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Speaker 5: drafts coming up later on this month. I've told myself,
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna watch. I don't watch those debate shows anyway,
Speaker 5: but I try not now to watch the clips because
Speaker 5: the clips that I get on social media real wild.
Speaker 5: Ceedee Lamb is currently looking for a contract and des
Speaker 5: Bryant wade in on Michael Parson's cod pending contract situation. Uh,
Speaker 5: what is your concern level, gentlemen about Ceedee Lamb and
Speaker 5: the Cowboys with the contract extension.
Speaker 6: I think I'm less worried about that one than Dak's.
Speaker 6: I think you go into it that they know they
Speaker 6: know what the guy did last year.
Speaker 2: You haven't made any moves in free agency.
Speaker 6: There is no way in that you are not going
Speaker 6: to have Cde Lamb out here or disgruntled worrying about
Speaker 6: if he's gonna be a training camp, ota is any
Speaker 6: of that stuff. So I think, if anything, that's the
Speaker 6: one where I'm like, they gonna make sure they get
Speaker 6: that one done. If you ask, if you ask anybody
Speaker 6: that saw Ceedee Lamb last year, I think he proved
Speaker 6: to you why you took him where you did and
Speaker 6: why he has the respect amongst the Cowboys organization. And
Speaker 6: I think he proved it to himself that he could
Speaker 6: be that number one. Everybody here has always been a
Speaker 6: Maria Cooper Marik Cooper since he left.
Speaker 2: You know, he's a Hall of Famer now because he left, But.
Speaker 6: Is I think Ceedee Lamb showed you that he could
Speaker 6: be that playmaker. He can well five games into the
Speaker 6: season that if you throw him the ball, he can
Speaker 6: be a guy that can you know, get touchdowns for you.
Speaker 6: He's a big play threat and other defenses had to
Speaker 6: respect him as that playmaker. I think for CD, honestly,
Speaker 6: for him to even ascend to higher heights, he needs
Speaker 6: to have a compadre with him somebody else. And I
Speaker 6: know we're gonna get into that portion. But the deal
Speaker 6: is you're gonna whether it's market setting or not, you're
Speaker 6: gonna have to pay him. I think around twenty million
Speaker 6: dollars is what we talked about last week.
Speaker 2: And that's that at least, right And.
Speaker 6: So as the salary cap goes up, these guys are
Speaker 6: not gonna acquiesce sydy Oh you want to be a
Speaker 6: cowboy for like they want to get see that money
Speaker 6: right now. And so I don't blame Ceedee Lamb for
Speaker 6: being like that, but I think at the end of
Speaker 6: the day being disgruntled or holding out or doing any
Speaker 6: of the that's that's that's up to him. But I
Speaker 6: think at the end of the day, that would be
Speaker 6: a self sabotage in his cast. And one thing we
Speaker 6: saw what he looked like, what the disconnect between him
Speaker 6: and back in the last game. We don't want to
Speaker 6: disgruntle nothing. We want to focus straight up eighty eight.
Speaker 6: That's going into the game ready to play.
Speaker 2: No, it's a deal that has to be done.
Speaker 8: Like y'all all said, he's the number one offensive threat
Speaker 8: in my opinion for this Cowboys team offensively.
Speaker 2: But I'm kind of worried.
Speaker 8: I'm kind of worried that, you know, it might not
Speaker 8: get done because when I look at it, the Cowboys,
Speaker 8: they never really seem to be in a rush to
Speaker 8: get things done. When you talk about guys at are
Speaker 8: home grown and they've you know, they've gone through the
Speaker 8: whole gauntlet, adoring their whole you know, five years whatever,
Speaker 8: four years after the first round pick. They don't seem
Speaker 8: to be rushed to get this job done. And they
Speaker 8: seemed to be like it's kind of kicking the can
Speaker 8: down the road. We've seen it happen plenty of times
Speaker 8: with Dak Prescott being franchised.
Speaker 2: A couple of times.
Speaker 8: So to me that this is a deal that has
Speaker 8: to get done because I believe he is your offense.
Speaker 8: I mean right now, you know, no disrespect to Rico Dowell,
Speaker 8: but we don't have really, you know, a great running
Speaker 8: game you know to speak of. We know the options
Speaker 8: on the outside without Michael Gallup. You got a coach
Speaker 8: and you got Ferguson. Ferguson is the real deal at.
Speaker 2: Tight end Cooks.
Speaker 8: To me, he's just an aging star, but he still can
Speaker 8: get you know, he still can give you some yards
Speaker 8: out there on the outside. But you've got to get
Speaker 8: this thing done with him with a CD lamb. And
Speaker 8: to me, I don't know, man, I just I can't
Speaker 8: see him not touching the field without a contract, like
Speaker 8: I can't. I just can't see that. I can't see
Speaker 8: that happening, knowing the type of guy he is. So
Speaker 8: I don't know, man, it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: It's gonna come down to the wire.
Speaker 6: And that's that's the part about it that I'm I'm dreading.
Speaker 6: But because I kind of I got that same feeling
Speaker 6: that if there's not a deal done before camp. He's
Speaker 6: not showing up the camp I can see, and that
Speaker 6: isn't going to do anything muddy waters. That's already murky
Speaker 6: when you talk about the other contracts that arelluming. So look,
Speaker 6: I don't I think we talked about how much time
Speaker 6: the Cowboys actually have to get deals done, and it's
Speaker 6: not to get it done now kind of situation. But
Speaker 6: the draft is in what how many days? Six seventeen days?
Speaker 6: The draft is in seventeen days. If they can get
Speaker 6: it done before or immediately after, what makes sense to
Speaker 6: me not let this date, don't drag your feet and
Speaker 6: let this thing last all the way through the summer.
Speaker 5: I'm not worried, but I go back into something you
Speaker 5: just said, Barry when you were Hey, they seem to
Speaker 5: drag their feet.
Speaker 2: This is their strategy.
Speaker 4: Stevens talked before. He says deadlines make deals.
