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  Speaker 2: This is Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 2: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. Wednesday, February the eleventh.
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  Speaker 1: It's the official offseason now for everybody. Everyone's in the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: Got a Super Bowl winner, Seahawks get the win. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how you guys feel about that, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: you were pulling for the NFC, pulling for de Marcus
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  Speaker 1: Lawrence against the Marcus Lawrence against the Patriots, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: But now it's offseason for everyone. It's time to see
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  Speaker 1: where this Cowboys team's gonna do. You know what they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do to get better? I mean, I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's the goal for everyone. And obviously their offense was
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  Speaker 1: really good. It had to be perfect. Wasn't perfect at times,
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  Speaker 1: and with the defense like that, you have to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you had to be almost perfect on that side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball. And there were times where the offense did
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  Speaker 1: carry them to victory, but not enough. We know that
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  Speaker 1: that's not breaking news there. You guys have already you know,
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  Speaker 1: been all over it on on what this team needs
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  Speaker 1: to do to get better that starting with the coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff on that side of the ball, we've seen a
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  Speaker 1: lot of changes. They sound good. We'll see what they
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  Speaker 1: can do as far as you know, coach these players
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  Speaker 1: and which players are going to coach because there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of turnover over there as there should be.
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  Speaker 1: All right, eight A A, eight, five, five two two
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  Speaker 1: nine sevens the number to call. We'll start with Brian
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas City, like we do most of the time. Brian,
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  Speaker 1: what's up.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, sir morning. Well, you know, I I really
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  Speaker 3: got to give it to Sam Darnold talk about a
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  Speaker 3: man who had reinvented himself, right. I mean there's a
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  Speaker 3: guy who was basically forgotten about by the league. You know,
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  Speaker 3: three years ago he's backing up Rock Party and he's
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  Speaker 3: basically nobody. Right, the league said, forget about the first
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  Speaker 3: round draft pick. We just got that one wrong. And
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  Speaker 3: you know you could be a backup and next thing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's got two with both I think both
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  Speaker 3: seasons they went fourteen and three, the Vikings in the
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  Speaker 3: in the Hawks last year and just kind of an
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  Speaker 3: unbelievable thing to see.
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  Speaker 4: And he's not you know, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Not Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes. But boy did he
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  Speaker 3: reinvent himself and make himself the best version of Sam Darnold.
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  Speaker 5: He could be.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of interesting to watch. I thought, Yeah, so good well.
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  Speaker 1: And not good enough for the Vikings to keep, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so's he is kind of unique in that
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  Speaker 1: you you think, you know, yes, he's good. He wins games,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't kind of blow you away with Hollie plays
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  Speaker 1: the game, and so therefore you always think you can
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  Speaker 1: kind of do better, get better. But yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's funny when people try to pick who are your
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  Speaker 1: top five quarterbacks in the NFC? And I see it
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  Speaker 1: all over I saw two times yesterday. Who cares? Because
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  Speaker 1: two years ago, would you have had Sam Darnold in
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  Speaker 1: your top twelve of the NFC? Would you had Matt
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  Speaker 1: Stafford even up there? You know what I mean? So
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  Speaker 1: I look at it from a standpoint where Dak is
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  Speaker 1: Dak's not maybe considered a top five? Who cares?
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  Speaker 6: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Neither is Jalen Hurts and he won a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: So it all matters is are you good enough? And
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  Speaker 1: I think there's eight to ten that are good enough.
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  Speaker 1: And as long as you know you've got the right
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  Speaker 1: guys around.
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  Speaker 3: You, Yeah, absolutely so. My Cowboys question for today is
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  Speaker 3: I just laughed when you said that he wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: been in your top twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're right, though he wouldn't have been, he just
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have been. My Cowboys question for today is I'm curious, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, everybody knows we need defense. I'm curious whether
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  Speaker 3: everybody is on the same page I am with we
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  Speaker 3: also need an offensive tackle. I don't think we have
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  Speaker 3: a starting offensive tackle right now, not a proven one.
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  Speaker 3: And what how do people want to go about that?
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  Speaker 3: Do people want to give Nate a a second chance,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to prove that he can beat somebody out?
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  Speaker 3: You know, do they want free agency? Do they want
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  Speaker 3: to you know, do they want to use one of
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  Speaker 3: those two top draft picks to pick one? And then
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  Speaker 3: what do you think, you know, what do you think
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  Speaker 3: we should do? Personally? I think there's a Green Bay
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  Speaker 3: offensive tackle that's due to come up for a free agency.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's one or two other It's not a
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  Speaker 3: ton this year in free agency, and it's not a
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  Speaker 3: great draft class for it either, but that would be
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  Speaker 3: my first pick. I think, so that we could use
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  Speaker 3: the draft capital for defense. But let's get your opinion
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  Speaker 3: and hear what everybody else says.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian. You know, I've heard a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people say that it's real easy. You just cut Terrence Steele.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you save some money there. Maybe nine million,
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  Speaker 1: I think is what's what I saw it. Also, you
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  Speaker 1: could do a June one cut and maybe make more.
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  Speaker 1: Don't hold me to those numbers exactly, but I know
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  Speaker 1: they can save some money if you want to cut
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  Speaker 1: Terrence Steele. But I believe Terrence Steele is like the
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth rated offensive tackle. I mean as far as salary,
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  Speaker 1: salary goes highest paid tackles like twenty four. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can save money. But the point is is who
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  Speaker 1: are you bringing in? And you know you got to
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  Speaker 1: use some of that money to go get another tackle,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you want to roll the dice and
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  Speaker 1: get another younger guy and maybe hope to develop him
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. I've never been against Terrence Steele as bad
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  Speaker 1: as maybe others are. I think in a situation like
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  Speaker 1: what they had, like you're running the football, I think
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  Speaker 1: he you know, he was pretty good at that, and
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  Speaker 1: I think he's he's solid. I mean, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to save money and go younger, and you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, roll the dice, go for it. But like
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  Speaker 1: you know, those options you mentioned, Brian, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I did I even hear you say, keep Tyler
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  Speaker 1: getting at left tackle. I mean didn't. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know if I heard you say that. But that's what
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  Speaker 1: I think the coupleys want to do. They want him
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  Speaker 1: to develop and to be their left tackle, and so
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  Speaker 1: I think that will be. You know, he'll he'll have
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  Speaker 1: a shot whether he's left tackle, maybe he moves to
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  Speaker 1: right tackle. But I at number twenty, I think at
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  Speaker 1: twelve you got to go get a defensive player. At twelve,
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  Speaker 1: I think you still got to get a defensive player.
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  Speaker 1: But I wouldn't be opposed to it. If you're telling
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  Speaker 1: me there's a guy here that could come in and
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  Speaker 1: start it, and he would be an offensive tackle that
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  Speaker 1: would start immediately at number twenty, I would be I
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  Speaker 1: would be fine with that too. So I'm with you
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  Speaker 1: that I think they need a little bit of help there,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Chris and Saratoga Springs Chris what's up man?
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for holding no, no problem. How are you, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: I'm good you not too bad? Not too bad?
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Just want to point out about Sam Donald. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I am happy for him. You know he's come a
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  Speaker 4: long way from the Jets. But the bottom line is
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  Speaker 4: the last two years he's had unbelievable defenses and that
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  Speaker 4: game wasn't won the Super Bowl wide the offense. It
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  Speaker 4: was won by the col defense. In my opinion, congratulations
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  Speaker 4: with Sam. Uh, you know it's good. I'm happy for him.
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  Speaker 4: But defense wins championships has proven again and that's where
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  Speaker 4: we need to focus. Obviously again coming up in the draft. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I do want to say how disappointed again I am
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  Speaker 4: with the Hall of Fame. They need they need to
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  Speaker 4: fix it. They need to fix the process of the selection.
