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Speaker 1: twenty three. This is season eighteen, episode number one seventeen.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. We're live
Speaker 1: from s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star War presenter
Speaker 1: by mill of like the Only Beer of the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and today I think we're actually going to get to
Speaker 1: the topic that we started a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: where we're going to identify the biggest question for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys at each position. We got through the quarterback in
Speaker 1: the running back position on that episode. We'll start up
Speaker 1: with tight end today and keep moving through the roster
Speaker 1: seeing what we think. But before we get there, I
Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit about the franchise tag. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: the NFL Franchise Tag period opened. It will remain open
Speaker 1: through March seven. So basically, teams have two weeks to
Speaker 1: be able to identify players that would like to put
Speaker 1: the franchise tag on. In March seventh, at four pm Eastern,
Speaker 1: that window will close, and then they'll start on March
Speaker 1: thirteenth and negotiating period, that little tampering period where teams
Speaker 1: can start talking to players about free agency and deals.
Speaker 1: And then on March fifteenth at three pm Central, that's
Speaker 1: when free agency will begin. Here's my question for you, guys,
Speaker 1: who would you use the tag on for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lay it out for you. You've got, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you four different options, and I'll tell you
Speaker 1: how much you'd have to pay for them. Some of
Speaker 1: them may seem well be, but I will throw him
Speaker 1: out there just for the sake of discussion. Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: Cowboys would pay roughly about eleven point three million dollars
Speaker 1: to put the tag on him. Tony Pollard Cowboys would
Speaker 1: pay roughly about ten point one million to put the
Speaker 1: tag on him. Layton vander esh he would have to
Speaker 1: pay a whopping almost twenty one million dollars to put
Speaker 1: the franchise tag on him. And then Donovan Wilson Cowboys
Speaker 1: would have to pay about fourteen point five million to
Speaker 1: put the tag on him. Which of those would you
Speaker 1: put the tag on? Or your other option could be
Speaker 1: none of the above. I think this is pretty easy, honestly,
Speaker 1: because I'm the best guy is the cheapest guy. So
Speaker 1: to me, I would go Tony Pollard on all day long,
Speaker 1: because I don't I mean, I don't know if some
Speaker 1: of these guys, I don't know if you even want
Speaker 1: to bring back anyways, and especially for that price. But
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, I think at ten point one that you're
Speaker 1: getting a steel And I think with him specifically, it's
Speaker 1: perfect time to go one year with him, and you
Speaker 1: know you're going to draft the running back at some point,
Speaker 1: and I think it's, you know, him coming back from injury.
Speaker 1: I definitely wanted for one more year and then we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens after that. Maybe this is the year
Speaker 1: that he breaks down. I mean, I mean, knock on wood,
Speaker 1: I hope not. But I'm just saying running backs at
Speaker 1: that age, I mean, at that level of their career,
Speaker 1: we'll see, you know, what the wear and teary looks like.
Speaker 1: But I go one year ten point one. I think
Speaker 1: that's almost a steel. Do we expect then he kind
Speaker 1: of set back from the injury that I would have
Speaker 1: some kind of effect in I know he should be
Speaker 1: ready by training camp, but is that the type of
Speaker 1: injury that maybe it kind of changes his footwork and
Speaker 1: speed and game? Really? Yeah, you know, it's one of
Speaker 1: those things. It's a It's a really good question because
Speaker 1: we kind of thought the same thing with Michael Gallup.
Speaker 1: And I know it's a knee and an ankle or
Speaker 1: two different things. But you look at when you start
Speaker 1: to talk about ankles and running backs and they use
Speaker 1: their feet their legs, is there going to be the
Speaker 1: flexibility there? You know? Is it going to be the
Speaker 1: same for him? I don't think. You know, with Tony,
Speaker 1: he's he's one of those guys that I feel like
Speaker 1: that he would bounce back. But with a running back,
Speaker 1: you don't know. You just don't know, because where is
Speaker 1: the ankle flexibility? Where's the ability to cut, to break,
Speaker 1: to turn to pivot? You know, where where are you
Speaker 1: with all that? It was a pretty significant injury that
Speaker 1: he had. Me personally to answer your question, I don't
Speaker 1: tag any of these guys. I don't and I do
Speaker 1: this for the reason of I have a little bit
Speaker 1: of advantage because I've looked at all the players in
Speaker 1: the college draft, you know. I mean, I've seen the
Speaker 1: running backs in the draft. I've seen the list of
Speaker 1: the pro free agents. I'm sure you guys have seen
Speaker 1: all those names and stuff like that. To me, I'm
Speaker 1: going to let him go and test this market. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys are fifty fifty on this one. I
Speaker 1: really really do. I don't. I think there's people in
Speaker 1: the building that would like to see him, you know,
Speaker 1: at one year at ten million dollars makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense, you know, yeah, you know, if there's that
Speaker 1: unknown that you just asked about. You know, I think
Speaker 1: being in the running back business, especially with tags and
Speaker 1: contracts and stuff, is dangerous. I think it really really is.
Speaker 1: As much as I love Tony, I think I feel
Speaker 1: like they need to kind of start over here with this.
Speaker 1: I think you could kind of move on from Tony
Speaker 1: and you might be in a situation too where Tony
Speaker 1: goes out with other running backs trying to get deals. Well,
Speaker 1: he's a little bit of a damaged goods right now.
