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- 0:19Speaker 4: Here's Nick Eatman, what's up?
- 0:30Speaker 5: Welcome to Cowboys storyline presented by Gillette. It's Thursday. I
- 0:34Speaker 5: don't say that often, Thursday, April the thirtieth. We had
- 0:38Speaker 5: to do a different showtime this week. It was worth it.
- 0:41Speaker 5: It's worth the move. Gotta keep gotta keep Chris in
- 0:44Speaker 5: the chair back there. He wasn't here yesterday, and uh,
- 0:48Speaker 5: you know, backups can do other things, but this show
- 0:52Speaker 5: I need I need my guy. I need Chris back there,
- 0:55Speaker 5: and he wants to be here too. So let's get
- 0:57Speaker 5: it going. Ada A FI five two ninety seven, don't
- 1:00Speaker 5: have as long as we normally do. We're gonna go
- 1:02Speaker 5: straight to the phone line. Let's talk about the draft,
- 1:04Speaker 5: talk about the mini camp, whatever you want. Michael and
- 1:06Speaker 5: Bowden Green started us, start us off.
- 1:09Speaker 6: Hey, this is the two times, two time, two time
- 1:14Speaker 6: first team all storyline. Just had to get that out.
- 1:19Speaker 6: I love it and I appreciate it. Yeah, all right,
- 1:23Speaker 6: my draft questions, you say, get right to it, all right.
- 1:27Speaker 6: I'm I was hysterically excited about when we were when
- 1:32Speaker 6: we could have got Downs or Bane. Like, we get
- 1:35Speaker 6: our choice, so we get Downs. I'm happy. I think
- 1:39Speaker 6: it's the right choice. So let me ask something in
- 1:43Speaker 6: your opinion or thoughts, Say, three years from now, do
- 1:49Speaker 6: you think we bet were better for having Downs and
- 1:52Speaker 6: uh Lawrence or what do you think the combination of
- 1:57Speaker 6: Baine and seeing Seamen would have been? We I mean,
- 2:03Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be Downs, but that would have
- 2:05Speaker 6: been a good combination too. Just wonder what your thoughts for.
- 2:09Speaker 5: Okay, that's good. I hadn't never thought of that, and
- 2:12Speaker 5: I hadn't heard anyone say that.
- 2:13Speaker 7: You're right.
- 2:14Speaker 5: I mean, Fiedeman was there at twenty or a little
- 2:17Speaker 5: bit later. If you moved back to twenty three, Bain
- 2:19Speaker 5: was there. You know, I'm not sure they would have
- 2:22Speaker 5: drafted Bain right then at twelve if Downs had gone
- 2:25Speaker 5: off the board.
- 2:27Speaker 7: They might have.
- 2:29Speaker 5: If they don't have a partner to trade, maybe that's
- 2:33Speaker 5: the guy.
- 2:35Speaker 7: You never know though.
- 2:36Speaker 5: I mean, it could be could have been the tight
- 2:39Speaker 5: end from Oregon. I mean, I'm just saying there's a
- 2:43Speaker 5: lot of situations there, but let's not get into that.
- 2:45Speaker 5: They got Caleb Downs. I think that's the best fit.
- 2:48Speaker 5: I saw an article today where they ranked one hundred
- 2:52Speaker 5: best draft picks from Value and the Cowboys were number
- 2:55Speaker 5: one there with Caleb Downs. This is one person's opinion,
- 2:58Speaker 5: but there's a lot of people that feel that way.
- 3:00Speaker 5: But to answer your question there, I you know, I
- 3:04Speaker 5: think you gotta go with what's the number one of
- 3:07Speaker 5: of that because you can go this one and this
- 3:09Speaker 5: one versus this one and this one, but what's the
- 3:11Speaker 5: number one? And number one is Caleb Downs over Baine.
- 3:15Speaker 5: I know they play different positions, but just that's that's
- 3:18Speaker 5: the front line. And then after that you got Malachai Lawrence,
- 3:23Speaker 5: who is is he's a project? I mean he's still
- 3:27Speaker 5: you know, he's a guy that's he shot up the
- 3:29Speaker 5: draft boards and and you know, came out of nowhere
- 3:32Speaker 5: really but if you just look at the measurables, you
- 3:35Speaker 5: just look at at the at the ceiling for him,
- 3:38Speaker 5: it could just be literally through the roof. I mean
- 3:41Speaker 5: there could be no serious ceiling, just based off athleticism
- 3:46Speaker 5: and if he can get coached the right way. He
- 3:48Speaker 5: played through some injuries, but just screaming off the edge
- 3:51Speaker 5: like that to get that type of guy. I think it,
- 3:55Speaker 5: deep down it was important for the Cowboys to say you,
- 3:57Speaker 5: all right, this kind of closes out the the Micah trade,
- 4:01Speaker 5: the two fourth round picks as well that they got
- 4:03Speaker 5: for But that pick right there was really the one
- 4:06Speaker 5: from Green Bay and they wanted a pass rusher and
- 4:09Speaker 5: and we'll see if he can. You know, he's got
- 4:10Speaker 5: a lot to live up to, but let's see if
- 4:12Speaker 5: he can be that guy. But but I think it's
- 4:15Speaker 5: an interesting question. But I mean the Downs getting Downs
- 4:20Speaker 5: because after they picked Downs, I'll tell you right then,
- 4:23Speaker 5: I was like, they won the draft. It doesn't matter
- 4:26Speaker 5: what they did after that. They got some good picks.
- 4:28Speaker 5: We think it didn't matter though they got him. They
- 4:31Speaker 5: won the draft. So all right, let's go to Casey Joe.
- 4:35Speaker 8: More than Nick.
- 4:35Speaker 9: How are you doing it?
- 4:36Speaker 7: Good?
- 4:36Speaker 10: Good?
- 4:36Speaker 11: Mor Nick?
- 4:37Speaker 12: How are you doing today?
- 4:38Speaker 8: Oh?
- 4:38Speaker 12: Really good?
- 4:38Speaker 6: Really good?
- 4:39Speaker 12: Hey telling you Downs, Lawrence, Barham, Shelton, d Winners, More
- 4:43Speaker 12: and Smith. I'm telling you what a draft.
- 4:46Speaker 8: Wow.
- 4:46Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 4:48Speaker 12: I was a little nervous when I heard the word
- 4:50Speaker 12: Michigan come out of those words at Barham. I was like,
- 4:53Speaker 12: oh no, I was like, but all right after seeing
- 4:56Speaker 12: his little little deal there. You know, he looks good.
- 5:01Speaker 5: So let's let's let's put this to bed real quick. Okay,
- 5:04Speaker 5: they they they have great picks with with Michigan in
- 5:07Speaker 5: the third round, I mean they do. They picked Jordan Lewis,
- 5:10Speaker 5: they picked bar him great. Well, we'll see how that goes.
- 5:14Speaker 5: First round with Mazie Taco second maker. No, hasn't hit
- 5:21Speaker 5: the mark yet. Third round Michigan. It's been a good round.
- 5:25Speaker 5: So let's just let's just call it what it was
- 5:27Speaker 5: there because Jordan Lewis was a really good pick, really
- 5:30Speaker 5: good draft pick, and he was missed last year. So
- 5:33Speaker 5: I think it's the player, uh certainly, not.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Just the school.
- 5:38Speaker 7: So anyways, that's that's my take on it, right.
- 5:42Speaker 12: Uh, and getting pickings coming in to sign us tags.
- 5:45Speaker 12: We won't have the drama during the training camp, you know,
- 5:49Speaker 12: hopefully that that solved that problem, and then picking up
- 5:52Speaker 12: that tied end after the draft. I think Scoonmaker might
- 5:55Speaker 12: be on the I have to work a little harder
- 5:58Speaker 12: to make sure he makes the team.
- 5:59Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I.
- 6:01Speaker 5: Mean, uh, you know, we'll we'll see. I mean, like
- 6:03Speaker 5: this guy's been around. This doesn't be his fourth year contract. Year,
- 6:07Speaker 5: we've seen guys like I'm talking about Scoo Maker. We've
- 6:09Speaker 5: seen guys step up when it's that time. And so
- 6:12Speaker 5: we'll see and and you know, to be fair to him,
- 6:15Speaker 5: he's had pretty good good moments. When when Ferguson was out,
- 6:19Speaker 5: I mean I had to go look this up. I
- 6:21Speaker 5: didn't realize he had three games of six catches. You know,
- 6:25Speaker 5: now not a lot of yards, but Ferguson didn't have
- 6:27Speaker 5: a lot of yards either. But you know, for that
- 6:29Speaker 5: offense and what they do, he's done a nice job
- 6:31Speaker 5: of getting in there and making plays. But you're right,
- 6:33Speaker 5: you're you're talking about and his name escapes me. Is
- 6:39Speaker 5: it trigg uh for for for the Baylor tight end?
- 6:43Speaker 5: I think that's that you're referring to.
- 6:45Speaker 12: I think so it was it.
- 6:46Speaker 5: Was touch and go. I know that it was. It
- 6:49Speaker 5: was not one hundred percent. I know he was committed
- 6:52Speaker 5: and then was almost signed with another team and went
- 6:56Speaker 5: back and forth.
- 6:56Speaker 7: But we'll see if he shows up here today.
- 6:59Speaker 5: He's supposed to be these guys are you know that
- 7:02Speaker 5: they're expected to sign and and and agreed to terms
- 7:05Speaker 5: until they get here past their physical and sign and
- 7:07Speaker 5: sign their contract. But I think for a little bit
- 7:10Speaker 5: there there was some talk that he might be looking
- 7:12Speaker 5: at other options.
- 7:13Speaker 13: But m I'll hear you.
- 7:15Speaker 12: Well, that's all I've got today, brother. You have a
- 7:17Speaker 12: wonderful day, and we'll talk to you later.
- 7:19Speaker 5: All right, Thank you appreciate that. All right, let's go
- 7:21Speaker 5: to Josh in Princeton. Josh, what's up?
- 7:26Speaker 9: Hey?
- 7:26Speaker 13: Nick?
- 7:26Speaker 10: Was going on?
- 7:27Speaker 7: How you doing?
- 7:29Speaker 14: I'm doing good.
- 7:30Speaker 15: Thank you for the slot on the all storyline team.
- 7:34Speaker 15: I've been trying to call in and tell you that.
- 7:36Speaker 5: Oh well, hey, thank you, thank you for being a
- 7:38Speaker 5: part of it and doing your your part. Make sure
- 7:41Speaker 5: that and I'll just use this at time if you've
- 7:44Speaker 5: if you haven't yet, if you if you're on the
- 7:46Speaker 5: team and you haven't given your your shirt sizes and
- 7:50Speaker 5: your address so we can send it to you. If
- 7:52Speaker 5: you haven't sent that to to Chris and the text
- 7:54Speaker 5: line or when you talk to him on the phone,
- 7:57Speaker 5: and you know, make sure and do that.
- 7:59Speaker 15: So all right, ye, yep, I just took care of
- 8:03Speaker 15: that with Chris.
- 8:05Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 8:05Speaker 15: Yeah, So I'm super excited about Caleb Downs and more
- 8:09Speaker 15: than that, I like how the Cowboys use their their
- 8:15Speaker 15: picks to you know, take turn two fifth round picks
- 8:18Speaker 15: into two fourth round picks. So I'm pretty happy.
- 8:21Speaker 13: How that went.
- 8:22Speaker 15: I'm not sure about all of the players that they drafted,
- 8:25Speaker 15: but if Downs and Lawrence are hit, I think I
- 8:28Speaker 15: think we kind of came out good. I'm interested in
- 8:31Speaker 15: what how the corner from Florida can impact the team.