Speaker 5: So their strategy in negotiating these deals is they clearly
Speaker 5: like waiting and taking this thing to the point they're
Speaker 5: comfortable with and then signing deals. So I don't expect
Speaker 5: that to necessarily change. So come Ota time, I don't
Speaker 5: expect to see them eighty eight. Here we saw it
Speaker 5: was Zack Martin before Travis Frederick before we're going to
Speaker 5: see it was that's white. We're gonna see this again
Speaker 5: where Okay, they're going to take their time, they're going
Speaker 5: to get a deal. But number one he knows the offense,
Speaker 5: so I to worry about that. Number two was all
Speaker 5: pro last year and his worth is there. They'll figure
Speaker 5: it out. Heck, here comes the big question, where are
Speaker 5: you willing to go? I looked up Devonte Adams five years,
Speaker 5: one forty averages twenty eight million dollars a year. He
Speaker 5: was guaranteed sixty five point five million dollars Tyreek Kill
Speaker 5: four year, one hundred twenty million dollar deal with Miami
Speaker 5: averaging thirty million dollars. He was guaranteed seventy two million
Speaker 5: dollars of as signing bonus of fifty two point five.
Speaker 2: You have to.
Speaker 5: Decide, now is it twenty eight or thirty million that
Speaker 5: you're going to have an average for CD LAMB and
Speaker 5: so it's basically it's gonna be a thirty million dollar receiver.
Speaker 5: So you're talking a thirty million dollar receiver and a
Speaker 5: quarterback making averaging about sixty million dollars. So this is
Speaker 5: where you're at potentially as a franchise right now are
Speaker 5: how we feel it about that guys.
Speaker 6: This is like when you put the names up there
Speaker 6: and you say that these guys are making that amount
Speaker 6: of money. I'm looking at CD Lambs last year and
Speaker 6: I'm saying he deserves it. Like It's like I can't
Speaker 6: argue against him making what DeVante Adams and Tyree Hiller
Speaker 6: making because when I watched him last year, especially five
Speaker 6: weeks into the season, the guys showed up and we were.
Speaker 2: Here sitting here saying, what thirteen hundred yards?
Speaker 6: They probably he probably not, but man, he blew that
Speaker 6: out of the water and showed that he was a
Speaker 6: top receiver in the league, if not the best, going
Speaker 6: into the end of the season.
Speaker 2: So it's hard to argue against it.
Speaker 8: That's a lot of mulaih and mar The market is
Speaker 8: the market. You know you hit the time right, you
Speaker 8: know you're gonna get paid. But when I'm thinking about
Speaker 8: a thirty million dollar receiver, I'm looking at Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 2: It don't matter who you got next to Tyree.
Speaker 8: He did have waddle, but I feel like he can
Speaker 8: come into an office and just his speed alone will
Speaker 8: will generate port. I feel like he's once he steps
Speaker 8: on the field, he's at least fourteen points, you know
Speaker 8: on that. When I look at CD, I mean he's
Speaker 8: don't get me wrong, he is a complete dog.
Speaker 2: He's a complete dog. Would you disrespect but this?
Speaker 6: Would you put him up there with a tyree for
Speaker 6: this team and what he did on this team last
Speaker 6: year one.
Speaker 2: Look at a dog. Were talking about what Brandon Cooks
Speaker 2: wasn't doing.
Speaker 6: We was talking about what Michael Gallop wasn't doing, talking
Speaker 6: about what Tony Poullack wasn't doing. You're talking about Fergus
Speaker 6: and the CD twelve and five.
Speaker 8: It's just I mean, when you look at the Vante,
Speaker 8: so I think he's I think he's probably better than
Speaker 8: Advante right now because Vante went from your car to
Speaker 8: all and his numbers dropped crazy. But when you put
Speaker 8: you know, Tyreek Pat Mahomes numbers is crazy. You throw
Speaker 8: them with a you know, to a tuge about lower
Speaker 8: his numbers are crazy. When Pat Mahomes went down and
Speaker 8: he was out there playing with I forget who the
Speaker 8: backup was, but he was still was putting up crazy numbers.
Speaker 8: Because you can just launch it up to this man.
Speaker 8: CD is a dog, don't get me wrong, but I
Speaker 8: don't know.
Speaker 6: No, I just think that also when you look at
Speaker 6: those two players, you look at the quarterbacks are throwing
Speaker 6: the guys are throwing them the ball, and where they
Speaker 6: are with their deals too, is still in a rookie deal.
Speaker 6: I mean, just go to Houston and some of the
Speaker 6: moves that they're making, they're able to make those moves
Speaker 6: because their quarterback is.
Speaker 2: Still in his rookie deal. So I think you can't play.
Speaker 6: You cannot pay everybody, but you cannot unload your stars.
Speaker 2: And if it's twenty eight, if it's thirty.
Speaker 6: That's why I was saying, acquiesce to the pressure of saying, oh,
Speaker 6: I'll take less just to be a cowboy. Guys are
Speaker 6: not doing that no more, you know, and you want
Speaker 6: to be paid your worth and market value dictates. I
Speaker 6: was saying twenty million, nuie, thanks you, thank you for
Speaker 6: correcting it. It's thirty it's thirty million. And if you're
Speaker 6: gonna do that, and whether it's funny money or not,
Speaker 6: now we're talking thirty one million, because I'm sure he
Speaker 6: wants to pay on this just and say I'm the
Speaker 6: highest paid wide receiver we sit here and say, well,
Speaker 6: based off of conventional wisdom.
Speaker 2: Are you Tarika?
Speaker 6: He'll ish, are you Devonte Adams?
Speaker 2: Is just because it seems like we may be forgetting
Speaker 2: just a little bit.
Speaker 6: Okay, one hundred and thirty five catches last year one
Speaker 6: in the league, seventeen hundred and forty second in the league,
Speaker 6: and we're talking about not coming on until five games
Speaker 6: into the season.
Speaker 2: You know, it's hot.
Speaker 6: First in the league in reception, second in the league
Speaker 6: in yards was up.
Speaker 2: There, he's third, and touchdowns he was first.
Speaker 5: Team All Pro, and I want to say, I want
Speaker 5: to say he was one vote off for being unanimous
Speaker 5: in terms of the wide receiver spot. So as we
Speaker 5: look and say Jerry all in, and people are frustrated
Speaker 5: saying there's been no all in. If you know you
Speaker 5: have to pay thirty million to your receiver and sixty
Speaker 5: million to your quarterback, how all in can you really
Speaker 5: be in terms of trying to fill out other spot.
Speaker 5: These two guys are going to take up a lot
Speaker 5: of money. So it almost becomes a Jerry Buss Lakers
Speaker 5: type mentality. When the late Jerry Buss owned the Lakers,
Speaker 5: he was about stars. I'm paying stars, pay this guy.
Speaker 5: That means other people don't get paid. That means you
Speaker 5: have to be very judicious about who else gets what.
Speaker 5: So when you're looking, say well, hey they let this
Speaker 5: person out of the door, that person out the door upstairs.