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  Speaker 4: Woodson obviously deserves to be in there. How you keep
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  Speaker 4: build Belichick off first ballot Hall of Fame? Is it's
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  Speaker 4: un real. They need to fix it. I agree with
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  Speaker 4: what Emmis said. I heard him in a couple of
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  Speaker 4: interviews and one hundred percent agree with his take on
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  Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame. They need to fix it.
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  Speaker 1: Is I didn't hear what it was saying.
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  Speaker 4: He said he mentioned something about how Woodson belongs in
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  Speaker 4: Bill Belichick belongs in first ballot and Roger Craig's stats
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  Speaker 4: haven't changed in thirty years. Nothing's changed with his stats
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  Speaker 4: and he hardly made the finals. It just I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just disappointed, Jason Witten. I mean, I know you
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  Speaker 4: you thought you'd be, you wouldn't be first ballot. But
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  Speaker 4: if you look at his receptions, he's fourth in NFL
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  Speaker 4: history and receptions and that's including he's a tight end,
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  Speaker 4: so that's including all wide receivers. In my opinion, he's
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  Speaker 4: one of the most complete tight ends ever to play
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  Speaker 4: the game. Man of the Year, Pro Bowls, All Pros,
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  Speaker 4: class through and through. You know, he too, I think
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  Speaker 4: should be he should have been a first ballot Fall
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  Speaker 4: of Famer. But I don't know. I just think they
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  Speaker 4: need to fix that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah Woodson.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you put woodson stats up against too, up
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  Speaker 4: against the players that are in there. Look, you know
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  Speaker 4: Butler or even John Lynch like and again after he
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  Speaker 4: didn't make it. The class the Woodson shows is just incredible.
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  Speaker 4: He's the classiest person probably in the NFL I've ever
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  Speaker 4: seen or ever, you know, listen to so again, I
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  Speaker 4: feel bad for Darreon. He deserves it. He will get in.
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  Speaker 4: I know it. I just want it sooner than or later. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: my only Cowboy question to you today is Pickens. What
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  Speaker 4: as far as the franchise tag, obviously, I think that's
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  Speaker 4: obviously in play. Would you consider I would consider the
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  Speaker 4: non exclusive franchise tag. What are your thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 4: On that tag?
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  Speaker 1: The twenty eight twenty eight million, I would I would
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  Speaker 1: go with the with the highest one, highest one possible.
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  Speaker 1: I want, I want the most because you get the
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  Speaker 1: most draft picks for it, and so if you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: trade him, I'm not thinking that they will trade him,
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  Speaker 1: but give yourself the most options there for sure. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I because you know, I think if somebody blows
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  Speaker 1: you away with the trade, I think you listen to
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  Speaker 1: it would change your draft strategy, but I think you would.
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  Speaker 1: You would certainly listen to it. But you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: this whole picking situation. I mean, it's gonna overtake the
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  Speaker 1: entire off season, and it should. I mean, because what
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  Speaker 1: it goes down to is another narrative of here's the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys with a player that they need to re sign.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not the same. I mean, this is not
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  Speaker 1: the same situation. And so when I hear things about well,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry needs to let the agent do the talking and
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  Speaker 1: not get involved, I don't agree with that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you got to remember that all of these players that
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  Speaker 1: have been re signed before have usually been here four years.
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  Speaker 1: In some cases, this is their second contract that they're negotiating.
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  Speaker 1: So Jack Dak was here nine years, eight nine years.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys know this player, They know Dak, they know CD,
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  Speaker 1: they know OSA, they know these guys that they're resigning,
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  Speaker 1: and they really I mean Pickens hasn't even been here
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  Speaker 1: for a full year, and so you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: that it's it's something where the franchise tag might even
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  Speaker 1: make sense more than than other years, just because it
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  Speaker 1: does protect the Cowboys to see what kind of player
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  Speaker 1: you know he is, and and they're going to argue
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  Speaker 1: that that he doesn't deserve CD money. He's done it
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  Speaker 1: for one year. He's this is look at his stats
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  Speaker 1: for his first four years and look at CD stats.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the same. And so it's not the same
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  Speaker 1: on some of these other players, Jefferson Chase of the
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  Speaker 1: money they're making. Pickings did it for one year, I
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  Speaker 1: think they he needs to do it again and again
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  Speaker 1: maybe to warrant that same neighborhood of contracts. But we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. Davion and Illinois next.
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  Speaker 4: What to do? What to do?
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  Speaker 5: My guy? What do you do?
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  Speaker 1: What's up?
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  Speaker 7: Man?
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  Speaker 5: What's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 5: I've been a special time the last few weeks. I
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  Speaker 5: couldn't get on because I'm back at work now, so
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  Speaker 5: I hainte I missed Shire, but I've been listening though,
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  Speaker 5: I've watched replay and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Man, you're talking about GP and I'm hoping that. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I know we're most likely gonna tag. We already knew that,
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  Speaker 5: and it's kind of crazy how people try to report something.
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  Speaker 5: If we was hardcore, we already knew that it was
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  Speaker 5: gonna happen like two months ago. But uh, I was
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  Speaker 5: just like, it ain't no news to us, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's all good. H Hopefully you know, put the tag
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  Speaker 5: on him. Uh crazy enough, if he signed it and
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  Speaker 5: he's going and go track it that one year to
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  Speaker 5: prove it, approve it deal, that'd be pretty cool. But
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  Speaker 5: hopefully if we can work out a deal. That'd be
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  Speaker 5: that'd be nice. I know it's always the dis man
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  Speaker 5: up when they do these type of things. And uh,
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  Speaker 5: of course he's gonna try to fight the track it
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  Speaker 5: as much as see you a little bit more right.
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  Speaker 5: And of course it was the agent, you know, that's
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  Speaker 5: what they He's definitely gonna try to do. But I
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  Speaker 5: was one to asks, uh, we're gonna hear from Christian
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  Speaker 5: Parker this week or probably next week or any whispers
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  Speaker 5: anything over press conference. I'm kind of curious to see
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  Speaker 5: what to get him in front of him, get some
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  Speaker 5: Q and A and try to see what you try
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  Speaker 5: to get them Inkland what he's looking to try to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that was in the works. I
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  Speaker 1: thought a couple of weeks ago, whether change some things
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  Speaker 1: around here and then combine and and that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a combline. Sorry, super Bowl Week happened, and and then
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  Speaker 1: you know we got the combine is coming up in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. I would I would think it
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  Speaker 1: would there would be something they would want to do,
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  Speaker 1: But you also don't want him to get up there
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  Speaker 1: and not have answers you know, of what what is next?
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  Speaker 1: And and and also you know what what other positions
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  Speaker 1: need to be filled, and who you're thinking and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So it probably at this point seems like they want
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  Speaker 1: to really complete the staff and you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: get those answers for him. So then if he is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, going to have a press conference, then he's
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  Speaker 1: got all He's got everything in front of him. That
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  Speaker 1: that would be my my take on why we haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen a press conference yet.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we've been tracking it because I'm practiced no having
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  Speaker 5: that track. So I think like he down made a
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  Speaker 5: couple more positions, yeah, of getting like I know, we've
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  Speaker 5: got to get the inside linebacker right, coach, and then
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  Speaker 5: uh and uh and a couple more. So hopefully we
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  Speaker 5: can have it done. But then this week i'd be
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  Speaker 5: cool because I really do want to sit down and
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  Speaker 5: for me and him sedan and kind of just you know,
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  Speaker 5: give us to the idea of what he's what he's
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  Speaker 5: looking to try to do, because yeah, anything but it fluce,
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  Speaker 5: you know, but it's all good. Other than that, man,
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  Speaker 5: we got our space tomorrow night, so you know we do.
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  Speaker 5: I'm all on if you want to come on in
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  Speaker 5: and get it, get aft it all right, we'll be there.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds good Man. All right, Dave, I appreciate that, appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the call. Let's just kind of keep this thing going here.
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  Speaker 1: Josh in Chicago is next, Josh, what's up?
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  Speaker 6: Heynick?