Speaker 1: Are you going to give a guy, you know, six
Speaker 1: seven million dollars a year as a damaged player with
Speaker 1: that kind of that unknown. But you do know the
Speaker 1: college running back situation, you do no free agency with
Speaker 1: the other running backs. I'm gonna take a chance. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna maybe get Tony Pollard back on a deal that's
Speaker 1: not going to be tag tag high. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of where I'm at right there. And if i lose
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, then I'm going to trust what I do
Speaker 1: very well. I'm gonna draft, you know, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: out there and I'm gonna draft, and I'm gonna study,
Speaker 1: and i'm gonna figure this thing out, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get the guy that kind of fits the best. There's
Speaker 1: several of these backs that have similar qualities to what
Speaker 1: you get with Tony Pollard. So I'm gonna let him
Speaker 1: test the market and see what he can get. And
Speaker 1: if you want to come back to us and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we got this kind of a deal and you shop
Speaker 1: it back to us, maybe we'll consider it. But other
Speaker 1: than that, I think i'm gonna let I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: these guys all kind of go test the market. Yeah,
Speaker 1: money wise, it seems like it would be the right deal.
Speaker 1: For the Cowboys to kind of put a tag on Pollard.
Speaker 1: But I am concerned about the injury and just not
Speaker 1: really knowing. But I do think that it all goes
Speaker 1: into like in correlation with what's going to happen with
Speaker 1: Zeke and what are they gonna do that with him.
Speaker 1: I just find it very hard to believe that they
Speaker 1: would have those two running backs here next season, like
Speaker 1: something's gonna one of them is gonna be gone. I
Speaker 1: do think that it's hard also for me to see
Speaker 1: at us both of them being gone. But then to
Speaker 1: that point, do you what do you do with Zeke?
Speaker 1: I see I kind of see right now despite the injury,
Speaker 1: I see Zeke more out the door than I see
Speaker 1: taller and taller Poler Tony Poller being out. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they if they can come to
Speaker 1: an agreement to even cut or how much they would
Speaker 1: even cut zeek salary. You're right, that's the big domino first.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to make that decision before you
Speaker 1: make some others. I believe, but you know, I just
Speaker 1: feel like the injury is the reason why the franchise
Speaker 1: tag makes sense, because yeah, there's there's some unknown but
Speaker 1: I'm willing to take that chance at the ten point one,
Speaker 1: mainly because and when he went down, we talked about this.
Speaker 1: When he went down, I remember being in the press
Speaker 1: box going it's over, this game is over. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, they couldn't make a kick to save
Speaker 1: their life. You know, Mayer wasn't gonna make any kind
Speaker 1: of kick until I guess later in the game. But
Speaker 1: like you didn't feel like you had that weapon, You
Speaker 1: had nothing going for you. It was just CD. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, so that for that reason alone, I think
Speaker 1: I would say I'm gonna bring Pollard back again. Let's see,
Speaker 1: got one of the best rehab teams there is. I
Speaker 1: think that he'll be in good shape for there. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Julius Jones kind of scares me a little bit.
Speaker 1: High ankle's brain. Second year of his career never really
Speaker 1: was the same, So we'll see. You know, that was
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, but I'm just saying I still think
Speaker 1: Pollard with one year, I like it, and I like
Speaker 1: drafting a guy, and draft a guy Pollard, Willie Davis,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. I'm gonna take you back to
Speaker 1: what you were thinking in that game. Coming back to
Speaker 1: the old school fools. Yeah. Does that say more to
Speaker 1: you though about your thoughts on Zeke and whether Zeke
Speaker 1: should be here next year? Yeah, yes, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think that Zeke, and we've talked about this on
Speaker 1: one oh five three the Fan, if that we feel
Speaker 1: like that Zeke is in the situation of what you
Speaker 1: had with Dez Bryant DeMarcus Ware. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: you think so much of these players that you don't
Speaker 1: want to low ball them so badly that you say, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're only gonna play here if it's the veteran minimum.
Speaker 1: They moved on from where they moved on from Dez Bryant.
Speaker 1: You know, remember that whole thing with Dez Bryant. It
Speaker 1: was just kind of what's gonna happen, what's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: and then you know, he's you know, they're in their
Speaker 1: draft meetings over here, Jerry and Dez all of a
Speaker 1: sudden have a meeting and then Dez storms out, never
Speaker 1: again to be back in the facility. You know, I
Speaker 1: have a feeling that it's going to be the same
Speaker 1: way with Zeke. I think there. I don't think they
Speaker 1: want to I don't think they want to take zeke
Speaker 1: salary so low that it's an embarrassment to him. I
Speaker 1: think they're just gonna move on now again to your
Speaker 1: you know Pollard question about that, that's if Pollard wasn't
Speaker 1: hurt to me. I agree about the tag. I agree.
Speaker 1: The thing is, now that he's injured, I'm gonna bet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bet. Yeah, we got the rehab and all that,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna bet that somebody else is not going
Speaker 1: to see it like we do right here, right now,
Speaker 1: and that you can maybe get him back. And it's
Speaker 1: not that not that ten million dollars that you have
Speaker 1: to pay. So let's assume for a second that that happened.
Speaker 1: Is that a better or a worse situation, because then
Speaker 1: you're now going to have to probably do a multi
Speaker 1: year deal where I'm thinking maybe if he I'm I'm
Speaker 1: trying to bet that. I'm trying to bet and the
Speaker 1: fact I talked to somebody in the league yesterday that's
Speaker 1: fifty fifty on him. It's not a slam dunk. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I talked to one of my gang of seven guys
Speaker 1: around the league and I said, Hey, where do you
Speaker 1: see Poard? What would you do? With Pollard and they
Speaker 1: gave me I'd say it's fifty fifty it really really,
Speaker 1: you rather do three for twenty five. I'm throwing numbers
Speaker 1: out here. Three for twenty five, you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit more than eighty years, probably less per year, but yeah,
Speaker 1: but but you have three years. Yeah, And I'll that's
Speaker 1: that's interesting too, because he's at that point in his
Speaker 1: career where a running back. You know, you're like, is
Speaker 1: he gonna get a big deal? Is he not? I'm gambling.
