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  Speaker 1: The following.
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  Speaker 2: He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and
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  Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It's Tuesday, February
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  Speaker 1: the twenty seventh, getting close to the end of this month.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we have a couple extra days this year,
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  Speaker 1: with leap Year coming up on Thursday. I always hated
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  Speaker 1: leap Year as a kid because my birthday's early March,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's just one more day before the birthday.
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  Speaker 1: But would really be terrible to have your birthday on
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  Speaker 1: leap year? I would think, Or maybe it's not. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's cool. Maybe you tell people you're a fourth of
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  Speaker 1: your age every time. Who knows, all right, But that's
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  Speaker 1: not today. That's that's Thursday. We'll talk about that on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: on February twenty ninth. But today, February twenty seventh, we'll
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  Speaker 1: got plenty to talk about with the Cowboys. Course, the
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  Speaker 1: combines going on in Indianapolis, which means people up there talk.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Steven Jones is there talking today. I think
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones will be talking on Thursday or Friday, maybe Friday.
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  Speaker 1: This this week, So, you know, with free agency coming up,
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  Speaker 1: lots to lots going on, lots to talk about. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how many answers actually came out of that.
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  Speaker 1: I saw some of the some of the storylines there
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  Speaker 1: and some of the quotes from Steven Jones. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: nothing to earth shattering, just about the free agents and
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  Speaker 1: the guys that that are, you know, the decisions they
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  Speaker 1: have to make coming up with some of these these
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  Speaker 1: free agents. But you know, I think it all, it
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  Speaker 1: all starts really with Dak I mean, that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: big contract that will kind of determine what they do.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, everything always starts with the quarterbacks, and
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  Speaker 1: so this one no different, but some different things that
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  Speaker 1: he said about, you know, wanting Tyron Smith back, and
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  Speaker 1: then obviously they like Tony Pollard. But I think the
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  Speaker 1: market's going to tell what happens. There a lot of
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  Speaker 1: running backs obviously there, and I'm sure there'll be some
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  Speaker 1: questions or two about that today. Sorry. Eight eight, eight, eight, five,
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  Speaker 1: five two two nine seven is the number to call.
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  Speaker 1: You can text as well. Eight one seven two nine
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  Speaker 1: zero three two nine to eight. So we already have
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  Speaker 1: one caller on the line. The lines are open, so
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  Speaker 1: at least one of them is, so you can definitely
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  Speaker 1: call and get a chance to talk. Last week we
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  Speaker 1: got three or four new callers there, so always good
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  Speaker 1: to hear from from new voices, but also the ones
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  Speaker 1: that call a lot. And here's one of them, Dylan
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  Speaker 1: in Northport, Florida. What's up, man?
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  Speaker 4: Hey?
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  Speaker 1: How you doing good?
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  Speaker 4: How are you good?
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  Speaker 5: Spend a minute? Yeah, times a little tougher, but glad
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  Speaker 5: I was able to get in here today.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, what do you got?
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  Speaker 5: Something that you and Rob had talked about a couple
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  Speaker 5: of times now is the Micah Parsons drop late in
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  Speaker 5: the season. And I was curious about that because I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: to this guy, really like the calendar changes to like December,
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  Speaker 5: he just falls off the face of the planet, like
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  Speaker 5: we all know. He was getting pressures, but his sacks
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  Speaker 5: just like disappeared completely. And so I went and I
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  Speaker 5: did a little bit of research at specifically the time
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  Speaker 5: to throw, because something stuck out to me in the
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  Speaker 5: Seattle game, this kind of story on Gino is that
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  Speaker 5: the dude held out of the ball for way too long.
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  Speaker 5: So I thought that was going to be sack city
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  Speaker 5: in that game. But they went and made a concerted
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  Speaker 5: effort to get the ball out quick, kind of negate
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  Speaker 5: his presence there on the field as far as sacks go.
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  Speaker 5: And so I went and looked at the games following
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  Speaker 5: that one, and the quarterbacks are getting the ball out
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  Speaker 5: ten to twenty percent faster every single game. And that's
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  Speaker 5: where we saw the Michael drop off was after that game,
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  Speaker 5: he only had a couple two and a half stacks
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  Speaker 5: from that point on the rest of the season. That
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  Speaker 5: was only week thirteen, So that tells me that maybe
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  Speaker 5: they saw something the other teams were able to pick
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  Speaker 5: on as well. With our cornerbacks losing off the line
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  Speaker 5: of scrimmage, teams getting up and quicker. Then obviously we
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  Speaker 5: know they, you know, try to run the ball as
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  Speaker 5: well against us, but I don't think it's necessarily and
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  Speaker 5: I do think there is something to Mike needing to
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  Speaker 5: gain weight if he's gonna play the end, you know,
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  Speaker 5: full time. Obviously he's too light to be there full time.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't know if the drop off is as
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  Speaker 5: severe as we think. Maybe it is based on him alone,
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  Speaker 5: I think it has something to do with the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the defense as well, and specifically the cornerbacks losing
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  Speaker 5: off the line and out if that's like a scheme
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  Speaker 5: thing or the DB's just losing off the line or what.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't thought that was kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that is, I mean, because you want to I
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  Speaker 1: wish I had my stats in front of me. The pressures.
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  Speaker 1: That's something to look at too. Did the pressures change?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I obviously sacks they don't is one. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I don't feel like they do. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel I feel like the pressures are still there.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's a combination of everything. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right. It's good that you did the research,
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  Speaker 1: and you're right. I mean, you know, teams aren't going
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  Speaker 1: to continue to just do the same thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: then you're going to double team.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a game the other day when my team
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  Speaker 1: was playing basketball. We gave up forty points to a
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  Speaker 1: guy Arkansas the sexas A and m The next game
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  Speaker 1: he got six, you know. I mean, they do things different,
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  Speaker 1: so you're not just going to continue to do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. So I think it's a it's a combination
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  Speaker 1: of that of you know, let's address this issue with
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  Speaker 1: with Micah. You know, if you're having to block him,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna try this on them, We're gonna do this.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of things, but I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's all. It's also three years now. I think his
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  Speaker 1: body type is probably I mean, he does get tired.
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  Speaker 1: He has to be tired and worn down because he's
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  Speaker 1: not natural to be playing at that weight. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a little bit of everything. But but if
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  Speaker 1: the pressures aren't really going down, then I think it's
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  Speaker 1: it's probably more to it than than just what you say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, than what people are thinking is that he's tired,
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  Speaker 1: he's worn down.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and his pressures didn't go down. You're talking he
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  Speaker 5: had just as many pressures in the last six games
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  Speaker 5: here as the rest of the season in the other games.
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  Speaker 5: You look at his double team win rate as well,
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  Speaker 5: he is the highest percentage of double team in the league,
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  Speaker 5: and he wins the highest percentage of double teams in
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  Speaker 5: the league. So like he's still winning, he's still getting
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  Speaker 5: the pressures. But that that point two second differential, it
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  Speaker 5: seems like such a small number when you're talking time
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  Speaker 5: to throw and he's getting pressures not the sacks. Well,
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  Speaker 5: that's one of the reasons why.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, all right, appreciate that. That's just good research.
