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- 0:22Speaker 1: What is up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It is Draft
- 0:26Speaker 1: week officially Tuesday, April twenty third. Draft is in two days.
- 0:30Speaker 1: We will have a show on Thursday, maybe have some
- 0:32Speaker 1: guests in there as well, looking at a Friday show
- 0:35Speaker 1: as well. So everybody has you kind of ramping it
- 0:39Speaker 1: up a little bit here for a draft week, a
- 0:41Speaker 1: lot of bit actually, because that's what happens. And there's
- 0:44Speaker 1: really been nothing going on until now, so I can't
- 0:48Speaker 1: say there's been a lot going on this week. But
- 0:50Speaker 1: there was a press conference just now, just finished pre
- 0:54Speaker 1: draft press conference. It doesn't ever go on my list
- 0:58Speaker 1: of favorite things to cover, uh, mainly because you know,
- 1:03Speaker 1: nothing officials really going to get said. You can't really
- 1:07Speaker 1: get a gauge one way or another of what they're saying.
- 1:11Speaker 1: But it's something. And it was Jerry and Steven and
- 1:14Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy talking for an hour and you know,
- 1:19Speaker 1: just kind of answering questions from you know, the media
- 1:21Speaker 1: about what, why they haven't done anything? What are they
- 1:24Speaker 1: going to do and these three contracts and how that
- 1:27Speaker 1: they affect everything. But uh, you know, it was it
- 1:29Speaker 1: was interesting. I'll say that. I'm sure if you guys
- 1:32Speaker 1: have some questions, we can talk about it. Uh eight
- 1:34Speaker 1: eight eight eight FI five two two nine seven is
- 1:37Speaker 1: the number to call. And let's just get let's get
- 1:40Speaker 1: it started here. We're already a few minutes late, so
- 1:42Speaker 1: let's get started. Jeff in Salt Lake City, Jeff.
- 1:45Speaker 5: You're up, Hey, hey, Nick?
- 1:47Speaker 3: How you doing.
- 1:48Speaker 1: I'm good? What's up?
- 1:50Speaker 6: Hey?
- 1:50Speaker 5: Good?
- 1:51Speaker 4: Just wanted to start out with a karaoke song. I
- 1:53Speaker 4: really enjoyed doing a simple Man by Lynyrd Skinnyard.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Okay, it's one of my favorites, and.
- 2:00Speaker 4: I just wanted to I just had a comment for
- 2:02Speaker 4: you and then a quick question. So I usually try
- 2:05Speaker 4: to stay away from the quarterback stuff because I'm a
- 2:07Speaker 4: Dak Prescott believer. I know that within the fan base
- 2:11Speaker 4: it's probably split, you know, maybe fifty five to forty
- 2:15Speaker 4: five per se, but I just feel it's kind of
- 2:18Speaker 4: a disservice with what's going on with Dak Prescott. I
- 2:22Speaker 4: know it takes two to tango in regards to getting
- 2:25Speaker 4: a contract extension done, but with it being the draft.
- 2:28Speaker 4: I know a lot of fans would like the kind
- 2:31Speaker 4: of draft a quarterback early, not necessarily this year, but
- 2:36Speaker 4: you know, just kind of see how the future plays out.
- 2:39Speaker 4: I heard something interesting on the radio this morning. All
- 2:43Speaker 4: of the quarterbacks within the twenty twenty one draft, with
- 2:46Speaker 4: the exception of Lawrence from Jacksonville, have now been traded.
- 2:50Speaker 4: Same thing with the twenty twenty two draft. The top
- 2:53Speaker 4: the first round pick picket has been traded, So it's
- 2:57Speaker 4: a catch twenty two. I was you know, I went
- 3:00Speaker 4: through the early two thousands in QB purgatory, and I
- 3:04Speaker 4: don't really want to go through that again. So I
- 3:07Speaker 4: just think the world of Dak Prescott. So just my
- 3:10Speaker 4: thoughts on that quick question for you though. Listening to
- 3:13Speaker 4: the other podcasts, Isaiah Stanback on Talking Cowboys mentioned that
- 3:19Speaker 4: he believes and what he's heard is the Cowboys with
- 3:24Speaker 4: Mike Zimmer maybe going more towards a three four.
- 3:26Speaker 6: Base And I don't know.
- 3:30Speaker 4: I know the schemes nowadays were multiple, but wasn't. Zimmer
- 3:36Speaker 4: was kind of primarily a four to three guy and
- 3:38Speaker 4: then he learned the three four under Bill Parcells. I
- 3:41Speaker 4: don't necessarily feel that we have the personnel to run
- 3:44Speaker 4: a three to four, especially on the D line. You know,
- 3:46Speaker 4: Michael Parsons can play that outside linebacker role, but I
- 3:49Speaker 4: don't know necessarily about dropping d Law back to that
- 3:52Speaker 4: other outside linebacker. I don't feel we got big enough linebackers,
- 3:56Speaker 4: and especially on the D line. What's your thoughts on that, Nick,
- 3:59Speaker 4: And I'll hang up and listen to you, and once again,
- 4:02Speaker 4: I appreciate you taking my call, and you have a
- 4:04Speaker 4: good day.
- 4:04Speaker 1: All right, Thank you, Jeff, appreciate the call. Yeah, I
- 4:08Speaker 1: mean that what you said about quarterbacks is interesting, and
- 4:12Speaker 1: that's that's the thing. I've kind of said something along
- 4:15Speaker 1: those lines the last few weeks that I just don't
- 4:17Speaker 1: feel like you have to just go take a quarterback
- 4:20Speaker 1: because these are the best ones in the bunch. That
- 4:23Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they're that they're going to be, you know,
- 4:26Speaker 1: these generational type quarterbacks just because they're the ones I'm
- 4:30Speaker 1: looking at them right now on NFL Network and the
- 4:32Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, Jaydon Daniels, Drake May. I mean, I wouldn't
- 4:37Speaker 1: trade up to take any of those guys, honestly, But
- 4:40Speaker 1: I'm not to say there's not difference making quarterbacks but
- 4:44Speaker 1: I you know, I didn't. I didn't love the Trey
- 4:46Speaker 1: Lance pick you know that San Francisco did, or Mac
- 4:50Speaker 1: Jones or Daniel Jones, and you know, I think I
- 4:53Speaker 1: think people are afraid to not have a quarterback, so
- 4:56Speaker 1: they go and they jump in and they try to
- 4:57Speaker 1: get one. But yeah, those stats show that they didn't
- 5:00Speaker 1: always work out. As for three four four three. I
- 5:03Speaker 1: actually saw Mike Zimmer this morning talk to him for
- 5:06Speaker 1: a little bit, uh, very very briefly. We were just
- 5:09Speaker 1: talking about the fact that I was like, I've written
- 5:13Speaker 1: some articles where I, you know, where I say I
- 5:15Speaker 1: nobody really knows where these guys are going to line
- 5:18Speaker 1: up in this new scheme, and he kind of laughed.
- 5:20Speaker 1: He said that that's good. But but he said, you know,
- 5:23Speaker 1: we'll we'll find out a lot more about what these
- 5:26Speaker 1: guys can do when they do get on the field
- 5:27Speaker 1: for OTAs and in rookie Mini camp or in and
- 5:31Speaker 1: of course the regular mini camp as well. So I
- 5:35Speaker 1: don't know if if if he even knows just yet
- 5:38Speaker 1: exactly how they're going to play, and if they do
- 5:42Speaker 1: go to a three four, which I don't think they
- 5:46Speaker 1: would like a full time I think he would just
- 5:48Speaker 1: have some variations of it. And within within the game,
- 5:53Speaker 1: you know you would need you would need some big
- 5:55Speaker 1: guys up front. You know, you definitely need a nose
- 5:58Speaker 1: tackle type. Don't really have that just yet. The outside linebackers, Yeah,
- 6:05Speaker 1: Maka could do that. But but aside from that, I
- 6:08Speaker 1: guess Sam Williams maybe is that other rusher type outside linebacker.
- 6:12Speaker 1: I mean, he could do that. You know, you've got
- 6:15Speaker 1: versatile players like a Chauncey Golston who would probably be
- 6:19Speaker 1: your your defensive end in that linebackers. Yeah, Clark and
- 6:24Speaker 1: Kendricks are maybe not big enough for just the two
- 6:26Speaker 1: inside guys. But I've also seen this team. It's been
- 6:30Speaker 1: a while, but I've seen this team change into a
- 6:32Speaker 1: three four with basically one draft. So but they were
- 6:36Speaker 1: focused more on the on the defense there, and I
- 6:38Speaker 1: don't know if they will just be committed to that
- 6:40Speaker 1: all the way because they do have needs on the
- 6:42Speaker 1: other side of the line on offense. So I would
- 6:45Speaker 1: think it's for three with maybe some three four principles,
- 6:48Speaker 1: but maybe Isaiah is here and some more of that.