Speaker 1: I'm gambling only because I know I know that, I
Speaker 1: know what he is as a player, but I know
Speaker 1: he's injured to rehab and I don't know, from Ambar's point,
Speaker 1: how he's going to come back. And do I want
Speaker 1: to pay? I paid. I already saw what happened with
Speaker 1: Polar excume me with Gallup, you know, the knee and stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, he came back, he was but it wasn't
Speaker 1: the same. It just wasn't the same. And now we're like,
Speaker 1: the team needs are drafted wide receiver, they need a
Speaker 1: second wide receiver. And now you're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: we just paid for one here. I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: going down that path again. But if he was, if
Speaker 1: he was completely healthy, I would I would totally dance
Speaker 1: with you on this one. But I'm gonna gamble too.
Speaker 1: I think it's a gamble as well, and I would
Speaker 1: do it. I think the ten million of the year
Speaker 1: is a gamble because of the injury. But I'm willing
Speaker 1: to do it because I saw what difference maker he was, like,
Speaker 1: he is a difference And the thing about Zeke, this
Speaker 1: is the interesting part. I think Zeke would be a
Speaker 1: really good number two running back for any team that's
Speaker 1: got a you know, an established, established number one starter.
Speaker 1: You know, let's say somebody like a Chicago that has
Speaker 1: a Montgomery and then he comes in and he would
Speaker 1: be really good. But I don't think he is a
Speaker 1: good number too. When you've got Pollard, who've got question
Speaker 1: marks at number one. That's that's the issue. That's the
Speaker 1: average amount of years that you give a running back.
Speaker 1: Pollar's about to go into his fifth year. Yea, that's
Speaker 1: the The wear and tear on him is not as
Speaker 1: bad as this was. Zeke and I and I just
Speaker 1: remember this. I remember this Hard Knocks episode where Stephen
Speaker 1: Jones was standing next to Mike McCarthy and he was
Speaker 1: pointing out to Zeke and he goes, man, you guys
Speaker 1: have given him a lot of carries. You guys have
Speaker 1: given you know. And this was two three years ago
Speaker 1: when that that hard knocks and I'm thinking, well, he's
Speaker 1: already seen it then, you know, now where are we
Speaker 1: with zek? I think? I think to me, I think
Speaker 1: it's a move on. You take your cap hit and
Speaker 1: then you you go for it. He had like a
Speaker 1: hate smile, kind of like Steven acknowledges, like stevens Cone's like, well, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have, we've we've he's carried the ball a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right about that, coach translation, Uh, give someone else
Speaker 1: the ball? Yeah, Like when when I when I when
Speaker 1: one of the owners comes in and says, um, I
Speaker 1: think maybe we should you know, like, yeah, any think
Speaker 1: maybe we should give the boat a Lance Dumbar. I
Speaker 1: mean I remember when Jerry used to say that. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: then Lance Dumbar is gonna get the ball. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think the interesting thing here is that And I don't
Speaker 1: know which way I really believe here, but I've I've
Speaker 1: heard a lot of people with the concept of never
Speaker 1: give a running back in the NFL, A second deal
Speaker 1: just because there's just too many other young fresh out
Speaker 1: of college facts that you can get from. It can
Speaker 1: get you similar production for a lot less money in
Speaker 1: a stra in a capstrack litchtrap league, Like if you
Speaker 1: were in a league that was like the nineties where
Speaker 1: there was no salary cap, then go for it. Keep
Speaker 1: paying them and keep them here as long as you
Speaker 1: want to keep them here. But it does make you
Speaker 1: wonder is it a better just when you talk about
Speaker 1: the philosophy of team building, it is a better model
Speaker 1: to say, if I'm going to spend money, it won't
Speaker 1: necessarily be on a second contract for running back because
Speaker 1: of replacement value is relatively spend I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I like the one year deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not going to draft the fourth overall pick it
Speaker 1: and Zeke. I mean, you're not getting that guy. You're
Speaker 1: getting some first round maybe second round whatever, and you
Speaker 1: might have a little bit of a learning curve. Yes,
Speaker 1: runners can come in the league and make a difference,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have a little bit of a curve.
Speaker 1: I like, my guy have a one year deal. He's
Speaker 1: coming back from an injury, he's got something to prove
Speaker 1: as well, to prove that he's worth a big deal.
Speaker 1: I got him. I'm drafting someone. How high are you drafting?
Speaker 1: I mean wherever he falls to me, if if, if
Speaker 1: the Texas kid is there, the in Dijon, I know
Speaker 1: there's two. If that kid is there at twenty six,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that pick. I really am with with
Speaker 1: now with five year deal, with five years guarantee, I'm
Speaker 1: fine with especially running back. I'll take the five years
Speaker 1: and then I'll probably move on situation. It seems like
Speaker 1: this guy is ready to play. You've seen him more
Speaker 1: than okay. We know that there's always okay, one of
Speaker 1: a kind. Oh yeah, and you're just looking at the
Speaker 1: position itself. Obviously you look for talent as well. But
Speaker 1: how high are you rating taking him off because he's
Speaker 1: a special Hell, then I like the Alabama kid. Gibbs
Speaker 1: is a game in the first round. Yeah, I actually,
Speaker 1: you know, I went to the Arkansas Alabama game and
Speaker 1: I think he had three hundred rushing yards in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. You remember him from the Texas game. I
Speaker 1: do he know. That's That's the thing about That's the
Speaker 1: only reason why I'm I'm interested to seeing if I'm
Speaker 1: gambling on Pollard is because I know there's probably six
Speaker 1: or seven running backs that are legitimate R and it,
Speaker 1: A and M kid. He's he's a second round kid,
Speaker 1: I like, I mean, he's a second third fourn This
Speaker 1: thing is gonna stretch the tank Bigsby. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: the draft show falling this one today. Yeah, Auburn Tank.