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  Speaker 8: Just want to talk a little bit about the CD
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  Speaker 8: picking stuff. Yeah, so, I mean, I'm all about signing
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  Speaker 8: Pickens long term if we can, and even see these
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  Speaker 8: comments about taking less money to to make sure Pickings
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  Speaker 8: stays aroun anything are great, but with what you're saying
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  Speaker 8: and just some support behind that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wait, wait a second, Yeah, CD said what.
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  Speaker 8: I thought I heard something, and I thought they talked
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  Speaker 8: about it yesterday. I'm talking where CD said like, hey,
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  Speaker 8: I'll renegotiate or something to take a little bit less.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hear that. I didn't hear what. I did
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  Speaker 1: not hear that. What I heard of is if he
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  Speaker 1: gets more, he gets more. You know that he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be worried about him getting a contract more than him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I didn't know the part about negotiating less.
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  Speaker 8: I'll no, I'll try to find it.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think less than Pickens. Sorry, like CD would
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  Speaker 8: be willing to take less of his contract.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he needs to restructure his deal anyways. And that's
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  Speaker 1: something that that has nothing to do with Pickens or
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  Speaker 1: any other player. I mean, he's done it. When you can,
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  Speaker 1: when you sign a big deal and then you continue
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  Speaker 1: to play well and keep making Pro Bowls and All
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  Speaker 1: Pros or whatever, and and you're justifying the contract, it's easy,
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  Speaker 1: especially at his age, it's easy to restructure that keep
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  Speaker 1: putting money into it because he's worth it. Even if
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't, then then you'd be like, wait a second,
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  Speaker 1: we might want to get out from under this. But
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  Speaker 1: that's not the case, and so Pickens are not. He's
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  Speaker 1: good to restructure. I thought what he said was is, hey,
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  Speaker 1: if he makes it more than me, that's fine. That's
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  Speaker 1: just how the cycle goes. And he'd be fine with that.
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  Speaker 1: He wants him to get what he deserves. I don't
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: know about taking less four to make that happen, But
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I give what you're saying. He's being a team player
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: and he's saying the right things.
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and I'll try to find it. But I think
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: what you're pointing out too is like you look at
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: a guy like Terren Steel right, like you're saying earlier,
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: and people are not happy about the money he's making
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: and the performance right, and I think, like Terren Steele,
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: Sorry this is a little bit off of what I
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: was going to talk about, but Steele is he's still
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: good in the run game, right, and even Guyting is
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: good in the run game. It's their pass blocking that
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: they grade out worse at. And the money, I think
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: is what with Steel specifically that it starts to become
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: an issue. But I don't know. He's got one more
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: year and he's making a lot. You can save some
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: money off of a post or pre June one cut,
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: but you know that's a gap then that needs to
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: be filled, all right. So with Pickens, though, I think
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: like the franchise tag is great, but he's a second
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: round pick. We traded a third forum and he played
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: like a first this year. And I don't know if
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: a team's gonna be willing to give up high profile
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: or like high picks to get George Pickens over to them,
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: because I'm not. I'm not going less than a late
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: one or an early two for him. That's what you know,
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: you got to hold onto talent like that, especially young talent.
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: The other thing with with Pickens, I'll just say really
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: quick is you know CD was basically out like kind
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: of five games this season, right, like, leaves the Bears
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: early and they go one, two and one in that stretch,
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: and then leaves Detroit you know early as well, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: that game got lopsided after he was gone. So yeah,
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: Pickens does great, but without CD, without having both those
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: threats on the field together at the same time, it's
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: not the same offense.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what was the win, I can't Jets?
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, ty Packers and beat The Jets lost to the
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: Panthers and the Bears and Detroit, and he had.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Good moments, you know, and mean the Packers game, uh,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you know, he carried them back into that I thought,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: you know, but but the the Detroit game, like you know,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: like you mentioned, he was kind of he was kind
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: of in space that game. You know, he just wasn't
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: He wasn't himself, And I think that's something you kind
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: of have to and and that happens with receivers. It's
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: not just pick in me. It happened. You can take
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: a guy away from things, and so yeah, it's now
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: now to be fair. In that Detroit game, I mean, yeah,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: he he wasn't doing a lot, but then all of
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: a sudden, Ryan f Illinoy goes goes crazy and CD
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: went crazy in the first half. So you know, I
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: think I just hope that Pickens and his agent understand
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: that this is the best situation that he's been in
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and and you know, you can, yeah, you can make
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the most money ever. Go I mean, go play for
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the Jets, go play for Cleveland. Whatever it is. You
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: don't know who your quarterback is going to be, or
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: how good it's going to be, or who's on the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: other side or whatever it is. And I think I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: think there's something about the structure here with this offense
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and the receivers and Dak and all that too. So hopefully,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: you know, now, hopefully he kind of sees that. And
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying he had to take less money, but
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: but you don't you take him know your.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: Value exactly, I mean, and and I'm not saying that
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: in a bad way. It's just, you know, there's he's
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: a high value guy like he he deserves a lot
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: of money. He deserves top ten money. He is definitely
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: a top ten guy right now with what he put
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: out on film last year. But it's also just what
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: do you want to write? I mean, look at you know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: the comments to Marcus Lawrence made like do you want
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: rings or do you want money? That you know that's
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: part of it too.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: So yeah, all right, thanks.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Nick, Thank you appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: phone lines here, Chris and San Angelo. Chris, what's up, dude?
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: Hey, how you doing today?
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Mister Nate?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Good? How are you?
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: I'm doing well? Thank you? Man. Hey, I just had
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: a question. I was gonna ask which to you, in
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: your opinion, which Cowboy player that is on the team
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: and under contract would you think it would be the
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: most beneficial Let's say, if they really picked their game
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: up a notch like I was thinking of. I have
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: one in mind, but I was thinking of people like
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: Rebel and Bland, you know, Rebel coming off the energy
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: and Bland getting back to where he is, you know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: where he was. But my guy that I'm going to
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: pick is guiding, and I think he talked about him
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: a little bit earlier. But just think about how big
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: that would be, right if he came in and was
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: just really solid nice because yeah, exactly. And see, because
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: I think the other two guys, the tylers, they're going
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: to be fine in the center. I think he's moving
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: along and figure out the right tackle. But I'm with
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: gotten that could make things solid. I just want to
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: see what you thought about that.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Chris.
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: And yeah, oh before I go, sorry, Happy birthday, Irene.
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: It was her birthday yesterday.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, one, all right, Happy birthday Irene. Of course, maybe
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: we'll hear from her. We have a series coming up.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I think it's in April. We'll do something kind of
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: like that where it's I think we called it next
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: man Up type thing, and it's not necessarily players that
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: are going to start for the first time. It's just
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: guys that need to to step up, you know, and
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and whether they're starters or not, this is what they
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: need from them because you can't go and get all
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: pros at every position in Pro Bowlers and stuff like that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, you have to have some guys that really,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: you know, our role players but also solid starters, but
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: you want, you know, them to maximize their potential. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: don't know if you can get a better one than
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Tyler Gouyden as far as what they need, what they're
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: paying for him to do, and and just just what
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: they've expected him to do. So Tyler Goydon probably headlines
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: that list. Great story, great guy, great interview, great everything.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: But the Marvin overshown, you know, like it's all good,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a great story, but he does
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: need to take that game to the next level. It's
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: time stay healthy and and and be a game wrecker.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's he's been good at times, he's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: been solid at times. I understand the situation. I'm not
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: saying anything bad about how he came back. I mean
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: it's a great, great story. But do need him to
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: stay on the field and be a really good player.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: And the thing is is defensive coordinator. I mean, that's
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: that's one thing that Christian Parker really needs to figure out.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: What do you do with him? Where do you play him?
