WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Playing Catch Up 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.680 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:13.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is Nick 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:17.919 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:23.160 official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:30.200 and Nicky Spagnola. After a brief one week hiatus, we 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.960 are back inside the SWBC podcast studio here at the 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:39.320 Beautiful Star in Frisco. It's a new month. It's draft 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.240 month here at the Star in Frisco. Bill Jones, Yes, 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:50.519 finally we get to hear our fight songwoy. Yes, finally 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.960 it's been since before the San Francisco game. We finally 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:55.960 get to hear it agains. That means the Cowboys have 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:01.000 won the offseason already. No, it a fight song for 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.320 the draft. There you go, All right, haven't won the 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.240 off season just yet. But here I am Bill Jones, 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.679 and here he is Mickey Spagnola, And where is he 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:17.800 Everson Walls. What a place to get stuck in Vegas? Yeah, 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.800 I don't know about that. We get a text overnight 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.959 and you were probably fast asleep. I was. I was still. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.640 We get a text from Everson that his flight has 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.679 been canceled and so he couldn't make it back in 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.000 time to day. I should have tried to pull that 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.880 you did last week. I got a text overnight Sunday 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.360 night last way, Oh forgot. I'm gonna tell you I'm 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.760 going out of town on vacation. And it's a it's 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.560 the beard did to Mickey Spagnola. He hasn't shaved in 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.679 at least a week. At least it might be a 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.000 little bit more, because there's no sense shaving when you're 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.440 on your way to go skiing ski slopes. Yeah, it 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.400 was great. And you know what, you still have some 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.280 of the snow left in your beard. Y right, that's 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.120 the problem with the beard. It's got too many colors, right. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.680 And the other problem is, for some reason, everything else 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:10.920 is salt and pepper, and the mustache comes black. It 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.399 looks really weird. So I would imagine by next time 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.240 you see me, this will be gone. So you have 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:22.720 to color your mustache white. Usually you gotta sprinkle some 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:27.400 salted there. It looks like some alternate movie star type thing, 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.600 if you know what I mean. Right, all right, So 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:34.280 it was great, yep um, And I wanted to get 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:38.880 this out of the way, right, away and say something 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:44.600 about how far women's basketball has come. Number one, there 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:49.120 was nineteen thousand people at the AAC for the championship game. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:54.680 Number two. I thought, since LSU made it to the finals, 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.640 I said, you know what, I'll just go. I'll walk 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:02.200 up buy a ticket. Right that one wasn't going to happen. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:10.040 And then I started looking online and that wasn't going 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.440 to happen. I said, well, we'll get a scalp ticket 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.640 because at some point, you know, when the teams lose, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.119 they leave and try to sell their tickets. So these 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.000 guys are coming up, you know you need a ticket? Yeah, 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:27.080 how much five hundred dollars to go to a women's 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:33.360 championship basketball game? And then there's a guy out there 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.600 trying to convince these people that he can get them in. 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.920 It's going to be standing room only for the first half, 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.960 and then he will get you a seat the second half, okay, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.320 And I'm sitting there going okay, So how much is 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.360 that gonna cost? Well, that was going to be about 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.480 three or four hundred dollars and you wouldn't have a seat. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.760 And so he was talking to these young ladies, so 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.320 they also had a line how about this, get a 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.480 line by the box office, because at the last minute, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.280 tickets come available. Now tell me how those tickets come available. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.280 I don't know how do they It sounds like a 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.680 nefarious thing that all of a sudden tickets start showing 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:19.440 up right at tip off, right, Yeah, And so this 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.760 guy's telling these girls, and I go, there's no standing 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.479 room in this place. And I think there might, concourse, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.000 there might be one spot behind, you know where the 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.760 little fences are, that one section in the lower level 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.800 at the top. But there's no place to stand to 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.120 watch unless you're going to stand in the in the 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.680 concourse or in the entrance way into the stadium. Right. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.760 Finally the police showed up and chase these guys off. Right. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.200 They were getting desperate, but they weren't desperate enough to 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.240 lower their price, right, And it's like, okay, buddy, go 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.599 eat it. Right. Wow, but this is women's basketball now. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.840 I remember when it wasn't even I covered games, when 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:05.280 wasn't even an NCAA UH sanctioned sport, right ai A 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.280 w Yes. In fact, Kim Mukie her first national championship 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.120 that she won as a player at LA Tech. It 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.480 was still the whatever it stands for AIAW and then 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.880 one of the other teams it was always good. Was 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:22.000 in Texas? Was it? Stephen F. Austin was good? Stephen F. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:27.559 Austin and the Texas Yeah, the Flying Queens. And I'm saying, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.440 now we've come a long way just to get in 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.880 when nineteen thousand were there. And then we see a 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:40.640 young lady score forty points in consecutive playoff games. Unbelievable player. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:47.279 She should have been the Chuck Holly of the tournament. Yeah, 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.720 that was she was incredible. Yeah. Yeah, she has Steph 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.720 and we're talking about Caitlin Clark from Iowa. She has 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.960 Steph Curry range on her shot, you know. And I've 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.240 watched her for several games now, even going back to 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.919 the regional tournament, and she reminds me she's like the 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.600 quarterback of the team. Her passes are incredible. She is 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:15.760 a basketball savant and she but she reminds me the 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.279 game has slowed down so much for her. She looks 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:24.159 like Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady running that offense. And 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.960 she doesn't break a sweat and she just has a 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.000 calmness about her. And now she will turn it over. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.120 There are eight or nine turnovers that she has in 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.200 the game because of the special passes that she is 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.120 making and her teammates just aren't ready for it. But 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.440 spectacular player. And she's got another year at IOWA. Two 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.200 two more things and then we'll get onto football. The 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.919 one three she hit in the semifinal game, her foot 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.919 was on the edge of the center court logo go yeah. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.719 I was like it says final four and her foot 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.960 was almost on the arm, not uncommon for her. And 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.320 you talk about how far the women's game has come, 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.960 I mean, how about the LSU team yesterday and the 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.840 shots they were making. He scored a hund two points 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.320 the championship game. I was sitting there going, when the 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.080 thing was getting tight, I'm going, they're gonna have to 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.120 score one hundred points to win. Because I finally gave 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.120 up and I came back home and you know, watching 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.280 it on my phone while I was driving, and you 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.960 were really into this. I wanted to. I want to. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.920 I set aside a couple of hours yesterday afternoon that 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.320 I'm not taking any phone calls. I'm watching this, yes 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.200 and it was compelling. And now you needed to wear 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.920 your officiating cap in here today. Well, that was my 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:46.120 next point. Worst they ruined the game. Nineteen thousand people 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.440 went to the game to see Caitlin Clark and Angela 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.480 Les angel angel Leise, I said, Angela, and they got 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.760 in ful trouble immediately. What are you doing in the 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:03.160 post for Iowa two Yes, and I read a story. No, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.360 don't get don't get me wrong on any of this, 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.280 but I always think when you get to the championship game, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.680 you get the best officials. There was a story in 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.360 Sunday's paper about how this is the first time in 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:20.080 the women's championship game that all three officials were going 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.280 to be female. I think they need to rethink it. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.280 This is basketball. They were calling the game like there 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.200 was a bunch of girls out there playing. These girls 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.360 are good, they're aggressive, they're physical. All these touch files 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.560 and then the technical file. When she just threw the ball, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.439 you know what she needingly, you know what she did 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.959 on that. I talk about her being a basketball savant. No, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.200 there's no there's no official in the vicinity of where 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:48.880 she was. She was about to huddle up with her 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.559 team before a free throw, and she tosses the ball 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.840 behind her to the spot where the official. Good the 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.320 official is gonna be lined up for the free throw 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.160 right exactly, and they called it. It It wasn't a loss 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.839 of disrespect and not the fact that it's a technical. 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.000 It was her fourth yeah, and until yeah, the technical 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.160 carries with it a personal foul, and they gave her 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.800 a fourth vowel. And as an official, you have to 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:17.360 have even if and they've given her a warning before 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.160 delay a game warning a few minutes earlier. And so 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.320 that's why in her statement, that's why she rang her 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.160 up with a technical. But you have to have more 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:31.200 awareness of that, I mean, understand what you're calling in 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:32.920 the entirety of the game. You have to have a 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.680 more awareness. I mean that those two girls had the impact. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.040 You're the people you came to watch. Had two fouls 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.640 before the quarter was over. The first quarter? What are 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.840 you doing? Yeah, it's just because in the first half 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.040 of the game, Angel Reeks is sitting on the bench 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.720 for the majority of the first half and they were 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.079 all like battle. I mean, it was both ways. It was. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.600 It was incompetent. I don't know how. I don't know 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:58.720 how those head coaches didn't get a technical. Fill bulkesher deserved. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.800 She tried hard, there was there was one play that 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.920 would the video ad viral. It shows the official in 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.760 front of the LSU bench having to push Morki Molki 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:14.080 makes contact with her with ranting and she has to 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.319 push her away to make the call on the court 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.080 or whatever to do her job. But that doesn't get 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.720 a technical. What a scene, What a scene. People were 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.480 all over that place. And by the way, if you 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.440 want to see how far I think this relates, not 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.840 just to women's basketball but sports in general, how far 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.520 things have come in thirty years. Yes, like Caitlin Clark 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:45.000 that the last time a player scored over forty points 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.200 in a championship in the final four with Cheryl swoops 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.480 Texas Tech, and that was thirty years ago in nineteen 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.959 ninety three. And there's a video on YouTube. You can 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.040 go back and watch the entirety of that game if 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.240 you wish, but you know, all you have to do 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.480 is watch about thirty seconds of it and you see 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.080 the players on the court. Compare that to what we 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:09.240 have today and the strength and conditioning programs, the skills 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.320 training that all of these athletes are getting in all 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:17.720 sports at all levels is just unbelievable. The athletes that 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:22.000 are on the court or on a football field now 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.040 compared to what they were thirty years ago. And the 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.040 girl that should have gotten the MVP was Alexis Morris. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:34.040 Not only did she save today, scoring like somebody can 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.599 hit twelve to fifteen foot jump shots yea, which is 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.079 the mid range jumper. No one does it anymore. And 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.959 the fact that she held Caitlin Clark to thirty Now 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.240 that may not sound like a great deal, but she 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.880 held her to thirty points and got two files on 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:55.240 her for pushing off with her help. But anyway, it was. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.160 It was a neat day. I wish I could have 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.920 got in, but I had, I tried, I couldn't make 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.400 at five hundred dollars. It was like, I can't do that. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.480 I can't wait to see what the TV ratings are 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.839 on it. And meanwhile, meanwhile, you got a men's game 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:13.040 tonight that um or a men's final four that had 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.440 so many long shots most long shots made it in history, 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.920 as far as no top three seeds that made it 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.040 to the final four. I just heard on the radio 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.280 the call for San Diego State when the guy made 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:31.240 the basket, Yeah, he goes, he's something like they won. 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:37.920 They won. They won, And tell you what, FAU is 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.960 not going to the championship game San Diego State is 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.959 what a great great four days for State of Texas. Yep, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.560 two games here and or three year and three in Houston. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.880 Pretty cool, Pretty cool? All right, we gotta probably get 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.880 to the Cowboys. You don't eating go to the Taylors 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.080 of concert. I did not, but it sounds like I 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:08.640 should have. All right, So what in the world did 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.640 you put on your legal pad on your sl This 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.520 is like all leftover stuff I tried to keep up. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.880 I mean not not too much happened last week, right, Yeah, 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:24.640 Cowboys resigned Jonathan Hankins one year deal the veteran exception. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:29.080 They lost Carlos Watkins to Arizona on a one year deal, 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.880 So that tells me the Cowboys didn't try real hard 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:37.480 to But yeah, and the one year deal on Hankins, 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.280 I mean it's one point three. And then as far 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.400 as the salary cap, it's the veteran basically, it's a 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.920 cap one point it's a nine million, yeah, an exception. Yeah. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:53.199 So and that's the market out there, right. You're seeing 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.800 really over the course of a two week period here, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.680 since the first wave of free agency when the big 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:06.040 money was being spent these veteran players, because the market 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:10.800 is so flooded, they have had to accept one year deals, yeah, 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.560 across the board and just hoping that they play well 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.400 enough that they make good one year deals, hoping that 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.679 you get in that upper echelon right when you hit 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.560 free agency again next year, and then I get a 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.200 two year deal, right right, But I mean think about 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.880 it what Jay Ryan Curse did, right, and he parlayed 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.680 his one year deal to a two year deal. But 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.080 now he, you know, goes into his last year of 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:37.440 his contract, and you're just hoping that somebody will um, 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.240 you know, bite on you later. I mean the same 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:44.440 thing with Ronald Jones when they signed him, right, it 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.400 was a one one year and he's been in the league, 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:52.680 what four or five years. M Dante Filler probably thought, Okay, 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.560 I did enough to get a multi year deal. Oh 0:14:55.760 --> 0:15:00.400 he's resigned for one year. Those six sacks, so and 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:07.640 then the Cowboys nibbled with Chumahdoga and enrico'dondell who was 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.760 on IR So that was you know, kind of inedible, inevitable. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:17.160 So yeah, um, but I think from the Cowboys standpoint 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.520 getting Dante Foller back, that was six sacks on the 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.200 team that ended up what third in the league in sacks. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.600 The beauty of it is with the one year signings 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.080 is it has no impact whatsoever on what you do 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.600 in the draft, right and uh, no, it impacks it 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.240 because now you don't have to reach. No, that's true, 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:43.840 That's what I mean. Yeah, it allows you to be 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.640 true to your board and true to whatever position. The 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.440 Cowboys can go any number of positions. Uh and I'm 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.520 talking every round of the draft. And what is it's 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.480 really shown you even going back to the COVID year 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.200 where you had and with the new rules as far 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.040 as being able to have extra players on a practice 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:10.200 squad and so forth, you can find quality players who 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.800 are veterans on the street who can impact your team 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.480 more right now than maybe even a fourth round draft 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.360 pick in or a third round draft pick. Take Jalen 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.400 Tilbert last year, a guy who needed time to develop, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.680 and we'll see where he goes this year. But you 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:30.680 can be true to drafting quote unquote best player available 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.720 in the draft because you can find players. There are 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.760 players to be had all over the place. And you 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:43.120 covered yourself at almost every position you needed to cover yourself. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.960 You know, if you get to the twenty six pick 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.280 in the first round and he needed a wide receiver, 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:57.080 well why not because the trades you made those guys 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:01.360 are in short term deals. Right. You need a cornerback, Okay, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.360 if that's that's what's there. You need a running back, Okay, 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:08.600 no problem there, you can do that. Um, you know, 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.159 and so yeah, they they don't have to reach. You 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.520 don't have to reach for a linebacker. I don't have 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.480 to reach for a safety. I mean really, the only 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.880 thing that they didn't end up with a quality veteran 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.760 would have been tight end. But again, you had two 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.680 young guys on the move, right, So but you're kind 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.000 of covered there, so you don't have to you don't. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.280 I always go back to this. In nineteen ninety four, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.680 it was the first year of basically the salary cap 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.080 in free agency, and the assistant coaches were just harping 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.560 and harping, we need a defensive end, we need a 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.160 defensive end, and there really wasn't any defensive ends there. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:54.080 And they take a shot at the defensive end Carver 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.400 and he was in a first round pick, but they said, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.320 we got a need and I think, you know, they 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.800 should have learned their lesson when you do something like that. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.320 Boys have done that more recently too. Yeah, so you 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:10.480 gotta watch yourself. Yeah, same thing, right, But at least 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.080 he was was he a set first round? He was 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:19.160 first round? 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Running back situation for the Cowboys. Here 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:50.720 we are, we're basically at the halfway point between the 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:54.359 start of free agency and the NFL Draft. Okay, so 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.320 the draft now twenty four days away and free agency 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:01.760 started three weeks ago today when the negotiating period open. 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:05.719 Zeke has been out there for two over two weeks 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:10.240 now and hasn't found a new NFL home yet. My 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:15.240 question to you about Tony Pollard, what is the ideal 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:19.120 situation with Pollard with the Cowboys as far as how 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:25.959 he has used this season in my opinion, and and 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:30.520 and along with that, what is the best type back 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.440 assuming Bijan Robinson is not there at twenty six when 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:37.199 the Cowboys draft, what is the best type back to 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:45.280 pair with Tony Pollard Somebody like Bijean and Robinson. I 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:49.440 can't imagine for the first time in his career meeting 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:54.000 at Memphis and here that he's going to be a 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:56.920 guy they're going to lean on for twenty five touches 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:01.280 a game for seventeen weeks. I think his role is 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:07.560 probably not that much different than last year. The touches. 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:11.560 He was getting the big plays, but are you going 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:18.320 to rely on him for the seven touchdowns? Ezekiel Elliott 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:21.800 scored from the one yard line because they didn't ask 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:26.000 him to do that. They asked Zeke, right, So I 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:34.359 think his role should remain the same. And sometimes when 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:38.160 you end up getting like in baseball, you get more 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:43.160 at bats, you're a two hundred and fifty at bats 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:45.879 second baseman and you hit two eighty and then all 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:47.800 of a sudden they want to give you four hundred 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:51.280 and fifty at bats and you hit two twenty. So 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:54.720 to me, his role should be the same. And the 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:59.080 running back they're looking for they covered themselves somewhat, would 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:04.879 Ron Jones. But in the draft, if one's available, like 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:09.280 a Bijon Robinson that can play like he does and 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:12.840 can carry a heavier load, than I think they should 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:17.119 grab one. Somebody that can run the ball, tough, can 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:20.800 get to the outside, can catch the ball, and then 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:26.600 you rely on Pollard for your big splash flace place. 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:31.280 What do you think that found it very interesting what 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:35.200 Stephen Jones said at the owner's meetings last week when 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:38.840 asked about Zeke, and he said a lot of the 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:42.080 things you would expect him to say about not offering 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:45.879 him and not disrespecting him with the low ball offer 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:52.080 or whatever, but basically leaving the door open that Zeke 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:56.760 could possibly return to the Cowboys. Somebody would have and 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:59.560 I know they did, but in case they didn't read 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:03.800 my co alum on Zeke before Stevens said that, I 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:10.520 pointed out number one, they didn't want to dishonor him 0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:14.080 with a low ball offer. They just didn't think that 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:17.199