that he was seeing in 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.000 things ahead of time. And I think the answer I 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:08.760 got was he's pretty instinctive, which is a good trade, right, uh. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.599 And I thought he handled himself well. And the press 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.080 conference hit seems to have a nice personality. Sound like 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.240 he was pretty family. Pretty funny about the family. Yeah, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:25.520 they can move here, but they didn't get in my address. 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.359 And they're all cowboy fans bugging the heck out Jammy Jones. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:34.040 I'm sure they came in here, a dad and one 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.200 of his brothers, and they were walking through like they 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.920 owned the place. Do an interview. Hey, this is where 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.280 we belong. We've been like they could see this a 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.520 long time ago, uh, in the in the future, because 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.360 they were cowboy fans all the way living in Pennsylvania. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:54.039 That's true cowboy fans. When you're cowboy fans in Pennsylvania. Yeah, 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.839 absolutely so. Uh, you know everybody I know, everybody wanted 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.479 a corner. I get it. They were gone. And I 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.919 heard somebody say, oh when the two corners went, the 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:08.400 cowboys just got discombobulated. They did not They had planned 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.080 ahead what was going to take place if the two 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:15.320 corners had been gone, And Stephen Jones talked about it, 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.800 how they went through scenarios. If they're gone, then what 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.200 are we gonna do? They and they knew what they 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.640 were going to do. They were so prepared that they 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.800 were able to trade down and pick up an extra 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.520 third round pick and still get their guy because they 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.240 were they were prepared enough to know what the Giants 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.920 were looking for. What the Giants roster looked like. They 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.280 have a middle linebacker. They're not going to be interested 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.840 in Parsons. They need to improve their offense, which is 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.840 what that they've wind up trading down and they picked 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.440 up a future first round pick. They got Kadarius Tony 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.480 at number twenty, a wide receiver, and then they knew 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.840 the Eagles were coming up for a wide receiver because 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.000 they were desperate for a wide receiver. And they knew 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:57.120 that if with Davante Smith, you know he was, he 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:58.920 was going to either play for the Giants or the Eagles. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.480 So yeah, exactly, And that's why this this whole thing 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.239 is so nineteen eighties. Oh, you traded with a team 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.600 from the NFC East, and you gave them divine and 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.720 as one of the two was gonna get as Davante Smith, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.680 And as it turned out, the Eagles were gonna get 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.640 Davante Smith because the Bears were still going to trade 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.280 up with the Giants and they were going to trade 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.480 down because they were offering a first round to pick. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.960 And I think that and I'm sure the Cowboys had 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.440 that same offer from the Bears, but I think it 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.120 was prudent on the Cowboys part to go ahead and 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.480 get Michael Parsons because you're trading down to twenty and 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.400 you're not getting the same type player. And then this 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.160 notion that they should have traded up, Well, the two 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.840 teams behead them. That's who they were gonna take. They're 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.600 not going to trade with you because you gotta come 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.840 clean and say, okay, what do you want. Oh, that's 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.560 who we're taking. We're not interested. So you couldn't trade 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.440 up with any either of those two teams, and probably 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.599 to go above both of them, you were going to 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.400 give up a third round pick, if not more right, 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.640 I wouldn't be surprised as a second round pick. Yeah, 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.439 just like you did when you went up for to 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.880 get mole Born. I just I just wasn't in the 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.520 in the same area code. In regards to drafting a cornerback, 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.480 I would have been pretty upset. It would have been 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.760 another insurrection at a Star. That would have been a 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.120 one man insurrection. I would have been up to the cornerbacks. 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.359 Didn't want a cornerback. Cornerback did not want a cornerbacks. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.760 I'm sitting there with Brad Sham. I was at a 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.320 draft party. I'm sitting there with Brad Sham. Hadn't seen 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.200 in a while, so great to talk to him. And 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.760 of course, you know Brad, he's kind of like Spags. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.360 I mean, you've seen so much, you know what I mean, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.280 You're not gonna be surprised by anything. As much as 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.760 he wanted Parsons, just like you wanted Parsons. He was 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.480 pretty realistic about the Cowboys might take Slater, you know, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.360 when it was left there, He's like, well, we might 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.040 take Slater, and I'm just I mean, like, man, why 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.040 would we take Slater? We need somebody to stop him. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.360 Slater can't stop the run. And of course he's being 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.240 you know, just being like like like you guys, you know, 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.120 very very matter of fact about it, and I was not. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.040 I would not have been happy if we would have 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:04.320 chosen or ten. I just wouldn't the corner the cornerback 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:09.319 now would not be having or or or the offensive. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.440 That's not what we needed. This is what we needed. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.000 This is the kind of guy we need on this team. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.120 Let's face it, quarterback is always the leader of the team. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:23.079 But mostly the leader of the offense. A good strong uh, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.040 just a capable middle linebacker that's the leader of the defense. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.199 Well in making you hit on it, in the way 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.480 he handled himself at the press conference and so forth. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.760 He just has a confident swagger about him. You know, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.960 he walks into the room and you can tell that 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.520 he's not you know, in his interviews he's not real outspoken, 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:47.400 but just watching him converse with people, he was kind 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.520 of like that. He was kind of the alpha personality 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.200 in the room when he when he walked in, and 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.679 I want somebody like that. I can see it taking 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.840 it to the nth degree. When he's in the locker room. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:59.560 You know, he's gonna be walking in that locker room 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:00.920 and you're gonna you know, oh, that's the first round 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.760 draft pick. That just walk and you're gonna know that's 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.959 the middle linebacker. That's what you're gonna know, because he's 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:06.720 not gonna be sitting there talking back about being in 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.200 a zen moment after a game after we got run 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.680 off of like three hundred plus yards, you know, talking 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.200 about where he is in life and the cosmos and 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.280 all that. No, I want to dude, and this this 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.800 is just me. I like middle linebackers who are intelligence 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.240 and instinctive. But I don't want to be too smart, 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.719 you know, I want to I want to be you know. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.440 I just wanted to be able to say, look, I'm hey, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.600 go run through that wall. All right, I'm gonna run 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.000 through that wall. I don't want to be like, well 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.640 let me see what what material is that? No, I 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:35.920 don't know if I want to know. I want a 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.000 guy that's gonna be like, you know what, don't ask 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:39.960 me to do it. I'm gonna do it, and I 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.959 want you guys to follow me. That's to kind of 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.800 dude he is, you know what he's gonna He's gonna 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.160 be the best interview on the team too. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.560 you gotta watch the PRP. They're gonna have to watch 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.440 what he says sometimes because he keeps it real. I mean, 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.000 he doesn't put on any airs when he when he talks, 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.439 you know, he but he he says whatever's on his mind. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.760 And that's that's that's they need that. They need it. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.560 It's almost like you know how a quarterback usually everybody 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.960 kind of gravitates. They're gonna gravitate to this. That's what 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.240 I'm talking right, they will gravitate and we're gonna be 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.959 apologizing for him. I'd love to do that, just apologize 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.840 focus he's gonna say something crazy, I'm gonna do something crazy. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.200 I love it. That's what and the beauty of his 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.600 he's versatile. So you know, they've talked about him being 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.520 like a designated pass rusher too. So if you got 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.199 multiple linebackers on the field, you don't know what that 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.360 guy's responsibility is gonna be. He can drop into coverage, 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.160 he can rush the quarterback, he can spy the quarterback, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.079 you know, and and if it's a passing down, he 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:47.920 can still play the run. Right. Hey, you heard dan Quinn, right, 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.480 he heard him talk about we're gonna We're not a 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.720 three four, but we're gonna it's gonna look look at times, 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.920 will look like a three four. They can have a 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.440 package out there, even in their base defense. They could 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.920 have a package out there with the skill set that 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.679 both these rookie linebackers have, Jail Cox as well as 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.280 Michael Parsons, where you can have all four of those 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.559 linebackers on the field at the same time. I mean, 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:15.600 Parsons could play any linebacker spot. Jabril Cox he's he 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:21.040 is best on the outside, okays me and Jail Okay, Okay, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.360 So you could have you could run a three four 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.760 and have Layton and Jaylen in the middle. Or you 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.400 can have Lton, Layton and Parsons in the middle and 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.280 you can have Jaalen on one side and Cox on 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.120 the other side. You really could. That might mean the 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.120 best defense they put out there. And then and then 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.079 just keep Layton Vanderish healthy. Yeah, and this will be 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.400 the best linebacking corps they've had as a group in 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.640 quite some time. And and and everybody said, well, linebacker 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.520 gonna win a game for you. These guys can win 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.760 a game from the linebacker position. Of course you can't. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.640 And and and you know, and hopefully that the dump 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.600 truck that they drafted to play the nose tackle at 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.120 three hundred and thirty pounds Bohannah keeps some people off 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.520 of those guys. That's what Randy White has always said, 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.640 because for years they did uh pregame show on CBS 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.360 eleven with the Manster, and he always said, what we 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.440 need is that big bazooka in the middle. I don't 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.120 understand why we don't get that big bazooka in him 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:25.000 in the middle, and they got the big bazook That's 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.560 what he Quinton Bohan, is there a big bazooka in 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.560 the middle. Hopefully he can play right? Yeah, well, no 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.000 being big. I think he just hasked to stand just 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.920 stand there. Did you question? Did you did you? I 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.920 thought they were getting that with Don Perry Poe. Did 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.920 you catch what Quinn had to say about him when 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.720 he talked about him Saturday night when he came in 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.800 for his interview and they asked somebody asked him about that. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.920 He goes, yeah, he goes, you know, and I think 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.400 the guy can, we can He's versa put him on 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:58.040 the edge, and there was this silence. He goes, okay, kiddy. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:03.480 He he goes, he's a nose tacker, and he goes, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:08.080 sometimes he's gonna play right here, meaning over the center, 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.480 and he said, are the times he's gonna play right 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:22.080 here right? You know? And then the good thing is 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.080 is they did draft a couple of guys to play inside, 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.840 veteran guys that can hold down the fort and maybe 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.800 till some of these young guys are ready to go 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.560 uh and but not at linebacker, because this guy is 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:39.280 gonna be ready to go. Uh and and and and 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.720 I'll tell you what. And even I saw Rich Dalrymple 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.160 Cowboys pr director was taking him somewhere I don't know, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.880 and I was walking behind him, and and it was 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:50.800 like he was talking to Rich like they had been 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.920 best friends, like you know they It just came so 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:58.440 easy to him. Um So, yeah, can't wait to get well. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.560 And you look back in his history. I know we've 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.480 we've said ever since Jalen's been here, because he's he's 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.880 a player that's best going forward that okay rushing you know, 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.760 play him at rush in and they've used him on 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.640 the line at times a lot of times, like as 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.080 an inside rusher or whatever, but he hasn't worked at it. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.480 He's not you know, Parsons has it in his background, 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.400 that's an edge rusher, going back to eighth grade, well 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.520 even before eighth grade, probably defense a difference of exactly. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.880 And when he went to Penn State, they recruited him 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:30.320 and he thought he was going to be an edge 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.120 rusher and then moved him to linebacker. Everson, remember what 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:38.520 you were doing in eighth grade? Really, I don't think 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.240 I think I was at Richardson Junior High which does 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.760 not exist anymore, and you weren't, and but you it 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.200 fed into Burtner High School. Yes, Okay, Now, in Texas, 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.120 an eighth grader can't play varsity football. But if but 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.080 if if an eighth wanted me, but I was My 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.440 mom said, though, Hey, if an eighth grader could play 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.480 varsity football in Texas, would you have played on the varsity? 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.680 What what level would you have played on? Asn't if 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:08.200 I just considered if they considered me playing varsity, I'm 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.240 playing varsity. You would love to play varsity? Would want 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.359 to play varsity? I mean, would they would? Would you 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:19.560 have made the varsity if they considered me on a 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:25.639 confident he'd have been playing? Yeah, play varsity basketball, definitely, 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:30.000 that would have been. Michael Parsons started on the varsity 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.840 as an eighth grader in Pennsylvania. You're lying, No, he 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.919 started on the varsity. He put up big numbers. He 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.239 had as a freshman in high school, he had like 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.840 eighteen and a half sacks. And then he transferred to 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.520 Harrisburg High School, one of the high school man and 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.320 then by the time he was a senior, he was 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.760 a running back and a Defenson saw that so nobody 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.520 wanted to tackle it. Yeah, running back. He's my personal 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.680 protector on the punt team because we're gonna snap him 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:04.040 the ball. Interesting interested, don't don't. Don't start being SPACs, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.960 like like the NFL doesn't know that Fossils got that. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.080 He never runs trick play on no, never, never ever. Yeah, 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.800 we need to slow Fossils down. We need to slow 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:19.680 him down the U Okay, we'll move on in their 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.640 next segment. We'll move on to the second round pick. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.520 And I want to get the cornerback. Talking about the 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.920 cornerback there, but how about the way the draft started 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:31.280 and with the third pick Trey Lance going to San Francisco. Yeah, 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.400 I wasn't sure they were going there. I thought they 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.520 had moved up for me. And that's whatever everyone thought, 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.920 Matt Jon because they didn't let they didn't let anybody 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.960 in their organization know that it was gonna be Trey Lance. Yeah. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.960 That is an extremely risky pick, you know, but I 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.359 love it. I love it though how much it cost 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.800 him up to get him? Yeah, I mean and the 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.520 first round draft picks and a third or whatever this 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.640 year and then next year three Yeah, he hadn't four 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.240 hundred passes are not three out three hundred and eighteen 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:06.280 passes in his career and now he's awfully bad, awfully 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.880 athletic though when I saw his OA, but my goodness. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.000 But the reason I love it is because Kyle Shanahan 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:19.480 and John Lynch. Shanahan had the conviction that this guy 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.080 is my guy and they don't care what any of 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.640 the so called experts are saying about it, or anybody 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.639 else in the league are saying about it. This is 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.480 my guy and he's only twenty years old. He doesn't 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.560 have to play this year. Patrick Mahomes didn't play his 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.120 rookie year. I've got a quarterback in Garoppolo that's taking 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.080 our team to the super Bowl. But it's worth this investment. 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.760 I believe in this guy so much that and I 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.760 heard interview with John Lynch and Shanahan. They were, uh, 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.400 you know, back in January. Shanahan a late at night 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.840 called Lynch and said, I'm just mesmerized by this personality. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.520 Is amazing. Yeah, no, he gives a great interview. Yeah, 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.080 I mean, but he was talking about the film that 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.639 he's watching up and so Lynch said he stayed up 0:19:57.720 --> 0:19:59.760 till two thirty in the morning watching him, and that's 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.600 when they knew they had their guy that was back 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.520 in January, and of course you knew they had someone 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:09.159 that they had pegged to give up that much that 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.000 I'll just take somebody. Yeah, right again, Hey, And before 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.400 we go to break, since we were on the linebackers, 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.919 let's just clear up this notion that the Cowboys didn't 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.760 pick up Layton Vandersh's fifth year option because they drafted 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:30.400 these other lightenbackers Parsons and Jabril Cox and there next 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.879 year they're not going to need Layton Vanderish. They didn't 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.240 pick up the option because of the salary cap. They 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:43.320 were trying to negotiate an extension to decrease his cap 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.640 hit next year, which is nine point one million guaranteed, 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.639 and they felt like, not knowing what the CAP's going 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.600 to be, not knowing what the revenue this year and 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.040 the NFL is going to be, with how many people 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.480 are going to be allowed to go to games, you 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.600 just couldn't afford nine million dollars at that one position 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.520 at linebacker. So they'll continue, and Steven said it, they'll 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:10.200 continue to try to sign him to an extension to 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:14.240 lower what that cap hit is next year they want 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.840 Layton Vanders on this team. They want on As Steven said, 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:19.920 I want him here for four or five more years. 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.920 But we got to be smart on how we structure 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.320 the contract. So that's why it wasn't picked up. It 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:30.480 didn't have anything to do with who they drafted or 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:33.960 Layton isn't good enough. And then the other safety thing 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:37.280 they probably wanted to do is put some roster bonus 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.600 or not roster bonus per game bonuses in there because 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.720 of his injury history, and you can still earn the money, 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:46.520 but you got to be on the field. So I 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.000 right the way, I'm thinking, Okay, we drafted all these 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:53.040 linebackers and no telling what we signed. Yeah, afterwards, I 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.439 thought he was out, considering his injuries and things of 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.359 that nature. I thought that the Cowboys had washed the 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:01.320