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Speaker 5: Hey, guys, welcome back to another episode of The Break.
Speaker 5: I'm hosting today. Derek is al being lazy, just kidding
Speaker 5: kind of shots. It's somewhere and I hope he's enjoying
Speaker 5: his time. I don't know where he ended up going,
Speaker 5: but I'm here with Brian and I'm here with Patrick.
Speaker 5: We're going to talk about free agency. And I don't
Speaker 5: really know start the show because not much has happened,
Speaker 5: but early thoughts on free agency. I know last week
Speaker 5: we got to discuss some of the options that were
Speaker 5: out there, some of the guys that you guys liked
Speaker 5: or could potentially see ending up with the Cowboys. We
Speaker 5: saw a whole list of different guys that have parted
Speaker 5: ways with the Cowboys. Most of them have gone to Washington,
Speaker 5: joined Dan Quinn over there and then only Tony Poller
Speaker 5: ended up going to the Tennessee Titans so far, so
Speaker 5: let's start off with him. Let's start off with the
Speaker 5: running back position. Thoughts on where it's at right now.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys currently do not have a starter at the
Speaker 5: running back position. Where you guys land with the current situation.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you need to keep an eye on
Speaker 6: AJ Dillon. Here is what you need to do. I
Speaker 6: think they're in the price range right now where at
Speaker 6: that back that's site between one point five and maybe
Speaker 6: three million dollars. The key here is going to be
Speaker 6: able to pair a running back, a veteran running back
Speaker 6: with the current running back in this college draft. And
Speaker 6: there's several of them that have the quickness, the explosiveness,
Speaker 6: the finishing of the runs, the ability to catch the football.
Speaker 6: The one thing that a guy like AJ Dillon will
Speaker 6: bring you and if you look at the numbers, it's
Speaker 6: not really impressive. But what you look at, though, is
Speaker 6: his ability to blitz, pick up, his ability to be
Speaker 6: tough inside runner, and when he gets down on the
Speaker 6: goal line, his ability able to finish. Now you might say,
Speaker 6: well you got Hunter Lipke that kind of situation. I
Speaker 6: think they're going to need a little bit more here.
Speaker 6: So my focus right now would be on a guy
Speaker 6: like Dylan potentially coming here at their type of price,
Speaker 6: and then more importantly, pair him with one of these
Speaker 6: college backs in the draft that we've been talking about
Speaker 6: on a weekly basis here on the Draft Show.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Dylan is definitely in play, and I think that
Speaker 7: at this point, whether it be Dylan or or whomever
Speaker 7: else you might bring in veteran, wise, you're gonna have
Speaker 7: to tandem them with someone in the draft. Anyway, that's
Speaker 7: where you are now with the Cowboys. You don't know
Speaker 7: what you have with Duce Vaughan. He struggled to get
Speaker 7: onto the field, and then when he was on the field,
Speaker 7: didn't show you much. Last year, Hunter Libkey he took
Speaker 7: some strides, so roses to Hunter lib Key, he's on
Speaker 7: the right path, But you can't look at him and
Speaker 7: definitively say yes, he's going to be my RB one
Speaker 7: or even my RB two right now. And then you
Speaker 7: have Malik Davis futures deal that's about to activate, but
Speaker 7: still looking to prove himself as well. Snoop Connor's still
Speaker 7: looking to prove himself. You've got a lot of unproven guys,
Speaker 7: so you want to go and get a proven guy.
Speaker 2: Dylan is an option.
Speaker 7: I still wouldn't and I know a lot of people
Speaker 7: are wondering, I wouldn't put a strike through on a
Speaker 7: guy like Ezekiel Elliott. Not quite yet sure, you know
Speaker 7: me having some conversations with inside of this building and
Speaker 7: in Zeke's camp. The dialogue has remained open between the
Speaker 7: Cowboys and Ezekiel Elliott. They've had some sit downs. Now
Speaker 7: the topic, how do.
Speaker 5: You see that scenario?
Speaker 2: He fits.
Speaker 6: He fits in what we're talking about with an AJ Dillon.
Speaker 6: He's a guy, he's a tough guy. He blitz pickups,
Speaker 6: He's always aware. You know, he knows the situation, he
Speaker 6: knows the team, they know him. You know. There's a
Speaker 6: lot of positive things that way. You know, if you again,
Speaker 6: I think Patrick's onto something here. JK. Dobbins is another
Speaker 6: one that was with the Ravens. I think you talk
Speaker 6: about Freeman with the Chicago Bears. If you gave me
Speaker 6: a choice of who to pair as well as I
Speaker 6: know these college guys, to me, a guy like Ezekiel
Speaker 6: Elliott or then Dylan makes the most sense because on
Speaker 6: third down you're not asking a rookie. And we've seen
Speaker 6: guys like zeke Win in twenty sixteen when it came
Speaker 6: to blitz pickup and how well he was able to
Speaker 6: do that. We saw with Pollard how he had to
Speaker 6: develop that way. So to me, I'm going for a
Speaker 6: guy that trying and make a match of somebody I
Speaker 6: know I could put on the field in third down.
Speaker 6: If I don't want to put the rookie out there,
Speaker 6: I could put a bigger guy, a blitz pickup guy,
Speaker 6: and then my offense can kind of either run the
Speaker 6: football to get short yardage conversions, or they can find
Speaker 6: a way to throw the ball knowing that they have
Speaker 6: somebody that could pick up in the backfield, or you
Speaker 6: can swing the ball to them and allow them to
Speaker 6: get to get your yardage.
Speaker 7: And keep in mind, when it comes to Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 7: and the Cowboys parting ways, it was solely based upon salary.
Speaker 7: Yeah right, it wasn't because he had fallen off of
Speaker 7: the running back cliffs, so to speak, as far as
Speaker 7: production ability is concerned. So this will be a scenario
Speaker 7: where he'd be possibly returning at a price point that
Speaker 7: they'd be extremely comfortable with and at a point in
Speaker 7: his career where he understands that they are probably going
Speaker 7: to use a top pick on a running back that
Speaker 7: compliments him as well. So I think that makes a
Speaker 7: lot of sense. So AJ Dillon, I would not put
Speaker 7: Ezekiel Elliott out of that conversation.
Speaker 2: JK.
Speaker 7: Dobbins and Brian said, those are the types of backs
Speaker 7: you're looking at right now.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll see what happens today again. Free agency starts
Speaker 5: officially at three pm, right, yeah, three pm time Central Times, Yes,
Speaker 5: so we'll see what actually happens. I know a lot
Speaker 5: of people have been freaking out online on social media
Speaker 5: about the lack of movement and understendably.
