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  Speaker 3: This is He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 1: What is up and it's time for Cowboys storyline? I
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  Speaker 1: am Nick Eatman. It is Tuesday, April the second. We're
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  Speaker 1: moving right along here in twenty twenty four, already into April,
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  Speaker 1: and it is time to talk some more Cowboys football.
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  Speaker 1: Turn the mic over to you guys. Let you guys
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  Speaker 1: weigh in on what's going on, what's not going on,
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the rest of free agency. We got
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  Speaker 1: the draft now this month. We can say that now
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  Speaker 1: it's this month in April twenty fifth, so still a
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight eight five five two two nine seven is
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  Speaker 1: the number to call. You can text at eight one
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  Speaker 1: seven two nine zero three two nine eight. I'll try
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  Speaker 1: to get to some text today. Kind of been going
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  Speaker 1: calls only, so we'll see if we can do a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of both today. But we'll start with the
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  Speaker 1: calls like we always do. Michael is in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Michael,
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  Speaker 1: what's up? You're starting us off?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I want to give a shout out to a
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  Speaker 4: caller from I think it was last week or week before.
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh, guy from Kentucky. Yeah, and you asked him
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  Speaker 4: how Brackett was. He said he's a Tarial fan, Amatorial fan.
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  Speaker 4: He said he was originally from North Carolina. So I
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  Speaker 4: was like, I hope we get some more Kentucky callers.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I know we don't have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky collars. And I thought, when you're there, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's probably Kentucky or Louisville. But no, there's some there's
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  Speaker 1: some tar Hill fans in there, but none of those
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  Speaker 1: fan bases are that excited about March. All right, So
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  Speaker 1: what do you got? Man?
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  Speaker 4: Okay? Which was all right? You got ze? Who's is
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  Speaker 4: some chatter about and Dalvin Cook. Who would you take
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  Speaker 4: and why if it was an opportunity for either one
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  Speaker 4: of them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, while I'm coming up with my answer, how about
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  Speaker 1: I ask you who's you taking?
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  Speaker 4: I would take Zeke and then try and get maybe
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  Speaker 4: in the later round, get another running back and they
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  Speaker 4: kind of have like you had with Pollard, you know,
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  Speaker 4: have you know the whole thunder and lightning basically you
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  Speaker 4: know from where they say, get down towards the in
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  Speaker 4: the in the the goal line and you know, feed
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  Speaker 4: at the Zeke. I mean, that's that's what I would do.
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  Speaker 1: I would probably lean towards Zeke as well. That's probably
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  Speaker 1: what I would do.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I don't think I agree with you on
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  Speaker 1: is the later round for the running back. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying first round there, I don't know if there is one,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm I need to get me a back that
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, can can can be here. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying later roundbacks don't don't work out, because
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  Speaker 1: we all see that they can. But I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more of a priority because right now
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  Speaker 1: it's only Rico Dadle, Induce, Vaughan and Snoop Connor and
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  Speaker 1: Malik Davis. That's my that's the running backs on the roster.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going a little bit earlier than later round
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  Speaker 1: knowing that if you get a Dalvin Cook or a
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  Speaker 1: Zeke or anybody, it's probably not for more than a year.
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  Speaker 1: So a little bit more of a priority for me.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I'm good thinking I wouldn't do round.
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  Speaker 4: One, two or three for a running back. I think
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  Speaker 4: you gotta do. I think you gotta do a defense.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you got to get somebody else in there
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  Speaker 4: you love, and you got to get a you know,
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  Speaker 4: you got to get an offensive lineman and maybe a linebacker.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that might be your one, two and three.
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  Speaker 1: Well just don't forget though. As it stands currently, uh,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't go one, two or three, then you
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  Speaker 1: don't you don't pick again intil the fifth round. As
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  Speaker 1: it currently stands, they don't have a fourth. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: so again you're getting you're getting kind of diasy. I
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  Speaker 1: just I don't know if I pigeonhole myself into anything,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of see how it goes. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how their board ranks on on what running backs they have,
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  Speaker 1: but it you know, to me, it needs to be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a priority. Uh. But and if
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  Speaker 1: if it's not, then load up on the guards and
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  Speaker 1: your centers and your tackles and just give it. Give
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  Speaker 1: yourself the best offensive line you can possibly have, and
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  Speaker 1: then me or you can run through the line if
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  Speaker 1: we need to.
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  Speaker 4: I got one more quick thing I was. I was
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  Speaker 4: kind of down when they said they were going to
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  Speaker 4: do the UFL kickoff thing.
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  Speaker 5: Huh.
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  Speaker 4: But then I heard because you know how Avery kicked
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  Speaker 4: the city end zone. But then I heard bones Fossil
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  Speaker 4: was was one of the main proponents or main guys
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  Speaker 4: who wanted it. So I figured he's got some stuff
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  Speaker 4: for it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's got some stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: You're right about that. He definitely has some stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's going to be a really exciting thing. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to change the game that much, but
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  Speaker 1: it will. It will be different. It'll be some different
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  Speaker 1: strategy to one thing to throw in. And thanks for
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  Speaker 1: the call, Michael, appreciate that. I think you will keep
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  Speaker 1: this thing moving. One thing to remember about this is
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  Speaker 1: the practice time that has to be allocated now to this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean before it was, you know, it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of I'm not saying it was ever a throwaway part.
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  Speaker 1: Special Teams is not a throwaway part. But you know
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  Speaker 1: you will a lot so much time. Well, now, I
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  Speaker 1: mean this is it's a completely new thing. It's different things.
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  Speaker 1: There's probably some plays you can kind of draw up
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  Speaker 1: or different types of schemes. I'm not saying they didn't
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  Speaker 1: do that before because there is different alignments. It was
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  Speaker 1: never just kicked the ball deep. But but it's I
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a little bit more of a
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  Speaker 1: of a play that that has to just be practiced
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of a return and obviously the kickoff.
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  Speaker 1: But it'll it'll be exciting for sure. It'll be exciting
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  Speaker 1: to see what happens. You get these guys in the
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  Speaker 1: open field and uh and also what type of player
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  Speaker 1: you know. I think the guys like c J. Goodwins
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  Speaker 1: of the world, you know some really good nay Sean Wright.