Speaker 4: They're pretty smart.
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones, very good businessman.
Speaker 5: If I'm paying these guys, If I have to pay Lamb,
Speaker 5: I have to pay Dak, I eventually have to pay
Speaker 5: with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: That means other goods. I can't pay Tom's Armstrong.
Speaker 5: I can't pay Tyler Biattish, So they get to walk
Speaker 5: out of the door. So in order to pay these gentlemen,
Speaker 5: I've got to find dudes who can fit in here.
Speaker 5: Draft well, get some bargain basement guys after the draft.
Speaker 5: You know this is to me, that's why I'm not
Speaker 5: worried about the CD LAMB deal. Based on their history
Speaker 5: and what they're doing. He's getting the money. Questions becomes,
Speaker 5: who else is in the receiver room? Where else do
Speaker 5: we feel our offensive line positions and our front seven
Speaker 5: on defense? To me, that's your real conversation. Paying CD
Speaker 5: Lamb is really not a oversations going to happen.
Speaker 2: That's happening. That's happening.
Speaker 5: It's now, okay, I Ceedee Lamb is my one. Got
Speaker 5: Brandon Cooks is my two. Right now, I've got Jalen
Speaker 5: Tolbert is my three. I'm going to have to figure
Speaker 5: out how I get more out of Cavante Turpin.
Speaker 2: That's my four. Got ferg in there so and.
Speaker 5: I just get my my wide receiver spot top four
Speaker 5: right now?
Speaker 2: Are you comfortable with those? Will those being the top four? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I'm okay, You're good. You're good. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean it's not star study, but I mean we
Speaker 6: we've seen all well, we seen Brandon Cooks and Seedee
Speaker 6: Lamb come on at a certain part of the season,
Speaker 6: and then you got a young Ferguson who you say, Okay,
Speaker 6: going into this next year, he's gotta be better than
Speaker 6: he was last year, and last year was a damn
Speaker 6: good year for it.
Speaker 2: You're one of that office.
Speaker 4: So you're one of that office, hepener, Well.
Speaker 6: That's where you serve up the argument to Barry about
Speaker 6: your quarterback and him needing talent around him to obviously
Speaker 6: exceed expectations and get to the NFC Championship. You're gonna
Speaker 6: have to have it. And if you look around league,
Speaker 6: at the teams that are competing for those every year,
Speaker 6: they have stars at the wide receiver position. Look no
Speaker 6: further than for the forty nine ers, Look no further
Speaker 6: than the Philadelphia's. They have talent at those positions because look,
Speaker 6: they've drafted well. But they've also had to go to
Speaker 6: the mantra of we can't sign certain guys. Look, if
Speaker 6: you're not one of the star guys, you're not going
Speaker 6: to get paid. And by the way, your star guys
Speaker 6: know the offense well enough that your quarterback can actively,
Speaker 6: you know, make all of these guys successful in it.
Speaker 6: We have to come back to arrive to the point
Speaker 6: that once defenses take away CD, who else is there
Speaker 6: and can you rely on Dak to make a B level,
Speaker 6: C level guy an A level guy when it counts
Speaker 6: the most. We're not coming up with that, and that
Speaker 6: argument has already worked itself out, and we saw that
Speaker 6: in the biggest game. We were were talking about prior
Speaker 6: to the season last year Cede Lambs contract situation. Could
Speaker 6: he have got paid last year? So your timing goals,
Speaker 6: we had an opportunity to depend where people were projecting
Speaker 6: them have thirteen hundred yards and this was the catches
Speaker 6: and be whatever top top ten in the league. So
Speaker 6: we waited, and now he was number one receptions, number
Speaker 6: two in yards, first team All Pro almost unanimous, And
Speaker 6: now now the price went up.
Speaker 2: Think about that with Trayvon Diggs.
Speaker 6: Trayvon Diggs, we only escaped that with him, Well, you
Speaker 6: had to pay him because he was a number two
Speaker 6: draft pick and you can't extend him out.
Speaker 2: You have to get his deal done.
Speaker 5: So Heckma, I think what you hit on right there
Speaker 5: is you were going to have one of these two
Speaker 5: guys you were gonna have to try to pay.
Speaker 2: You wanted them both. You wanted the receiver, you wanted
Speaker 2: the corner.
Speaker 4: You went for the guy.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's get him right now, because and luckily for
Speaker 5: him he got his bag before getting hurt. It was
Speaker 5: gonna cost you what was gonna cost you either way.
Speaker 5: So now we look at Diggs and say, okay, for
Speaker 5: the corner market all right, we're good there. You didn't
Speaker 5: save on both, but you saved on one, and in
Speaker 5: today's NFL.
Speaker 2: Can't really argue.
Speaker 5: When we come back, I want to talk about just
Speaker 5: based on what Hecma said, maybe I make you feel
Speaker 5: better just a little bit better about the four receivers
Speaker 5: that the Cowboys have you, Okay, maybe a little bit,
Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: was getting little hot, sweat, letting the air out a
Speaker 2: little bit. I knew you get right right, I need sweat.
Speaker 2: I had to get hair out a little bit.
Speaker 6: Hey, for history's purpose, let me just tell this, bro.
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Speaker 2: We were sitting there this the man be sweating.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, no, bro, We got on the bus
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Speaker 2: Listen, and I'm sitting right in front of them. He's
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Speaker 2: the team walking the bus, he said, what's wrong with
Speaker 2: I don't know what was that? Was that rookie? It
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Speaker 5: So we're talking about the Cowboys wide receiver position of
Speaker 5: ceed Lamb one. Brandon Cooks too, Jay October three and
Speaker 5: come on take herpened four. Last year, the Detroit Lions
Speaker 5: had Excellenciason came here, gave the Cowboys all they wanted,
Speaker 5: lost in overtime, went out to San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Darnia won that football game, and so many people believe
Speaker 4: should have gotten that game.
Speaker 5: Their receivers Amar Ros Saint Brown, they go, good football.
Speaker 4: Player, definitely one.
Speaker 5: Then you go Jamison Williams and Josh Reynolds as your
Speaker 5: number two and three guy. Really, Sam Laporta there tight
Speaker 5: end is is a really good player. Allah, Jake ferguson it.
Speaker 5: So I bring that up to you to say, get
Speaker 5: yourself one dude and some some possibles around here. You're okay,
Speaker 5: and and I'm just you know so so for me
Speaker 5: when I look at that, you can win with this.
Speaker 5: We don't have to have all pros or Pro two spots.