Speaker 6: So yeah, but that was going to be the case.
Speaker 6: If you follow any one of the podcasts that we
Speaker 6: do on this platform and or you listen or you
Speaker 6: read Patrick's work or any of your work or anything
Speaker 6: like that, you knew it was going to be. You know,
Speaker 6: the all In thing kind of made us think something differently,
Speaker 6: and then when wen we learned it all in was
Speaker 6: really kind of the status quo. You know, they really
Speaker 6: don't have money, They just don't when you know a
Speaker 6: great example of that is, you know when they tried
Speaker 6: to sign their you know, the running back the other day,
Speaker 6: and they're into basically into a situation where four million
Speaker 6: dollars is too much, you know. I mean, they have
Speaker 6: price point is somewhere around three, you know, Zack Moss.
Speaker 6: They're trying to sign Zack Moss potentially, and it got
Speaker 6: to four million dollars and they just said we can't
Speaker 6: go there, so you can like, okay, well then maybe
Speaker 6: their price point is around three million dollars or less.
Speaker 6: So when you're you know, there, they could have flipped switches.
Speaker 6: I'm sure Patrick can tell you all about they could
Speaker 6: have done this with. They could have done this with steel.
Speaker 6: They could have done this with you know, all these
Speaker 6: contracts that they have, you know that they could have
Speaker 6: done with digs, and they chose not to do it.
Speaker 6: And they chose not to do it because maybe they're
Speaker 6: getting ready to clear the decks here. Maybe they're getting
Speaker 6: ready to say, all right, you know what, we're going
Speaker 6: to reset this thing, you know, and we'll see what
Speaker 6: happens going forward. But they could have they could have
Speaker 6: created enough money to go out and play in this game.
Speaker 6: They chose not to because they have some things coming
Speaker 6: up that they feel important that they have to do.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 6: I think that once those things kind of became on
Speaker 6: the horizon and you saw them up close, you knew
Speaker 6: they weren't going to do anything. But if they flipped
Speaker 6: all those switches, all those things we talked about, boom,
Speaker 6: they're going to play in this game. They chose not to.
Speaker 7: And so here's here's the problem that I have, and
Speaker 7: thanks for the segue brought us. The switches are there
Speaker 7: to be flipped by the cowboys. And for those that
Speaker 7: are listening who haven't followed yet on Twitter, here it is.
Speaker 7: If you restroke your Trevonis deal, you get eight million dollars.
Speaker 7: You restructure still, you get five million. You restructure Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 7: you get three million. You're likely going to release Michael
Speaker 7: Gallup if you can't find a trade partner, which you
Speaker 7: probably won't. We'll see if that happens. If you do,
Speaker 7: you post him, you set him as a post June
Speaker 7: first designation. That's over nine million, almost ten million dollars.
Speaker 7: That's what twenty five million dollars roughly. And I haven't
Speaker 7: even talked about Deck's contract yet, So you can free
Speaker 7: up twenty five million before you even touch DEAK. Now,
Speaker 7: if you want to go ahead and restructure or extend DK,
Speaker 7: throw another twenty one twenty two million dollars on top
Speaker 7: of that they have roughly between just the switches I'm
Speaker 7: talking about.
Speaker 2: I haven't talked about anyone else.
Speaker 7: You could do, Zach all of that, But just based
Speaker 7: on what I've mentioned, that's forty five forty six million
Speaker 7: dollars in cap savings waiting to be used if you
Speaker 7: wanted to use it. But the fact that you're not
Speaker 7: does not. It flies in the face of the all
Speaker 7: in comment, right, And that's the problem that I have
Speaker 7: with it is the problem that a lot of fans
Speaker 7: are having, right it And.
Speaker 2: I said, I tweeted it last night.
Speaker 7: If you look at it from outside acquisitions, in the
Speaker 7: first two days of free equency, free agency, this is
Speaker 7: that's quote for the Cowboys, right. But the problem is
Speaker 7: is you went into this saying you were all in,
Speaker 7: so you set that expectation, right, so that expectation.
Speaker 2: Is not being met in any regard.
Speaker 7: And on top of that, what worsens it is this
Speaker 7: time last year, one thing the Cowboys have been good
Speaker 7: about is keeping some of their in house guys. Yes,
Speaker 7: so not only did you not bring anyone in, which
Speaker 7: flew in the face of your all in comment. Right
Speaker 7: on top of that, now you're an overdraft when it
Speaker 7: comes to you lost Durran song Strung, they lost Tyler,
Speaker 7: Yadish and you Fowler, you lost Tony Pollard.
Speaker 5: Hey we got a snapper, We got Trent that we
Speaker 5: do need a snapper.
Speaker 7: But my point is is you you are zero here
Speaker 7: and you're in the negative here, so everyone's looking at
Speaker 7: you saying what are you doing now? Of course, realistically speaking,
Speaker 7: a deal might land today. The things are going to
Speaker 7: start to pick up over the next several days because
Speaker 7: as you get into the secondary and tertiary waves of freegency,
Speaker 7: that's when the Cowboys really start doing their work. But again,
Speaker 7: this is why the fan base is upset, and that's
Speaker 7: justified because if the owner in general manager never says
Speaker 7: all in, then how does this what's the perception of
Speaker 7: what's going on right now? It wouldn't be as pressing
Speaker 7: as it is right now. And then you tie that
Speaker 7: to your head coach is going into the final year
Speaker 7: of his contract, Your franchise quarterback is going into the
Speaker 7: final year of his contract, you know, and then Tyron Smith.
Speaker 2: Is he staying? Is he going Zach martin his country?
Speaker 6: I wasn't close to the door in Tyron Smith though.
Speaker 6: For me this and this is just my thought because
Speaker 6: there's only one coach out there that knows how to
Speaker 6: handle Tyron Smith, and that would be dan Quinn. Dan
Speaker 6: Quinn saw it firsthand that if you don't practice him
Speaker 6: and get him to the game, that you're probably going
Speaker 6: to get thirteen games out of him. There's not many
Speaker 6: other programs out there that are willing to just let
Speaker 6: guys sit out of practice just to get him ready
Speaker 6: for the game. You know, I talked to several coaches
Speaker 6: last week about it, and I said, you know, hey,
Speaker 6: we love Tyron Smith as a player, but what happens
Speaker 6: to you is he's going to come in, he's gonna
Speaker 6: have to learn a new system and all that, and
Speaker 6: you're going to have to practice. We want our players
Speaker 6: to practice. Jason Garrett used to talk about that all
Speaker 6: the time. We want our players to practice. Every coach
Speaker 6: that's ever coached Pee Wee High school, whatever, they want
Speaker 6: their players to practice. So dan Quinn is the only
Speaker 6: one with the Commanders that saw it like, okay, if
Speaker 6: we had to do this, but the fact that he
Speaker 6: hasn't got any type of offers yet, I think it's
Speaker 6: pretty significant, you know. I think maybe people are saying, listen,
Speaker 6: this tackle class is really deep in the draft. Might
Speaker 6: not have to go that direction. It might be where
Speaker 6: really where Tyron Smith doesn't have an option. And I
Speaker 6: could be dead wrong about this, but right now, the
Speaker 6: way you kind of read it is that there's teams
Speaker 6: out there that are like, listen, we'll draft to tackle.
