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- 0:12Speaker 3: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:21Speaker 4: Hello everyone, and welcome to Cowboys Storyline. Is Tuesday, April thirtieth.
- 0:27Speaker 4: I am Nick Eatman here and it is time to
- 0:29Speaker 4: talk post draft. Draft is coming gone. Now it's time
- 0:33Speaker 4: to evaluate it. Even though I was just joking with
- 0:37Speaker 4: Chris just now, it's probably a good time to evaluate
- 0:39Speaker 4: the twenty twenty one draft, or maybe twenty twenty two.
- 0:43Speaker 4: I mean, it's really hard to evaluate a draft. They
- 0:45Speaker 4: haven't done anything, but everyone loves to do it. They
- 0:47Speaker 4: love to put their grades on it, put their stamp
- 0:49Speaker 4: on it, and that's what we'll do. Cowboys ended up
- 0:52Speaker 4: with eight picks. We figured they would get a little
- 0:55Speaker 4: bit more. They did, and I think the trade was
- 0:58Speaker 4: very significant back from the first round picking up a
- 1:03Speaker 4: tackle and then using that pick in the third round
- 1:06Speaker 4: to get a guard center. And so you know, as
- 1:09Speaker 4: Jerry had said a couple of times, two players is
- 1:12Speaker 4: better than one, that's exactly what happened, especially with those
- 1:15Speaker 4: two need picks on the offensive line.
- 1:18Speaker 1: So I got to give them credit for that.
- 1:20Speaker 4: Of course, you know, we'll see how they how they play,
- 1:22Speaker 4: We'll see how these careers pan out. But but you know,
- 1:26Speaker 4: I think from that move alone, that was probably the
- 1:28Speaker 4: best part of the draft for me. But we'll talk
- 1:30Speaker 4: more about it. Eight eight eighty five five two two
- 1:33Speaker 4: nine seven. Give you guys a chance to sound off,
- 1:35Speaker 4: and let's start us. Let's start off now with Michael.
- 1:38Speaker 4: He's in Colton, California. Michael, what's up.
- 1:41Speaker 5: Shout out to the whole Cowboys nation.
- 1:43Speaker 6: What's going on?
- 1:44Speaker 7: Nick?
- 1:44Speaker 5: I know you're good. I know everybody's great. Hey, I
- 1:47Speaker 5: just want to say Cooper Beb Man, he was my
- 1:50Speaker 5: favorite pick of the draft. I was just talking about
- 1:52Speaker 5: that with mister beanback there. He has shot out to him.
- 1:54Speaker 5: He does a great job. But I think Cooper beb
- 1:58Speaker 5: is gonna be really special. I can't wait to see him.
- 2:00Speaker 5: He's gonna make that transition to center. But another thing Nick,
- 2:04Speaker 5: I would like to say is, you know, I'm I'm
- 2:07Speaker 5: I'm a Like I've told you before. The Cowboys they
- 2:10Speaker 5: got the skins on the wall to prove that they
- 2:12Speaker 5: know how to draft. You know that they do very
- 2:15Speaker 5: well drafting. But I just hope that by us not
- 2:18Speaker 5: getting the running back that it doesn't come back to
- 2:20Speaker 5: bite us at the end of the year, because I
- 2:22Speaker 5: don't want that run game to be an Achilles Hill
- 2:24Speaker 5: to us, you know what I mean, And so that's
- 2:27Speaker 5: my only concern. But I just want to ask you
- 2:30Speaker 5: who was your favorite pick?
- 2:31Speaker 4: Yeah, I would I would say Cooper Bebe for sure.
- 2:35Speaker 4: I mean just the highlights alone. I mean, I don't
- 2:38Speaker 4: know what his bad tape looks like, but his good
- 2:41Speaker 4: tape is amazing. I mean he's just putting people on
- 2:44Speaker 4: his ass, on their ass, I mean the whole time.
- 2:46Speaker 4: I mean it's really really impressive. It makes me wonder
- 2:50Speaker 4: why he kind of fell to the third round. He know,
- 2:53Speaker 4: he might have some issues with some speed guys a
- 2:55Speaker 4: little bit or some some quickness, but I mean I
- 2:58Speaker 4: saw him in space.
- 2:59Speaker 1: I saw him again. It's really good players.
- 3:01Speaker 4: We saw, you know, competition, the Texas guys, the devontres
- 3:05Speaker 4: uh sweat, who's you know was. It was a second
- 3:07Speaker 4: round pick, so you know, I think he's got everything
- 3:11Speaker 4: that you want and and the versatility just allows you
- 3:14Speaker 4: to do more things on the line. So I like it.
- 3:17Speaker 4: I like that pick a lot. That was probably my
- 3:20Speaker 4: my favorite pick for sure. His tape stood out the most,
- 3:26Speaker 4: you know, of anyone else, and you know, I just
- 3:28Speaker 4: some other guys are intriguing to me as well. But
- 3:31Speaker 4: but like you said, the running back, yeah, I thought
- 3:33Speaker 4: they might go there. But more than anything, you know,
- 3:37Speaker 4: show up what what what you have right now on
- 3:42Speaker 4: the offensive line.
- 3:43Speaker 1: I think that that was kind of the key.
- 3:46Speaker 4: I guess you know, we should point out here as
- 3:48Speaker 4: it's one o six on a Tuesday, that you know,
- 3:51Speaker 4: Ezekiel Elliott officially has signed.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Uh.
- 3:53Speaker 4: That was expected over the weekend. It happened officially signed
- 3:57Speaker 4: on on today on Tuesday, already doing some work out
- 4:01Speaker 4: with with the players. I think it's still a little
- 4:04Speaker 4: unseveraled what number he's going to wear.
- 4:06Speaker 8: Uh.
- 4:06Speaker 4: It might might be twenty one like it was, because
- 4:08Speaker 4: I that is open. He might he might move to
- 4:12Speaker 4: to something else. You know, We've got to see how
- 4:14Speaker 4: it all shakes out. But but I think for now
- 4:16Speaker 4: it's it's twenty one, and I think that's probably where
- 4:18Speaker 4: it should be.
- 4:19Speaker 1: That's what he is.
- 4:20Speaker 4: That's there's still gonna be a lot of jerseys in
- 4:22Speaker 4: that stadium if that's the case. So and that's that's
- 4:26Speaker 4: the running back for now. Uh, he's the leader in
- 4:30Speaker 4: the clubhouse. But you know there's some other options there
- 4:32Speaker 4: as well. All right, Anthony and Miami is next?
- 4:36Speaker 8: Nick the quick? What's going on, my guy?
- 4:38Speaker 1: How are you?
- 4:39Speaker 9: Hey?
- 4:39Speaker 8: I'm pretty good, Nick, I'm riding around these streets.
- 4:42Speaker 10: Man.
- 4:43Speaker 8: You know how I'm feeling though, I'm feeling super Charlotte radualistic.
- 4:52Speaker 8: I'm feeling that way because I predicted this or well.
- 4:58Speaker 8: The trade back very made me very happy. Remember about
- 5:02Speaker 8: a month ago I started talking about this and my
- 5:04Speaker 8: dudes and don'ts, so that made me happy. Not only
- 5:07Speaker 8: you passed, you surpassed the fourth from missing pick. You
- 5:11Speaker 8: got a third. You know what I'm saying. You got
- 5:13Speaker 8: good players. You got a weakness was the offensive line.
- 5:17Speaker 8: We know we couldn't run the ball, we couldn't start running.
- 5:20Speaker 8: So fix something. You kind of fixed that yet to
- 5:24Speaker 8: be seen. But you basically have with I think one
- 5:27Speaker 8: free agent player signed on the old line. So you
- 5:29Speaker 8: got drafted three. You had three starters, you had five
- 5:32Speaker 8: guys in the mixed bask and all those guys you
- 5:34Speaker 8: got eleven offensive lineman. But a first round draft pick
- 5:39Speaker 8: left tackle plays left tackle was pretty good. You didn't
- 5:42Speaker 8: get the running back, so I give him an a minus.
- 5:44Speaker 8: But you got Zeke, you got Royce Freeman and all
- 5:46Speaker 8: those guys. So I'm very happy that every pick it
- 5:50Speaker 8: was something we needed, especially the top five tackle satah Bb.
- 5:54Speaker 8: I love Bb with Brian and them and all of them.
- 5:57Speaker 8: Nicknam and I sitting there talked about him. I love
- 6:00Speaker 8: that guy.
- 6:01Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 6:02Speaker 8: Good. Let me two shoutouts, Nick, two shoutouts. Shout out
- 6:05Speaker 8: to the big guy, the six time pro bowler, three
- 6:08Speaker 8: times super Bowler, Big Nate. My hanging with the Cowboys
- 6:11Speaker 8: and Sagittary's brethren. I was listening to a court hanging
- 6:15Speaker 8: and I heard that he had a procedure or something.
- 6:17Speaker 8: So Nate, it's your boy, Anthony. You know how we
- 6:19Speaker 8: do it, baby, hanging and banging for six years, get well.
- 6:24Speaker 8: Loved to catch up with y'all. As I talked to
- 6:26Speaker 8: the storyline, one more shot out Dylan. I was riding.
- 6:31Speaker 8: My girl is from Tampa, Dealing is not too far
- 6:33Speaker 8: from there, because he said where he stays, nor Report.
- 6:36Speaker 8: I was on seventy five, so I rolled my one
- 6:38Speaker 8: dow down. It's a road that goes right by there,
- 6:40Speaker 8: and I just yelled that what's up, Dylan? So shout
- 6:43Speaker 8: out to you, Dylan. I like what you got to
- 6:45Speaker 8: talk about on the show and everything like that. So
- 6:47Speaker 8: that's basically all it is, Nick, And I'm saying, we'll
- 6:49Speaker 8: do this thing next week.
- 6:50Speaker 1: Man, I'm ha bro appreciate it. I love that.
- 6:54Speaker 4: Just Just drive down the road there in the small
- 6:57Speaker 4: town of Tampa or wherever that is and yell out Dylan.
- 7:02Speaker 1: He probably heard it.
- 7:03Speaker 4: Good stuff, Anthony, Yeah, I I like the addressing the needs.
- 7:09Speaker 4: It looks like you got a guy's gonna start at
- 7:11Speaker 4: left tackle. You got a defensive end in Marshawn Neeland
- 7:16Speaker 4: that that it looks like it is a little bit
- 7:18Speaker 4: more of a run stopper. And not everyone loved that pick,
- 7:22Speaker 4: but but some some did and so I I you know,
- 7:26Speaker 4: and then BB and then you got Marris Leah foul
- 7:30Speaker 4: So from Notre Dame.
- 7:33Speaker 11: You know.
- 7:33Speaker 4: So you got some guys that can that can help
- 7:36Speaker 4: stop the run and also help run the ball. Those
- 7:38Speaker 4: are two things that you really needed. All right, let's
- 7:40Speaker 4: go to Will in Pennsylvania.
- 7:42Speaker 1: Will.
- 7:44Speaker 12: Hey, how you doing, Nicko? Yeah, let's go go here
- 7:50Speaker 12: we go.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Beams on the phone, all right, what's up? What do
- 7:54Speaker 1: you got? We'll get you here we go. What what
- 7:56Speaker 1: do you got?
- 7:57Speaker 12: No worry?
- 8:00Speaker 11: There we go.
- 8:02Speaker 12: I just wanted to say, great draft. And I don't
- 8:04Speaker 12: care what Bucky Brooks has to say. He wants to
- 8:07Speaker 12: give us a c out there, but we'll see, right,
- 8:11Speaker 12: we'll show him. I liked that they didn't go after
- 8:16Speaker 12: a running back, like they said, we we got a
- 8:19Speaker 12: bunch of opportunities here to pick one up, you know,
- 8:24Speaker 12: a trade. I don't know if I could name names
- 8:27Speaker 12: out there, so I won't. I won't go and name names.