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  Speaker 1: As we found out last week. You know, point four
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  Speaker 1: seconds you can do a lot of things, like you
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  Speaker 1: can throw a long pass and catch it and shoot it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still not over that, but anyways, yeah, point two.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that doesn't sound like a lot, but but
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  Speaker 1: it is. I mean, from a quarterback, everything speeds up quickly.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I think it's good that that's that's
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  Speaker 1: good to know that. I mean, I think that the
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  Speaker 1: pressures are still there. I think teams are are trying
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  Speaker 1: to make a conscious effort to block him differently, throw
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  Speaker 1: the ball quicker. But I'm not gonna just dismiss the
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  Speaker 1: fact that that he's probably you know, not the same.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it probably wears down a little bit because
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  Speaker 1: there's just not many people at his weight that are
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  Speaker 1: that are playing that position and doing it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, let's call Shelby in Virginia. It's the
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  Speaker 1: next caller, Shelby. What's up?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Nick?
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  Speaker 1: Are you doing? I'm doing great? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing great? I wanted to call back. I tried
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  Speaker 7: to call a bunch the Monday after the dark Dark
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  Speaker 7: Sunday in January, but I couldn't get through. I think
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  Speaker 7: the show waited a few days, but I just wanted
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  Speaker 7: to say thank you so much for stopping by and
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  Speaker 7: saying Lord my dad at the Washington game. That was
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  Speaker 7: just a huge There's been a lot of talk of
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  Speaker 7: a journey over destination and that was just you know,
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  Speaker 7: something I'll never forget and my dad and I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's let's you know, let's be honest about the situation.
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  Speaker 1: It started with you guys. I mean that the generosity
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  Speaker 1: to give tickets to somebody and do it, do it
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  Speaker 1: through this show, and do it through this show, which
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  Speaker 1: was really fun and I appreciate that. I know Chris
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  Speaker 1: does as well and so and then also to have
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  Speaker 1: you know, such good seats where you could just walk
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  Speaker 1: down to where we were. It's not like you were
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  Speaker 1: way up high. I mean, you guys had really good
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  Speaker 1: seats right by the tunnel. It was really good. So
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  Speaker 1: it started with you guys. I mean that that was
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  Speaker 1: just an amazing gesture. And then it was cool that
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  Speaker 1: we were able to kind of do that and connect
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  Speaker 1: to some more fans from storyline. That was really neat.
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  Speaker 1: So it was great. It was It was just as
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  Speaker 1: much fun for us to meet you guys as it
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  Speaker 1: was maybe the other way around. I really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 6: So, oh that's awesome. Yeah, it was fun.
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  Speaker 7: Uh the text it was mark a bit, yeah Philly
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  Speaker 7: during the playoff game, just commiserating and yeah, but so
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  Speaker 7: thankful that we got to do that.
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  Speaker 1: That was awesome. I don't want to play I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to play trivia with him, you know. I mean
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  Speaker 1: like I thought I had a stumper and he was
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  Speaker 1: just like that was something else. Yeah, so I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea.
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  Speaker 7: My dad had no idea too, he wouldn't have gotten it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's good.
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  Speaker 7: But yeah, for to go through the season, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I probably listened to this show more than I watched
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  Speaker 7: the Cowboys play, you know, just five hours a week
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  Speaker 7: of content. So very thankful for all they all due,
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  Speaker 7: thank you and keeping it going after a tough loss
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  Speaker 7: like that. My My only question is I thought Zavian
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  Speaker 7: Howard got released, and I've I've listened to a few
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  Speaker 7: shows now I took a break. When I'm back at
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  Speaker 7: David Howard's release, is it would it be worth looking
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  Speaker 7: at him and maybe letting go of Gilmore and trying
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  Speaker 7: to get I mean he's a little younger, more expensive,
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  Speaker 7: but a better long term option. Have you given that
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  Speaker 7: any thought? And with that, I'll let.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, that's good question. I mean that they Gilmore
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  Speaker 1: is going to be an interesting, you know, uh situation
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  Speaker 1: because they he played well. I mean, there's no doubt
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  Speaker 1: about it. I mean, he played well. They traded a
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  Speaker 1: fifth round pick, they got him, and he did he
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  Speaker 1: did a nice job. He got hurt, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: and I think his value was unfortunately was seen at
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  Speaker 1: the end there. You know, when when he when he
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  Speaker 1: got hurt, he wasn't the same player, and I think
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay definitely took advantage of that. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's going he's he had surgery on his shoulder and
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  Speaker 1: so it's going to be a little bit before he
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  Speaker 1: comes back. I think that's going to affect his market.
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  Speaker 1: I would think affects the market. So we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: happens with him. You know, he's also he's also tied
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  Speaker 1: closely to Brandon Cooks. I mean those two is other
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  Speaker 1: than them being on the field, you don't see them
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  Speaker 1: apart that much. I mean Brandon Cooks, Stefan Gilmore I
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  Speaker 1: mean I think I think you know, Gilmore would like
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  Speaker 1: to be here. I assume Cooks would be. He's got
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  Speaker 1: another year under his on his contract. So but but
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  Speaker 1: to what you're asking, can you get better there? Can
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  Speaker 1: you get better than than than Gilmore at that spot?
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  Speaker 1: You know Diggs is coming back, So what's what's the role?
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  Speaker 1: I you know, this team needs a lot and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if if signing a corner, a veteran corner
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  Speaker 1: who's just been released and and for contract reasons, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if that's your best play. I mean, think
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  Speaker 1: about it now, when when free agency hits, you've got
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  Speaker 1: starters that are that are not going to be there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean you're free agency. You have a
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  Speaker 1: left tackle who's a free you have a running back,
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  Speaker 1: two running backs free agent, center free agent, and so
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  Speaker 1: when free agency starts, you could lose some of these
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  Speaker 1: guys to other teams. At corner, you've got Gilmour and
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, but you've got Diggs, and you've got Duran Bland,
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  Speaker 1: and then you've got some other younger guys as well.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know if it's a suppressing I like
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  Speaker 1: where you're thinking though, you know, upgrade from that position.
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  Speaker 1: But for the money, I don't know. I think you
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  Speaker 1: could maybe get Gilmour on a good deal bringing back.
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  Speaker 1: You have to rehab him, but I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: veteran that that would that would be just fine to
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  Speaker 1: start whenever he's ready. So it's that's an interesting position.
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  Speaker 1: It's you've got guys, but you also one of your
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  Speaker 1: guys is coming back from injury. You know, I do
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  Speaker 1: you have question marks there? I don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: make that big a splash, but you know something something
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  Speaker 1: along those lines sounds good to me. All right, I
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  Speaker 1: got a text question here from the two one four numbers,
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  Speaker 1: so right here in the Dallas area, says, do you
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  Speaker 1: expect the player to be all in this year? Do
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  Speaker 1: you do they have to set the market or are
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  Speaker 1: they willing to share the pie? And sure, this is
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  Speaker 1: a reference to the salary cap that went up quite considerably,
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  Speaker 1: I believe almost was it thirty million? So I don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily think that helps the Cowboys. I think it might
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  Speaker 1: help a little bit to get some guys under contract
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. But in terms of market though, you still
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  Speaker 1: have teams that have a lot more money than you,
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  Speaker 1: And what happens is when teams have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money and then it gets even bigger. That's where the
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  Speaker 1: contracts will get bigger. It'll be out of control a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. So I don't know if it helps the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys that much. I think you're going to see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of big deals, big contracts this year. And Chris
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  Speaker 1: actually sent this for me, all right, So it did
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  Speaker 1: increase thirty point six million to two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: five point four million dollars. It helps teams kind of
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  Speaker 1: function a little bit, but it doesn't help them compete
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of teams that are you know, now
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  Speaker 1: you could really throw some money around, and so I
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  Speaker 1: don't but I don't think the players are going to
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  Speaker 1: be all in from that standpoint. If you're if that,
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  Speaker 1: if you're asking, is Dak and CD and Micah willing
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  Speaker 1: to be all in and kind of take a little
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  Speaker 1: bit less to share. No, No, that that that doesn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: not not with the second contract for for Micah and
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  Speaker 1: CD and and and nor should it in Dak. This
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  Speaker 1: is third country. But is this still he's still in
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  Speaker 1: the prime of his career where he can get, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest contract that he's ever had too. So those
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  Speaker 1: three guys know it's setting the market for them is
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  Speaker 1: way more important than it is to you know, sharing
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  Speaker 1: the play. You just don't see that very often, Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: I think, did it. You don't see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other people that really do that. All right, let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Brian in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 8: Good afternoon, sir.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing?