Speaker 6: There's quality tackles here. We don't have to pay for
Speaker 6: a guy that potentially can only play thirteen games, you know,
Speaker 6: and we don't have to practice he doesn't practice. That
Speaker 6: could be significant that he could come back hat in
Speaker 6: hand and say listen, okay, I like being with you guys, know,
Speaker 6: but I think a lot of it has to do too.
Speaker 6: We'll see where Dallas is with this, because I think
Speaker 6: the way the draft falls for Dallas. If Dallas gets
Speaker 6: the tackle they want, I think that keeps Tyler Smith
Speaker 6: that left guard. If they don't get the tackle they want,
Speaker 6: maybe this makes it now where they have to move
Speaker 6: Tyler Smith to left tackle. I think the draft is
Speaker 6: going to dictate. They're not going to tell us what
Speaker 6: they're gonna do with Tyler Smith. I believe they're gonna say, well,
Speaker 6: we want him to play guard, and he's a he's
Speaker 6: a Pro Bowl guard, and there's people that believe he
Speaker 6: could be a Pro Bowl tackle, which he was, so
Speaker 6: to me, I think the draft is going to dictate
Speaker 6: what direction they'd go with Tyler Smith. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 6: And again i'm not I'm not. It might happen today,
Speaker 6: might happen tomorrow or the next day. I haven't closed
Speaker 6: the door on Tyron Smith because because he's he's a
Speaker 6: unique situation that most teams would love to have. But
Speaker 6: there's a lot of things that go along with there's
Speaker 6: a lot of things that go along with him being
Speaker 6: on your team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's baggage.
Speaker 7: And that's why when the news broke that the meeting
Speaker 7: between the Cowboys and Tyrant's representatives at the combine didn't
Speaker 7: go well, that's why I said, hey, let it play out,
Speaker 7: this is how it goes might and so many people
Speaker 7: were writing it off or he's already going.
Speaker 2: It's not going until he's.
Speaker 6: Gone, Yeah, until it's official. Yeah, and he's he's out
Speaker 6: there still. That's the thing you have to know.
Speaker 7: And keep in mind we're saying he's out there, and
Speaker 7: yes he's he's one of the more premium tackles left
Speaker 7: tackles out there. But guess what, Tyler Biadis flew off
Speaker 7: the board on day one, right? Are you telling me
Speaker 7: that Tyler Biaddish has more value on the open market
Speaker 7: than Tyron Smith. If that's the case, then it just
Speaker 7: kind of goes to what we're saying as far as
Speaker 7: don't close the door on the possible retention of Tyron Smith.
Speaker 7: And if the Cowboys, if that happens and the Cowboys
Speaker 7: can keep Tyron in the building, that would be massive.
Speaker 2: That would be huge. That would be massive.
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Speaker 5: Well, let's go ahead and circle back, because we know
Speaker 5: how we all feel currently. We know the moves that
Speaker 5: could happen. But there's always two sides of the story, right,
Speaker 5: There's always a why and just trying to get in
Speaker 5: their heads and see what's happening over there. What do
Speaker 5: you guys think is actually?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah?
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Speaker 5: you guys just talked about how you guys feel, What
Speaker 5: do you guys think they're thinking? What is the reasoning?
Speaker 5: What is the possible reasoning if you had to try
Speaker 5: to find some type of understanding as to what's going on,
Speaker 5: because we all know when free agency starts, we knew
Speaker 5: when legal tempering starts, and we also knew how much money.
Speaker 5: They knew how much money they had available, so they
Speaker 5: could have already made some moves to free up a
Speaker 5: bunch of money to be able to use once free
Speaker 5: agency hit. So why tell me a reason what's going on?
Speaker 7: Because the math is right in front of us, right,
Speaker 7: So they have all these switch that they can pull.
Speaker 7: But the reason, one of the reasons they're probably not
Speaker 7: pulling it is because they're staring at the brick wall
Speaker 7: of twenty twenty five. All of this dead money that
Speaker 7: they've been kicking down the cam from restructures, it's waiting
Speaker 7: for him in twenty twenty five, and they can't push that.
Speaker 7: What's waiting for them next season can't be pushed anymore.
Speaker 7: So what they're trying to do is put themselves in
Speaker 7: a position where they can be a competitive roster but
Speaker 7: also have some cap rollover that helps them with what's
Speaker 7: waiting for in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Now that's the fact.
Speaker 7: Okay, the problem though, because what I'm about to say
Speaker 7: doesn't make that untrue. But it's also true that you
Speaker 7: said all in. So if you're saying all in, all
Speaker 7: in is not worried about twenty twenty five salary cap.
Speaker 7: It's about building a championship caliber team in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 7: and then whatever happens after that is whatever happens after that.
Speaker 2: I either rams for example, So if.
Speaker 7: You want, if you're looking for a thought process, and
Speaker 7: you're sitting there and you're beating your head against the
Speaker 7: wall and you're like, oh I am barb Brian. No,
Speaker 7: see why on earth are they not pulling these triggers.
Speaker 7: You just told them how to free up forty five
Speaker 7: forty six million dollars. It's because they're trying their best
Speaker 7: not to free it up to use that money for
Speaker 7: free agency. They want to use the majority of that
Speaker 7: money to roll over to next season to help them
Speaker 7: with what's waiting for them as far as dead money
Speaker 7: in twelve.
Speaker 5: You can still be all in with those two chips,
Speaker 5: you know. No, you can't still be all in with
Speaker 5: Technically you kind can.
Speaker 7: Well, if you only have that's what I'm saying, If
Speaker 7: you only have two chimps, you can still don't use those.
Speaker 7: Those are two chips that you have in front of
Speaker 7: you in the back. You got a couple duffel bags
Speaker 7: full of chips that you can bring out that you're
Speaker 7: not bringing out because you're squirreling them away.
Speaker 2: But you can't. You can't do both things at the
Speaker 2: same time.