Speaker 4: You can win with this.
Speaker 2: And I believe that the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: If I line up these this crew versus the Cowboys
Speaker 5: crew right now, I can roll with the Cowboy crew.
Speaker 2: To huge two very big differences. Okay, Gibbs and Montgomery
Speaker 2: made the difference.
Speaker 6: Why you can trot those guys out there, because you
Speaker 6: have the opportunity to make the defenses have to respect
Speaker 6: the run as much as they did against the Lions.
Speaker 2: Which we don't have.
Speaker 6: So when you say you try those guys out there,
Speaker 6: you trying them out there with the defense, we stopping
Speaker 6: those guys because we don't have to focus on the run.
Speaker 5: So look, you're walking into the Spiders, well go first,
Speaker 5: But then what you said, you walking right into spiders
Speaker 5: web gun.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 6: I mean there's a fundamental difference between those two teams,
Speaker 6: and obviously it's the running game. And I think you know,
Speaker 6: when you talk about those players like Jameson went Williams,
Speaker 6: here's a first round draft pick. Here is a guy
Speaker 6: coming off of an ACL injury out of college, but
Speaker 6: also a big time playmaker. But like you said, Laporta
Speaker 6: is the one to a to Amorad Saint Brown in
Speaker 6: that offense. And so I think when you look at
Speaker 6: that from a roster depth chart standpoint, I think they
Speaker 6: do kind of match up with what the Dallas Cowboys have.
Speaker 6: But the fundamental difference is the running game and where
Speaker 6: you have to respect them in that aspect, and I
Speaker 6: think their whole philosophy as a team is built on
Speaker 6: running the ball because they don't want to go into
Speaker 6: any game saying, oh, we're gonna Amoras Saint Brown as
Speaker 6: I end all the v' all like the Cowboys are
Speaker 6: with Ceed Lamb.
Speaker 5: So thank you very much, gentlemen, because my next point,
Speaker 5: what I've got written is the running back situation. We've
Speaker 5: already talked last week about the need to fulfill the
Speaker 5: Cowboys offensive line and the front seven defensively. My next
Speaker 5: thing for the Cowboys is that running back situation where
Speaker 5: go draft. To me, you need to use a Day
Speaker 5: two pick on a running back because if you don't
Speaker 5: get a running back in the third round, you'll have
Speaker 5: a fourth round. You probably going to the fifth round.
Speaker 5: You could possibly do, You could possibly do. But I'm
Speaker 5: going to draft a running back and I'm going to
Speaker 5: sign a veteran running back. There are going to be
Speaker 5: running backs out there, especially after the draft. Who gets
Speaker 5: cut or whatnot? What Detroit did now they use the first.
Speaker 4: Rounder it Gibbs.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys won't. I don't anticipate them doing that, but
Speaker 5: they're going to get themselves. They get yourself a good
Speaker 5: running back, a young running back, and go find a
Speaker 5: veteran running back.
Speaker 2: And they made that work. Oh, by the way, that
Speaker 2: great offensive line. But what they're doing, what they're doing works.
Speaker 2: But ultimately, to me, I got.
Speaker 5: To build my football team to beat the forty nine.
Speaker 5: Right now, I can't stop the run, I can't run
Speaker 5: the ball. If I do these things, then maybe I
Speaker 5: got a shot. But right now until to me, it
Speaker 5: is just my opinion. Everybody, shoot it down. Feel free
Speaker 5: to shoot it down until you figure out how to
Speaker 5: stop the run and run the football with your offensive line.
Speaker 5: I don't think the Cowboys are going to be doing
Speaker 5: anything other than what we've seen the past two years,
Speaker 5: leaving us disappointing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead, shoot me down.
Speaker 8: And you know, I'm right there with you, because you
Speaker 8: got to build a team to be you know, San Francisco,
Speaker 8: we all understand that. And to me, it comes down
Speaker 8: to which which side of the football are you going
Speaker 8: to rely on this year, because there's just too many
Speaker 8: holes on both sides to fix both, you know, both problems. Also,
Speaker 8: you're coming in with a new defensive coordinator, which I
Speaker 8: think it's going to hurt this defense a little bit
Speaker 8: at least at the beginning. I mean, we understood what
Speaker 8: dan Quinny came in here, and not only did he
Speaker 8: come in here, he had what eleven some draft picks
Speaker 8: to go ahead and get his tools and make sure
Speaker 8: his defense was where it's at and they were able
Speaker 8: to be out there and be explosive this year. You
Speaker 8: don't have as many draft picks. You got as many
Speaker 8: holes offensively as you do defensively. So to me, you
Speaker 8: got to figure out which side of the ball is
Speaker 8: going to be the shoulder, the lean on which side
Speaker 8: of the ball is going to be more productive and offensively,
Speaker 8: you know, you got the quarterback of Dack Prescott. You
Speaker 8: might not have a run game, but you got a
Speaker 8: number one receiver on the outside of Ceed Lamb got,
Speaker 8: you got Ferd. So to me, I think you gotta
Speaker 8: lean offensively to make sure you get that as powerful
Speaker 8: as it can be, and hopefully that defense can ramp
Speaker 8: up at least towards the end of the middle of
Speaker 8: the season to kind of match the the offensive firepower.
Speaker 2: Because we saw it last year when these two guys
Speaker 2: defensive started out great historical defense.
Speaker 8: They started slowing down a little bit, but the offensively,
Speaker 8: Dak Prescott and those guys were able to catch up.
Speaker 8: To me, it's gonna be harder to get that balance
Speaker 8: this year because you lost one of the best defensive
Speaker 8: coordinators in the game and a lot of players as well.
Speaker 2: We understand the holes on both sides.
Speaker 8: So to me, you gotta lean on offensively being explosive
Speaker 8: as you can this year to match at least the
Speaker 8: forty nine ers and those of those heavy hitters in
Speaker 8: the NFC shoot holes.
Speaker 4: And what I said, heck come away.
Speaker 6: I mean you have the most continuity on your offense
Speaker 6: as far as your play caller and your quarterback and
Speaker 6: the experience from your receivers. I think you can lean
Speaker 6: on your offensive line and the guys that you've had
Speaker 6: that have been starters. But newly, I think it's dangerous
Speaker 6: in a lot of ways. And you know this going
Speaker 6: back to those old Chicago Bulls teams that could not
Speaker 6: get over the hump of beating the Detroit bad Boys
Speaker 6: every time they got to the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 2: Detroit was waiting on them and they played bully ball.