- 8:37Speaker 15: But that's really all I want to say. I'll let
- 8:41Speaker 15: some other people get a chance to Collins, all.
- 8:43Speaker 7: Right, Josh appreciate the call.
- 8:45Speaker 5: He's referring to Devin Moore, the fourth round pick from Florida,
- 8:50Speaker 5: and he was a guy that they had a third
- 8:52Speaker 5: round grades on. They had a third round grades on.
- 8:56Speaker 5: I think everybody that they took in the fourth round,
- 8:58Speaker 5: on all their picks. There there was some talk about
- 9:01Speaker 5: moving some some things around and maybe getting more picks,
- 9:06Speaker 5: because I mean they went what fifth and sixth round
- 9:08Speaker 5: without one. But you know, Devin Moore, they you know,
- 9:12Speaker 5: they had opportunities to move back. But it you know,
- 9:16Speaker 5: I think when you're in the fourth round and you
- 9:18Speaker 5: have third round grades, and really when you when you
- 9:21Speaker 5: think about it, you know, if they would have taken Bain,
- 9:25Speaker 5: let's go back to the first round at the twelfth pick,
- 9:29Speaker 5: the twelfth overall pick. They're taking a guy that they
- 9:31Speaker 5: have a second round grade on, like he was not
- 9:34Speaker 5: one of the guys that they had first round grades on,
- 9:36Speaker 5: but he was. It's a need, you know, and he
- 9:38Speaker 5: and he's a he's a player now, you know, there's
- 9:41Speaker 5: no doubt about it. I don't think it would have
- 9:42Speaker 5: gone too far. And I'm curious if he would have
- 9:45Speaker 5: slipped chest a little bit more than he did. I
- 9:48Speaker 5: think he went fifteen. I wonder if he would have
- 9:51Speaker 5: gotten closer to twenty if the Cowboys, I don't know
- 9:54Speaker 5: if they would have traded up, but you know, it'd
- 9:57Speaker 5: been interesting. But but I think at that point, when
- 9:59Speaker 5: you lost the two fits, just to move up the slot,
- 10:01Speaker 5: just to secure the pick for Downs, I think the
- 10:06Speaker 5: thought all along was that we're not gonna probably pick
- 10:08Speaker 5: at twenty. We're gonna we're gonna try to get our
- 10:10Speaker 5: picks back here. And they did, and better than than
- 10:13Speaker 5: what they got back there they get they they did
- 10:15Speaker 5: even better. So but Devin Moore, I don't know much
- 10:19Speaker 5: about him either, you know, I just know that he's
- 10:21Speaker 5: he's tall. I mean for for a corner. I mean,
- 10:24Speaker 5: what six three one night, I believe is what I
- 10:26Speaker 5: saw on him, and you know, he looks kind of
- 10:29Speaker 5: like a safety like kind of rangy, but if he's
- 10:32Speaker 5: got coverage skills and you know, those are the kind
- 10:34Speaker 5: of guys that you want if you can do it.
- 10:37Speaker 5: I mean, those are the kind of guys that you say,
- 10:38Speaker 5: all right, this this week, we're going up against you know,
- 10:42Speaker 5: like an I don't know, like Evan Ingram type, you
- 10:45Speaker 5: know tight end or you know that I mean Kyle Pitts.
- 10:48Speaker 5: I mean guys like that, you know where that are
- 10:50Speaker 5: that are big tight ends that are really you know,
- 10:53Speaker 5: just bulky receivers. I mean, you know, if you can
- 10:55Speaker 5: put a guy like him on him, I'm I'm not
- 10:57Speaker 5: saying he's ready for that matchup, but you know, time,
- 11:00Speaker 5: that's what a big cornerback could be. Even if he
- 11:03Speaker 5: doesn't start for you, you know, is there a role
- 11:06Speaker 5: for a player like that? So you're looking for trades
- 11:09Speaker 5: and a guy that can cover at that size, it
- 11:10Speaker 5: is certainly one of them. All right, let's go Dylan Northport, Florida, dealing.
- 11:14Speaker 7: What's up?
- 11:15Speaker 13: Hey, how are you good?
- 11:16Speaker 16: How are you doing I'm doing good. I'm doing good.
- 11:20Speaker 17: Before I jump in, talk turkey shtlet everybody know the
- 11:23Speaker 17: spaces are going away. Twitter is canceling I'm sorry spaces
- 11:27Speaker 17: the community. They're canceling communities on Twitter. So I do
- 11:31Speaker 17: have a contingency plan. I created a Discord server and
- 11:34Speaker 17: that information is on the community page and it'll be
- 11:36Speaker 17: there for until about the sixth of May. I believe
- 11:39Speaker 17: it's going to cancel, So spaces will still be liab,
- 11:42Speaker 17: We'll still be doing spaces. The communities are going away.
- 11:45Speaker 7: What's the what's the big difference there? Like, what does that?
- 11:48Speaker 16: What is so court server?
- 11:52Speaker 17: So yeah, the community is going to die. That was
- 11:54Speaker 17: more like you make Twitter posts right, Discord has I
- 11:58Speaker 17: created a server in base. It's a bunch of different
- 12:01Speaker 17: text channels. To think of it as like a big
- 12:02Speaker 17: group chat. And there's also channels you can jump into
- 12:05Speaker 17: with like a mic and you can talk like three
- 12:07Speaker 17: game day with each other and they're in a draft.
- 12:09Speaker 17: You can jump in there and talk. You know what
- 12:11Speaker 17: was around back then, So I think it's better. It's
- 12:13Speaker 17: just it's a separate you know, applications like an app
- 12:16Speaker 17: you download, or you can go to a website and
- 12:18Speaker 17: jump in the service there, I believe, But you need
- 12:19Speaker 17: to make a Discord account and then you can join,
- 12:22Speaker 17: but we'll still be on Twitter doing the spaces though.
- 12:24Speaker 17: This is just a secondary thing here in Discord.
- 12:26Speaker 7: All right, sounds goody. So what'd you got, Arris?
- 12:32Speaker 17: So, I've been doing a lot of crazy things since
- 12:34Speaker 17: Caleb Downs was dragged, a lot of irresponsible things. And
- 12:37Speaker 17: I think that this dude, since since my football consciousness
- 12:41Speaker 17: woke up around like two thousand and two thousand and
- 12:43Speaker 17: one and I became football aware, I think this is
- 12:46Speaker 17: the best draft pick that they've had offensively, defensively, just
- 12:50Speaker 17: a guy who's universally liked. I mean, they're talking about
- 12:54Speaker 17: it's early, obviously, but they're talking about gold jackets already
- 12:57Speaker 17: for this guy. You haven't even taken a snap in
- 12:59Speaker 17: the NFL, right, yeah, I mean, and it's not a joke.
- 13:01Speaker 17: You know, he's sophomore in college. Like, this is a
- 13:03Speaker 17: gould jacket guy. You know, I don't even see Lamb
- 13:06Speaker 17: Like that was a cool pick because it was such
- 13:08Speaker 17: a shock. But even Ceedee Lamb didn't have that kind
- 13:10Speaker 17: of you know, talk and prestige around him that this
- 13:14Speaker 17: guy has. So this guy's going to be transformative, dude,
- 13:17Speaker 17: And I'm excited. I even said, I even said, the
- 13:19Speaker 17: Cowboys have a chance to compete for the NFC championship
- 13:22Speaker 17: with what they've done this whole offseason, and capped it
- 13:24Speaker 17: off with this guy. So, I mean, I'm not a
- 13:26Speaker 17: kol aid guy, but I'm becoming a kol Aid man
- 13:29Speaker 17: right now. I think I'm all in for the season.
- 13:31Speaker 5: And well there's you know, I think it was the
- 13:35Speaker 5: last caller or first caller. I think Michael from Bodigreen
- 13:37Speaker 5: kind of just mentioned, you know, it seems like there's
- 13:39Speaker 5: a lot of good things and you know with pick
- 13:42Speaker 5: and signing and being you know, seemingly being a.
- 13:45Speaker 7: Part of this of this thing.
- 13:47Speaker 5: When he was about to sign before the draft, it
- 13:50Speaker 5: was like, oh, what does this mean? Is he going
- 13:52Speaker 5: to get traded? You know, like what what what would
- 13:54Speaker 5: be the reasoning here? And it happened afterwards. I don't
- 13:57Speaker 5: think he's going to be a trade. He's going to
- 13:59Speaker 5: be a part of it. So but well we'll see.
- 14:02Speaker 5: You know, it may not be you know, smooth sailing
- 14:04Speaker 5: all the way. But I mean if he if he
- 14:06Speaker 5: does sit out things, he'll be fine. Now he's never
- 14:10Speaker 5: been afraid of a fine. But but you know, I
- 14:12Speaker 5: don't think training camp wise. I mean that that stuff
- 14:15Speaker 5: pretty hefty. So I think are going to be a
- 14:18Speaker 5: part of this and and you know, I so far,
- 14:21Speaker 5: so good on everything. We'll see about the trade with
- 14:23Speaker 5: winners gold jacket, you know, expectations.
- 14:26Speaker 4: I mean, it.
- 14:28Speaker 5: Seems pretty big. But the guy goes in and starts
- 14:31Speaker 5: at Alabama. He goes in and and and and then
- 14:34Speaker 5: he transfers to Ohio State. He's been great at those
- 14:36Speaker 5: places and so here he is with the Cowboys, and
- 14:38Speaker 5: we'll we'll, we'll see. But you know, I've got a
- 14:40Speaker 5: story I'd like to share after you're done, you got
- 14:42Speaker 5: anything else doing.
- 14:44Speaker 17: Just just a quick question. So, now that Micah Parsons
- 14:46Speaker 17: trade is wrapped up, and so we got out of
- 14:48Speaker 17: that trade, right, Packers got Micael, we got Kenny Quinn
- 14:51Speaker 17: and Malachi Lawrence, Deven Moore and lt Overton. With the
- 14:55Speaker 17: costs that these edges are are at these days, and
- 14:57Speaker 17: I'll let you answer this off air. Do you think
- 15:00Speaker 17: that if you have like an edge on a rookie
- 15:02Speaker 17: deal and he's a premier player, do you think it's
- 15:05Speaker 17: worth it more often than not? Because you know, given
- 15:07Speaker 17: the history of the playoff teams and edges. While it's
- 15:09Speaker 17: a premier position you want one. These teams that are
- 15:12Speaker 17: in the super Bowl, even the playoffs, they don't really
- 15:13Speaker 17: have premier edges. It's more stable. Would you think that
- 15:17Speaker 17: maybe that roster building methodology of trading him and scooping
- 15:20Speaker 17: up more picks, you know, five guys for one is
- 15:22Speaker 17: a better strat than just having the one guy. And
- 15:23Speaker 17: I'll appreciate that's.
- 15:27Speaker 7: Thank you for the call now, I mean, because you're right.
- 15:29Speaker 5: A couple of years ago, I think what top five
- 15:31Speaker 5: guys in the league with sacks didn't make the playoffs
- 15:34Speaker 5: and Cowboys were one of those. And then last year
- 15:38Speaker 5: I'm not sure exactly how how the rankings went with
- 15:41Speaker 5: as far as stat leaders, but we know who the
- 15:43Speaker 5: dudes are that rush the passer and and the Packers
- 15:46Speaker 5: made it, you know, with with him. So but two
- 15:50Speaker 5: different different styles there, Like like you want to say, yeah,
- 15:57Speaker 5: like this is the way to go okay, like do
- 15:59Speaker 5: it this way, trade your best pass rusher and get
- 16:02Speaker 5: five guys and all that, But I don't think it's
- 16:05Speaker 5: necessarily a philosophy change. I mean, if the guy doesn't
- 16:08Speaker 5: lay on the table and fake and injury and all
- 16:11Speaker 5: that kind of stuff. They're gonna sign them, they're gonna
- 16:14Speaker 5: make you know, he's gonna be a part of it.
