WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Is The Price Right? 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:09.400 Cowboys. 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:16.440 This is the Player's Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:18.400 World headquarters. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:18.600 At the Star. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:25.160 Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:26.800 NEWI scrugs. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:31.120 Yo, here we are. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.159 It is that time. 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.040 It's Monday, Players Lounge on the Eclipse day, before the 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.520 eclipse happens, we do our thing right here. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:41.680 Kid has been acting a little weird too. Man. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.519 I think the eclipse, you know, you look at it 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:44.879 and be like, I don't know why you're acting like 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:46.320 that is the adults. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:46.560 Two. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.960 Watch your pets. Your pets have a very pets are 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.760 very keen about things. When I lived in California before 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.840 the earthquake hit, my dogs would feel it. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.320 They would know it, so like walking around like next thing. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:00.480 You know. 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.319 Yeah, man, so pet pet, pet's knows. Danny m kraig, 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.200 good to see it. Heck Maherrison, good to see it. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.479 He's very just last here, I'm new Struggs. Aristocrat Gaming 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.040 is your new sponsor of the Players Line. Yes, yes, yes, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.919 drafts coming up later on this month. I've told myself, 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.720 I'm not gonna watch. I don't watch those debate shows anyway, 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.760 but I try not now to watch the clips because 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.080 the clips that I get on social media real wild. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:30.880 Ceedee Lamb is currently looking for a contract and des 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:37.400 Bryant wade in on Michael Parson's cod pending contract situation. Uh, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:41.280 what is your concern level, gentlemen about Ceedee Lamb and 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.240 the Cowboys with the contract extension. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.120 I think I'm less worried about that one than Dak's. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.120 I think you go into it that they know they 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:51.560 know what the guy did last year. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.600 You haven't made any moves in free agency. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.320 There is no way in that you are not going 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.720 to have Cde Lamb out here or disgruntled worrying about 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.960 if he's gonna be a training camp, ota is any 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.480 of that stuff. So I think, if anything, that's the 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:08.480 one where I'm like, they gonna make sure they get 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.520 that one done. If you ask, if you ask anybody 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.440 that saw Ceedee Lamb last year, I think he proved 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.120 to you why you took him where you did and 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:23.880 why he has the respect amongst the Cowboys organization. And 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:25.760 I think he proved it to himself that he could 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.239 be that number one. Everybody here has always been a 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.400 Maria Cooper Marik Cooper since he left. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.919 You know, he's a Hall of Famer now because he left, But. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.320 Is I think Ceedee Lamb showed you that he could 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.160 be that playmaker. He can well five games into the 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.639 season that if you throw him the ball, he can 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.120 be a guy that can you know, get touchdowns for you. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.920 He's a big play threat and other defenses had to 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:52.000 respect him as that playmaker. I think for CD, honestly, 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.600 for him to even ascend to higher heights, he needs 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.120 to have a compadre with him somebody else. And I 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.959 know we're gonna get into that portion. But the deal 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.079 is you're gonna whether it's market setting or not, you're 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.040 gonna have to pay him. I think around twenty million 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:07.680 dollars is what we talked about last week. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.639 And that's that at least, right And. 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.160 So as the salary cap goes up, these guys are 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.120 not gonna acquiesce sydy Oh you want to be a 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.000 cowboy for like they want to get see that money 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.720 right now. And so I don't blame Ceedee Lamb for 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.519 being like that, but I think at the end of 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.400 the day being disgruntled or holding out or doing any 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.640 of the that's that's that's up to him. But I 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.280 think at the end of the day, that would be 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.800 a self sabotage in his cast. And one thing we 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.680 saw what he looked like, what the disconnect between him 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.240 and back in the last game. We don't want to 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.480 disgruntle nothing. We want to focus straight up eighty eight. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.040 That's going into the game ready to play. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.880 No, it's a deal that has to be done. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:45.839 Like y'all all said, he's the number one offensive threat 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.080 in my opinion for this Cowboys team offensively. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.040 But I'm kind of worried. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.320 I'm kind of worried that, you know, it might not 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.920 get done because when I look at it, the Cowboys, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.160 they never really seem to be in a rush to 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.800 get things done. When you talk about guys at are 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:01.520 home grown and they've you know, they've gone through the 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.760 whole gauntlet, adoring their whole you know, five years whatever, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.200 four years after the first round pick. They don't seem 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:07.960 to be rushed to get this job done. And they 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:09.560 seemed to be like it's kind of kicking the can 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.320 down the road. We've seen it happen plenty of times 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.240 with Dak Prescott being franchised. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:13.480 A couple of times. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.480 So to me that this is a deal that has 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.040 to get done because I believe he is your offense. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.719 I mean right now, you know, no disrespect to Rico Dowell, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.400 but we don't have really, you know, a great running 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.800 game you know to speak of. We know the options 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.760 on the outside without Michael Gallup. You got a coach 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.800 and you got Ferguson. Ferguson is the real deal at. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:29.719 Tight end Cooks. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.880 To me, he's just an aging star, but he still can 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.599 get you know, he still can give you some yards 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.839 out there on the outside. But you've got to get 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.159 this thing done with him with a CD lamb. And 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.080 to me, I don't know, man, I just I can't 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.680 see him not touching the field without a contract, like 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.560 I can't. I just can't see that. I can't see 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.720 that happening, knowing the type of guy he is. So 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:49.159 I don't know, man, it's gonna be. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:50.120 It's gonna come down to the wire. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.200 And that's that's the part about it that I'm I'm dreading. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.520 But because I kind of I got that same feeling 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.279 that if there's not a deal done before camp. He's 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.240 not showing up the camp I can see, and that 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.880 isn't going to do anything muddy waters. That's already murky 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.080 when you talk about the other contracts that arelluming. So look, 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.600 I don't I think we talked about how much time 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.480 the Cowboys actually have to get deals done, and it's 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.599 not to get it done now kind of situation. But 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.119 the draft is in what how many days? Six seventeen days? 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.880 The draft is in seventeen days. If they can get 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.839 it done before or immediately after, what makes sense to 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:30.520 me not let this date, don't drag your feet and 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.320 let this thing last all the way through the summer. 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.360 I'm not worried, but I go back into something you 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.200 just said, Barry when you were Hey, they seem to 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:40.000 drag their feet. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:41.240 This is their strategy. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.960 Stevens talked before. He says deadlines make deals. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.640 So their strategy in negotiating these deals is they clearly 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.880 like waiting and taking this thing to the point they're 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.120 comfortable with and then signing deals. So I don't expect 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.120 that to necessarily change. So come Ota time, I don't 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.800 expect to see them eighty eight. Here we saw it 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:05.560 was Zack Martin before Travis Frederick before we're going to 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.279 see it was that's white. We're gonna see this again 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.240 where Okay, they're going to take their time, they're going 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.040 to get a deal. But number one he knows the offense, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:13.680 so I to worry about that. Number two was all 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.599 pro last year and his worth is there. They'll figure 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.760 it out. Heck, here comes the big question, where are 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.080 you willing to go? I looked up Devonte Adams five years, 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.520 one forty averages twenty eight million dollars a year. He 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.000 was guaranteed sixty five point five million dollars Tyreek Kill 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.000 four year, one hundred twenty million dollar deal with Miami 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.320 averaging thirty million dollars. He was guaranteed seventy two million 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.680 dollars of as signing bonus of fifty two point five. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:39.560 You have to. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.880 Decide, now is it twenty eight or thirty million that 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.560 you're going to have an average for CD LAMB and 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.599 so it's basically it's gonna be a thirty million dollar receiver. 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.400 So you're talking a thirty million dollar receiver and a 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.240 quarterback making averaging about sixty million dollars. So this is 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.120 where you're at potentially as a franchise right now are 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:58.719 how we feel it about that guys. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.960 This is like when you put the names up there 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.279 and you say that these guys are making that amount 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.480 of money. I'm looking at CD Lambs last year and 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.640 I'm saying he deserves it. Like It's like I can't 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.960 argue against him making what DeVante Adams and Tyree Hiller 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.440 making because when I watched him last year, especially five 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.920 weeks into the season, the guys showed up and we were. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:19.480 Here sitting here saying, what thirteen hundred yards? 