- 8:32Speaker 12: But I just like the flexibility they now have with
- 8:36Speaker 12: the line. You know, where we are talking about left
- 8:39Speaker 12: tackle an awful lot, but what about right tackle? What
- 8:42Speaker 12: if Steel doesn't come around? You know he was a
- 8:46Speaker 12: little shaky there. You could always throw Guiding over there
- 8:50Speaker 12: to right tackle, you know, moved Tyler Smith to left
- 8:55Speaker 12: tackle and throw BB in the guard. I mean, it's
- 8:58Speaker 12: just a lot of flexibility there right. So yeah, I'm
- 9:03Speaker 12: really liking that. Another thing I want to talk about
- 9:07Speaker 12: is people are always talking about why didn't Jerry Jones
- 9:09Speaker 12: sign this person? Why didn't Jerry Jones sign that person?
- 9:13Speaker 12: And uh, I don't know. I believe Jerry Jones would
- 9:17Speaker 12: buy the thing if he want, if he could, you know,
- 9:20Speaker 12: I believe he would go out and pay everybody.
- 9:22Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 9:24Speaker 12: Unfortunately, back in the nineties, you know, all this free agency.
- 9:29Speaker 12: I call it the Cowboy rule because Cowboys would have
- 9:32Speaker 12: went on and probably won about four more Super Bowls
- 9:36Speaker 12: in the nineties if they could have kept all their players.
- 9:39Speaker 12: So they threw these these free agency rules in there
- 9:43Speaker 12: to uh, you know, break everything up, make everything a
- 9:46Speaker 12: little bit more competitive and in things of that nature.
- 9:51Speaker 12: And uh, you know, I actually like it as as
- 9:53Speaker 12: I guess as a football fan. Yes, I've been a
- 9:55Speaker 12: Cowboy fan since the seventies, but you know I I like,
- 10:00Speaker 12: actually like the competitiveness. Are you gonna get up there
- 10:03Speaker 12: sometimes and not winning? Yeah, of course, you know things
- 10:08Speaker 12: we always talk about all the time that things have
- 10:10Speaker 12: to come into play, you know, work out so well
- 10:14Speaker 12: and perfectly for you to win the Super Bowl. And
- 10:17Speaker 12: I just believe that. So I don't hate on my
- 10:20Speaker 12: Cowboys at all. Okay, where are you gonna say something?
- 10:27Speaker 7: No?
- 10:27Speaker 1: Are you? Is that it?
- 10:29Speaker 10: Yeah?
- 10:29Speaker 11: That's it.
- 10:30Speaker 12: I'll leave that for right now.
- 10:32Speaker 4: Okay, Well, all right, thanks Will for the call. Appreciate
- 10:35Speaker 4: that good stuff. Draft grades. He talked about draft grades.
- 10:39Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's a I'll be honest, I
- 10:45Speaker 4: think that's a stupid procedure, honestly, and to grade drafts afterwards.
- 10:51Speaker 4: So you said, I didn't see Bucky Brook doing that.
- 10:53Speaker 4: Bucky's been part of our you know, family, you know,
- 10:56Speaker 4: here and doing some stuff. He hasn't done some stuff
- 10:59Speaker 4: in a while. But you know, I respect him and
- 11:02Speaker 4: he does a good job. But I'm just saying grading
- 11:05Speaker 4: the draft is really like grading. It's just basically you're
- 11:08Speaker 4: grading yourself. Because these guys put out a mock draft.
- 11:13Speaker 4: They put out their top one hundred, their best available player.
- 11:16Speaker 4: Think about if you're Daniel Jeremiah and you're sitting there
- 11:19Speaker 4: on the draft and all of a sudden, here's here's
- 11:22Speaker 4: my board, here's my thirty first best player, and you're
- 11:26Speaker 4: sitting in the third round at pick eighty and your
- 11:28Speaker 4: thirty first best players there. That doesn't look good. So
- 11:32Speaker 4: then when the guy gets picked, where's he say? Good pick,
- 11:35Speaker 4: good pick, good job, Titans, good job. That's good value.
- 11:37Speaker 4: Of course it is. Of course you think it is
- 11:39Speaker 4: because that's how you evaluated him, which is fine. And
- 11:42Speaker 4: so that's what happens these draft grades. The teams that
- 11:45Speaker 4: pick the players that fell that and or the players
- 11:49Speaker 4: you've heard of that were really good college players, you think, oh,
- 11:53Speaker 4: they're getting great value there. I mean, yeah, yeah, you think.
- 11:56Speaker 4: So nothing's happened, nothing's happened since Friday or Thursday or
- 12:01Speaker 4: whatever until except for them getting picked. But they didn't
- 12:04Speaker 4: become better or worse players. So I always think it's
- 12:07Speaker 4: it's silly to grade the draft because you're basically just
- 12:11Speaker 4: going off of what you just did and nothing, nothing's
- 12:13Speaker 4: really changed.
- 12:14Speaker 1: But it's fun to do.
- 12:15Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean i've seen the Cowboys with an
- 12:17Speaker 4: as I've seen them BC. Who cares. I mean, like
- 12:21Speaker 4: doesn't matter. I mean, like I said, grade the twenty
- 12:23Speaker 4: twenty one draft that they've been in the league three years,
- 12:26Speaker 4: you know, was that a good draft?
- 12:27Speaker 1: It was?
- 12:28Speaker 4: I mean that's that's really what what matters is. Yeah,
- 12:31Speaker 4: it looks good. It's all potential. I mean, how these
- 12:34Speaker 4: guys potentially might fit. But you know they've got to
- 12:36Speaker 4: come over, you know, come here and do the job.
- 12:39Speaker 4: And so that's why it's just always early to do that.
- 12:42Speaker 4: And I don't you know, so, I mean in some
- 12:45Speaker 4: of these guys, that's what they're asked to do media wide. Hey,
- 12:47Speaker 4: let's do a draft grade cool? You know they don't know,
- 12:50Speaker 4: and and and it's just it's it's I guess it's
- 12:53Speaker 4: fun to do and it's fun to watch. But if
- 12:55Speaker 4: they're all over the map, then that just tells you
- 12:57Speaker 4: that it's Nothing's like concret eat when it comes to that.
- 13:01Speaker 4: All right, and you talked about Steele. You know, I
- 13:04Speaker 4: think he's going to be fine at right tackle.
- 13:06Speaker 1: I really do.
- 13:06Speaker 4: I think he was having a good season before he
- 13:10Speaker 4: got hurt in twenty twenty two, took a little bit
- 13:14Speaker 4: in twenty three to kind of get get back, you know,
- 13:16Speaker 4: going again, and then when he did, I thought, I
- 13:19Speaker 4: thought he played a lot better. So I think he's
- 13:21Speaker 4: going to be fine. But you know, you have options.
- 13:24Speaker 4: That's what's what's good about these versatile linemen that have
- 13:26Speaker 4: played tackle, They played guards, some guards have played center,
- 13:29Speaker 4: so you can have a lot of options there and
- 13:31Speaker 4: you should have some pretty good competition. All right, Sebastian
- 13:34Speaker 4: and Savannah Georgia. Sebastian, good afternoon, sir.
- 13:38Speaker 13: How you doing.
- 13:38Speaker 1: I'm great? What's up?
- 13:40Speaker 14: That's good?
- 13:41Speaker 13: Nothing much to finish my day day trading, I day
- 13:43Speaker 13: trade till like two o'clock is usually a big time
- 13:45Speaker 13: for me, and I'm Eastern Standards, so usually that's when
- 13:48Speaker 13: the show's on. And I tried to call like the
- 13:49Speaker 13: second half of the show, can't get through. I was
- 13:51Speaker 13: blown up Friday, I was getting through. I think your
- 13:54Speaker 13: show ended at noon Eastern Standard time. I think I
- 13:56Speaker 13: caught it the end of the show. But here we
- 13:59Speaker 13: are now. So I just wanted to call you because
- 14:01Speaker 13: I know you have the ability to do something that
- 14:03Speaker 13: you know it's hard to do because you can't call
- 14:05Speaker 13: the draft show. I want you to go and if
- 14:07Speaker 13: you can, when when you see Brian just telling them
- 14:09Speaker 13: that Ed k Hill would be so proud.
- 14:11Speaker 12: Man.
- 14:12Speaker 13: The faces changed, but the quality of the Draft show
- 14:14Speaker 13: always stays the same.
- 14:16Speaker 10: Water wall coverage.
- 14:17Speaker 13: Your guy Nick Harris did a fantastic job. Iisha everybody
- 14:20Speaker 13: in that room from start to finish of that draft.
- 14:23Speaker 13: We're absolutely the best people that I listened to. I
- 14:26Speaker 13: watched some of it because I'm my hometown's Detroit, so
- 14:28Speaker 13: I watched some of the Detroit stuff and I watch,
- 14:30Speaker 13: you know, mel Kiper and everybody talking about.
- 14:31Speaker 11: The draft picks.
- 14:32Speaker 13: No one's touching the Cowboys Draft show so if you
- 14:35Speaker 13: can just pass that mention along, you know, I appreciate
- 14:37Speaker 13: you so much. Just been listening.
- 14:40Speaker 11: Yeah, you got a lot.
- 14:41Speaker 1: It is the best.
- 14:43Speaker 13: No, no, that's that's not that's not going smoke at all.
- 14:45Speaker 13: It's the best.
- 14:46Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's it's a cowboys centric show that
- 14:50Speaker 4: they are going to talk about the Cowboys, but then
- 14:52Speaker 4: they don't ignore, you know, the Seattle's pick at number sixteen.
- 14:56Speaker 4: I mean they talk about him, talk about the player,
- 14:58Speaker 4: and then but it kind of pertains to the Cowboys.
- 15:01Speaker 4: It's always, you know, and I think I think that's
- 15:04Speaker 4: really good if you're a cowboy fan. So yeah, I
- 15:07Speaker 4: mean it's it's definitely the best show for any cowboy
- 15:11Speaker 4: fan that also loves the draft.
- 15:13Speaker 13: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I love the draft too. I
- 15:15Speaker 13: think we did a good job. I was surprised that
- 15:17Speaker 13: we didn't take a running back. And if going forward,
- 15:20Speaker 13: if I was a running back in college, if I'm
- 15:22Speaker 13: not Ernie Simms or Ezekiel Elliott coming out, I'm looking
- 15:25Speaker 13: at position flex. I'm looking at you know, doubling as
- 15:28Speaker 13: a wide receiver. Because they're not taking running backs high anymore.
- 15:32Speaker 13: You can see that they devalued that position. Quite a bit,
- 15:35Speaker 13: and I was surprised that we didn't take one at all,
- 15:37Speaker 13: but obviously we had a plan, so you know, I
- 15:39Speaker 13: was cool with that as well. But yeah, I just
- 15:42Speaker 13: appreciate the show. I've been checking it out. You got
- 15:44Speaker 13: a lot of new callers, you got a lot of
- 15:45Speaker 13: people that call all the time. It's been really good
- 15:48Speaker 13: listen with mister even you have a great day. I'm
- 15:50Speaker 13: having a real good day myself and Chris, Chris being jazz,
- 15:53Speaker 13: everybody in the back. You guys have a great day.
- 15:55Speaker 13: Out call every chance I get.
- 15:56Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate that great call, Sebastian. You know, I
- 16:01Speaker 4: don't know for sure if you can just say the
- 16:04Speaker 4: running back position isn't valued high just because of this year.
- 16:10Speaker 4: I think it just kind of comes and goes. I
- 16:11Speaker 4: think if there's a special running back, I think you'll
- 16:13Speaker 4: get taken. I mean, last year there was two running
- 16:16Speaker 4: backs in your top twelve, b Jon Robinson and then
- 16:19Speaker 4: Jamier Gibbs. They both went pretty high. Gibbs was a surprise,
- 16:24Speaker 4: but I mean, and he had a good year. I
- 16:28Speaker 4: just I think this year's class they just didn't have
- 16:31Speaker 4: that type of guy.
- 16:33Speaker 12: You know.
- 16:33Speaker 1: The one thing about a running back is you.
- 16:37Speaker 4: Got to be able to do a lot of things
- 16:38Speaker 4: really well to be to be taken high, or you've
- 16:42Speaker 4: got one or two traits that are just off the charts.