Speaker 6: And it wasn't until they got guys like Dennis Ropman
Speaker 6: to come in and play that could match that intensity,
Speaker 6: that knew the culture in which how you beat guys
Speaker 6: like that, You know it'd be a different thing. If
Speaker 6: last year we got beat by San Francisco forty nineers
Speaker 6: in the playoffs, No, we got beat by Green Bay
Speaker 6: and it was a complete it.
Speaker 2: It was an attitude.
Speaker 6: Was the reason why we got shocked at home and
Speaker 6: everybody was like, that ain't the team that I saw
Speaker 6: all season long. To me, it's like I would expect
Speaker 6: maybe a little bit of a pull back as far
Speaker 6: as the defense because of him. And that's that's a
Speaker 6: great point that you make, But I expect for this
Speaker 6: offense to hit the ground running and be able to
Speaker 6: carry that until you can play that complimentary football. Right now,
Speaker 6: I think it would be a dangerous thing to try
Speaker 6: and say we're gonna build this because we were building
Speaker 6: to beat Philadelphia Eagles, now we're building to beat a
Speaker 6: San Francisco forty nine ers. Build around the pieces that
Speaker 6: you have, bring playmakers in so you could beat whoever.
Speaker 6: Because even when you get past that, you get to
Speaker 6: the next level. Man, you're not Kansas.
Speaker 2: City waiting on you. So how do you get over that?
Speaker 6: Hum?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 6: So, look, I think your point and how you build
Speaker 6: a championship squad is gonna be in the front also
Speaker 6: in the running game. But man, at the same time,
Speaker 6: you have so many pieces still here that you can
Speaker 6: build around. Man, Look if I'm going, if I'm going
Speaker 6: all in and knowing the resources we don't have and
Speaker 6: what we can't do, I'm putting everything on the defense
Speaker 6: because to me, I'm looking at the game and I'm saying,
Speaker 6: look at the Pittsburgh Steelers last year, all right.
Speaker 2: Can't run the ball, can't throw the ball. What kept
Speaker 2: them in the games? Defense?
Speaker 6: Right, defense kept them close enough to be able to
Speaker 6: make the players that they needed to play. We're better
Speaker 6: at quarterback, we're better at receiver, so we should be
Speaker 6: able to one carry it until we at least get
Speaker 6: to those type of games. Hey, man, can our defense
Speaker 6: keep us in the game to where our offense can
Speaker 6: win a seventeen to sixteen game, Like, if we can
Speaker 6: get there, then I think we have a chance to
Speaker 6: beat those teams in San Francisco's the Kansas City's. If
Speaker 6: we can't play defense, we don't have enough on offense
Speaker 6: to getting a shootout with nobody. We like, we don't
Speaker 6: have a running game right now. We got CD, were
Speaker 6: still trying to figure out Cooks and all that. But
Speaker 6: for what Cooks has been he didn't put up the
Speaker 6: numbers that we had usually been able to see him
Speaker 6: put up. So to me, it's like, hey man, push
Speaker 6: it all in, make sure we can play some really
Speaker 6: good defense to keep us in those games, and then
Speaker 6: lean on your sixty million dollar quarterback and your potentially
Speaker 6: thirty million dollar receiver to make sure that you can
Speaker 6: make those big plays when you need to make them.
Speaker 6: Cincinnati's the same way. Since as good as Joe Burrow was,
Speaker 6: as good as Jamar Chase is, when you look at
Speaker 6: the team that went to the Super Bowl, their defense
Speaker 6: kept them in a lot of games and allowed Joe
Speaker 6: Burrow and Jamar Chase to make big plays when they matter,
Speaker 6: not necessarily a lot of shootouts. So me, I'm like,
Speaker 6: hey man, front seven, we got to get it. We
Speaker 6: got our secondary coverage if Treymon Diz comes back as
Speaker 6: healthy as we expect them to, but your front seven
Speaker 6: has to be the ones to help you one, stop
Speaker 6: them run because we could have stopped and run against
Speaker 6: Green Bay and just stop that bleeding, then we may
Speaker 6: have been able to get back in the game, but
Speaker 6: we weren't able to do that. So me, I'm just,
Speaker 6: hey man, all in everything, Zimmer. You got one year,
Speaker 6: Tell me what you need, Mike. We didn't get a
Speaker 6: lot of years. Okay, you know That's what I'm saying
Speaker 6: that it's all in almost zimple to say, hey man,
Speaker 6: what do you need. We're going into the draft.
Speaker 2: What do you need?
Speaker 6: You got free agents out there that used to play
Speaker 6: for you, and you think these guys will come in
Speaker 6: on the one year. Hey man, bring that guy in.
Speaker 6: That's the same thing dan Quinn dan Quinn did. That's
Speaker 6: how Kurset gets here because there's guys that he trusted
Speaker 6: to be in. Then Cincinnati is a great comp because
Speaker 6: that defense is unheralded. A lot of people don't even
Speaker 6: make talk about Cincinnati's defense and the way that they have,
Speaker 6: you know, held things in the road, even when when
Speaker 6: Joe Burrow struggled. But when I think about them, all
Speaker 6: I think about is Joe Burrow and how damn good
Speaker 6: he is and the way that he creates even when
Speaker 6: Jamar Chase is good, their second receivers and their team see,
Speaker 6: it's pretty good.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, they got a running game.
Speaker 6: Now when Joe Burrow went out, did we why don't
Speaker 6: can't remember the backup name?
Speaker 2: Watch there winning games, Jay Brown because of.
Speaker 6: Defense, because the defenses out there making big time plays,
Speaker 6: and we watched him, were sitting.
Speaker 2: Back with these dudes might come back in make the
Speaker 2: playoffs because the defense was able to keep them in
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 6: So I can't name one guy that's on the defensive
Speaker 6: I'm serious, Like Henderson Hendrickson there, you.
Speaker 2: Get me what it used to be here. He just
Speaker 2: got paid. He just got paid. Unbelievable. Eli was there
Speaker 2: back when they when they.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're right there, their defensive course at Amarillo
Speaker 5: or something like that, got a lot of interviews, didn't
Speaker 5: get a job, but he's done a very good job.
Speaker 5: But yes, we talk about the offense because this is
Speaker 5: the thing's all built around fantasy football now, fantasy football gambling,
Speaker 5: and so your offensive guys are going to get.
Speaker 4: The credit there. They're they're very, very good defensively.