- 6:51Speaker 1: I don't know. All right, let's go to Dylan Northport, Florida.
- 6:56Speaker 1: How's it going how you doing.
- 6:58Speaker 7: Yeah, man, get recovering from that Disney trip. You're right, man,
- 7:01Speaker 7: it's not easy on the wallet. I'll tell you what.
- 7:04Speaker 7: It's something. Yeah, yeah. I just want to talk about
- 7:10Speaker 7: this offseason and kind of the draft here a little bit.
- 7:12Speaker 7: So I think a lot of the negativity this off
- 7:17Speaker 7: season comes from the ending in Green Bay. I think
- 7:19Speaker 7: that if they punched up and maybe had a better
- 7:22Speaker 7: end to the season, I don't think people view this
- 7:25Speaker 7: offseason that's such a massive failure. Fans are kind of
- 7:29Speaker 7: losing their hats over Cherry's all in comments and the
- 7:32Speaker 7: players that we've lost without replacing anybody. And I really
- 7:36Speaker 7: think heading into the draft, I think the Cowboys have
- 7:39Speaker 7: a chance to flip kind of the perspective of this
- 7:43Speaker 7: offseason because if you look at their roster, they're just
- 7:47Speaker 7: missing a few depth pieces. They're missing a few key
- 7:49Speaker 7: pieces on the offensive line, you tackle, linebacker, running back,
- 7:52Speaker 7: but all of those look like there's a really good
- 7:55Speaker 7: chance that they get a dressed not only a dress
- 7:58Speaker 7: in the draft, but addressed with guys that are at
- 7:59Speaker 7: the top of their perspective positions like center, running back.
- 8:06Speaker 7: There's not a loggi tackles, but there's some good guys
- 8:09Speaker 7: later in the draft that you can probably get and
- 8:10Speaker 7: plug in and the interior. So if the Cowboys move
- 8:14Speaker 7: back in the first round, pick up maybe a third
- 8:16Speaker 7: or a fourth or maybe both. If they move back
- 8:18Speaker 7: far enough, they may still grab a center and have
- 8:20Speaker 7: enough picks, enough capital to go and replenish everything. And
- 8:24Speaker 7: if this draft class can perform, I mean, this could
- 8:26Speaker 7: be a very successful season still. So I think there's
- 8:29Speaker 7: a good chance that I could splip here this weekend
- 8:32Speaker 7: and are you guys doing a show on Friday on
- 8:34Speaker 7: US for storyline?
- 8:35Speaker 2: And then we talked about that.
- 8:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we are. That's the plan. We're going
- 8:39Speaker 1: to try to do one in the afternoon. We don't
- 8:41Speaker 1: have a time set up just yet because I would
- 8:43Speaker 1: like to have the guests be the first round draft pick.
- 8:48Speaker 1: That's that might be a pipe dream. Oh, but that's
- 8:51Speaker 1: that's it's been I don't even know if i'd like
- 8:53Speaker 1: to say in the works, it's been discussed and hasn't
- 8:56Speaker 1: been shot down. We'll see, you know, but.
- 9:00Speaker 7: That would be really cool.
- 9:01Speaker 2: That would be cool.
- 9:02Speaker 1: We'll definitely do a show on Friday. I want to
- 9:04Speaker 1: hear from you guys on on the only thing that's
- 9:06Speaker 1: really happened this offseason. And of course I say that
- 9:09Speaker 1: knowing or not knowing if they're even going to draft
- 9:11Speaker 1: a pick. Who knows. If they may they may not.
- 9:15Speaker 1: But either way, we are planning on having a show
- 9:18Speaker 1: on Friday. We'll see who's who's next to me on
- 9:22Speaker 1: it as well.
- 9:23Speaker 7: Have you guys if you do something like that. I
- 9:25Speaker 7: don't know if you if you flowd this or not
- 9:26Speaker 7: to anybody, but the having like a there's like a
- 9:29Speaker 7: chat feature on Twitter, having that, you know, on the
- 9:32Speaker 7: live video, I think that would be kind of cool
- 9:33Speaker 7: when you take questions right from there as well, instead
- 9:35Speaker 7: of having to rely on the text and stuff. Just
- 9:38Speaker 7: the thoughts and I'll think about we'll talk that talking
- 9:40Speaker 7: Irene about it.
- 9:41Speaker 1: There's good and bad with those, you know, like like
- 9:44Speaker 1: like I get it, like you're right, I mean like
- 9:47Speaker 1: we've I forgot what what platform there is where we've
- 9:51Speaker 1: done that and you see it and you see questions,
- 9:53Speaker 1: but they're not always hey, hey Nick, what do you
- 9:56Speaker 1: think about this? It's you know, yeah, all.
- 10:00Speaker 7: Right, Twitter is a wild place.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Thanks you see ye yeah.
- 10:03Speaker 1: I do good stuff, all right, good stuff there, you know,
- 10:09Speaker 1: let's uh let's keep let me go on a text
- 10:11Speaker 1: message question there, Chris from New York, in the spirit
- 10:14Speaker 1: of the draft week, I have two questions. Is there
- 10:16Speaker 1: a position of need that isn't being talked about that
- 10:19Speaker 1: could be addressed early in the draft. And is there
- 10:21Speaker 1: a scenario or move that the Cowboys could make that
- 10:24Speaker 1: that you'd find shocking. I'd be shocked if they moved up,
- 10:29Speaker 1: because I just you know, you're you're at twenty four.
- 10:32Speaker 1: I mean, how far are you going to go? And
- 10:34Speaker 1: if you went just a few picks up, you still
- 10:37Speaker 1: have to lose some some draft capital that I don't
- 10:40Speaker 1: think that they really want to do. So it seems
- 10:42Speaker 1: like it would be shocking for me if they went
- 10:45Speaker 1: up and then a position of need that isn't being
- 10:49Speaker 1: talked about that could be addressed early. I mean, if
- 10:54Speaker 1: they just if they loved a cornerback, I could I
- 10:58Speaker 1: could see that maybe as a need. I mean, yeah,
- 11:03Speaker 1: you can't ever have enough. And the first person that
- 11:06Speaker 1: told me that way back fifteen twenty years ago was
- 11:10Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer. I remember him saying that you absolutely can
- 11:13Speaker 1: never have enough. If you think you have five good ones,
- 11:15Speaker 1: you should try to get a sixth one because it always,
- 11:18Speaker 1: you know, they get injured. You can't ever have enough.
- 11:21Speaker 1: And you know, with dron Bland and Diggs under contract
- 11:24Speaker 1: here for a little bit still, I would wouldn't surprise me.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Receiver would be interesting. You know, Cook Cooks is the
- 11:32Speaker 1: last year of his deal. Who knows about c SO
- 11:34Speaker 1: is CD now, But receiver would be one that would
- 11:40Speaker 1: be interesting because it would have to be somebody like
- 11:42Speaker 1: a you know, like a Brian Thomas or somebody from
- 11:45Speaker 1: LSU that they that they liked, or if you're worthy,
- 11:49Speaker 1: or somebody like that. But I still think you just
- 11:52Speaker 1: got so many more needs. I just can't imagine that happening.
- 11:56Speaker 1: All right. Ronnie in New Jersey is next.
- 12:00Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, Nick running.
- 12:02Speaker 1: What's up? Man?
- 12:03Speaker 2: Not too much? Not too bad. I'm waiting for the draft,
- 12:06Speaker 2: and Nick, I hope, I really hope it is not
- 12:09Speaker 2: a wide receiver or a cornerback.
- 12:11Speaker 1: I know I don't want that, but I want that either.
- 12:15Speaker 1: But I mean, it would have to be somebody that
- 12:17Speaker 1: just fell right to them. They're like, man, this is
- 12:20Speaker 1: too good to pass up. But I don't even see
- 12:22Speaker 1: that scenario happening.
- 12:24Speaker 2: And I hope not. I hope somebody does if they fall,
- 12:27Speaker 2: If somebody like that falls to them, I hope we
- 12:30Speaker 2: could pick up a second round pick for that player,
- 12:33Speaker 2: like you know, drop back and pick up an extra second,
- 12:36Speaker 2: not up third. Like I heard, how.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Far do you want to drop back? I mean, like
- 12:42Speaker 1: everyone loves to say twenty nine or thirty that keeps
- 12:44Speaker 1: them drafting on Thursday night. But what if it's thirty
- 12:48Speaker 1: six and you're not picking until Friday night? You cool
- 12:51Speaker 1: with that.