- 16:45Speaker 4: And I think Bjhon Robinson was very complete, did a
- 16:47Speaker 4: lot of things well, and I think Jamiir Gibbs was
- 16:51Speaker 4: close to that. But he has just dynamic speed and
- 16:55Speaker 4: that that was fun to watch unless you're a defender
- 16:58Speaker 4: trying to trying to attack him. But but I think
- 17:01Speaker 4: I don't think the I think we're I don't think
- 17:04Speaker 4: we're done seeing running backs drafted in the first round.
- 17:07Speaker 4: But they're gonna have to be They're gonna have to
- 17:09Speaker 4: be elite. They're gonna have to be to be a
- 17:11Speaker 4: type of player that's going to come right in and
- 17:14Speaker 4: contribute and help your team because the clock is ticking
- 17:17Speaker 4: on these running backs when when they come in and
- 17:19Speaker 4: they're gonna get about five years for a first round
- 17:21Speaker 4: pick or a four if you're after that, so you better,
- 17:24Speaker 4: you better come in and be able to compete right away.
- 17:26Speaker 4: And I don't I don't think we're done seeing that.
- 17:28Speaker 4: But they've got to be very special and that really
- 17:31Speaker 4: hasn't changed over the last few years. I mean that
- 17:33Speaker 4: that's the way it was with Zeke. I mean I
- 17:35Speaker 4: remember Stephen Jones saying four days before that draft that
- 17:39Speaker 4: running backs is not valued the same anymore unless you
- 17:41Speaker 4: get someone special. And then four days later they drafted
- 17:43Speaker 4: Zeke number four.
- 17:44Speaker 1: He was special.
- 17:45Speaker 4: So and now he's back, all right, Michael and Bowling Green, Kentucky.
- 17:52Speaker 3: Yeah, as you turned a little bit of the last call.
- 17:54Speaker 3: And uh, I mean I think if you you know,
- 17:58Speaker 3: you're in Cowboys, you call a rock, you got a
- 18:01Speaker 3: good chance of hitting a running back. So I mean
- 18:06Speaker 3: we got a lot is what we get? Seven Captain
- 18:09Speaker 3: Brighton squad.
- 18:11Speaker 1: Okay, yep.
- 18:14Speaker 3: If even with all that, if if somebody let a
- 18:18Speaker 3: big one go or you know, you got cook still
- 18:22Speaker 3: out there and stuff, which I'm not sure about them anyway,
- 18:26Speaker 3: do you think doubts would would would pull the trigger
- 18:28Speaker 3: and pick one up and drop one.
- 18:31Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I don't think that they're they're you know,
- 18:34Speaker 4: one hundred committed to these backs that they have. I mean,
- 18:38Speaker 4: they're always going to be looking. They're looking to see
- 18:41Speaker 4: if there's if there's another option, if there's a trade
- 18:43Speaker 4: on the table, and yeah, I mean I think that
- 18:47Speaker 4: they're going to explore their options there. But I'm sure
- 18:51Speaker 4: as it is right now, you know, they they like
- 18:53Speaker 4: what they what they've got. You know, there's probably a
- 18:57Speaker 4: little bit more love for Rico Daddle than then there
- 19:00Speaker 4: is you know, then the rest of the league had
- 19:03Speaker 4: for him. You know, they did bring him back on
- 19:04Speaker 4: a one year deal. But you know, I think I
- 19:07Speaker 4: think that you're always going to be looking and and
- 19:09Speaker 4: and that probably have their eyes open for some things.
- 19:13Speaker 3: And then you know, everybody's talking about the drafts, and
- 19:16Speaker 3: I don't I don't think you can really grate it
- 19:19Speaker 3: for a few years. I mean, you're gonna have, I
- 19:22Speaker 3: guess what, look and see how Geiton does compared to uh,
- 19:26Speaker 3: the center we were trying to get. But uh, to
- 19:29Speaker 3: to see how the draft went.
- 19:32Speaker 4: Isn't that, I mean, really is always? I mean yeah,
- 19:36Speaker 4: I mean you're you're right. I just said that you
- 19:38Speaker 4: were probably before you called. I mean, it's just it's
- 19:41Speaker 4: not the time to evaluate these these uh, these this
- 19:46Speaker 4: draft class. I mean, it's fun to do, but it's
- 19:49Speaker 4: just you know, you you you, I mean, what if
- 19:52Speaker 4: you just didn't like that this corner back from Fresno State,
- 19:56Speaker 4: you know, who who is this guy? They're on bland.
- 19:58Speaker 4: He didn't even play a lot for State President State. Sorry,
- 20:01Speaker 4: I mean you wouldn't. You just wouldn't like him. And
- 20:03Speaker 4: it's like, I don't think he's going to be that good, okay,
- 20:07Speaker 4: you know, or or Dumont Clark. I mean, he's got
- 20:10Speaker 4: a neck injury. He may never play well. You know,
- 20:12Speaker 4: by the end of that year, Damon Clark is playing
- 20:16Speaker 4: and dron Land leads the team in picks. That was
- 20:19Speaker 4: the twenty twenty two draft. So I'm just saying it's
- 20:22Speaker 4: it's it's tough to evaluate. You know, there's people that
- 20:25Speaker 4: thought that Kelvin Joseph was.
- 20:27Speaker 1: Going to be really good.
- 20:28Speaker 4: You know, I'll be honest, I didn't like to pick
- 20:30Speaker 4: at the time, and I don't like it now. But
- 20:32Speaker 4: I mean, but but I'm just saying it's early. It's
- 20:36Speaker 4: it's early to tell. But I mean, Beebe looks like
- 20:39Speaker 4: a fun pick, a fun player to watch. Hopefully he
- 20:42Speaker 4: will be.
- 20:43Speaker 3: Well, I think we're still going to win where I
- 20:45Speaker 3: think our wins are still going to be in the
- 20:47Speaker 3: neighborhood what we've had.
- 20:48Speaker 1: So yeah, well.
- 20:52Speaker 4: They got to get a little better because I think
- 20:53Speaker 4: the sky, I think the schedule is going to be better,
- 20:57Speaker 4: you know, when you're playing first place schedule. I mean,
- 20:59Speaker 4: you know, forty nine ers are still there, and Detroit
- 21:02Speaker 4: looks like they're gonna be good. Houston looks like they're
- 21:04Speaker 4: gonna be good. So those year three teams that you
- 21:06Speaker 4: picked up this year, on top of playing the NFC North,
- 21:09Speaker 4: which is AFC North, which is always tough, those those
- 21:12Speaker 4: teams are tough. So the schedule does look tougher, and
- 21:16Speaker 4: you know, but you got to be a little bit better.
- 21:18Speaker 4: Maybe they will be. Maybe Zimmer's defense will be better
- 21:21Speaker 4: than what it was.
- 21:22Speaker 3: Maybe how to Zeke in that Green Bay game?
- 21:26Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's not just about running the
- 21:30Speaker 4: ball and being you know, and being tough. It's just
- 21:33Speaker 4: it's a it's having the attitude, having a you know,
- 21:36Speaker 4: hey give me the damn ball, let me go and
- 21:38Speaker 4: make a play. And he's not what he used to be.
- 21:41Speaker 4: He's lost a few steps, but he's still I mean,
- 21:44Speaker 4: even his last year here when it was third and one,
- 21:46Speaker 4: he got it.
- 21:47Speaker 1: He got the yard.
- 21:49Speaker 4: I mean not always with some change and it was
- 21:52Speaker 4: just a yard or yard in half, but he did
- 21:55Speaker 4: what he's supposed to do. Now that kills your average.
- 21:57Speaker 4: So now it looks like you're not playing. You know,
- 21:58Speaker 4: you're not as good anymore because you're goes down. But
- 22:00Speaker 4: if you're a short yardage back and it's third and one,
- 22:03Speaker 4: you need to get one. You need I mean, he
- 22:05Speaker 4: got ten touchdowns, so he got to the goal line too.
- 22:07Speaker 4: So anyways, I mean, I still think he can kind
- 22:10Speaker 4: of provide what you want. Maybe he needs somebody else
- 22:12Speaker 4: so to help him.
- 22:14Speaker 3: Yep, hey, I appreciate it.
- 22:16Speaker 4: All right, all right, Michael always appreciated a good call.
- 22:20Speaker 4: Let me say one thing real quick before we go
- 22:22Speaker 4: back to the to the phone line, which we do
- 22:25Speaker 4: have a line open eight eight eight eight five five
- 22:27Speaker 4: two two ninety seven. You know, you have to remember
- 22:30Speaker 4: this when you're looking at at at the way players
- 22:34Speaker 4: are evaluated. You know, like you've got your draft an
- 22:37Speaker 4: lesson experts out there and they're and they're studying players
- 22:41Speaker 4: for you know, all the teams. You know, this linebacker
- 22:45Speaker 4: for this team or this defensive end. I like, because
- 22:47Speaker 4: you can do this, this and this, and for the
- 22:49Speaker 4: most part, you would fit everybody. But let me go
- 22:52Speaker 4: back to a story from ten years ago. In twenty fourteen, Uh,
- 22:56Speaker 4: the Cowboys had a they drafted a linebacker in the
- 22:58Speaker 4: fourth round named Anthony Hitchens, and Hitchins was a player
- 23:02Speaker 4: that you're you're Todd mcshay's or mel kiper had in
- 23:05Speaker 4: the sixth round, seventh round and not on a lot
- 23:07Speaker 4: of people's board because he didn't run very fast at
- 23:09Speaker 4: the at the in his forty year at combine or
- 23:12Speaker 4: pro day, whatever. But Rod Marinelli, the defensive coordinator, loved him.
- 23:17Speaker 4: He thought he would be a perfect fit for what
- 23:19Speaker 4: he wants to do on defense, and he brings him
- 23:22Speaker 4: in as a rookie one hundred tackles as a rookie,
- 23:25Speaker 4: made the all you know all Rookie team uh that
- 23:28Speaker 4: season and had a really good year and on a
- 23:30Speaker 4: good football team, and he was he was a really
- 23:32Speaker 4: good player for that team. So my point is is
- 23:35Speaker 4: sometimes you see these grades that are just graded for
- 23:39Speaker 4: all teams, just kind of a generic grade on what
- 23:42Speaker 4: the player can do. But Mike Zimmer's looking at at
- 23:45Speaker 4: a at a Marshawn Neeland and going, I can use
- 23:49Speaker 4: him like this, or I can use this player, or
- 23:52Speaker 4: I like, you know, uh Maris Lee. If I he
- 23:55Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna probably position him like this. So
- 23:57Speaker 4: their grades are higher than others because of the been
- 24:00Speaker 4: The defensive coaches come in and really have a vision
- 24:03Speaker 4: for the player. You know, Donovan Wilson wasn't a guy
- 24:06Speaker 4: that was really high on, you know, on just anyway.
- 24:10Speaker 4: He wasn't playing that well. And then all of a sudden,
- 24:12Speaker 4: Dan Quinn comes over and takes the defensive coordinator drob
- 24:15Speaker 4: and says, I'm gonna use this guy in a lot
- 24:17Speaker 4: of different ways, and he ends up having really good
- 24:20Speaker 4: good season, has it and gets a new contract out
- 24:22Speaker 4: of it. So the coach's vision on the player can
- 24:25Speaker 4: change a little bit, So you can't always go off
- 24:27Speaker 4: what you see the grade because you're like, you know,
- 24:30Speaker 4: Zimmer had a complete different vision for some of these guys,
- 24:34Speaker 4: and that's why they're here, and that's why they picked
- 24:35Speaker 4: him where they did. All right, let's go to Dylan Northport, Florida.
- 24:40Speaker 1: Man, how are you good?
- 24:43Speaker 9: Yeah?
- 24:43Speaker 15: I gotta keep my ears open. I guess ramton'sdriving down
- 24:45Speaker 15: the highway.
- 24:45Speaker 1: I mean, if he's yelling at you, you know you
- 24:47Speaker 1: gotta yell back.
- 24:48Speaker 15: Yeah, I live like five minutes off the highways. I'm
- 24:50Speaker 15: close to the eels. Loud enough, maybe I'll hear you, Anthony, you.
- 24:53Speaker 1: Might have you might have heard that.
- 24:54Speaker 4: I didn't think Florida was so small, thought it was
- 24:56Speaker 4: kind of big, But I guess not.
- 24:58Speaker 1: I'm kidding long what's that, Bate, dude?
