WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: On Location 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.039 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:20.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.920 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.280 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:33.640 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:40.000 Were on the Break Today is Wednesday, January twenty second, twenty, 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.640 season fifteen, Episode one twelve of The Break, Live from Mobile, 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.640 Alabama and the Reese's Senior Bowl. David Hellman, Nick Eatman, 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.400 I'm Kyle Yeoman's billing in for Derek Eagle. To much 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.880 did Derek pay you to like know that episode? Zbro 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:55.880 and all that stuff? I don't know, Zbro. I went 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.360 back and listen to it. Now, the thing is, what'd 0:00:58.360 --> 0:00:59.960 you find when he went back and listen to it. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.400 This isn't the first time it's been correct all year. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.840 He hasn't switched it to twenty twenty. Yeah, Well, he 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.200 go the first two, he goes by a completely, he 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.560 go by season, he goes by the start of the 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.360 league year. It's his own thing. Did not mean to 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.200 have a five minute discussion about Derek's show. See, I 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.080 just thought it was interesting that he said that he 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.560 keeps saying twenty nineteen and we've never caught it. It 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.640 means we're not paying attention. It's okay, okay. I went 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.760 back and listened to it to pick it up, just 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.200 to kind of like bring it up for you to 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.800 listen to. So I'm all over the place, but we 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.720 are live from Mobile, Alabama, the Reese's Senior Bowl all 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.600 the week long here on Dallas Cowboys dot com. This 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.800 is not the Draft Show. Despite the background, Cowboys break 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.399 being represented by these two from Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.480 But guys, a fun week already. Day one in the books, 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.440 Day two coming up today. We'll be heading out to 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.000 practices here in just a little bit. But really, after 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:55.600 day one of the Senior Bowl, there were a lot 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.720 of storylines Cowboys wise. Stephen Jones talked to the media 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.040 and then you guys really got a chance to dive 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:03.360 in and look at some of these guys that the 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:07.320 Cowboys could potentially be looking for come Draft day in April. Yeah, 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.640 this is the time of year where you're kind of 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.560 still talking about last year, but not as much, you 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.000 know now, because you got a coaching change. All eyes 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.600 are forward, but you know this is you can look 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.320 at the players on the field, and you know or 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.280 do you need do you need some of these guys? 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.840 Are they gonna come in? Are they gonna fit in 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.120 this team? And then of course you got one eye 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.720 on the field. He got also like where Steven worst Jerry? 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.480 You know, that's kind of why another reason why we're here. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.600 So the Senior Bowl always has like multiple purposes that 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.800 you're trying to figure out here some cowboys, some future cowboys. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.600 Maybe yeah it uh. I think it speaks to what's 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.720 going on with the Cowboys right now that this is 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.760 as small of a contingent as I can ever remember 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.399 coming to the Senior Bowl for the team we sent everybody. Yeah, 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.680 that's because that's what we do. But I mean, Jerry 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.680 Jones was barely in Mobile. I think he had to 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.160 go to an award ceremony in Houston last night. Mike 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.440 McCarthy and his coaching staff stayed back. So this is 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:07.000 really this is Stephen Jones and the scouting department. Like 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.000 I said, I don't want to call it bare bones 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.040 because the whole scouting department is here, But I think 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.800 it speaks to the focus that Mike McCarthy's got on 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:15.640 what they need to get going at the Star, getting 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.760 his program in place, and as a draft nerd, I 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.200 kind of dig that, like the focus is so on 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.959 the draft here at the Senior Bowl, which is obviously 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.399 the point, but to Nick's point, there's usually so many 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.680 other things going on here, but it really seems like 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.160 the Cowboys are focused on the draft. We've we've done 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.040 these in the past where Jerry tucks for thirty forty 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.680 minutes and then Steven will talk for thirty minutes and 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.080 Will McClay maybe, and you know, it was nine and 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.160 a half minutes yesterday with Stephen Jones. Now, some of 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.160 that could have been the fact that it was really cold, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.400 Like I don't care what the phone says of how 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.960 cold it was. It says forty two degrees or whatever 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.480 it was. It was worse than that. And I was 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.560 only down there for ten minutes. All these guys that 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.800 are in here that are behind the scenes working on 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.520 this stuff, they were bundled up and it was like 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.640 arctic freeze down there. A Scott Purcell was in a 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.360 ski jacket the whole time and having fun with that. