WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: No Splash Zone? 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.800 Cowboys. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:16.120 This He's Talking Cowboys, Screaming live. 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:22.320 From the Dallas Cowboys World Course at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:27.160 Take Burgers, Let's got tag, takes any Patient Touchdown. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:33.400 And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez, 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.320 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.279 It's a Free Agency edition of Talking Cowboys presented by 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.240 Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:49.480 Texas and the Sat Seat Studios. Welcome in, everybody. We've 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:50.880 got the whole cast and crew ready for you. Do 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.840 rock today with Patrick Noci Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah Standback, 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.160 Chris Beam in the back of Kyle Yeoman. So glad 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:01.400 you're with us. Yes, free agency is upon us. The 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:06.440 legal Tampa tampering period is here, and the Cowboys more 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.759 active than they have been in the past, but still 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.759 probably left a lot to be desired over the last 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.720 twenty four hours or so, and we're gonna break it 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:18.119 all down. They've made some moves. You're gonna talk about 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:19.959 those moves, but we're also gonna talk about what could 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:20.440 be next. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:25.840 If anything, for the Cowboys, tampering's over. It's time to pamper. Tampering. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:30.040 No pampering, no pamper, no tamper, damp Tampa, no tamper, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:32.320 no tampa pamper. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:33.479 There you go, no tampa. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:33.640 No. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.920 That comes on March eleventh. We got we got another 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:42.800 twenty four hours no power. But cowboys make a couple moves. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.120 I don't want to damper your pamper. Don't damper my 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:49.080 pamper on the tamper, on the tamper, or hamper. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.040 The pamper that you're attempting to tamper. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:56.600 All of our audios. Our audio listeners just turned us off. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.400 If you're still around, thank you. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:00.880 I appreciate. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.920 They're like, okay, this and this is what type of 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:09.240 day what we do? Patrick, no Sewalker, You've had your 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:09.840 finger on the. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.600 Pulse of Cowboys tampering period. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:17.320 Who if they decided to pamper going into this twenty 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:18.160 sixth season. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.320 Well let's start with literally who they decided to pamper. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.920 They agreed to termined one year deal with Sam Williams. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.600 So Sam Williams is remaining in the building on a 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:28.280 yeah you just called it. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.720 Yeah, it's a Baryeah. I don't know where you were 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.399 headed with that, but now I go, we got there, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.239 we got we got there. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.120 Sam Williams back on a one year deal for three 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.400 million dollars key special teams got for the Cowboys. But 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:40.959 we're not going to pretend that he doesn't need to 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.560 show something on the defensive side of the ball. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.400 But this new system fits him though, it does I 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.880 mean the type of well, yeah, the type of player 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.239 that yes, I'll say that right, yeah, if there was 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.160 a choice between a four to three and a three four, 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.240 this is the system that he will want to be in. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:01.120 So I know we've been hard in regards to, you know, analytically, you. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.120 Know, going after you know, Sam Williams. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.760 But that's because he, in my opinion, did not fit 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.360 a four to three type defensive end. He is a 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.880 three to four outside linebacker. This system should bode well 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:14.239 for him. 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.280 He was asked he was thrown into the Mike Zimmer defense. 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:21.360 He was thrown into my gosh, ever flews his defense. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.760 So yeah, maybe it might not have suited him as well. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:25.880 But I think there's a lot of concerns there as 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:30.120 far as just personal fouls. I think that's one of 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:31.799 the things that you have to consider. I mean, he 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.080 has nine point five sacks in his career, but nine 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:36.400 personal fouls. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.240 And that's the big thing. 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:38.680 And that's the big thing. He's got to be able 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.920 to mature. I mean, granted, they're giving him another shot. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.680 It's a you know, three I'm sorry, one year deal, 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:49.280 three million dollars. That's interesting, But I'd say there are 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:50.800 better moves that were made yesterday. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.160 There were that price tags a bit high for a 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.800 special teams player that needs to show himself on defense 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.720 and show that you can either impact it positively on 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.240 defense or at least that minimum not impacted negatively on defense. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.360 But that's the Sam Williams equation. Hopefully he shows up 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.520 this year in a big way. We obviously hope that 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.680 these guys do. But we're also going to tell you 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.680 what the real is, bigger news to what Josh is saying. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.040 First of all, Cowboys started off legal time Pree not 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.920 with a free agency signing. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.599 But with a trade. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:25.440 Cowboys traded for Packers former Packers and rusher Rashawn Gary. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:27.720 The Cowboys were able to get him for a fourth 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.600 round pick from the twenty twenty seven NFL Draft. Lock 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.200 so the Cowboys are at the moment absorbing that contract 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.240 with a base salary of eighteen million dollars this year. 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.560 But the expectation is that will be reworked. So I 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.680 need you to open your eyes slope. There you go, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.400 There you go. It is not the expectation that he 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.640 will play this season under the Packers contract that the 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.240 Cowboys are inheriting. So there's a handshake agreement there, but 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.440 it is only twenty four hours after that trade was 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.080 agreed to. But it can't be finalized until Wednesday anyway, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.479 so you're not going to see a reworked contract until 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:03.599 the trade could be finalized. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.080 So keep that in mind, ladies and gentlemen. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.960 Legal tampering is yesterday or today tomorrow when the league 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.920 year opens at four pm Eastern time, everything becomes final 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.240 and then you can start reworking contracts like that. So 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.839 Rashan Gary in the building splash play for the Cowboys 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.200 to get him for Christian Parker in this new system, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.960 and then they went and made another splash play. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.919 They jumped all the way to safety. We talked about. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:36.240 Isaiah and Joshua of the ILK that safety is slightly 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.719 more important the linebacker Kyl and I on the other 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:39.320 side of that. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.080 But they went to Jalen Thompson. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.680 So they signed Jalen Thompson, former Arizona card and they 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.560 spent several seasons with guess who, Ryan Smith, the secondary 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.960 coach now here in Dallas, so obviously you knew who 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.080 stood on that table. Ryan for Jalen Thompson. Loved Jalen 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.880 Thompson's versatility. He's played free safety in his past with 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.240 the Cardinals, but he is now a strong safety with 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.560 the versatility to be able to cover. Someone posted some 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:11.560 clips yesterday of his range. Insane. His range is absolutely insane. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.280 They got him on a three year, thirty six million 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:21.160 dollar max deal, so he's here. They also Restructuredik Hooker, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.680 which saves them two million dollars against the cap. But 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.560 in restructuring Malik Hooker, anyone who was asking if Malie 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.720 Hooker will be in the building this year, that means 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.480 he will be in the building. They're not restructuring the 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.840 player that they're going to release or trade or any 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.039 of those things. So as it stands, your starting safety 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.560 unit is Malik Hooker at free and Jalen Thompson coming 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.039 in at strong. What does that mean for Donovan Wilson. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.400 Likely means that Donovan Wilson is going to be playing 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.560 elsewhere going forward because they did not give Jalen Thompson 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.840 a thirty six million dollar contract for him to play 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.560 in rotation or back up to anybody. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:54.800 So there you go, writing on the wall there, right 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:55.599 is on the wall there. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.200 They also restructured the deal on Terrence Steele, So anyone 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.160 knowing on this PA, because we knew they want to 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.520 keep Terrence Steele. They saved nine million dollars toward the 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.160 salary cap by restructuring Terrence Steele. So he's going to 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.400 be Yeah, he's going to be your starting right tackle 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:10.040 going forward. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.000 And it's a cheaper deal, and it is much cheaper 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:13.679 deal for Dallas. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.880 It makes him the sixteenth highest paid offensive tackle in football, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.760 which if you're looking at his production and the pay 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:21.280 that he's going. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.720 To have, it's about right. It's commensurate. Are those that's 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:24.160 about right? 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.320 Are those details finalizers that have to wait till Wednesday 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:26.640 as well? 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.040 No, can be fine, restructures can be done now. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.240 Yeah, okay, yeah, because that's under contract, that's freedom captain got. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.360 But it's not a pay cut NECESSI No, it is. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.080 Not a page. It's just reorganized from a reorganizing. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.640 It's giving it's liquid any more funds for him upfront, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.800 but allowing the Cowboys to get cap reliefs. Same is 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.280 what we talked about last week with Dak Prescott, Ceedee 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.000 lamb uh Tyler Smith. So, and they still have something 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.240 that they could restructure. Oh so Diggy Zoo is a 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:52.960 big one that's steering you right in the face if 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.880 you need to make that move and pull that trigger 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.800 and restructure and get cap savings without his permission. Since 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.800 we last spoke, the Cowboys have issued a second round tender. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.760 There's a lot of news and notes before flying through it. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.360 Second round tender on both branded Aubrey and TJ Bass 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.200 at five point six million dollars per point of clarity 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.400 for those that may not know. With the second round tender, 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.880 Cowboys have the right to first refusal. If a team 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.840 makes an offer to one of those two guys Aubrey 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.800 or Brett or Bass, the Cowboys can look at that 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.920 offer choose to match it. If they choose to match it, 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:21.680 they have the right to retain the player if they 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.200 choose to not match it, and the player leaves whatever 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.480 team they go to, Cowboys get a second round pick 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.880 as compensation for that loss. So again that's Aubrey and Bass, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.280 no second round tender or any tender on one Ya 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.480 Thomas or brock Kaufman. I'm kind of surprising on brock Kaufman, 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.240 but I from a logistics standpoint, While I don't like it, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.640 I understand it because then you're paying five point six 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.079 million dollars for what they determined to be the seventh 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.720 offensive lineman. I think TJ. Bass is the seventh offensive lineman. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.840 So that's where they and I disagree. But for the 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.640 sake of explaining why they didn't tender both, that's why 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:56.520 they didn't tender both. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.319 I think there's a little bit more league wide interesting TJ. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:01.560 Bass. I couldn't agree with that. 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.719 Then for brock hoton what we're hearing, and you can 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.760 still resign brock Hoffmann, you still work a deal and 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:07.439 bring him back. 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.320 He's a little upset on the moment though. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.319 Yeah he's a little upset, But we'll talk about that 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.320 later when it comes to when it comes to TJ. 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.839 Bass though, That's why I think it came down to 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.839 those two guys, and they had to put a second 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.840 round tender on one, not both, and they said, let's 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.560 go with TJ. Bass because we feel like there's a 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.439 better opportunity to bring Hoffmann back in the building than 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.320 it might be for TJ. Bass to return, and you're 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.120 gonna do it to Aubrey to protect your rights there 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:35.439 and make sure that you have one of the best 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.720 kickers in the league under contract. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.400 Now, to wrap up news and notes as well I 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.360 can considering what all we got going, Cowboys also were 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.679 awarded two compensatory picks for the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.560 both in the fifth round, one seventy seventh overall and 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.600 one eightieth overall. Those picks can be traded, okay, so 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.559 the Cowboys can use those as sweeteners for whatever package 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.080 they might have that maybe gets them back into the 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.800 second or third round or whatever trade they might want 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.520 to do on trade day or prior to. So that's 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.880 the news and notes Cowboys. I'm not even gonna say 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.520 they missed out on Max Cross because I agree not 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.240 giving the two first rounds Rosby, but they definitely went 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.480 all the way to the finish line with that. And 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.719 then Baltimore was like, yeah, we're just we're willing to 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.600 do it, and I agree with the Cowboys not being 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.600 willing to do it, which led to Rashawn Gary. Questions 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.240 are being asked to me, Well, no, see with the 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.120 Rashawn Gary acquisition, are they out on Trey Hendrickson as 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.079 we have this conversation, They are not out on trade Hendrickson. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.840 They are out on thirty million dollars for trade Hendrickson. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.920 But if that price can come down kind of commensurate 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.240 to some concerns about if he's ready to go, if 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.040 he will be ready to go medically after that. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.320 Injury, I think, which apparently he is. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.160 Yeah, I think a deal can be struck. They're still 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.920 working the Tredy Hendrickson angle. So you if all things 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.680 work out how the Cowboys would love them to, you 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.240 might end up with both Gary and Hendrickson. And then 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.439 you still they whipped on the linebacker. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.600 Oh man, Yeah, that was a time, all right. 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.640 So before we get too far into this, before we 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.719 get to get too far into this, I want to 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.000 talk about the Rashan Gary trade. I want to talk 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.600 about that. When it comes to Rashan Gary, you you 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:12.520 trade a fourth. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.120 Round pick, and I put this out there yesterday. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.760 Dallas has been very recently willing to trade fourth round 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:19.199 picks for. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.160 Players they're pretty loose with him. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.320 Arguably, Yeah, three times in the last four years, Trey Lance, 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.040 Jonathan Mingo. Now you've got Rashan Gary. This is out 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.720 of those three the best chance for the for the 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.920 player to end up being an impact player for your team. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:36.800 I see a lot of pushback. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.319 Though, on Twitter and on the social media side of 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.920 things from Cowboys fans about Rashaan Gary. Remember, this is 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.160 not the the blue chip edge rusher that I think 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:51.000 everybody won it. But is he a good football player? Absolutely? 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:52.520 Is he better than what you had on this roster 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.040 last year. Absolutely? I think he is your best pass 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.040 rusher outside of maybe Donovan Azaraku and we'll talk about 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.160 Jadavian Clowney at some point down the line. Either one 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.439 of those guys I think is better. I mean, you 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.400 got a really solid starting caliber edge rusher slash defensive 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:10.920 lineman because he's probably gonna play a lot of that 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.840 four I spot in Christian Parker's defense. So I don't 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.120 want to knock on that. The knock I think is 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.920 where people are assuming Dallas is done. 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.600 Now they oh, they've missed out on all these guys. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.520 They missed out on these players, they missed out on 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.960 free agency in general. That's where the frustration lies. Josh, 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:32.559 and I feel like it might be fair in some elements. Linebacker, 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:33.080 I think it's. 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.040 Fair they've missed out on linebacker. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.400 Yes, but with the edge rusher possibilities that are still 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.600 on the table and some of these other secondary players, 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.600 I don't think they're done yet. And I still get 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.920 the feeling that they're going to work something out in 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.640 a couple of those areas. It may have to be 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.320 trades now as opposed to free agency. But I just 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.080 don't think Rashan Garry is your number one move. But 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:53.000 right now people. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.920 Are thinking that's going to be the number one No. 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:56.480 Of course, it was the first thing that you did. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:57.800 It was one of the first stories to come out 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.640 of Day one of free agency or legal tampering. So 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:06.040 I understand that respect. I understand people being frustrated. I 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.439 was frustrated at the end of the day because of 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.960 the linebacker situation. I think that the trade for Rashon Gary. Granted, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.920 if you ask any Packers fan, they're like, oh, we 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:14.760 fleeced the Cowboys. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.480 Okay, paying Micah Parsons. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:22.360 Oh no, no, But the best ability availability is ability 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.160 is availability. At least for Rashon Gary, who started sixteen 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.560 of seventeen games, played six hundred and sixteen snaps without 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.080 missing a tackle, the second most in a season since 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:32.439 twenty eighteen. 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:34.560 He had seven point. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.880 Five sacks, which, paired with a Jadevian clowning from last year, 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.200 would have been a savior. That would have been amazing 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.040 to have a guy like that on your team last year. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:42.320 Huge. 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.600 Granted, do you think that he obviously benefited from a 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.199 Micah Parsons playing alongside Michah Parsons throughout. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:49.760 The year last year. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.480 I think it's not just a rotational guy. I think 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.480 he's a starting caliber outside linebacker, defensive end, whatever you 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.440 want to call it in the scheme, but they're using 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.000 primarily on the left side, and I think more than anything, 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:07.839 they're looking at his run defense abilities and paired with 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.800 Jalen Thompson, who is also very versatile and is able 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.400 to play at the line of scrimmage and is great 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.719 against the run, I think it's just a it's more 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.240 of a philosophy that they're trying to improve that side 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.880 of the ball and be sure tacklers. Both of these 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.600 guys are that. I don't think this is saying that 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.840 we're done with free agency. It can't be that way, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.720 because they were trying really hard to get a linebacker yesterday. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:32.720 It just didn't swing our way. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:35.840 Not that I'm making excuses for it, because I think 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.560 if you want a guy desperately enough, you do what 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.360 you can to go get him. That's why Trey Hendrickson 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.800 is still on the board. I'm like, Okay, guys, go 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.520 get him. I almost don't care what it takes. I 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.920 don't want to go thirty million, and he's not coming 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.600 off of that number right now. But seriously, I think 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.720 if you want a total facelift of your defense, that's 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:56.360 what you need to do. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.400 I think when I agree with what you're saying, and I 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:04.160 feel like when it comes to the Rashawn Gary move, 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.600 I think what the Rashaan Gary move does for you 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:07.960 is a few things. First of all, this is a 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.960 guy who has what twenty four sacks. If you're only 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.600 using if you're one of those people who only use 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.920 sex as a measurement for success as an edge wresser, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.680 you also shouldn't do that. But Okay, let me just 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.320 give you a crumb today. He had twenty four sacks 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.520 through the past three seasons. He averaged seven and a 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.160 half over the past two seasons. He's the definition of 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:29.520 consistency in that category as well as durability. He played 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.000 in seventeen full regular season games of twenty twenty four, 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.080 fifteen starts out of sixteen games that he was active 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.960 in twenty twenty five, so you're getting that as well. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.880 I do agree with Kyle. Do I look at Rashan 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.280 Gary as the well? 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:41.440 No? 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.280 I don't look at him as the well. I look 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.160 at him as a very good football player who is 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.120 good at rushing the pastor at pastor and at stopping 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:54.960 the run, who if combined with another move Trey Hendrickson ideally, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.800 But if you don't get Trey Hendrickson, then you know 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.200 there's a guy in Miami I would like to tandem 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.520 with in addition to Donovan nezro Rocku. I just feel like, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.360 and I agree with both your points. Rashaun Gary isn't 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.200 the end all be all to resolve the issue at 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.880 the edge, but he can be with a plus one. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.320 The question is who's the plus one? 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:17.040 My bigger concern with the Cowboys is and again not 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:18.920 for lack of effort, because we're here in the building. 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.720 We know for a fact they went hard at linebacker yesterday. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:26.160 They went making calls. Yeah, it's crazy, just didn't just 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:26.600 didn't go. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:27.840 What happened to your dog? 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:28.160 Man? 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:32.280 We need to talk. What happened to Kobe? What are 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.840 you doing? All right? What are you doing? He chose 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:36.920 a two win team? What do you what are you doing? Yeah, 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:41.120 let's talk about it. You get your dog here? Rough? Rough? 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.200 What are we doing? What we do? Listen? I did 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.200 all the I did all the you know. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:47.440 Put the feelers out there. 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:48.160 Listen. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.560 Maybe tweets were what sent him away. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.120 This guy, the star guy. We possibly you got no 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.760 urges with everybody got no sea. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.720 That's right, former former Bulldog. Yeah you have his former coach. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:04.680 You can't say it today. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.120 Who's calling the plays on that side of the ball? 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.160 And neither of those was good enough to get him here? 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.400 What the heck? I'm going to tell you what happened, 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.320 No doubt, all jokes aside. I was like, n Kobe, 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.280 what are you doing? So, you know, kind of called around, 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.560 texted around, you know, because George is a family baby, 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.800 Thus dogs find out what the family just like so 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.480 word is because of how the Raiders set the table 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:35.680 with keeping Eric Stokes and getting kay Walker his teammates, yeah, 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:40.480 former teammates from Georgia Championship. You know Natty Winners so 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.159 so with his friends instead of when you want. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.840 J Allen whatever you need to come on. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.640 Maybe, but all jokes aside. Man, I wish to Kobe 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.320 nothing but the best, and he did not. You know, 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.359 he left the rival. He didn't go to another rival, 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.760 So okay, cool, but you know it did it did 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.560 sting because it was right there. The money was was 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:08.160 comparable chid rebas here, Robert muss Champs here, George Pickens 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:09.200 is still in the building. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:12.160 Nikobe, what are you doing? 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.000 You know, I honestly wasn't sad about what do you think? 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.600 I mean, you're just just playing around. But I was 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:21.480 sad about missing out on Lloyd, was sad about missing 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:22.639 out on Little. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.080 I mean, those buffalos. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.880 Got how'd you feel about Quincy Quincy Williams Quinn's brother. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.200 Oh that didn't bother me, didn't bother No, that didn't 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:31.719 bother me. I like Azeloni. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.760 Yeah, yeah, he flew off to man what's that run 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:35.720