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Keep him relatively healthy. But he's also got to be
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: in the middle of it, you know. I mean, he's
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: got a unique body to be a linebacker in the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: middle of the defense for every play. Maybe he's an
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: edge player. I mean, he's just a unique type of guy.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe he's just a full time nickel linebacker, even though
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: you know, you play a lot of nickels. So maybe
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: you can figure out a way that. But he's got
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: to be a guy too that that takes his game
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to another level. But that's a good question, and that's
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys like that. There's a lot
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: of guys you can't pay everybody. They're not all going
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: to be making ten million a year. You have to
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and that's why your rookies have to hit. You know,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: you have to have guys that are relatively cheap that
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: could play at a very high level. Rob in Vegas
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: is next.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: Rob.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: What's up?
• 26:59
  Speaker 13: Hey, how's everything good?
• 27:02
  Speaker 14: I'm good.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 27:05
  Speaker 13: We're talking about George Pickens, and I love George Pickens.
• 27:08
  Speaker 13: I love his attitude and I think he's a playmaker.
• 27:14
  Speaker 13: But my fear with signing him, you know, thirty somethings
• 27:19
  Speaker 13: million dollars a year, is I could see Jerry saying,
• 27:24
  Speaker 13: you know, I signed Pickets to this big deal, and
• 27:27
  Speaker 13: now I can't spend on defense. And let's say say,
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: as good as Pickets is, he's a luxury, he's not
• 27:36
  Speaker 13: a necessity. We just watched two teams back to back
• 27:41
  Speaker 13: Super Bowls. The blueprint is play really good defense, run
• 27:45
  Speaker 13: the ball, and if all your quarterback has to do
• 27:49
  Speaker 13: is make plays in a timely matter, and you could win.
• 27:53
  Speaker 13: And that's what the Cowboys I hope take away from
• 27:56
  Speaker 13: this because there are teams out there, you know who
• 28:00
  Speaker 13: they are, that they would side pickings and then still
• 28:03
  Speaker 13: go and bust the budget in free agency on defense,
• 28:08
  Speaker 13: and my fear is he won't do that. He'll just
• 28:11
  Speaker 13: say we'll bringing in a new DC. He's going to
• 28:14
  Speaker 13: change everything. And I'm sorry, I don't care who the
• 28:16
  Speaker 13: DC is. You don't get any more talent on this defense,
• 28:20
  Speaker 13: You'll be right back where you started. So that's my
• 28:24
  Speaker 13: only fear. I would rather if they could. I would
• 28:27
  Speaker 13: love to see them franchise him and then if somebody
• 28:31
  Speaker 13: wants to trade for him, maybe a team in Las
• 28:35
  Speaker 13: Vegas to bring in a top notch defender and then
• 28:40
  Speaker 13: build on that in the draft and even add more
• 28:42
  Speaker 13: like you said, line back, whatever, and build his defense up.
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: I think with your CD Lamb and what we have,
• 28:49
  Speaker 13: if you bring back Williams and the running back, I
• 28:54
  Speaker 13: think you could compete. We've seen that DK is good enough.
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: He doesn't need two great wide receivers. We seen him
• 29:04
  Speaker 13: be successful, which is one and other guy. So that's
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: my only fear. I would love to have Pickens, but
• 29:11
  Speaker 13: I'm just a little skeptical of Jerry. I've seen it
• 29:14
  Speaker 13: too many times where he'd be like, you know, that
• 29:17
  Speaker 13: was one hundred and fifty million, whatever it was, it's
• 29:19
  Speaker 13: going to be, and that he just says, I'll get
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: you know, he brings in these three third tier free
• 29:26
  Speaker 13: agents and he just says, well, my coaching staff, my
• 29:29
  Speaker 13: new coaching staff will fix the rest that is like
• 29:31
  Speaker 13: now that it don't work that way.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, he had some interesting comments that came out
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: of out of the Super Bowl week, you know, and
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: you know, this is the time of year, this is
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: what's tough. And thanks for the call up. Awesome stuff
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: as always. And I think that's the biggest fear that
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: a lot of fans have is that, yeah, you want Pickens,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: but you had Pickens last year and it wasn't enough
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: on defense. So what are you doing to fix that?
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: And it can't just be a thirty four year old
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: defense coordinator that's never called plays. And I think I
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: really like the move for Christian Parker, but I don't
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: think you can just lean on that and say it's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: going to fix everything. You can't. You can't do that.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: But he Jerry had some interesting comments about about changing
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: his ways. I mean, we haven't really heard that before.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Then how he's got to change. If he doesn't change,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: then then this team's not gonna not gonna get better.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: This franchise isn't gonna get better. Those are comments that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you haven't heard before. Again, why this is tough, why
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: shows in February and early March are tough, is that
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: nothing's nothing's happening. All you're going off is what people say.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: And you're right, Rob, we've seen it, heard it all before.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: All I can say is, I don't think that's happening
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: this year. I really don't. I don't think that they're
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: they're going to just do some you know, bargain hunting
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: type free agents and all that. They'll do some of
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: that and and some of it works. I mean, you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: think about some of the guys they've got. Some of
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: those guys have been good. But I think that they
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: are going to be more aggressive than they've ever been
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: in the off season. I don't know. I'm not just
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: going to say free agency, because we've seen trades. We
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: saw it happen some last year. And I think Shoty
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: helps with this, I really do. I think Shoty is
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: a big part of it too. He's aggressive, and he's
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you know, he's not demanding, but he knows what he
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: wants and I think he's got some say and some things,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be a different offseason,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I really do. And it already has been as far
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: as things we've seen that haven't been. Oh, this is
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: why they always do it from a coaching you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: situation standpoint of the guys they bring in and how
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: much interviews they've done and how quickly they moved and
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: all that. So we'll see, I mean, we'll we'll see
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: what happens with the Pickens thing and all that. Just
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: remember this, and you guys know this, Just remember that
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: that the Cowboys would love to sign these players, just
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: like they would love to Sayah, they would have loved
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: to sign de Act. They would. But don't we see
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: now why the Micah thing didn't happen. I mean, like,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: you know, Jerry's playing the game. Okay, this guy makes
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: thirty nine and a half, forty to the bar. They
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: didn't get it done. Miles Garrett got forty. Okay, Well,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: it looks like Mica is gonna have to be forty
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: and a half or forty one, forty one and a half.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Can't we see why it didn't happen with the Packers
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: signed him for forty seven. You would have crucified him
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: for that. And so there's a reason why some of
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: these things aren't happening because of the of the number,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: and you've got to negotiate it to get to the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: right number. No different than Jake Ferguson, Tyler Smith. I mean,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: those guys had contracts that were really high. He got
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: to negotiate it and get it down to it. So anyways,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I believe it's going to be a different offseason. But
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I totally understand if everyone's kind of looking inside ey
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: like we'll see, because we will. We will see, and
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: we'll also see what our definition is on big moves
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and splashy moves and things like that. But I have
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a feeling, you know, the Cowboys are going to be,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: you know, somewhat active in free agency. But you know,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: here's the thing, and I'll say this before we get
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: back to the phone lines, and I know Dylan's gonna
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: have some good things to say. Dylan will be next,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: but hold in just a second. Is that you know
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: you want the Cowboys to go out and be active
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: in free agency. And if we say, you know what
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: they did, they signed the number one free agent out there,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: just so happy to be George Pickens. Does that count
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: because for most fans it won't. It doesn't count. And
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I've used this analogy all the time. Kids want a
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: new toy. They don't want the toy that they already have.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: That's not fun. They'll play with it sometimes, but that's
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: not fun. I want the new toy. And so the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Cowboys are probably going to sign. They're gonna keep the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: number one free agent on all of the market and
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: every team. But that's not what's going to define what
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: this team is and what the fans think of a
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: good offseason is. It's can you get multiple guys in that?
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: But they are gonna go get the number one free agency.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: He just happens to be right here, and they spend
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: a third round pick the year a year ago to
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: get him. So let's not forget that. But I still
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: think they're going to get more players from the outside
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: than what we've seen in the past. All Right, Dale
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: and Northport, Florida, what's up.
• 34:17
  Speaker 15: Hey man, you've been practicing your Portuguese.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I haven't. I have not. I just hope I'm you
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: know what, I just hope I'm allowed to be on
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the trip. And I mean that that's not tongue in cheek.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I mean that I hope I'm allowed to go. I
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: don't want to assume anything.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I hope that was a given.