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.680 But that's why Stephen Jones, after about five minutes, it 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.840 was like anything else, guys, No, we're not can do 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.600 this in Dallas, can't we? But there wasn't a lot 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.560 that kind of came out of yesterday. We can. We 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.640 can get into some of it, obviously we will, but 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.599 but you know, there wasn't this hard pressing like, oh 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.480 my god, I can't believe that, you know, sure, Jason 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.240 Witten still still not talking about Jason Witten. Happy for 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.560 Jason Garrett. I mean things that you know, you kind 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.640 of expected. It's kind of going back to the coaching 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.800 staff before we get into Stephen. We'll hear that some 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.640 of the quotes from Steven here in just a moment. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:44.479 But with Mike McCarthy in his move here from Green 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.440 Bay originally where he didn't necessarily have a whole lot 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.400 of say come draft process wise, does that speak to 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.280 him trusting the scouting staff so early on in his 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.800 tenure by sticking back and not being in Mobile or 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:02.000 is this just kind of changing of the guard in 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.120 terms of the coaching staff and what he has to 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.720 do back in Frisco. I think it's a little bit 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.960 of both. Actually, yeah, I do think that. You know, 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.679 with the Senior Bowl, it was like, all right, guys, 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.200 go out there, Let's find some good players. Tell me, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.920 tell me the guys we need to be looking at, 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.520 and then we get to the combine and maybe some 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.200 pro days we'll look at them. You know, we'll tell 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.359 you what we think and if maybe break some ties 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.040 or whatever. But they're still in that process, you know, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.960 evaluate the guys, tell us who's out there, and then 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.720 we'll give you our input when it's time. That is 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.160 one of the most fascinating storylines for me for this 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.159 entire offseason is what that relationship is going to be like, 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.000 because I mean, if you watch the Draft show where 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.000 you follow the draft process, it's a tail as old 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.760 as time that it's such a collective process, and the 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.440 coaches had a large say in that. You know, Tristan Hill, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.839 the coaches had a large say in getting him to Dallas. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.880 The coaches were in love with Layton vanderash not to 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.800 dog on him too much. I mean, they made some 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.240 good decisions too, but they had a heavy hand in 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:05.120 that process. We are still trying to figure out just 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.320 how heavy Mike McCarthy's hand is going to be. You know, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.279 It's one thing for him to say, you know, we 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.360 want good players, let's go find some good players, But 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.080 when it gets down to nutcutting time, are you are 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:15.640 they really going to sit back and not be part 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.680 of it? Because that hasn't been the way that it's 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.400 been with the Cowboys for the last decade. So, you know, 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.720 we try to talk to Stephen Jones about that yesterday. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.440 I think it's still early in the process to really 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.120 have a firm handle on how that's going to work. 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.960 But I can't wait to see what that collective decision 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:32.560 making process is going to look like with the new 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.680 regime and with the new regime and everything that it 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.599 has to kind of be put in place for McCarthy 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.360 as a whole. What is it going to be like? 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.799 And how much realistic film are these guys gonna watch 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.200 before the draft process is really getting a new crunch time, right, 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.960 That's that's what I'm saying. It's the biggest thing. And 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.360 like I said, they will like they're not just gonna 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.279 ignore the process like that would be criminal, you know, 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.120 I mean, you want your coaches to be part of 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.160 selecting your draft class. But like I said, I mean 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.040 what Mike McCarthy has been hired for about three weeks 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.159 and his coaching staff has been in place for less 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.320 than that. So I don't think that they're ready to 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.279 hit the reck ground running on that as of yet. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.520 That's you know, Mike didn't bring his staff here, which 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.280 I think is a great decision honestly, with all the 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.960 stuff they've got to get squared away. But you know, 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.480 February March, you know you're gonna bring it. You know 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.640 you're still bringing in official visitors. They get a bunch 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.840 of thirty of them to bring into the facility. Obviously 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.920 your coaching staff is gonna be part of that. So again, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.240 really interested to see just how hands on or hands 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.760 off they are looking at what Stephen Jones also talked 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.280 about yesterday, talked a little bit about Jason Witten and 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.080 also just where the priority lies in terms of these 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.200 free agents and exactly what the Cowboys are going to 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.080 do in order to attack those free agents. Let's take 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:49.760 a listen, Reseach, Well, that's already it's been urgent for us. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:54.680 We want to certainly get that done and that's our 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.600 number one priority as we go into the off season 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.600 as to get his contract hopefully, you know, find some 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.520 resolution to it and get that bunch. Do you have 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:12.120 any idea on idea on the future of their has 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:16.000 it been anything and he had discussions. Really nothing there 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.040 to comment on. We talked about last off season. A 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:20.960 lot of this time is taken the next step. Even 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.240 though you have all these free agents, you have a 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.440 new coaching staff, is that still the goal is absolutely 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.160 and uh no, I think we've got a good, you know, 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.600 good team that's in its prime. We've got a good 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.360 mixture of players. And you know, part of the reason 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.560 why dri and I were really set on finding not 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.079 only a coach with experience, but a coach that had 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.160 you know, had real success in the playoffs and uh 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.480 you know it played in big games, and that was 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.640 very important that we find that guy because we do 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.240 believe this team, you know, can certainly have that type 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.320 of success. Just putting a franchise tag on a quarterback 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.560 change a lot of what you would want to do 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.839 in free agency. Last limit you if you have to 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:10.080 tag around that Jones saying they're definitively Dak Prescott's our guy. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.760 He's our number one priority in free agency. That's not 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.880 necessarily new, right, But the thing is he said Amari 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.720 is number two. Amaris the second priority. Where does that 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.760 kind of resonate with you guys, because now it kind 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.920 of sets the pecking order as to what the Cowboys 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:26.560 are going to do in the office. Well, and I 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.840 think it should because you know, when when Dak is 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.560 the key to everything here. Um. I asked even yesterday 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.200 about can you function with all the things you want 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.480 to do if you're giving him a franchise tag? And 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.480 he sounded like that was no big deal. Sure, that's 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.480 just thirty million on the cap, right or what is 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.280 it twenty? Well, it's thirty three if they go exclusive, 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.680 which but I mean they got eighty game million in 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.520 cap space, I think people, which I get it, they've 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.199 got like twenty seven guys to resign, but the Cowboys 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.599 have a lot of room to work with. Yeah, we 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.120 do just thirty three million, just like that. I would 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.120 it mean we'll throw another sixteen on top of it 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.800 if you transition Taka Marii Cooper. Now you're talking, well, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.319 I mean, I'm not good at math, but that's about 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.400 fifty million. Yeah, I don't do that. Don't do that. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:10.840 You don't want to do that? And then when does 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.800 that put the rest of your roster guys like Byron 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.640 Jones fun Yeah, exactly. You're you're you're basically writing him 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.360 off at that point. Yeah, and that's when when he 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.920 was walking off, he said one and two. And it 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.200 wasn't a one A and one B. This was a 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.200 Dak is one and Mari's two and So I don't 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.160 think that's super surprising though now, I mean to you, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:30.839 I mean, it's it's something we could have guessed that. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.719 And I think, you know, there's always going to be 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.160 the contention of people that want to try to deal 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.960 Dak or you know, find somebody in the draft that's 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:40.640 not going to happen. I don't know how betimes if 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.520 you've been hit up for Joe Burrow more times than 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.240 I can count, and it's fun to talk about it, 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.760 but it's not going to happen, which I'm but I 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.400 am interested to see what exactly that looks like, because 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.840 if I had to guess Dak is heading for a 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.480 franchise tag like that, you just you don't see very 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.240 many of these negotiations sort themselves out before the start 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.800 of the league year, because I mean, theoretically Dak could 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.600 hit free agency and see how much he's truly worth. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.880 Obviously he would want to do that. And yeah, it's 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.559 gone so far. It's gone so far here where even 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.520 the season was gone. It's been some really good moments 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.000 from Dak. It's been some moments where you know, he 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.560 obviously could could be better. I mean at the end 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:18.800 of the day, I mean he was an eight and 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.080 eight quarterback, and yes, he put up a lot of 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.839 yards and he had some moments of growth. You know, 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.160 even though one of the coaches there is no longer here, 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.160 I mean John Kitten. I think Kitten had helped a lot. 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.920 I think Kellen Moore I'm sure helped some as well. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.680 But I you know, the fact is is that Dak 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.199 he didn't in the season the way you want him to. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.280 You want this guy to be a clutch make plays 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.800 in the fourth quarter, bring him back when they need to. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.320 He didn't do that. Do I think he's still a 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.640 franchise court Yes, I mean he's the guy. I wouldn't 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.240 change it. I just don't know if he helped himself 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.760 from a money standpoint. And then there's gonna be guys 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.120 that did. There's guys that went on over the top 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.160 that are you know, I had elevated themselves. It's a 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.319 strong free agents class of quarterbacks well, and I think 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.240 you can go all the way back to last year's 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.520 off season with Dak, especially the talks that were had 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.000 going into the preseason when they really kind of ramped up, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.040 and that's where you got the thirty to forty million 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.000 kind of range that they were talking about in there, 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.120 and I think Dak at that moment, said, you know what, 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.240 let's put a pause on this. Let me bet on myself. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.080 Let me bet on myself for just a little bit. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.280 And it worked out. At the beginning, it looked like 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.600 the first couple weeks of the season he was gonna 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.520 win that bet, and he was gonna win it outright. 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.680 And I'm not gonna say he necessarily lost the bet 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.960 because I feel like we're right back where we started 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.560 last year, right around the low thirties potentially being that 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.560 number that really gets this deal done. I think he 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.680 wanted to be totally honest with you, and I hope so. Yes, absolutely, 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.480 And I know he went eight and eight. I know 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.480 he didn't get the job done. But how much did 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.240 he win it though? That's the question. All I know 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.559 is the San Francisco forty nine ers set the market 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.320 with Jimmy Garoppolo back at twenty seven million three years 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.560 ago off the strength of eight games, and it looks 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.880 great now because he's in the super Bowl. They had 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.679 no idea that was going to happen when they signed 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.439 him to that deal. Same thing with that, I mean, 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.680 does Derek Carr have a better resume than Dak Prescott. No, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.600 but he set the market at one time in his 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:14.480 life Matt Stafford. Dak has already accomplished more than Matt 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.200 Stafford in terms of like postseason success. I'm not saying 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.280 it's a lot, but he has and so and he 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.720 set the market like And that's what I always argue 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.160 with people about, is that's just the way these things work. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.680 And I think, sorry, I know you got a point 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.960 to make. But Dak was already in the range with 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.160 Carson Winston, Jared Goff, and he went out and had 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:33.800 the best season of his career. I know a lot 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.160 of people don't want to hear that, but if anything, 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.880 I think he firmly entrenched himself in the low to 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.719 mid thirty range. He might not set the market, but 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.360 he's not going below that and the other and then 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.800 you know the other part, which Stephen Jones did an 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.280 amazing job of not answering the question is Pat Mahomes 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.479 and Deshaun Watson are eligible to negotiate contracts this offseason? 