- 12:54Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind going to the top pick of the
- 12:57Speaker 2: third second round, first pick of the second round, where
- 13:00Speaker 2: a second pick of the second round that far, no
- 13:04Speaker 2: further than that, because you can still pick up you
- 13:06Speaker 2: can still like let's say you drop back to the
- 13:08Speaker 2: top of the second round, you can still probably pick
- 13:10Speaker 2: up not one of the You're not gonna get one
- 13:13Speaker 2: of the best tackles anyways where you're at. So and
- 13:17Speaker 2: I don't know why everybody's uh soul in love with
- 13:20Speaker 2: drafting a tackle. You know, I hear this deep you
- 13:23Speaker 2: know whatever, the tackle pass. But I don't think we
- 13:26Speaker 2: need a tackle. I want to see the young guys, like,
- 13:28Speaker 2: come on, one of these guys got it. We drafted
- 13:31Speaker 2: three tackles in the past two three years, one of
- 13:35Speaker 2: these guys gotta be you know something like one of
- 13:38Speaker 2: these guys. You don't need an all star offensive line
- 13:41Speaker 2: to to be productives that you need a great center.
- 13:45Speaker 2: I keep on calling you, I know, I keep on mentioning.
- 13:48Speaker 2: I want a big center, a big athletic center, and
- 13:51Speaker 2: a big defensive tackle, a nose tackle. I don't like
- 13:57Speaker 2: this guy, Mashie Smith. He's coming back now from the
- 14:01Speaker 2: shoulder injury. Who knows how long it's going to take
- 14:04Speaker 2: them to get back. If we pick up I'll be
- 14:07Speaker 2: happy if they pick up a nice, big center and
- 14:12Speaker 2: and a nose tackle. Well, first and second linebacker, whatever
- 14:16Speaker 2: throw after that, whatever you want to get, Well, they
- 14:20Speaker 2: need a center, yeah, everything.
- 14:22Speaker 1: All right, all right, Ronnie, appreciate the call. I have
- 14:25Speaker 1: a feeling I know where you where you think the
- 14:27Speaker 1: team should be built right down the center, right down
- 14:31Speaker 1: the middle there, center, defensive tackle, linebacker, maybe a running back, quarterback, whatever.
- 14:37Speaker 1: That's that's where the center of it all. And there's
- 14:41Speaker 1: some people that believe that believe that philosophy inside out,
- 14:44Speaker 1: you know, that's how you build your team the whole. Like,
- 14:50Speaker 1: don't need a left tackle. I don't I don't know
- 14:53Speaker 1: about don't need one. You you've had one for fourteen years?
- 14:57Speaker 1: Is that right? Thirteen seasons? Maybe entire Aaron Smith's been
- 15:00Speaker 1: banged up, and but when he's out there, he's been
- 15:03Speaker 1: he's been great. And I think it's a valued position.
- 15:08Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean it's I don't I don't say
- 15:12Speaker 1: it's head and shoulders above the center position, but I
- 15:15Speaker 1: do think it's not to be. I'm not interested in
- 15:19Speaker 1: just awesome Richard's, Matt Willsco, Josh Ball, just like go
- 15:23Speaker 1: figure it out. I'm not if I miss someone. I
- 15:28Speaker 1: mean there's probably a reason for that, I guess. I mean,
- 15:31Speaker 1: they're sure there's somebody else in the in the mix there.
- 15:33Speaker 1: But I kind of, I kind of would be okay
- 15:36Speaker 1: drafting one. You know, give me one that's played played
- 15:39Speaker 1: a lot, maybe can play some guard as well. But no,
- 15:42Speaker 1: I'd be fine with with with taking I mean, there's
- 15:45Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot of really good tackles
- 15:47Speaker 1: that are worthy of the pick. So I would be
- 15:50Speaker 1: fine with that. And I'm okay if they trade back,
- 15:53Speaker 1: even if it's in the second round. I mean, that
- 15:55Speaker 1: wouldn't be fun for Thursday night. But if it has
- 15:57Speaker 1: to happen. Then you know you're you're gonna get them.
- 16:00Speaker 1: You're going to probably get another second or third maybe
- 16:02Speaker 1: next year or whatever. You're you're gonna you know you're
- 16:05Speaker 1: going to get some pretty good, you know, picks for
- 16:09Speaker 1: that if you trade back. But ideally, you know you
- 16:12Speaker 1: you you pick it twenty four and if not, then
- 16:15Speaker 1: you know you can move back a few spots. I
- 16:17Speaker 1: just don't know what player will be there that somebody
- 16:20Speaker 1: would want. If it's a quarterback, that will make sense.
- 16:24Speaker 1: It will make sense. If a quarterback is still on
- 16:25Speaker 1: the board at twenty four, somebody who might want to
- 16:27Speaker 1: come get them. All right, Tim in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
- 16:33Speaker 3: How you doing good man?
- 16:34Speaker 1: How are you doing?
- 16:35Speaker 3: I'm doing good. Just want to give my opinion on
- 16:40Speaker 3: what I think we should do in the draft. And
- 16:46Speaker 3: when we played the forty nine ers the last few years,
- 16:49Speaker 3: I feel like they were playing what I call tackle
- 16:53Speaker 3: football and we were playing flag. We really I think
- 16:58Speaker 3: we need to get bigger and stronger, especially in the middle.
- 17:05Speaker 3: I think I think, yeah, we do need to address
- 17:09Speaker 3: our old line, but I think we need to spend
- 17:12Speaker 3: the rest of our draft capital on maybe a one
- 17:15Speaker 3: technique linebacker and just get bigger, stronger and more physical
- 17:21Speaker 3: in the middle of our defense. I think that's been
- 17:25Speaker 3: our weakness, especially when we go against teams like the
- 17:29Speaker 3: forty nine Ers, which pretty much right now is the
- 17:33Speaker 3: goal standard in the NFC. Yeah, what are you what
- 17:38Speaker 3: is your opinion?
- 17:39Speaker 1: Well, I think you're not wrong with with with that.
- 17:44Speaker 1: We got to stop the run. I mean that's the
- 17:45Speaker 1: thing that's the gott to be the focus is stopping
- 17:48Speaker 1: stopping the run. And it's been the difference this last
- 17:52Speaker 1: playoff loss against the Packers and then the one before. Uh,
- 17:56Speaker 1: the playoff football is different. Everything is a little bit
- 17:59Speaker 1: more condensed. It's tougher, the weather is not always perfect.
- 18:02Speaker 1: Sometimes it isn't if you're playing indoors. But you know,
- 18:05Speaker 1: you've got to be able to run the ball. And
- 18:08Speaker 1: the Cowboys kind of get, you know, they've gotten away
- 18:11Speaker 1: from it and they get you know, they get they
- 18:13Speaker 1: get away with it, but they don't run the ball
- 18:16Speaker 1: when they really need to. And that's always been the key.
- 18:19Speaker 1: It's third and two and you and at midfield and
- 18:22Speaker 1: you know you've got to run it. Can you get
- 18:25Speaker 1: those yards? And you know, last couple of years Mike
- 18:27Speaker 1: McCarthy doesn't even seem to have the confidence that they
- 18:30Speaker 1: can pick up those yards because they're throwing the ball
- 18:33Speaker 1: and and you know, and and doing all that when
- 18:35Speaker 1: when they should be running out the clock. So yeah, running,
- 18:39Speaker 1: running the ball and stop of the run. I mean,
- 18:41Speaker 1: those are the two basic things of football on any level,
- 18:44Speaker 1: and they still they play the Cowboys.
- 18:47Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And I expressed my opinion last week going
- 18:53Speaker 3: Dak Prescott. I'm not understanding why, you know, he's everybody
- 18:59Speaker 3: wants to pound no deck, you know, as those that
- 19:02Speaker 3: plays defense. A lot of our losses is not had
- 19:07Speaker 3: not necessarily been because he failed us, the defense failed us.
- 19:12Speaker 3: And I just don't I remember the years where we
- 19:16Speaker 3: didn't have a quarterback. You've got to have a quarterback,
- 19:20Speaker 3: you know, and it doesn't have to be Patrick Mahomes.
- 19:22Speaker 3: But everybody's not Mahomes.