Speaker 7: You can't say you're all in and squirrel forty six
Speaker 7: to fifty million dollars away.
Speaker 2: Which direction do you want to go?
Speaker 7: You gotta pick one because you can't go both in
Speaker 7: both directions at the same time.
Speaker 5: That's all. We'll see what kind of movements.
Speaker 6: You know, Patrick's absolutely right, they're stearing twenty twenty five
Speaker 6: right in the face. They'll never say the word rebuild,
Speaker 6: but this has more of a more of a not
Speaker 6: a rebuild, but a reset is what this has. I think.
Speaker 6: You know, you look at your quarterback situation, you look
Speaker 6: at your head coach. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 6: a lot of questions right now. I've always believed this
Speaker 6: team will never be bad. They won't be Carolina bad
Speaker 6: or Arizona bad or any of those themes because they
Speaker 6: do draft well. Now, last year was a totally different situation.
Speaker 6: We'll see if Mazie works out, you know, you know,
Speaker 6: Mike's going to play him at the one technique and
Speaker 6: try and put some weight on him and see if
Speaker 6: he can build him back up to what he was
Speaker 6: in college. But you know, they need the draft now.
Speaker 6: It's even more important with all the holes that they're
Speaker 6: having to fill. This draft has got to be huge,
Speaker 6: you know, I mean every pick that they make will
Speaker 6: be a Okay, this helps our tackle situation, This helps
Speaker 6: our center situation, This helps our running back situation, this
Speaker 6: helps our linebacker situation. You know that this draft is
Speaker 6: going to be specifically targeting players, is what it's going
Speaker 6: to do. And because say the twenty twenty five, all
Speaker 6: the dead money that's been pushed into the future is
Speaker 6: going to the bill is going to show up, and
Speaker 6: they've got to be ready for the bill. And I
Speaker 6: just feel like that they're in that point. They don't
Speaker 6: have the money right now. Anything that they want to do,
Speaker 6: they're going to try and make themselves is they're going
Speaker 6: to try and make themselves as the best they can
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty five. They're going to try. It could
Speaker 6: be really really tough with the cap situation that it is.
Speaker 6: But what's happened to them. They've drafted super well, so
Speaker 6: all of a sudden you have players that they have
Speaker 6: to pay that anybody in the league would pay their guys. Now,
Speaker 6: they've paid some guys early. They gave money to Pollard,
Speaker 6: you know with the franchise tag, they paid Steel early,
Speaker 6: they paid Gallop early. You know they didn't have to,
Speaker 6: but maybe you know, they saw something that they could
Speaker 6: have got out of that. Those are kinds of deals
Speaker 6: that may be a little bit troubling right now. But
Speaker 6: they couldn't get the fifth year on Dak. And that's
Speaker 6: on that's on on on the his agent, Todd Frantz France,
Speaker 6: did a great job and negotiating that contract. He's getting
Speaker 6: Dak back to the table quicker than Dallas wanted him
Speaker 6: back at the table. That's just an agent being really
Speaker 6: good at his gig. But now here's Dak once again
Speaker 6: back at the table. You know, it felt like we
Speaker 6: were in Oxnard three years ago.
Speaker 5: Very quickly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It happened very quickly. But
Speaker 6: they couldn't get the fifth year on him. That hurt
Speaker 6: Dallas and they couldn't get the contracts to stagger like
Speaker 6: they needed to to give themselves. They all kind of
Speaker 6: came at the same time. And again, that's that's drafting
Speaker 6: Michael Parsons, that's draft and Digs that's draft in ceed Lamb.
Speaker 6: That's back to back picks. You make Lamb and Digs
Speaker 6: two guys that you're gonna pay, that's at the same class.
Speaker 6: So that was a little that's little troubling for them
Speaker 6: right now, I'll.
Speaker 7: Tell you really worked in their favor that they were
Speaker 7: able to get that Digs deal done. Yes, they did, yes,
Speaker 7: because if that was still looming along with Lamp Parsons,
Speaker 7: that would be a nightmare scenario right now.
Speaker 5: That would have been tough. So as we say here today,
Speaker 5: it's currently eleven twenty five on Wednesday. My question to
Speaker 5: you guys, is there any move right now that the
Speaker 5: Cowboys could make that would potentially change your opinion as
Speaker 5: to how free agency is currently going for the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: I don't think. To me, I'm some of the defensive
Speaker 6: tackles that I really liked. Now we'll see, like a
Speaker 6: guy like DJ Reader, if they could grab a defensive tackle.
Speaker 6: If they can grab a legitimate one technique tackle. You know,
Speaker 6: the Colts resigned their guy yesterday, Buffalo resigned their guy.
Speaker 6: The two tackles I really really liked. But you know,
Speaker 6: if all of a sudden they can get a reader
Speaker 6: from Cincinnati, maybe his price comes down as a little
Speaker 6: bit older guy. You know, that would help me a lot,
Speaker 6: just is knowing that, Okay, I don't have to go
Speaker 6: into this draft thinking about it one. Even though there's
Speaker 6: some really good there's some good one techniques. It's not
Speaker 6: like they're have in the past, but there's you know,
Speaker 6: there's some guys that they can clearly, you know, say okay,
Speaker 6: we could play this guy to one and we would
Speaker 6: be just fine. The thing that's killing him right now
Speaker 6: is the Mazzie Smith thing. If Mazzie would have just
Speaker 6: been able to get on the field and chose some
Speaker 6: promise and you know, I mean he was very frustrated
Speaker 6: and so was the team. He lost all that weight.
Speaker 6: Now you really don't know where he's at. So now here,
Speaker 6: all of a sudden, instead of Mazzie Smith being okay,
Speaker 6: we got a replacement here, now there's questions there. So
Speaker 6: I'm looking at the one techniques, I'm looking at what linebackers.
Speaker 6: You know, does Devin White do anything for you from Tampa?
Speaker 6: You know that kind of I mean I've heard like
Speaker 6: great things and I've heard really bad things about him.
Speaker 6: So yeah, it's those are the kinds of things. If
Speaker 6: you could just pick off one guy. And we mentioned
Speaker 6: the running back thing. I watched AJ Dillon. I know
Speaker 6: what AJ Dillon is. He's a two hundred and forty
Speaker 6: seven pound player, but he does things for you, potentially
Speaker 6: on third down if paired with the right guy, that
Speaker 6: would make me feel better about the running back situation
Speaker 6: because I don't have a lot of faith induced fun.
Speaker 6: I think his height limits what you can do with them.
Speaker 6: Maybe you could figure some things out, but just as
Speaker 6: a as a cobac with somebody, I don't know if
Speaker 6: that's something I would be excited about.