- 16:15Speaker 5: They wanted Michael Parsons, they wanted him at forty one.
- 16:18Speaker 5: The probably would have gone up forty two, forty three,
- 16:19Speaker 5: something like that. I mean, uh maybe, but but you know,
- 16:23Speaker 5: they were set in the market for him and and
- 16:25Speaker 5: all that, and then he It just it wasn't the
- 16:28Speaker 5: fit obviously. So I think that they might look at
- 16:33Speaker 5: this and go, you know what, maybe this is this
- 16:35Speaker 5: is the right move. But I think Jerry's track record
- 16:39Speaker 5: still shows that, like, you get a great player in here,
- 16:41Speaker 5: you want to keep him, you want to build around him.
- 16:43Speaker 5: So I still think to answer your question, I'll say
- 16:46Speaker 5: a male Kay Lawrence turns into this stud pass rusher.
- 16:51Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think the idea would be to
- 16:52Speaker 5: move him in.
- 16:53Speaker 7: Five years or so or whatever.
- 16:56Speaker 5: I just want to say this real quick about about Caleb.
- 16:59Speaker 5: Down to one of my favorite things about the press conference,
- 17:02Speaker 5: I mean about the whole weekend was when he comes
- 17:04Speaker 5: in and he you know, has this initial press conference,
- 17:08Speaker 5: and to be fair, a lot of these guys have
- 17:10Speaker 5: blown us away with that. You know, I thought Tyler
- 17:12Speaker 5: Goyton a couple of years ago. Was amazing and stuff,
- 17:15Speaker 5: he said. Tyler Smith certainly was Tyler Booker. I mean,
- 17:18Speaker 5: these guys were great. Now Klee Down's just as good.
- 17:21Speaker 5: He goes in and it starts the whole thing off.
- 17:23Speaker 13: Here.
- 17:23Speaker 5: He has all these media guys around, He's never met
- 17:25Speaker 5: any these people really, and he introduces his family, which
- 17:29Speaker 5: is cool, and then he's like, if you can please
- 17:31Speaker 5: give them a round of applause, you know, And of
- 17:33Speaker 5: course all these guys are like, yeah, yes, so you know,
- 17:35Speaker 5: yes serviceter, you know, twenty year old barely can buy
- 17:38Speaker 5: a beer New Safety of the NFL. I mean like,
- 17:41Speaker 5: but that's what you want, right You want a guy
- 17:43Speaker 5: to come in command the room and kind of get
- 17:46Speaker 5: people lined up and put him in the right spot
- 17:48Speaker 5: and do what you want him to do. And that's
- 17:50Speaker 5: what he did. It's what he did with the media.
- 17:51Speaker 5: You know, give my family a round of applause, and
- 17:54Speaker 5: we're all yes, sir.
- 17:55Speaker 7: So it was it was.
- 17:57Speaker 5: A great moment. And I tell you what I mean,
- 17:59Speaker 5: it wasn't disrespectful at all. It was it was he
- 18:01Speaker 5: was He dominated that that prescottence. He was amazing because
- 18:06Speaker 5: you can tell like just a good person. What I'm
- 18:11Speaker 5: excited about, though, is the fact that that these other
- 18:15Speaker 5: guys that I mentioned, you know, that that were drafted
- 18:18Speaker 5: in the first round, even going back to Micah like,
- 18:21Speaker 5: they weren't necessarily leaders now Tyler Smith, I think is
- 18:25Speaker 5: is that these other guys, I don't know if they
- 18:26Speaker 5: were the same way. I think that the leadership that
- 18:29Speaker 5: Caleb Downs is going to bring to this draft class
- 18:32Speaker 5: is going to elevate these other guys.
- 18:34Speaker 7: That's what I'm hoping for. At least.
- 18:36Speaker 5: I hope that Devin Moore is and the lt Overtons
- 18:38Speaker 5: and the and the you know, Jayshawn Barham. I hope
- 18:42Speaker 5: that they come in and are like, yeah, yeah, we'll
- 18:44Speaker 5: following this guy, say with Malachi Lawrence, all right.
- 18:47Speaker 7: Uh next we're Brandon and Fresnos. I'd lost my mom my,
- 18:51Speaker 7: guys a Brandon, Yeah, how are you doing?
- 18:55Speaker 10: Not much?
- 18:56Speaker 16: Man?
- 18:56Speaker 18: Just glad we signed Dickens. Glad, Glad we signed him.
- 18:59Speaker 10: Glad.
- 19:00Speaker 17: Hopefully have a quiet offseason.
- 19:02Speaker 13: But uh, I just wanted to just have some.
- 19:04Speaker 18: Fun and just say does Dak make the receivers better
- 19:08Speaker 18: or did the receivers make Dak better? Because every receiver
- 19:11Speaker 18: we brought in like Cooks, even when we brought Key
- 19:14Speaker 18: why Hillton payball out? So I was just wondering just
- 19:17Speaker 18: for all the dacaters and all the dak levers just
- 19:19Speaker 18: want to have some fun and see who makes who
- 19:21Speaker 18: better or is it equal? So I just wanted to
- 19:25Speaker 18: throw out there and just have some fun today.
- 19:26Speaker 17: Yeah, but thanks, appreciate, appreciate your call.
- 19:28Speaker 7: Appreciate it, you know. I mean, that's that's a that's
- 19:33Speaker 7: a good question.
- 19:34Speaker 5: I mean when when you see these guys that that
- 19:38Speaker 5: you know, like like for instance, like Pickens is a
- 19:40Speaker 5: great example.
- 19:40Speaker 7: You know, he's not he's not.
- 19:41Speaker 5: Playing with with the best quarterbacks and he comes here
- 19:45Speaker 5: and and it's but you could also say with Pickens,
- 19:48Speaker 5: is it is it just Dak or is it the
- 19:51Speaker 5: fact that you had to account for a Pro Bowl,
- 19:55Speaker 5: all Pro receiver on the other side, a Pro Bowl
- 19:57Speaker 5: tied in, you know, a twelve hundred yard running back.
- 20:01Speaker 5: I mean it was the offense was set up to
- 20:04Speaker 5: have a lot of weapons, and so he's a he's
- 20:07Speaker 5: a tough one on one matchup, you know, and so
- 20:09Speaker 5: it was just a great situation. Yeah, I'm sure Dak
- 20:13Speaker 5: Dak helps these guys, there's no doubt. I mean Dak,
- 20:16Speaker 5: Dak helps him and vice versa. But I think it
- 20:19Speaker 5: was just it's kind of the whole offense, and the
- 20:21Speaker 5: offense is running, and who's leading it.
- 20:23Speaker 7: It's Dak.
- 20:24Speaker 5: So I'm not trying to dodge the question, but I
- 20:27Speaker 5: do think both things can be true. In this case,
- 20:29Speaker 5: it could be a little bit of both, but I
- 20:32Speaker 5: you know, I I'll say this though, I think that,
- 20:36Speaker 5: you know, if another receiver comes into this situation, if
- 20:39Speaker 5: it wasn't George Pickens, I think he's going to have success.
- 20:42Speaker 5: So I do think Dak should should not be dismissed
- 20:46Speaker 5: on the fact that that he's helping these these guys
- 20:50Speaker 5: a lot and they're helping him as well. It can
- 20:52Speaker 5: be two things at once. Let's go to break real
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- 23:02Speaker 5: with your T shirt. Working on those T shirts, I
- 23:04Speaker 5: just saw them. They look pretty good. So they look
- 23:09Speaker 5: they look like I designed him, because I got about
- 23:11Speaker 5: fifteen shirts that look exactly the same. But I think
- 23:14Speaker 5: it's gonna look good, feel good. Maybe you'll play good
- 23:18Speaker 5: as well. All right, I was gonna make this point
- 23:20Speaker 5: real quick. I was looking at some of the lists
- 23:22Speaker 5: of the players expected to sign the undrafted free agents,
- 23:26Speaker 5: and you know, if you were if you were a
- 23:28Speaker 5: going glass half full here, you know, drinking the kool aid.
- 23:32Speaker 5: As Dylan said, If you're thinking that, you can realistically
- 23:36Speaker 5: say when you're talking about your off season, you're like,
- 23:39Speaker 5: all right, what was the best pick in the draft
- 23:44Speaker 5: for value? A lot of people will say it's Caleb Downs.
- 23:47Speaker 5: Getting Caleb Downs for what this defense needed and where
- 23:51Speaker 5: he was and to move them from twelve to eleven
- 23:54Speaker 5: and get two fourths out of it and all that
- 23:55Speaker 5: good stuff. To do what they did to get Caleb
- 23:58Speaker 5: Downs value could be one of the best picks in
- 24:01Speaker 5: the draft, if not the best pick.
- 24:03Speaker 7: So you can make that case.
- 24:05Speaker 5: Who's number one free agent in free agency going into
- 24:08Speaker 5: it was George Prickens and they got him.
- 24:11Speaker 7: They signed him.
- 24:11Speaker 5: I mean, they did what they had to do with
- 24:13Speaker 5: toy seven million franchise tag.
- 24:14Speaker 7: He's signed it. He's supposed to be here. I mean,
- 24:17Speaker 7: let's not forget.
- 24:17Speaker 5: I mean, we looked at the free agency and what
- 24:19Speaker 5: they did and who they brought in and all that,
- 24:20Speaker 5: but they did have the number one free agent and
- 24:24Speaker 5: they signed him, and he's back and he's on the
- 24:26Speaker 5: team at least for another year. There's arguments made about
- 24:30Speaker 5: the undrafted free agents and the guys they got. I
- 24:33Speaker 5: saw a list where Michael Trigg, the tight end of Baylor,
- 24:35Speaker 5: is considered the best rookie free agent. Again these I mean,
- 24:42Speaker 5: I guarantee you can make the case for ten other
- 24:44Speaker 5: teams that maybe are in the same boat. Got one
- 24:46Speaker 5: of the best free agents, got one of the best
- 24:48Speaker 5: draft picks, and the undrafted players as well. Cowboys have
- 24:51Speaker 5: always had good success there, especially with tight ends. Maybe
- 24:55Speaker 5: Michael Trigg is the next one. But in those three
- 24:58Speaker 5: levels of free agents see and then also the draft
- 25:02Speaker 5: and and undrafted free agency, you know you can make
- 25:05Speaker 5: an argument the Cowboy's got you know, the best, you
- 25:08Speaker 5: know as far as value, if not, you know, one
- 25:11Speaker 5: of the best. So reason is to be excited. I think,
- 25:16Speaker 5: all right, let's go to Lewis. He's been holding Lewis
- 25:19Speaker 5: links to Oklahoma.
- 25:20Speaker 7: What's o bad?
- 25:21Speaker 14: Not much?
- 25:22Speaker 16: Man?
- 25:22Speaker 14: Well, I've just told Chris but is a horse for
- 25:25Speaker 14: trying to get on her every day, every once a week.
- 25:28Speaker 14: I've been trying to get in man and tell y'all
- 25:30Speaker 14: thank you for the second team and for all the
- 25:32Speaker 14: first teamers. I'm coming back for my spot, coming back
- 25:34Speaker 14: for that first team. So I'm gonna be trying to
- 25:37Speaker 14: get in for the next couple of weeks so I
- 25:38Speaker 14: can give a spot.