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.559 Pat Mahomes is probably going to be the first forty 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.480 million dollar player in NFL history, And all of a sudden, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.400 Dak's price ceiling goes up, like you could pay him 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.080 thirty four right now. But if Pat Mahomes gets forty 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.240 in two months, and all of a sudden, Dax says, well, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.960 I want thirty seven if Pat gets forty, And again, 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.880 I know people don't want to hear that, but that's 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.280 just the way these types of things work. So I 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.600 think Dak Prescott is sitting prickedy right see if But 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.080 to me, if Mahomes gets forty, if I'm the Cowboys, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.680 I'm like, how could you even be thirty seven? How 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.600 could you be close to that? Like? Is how is 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.960 he close to Pat Mahomes at all? Yeah? I mean statistically, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.400 because that's Super Bowl that's what the Chief's willingness to 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.200 pay Mahomes says a starting quarterback is worth. That's why, right, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.320 But I'm just saying, you know that to me, when 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.160 Russell Wilson got into thirty six. I was like, Okay, well, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.560 how can you be higher than that? I mean, you're 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.280 not one of the best quarterbacks in the league won 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.320 a super Bowl if they would run the ball. He 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:54.040 wins two super Bowls, you know, I mean he's got 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.120 he's he's just done more with his career, and I 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.640 think Pat Mahomes has as well, even Watson has, so 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.360 I don't know, it just depends on Watson's done more 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:06.040 than Dak. He hasn't been to an AFC championship game. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.280 He's lost four divisional right down the year's Dak. But 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.320 I know that's what I'm saying. I'm saying, if anything, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.600 they're even Yeah, I guess they're I guess they're even 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.720 one year behind in the draft. How many playoff wins 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.280 does Watson have? It can't be more than one or two, right, 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.720 I think it's two, okay, because they've well know they've 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.480 won four division titles or division Oh, I don't know, 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.920 it's it's right around three. Probably it's on his third year. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.960 Which to go back to my point, though I know 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.200 Garoppolos in the Super Bowl, his resume was not better 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.120 when he set the market, and neither was Derek carrs 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.880 Kirk Cousins just final like he just made his longest 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.480 playoff push and he got obliterated in the divisional round, 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.000 just like that did. So those deals to me are 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.640 always fifty percent what you've done, fifty percent of what 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.000 you're going to do. And you know, if that's the 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.360 case with Mahomes, it's really scary because I mean, if 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.720 he's getting paid what he's done and what he's gonna do, 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.680 it's gonna be higher. Then forty may not be may 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.840 not get it done, true, and you're one hundred percent right. Listen, 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.640 Pat Mahomes is in his category all of his own. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.760 That's not the point I'm trying to make. But if 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.120 Pat Mahomes signs that deal this offseason, like that's the 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.520 way negotiations work, Dak and his people are going to 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.000 see that that. I would be shocked if they're going 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.120 to try to like compete with Mahomes's number, but they're 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.680 gonna say, well, we slot in here now, you know, 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.120 because thirty six million a year is all of a sudden, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.440 a lot less than top of the market. It's just 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:26.920 it's just the way it works, which is why I 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.400 think it's so important for them to get this deal 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.480 done sooner rather than later. What if the Chiefs, I 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:33.960 mean they're not in a hurry, they don't have to 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.360 do No, they absolutely don't. They absolutely do not. They've 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.360 got him under contract for two more years. They could 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.480 pay it. I mean, can you imagine what he will 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.360 make in his fourth year if he's if he's unreal again, Yeah, well, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.920 what if they just say we're not doing anything right now. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.960 I mean he's probably would hold out, he could, that mean, 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.320 I mean it's fat. I mean he is so far 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.400 in a way like the best player in the NFL 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.560 right now. Just int like what he brings to that team. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.760 And that's the you know, sitting here arguing Dak's credentials 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.119 can't say anything about Mahomes. I mean, he's been to 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.439 the AFC title Game in both of his years as 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.480 the starter, he made it to the Super Bowl in 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.040 his second season. Larry Well could win the Super Bowls. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.320 There's like no knock on his credentials at all. You 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.520 can't do anything with it, which yeah, I mean he 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.240 could almost name his price well. And I think the 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.840 argument that you brought up about comparing Dak in Deshaun 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.320 Watson's resume, I think Dad needs to probably stand true. 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.440 I mean, that's where I see where you're you're talking 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:33.200 about in terms of the contract potentially for Dak growing 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.400 a little bit because des John Watson's in that same 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.600 conversation right now, is Patrick Mahomes as those guys that 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.320 could be re up contract wise. But we'll dive deeper 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.399 into that coming up here in just a little bit. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.160 Let's take a quick break. 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