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- 0:13Speaker 2: This He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:22Speaker 1: What is up? And welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I'm Nick Eatman.
- 0:26Speaker 4: It's Tuesday, August the twenty seventh, and we can scratch
- 0:31Speaker 4: one of the things off the list Cowboys have or
- 0:35Speaker 4: will sign Ceedee Lamb. I'm sure everybody knows this by now.
- 0:39Speaker 4: He's making a lot of money. We knew that was
- 0:42Speaker 4: going to happen. What did I say last week? Tony
- 0:45Speaker 4: dor sat well, I was wrong. It's herschel Walker thirty
- 0:49Speaker 4: four million per season, and that seemed to always be
- 0:52Speaker 4: the big sticking point, but one of them because there's
- 0:56Speaker 4: other factors there. One hundred million guaranteed, I think that's
- 1:01Speaker 4: the most for or thirty nine million signing bonus, which
- 1:05Speaker 4: is the most for any wide receiver. It's a lot
- 1:09Speaker 4: of money. It's a lot of money. He'll be here
- 1:11Speaker 4: for five years. It's this year plus a four year extension,
- 1:16Speaker 4: and if you're looking at the math, it's kind of
- 1:18Speaker 4: it's kind of weird because everyone wants to know what
- 1:20Speaker 4: this average per year is and it's thirty four million,
- 1:25Speaker 4: but when you look at the next five years, when
- 1:28Speaker 4: you add this one, I think the total it's about
- 1:30Speaker 4: thirty million. Apparently that doesn't matter. It's what is the
- 1:34Speaker 4: new money the extension, and it was it's going to
- 1:38Speaker 4: average thirty four million. I guess that's right under Justin Jefferson. Now,
- 1:44Speaker 4: the big question when does he come in? When is
- 1:45Speaker 4: he sign I don't believe as of Tuesday here at
- 1:49Speaker 4: ten am, I don't believe that he's here yet, but
- 1:54Speaker 4: obviously he will be and they'll get that done knocked
- 1:57Speaker 4: out and so then and now that the attention can
- 2:01Speaker 4: shift to is DAC next or the season obviously coming
- 2:06Speaker 4: up here in less than two weeks. But I still
- 2:10Speaker 4: feel like that DAK will be done before the season
- 2:13Speaker 4: starts as well.
- 2:13Speaker 1: But that's just my hunch. Who knows? All right?
- 2:16Speaker 4: Eight eight, eight, five, five two two nine seven. Oh
- 2:19Speaker 4: And if that's not enough, they also cutting the roster
- 2:22Speaker 4: down even more today. So if you're watching this live,
- 2:27Speaker 4: we're doing this live. If you're watching this later on Tuesday,
- 2:31Speaker 4: obviously the cuts will be made at three o'clock. They'll
- 2:34Speaker 4: trim the roster down to fifty three players. I believe
- 2:38Speaker 4: we were sitting. We're sitting at seventy four. I believe
- 2:44Speaker 4: seventy four to seventy five players on the roster after
- 2:47Speaker 4: they cut the fifteen yesterday. No major surprises out of that, really,
- 2:54Speaker 4: Willie Harvey, Eric Scott Junior, Fojoko who I think we'll
- 3:01Speaker 4: be in Washington probably by the end of the day.
- 3:03Speaker 4: I would imagine dan Quinn would want him back. But no,
- 3:07Speaker 4: no big surprises there. There will be some today though,
- 3:10Speaker 4: and how they cut the roster down, and then tonight
- 3:13Speaker 4: it will be a night practice at the Star. If
- 3:16Speaker 4: you're in the area here and around Frisco to come
- 3:19Speaker 4: or watch the Cowboys practice tonight, Tuesday night and Wednesday
- 3:23Speaker 4: night at the start. Wednesday's practice will probably be a
- 3:26Speaker 4: little bit more. You know, it'll be more players there
- 3:29Speaker 4: because some of the practice squad guys that they bring
- 3:31Speaker 4: back will be there. So all right, let's get to
- 3:34Speaker 4: the callers. Let's let's get it started. Jeremy in Salt
- 3:36Speaker 4: Lake City, Utah. Jeremy, you're first.
- 3:39Speaker 5: Hey, what's up, Nick Evan?
- 3:40Speaker 1: How are you?
- 3:42Speaker 6: I'm good.
- 3:42Speaker 7: I'm good, glad we got CD done. I knew what
- 3:45Speaker 7: had happened just I talked about last week. Everybody can
- 3:48Speaker 7: calm down now a little bit, right, A little bit, yeah,
- 3:50Speaker 7: And I'm ready, like you said, I'm ready to get
- 3:53Speaker 7: posted focused on the season. We got big games coming up,
- 3:58Speaker 7: We've got I think we'll get a pretty gay good
- 4:02Speaker 7: gauge of this team, you know by the bye week.
- 4:06Speaker 7: You know, I want to talk a little bit about
- 4:09Speaker 7: that durn Blend injury. So obviously huge bummer. Nobody wants
- 4:14Speaker 7: him to get hurt, or any of our players to
- 4:17Speaker 7: get hurt, or anybody else's for that matter. But I
- 4:20Speaker 7: think one of the things that we can always, like
- 4:24Speaker 7: I said, I'm always trying to look at the positive, right,
- 4:27Speaker 7: and I think this is going to give an opportunity
- 4:29Speaker 7: for guys like Klon Carson, you know, some of these
- 4:33Speaker 7: younger quarterbacks to get to get reps just like Doran
- 4:38Speaker 7: did you know what I mean? Just like last year
- 4:41Speaker 7: when when you know, when Diggs went down, it offers
- 4:45Speaker 7: an opportunity for these younger players to get these reps
- 4:49Speaker 7: in and special reps. And then by the time we
- 4:52Speaker 7: get Duran back, we'll be in the thick of the season.
- 4:55Speaker 7: And this is there's These are the kind of injuries
- 4:58Speaker 7: I like to say They're kind of blessings in disguise,
- 5:01Speaker 7: you know what I mean, because, like I said, we
- 5:05Speaker 7: can develop some of our younger talent like we did
- 5:08Speaker 7: off the offensive line last year. I think if you
- 5:10Speaker 7: didn't have some of these guys go down, you know,
- 5:13Speaker 7: with Zach Martin kind of getting dinged up and everything
- 5:15Speaker 7: last year. I don't think brock Hoffmin's as good as
- 5:18Speaker 7: he was this year.
- 5:20Speaker 6: You know.
- 5:21Speaker 7: I don't think think Bass made some big strides last
- 5:25Speaker 7: year with guys being out, so you know, it is
- 5:29Speaker 7: the next man out thing, and you know, everybody's upset
- 5:32Speaker 7: about the all in and we like our guys and
- 5:36Speaker 7: all that kind of stuff. But really you've got to
- 5:38Speaker 7: look at it, you know, and in a positive way
- 5:43Speaker 7: and say, you know, everybody's got injuries. You know, thank
- 5:47Speaker 7: god it wasn't for the full season, right, thank god
- 5:51Speaker 7: he's going to be back, and when he does, that's
- 5:53Speaker 7: going to give this team a boost right around the
- 5:56Speaker 7: time we're going to need.
- 5:57Speaker 4: One, all right, you know, ye, all right, Jeremy, thanks
- 5:59Speaker 4: so call a little long winded there, but I appreciate
- 6:02Speaker 4: a good start, and and the thing about it is
- 6:04Speaker 4: blessing in the skies. We'll see I mean, I mean,
- 6:07Speaker 4: you say that now and then if if if one
- 6:10Speaker 4: of these young corners is chasing Amari Cooper into the
- 6:12Speaker 4: end zone for a touchdown, you know what, what is
- 6:17Speaker 4: the blessing on that? I mean, we'll see, I mean,
- 6:19Speaker 4: I hear that's a that's a very optimistic approach that, yeah, well,
- 6:27Speaker 4: well let's let Kayln Carson go out there and play.
- 6:29Speaker 4: He'll be the next to Ron Bland if that's the case.
- 6:32Speaker 4: Kudos to to uh Will McLay and the Cowboys for
- 6:37Speaker 4: for drafting him when they did. And he does look
- 6:40Speaker 4: like a pretty a pretty good player, a good prospect.