Speaker 1: Bigsby is a guy that. Yeah. See that's I'm saying,
Speaker 1: there's options here. You know. See that's where I'm kind
Speaker 1: of you know, you've got compensatory picks, You've got all
Speaker 1: these kinds of things. Here's here's another thing about Pollard.
Speaker 1: Go go, Look he started four games his whole career. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: in those four games, I gotta look this up. But
Speaker 1: in those four games, I think the Cowboys have scored
Speaker 1: forty points every time he's I mean he started a game,
Speaker 1: I mean average average forty, average forty. Because there was
Speaker 1: the Green Bay he scored twenty eight. They're scoring points
Speaker 1: with them. So I'm just saying, for one year, give
Speaker 1: I'll give him. I'll give him a one year. I'm
Speaker 1: not against that. Yeah, I don't know what happened to
Speaker 1: the running game because when when all the both those
Speaker 1: backs stopped any kind of production when Steele went out.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean there's games were Pollard go go
Speaker 1: look at them, go gook the game against the Commanders,
Speaker 1: you know, you play them twice a year, you know,
Speaker 1: and and both those games were like I'm you know,
Speaker 1: twenty something yards, thirty something yards, you know it. There
Speaker 1: were some games where he had one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: yards or what I mean. There's but then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Steel gets hurt and the running game goes
Speaker 1: to hell. You know, nobody's running the ball, and you're like, going,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, now, well, why why are we not
Speaker 1: running the ball anymore? Is it the backs? Is that
Speaker 1: the line? I mean, I I'm one of these guys
Speaker 1: that believe putting Tyrn Smith at right tackle was gonna
Speaker 1: be better, you know, and it wasn't. And that's the
Speaker 1: interesting thing here, Brian. If let's say, for example, you've
Speaker 1: got that ten million dollars that you would use on
Speaker 1: the franchise tag that you tell me, Okay, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna franchise him. We're gonna select somebody in the draft,
Speaker 1: probably gonna be paying him his coup hit will probably
Speaker 1: be a million or so, and that other nine million
Speaker 1: I can now use to go out and get me
Speaker 1: a veteran guard. That's a really good veteran guard. What's
Speaker 1: a better use of your money? Is it to keep
Speaker 1: Pollard here on one year franchise tag or is it
Speaker 1: spending that money on a better, better guard? Can I
Speaker 1: so now your offensive line is better? Can I keep
Speaker 1: Wilson and Vanderish? Maybe? I mean, I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: the same philosophy. It's the same philosophy that that that
Speaker 1: they told Nick and everybody about about with Randy Gregory.
Speaker 1: Jerry's argument about not paying Randy Gregory fourteen million dollars
Speaker 1: years says he got three defensive players. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: the that's the by the way, Durrance's back up right, Yeah, see,
Speaker 1: that's that's I mean. I was looking at the contracts
Speaker 1: of Michael Gallop yea, and I was thinking, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's a situation that the Cowboys. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're looking at that right now, but I would be like,
Speaker 1: you can get out of this deal after nixt after
Speaker 1: this year, this year, after this you could get out
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, but you could also save about eight
Speaker 1: million dollars. If you said, we think he's going to
Speaker 1: be a good receiver for us, let's let's extend him
Speaker 1: a little bit. Let's extend his deal, lower his cap
Speaker 1: right now, and push him out a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: you could do that. You could save some money as well. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of different that's a risky
Speaker 1: one just because you don't know what that's gonna mean
Speaker 1: two or three years from now exactly. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't gallop. Gallup had one game with fifty yards or
Speaker 1: more of this year and that was sixty four. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like he was you know, he had more games
Speaker 1: with zero than he had over fifty, right, something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for that amount of money, And that's a that's a
Speaker 1: risk if you if you choose wrong on that one.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take our first break when we come back.
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Speaker 1: is for you guys is pretty simple. It's what's the
Speaker 1: biggest question that the Cowboys have to answer at each position?
Speaker 1: That could be about a player contract, that can be
Speaker 1: about player performance, whatever you want to path you want
Speaker 1: to go down, But we're gonna talk about the position.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the tight end position. We've already talked
Speaker 1: about running back and quarterback in our last show, so
Speaker 1: let's talk about tight end Nick. Which what do you
Speaker 1: think is the biggest question for the Cowboys this year
Speaker 1: in at tight end? Um? Who's who's the starter? I mean, like,
Speaker 1: who's who? Who are they gonna have to replace? Um?
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz And that's what I think he would go
Speaker 1: to free agency. I think he'll probably get a deal
Speaker 1: and if somebody will will pay that based off of production.
Speaker 1: And then then is do they feel like Ferguson is
Speaker 1: ready to be the starter there? Or do they draft
Speaker 1: or they sign someone. I'm here, I think they will
Speaker 1: sign somebody. But um, you know, I just just kind
Speaker 1: of what do they do with that third spot. Do
Speaker 1: they feel like it's just another draft pick? Or they
Speaker 1: did they get a veteran Maybe I could see a
Speaker 1: veteran guy that's kind of more of a blocker. You know,
Speaker 1: these two, these two young guys were good. Would it
Speaker 1: kill you guys if they took the best tight end
Speaker 1: in the draft at twenty six? Yes, No, wouldn't kill me.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. Let me put it. It's uh,
Speaker 1: it's Michael Mary six five. He's two sixty five from
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Can he be Kelsey or Kittle? He can? He? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's out the ability to he's he doesn't have the
Speaker 1: great speed, but there's plenty of routes where you see
Speaker 1: him doing stuff that same kind of game, the dragging,
Speaker 1: the up the field stuff all that. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, what I heard. What I heard about him
Speaker 1: was he is more in the mold of Witten than Kelsey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the reason why and the reason why that makes
Speaker 1: no no, no, no no no. But here's why it makes
Speaker 1: a difference to me. Yeah, if I'm willing to pay
Speaker 1: that higher premium a first round pick on him, I
Speaker 1: really need him to be a mismatch problem for other teams.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Witten was ever a mismatch problem.