- 25:02Speaker 15: So yeah, man, I think they did pretty good. The
- 25:06Speaker 15: trade back ended up being great. I never thought of
- 25:08Speaker 15: BB as a center, but I'll take him and guiding
- 25:10Speaker 15: over Graham Barton. I think you'd that one trade allowed
- 25:13Speaker 15: to six really your whole line.
- 25:16Speaker 9: I'll take that.
- 25:17Speaker 15: A lot of people see Niland as like the boring
- 25:19Speaker 15: pick of the draft, but they had a plan with
- 25:21Speaker 15: him because de La probably won't be here next year,
- 25:23Speaker 15: is in a contract year, and everything I hear about him,
- 25:25Speaker 15: he's like a copy and paste. So hopefully he can
- 25:28Speaker 15: slide in and just do what de Law does. Now
- 25:30Speaker 15: that'd be great. Yeah, yeah, the corner they took third
- 25:35Speaker 15: round grades a lot of people had on him, so
- 25:37Speaker 15: that's exciting, and I think all in all, it looks
- 25:39Speaker 15: to be a good draft. We'll know in a couple
- 25:41Speaker 15: of years. Like everybody saying, but they drafted a bunch
- 25:43Speaker 15: of guys with like the same attitude as Jake Ferguson,
- 25:45Speaker 15: and that's what I really wanted. I call it the
- 25:47Speaker 15: fu attitude, like nobody's gonna f with me, and that's
- 25:50Speaker 15: that's what they did. And all these guys, especially beating that.
- 25:53Speaker 15: I'm excited to see him PLoP over some dudes. So yeah,
- 25:56Speaker 15: I think did a good job.
- 25:57Speaker 4: Yeah, I call it kind of the dirty work on draft.
- 26:01Speaker 4: You know these guys that are tough, and there are
- 26:03Speaker 4: a lot of them in the trenches. They you know,
- 26:05Speaker 4: they can stop the run, they can help block. I
- 26:07Speaker 4: mean kind of do the dirty work things. You don't
- 26:09Speaker 4: see a lot of flashy players in this draft.
- 26:13Speaker 15: Yeah, no doubt. I did have a question for you
- 26:15Speaker 15: something I was wondering about if we put on our
- 26:17Speaker 15: like twenty twenty vision spectacles here and go back in
- 26:20Speaker 15: time knowing what we know now, we didn't get a
- 26:23Speaker 15: running back. There was a run on them in the
- 26:24Speaker 15: fourth and now obviously they brought in Zeke, So I
- 26:26Speaker 15: want to get your thoughts on Zeke. But also would
- 26:30Speaker 15: you still want to have had them trade for Trey
- 26:33Speaker 15: Lance last year and sacrifice that pick or would you
- 26:36Speaker 15: rather have had that pick to pick up one of
- 26:38Speaker 15: these running backs? So we got a bunch of guys
- 26:39Speaker 15: in there right now. Man trades, they all got trades,
- 26:41Speaker 15: but nobody's really complete. Yeah, so I think it would
- 26:44Speaker 15: have been better to maybe have gotten a guy that
- 26:47Speaker 15: was a little bit more complete. Obviously, I was okay
- 26:49Speaker 15: at the trade at time, so I'm not going to
- 26:50Speaker 15: go back on that and really criticize them for that.
- 26:53Speaker 4: Yeah, I would probably not have made the trade. You know,
- 26:56Speaker 4: if you're going back now, I mean, and think about it.
- 26:59Speaker 4: If this is this is coming off the season where
- 27:02Speaker 4: Dak was injured and led the league in picks, so
- 27:06Speaker 4: you're like, you know, we got to see where we
- 27:09Speaker 4: are here. If you were to say, hey, hey, hold up,
- 27:11Speaker 4: before you make this pick, I just want to tell
- 27:13Speaker 4: you in my crystal ball that Dak is going to
- 27:16Speaker 4: lead the NFL in completions and in touchdown passes, and
- 27:20Speaker 4: he's going to have the best year and he's probably
- 27:21Speaker 4: going to finish in the top two or three in
- 27:23Speaker 4: the MVP voting.
- 27:25Speaker 1: You'd be like, okay, all right, I like that.
- 27:27Speaker 4: I like where we're going here, and you may not
- 27:29Speaker 4: have made that trade so so, and then of course
- 27:32Speaker 4: everyone loves to have their pick, but they did it,
- 27:36Speaker 4: and you know, I don't really fault them for it,
- 27:38Speaker 4: but I mean, yeah, I mean, hindsight is twenty twenty always,
- 27:42Speaker 4: and I think that if you look back, you probably
- 27:44Speaker 4: wouldn't have wouldn't have done that.
- 27:47Speaker 15: Yeah, and if he had like another year or two
- 27:49Speaker 15: on his contract tray that is, I think I would
- 27:52Speaker 15: have felt much better about it. But that's why they
- 27:54Speaker 15: got one for a fourth nine or two. You know,
- 27:56Speaker 15: if he had more years, maybe they would have got them.
- 27:58Speaker 15: It would have cost more. I don't know, but yeah,
- 28:00Speaker 15: I'm with you on that one. I would have rather
- 28:02Speaker 15: have the running back.
- 28:02Speaker 10: I think.
- 28:03Speaker 4: Yeah, well, they didn't get a quarterback in free agency.
- 28:07Speaker 4: Thanks for the for the call, Dylan. Yeah, they did
- 28:09Speaker 4: not get a quarterback in a rookie free agency, and
- 28:11Speaker 4: they probably won't this. This is going to be some
- 28:15Speaker 4: some highly anticipated preseason games coming up, just because number one,
- 28:21Speaker 4: you know, there's a quarterback that you want to see
- 28:24Speaker 4: and he's going to get a lot of playing time
- 28:25Speaker 4: and Trey Lance he might even start and finish an
- 28:28Speaker 4: entire game.
- 28:30Speaker 1: I think I think you're gonna want to.
- 28:31Speaker 4: See what the kickoff rules are going to do, even
- 28:34Speaker 4: though you may it may be rather vanilla and how
- 28:37Speaker 4: they do it, but but I still think you'll see
- 28:39Speaker 4: some of that so, you know, I think they'll it'll
- 28:42Speaker 4: be who knows if this is the last year of three.
- 28:45Speaker 4: Probably not, but that sounds like there's going to be
- 28:47Speaker 4: eighteen game schedule at some point in the near future.
- 28:50Speaker 4: I wouldn't think they'd turned around that this quickly, But
- 28:54Speaker 4: but you know that that always that always made sense
- 28:58Speaker 4: to me because you don't see that many you'll see
- 29:00Speaker 4: anybody that has an odd number of games on their schedule.
- 29:03Speaker 4: It's always even just having the home in a way
- 29:06Speaker 4: that's uneven. It doesn't make sense. So it was always
- 29:09Speaker 4: looking like eighteen and two as far as preseason and
- 29:13Speaker 4: then the regular season games.
- 29:14Speaker 1: All right, Rob in Vegas, what's up?
- 29:17Speaker 10: Hey, Nick?
- 29:18Speaker 1: How are you doing?
- 29:19Speaker 9: I'm good?
- 29:20Speaker 5: Uh.
- 29:21Speaker 2: Piggybacking off of what Dylan was for that trade, Lance
- 29:25Speaker 2: trade was dumb. You're trading for a guy that you
- 29:29Speaker 2: hope never sees the field. I mean, let's be honest,
- 29:32Speaker 2: you never want to see the backup quarterback. He was
- 29:35Speaker 2: never going to be your future guy when you still
- 29:38Speaker 2: had a guy on the contract that's forty mili plus
- 29:41Speaker 2: and now you have no contract passed this year, and
- 29:45Speaker 2: let's face it, you don't want to see him this
- 29:47Speaker 2: year play, So what are you gonna do. You're going
- 29:49Speaker 2: to throw him in preseason to probably look good, and
- 29:51Speaker 2: then what are you going to do? Throw twenty five
- 29:53Speaker 2: million dollars at him? I mean, so it was it
- 29:56Speaker 2: was that was a just a dumb trade.
- 30:00Speaker 4: Let's wait and see on that. Let's just wait and
- 30:02Speaker 4: see on that. Maybe he has a really good preseason.
- 30:06Speaker 2: Yeah, but even if he does, what are you gonna do?
- 30:08Speaker 2: What are you going to offer him to stay?
- 30:10Speaker 1: Let me finish? I mean, I mean, it may not
- 30:12Speaker 1: be that way.
- 30:12Speaker 4: It may be a situation where another team of Minnesota
- 30:15Speaker 4: type of situation from last year, where they're going and
- 30:18Speaker 4: they're trading for Dobbs in the middle of the season.
- 30:20Speaker 4: You might get a little bit more value there than
- 30:22Speaker 4: you would at any other time.
- 30:24Speaker 2: So, uh, I don't see anybody ever giving up more
- 30:27Speaker 2: than a fourth round pick for him or you know,
- 30:31Speaker 2: especially no one. He's a free agent, so I don't
- 30:34Speaker 2: think so. I just think I don't know what that
- 30:37Speaker 2: That trade was just mystifying, just like bringing in Zeke
- 30:43Speaker 2: doesn't really make any sense. I mean, you got six
- 30:45Speaker 2: of the guys that are all the same. You know,
- 30:47Speaker 2: I like Zeke, but I like Zeke six years ago. Well,
- 30:52Speaker 2: but but I I thought the draft was predictable.
- 30:55Speaker 4: Hold on, hold on, is who's the best running back
- 30:58Speaker 4: on the team right now?
- 31:00Speaker 5: Rico Daddell?
- 31:00Speaker 1: Okay, disagree, but that that's fine. I mean, but that's
- 31:05Speaker 1: that's the point.
- 31:05Speaker 9: Who so so?
- 31:06Speaker 7: Who do you think is z?
- 31:07Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's better than Rico Dadele.
- 31:11Speaker 11: No.
- 31:11Speaker 2: The only reason why you say Donald Daddle could at
- 31:14Speaker 2: least run forty yards fifty yards and get there?
- 31:17Speaker 1: Does he have the ball? Is he gonna Is he
- 31:20Speaker 1: just gonna run? Did you get that?
- 31:22Speaker 11: No?
- 31:22Speaker 2: No, I got it? Uh No, Rico Daddell. I just
- 31:26Speaker 2: think at least has some speed a break runs it.
- 31:29Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think Zeke's had a run. I
- 31:31Speaker 2: think they said he's had like six runs or seven
- 31:34Speaker 2: un past ten yards. Here's the rank, like forty five.
- 31:36Speaker 4: Here's the thing, this is not kicker, punter or quarterback.
- 31:39Speaker 4: They both can play. They both can play. So that's fine.
- 31:43Speaker 4: I mean that that's a good argument to me.
- 31:46Speaker 2: It's like, as long as you don't try to make
- 31:48Speaker 2: them the main guys. Uh and and think he's gonna,
- 31:53Speaker 2: you know, turn back the clock. Yeah, he could block
- 31:57Speaker 2: maybe do better a short yardage hunt. The lip he
- 32:00Speaker 2: may be in trouble, because then really what you need
- 32:03Speaker 2: him for if you're not gonna if you're gonna use
- 32:04Speaker 2: Zekenshure y Odage. I mean, I thought the draft was predictable.
- 32:08Speaker 2: I totally agree with the grades. You know, these guys
- 32:11Speaker 2: are like weathermen. You know, they're fifty percent right three
- 32:14Speaker 2: days later. So it's like, no, I think the draft
- 32:18Speaker 2: was good. They did what they had to do, you
- 32:22Speaker 2: know they I like the guide and kid, he's massive.
- 32:29Speaker 2: The one thing I wanted to bring up, you know
- 32:32Speaker 2: they the Eagles just signed AJ Brown I believe thirty
- 32:35Speaker 2: two million dollars a year. So now I don't know
- 32:39Speaker 2: what Jerry's waiting for. But CD now going to cush it?
- 32:42Speaker 2: What thirty three, thirty four million a year? I have
- 32:45Speaker 2: a fee. I don't see Jerry Jones paying both CD
- 32:49Speaker 2: Lamb and Michael Parsons.
- 32:50Speaker 11: I just don't see it.