• 34:37
  Speaker 15: I thought you'd definitely be there.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: If anything's a given, you know, I would like to
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: be there. But if it's a regular season game, I
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: would hope to be there. But as far as Portuguese, no, no,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not really. Wasn't it the Eagles that didn't even
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: leave the hotel last year? I mean, like so, I
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: don't know. It's a different places at all, but I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: don't know. Well, we'll see what happens, but it's yeah,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: we haven't talked about that yet. Cowboys going to Brazil
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: to play. We don't know who they're going to play.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I think I know who they're going to play, But
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: who would you think doing who you think they're going
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: to play.
• 35:14
  Speaker 15: I think I think it's going to be I'm trying
• 35:16
  Speaker 15: to look at regions. We talked about this in our
• 35:17
  Speaker 15: space last week. We spent like thirty minutes talking about
• 35:19
  Speaker 15: it too, looking at regions and distance and time and
• 35:22
  Speaker 15: all that. I was thinking of Southern team. I know
• 35:24
  Speaker 15: the Bucks around the schedule as the home game for
• 35:26
  Speaker 15: the Cowboys, so I was thinking Needie Campa Bay. But
• 35:29
  Speaker 15: it could also be a divisional game, but you know,
• 35:31
  Speaker 15: that's obviously a longer trip for those guys in the Northeast.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: So I don't know.
• 35:35
  Speaker 15: My guess was the Bucks, But what were your guests.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Can Baltimore that? Yeah, I just think I could just
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: see the poster right now with the Lamar and Dak.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you really want to try to promote
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the game over there, man, what a couple of great
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: superstars that would be. But you're right, you know the flights,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it is when you get to
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: that point of the flight. I mean, it's a long.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Time, a couple hours.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, but what they're saying last year Green
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Bay and Philly, Yeah, I don't know. You know, when
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you think about the league and what they've done, and
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: what their attempts to go and make this thing national.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: They want to play in every country, they want to
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: play on every night in the week, those are the
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: things that I don't think matter a lot for them.
• 36:25
  Speaker 15: But I don't know whatever, So no, that's a fair point. Yeah,
• 36:28
  Speaker 15: I'm not sure the league matters as much as we
• 36:30
  Speaker 15: maybe think they should.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I would have liked it to be San
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Francisco but it's not going to be if they're going
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: to Australia. But you know, I truly believe the Rams.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: The Rams are cheering for when they when they when
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: they play and they're playing the forty nine ers in Australia.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: That's perfect for them because they're tired of seeing their
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: own stadium full of red. And I know the Cowboys
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: would you know or don't necessarily disagree with that. So
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: you know, when when you give up a home game, fine,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: but you know you're giving up a game that's also
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: going to be half of the opposing fans.
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: So I don't know to the Cowboys too, because they
• 37:09
  Speaker 15: have obviously the Turkey Day kind of hustled there every year,
• 37:12
  Speaker 15: those three games. So they're going to have this and
• 37:14
  Speaker 15: I'm assuming this will be game one of the year
• 37:16
  Speaker 15: at the opening day game. But then so they got that,
• 37:18
  Speaker 15: which is fine, it is what it is. But then
• 37:21
  Speaker 15: they also have kind of a misfortune in the middle
• 37:23
  Speaker 15: of the season every year and the Turkey Day three
• 37:26
  Speaker 15: games and ten days or whatever the heck that is
• 37:28
  Speaker 15: every year.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Well, they don't have to, but that's the thing that
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the league doesn't have to give you that other Thursday game.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: That's what I don't understand.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: They don't have to they keep doing it.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: They do, and they didn't last the year before. But
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that's a joke that the Cowboys really they could put
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: their foot down on that one and just say we don't.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to have the back to
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: back Thursdays games. You don't have to play four games
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: on a Thursday in the whole season. Now, I'm not
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: so sure that the Brazil game will be the first
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: game of the season. You don't think, Wow, I'm not
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: sure about that. Where's the Australia game gonna go? I
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: mean that that's one that could be the first game.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Again, I don't know what they're gonna do.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to even try to figure that out, all.
• 38:14
  Speaker 15: Right, Yeah, okay, Okay to my actual point, Chris.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Do you have a point on this? Chris being I
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: think I do have a little quick point.
• 38:21
  Speaker 16: Okay, the last two Brazil games, remember the Green Bay
• 38:24
  Speaker 16: The Green Bay Philadelphia game was actually.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Two years ago.
• 38:28
  Speaker 16: A lot of people don't realize that because Philly opened
• 38:30
  Speaker 16: the season with US last year. The Brazil game last
• 38:34
  Speaker 16: year was Kansas City against the Los Angeles Chargers, and
• 38:37
  Speaker 16: that was September fifth, which the Friday after the Open
• 38:40
  Speaker 16: that we played in so in comparison, so the two
• 38:44
  Speaker 16: games in Brazil were played on September sixth and September fifth,
• 38:49
  Speaker 16: both games were the beginning of the season.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: And then, okay, that's good.
• 38:54
  Speaker 16: I'm just I'm just saying the last two in a
• 38:56
  Speaker 16: row has been the beginning of the season.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: That's good to know. And then that that definitely could happen.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: But Australia that's also a time, you know, and they
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: may they may figure that out too. Maybe they play
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: two games.
• 39:08
  Speaker 16: I say, I think I could see them doing in
• 39:10
  Speaker 16: my just two games Friday, exactly two games because the
• 39:14
  Speaker 16: time difference is going to be crazy different that Australia.
• 39:17
  Speaker 15: One's tough.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: That a killer for sure.
• 39:21
  Speaker 15: So talking about George Dickens, you know, I'm not going
• 39:23
  Speaker 15: to grade Jerry Jones on a curve just because he
• 39:25
  Speaker 15: has or hasn't done things before. Like we all know,
• 39:27
  Speaker 15: they can sign their an extent or whatever, George Pickens.
• 39:30
  Speaker 15: Plus they can go playing free agency. It's just a
• 39:32
  Speaker 15: matter of how they want to rearrange the money to
• 39:35
  Speaker 15: do that.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 39:36
  Speaker 15: The NFL, I wouldn't be afraid to restructure as many
• 39:39
  Speaker 15: guys as it makes sense to do because the NFL
• 39:41
  Speaker 15: five years now, they've had a ten percent year over
• 39:44
  Speaker 15: year growth as far as the cap goes, and it's
• 39:47
  Speaker 15: lootn't to continue. I'm sure the Cowboys have finance guys
• 39:51
  Speaker 15: that can forecast all that and know what that looks
• 39:53
  Speaker 15: like down the road. But I mean, we got five
• 39:55
  Speaker 15: years of it, and so you know, ten million today
• 39:57
  Speaker 15: isn't the same as ten million three four years from now,
• 39:59
  Speaker 15: and and to the cap percentage if that costs you.
• 40:01
  Speaker 15: So if the Cowboys want to take advantage of this
• 40:04
  Speaker 15: window attack, do it all.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 40:06
  Speaker 15: Why get rid of one key piece to go try
• 40:08
  Speaker 15: and to add a key piece on the other side
• 40:09
  Speaker 15: when you can have all of it? And I'm hoping
• 40:12
  Speaker 15: what you're saying is playing big in free agency. I
• 40:14
  Speaker 15: hope that's true, and I hope they don't have to
• 40:16
  Speaker 15: lose items in order to do that. It just wouldn't
• 40:18
  Speaker 15: make sense to me when you can have it all, you.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Know, yeah, And you're right now, and the key is
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: this is where you know you really want to see
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys do something and be somewhat aggressive, because yes,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: you could just tag it and tag them and say
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: this is a placeholder. Cool, but it's a twenty eight
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: million dollar placeholder at the time when you you could
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: maybe go and do some other things. And so that's
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: why you want to try to get ahead of it,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: you know, because if they they could sign him to
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: thirty you know this, they could sign him to a
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: thirty two million dollars a year and save way more
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: money than a twenty eight million dollars tag.