- 25:39Speaker 7: Back, all right, But Okay, other than.
- 25:42Speaker 14: That, man, I just wanted to say I appreciate y'all.
- 25:44Speaker 21: Thank y'all for even thinking.
- 25:45Speaker 14: About it, because I know it's been a lot crazy
- 25:47Speaker 14: going on with my job and everything y'all been thinking.
- 25:50Speaker 14: Y'all still put me on the list. As far as
- 25:52Speaker 14: the draft wise, I enjoyed it the whole time. And
- 25:55Speaker 14: like you said, as far as Caleb Downs, I enjoyed him. Honestly,
- 25:58Speaker 14: I think the best pick for me outside of Caleb
- 26:01Speaker 14: Down was the third round of bar him. I know
- 26:05Speaker 14: he's I know he's considered an age, but I was
- 26:07Speaker 14: watching tape on him being him playing outside linebacker slash Edgy.
- 26:12Speaker 14: I mean, we might we might not need to be
- 26:14Speaker 14: trying to figure out about another linebacker. We can have
- 26:16Speaker 14: him play linebacker. Then we got de Winters and stuff
- 26:20Speaker 14: like that. Honestly, I think, like you were saying before
- 26:22Speaker 14: I got on the phone, as far as free agency
- 26:25Speaker 14: and undrafted rookie free agency and then the draft, I
- 26:28Speaker 14: think we got a lot of players where we thought
- 26:31Speaker 14: that we needed help at and they kind of touched
- 26:33Speaker 14: on all bases because I enjoyed that that that that
- 26:37Speaker 14: that pick up for the winners. So I mean, honestly,
- 26:40Speaker 14: I would have liked to see them.
- 26:43Speaker 11: And maybe they have.
- 26:44Speaker 14: They they loved the running back that they drafted, the
- 26:46Speaker 14: two running backs they last drafted last year. But I
- 26:48Speaker 14: would have liked to see them draft up what was
- 26:50Speaker 14: his name, Emma Johnson. I liked him, the Johnson, but they.
- 26:52Speaker 15: Didn't pick him up.
- 26:54Speaker 14: So other than that, man, I enjoyed the weekend. And uh,
- 26:58Speaker 14: like I said, like I always do, Man, I will
- 27:00Speaker 14: stay on here too long, and I'll listen when a
- 27:02Speaker 14: kid I call.
- 27:03Speaker 5: When a king, I appreciate it, Hey, thank you so much,
- 27:06Speaker 5: and and uh, yes, and I know that you you
- 27:08Speaker 5: took a little bit of a break and mean uh
- 27:10Speaker 5: from the show just because you'll work and the timing
- 27:13Speaker 5: of schedule and all that stuff. But we're able to
- 27:15Speaker 5: get back into it. And then there's others that that
- 27:17Speaker 5: have said that like, hey, I don't know if I'm
- 27:18Speaker 5: gonna be able to call anymore. And uh, sometimes they
- 27:21Speaker 5: you know, they they don't we don't hear from them
- 27:23Speaker 5: as much. Sometimes the schedule like like you know, shows
- 27:26Speaker 5: like this sometimes you know, we have to move it
- 27:28Speaker 5: to Thursday at eleven. We're going back to to regular
- 27:32Speaker 5: time next week Wednesday, nine thirty Central. But but you know,
- 27:36Speaker 5: for this, for this particular week, we had to make
- 27:38Speaker 5: a change. And I appreciate you guys for for kind
- 27:41Speaker 5: of you know, adjusting with us. And sometimes that means
- 27:43Speaker 5: that we're gonna get people that normally can't call on
- 27:45Speaker 5: the regular time, so that that's a good treat UH
- 27:48Speaker 5: as well. But you know, the you know, there's something
- 27:52Speaker 5: that's interesting about you. You mentioned Barim the linebacker and
- 27:55Speaker 5: UH and and he's coming in today with with the
- 27:58Speaker 5: rest of the rookies, just gonna find out I mean
- 28:01Speaker 5: his bar him. You know, just the best best person
- 28:04Speaker 5: to ask is is them themselves? Really what I want
- 28:07Speaker 5: to find out more than anything is just what what
- 28:09Speaker 5: number Caleb downs is going to wear? I mean I
- 28:10Speaker 5: I I tell you what if he wears number two,
- 28:13Speaker 5: I mean that that has a chance to be a
- 28:16Speaker 5: top ten jersey cell in the NFL. I mean that
- 28:19Speaker 5: that that anything he wears is going to be great.
- 28:25Speaker 5: I like Patrick Walker's idea of maybe putting him in eleven.
- 28:28Speaker 5: I thought that was pretty cool. You know, it's a
- 28:29Speaker 5: good idea too. I mean he was the eleventh pick.
- 28:32Speaker 7: Uh.
- 28:32Speaker 5: You know Levin has been kind of a badass around here.
- 28:34Speaker 5: Maybe you know it's a change into the guard and
- 28:37Speaker 5: you know, I don't only want to swear too. But
- 28:39Speaker 5: the last time I checked, if you add the ones together,
- 28:41Speaker 5: it is too. So eleven could be a good one too,
- 28:43Speaker 5: But I think I think it's going to be too
- 28:44Speaker 5: And I think that I think you're gonna see a
- 28:46Speaker 5: lot of number two's in every stadium that that the
- 28:49Speaker 5: Cowboys play at this year. But I want to say
- 28:52Speaker 5: this about about the Christian Parker's defense. You know it's
- 28:57Speaker 5: a multiple scheme, right, multiple three four four three. We
- 29:01Speaker 5: want to be multiple. Well, if you're gonna be multiple,
- 29:06Speaker 5: then the players that are gonna play multiple have to
- 29:09Speaker 5: be one of two things. You gotta be smart. You
- 29:13Speaker 5: gotta be smart. You gotta understand football. You gotta you
- 29:15Speaker 5: gotta be a you know, guy that wants to be
- 29:18Speaker 5: in the film room and and and get all these
- 29:20Speaker 5: things to kind of know where all the different things
- 29:23Speaker 5: that we're trying to do and play these two different
- 29:25Speaker 5: types of schemes or three types of schemes. Really, when
- 29:27Speaker 5: you think about Nickel and all that stuff. But not
- 29:30Speaker 5: only do you have to be smart, but you gotta
- 29:32Speaker 5: be versatile too. And what I like is when you
- 29:34Speaker 5: look at these players, you look at the bar. I mean,
- 29:37Speaker 5: you look at lt Overton, who may be my favorite
- 29:40Speaker 5: player in the draft. Look at Caleb Downs in the
- 29:42Speaker 5: in the fact that yes he's a safety, but he's
- 29:45Speaker 5: also like, you're gonna be your nickel corner, your slot corner.
- 29:49Speaker 5: You got guys, what is he a linebacker? Is he
- 29:51Speaker 5: a defensive tackles? You're gonna play edge. You can do both.
- 29:54Speaker 5: That's what a multiple front's gonna do. You know, you
- 29:56Speaker 5: gotta be smart, you gotta be you know, and you
- 29:59Speaker 5: gotta be able to to play these two positions. But
- 30:02Speaker 5: I think the lt Overton pick is one of the
- 30:04Speaker 5: more underrated ones, and it was if I were to
- 30:07Speaker 5: answer answer the mail bag question of your favorite pick,
- 30:10Speaker 5: you know after Downs, of course, I think it's lt Overton.
- 30:14Speaker 5: I think that that is one of those. It reminds
- 30:17Speaker 5: me of the story I used to tell about Anthony
- 30:19Speaker 5: Hitchins and how Marion Elly didn't care if he had
- 30:21Speaker 5: seventh round. You know, you could get him in the
- 30:23Speaker 5: seventh They don't care. I like this guy. I get
- 30:25Speaker 5: a vision for him. He's gonna come right in. He
- 30:27Speaker 5: got one hundred tackles as a rookie. The coaches have
- 30:30Speaker 5: a vision, and they have a vision for Overton. They
- 30:33Speaker 5: have big guys three and twenty pound line defensive tackles.
- 30:36Speaker 7: Everybody is Obania Bullard and of course Quinnen and Kenny Clark.
- 30:42Speaker 5: This guy, he could. He's gonna probably play on the inside.
- 30:46Speaker 5: He's gonna be playing some on third down. He can
- 30:48Speaker 5: rush from the middle. Yes, he played edge at Alabama,
- 30:52Speaker 5: but he's probably gonna be lining up a defensive tackle
- 30:54Speaker 5: as a quick you know, up the you know, up
- 30:57Speaker 5: the gap as your fifth guy. Could play some in
- 30:59Speaker 5: defensive end. Multiple guy playing in multiple schemes. Love it,
- 31:02Speaker 5: Chris and Saratoga Springs, New York is next, Chris.
- 31:05Speaker 7: What's up?
- 31:06Speaker 10: What's up? Nick?
- 31:07Speaker 11: How are you?
- 31:07Speaker 7: I'm good man you.
- 31:09Speaker 11: I'm still over the moon with our draft. Unbelievable, still happy,
- 31:14Speaker 11: good and hands down, Caleb was the best picking this
- 31:18Speaker 11: year's NFL draft. We did fantastic. We needed a linebacker
- 31:23Speaker 11: we created for Winters. We drafted bar Him. I do
- 31:26Speaker 11: wish they would extend Barham maybe a year. I don't
- 31:28Speaker 11: like him being on his last year of his contract.
- 31:30Speaker 11: You know, we got Obershawn, he's on.
- 31:32Speaker 5: His last year Winters you mean Winters uh Winter Yep.
- 31:36Speaker 5: Extend him yeah, well yep, you know, I mean takes two.
- 31:41Speaker 5: I mean it's one of those things where, hey, this
- 31:44Speaker 5: is this is why why they traded him too. I mean,
- 31:47Speaker 5: that's probably why they trade him at the last year
- 31:49Speaker 5: of the deal. And you know, this is an opportunity
- 31:51Speaker 5: for him to go prove himself. So you know, he
- 31:54Speaker 5: may not want that this is this is this is
- 31:56Speaker 5: an opportunity for him to kind of show and then
- 31:58Speaker 5: you know, really really makes some money if.
- 32:00Speaker 7: You're going to extend him.
- 32:01Speaker 5: I mean like you got to talk to the agent,
- 32:03Speaker 5: and the agent's like, he's about to blow up. He's
- 32:05Speaker 5: gonna have one hundred fifty tackles, iss gonna lead your
- 32:07Speaker 5: team in tackles and the defense is gonna be you know,
- 32:09Speaker 5: and so you're like, so that's what you're gonna pay for?
- 32:11Speaker 7: Are you ready to extend?
- 32:12Speaker 5: I mean that's when you're like, all right, well we'll
- 32:14Speaker 5: we'll just wait and see, you know. And that's how
- 32:16Speaker 5: those things usually go, because if you want to get
- 32:18Speaker 5: ahead of the game. You're talking to an agent that
- 32:21Speaker 5: is expecting the best scenario possible, you know.
- 32:26Speaker 11: Yeah, I also love the free agent signing a Trig
- 32:30Speaker 11: Brugler had him as a fifth round grade on him,
- 32:32Speaker 11: so I think that was a steal getting to him,
- 32:34Speaker 11: and I think they paid him one of the most
- 32:37Speaker 11: two hundred thousand dollars I think for signing them. So
- 32:39Speaker 11: I really, I really like that, you know, that unrestricted
- 32:43Speaker 11: free agent. I have a soft spot for them, you know,
- 32:45Speaker 11: Bill Bates, Tony Romo, Miles Austen. I mean, I just
- 32:49Speaker 11: I always root for those guys that are not drafted.