- 6:42Speaker 4: But you know the Zach Martin stuff that was a
- 6:46Speaker 4: holdout last year that Hoffman and Bass got to get
- 6:49Speaker 4: all these reps. Zach Martin, who was entering is what
- 6:52Speaker 4: tenth season, comes in and says, oh, I'm ready to play,
- 6:55Speaker 4: and then he makes another Pro Bowl like like that
- 6:58Speaker 4: was that was fine. He didn't miss anything. We're talking
- 7:00Speaker 4: about Doron Bland missing four games at the minimum, maybe
- 7:04Speaker 4: five or six. So and then and then that bye
- 7:08Speaker 4: week is sitting around there too, which the bye week,
- 7:11Speaker 4: when when you're talking about an injury, it always seems
- 7:14Speaker 4: to be like, what's so much easier to just run
- 7:17Speaker 4: the player up right into the by then he gets
- 7:19Speaker 4: another week and then he comes back, so uh, maybe
- 7:22Speaker 4: he'll be back before that. But look for Deron Bland
- 7:26Speaker 4: to go to injured reserve today, they'll move him to IR.
- 7:30Speaker 4: That'll be a definitely be a four week thing. Then
- 7:33Speaker 4: he can come back from that. Chu Many Dooga might
- 7:35Speaker 4: be another guy that they put on that list. All right,
- 7:38Speaker 4: but overall, good optimistic stuff. And yeah, I mean, I'm
- 7:43Speaker 4: not saying that that the Cowboys, you know, it's doom
- 7:45Speaker 4: and gloom. I'm just saying it's it's the blessing in
- 7:48Speaker 4: the skies is something that you talked about after the
- 7:50Speaker 4: fact as the season is starting and you look at
- 7:53Speaker 4: some of these these teams that you have to face,
- 7:56Speaker 4: and you don't know what Trayvon Diggs can do right
- 7:58Speaker 4: now as far as one hundred, is he ready to
- 8:01Speaker 4: go back that right there? I think you have to
- 8:04Speaker 4: kind of hold your breath a little bit about the
- 8:06Speaker 4: cornerback position.
- 8:07Speaker 1: And then that being.
- 8:08Speaker 4: Said, our text message here, we don't do a lot
- 8:09Speaker 4: of text message, but Dan from Philly's probably the best
- 8:12Speaker 4: one we've got. He sends one about not that he's
- 8:16Speaker 4: done much. I'm surprised Derek Scott was cut yesterday, especially
- 8:19Speaker 4: with the lack of depth at corner. Are you concerned
- 8:21Speaker 4: about corner, yes, especially now because of the Bland injury. Yes,
- 8:26Speaker 4: too bad. Gilmore signed with Minnesota. Gilmore signed for about
- 8:31Speaker 4: seven million dollars. That's this price. I mean, what do
- 8:35Speaker 4: you think it was four months ago? Three months ago?
- 8:39Speaker 4: I'm sure it was a lot higher than that. So
- 8:43Speaker 4: you know, you you wouldn't have signed Gilmore for that
- 8:47Speaker 4: money for what you have. You have digs Back, you
- 8:49Speaker 4: had Bland, you like Carson, You've got Jordan Lewis. You
- 8:53Speaker 4: wouldn't have signed him. And so that that's just you know,
- 8:57Speaker 4: that's a team that has the money that they went
- 8:59Speaker 4: out and did that. And then a hiss past players
- 9:02Speaker 4: as a Cliff Harris, you know captain crash forty three,
- 9:10Speaker 4: and he was he was a stud. I don't have
- 9:11Speaker 4: a lot of stories on him. I didn't really cover him,
- 9:14Speaker 4: uh at all, but I know that he he's he
- 9:17Speaker 4: was a fan favorite for sure, and a great athlete.
- 9:21Speaker 4: I mean he really was. It really was a great athlete.
- 9:24Speaker 4: And back there him and Charlie Waters too, those two
- 9:27Speaker 4: were outstanding as far as the cornerback go. Eric Scott,
- 9:30Speaker 4: I just, you know, I just he didn't make any plays.
- 9:34Speaker 4: I mean he really didn't. I mean, he got an
- 9:36Speaker 4: interception in the first game. I'll take that back. He
- 9:38Speaker 4: got an interception in the first game. Ball was thrown
- 9:41Speaker 4: right to him. He just didn't really do a whole lot.
- 9:47Speaker 4: And I you know, I think that they're trying to.
- 9:49Speaker 4: They probably try to get him back on the practice squad,
- 9:51Speaker 4: uh if, and just to keep developing him. All right,
- 9:53Speaker 4: Lewis and Linkston Oklahoma, Lewis, how.
- 9:57Speaker 5: You doing not much? I don't want to.
- 10:00Speaker 8: Is going to get my Congratinacy League, CD and the
- 10:03Speaker 8: Cowboys for making this happen. And I can't wait to
- 10:06Speaker 8: see dron Bland get back. Hopefully he gets better.
- 10:10Speaker 1: Now.
- 10:10Speaker 8: I'm not nowhere near the world class athlete. I played
- 10:16Speaker 8: n ai A football in red shirt and then I
- 10:18Speaker 8: couldn't get him grades together. So I was but I
- 10:22Speaker 8: was looking at as far as like the running I
- 10:24Speaker 8: was running back, So I was looking at the running
- 10:26Speaker 8: back room and trying to figure out the numbers it now.
- 10:30Speaker 8: And I'm not saying they're going to sign Cook, but
- 10:34Speaker 8: say they do sign Cook? What what what number are
- 10:38Speaker 8: we setting on? Four or five running backs? Who's out?
- 10:41Speaker 8: Like I like Belief Davis so but I don't think
- 10:44Speaker 8: he's making enough impact to stay. And I love me
- 10:49Speaker 8: some dudes bond, but like he's the only changing page
- 10:53Speaker 8: back from the other running back, so I kind of
- 10:56Speaker 8: feel like he has a little leg up. But like,
- 10:59Speaker 8: if you do this to bring in Cook, who's the
- 11:02Speaker 8: odd man out? Would it be Royce Freeman? And if
- 11:05Speaker 8: you do cut roy Freeman, I would like to try
- 11:08Speaker 8: to keep someone like him on the practice squad because
- 11:11Speaker 8: sat Zeke or ric o'dalo gets hurt. You could just
- 11:15Speaker 8: move him up and he could be the big rock
- 11:17Speaker 8: total like those guys. So I, like I said, I
- 11:20Speaker 8: just was kind of counting the numbers and I'm like
- 11:23Speaker 8: outside of and then like you said, Hunter lifty tight
- 11:26Speaker 8: end slash fullback slash running back sometimes, I mean, so
- 11:31Speaker 8: I'm trying to figure out the numbers when it comes
- 11:33Speaker 8: to that. And like always, I ain't gonna hold you
- 11:36Speaker 8: too long. I'll take it off air and I'll listen
- 11:39Speaker 8: and i'll see I'll talk to you when I get a.
- 11:41Speaker 4: Change, all right, Thank you, Lewis. Yeah, Dalvin Cook. It's
- 11:49Speaker 4: another thing that's that's happening. They brought bringing him in
- 11:53Speaker 4: today for a workout. I think Tyrs Bowser, a defensive end,
- 11:56Speaker 4: is also going to be working out. Not not too
- 12:01Speaker 4: concerned with that just yet. Don't know how serious that
- 12:05Speaker 4: that visit is. I say for a workout, it's for
- 12:09Speaker 4: a visit for sure with Dalvin Cook. Not sure that
- 12:12Speaker 4: they'll be working out. Don't know how the details of that,
- 12:17Speaker 4: and and I don't know how again, I don't know
- 12:20Speaker 4: how serious the Cowboys are to actually signing him. They're
- 12:23Speaker 4: going to see how things go and maybe what the
- 12:26Speaker 4: what the price deag looks like and and and what
- 12:28Speaker 4: kind of shape he's in and all that. You know,
- 12:32Speaker 4: he could be on the practice squad, Like you know,
- 12:34Speaker 4: he's not on the team, so you could sign him
- 12:36Speaker 4: to your practice squad if you want to, uh, until
- 12:39Speaker 4: he gets himself ready to play. So I don't know
- 12:41Speaker 4: if it is. If they did sign Dalvin Cook, it
- 12:44Speaker 4: would be you know, I know that sounds weird practice squad,
- 12:47Speaker 4: but then he's also out of a job, so like
- 12:50Speaker 4: that he would have a job by being on the
- 12:52Speaker 4: practice squad. So that's kind of how how that would
- 12:56Speaker 4: would work in my opinion, if they wanted to bring
- 12:59Speaker 4: him man, so I wouldn't don't get too worried about
- 13:02Speaker 4: all that this stuff and who's the odd man out
- 13:04Speaker 4: and all that. I think when the cuts are cut today,
- 13:07Speaker 4: I think the running backs on the roster are going
- 13:10Speaker 4: to be Zeke Rico and Douce Van. That's what I think.