- 32:51Speaker 2: I don't see him writing a check. So each player
- 32:54Speaker 2: in the thirty two to thirty four million dollar a
- 32:57Speaker 2: year range, and that's why I think neither one is signed.
- 33:02Speaker 2: I don't know if he's deciding which one unit he's
- 33:06Speaker 2: going to pay, but I don't see him paying both.
- 33:09Speaker 2: The number is going up astronomical and then you throw
- 33:13Speaker 2: and obviously.
- 33:14Speaker 14: Dak that's going to be in the fifty eight to sixty.
- 33:17Speaker 2: I'm thinking, or you know, yeah, So I just don't
- 33:21Speaker 2: see them signing these guys. The cowboys do this all
- 33:24Speaker 2: the time. They hold on, they hold on, They hold
- 33:26Speaker 2: on like like they're waiting for the player to say,
- 33:30Speaker 2: you know what, I'll give you a little discount. The
- 33:32Speaker 2: discount never comes, and then he ends up breaking a
- 33:34Speaker 2: bigger check. And you saw with Michael Parses, Now that's
- 33:37Speaker 2: over thirty and I'll see the Lamb it's over thirty two.
- 33:40Speaker 2: So well, I don't know what they're waiting for with
- 33:43Speaker 2: these two star players.
- 33:44Speaker 4: Well, it was definitely waiting for that. Jerry made it
- 33:47Speaker 4: clear he was waiting for these other receivers to sign.
- 33:50Speaker 4: I don't think he wanted to set the market there.
- 33:51Speaker 4: He wanted Jefferson to sign, he wanted a j Brown,
- 33:55Speaker 4: he wanted.
- 33:56Speaker 2: But I don't understand that.
- 33:57Speaker 5: Do you understand it?
- 33:58Speaker 2: What do you mean set the market?
- 33:59Speaker 5: The market is shot?
- 34:00Speaker 2: Well now the marketer said, it's not a number of
- 34:02Speaker 2: thoughts at thirty two what's the if you if you
- 34:06Speaker 2: would have did it, Let's say, I don't know, a
- 34:08Speaker 2: couple of months ago, maybe you get him at thirty
- 34:10Speaker 2: right right, Well, I don't know to say when when
- 34:14Speaker 2: when Jerry says I don't want to set the market
- 34:17Speaker 2: at market is the market And.
- 34:19Speaker 4: It may not be Jerry it maybe it may be
- 34:21Speaker 4: the other side as well. I mean, you know, you
- 34:23Speaker 4: know how these contracts work. This is an exclusive rights deal.
- 34:26Speaker 4: I mean, like like they have to agree, so, uh,
- 34:30Speaker 4: you know, I don't And and and they made that
- 34:32Speaker 4: clear in the press conference when they were asked about it,
- 34:34Speaker 4: that it takes two sides. That it doesn't seem like
- 34:36Speaker 4: neither agent is trying to move quickly on on on
- 34:40Speaker 4: getting these deals done, you know, and.
- 34:41Speaker 2: CD, well you will. You see why because if you
- 34:45Speaker 2: want to be the last guy not the first guy.
- 34:47Speaker 1: Well you also got it.
- 34:49Speaker 4: They also have to think that they're better than that player,
- 34:53Speaker 4: you know, I mean, is C d a better player
- 34:55Speaker 4: than a J.
- 34:56Speaker 1: Brown? Should he get more money?
- 34:58Speaker 9: Yes?
- 34:58Speaker 1: That's and that's that's the debate, you know, that's the debate.
- 35:01Speaker 2: He's got the numbers, I mean, it's CD. He's got
- 35:05Speaker 2: the numbers. He's got the I mean, he's gotten better
- 35:08Speaker 2: every year. He's a better player. So, like I said,
- 35:11Speaker 2: his agent walks in and says, just starts at thirty three?
- 35:14Speaker 4: Whaty and Jefferson? His agent's thinking the same thing, you know.
- 35:18Speaker 4: So yeah, that's.
- 35:19Speaker 2: Why to me, you got to get these guys earlier,
- 35:22Speaker 2: A year or two earlier, saved you.
- 35:25Speaker 4: I would give money, Yeah, I would give CD two
- 35:27Speaker 4: hundred million dollars and on what a six year deal?
- 35:31Speaker 4: Seven year deal. They can void down to something else
- 35:33Speaker 4: if you know, if it needs to. But I mean,
- 35:35Speaker 4: you can get him in that thirty range. I don't
- 35:37Speaker 4: think that he's gonna he's gonna turn down two hundred million.
- 35:40Speaker 1: So all right, great, all right, Rob, have a good one.
- 35:43Speaker 4: Yeah, phones are lighting up over there. I don't know
- 35:45Speaker 4: what Rob's got going on, but it sounds sounds good.
- 35:47Speaker 4: All right, Allie and Florida, what's up?
- 35:52Speaker 9: And man, how are you there?
- 35:54Speaker 1: I'm great? How are you pretty good?
- 35:56Speaker 9: Did you miss us?
- 35:58Speaker 1: Sure?
- 35:59Speaker 9: Okay, that's one. It's just in case because you have
- 36:02Speaker 9: a lot of fan base, you know. Yeah, So a
- 36:05Speaker 9: couple of things. That shirt looks great on you. I
- 36:10Speaker 9: like the color of that shirt.
- 36:13Speaker 1: Thanks, thank you, so a couple of things.
- 36:16Speaker 9: I want to welcome Zeke. He should never left, but
- 36:21Speaker 9: love to have him. But I think we're gonna miss
- 36:26Speaker 9: Gallop and Pollard because they were such a great team players,
- 36:30Speaker 9: and I'll wish both of them all the best in
- 36:34Speaker 9: the next location. But I've got a question an at
- 36:37Speaker 9: trivia for you the draft.
- 36:40Speaker 16: I'm very happy. Look, I don't know everything, and you
- 36:44Speaker 16: have plenty of people. They're gonna give your opinion. I'm
- 36:48Speaker 16: just gonna stay on the fun side. So on the
- 36:52Speaker 16: I believe Saturday afternoon, Jerry had a master Jones had
- 36:57Speaker 16: a conference. Then he says, Dan Quinn went to Washington.
- 37:06Speaker 9: The Mike Zimmer is here. They are totally two different
- 37:11Speaker 9: story of defenses. They might swap the players. I never
- 37:17Speaker 9: understood what that meant by it. I don't know you
- 37:20Speaker 9: heard about it or not. Yeah, so that's one. But
- 37:24Speaker 9: here's your trivia. Then I hang up and listen, and
- 37:28Speaker 9: I tried to design the code of trivia just for you.
- 37:32Speaker 9: So be fair. So Arkansas razorback your favorite team. They
- 37:41Speaker 9: had two hundred and seventy three players in NFL since
- 37:45Speaker 9: nineteen thirty six eighty since thirty years ago. How many
- 37:50Speaker 9: players play for Arkansas Razorbacks are associated with the Dallas Cowboys.
- 37:58Speaker 1: How many?
- 38:00Speaker 11: Yes?
- 38:01Speaker 12: Uh?
- 38:02Speaker 4: From that just is a treat questions.
- 38:08Speaker 9: It could I give you a little head. It could
- 38:10Speaker 9: be the executive as well. It could be what they
- 38:13Speaker 9: could be executive some of the executives.
- 38:17Speaker 4: Oh, that's everybody that works for the Cowboys up there.
- 38:23Speaker 1: Do you have a number for the player?
- 38:25Speaker 9: Yeah? Three three, I have nineteen seventy Jerry Doocey.
- 38:31Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, did you just Bean drafted by the drafted?
- 38:34Speaker 9: Yes?
- 38:35Speaker 1: Oh, okay, drafted all.
- 38:37Speaker 4: Right, all right? And then the other two are Felix
- 38:39Speaker 4: Jones and Ridgeway.
- 38:41Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 38:41Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought you meant just played with the team.
- 38:44Speaker 4: And I was like, oh man, I ch march okay,
- 38:49Speaker 4: all right. I mean that's one thing that people kind
- 38:52Speaker 4: of forget. They think, well, Jerry'll draft this guy because
- 38:55Speaker 4: he went to Arkansas, and I mean up until Felix Jones,
- 38:57Speaker 4: which was almost you know, twenty something years five years,
- 39:00Speaker 4: I mean that was the first pick that he'd ever
- 39:02Speaker 4: taken in the first round or drafted, drafted at all.
- 39:05Speaker 4: And then the next one was Ridgeway, which the guy
- 39:08Speaker 4: spent like six hours at Arkansas. You know, I mean
- 39:11Speaker 4: at the portal, he wasn't really Arkansas, you know, guy,
- 39:15Speaker 4: but still that counts.
- 39:16Speaker 12: Uh.
- 39:16Speaker 9: And Jerry and Jimmy they've both won the championship, right.
- 39:20Speaker 1: Right, Jimmy Johnson right in nineteen sixty four. Thank you?
- 39:27Speaker 1: All right?
- 39:28Speaker 4: All right, Allie, let me go back to your question
- 39:29Speaker 4: about the swapping players. I really think what Jerry was
- 39:33Speaker 4: trying to just say was that these two coaches have
- 39:35Speaker 4: just different styles and so what players might work here
- 39:39Speaker 4: could work over there, if you know. And that's sort
- 39:41Speaker 4: of what we've already seen. I mean, they didn't make
- 39:44Speaker 4: a big push for Dorian's Armstrong and Dante Fowler and
- 39:47Speaker 4: and be oddish for that reason on offense, and you know,
- 39:51Speaker 4: Washington had the money, and you know, obviously the familiarity
- 39:54Speaker 4: there with Dan Quinn, and there's some players that you know,
- 39:56Speaker 4: I'm sure that uh, you know, Zimmer wants that just
- 39:59Speaker 4: fit differently in the scheme. So I think it really
- 40:01Speaker 4: comes down to more different scheme fit. And I think
- 40:04Speaker 4: your biggest one is where how they play and how
- 40:08Speaker 4: they view the linebacker position. You're not going to see
- 40:10Speaker 4: a lot of the undersized linebackers here like you saw
- 40:13Speaker 4: in Dan Quinn's system, and which means you sacrifice a
- 40:16Speaker 4: little bit, maybe a little bit, you know, slower linebacker,
- 40:19Speaker 4: but they're but they're bigger, tougher, stronger, they feel the
- 40:22Speaker 4: gaps a little bit more. So you're gonna you're gonna
- 40:25Speaker 4: see just a different type of player. On third and
- 40:27Speaker 4: third and two, third and three. This defense might be
- 40:30Speaker 4: a little better on third and six, third and seven,
- 40:32Speaker 4: when you have to go out and coverage and cover
- 40:34Speaker 4: the tight ends. There might be some issues there, but
- 40:37Speaker 4: we'll see how how it all all all works out.
- 40:39Speaker 4: Ronnie and New Jersey's next.
- 40:42Speaker 10: What's up, Nick? How you been?
- 40:43Speaker 1: I've been I'm good. How are you that?
- 40:46Speaker 7: That?
- 40:47Speaker 12: Uh?
- 40:47Speaker 10: Actually I was calling like most of the people, I
- 40:49Speaker 10: kind of enjoyed this draft. I think we actually went
- 40:52Speaker 10: for everything except for the most tackle and the lenning back.
- 40:57Speaker 12: Uh.
- 40:57Speaker 10: We kind of did what we had to do. I
- 41:00Speaker 10: like the Sun, I mean, I know he's uh he
- 41:02Speaker 10: plays old positions, but he's gonna be playing center for us.
- 41:06Speaker 10: That guy, that guy is exactly what I've been calling
- 41:08Speaker 10: you for. I'm like, we need somebody big, tough and mean,
- 41:12Speaker 10: and this guy is a road rader. Like I'm glad
- 41:15Speaker 10: we got this this kid, and he was uh we
- 41:18Speaker 10: got him what At the end of the third round,
- 41:19Speaker 10: he was projected a high second round pick. But you know, like,
- 41:23Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure this year with hard draft went, i
- 41:28Speaker 10: think we'll have a better season, to be honestly, at
- 41:30Speaker 10: least with the running beam And it seemed like they've
- 41:32Speaker 10: made an attempt to fitch that defense. But I'm still
- 41:38Speaker 10: not uh sold them the nose tackle. You know, I
- 41:41Speaker 10: know Massie this and that, but uh, seventh round pick,
- 41:45Speaker 10: I mean, we could have so we should have gone
- 41:47Speaker 10: for when we dropped the linebacker, we should have gone
- 41:50Speaker 10: for the either the running back or notes tackle. That's all.