- 32:52Speaker 11: My question was gonna be about did you have any
- 32:54Speaker 11: inside information on Caleb Down getting that number two from
- 32:57Speaker 11: Kobe Durant.
- 32:59Speaker 5: I think it's gonna happen, and you know, it's probably
- 33:03Speaker 5: one of those things where you let, you know, as
- 33:06Speaker 5: a parent, you let the siblings kind of handle it.
- 33:10Speaker 5: You know, this is one where you guys can figure
- 33:12Speaker 5: it out and there's money involved. That there's money involved,
- 33:14Speaker 5: because I think it's that important to Caleb Downs. If
- 33:18Speaker 5: it doesn't get figured out, then we're gonna step in
- 33:20Speaker 5: and figure it out because we're now you're affecting our
- 33:23Speaker 5: bottom line, you know what I mean, like, because I
- 33:26Speaker 5: can promise you in eighteen jersey versus a number two
- 33:29Speaker 5: jersey is just I mean, it's gonna sell different. Deon
- 33:33Speaker 5: Sanders wasn't wearing eighteen in practice in his five years
- 33:37Speaker 5: here in Dallas. You know, he wore two in practice
- 33:40Speaker 5: every day. If the NFL would it would have allowed it,
- 33:43Speaker 5: he would have worn it. It's just the cool number.
- 33:46Speaker 5: Dion I thought made it cool other players as well.
- 33:49Speaker 5: It's a big time. It's just it's his number. And
- 33:53Speaker 5: I think he's you know, he's deserted, and I wish
- 33:56Speaker 5: and I don't know how they'd work how they do
- 33:58Speaker 5: it back there in the equipment room, because I I've
- 34:00Speaker 5: said this for years that they're not practicing. Maybe they're
- 34:03Speaker 5: working out maybe what. But you don't I just don't
- 34:07Speaker 5: think you should assign numbers. I don't think you should
- 34:09Speaker 5: even have to do this until you get to the
- 34:11Speaker 5: draft for this reason alone, you know, because you don't
- 34:14Speaker 5: have to give a guy number just yet, won't we wait?
- 34:16Speaker 5: But maybe that's part of the deal. You got to
- 34:17Speaker 5: put them on the roster. I'm sure that there's more
- 34:20Speaker 5: to it than that. But you know, I think that
- 34:22Speaker 5: I think it's gonna work itself out because I think
- 34:24Speaker 5: it's the smart move and it'll it'll be a bottom
- 34:27Speaker 5: line move for the Cowboys too, because I mean they'll
- 34:29Speaker 5: they'll sell a lot more jerseys if he's wearing number two.
- 34:32Speaker 11: Agreed, one hundred percent.
- 34:33Speaker 5: All right, Well, Chris, I know you got your guy.
- 34:36Speaker 5: I know you got a lot of guys, Ohio State
- 34:38Speaker 5: guys go all you know, in the league, and they're outstanding.
- 34:41Speaker 5: But this one, I mean, it's just it's amazing. It's
- 34:44Speaker 5: really amazing that that ten other teams just didn't didn't
- 34:48Speaker 5: eleven other teams really because Miami was one of them,
- 34:51Speaker 5: they just didn't.
- 34:53Speaker 7: They didn't go for him.
- 34:54Speaker 5: You know, maybe they see something different, But I think
- 34:56Speaker 5: for what the Cowboys need, this is just an amazing
- 34:58Speaker 5: pick home, running all right home, I think, all right, well,
- 35:04Speaker 5: let's go to Anthony and Miami. I that Anthony in
- 35:07Speaker 5: Miami is excited, you know.
- 35:10Speaker 10: I am, Nick quick, what's up? My god?
- 35:12Speaker 7: What's going on?
- 35:14Speaker 10: Hey't man sitting at this service station, at the shell station.
- 35:18Speaker 7: You can't stay away from it. You can't stay away.
- 35:20Speaker 10: From and you know why, you know why? I know
- 35:23Speaker 10: what pays off when you're one of the top supporters
- 35:26Speaker 10: of all the shows, especially the ones you're all storyline
- 35:29Speaker 10: and hanging, and you look at your YouTube because you
- 35:32Speaker 10: don't lunch break and you look at your YouTube. You
- 35:34Speaker 10: got no expectations and guess what storyline alive? I was like, hot, hot,
- 35:40Speaker 10: turn itt Wow, let me pull over and let me
- 35:44Speaker 10: get in, And I got in. What's been going on?
- 35:46Speaker 13: My man?
- 35:47Speaker 7: Oh man?
- 35:47Speaker 5: We're just you know, just right in the way, just
- 35:50Speaker 5: you know, just ready for Klee Downs to go to Canton.
- 35:52Speaker 21: You know what I mean.
- 35:52Speaker 5: I mean, we're trying to get what's in there, but
- 35:54Speaker 5: it sounds like Kale Downs might get there first.
- 35:57Speaker 10: They might make it the same get might get there together.
- 36:02Speaker 10: Well I am stoked. I am stoked. Anybody that heard me.
- 36:06Speaker 10: With a few people, did Sartain, Sue Zacnam, Brian hurt
- 36:09Speaker 10: me on the Draft show? My first step A call
- 36:11Speaker 10: to the Draft Show a couple of weeks ago before
- 36:13Speaker 10: the draft, I talked him who the best players were
- 36:15Speaker 10: love bang once showing the lane and people doing the
- 36:19Speaker 10: like I was crazy, and Caleb they to testify of this.
- 36:22Speaker 10: So I'm good. We got one. Now, did I want
- 36:25Speaker 10: bang and Mesador Laurence. Yes, I did it. But I'll
- 36:30Speaker 10: take Lawrence and we'll see what he got. And like
- 36:32Speaker 10: I said, in part because I know this is a
- 36:34Speaker 10: special show or whatever, I'm let everybody get in. This
- 36:36Speaker 10: is my new thing from now on. Let's take eleven
- 36:40Speaker 10: guys on offense, eleven guys on defense, give me a
- 36:43Speaker 10: couple of special pendants, line them up, and win the
- 36:46Speaker 10: game by any means necessary. I'll talk to you, my friend,
- 36:49Speaker 10: Love you baby.
- 36:50Speaker 5: Sounds good, man, appreciate the call. I mean, that sounds
- 36:54Speaker 5: that's that sounds like a great plan, you know, maybe
- 36:58Speaker 5: one that they came up with back in the fifties
- 37:00Speaker 5: and sixties too. But you know what, maybe sometimes that's
- 37:04Speaker 5: all you need, you know, just just be just be basic,
- 37:07Speaker 5: you know, just be you know, you know it didn't
- 37:09Speaker 5: it didn't take you know, this is not rocket science.
- 37:12Speaker 7: I know.
- 37:13Speaker 5: I know, my guy Patrick Walker thinks it's science sometimes
- 37:15Speaker 5: and sometimes it is, but it's it's not. I had
- 37:19Speaker 5: a coach tell me one time. He was a high
- 37:21Speaker 5: school and college coach, and he said, you know, first
- 37:24Speaker 5: thing that he does when he's scouting the other team
- 37:27Speaker 5: and he's got the guys that come in and say,
- 37:29Speaker 5: all right, what do you know?
- 37:30Speaker 7: What do they run? And all that.
- 37:31Speaker 5: He's just like, who's our best player, who's our best
- 37:33Speaker 5: player on defense? You know, just just tell me their
- 37:36Speaker 5: best player. And then that's where we're gonna kind of focus,
- 37:39Speaker 5: go away from him around and you know, figure out
- 37:41Speaker 5: his weakness and all that kind of stuff. And sometimes
- 37:44Speaker 5: it is that simple line up, just like my anthey says,
- 37:47Speaker 5: eleven over here, eleven over here, a couple of Spress teams. Guys,
- 37:50Speaker 5: let's go, let's win the game. I mean, that's that's
- 37:53Speaker 5: the plan, that's the master plan. Sometimes it is that simple.
- 37:57Speaker 7: I don't know.
- 37:57Speaker 5: All right, let's go to break real quick. We will
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- 39:39Speaker 7: What's up? Brian?
- 39:40Speaker 22: Good morning, sir, How are you well? I'm drinking, I'm
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- 39:49Speaker 7: All right.
- 39:51Speaker 22: Hey, you know I was looking through all of the
- 39:55Speaker 22: you know kind of you know draft rating, always think
- 40:00Speaker 22: it's ridiculous. How do you how do you grade a
- 40:02Speaker 22: draft without waiting two years to see who turns into what?
- 40:08Speaker 22: But the thing that impressed me the most, And you know,
- 40:13Speaker 22: when you're trying to predict the future, I guess with
- 40:16Speaker 22: you know, who becomes great and who becomes average, who's
- 40:21Speaker 22: ybia busts in years gone by? It Almost everybody, universally,
- 40:26Speaker 22: whether you're talking about Nick Saban or you know, any
- 40:30Speaker 22: of these draft gurus, all of them say mostly the
- 40:34Speaker 22: same thing about downs right, smartest guy we ever had.
- 40:39Speaker 22: I heard one I don't know was yesterday, the day
- 40:42Speaker 22: before for somebody said he learned he knew he was
- 40:46Speaker 22: going to Alabama. He learned Nick Saban's defense in high school.
- 40:52Speaker 22: Nick Saban doesn't allow Fred usually doesn't allow freshmen to
- 40:56Speaker 22: start in the defensive backfield because his defense was too
- 41:00Speaker 22: complex and he didn't think they could get it.
- 41:03Speaker 10: So I think the best.
- 41:07Speaker 22: Indicator is that he's universally viewed as this guy is
- 41:14Speaker 22: pro ready day one. It's not a fifty like Bain
- 41:19Speaker 22: was a fifty to fifty guy. Some teams loved him,
- 41:21Speaker 22: some teams didn't, you know what I mean. So really,
- 41:26Speaker 22: I think the rest of the draft is going to
- 41:28Speaker 22: depend on, you know how, you know, how everything else
- 41:31Speaker 22: turns out. You know, Barham, I'm hoping Barham is going
- 41:35Speaker 22: to end up being a middle of Mike or a
- 41:39Speaker 22: Will wenebacker. I'm hoping he's going to play in the
- 41:41Speaker 22: middle of the defense as opposed on the edge, just
- 41:45Speaker 22: from what I watched on his tape. Anyway, I'm just
- 41:48Speaker 22: curious that if you had an opinion on have you
- 41:52Speaker 22: seen anybody who's universally thought of as you like? Like,
- 41:56Speaker 22: I don't know. I think it was Dylan that said it,
- 41:58Speaker 22: we're giving him a gold jacket before he's played a snap.
- 42:01Speaker 22: But have you seen anybody who's universally come into the
- 42:04Speaker 22: Cowboys as this guy is the next greatest thing since
- 42:08Speaker 22: sliced bread? And I'll take that off.
- 42:09Speaker 16: Air Man.
- 42:10Speaker 5: Good to talk to you, you too, Troy Aikman, I mean,
- 42:16Speaker 5: Troy Eateman was the only you know, I mean, of course,
- 42:19Speaker 5: you know, Barry Sanders was also in that draft. To
- 42:22Speaker 5: Derek Thomas, Deon Sanders and all that. But I think Troy,
- 42:25Speaker 5: I mean was the absolute slam dunk. And that's how
- 42:28Speaker 5: far it goes back because you know that, and he's
- 42:31Speaker 5: the number one pick, so he had all off season
- 42:33Speaker 5: to figure that out.
