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Stack or Shed Ep.9 Cowboys edition · Football Junkies podcast

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  Hey everybody, this is your GM, your back row,
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  Dom, it's your GM, who currently is not on the
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  team right now, but don't you worry about it,
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  Kale, here to bring you episode 9 of the Stack
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  and Shed series. Now, in this series, we're covering
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  all 32 teams, so everybody gets a chance to be
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  talked about, alright? Now, in this series, we're
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  covering a few different topics, and they include
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  what went wrong, what do they need, Stack or
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  Shed, their draft picks, one move I would do
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  in their cap space. Now in this episode, we're
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  talking about the Cowboys, all right? So all
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  my Cowboys fans, wipe those tears from your eyes.
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  Everything's going to be all right. And just
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  know you guys are not going to the Super Bowl
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  anytime soon. But how about them Cowboys? All
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  right, let's get into it. So what went wrong
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  in the Cowboys season? And I will venture to
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  say it was a lack of defensive production. In
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  the past few years, the defense has become an
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  eyesore that Jerry Jones can no longer ignore.
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  Although the Cowboys acquired Kenny Clark and
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  Quentin Williams via trade, I was never under
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  the impression that this team was going to go
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  anywhere because the secondary was still a major
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  problem. And here you have a defense that wasn't
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  able to create turnovers, stop explosive plays,
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  create pressure on the quarterback, or stop the
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  run. According to NFL Pro, The Cowboys' defense
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  last year ranked 30th in the league, and they
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  allowed 30 .1 points per game, 377 yards per
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  game, 6 .1 yards per play, and 59 touchdowns.
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  They were dead last in pass defense and they
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  allowed 251 .5 passing yards per game, 7 .2 passing
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  yards per play, and 35 passing touchdowns. They
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  were 23rd in run defense and they allowed 125
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  .5 rushing yards per game, 4 .7 rushing yards
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  per play, and 24 rushing touchdowns. Now we can
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  blame the players on missed assignments, missed
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  tackles, missed interceptions, bad block shedding,
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  all those different areas. You know that Matt
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  Iberflues isn't a good coach. So why would you
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  go out your way to hire him when you know that
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  in recent years, he hasn't done a good job? According
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  to Sumer Sports and Matt Iberflues' first year
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  as the head coach for the Chicago Bears, they
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  were 29th in total defense and they allowed 375
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  .9 yards per game. They were 32nd in scoring
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  defense and they allowed 27 .2 points per game.
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  His second year with the Bears. They were 20th
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  in total defense, and they allowed 350 .4 yards
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  per game. They were 20th in scoring defense,
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  and they allowed 23 .9 points per game. His third
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  year with the Bears, they were 13th in total
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  defense, and they allowed 330 .5 yards per game.
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  And they were 13th in scoring defense, and they
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  allowed 21 .8 points per game. Now, of course,
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  when we look at his tenure with the Cowboys,
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  they were 30th in total defense, and they allowed
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  377 yards per game. And they were dead last in
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  scoring defense, and they allowed 30 .1 points
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  per game. Now, does that sound like a successful
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  defensive mind? No. Now, Jerry Jones deserved
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  a majority of the blame because you give the
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  thumbs up or thumbs down to any person that's
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  on this team. And how is it that you can go this
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  long without properly investing into this defense?
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  You have opportunities just as everybody else
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  does to fix your problems on your team, but you
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  choose not to. You choose to neglect it and say,
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  we have this high -powered offense. That's all
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  we need to win games. That's what's going to
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  get us to the Super Bowl. And that's not going
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  to work because defense still wins championships.
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  Now, with that being said, what do the Cowboys
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  need? And that is better defensive players and
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  scheme. Now, they've already accomplished one
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  of their needs in hiring Christian Parker as
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  their new defensive coordinator, which I think
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  that could be a really... good hire, but only
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  time will tell. The other part is going to require
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  a huge investment to this defense in both free
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  agency and in the draft. Now, with that being
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  said, the question we all need to ask ourselves
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  is stack or shed? And I will eventually say stack.
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  And the reason why I say that is because the
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  offense is in a really good space. All you need
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  is just this defense to hold up their end of
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  the bargain. When we look at their draft picks,
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  they have two first round picks, a fourth, three
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  fifth round picks, and two seventh round picks,
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  which isn't bad. But the question is this, is
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  Jerry Jones going to use one or both of those
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  first round picks to acquire a high end defensive
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  talent? And if so, who's it going to be? Because
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  the first person that comes to mind is Max Crosby.
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  Now, the one move that I would do is double dip
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  at defensive back. And that's solely because
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  this secondary has been lacking talent for a
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  very long time. Having the 12th and 20th pick
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  in the first round is a really good spot to be
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  in because you're not too high, you're not too
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  low. But the question is this, Are you going
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  to attack corner or safety first? If you can
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  get someone like an Emmanuel McNeil Warren, if
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  you get someone like an Adam Thielman, I think
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  that's a really good selection. Now, corner is
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  tricky because there's a limited amount of prospects
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  with true first round grades. The only people
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  that come to mind is Avion Terrell, Mansour Delane,
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  Colton Hood, and Gerard McCoy. Now, the best
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  place to get a corner is in the second round.
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  As I've said before in previous episodes in this
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  series, I believe that the second and third round
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  is the sweet spot in this draft. If you can pluck
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  Chris Johnson in the second round, I think that's
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  a great pick. because I think he has all the
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  intangibles to be a true dominant outside corner.
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  When we look at the Cowboys cap situation, they
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  have negative 31 .1 million, which we all know
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  that's going to change because Jerry just announced
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  a couple of days ago that they're going to restructure
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  Dak, CeeDee Lambs, and one of our offensive linemen's
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  contract to create 66 million in cap space. I
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  expect for them to do something with Quentin
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  Williams and Kenny Clark's contract, which is
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  interesting because according to Spoltrak, Kenny
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  Clark has an $11 million roster bonus that kicks
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  in on the third day of the new league year, but
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  he carries a $21 .5 million cap hit this year.
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  However, when we look at Quentin Williams' contract,
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  he has a $20 .7 million base salary this year
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  and is carrying a $21 .6 million cap hit. Now,
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  I would give a longer term extension to Quinton
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  Williams and a short term extension to Kenny
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  Clark. So that way you can bring down their cap
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  hits while at the same time keeping them on the
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  team for the foreseeable future. Now, my impression
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  is that the Cowboys won't be as active in that
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  first wave of free agency because they're going
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  to try to hash out a deal with George Pickens.
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  But I do expect for the Cowboys to pick things
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  up in that second and third wave of free agency.
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  Now, could Jerry surprise us? Sure. But I don't
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  think the Cowboys are going to go after. Trey
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  Hendrickson or Boye Mafi or Tyreek Woolen or
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  Kobe Bryant or Khalil Mack or, I don't know,
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  Adafia Way or Devin Lloyd, just to name a few.
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  I think at best, they're probably going to get
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  some people that are probably familiar with the
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  Cowboys or familiar with the coaching staff,
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  and they're just going to say, oh, these are
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  the big splashy moves that we made. but only
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  time will tell. But I'm going to end this episode
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