- 41:53Speaker 10: But aside from that, Nick, thanks for taking my call.
- 41:56Speaker 10: I enjoy uh listening to the show. It was, it was,
- 41:59Speaker 10: it was I'm enjoying. Everybody's kind of agree But like
- 42:03Speaker 10: you said, like everybody's been saying, it's gonna take a
- 42:05Speaker 10: few years to see if if this draft came out
- 42:08Speaker 10: good or you know, or iver it's going to be
- 42:10Speaker 10: a bus But it seems pretty good right now.
- 42:12Speaker 4: Right Well, hey, Ronnie, watch out for that brink struck.
- 42:16Speaker 4: Is it backing up right here?
- 42:19Speaker 1: If it's got money, turn around, turn around? And get
- 42:22Speaker 1: some Yeah, I'm.
- 42:24Speaker 10: In construction, but there's a lot of movie moving parts
- 42:28Speaker 10: right here right now.
- 42:28Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. You know what it's. It's there's
- 42:31Speaker 1: a lot everybody's got phones ringing and all that.
- 42:34Speaker 4: But you know what it's. It's I mean, what no
- 42:36Speaker 4: matter what you know, take us for the call, Ronnie.
- 42:38Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what time you know it is. I mean,
- 42:41Speaker 4: we do a one o'clock show. It's either two o'clock
- 42:43Speaker 4: on the East coast or even eleven o'clock in the
- 42:45Speaker 4: West coast.
- 42:46Speaker 1: So everybody's working.
- 42:47Speaker 4: Everybody's doing stuff, so you know what I mean, it's
- 42:49Speaker 4: not like everyone's just sitting at home chilling like you know.
- 42:52Speaker 1: But I like that.
- 42:53Speaker 4: You know, I'm here working, I got stuff going on.
- 42:55Speaker 4: I'm gonna call the show driving a truck. You know,
- 42:58Speaker 4: we've had a mailman walk around on a route or
- 43:01Speaker 4: ups driver and stuff like that.
- 43:02Speaker 1: We got all that kind of stuff. Good stuff.
- 43:05Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you can always say, you know that
- 43:08Speaker 4: they could have got a running back and but you know,
- 43:12Speaker 4: I think it got to the point too where it's
- 43:15Speaker 4: like it's already kind of crowded here and Zeke was
- 43:19Speaker 4: that was happening Okay, they didn't get Zeke because they
- 43:22Speaker 4: didn't draft the running back they were getting Zeke.
- 43:24Speaker 1: That was that was all always going to happen.
- 43:27Speaker 4: So, you know, they liked Texas kid, you know Brooks,
- 43:32Speaker 4: they like some of the others, but that didn't really
- 43:34Speaker 4: work out. So then you get to the fourth round
- 43:36Speaker 4: and you're like, all right, is this fourth round running
- 43:39Speaker 4: back going to come in and be better than than
- 43:40Speaker 4: Rico Daddle.
- 43:42Speaker 1: Better than Malik Davis.
- 43:43Speaker 4: I mean maybe, but I think they they valued that
- 43:47Speaker 4: differently and they said, all right, you know, this is
- 43:49Speaker 4: kind of what we have, so we're just going to
- 43:51Speaker 4: kind of muddy the waters if we do another one here.
- 43:54Speaker 4: So I think that's probably how it went down that
- 43:57Speaker 4: they they were always looking at running backs, really didn't
- 44:02Speaker 4: really work out.
- 44:03Speaker 1: All right, Ray and fort Worth, Hey, yeah, you doing good?
- 44:06Speaker 12: Are you?
- 44:07Speaker 7: So I'm doing great? I've been hearing listening so quick.
- 44:12Speaker 7: So Jerry wants to say, said the other caller, who says, ridiculous,
- 44:17Speaker 7: Jerry's not gonna pay his guess. Here's well, using that
- 44:20Speaker 7: fourth round pick it was at the time. But here's
- 44:23Speaker 7: the thing. Jerry's exact words, I want to see more
- 44:26Speaker 7: cards plays Okay, with Dak holds all the cards, Okay,
- 44:29Speaker 7: they can't. They can't cut him, they can't trade him.
- 44:31Speaker 7: They So here's the thing. If he hits free agency market,
- 44:35Speaker 7: if Jerry says I was hit free agent market, he's gone,
- 44:38Speaker 7: Then what you're gonna do he's I think if Dak
- 44:41Speaker 7: hissed the market, he's gone. There'll be somebody else there
- 44:44Speaker 7: to give him the money. So now you got to
- 44:47Speaker 7: see what you got in trail ends. I mean you
- 44:49Speaker 7: got to. You gotta hold on to him. Now you're stuck.
- 44:52Speaker 7: So this is so it was. I was not a
- 44:55Speaker 7: fan of it at the time, but now looking at
- 44:58Speaker 7: how Jerry wants to play this thing, you might need
- 45:00Speaker 7: lay trailings cause you may not.
- 45:03Speaker 10: Uh.
- 45:03Speaker 7: I don't know what the schedule is gonna be. I
- 45:04Speaker 7: don't I'm not expecting him with this first place schedule.
- 45:07Speaker 7: It's gonna be hard. Two grab Grant Giton and b
- 45:12Speaker 7: B will be just by w with Graham Barton. So
- 45:16Speaker 7: two is not always better than one, although I do
- 45:19Speaker 7: like BB a lot. That's probably my favorite pick of
- 45:22Speaker 7: the draft. Yeah and uh and and along with the
- 45:26Speaker 7: along with the Notre Dame linebacker. So I and I'm
- 45:31Speaker 7: I I I just want to see them put Michael
- 45:34Speaker 7: Carsions back at linebacker. We're wasting his talents. This guy
- 45:38Speaker 7: can cover, he can run sideline the side lines, and
- 45:41Speaker 7: you know he did it his rookie year. I watched
- 45:44Speaker 7: him pick off a pass. I watched him cover cover
- 45:46Speaker 7: a guy no knowing a guy was gonna be froud.
- 45:49Speaker 7: I watched him cover a guy that was in the slot.
- 45:52Speaker 7: He's he's we're just wasting him there. He he's not
- 45:54Speaker 7: gonna hold up just banging his head at at d
- 45:57Speaker 7: E defensive end. So I hope they put somebody there
- 46:00Speaker 7: we needed the defensive end. I just want I would
- 46:03Speaker 7: rather have Zeke Parsons have the green dot on his head.
- 46:07Speaker 7: Put the green dot on his head. He's smart enough.
- 46:09Speaker 7: Let him do it. He's better. He's better there. So
- 46:12Speaker 7: I don't know. I hope Zimmer has that kind of plan. So,
- 46:17Speaker 7: I mean, just the notion that so that fourth round
- 46:20Speaker 7: pick may come in the play because there's no guarantee.
- 46:23Speaker 7: Players are not just taking a discount. No, Jerry, I
- 46:26Speaker 7: do believe Jerry thinks that just because you had to
- 46:28Speaker 7: stir in your head, you should take a discount. That's
- 46:31Speaker 7: that's don't that don't work anymore? I mean, because that's
- 46:34Speaker 7: gonna get his commercials wherever he goes. Because he's just
- 46:37Speaker 7: he's just he's just that type of leader, that type
- 46:39Speaker 7: of person where you don't have to worry about anything.
- 46:42Speaker 7: So oh and I did have a question. What happens
- 46:46Speaker 7: if a team on the draft card doesn't fill the
- 46:49Speaker 7: draft card out properly?
- 46:51Speaker 17: What happens properly?
- 46:53Speaker 7: Yeah, Like, because I've seen a copy of the card.
- 46:57Speaker 7: You have the round, the number and the name and
- 46:59Speaker 7: all that. What happens if it doesn't? Do they look
- 47:02Speaker 7: at that? Does it matter how you feel it if
- 47:04Speaker 7: it's wrong like the round or no.
- 47:10Speaker 1: No, they're they're trying to get this thing right.
- 47:13Speaker 4: I mean, I guarantee there's been some you know, misunderstandings
- 47:16Speaker 4: and you know corrections like you mean this or is
- 47:19Speaker 4: this the guy? You mean? You had his name wrong?
- 47:22Speaker 4: Like let's clarify. Like I don't think it's like I'm sorry,
- 47:25Speaker 4: you know you made.
- 47:26Speaker 7: A mistake, but I mean, oh, okay, yeah, I do remember.
- 47:29Speaker 7: I do remember seeing the case where somebody was taking
- 47:32Speaker 7: too long and another team ran the card up ahead
- 47:34Speaker 7: of them.
- 47:34Speaker 4: That's different now that that's that's different. That's that's just
- 47:37Speaker 4: not making your pick. Yeah, I mean that that that
- 47:39Speaker 4: did happen with Minnesota a few years ago, and it
- 47:42Speaker 4: almost happened with the Cowboys like twenty years ago. So yeah,
- 47:45Speaker 4: I mean that is different than just like making a
- 47:48Speaker 4: mistake on the card. I think, I think they'll help
- 47:50Speaker 4: you there, but if you're gonna sit there, and that
- 47:52Speaker 4: also when it was fifteen minutes, I mean you can go.
- 47:54Speaker 4: You can go to the store and come back and
- 47:56Speaker 4: get a sandwich and make a pick. I mean, you know,
- 47:59Speaker 4: I like to They've gone down to ten and then five.
- 48:02Speaker 4: I mean, it makes it a lot quicker. I still
- 48:05Speaker 4: think they could go seven or eight, you know, I
- 48:07Speaker 4: mean in.
- 48:07Speaker 7: The first round though, you're all these trades.
- 48:09Speaker 4: A trade, I get it, I get it. I mean
- 48:12Speaker 4: it's probably fine, especially the way they're doing it with
- 48:14Speaker 4: one night.
- 48:14Speaker 1: It's a made for TV event. You can stretch it
- 48:17Speaker 1: out that way.
- 48:17Speaker 7: But yeah, in Atlanta, to me, that was probably the
- 48:22Speaker 7: craziest pick. Yeh, yeah, because that Cat's Yeah, I mean, Pennis,
- 48:27Speaker 7: they had they had the start there running back from Washington.
- 48:32Speaker 7: The wide received from Washington right there on the board,
- 48:35Speaker 7: but they reached for Pinnix in my mind, who's been
- 48:38Speaker 7: hurt multiple two knee surgeries too, So the surgeries and
- 48:41Speaker 7: then you're you're paying cousins all that money. This cat
- 48:44Speaker 7: may be twenty eight by the time he plays twenty nine. Yeah,
- 48:48Speaker 7: there's no game. People out here, people saying, well, he
- 48:50Speaker 7: could play with the players quarterbacks of playing late in
- 48:53Speaker 7: that year. Not a guy that's had these guys is
- 48:56Speaker 7: playing that long, hasn't had a long injury history in
- 48:58Speaker 7: college something, and he is he gonna hold up there? Yeah,
- 49:02Speaker 7: I mean, so that was my craziest pick of the draft.
- 49:05Speaker 7: But overall, I think the Cowboys, Oh, we already had
- 49:08Speaker 7: a running back on. I like Royce Freeman. I'm not
- 49:12Speaker 7: I wasn't a big fan of Zeke getting signed. I'd
- 49:15Speaker 7: like to see Royce Freeman get his shot. He never
- 49:17Speaker 7: gets his chance to just carry the ball. I like
- 49:19Speaker 7: Royce Freeman. To me, we had with the guys we had,
- 49:22Speaker 7: we got Royce Freeman, don't. I don't think Zeke has
- 49:25Speaker 7: much left. I mean, if you're just bringing him here
- 49:28Speaker 7: to get one yard and get one yard in the
- 49:30Speaker 7: ends on, I like to just see Royce Freeman get
- 49:33Speaker 7: his shot because he always gets stuck behind somebody and
- 49:37Speaker 7: never gets his chance. I thought I was happy for
- 49:40Speaker 7: him when we got him, but I didn't know Zeke
- 49:43Speaker 7: was gonna be a stop gap. But I like Royce Freeman.