- 19:24Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody is. Yeah, you're right, he's the best. He's
- 19:28Speaker 1: the best, and I think everybody else's is kind of
- 19:30Speaker 1: in the same voat, you know, behind him. But I
- 19:34Speaker 1: think the problem is it's just it's it always comes
- 19:36Speaker 1: down to the money. You know, when you get paid
- 19:39Speaker 1: a certain amount, then now the expectations go up and
- 19:43Speaker 1: knowing that that's a really big piece of the pie
- 19:46Speaker 1: that you're taking, so you can't go and get a
- 19:49Speaker 1: lot of help around him. So you're relying even more
- 19:51Speaker 1: on the quarterback to go win the game, even when
- 19:53Speaker 1: the defense isn't playing well, go win the game. And
- 19:56Speaker 1: there's been times Dok has done that. There's times that
- 19:59Speaker 1: he hasn't. So uh you know, that's that's that's the
- 20:02Speaker 1: oldest you know thing in the book, right there, the
- 20:04Speaker 1: quarterback making a lot of money and a lot of
- 20:07Speaker 1: pressure that falls right on him.
- 20:10Speaker 3: Yes, all right, okay, thanks, good.
- 20:14Speaker 1: Good call there. That's the second time I believe he's called.
- 20:17Speaker 1: So let's go. Irene in Virginia. Haven't heard from her
- 20:20Speaker 1: in a while. Irene, what's up?
- 20:22Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, I am all injured reserve.
- 20:25Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm back.
- 20:27Speaker 8: I'm back now. I wasn't actually injured, just my pride in.
- 20:31Speaker 1: Okay yeah yeah, feelings, feelings were hurt. Now now we're back. Yeah,
- 20:36Speaker 1: it's we're back. It's a vicious cycle.
- 20:39Speaker 8: I shouldn't say all in just take that away.
- 20:41Speaker 1: So well, you know, Jerry, Jerry said it like six
- 20:44Speaker 1: times in the in the in the press office today, I.
- 20:47Speaker 8: Saw he's treading on Twitter. I'm like, this is gonna
- 20:49Speaker 8: be a different show. I haven't been able to listen
- 20:51Speaker 8: in because I think I got to JP Lattisaur's number
- 20:54Speaker 8: on attempts to call. But anyway, so give me a
- 20:59Speaker 8: minute caption so I will say this. So I'm going
- 21:02Speaker 8: to scroll back to the to the Miami game that
- 21:06Speaker 8: I was texting or tweeting with Dylan and I was like,
- 21:10Speaker 8: our analogy on the roller coaster. I feel like I
- 21:14Speaker 8: were about to get to the loop and I just
- 21:16Speaker 8: realized that the harness might not be working. And then
- 21:21Speaker 8: and he was like, no, no, it can all look up.
- 21:23Speaker 8: I'm like I and I gave that feeling.
- 21:25Speaker 9: Up because he was right.
- 21:26Speaker 8: We like it all came to be and we were
- 21:29Speaker 8: second seed, called the advantage. And I think that's why
- 21:32Speaker 8: it particularly gutted me, because my practical side said after Miami,
- 21:36Speaker 8: this season's gonna end the way they happen, and then
- 21:40Speaker 8: I bought it and we all did. So anyway, it.
- 21:43Speaker 6: Took me a while this time.
- 21:44Speaker 8: Sometimes it's a couple of weeks. I'm like, oh, whatever,
- 21:47Speaker 8: this one, this one gutted me. But anyway, thank you
- 21:51Speaker 8: for the second team. Honors for the All Storyline team.
- 21:55Speaker 8: Now I can tell people that Darren Woodson, Mat Newton
- 21:58Speaker 8: and I are on a team together, right right, Maybe
- 22:01Speaker 8: Jerry can get us the Ring of Honor at the
- 22:03Speaker 8: same time. I don't know. And then yeah, let's see
- 22:09Speaker 8: Sebastians appreciate the shout out, especially for a first teamer.
- 22:13Speaker 8: I am not the first female caller. I think there
- 22:16Speaker 8: was a Rebecca or something in Washington State, and then
- 22:20Speaker 8: before me, there was also someone on the Eastern Shore.
- 22:24Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been a few, there's been some Yeah, somebody
- 22:27Speaker 1: somebody called from Detective Woodson. I got a chance to
- 22:30Speaker 1: talk to Darren Woodson. I don't know if I've ever
- 22:32Speaker 1: heard of her callback, but yeah, we have somebody from
- 22:36Speaker 1: I would call last week. I mean she was ready,
- 22:39Speaker 1: she was.
- 22:39Speaker 8: Like camera's coming coming.
- 22:41Speaker 1: Yeah, she was like, I want to be on the team.
- 22:43Speaker 1: So yeah, good for her man.
- 22:46Speaker 8: I mean, I'm glad that I've picked up the batons
- 22:48Speaker 8: of the female but it would be nice to hear
- 22:50Speaker 8: a few more. Yeah, but there's a topic I wanted
- 22:53Speaker 8: to bring up. I'm actually to say it for next week.
- 22:55Speaker 8: This is the draft, and I know the pressure was,
- 22:57Speaker 8: like I said, trending on Twitter. So I'll leave it
- 23:00Speaker 8: at that. But for as far as the draft goes,
- 23:03Speaker 8: I think there's not really anyone who excites me enough
- 23:07Speaker 8: to say put at twenty four unless somebody falls like
- 23:10Speaker 8: I'd take Suaga or I don't know if I'm the
- 23:13Speaker 8: sold on the Graham Barton thing as everyone else on
- 23:15Speaker 8: the Draft show seems to be, but I think I
- 23:17Speaker 8: would be fine with it. They seem excited about them. Yeah,
- 23:21Speaker 8: But I think for me, if we trade back and
- 23:25Speaker 8: get JPJ or Suamataya, I think I'm happy enough with
- 23:30Speaker 8: that and then work. One thing I don't want that
- 23:33Speaker 8: I think is definitely going to happen is the hurt
- 23:36Speaker 8: running back in round two. Nothing against him. I would
- 23:41Speaker 8: like him if he could slip to round three. But
- 23:43Speaker 8: I think there's enough depth at running back that we
- 23:46Speaker 8: don't need to be playing.
- 23:47Speaker 1: Around with that.
- 23:48Speaker 8: But you know, maybe if we trade back and get
- 23:50Speaker 8: an extra pick, it it feels better.
- 23:53Speaker 1: So I'll leave it that.
- 23:55Speaker 8: I had to catch up with a lot of things.
- 23:57Speaker 8: It's good to hear from me or talk to you.
- 23:58Speaker 10: All right, good stuff, thank you, I mean good, you
- 24:04Speaker 10: know the Jonathan Brooks, I mean that one seems like
- 24:07Speaker 10: it just makes too much sense.
- 24:09Speaker 1: The second round running back banged up. I'm usually the
- 24:15Speaker 1: only thing about taking those injured players or off the
- 24:19Speaker 1: field issues or whatever it is in the second round
- 24:21Speaker 1: is I would like for them to be first round talent.
- 24:25Speaker 1: I mean, you take the talented player, there's something wrong
- 24:30Speaker 1: with them temporarily or whatever, but but you're you're trying
- 24:35Speaker 1: to get value out of him. And I don't think
- 24:38Speaker 1: from what I've heard that Jonathan Brooks would he have
- 24:41Speaker 1: been a first rounder. I mean that, you know, it
- 24:43Speaker 1: doesn't matter now because he's he did get banged up,
- 24:46Speaker 1: but I haven't really heard that on a consistent level
- 24:49Speaker 1: that he would have been a first round pick. So
- 24:53Speaker 1: taking him in the second round, I mean, you know
- 24:55Speaker 1: that he's banged up. You know he'll the middle of
- 24:59Speaker 1: the year injury. He should be ready at at some point.
- 25:03Speaker 1: You know, if if there's somebody just as good, then
- 25:06Speaker 1: I'd probably take that guy, you know, but if if
- 25:09Speaker 1: if it's equal. But I do like the way he runs.
- 25:11Speaker 1: I like him, and you know, maybe adding Royce Freeman
- 25:17Speaker 1: and and who knows that they could be maybe add
- 25:19Speaker 1: another veteran, but but that might be a situation too,
- 25:23Speaker 1: to say, all right, you know you've got some more
- 25:25Speaker 1: firepower here, and we don't have this second round running
- 25:28Speaker 1: back or whoever it is doesn't have to step right
- 25:31Speaker 1: in uh immediately that that could be the call there.
- 25:34Speaker 1: But as for the ask for like taking the first round,
- 25:40Speaker 1: I'm fine with the center. I'm fine with that. If
- 25:42Speaker 1: that's who it is. If it's if it's Graham Barton
- 25:44Speaker 1: and and that's where he's gonna play, I'm fine with it.