- 13:14Speaker 4: I think they would release. I don't know how you
- 13:17Speaker 4: keep Malik Davis and Royce Freeman I think is another
- 13:20Speaker 4: practice squad type candidate. So those would be the guys
- 13:24Speaker 4: that I think they would cut it. If they wanted
- 13:25Speaker 4: to bring in Dalvin Cook, they could put him on
- 13:27Speaker 4: the practice squad until he's ready to play. And then
- 13:29Speaker 4: if you're ready to play, then they got decisions they
- 13:31Speaker 4: can make, all right, Bob in Rio Grand Valley, Bob,
- 13:34Speaker 4: what's up?
- 13:35Speaker 9: Hey, Nick?
- 13:35Speaker 6: How are you doing?
- 13:36Speaker 1: Good?
- 13:36Speaker 7: Man?
- 13:36Speaker 5: How are you good?
- 13:38Speaker 9: At another previous scholar, it just asked the questions that
- 13:42Speaker 9: I had for you. But I have I have one
- 13:45Speaker 9: more and then I'll get off here unless you get
- 13:47Speaker 9: somebody else on.
- 13:48Speaker 1: Thanks.
- 13:48Speaker 9: What's what's the salary cap look like? Now that we
- 13:53Speaker 9: have finally got CD signed for this year? Yeah?
- 13:59Speaker 4: Uh, you got me on that one. I'll be honest
- 14:02Speaker 4: with you, I haven't. I mean, I here's the thing.
- 14:05Speaker 4: I never really worry about what the cap looks like
- 14:08Speaker 4: and how much is left on the cap and all
- 14:10Speaker 4: that stuff, because it is so fluid.
- 14:12Speaker 1: It can change with anything.
- 14:13Speaker 4: They can trigger a contract here and get you ten
- 14:16Speaker 4: more million dollars or they they and they're also trying
- 14:20Speaker 4: to push as much as they can, so it doesn't
- 14:22Speaker 4: matter what they have available. They're trying to push as
- 14:24Speaker 4: much as they can to next year as well. So
- 14:27Speaker 4: I'd just be lying if I just threw out some number,
- 14:29Speaker 4: because I really don't think it, Matt.
- 14:31Speaker 1: They can do whatever they want to do.
- 14:34Speaker 4: They can do it and if and they'll tell you
- 14:36Speaker 4: that that they can't, but they can figure out ways
- 14:39Speaker 4: to do it. That's why I have never racked my
- 14:41Speaker 4: brain about trying to figure out what the salary cap
- 14:43Speaker 4: looks like because they they don't tell you a number.
- 14:47Speaker 4: So you see it on some website this has they're
- 14:50Speaker 4: thirty seven million whatever. You got to remember all the
- 14:53Speaker 4: stuff that they're factoring in. That's you know that they
- 14:56Speaker 4: have to pay so there these website aren't factoring in
- 15:01Speaker 4: what the practice squad costs what it costs to bring
- 15:04Speaker 4: up two elevated players every single week. That costs five
- 15:08Speaker 4: million dollars, just like just like that, So the extra
- 15:11Speaker 4: two guys on your roster. So there's a lot going
- 15:14Speaker 4: to it. And I'd be lying if I if I
- 15:16Speaker 4: gave you a number, I really don't. But I'm saying
- 15:18Speaker 4: they can go do whatever they want to do. So
- 15:20Speaker 4: if that's what you're asking, do they have money to
- 15:22Speaker 4: spend for someone? They can do whatever they want and they.
- 15:24Speaker 10: Can say that.
- 15:27Speaker 9: One other thing before I get off here. I don't
- 15:30Speaker 9: think that this Dalvin Cook is the hinter in the
- 15:33Speaker 9: running back room. And as I stated last week, I
- 15:36Speaker 9: don't think that our Bill cal running back is going
- 15:40Speaker 9: to be on this team until maybe mid season you
- 15:44Speaker 9: know where that And I'll let you go. And thanks
- 15:46Speaker 9: for taking my call.
- 15:47Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Thanks for the call. Again,
- 15:50Speaker 4: I don't know if Dalvin Cook is the answer either.
- 15:54Speaker 4: You know, you bring a player like this in at
- 15:56Speaker 4: this time, you know, just like they've done with some
- 15:58Speaker 4: other guys I mean, on the on the other side
- 16:00Speaker 4: of the ball. Linval Joseph is expected to sign it
- 16:04Speaker 4: today at some point, you know, but uh, Carl Lawson,
- 16:09Speaker 4: they brought him in and off the couch. And you know,
- 16:12Speaker 4: of course they traded for Jordan Phillips, so he's been
- 16:14Speaker 4: on a on a team. But you know, some of
- 16:16Speaker 4: these guys that you're bringing in, it's they're veteran guys.
- 16:19Speaker 4: It's going to take them a little bit to to
- 16:22Speaker 4: uh sign and and it's not by accident. And these
- 16:25Speaker 4: guys aren't trying to to go to training camp, you know,
- 16:28Speaker 4: and put a CD in that. I mean, is it
- 16:31Speaker 4: is it a coincidence that training camp's over and now
- 16:34Speaker 4: now they're signing CD. I mean, you know, I just
- 16:37Speaker 4: think that this is the part of the year where
- 16:39Speaker 4: you're starting to see some of these moves. Again, don't
- 16:42Speaker 4: rule out the part that favors are done sometimes in
- 16:47Speaker 4: the league for agents, for players for you know, so
- 16:51Speaker 4: let's work, you know, because if you work out a
- 16:52Speaker 4: player and he comes in for a visit or you
- 16:54Speaker 4: work him out, it goes on the wire to everybody
- 16:58Speaker 4: in in the in the league. And so sometimes you know,
- 17:01Speaker 4: I'm not saying that that's a situation here. I'm just
- 17:04Speaker 4: saying that just because you're bringing in a guy doesn't
- 17:06Speaker 4: mean that you're you're so close to signing him. It's
- 17:08Speaker 4: just for Looxie, it's for down the road. Just like
- 17:12Speaker 4: Bob just said, the bell cow, the bell cow for
- 17:15Speaker 4: running back is maybe down the road. So that's what
- 17:18Speaker 4: you're doing. You're just looking at seeing these guys. Oh yeah,
- 17:20Speaker 4: he looked pretty good. Do we want to sign them?
- 17:22Speaker 1: No? Not right now. We're good.
- 17:24Speaker 4: But if we have an injury, if somebody goes down,
- 17:27Speaker 4: we need to know what we've gotten some of these
- 17:28Speaker 4: other players. And so that's sometimes what these visits are.
- 17:31Speaker 4: They're not necessarily for now that there could be for
- 17:34Speaker 4: a month down the road or whatever.
- 17:35Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Tim in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Tim.
- 17:40Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, how you doing, man?
- 17:42Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 17:43Speaker 6: I'm good, I'm good. Can we just get this thing started?
- 17:47Speaker 6: Can we just get the season started? Now? I'm excited.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Let's do it.
- 17:51Speaker 6: Let's just go yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm excited about this team.
- 17:57Speaker 6: Some of the things that concerned me last year we've
- 18:02Speaker 6: we've addressed. We've and the main thing with me was
- 18:06Speaker 6: the physical aspect of the game. Uh, and just being
- 18:11Speaker 6: physically and mentally tough. Now I know, wise, I know
- 18:16Speaker 6: it's only the preseason. But I like that we seem
- 18:21Speaker 6: to have stopped the run and run the ball this preseason.
- 18:25Speaker 7: Now.
- 18:26Speaker 6: I know we you know we're going against twos and threes,
- 18:29Speaker 6: but I like the progression of this team. I like
- 18:33Speaker 6: the direction there it is. What do you think?
- 18:36Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I like it too. I like the direction.
- 18:38Speaker 4: And I'm with you about that. This is the time,
- 18:42Speaker 4: you know, this is the time of year where it's
- 18:45Speaker 4: you're just getting anxious, You're you're antsy, you want to
- 18:47Speaker 4: get this thing started. And this is gonna be a
- 18:49Speaker 4: long couple of weeks too. I mean, there's nothing happening
- 18:53Speaker 4: after the cuts today. You know, there'll be a few
- 18:56Speaker 4: little things here and there, but nothing really going on.