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  Speaker 8: I'm doing good? Man, I did not catch the very
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  Speaker 8: beginning of a show. So how's your dad doing?
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  Speaker 1: He's doing good. He's doing good. I didn't I didn't
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  Speaker 1: mention that. But he's doing pretty good. Probably listening right now. No,
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  Speaker 1: he's doing he's doing fine.
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  Speaker 8: I couldn't remember. I was gonna say it by his nickname,
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  Speaker 8: but I remember what his nick What do you call him?
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  Speaker 1: He goes by? Yeah, he goes by. It's the stage name, really,
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  Speaker 1: doctor doctor Sunshine.
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  Speaker 8: So doctor Sunshine is he's from Florida? Right?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, he's just because he's always smiling, He's not
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  Speaker 1: from Florida.
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  Speaker 8: I thought he was in Florida when he called.
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  Speaker 1: Forth. Okay, yeah, for Worth needs some sunshine too. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: what do you got well?
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  Speaker 8: So I wanted to ask a couple of you know,
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  Speaker 8: also kind of in conjunction with the cap going up,
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  Speaker 8: A couple of questions about different roster scenarios, and then
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  Speaker 8: of course I got a I got an old time cowboy.
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  Speaker 1: For you, all right?
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  Speaker 8: So, uh so one, I guess my first question is,
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  Speaker 8: you know, there was a little bit of a debate
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  Speaker 8: before this happened, before it went up way more than expected. Uh,
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  Speaker 8: there was a little bit of a debate, is you know,
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  Speaker 8: because McCarthy on a one year deal, would they view
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  Speaker 8: would they think about keeping dak to just this year
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  Speaker 8: and saying, let's just play it out, see how you do.
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  Speaker 8: And I, you know, I didn't think it was realistic before.
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  Speaker 8: Now maybe from a financial point, you know, I was like,
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  Speaker 8: he's an awful good quarterback. You know, we remember the
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  Speaker 8: Quincy Carter, you know, we remember eras without without a quarter,
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  Speaker 8: without a starting quarterback and kind of cringe. So but
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  Speaker 8: I just didn't think it was financially possible. They just
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  Speaker 8: didn't think they could do it. Now they could, So
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  Speaker 8: I'm curious. And the other person is do you think
• 15:43
  Speaker 8: they'll move on from Galvin? I kind of want to
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: know what would you do? And then what do you
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: think the Cowboys are going to do. And then my
• 15:50
  Speaker 8: old time cowboy is Montrey Holland. So he played just
• 15:55
  Speaker 8: a couple of years as a backup until twenty ten.
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: He had a he had a little bit of a
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: run as a starter that year. And anyway, just anything
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: you had on him, man, and I'll hang up and listen,
• 16:05
  Speaker 8: have a great day.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Thanks, thanks for the call of Brian. Chris knows why
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: I'm laughing. Yeah, Mantre Holland. Man, he's one of my favorites.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: I can't even say it with a straight face. Yeah,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: we got we got a song about him that we
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: would sing. But uh no, I mean he's a good dude.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I mean he was a really good guy. I think
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I told this story one time on the show that
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I accidentally sent a text message to him. I had
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: a picture of my daughter at a Disney event and
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: that she had all kinds of Disney stuff on frozen,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: all this stuff, and I sent a picture I was
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: supposed to send to my mom, but it got sent
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: to Montre Holland. I don't know if he ever never
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: responded to it. I don't know if he liked it
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: or not. I just thought that was weird, I mean,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: very opposite. I think of my mom. But yeah, good guy.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: He knows how to party for sure, and that don't
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: know that firsthand. That's just part of the song. I'm
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: gonna leave it at that. That's not that's not even
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: the guy. That's not even the right guy. I don't know, Chris,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: while you're throwing that in there, I don't think I
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: was talking about it. But yeah, basically, what I'll say
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: is is that there was a sports writer. One time
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: we were sitting I'm gonna I'm not gonna tell the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: whole song, but we were sitting there at training camp
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: and it was going it was the song by Tupac
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: California Knows how to Party, and somebody, somebody next to
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: me changed the lyrics to Montre Holland because he just
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: got named the starter. So Montrey Holland is now the
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: starter and keeps on blocking. I'm just gonna leave it
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: at that, all right. Michael Gallup, will Michael Gallup? What
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: will I do? What would I do? This was tough,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: you know, you know I am about Michael Gallup. I
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: don't have a problem with with with him being there.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I think he makes plays when when he's when it's time.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: He doesn't make enough, though, to warrant the contract. So
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna make a move, you've got to make
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: him a post June one cut. You don't have to
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: cut him on June one, but you don't get the
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: money that you save until then. But it splits up,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: it splits up the the contract a little bit. So
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: so basically with with that, you know, I think that
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: that gallup. I think you save about six million if
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: you if you make him a post June one cut,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and that probably makes more sense because if you don't,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: he's gonna you're gonna save like one hundred dollars or something.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like very very even. And you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: for him to be the fourth receiver, but it doesn't
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: play special teams. If they feel like Tolbert's gonna just
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: take onto that, that's fine. I kind of like that
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: better because I don't think I want Tolbert on special teams.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, let's let's be honest. He's a
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: receiver because when he was out there, they throw two
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: fakes at him. I mean, that's not really his thing,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: so he can focus on just being a receiver probably
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: makes more sense. That's what I think I would do
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I have to make him a post June one cut
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: if they decide to do that. But you know, he's
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: gonna be good for somebody. I mean, maybe not at
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: that price, but you know, he runs good routes, he
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: makes some catches I'm talking about Gallup, makes some some
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: contested catches, he makes sideline plays, doesn't cause any issues
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: in the locker room. He just kind of does his thing,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and he'd be a good third or fourth receiver for somebody,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: probably just not here. All right, let's go to uh
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: actually the lines are open right now, both lines open,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: so uh, let's let's let's make this happen. But the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: first question that that Brian was talking about was Dak
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: And you know, I still think they're going to They're
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: going to do enough, you know, to make a move
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: with his contract to save some money on this cap.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think that they'll be in for you know,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: three to four more years, but I think they're gonna
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: they're gonna figure out a way to keep him for
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the next you know, next couple of years for sure,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and also at a price that you know they're gonna
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna be competitive. I mean this they
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: got one the head coach here has one year left
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: on his deal. I mean, he's going to be competitive.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: This isn't gonna be one where let's just wait it
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: out and then have more money after. They're gonna try
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to win. And Jerry said they're gonna go all in.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know what all end means to Jerry, you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: but I do think that they're gonna try to make
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a play. You know, we'll see if they act differently
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: in free agency this year. All right, let's go to actually,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: before we get to the next call, I do want
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to read this text message. This is from Mike in Boston.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: As a media member, does it ever frustrate the hell
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: out of you when a person like Jimmy Johnson makes
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the joke about being on Jerry Jones advisory board. He
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: was literally laughing as he said it, and it was
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: led led to the news of most of the national media,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and of course they were bad mouth and Jerry saying
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: that he's so desperate he needs Jimmy Johnson's advice after
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: all these years, just as to drive you nuts that
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: stories are covered accurately, probably inaccurately, is what he's saying.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: That's part of the game. I mean, that's that's what happens.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: You got to remember everyone's got an agenda, you know, Jimmy,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Jimmy said I didn't. I think
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: it was more tongue in cheek a little bit. I
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: don't know if he said anything about I didn't hear
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the part about advisory board. I just think he said there.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's in the fold and with them,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and they're good and they discuss things and and all that,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: and I think all that's fine. You know, let's be
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: honest about it. I mean, Jimmy was the head coach
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of the team and Jerry was the owner and general manager,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and they won two Super Bowls and and they couldn't
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: figure it out. So I mean, I don't think he's
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: going to be That was when he was the actual
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: head coach. So I don't you know, maybe Jerry should
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: have been leaning on Jimmy a little bit more, or
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Jimmy on either way. I mean, I don't even know
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: all that went. Now. My point is is that I
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: don't think this is one where he's on speed dial
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and he's asking Jimmy for advice. I don't think that's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: that's the case. I just think they're they're in good
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: they're in a good situation, better than they've ever been
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: evident by him being in the Ring of Honor? Does
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: it bother me when this other I mean, all these
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: other stuffing, that's that's, that's part of it. I mean,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: things get spun all the time for headlines. I mean,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: how many times have you clicked on a story where
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: it says something, you know, cowboys sign this running back,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: you know, and you're you're clicking on it, and you're like, who,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you know, who are they getting?