- 25:47Speaker 1: I'd be fine with drafting offensive offensive line in the
- 25:51Speaker 1: first two three rounds. If you gave me three offensive
- 25:54Speaker 1: linemen to start the draft, I'd be fine. I don't
- 25:58Speaker 1: know if if you if you guys would be uh,
- 26:01Speaker 1: you know, or Mike Zimmer who probably wants a little
- 26:02Speaker 1: defensive help. But I'll be fine with that. You know,
- 26:05Speaker 1: it's not just drafted for this year, drafted for next
- 26:07Speaker 1: year as well. You know, you don't have a center
- 26:09Speaker 1: right now, really, you don't have a left tackle. I
- 26:13Speaker 1: don't think Zach Martin will be on the team next year,
- 26:16Speaker 1: or or they're gonna have to do some some reworking
- 26:18Speaker 1: in a contract if that, if that happens, so I
- 26:21Speaker 1: mean maybe, but I mean, you've got some pieces to
- 26:25Speaker 1: fill here, So I mean I'm fine with offensive line
- 26:28Speaker 1: early and even you know, throughout the draft. All right,
- 26:31Speaker 1: Ali in Florida is next. Ali?
- 26:35Speaker 6: Hello, lest man, how are you?
- 26:38Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you doing? Always made me turn
- 26:40Speaker 1: my volume down?
- 26:40Speaker 3: Man?
- 26:41Speaker 1: Could you hear it? You got you? Always bring the energy?
- 26:44Speaker 1: What's going on?
- 26:45Speaker 6: I just got home. I tried. I was in Amsterdam
- 26:48Speaker 6: for three weeks, two and a half. I'll try to
- 26:51Speaker 6: call you from there, but I couldn't get through. That
- 26:55Speaker 6: had stolen stuff. So anyways, but I've got a couple
- 26:57Speaker 6: of teams. First of all, my favorite podcast is the Storyline,
- 27:06Speaker 6: just because of you and Chris and I don't. I
- 27:09Speaker 6: just want you to know, yeah, yeah, but I love
- 27:15Speaker 6: the metrics on yours. I never call any other podcast
- 27:20Speaker 6: or any other radio show my loyalty. If you're the
- 27:24Speaker 6: first program I ever considered to call it. Number one
- 27:28Speaker 6: you because I love your demeanor. You are such a gentleman.
- 27:32Speaker 6: You treat the cowboy nations so awesome. Number one. Second, uh,
- 27:38Speaker 6: guy movie for you? Since you didn't watch The Gladiator,
- 27:43Speaker 6: I got another one. It's a Raging Ball with the
- 27:48Speaker 6: Robert de Niro so I'm with you. I would love,
- 27:54Speaker 6: first of all, for Cowboys Nation relax. I guarantee be
- 27:58Speaker 6: gonna have a fourth round draft pick. Jerry is too
- 28:02Speaker 6: hyper to just sit there and a four roundn't don't
- 28:05Speaker 6: have anything, That's what's sure. Having said that, I would
- 28:12Speaker 6: like to see either the trade towards the end of
- 28:16Speaker 6: the first round or straight with Carolina. They have two
- 28:23Speaker 6: a second round, but number thirty three, and I believe
- 28:27Speaker 6: is a few ones down there. So what I'm trying
- 28:30Speaker 6: to achieve to get three second round draft picks. Two
- 28:35Speaker 6: from Carolina we have plus we have one on on
- 28:39Speaker 6: On is a center, Zach Fraser. He's nasty and ye
- 28:48Speaker 6: had a little bit of easy, but it's good. I'd
- 28:50Speaker 6: like to see him, and I'm with you tackle and center,
- 28:56Speaker 6: either running back and be good on the second round.
- 29:02Speaker 6: Then the last thing I just thought about. I know
- 29:07Speaker 6: Jason Garrett, I know the family. I know Todd Garrett,
- 29:12Speaker 6: I know the father, and I give couple weddings for them.
- 29:17Speaker 6: But I remember I had a conversation we talked Garrett
- 29:21Speaker 6: about they do in charge of pro personnel, they get
- 29:26Speaker 6: the veteran player of all the teams. I think this today,
- 29:30Speaker 6: I believe is the Alex Loomis, and I think he
- 29:35Speaker 6: is gonna play a key important role if the Cowboys
- 29:38Speaker 6: don't fill up the players they want. He's gonna watch
- 29:43Speaker 6: who's gonna draft in the first round and which player
- 29:47Speaker 6: are gonna be expandable, and I think they're gonna fill
- 29:51Speaker 6: up the gap between both veteran players that either June
- 29:55Speaker 6: posumes the casualty or whatever. So he's gonna play a
- 30:00Speaker 6: very important role to hopefully we can set it off.
- 30:04Speaker 6: And I love you, brother, thank you very much. Say
- 30:07Speaker 6: hello to everybody, a good conversation. Hopefully I have a
- 30:10Speaker 6: great draft.
- 30:10Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, I appreciate that A lot of
- 30:13Speaker 1: stuff packed into that call. Allie. Yeah, Frasier from West
- 30:19Speaker 1: Virginia is getting a little bit of a pub there too.
- 30:22Speaker 1: That's probably a trade back thing, you know, Carolina has
- 30:25Speaker 1: to say in their draft picks too, you know. I mean,
- 30:29Speaker 1: you have two second rounders. It doesn't mean you have
- 30:31Speaker 1: to trade up, you know, And that's something and I
- 30:34Speaker 1: know fans know this, but but I think it has
- 30:36Speaker 1: to be reiterated sometimes. You know, you like, just trade
- 30:38Speaker 1: back with who for what? You know, what are you getting?
- 30:42Speaker 1: If the phone isn't ringing, and nobody's trying to get
- 30:46Speaker 1: your twenty fourth pick. And so then you pick up
- 30:49Speaker 1: the phone and you say, hey, you want this pick.
- 30:52Speaker 1: What do you think what do you think they're going
- 30:54Speaker 1: to be asking for and the other end like, okay,
- 30:56Speaker 1: we'll do it for a third that you know, if
- 31:00Speaker 1: they didn't call you then then it's not going to
- 31:02Speaker 1: be a great, great deal. So just because they don't
- 31:06Speaker 1: love the players there, yeah, they're going to be trying
- 31:08Speaker 1: to move out. I really believe that they'll try to
- 31:10Speaker 1: do that, But that doesn't necessarily mean that there's a
- 31:13Speaker 1: player there that someone else is trying to jump up for,
- 31:16Speaker 1: and it may not make sense for them to move back.
- 31:20Speaker 1: You know, we might move back ten spots and not
- 31:21Speaker 1: get what you want. There's a lot of people that
- 31:23Speaker 1: thought back in twenty thirteen, Cowboys went from I believe
- 31:26Speaker 1: nineteen to thirty two and they picked up a third
- 31:32Speaker 1: and maybe maybe a later pick, a fifth round pick,
- 31:34Speaker 1: But there were a lot of people that didn't think
- 31:36Speaker 1: they got enough out of the deal. They picked Travis
- 31:39Speaker 1: Frederick with that thirty second pick, and they ended up
- 31:41Speaker 1: getting Terrence Williams in the third round. So it kind
- 31:45Speaker 1: of worked out. But I'm just saying it. Just because
- 31:48Speaker 1: you want to trade up or down doesn't mean you
- 31:50Speaker 1: have somebody that is willing to do it and willing
- 31:53Speaker 1: to do it at the right price. All right, let's
- 31:55Speaker 1: go to Michael and Bowling Green.
- 31:58Speaker 5: Right, it's great to be on the number one cowboys
- 32:01Speaker 5: podcast in America.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Wow. I don't know about that.
- 32:05Speaker 5: But uh yeah, yeah, well, hey.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Numbers don't lie. But we're hey, we're moving up. There's
- 32:11Speaker 1: no doubt about it. We're moving up. We need people
- 32:13Speaker 1: like you me.
- 32:14Speaker 5: It is well.
- 32:14Speaker 1: I appreciate that, and that's that's the thing.
- 32:17Speaker 3: You know.
- 32:17Speaker 1: We got a little we got a little tight group.
- 32:19Speaker 1: We don't have the most numbers, but but uh, you
- 32:22Speaker 1: know what, I'm not for everybody, but I am for
- 32:24Speaker 1: this group, which is perfect. I appreciate it.
- 32:27Speaker 8: Yep.
- 32:28Speaker 5: Hey, let me answ you real quick, just real quick.
- 32:30Speaker 5: I was watching Smoking the Band that last night they
- 32:32Speaker 5: go to techsar Cana. Okay, have you seen it. I'm
- 32:36Speaker 5: sure you.
- 32:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't watch it last night, but it's been
- 32:40Speaker 1: a little bit.
- 32:41Speaker 6: Well.
- 32:42Speaker 5: I started to drive in in nineteen seventy seven. My
- 32:45Speaker 5: parents took me. I was a little kid. But okay,
- 32:48Speaker 5: is it is it Does it still look similar to
- 32:52Speaker 5: that or is it like everything else is just everything's changed.