• 40:54
  Speaker 15: And I think that's what the number is going to
• 40:55
  Speaker 15: be because you look at t Higgins, he got page
• 40:57
  Speaker 15: twenty eight. You add a ten percent year over year multiple. Right,
• 41:00
  Speaker 15: there's a little tax burden there for the calf acceleration,
• 41:03
  Speaker 15: the calf extension, and that you're at thirty two mils.
• 41:05
  Speaker 15: So I think it is going to be thirty two
• 41:07
  Speaker 15: mil the dollar figure. I don't think it's gonna get
• 41:08
  Speaker 15: paid more than CD which is thirty thirty four per year.
• 41:11
  Speaker 15: But you can backload the hell out of that thing, man,
• 41:13
  Speaker 15: and then you can restructure it next year at the
• 41:14
  Speaker 15: board years you can go as sign yourself with Trey
• 41:16
  Speaker 15: Henderson or whatever you want, right, and you can do
• 41:19
  Speaker 15: stuff in free agency and not have to pay that
• 41:21
  Speaker 15: piper for years down the road. And it's not like
• 41:23
  Speaker 15: a credit card. It's it's easier than because a credit card,
• 41:26
  Speaker 15: a crew's interest. It's like the opposite. You're losing, it
• 41:29
  Speaker 15: costs you less to pay for it down the road
• 41:31
  Speaker 15: because you're working with a set figure. It's not like
• 41:34
  Speaker 15: it's you know, you charge interest.
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: It's the opposite.
• 41:36
  Speaker 15: So I just like, I would like them to do
• 41:40
  Speaker 15: what they need to do for a change in the
• 41:41
  Speaker 15: off season. And I give them a lot of credit
• 41:43
  Speaker 15: for a lot of things, but we all know they
• 41:45
  Speaker 15: don't play well in the off season for free agency oftentimes.
• 41:48
  Speaker 15: I just would like to see a season or two
• 41:50
  Speaker 15: where it truly is budget busting all in and just
• 41:53
  Speaker 15: see what the hell happened. I mean, you got three
• 41:55
  Speaker 15: years left with Dak. Let's just see what happens.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I'm with you. I'm totally with you on that,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: and and it would be it would be so great,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, think about it now with Osa.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Thanks thanks for the call, Dylan. Is there anything else
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: that were you good?
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: No?
• 42:07
  Speaker 15: No, that's it, brother, I'll feel it good.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Good to hear from you that, you know, last year
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: they signed Osa I want to say, I want to
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: say it was a few days, maybe even a week
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: before the start of free agency. I thought that was
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: kind of different. Man would love to see something like
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: that with with Pickings, because you you really can be
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: flexible if they did that, if they did sign him,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: even to a big contract, if they signed him, I mean,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: you could tag him. You know, the tag window is
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: February seventeenth, I believe March second, March third, something like that.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: For agency doesn't really start till March eleventh. March eleventh
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: is the first day of free agency. I think March ninth,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: you could start to tamp legally, you know, legally tamper
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: uh with and start doing negotiations and stuff like that.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: But still you could tag him and then still give
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: you a couple of weeks or so to to to
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: you know, try to figure out what what a market
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: might be and what a number might be. But you know,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: getting getting a deal done like that would would still
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: give you some some flexibility. And if they did that,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: then I think that you know that it would be
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: rather clear that they are going to try to be
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: a little bit more aggressive to to do something. So
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I'm i'm I'm excited for it hopefully that you know,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: it's you know what I've kind of been hearing and
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: gut instincts and stuff like that. It says things are
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: going to be different, and that's that's kind of what
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I hope all right, Erwin in Colorado, you've been holding
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: a while, Irwin? What's up man?
• 43:34
  Speaker 13: Hey? Nick?
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: How's it going good?
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: You good?
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: Doing good?
• 43:38
  Speaker 14: Hey?
• 43:38
  Speaker 17: Just a couple of things. Uh, So, like we're I
• 43:41
  Speaker 17: think we're all kind of hoping that Jerry and Steven
• 43:45
  Speaker 17: are you know, aggressive and free agency and hopefully bring
• 43:49
  Speaker 17: in a couple of impact defensive players. It's not really
• 43:52
  Speaker 17: their playing, but hopefully, you know, things change and then
• 43:56
  Speaker 17: if they do that, then we kind of all know that,
• 43:58
  Speaker 17: you know, the look they have, that twelve and twenty
• 44:00
  Speaker 17: pick and hopefully they'll use that on defense and we'll see.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: But and the other thing.
• 44:06
  Speaker 17: You mentioned earlier in the show, something about Christian Parker
• 44:09
  Speaker 17: what he would do with overshown. I kind of think
• 44:12
  Speaker 17: that few guys when they're coaching against them, and I
• 44:14
  Speaker 17: don't really remember how many years Parker's been with Philadelphia,
• 44:18
  Speaker 17: but I know he's seen them a couple of times,
• 44:20
  Speaker 17: maybe four times or so. He's probably thinking, you know,
• 44:24
  Speaker 17: you know, I don't know what you think that they
• 44:26
  Speaker 17: see these players one man and I would really love
• 44:28
  Speaker 17: to have this guy, you know, thinking how they would
• 44:30
  Speaker 17: usually if they had like an overshow on their team.
• 44:33
  Speaker 17: And I'm kind of wondering that during the interview process,
• 44:36
  Speaker 17: do they like Jerry and them ask them, how would
• 44:39
  Speaker 17: you use these players if you would become the coach
• 44:41
  Speaker 17: and what do you see in the visions of those
• 44:44
  Speaker 17: types of players?
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what you do is you talk about,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: you know, what do you know about the personnel here,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: what are some what excites you about this job and
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: this defense and things like that, And that probably allows
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: that coach to kind of mention some of those things.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: That also lets you know, like how much homework he's done,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: things like that. I don't know this, but man, if
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I was doing an interview with a guy that you
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: didn't really know a lot about and he comes in
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: and starts talking about, you know that, what what Revel
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: could do and and and maybe Shamar James or something
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: like that, then you're like, Okay, this guy, you know,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: he's studying what we've got here, and you know obviously
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: really wants this job. And really knows, you know, how
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, move some of these pieces
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: and parts around. So yeah, that's what I would think.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: And you know, they they they everyone says that it
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: was by far the best interview of all the candidates.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: By far, Christian Parker was was the best.
• 45:40
  Speaker 17: Hey, one more thing that real quick, is it true
• 45:43
  Speaker 17: that Jerry Jones, who want to say it like this,
• 45:46
  Speaker 17: he kind of bent the mee to the commissioner to
• 45:49
  Speaker 17: lose a home game to play in Brazil so he
• 45:52
  Speaker 17: could potentially get another Super Bowl in Dallas? Is that
• 45:55
  Speaker 17: kind of how that works?
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: But that's how that works. I mean that, yeah, that
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: that that is how that works. I mean, like you
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: you don't give up home game. That that's that's what's
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: happened over the last few years, is that you have
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: to give up some a home game to even be
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: in in the in the discussion for that, So yeah,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I think for the cap and it works
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: too when you have nine and versus eight, so you know,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, you know, he kind of he fought
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: it long and long enough. But then again, he also
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: got a spot where it sounds like capacity can be
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: over well over one hundred thousand, so you know, maybe
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: maybe they'll make up for it in other ways. But yeah,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sure would like to see a Super Bowl back
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: here and maybe not the worst ice storm in the
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: history of Texas in the same week.
• 46:42
  Speaker 8: But you know, hey, thanks for taking my call.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah sure, all right, good stuff there from Irwin. Let's
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: go to Jr. And Avondale before we go to break Jr.
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: Hey, man, what's going on?
• 46:54
  Speaker 9: How you doing good?
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: I'm hanging in there a two hundred and twelve days
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: till the first Sunday for football?
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, what about the first Thursday?