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And it's it's some you know, third year guy whatever
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: to an exclusive rights deal, and it's part of it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: It's part of the deal, and everyone it happens all
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the time. This one doesn't really doesn't really bother me.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to Jeff in North Carolina.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Hey man, how are you doing?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty good?
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: How about you?
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Said? Great? Great?
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I listened to you yesterday on talking Cowboys and was
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: asking what what do you think would be a risk
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: a risky thing that they would do? And I thought
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: that if they if instead of extending DAK and they
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: re restructure him, and push more turn you know, convert
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: his fallery into Simon bows and push it in the
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: next year. I think that could be risky because you know,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I've heard Brian Brought to say, you know, if Dak
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: becomes a free agent next year, whether it be from
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: restructure or or they just let his contracts stay, where
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: he thinks Dak will be gone. He thinks, you know
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: that Dak will we'll leave, and that could be really
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: you know, I could I thought, well, that might could
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: be risky, you know, you know, but it's gonna see
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: what you thought about that. And also I was going
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: if you have story on uh, the late great Golden Richards.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I seen where he died over the weekend and and
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: uh and uh. I will hang up and let you let.
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: You talk about that. Man.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Good talking to you. Good stuff as always. You know,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: it's anything you do when you when you're talking about
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: fifty nine, sixty million, seventy million, whatever, I mean, even
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: if they cut it to a Measley forty million, you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's risky. I mean, it's risky at
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: any any spot here. So yeah, I you know, I
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: still think, you know, for every rock party that that's
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: a success story. Think about how many seventh round picks
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys have drafted, or any team is drafted that
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you would want to play for you, or any undrafted
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: free agent or whatever. You know, I mean Brock Party,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Tony Romo, I mean even Tony Romo. It took three
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: or four years, you know. So it's risky if you
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: don't go that route. You can say that, just say
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with a cheap quarterback and we'll win,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't really work. It doesn't. It doesn't work
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: that way, you know. And the forty nine ers had
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a loaded roster around him. And I'm not saying he's
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: a he's not worthy. He's a really good quarterback. I
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: mean he's really good Rock Party. I think he's outstanding.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: My point is that there's risk anywhere you go. If
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: you say I'm not paying the dak fifty nine million,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go get someone cheaper. Good luck, good luck.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: We've seen that. We've seen that happen, you know. They
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: we've seen the Cowboys move on from Tray and we
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: saw that good luck. So there's risk anywhere you slice it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Golden Richards, Yes, he did pass away this weekend, you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: he obviously played before I was, you know, really before
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I was more. I mean maybe when I was one
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: or two he was playing. But I think seventy eight
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: was his last year. You know, I honestly was surprised
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: at one time when I looked at his stats and
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: realized that they weren't like that great. I thought he
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: was like a like superstar. I really did, because he
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: made big plays. He's one of those guys that had
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: some clutch catches touchdowns. Of course, he called one in
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, So I kind of I kind of
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: always thought growing up that he was one of the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: legend type guys. But but he was, you know, he
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: was more of a role player. But but he had
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: some great plays and and you know, I mean is
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you know, he had the name and his hair and
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: all that. The thing, the thing for me that I
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: knew more about him is because in nineteen eighty three,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: they had another receiver number eighty three named Doug Donnelly
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: who also had long blonde hair and he was a
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: receiver and it was flowing out the back of his
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: helmet and all that, just like he was like the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: next Golden Richards. Well it turned out he wasn't you know,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: he wasn't that great. He didn't play for that long.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: But that's kind of what I knew of Golden Richards
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: was more about what I had heard and saw from
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: from Doug Donnelly. But still, you know, you know, just
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: another sad loss for the Cowboys nation and for you know,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a great player like Golden Richards. Right, let's move to Daniel.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: He's in Greensboro, North Carolina. Daniel, you're with us? What's up?
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: Man?
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: Yes, Hey, I still have a comment and I want you,
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: you know, I kind of want to get your thoughts
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: on it. But I'm a I'm a huge, huge Dack fan,
• 27:20
  Speaker 10: huge Cowboys fan, and I do believe that, you know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: we should do do what we have to do to
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: extend him. Hopefully he takes you know, maybe a little
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: haircut or whatever, but you know, getting him a stand
• 27:33
  Speaker 10: of so that we can lower the captain number. But
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: I think the the biggest elephant in the room that
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: the Cowboys need to get back to is the offensive line.
• 27:44
  Speaker 10: That is the one position group that can affect the
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: entire team. There there there are no other top tier
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: quarterbacks that are asked to do more to me than
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: Dak when it comes to having to deal with a
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: team that's the most penalized, that that can't stop the run,
• 28:04
  Speaker 10: that can't run the ball, whenever it's needed, you know,
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: he he has to deal with that. Whenever Patch Maholmes
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: doesn't have to deal with that, whenever Jackson doesn't have
• 28:11
  Speaker 10: to deal with that, whenever these top line quarterbacks does,
• 28:14
  Speaker 10: you know, never has to deal with all these things
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: happening at once in the playoffs, over and over. Now
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: he has to play better, of course, But you know,
• 28:22
  Speaker 10: but fishing fishing our offensive line at center, and I
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: believe that left tackle, I know, Tyron Smith is gonna
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: be cheap, but I need somebody that can maul people,
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: that can they can get downhill, and they can run
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: the football, that helps run the game. Is gonna be cheap, cheaper,
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: cheaper than then on the starting left tackles.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, other than other than starting left tackles,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: right right, other than yeah, right, yes, but yes, but
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: not cheap. But but yeah, I mean, you're right, he
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: gets he gets probably will get a discount considering that
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: he was a second team All Pro, But I don't
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: think it will be that cheap, you know.