- 18:59Speaker 4: And then we got to this weekend. Then you know,
- 19:02Speaker 4: they'll they'll have their normal they'll have a labor day
- 19:05Speaker 4: practice like on Monday, have their off day Tuesday, and
- 19:09Speaker 4: then they'll they'll get to work Wednesday. I mean, it's
- 19:11Speaker 4: it's like a regular week. Wednesday the fourth, I guess
- 19:16Speaker 4: September the fourth, So so we still got about a
- 19:20Speaker 4: week before it's kind of in this no man's land
- 19:23Speaker 4: type stuff. And then you know, by next Wednesday week
- 19:27Speaker 4: from tomorrow. It'll it'll be like a regular week. I
- 19:30Speaker 4: mean they'll be Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, travel on Saturday for Cleveland,
- 19:33Speaker 4: Uh play the Browns on Sunday. And that sounds good
- 19:36Speaker 4: though that we are, you know, two weeks away, less
- 19:39Speaker 4: than two weeks away from playing football. But I hear
- 19:41Speaker 4: what you're saying about being you know, excited about this
- 19:44Speaker 4: This is what that's what being a football fan is.
- 19:46Speaker 4: I mean, really, if you're not, you know, if you're
- 19:49Speaker 4: not excited about the team, you know, then then they
- 19:52Speaker 4: didn't do that great of a job. The team didn't
- 19:55Speaker 4: do a great job in the offseason. And you can
- 19:56Speaker 4: make that argument. If you're not excited about this team,
- 19:59Speaker 4: that's that's fine, But it's also comes down to your expectations.
- 20:03Speaker 4: I see this team, I see the schedule, I see
- 20:06Speaker 4: the injuries that they have and the limitations and all that,
- 20:11Speaker 4: and I think this is gonna be a team fighting
- 20:14Speaker 4: for for wins every single week. I think it's gonna
- 20:18Speaker 4: come down to a lot of close games. And I
- 20:22Speaker 4: you know that being said, I like the fact that
- 20:25Speaker 4: you've got a veteran quarterback who's been around for a while.
- 20:29Speaker 4: I like that you have a pretty good kicker because
- 20:31Speaker 4: those games are gonna come down to that too.
- 20:34Speaker 11: Uh.
- 20:34Speaker 4: And then you've got some defensive players that that can
- 20:36Speaker 4: that can go win games. You know, you've got a
- 20:38Speaker 4: defensive player that can go dominate a game, especially if
- 20:42Speaker 4: you need to and go go make a play to
- 20:43Speaker 4: win the game.
- 20:44Speaker 1: So, but it's gonna be close.
- 20:46Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be hovering at that, you know,
- 20:50Speaker 4: nine and eight, ten and seven, eleven and six. Maybe
- 20:54Speaker 4: it's gonna be But that's fun to me. That that's
- 20:56Speaker 4: that's gonna be fun. Every every game is going to
- 20:58Speaker 4: be a battle, and uh, it'll definitely be an interesting one.
- 21:02Speaker 4: All right, let's go to break real quick here on
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- 22:37Speaker 4: All right, that stuff, Let's get to the phone lines.
- 22:42Speaker 4: Go back to the phone lines. We got Rick in Webster, Massachusetts.
- 22:45Speaker 10: Rick, Hey, thank how you doing good?
- 22:49Speaker 1: How are you doing?
- 22:50Speaker 3: Rick?
- 22:51Speaker 5: All right?
- 22:52Speaker 10: Just as up, COLI put you what positions you can
- 22:56Speaker 10: think they're going to be insured at, like tight end
- 22:58Speaker 10: or you know, you know, I'm gonna say tight end
- 23:03Speaker 10: or a corner or I'm like that or probably not corner.
- 23:06Speaker 1: But what position is? What is what going to happen?
- 23:13Speaker 6: What?
- 23:13Speaker 5: What?
- 23:14Speaker 10: What positions? You think they'll go short on short?
- 23:16Speaker 1: Okay?
- 23:17Speaker 4: Oh, that that is a good question. That because I
- 23:21Speaker 4: was trying to cut the roster down myself just for fun,
- 23:24Speaker 4: and I didn't. I didn't feel comfortable about any of
- 23:28Speaker 4: the positions because.
- 23:33Speaker 1: Like maybe maybe safety is four. Is that short? I don't.
- 23:36Speaker 4: I don't know about that. Running back at at three,
- 23:41Speaker 4: tight end at three. Again, these aren't considered short. It's
- 23:47Speaker 4: they're just not going to be long. You know, it's
- 23:50Speaker 4: not long. I mean like wide receiver. I don't think
- 23:53Speaker 4: they cut Ryan Flinoy. There, there's there's You're not going
- 23:56Speaker 4: to get them back to the practice squad. He's he's
- 23:58Speaker 4: caught two touchdowns in games. He's he's a he's a
- 24:01Speaker 4: young player from a small school. He's starting to pick
- 24:04Speaker 4: it up. I don't think you cut Flinoy. If you
- 24:07Speaker 4: cut Flinoy, then why did you draft him. That's why
- 24:10Speaker 4: I look at it like, why did you draft him
- 24:12Speaker 4: from Southeast Missouri State knowing that he was gonna need
- 24:15Speaker 4: more reps more reps and then you're developing for someone else.
- 24:19Speaker 1: I don't think so, I don't. I wouldn't do that.
- 24:21Speaker 4: So that's a that's a position that'll be six if
- 24:24Speaker 4: Flinoy makes it. And I'm just assuming Jalen Brooks is
- 24:28Speaker 4: on the team. He's I don't know why it would be.
- 24:31Speaker 4: So I'm thinking six receivers there so so short, you know,
- 24:37Speaker 4: maybe offensive line has nine. Sometimes I've seen ten there,
- 24:42Speaker 4: so you know, and linebacker could be one.
- 24:44Speaker 1: Where they are they go.
- 24:46Speaker 4: Five uh five linebackers maybe six, So but we'll see.
- 24:50Speaker 4: I mean, and again, don't ever say final roster like
- 24:55Speaker 4: people say that all the time, the final roster cuts. Now,
- 24:57Speaker 4: nothing's final. I mean, guy's gonna get cut, Guy's gonna
- 25:01Speaker 4: make the team tonight. There will be a player that
- 25:03Speaker 4: makes the team today and we'll practice tonight and he's like, oh,
- 25:06Speaker 4: he's good, he made it.
- 25:07Speaker 1: He'll get cut.
- 25:08Speaker 4: On Wednesday when they claim someone else. It's just the
- 25:11Speaker 4: nature of the business. So there's nothing final about about
- 25:14Speaker 4: really anything. All right, Uh, let's go to Michael in
- 25:17Speaker 4: North Carolina.
- 25:21Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, Hey Michael in North Carolina.
- 25:26Speaker 5: I mean, Nick, how you doing good?
- 25:28Speaker 1: How are you? It's not Michael Jordan Okay, got it?
- 25:31Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 25:36Speaker 5: I've talked to you a couple of times, but over
- 25:39Speaker 5: the years. Here, I've just got one question really today
- 25:43Speaker 5: about Trey Lance.
- 25:45Speaker 6: Uh.
- 25:46Speaker 5: You know, they're saying that, you know, you don't make
- 25:48Speaker 5: the same mistakes, and that his potential is really good.
- 25:53Speaker 5: Why don't they get like somebody like John Kittner or
- 25:56Speaker 5: somebody like that to work with him there and also
- 25:59Speaker 5: instead of him out getting a lot of reps you know,
- 26:02Speaker 5: where they can really work with him on his accuracies.
- 26:06Speaker 4: Well, I mean because because they think that their quarterbacks coach,
- 26:10Speaker 4: Scott tolzen Is is a good teacher of quarterbacks too.
- 26:14Speaker 1: I mean that's why.
- 26:15Speaker 4: I mean they they feel like he is their quarterbacks coach.
- 26:19Speaker 4: I mean, he is their quarterbacks coach, and they feel
- 26:20Speaker 4: like he's got to develop.
- 26:22Speaker 7: Them, right.
- 26:23Speaker 5: But how much time does he have to spend with
- 26:25Speaker 5: him during the season, you know, one of the one
- 26:28Speaker 5: of the seasons go on.
- 26:29Speaker 4: I mean you mean, hire like another guy to come
- 26:31Speaker 4: in like for like now, like as a consultant.
- 26:34Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, just for him to work with him on
- 26:38Speaker 5: his accuracy.
- 26:39Speaker 1: Well, the question I'd have is what's he going to
- 26:42Speaker 1: do next year?
- 26:43Speaker 10: Like?