Speaker 1: Whitten just had a knack for you. Put a linebacker
Speaker 1: on me, stirred down. I'll find a way to get open.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna catch the ball. You're gonna tackle me first down.
Speaker 1: We moved the chains. Isn't that a mismatch? Well, no,
Speaker 1: But the difference, I mean, the cowboy history, the difference is,
Speaker 1: the difference is coming up here tomorrow. The difference is
Speaker 1: a mismatch type player. The one I'm talking about, a
Speaker 1: Kelsey type is he's now he's out wide. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: all over the play. You don't know where he's lining up.
Speaker 1: He's down the field like he does a lot more things.
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I'm not
Speaker 1: diminishing what Witten does. I'm saying, if I'm gonna pay
Speaker 1: a premium like you gotta steal getting Jason Witten in
Speaker 1: the third round. Yeah, first round. We got lucky attacking
Speaker 1: that draft, No doubt you did. We did. We had
Speaker 1: a first round. He was our last player. And that
Speaker 1: the reason I asked that was Witten's grade was a
Speaker 1: one one nine. The lower the grade, the better, So
Speaker 1: one one nine would be the very last player in
Speaker 1: the first round. So if you had twenty names, he
Speaker 1: was number twenty. And so all of a sudden, and
Speaker 1: this was a draft that was pretty deep. LJ. Smith, Sidler,
Speaker 1: Dallas Clark from Iowa. They had, there was players. I mean,
Speaker 1: people were like, well, I'll take this guy, I'll take
Speaker 1: this guy. And so Witten just kept going down the
Speaker 1: board and finally it's like, you know, Jerry LuxI Bill
Speaker 1: and like, we gotta take Witton, don't we. It's a
Speaker 1: first Fronily like, yeah, we'll take him. Now here we go,
Speaker 1: let's turn the card in, you know the kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So if you're telling me that you can get Witten,
Speaker 1: the guy that has that kind of longevity, it could
Speaker 1: potentially lead the team in receptions about his career. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm more open to that, and I'm not I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be as disappointed in that. But I understand what
Speaker 1: you're saying, because Luke Musgrave from Oregon State fits the
Speaker 1: guy that you're talking about. But that might be a
Speaker 1: guy that when you talk about Mayor is the first
Speaker 1: round guy, and then Musgrave is just right there, just
Speaker 1: right below him as far as that goes. But I
Speaker 1: think that you're trying to replace Schultz, am I? I
Speaker 1: I think so. I think I think the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: trying to I don't know about you. Well, I guess
Speaker 1: the reason why I said why I said again that
Speaker 1: sounds weird, And the reason why I'm saying that is
Speaker 1: because when I talk about those two types of tight
Speaker 1: ends right now, the way I'm looking at it is overall,
Speaker 1: my offense needs more firepower. I got it. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: And so I don't need necessarily a third down type
Speaker 1: tight end. I need a tight end it's going to
Speaker 1: create problems. That's gonna catch the ball, run twenty yards,
Speaker 1: jump over someone and then just bulldoze someone else, loses helmet,
Speaker 1: los his helmet running. No, no no, no, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: what Ferguson did. I got a fourth round pick out
Speaker 1: of Scholtz. He's developed into a pretty good touchdown catcher,
Speaker 1: and he can make no, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: He can go, he can walk backwards or where where.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm good with the tight ends you have
Speaker 1: right now. And that's also another reason why him no,
Speaker 1: not at all, because as a matter of fact, because
Speaker 1: not only that, the reason why when you look at
Speaker 1: even taking a tight end the first round, the reason
Speaker 1: I was hesitant initially is so much because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I believe in the two tight ends you got. I
Speaker 1: think you have enough at tight end. So I look
Speaker 1: at a lot of other positions where I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I need a lot more around on this team that
Speaker 1: I need tight end. That's what I'm like. Literally, I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting here listening to you guys, and tight end
Speaker 1: is one of my least problems right now in my
Speaker 1: mind of problems and positions of needs. Um, I do
Speaker 1: get the point that tight end is a very very
Speaker 1: important position, especially for a guy like Dak. Dak does
Speaker 1: tend to rely and need the help and comfort of
Speaker 1: a guy that can be there and secure in tight end.
Speaker 1: But I think that what Ferguson and what Hendershot have
Speaker 1: done this year or did last year, it impressed me
Speaker 1: enough to believe that they are more than capable of
Speaker 1: taking another step in this coming year. You do need
Speaker 1: another guy to come in there. But I am sorry, Brian,
Speaker 1: I am not looking to draft. I mean, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: You don't know what the player is going to become
Speaker 1: until they become that. You don't know if Jason Witten
Speaker 1: was gonna be Jason Witten. So for this specific year,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. I would rather draft a wide
Speaker 1: receiver than a tight end right now. I can't wait
Speaker 1: till episode one hundred and sixty five when Derek when
Speaker 1: we launch into Derek about this tight end and you
Speaker 1: feel you feel like the tight ends are getting the
Speaker 1: best out of the tight ends, and Derek is going
Speaker 1: to have amnesia about this thing. Honestly, again, I just
Speaker 1: I don't feel like Ferguson is far off from being
Speaker 1: able to provide what Schultz provides. Sure, So for me,
Speaker 1: I'll take the chance that I think that he'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Do you think we're gonna try to cut Ferguson after
Speaker 1: the end of this training camp? No, because that's what
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, And by the way, let's let's be clear,
Speaker 1: Schultz has been a good tight end from Cowboys. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gotten let's not, let's not, let's not look over that.