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: Right, right, But at the same time, you know, we
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: all know that. You know, we had a lot of
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: all pros this year based on the numbers, But to me,
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: some of that had something that had something to do
• 29:10
  Speaker 10: with the star and not helping as well, because for instance, yes,
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: Darron Bland for instance, with all Pro, but he also
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: gave up a lot as well, and so he had
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: an up and down here as well. But that's that's
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: not the point of of my call. My call is
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: I think we should double dip.
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: If we have to.
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: H in the drafted offensive line fits fits the middle
• 29:31
  Speaker 10: of our defense, but help our quarterback out. He can't
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: carry all all the nonsense that happens with all the
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: penalties and can't stop the run, and and you know,
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: to me, no other quarterback has to deal with all
• 29:44
  Speaker 10: of that mess. On top of I love Jerry Jones,
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: but on top of all of the stuff that comes
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: with that, you know, no other quarterback has to deal
• 29:51
  Speaker 10: with that. And if you fits the offensive line, you
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: can help the rest of the team and you can
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: create start start back to start, starting, back, to get
• 29:59
  Speaker 10: in identity and creating a culture in the locker room.
• 30:02
  Speaker 10: Whatever you fish. The offensive line, to me, that's the
• 30:04
  Speaker 10: biggest need, and I don't care if we have a
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: double dip. We'll go all in in our front seven
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: on both sides of the ball. You know, we have
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: to do something with that.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Daniel, your first time caller, first time caller.
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: But I've been listening to you all the way back
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: to Cowboys Break and before, so this is the first
• 30:19
  Speaker 10: time I heard that I've been able to get through.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: All Right, there we go. Well, we appreciate it for sure.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Good good stuff, good insight as well.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I you know, I I'm agreeing with you and I
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: disagree at the same time. In on one level, Yes,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Dak has to put up with a lot, and it's
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: not just on the field stuff. It's it's but it's
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: part of it when you're the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. Yes,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: there's penalty issues, lack of running game, defense had some
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: holes at times as well. But but like you said,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Dak has to play better. You know, I don't know
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: what I disagree with is. I don't know if other
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks don't have to deal with that either. I mean,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes to me is just on another level. He's
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: not even worth He's not even worth talking about in
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: terms of you know, comparing anything. You know, he would
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: like Dak's receivers over his. You know, I think he
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: would trade everything. If you said I'll take I'll trade everything.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: You know, you get the Chiefs receivers and they're tight end,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys receivers in their tight end. That's a
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: tough one now with Kelsey involved, you know, now, the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Chiefs pr would take Kelsey because I think he's driving
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: a lot more ratings for some reason. But I think
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: that from receiver tight end, you know, I mean, DA's
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: got it pretty good, you know, so, so I don't
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: know if I would agree with that that other quarterbacks
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: don't have to deal with stuff. They all have to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: deal with stuff. But but for the most part, I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: agree with your premise. Get get better guys around him
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and clean up some of the mess, clean up some
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: of the penalties, clean up some of that. You know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: give him a running game. That's really what it comes
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: down to. Give him a running game, which, like you said,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: starts with the offensive line. And I'm fine with that too.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I'd be okay if they drafted offensive line once again,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you know, if they drafted an alignment in the first
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: or second round for three or four or five years
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: in a row. That would be fine with me, you know,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: because then you continue to have really good players up front.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And if you have good players up front and you
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: get you know, get the pressure off your quarterback, then
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you can do some good things. So I'm totally fine
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: with that. All right, we got Robin Vegas.
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: Let's say, Nick, hey, Rob.
• 32:47
  Speaker 11: You know the last call that that's kind of one
• 32:49
  Speaker 11: of the reasons why I don't want to pay back
• 32:51
  Speaker 11: sixty million a year because you just rattled off.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: He needs this, he needs help. Yeah. Yeah, I thought
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: about that when when I was saying that too, I
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: was just like, that's that's the double edged sword here
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: on this.
• 33:02
  Speaker 11: It's yeah, yeah, we talked about it's a bad investment.
• 33:06
  Speaker 11: There's only one right now, and that's the homes. Everybody
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: else is getting overpaid and not producing, and it's just
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: the way it is. But you know, I keep hearing
• 33:14
  Speaker 11: people talk about, well, if we don't extend, if we
• 33:18
  Speaker 11: don't do anything with Dak this year and he goes
• 33:21
  Speaker 11: out and he wins the Super Bowl, he may leave.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
• 33:26
  Speaker 11: This guy has been putting up with the media for
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: his whole career, and now you're telling me when he
• 33:33
  Speaker 11: does something that hasn't been done in twenty nine years
• 33:36
  Speaker 11: or so, he's not going to stay and let everybody
• 33:40
  Speaker 11: kiss his butt. And I mean, of course he's going
• 33:42
  Speaker 11: to enjoy it all, never lead. Even if he gets
• 33:46
  Speaker 11: to the NFC Championship Game and god forbid we lose,
• 33:50
  Speaker 11: he would have done something that hasn't been done. So
• 33:54
  Speaker 11: I'm not going anywhere other than if he doesn't produce.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: If Dak wins the Super Bowl, Jerry Jones is going
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to give him three things. Number one a hug, number
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: two a check, and number three a pin. Okay, and
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: he can fill out that. If he wins a super Bowl, he.
• 34:14
  Speaker 11: Can run from mayor right. Yeah, that's why, you know.
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: I don't know why anybody would say that, Oh wait,
• 34:20
  Speaker 11: he would leave. There would be no way in the world. Yeah,
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: the only the only listen I know that you said
• 34:26
  Speaker 11: the cap went up thirty million. That's got to help somehow.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: It does help. It helps you do some things, but
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I just don't think it makes you now competitive to
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: go outbid people because everyone gets thirty million and they're
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: in a better situation than you are.
• 34:41
  Speaker 11: Correct, and let's be honest, Jerry Jones is not going
• 34:45
  Speaker 11: to do that.
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: He's going to spin it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 11: We got gigs and over shown coming back, so and
• 34:52
  Speaker 11: they pretty much we overshow didn't play at all. Dicks
• 34:54
  Speaker 11: played a couple of games, so that's gonna help.
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: And he's right.
• 34:57
  Speaker 11: If those guys come back and they all right and
• 34:59
  Speaker 11: needs the they're gonna help.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: So he's gonna spin it like that.
• 35:02
  Speaker 11: They'll go get a linebacker like maybe a Bobby Wagner
• 35:07
  Speaker 11: or somebody. But they're not gonna spend twenty million a
• 35:10
  Speaker 11: year on a guy, and they'll get somebody in the
• 35:13
  Speaker 11: middle of the defensive line. No that they're probably not
• 35:16
  Speaker 11: going to get Chris Jones, but go get somebody. And
• 35:19
  Speaker 11: that's how he'll spin it. And if he's gonna do
• 35:22
  Speaker 11: it like that, I'm okay with that as long as
• 35:25
  Speaker 11: he leaves Jack alone, leave the contract with's ride it out,
• 35:28
  Speaker 11: ride it out, and let's see what what happens. Michael Gallup,
• 35:34
  Speaker 11: I mean, it's pretty much a foregone clip including he's
• 35:38
  Speaker 11: gonna be gone. And I like him. He says like
• 35:40
  Speaker 11: a cool dude, but like you said, he's just not
• 35:43
  Speaker 11: He doesn't justify the money.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Like when they drafted another third rounder in Jalen Tolbert
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: from his relatively small school like they did with Gallup.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: No offense to Colorado will stay. It's not not Power five,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: but it's not small school. But still they drafted a
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: third receiver. It's kind of, you know, Tolbert kind of
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: take it over as the next Galop.