- 26:44Speaker 4: Who are are you signing him? Like, like, I mean
- 26:47Speaker 4: right now, would you are you signing him for whatever
- 26:50Speaker 4: the whatever the money is? Are you going to bring
- 26:52Speaker 4: him back next year? Trey Lance? I'm asking you, Michael,
- 26:55Speaker 4: I'm asking you, if you're a GM, are you signing
- 26:57Speaker 4: Trey Lance right now for for years after this?
- 27:02Speaker 6: Well?
- 27:03Speaker 5: I mean if they think that that, you know, accuracy's
- 27:05Speaker 5: the only thing is wrong with him, Yeah, I wasn't
- 27:08Speaker 5: even if the money's right, I wouldn't give a lot
- 27:10Speaker 5: for it.
- 27:10Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's that's what's tricky about this is because
- 27:13Speaker 4: are you going to invest money to try to develop him?
- 27:15Speaker 4: Then you're not going to sign him, and now you're
- 27:17Speaker 4: just helping someone else. You just developed them for someone else,
- 27:20Speaker 4: you know. So that's this whole thing. It's so difficult.
- 27:25Speaker 4: It's probably the most complicated I've ever seen from the
- 27:28Speaker 4: quarterback position, because you everything's a domino. What happens with Dak?
- 27:33Speaker 4: Is Dak signed? If that tell me that? And if
- 27:36Speaker 4: he is, is Trey Lance your backup? Because If that's
- 27:39Speaker 4: the case, Trey Lance should develop into your backup. I
- 27:42Speaker 4: think he can do that, But right now, I don't
- 27:44Speaker 4: want him to be back up this year.
- 27:46Speaker 1: I don't think you do either.
- 27:47Speaker 4: I mean, you said, don't make the same mistake twice.
- 27:50Speaker 4: He made five of them, so made a few.
- 27:53Speaker 5: Now, yeah, a different scenario on each one of the sure, but.
- 27:58Speaker 4: But but he's with the throw, he's not processing it well.
- 28:02Speaker 4: So it's not they're they're they're connected a little more
- 28:06Speaker 4: than you think. It wasn't five different plays, I mean,
- 28:08Speaker 4: but but then again, he's got some he's got some
- 28:11Speaker 4: talent as well. That's that's it's just unmatched. So he's
- 28:17Speaker 4: he's a project. He's tough, he's tough to figure out
- 28:20Speaker 4: for sure.
- 28:21Speaker 5: Right That's what I'm saying. I just if I really
- 28:24Speaker 5: think that he can become a starting quarterback, you know,
- 28:28Speaker 5: it looks to me like that that they would try
- 28:31Speaker 5: to get somebody to come in and work with him.
- 28:32Speaker 5: So he's getting plenty of work. But also I know
- 28:35Speaker 5: it's a contract here tell you, uh yeah, but you
- 28:38Speaker 5: know no other teams will come in there and give
- 28:41Speaker 5: much money for it either. I mean, nobody's gonna pay
- 28:43Speaker 5: him a lot.
- 28:44Speaker 4: I wouldn't think so, but but then again, I've been
- 28:48Speaker 4: shocked at the quarterback position and what happens and what
- 28:51Speaker 4: these teams are paying for, you know. I mean Carson
- 28:53Speaker 4: Wentz kept getting deals, you know, and it surprises me
- 28:56Speaker 4: sometimes from that.
- 28:58Speaker 1: So who knows.
- 28:59Speaker 4: You got to remember, you know, there's thirty thirty two
- 29:04Speaker 4: teams evaluated Trey Lance. One of them drafted them third overall,
- 29:08Speaker 4: and then one of them traded him to the Cowboys.
- 29:11Speaker 4: So there's really been two teams that's that's gotten, you know,
- 29:15Speaker 4: a chance to work with him. There may be a
- 29:18Speaker 4: team out there, a GM, a quarterback coach, a head
- 29:20Speaker 4: coach that said, we love this guy. I would do them,
- 29:24Speaker 4: this is how I would use him, And who knows,
- 29:26Speaker 4: maybe maybe there is some somebody that has a different
- 29:30Speaker 4: plan for him.
- 29:32Speaker 1: You know.
- 29:32Speaker 4: The weird thing is, so you know, he ran that touchdown,
- 29:36Speaker 4: forty six yard touchdown, and it was kind of easy.
- 29:40Speaker 4: I mean, he just got around the corner and he
- 29:42Speaker 4: just outran everyone. And I was like, wow, that's you know,
- 29:44Speaker 4: hadn't seen that often, and so I looked it up
- 29:46Speaker 4: and I realized that that actually, know, if that was
- 29:49Speaker 4: a regular season game. That would have been the longest run,
- 29:52Speaker 4: not touchdown, the longest run in the history of the
- 29:55Speaker 4: Cowboys franchise by a quarterback forty six yards. I was surprised.
- 29:59Speaker 4: I was surprised that nobody hadn't ripped off a run
- 30:02Speaker 4: that far. And honestly, I have to go back and
- 30:06Speaker 4: find this, but I could have sworn Troy Aikman had
- 30:08Speaker 4: like a fifty yard run in a preseason game his
- 30:11Speaker 4: rookie year in preseason. Not that we keep preseason records
- 30:15Speaker 4: or anything like that, because if so Ma said, there's
- 30:19Speaker 4: our kicker, Aubrey sixty six yarder, I mean, that would
- 30:22Speaker 4: have been a record too. My point is is that
- 30:24Speaker 4: a forty six yard run by the quarterback would have
- 30:26Speaker 4: been the longest run you've ever seen in Cowboy's history.
- 30:29Speaker 4: That's that's just what he can do. That's one thing
- 30:31Speaker 4: he brings to the table. He also threw five picks
- 30:34Speaker 4: in the game, so you know it happens, all right,
- 30:37Speaker 4: Seth in Sugarland, Texas, Seth.
- 30:40Speaker 12: Nick, I've been waiting my whole life for this conversation.
- 30:43Speaker 12: First time caller, longtime listener.
- 30:46Speaker 4: All right, let's go, Chris, here we go. What happens
- 30:50Speaker 4: is he's on the phone. He's getting another Here we Go.
- 30:54Speaker 4: It's kind of sorry.
- 30:58Speaker 12: I'm sure you remember this, but the original here we
- 31:02Speaker 12: Go was actually done by Tony Romo when the center
- 31:06Speaker 12: was Phil Costa, and whenever Romo was ready to snap
- 31:10Speaker 12: the ball fast, he would say, let's go to and
- 31:13Speaker 12: then Phil Costa would snap the ball and then it
- 31:15Speaker 12: was entirely chaos about what might happen after Costa snapped
- 31:19Speaker 12: the ball, which one of my favorite memories about Romo. Yes,
- 31:23Speaker 12: I had two things for you. One, I'm gonna call
- 31:26Speaker 12: my shot now. I'm gonna say the Cowboys go twelve
- 31:28Speaker 12: and five, win the division. Then they go up to
- 31:31Speaker 12: San Francisco play the NFC Championship game, win the game
- 31:36Speaker 12: twenty seven to twenty one, calling it now, just put
- 31:39Speaker 12: it down.
- 31:41Speaker 1: Twenty seven twenty one in San Francisco.
- 31:43Speaker 12: Huh, that's right. Two big field goals by Aubrey are
- 31:47Speaker 12: going to win the whole thing. You very excited about it.
- 31:50Speaker 4: You realize that if Montana's pass had gone over Dwight
- 31:55Speaker 4: Clark's head like he was probably trying to in the
- 31:58Speaker 4: catch in eighty one and they don't score a touchdown,
- 32:00Speaker 4: the Cowboys hole. Did they win twenty seven to twenty one?
- 32:04Speaker 6: Uh?
- 32:04Speaker 1: There? Because I believe that was the score of the
- 32:06Speaker 1: game until that happened.
- 32:07Speaker 12: That's probably you get it. You can feel the karma
- 32:10Speaker 12: willing around this situation. But so I also wanted to say, like,
- 32:15Speaker 12: I'm a professional writer too.
- 32:18Speaker 1: And I thought you were going to say wrestler.
- 32:20Speaker 12: I really thought a professional wrestler.
- 32:23Speaker 4: I thought that would have been that would have been
- 32:25Speaker 4: really cool, because right, right, that's not cool.
- 32:27Speaker 1: There's nothing cool.