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  Speaker 1: Think about him, nay Sean Wright. You kind of forget
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  Speaker 1: about him a little bit. It's very tall, he takes
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  Speaker 1: up a lot of space quickly. He can he can
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  Speaker 1: get some some ground there. He might be one of
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  Speaker 1: your guys that you want really want to focus in
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  Speaker 1: on running down on these kickoffs, making sure that you
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  Speaker 1: know you stop these guys before it gets too far
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  Speaker 1: down the field, and maybe a big play. So it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun to see how how
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  Speaker 1: that play opens up. All right, let's go to Jeff
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  Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Mitt, how you doing good?
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, I'm doing great. I just got a couple of
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  Speaker 7: questions for you, and then I want to end with
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  Speaker 7: the player. So I do a lot of field work
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  Speaker 7: out here at work. So I listened to a lot
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  Speaker 7: of your guys' podcasts on the network, and listening to
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  Speaker 7: brought us a little bit talk about the running scheme
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  Speaker 7: from last year. I wanted your opinion on do you
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  Speaker 7: think it was more scheme based with the changes from
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  Speaker 7: Joe Philbin to Solari and the running back coach from
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  Speaker 7: Skip Pete to Blasco or do you think it was
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  Speaker 7: more the runner you know, Tony Poller coming back off
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  Speaker 7: that injury. What's your opinion on that? And then I
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  Speaker 7: got to I have an outside the box question, says
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  Speaker 7: it is draft season. I'd like to know or see
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  Speaker 7: if you have any knowledge of Will mcclay's assent, because
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  Speaker 7: I believe in the early two thousands, wasn't he the
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  Speaker 7: head coach of the Desperados? And then did he work
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  Speaker 7: like in pro personnel on the side of doing that gig?
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  Speaker 1: I believe, so, yes, that was part of it. He
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  Speaker 1: was part of the staff, part of the you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was a scout as well when when he had
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  Speaker 1: the time to do that. So yeah, he was part
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  Speaker 1: of the Cowboys organization as a scout and then also
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  Speaker 1: did that. So yeah, he stayed in there and did both.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, because I know in twenty fourteen is when he
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  Speaker 7: kind of started to take over the draft. So I
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  Speaker 7: was just wondering if there was somebody within the organization
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  Speaker 7: at that time that was kind of grooming him for
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  Speaker 7: the pseudo GM role. And then last thing, Nick, I
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  Speaker 7: just wanted to know if you have any stories I
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  Speaker 7: know you started in ninety eight of like maybe Demetrius
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  Speaker 7: Underwood a lonso of Spelman in that two thousand season
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  Speaker 7: two interesting fellas. Just wondering if you have any stories. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: on them and I'll hang up and listen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, thanks, thanks for the call. Yeah, there's some
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  Speaker 1: there's some interesting stories about those two. Let's start off
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  Speaker 1: with the scheme part. I. My thought is it's always
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  Speaker 1: it's always a little bit of everything, you know, It's
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  Speaker 1: never like one thing. So you know what what was
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  Speaker 1: the deal? Was it that the switch to post? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. I think Pollard and
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  Speaker 1: just look at his size. I mean he can't do
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  Speaker 1: it like every single play. I mean, less is more
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  Speaker 1: for him, And it was very evident, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: just not his role. And it's it's not just the
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  Speaker 1: one thing. They always say, look at look how many
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  Speaker 1: carries he had. Okay, let's say he had, well, he
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  Speaker 1: was averaging I don't know, twelve carries, you know, twelve
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  Speaker 1: touches the game and now he's got fifteen. Is that
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  Speaker 1: much of a difference. Well, it's not so much that
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  Speaker 1: it's also getting blitz pick up in the collisions, and
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  Speaker 1: so who cares about the touches. It's how many times
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  Speaker 1: are you trying? Are you getting hit by a linebacker?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I always think pitch count in baseball
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  Speaker 1: is weird. You know, you got a pitch count to
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  Speaker 1: see how tired your arm is. But when they throw
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  Speaker 1: it over to first and try to pick off someone
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  Speaker 1: that's taking up the same amount of you know, wear
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  Speaker 1: and tear on your arm, but that doesn't count to
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  Speaker 1: the pitch count. Never understood that it's the same with
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  Speaker 1: like touches. How many times are you getting hit in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of a game and sometimes hit by two
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  Speaker 1: or three guys on one play. I think that's that
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  Speaker 1: way some of it in I don't think they have
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  Speaker 1: enough push in the center at the center position, and
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  Speaker 1: even even in the guards, the interior just does not
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  Speaker 1: push the pile as much. So you can call that scheme,
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  Speaker 1: you can call that a little bit of everything. It's
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  Speaker 1: all got to get fixed, in my opinion. And then
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  Speaker 1: you're Will McClay. I mean, I don't know if one
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  Speaker 1: person was grooming and he was just you know, just
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  Speaker 1: like with anything, you get in the room and you
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  Speaker 1: kind of know who figures it out and who's good
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  Speaker 1: at what they do. I mean he was always been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, very very smart, but also gets along with everyone.
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  Speaker 1: If you know Will McClay, he's he's your friend. I
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  Speaker 1: mean he really is. He's not you know, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: a business he's got business approach to everything. But ye,
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, he just knows how to deal
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  Speaker 1: with people. And sometimes in a room like that, you
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  Speaker 1: got to deal with that. Just as a coach, he
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  Speaker 1: has to deal with assistant coaches and egos and all
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  Speaker 1: players and all that stuff. Uh, it's so different than
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  Speaker 1: in this position with scouts and all that, and I
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  Speaker 1: think Will just does a great job of doing that.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great leader, And it doesn't matter if you're
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  Speaker 1: a coach or you're leading your scouting, scouting department or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was. It was very easy to figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: And of course this is just something that just kept going,
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  Speaker 1: kept going, and now he's got the position that he
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  Speaker 1: is that he's in, and you know, I think he's
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  Speaker 1: done an outstanding job. Spellman and Underwood, both those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Out of respect to them, I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think they were they had some off the field issues
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  Speaker 1: and then Cowboys that was the time where they were
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  Speaker 1: bringing in these guys to see if you know, they
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  Speaker 1: could get things turned around in their life and if so,
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  Speaker 1: then they could be a great football player, and it
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  Speaker 1: just didn't work. I'd rather not talk about like stories
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  Speaker 1: about about those guys that there's some that were you know,
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  Speaker 1: so they had some some scary incidents, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: here with with with them, but hopefully they're they're doing good.