- 49:46Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you, thank you.
- 49:48Speaker 4: I haven't heard a lot of people say that you
- 49:50Speaker 4: know and and and you know, you could make a case.
- 49:52Speaker 4: I mean, there's if there's a reason why that you know,
- 49:55Speaker 4: there's always somebody better than you. I mean, because teams
- 49:58Speaker 4: are trying to get better than then, you know, than
- 50:01Speaker 4: than Royce Freeman, you know which, Well that that's okay,
- 50:04Speaker 4: I mean, this might be a good opportunity for him. Again,
- 50:07Speaker 4: that's probably why once you don't draft one in by
- 50:10Speaker 4: the third or fourth round, you're just you're just adding
- 50:13Speaker 4: to kind of what what you have dow then maybe younger,
- 50:16Speaker 4: you know, and obviously younger than than what what's here.
- 50:19Speaker 4: But some of these backs are young too and and unproven.
- 50:22Speaker 4: So there's a lot that he said there. I mean,
- 50:25Speaker 4: Micah Parsons at linebacker.
- 50:29Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 50:31Speaker 4: I don't know what what Zimmer wants to do with him.
- 50:34Speaker 4: I know that you can come back and say, well,
- 50:36Speaker 4: who cares what the player thinks? But I'm not sure that.
- 50:40Speaker 4: I'm not sure that linebacker is the best fit for
- 50:43Speaker 4: for Mike. I don't think he believes that. And and
- 50:47Speaker 4: don't just say who cares do it anyways, because that's
- 50:51Speaker 4: not always the case in the and quarterback and middle
- 50:55Speaker 4: linebacker or two positions that it's a lot more than
- 51:00Speaker 4: just what you see at practice. And if you're not
- 51:02Speaker 4: gonna study and put the work in, then it's gonna
- 51:05Speaker 4: be tough to be great. And I'm not saying Micah
- 51:08Speaker 4: could play you know it won't do that or you
- 51:11Speaker 4: know whatever, but I do think he likes getting that
- 51:14Speaker 4: for the quarterback and making plays that way, and so
- 51:17Speaker 4: you know, but but something's got to give because you
- 51:19Speaker 4: can't do it.
- 51:20Speaker 1: You can't keep doing it at.
- 51:21Speaker 4: That weight and and we're already seeing that in three
- 51:24Speaker 4: years how it just doesn't work the same as the
- 51:26Speaker 4: season goes on. So it's gonna be they gonna be
- 51:29Speaker 4: really creative and what they do and how to how
- 51:31Speaker 4: to get Micah to be really really good or continue
- 51:35Speaker 4: to be really good he has been, but I mean
- 51:37Speaker 4: continue to be even better and better.
- 51:39Speaker 1: Lewis and Langston, Oklahoma, how you doing.
- 51:43Speaker 6: I'm a first time caller, all.
- 51:44Speaker 1: Right, here we go.
- 51:47Speaker 4: If we go, Chris, Uh, what's going on, Lewis, We'll
- 51:50Speaker 4: get you not much?
- 51:53Speaker 8: There we go.
- 51:54Speaker 6: I do want to say I've been listening since I
- 51:56Speaker 6: don't know, forever, but I'm a little behind, so I'm
- 52:01Speaker 6: probably saying what everybody else is saying. I enjoyed the draft,
- 52:05Speaker 6: I enjoyed getting the big man up front, but I
- 52:08Speaker 6: will say I'm I was a little disappointed we didn't
- 52:12Speaker 6: get running back, and I'm okay with them bringing Zeke back.
- 52:16Speaker 6: I'm not mad about that, and we still got free
- 52:20Speaker 6: agency and stuff like that. Most people are. I mean,
- 52:23Speaker 6: I'm on the Twitter ex whatever you want to call it,
- 52:25Speaker 6: and it's mixed reviews, and I try not to argue
- 52:28Speaker 6: with people about it. At work, people will argue with
- 52:31Speaker 6: me about it, and I'm like, I mean, if you
- 52:33Speaker 6: can find me a better option, I'm okay with it.
- 52:35Speaker 6: But nobody's really giving me a better option at the moment,
- 52:39Speaker 6: so I and I'm more of like, and like I said,
- 52:42Speaker 6: I'm a little behind, so I don't really know where
- 52:45Speaker 6: you're staying on that point, and I haven't really got
- 52:48Speaker 6: to catch up and hear what you got to say.
- 52:49Speaker 6: But and like I said, this is my first time calling.
- 52:53Speaker 6: I'm a little I'm a little giddy about it because
- 52:56Speaker 6: I've been listening to you probably since I was I
- 52:59Speaker 6: don't know, like well and and uh, I would say,
- 53:04Speaker 6: uh favorite wrestler though, Okay, I'm a little younger. I'm
- 53:09Speaker 6: gonna go with Booker T. I had the long locks
- 53:11Speaker 6: like him when I was younger, so I used to
- 53:13Speaker 6: try to do the spinner rooney and all of.
- 53:15Speaker 5: That kind of craft. I think I'll bust my head a.
- 53:17Speaker 6: Few times thinking I can spin around like a crazy person.
- 53:20Speaker 17: So now I.
- 53:21Speaker 10: Would go with Booker T.
- 53:23Speaker 6: Nice and then I think that's it for now. I'm
- 53:27Speaker 6: gonna try to get in when I can. But I
- 53:29Speaker 6: appreciate the time.
- 53:30Speaker 4: Thank you, all right, thank you, all right, appreciate that
- 53:33Speaker 4: lewis first time caller.
- 53:35Speaker 1: There, Booker T. There we go. There it was acting
- 53:40Speaker 1: if I'm sorry, that's.
- 53:41Speaker 4: All right, that's all right. We love we love those
- 53:44Speaker 4: first time callers for sure. All right, let's keep it,
- 53:48Speaker 4: let's keep it rolling. We got Eric and Maillo were
- 53:51Speaker 4: kind of pressed up against time, So that's why I
- 53:52Speaker 4: want to keep moving to the calls.
- 53:54Speaker 1: Eric and Maillo, what's up?
- 53:56Speaker 17: Yes, sir, Hew are you doing. I'm good man, I
- 54:00Speaker 17: have never got to call in. I listen all the
- 54:02Speaker 17: time while I'm working and never get a chance to
- 54:04Speaker 17: call in. I really enjoy your show. Here we go, right, Hey,
- 54:12Speaker 17: I just wanted to make a call, man. I mean,
- 54:14Speaker 17: I'm a little worried about back long term. I feel
- 54:18Speaker 17: like I'm worried that Dak just doesn't have that it factor.
- 54:23Speaker 17: I mean, if you look back in the history of
- 54:25Speaker 17: quarterbacks for the Dallas Cowboys, you know Tory eight, then
- 54:29Speaker 17: Roger Stalbarck, they just had that it factor. They could
- 54:32Speaker 17: just win and clutch times. I mean, I've watched the
- 54:36Speaker 17: Cowboys ever since I was a little boy. Seems back
- 54:41Speaker 17: is a lot reminds me a lot of like Danny
- 54:43Speaker 17: White and even Tony Romo when they were young, when
- 54:47Speaker 17: when it came playoff time, they just weren't clutch and me,
- 54:51Speaker 17: I guess I'm frustrated.
- 54:53Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, all right, let me ask
- 54:55Speaker 4: you this, Eric. Do you feel like that Romo Dandy
- 55:02Speaker 4: White don't have the IT factor because they never won?
- 55:07Speaker 4: Or do you think they never won because they don't
- 55:09Speaker 4: have the ID factor?
- 55:11Speaker 17: I just think they never won because they don't have
- 55:13Speaker 17: the it factor. It just seems like when it really
- 55:16Speaker 17: comes down to the to the critical ask, you know,
- 55:20Speaker 17: the critical moments of the games, they just seem to
- 55:23Speaker 17: always turn over the ball. I can remember watching Danny
- 55:25Speaker 17: Whatt in the NFC Championship games and he would just
- 55:28Speaker 17: like fill a pick at the worst time. And I
- 55:30Speaker 17: know it's tough, it's not easy being in the NFL.
- 55:33Speaker 17: I can't even imagine. But I don't know. I just
- 55:36Speaker 17: worry about paying Dak. First of all. I just think,
- 55:42Speaker 17: and you correct me if I'm wrong. Did did Brady
- 55:47Speaker 17: take less money when he is with the Patriots so
- 55:50Speaker 17: they can surround him with more talent?
- 55:52Speaker 1: Yeah? Later in his career.
- 55:53Speaker 17: Yeah, I just guess. I don't understand, and we don't
- 55:57Speaker 17: know what he's asking, what Dak's asking. I don't understand
- 56:01Speaker 17: why you wouldn't take a little less. Why you think
- 56:04Speaker 17: you have to have the most money and keep more
- 56:07Speaker 17: talent around you, especially with all the money he can
- 56:09Speaker 17: make with endorsements.
- 56:11Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to remember too. I mean I think
- 56:14Speaker 4: Tom Brady's wife made more than him. I mean, I
- 56:16Speaker 4: don't know that. I just I just you know, And
- 56:19Speaker 4: and at that point, it was all about it was
- 56:21Speaker 4: all about staying with the head coach, staying in this
- 56:24Speaker 4: dynasty and being the greatest of all time, and and
- 56:28Speaker 4: that's you know. And but then again, when he did
- 56:30Speaker 4: decide to go somewhere else, he won there too. So yeah,
- 56:33Speaker 4: and Belichick did not, so that I mean that, Yeah,
- 56:36Speaker 4: that kind of to me kind of shows a little
- 56:38Speaker 4: bit of where where that was. But it's it's hard.
- 56:42Speaker 4: It's hard to say that, you know, and taking less money.
- 56:44Speaker 4: And we talked about this before. It's not it's not
- 56:47Speaker 4: just about the player taking less. It's about the whole
- 56:52Speaker 4: concept with the agents and and and also your other quarterbacks,
- 56:55Speaker 4: the fraternity of the quarterbacks too, and how they all,
- 56:58Speaker 4: you know, they're bonded together.
- 57:00Speaker 1: And if you start.
- 57:00Speaker 4: Taking less now you're you're messing up the next few contracts.
- 57:04Speaker 4: You know, there's there's a guy out there waiting to
- 57:06Speaker 4: get paid, and Dak goes and takes less money, then
- 57:10Speaker 4: all of a sudden that contract gets weighed that way,
- 57:12Speaker 4: and then he's kind of screwing the whole market for everyone.
- 57:14Speaker 4: So it's it's not as easy as just saying I'm
- 57:18Speaker 4: going to take less to get more. Because one thing
- 57:21Speaker 4: we've seen when they have cut players when they have
- 57:24Speaker 4: had some extra money, they don't always seem to just
- 57:28Speaker 4: use it.
- 57:28Speaker 1: And get more.
- 57:29Speaker 4: I mean, I remember when they cut Daz to say
- 57:31Speaker 4: ten million, they didn't replace him with anyone.
- 57:33Speaker 1: So it doesn't always work that way.
- 57:35Speaker 4: That'd be the last thing you want to do is
- 57:37Speaker 4: take less money and then all of a sudden, now
- 57:39Speaker 4: when you start doing that, now your quarterback too, is
- 57:41Speaker 4: kind of like should he be in the draft room?
- 57:43Speaker 4: Should he be talking to Free? You know what I mean,
- 57:45Speaker 4: because it's like, hey, I'm part of this now. So
- 57:48Speaker 4: it's a little tricky when you're just saying that and
- 57:51Speaker 4: it doesn't really happen that often.
- 57:54Speaker 17: I mean, I would like to keep that. I really
- 57:56Speaker 17: would like to see if he could get over the top.
- 57:59Speaker 17: I don't think millions a year if that's what he's asking,
- 58:02Speaker 17: and I just I would be really tensit than to
- 58:05Speaker 17: pay that. I know. The going ready for a starting
- 58:07Speaker 17: quarterback is pretty much thirty five to forty million at
- 58:10Speaker 17: least and long and fifty million.
- 58:14Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, that's what that's what it takes. Yep.