- 32:28Speaker 12: But we are not cold people. I'm a professional writer too,
- 32:33Speaker 12: and I'm a big admirer of your storytelling style, especially
- 32:37Speaker 12: in uh, you know, if these waltz could talk. And
- 32:41Speaker 12: so what I wanted to ask you. I've been wanting
- 32:43Speaker 12: to ask you for several years because I've been listening,
- 32:46Speaker 12: you know, for a long long time. But I wanted
- 32:49Speaker 12: to ask you where did you develop your journalistic slash
- 32:53Speaker 12: storytelling style and if there were any mentors that you
- 32:56Speaker 12: would want to thank when you had the opportunity. And
- 33:00Speaker 12: I'll get off and thanks for taking my call, nickkd
- 33:02Speaker 12: to bed, thank.
- 33:03Speaker 4: You, Thank you so much. Man Seth from sugar Land,
- 33:06Speaker 4: Texas needs a callback. He's got a lot of energy
- 33:10Speaker 4: like it, Man, where did I develop that?
- 33:13Speaker 1: See what? It's funny.
- 33:14Speaker 4: Like, one thing that I'm really proud of with this
- 33:17Speaker 4: show is, and this sounds like I'm I'm nine years old,
- 33:22Speaker 4: but I love it, is that like my mom and
- 33:25Speaker 4: my dad watched every single show and you know, not
- 33:29Speaker 4: together but different parts of the state. They both watch it.
- 33:33Speaker 4: They watched this show, and they probably have a different
- 33:36Speaker 4: answer than me. But where did I develop storytelling? I mean,
- 33:40Speaker 4: I was doing this. The thing about it is, I
- 33:42Speaker 4: was doing this as a kid. I was writing stories.
- 33:45Speaker 4: I would make up stories. I would write about what
- 33:48Speaker 4: I saw on TV. And also like I was reading
- 33:52Speaker 4: the newspapers. I was reading Sports Illustrated. I was reading
- 33:55Speaker 4: the Dallas Cowboy Weekly. I had it cut up and
- 33:58Speaker 4: put it, you know, in a scrap book. And so
- 34:00Speaker 4: I I just like whoever whoever was writing about, you know,
- 34:05Speaker 4: whether whether it be Sports Illustrated or or the weekly
- 34:09Speaker 4: or or just even the newspapers, it was. It was
- 34:12Speaker 4: kind of probably just the combination of everybody's style and
- 34:14Speaker 4: this weird imagination that I have in my head. So
- 34:17Speaker 4: it's just kind of a collection of everything. But thank
- 34:19Speaker 4: you for saying that I appreciate that, and and thank
- 34:24Speaker 4: you for saying that about the book. If these walls
- 34:26Speaker 4: could talk, which I have copies available if anyone wants
- 34:29Speaker 4: to buy them. All right, here we go, Sebastian, Savannah, Georgia, Bastian,
- 34:34Speaker 4: what's up?
- 34:35Speaker 13: How are we doing this morning?
- 34:37Speaker 6: Sir?
- 34:37Speaker 1: Good? How are you?
- 34:39Speaker 13: Everything's going all right?
- 34:40Speaker 12: A big shout out to the guys.
- 34:42Speaker 13: Who worked on the Mary and Barber. Yes, that was amazing,
- 34:47Speaker 13: And that moment went to shar choice he made, he
- 34:50Speaker 13: made a thought, He really bought something in my heart.
- 34:52Speaker 13: It just snatched heart right out of my chests when
- 34:54Speaker 13: he said, I didn't know my dog was old in
- 34:57Speaker 13: that moment, I didn't know he had long to live.
- 34:59Speaker 7: Man.
- 34:59Speaker 13: That that sent me. Really, that was an amazing, amazing thing.
- 35:03Speaker 13: I just want to share one of my favorite memories,
- 35:05Speaker 13: or two of my favorite memories about Marion Barber. It
- 35:07Speaker 13: was during Hard Knocks, whole team's out partying. He's at
- 35:10Speaker 13: the house playing the piano and when he was trying
- 35:13Speaker 13: to show I think it was Felix Jones how to
- 35:15Speaker 13: block a linebacker, and he put the linebacker on his butt.
- 35:18Speaker 13: Nobody could bust the linebacker like Marion Barber. He was
- 35:21Speaker 13: a tough guy and he clearly touched a lot.
- 35:23Speaker 1: Of Oh that was great.
- 35:24Speaker 4: Yes, First of all, the documentary is amazing that they
- 35:27Speaker 4: did an awesome job with that. That story you're talking
- 35:32Speaker 4: about with the linebacker though on hard knocks, so there's
- 35:35Speaker 4: a little more to that. And I think his number
- 35:38Speaker 4: fifty eight, I think his name was Tarius George if
- 35:40Speaker 4: I remember correctly, I think that was his name. He
- 35:44Speaker 4: actually knocked Marian Barber to the ground the play or
- 35:47Speaker 4: the drill before that, and everybody, this is very in
- 35:51Speaker 4: the Barbarian. I mean, this is the pro bowler and
- 35:54Speaker 4: how could this happen? And so everybody was kind of
- 35:57Speaker 4: laughing and yelling and oh my god, this happened, and
- 36:00Speaker 4: Marian was like, okay, all right, we'll do it again
- 36:02Speaker 4: and make sure it lined up perfectly. So he would
- 36:05Speaker 4: do it again and go up to him and uh
- 36:07Speaker 4: he knocked him out like he married married won that one.
- 36:12Speaker 4: Uh So the thing about that is that that story
- 36:16Speaker 4: was actually that was Marian's like revenge on that guy.
- 36:21Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, but but it's a sad story.
- 36:25Speaker 4: Number one. And just to just to hear, you know,
- 36:29Speaker 4: the family anytime you hear, you know, a parents talking
- 36:33Speaker 4: about losing a child, I mean that it should it
- 36:37Speaker 4: shouldn't work that way, right, it's that's the way it's
- 36:39Speaker 4: supposed to be. And so it's it's, uh, it's sad,
- 36:42Speaker 4: But it was very the guys that told the story.
- 36:46Speaker 4: You know, you know, the one that got me was
- 36:48Speaker 4: Patrick Creighton because I've known Patrick Crayton since he got
- 36:51Speaker 4: here and you know, he he you know, good good
- 36:55Speaker 4: luck getting a tear out of him. You know, that's
- 36:57Speaker 4: just that's just not his nature. That's not what who
- 36:59Speaker 4: he is. He's just blunt and he tells you like
- 37:01Speaker 4: it is. And for him to kind of have a
- 37:04Speaker 4: quivering lip a little bit there, that I knew.
- 37:08Speaker 1: It hit home.
- 37:08Speaker 4: And so that that that team that they did, they
- 37:11Speaker 4: did an amazing, amazing job of telling that story.
- 37:13Speaker 1: And absolutely and I thought it was one.
- 37:15Speaker 4: That was it was going to be very tough to do,
- 37:17Speaker 4: and it was. It was tough. They had their challenges
- 37:19Speaker 4: to do that and they did a great job. So
- 37:22Speaker 4: if you haven't seen it, Barber, do what you love,
- 37:25Speaker 4: which is a quote from him. You didn't find a
- 37:27Speaker 4: lot of quotes on Marion Barber, but that's the one
- 37:29Speaker 4: thing that that he said right before a game. Do
- 37:32Speaker 4: you know, love what you do, do what you love,
- 37:35Speaker 4: and great, great stuff. So anyway, sorry, Sabasha, I know
- 37:38Speaker 4: you have another question.
- 37:40Speaker 13: Listen, you guys never see me over there, and what
- 37:42Speaker 13: you do is fantastic. My only other thing that I
- 37:45Speaker 13: had was it's funny that we can catch the ball,
- 37:47Speaker 13: but we can't catch a break in the secondary. It
- 37:49Speaker 13: seems like every single time we're set up to have
- 37:52Speaker 13: a great secondary with the cornerbacks going, Diggs goes down.
- 37:55Speaker 13: You have a phenomenal season by Doron Bland, and then
- 37:58Speaker 13: all of a sudden, lou Stephan Gilmour with the arm injury.
- 38:01Speaker 13: We're getting back. I'm super excited to see what the
- 38:03Speaker 13: secondary could do with Bland and Digs together, and then
- 38:07Speaker 13: my boy Bland goes down. So I'm wishing him a
- 38:08Speaker 13: speedy recovery. Thoughts and prayers go because I know it's
- 38:11Speaker 13: a very stressful thing coming into this season, especially I
- 38:14Speaker 13: think this is a contract season for him as well,
- 38:16Speaker 13: so I hope he gets better fast and when he
- 38:18Speaker 13: gets back to the field, he doesn't push it too
- 38:19Speaker 13: hard and he just comes out like he was the
- 38:21Speaker 13: last time he was there. But thank you guys so
- 38:23Speaker 13: much for everything you do and you have a.