Speaker 5: Going back to what you said, and I look back
Speaker 5: to our previous Players Lounge podcast when you talked about
Speaker 5: what to do arounds one, two, and three. You went
Speaker 5: round one defensive tackle, round two offensive line, in.
Speaker 4: Round three linebacker.
Speaker 5: So you're talking about addressing these needs that the Cowboys
Speaker 5: have here in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 4: You guys weren't around he, but you and I were.
Speaker 5: Bill Wats of San Francisco forty nine er team was
Speaker 5: terrible in the defensive backfield and they use their first
Speaker 5: three picks on on feeling those knees.
Speaker 2: Ronnie Lott was one of them and it was pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, so it was another player, but that's
Speaker 4: where he went. He went heavy there.
Speaker 5: So if you're the Cowboys, I don't have an issue
Speaker 5: as long as everything has to be in front seven.
Speaker 5: It's got to be on the O line right now.
Speaker 5: You've got to fix those spots, especially if I'm going
Speaker 5: to be paying sixty million for a quarterback, thirty million
Speaker 5: for a receiver, potentially thirty million dollars for a defensive
Speaker 5: piece in Michael Parsons. I've got to fill these spots somewhere.
Speaker 5: You do not have a center, Guys, you cannot play
Speaker 5: this game without a center.
Speaker 2: I can't do that.
Speaker 4: And right now, is anybody comfortable with no, don't even
Speaker 4: say his name.
Speaker 6: Yeah no, That's why I said. I think where I
Speaker 6: went on my list was offensive line, first, defensive line.
Speaker 5: Somewhere ye at all, he went offensive tackle, then you
Speaker 5: went defensive line and then you went running back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think I went center. I think it
Speaker 6: was center. The powers for Morgan is the guy that
Speaker 6: I'm thinking about either way. Either way, it's got to happen.
Speaker 6: It's one of the things that we are going to
Speaker 6: struggle mightily if we don't get the middle of our
Speaker 6: offensive line fix.
Speaker 5: And when you're trying to beat the forty nine is
Speaker 5: you gotta be ware that defensive line is they're pretty good.
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Speaker 2: Did everybody check out the National Championship game?
Speaker 5: Yeah, in South Carolina and Iowa. Rematch of last year's
Speaker 5: Final four game in Dallas.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a good game, real good game. It's a
Speaker 2: good game. Caitlin Clark is the real deal. Shout out
Speaker 2: to Don Staley.
Speaker 7: Was it?
Speaker 2: I can't even pronounce the big girl name, Cardo.
Speaker 6: Cardole from Brazil. They had, They had no shot getting
Speaker 6: them boards. She was swatting everything.
Speaker 2: They just came in. They was ready to play with
Speaker 2: Shout out to both of them. It's a great game.
Speaker 6: I have not watched that much since last year, but
Speaker 6: you know, I usually don't watch basketball like that, especially
Speaker 6: not men's. But the women's basketballs game I'm in. I'm
Speaker 6: locked in.
Speaker 2: I was watching since the Sweet Sixteen. Talent all over
Speaker 2: the and.
Speaker 6: The and the storylines I think were more intriguing than anything.
Speaker 6: I mean, the media did a good and bad job
Speaker 6: of trying to play up teams, even from the l
Speaker 6: s U matchup with Iowa. Uh but I love to
Speaker 6: see South Carolina's guard. Last year she got waved off
Speaker 6: by Yeah, but boy she was you talk about delivering
Speaker 6: on defense. Had to make sure I say that, I
Speaker 6: mean she she had a hell of a you know,
Speaker 6: second third, fourth, you know, acquard the end of the
Speaker 6: first half and complete the second second half and you
Speaker 6: just see the skill level. And you know, last year,
Speaker 6: I think three years ago, there was those complaints about
Speaker 6: look at the conditions that the women's game is in
Speaker 6: their locker room, all those things, and I think even
Speaker 6: now when you go back and you look at the
Speaker 6: eyeballs that are on the game, is you know, I
Speaker 6: don't know, based off of tonight's championship game, but does
Speaker 6: it supersede exceed what the men's game is getting as
Speaker 6: far as the eyeballs on it? And so so the
Speaker 6: attention and the money, that's what it's all about, needs
Speaker 6: to also be put in the same place for the
Speaker 6: women's for the women's game. But shout out to Don Staley, man,
Speaker 6: I think, you know, her testimony is amazing because she
Speaker 6: was a phenomenal player and to be a phenomenal coach
Speaker 6: as well, just says a lot about her. And we've
Speaker 6: seen a lot of players men, you know, men do
Speaker 6: the same thing. They were great players and then end up,
Speaker 6: you know, being great coaches. It's a tough thing to do.
Speaker 2: I know this.
Speaker 6: We'll see what the numbers are. But talking about ods
Speaker 6: being on the game, I know they said like twelve
Speaker 6: point three million watch the LSU versus All game.
Speaker 2: At two o'clock.
Speaker 6: Yeah, at two o'clock. So I can like you, it's
Speaker 6: just growing and they could Angel Reese, Kaitln Clark, floats,
Speaker 6: all those all those girls that played last year in
Speaker 6: the championship and then how they took out South Carolina
Speaker 6: and dun State, like all those people who were involved
Speaker 6: in taking it to where it is, they all deserve
Speaker 6: some credits, like I said, because I don't know how
Speaker 6: many people is watching women's basketball like they watch it
Speaker 6: now Before last.
Speaker 2: Year, Yeah, once you had, and I don't think it
Speaker 2: was spoken about enough.
Speaker 5: And I'm so blessed that last year I was able
Speaker 5: to go to the Final four in Dallas, because what
Speaker 5: we saw in Dallas last year ended up going into
Speaker 5: this season and ultimately culinating in Cleveland. Last year's final
Speaker 5: four in Dallas. Everybody forgets Virginia Tech was there, but
Speaker 5: it was Iowa there. That's when a lot of people first, Okay,
Speaker 5: here's Caitlyn Clark. South Carolina was the number one seed
Speaker 5: in last year's Final four. They were there with Don Staley.
Speaker 5: And then you had LSU and Kim Moulkis I hear
Speaker 5: it is year two. The woman who built Baylor's now
Speaker 5: built this here at LSU. So the excitement for all
Speaker 5: that was there, and then it lived up to it
Speaker 5: because Iowa upset undefeated South Carolina to get to the
Speaker 5: championship game. And then here's LSU. They get to the
Speaker 5: championship game. And then it's Clark against Angel Reese. You
Speaker 5: had a fantastic finish, she wins it. Well, they're all back,
Speaker 5: the coaches are all back, the players.