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: What about I'm just saying that the first Sunday because
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: if it's it's last, if it's a Thursday or Friday,
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: it's more than it's a Monday. So that's just the
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: general number. Two and twelve days and we'll watching football again.
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: So that's a good news. That's a good news. Hey,
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: Dylon kind of hit everything I wanted to talk about
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: about free agency. And I just don't believe the cowboy
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: if you get enough help with this draft, and I
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: don't want to see them sitting there at twelve and
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: the music stop and they don't have a chair to
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: sitting because all the defensive guys are gone because there's
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: been a run, so free agency, of course you got
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: to get gotta get edge help, got to get linebacker
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: help and cornerback help. And that way it's going to
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: free him up in to pick better in the draft,
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: because I if some of those impact guys aren't there
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: at twelve, they got to move back if they can
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: find somebody to move back with. But I don't want
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: to see them draft somebody that's they're an overdraft at
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: the twelve spot. But I just I listened to one
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: of the other shows and can't who brought it up,
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: but that Dante Fowler. They spent six million on him
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: and he was the most A spent on an outside
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: free agent in ten years. And that's kind of tells
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: you kind of how their strategy has been.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: And I hope that.
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: That changes and they I'm not saying to go out
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: there and pay a bunch of money for the guy
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: and send them out he or trade for the guy
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: in Vegas, but you got to find some of these
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: good pass rushers where you go in the draft with
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: that not being yeah, you know you're not reaching for somebody.
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: And of course bringing back clowning. Anyway, That's all I
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: got out of somebody else talk. So have a great
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: day and go Cowboys.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: All right, A lot of stuff there, Yeah, I mean,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: you know, that's that's what the Cowboys belief has been.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: You know that they believe that this free agency has
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: been kind of a a place where you overspend, you know.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: And and I like Doran Armstrong when he you know,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: when he was here, I thought he was a good,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: solid player and it was really good, you know, when
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Mike was on the other side and the and Washington
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: played him fifteen million a year and he's been solid.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: He also could be a cap casualty this year because
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: just that that that contract. It, I mean, he's he's
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: a he's a good, solid player. But that's another example
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: to you know, you mentioned six million for Fowler. It
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: really wasn't worth it, and that wasn't even a lot
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: of money for a guy like that, but but it
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: didn't prove to be worth it. And you know, you
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: gotta be careful because because even fifteen million, and again
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: I hope people don't think I'm picking on Doran Armstrong.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: I just use that as an example a lot because
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I think it's a good one about guys that that
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: you know, let's really dissect why you were making the
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: place that you we're making and when you go there,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: are you going to be an impact player at fifteen million?
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: And it's just weird how you know, good solid defensive
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: ends that are versatile, that could play some special teams.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: That's what the going rate is there. And running backs
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: you can you can be an all pro running back
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: and make that or even less. So it's just kind
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: of you got to be careful on how you spend
• 50:24
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  Speaker 19: At ease, everybody, how you doing it?
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  Speaker 14: Hey?
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  Speaker 8: Man? That was that was funny.
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  Speaker 19: That was Chris came in like your dad like, no,
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  Speaker 19: you can't go that.
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  Speaker 16: He could go now, Derek would be like where you at.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, who draft? Who we picked?
• 52:43
  Speaker 16: Actually, you could go on Friday because we have no picks.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Draft Shaboozy So it's not a name I thought I
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: would say twice on this show today. But stuff.
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  Speaker 19: All right, yeah, man, hey, I'm glad I was able
• 53:00
  Speaker 19: to get in today.
• 53:01
  Speaker 14: Man, I'll do this.
• 53:02
  Speaker 19: Once a week. Is a little tough, you know. I appreciate, uh,
• 53:04
  Speaker 19: you know the fact that a lot of people are
• 53:06
  Speaker 19: still calling in and stuff. But what I'm gonna say
• 53:08
  Speaker 19: is little. It's it's like you mentioned earlier, man, It's
• 53:11
  Speaker 19: like there's only so much that we could talk about
• 53:13
  Speaker 19: around these times, and even the things that we can
• 53:15
  Speaker 19: talk about are going to be a little speculative. But
• 53:17
  Speaker 19: I've been preaching this for a while, you know, whether
• 53:20
  Speaker 19: it be here or in the spaces. But I think
• 53:23
  Speaker 19: that Jerry and co Are definitely moving differently. And that's
• 53:26
  Speaker 19: and it's you know, not everything worked out perfectly.
• 53:29
  Speaker 9: You know what I mean.
• 53:29
  Speaker 19: But they were more aggressive last off season, you know
• 53:31
  Speaker 19: what I mean, bringing in some free agents, you mean,
• 53:33
  Speaker 19: and bringing the pickens and stuff. And you know, like
• 53:36
  Speaker 19: I said, some of the linebackers didn't work out or whatever,
• 53:38
  Speaker 19: you know what I mean, That cornerback didn't work out.
• 53:40
  Speaker 19: But but they were more aggressive in my opinion. You know,
• 53:42
  Speaker 19: they were way more aggressive during the trade deadline. You know,
• 53:45
  Speaker 19: you got a staple on defense, as Dylan used to say,
• 53:48
  Speaker 19: you know, you had no bones on defense. They went
• 53:49
  Speaker 19: out they got they got a bone on defense that
• 53:52
  Speaker 19: we could build around. And I keep thinking about you
• 53:55
  Speaker 19: know what Jerry said on one O five Through the
• 53:56
  Speaker 19: Fan earlier in the season, he said, I have a
• 53:59
  Speaker 19: natural urgent because of my age. My immediate tomorrow's are
• 54:02
  Speaker 19: a big thing to me. And the way he's been talking,
• 54:05
  Speaker 19: the way he's been moving to me. I mean, of course,
• 54:08
  Speaker 19: like guys like Rob and rightfully so have more history
• 54:12
  Speaker 19: to believe what they believe, and that is that you know,
• 54:15
  Speaker 19: there may be a built an excuse already that they're
• 54:17
  Speaker 19: not going to go out and trade for guys or
• 54:19
  Speaker 19: maybe spend more money. There's more history that shows that
• 54:22
  Speaker 19: they are more likely to be right than I am.
• 54:24
  Speaker 9: But I'm just.
• 54:25
  Speaker 19: Saying my immediate bias, my immediate like instinct right now
• 54:32
  Speaker 19: or feeling, is that they are moving differently, and I
• 54:34
  Speaker 19: feel like Shoty has brought a bit more aggression in
• 54:36
  Speaker 19: my opinion, especially during like the coaching hiring process and
• 54:39
  Speaker 19: stuff like that. And I think they've even mentioned that,
• 54:41
  Speaker 19: which is really awesome because you know, I was told
• 54:44
  Speaker 19: he was just a puppet and I was told he
• 54:46
  Speaker 19: was missing some of his male anatomy. But apparently not.
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: Man, this guy's come in.
• 54:49
  Speaker 19: He's calling some shots. So that's what's keeping me positive.