- 38:24Speaker 4: Great dare Thanks appreciate it. I want to say, this
- 38:29Speaker 4: is Deron Bland's third year, so maybe I'm missing that.
- 38:35Speaker 4: I don't believe he's in a contract here just yet.
- 38:38Speaker 4: I think they can. They can, you know, start looking
- 38:41Speaker 4: at it at the end of this season, but I
- 38:44Speaker 4: believe this is his third year. So he Yeah, I
- 38:47Speaker 4: had five interceptions. It's five interceptions his first year and
- 38:51Speaker 4: then he had nine last year. Which there's only three
- 38:55Speaker 4: players in Cowboy's history that have had fourteen interceptions in
- 38:59Speaker 4: the first two seasons of their career, and Everson Wallas
- 39:03Speaker 4: was one. Everson Walls had more than that, and Diggs
- 39:07Speaker 4: had fourteen and then Bland also fourteen. But but you know,
- 39:11Speaker 4: you can you can say, yeah, they can't catch a break,
- 39:14Speaker 4: or you know, maybe maybe they've caught a few, you
- 39:17Speaker 4: know maybe I mean the fact that they've they've drafted
- 39:21Speaker 4: so well. You know, they had a second round pick
- 39:23Speaker 4: in Trayvon Diggs and he, you know, led the league
- 39:25Speaker 4: in interceptions with eleven. You know, they had a fifth
- 39:27Speaker 4: round pick in Deron Bland and he's led the league
- 39:30Speaker 4: of interceptions his second year, so that they've drafted well,
- 39:34Speaker 4: they've developed better than that, Al Harris being a part
- 39:38Speaker 4: of it. So I think that's kind of why they're
- 39:40Speaker 4: They're confident in guy like Haylen Carson. But yeah, I
- 39:44Speaker 4: hear your point. You're like, I want them all, you know,
- 39:46Speaker 4: I want them all healthy, all there together, and and
- 39:48Speaker 4: if that does happen, and if Carson has developed and
- 39:52Speaker 4: and does well, and I think going back to the
- 39:54Speaker 4: first caller of the whole show, Jeremy and Salt Lake City,
- 39:57Speaker 4: he said, it's a blessing in disguise. If Caitlin Carson
- 40:01Speaker 4: plays really well and he can hold his own, and
- 40:04Speaker 4: then Blant comes back and he plays well, and Digs
- 40:07Speaker 4: is now one hundred percent, and they've got those three
- 40:10Speaker 4: plus Jordan Lewis and they are really rolling at cornerback,
- 40:13Speaker 4: then yeah, you can say that was a blessing in disguise.
- 40:16Speaker 4: I just it's too early to do that, knowing that
- 40:18Speaker 4: you've got some really tough matchups going on, and you've
- 40:21Speaker 4: got guys that have never played them down in the
- 40:23Speaker 4: NFL yet, So that that's why it's it's tough for
- 40:25Speaker 4: me to go there. Jonathan and Fullerton, California. And Jonathan
- 40:30Speaker 4: hy Nick.
- 40:31Speaker 5: How you doing good? How were you good? Good?
- 40:34Speaker 14: I just wanted to say it was really nice meeting you.
- 40:37Speaker 14: I don't know if you remember the very first Saturday
- 40:41Speaker 14: of a Cowboys training camp in Oxtar and I got
- 40:44Speaker 14: to shake your hand and meet you and really cool.
- 40:47Speaker 14: Can I say him and put a face to the name.
- 40:50Speaker 1: Yeah, ye.
- 40:52Speaker 14: But just a couple of things.
- 40:55Speaker 3: I wanted to know what is like the two situation.
- 41:00Speaker 14: Is between Cooper Bebe getting the starting center job or
- 41:03Speaker 14: brock Hoffman game center job. Where does that place the
- 41:06Speaker 14: other person? So if Cooper gets it, is brock Hoffman
- 41:09Speaker 14: just like, are they gonna put him somewhere else on
- 41:12Speaker 14: the line or is he just going to be the
- 41:14Speaker 14: backup or maybe swing something?
- 41:16Speaker 1: Jonathan, Jonathan, did you watch the last preseason game?
- 41:21Speaker 6: No?
- 41:21Speaker 3: I missed it.
- 41:22Speaker 4: Okay, that's good because it's hard. It's hard to watch
- 41:24Speaker 4: some of these games, especially from from out of state.
- 41:27Speaker 4: I'll just tell you this, Uh, brock Hoffman played started,
- 41:31Speaker 4: played pretty well at center last preseason game. Cooper bb
- 41:35Speaker 4: did not play that. So so the any question about
- 41:38Speaker 4: who's starting, that was the answer. Cooper Bebe's your starting center.
- 41:42Speaker 4: As it stands right now, he's the starter. He got
- 41:46Speaker 4: the day off, he's that he's not. He didn't play,
- 41:50Speaker 4: so so the decision has been made. Now is it
- 41:52Speaker 4: a final decision? No, if you don't play well, they
- 41:55Speaker 4: could you know, switch it back. But I'm just saying,
- 41:57Speaker 4: as of right now, looks like Cooper bb your starter.
- 42:00Speaker 4: Brock Hoffmin will probably be your game day backup because
- 42:03Speaker 4: he's played both center and guard, so he's probably more
- 42:07Speaker 4: of a backup than you would have at TJ.
- 42:10Speaker 1: Bass.
- 42:11Speaker 4: If you have to be one or the other, it
- 42:13Speaker 4: would be Hoffman, I would think, because Hoffman could give
- 42:16Speaker 4: you more backup roles, but it might be both of
- 42:18Speaker 4: them as game day actives.
- 42:22Speaker 3: Okay, all right, And one more question with the whole
- 42:27Speaker 3: Trey Lance thing, like I don't know, like we really
- 42:30Speaker 3: settled on where we're at with him, but he's still
- 42:32Speaker 3: in the roster for a year. Would it benefit us
- 42:35Speaker 3: if we think that we still have like hope in
- 42:38Speaker 3: developing him. Can you think we can sign him to
- 42:41Speaker 3: a contract extension at a pretty lower price since he
- 42:46Speaker 3: is still the third string? Or would do we like
- 42:51Speaker 3: it's not really a good option to try and get
- 42:55Speaker 3: him at a low price for an extended contract for
- 42:58Speaker 3: you know, to give us time to and stuff.
- 43:01Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, thanks for the call. Again, Like I
- 43:03Speaker 4: said before, such such a tough dilemma. I hear what
- 43:07Speaker 4: you're saying, but you got to remember just how they're
- 43:09Speaker 4: gonna be up against it even more on the salary
- 43:12Speaker 4: cap next year. Uh what kind of contract extension are
- 43:15Speaker 4: you going to or is he going to accept and take?
- 43:18Speaker 4: And then if that's the case, what if he's not
- 43:20Speaker 4: good enough to be your backup? You're paying this guy
- 43:22Speaker 4: for a third quarterback. I mean, they don't even know
- 43:24Speaker 4: who their starter is going to be next year because
- 43:26Speaker 4: they haven't gotten back signed yet. So I think it's
- 43:29Speaker 4: got to go in order. I think you have to
- 43:31Speaker 4: figure out who your starter is going to be. It's
- 43:33Speaker 4: not gonna be Trey Lance. I don't believe he's gonna
- 43:36Speaker 4: when is he going to develop into that? I'm not
- 43:38Speaker 4: even sure he's going to develop into the backup role.
- 43:41Speaker 4: So I think I think it's got to just go
- 43:44Speaker 4: in order. And I know you're everyone's trying to rush it,
- 43:47Speaker 4: but it's just it probably doesn't make a lot of
- 43:48Speaker 4: sense to do that. Let me take a quick break
- 43:50Speaker 4: here and we'll come right back. We got Robin Vegas
- 43:53Speaker 4: on the line, so we'll take a quick break.
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- 45:27Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Robin Vegas. Rob, what's up?
- 45:31Speaker 7: Then?
- 45:32Speaker 15: Hey, Nick, here we go.
- 45:34Speaker 1: Ready, I'm ready, babe? Rob?
- 45:39Speaker 4: What was what was your prediction on CD Lamb's contract?
- 45:45Speaker 15: Thirty four million per year per year?
- 45:51Speaker 5: I mean, are you an agent?