- 32:57Speaker 1: Well, they have them all, you know, they have them
- 32:59Speaker 1: all now and I mean no, they they've they've got
- 33:02Speaker 1: some some new stuff. It doesn't look like does anything
- 33:05Speaker 1: look like it did in nineteen seventy seven.
- 33:07Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I see.
- 33:08Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean no, it's it's it's you know, it's gotten,
- 33:11Speaker 1: it's got, it's got stuff. Uh but yeah, you know,
- 33:14Speaker 1: that's it's cool. It's a I mean, it's an interesting town.
- 33:18Speaker 1: There are probably other towns all over the country like
- 33:21Speaker 1: that that I just have not heard of that are
- 33:24Speaker 1: right there on the border or whatever. But it's it's
- 33:26Speaker 1: kind of you know, it's it's kind of cool. And
- 33:28Speaker 1: that just it says that right there in the name
- 33:29Speaker 1: text Arcana.
- 33:30Speaker 5: But uh, yeah, how close is Louisiana because isn't.
- 33:36Speaker 1: Yeah, i mean it's right, yeah, I mean, it's all
- 33:38Speaker 1: it's all right there. Actually okay, it was a little
- 33:41Speaker 1: bit closer than Louisiana, but yeah, it's all. It's all there.
- 33:45Speaker 1: I mean they have Louisiana TV stations there, uh for Texarcana.
- 33:50Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's all, it's all there.
- 33:53Speaker 5: Well, what I call about Cowboys is I watched Draft
- 33:57Speaker 5: Day this weekend, so I'm ready to go.
- 34:00Speaker 1: You watched Kevin Costner's Drafting?
- 34:03Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I watched that movie every.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Year about this time, and it's the best worst movie ever.
- 34:09Speaker 5: I want.
- 34:09Speaker 6: Yeah, I like it.
- 34:10Speaker 1: I mean, it's a bad movie, but it's a good
- 34:13Speaker 1: It's a good bad movie, really, I think. And the
- 34:16Speaker 1: reason why I say that is because it's not realistic
- 34:18Speaker 1: at all. But that's okay. Days of Thunder is one
- 34:20Speaker 1: of my favorite movies too, and it's not realistic to Nascar,
- 34:23Speaker 1: who cares, It's it's a movie. Let's go. I want
- 34:26Speaker 1: all my pics back. I want all my picsback, and
- 34:28Speaker 1: David Putney because I feel like it. Yeah.
- 34:31Speaker 5: So the world has changed in thirty seconds.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, we're different than we were thirty seconds ago.
- 34:37Speaker 1: That's right, that's funny.
- 34:39Speaker 5: But I I just called say, I don't see how
- 34:42Speaker 5: Dallas can mess up this draft. I just I just
- 34:46Speaker 5: I don't see how they could. I don't think they
- 34:48Speaker 5: will say that.
- 34:50Speaker 1: Huh did you say that last year?
- 34:53Speaker 3: No?
- 34:53Speaker 5: I don't know, but I don't think. I don't think.
- 34:56Speaker 5: I think it's set up for I think they're gonna
- 34:59Speaker 5: I think they can drop back a few few picks
- 35:02Speaker 5: and still get a top two or top two center.
- 35:09Speaker 5: And then I mean, I think they can get their
- 35:12Speaker 5: their another offensive lineman or defensive lineman, a linebacker. I
- 35:16Speaker 5: think they'll get the I think they'll get four picks
- 35:19Speaker 5: in the first you know, two days. I think they'll
- 35:22Speaker 5: still still drafts our trade back a little bit and
- 35:26Speaker 5: get a either a late third or early fourth. And uh,
- 35:30Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be a good day or good weekend.
- 35:33Speaker 1: All right, all right, Well, I mean I like, I
- 35:36Speaker 1: like what you're thinking. I mean optimistic, and I think
- 35:39Speaker 1: and we appreciate the call, Michael. We got to keep
- 35:41Speaker 1: it moving here. We we've got uh, we can't go
- 35:45Speaker 1: past two o'clock here. We got a draft meetings going on,
- 35:48Speaker 1: so we're gonna have to do that. But I think
- 35:50Speaker 1: when when you say you can't mess it up, it's
- 35:53Speaker 1: probably because you know you have needs, and you've got
- 35:57Speaker 1: a lot of needs, and you could just about any
- 35:59Speaker 1: position shouldn't could kind of other than tight end or
- 36:03Speaker 1: even quarterback. You know, they would make sense to you know,
- 36:08Speaker 1: to fit in on what you're trying to do. I
- 36:11Speaker 1: just saw something flash up on the screen here from
- 36:16Speaker 1: NFL Network, and I guess they have the five different
- 36:19Speaker 1: analysts that they have and they all projected the twenty
- 36:21Speaker 1: fourth pick. And we'll do the same on our website
- 36:23Speaker 1: here in Thursday. We'll do different kinds of mocks and
- 36:28Speaker 1: and predictions and things like that. But they have their
- 36:30Speaker 1: five analysts and they all had five different players mocked
- 36:34Speaker 1: to the Cowboys. I saw Jackson Powers Johnson, Troy Fatanu
- 36:41Speaker 1: that from from Washington, Tyler Geiton from Oklahoma, Graham Barton
- 36:48Speaker 1: from Duke, and Xavier Worthy from Texas. Worthy. I mean,
- 36:53Speaker 1: that's it wouldn't make a ton of sense other than
- 36:56Speaker 1: it just would be fun, you know. You know, I've
- 36:58Speaker 1: always asked for the speed guy, uh, and you know
- 37:02Speaker 1: he definitely brought that. He has got the speed. He
- 37:05Speaker 1: showed that at the combine. But I just don't know
- 37:07Speaker 1: how that makes sense for you. You know, you've got
- 37:10Speaker 1: you've got speed, You've got guys. You got to Turpin
- 37:13Speaker 1: who's gonna be able to do some things on offense. Again,
- 37:16Speaker 1: Graham Barton, I'd be fine with that. Tyler Geydon, you know,
- 37:20Speaker 1: I think he looks the part, uh, he's probably he
- 37:22Speaker 1: you know, needs a little bit more development, but you
- 37:26Speaker 1: know he he could, he could. He's got the size
- 37:28Speaker 1: and frame he could. He could, you know, could work
- 37:30Speaker 1: with him and he I think he could be really
- 37:32Speaker 1: good player too. Jackson Powers Johnson. A little medical concerns
- 37:36Speaker 1: there too, But if you can, if you can live
- 37:38Speaker 1: with that, if you can, if you're okay and comfortable, there,
- 37:40Speaker 1: probably got a really good plug in player. All right,
- 37:42Speaker 1: let's go to William in West Virginia. Nick Calby doing, sir,
- 37:47Speaker 1: good Man, how are you doing.
- 37:50Speaker 9: I'm hanging in there.
- 37:51Speaker 11: It's my favorite time of the year, Draft season, just
- 37:53Speaker 11: like you never know what kind of gift you're going
- 37:56Speaker 11: to get every year, and you know, it's just I
- 37:57Speaker 11: look forward to as much as anything.
- 37:59Speaker 1: All Right, Well maybe uh, West Virginia. Maybe they got
- 38:02Speaker 1: a center over there that well, tell me about it.
- 38:05Speaker 11: You read in my mind, sir, I was gonna. I
- 38:08Speaker 11: had a couple of things I wanted to say.
- 38:09Speaker 3: First of all, I.
- 38:10Speaker 11: Love the shows, you know. Secondly, the thing is, I
- 38:14Speaker 11: think i'd like to know who you who you would
- 38:17Speaker 11: like them to get at running back whatever rounds. I
- 38:19Speaker 11: know your personal pick on that. And as far as
- 38:21Speaker 11: Zach Frazier, the center goes. The guy can do it all.
- 38:24Speaker 11: If they could trade back maybe the thirty or something
- 38:27Speaker 11: like that and get him and get a fourth round pick.
- 38:29Speaker 11: I mean, you're I'm talking to guy that can do that,
- 38:31Speaker 11: can hang in there for as many years as Mark Stepanovski,
- 38:35Speaker 11: and he's a little bit bigger, and can you get
- 38:37Speaker 11: to the second level.
- 38:38Speaker 6: He can do it all.
- 38:39Speaker 11: And I mean, look, I know I'm a local guy,
- 38:41Speaker 11: but I'm telling you how I think he would play
- 38:43Speaker 11: there longer than Solomon Page. He didn't probably do more.
- 38:48Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't think of any other Quest Virginia player,
- 38:52Speaker 1: pac Man Jones, well, pac Man James.