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't know much about, you know, what's
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  Speaker 1: happening with them post Cowboys, but I just know it
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  Speaker 1: was an experiment for both of them to see if
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  Speaker 1: they could you know, be you know, really resurrect their career,
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't didn't really work out. All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to the text line here we've got. This is
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  Speaker 1: Dan and Philly says, how do you feel about zeke
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys reunion talk? And be okay? On a friendly deal
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  Speaker 1: about two million with some incentives to reach four. That
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  Speaker 1: might even be a little too expensive, but but you're
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  Speaker 1: you're along the line, so that's it. So it could
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  Speaker 1: be a good short yardage back and carries past protection
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  Speaker 1: and also a great locker room. Veteran president also think
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  Speaker 1: they need a young bell calling bell cow in the
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  Speaker 1: second or third round. I agree with all that. Past
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  Speaker 1: cowboy Robert Newhouse. I love Robert Newhouse. I just you know,
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  Speaker 1: I I miss him. You know, he's he's no longer
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  Speaker 1: with us, and and he passed away a few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly when, but he was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: worked for the Cowboys, and he actually worked in that
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  Speaker 1: player programs department with Calvin Hill with the guys that
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  Speaker 1: you just mentioned, was with Underwood and the Spellman and
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  Speaker 1: all that. But new House. Here's what I love about
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  Speaker 1: Robert Newhouse. Think about this in nineteen eighty three, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty three, I believe was his tenth or eleventh year
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  Speaker 1: in the league. Okay, they had it running back doorset,
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  Speaker 1: they had Timmy Newsom, they had Ron Springs. But yet
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  Speaker 1: he's on the team as a full back and all
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  Speaker 1: that eleventh year and there was a game against the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: He runs down on a kickoff. This is Bill Bates'
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  Speaker 1: rookie year. Knocks a guy fumble, the guy picks it up,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Downs picks it up, scores a touchdown. Just think
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  Speaker 1: about that in today's game, the eleventh year fullback, which
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't even exist. You wouldn't be in the league in
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  Speaker 1: the year eleventh year. And if you are, you're not
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  Speaker 1: running down on kickoffs being the first one down there
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  Speaker 1: to make the tackle, make the play and create a
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  Speaker 1: turnover for a touchdown. How selfless is that? And that's
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  Speaker 1: the way a new House was. He was outstanding. He
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  Speaker 1: was a really, really good football player. And I know
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  Speaker 1: this is cliche, but we say it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Better person, better person for sure. Robert new House. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the calls. Brian in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon, mister, I'm doing good, brother, How are you good?
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  Speaker 1: Good?
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  Speaker 6: Ay?
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  Speaker 2: Right on, many, I got a question for you, and
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  Speaker 2: then I wanted to get to give you guys a compliment.
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  Speaker 2: I got to watch something on the app today, and
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  Speaker 2: then I got a memory for you. So my question is, so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, looking at at the upcoming draft, we haven't
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  Speaker 2: done a ton in free agency. We all know that,
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  Speaker 2: but we brought back uh Jay Lou and we got Kendricks,
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  Speaker 2: so we really have three positions that are you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of we're kind of like, okay, who's playing center
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  Speaker 2: and left tackle? And then one tech? Right? So yeah, right, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to say. I don't know enough about any
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  Speaker 2: of those guys, Like they're all kind of role players
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  Speaker 2: their whole careers, so it's hard to say if one
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  Speaker 2: of them could do it, I don't know. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so in your opinion, so let's throw that in. Things
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  Speaker 2: you brought it up, Let's throw that in and say
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  Speaker 2: there's four positions where you're like, oh, hell, who's the starter?
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  Speaker 2: So if you think you could get two starters out
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  Speaker 2: of the draft, you know, keep keeping in mind that, hey,
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  Speaker 2: these are rookies, they're coming in fresh, you know, no experience.
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  Speaker 2: What two positions would you want to say, Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: can fill this one and this one in the draft,
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  Speaker 2: all right? And then the compliment is I got to
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  Speaker 2: watch the two thousand and five Deep Blue class on
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  Speaker 2: the two thousand and five what I totally forgot about
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  Speaker 2: how what kind of crazy draft that was, But that
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  Speaker 2: just gave me hope, Like, hey, we could end up
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  Speaker 2: with Chris Canty in the seventh round.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, rat left right, fourth, You're right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cammy and the floor wetting the seventh And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, you look at that class, You're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: holy Kyle, that was like pushing the restart button for
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  Speaker 2: that theme, you know, like they got so many starters
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  Speaker 2: they did, you know.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And the thing the thing about that, Brian, is
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: that you know, when when I was you know, I
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: was the writer for that documentary, and I'm very excited
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: about how that turned out, and we're hoping, you know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: fingers crossed that it will get an Emmy nomination for that.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: But the thing about those guys. Is that when talking
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: to them all, they all said the same thing. That
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: every one of them that was picked, even the guys
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: you don't even remember, every person in that class was
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: a captain on their football team that year or the
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: year before. They were all captains. Is that a coincidence?