Speaker 2: Are all back.
Speaker 5: And then LSU did their part great all year long.
Speaker 5: Here's South Carolina coming back from that disappointment, undefeated, great
Speaker 5: all year long. Their matchups against LSU were epic matchups
Speaker 5: in the regular season and in the SEC Championship.
Speaker 4: And then Iowa continue to.
Speaker 5: Play great and for all the spotlight put on, all
Speaker 5: three teams lived up to it.
Speaker 4: And got back to the final four. So now what
Speaker 4: do we have.
Speaker 5: We have familiarity and with all due respect to the men,
Speaker 5: and I'm not beating them up. If those are men
Speaker 5: and they have that year they had the final, they're
Speaker 5: all leaving, nobody's coming back. But in the women's game,
Speaker 5: they all came back. And then the every household names
Speaker 5: got all the spotlight, lived up to every single ls.
Speaker 4: She was great all year long. South Carolina great all
Speaker 4: year long. I were great all and we got them.
Speaker 2: In the final four.
Speaker 6: And it doesn't happen all the time where you get
Speaker 6: those matchups, and we were treated to those matchups again,
Speaker 6: and so I bring back.
Speaker 5: To you you do don't remember, but this was a
Speaker 5: keem Elijah on and Patrick come on. It was that
Speaker 5: those those great Georgetown and Houston. T Oh, here they're
Speaker 5: back again. It's Carolina with Sam Perkins and Jay they're back.
Speaker 2: You got to know who they were.
Speaker 5: You don't know these guys in men's basketball they were
Speaker 5: because they're leaving. And if you don't leave people looking.
Speaker 4: At you, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: I came back and play the second year, it must
Speaker 5: be something wrong with it. When the NBA does look
Speaker 5: at some of these. I mean, really, the NBA values
Speaker 5: dudes with one year or some Europeans. They haven't seen
Speaker 5: you play enough, man, the.
Speaker 6: Second round, you've been around to if you're not the
Speaker 6: high school kid going to the G League or doing
Speaker 6: something like that, they don't know your name. You don't
Speaker 6: become a household name. But I mean you make a
Speaker 6: great point, especially with you, and you see the skill level.
Speaker 6: I had a problem all last week, man. I didn't
Speaker 6: tweet about it like my man Danny did, but the
Speaker 6: Angel rees hate Man.
Speaker 2: It made me sick, you know, to see that.
Speaker 6: But I have to give her, Man, you got to
Speaker 6: give her her flowers for coming back, for trying to
Speaker 6: be a repeat champion. And so I mean the media
Speaker 6: and the way that they attacked her. Man, I didn't,
Speaker 6: I had, I had, I didn't like it. It's crazy
Speaker 6: because you know, I'm an LSU guy.
Speaker 2: I love Angel Reese, but.
Speaker 6: I'm also I'm also just just how I felt about
Speaker 6: somebody saying something about TJ Wy. I feel the same
Speaker 6: way about to Kaitlyn Clark because it went from love
Speaker 6: on Kaitlyn Clark to oh she getting too much love?
Speaker 2: Oh what about us?
Speaker 6: The same thing like all of a sudden, you see
Speaker 6: Angel Reese's love, Kaitlyn Clark is loved last year, and
Speaker 6: then Angel Reese wins, and then it goes into Angel
Speaker 6: Ree's hate. Then Kaitlyn Clark get all the love. Everybody's
Speaker 6: watching all the hour games they number one, and then
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, wait, hold on, wait, oh now
Speaker 6: they cheam for her. They're doing this nothing positive. The
Speaker 6: girl dropping forty one on LSU, dropping thirty at eighteen
Speaker 6: in the first quarter, and it's all it's finally, Oh
Speaker 6: look how she pushed off.
Speaker 2: On so and so I'm like, bro, watch the game.
Speaker 2: It's the rest. You gotta do it.
Speaker 6: They playing great basketball here what we're doing. So man, listen,
Speaker 6: I love them both. I love them both. I'm I'm
Speaker 6: going to watch w NBA basketball now.
Speaker 2: In the draft. I want to go see crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's great.
Speaker 5: Well, hopefully where we live here, the Dallas Wings can
Speaker 5: end up getting some getting some better crowds at UTA
Speaker 5: where they played at the College Park Center.
Speaker 4: Uh I thought.
Speaker 5: Diana Tarazi had a very interesting comment on ESPN where
Speaker 5: she said the records something like the reckoning is coming
Speaker 5: or just just it's going to be an adjustment.
Speaker 2: Like so when she was bawling, what's she playing against them?
Speaker 2: Same eighteen year olds?
Speaker 6: When she was sitting the records, she come out het
Speaker 6: Kayler Clark, gonna play against who's playing against up? By
Speaker 6: the way she broke all the records, she broke them off.
Speaker 6: She didn't looked like she hated on the broadcast.
Speaker 5: Exactly Brianna Stewart of Yukon saying that you can't be
Speaker 5: the goat without a national championship.
Speaker 2: They just hate. I don't understand that the girl was good.
Speaker 2: They could she dropted.
Speaker 5: I laughed at that one from this standpoint. And Brianne
Speaker 5: Stewart was a great player. You come on championships. He
Speaker 5: went to, you come all the great players. I'm sorry
Speaker 5: nobody was watching Hawkeye basketball when the Final Four came
Speaker 5: to Dallas.
Speaker 4: I did not know about Iowa basketball women's basket.
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 5: Ended up going out to the shoot around, which is
Speaker 5: one of the great things you could do to go
Speaker 5: to the practice of the before the Final four game
Speaker 5: because all the fan bases come out.
Speaker 4: Man, that was great. It was l shu folks was there.
Speaker 2: You know, they were having a good time. Iowa fans
Speaker 2: showed up.
Speaker 5: They got on those overalls and the black and goal,
Speaker 5: and South Carolina had fair Don Day treating Don State
Speaker 5: like Obama out there.
Speaker 4: You don't sign this.
Speaker 2: I mean it was it was, it was you could do.
Speaker 5: The fan bases were great, and so ended up sooking
Speaker 5: around watching watching. I were reading about like, oh okay,
Speaker 5: this Kate lecclark, and was watching her just some warm
Speaker 5: ups like Steph curt Oh she's different.
Speaker 4: And then you saw it. Then you saw like, oh,
Speaker 4: oh my lord, I mean South Carolina was under You
Speaker 4: didn't so you knew.