- 38:54Speaker 6: Yeah, you know.
- 38:55Speaker 11: And of course we had no table on Austin there
- 38:57Speaker 11: for a while. But and I also wanted to tell
- 38:59Speaker 11: you to talk by mentioned movies.
- 39:01Speaker 1: Hold On, hold on, did Chuck Hawley go there?
- 39:04Speaker 2: No?
- 39:04Speaker 3: He did? He did? Yes?
- 39:05Speaker 11: In fact he did.
- 39:06Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, sorry, starting to sweat a little bit. I mean,
- 39:09Speaker 1: last thing I need is is anybody coming back and
- 39:11Speaker 1: forgetting like a ring of honor player and we're talking
- 39:14Speaker 1: Soliman Page and uh, I'm going racing.
- 39:17Speaker 11: I'm an older guys, you know, but I'm not that.
- 39:20Speaker 1: Hey, well no, I'll say this and this, this is
- 39:22Speaker 1: a knock against West Virginia. I'm sorry, I'm gonna have
- 39:25Speaker 1: to do it. Knock on Chuck Chuck Halle like two
- 39:30Speaker 1: years ago got put in. They retired his number at
- 39:34Speaker 1: the at the at the West Virginia Sports Hall of
- 39:37Speaker 1: Fame and they retired his his number. So he hasn't
- 39:41Speaker 1: played football there in like fifty five years. But just
- 39:44Speaker 1: now they decided, you know what, let's let's do that
- 39:47Speaker 1: same thing with the hallidame. So it's not just West
- 39:50Speaker 1: Virginia people in Canton as well. But it's always weird
- 39:53Speaker 1: to me, you know, like it's, yeah, I was.
- 39:56Speaker 11: Afraid the same thing was gonna happen with Jimmy and
- 39:58Speaker 11: the Ring of Honor.
- 40:00Speaker 1: Huh fair, fair, but you know yeah, but.
- 40:04Speaker 11: But but you're right about that. West Virginia should be
- 40:07Speaker 11: this for that because they waited far too long on
- 40:09Speaker 11: this guy. And it's not like they've had a great
- 40:11Speaker 11: bunch of five stars up there.
- 40:13Speaker 1: Right oh Will Greer, Will Green and he was there, right.
- 40:18Speaker 6: Yeah, he was.
- 40:19Speaker 8: He was good.
- 40:20Speaker 11: I mean he was good.
- 40:20Speaker 1: But like I'm just named in the West Virginia players
- 40:23Speaker 1: at this point.
- 40:24Speaker 11: You know major hairs guys like that.
- 40:26Speaker 1: But you know again, it's I'm just throwing out all right.
- 40:29Speaker 11: Of course Kevin White, who really had one good year
- 40:33Speaker 11: turned into a top ten pick and never did anything.
- 40:35Speaker 11: But but I watch you to talk. Somebody mentioned movies.
- 40:40Speaker 11: If you've ever seen Escape from New York and Escape
- 40:42Speaker 11: from La check him out or they are cult classic,
- 40:45Speaker 11: and I would like to hear your opinion on him
- 40:47Speaker 11: one of those days.
- 40:48Speaker 1: Okay, I'm a Kurt Russell two movies.
- 40:52Speaker 11: YEP, Escape from New York and Escape from La. I'm
- 40:55Speaker 11: a Kurt Russell Mark. He's probably one of the greatest
- 40:57Speaker 11: actors ever. And if you watch that, you'll you'll remember them,
- 41:00Speaker 11: all right, promises.
- 41:02Speaker 1: Cool, all right, well the show.
- 41:05Speaker 11: Well, I like to say, I don't I don't bother me.
- 41:09Speaker 11: You did to West Virginia. I did some enough. I've
- 41:11Speaker 11: lived here my whole life, and everything's fair game.
- 41:13Speaker 1: But I mean that's that I would like to go
- 41:15Speaker 1: to a game. I would like to go to a
- 41:17Speaker 1: game there here. It's pretty awesome to hear. The festivities
- 41:20Speaker 1: are awesome.
- 41:22Speaker 11: Both both my daughters went there for four years, and
- 41:24Speaker 11: they always talked about how much they loved going to
- 41:26Speaker 11: the game, so, I mean they still talk about it.
- 41:28Speaker 1: So it is something not easy on the liver. Gotta go,
- 41:31Speaker 1: gotta go with the moonshine.
- 41:33Speaker 11: Uh, the hole made firewater kind of leaves the lasting effects, sir.
- 41:40Speaker 1: I believe it at that. That's a great one.
- 41:43Speaker 11: I'm looking forward to the draft and I appreciate you
- 41:45Speaker 11: let me through. And I was talking to call again
- 41:47Speaker 11: soon go storyline.
- 41:48Speaker 1: All right, thank you, thanks William, appreciate that. Uh, you know,
- 41:52Speaker 1: I love a good analogy, you know, you know that.
- 41:55Speaker 1: And Chris here on the on the on the message
- 42:01Speaker 1: because you know, if you're worthy, what a fun player
- 42:04Speaker 1: that would be, he said, Chris, won't She's just say it.
- 42:09Speaker 1: It's the chat I said.
- 42:11Speaker 7: Worthy is like buying a Mustang for a family of
- 42:14Speaker 7: six when you.
- 42:15Speaker 1: Need a van. That's so, I mean, like really yeah.
- 42:18Speaker 1: Can you imagine just coming home and being like, honey, hey,
- 42:21Speaker 1: what do you think got this Mustang? She's like, great,
- 42:23Speaker 1: we we're gonna do with it. It's got five speeds.
- 42:25Speaker 1: Like what yeah, Like where you gonna where are gonna
- 42:28Speaker 1: put the kids? You can put the car seat yet?
- 42:31Speaker 1: Figure that out?
- 42:32Speaker 3: Uh?
- 42:33Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, I measuve Kyle came home with one. Yeah, yeah,
- 42:39Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah, Kyle needs to get a mini van.
- 42:43Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Joseph and Keller.
- 42:48Speaker 12: Hey, Nick, are you as I?
- 42:50Speaker 3: As? I got a chance?
- 42:51Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 42:52Speaker 2: You doing okay?
- 42:53Speaker 12: As I got a chance. I caught the last end
- 42:56Speaker 12: of you and Chris talking, and all I could think
- 42:58Speaker 12: about was Kyle, Kyle coming home with the Mustangs. That's
- 43:01Speaker 12: funny that Chris said that.
- 43:02Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 43:02Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm glad to glad to be on a show
- 43:06Speaker 12: where Irene got in. She she convinced me, I don't know,
- 43:10Speaker 12: six or seven weeks ago to start listening to the
- 43:12Speaker 12: podcasts again, saying she had come off from her sabbatical.
- 43:15Speaker 12: I ended up listening for about a week and then
- 43:18Speaker 12: taking another couple of weeks off and actually caught up
- 43:21Speaker 12: this morning to all of yesterday's podcasts. I listened to
- 43:25Speaker 12: like five out of the.
- 43:26Speaker 5: Eight or nine.
- 43:27Speaker 12: So I'm glad to be caught up before I get
- 43:31Speaker 12: on the plane to Detroit for the draft tomorrow. So
- 43:34Speaker 12: that'll be uh, that'll be fun. It'll be the third
- 43:37Speaker 12: one I get to go to.
- 43:38Speaker 2: Cool.
- 43:39Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's be honest here, you know, like like,
- 43:42Speaker 1: all right, catch me up. They signed Kendricks, they lost
- 43:45Speaker 1: a lot of starters, they lost Tyron, they lost Tony
- 43:49Speaker 1: Pollard and uh be Honish and they signed Kendricks and
- 43:52Speaker 1: Royce Freeman.
- 43:54Speaker 12: Well that and we were all in, and then we're
- 43:56Speaker 12: not all in. But other than that, I heard all
- 43:58Speaker 12: in plenty of times over the course of the last
- 44:00Speaker 12: three or four weeks. No, I saw that on Twitter.
- 44:07Speaker 12: I did not listen to the press conference, but I
- 44:09Speaker 12: saw that on Twitter as I was eating lunch and
- 44:12Speaker 12: realized that the show had started, and I came out
- 44:14Speaker 12: to my my truck and made the call. But appreciate,
- 44:19Speaker 12: appreciate everything you guys do. I'll just be happy this
- 44:24Speaker 12: team drafts really well when we don't kind of force
- 44:29Speaker 12: some needs. So as long as we stay away from quarterback,
- 44:34Speaker 12: stay away from tight end early, and stay away from
- 44:39Speaker 12: defensive tackle simply because hopefully we addressed it last year
- 44:42Speaker 12: in the first round. I haven't given up on Massie
- 44:45Speaker 12: Smith yet. But if we stay away from those three
- 44:49Speaker 12: positions as best, just draft the best player available, I'll
- 44:53Speaker 12: be happy. I would love for it to be a
- 44:55Speaker 12: center because I think that really opens up the rest
- 44:58Speaker 12: of the draft for whatever for is best available, because
- 45:02Speaker 12: then you can really I don't know what the plan
- 45:05Speaker 12: is with Tyler Smith, but you can really do whatever
- 45:07Speaker 12: after that if you get a center in my opinion.