- 42:35Speaker 7: But I mean, CD was just a steal.
- 42:37Speaker 5: You know, that was one that Wow, this guy's going
- 42:39Speaker 5: to fall to you. You know what a great value
- 42:41Speaker 5: picked that was. You know, it was too slow, too short.
- 42:45Speaker 5: So that's why I went seventeen. You know, I'm thinking
- 42:48Speaker 5: of these great players that the Cowboys got and they
- 42:51Speaker 5: got later on. I mean, Tyler Smith is a holding,
- 42:54Speaker 5: He's a penalty machine at Tulsa.
- 42:56Speaker 7: He's not gonna be a good page. Does Bryant.
- 42:58Speaker 5: Good luck getting him here on time, good luck with
- 43:00Speaker 5: all the off the field issues. Yeah, it can make
- 43:02Speaker 5: a great catch, but you know he's gonna he's gonna
- 43:04Speaker 5: be a distraction.
- 43:05Speaker 7: Of course.
- 43:07Speaker 5: I've said this before about des Bryant. Des Bryant was
- 43:12Speaker 5: absolutely scouted the most perfect player you could ever scout.
- 43:17Speaker 5: I mean, like everything they said about des Bryant was
- 43:19Speaker 5: a thousand percent true. Everything off the field issues, he's
- 43:23Speaker 5: gonna he's gonna be you know, he's gonna be problematic
- 43:25Speaker 5: at times. He's gonna be distraction at times. He's gonna
- 43:29Speaker 5: have more passion, he's gonna he's gonna bring more energy
- 43:31Speaker 5: to your team. I mean, he's gonna make these ridiculous catches.
- 43:35Speaker 7: He was everything.
- 43:36Speaker 5: So anyways, I'm looking at that, are showing something here
- 43:38Speaker 5: on Good Morning Football about DeMarcus Ware even at that
- 43:42Speaker 5: Troy small school, there's just so many Yes, there's a
- 43:46Speaker 5: knock on all these and I'm sure there's some with
- 43:48Speaker 5: Caleb downs, but but for what I keep saying, for
- 43:51Speaker 5: what the Cowboys needed, they just needed a guy to
- 43:55Speaker 5: get them lined up. You know, line these guys up
- 43:57Speaker 5: and make plays. And you know, safety will isn't even
- 44:00Speaker 5: the biggest need. I mean, they they went out. I
- 44:02Speaker 5: mean they they restructured, you know, hookers deal, so he's
- 44:06Speaker 5: still here and he's a veteran presidence and all that,
- 44:08Speaker 5: and then they resigned. I mean, then they signed Jalen
- 44:10Speaker 5: Thompson and PJ. Locke, so they didn't they could have
- 44:13Speaker 5: gone the whole draft and not not drafted a safety.
- 44:15Speaker 5: They've been like, Okay, I think we're fine for this year,
- 44:18Speaker 5: but we're gonna get the best one and maybe the
- 44:20Speaker 5: best overall talent in the defense. Then let's let's go
- 44:23Speaker 5: and get them, which is exactly what they did. So
- 44:26Speaker 5: uh No, to answer your question, No, I don't know
- 44:28Speaker 5: if I can remember a player that universally was just like,
- 44:32Speaker 5: what a great pick by the Cowboys. They got themselves
- 44:36Speaker 5: a steal. You know, they've had others, other steals, but
- 44:41Speaker 5: not really to this point, you know, to that level
- 44:43Speaker 5: I'm looking at at Okay, you know he can be
- 44:47Speaker 5: a great player. Can we can we get a class
- 44:50Speaker 5: with a couple I mean, that's that's what they need,
- 44:52Speaker 5: a third round, fourth round these guys, And I'm looking like,
- 44:55Speaker 5: when's the last time a player was drafted that Two
- 44:59Speaker 5: different p in the class have made the Pro Bowl
- 45:02Speaker 5: And you know it's not too far back twenty twenty
- 45:05Speaker 5: twenty two. Tyler Smith, I think, has made it three
- 45:08Speaker 5: times now, and Jake Ferguson in the fourth round has
- 45:11Speaker 5: made it twice. And Duran Bland also has made it
- 45:16Speaker 5: at least once. You know, he had he had a
- 45:17Speaker 5: great season. So three Pro Bowlers in one class at
- 45:20Speaker 5: twenty twenty two, but you know, I still think, you know,
- 45:26Speaker 5: they're not considered now. Tyler smith Is, but these other
- 45:29Speaker 5: two aren't considered like just you know, the elite of
- 45:33Speaker 5: their of their position. That's one where you really want
- 45:37Speaker 5: if the Cowboys can get that kind of steal, get
- 45:39Speaker 5: a guy in the third or fourth round.
- 45:41Speaker 17: You know.
- 45:41Speaker 5: I always think of a guy like Fred Warner from
- 45:43Speaker 5: San Francisco and he's one of the best players in
- 45:44Speaker 5: the league and defense, and he was a third round pick.
- 45:47Speaker 5: And so that's the kind of steal that you're that
- 45:49Speaker 5: you're looking for there. All right, Robbie and Coco Beach, Florida. Robbie,
- 45:53Speaker 5: what's up, hey, nd how are you doing?
- 45:57Speaker 10: I edit?
- 45:57Speaker 16: Dude, if it could, it could not be a your
- 46:00Speaker 16: day out here. Yeah, I work on the water. So
- 46:03Speaker 16: it's just absolutely gorgeous. And we had the best draft
- 46:09Speaker 16: I could have hoped for.
- 46:10Speaker 7: Yep.
- 46:11Speaker 16: I mean, everybody's talking about Caleb Downs and I mean
- 46:14Speaker 16: I already talked about him with you too, But Malik
- 46:16Speaker 16: Lawrence is great. I'm really happy are let's call it
- 46:20Speaker 16: second round pick towards Pickens because of the tender and
- 46:22Speaker 16: the flippy floppies and everybody worrying. I mean, I know
- 46:26Speaker 16: he wasn't a second, he was a third, but they
- 46:28Speaker 16: we got two thirds in Yeah, I think we did great. Man.
- 46:33Speaker 16: I am so excited for this year, and not just
- 46:36Speaker 16: for Caleb Downs, I mean obviously because he's there, but
- 46:39Speaker 16: because of the totality of what we did. I mean,
- 46:42Speaker 16: I think we addressed all our needs. Maybe we need
- 46:44Speaker 16: a little bit more at linebacker, maybe a little bit corner,
- 46:47Speaker 16: but at least we put stuff towards all of it,
- 46:50Speaker 16: you know what I mean? And I want to know
- 46:53Speaker 16: your opinion. What are we short of? That's my question
- 46:55Speaker 16: for today and I'll take the rest off air. What
- 46:57Speaker 16: do you think we still need it?
- 47:01Speaker 7: I mean position?
- 47:02Speaker 5: While yeah, you can get better at at at certain positions,
- 47:05Speaker 5: like you know, I kind of wonder about left tackle.
- 47:09Speaker 5: You know, Drew Shelton was was picked there third round.
- 47:14Speaker 5: I like that that pick too, but you know, just
- 47:18Speaker 5: just a little bit consistency there at left tackle, then
- 47:21Speaker 5: what's happening there? Because I just feel like every time
- 47:25Speaker 5: something happens, if anytime a guy maybe has a gives
- 47:29Speaker 5: up a sack or has a penalty, and left tackle,
- 47:33Speaker 5: the question is always going to be, well, well just
- 47:34Speaker 5: move Tyler Smith out there, you know, And I don't
- 47:36Speaker 5: even know who the backup guards are going to be necessary.
- 47:39Speaker 5: I think you had Hennessy in there from from the
- 47:41Speaker 5: forty nine ers. I think that's gonna be an underrated
- 47:45Speaker 5: move too. I think that that's a that's a pretty
- 47:46Speaker 5: good pick up. So, you know, to answer the question
- 47:51Speaker 5: of what they're what they're short on, they're short on
- 47:54Speaker 5: on on this guy that that everyone thinks is going
- 47:57Speaker 5: to just change the defense, just short on reps. I mean,
- 48:02Speaker 5: he's got to do it. He just got to get
- 48:03Speaker 5: out there and do it. Learn the learn the defense,
- 48:05Speaker 5: learn learn of the schemes that Christian Parker is doing,
- 48:08Speaker 5: go out there and and and play. I mean, and
- 48:10Speaker 5: there's nothing you can do about that. So I think, yeah,
- 48:15Speaker 5: if something comes along, that makes sense to sign a
- 48:20Speaker 5: veteran or trade for something. But I'm not who what
- 48:24Speaker 5: are you trading for? You've already dipped into next year's
- 48:27Speaker 5: draft class. You know the Jets are gonna get your
- 48:32Speaker 5: your the worst or the best of your two picks
- 48:35Speaker 5: in the first round, so you know you only have
- 48:37Speaker 5: one first round or and it's going to be the
- 48:40Speaker 5: better of the two between the Cowboys and Packers and
- 48:42Speaker 5: how they finish, And you know you've traded a fourth
- 48:47Speaker 5: for Gary, You've traded a seventh in that trade with
- 48:50Speaker 5: the Eagles, so and you're not getting any comp picks
- 48:54Speaker 5: because you didn't lose anybody in free agency. So I
- 48:59Speaker 5: guess what I'm saying is, unless there's a free agent
- 49:01Speaker 5: that's out there that makes sense. But you know, I
- 49:04Speaker 5: you know, maybe June June one cuts if people, you know,
- 49:07Speaker 5: there's a second wave.
- 49:08Speaker 7: But I think I think.
- 49:09Speaker 5: What you've You've did a really good job of getting
- 49:12Speaker 5: some players in here. Now you've got to you know,
- 49:15Speaker 5: you've got the ingredients. You just got to cook it.
- 49:16Speaker 5: You gotta cook the meal, all right, Chris and San
- 49:19Speaker 5: Angelo is next.
- 49:21Speaker 8: Mister Nick. How are you today, sir?
- 49:23Speaker 13: Great?
- 49:23Speaker 7: How you doing Chris?
- 49:24Speaker 8: I'm doing great too, Thank you? Uh? Nick? I really like,
- 49:28Speaker 8: I really love this draft actually because it's like they
- 49:34Speaker 8: drafted and they spent the off season acting like they
- 49:37Speaker 8: had a historically bad defense last year, and since that
- 49:42Speaker 8: was the case, it's they have seemingly done a semi
- 49:46Speaker 8: overhaul on the defense. So I love that part. Where
- 49:51Speaker 8: else going to go with this is uh on the
- 49:54Speaker 8: running back situation? Does this seem like maybe they sent
- 49:59Speaker 8: a different kind of a message to the guys in
- 50:01Speaker 8: the room, like they could have drafted one.
- 50:03Speaker 7: Yeah, like very easily.
- 50:05Speaker 8: I mean, they could have had a guy in here,
- 50:07Speaker 8: but and that would send a message. But instead maybe
- 50:12Speaker 8: they're sending the message that hey, this is this is Blue, MafA,
- 50:19Speaker 8: this is it's all there for you. You better go
- 50:21Speaker 8: take it. Yeah, so a message was still sent. I
- 50:25Speaker 8: was going to see if you thought that was the
- 50:27Speaker 8: right thing to do, or if you think they should
- 50:29Speaker 8: have picked someone up when they had a chance.
- 50:34Speaker 7: I think that you get to thanks for the call, Chris. Yeah.