Speaker 5: And then of course going to the press conference and
Speaker 5: you see like as you walk as they walk, she
Speaker 5: got I called the Steve Nash treatment where she walked
Speaker 5: by the oh okay, she's six foot because the first
Speaker 5: time you see Steve Nash, if you've never seen you
Speaker 5: just watching on team, oh, that's what called Steve Nash. Oh,
Speaker 5: I wasn't familiar with your in person. In person, she
Speaker 5: had that height on it and it was a couple
Speaker 5: of other girls from I would have had it.
Speaker 1: Uh So.
Speaker 5: I just looked at her and I thought Don Staley,
Speaker 5: by the way, which you go a class personify did
Speaker 5: a great job when she said, thank you Kaln Clark.
Speaker 2: She's accepting the trophy.
Speaker 5: She thanks her for what they did, what she did
Speaker 5: for the sport. Because to me, this is the test.
Speaker 5: How many of you all going to watch women's college
Speaker 5: basketball next year?
Speaker 2: How how in tune will you be?
Speaker 5: Because Cardoza from South Carolina's gone and she's built. She
Speaker 5: has a freshman who played really well. South cal would
Speaker 5: be good again, but you know it was Iowa do man.
Speaker 5: They don't have another Kaitlin Clark coming, and the Stoky
Speaker 5: girl was a good player, but you know you're not
Speaker 5: going to get the same l She will be good
Speaker 5: because Kim Mok is Kim Moky.
Speaker 4: She's going to go get more players. Poor Haley Man
Speaker 4: drag you will drag that.
Speaker 6: Already apologized to her because Kitler Clark was doing and
Speaker 6: the it's.
Speaker 2: Good bron that was coaching. Two days later, I'm I'm out.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at like anybody else want any of that
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. They could have helped them who want
Speaker 2: who want the assign get out? They I mean, you
Speaker 2: got doubled the dump for that lift. Since there she didn't.
Speaker 5: The clips, she was just like, I can't she dead
Speaker 5: that social media account to like the other girl that
Speaker 5: got there.
Speaker 4: They said, set the screen and she's like, you know,
Speaker 4: she quit hers.
Speaker 5: But that's gonna be The key is while there's this
Speaker 5: excitement and talking about it, now, what do you you
Speaker 5: do next year?
Speaker 4: Because now you're going to Okay, who else plays on
Speaker 4: these teams?
Speaker 6: So just when you think there's not another one, they
Speaker 6: well it comes, here comes another one.
Speaker 4: But you had that. Sometimes you get a perfect storm.
Speaker 5: It's Magic and Bird, the perfect storm that they had
Speaker 5: in seventy nine when it's Indiana State against Michigan State.
Speaker 5: That's what the w NBA just I mean, they're about
Speaker 5: to get They're about to get that. Let's see if
Speaker 5: they can elevate the sport the way those those.
Speaker 2: Two players did.
Speaker 5: That's a crazy it's a crazy comp But at the
Speaker 5: same time, that Magic Bird game was the highest NCAA
Speaker 5: game that had ever been played.
Speaker 6: And the reason I say that is because those two
Speaker 6: players going to the draft and then not only that,
Speaker 6: their pro careers do the same thing. So if there's
Speaker 6: that going to be the same thing with rece you Noah.
Speaker 5: If you're the w NBA, that should be your hope
Speaker 5: that you could take it, help elevate it to another level.
Speaker 5: That's what you would hope we'll see. It's obviously it's
Speaker 5: the it's an unbelievable come because they saved the NBA. Yeah,
Speaker 5: can these two ladies, well, well that group, this group,
Speaker 5: because it's it's more than just those two, but can
Speaker 5: they help save this league and take it to another level?
Speaker 4: That'll be fun.
Speaker 8: I watched because especially all the stuff that the Vet's
Speaker 8: been talking, I want to see, you know, can they
Speaker 8: shut down? Okay?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, well, have you ever been a Wings game?
Speaker 4: Have you been a Wings? Guess you been a Wings game?
Speaker 5: Okay, so two of us here have gone, and if
Speaker 5: four of us go, then we are truly seeing impact.
Speaker 2: And it's not just us, it's other people.
Speaker 5: We saw the different folks from social media weighing in
Speaker 5: about this who were watching. So that's gonna be the
Speaker 5: beauty of to me to see what happens.
Speaker 2: Start soon, right, Yeah? Is that draft?
Speaker 4: The draft is coming up? This book the draft is
Speaker 4: so so yeah, that'll be fun.
Speaker 2: That'll be fun.
Speaker 5: And then to see how do they replenish it? And
Speaker 5: that's so then it gets to the point it takes
Speaker 5: while we go to The NFL.
Speaker 4: Started in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 5: Do you guys know the first thirty years of the
Speaker 5: league they went through No, the first ten years, think
Speaker 5: they went through thirty franchises, shutting up, op and down,
Speaker 5: shutting up. It took a minute before the NFL became
Speaker 5: what the NFL is. It takes leagues a while to
Speaker 5: get rolling. People just have this assumption and no, no,
Speaker 5: it's hard because now we're trying to change people's minds.
Speaker 6: But they've better capitalize on this because you probably won't
Speaker 6: get another opportunity for the perfect storm. As you say,
Speaker 6: you won't see I know, you probably won't see another
Speaker 6: Caitlan Clark, Like you won't see another Steph Curry like
Speaker 6: that for it, Like it's just it's just different. Ten
Speaker 6: years from now you might see, oh man, she's round
Speaker 6: me a Kaitland Clark. But right now that girl's that
Speaker 6: girls standing forty one on us.
Speaker 2: I gotta go. It was a team, It was a
Speaker 2: team effort.
Speaker 5: Bear weren't leave it a yes, no question. Back to
Speaker 5: the draft. I take sweat the d W I over
Speaker 5: the weekend. A good player Outland Trophy Award winner who
Speaker 5: could fit the Cowboys defensive line help based on that,
Speaker 5: Yes or no?
Speaker 4: Would you take him off your draft board?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, no, yeah, yeah no. Would I take him off? Yes?
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: Is he subject to a discipline from the league. Probably.
Speaker 2: If it's happening now, it's gonna happen now.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna take him Cowboys, babe. He went from
Speaker 6: the first round grade to a second round grade. Yeah,
Speaker 6: a second son.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I saw it happen like oh this this
Speaker 4: seems to be the kind of person that past history shows.
Speaker 5: It's kind of there's a spot for here's a forgiveness.
Speaker 2: There's a forgiveness, grace, there's there is grace, rap for
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. We can reform it apro grade.
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