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not, But it was that type of guys,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: leadership type, guys that could come in and handle the
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: load of the pressure of turning things around quickly, and
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: so that I thought that was an interesting footnote.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't remember if that was in there. I
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: guess I missed it. I was I was sitting in
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: a waiting room, so I probably missed just little tiny
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: bits and pieces trying to pay attention to see if
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: I was if I was being called or anything. But hey,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: and then my question is I thought, rather than give
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: you a player this time, I had a question for
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: you that just a curiosity question. Man. So and I
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: don't care if you were an intern or an official employee.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: What was it like for you as an whichever category
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: you were in the first time it happened when you
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: walked in as a member of the Dallas Cowboys team
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: into Texas Stadium. And I'll hang up and listen, man,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: have a good one.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call on that one.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Give me let me give me a second on that
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: one and process. But all right, go back to your
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: first part. I thought it was very interesting. You know,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: four positions that there's some uncertainty with a starter right now, center,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a left tackle, defensive tackle or nose you know, nose tackle,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: and running back. If you had to say that, I'm
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: going to get two from the draft as starters. One
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: of them, I mean one of them would be running
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: back for me. And then it really comes down to
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: like what do you have that you can kind of figure.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I would say left tackle and running back. I would
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: say if I could get those two and I knew
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: they were starters and they were good, that means you're
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: going to get some pretty good players. I I don't
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: love the idea, but I you know, I think you
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: have to see if if if a Hoffman or a TJ.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Bass can can figure it out at center, I mean perhaps,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and then defensive tackle you need help there too. But
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: he did draft the position in the first round last year.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: And and Mazzie Smith he's coming off shoulder a surgery.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: He didn't have a good year at all, but you
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: gotta hope that you can develop the first round pick.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: That's that would be my hope there. So I would
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: say center, I would say running back in left tackle
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: if you had to just pick that could get two
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: out of the draft there. I don't remember if there
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: is a story for me like that of just you know,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: coming into Texas Stadium, because my first year was ninety nine.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: You know, I was I was an intern in training
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: camp in ninety eight and covered some but not ninety
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: nine was my first year. So the first game of
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: ninety nine, you know, the thing about those is that
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you remember them, but the first time you walk in
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: is a preseason game, and if you've ever been to
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a preseason game at Texas Stadium, there's only one thing
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: that you're thinking about is can everyone see me sweat?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Is the sweat going to actually drip to the ground,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: That's how hot it is. So you're all dressed up,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: you know, because it's game day, and you're like, this
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: is ridiculous, and it's souper. It's unbelievably hot. So I,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: if I do remember it, the heat like warped my
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: brain and I and I really don't The first game
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: of that of ninety nine season, of course, was at
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Washington and then the first home game, like it might
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: have been Atlanta, I think, or it was like it's
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: either Atlanta or Arizona or something like that. Oh right,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I remember Greg Allis scored Atlanta Atlanta Monday night. Yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I remember. I remember that game. They beat Atlanta twenty
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: four to seven, and it was yeah, that's that's that's
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: what I think about the Cowboys Chris twenty four to
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: seven and uh and Greg Allis scored that game, and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: then the next week against Arizona he also scored another touchdown.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: So I was like, you know, it was like Deron
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Bland out there. He was like scoring touchdowns every every week.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: The score of that gameh man, it's thirty thirty five
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: seven something like that. Thirty seven about that. You want
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: to keep going? What we got after that? Oh, the
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: next I can tell you. The next two scores are
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the same. The next two scores are thirteen to ten. Yeah,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: thirteen to ten against the Eagles. That was a game
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that Ervin got hurt. Thirteen to ten against the Giants.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Tiki Barber some rookie named Tiki barbera or the kick
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: return for a touchdown. So yeah, after that, I don't
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I don't remember. I mean it was the Seesaw year
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that year that was they went eight and eight, so
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: you know you're two and three, three and three. I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: mean they went back and forth all year. Probably one
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of the earliest byes I've ever seen was that early
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: is probably right then? Right now bye was the third
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: week of the season. Oh okay, that's right. They were
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: undefeated for a while. Yeah yeah, oh interesting year? All right,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: good stuff? Oh man, I asked Chris, I said, we
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: need some text line question and he definitely did. Of course,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: it's all over my screen. I can't even see here.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: All right, every next caller, now let's go. Let's go
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: with one more hero. This is more about Zeke. So
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: this is Anthony from New Jersey. Hope all as well.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I just turned in, just tuned in. I'm not sure
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: if it's been covered, and it has it's been covered,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: but I like to see the Coways bringing back Zeke,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: as some reports are out there. I think it'll help
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: goal line obviously very solid with pass protection and pairing
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: with the draft pick and Rico for depth, I feel
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: better about the position. I agree I'd feel better about
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: it too. I'd feel better about about that. And as
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I said in a mailbag question this morning, not that
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: this is the reason to do anything. But you know,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Stefan Gilmore is getting resigned. So
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: there's your twenty one. I mean, it's back if you
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: want it. I think I think it will be. But
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: they would get it done either way if that's the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: route that they want to go. It has nothing to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: do with Jerseys, but I just think maybe it's a
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: good fit. I think it would be a good fit
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: for what they need. They need depth, they need somebody
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: in that room right now. And I don't know this answer,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: but your carries right now, if they had the running
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: back room, your carries in the NFL would probably be
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: less than one hundred. I don't really know how many
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Rico Dawdell has, but Lipke's only had a few, Douce
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Fin had just a couple, Snoop connor Malik Davis. I
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: mean that they don't have anybody that that's had, you know,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: some some significant playing time, so you know, and that's
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that matters, you know. I mean, you got you're looking
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: around and you're like, I remember that time that you remember, Well,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: how about when you know, well, no one's played, you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and so you kind of need some of that a
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: little bit, I think, And I think Zeke is at
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: a point in his career. He did it with Pollard.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I think he would be really good at it, but
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: he's got to be able to still push the pile
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and get those tough yards. I think he showed some
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: some glimpses of that in New England as well. So yeah,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't hate the idea. And this isn't
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I hate this call Zeke this because he's his career
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: has been so much better than this. But it would
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: be a band aid type type move at this point
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to just you know, put him here and it's good,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and you know, I think I think it would be
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: It would be fine, but you know, you got to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: get more than that. All right, let's go to Ali
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and Florida.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: A pretty good player. How are you good?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I'm good? Yeah. Now, you asked me last week, you
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: said you had a question. You said, name three players
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: that that had were drafted or or signed in free
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: agency that went on to win Super Bowls. I think
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: we named a few, did we miss any obvious ones
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: though maybe Martell's Yeah it was.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: Our counted is like eleven of them?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, got them?
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: Is that Anthony Hitchen, Martello's Bellett, Chris Candy, Danny Amandola,
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: He's Saign as a free agent, Ken Norton you had.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: I didn't want to include Ken Norton since it wasn't
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: part of when you started. Then DeMarcus Ward up the naturally,
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: but some of them they won two three Super Bowl Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: it's just like, so what I got for you. I've
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: got a question for you, since you're so smart, and
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: then I'll have an opinion and i'll have a movies.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's see.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: Okay, question, When all said and done, chances are we're
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: gonna lose five or six starters.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Ye.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: So do you think.