Speaker 1: And I think he's gonna get paid this offseason by somebody. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cowboys in a position where they
Speaker 1: have to pay him because they have alternatives. They got
Speaker 1: other options. Yeah. Yeah, And you look at you know
Speaker 1: those guys that you mentioned in the previous segment, like
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson, Layton vander esh Um, Tony Pollard and then
Speaker 1: and then uh this guy, I meant Schultz, all of
Speaker 1: the lost this guy. Yeah, he's already out. He's already
Speaker 1: I'm looking into my world. Yeah. No, No, those four guys,
Speaker 1: you trust me five hours a day, right, But he
Speaker 1: they got better when when Scharltz got hurt, like like,
Speaker 1: they won games. I mean, you know, Cooper Rushman and
Speaker 1: they still Man, I'm just saying, but Tony poll is
Speaker 1: the guy that I think when when he went down,
Speaker 1: he saw a big difference. So that's why there's other
Speaker 1: three they were able to win games. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, would you feel Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw the Schultz thing out there again on the tag again,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna ask you this. No, No, I'm because
Speaker 1: I'm worried about the wide receiver Roote. I'm worried about
Speaker 1: the wide receivers in this draft. I'm worried about the
Speaker 1: wide receivers in this draft. This, this draft class is
Speaker 1: not what we've seen from the last two or three years.
Speaker 1: So I mean we could all throw out. Let's draft
Speaker 1: the wide receiver. Okay, it's a five ten kid from
Speaker 1: North Carolina, you know, I mean, whoa, whoa? Whoa? What
Speaker 1: did we just wait? Where's Chase? You know? Where's Jefferson?
Speaker 1: Where's Lamb? To become free? Okay, I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: this question. Not much Okay, get ready, get ready, get
Speaker 1: ready to get Would you feel better? Would you feel better?
Speaker 1: And let's do you think the owner would feel better
Speaker 1: if they did tag Schultz and got Odell Beckham? No,
Speaker 1: I don't do. Those two things have to be tied
Speaker 1: together like I just tied together for you. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna. I'm willing to say yes, I will
Speaker 1: look at I want to look at somebody like like
Speaker 1: like like Odell. Yeah. I don't. Still don't think the
Speaker 1: right option is you have to bring back Sheltz. I
Speaker 1: think you got tight end options now again, but she
Speaker 1: just talked about Dak and like how he relies on
Speaker 1: a tight ends, but he has Ferguson Ferguson Hendershot can
Speaker 1: provide that for him. I don't think you. I don't
Speaker 1: think you have to go out and get shelts in
Speaker 1: order to get that. And by the way, this goes
Speaker 1: back to the original point I was making. Because of
Speaker 1: what I think about the wide receiver class of free agents,
Speaker 1: because of what I've heard about the draft class of
Speaker 1: wide receivers, if you can give me a tight end
Speaker 1: who can create matchup problems, then you can do something
Speaker 1: similar to how an offense can run when you have
Speaker 1: those types of tight ends. Now you got that kind
Speaker 1: of tight end with a CD Lamb, that's that can
Speaker 1: really create some problems as opposed to having to have
Speaker 1: two really great wide receivers. Right. I like it. Look,
Speaker 1: Ryan's not buying it, but no, no, I'm buying it
Speaker 1: just because I'm a I'm nervous about how this wide
Speaker 1: receiver draft class is gonna shake. Because if Adam we'll
Speaker 1: talk about on the Draft show it's after this show,
Speaker 1: but we'll talk about it here a little bit. If Addison, Hyatt, Johnston, Smith,
Speaker 1: and Jigbo all are gone. Now you're looking at You're
Speaker 1: looking at a completely different group of wide receivers. So
Speaker 1: would you take one of those guys in the first
Speaker 1: round if they were if one falsey, which one like
Speaker 1: you just mentioned? The three I have is Addison from USC,
Speaker 1: Hyatt from Tennessee, and Johnston from TCU all all first
Speaker 1: round guys, and then Smith and Jigbo from Ohio State
Speaker 1: is on the top of the second round. Now if
Speaker 1: I've only got twenty names in the first round, so
Speaker 1: you would take him at twenty six? Maybe at twenty six,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of yeah. I mean that's but don't feel
Speaker 1: like that at twenty six that you know someone's gonna have.
Speaker 1: I think make a mistake for you to get one
Speaker 1: of those top guys. And I'm saying if you if
Speaker 1: the names I just mentioned, they would be behind guys
Speaker 1: that we've seen in this last draft. So even though
Speaker 1: the first round, ye, so a g don't be going on.
Speaker 1: My wide receiver group has got to get better. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I can help you, my friend, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I can help you right now? Where
Speaker 1: you trade twenty six for for a receiver. You know
Speaker 1: what this this owner digs just you're talking about I mean,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm what I'm saying is are you
Speaker 1: talking about going out and getting a premiere wide receiver
Speaker 1: in the NFL? Like trade that if you can get
Speaker 1: a premier wide receiver. Yeah, I'm not a name of
Speaker 1: names I mean, but I mean, if he's related to
Speaker 1: anybody on the team, there you go. See that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. If he is, I
Speaker 1: see this guy, this owner has a history of Back's
Speaker 1: brother plays in the league, but he doesn't. He tweets
Speaker 1: a lot, but he does. What about's brother had a brother?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay, go ahead. So but the thing
Speaker 1: about it is, though, if you're looking at wide receiver,
Speaker 1: that's not a bad that's not a bad thought. Because
Speaker 1: the one thing this ownership has proven is they will
Speaker 1: move draft capital for wide receivers, whether you like it
Speaker 1: or not. Joey Galloway, Roy Williams, you know, Mary Cooper,
Speaker 1: they will move draft capital. Go get wat Has that
Speaker 1: worked it worked? I would say it worked. We'll see.