• 36:02
  Speaker 11: They're kind of the same player. They're kind of the
• 36:04
  Speaker 11: same player right now. Maybe Tolbert he's even more on
• 36:07
  Speaker 11: an upswing, which is nice. Yeah, I mean, I just
• 36:11
  Speaker 11: don't see them. They're not Fanny fans. I think they're
• 36:14
  Speaker 11: gonna go out and just you know, go go pay
• 36:17
  Speaker 11: sake one Barkley twelve million dollars a time. That ain't happening.
• 36:21
  Speaker 11: That ain't happening. They'll go maybe four or five million
• 36:24
  Speaker 11: for a running back or they're draft one, which I'm
• 36:26
  Speaker 11: okay with because running backs, I hate to say it.
• 36:29
  Speaker 11: They used to be the you know, dominant position. Emmitt
• 36:33
  Speaker 11: Smith was my favorite player, but they're not anymore. You
• 36:36
  Speaker 11: get him out of you know, you're gonna run him
• 36:37
  Speaker 11: for five years and then you're gonna move on. So
• 36:40
  Speaker 11: but no, I I that ain't going nowhere. I hope
• 36:44
  Speaker 11: he wins the Super Bowl, and I hope they make
• 36:47
  Speaker 11: a mayor president. I don't care let him, you know,
• 36:50
  Speaker 11: but no, he's not leaving if he if he's successful.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: All right, Thanks for the call, Rob. I was always
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: appreciate that Chris had a good question. If he was
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: the mayor, I mean, if Risco, Arlington, Dallas, uh, you know, anywhere.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: You know, I might just want to be the governor.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Who knows. Sorry, I'm not trying to get political. I
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: just he could do whatever he wants if he wins
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and I think everyone would be fine
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: with that. I do disagree with one thing though, that
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you said, Bruce. Sorry, Bruce is next. But to Rob,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I disagree a little bit. I think the Cowboys might
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: actually get one of those running backs. I could see
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: that happening. You know, there's four or five out there,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: really about three. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cowboys
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: go and do a move like that. I'm not saying
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: that they're all in move, but I think it's it's
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: a move that would be a little different than what
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: we've seen before, a little risky because there many running
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: backs or you know, they're always risky at this point.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, Dalvin Cook was one of the best in
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the league like two years ago, and then he didn't
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: they didn't have a team. You know, He's kind of
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: bouncing around a little bit, so the drop off can
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: be quick. But I wouldn't be surprised if the Cowboys
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: spent considerable money for one of those backs. Remember I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: mean last year. I mean they did the franchise tag
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: for Pollard, so there were ten. If it's up there
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: in the eleven to twelve range and for somebody who
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: thinks better, I could see them doing that. So that's
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: one thing. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cowboys made
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: a move like that. All right, let's go to Bruce
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: and Houston. Hey, Bruce, it's been a minute.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't listen to Rob. I got to my ear,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: so I need to listen to your response. I hope
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: we won't disagree with me.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: But no, he said. He said that he didn't think
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: they would go get a Barkley or Josh Jacobs or
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and spend twelve million or something like that.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: He didn't think the Jerry's going to do that. In
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: this case, I wouldn't be surprised if they do. I mean,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: they actually might. That might be the type of move
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: that they think could kind of help them. It wouldn't
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: surprise me if that happened.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you for I do my back deal.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: How close do you think they were making a trade
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: for Tennessee for Henry? Not really?
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: No, Actually I was told that they never called. Tennessee
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: never called, and the Cowboys never called, and it never
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: even came up. And I think I think the Titans,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: remember now, nobody traded for him that everyone thought it
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: was going to happen. I think the Titans throughout of
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: compensation figures and draft picks and stuff so high that
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, everybody has its price, so it's like, oh,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: they might trade Derrick Henry, and I'm sure they were
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: like yeah for three number ones and and you know
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: or whatever in their whoa, whoa whoa. So I think
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I think Tennessee squashed all of that, right, and.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: It makes sense, and you can't blame them, you know,
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: ask for the moon, right and see what happens. But yeah,
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: nobody's going to give that to a thirty plus year
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: o running back up.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Remember this, they loved their coach Rabel. They I mean
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: they did, they did part ways with him, but they
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: wanted him to be successful. They wanted it to work.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: He's a likable guy. You know, he's fire, he's tough,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: he's kind of got that Dan Campbell type who's a player.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: They wanted him to have success. So if you really
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: want it to work out, you're not going to trade
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: your best player, you know, and so if and then
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: you're not going to win games, and then you're going
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: to fire him and then somebody else gets to win
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: all that. I mean, so you know, it didn't seem
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: to make a lot of sense, even though media was
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: thrown it out there that he was all but gone,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: but it didn't really work out like that.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Well, and I get to I think you know, all
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: chips in as we've been saying.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: Look, would you would you?
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: What do you think the betting nods that McCarthy is
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: extended after this year fifty percent? Are are even lower?
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm just asking, but what.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Are the odds that they win the Super Bowl or
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: go to the NFC Championship game?
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: But you know, if that happens, and that's I think,
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: if if Dallas would this year was the perfect scenario,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: being the number two seed and they you know, poo
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: pooed their way in there. But if they'd at least
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: gotten to the championship game and say they lost, I
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: guess depends on how they lost. He threw three picks
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: for two for pick six, and yeah, you still be
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: mad at Dak, But if at least they got there,
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: I've been okay extending McCarthy and you still may be
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: in the same boat with the new defensive coordinator.
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: Which I think they've gotten better.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Quinn was more about getting to the qb instead of
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: stopping the running back. I think we can see right
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: the opposite with Zimbra there stopped the run and then
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: you can still get to the quarterback. But that'll be,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: you know, depending on what the seed. But with Dak,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: I've been watching him since he come from Mississippi, you
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: know state so and great great fan is but you
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: just can't he's not worth forty million, I'm sorry, And
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Dallas seems to do that a lot. Hey, good players
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: great what great players get paid? And instead of vice.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Versa hold on real quick words, let me ask you this, well,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: let's do it in a different way. Is he is
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: he is he among the top ten quarterbacks in the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: league in your opinion? Top ten?
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say top okay, not top.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Five, not top five, that's fine, top ten. So that
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: being said, then I wouldn't get caught up in he's
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: not worth this or not worth that. I mean, you
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: and me, like we all, we can say that about anybody,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: right So but my point, my point is is that
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: does he does? He don't ask is he worth this much? Say?
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Is he worth fair to be fairly compensated? Is he
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: should he be?
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: And I think he is. And it's just a cycle.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: He was number two is paid quarterback for about a
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: week and then before you know it, he's fifteenth or
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: you know, like.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: These quarterbacks, they.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Just keep they just keep doing that. So it's his.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: H But here's another question. Someone said some stature of
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: today he's he's still up there on the most age quarterback,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: even more than Kirk Cousins. You know how many times
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: he got franchised. My question is, look, I don't care
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: if to make a hundred million, It ain't my money,
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: it's sarious money. But but my point is is you
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: just can't. You can't best even more long term with
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: what this team needs defensively to a guy that plays
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: great in the regular season and only against mediocre SOL teams.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Because of all the teams that were good that made
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: the playoffs last year, we didn't win one of them,
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: except for maybe Philadelphia, maybe the Rams. You could include
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: them in there. But you know what I'm saying, that's
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: just get it.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: I get it. It's it's a tough one. It's a
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: tough one because and Bruce, thanks for the call. Is
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: you have anything else you will, no, just have a
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: good day.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: I know the work, I really do.