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: If the Cowboys organization, you know, people say free agent
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: free agents sign here first week or whatever it's been
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: signed the free agents before the draft, do we lose
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: come constantory pick or we should wait until after the
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: draft so we don't lose it. I'm not sure we
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: because I know.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with this year's draft. It's
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: all next year's draft.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: Right of course, of course, that's what I'm talking about.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: So let be signed thanking and some of the free
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: agents we lost puper compensory pick because of them. Yeah,
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: so so if it with him, we're gonna have a
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: five of at least maybe four or five compensatory tick
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: for next year. So maybe Caboy's thinking, you're not signing
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: nobody we have been. They know what they have, you know,
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: and then I forget probably the weight after the draft.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: I thought. The question is after the draft to the
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: account also the same or no, they can sign afterwards,
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: then they don't have to give up the comps.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Comp Let me write this down, let's keep moving here.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I'll answer that.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: Then the second thing, the opinion I thought the most
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: crucial decision made by Cowboys last year because we were
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: so close, so close. I think Bobby Wagner the charge
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: to sign him as a free agent or the money
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: was in there, but he had a great year for
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: Seattle's and then if Madius Smith as a first round
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: draft pick, it would have hold up to his ponis
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: we would have lucky he would replace thank him during
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: the season. And Bobby Blackner, I think people would knock
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: him at least the conference and I think if the
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: signs Zeke, that shows they let him go one year
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: to Ellie and the movie for you, The Gladiator, I'll
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: watching a five or six starts.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, sounds good.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: That's what I have.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Alright, thank you. Never seen The Gladiator? I don't even
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: know what now?
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Russell Crowe? Is it? Okay? I don't know. I never
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: seen it. When you get that, okay, I'm sure it's great.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: All those movies kind of just just Troy and all that.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know, they just kind of went together. I apologize.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen that. Sounds like a guy movie for sure. Uh,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: all right, comp picks they I was a little confused
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: with what you were saying, because every free agent that
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: you that you lose, and there's a formula that goes
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: into this. It's how much how much you lost for it,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: you know, like how much you lost and what they
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: signed for versus, and then also how they play. So
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: it's a big formula formula, and then also what you
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: bring in and what you paid for and all that
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and that all gets determined for next year's draft. So
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, so this is all about next year.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter if you sign them right now,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: before the draft whatever. It's just the free agents that
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you sign. But remember this, it has to be a
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: free agent, an unrestricted free agent. The Cowboys have not
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: signed an unrestricted free agent this year. They have not.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Kendricks is not one. He got released. If Gallup signs
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: with someone, which I don't believe he has, he wouldn't
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: be an unrestricted free agent. He wouldn't be somebody while
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you've cut him. But they have lost Hankins, Pollard, Armstrong, Fowler, Gallamore.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: They've been agony. I think I'm missing somebody another one,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: but they've you know, they've obviously lost some some key
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: players there. The max you can only get is four
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: comp picks a year, unless you lost a general manager,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: unless somebody as a general manager or something like that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: But for the most part it's for players. It's just
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: for so that's probably the max, and I think they
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Colways have a shot to get for next year. All right,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: let's go to some more questions here. I got text
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: questions here justin from Iowa. Have you seen Mazzi recently?
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I wonder if he's getting stronger and putting the weight
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: back on remember he had shoulder surgery, so I don't know.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't know what what it's like
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: for the weight right now with him and what Zimmer
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: wants to do with him. But the first things first,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: he's got to get better from that that surgery right there.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: And then Kyle from East Brunswick, New Jersey. Why won't
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones just named Will McLay the GM. We all
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: know he's the one mainly pulling the strings. I don't
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: know about who's pulling what strings and all that. I think.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I think Will has a very very loud voice in
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the room for sure. But if we are, if you
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: already are know it, then what's the point that's I
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: think that's That's what Jerry thinks is you know, if
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: you knew that. I think Will's got a great gig
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: right now. I mean I think he's getting paid like
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a GM I would imagine, and he I think he's
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: got an excellent gig because he's, you know, whatever, whatever
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: the role is. We all know he gets a lot
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: of credit. I don't hear a lot of blame going
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: to him when it doesn't work out. So it's kind
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: of the best of both worlds, assuming that the money
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: is good. If he just wants the title, fine, I
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: don't think that stuff matters to him. You know, remember,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you know, he's it's it's a different situation for him.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's got a son who's eighteen years old.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I believe he is a senior you know, year for him,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and lives here in Dallas, and and so he's you know,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: he's even said that he's made a commitment to him.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: And who knows what what it looks like in the future.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: But I know that, you know, Will's been you know, compensated,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I think very well, and he's he gets a lot
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: of the credit. I just don't I don't. I don't
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: think there's a reason to kind of mess it up.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't really matter if you if you
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: know that, if you think that from New Jersey, if
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: that's what you think, then what's what would be the difference,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: you know what what would be the difference if he
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: had the title or not? I don't know if there
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: would be one. All right, let's go to Jeff in
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: North Carolina's he next? Jeff Dylan Dylan. I'm sorry, Miss
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Dylan Dylan, Northport Florida. How you doing get any hardware
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: recently and trophies?
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: I tagged you on on Twitter.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you saw it.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I saw it. Yeah, it's unbelievable. So so just just
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: to share that. You know, Dylan took it a step further. Yeah,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: you're right right, Yeah, all storyline team. You know, I'm
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: just trying to get some people some T shirts. But
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: this guy goes out and his wife gets you a trophy.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I mean we're talking like, I don't I don't know
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: if like NFL Player of the Year gets a trophy
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: like this. I mean, this is pretty nice.
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah it was.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: It was a good gift.
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: I guess my wife loves me, so I'm lucky.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah, lucky guy.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that was. That was pretty awesome. You're gonna,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, so don't get you a T shirt if
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: that's what we do, or still go ahead and get
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you a shirt.
• 32:29
  Speaker 9: Now that T shirt we get hung up right behind me,
• 32:31
  Speaker 9: right next to the award man, you go ahead give
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: me a T shirt too.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I'll take it all right, We're gonna we're working on
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: working on that right now. But yeah, I thought that
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: was really cool. That was That was a pretty neat thing,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: so good stuff.