Speaker 7: I need to see multiple moves on two separate roads.
Speaker 7: I need to see some outside of the building acquisitions
Speaker 7: at positions like nose tackle, linebacker for example. They lost
Speaker 7: out here this morning on Eric Kendricks. Yeah it's going
Speaker 7: to the charges, I believe.
Speaker 6: Yeah. But the thing about yeah, the Kendricks thing to
Speaker 6: me and just talking and talking with some people in
Speaker 6: the building and outside. Kendricks is not the same guy
Speaker 6: that played at Minnesota. Is he better than what you're
Speaker 6: playing with right now? For sure? But a step I
Speaker 6: watched him on tap myself. He's not that same player.
Speaker 6: There's things about him that would he be an upgrade
Speaker 6: of what you're currently playing with. Sure, but if you're
Speaker 6: expecting him of Minnesota guy that Zimmer had, no not
Speaker 6: even close now.
Speaker 7: What you should be expecting, whether it would have been
Speaker 7: Eric Kendricks or even like a Bobby Wagner. Bobby is
Speaker 7: still playing at a high level. He's timeless at this time.
Speaker 7: So let's say you go with a guy like Bobby Wagner,
Speaker 7: huge splash in my opinion, especially if you're talking like
Speaker 7: a day three, day four free agency. The money is
Speaker 7: much more reasonable. Okay, So you get Bobby Wagner on
Speaker 7: subjectively a reasonable deal that's an outside of the building,
Speaker 7: and then you look inside the building and you say, Okay,
Speaker 7: Stefan Gilmore, where are we at, Tyron Smith, where are
Speaker 7: we at?
Speaker 2: You need to get some of these because.
Speaker 7: You lost three guys four technically you lost four guys,
Speaker 7: Impact Guy and Dante Fowler impact guy in Durrence Armstrong,
Speaker 7: I argue that you could upgrade at center and Tyler pad.
Speaker 7: It's not a big deal, but at least Tony Pollard
Speaker 7: was an impact guy for you. Maybe not as an
Speaker 7: RB one, but he's an impact for RB two. You
Speaker 7: need to start re signing some impact guys, whether that
Speaker 7: be Jordan Lewis, Deefan Gilmore, top of the lizz is
Speaker 7: Tyron Smith. So I need to see acquisitions both from
Speaker 7: outside and insight. That's how you regain the confidence to say, Okay,
Speaker 7: we get it. You didn't go all in on the
Speaker 7: first two days, but you get some damn good talent
Speaker 7: day through Day four, such such and such, so nose tackle, linebacker,
Speaker 7: running back, you know, cornerback.
Speaker 6: The Gilmore, the Lewis thing would be huge for this
Speaker 6: football team. They will even though this draft is really
Speaker 6: deep in corners, but they have only so many picks.
Speaker 6: That's the problem. They're gonna have to figure out. They're
Speaker 6: actually gonna have to move back in this draft. And
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be surprised if they moved back in the
Speaker 6: first round to pick up you know, maybe the first
Speaker 6: or second round. I could see them moving back and
Speaker 6: grabbing an extra three or.
Speaker 5: It would be interesting because I see.
Speaker 6: So many they don't have a four, and I see so.
Speaker 5: Many people on social media and I'm talking from like
Speaker 5: the fans perspective, them talking and wanting the Cowboys now
Speaker 5: to move up instead of back so that they can
Speaker 5: no get a talented place.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they you know what, at twenty four, they're going
Speaker 6: to get a talented player. You know, maybe one of
Speaker 6: the centers falls to you, one of those offensive tackles.
Speaker 6: Everything they've done with the offensive line has been plug
Speaker 6: and play. They do a great job with plug and
Speaker 6: play first round offensive lineman. So I have faith in
Speaker 6: what they're going to do there. But if you move back,
Speaker 6: say you go back to Buffalo, and we've talked about
Speaker 6: this before in the Draft show. You go back to Buffalo,
Speaker 6: you know, at their pick in you know, to twenty eight,
Speaker 6: and you pick up their last pick of the in
Speaker 6: the third round. Since you don't have a fourth round pick.
Speaker 6: You end the second night with a pick. So now
Speaker 6: you've got four players you've drafted inside the top one hundred.
Speaker 6: That makes you feel a lot better about Day three
Speaker 6: when you're gonna have to go and now you've got
Speaker 6: compensatory picks. You can use, you can move around a
Speaker 6: little bit. But if you give me four picks, by
Speaker 6: the time day two ends, I'm feeling a lot better
Speaker 6: about what I could do to help this football team.
Speaker 6: That's that would be my strategy. Some way, somehow. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna have to back up. I mean, they're gonna have
Speaker 6: to back that first up. I'm gonna have to back
Speaker 6: that two up and try and pick up another another pick,
Speaker 6: or at least get a fourth round pick to start.
Speaker 6: That's a hard round to sit in after, you know,
Speaker 6: when day three starts and there's guys on that board
Speaker 6: that you're like, damn, we got a second round grade
Speaker 6: on that guy. We got a third round grade on
Speaker 6: that run. And then all of a sudden, you're watching
Speaker 6: guys just come off that board and you got no
Speaker 6: and you're just watching it and you're and you're dying.
Speaker 2: We've seen this movie, oh no, and you're dying.
Speaker 6: With every pick. You are literally just dying, like and
Speaker 6: you're watching and you're going, we should have been there,
Speaker 6: we should have been there, we should and you know,
Speaker 6: but hey, you got a quarterback out of the thing.
Speaker 6: This this whole thing with Trey Lance this fourth round pick.
Speaker 6: That might be the one that we look back and say,
Speaker 6: they that was a good move. But right now I'm
Speaker 6: sitting there dying because I don't have a fourth round pick,
Speaker 6: right you know, that's kind of where But I'm going
Speaker 6: to do my best to try and navigate that and
Speaker 6: get one back, get a third or fourth round pick,
Speaker 6: and make this single a little bit more manageable because
Speaker 6: they got too many holes to fill. They can't they
Speaker 6: can't sign everybody that we want them to, So they're
Speaker 6: gonna have to just they're gonna have to hit this
Speaker 6: draft in a way of and it's all probably going
Speaker 6: to be a needs draft.
Speaker 5: Everything they do is hoping that they can all be
Speaker 5: an impact in the first year, which is tough to do.
Speaker 6: They didn't. It didn't happen last year, But previous years
Speaker 6: they've got impact players. If you look at guys like
Speaker 6: Bland Hell, they didn't even draft steel bast They didn't
Speaker 6: even draft him either, but they got him signed. You know,
Speaker 6: that could be your starter at guard right there. They
Speaker 6: those are guys that should have been drafted and they
Speaker 6: but Dallas somehow lyle Collins back in the day, but
Speaker 6: he had all these legal issues hovering over him, but
Speaker 6: they got him, and he was a good player for them.