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: But but at.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Some point you got to either no. I know, I
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: would hopefully if they go all in, if they can
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: adjust his contract to where because if they blow it
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: again this year, well then Jerry's gonna have I don't
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: care if he's ninety two, he's gonna have to blow
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: it up and start over with a new coach and
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: he's gonna want a new quarterback and he can't blame
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: him for that.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: So Nick, all right, thanks for I mean, like, there's
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: so many fans that that probably have that same mentality
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: right there, as as in, Bruce, you know the same thing,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: or like you really like that, and you respect him
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: and you want him to do well. You just wanted
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: him to play, you know, play better, especially at those
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: times in the playoffs. But he said something interesting of
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: with all the help we need on defense, how do
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: you do this? And that's kind of the point. That's
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: why they will do something with it, because they do
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: need all this help, and the best way to get
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: more help is to work with him in his contract,
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: and not only him, but CD and Micah. If they
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: can get all three of these guys done, they actually
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: can save a lot more money. It sounds like there's
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: not gonna be any any pie left, you know, for
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: anyone else, but in reality, there will be even more
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: because of the way they structure these deals and they
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: can do some things right now now With Micah, I
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: think definitely. With CD Micah, I'm still I'm still not
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: to the point where you know, I'd be fine with
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: him long term. I think he's a great player. I
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: know that he has people have some concerns there, but
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, these are the type of guys
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: that you know you can still win with and you're
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: gonna win with for a long time. Dak's a little
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: bit different, but I still think all three of them
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: can help you be more competitive and being that all
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: in stage by getting deals done with them. All right,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: let's go to Arthur. Is he still on the line,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Arthur in Spring Texas?
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Yep, yep, sir, I am here.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: How are you doing good? How are you?
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: I'm doing okay? You know I grew up playing football.
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: I mean I played in it at the high school level.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Position played just about every position on the defense. Started
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: off at offensive guard and then went to knows guard
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: and ended up at cornnebacker.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: No, I was going to say, all right, what do
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: you think? What do you think?
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: Arthur?
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: Okay? At first I was kind of wondering about that
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: in this whole contract situation, I really think that that
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: wants to be here for the remainder of his career.
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: Now that being said, that compromise was going to have
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: to be made, not only on the Cowboys, but but
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: definitely on that phone. I used to think that I
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: really understood football, But after watching the podcast and listening
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: to different shows, I realized that, man, the whole game
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: has jumped right you from away from me. And there's
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: aspects about aspects about contracts I don't understand I don't
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: even understand contracts and free agency at all. But to
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: keep from getting front off in another direction, I thought,
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: I put you a text the other day and I
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: add that if that leads, what team do you think
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: he could go to and have an immediate impact on
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: that team where he's playing good enough to get them
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: to the super Bowl? And I kind of answered my
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: own question after I sent it, and I don't think
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: there's any other team out that because all of the
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: teams who had good quarterbacks were in the they advanced
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: into in the playoffs. Yeah, so you know, I kind of,
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: like I said, I kind of answered my own question
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: with that. But I'm just I'm and everybody's already addressed.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: I need. We know we need a linebacker. We know
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: we need to sure up the offensive line. We know
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: we have to do something about the D line. As
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: far as controlling the rum, I just don't know or
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: feel a way that they can get a few quality
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: players to plug into these positions. Uh, Tony College, I
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: don't think when there was talk about about picking up Barkley,
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: I can't see where Barkley makes a difference in comparison
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: to Tony Powell. I really feel as know that Tony Power
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: got put in a no win situation last year. I
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that one, Arthur. I see a
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: different player. I see a different player. I see a
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: different player, I do. I see a different player, see
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: a different body type I see. I see a little
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: bit more of a three down running back. I know
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: he's been banged up. He didn't play seventeen games like
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Tony Poler did. I think you got to give credit
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: to Tony Pollard for his body size to play that
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: many games and to be as durable as he's been.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I do give Tony credit from there. But I see
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: a different I see a different back.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: Honestly, so well, that's really all that I had. I
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: didn't really have a course in perthe it was.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Just the well, I appreciate it. Thanks for the call, Arthur,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and I actually i'll speak to something that you said.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I'll still I know you're not on the line, but
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I'll say this to you. Don't sell yourself short on
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: not knowing the game like you used to or whatever. Football. Yes,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: it evolves, but it also evolves in a cycle. There's
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: going to be a time where where you know you'll
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: see a lot more running. We're kind of seeing a
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: little bit of it now. Teams, you still need to
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: run the football. It hasn't changed for when you played it, really.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you got the biggest guys up front
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: and you can push people around, you can still win
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: football games. It's the same when you played in high school.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: It's the same now. Those six A teams in high
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: school can beat any two A, three eighteen. Probably there
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: is because they just got bigger guys. Has it changed
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: that much. Yes, it's evolved and it's going to continue.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: It'll be a cycle thing, like I said, But you know,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: you understood the game when you played it. You still
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: understand it now. It's changed a little bit. Not knowing
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: the money in the salary cap. I mean, I'm you know,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: I've been covering this team for twenty six years. I
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: barely have a decent grasp about the salary cap. I
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: understand how it works. Then it's really no different. I mean,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: it's you give everyone the same amount of money, you know,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: and now you give everyone the same It's just it's
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: just like painting a picture. Everyone has a canvas, everyone
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: has the same brush, and everyone has the same paints.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: But it's still gonna look different for how how they
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: do it and how but you know, so you're giving
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: everyone the same type of materials. It's just how do
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: they you know, do they what do they do with
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: it when it's here? And so some teams are a
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: lot more creative than the others. And I think the
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Cowboys have done a really good job with their salary cap.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: But they also have great players. When you have nine
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Pro Bowlers, ten Pro Bowlers or whatever they ended up having,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, you have to pay those guys, So it's
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: not it's not easy. I means you have to draft well,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: and they've done a pretty good job of that too.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: All right, Erwin and.
• 51:29
  Speaker 10: Denver, Hey Nick, what's going on?
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Hey Erin? How you doing?
• 51:33
  Speaker 9: I'm doing great, little snowy up here today. But so
• 51:37
  Speaker 9: what Anyway, I just wanted to make a couple of
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: comments and if you know, people can kind of think
• 51:45
  Speaker 9: back about the Cowboys, the history of the Cowboys. What
• 51:47
  Speaker 9: was a couple of things was always really good about
• 51:49
  Speaker 9: the Cowboys was their running games, you know, their offensive
• 51:53
  Speaker 9: line and their defensive line. And I'm just kind of
• 51:57
  Speaker 9: really hoping that the Cowboys, somehow, some way are able
• 52:01
  Speaker 9: to draft that center from Oregon Jackson Power Johnson, uh possibly,
• 52:07
  Speaker 9: you know, get a running back. I think the other
• 52:10
  Speaker 9: run the running back from Oregon. So and then just
• 52:14
  Speaker 9: to touch quickly on free agency and running back. I
• 52:18
  Speaker 9: like the guy from Oakland Josh Jacobs, you know, and
• 52:23
  Speaker 9: I agree with you. I thinks are probably going to
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: go somewhere and get one of those running backs.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I just think they will this year.
• 52:32
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: And it's a Jerry think about it. It's a Jerry
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: type of move, it really is. It's a it's a
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: it's a you know, getting well known players, you know,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: and maybe a little bit after you know that they've
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: done what they what they're going to do, but you know,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: the running back market is going down, but yet they
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: still got some some high profile names. It's just the
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: type of moves I think the Cowboys will will would
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: get would do this year.