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah, man, we appreciate you guys putting this together and everything.
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: So it's such a cool experience. I mean, it's cool
• 32:49
  Speaker 9: being a fan and all that, but like this is
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: like a whole other level.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: It's it's a community that you've built, and you know,
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: we appreciate that.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Well. I appreciate you guys giving you guys a voice
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and and and it's been really fun to see that
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: and hear that because, like I say all the time,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you guys have excellent opinions and excellent insight, and it
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: just blows me away. You know, this is my job,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: this is what I have to do kind of know
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: what's going on. You guys have other jobs, I would imagine,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and you still make the time for this, still make
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the time to know the ins and outs of what
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: this is, and that I mean, I think it's it's amazing,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: so pretty really impressive.
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: All right, So I'll just get in my question s
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: heare for you, I think I'll ask his questions and
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: then hang.
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: Up and listen.
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: You mentioned last week that the fan base was split
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: on DAK the same way it is on as it
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: was for Romo. But I think now that Romo's gone
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: and retired, I see so much more positivity around Romo's career,
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: and looking back, I don't see a lot of negative
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: things about him these days. So I was wondering, do
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: you think when Dak leaves, whether it's next year or
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: years from now, do you think that the fan base
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: five years, ten years and I might might look back
• 33:53
  Speaker 9: on Dak and be like, he.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Wasn't that bad.
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: Maybe I was wrong, or maybe maybe you could have
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: worked out work better.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just it's something I was thinking about.
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: It's kind of a recency bias thing. I think a
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: lot of times.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a very good point. Yeah, and I
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: think it will. I think it will be like that
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: because I mean, who doesn't like Dak? Like I'm talking like,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: you know, you see the interview, you hear the things
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: that you know, see what he's doing off the field.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, even even the harshest critics, even the guys
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: that get on there and just you know, just bash
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: him for everything, they all kind of qualify it with
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I like Dak. I like him, you know, and they do.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: And he's very easily you know, he's easily liked. But
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, you want your
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: quarterback to take you to the super Bowl. I mean,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: that's what you want, So yeah, I think I think
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that's a very good point. And yeah, Romo's hasn't hasn't
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: made any plays, hasn't thrown any interceptions, so you know lately,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: so that, yeah, I mean it recently. Biased is a
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: very very good, good phrase for this, and I think
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: that that will happen, but no one cares about that
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: right now because they want their quarterback who's making a
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: lot of money, to lead them to the super Bowl.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, I agree and point though this.
• 35:03
  Speaker 9: Kind of ties into my next question, and this one
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: isn't necessarily about Dak, but it's about the quarterbacks from
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: the league. It's do you think the quarterback It's obviously
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: the most important position, but do you think it's overvalued?
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: And I say that in the sense that it's like
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: gms run the league are living in fear of not
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: having one. Then all the gms are the owners of
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: the team, so they can't just do whatever they want.
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: And if you don't have a quarterback, obviously you're not competitive.
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: And that's why you see like Daniel Jones and these
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: guys get these contracts when they probably shouldn't. Yeah, I
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: went over last week the quarterbacks stracted since twenty fifteen,
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: the only one is won the Super Bowl. But in
• 35:35
  Speaker 9: the same vein, seven out of the last nine Super
• 35:38
  Speaker 9: Bowls had a quarterback on a rookie deal. So those
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: rookie deals are really powerful. But you have to find
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: the right guy, and it almost seems like you have
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: to create a super team that manages the cap well
• 35:48
  Speaker 9: and then you can plug in a number of quarterbacks
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: into Instead of a quarterback elevating the team right away,
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: the team elevates the quarterback until the quarterback gets to
• 35:55
  Speaker 9: a point three four years down the road where they
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: can go off and do their own thing. Do you
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: think the team should turn every four year or so
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: the quarterback is more to manage that stalary cap better.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: It's getting there. It's getting there, Dylan, it really is.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I think I don't. I think you're onto something. I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: think teams know that, and uh, we're at that point
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: where I think you are going to see some teams
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: do that, and sometimes you do it and you kind
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: of back into it because if an injury or something
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: like that, it wasn't your plan to just flip the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: quarterback every four years. Yeah, but but I mean it
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: kind of happens like that. But yeah, I definitely think
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: that that's there's something to that. I gotta have more
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: of a theory on that. But you got any more
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: more questions? Are you good?
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: No?
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: That's it, man, Thank you.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Appreciate that good stuff from Dylan in Northport, Florida. You know,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: And I'm not I was never good in science, okay,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: so forgive me on this. But I always think, and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I always think that stuff like this, like signing a
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: quarterback or you know, having a top quarterback. It's kind
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: of like it's my analogy here is like it's like
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: a tornado, okay, because you got to have hot air
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: and cold air and mixes together, and then you got
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: this crazy tornado that you could just cause all kinds
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: of destruction. And that's sort of what it's like with
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a quarterback. Signing a quarterback because you got to have one,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: right you just said you can't. You don't have a quarterback,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: then you're screwed. But then you have a quarterback, what
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: do you have to do? You have to pay him.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: You pay the quarterback. Now you don't have any money
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: for anybody else. You see all these teams that are
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: in cap hel, all of these teams have pretty much
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: have a quarterback that they've signed like that, and they
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: haven't won. They haven't won. Kansas City has problems too,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: but they've won. So you don't think of it than
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: the same. You know, they gotta get rid of Tyreek call,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: they gotta get rid of guys. I mean they have to,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: they have that. Stuff kind of has to happen. But
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: it's it's like this, like which which way is it?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: You know, because you mix it together, you gotta have
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a quarterback. You gotta pay him. Paying a quarterback hurts
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: your team. Not having a quarterback hurts your team. Mix
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: it together? Its tornado? All right? About that? About that?