• 54:52
  Speaker 19: That's what's keeping me hopeful for you know, the season
• 54:54
  Speaker 19: going forward in this offseason, man, so we'll definitely see
• 54:57
  Speaker 19: Also again, happy belated birthday to Irene. Thank you for
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  Speaker 19: all that you do. You know you definitely helped the
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• 55:04
  Speaker 8: Nick, appreciate your thanks.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: He did just say that, didn't he? Uh, all right,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: good stuff, and yes, happy birthday to Irene. I don't
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: think she's probably just partying and stuff like that. She's
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: like time for the show today, I'll tell you what though,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: if it was on a different time or a different day,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: she would have made sure that to get everyone involved.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: But uh yeah, again, all we can say is we
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: think or we hope or both that things are going
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: to be different this this offseason. And and you know,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: one one big way to do it is to is
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: to uh you know, sign sign pickings. And I don't
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: know how risky that that move is. I mean, all
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: all moves are, you know. I mean you think about
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: that that second deal. You know, Trey Yvon Diggs wasn't
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the same player. I mean, what was the reason. Was
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: it the injuries? Was it the money? Was it the
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: money and the injury would whatever it was, he just wasn't.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: He wasn't the same I think though. You know, there
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: was a time I would say a year and a
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: half ago where you would say these picks, I mean, sorry,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: these these contracts that they are signing aren't really working out,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: you know. I mean if you looked at I would
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: say year and a half ago, you would you would
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: go back to the to the previous four or five
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: you'd say, well, we're getting our money worth from steel.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Probably not not not really digs No, Donovan Wilson, not really,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: Melie Cooker, no what they paid for Zach Martin again
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: maybe you know, but of course that was the end
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: of his career here, Dak you could argue, no, I mean,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: that's never gonna you know, if you don't make chance
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Games or Super Bowls, you can always argue that, you know,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: it's too much. But and then and then it started
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: to shift, and I think the last few I mean CD,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: I think that that I think that has been a
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: good contract. I think Dax, even at sixty million. I mean, look,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: that had one of his best years of his career
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: in year ten. So you know, you you look at
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: some of the other guys. I think Tyler Smith still
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: had had a good season. Jake Ferguson made the Pro Bowl.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I'm missing someone else. I mean,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: as far as Osa still up for grabs on that one.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: But I think my point is, I think you're starting
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: to see a little bit of a turn in some
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: of the new contracts that we've seen guys that you know,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: have played pretty pretty well after the fact, because there
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: was a time when it certainly wasn't looking that way.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: All right, Rick in Massachusetts.
• 57:55
  Speaker 7: Next Hey, Nick, Hey Rick, how you doing good?
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 58:01
  Speaker 7: I'm all right, it's got much snow.
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: But that's about it.
• 58:05
  Speaker 7: But the way and then the opposite tackle type thing
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: is that I think they just keep it the same
• 58:12
  Speaker 7: and just running back what they have and use the
• 58:15
  Speaker 7: draft picture just to go with defense and free agency
• 58:20
  Speaker 7: pick up defensive players and stuff like that. But and
• 58:25
  Speaker 7: restructure you know anything, but you know, the picking situations.
• 58:30
  Speaker 7: I think they'll use it as a placeholder. Have signed before,
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: you know, hopefully before interpregency or the draft or whatever,
• 58:38
  Speaker 7: to get it done.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: And a little with.
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: And Cee.
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: You're just talking.
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: About restructuring as contract, not getting less pay. But he
• 58:46
  Speaker 7: doesn't care.
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: Pick its pay and gets more.
• 58:49
  Speaker 7: But as long as he's just restructured, I'm fine.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I don't know if I even believe that.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's great to say that, CD, I don't
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: know if I even believe that. I mean, like, this
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: all sounds good. Sign him early, sign pickens early. But
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: what we don't know is that if they have any
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: conversations at all, the starting point could be forty million
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: a year. It could be forty It could because Chase
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: is making something like that so that could be the
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: starting point, which is I think crazy. And so if
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: that is the case, then now we know why it's
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: going to be a little bit more time to get
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: this thing resolved. But we'll see, we'll see. I don't know.
• 59:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, just see he was taking down the road. It's like, well,
• 59:34
  Speaker 7: Pickens gets a million more than me when of my turn,
• 59:37
  Speaker 7: I'm going to get more than him when it's my
• 59:39
  Speaker 7: time coming.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: So right right, and that's that's kind of the way
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: those things work. But you know, I just Pickens has
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: done it. I'm not saying he's a one year wonder
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: because he's been a good player. I mean for Pittsburgh.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: I mean enough where they would Cowboys traded a third
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: round pick for him, you know, hoping that that he
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: would have, you know, hit that stride, which he did.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: But I don't I still don't know if one really
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: good season should make you at the top of the market.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But but then again, you don't you
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: also pay for what the guy's going to do, not
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: necessarily what he has done. So that's why this thing
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: is tricky.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 7: Okay, thank you having all right.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: Have it go and let's go to Leicester. Uh Lester
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: and Minnesota.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 14: What's up?
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 14: Oh what.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: Dylan?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 14: Dylan kind of took all the words right out of
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 14: my mouth.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Dang Dylan, I've always hello, I said, yeah, I mean
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Dylan did that. Somebody else too, just took all the points. Well,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: it's yeah.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 14: I mean, you can restructure, and like I said, there's many, many, many, many,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 14: many many ways to sign uh the people you need.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 14: But but again I want to go back to I
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 14: think we need to go in to free agency and
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 14: get a linebacker, middle linebacker that can that is experienced,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 14: that can read, cover and tackle. I mean, that's kind
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 14: of like the quarterback of your defense. So I think
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 14: we need that. That's what I would start with first,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 14: and then you know, just build a defense from around
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 14: around that man, and then it's in for us. Pickings
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 14: is concern. I mean, if it's astronomical amount of money,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 14: of course not of course, probably not paying fifty million
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 14: a year or whatever forty million. But if it's within reason,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 14: go ahead and sign a man, Pam and restructure and
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 14: do all the things they're dealing with, Sam. I mean,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 14: we don't have to go through that anymore. But like
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 14: I said's many ways to do things. Go Cowboys, That's all.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I got what you got, Nick, right, Well, been talking
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: for a while, so I have I feel like I've
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: been throwing a lot of my points out there too.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: But you know, I think that you've got to remember that,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: you know, on the offensive side of the ball. Last year,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: I think those guys had a vision Clayton Adams and
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: and obviously shoddy, but they had a vision of some
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: of the players that they wanted to bring in, and
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: and and and and how they wanted to utilize certain
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: guys and and that's what you know, I think is
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: going to happen. Obviously it should happen with Christian Parker
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: and these new coaches that you see on defense. And
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: you know, there's guys out there that are probably under
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: the radar free agency wise, that you know, if somebody
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: does a list of the top one hundred or whatever,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: and they might have their eye on number seventy six,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: whatever that is. I don't even know. I'm just saying
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: that might be somebody that are like this guy. I
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: think we can get them for pretty good, you know,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: contract not too expensive. I'd love to play him like this,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: And and I you know, we've seen it before, and
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I think
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: I think you have to point out that, you know,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: credit the Cowboys for for getting George Pickens for a
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: third round pick. And then the next paragraph is that
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: they also traded for Kyrie Elam, who didn't finish the season.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: They traded for Kenneth Murray, who was the team's leading
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: tackler but also the most criticized human being I think
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I've ever heard from any fan base, and he just wasn't,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: you know, a good fit, but he was. That's how
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: bad it was. He wasn't very good last year and
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: was the best option that the coach, that coaching staff
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: thought was out there that needed to play, so they
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: they traded for him. They traded for Joe Milton. They
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: signed Dante Fowler. That didn't really work out either. They
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: signed Jack Sanborn that didn't work out either. So they
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: brought guys in. Some of them work, some of them don't,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: you know. I mean two years ago they got they
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: brought Mingo in that still hasn't done anything. So that
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: that's the point. They also signed Jofante Williams and that
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: was good. So they're going to make some moves in
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: free agency, and some of them are just not going
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: to work. Some of them will so well, we'll see
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: hopefully you want to hit you know, more hits than missus.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: All Right, well, let's just let's go ahead and and
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: wrap this up. I don't know, the lines are empty,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: A good time to uh, to just end the show.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: It's been a good full hour a little bit more
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: than that. But we got our twelve calls. You guys,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: you guys, you know bringing it today. You got a
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: lot of good opinions. It sounds like Dylan brought most
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: of them. But you got to be able to pivot
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: after that. But good stuff from everyone. We'll do it
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: again next Wednesday. Might have a different look next Wednesday.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: We'll see, Uh, stay tuned for that. We're trying some
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: different things around here. Don't want to give it too
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: much away, but uh, more work for Chris Beam to
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: do for sure, because he certainly doesn't seem to be
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: working enough. All right, good ship, guys for Chris Beam.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: I'm NICKI even see next week on Cowboys storyline.
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