- 58:18Speaker 17: All right, Eric, Hey, I enjoyed Colin.
- 58:20Speaker 12: Thanks.
- 58:20Speaker 17: I appreciate you taking my call man.
- 58:22Speaker 1: Appreciate that, Eric and Amarillo.
- 58:24Speaker 4: I spent a few spent days up there in Amarillo,
- 58:28Speaker 4: been too the there Route sixty six speedway over there.
- 58:33Speaker 4: I was on pit crew for like six hours one
- 58:36Speaker 4: time there. I didn't do anything because I can't.
- 58:38Speaker 17: I don't know anything.
- 58:39Speaker 1: Chris. Chris would know. I would.
- 58:41Speaker 4: I'd just be getting in the way if I was
- 58:42Speaker 4: up there. But I've spent some time in Amarillo. All right, Uh,
- 58:47Speaker 4: Tim and Winston say a little North Carolina.
- 58:50Speaker 11: Tim, Hey, Nick, how you doing, good Man?
- 58:53Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 58:54Speaker 11: I'm good. I'm good. Like the drafts, I love the draft.
- 58:58Speaker 11: Excited about the draft. Far we got bigger, we got stronger,
- 59:03Speaker 11: feel like we solidified the middle of our defense and offense,
- 59:09Speaker 11: which is where the game is played. Yep, yep. Also,
- 59:17Speaker 11: you guys drafted another Winston Salem player, Wake Forest is
- 59:22Speaker 11: in Winston Salem.
- 59:23Speaker 1: Okay, that's right, yeah, Carson, right.
- 59:27Speaker 11: Yes, yes, yes, But like I say, I'm super stoked,
- 59:32Speaker 11: super excited about about our draft. And not only did
- 59:38Speaker 11: we get bigger, we I feel like we got a
- 59:40Speaker 11: lot more attitude, which is sweat's been lacking I think
- 59:44Speaker 11: in in terms of our play.
- 59:48Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do think, you know, just bigger, tougher,
- 59:54Speaker 4: stronger kind of nastiness. I mean, that's that's what they need,
- 59:57Speaker 4: you know. When the games that they've lost, it just
- 59:59Speaker 4: kind of felt like they got pushed around a little bit,
- 1:00:02Speaker 4: and that's that's what they got to get back to.
- 1:00:04Speaker 11: Yes, I feel the same way like I said last
- 1:00:08Speaker 11: time I called you. I feel like there are times
- 1:00:12Speaker 11: I'm watching the game the other team is playing tackle
- 1:00:15Speaker 11: football and we're playing flag so we need to get
- 1:00:19Speaker 11: a little match.
- 1:00:20Speaker 4: There's been a lot of games they've been playing flag
- 1:00:23Speaker 4: football for different reasons too. They got to clean up
- 1:00:25Speaker 4: the penalties as well.
- 1:00:27Speaker 11: Yes, yes, yes, yeah, well that's all I got.
- 1:00:30Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Jim, I love that. Appreciate the call.
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: And I said, did you like the draft? He said,
- 1:00:36Speaker 4: I love the draft? And it reminded me. Thanks for
- 1:00:39Speaker 4: the call to him. It reminded me just yesterday I
- 1:00:45Speaker 4: saw some of the running backs coming out of the
- 1:00:47Speaker 4: running back room and I saw Duce Vaughan and uh
- 1:00:54Speaker 4: he you know, obviously from Kansas State. And I asked him,
- 1:00:58Speaker 4: I said, hey, you like the you like BB? He goes, no,
- 1:01:01Speaker 4: I love BB. Just laughing.
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, that's kind of what my son
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: would say. You know, hey, buddy, you like the pizza.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: He's like, nah, I love the pizza.
- 1:01:09Speaker 4: But but douce Van loves the bb And a lot
- 1:01:13Speaker 4: of those highlights that I saw with Bebe's throwing people around,
- 1:01:16Speaker 4: the Deuce was in there, either running and behind him
- 1:01:19Speaker 4: or Deuce even throwing some blocks in there too. So
- 1:01:22Speaker 4: but yeah, that that's that. That seems to be everyone's
- 1:01:25Speaker 4: kind of favorite pick for sure. All right, let's go
- 1:01:28Speaker 4: a long distance here, so this will be our last call.
- 1:01:30Speaker 4: Let's go Zach in Germany.
- 1:01:33Speaker 14: Hey, Nick, what's going on?
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: How are you doing?
- 1:01:36Speaker 11: Good? Brother?
- 1:01:37Speaker 14: Unfortunately, I said, I normally don't get to listen live,
- 1:01:39Speaker 14: so I'm sure you had about ten questions on running
- 1:01:42Speaker 14: back today, so I won't hit that too hard for you.
- 1:01:45Speaker 7: Eleven eleven.
- 1:01:47Speaker 14: Okay, one question, you think Zeke gets his jersey back
- 1:01:52Speaker 14: now that Gilmore's gone.
- 1:01:53Speaker 4: I just asked him. I just I just saw him
- 1:01:57Speaker 4: right before the show. I talked to him for a
- 1:01:58Speaker 4: little bit. We were just just just sit hello for
- 1:02:01Speaker 4: the first time, you know, since he's been back, and
- 1:02:02Speaker 4: not that I know him that well, but you know,
- 1:02:04Speaker 4: I saw him and he's in great mood and all that,
- 1:02:07Speaker 4: and I kind of we were talking about it. He goes,
- 1:02:08Speaker 4: I don't know how that all is gonna work out.
- 1:02:10Speaker 4: I'm not really sure yet. But he goes, I'm just
- 1:02:12Speaker 4: here for whatever. So it sounds like he probably would
- 1:02:17Speaker 4: like a different jersey, but it may you know. Then again,
- 1:02:22Speaker 4: they may have some in the pro shop at twenty
- 1:02:23Speaker 4: one that they'd like to sell, so they may.
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: Be pushing that.
- 1:02:27Speaker 4: And you know, I mean, I think I think the
- 1:02:29Speaker 4: guy in fifteen, if that's where he wants to go,
- 1:02:31Speaker 4: I think I think that guy actually makes more money,
- 1:02:35Speaker 4: you know, a lance. But of course it usually comes
- 1:02:37Speaker 4: down to seniority. But you know, to me, twenty one
- 1:02:40Speaker 4: just makes sense. It's what it is, it's what you know,
- 1:02:42Speaker 4: it's what it's been, and I'd like for him to
- 1:02:45Speaker 4: stay there.
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: But that's you know, I don't know how it all's
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: gonna shake out.
- 1:02:49Speaker 11: No, it makes sense.
- 1:02:50Speaker 14: It makes sense to you two. I think it would
- 1:02:51Speaker 14: be nice to be able to dust it off out
- 1:02:53Speaker 14: the closet. Yeah, a year off, but can put it
- 1:02:55Speaker 14: back on. Yeah, two quick questions. I know we're going
- 1:02:58Speaker 14: closing up the show. I'll move on from the from
- 1:03:00Speaker 14: the running back piece. Now, with the new NFL kickoff rules,
- 1:03:05Speaker 14: do you see Turpin finally bringing one home in the
- 1:03:07Speaker 14: regular season?
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I do.
- 1:03:09Speaker 4: I mean, I now, it's not gonna be you know,
- 1:03:13Speaker 4: it's not just gonna be a free reign for these guys.
- 1:03:15Speaker 4: And and also because he's he's little, I mean, like
- 1:03:19Speaker 4: he gets hit in the open field. I mean, you know,
- 1:03:21Speaker 4: I mean, he's gonna be subject to to, you know,
- 1:03:25Speaker 4: an injury as well. I mean, they haven't seen a
- 1:03:27Speaker 4: lot of kickoff returns. I think he only had ten,
- 1:03:29Speaker 4: So if he's gonna have more, that's gonna open up
- 1:03:32Speaker 4: more opportunities for him to score and to get hit.
- 1:03:35Speaker 4: And he can't take a lot of hits, so that's
- 1:03:37Speaker 4: you know that that's gonna be interesting there. I do
- 1:03:39Speaker 4: think he'll have an opportunity to take one to the house.
- 1:03:42Speaker 4: It just depends on how they play it. You bring
- 1:03:45Speaker 4: everyone in, it's gonna take just one or two misses
- 1:03:48Speaker 4: and then you could be gone. I just don't What
- 1:03:51Speaker 4: I see is I see teams kind of kind of
- 1:03:54Speaker 4: keeping some guys back and and and therefore I think
- 1:03:58Speaker 4: what you'll see is probably much better field position. Maybe
- 1:04:02Speaker 4: not a lot of They're not going to give up
- 1:04:03Speaker 4: a lot of touchdowns. But because it'll be less people,
- 1:04:07Speaker 4: I think you'll see a lot more returns to the
- 1:04:10Speaker 4: thirty five forty ish range than we've seen in the past.
- 1:04:15Speaker 11: That makes sense.
- 1:04:16Speaker 14: The last one for you, and then hang up Gilmour.
- 1:04:19Speaker 14: Any any update on Gilmore since we just mentioned him?
- 1:04:21Speaker 14: Any any word now that drafts over and we took
- 1:04:24Speaker 14: a late round. Yeah, cornerback, but any word on Gilmour
- 1:04:27Speaker 14: maybe coming back.
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: I just don't think they have the money for it.
- 1:04:30Speaker 4: I still think he You know, with Gilmore, it's it's
- 1:04:32Speaker 4: an injury situation too. It's a he's had the shoulder surgery.
- 1:04:37Speaker 4: I've heard Carolinas is all all in on that, and
- 1:04:41Speaker 4: so that's probably going to happen. I mean, you know,
- 1:04:44Speaker 4: you see a lull before the draft and and then
- 1:04:47Speaker 4: now it'll pick back up a little bit. Some guys
- 1:04:49Speaker 4: around the league. I saw a ranking. I don't know
- 1:04:53Speaker 4: who's ranking. It was some website, but I mean they
- 1:04:55Speaker 4: had him as the number one free agent available, so
- 1:04:58Speaker 4: maybe or one or two it was.
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: It was up there.
- 1:05:00Speaker 4: So and and the possible suitors were the Cowboys weren't
- 1:05:04Speaker 4: included in that So I don't think he's going to
- 1:05:07Speaker 4: be back, and I think that he'll he'll get some money.
- 1:05:10Speaker 4: The teams are probably just waiting to see how that
- 1:05:13Speaker 4: shoulder checks out.
- 1:05:14Speaker 14: So yeah, makes sense. All right, good job, a great show,
- 1:05:18Speaker 14: and good job this weekend. That's all you guys down there,
- 1:05:21Speaker 14: Stay safe, have a going all.
- 1:05:22Speaker 4: Right, appreciate it. Thank you for the call. Gets in
- 1:05:25Speaker 4: there from Germany. A lot of good callers. They got
- 1:05:27Speaker 4: some first time callers, got some of the rags that
- 1:05:29Speaker 4: that called in as well.
- 1:05:31Speaker 11: Uh.
- 1:05:31Speaker 4: Most people excited about the draft, other than maybe not
- 1:05:34Speaker 4: getting a running back. But but I understand that. And
- 1:05:38Speaker 4: you know, now, let's just see what happens that they'll
- 1:05:41Speaker 4: just from a schedule standpoint, they'll come in, not this weekend,
- 1:05:45Speaker 4: the next weekend. They'll come in on that Thursday. I'm
- 1:05:49Speaker 4: not even sure what day of the week that is, uh,
- 1:05:52Speaker 4: maybe the ninth, something like that. They'll they'll come in
- 1:05:54Speaker 4: for the roocky mini camp. They'll be on the field
- 1:05:57Speaker 4: some on Friday and Saturday. We'll see some chance to
- 1:05:59Speaker 4: interview the these guys up close and uh and get
- 1:06:02Speaker 4: get a chance to see what they've got. So uh,
- 1:06:05Speaker 4: but we'll have a show on this Thursday, and another
- 1:06:08Speaker 4: one Tuesday before all of that's all right, thanks for
- 1:06:11Speaker 4: all the callers for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. We
- 1:06:14Speaker 4: will see you next month, which is Thursday, uh May second,
- 1:06:18Speaker 4: We'll see you then.
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