Speaker 6: They need some of that magic to kind of reappear
Speaker 6: for them in this particular.
Speaker 7: Well, one thing they definitely have some magic for executing
Speaker 7: is a scouting offensive lineman for a first round pick. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so whomever they picking, the whomever they picked in the
Speaker 7: first round based on their history that I'm just going
Speaker 7: to go ahead and assume he can drop right in.
Speaker 5: See.
Speaker 6: I wish I wish we knew more about about what
Speaker 6: they you know, what they thought about the kid are
Speaker 6: North Carolina kid from last year the tack Awesome Richards.
Speaker 6: I don't know, I know Awesome Richards. When I watched
Speaker 6: him at North Carolina, I'm like, I told will, I go,
Speaker 6: that's a good pick. It's a good pick. And then
Speaker 6: you watch and it's like, also, they're playing a doga
Speaker 6: and you're going, Okay, I don't know anymore. I mean
Speaker 6: I don't. I mean, I'm watching Ausome Richards playing camp
Speaker 6: left tackle, right tackle. I'm thinking, Okay, he's making a
Speaker 6: little progress here. But obviously they didn't think enough of
Speaker 6: him to put him out there instead of a doga
Speaker 6: who we were all kind of like, I don't know,
Speaker 6: I don't know about this one.
Speaker 7: No, there were plenty of chances for Richard's yeah to
Speaker 7: correct that rotation, and any fact that he didn't, I
Speaker 7: don't know if it's because he couldn't, because they just
Speaker 7: want to see more.
Speaker 2: Well, but it's disheartening, is what it is.
Speaker 6: They love Well, let's go, but the sublixations.
Speaker 2: Of the shoulder kick shoulder both take a shoulder.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean see, that's the problem is you know
Speaker 6: you feel like that, Okay, we lose Tyron Smith. To me,
Speaker 6: the best thing would be to kick Smith to tackle,
Speaker 6: which they don't want to do. But I do think this,
Speaker 6: and the more I watch this, I think that whatever,
Speaker 6: if they get a tackle they want, Tyler Smith plays guard.
Speaker 6: If they don't get a tackle they want, I would
Speaker 6: be I would keep an eye on Tyler Smith kicking
Speaker 6: outside the tackle and somebody else playing guard. That's what
Speaker 6: I would keep an eye.
Speaker 5: Oh, this conversation is trusting me out, like there's so
Speaker 5: much done.
Speaker 7: Not a promising situation right now. The good news is, though,
Speaker 7: is that it's only day three.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for this was a twelve win team that lost
Speaker 6: a lot of players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they lost, they taken some steps back.
Speaker 7: Now they got to take the steps forward then behind
Speaker 7: the eight ball right now, so I'm interested to see
Speaker 7: how they get.
Speaker 2: Back in front of it.
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Speaker 5: come back, I do want to to talk about some
Speaker 5: of the things that division rivals have done in free
Speaker 5: agency and kind of compare and see what's going on
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Speaker 5: All right, Well, thank you, Bryan. All right, before we
Speaker 5: end the show, I do want to discuss, Like I said,
Speaker 5: we do face division rivals twice every season, so Let's
Speaker 5: start off with dan Quinn, familiar face and what he
Speaker 5: has done so far in free agency with his team
Speaker 5: as the head coach of the Commanders. How do you
Speaker 5: guys assess what he's done in the free agency?
Speaker 7: Well, on paper, at the moment, they're better than they
Speaker 7: were last year, So I mean he's making some progress
Speaker 7: as far as improving that team. We still don't know
Speaker 7: what their quarterback situation looks like as far as their
Speaker 7: franchise quarterback. We'll see if they use their top pick
Speaker 7: on that probably will, but we'll see. He's making some
Speaker 7: impressive moves, a lot of raiding the Cowboys cabinet, but
Speaker 7: you know, we'll see. We'll see how that all plays
Speaker 7: out in the end. But I mean, this isn't dan
Speaker 7: Quinn's first rodeo as a head coach. He knows how
Speaker 7: to build a team and the team that he built
Speaker 7: in Atlanta actually did make it to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 7: so he knows how to build a team that can
Speaker 7: win in the regular season in the postseason. Obviously, they
Speaker 7: fail short when they fell short, but I think the
Speaker 7: Commanders going to be something that the Cowboys need to
Speaker 7: worry about in twenty twenty four. For two reasons. Number one,
Speaker 7: they are improving, whether you like it or not, they're improving.
Speaker 7: And number two, until the Cowboys start making some moves,
Speaker 7: the Cowboys are not improving.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 5: They've made a lot of moves.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they had a lot of cap space, and they
Speaker 6: also have the second overall pick, and they earned that
Speaker 6: by losing nine straight games or eight straight games, however
Speaker 6: many games they lost. That was a team in a
Speaker 6: while back that I thought was a quarterback away. I
Speaker 6: thought defensively they were going to be much better. They're
Speaker 6: awful in the secondary, they were awful rushing the passer.
Speaker 6: They've got skill guys on the offense. You know, I'm
Speaker 6: super impressed with that, you know, but you know they're
Speaker 6: trying to add with you know, I think we were
Speaker 6: all here on this show. This is no disrespect to
Speaker 6: this gentleman, Tyler Beyottish. We were all kind of I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: I should speak for myself. I was ready to move
Speaker 6: on from Tyler Beyottish. That a guy that I was
Speaker 6: okay with moving on from ended up at one of
Speaker 6: your chief rivals. That's okay for me. Dorn's armstrong. We'll
Speaker 6: see how he handles now. Having to be the starter.
Speaker 6: Dorrin's armstrong coming off the bench is a good player.
Speaker 6: You know, we'll see Dante Feller. We've talked about Dante Faller,
Speaker 6: how much we really really enjoy watching him play. It
Speaker 6: seems like he plays twelve plays. It seems like he
Speaker 6: has three impact plays in twelve plays. I respect that.
Speaker 6: You know, Austin Eckler, the running back we'll see might
Speaker 6: be down time the end. I felt like they had
Speaker 6: a pretty couple of good running backs there. You know,
Speaker 6: when you look at when you look at Brian Robinson,
Speaker 6: I thought, was, you know, at Austin Eckler. Great, he
Speaker 6: added a pass catcher and and all those things on that.