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to What I'm trying to do is
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you an established wide receiver like a
Speaker 1: guy like Diggs. Yeah, I said it. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't you know, Dallas Cowboys dot Com. It's not their fault,
Speaker 1: it's my fault. I'm not Look, the point at the
Speaker 1: point is what you're saying is would you be willing
Speaker 1: to take because of the lack of talent at or
Speaker 1: perceived talent at in free agency at wide receiver the draft?
Speaker 1: Would you be willing to go out and spend that
Speaker 1: first round pick if you could get a high caliber
Speaker 1: I'm talking top ten wide receiver in the NFL. They
Speaker 1: talked about Mike Mike Evans. Mike Evans is a name.
Speaker 1: It's being floated for a lot of people. It's being
Speaker 1: floated like, oh, you could go get Mike Evans. He's
Speaker 1: had one year on a twenty three million dollars contract,
Speaker 1: got one year left on a twenty three million dollar contract.
Speaker 1: Look at the end of the day, a draft pick
Speaker 1: are we talking there for a guy like that? Would
Speaker 1: see That's what I'm saying. If somebody, somebody with somebody
Speaker 1: holds that's what I'm saying, you wouldn't give you know,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're picking in the top ten, you
Speaker 1: surely wouldn't do this. But if you're if you're, if
Speaker 1: you're that focused on we've got to have a wide receiver. Now,
Speaker 1: that might be your best route that guy, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We talked about other players, but I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know Jen Tolber, who is still
Speaker 1: under development. Yeah, and maybe that's a scary thing. That's
Speaker 1: the scary thing when you start talking about wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Some of these cats. I mean, you you end up
Speaker 1: drafting like you know, some of these teams, I mean
Speaker 1: they rager goes and you know, you just get lucky
Speaker 1: with some of these receivers and where they fall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I think that right now, the most glaring
Speaker 1: problem for this team. Need for this team is they
Speaker 1: gotta get more playmakers, because I agree with you, Nick,
Speaker 1: when Polite went out of that game, it to me
Speaker 1: it felt like your your opportunity to make big plays
Speaker 1: and certainly just to scare the opposing defense was gone
Speaker 1: other than CD. And if you've got only one guy
Speaker 1: that scares a defense, they're gonna take him away. And
Speaker 1: so they need more juice on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. So I'm I'm drafting a back at some point,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking for whether it's free agency, whether it's
Speaker 1: a trade, whatever it is. I'm looking for another playmaking
Speaker 1: type offensive player where the offense tighten something. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm out on the first round or any round. Really
Speaker 1: trade trading for veteran receiver. I can't do that. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: you've done it twenty years of your life. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, but but but you've got to pay CD.
Speaker 1: CD is gonna be on your team. You gotta pay CD.
Speaker 1: You've already paid Michael Gallup, and you're gonna say, hey,
Speaker 1: guy gave us, you gave us the parachute. Pull on
Speaker 1: on Gallop. If we had to, right, you can, you can,
Speaker 1: But I don't think I would do that. I think
Speaker 1: I would actually do the whole move him out for
Speaker 1: four or more year after this year, spread it out.
Speaker 1: He's gone, Oh, you're saying, you're saying your restructure, your restructure,
Speaker 1: and just out, Hey, she's not too happy with you, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gotta look at her Gallup fifth year.
Speaker 1: I know you got a different opinion. Gallup is the
Speaker 1: guy that you will you can change your opinion about him,
Speaker 1: fourteen times during the season. Yeah, like like he's like,
Speaker 1: oh see, he does make those catches. He's a good player.
Speaker 1: And then other times you're like, did he play yet? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he played twenty six. They're taking a corner and I'm
Speaker 1: fine with that. Get ready for that. I'm not against
Speaker 1: that at all, not against that. I mean, you said
Speaker 1: tied in. I was like, well, if he's like those two,
Speaker 1: I can see it. Receiver, I can see it. Running back,
Speaker 1: I can see it. Is he a big nasty guard
Speaker 1: that can come right in and plug. That's a That's
Speaker 1: another thing from that guy. There's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: position when you start really breaking it down, like the
Speaker 1: linebacker they're gonna need. They got needs at linebacker right now,
Speaker 1: I think, all right, let's take our final break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we will we will talk about the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position, and we've talked about it a little bit.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't have a concert. She's got a tour. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: to know. But but yeah, I guess we got the date.
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Speaker 1: It's like, hey, show up for those great concert concert
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Speaker 1: Rodneo and Joe Cooley. Oh really that tells you anything.
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Speaker 1: was exactly. You don't boys them in in Vegas. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not act I'm like, I can listen to music
Speaker 1: in my house or in my car. I don't need
Speaker 1: to go to a concert for But I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people love concerts. That's just not my thing.
Speaker 1: We'll go see if you have a chance. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: now here's the deal. I might be there because my
Speaker 1: daughter wants to go. There, you go, life wants to
Speaker 1: go there, you go. You know, I'm just not a
Speaker 1: concert people be in college. Hey, trust me. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: that's September. You're gonna have to take on seven more
Speaker 1: jobs like I have. Yeah, I kind of a deal.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do it. Talk about these wide receivers'
Speaker 1: talk about these bid receivers. The biggest question Cowboys have
Speaker 1: to answer at wide receiver. We got three minutes Nick
Speaker 1: Michael Gallop. Can Michael Gallab be the guy you know
Speaker 1: Ken Kenny or the number two guy opposite of Ceedee Lamb?