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.040 They probably he probably not, but man, he blew that 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.880 out of the water and showed that he was a 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.560 top receiver in the league, if not the best, going 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:28.720 into the end of the season. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.080 So it's hard to argue against it. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.640 That's a lot of mulaih and mar The market is 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.040 the market. You know you hit the time right, you 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.920 know you're gonna get paid. But when I'm thinking about 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.200 a thirty million dollar receiver, I'm looking at Tyreek Hill. 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:43.800 It don't matter who you got next to Tyree. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.520 He did have waddle, but I feel like he can 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.520 come into an office and just his speed alone will 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.520 will generate port. I feel like he's once he steps 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.280 on the field, he's at least fourteen points, you know 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.880 on that. When I look at CD, I mean he's 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.920 don't get me wrong, he is a complete dog. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.880 He's a complete dog. Would you disrespect but this? 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.120 Would you put him up there with a tyree for 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.440 this team and what he did on this team last 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:08.679 year one. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.760 Look at a dog. Were talking about what Brandon Cooks 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:14.240 wasn't doing. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.560 We was talking about what Michael Gallop wasn't doing, talking 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.400 about what Tony Poullack wasn't doing. You're talking about Fergus 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.560 and the CD twelve and five. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.040 It's just I mean, when you look at the Vante, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.000 so I think he's I think he's probably better than 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.640 Advante right now because Vante went from your car to 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.320 all and his numbers dropped crazy. But when you put 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.719 you know, Tyreek Pat Mahomes numbers is crazy. You throw 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.280 them with a you know, to a tuge about lower 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.200 his numbers are crazy. When Pat Mahomes went down and 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:39.679 he was out there playing with I forget who the 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.160 backup was, but he was still was putting up crazy numbers. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:43.800 Because you can just launch it up to this man. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.520 CD is a dog, don't get me wrong, but I 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:48.600 don't know. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.400 No, I just think that also when you look at 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.000 those two players, you look at the quarterbacks are throwing 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.079 the guys are throwing them the ball, and where they 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.560 are with their deals too, is still in a rookie deal. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.560 I mean, just go to Houston and some of the 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.920 moves that they're making, they're able to make those moves 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.160 because their quarterback is. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:10.000 Still in his rookie deal. So I think you can't play. 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:14.480 You cannot pay everybody, but you cannot unload your stars. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.600 And if it's twenty eight, if it's thirty. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.760 That's why I was saying, acquiesce to the pressure of saying, oh, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.600 I'll take less just to be a cowboy. Guys are 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.120 not doing that no more, you know, and you want 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.320 to be paid your worth and market value dictates. I 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.040 was saying twenty million, nuie, thanks you, thank you for 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.520 correcting it. It's thirty it's thirty million. And if you're 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.600 gonna do that, and whether it's funny money or not, 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.560 now we're talking thirty one million, because I'm sure he 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.880 wants to pay on this just and say I'm the 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.400 highest paid wide receiver we sit here and say, well, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.520 based off of conventional wisdom. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.040 Are you Tarika? 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.880 He'll ish, are you Devonte Adams? 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:56.520 Is just because it seems like we may be forgetting 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:57.080 just a little bit. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.040 Okay, one hundred and thirty five catches last year one 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:06.760 in the league, seventeen hundred and forty second in the league, 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.280 and we're talking about not coming on until five games 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:10.040 into the season. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.079 You know, it's hot. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.679 First in the league in reception, second in the league 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.800 in yards was up. 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:24.199 There, he's third, and touchdowns he was first. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.839 Team All Pro, and I want to say, I want 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.280 to say he was one vote off for being unanimous 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.680 in terms of the wide receiver spot. So as we 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.800 look and say Jerry all in, and people are frustrated 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.920 saying there's been no all in. If you know you 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.960 have to pay thirty million to your receiver and sixty 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.640 million to your quarterback, how all in can you really 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.160 be in terms of trying to fill out other spot. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.080 These two guys are going to take up a lot 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:54.720 of money. So it almost becomes a Jerry Buss Lakers 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.200 type mentality. When the late Jerry Buss owned the Lakers, 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:01.000 he was about stars. I'm paying stars, pay this guy. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.760 That means other people don't get paid. That means you 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.880 have to be very judicious about who else gets what. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.200 So when you're looking, say well, hey they let this 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.760 person out of the door, that person out the door upstairs. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:11.520 They're pretty smart. 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.439 Jerry Jones, very good businessman. 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.400 If I'm paying these guys, If I have to pay Lamb, 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.280 I have to pay Dak, I eventually have to pay 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:19.080 with Michael Parsons. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.520 That means other goods. I can't pay Tom's Armstrong. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.160 I can't pay Tyler Biattish, So they get to walk 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.600 out of the door. So in order to pay these gentlemen, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.320 I've got to find dudes who can fit in here. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:35.000 Draft well, get some bargain basement guys after the draft. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.719 You know this is to me, that's why I'm not 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.920 worried about the CD LAMB deal. Based on their history 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.400 and what they're doing. He's getting the money. Questions becomes, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.560 who else is in the receiver room? Where else do 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:53.400 we feel our offensive line positions and our front seven 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:58.960 on defense? To me, that's your real conversation. Paying CD 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.160 Lamb is really not a oversations going to happen. 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:02.360 That's happening. That's happening. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:08.040 It's now, okay, I Ceedee Lamb is my one. Got 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.840 Brandon Cooks is my two. Right now, I've got Jalen 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.160 Tolbert is my three. I'm going to have to figure 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.280 out how I get more out of Cavante Turpin. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.640 That's my four. Got ferg in there so and. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.120 I just get my my wide receiver spot top four 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:23.520 right now? 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.560 Are you comfortable with those? Will those being the top four? Yeah? 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.520 I'm okay, You're good. You're good. Yeah. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.040 I mean it's not star study, but I mean we 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.520 we've seen all well, we seen Brandon Cooks and Seedee 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.680 Lamb come on at a certain part of the season, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.880 and then you got a young Ferguson who you say, Okay, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.440 going into this next year, he's gotta be better than 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.480 he was last year, and last year was a damn 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:44.160 good year for it. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:45.440 You're one of that office. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.840 So you're one of that office, hepener, Well. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.800 That's where you serve up the argument to Barry about 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.959 your quarterback and him needing talent around him to obviously 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.720 exceed expectations and get to the NFC Championship. You're gonna 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:00.320 have to have it. And if you look around league, 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.440 at the teams that are competing for those every year, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.960 they have stars at the wide receiver position. Look no 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.199 further than for the forty nine ers, Look no further 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:13.480 than the Philadelphia's. They have talent at those positions because look, 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.760 they've drafted well. But they've also had to go to 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.960 the mantra of we can't sign certain guys. Look, if 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.920 you're not one of the star guys, you're not going 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.520 to get paid. And by the way, your star guys 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:29.520 know the offense well enough that your quarterback can actively, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.280 you know, make all of these guys successful in it. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.520 We have to come back to arrive to the point 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.240 that once defenses take away CD, who else is there 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.760 and can you rely on Dak to make a B level, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.000 C level guy an A level guy when it counts 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.240 the most. We're not coming up with that, and that 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.720 argument has already worked itself out, and we saw that 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.800 in the biggest game. We were were talking about prior 0:13:53.880 --> 0:14:00.600 to the season last year Cede Lambs contract situation. Could 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:06.920 he have got paid last year? So your timing goals, 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.040 we had an opportunity to depend where people were projecting 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.000 them have thirteen hundred yards and this was the catches 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.920 and be whatever top top ten in the league. So 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.480 we waited, and now he was number one receptions, number 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.160 two in yards, first team All Pro almost unanimous, And 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:22.560 now now the price went up. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.000 Think about that with Trayvon Diggs. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.760 Trayvon Diggs, we only escaped that with him, Well, you 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.920 had to pay him because he was a number two 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.160 draft pick and you can't extend him out. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:32.480 You have to get his deal done. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.120 So Heckma, I think what you hit on right there 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.800 is you were going to have one of these two 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.240 guys you were gonna have to try to pay. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.560 You wanted them both. You wanted the receiver, you wanted 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:42.000 the corner. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:43.000 You went for the guy. 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.680 Okay, let's get him right now, because and luckily for 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.600 him he got his bag before getting hurt. It was 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.640 gonna cost you what was gonna cost you either way. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.360 So now we look at Diggs and say, okay, for 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.800 the corner market all right, we're good there. 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