Speaker 6: So to me, the best player that they've added was
Speaker 6: Frankie Louvu, the linebacker from the Carolina Panthers. Everybody else
Speaker 6: in that thing, I would have to say, it's just okay,
Speaker 6: just kind of a okay. That's you know, it's not
Speaker 6: like bow dan Quinn knocked this one out of the park.
Speaker 6: A couple of players that we like, but I think
Speaker 6: overall though, that he's kind of adding Zach Ertz very
Speaker 6: much reminds me of what Jason Witten was at the
Speaker 6: very end of his career with the Dallas Cowboys, catch
Speaker 6: the ball for five yards, get tackled. That's what Zach
Speaker 6: Ern says. We saw him last year at Arizona. So
Speaker 6: to me, I'm not overly impressed. And if they turn
Speaker 6: around and draft, if they turn around and draft Drake
Speaker 6: May from North Carolina, I'm going to think they went
Speaker 6: the wrong way on that one. You know, I like
Speaker 6: Drake May, but there's probably three other guys I like
Speaker 6: more than Drake May. So I don't want them to
Speaker 6: get some other quarterbacks I don't want them to get
Speaker 6: But if they draft Drake May, and I'm willing to
Speaker 6: be wrong about it, admitted if I am, But I
Speaker 6: don't know if that's the path that I would go.
Speaker 6: So this team right here, I think there's a couple
Speaker 6: of things they did well, but there's a lot of
Speaker 6: that I had. I probably wouldn't have done that. With
Speaker 6: all the money that they have. Well, they they got
Speaker 6: bodies that well, you guys might might think differently.
Speaker 5: No, no, not page.
Speaker 6: I'm just thinking about I'm just thinking about what we
Speaker 6: were thinking about about a guy like Tyler Smith. Actually
Speaker 6: Tyler you know they gave Tyler Biottish ten million dollars.
Speaker 6: I don't think the Cowboys were going that that way.
Speaker 6: I don't think they were going that way at all.
Speaker 6: So I the commanders, Uh, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm. I'm
Speaker 6: a wait and see guy with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the same.
Speaker 7: I mean, they've, like I said, through the first two days,
Speaker 7: they've improved.
Speaker 2: Over what they spend a lot of money.
Speaker 7: However, you don't you still don't know what their quarterback
Speaker 7: situation looks like. I mean, before you even get into
Speaker 7: anything else, if you don't know what your quarterback situation
Speaker 7: looks like, then you got to put a pin in it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, New York Giants. They've also made quite
Speaker 5: a few moves. What do you assess? How do you
Speaker 5: assess their free agency?
Speaker 7: The Giants really have been and I mean when you
Speaker 7: look at the NFC East moves orlack there were of
Speaker 7: obviously the Cowboys at the bottom of that. Washington and
Speaker 7: Philly sit the top. So when it comes to the Giants,
Speaker 7: I mean, you lose Saquon Barkley, right, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 7: you bring whatever it was it Donald is that who
Speaker 7: they brought it in.
Speaker 6: No, they brought in Drew Lock.
Speaker 2: Drew Lock that's what it was.
Speaker 7: So you bring in Drew Lock, you again, I will
Speaker 7: say it again, you don't know what your quarterback situation
Speaker 7: looks like. So I respect Drew Lock and I like
Speaker 7: what he did in his time with the Seahawks. When
Speaker 7: Gino went down for those couple of games, he came
Speaker 7: in won at least one big game in Seattle. So
Speaker 7: that that's a solid acquisition, especially considering you have no
Speaker 7: clue what the future holds for Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2: But that means that you QB. You have a QB battle.
Speaker 7: If you got two qbs, you don't have one QB.
Speaker 7: But know if you have two quarterbacks competing, that means
Speaker 7: you don't have eighty right. So and you lose sa Quan,
Speaker 7: which is the heart and soul of your offense, you
Speaker 7: lose them to a divisional rival. So I mean, Giants,
Speaker 7: will they be competitive, sure, but I'm not looking at
Speaker 7: them right now through the first two or three days
Speaker 7: of free agency on the same level as I'm looking
Speaker 7: at Philly and what the Commanders have done.
Speaker 6: The Giants have tried to help their offensive line throughout
Speaker 6: their existence. They've tried to do it with draft picks.
Speaker 6: They've tried to do it through free agency. They signed
Speaker 6: a couple, They signed a tackle from the Raiders. They
Speaker 6: signed John Runyon from the Green Bay Packers. We'll see
Speaker 6: if they just continually throw money and high draft picks
Speaker 6: and capital at that position, at those positions and it
Speaker 6: hasn't worked out, We'll see if it does this time
Speaker 6: around for him. I liked the signing of Devin Singletary
Speaker 6: though I do like that one. I felt like that
Speaker 6: that was a pretty good signing for them. The trade
Speaker 6: for Brian Burns, I think they actually stole Brian Burns
Speaker 6: because Carolina had a chance to take Brian Burns and
Speaker 6: trade him last year for a first round pick, and
Speaker 6: the Giants got him for a second round pick. So
Speaker 6: now you talk about Thibodeau and Burns on the edge
Speaker 6: with Dexter Lawrence in the middle. That makes a little
Speaker 6: bit of sense to me what they're trying to do there.
Speaker 6: So trading a second round pick, there's probably somebody not
Speaker 6: on their board that they did. Maybe there's not another
Speaker 6: edge that they liked in the second round. There's a
Speaker 6: lot of good edges in this draft, but they're probably
Speaker 6: looking at it like, geez all, we had to give
Speaker 6: up was a two and a five or something to
Speaker 6: get this guy. I think they stole that guy right there.
Speaker 6: So I like the Burns trade and I'd like the
Speaker 6: Singletary edition. And we'll see what happens with the offensive line.
Speaker 6: They've still got to find a way their quarterback situation,
Speaker 6: and then they're also the skill guys at receiver, but
Speaker 6: sitting there in the sixth hole, they could address both
Speaker 6: those positions if they wanted to.
Speaker 5: Well, let's go ahead and to end the show, dive
Speaker 5: into what Philly has done. They have been known to
Speaker 5: be a team that has been able to spend some
Speaker 5: money and make big moves during free agency. So far
Speaker 5: this year they have signed Bryce Huff, Sagwin Barkley, CJ Garner, Johnson,
Speaker 5: Brandon Graham.
Speaker 6: Graham However, you.
Speaker 5: Rick Lovado, Brandon Man and then Sack Bond.