Speaker 1: You can't. You look at the Tampa game that they
Speaker 1: lost Week one. I mean the receivers there were Dennis Houston,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown and CD and the Buccaneers won that game
Speaker 1: because they neutralized CD and no one else could hurt him.
Speaker 1: They Michael Gallop has got to figure out. They got
Speaker 1: to figure out ways to get him to be a
Speaker 1: really good number two receiver. What's up with Jalen Tilbert? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta figure that one out. A good question. What's
Speaker 1: up with Jalen Tilbert? They told us that, you know,
Speaker 1: Stephen Jones came on you know it's come on various
Speaker 1: platforms and said, you know, maybe we gave him a
Speaker 1: little bit too much. Mike McCarthy kind of said the
Speaker 1: same thing. Where where are we at with Jalen Tilburg?
Speaker 1: That's gonna be if you want to talk about with
Speaker 1: can you get Lamb's contract done? Which you know that
Speaker 1: they're gonna go full steam ahead on that one. The
Speaker 1: Gallop stuff. To me, the big question is is Tolbert
Speaker 1: a guy that you're going to be able to rely on?
Speaker 1: And how do they and now do you worry about
Speaker 1: with a new play caller, do you worry about him
Speaker 1: having to learn something completely different? We'll see true? To me,
Speaker 1: it just feels like there wasn't really much progress made
Speaker 1: from a year ago when we were at training camp
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what's happening with wide receiver right now?
Speaker 1: The only guy that you feel that you can now
Speaker 1: rely on a City Lamb and kind of what And
Speaker 1: it took him a little second there to get going,
Speaker 1: but he did it and he showed a huge step
Speaker 1: in his game, I thought. But other than that, everybody
Speaker 1: else you want to mention, We talked about Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: like he's a guy that, based on why we saw
Speaker 1: this past season, that's not a guy that I'm like
Speaker 1: thinking I can rely on or consider a threat or
Speaker 1: a weapon currently. He's made certain really great plays, but
Speaker 1: there's nobody else and here I just I just hope
Speaker 1: we're not at training camp figuring out or having the
Speaker 1: same similar conversation that we were having a year ago.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna disagree with you on that, just because
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb was that big question Mark two, like is
Speaker 1: can he be the number one? I mean that was
Speaker 1: one of our twenty questions. I was like number four,
Speaker 1: like can Ceedee Lamb be the number one? And I
Speaker 1: think that has been answered, which that helps. Now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I took him a little second, he got there, and
Speaker 1: I don't think it's like he's the only guy. No,
Speaker 1: I'm worried about the number two receiver. He's worried about
Speaker 1: number three receiver and all that stuff. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you're right. See there's still gonna be questions at receiver,
Speaker 1: but I do think they're in a little better situation
Speaker 1: because you know that CD has proven he could be
Speaker 1: the guy. Well, the question also could be too if
Speaker 1: some of they draft, could they be better than Gallop
Speaker 1: and Talbert? You know, depending on where Yeah right away?
Speaker 1: Did they come in and fit or do you have
Speaker 1: another year like you had with Tilbert. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can afford that. No, you gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I could very easily see a scenario, and I know
Speaker 1: what everybody here doesn't see it, but I could see
Speaker 1: a scenario where you're going to training camp and you
Speaker 1: have a very similar wide receiver room is what you
Speaker 1: had last year. Because things just don't pan out for
Speaker 1: you in the draft. Things you just don't pan out
Speaker 1: for you in free agency. There's just not the there's
Speaker 1: not the level of opportunity out there to be able
Speaker 1: to add an impact player. You might get a guy
Speaker 1: that's equivalent to a you know, to a Gallop, or
Speaker 1: a guy that's equivalent to a Noah Brown. I don't
Speaker 1: know that we're gonna go to camp. I think it's
Speaker 1: a real possibility you could go to camp and still
Speaker 1: have this type this type of wide receiver room. The
Speaker 1: numbers will well, obviously you'll get back up because you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna lose no Brown. I would guess. I don't know,
Speaker 1: he might be back. But the point is I could
Speaker 1: see a scenario where, because of limited options, you go
Speaker 1: back and you run it back with what you got.
Speaker 1: I know, and I don't know that anybody wants that,
Speaker 1: but I think that might be where you are. This
Speaker 1: is not like Brian was saying. This doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: it's a draft where you're gonna be in the second round.
Speaker 1: You still got plenty of wide receiver. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: in the third round. You've got plenty of wide receiver options.
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like it's that kind of draft. You look
Speaker 1: at the free agency list. I know Patrick Walker did
Speaker 1: an article where he was kind of laying out some
Speaker 1: of the free agency and free agency and wide receiver
Speaker 1: and I looked at that list and thought, is that
Speaker 1: it like it wasn't anything that excites you. These are
Speaker 1: the kind of guys that are equivalent, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: to Gallop And so, yeah, you could go get one
Speaker 1: of those guys, but I don't know that you're appreciably better.
Speaker 1: And that's the point. You want somebody that's better. The
Speaker 1: only person that really right now is on the horizon
Speaker 1: that looks like he might be better. Could be a
Speaker 1: healthy Odell Beckham junior. That's it in my opinion. Guys
Speaker 1: on the street, on the street, and you've done all
Speaker 1: the guys that you project will be free agent, and
Speaker 1: you've done a lot of legwork on that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've done a lot of leg where that's not flying blind.
Speaker 1: You know what it's probably gonna take there. All right,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you, guys. Jan Us we'll be back next week.
Speaker 1: We'll get a little deeper into this look. It looks
Speaker 1: at like at this point we might finish it right
Speaker 1: before training camp. We'll see how that goes till then.
Speaker 1: For Nick, even Brian brought us a regard to see.
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