• 52:57
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I agree with that.
• 52:58
  Speaker 9: And just to quickly touch bases real quick about Prescott,
• 53:02
  Speaker 9: you know, I think he's a really good quarterback. I
• 53:04
  Speaker 9: just wish that during the playoffs he would have one
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: of those playoff games like he did a couple of
• 53:09
  Speaker 9: years ago against the Buccaneers.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: But you know what, as.
• 53:12
  Speaker 9: Far as his uh his uh, you know, his contract
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: goes yuess he deserves it because that's what uh, that's
• 53:19
  Speaker 9: what it dictates, you know, the price on the players.
• 53:22
  Speaker 9: So yeah, the market dictates that. So yeah, anyway, I'll
• 53:26
  Speaker 9: up and see what you got to say.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Thanks her, all right. You know you mentioned that Tampa
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Bay playoff game. I think that game actually holds a
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: little bit more water than you would think because, if anything,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: it shows that you can do it, you know, it
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: shows you can do it on a big stage. It
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: was a Monday night football playoff game and he's he's
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: got Tom Brady on the other side, and you know,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: they went on the road and they went there, and
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: he had one of the greatest games that any quarterbacks
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: ever had in a postseason. I don't I don't know
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: if there's been a I think it's four touchdown pass
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: is in a rushing touchdown and seventy five completion or something.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of little stats involved there, but
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: like nobody's ever done it in the playoffs. So it
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: was one of those type of games and so and
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: it was a big game. You know, I'm not going
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: to sit here and be one of those people that says,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: you know, only the losses were big games. When you win,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: it's not it doesn't matter. That was a huge game,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: and and you know, I think it just at least
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: shows that it shows the Cowboys that he can do it.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: He can do it on a big stage, but he
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: needs some help and he didn't have it in Green Bay.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: And he didn't play well either, so against Green Bay,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: so that you know that just it was a poor
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: effort from everybody. But I think the fact that that
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: he has done it two years ago at least sort
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: of should help a little bit from from the Cowboys
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: standpoint of knowing, you know, if they are paying him
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of money, that you know, their belief that
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: he can still get the job done when it counts.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: All right, Tony in Atlanta, next caller, probably last.
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: Year, Hey, what's up there? Good afternoon, man. How I'm
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: great about yourself?
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Great?
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: Good, good, good good. So this is my fourth time
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: calling for the music for that? Yeah, fourth time, nothing
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: special for that, but I just keep it counting a while.
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: But at any rate, at any rate, So a couple
• 55:16
  Speaker 6: of things. One one comment on this whole all the
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: end piece, uh, you know, with Clarence E. Hill Jr.
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: That gentleman needs to give royalties every time somebody says
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: all in, because being the professional journalist that he is,
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: he is the one used the term all in, and
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: Jerry just took it and ran with it and now
• 55:39
  Speaker 6: it's on fire. So if somebody can get that man
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: a royalty every time all in, it said, let's get it.
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: Let's get that started.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: You play poker?
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: Uh three three card poker?
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I mean that's the thing. I like this quick.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a you know, catchy level term. But
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: let's be honest about it. You go all in, you
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: push your chips to the middle, and it's like I
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: better get this ace on the river or I'm going
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: home and I and I'm done with my money. I'm done.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: This is it. I'm all on this hand. Well that's
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: not that's not what this is. This isn't all in, Okay.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean they're gonna have a hand next year.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, so you know what I'm saying. Late, So
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: it's it's a nice thing to say, but but you know,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: unless they start trading next year's number ones. I said
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: this on Talking Cowboys, you trade next year's number one
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: and you start getting into next year to all go
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: in for right now, that's my definition of all in.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: But just just getting them just you know, drafting someone
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: or making a big trade and all that. I mean,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I think it's next year's one. That's that's the type
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: of all in move. It's not just going to get
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: a running back that that that we've all had on
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: our fantasy team at some point. I don't I don't
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: think it's that.
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: I agree, I agree, I agree, And you know, like
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: you said, I mean, I like the Rams did a
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: few years ago when they started talking about forget them
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: picks and all that type stuff. That's that's kind of
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: closer to all end. But I just don't see us
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: doing things like that. My other thing, right quick, and
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: this is no one's mentioned this, and I don't for
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: this foresee this happening. But what's the likelihood you know,
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: we're all just talk about extending Dak and extend Dak
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: or you know, keep him at fifty nine whatever, what's
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: the likelihood of Dak himself? Actually, you know how these
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: guys do sometimes where their contract discussions going on, maybe
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: not show up at OTA's or maybe not do.
• 57:38
  Speaker 10: This, or not do that.
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: I mean, because I mean his cap number fifty nine,
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: his actual take home pay this year, you know, hadn't
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: changed much. It's about twenty twenty five million or something
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: like that. You know, the cap number is just because
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: of what's happening for the last PEP pushing everything back.
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: But I just wondered, just for the sake of trying
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: to get this contract thing moving, if there's any chance
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: he might do something like that, like not show up
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: or you know. I mean, I know something's a mandatory,
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: but other tea that's not so. I just wonder what
• 58:09
  Speaker 6: your thoughts.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a good question. It really is
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: a good question. Thanks. Thanks for the call, Tony. I
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: think take care to you. You know, a lot of
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: guys do that. This is where this is where it
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: gets difficult because Dak is not like a lot of
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: other guys. I would say, you know, never say never,
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: But this ain't happening like that. Dak's not doing that.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: He's not He's not gonna sit out like that. Now
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: he might do something different. He might you know, not
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: do as many media things or whatever it is. I mean,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: we've seen certain players do something like that when they're
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: wanting a deal. You know, you don't say yes to
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: everything in the organization that they're asking you. You know,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: there's a little things like that, but not practice, because
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they all seem to
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: come back. It's very very rare that like when you
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: when you have a holdout, you know, it's really not
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: a holdout until you start losing money and losing significant money,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: not just not just some fine money, but like game
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: check type money. And that's not going to happen. So
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: every player understands, Yeah, I can balk a little bit,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: but what does it help. Does it really help me
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day to get here late
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: and not and and then now everyone's messed up. The
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: whole offense is not not on you know, on track,
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: we're all out of sync because i was trying to
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: make a stand but now I'm back and I'm down.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to play catch up and the season is
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: about to start. That doesn't help anybody, So it doesn't
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: make sense to do that. He might have his opinions
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: about how things are done, but I don't think it
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: will be at OTA and mini camp and those type
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: of things, and even training camp. I don't see that
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: that happening. That's not the type of person that he is.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: It's not the type of leader that he is. I
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: just I would be very very surprised if that ever happened.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think they'll figure something out, and I
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: think he'll be you know, in good spirits, you know,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: because I think that they want to be competitive this year,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: and the best way to do that is to you know,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: restructure his contract, get these other two guys with, you know,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: with some extensions as well, and then they can get
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: into free agency. That doesn't mean all three guys are
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: going to be done, but I think they'll have a
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: plan in place to be able to do that so
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: this year. So it wouldn't surprise me if you get
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: one of them done, Dak, and maybe another player, and
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: then another one maybe in training camp as well, and
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: really really have some money to function all year long
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: as well. All right, great show, it's been an hour.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: We've had ten calls, good stuff, had a first time caller,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: had some of our veterans called, so really really good stuff.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. We will be on next well just
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: this Thursday, so on February twenty ninth, we will leap
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: into that show should be a lot of fun for
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Chris Beam. I'm Nick Eatman. We'll see you next time
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: on Cowboys storyline.
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