- 50:38Speaker 5: I think when you're in a situation like they weren't
- 50:43Speaker 5: running back, you're like, all right, we've resigned Javonte and
- 50:46Speaker 5: we really like him. He's our you know, he's pretty
- 50:49Speaker 5: much the bellkow. That's what he was last year at least.
- 50:52Speaker 5: And I think you say, all right, second, third round,
- 50:56Speaker 5: fourth round, If if the best pick on the ball
- 51:00Speaker 5: is a running back, then let's consider it.
- 51:03Speaker 7: Once you get past that, now you're like, all right, now.
- 51:07Speaker 5: You're getting into where you added both you know, Blue
- 51:11Speaker 5: and MafA last year, fifth round, seventh round, and they've
- 51:14Speaker 5: had a year under their belt. Wasn't the best year,
- 51:18Speaker 5: wasn't the most productive. They weren't out there a lot,
- 51:20Speaker 5: and injuries or whatever, he didn't get to practice.
- 51:22Speaker 7: I mean, you know you would love film off it
- 51:24Speaker 7: to be on the practice squad. It was here.
- 51:26Speaker 5: He was in an injury reserve, but he wasn't practicing
- 51:30Speaker 5: as much. He got to get something. So this offseason
- 51:33Speaker 5: is big for both of these two guys. So I
- 51:34Speaker 5: just think they looked at it like, if we can
- 51:36Speaker 5: get someone considerably better than these two and then it
- 51:40Speaker 5: makes sense, then they'll come in and probably, you know,
- 51:42Speaker 5: leap frog them. But if not, let's not get another
- 51:45Speaker 5: fifth or sixth or seventh round running back just just because,
- 51:49Speaker 5: you know. And they almost did, though, they almost did.
- 51:51Speaker 5: I think in the sixth round, seventh round, sorry, seventh round,
- 51:54Speaker 5: the last pick. I think he came down to running
- 51:57Speaker 5: back and receiver and hoping that they could get that
- 52:00Speaker 5: running back on their list and free agency, and it
- 52:03Speaker 5: did not happen. Now, they did add a running back,
- 52:06Speaker 5: Dominique Richardson, who I'll just tell you, Dominic Richardson almost
- 52:12Speaker 5: won the Heisman one year, not in real life, but
- 52:15Speaker 5: I actually had.
- 52:15Speaker 7: I played college football.
- 52:17Speaker 5: Tulsa is a team I play with, and Richardson almost
- 52:20Speaker 5: won the Heisman, just just saying if that does anything
- 52:23Speaker 5: for you, But no, I think that MafA and and
- 52:27Speaker 5: and uh and blue, big year for them, big off season.
- 52:30Speaker 5: You know, it's there on the table. They didn't go
- 52:32Speaker 5: and add a lot to it. And uh, you know,
- 52:35Speaker 5: let's see if if they take that leap. That's a
- 52:37Speaker 5: lot of times happens between first and second year guys.
- 52:40Speaker 5: All right, Irene in falls Church, Virginia, Irene.
- 52:44Speaker 9: Hey, you are so serious with that.
- 52:47Speaker 16: I'm so.
- 52:52Speaker 7: He lost out to his quarterback, you know what I mean.
- 52:54Speaker 5: So that's really what happened in situations like maybe I
- 52:57Speaker 5: should crank the level up a little bit.
- 52:59Speaker 7: But anyway, it's just funny.
- 53:00Speaker 5: When I saw Dominic Richinson, I was like, I remember Richardson,
- 53:03Speaker 5: you know, running there at Tulsa, Like it was pretty awesome.
- 53:06Speaker 11: So that's awesome.
- 53:09Speaker 9: Well, so it's a little bit awkward unless we got
- 53:13Speaker 9: so it was actually Ali's game, right he and he
- 53:15Speaker 9: was offering a one of his photos as a prize
- 53:18Speaker 9: to the winner. But it's a little bit awkward because
- 53:21Speaker 9: unless we didn't, unless we had something come through the
- 53:23Speaker 9: line that got both picks. I'm the only person who
- 53:25Speaker 9: got both pecks.
- 53:26Speaker 7: So funny, funny how that happens.
- 53:29Speaker 9: Yeah, it's like somebody fed it to me. Now they didn't.
- 53:31Speaker 9: I actually, you know, remember a few weeks ago, I
- 53:34Speaker 9: called and I was like, man, Caleb Downs was supposed
- 53:36Speaker 9: to be like top three in this draft, maybe top one,
- 53:39Speaker 9: and all of a sudden he might be available at twelve.
- 53:41Speaker 9: And I just became increasingly more convinced that we would.
- 53:45Speaker 9: And so I knew we needed an edge, and I
- 53:46Speaker 9: figured Baine and Massa durd be off to the board.
- 53:49Speaker 9: I was cool with either Bain or or Down, but
- 53:53Speaker 9: it's good to know that they thought of him in
- 53:55Speaker 9: the second round. So for Baine, so that they went up,
- 53:58Speaker 9: they got their guy. They lost the two fifth, they
- 54:00Speaker 9: you know, turn around and got fourth. They masterfully. I'd
- 54:05Speaker 9: love to see that more often. So that was cool.
- 54:09Speaker 9: The other thing I wanted to say is I think
- 54:12Speaker 9: I don't know when the owners get the schedule. I
- 54:15Speaker 9: know we're gonna get the schedule released in a couple
- 54:17Speaker 9: of weeks, but I'm gonna make a bold prediction that
- 54:19Speaker 9: we're playing the Giants week one because I feel like
- 54:22Speaker 9: Jerry Jones told us that. So anyway, I'll go on
- 54:25Speaker 9: record with that and anyway, that's that's all I got
- 54:28Speaker 9: happy with the draft.
- 54:28Speaker 5: All right, thank you, Irene. You know, I'm looking at
- 54:32Speaker 5: Wednesday's show like run down. We had seventeen callers on
- 54:36Speaker 5: that Wednesday, and uh, you know, so that's the game.
- 54:39Speaker 7: That's the one.
- 54:39Speaker 5: We kind of threw out the game. And it was tough.
- 54:42Speaker 5: Not everybody, you know, just gave the two picks. I
- 54:46Speaker 5: see Joe and Stamford Jr. And Avondale Arizona, Josh in Chicago.
- 54:54Speaker 5: Those are the ones that I had written down that
- 54:56Speaker 5: said downs. Now, my handwriting terrible, but I'm I think
- 55:03Speaker 5: here Rick and Webster Massachusetts, I think that I wrote
- 55:07Speaker 5: down Lawrence. I think that's what I wrote down. It
- 55:10Speaker 5: says Delane and I think Lawrence. So that would be
- 55:13Speaker 5: the only one that I remember saying that. Now, Irene
- 55:17Speaker 5: didn't call in this one, so I understand that y'all
- 55:21Speaker 5: did your own thing and and you put it there
- 55:23Speaker 5: on the community in spaces and stuff like that. But
- 55:26Speaker 5: just writing down, I think Rick and Webster maybe did
- 55:28Speaker 5: say Lawrence. I do remember writing somebody saying that, so
- 55:32Speaker 5: pretty cool stuff. Speaking of Joe and Stanford, he he
- 55:36Speaker 5: couldn't call in, but he said. He sent me a
- 55:40Speaker 5: text here he said that he just wants to mention this.
- 55:43Speaker 5: And I think Chris Bean, who was a Baylor guy
- 55:45Speaker 5: and he follows Baylor, can vouch for this one. That Trigg,
- 55:50Speaker 5: the tight end from Baylor, has set a record for
- 55:53Speaker 5: the largest wingspan in the NFL history, eighty four and
- 55:56Speaker 5: three fourths inches.
- 55:58Speaker 7: So just throw them the ball.
- 56:00Speaker 5: He's gonna catch it, or at least he's gonna get
- 56:02Speaker 5: his hands on it. I don't know if he's gonna
- 56:04Speaker 5: catch it, but he's gonna get his hands on it.
- 56:05Speaker 5: All right, let's go. Let's will be our last call
- 56:09Speaker 5: unless Chris has got another one in there. Lesser and
- 56:12Speaker 5: Minnesota they got They scouted three thousand players, Like you
- 56:16Speaker 5: keep talking about three thousand players.
- 56:19Speaker 7: I was worried about the best one. Did they get
- 56:21Speaker 7: the best one?
- 56:23Speaker 21: Oh yeah, no doubt.
- 56:25Speaker 10: Man.
- 56:25Speaker 21: I did a little I did just a little bit
- 56:27Speaker 21: of research on the guy, and I've heard all the
- 56:30Speaker 21: people talk about how he learned the offense in high school.
- 56:33Speaker 21: That's very impressive, man. I mean for that sort of
- 56:37Speaker 21: I'm sorry, the defense in high school. But that's sort
- 56:40Speaker 21: of defense, Man's that's a complex defense at all.
- 56:44Speaker 13: Anyway.
- 56:45Speaker 21: But I thought overall, man, I looked at all the
- 56:48Speaker 21: holes we needed to fill, and in my opinion, I
- 56:51Speaker 21: believe we filled them all. I would have liked for
- 56:54Speaker 21: another veteran linebacker, but all the holes of field, and
- 57:00Speaker 21: you know, I'm a defensive guy. I think we had
- 57:02Speaker 21: a great, great draft. Mine still would have been. I
- 57:08Speaker 21: think the question was asked, what's your still or what's
- 57:11Speaker 21: your best that's not the first round pick? And I
- 57:16Speaker 21: say two of them, Dave, Sean and Overton. I think
- 57:19Speaker 21: those were the best value at their positions at that
- 57:25Speaker 21: in those particular rounds. I mean, I think Jerry and
- 57:29Speaker 21: the crew they did a great job. I mean, I
- 57:34Speaker 21: don't know what to say. I give them an eighth
- 57:36Speaker 21: on the draft, and this is my first time giving
- 57:38Speaker 21: them an eighth sence since the nineties. Well you get
- 57:43Speaker 21: an a Jerry and the crew did a great job.
- 57:47Speaker 21: Go Cowboys.
- 57:48Speaker 10: Man.
- 57:48Speaker 5: All right, that's funny you say that, thanks for the call.
- 57:51Speaker 5: He didn't really draft well in the nineties. I mean
- 57:53Speaker 5: they were winning games. They drafted well like in the
- 57:57Speaker 5: early nineties, like ninety ninety one, but after that they
- 58:02Speaker 5: really didn't draft well, which kind of led to the
- 58:06Speaker 5: fall off there. They they they made mistakes. They they
- 58:10Speaker 5: admitted that they drafted kind of for they drafted backups
- 58:15Speaker 5: instead of like best, you know, best player available. They
- 58:18Speaker 5: didn't really do that a lot back then. So uh
- 58:22Speaker 5: got an awesome little got a group of kids walking
- 58:25Speaker 5: by on a cool tour. So about to wrap up
- 58:29Speaker 5: this show, we got one more caller. But I'll say
- 58:30Speaker 5: this though, I agree, I agree uh Lester that you
- 58:33Speaker 5: know it was a good draft, and I mean it
- 58:36Speaker 5: could be a great draft, and it looks like it
- 58:38Speaker 5: is because that's all you can do right now. And
- 58:41Speaker 5: somebody has said this earlier, I think it was Brian
- 58:44Speaker 5: and Kansas City, about how do you grade a draft
- 58:47Speaker 5: right now?
- 58:48Speaker 7: And you don't. That's the thing.