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Take that Patrick Walker for your science. I'm just kidding,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: all right, Jonathan from South Southern California. Do you think
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Dak's future being uncertain will affect the draft? We are
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: more likely to draft an offensive linemen to protect Dak
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: if we just signed him to a four year contract.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: So saying what do you yeah? I mean I that
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: goes back to what I was just saying about. You know,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: you got to figure this out. So yeah, you got
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: a draft. If you're gonna keep Dak, you obviously got
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: to protect him. You know. If Dak's the house, better
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: get a fence around him. But if you're not gonna
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: do that, then yeah, I mean, I don't know if
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: it'll affect the draft as far as taking one in
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the first or second round. There might be a quarterback
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: that falls and and you will be watching the draft
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: or let's to the draft show, and they'll they'll they'll say, well,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: are the Cowboys interested, you know, because what about Dak's future?
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Should they be looking at this guy? This guy, this guy.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: But I think where that that'll come into play is
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: if there is a quarterback falling, I think Jerry will
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: be interested in trades. That's where you get the most value.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: If somebody says I'm moving up because I'm taking this guy,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: and I'm you know, we've seen it twice in the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: in the past where the Cowboys have traded their first
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: round pick for a team jumping up to get a quarterback.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: So I would think that would be the case. And
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: if it's time to go get a quarterback, then I
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: think the Cowboys will do that. But you also got
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: to remember, you know, they do have Trey Lance, at
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: least for this year they have they have Trey Lance,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: so if they they wanted to develop a quarterback, they
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: still kind of have him on the roster as well.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Jeff in North Carolina.
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: What's going on?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Hey, Jeff? How you doing?
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: Man?
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: I'm doing pretty good by yourself, outstanding. Yeah, been a
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: couple of weeks since a talk to you. Man, luck
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: going on here lately?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, everything's fine.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I actually I had a little bump up in
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: my work. They got got rare ended and uh and
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: uh so my being a little sore, did you.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Get mad or did you say? I mean, I can't
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: imagine you're getting upset?
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: I mean no, I actually you know, this happened so fast,
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: and uh, I immediately got out to check on everybody
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: involved in That's what I would.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Expect you to do.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and but but I'm actually I took this week off,
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: so I'm uh so I had the time. I was
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: gonna give you a call, but I go tell you
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: I listened to Thursday show, and man, that was such
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: a great show. It was just awesome. It was so good.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: I had to go back and listen to it again.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: But there were so many good calls.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: And I love I love that. Yeah, I mean I
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: said it immediately afterwards. I don't know what it was,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: the mix of everything. I thought it was a great show.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you saying that.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: I did too.
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: You and I had to out down some points that
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: some of the guys. I love what Rob said about
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: about wonder if Jerry and them was mad because Dak
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: or some of them wouldn't take team friendly deals. I've
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: always felt that that that Jerry and Stevens have a
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: misconception that guys will play for the Cowboys for less money,
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: and I just it's just, I mean, you know, they're
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: they got a job to do, I mean, and Dak's
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: agents trying to get the most.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Money he can get.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: I'm for his client. That's that's his job. So so
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: I've always thought Jerry and them, you know, they just
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: I've never understood why they think. I know, they make
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: money off the field, you know, being in Dallas. But
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: still it's just but but it's like you said, other
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: quarterbacks in the league and their agents look at that too,
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: and so it's kind of fraternity. And also I was
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: thinking about some of the players. I've always felt we
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: sometimes we hold on the players too long, and that's
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: and like giving some of them second contracts or third
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: contracts when they didn't need them, and and that's kind
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: of why we're in cap trouble. And so I was thinking,
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: whatever happens going forward, you know, whether whether once we
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: get out of this cap trouble we're in, if we're
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: whether it be trades or whether you know, I still
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: hear they may try to trade your back through the draft.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: I mean, I've I've heard so many things.
• 42:26
  Speaker 10: My mind.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: My brain's just turned the mush. I've heard so everybody's
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: wondering what they're going to do. But but going forward,
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: if once we get our cap into control of what
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: I'd like to see them, do you know you get
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: elite players, then by by all means you keep signing
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: them and signing them long term. But our role players,
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: you know, maybe be a little bit more conservative about
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: re signing them. We do such a good job drafting
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: that I feel like some of these guys, some of
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: the role players can be replaced, and you know, before
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: they get to their second some guys get to theirselfs
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: could contract him. I mean, I know it's easier said
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: than done, but but I just think that way that
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: would keep our cap healthier. And uh, because you know,
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: because we got guys, just like we've been talking, they're
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: going into the third year and never really got a
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: chance to play, and they're probably gonna have to have
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: that chance this year. And and I just think, you know,
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: maybe that's why sometimes we get I mean, I know
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: they like to keep their own players, but but I
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: just think the role the the role players. Maybe you
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: you keep drafting, you know, maybe draft a pass rusher
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: late in the draft every other year the same way
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: with Yeah, I don't know, I think.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Uh, Jeff, I think you can. You could make the
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: case that that's kind of what they're doing. And that's
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: what they did last year, you know what I mean
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: that they said, yeah, yeah, we we would like to
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: have Dorin Armstrong, but certainly not at this price or
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Dante Fowler. So we're gonna say it's your turn. It's
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: your turn. Sam Williams, Fam Williams.
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: And you know, if Sam Williams has a couple of
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: good years, maybe he just goes in free agency after
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: his fourth year and you get another guy. You know what,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I mean so right exactly. You could make the case
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: they're kind of doing that, you know, but.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: But I feel like that's what they've always should have
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: done with the running back position. I probably never would
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: have given Zeke a second contract, but of course he
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: held out and they did what they had to do.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: But I always think you have to run back, run
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: that guy for five years or whatever, and then draft
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: another one, you know.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: But that's the thing, Jeff, you have any any other
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: questions or are we good?
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: No? I think I'd be it. But I appreciate you
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: taking a call.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Thank you, Jeff. You know that to me
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: is so easier said than done about the running back
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: and and you know, run these guys into the ground,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: get another one, you know, it's it's not that's not
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott running back Ohio State. That's Zeke's Zeke. Okay,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: that he gave you everything, and that's where you you
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: can You could argue about the way Jerry Jones does
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: a lot of things and business why you know, whatever
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: you want to say, but Jerry is loyal and he's
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: a human being, and he knows that that ze is
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: a heartbeat of the team and so it's it's really
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: easy to just say no, not giving a running back
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: to second a year or third contract or whatever. But
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: when it's time and you're you're looking at your football
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: team and you're like, you know, we got this this
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: going on, and we can do this, and we're pretty
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: good on offense, and we can run the ball, and
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: we just keep Zeke and we you know, like easier
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: said than done. I mean, when would you have done that?