- 45:10Speaker 12: So anyway, yeah, if anyone, anyone from the storyline is
- 45:16Speaker 12: going to the draft, hopefully I get to see him there.
- 45:18Speaker 12: I'm not sure we need like a hashtag so we
- 45:20Speaker 12: can all communicate on Twitter in between what's your between
- 45:23Speaker 12: all the shows?
- 45:24Speaker 1: What's your jersey? What do you or what are you
- 45:26Speaker 1: wearing for that draft?
- 45:29Speaker 12: I haven't haven't decided yet. The most recent jersey I
- 45:33Speaker 12: had I purchased probably five years ago, was Leyton vander
- 45:37Speaker 12: esh So I'm not sure, but break that out one
- 45:40Speaker 12: more time or whatnot. I need to invest in. Uh,
- 45:45Speaker 12: probably a Micah jersey here sometime soon.
- 45:48Speaker 1: So all right, Diggs is always a good jersey, you know,
- 45:52Speaker 1: take this too?
- 45:53Speaker 12: Yeah for sure?
- 45:54Speaker 1: Cool? All right, good stuff?
- 45:56Speaker 3: Thank god?
- 45:58Speaker 1: All right, let's go one more here. Let's go to
- 46:00Speaker 1: Jonathan in Fullerton, California. Jonathan, Hey, Nick, I almost.
- 46:08Speaker 9: Said how you doing, but instead of that, I thought
- 46:12Speaker 9: I would say happy National English muffin Day. I'm trying
- 46:17Speaker 9: to think of a thing, so you remember me to
- 46:21Speaker 9: get on the storyline. So I'm random holiday guy. Now
- 46:24Speaker 9: National English, Yeah, National English muffin Day. But anyway, Cowboys stuff,
- 46:33Speaker 9: I wanted to ask with It's been on social media
- 46:38Speaker 9: and stuff. A couple of teams have a few new
- 46:41Speaker 9: like jersey and uniform designs and stuff. Do you have
- 46:44Speaker 9: any favorite Cowboys helmets or uniforms from all history and
- 46:52Speaker 9: do you.
- 46:52Speaker 5: Think they would ever get a new one?
- 46:54Speaker 9: Like, I know the ice white color block ones is new,
- 46:59Speaker 9: but I feel like we're the kind of team that
- 47:01Speaker 9: doesn't want to like getting new stuff, you know, all
- 47:05Speaker 9: about the history.
- 47:07Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it has changed over the years. I
- 47:09Speaker 1: mean it used to just be only white jerseys at home.
- 47:13Speaker 1: That's it didn't really change a lot from the uniform
- 47:16Speaker 1: they they've done that. You know, they'll Thanksgiving obviously, you
- 47:20Speaker 1: know you see some the Navy or the throwbacks, and
- 47:22Speaker 1: then you know they'll wear blue at home just just randomly.
- 47:26Speaker 1: So you know, and the NFL is also kind of
- 47:30Speaker 1: changing some of those rules too, with like helmets and
- 47:33Speaker 1: things like that that you can have a little bit
- 47:34Speaker 1: more freedom to do that. So you're right, I mean,
- 47:39Speaker 1: it's it's a you're kind of towing the line a
- 47:41Speaker 1: little bit. Yes, it's it's a tradition, but you also
- 47:44Speaker 1: deviate from that just a little bit. So yeah, I
- 47:46Speaker 1: mean in my favorites, I mean, you know, I I
- 47:51Speaker 1: I liked the Double Star back in the mid nineties.
- 47:54Speaker 1: I think it's because they were them, like in the
- 47:56Speaker 1: NFC Championship game, and you know in the playoffs they
- 47:59Speaker 1: were having success with them, so they could have they
- 48:02Speaker 1: could have won the red jerseys. You know, they don't
- 48:04Speaker 1: even exist, and I would have been cool with that. So,
- 48:07Speaker 1: you know, whenever they throw out I usually like it.
- 48:09Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a I'm a fan of the Navy.
- 48:12Speaker 1: I'd like to see Navy pants, but I don't know
- 48:14Speaker 1: if they'll ever do that.
- 48:15Speaker 9: But but yeah, yeah, that'd be cool. That'd be I mean,
- 48:18Speaker 9: it doesn't like stray very far from what they have.
- 48:22Speaker 9: It's still one of their colors. But right, like, yeah,
- 48:25Speaker 9: that'd be cool. You should pitch that.
- 48:26Speaker 1: Yeah, Well I don't, I don't know, I've only I
- 48:29Speaker 1: don't think. I don't pitch a lot of ideas. But
- 48:31Speaker 1: I did pitch one and and and it worked one time.
- 48:34Speaker 1: I'll just leave it at that. But uh yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 48:38Speaker 1: we got a T shirt one time we got a
- 48:40Speaker 1: T shirt in the pro shop. But uh, now you
- 48:44Speaker 1: know as Chris Chris is on one today, He's like,
- 48:47Speaker 1: what do you want organ? You want to organ tradition.
- 48:50Speaker 1: You don't want the uniforms every Yeah, I that actually
- 48:53Speaker 1: annoys me when you see a lot of college teams.
- 48:55Speaker 1: You know, I always thought there should be a rule
- 48:58Speaker 1: you should have as many combinations of the uniform as
- 49:01Speaker 1: wins that you did last year. So if you won
- 49:05Speaker 1: five games, then you know you could mix it up.
- 49:07Speaker 1: You know, home away about five times. But this whole
- 49:10Speaker 1: like twelve different changes all the time, all this tradition.
- 49:13Speaker 1: You know that everyone's last name, everyone you know in
- 49:15Speaker 1: the back everyone's name is like family or something like that.
- 49:19Speaker 1: Just no, sorry you went four and twelve last year,
- 49:21Speaker 1: like like just you just go regular stuff. So anyways,
- 49:25Speaker 1: all right, yeah, I don't know.
- 49:26Speaker 9: I feel like it's all just like you could market it.
- 49:28Speaker 9: You can sell a ton of journey if you have
- 49:30Speaker 9: a bunch of different designs. But last thing, I wasn't
- 49:34Speaker 9: able to listen live. I just wanted to ask, do
- 49:36Speaker 9: you have any thoughts about Jerry doubling down on going
- 49:40Speaker 9: all in? I didn't get to hear the interview. I
- 49:42Speaker 9: just saw an article saying he was doubling down.
- 49:45Speaker 1: He was saying, he was saying, we're all in on
- 49:48Speaker 1: the draft, We're all in on the young players, we're
- 49:50Speaker 1: all in on everything like that. He just kind of
- 49:53Speaker 1: went that way, like we're all in with the things
- 49:55Speaker 1: that we're all in about. That's kind of what he said.
- 49:58Speaker 1: So and it really doesn't get change for what he
- 50:02Speaker 1: I think what he meant to say all along that
- 50:03Speaker 1: this year, with all the contracts, where they are, with
- 50:07Speaker 1: everything and how it's all kind of pressed up against it,
- 50:10Speaker 1: that this is it. If they're going to really have
- 50:12Speaker 1: a chance to compete, it's got to be this year.
- 50:15Speaker 1: And you know, and they didn't have the opportunity to
- 50:18Speaker 1: pay a lot of money and free agency and all
- 50:20Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, so you know, but this is
- 50:22Speaker 1: this is you know, and he explained that in the
- 50:24Speaker 1: press conference of why they've been kind of pushing the
- 50:26Speaker 1: can down the road here and this is kind of here,
- 50:28Speaker 1: this is where we are, so all right, this will
- 50:31Speaker 1: not be the last show before the draft. Will do
- 50:33Speaker 1: what on Thursday, We'll get some maybe some draft insider
- 50:37Speaker 1: helping here for a little bit, uh to talk about
- 50:39Speaker 1: specific players, but we'll we'll stay at same time one
- 50:42Speaker 1: o'clock on Thursday to again be ready for a Friday
- 50:46Speaker 1: show at some point in the afternoon. We'll be looking
- 50:48Speaker 1: uh to do that as well. So all right for
- 50:49Speaker 1: Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. We'll see you next time
- 50:51Speaker 1: on storyline. See you.
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