- 45:55Speaker 7: No?
- 45:55Speaker 15: But it just makes to me the deal should have
- 45:58Speaker 15: been done only because.
- 45:59Speaker 1: Okay, okay, knew with the start.
- 46:00Speaker 4: Cool, good job you got it, So okay, because we're
- 46:03Speaker 4: in a we're in a what have you done for
- 46:05Speaker 4: me lately? So now just tell me what the DAK
- 46:07Speaker 4: deal is going to be? Have you got that one?
- 46:09Speaker 4: Just what's the DAK bill going to be?
- 46:12Speaker 15: Fifty eight? Fifty eight?
- 46:13Speaker 1: I think that sounds good to me.
- 46:15Speaker 5: Fifty eight, I said about fifty eight.
- 46:18Speaker 1: Good job you did call that one. Rob. What else
- 46:21Speaker 1: you got?
- 46:22Speaker 15: Well, we're talking about tree Lance, and I agree. You know,
- 46:26Speaker 15: I didn't watch the game till Sunday, and my storyline, peeps,
- 46:31Speaker 15: I kind of glanced, and you know, I didn't want
- 46:34Speaker 15: to really find out what was happening. But I see
- 46:36Speaker 15: five interceptions.
- 46:37Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my god.
- 46:38Speaker 15: When I watched the game, I thought it was the
- 46:39Speaker 15: best game he played. I know he had the five picks,
- 46:42Speaker 15: but he made plays.
- 46:45Speaker 1: Yep. I know. Yeah.
- 46:48Speaker 4: I had a hard time putting him on that game
- 46:50Speaker 4: game Breakers article, and I because he I mean, he definitely.
- 46:56Speaker 1: Changed the game for both teams. But yeah, I think.
- 47:03Speaker 15: The deal right now is I know, first of all,
- 47:06Speaker 15: I don't think he's going to be back with the
- 47:07Speaker 15: Cowboys next year because we all see the talents and
- 47:12Speaker 15: he's only twenty four, and why would he want to.
- 47:14Speaker 6: Be a backup?
- 47:16Speaker 15: If I'm him and his agent, I'm gonna want to
- 47:19Speaker 15: go to a team where he could compete for the
- 47:21Speaker 15: starting job. And if they signed back, that's not happening,
- 47:25Speaker 15: right So I think best case scenario right now is
- 47:28Speaker 15: get on the phone with the New York Jets. They
- 47:31Speaker 15: got a really good running back room. They have three
- 47:33Speaker 15: good backs. They have a forty year old quarterback that
- 47:37Speaker 15: may be in his last year and see if you
- 47:39Speaker 15: could trade trade Lance and maybe something else for one
- 47:43Speaker 15: of these backs. They got Breeeshold, I got this rookie
- 47:47Speaker 15: that everybody's talking about, Aba Nakanda, I mean, and they
- 47:51Speaker 15: got Braylan Allen to me get on the phone, because
- 47:55Speaker 15: I just don't think if I'm trade Lance, and let's say, said,
- 47:59Speaker 15: when you're when you've got that kind of ego which
- 48:02Speaker 15: every quarterbacks for that, he doesn't want to be a backup.
- 48:04Speaker 15: He's gonna want to try to start. You try to
- 48:06Speaker 15: be a backup at thirty and when you're in your thirties.
- 48:08Speaker 9: Not at twenty four.
- 48:09Speaker 15: So I just think the Cowboys are gonna end up
- 48:11Speaker 15: developing for somebody else if they keep, you know, developing
- 48:15Speaker 15: him through the year, and he could love try to
- 48:17Speaker 15: get something for him now, because you're right, we don't
- 48:21Speaker 15: even know if he's right now, he's not even the
- 48:23Speaker 15: second best player. I would keep him on the team
- 48:28Speaker 15: over Cooper Rush only because I look at it as
- 48:31Speaker 15: Adolpha bid deck goes down like for the year.
- 48:34Speaker 9: The season's over anyway.
- 48:36Speaker 15: But my feeling is Cooper Rush is a better guy.
- 48:40Speaker 15: If I need to, if I need somebody to come
- 48:42Speaker 15: in for a couple of games, but I would try
- 48:45Speaker 15: to trade him right now. Get on the phone with
- 48:46Speaker 15: the Jets and see what you can do, because I
- 48:49Speaker 15: think you're gonna lose him. I mean, and somebody's talking
- 48:53Speaker 15: about Belcal running backs. There's only like one or two
- 48:55Speaker 15: in the league.
- 48:56Speaker 9: Those days are over.
- 48:57Speaker 15: And this is a passing team. You just drop thirty
- 49:00Speaker 15: four million dollars a year on a wide receiver. You're
- 49:02Speaker 15: not running the ball thirty five times a game. This
- 49:05Speaker 15: is not what we do. Dak is a really, really
- 49:08Speaker 15: good quarterback led the league last year. You know, touchdowns.
- 49:12Speaker 15: All we need is seventy five to one hundred yards.
- 49:16Speaker 15: How you get it, who gets it, how many guys
- 49:18Speaker 15: get it, It don't really matter. So I don't think.
- 49:22Speaker 15: I don't think cooks off. I don't think he could
- 49:24Speaker 15: pull a running back off the couch and he could
- 49:26Speaker 15: do anything. I think he has to be in shape.
- 49:29Speaker 15: Somebody have to trade to somebody who's been in training
- 49:31Speaker 15: camp full a year. And I think I just think
- 49:33Speaker 15: the Jets make the most sense right now, which you
- 49:37Speaker 15: could if they if you could shop tree lamps to them, all.
- 49:40Speaker 4: Right, that sounds good, all right? Good, good stuff. You've
- 49:43Speaker 4: been right before. So yeah, all right, Rob, appreciate it.
- 49:48Speaker 4: Thanks for the for the call and the insight there. Yeah,
- 49:51Speaker 4: I agree with.
- 49:53Speaker 1: You about it.
- 49:53Speaker 4: I do don't know if Dalvin Cook is I don't
- 49:56Speaker 4: think that's the answer, at least not right right now.
- 49:58Speaker 4: And I don't they're not asking any nobody to come
- 50:00Speaker 4: off the couch and just and be your starting running back.
- 50:04Speaker 4: And if you look at his stats, just go look
- 50:05Speaker 4: look at the stats in the last few years. I
- 50:07Speaker 4: mean it's it's not I mean, he hasn't been as
- 50:10Speaker 4: good as Zeke, honestly, so the numbers are about the same,
- 50:13Speaker 4: if not favor Zeke a little bit more. Plus like
- 50:16Speaker 4: Rob said, he's been in camp. So you know, this
- 50:19Speaker 4: would just be a look sie type thing. And maybe
- 50:21Speaker 4: maybe they want to just do it for for insurance
- 50:24Speaker 4: trading Trey Lance. You know, seems like the value would
- 50:29Speaker 4: be tough after a five interception game, but you got
- 50:33Speaker 4: to have the vision and you got to see that
- 50:34Speaker 4: and and and maybe the Cowboys are doing that looking
- 50:37Speaker 4: and seeing what they could get for him. It's kind
- 50:39Speaker 4: of what the forty nine ers did last year. You know,
- 50:40Speaker 4: they played him for most of the preseason. They had
- 50:43Speaker 4: him at camp preseason. When it was over, they decided
- 50:45Speaker 4: to trade it. Maybe the Cowboys are doing the same,
- 50:47Speaker 4: and who knows. I don't think so. I think he's
- 50:49Speaker 4: going to be on the team this year. But but again,
- 50:52Speaker 4: when it comes to figuring out next year's quarterback, I
- 50:54Speaker 4: think it starts at the top. You've got to figure
- 50:56Speaker 4: that out. Once that domino drops, then I think it'll
- 50:59Speaker 4: be good for everybody.
- 51:00Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna get out of here.
- 51:01Speaker 4: Cowboys Break is joining us U next they'll be here
- 51:04Speaker 4: to talk about all the stuff going on here.
- 51:07Speaker 11: Uh.
- 51:07Speaker 4: And we remember we got the practice tonight at the Star,
- 51:11Speaker 4: Cowboys Night at the Star and at Ford Center. We've
- 51:14Speaker 4: got cuts coming on here later this afternoon. And who
- 51:18Speaker 4: knows what else could could happen. We could be signing
- 51:20Speaker 4: someone else, who knows. All Right, For Chris Beam, I'm
- 51:22Speaker 4: Nick Keetman. We will see you on Thursday on Cowboys Storyline.
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