- 58:51Speaker 5: Like the people that grade, that give the grades for
- 58:54Speaker 5: the draft, they're going off their own board, so they
- 58:57Speaker 5: don't have them slotted to the teams, but they have
- 59:00Speaker 5: their list of players.
- 59:01Speaker 7: And so.
- 59:03Speaker 5: Every time somebody did really well, it's because they drafted
- 59:08Speaker 5: a player that fell on your board.
- 59:11Speaker 7: Wow, great value here.
- 59:13Speaker 5: Look at the Raiders, great value for getting McCoy who
- 59:17Speaker 5: I have rated here and they got him in the
- 59:19Speaker 5: fourth round. Well, why they get him in the fourth round?
- 59:21Speaker 5: Because some people don't think he's going to be able
- 59:22Speaker 5: to play because of his knee. I mean, this guy
- 59:26Speaker 5: great value. He fell to the fifth round. Well, I
- 59:28Speaker 5: mean so the people that grade these things are they're
- 59:33Speaker 5: going off of their own board.
- 59:35Speaker 7: And also big names.
- 59:36Speaker 5: If a big name player from a big school drops
- 59:41Speaker 5: and they pick him up, great value. I guarantee you
- 59:46Speaker 5: who picked up CJ. Allen from the Raiders. I don't
- 59:48Speaker 5: remember even who it was, but I guarantee you a
- 59:50Speaker 5: great value because they know him, they've heard of him,
- 59:52Speaker 5: and he fell to their spot regardless of why they fell.
- 59:56Speaker 5: They fell Cowboys same way Caleb downs. He fell right
- 59:59Speaker 5: to him. Great value. You know when a lot of
- 1:00:01Speaker 5: team's been four or five six are like, we can't
- 1:00:03Speaker 5: take a safety that high. So Cowboys got it too.
- 1:00:07Speaker 5: Last caller is gonna be Joe and Stanford. Joe, what's up?
- 1:00:11Speaker 13: Back to it in I'll be real quick here. So
- 1:00:15Speaker 13: first of all, to me, the guys who are grading
- 1:00:17Speaker 13: the draft are the guys who only have another week
- 1:00:20Speaker 13: of us paying attention to what they have to say
- 1:00:22Speaker 13: before we don't care until next year what they have
- 1:00:24Speaker 13: to say.
- 1:00:25Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Joe Lonardi from uh, you know, like bracketology.
- 1:00:30Speaker 5: You know, what's what's the brackets come out? You're like,
- 1:00:32Speaker 5: all right, go do your thing for the next eleven months.
- 1:00:35Speaker 7: We'll get back.
- 1:00:35Speaker 13: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So what Nick, I'll get off the
- 1:00:39Speaker 13: line after I asked this question, what is your general
- 1:00:41Speaker 13: feeling about what's what it's going to be going on
- 1:00:45Speaker 13: with pickings for until until? Is it gonna be or
- 1:00:49Speaker 13: is he gonna demand a trade? Is it gonna be smooth?
- 1:00:52Speaker 21: Savan?
- 1:00:52Speaker 13: What do you think is gonna happen?
- 1:00:54Speaker 5: Well, I don't think he's gonna demand a trade. I
- 1:00:56Speaker 5: mean either I think he's gonna be here and he's
- 1:00:58Speaker 5: gonna uh. I mean, that's that's what I believe. Now,
- 1:01:01Speaker 5: he doesn't have to be here all the time. He
- 1:01:03Speaker 5: doesn't have to be you know, like in this it's voluntary.
- 1:01:07Speaker 5: I don't know if the other wide receiver is going
- 1:01:09Speaker 5: to be here all the time, but I think he'll
- 1:01:11Speaker 5: be here some and then you know, rookie Minnie, I
- 1:01:14Speaker 5: mean rookie the mandatory mini camp in late June. You
- 1:01:17Speaker 5: know that's if he's not there, you're you're fine for
- 1:01:19Speaker 5: that training camp. Same type of thing. You're subject to
- 1:01:23Speaker 5: fine if you if you don't show up. And you know,
- 1:01:27Speaker 5: I think there's part of it, like he's trying to
- 1:01:30Speaker 5: get a big contract. Obviously if it's here or another team, cool,
- 1:01:36Speaker 5: but you you know he's trying to do that, and
- 1:01:38Speaker 5: and a couple of things he's got to prove is
- 1:01:40Speaker 5: number One, he can do that those numbers do it again.
- 1:01:44Speaker 5: And also there's a narrative on him that that maybe
- 1:01:47Speaker 5: he's he's not the best locker room guy. Well he
- 1:01:50Speaker 5: has a chance to change some of that as well too.
- 1:01:52Speaker 5: So holding out playing only when when you need to,
- 1:01:56Speaker 5: just to skip fines and all that, not practicing with
- 1:02:00Speaker 5: the team as much, it's probably gonna lead to a
- 1:02:02Speaker 5: lack of production, especially at the same level. So if
- 1:02:05Speaker 5: you go out there and you don't prepare, you're not
- 1:02:08Speaker 5: at training camp every day like you were last year,
- 1:02:10Speaker 5: and all of a sudden your production slips, Well, that's
- 1:02:13Speaker 5: not going to help your contract. Because number one, well
- 1:02:15Speaker 5: maybe maybe he didn't. He can't do it two years
- 1:02:17Speaker 5: in a row. And also some of the things that
- 1:02:20Speaker 5: we're worried about him as far as maturity and all that,
- 1:02:23Speaker 5: he showed that he didn't you know, he didn't take
- 1:02:25Speaker 5: that next sleep either, So it doesn't benefit him to
- 1:02:29Speaker 5: really play that cat and mouse game. This This is
- 1:02:32Speaker 5: why this one's different. Somebody like Micah, who produced it
- 1:02:36Speaker 5: four years in a row, He's like, I got skins
- 1:02:39Speaker 5: on the wall. I've done it since the minute I
- 1:02:41Speaker 5: got here, and someone's gonna pay me if you don't.
- 1:02:45Speaker 5: But with Pickings, it's different. Just done it one year.
- 1:02:49Speaker 5: It hasn't always worked out in every spot. He's been
- 1:02:52Speaker 5: with every quarterback and all that. So the jury's still
- 1:02:54Speaker 5: out a little bit. So it benefits him to also
- 1:02:57Speaker 5: play along as well to try to get that. And
- 1:03:00Speaker 5: if you could do all those things, he's probably going
- 1:03:02Speaker 5: to get a contract right here. All right, Last caller
- 1:03:05Speaker 5: is Mike, I said, last caller, But Mike and England?
- 1:03:07Speaker 7: What's that? Mike?
- 1:03:10Speaker 23: Things from England?
- 1:03:11Speaker 16: Nick, nice to speak to you again.
- 1:03:13Speaker 23: So I've listened to most of the show, so hopefully
- 1:03:16Speaker 23: you haven't already covered what I'm going to ask. But
- 1:03:18Speaker 23: I'll just say about a draft night, I mean, I
- 1:03:21Speaker 23: thought it was great. The first I had a planks.
- 1:03:24Speaker 23: It was one o'clock in the morning over here that
- 1:03:27Speaker 23: it started. And so get three hours sleep, then wake
- 1:03:30Speaker 23: up for the draft and then get another couple of
- 1:03:32Speaker 23: hours sleep and I'll be set. But I was so
- 1:03:35Speaker 23: wired after watching that first round. I was so excited
- 1:03:38Speaker 23: to get down. It was like watching a really good
- 1:03:42Speaker 23: game of football for excitement level. So really really pleased.
- 1:03:48Speaker 23: My question, do you think we've got greened up? If
- 1:03:53Speaker 23: we have at the moment, For me, it's got to
- 1:03:56Speaker 23: be on what we've got at the moment. It's probably
- 1:03:58Speaker 23: between Winters over Shown Downs or is that still someone
- 1:04:03Speaker 23: that we need to get in.
- 1:04:05Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think that they've figured that out.
- 1:04:08Speaker 5: As far as the line, I mean, I don't see
- 1:04:10Speaker 5: him getting another guy in here, uh, a linebacker. I
- 1:04:14Speaker 5: think they they've made their move to get the Winters
- 1:04:16Speaker 5: and uh, and you know it's probably gonna be him
- 1:04:19Speaker 5: or over Shown.
- 1:04:20Speaker 7: They both can do it.
- 1:04:21Speaker 5: Downs is probably an option there too, even though you
- 1:04:23Speaker 5: don't see it a lot from the safety, but I
- 1:04:25Speaker 5: think it's possible. And and like I said the other day,
- 1:04:29Speaker 5: you know these guys in the fourth round, like you
- 1:04:32Speaker 5: gotta let him develop. So I understand it wasn't a
- 1:04:36Speaker 5: good defense last year and there's some guys that that
- 1:04:39Speaker 5: need to play better. But you know, Schamar James gave
- 1:04:42Speaker 5: you enough to say i'd like to see a second year.
- 1:04:45Speaker 5: I'd like to see him, you know, bulk up a
- 1:04:48Speaker 5: little bit. He's got some athleticism, he just gotta he's
- 1:04:50Speaker 5: got to play a little bit. He's got to understand
- 1:04:52Speaker 5: his role in what he's doing. But you know, he
- 1:04:55Speaker 5: gets from A to B, he gets to the ball.
- 1:04:58Speaker 5: So he's a guy I like to see the developed.
- 1:05:01Speaker 5: I don't think you want to give up on him either,
- 1:05:03Speaker 5: So at some point these guys do have to play.
- 1:05:06Speaker 5: And there's excitement about Justin Barron. I believe I know
- 1:05:10Speaker 5: Baron from Syracuse. I think Justin Barry, but there's an
- 1:05:12Speaker 5: excite excitement about him and the development that he.
- 1:05:15Speaker 7: Might be able to take a leap as well.
- 1:05:18Speaker 5: So I think the pieces are here at linebacker and
- 1:05:23Speaker 5: really most positions. I think something great comes along. It
- 1:05:25Speaker 5: comes along. But I think from what we see right now,
- 1:05:28Speaker 5: it's who it's going to be. And now it's just
- 1:05:30Speaker 5: a competition. Let them compete. You know, there's a lot
- 1:05:32Speaker 5: of spots out there there. You're probably looking around, like,
- 1:05:35Speaker 5: where's the room for me? Well, I tell you who's
- 1:05:38Speaker 5: studying the best, who's working out the most, Who's who's
- 1:05:41Speaker 5: trying to get themselves ready for that moment, and that's
- 1:05:44Speaker 5: what's what you want. You want to have some good competition.
- 1:05:46Speaker 5: I think they've added enough pieces here where there's going
- 1:05:50Speaker 5: to be some of that. Some of these guys, we
- 1:05:51Speaker 5: know who's going to be the starters, but it's it's
- 1:05:54Speaker 5: left up in the air for others. And that's why
- 1:05:56Speaker 5: they have these OTAs, and that's why they have the
- 1:05:58Speaker 5: mini camp and training camp, preseason game so they can compete.
- 1:06:01Speaker 5: All right, guys, a lot of good stuff. Fifteen calls.
- 1:06:03Speaker 5: You guys were amazing. Thanks for adjusting to the time.
- 1:06:06Speaker 5: We'll go back to Wednesday at nine thirty Central. So
- 1:06:09Speaker 5: really really great show and we'll be looking forward to
- 1:06:12Speaker 5: see these rookies are coming in today. We'll have some
- 1:06:15Speaker 5: stories and interviews on the website, so check that out.
- 1:06:17Speaker 5: Also their mini camp. We'll talk about it all next week.
- 1:06:20Speaker 5: For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. See you next time
- 1:06:22Speaker 5: on Cowboys Storyline.
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