Speaker 7: So Philly has been cooking and I have Philly atop
Speaker 7: the NFC East as far as through the first two
Speaker 7: days of free agency. At first you look at the
Speaker 7: fact that they lost Jason Kelce to retirement and then
Speaker 7: Fletcher Cox to retirement, You're thinking, Okay, they're moving in
Speaker 7: the wrong direction. And I love every bit of this,
Speaker 7: and then what do you see them do? They go
Speaker 7: out and they get Bryce Huff and then they bring
Speaker 7: back CJ. Gardner Johnson to help boaster a secondary that
Speaker 7: was just absolute toast last season with Brad Berry and Slay.
Speaker 7: You get sa Kwon Barkley, You lose DeAndre Swift, but
Speaker 7: you get sa Kwon Barkley, right, And I don't think
Speaker 7: it's arguable. I love Swift obviously, go dogs, but a
Speaker 7: healthy Barkley keyword being healthy. A healthy Barkley gives you
Speaker 7: more than what DeAndre Swift gives So maybe that's an upgrade.
Speaker 7: We'll see how that plays out. Bryce Huff huge acquisition,
Speaker 7: but we also need to see what happens with this
Speaker 7: a Sun Riddick stuff. Reports are that he's being shopped
Speaker 7: for a possible trade. If a Sound Retick is not
Speaker 7: on the Philadelphia Eagles defense, that.
Speaker 2: Is a massive up backwards.
Speaker 7: He is a just an electric pass rusher, and I
Speaker 7: get it they're looking for more reps for you know,
Speaker 7: my former dog, Nolan Smith. I get that, but Hassan
Speaker 7: is already proven and he's still in this prime So
Speaker 7: all told, I don't see the Eagles are taking steps
Speaker 7: forward they've had some massive losses, two future Hall of
Speaker 7: Fame guys. You lose those guys, that hurts. It absolutely hurts,
Speaker 7: no pun intended. But then when you replace them with
Speaker 7: a guy like Bryce Huff who's a young guy in
Speaker 7: his prime, he's eating well, you boaster your secondary. You
Speaker 7: get Sakuon Barkley. If he can stay healthy, he can
Speaker 7: be a problem for you alongside Jalen Hurts in that
Speaker 7: running attach. So yeah, the Philadelphia Eagles, as they tend
Speaker 7: to do in the off season, they cook in free agency,
Speaker 7: and they're cooking right now.
Speaker 6: The thing that I worry about is and people are
Speaker 6: gonna if you clip this. You know, shame on you what.
Speaker 2: I'm about to say.
Speaker 6: But you know, shame on you if you clip this
Speaker 6: and plan it for everybody but we If you're a
Speaker 6: Cowboy fan, you don't want Saquon Barkley to become healthy
Speaker 6: like Christian McCaffrey has for the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 6: Christian McCaffrey was an often injured player for the Carolina
Speaker 6: Panthers and they moved on from him, and Saquon Barkley
Speaker 6: has been a killing. Has been an often injured player
Speaker 6: for the New York Giants, and your hope as a
Speaker 6: Cowboy fan is that he doesn't all of a sudden
Speaker 6: find sixteen games. Sixteen games in sixteen games, that's your
Speaker 6: hope right there. I mean, I'm not wishing injury on anybody,
Speaker 6: but he has been an often injured player. It's amazing
Speaker 6: to me that this team has paid their quarterback what
Speaker 6: they've done and all the players they have their roster.
Speaker 6: You can go player for player with their roster and
Speaker 6: the Cowboys players and they still find ways to make moves.
Speaker 6: That's you know, I mean, that's that's a fact that
Speaker 6: you when you start to talk about the best rosters
Speaker 6: in the NFC, Philadelphia Dallas were neck and neck on
Speaker 6: that last year. I mean, you talk to personnel guys,
Speaker 6: they'll tell you, hey, those are two of the best
Speaker 6: rosters in the NFC right there, and they find a
Speaker 6: way to continually add players to it. They're really bad
Speaker 6: at linebacker, they were last year. They added Zach Brown
Speaker 6: from the Saints. We'll see with the with Bryce Huff
Speaker 6: where they play him and all that. Getting CJ. Gardner
Speaker 6: Johnson back I think is a big thing for him.
Speaker 6: He was in Detroit for one year, but he was
Speaker 6: kind of a heart and soul player for the Eagles.
Speaker 6: I think they really didn't want to lose him, but
Speaker 6: Detroit blew him out of the water. They got to
Speaker 6: figure out their cornerback situation. That's that's where they're looking.
Speaker 6: And we'll see what they do at center because Cam.
Speaker 6: I think Cam Jurgens is going to be their center.
Speaker 6: But they might say, what if they draft the best
Speaker 6: center in the draft, you know, And that's that's where
Speaker 6: the Cowboys are kind of sitting. Do they want to
Speaker 6: Dallas would like an opportunity have either the best tackle
Speaker 6: they can get or the best center and make that choice.
Speaker 6: Philadelphia could take the best center off the board for
Speaker 6: you there with Powers Johnson and so that that right there,
Speaker 6: the kid from Oregon that could be up a big
Speaker 6: gut punch for you right there, in fact, that they
Speaker 6: go for the best center in the draft instead of
Speaker 6: replacing them with Cam Jurgens. So they it's amazing that
Speaker 6: they signed their quarterback and they have all this money
Speaker 6: allocated to guys, and it seems like that they continually
Speaker 6: make moves that that's something you got to kind of tip.
Speaker 2: Your cap to him for Kylie Rosman doesn't sit still, No,
Speaker 2: he does not.
Speaker 5: It's very impressive. It's very impressive the way that they
Speaker 5: hand but that was with the division last year.
Speaker 7: It all has to play out in the field their teams.
Speaker 7: Every year they win free agency and can't get it
Speaker 7: done when it needs to get done. And not to
Speaker 7: say that the Cowboys are, but if you're sitting on
Speaker 7: the same couch the Cowboys are sitting on and you
Speaker 7: won free agency, then you know who's the biggest loser
Speaker 7: of those two losers.
Speaker 6: I guess.
Speaker 5: I guess one way to look at it, half a glass,
Speaker 5: half empty or half full.
Speaker 2: It's all the same couch and there's only one champion.
Speaker 7: So if you didn't holdays that Lombardy, then doesn't matter
Speaker 7: if you want the free agency where you or not.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll see what happens today again. Free agency officially
Speaker 5: starts at three pm, where teams can actually sign players,
Speaker 5: and we'll see if there are any actual moves happening.
Speaker 5: Take your center the park, Dang, then Brian, give no hope.
Speaker 6: Maybe you get a running back. Maybe you get a
Speaker 6: running back. Derek keeping eye keeping on.
Speaker 2: That's why he took this week off. Derek new he's
Speaker 2: at the beach somewhere.
Speaker 5: He's all right. Well, thank you guys so much for
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