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: When would you have said now? Now, we're not going
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: with Zeke because it doesn't it doesn't work that way
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: because you have to make decisions before decisions. So it
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't just go five years and you're like, oh, wait, oh,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Zeke's contract's done, should we sign him or not? No, No,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: it starts in the third year. Now. Now running backs
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: are getting paid. Todd Gurley gets a deal, We're gonna
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: pay Zeke. You're gonna start this clock and get them,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: you know, a new one because he's only what twenty
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: four to twenty five. Let's let's do it now, you know.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: And then and then you got to pick up a
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: fifty year option. You got to make that decision in
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the fourth year. So we're seeing it with CD like
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: nothing sneaking up on CD's contracts. Not out, you know,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: but like nothing's sneaking up on it. But it's just
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: all these decisions that are gonna be made. And so
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna say, now, we're gonna let you go,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of awkward because you're making that
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: decision before he's actually gone. That's that's something you have
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: to remember. You don't just say you're running for five
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: years and he's done, because by the three and a
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: half the four years, you're already making that decision that
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna do it, And that creates a weird
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: dynamic of oh, yeah, we love Zeke, Yeah he's great,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: why don't you give him a new deal?
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know if any of that makes sense, but
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's it's a lot harder than it
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: sounds to just to just not keep the players because
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: you're trying to keep the team intact and you're trying
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: to do the best you can and you got to
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: make these decisions and it's just not it's not always
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: easy to do it that way. So all right, I
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: hope that made a sense at all. Bruce and Houston
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: next call.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Man. I hadn't been able to get on since I
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: heard I was the first teamer there. Where do I
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: pick up my trophy?
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Well this is where you pick it up. You
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: you you get a hold of Dylan's wife and say
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: where did you get your deal? I need another one.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Change my name to this and send it here. No,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not all right. That was a beautiful trophy by
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the way, from from Dylan Flora. I was pretty. But
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: we're gonna just do Measley old T shirt. Sorry.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean I couldn't get on. I tried to
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: get on, and you're like Taylor Swift. I feel like
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: one of the Swifties.
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: I just can't get on.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: You're so sinking popular.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Well there's there's a first.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris, Chris told me this feature and tell that
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: to Nick.
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna call this show. This is Nick's version.
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: How about that.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: You've been calling a lot of things for never Swift.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is this is the Knick's version of
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: her podcast.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: That's actually a compliment. But anyway, Uh, just like Dylan.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: She's the best thing.
• 48:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a fan of the music so much,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: but she's out she's outstanding. I got daughters and they
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: love her, and she's outstanding and she is. She embraces
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: the role model that she is and I have a
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: lot of respect for her and how she how she
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: lifted the Chiefs to a super Bowl, I mean amazing.
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my daughter's thirty and she she likes her too.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know about that lifting the Chiefs
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: to the super Bowl.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Uh, it did something.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: My homes is pretty good. Yeah, No, you're right. Uh,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: like Dylan said in the last caller mentioned, you know,
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: the hardest thing I've heard. I think Bill Parcell said
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: it's hard to Well it's not hard, but it's the
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: timing when to let her play, you know, to let
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: a player go a year early, a year late, you know,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: like with DeMarcus where that was tough and then you
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: know he he went on and won a super Bowl.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: But nine times out of ten that don't usually happen.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: We'll see with uh Tyron Smith if it works out
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: that way with the Jets. But but you do have
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: to move on running back. I'm sorry, Zeke just held
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: you know, and you talked about Jerry Jones being uh
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: loyal but a loyal to a fault almost, wouldn't you
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: agree that?
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, I mean, I mean it hurt him
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: in the nineties, it did. He paid for what they
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: had done and not so much what they projected to
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: do and be, you know, and and that's but that's
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: who he is, I mean as a as a person,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: that that's who he is. I mean, no, of.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Course, I mean, and that's why the players still love him.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, even if they retire, they come around him. Yeah,
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: but Zekel, I mean the running back position in particular,
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: there's not going to be another Emmitt Smith that runs
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: ten well year, You're just not gonna see it. Right linebacker,
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: you can throw that in position as well. It seems
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: like every three or four years you need to be
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: drafting one. It's just yeah, even if Ezekiel was high
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: talent for picking the draft, you know, but that's what
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Dallas is gonna have to do it. And this year
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: if they could, if they could double dip on offensive linemen,
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: I'd like to see him do it. But I think
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: they're probably gonna have to use their second round take
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: to get a stud running back because that's what we need.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: I'd like to see Ezekiel el it come for the
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: league many Heck, we're paying him six million in dead money,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: we might as well get some usage out of him,
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: you know. But uh, And as far as Dak goes,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: you're right. All the teams want to achieve quarterback and
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: have an awesome team around him. Like someone said, you
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: know that lifts up the quarterback instead of the quarterback
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: lift up the team. And so with Dak, And you're right.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: I've said it many times myself. I like Dak, but
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: we want a super Bowl man. I was spoiled by
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Roger Staubach and Troy Apan and so that's what we want.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: And if we don't get that, you know, hey, we
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: were quickly kick him to the curb Trey Lance. We
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: don't know what he's gonna do, but we need to
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: find out because you can get him on that cheap.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: He's he's just as young as some of the rookie
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: quarterbacks that are gonna be in the draft. So and
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: he's been in the league two or three years, so
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: you've got a little jump on him there. I don't
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: know what they see him. I don't know if you've
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: seen him play, but we're gonna find out in the preseason.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: But and if they don't and and Dak falls out
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: and takes him to the super Bowl or Championship game,
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: well then he's gonna cost seventy million a year. That's
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: what it's gonna cost. But if he don't, then Dallas
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: can reset and move on. They'll get a third round
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: compensatory pick unless they make a crazy trade, which I
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: don't think is gonna happen. But anyway, good shoe, Nick,
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: have a good buddy.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Thanks. I appreciate that. You know interesting, Helen, get some
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: water here. I was going to say an interesting point
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: about Trey Lance is that you don't have him under
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: contract for very long because they're not going to do
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: the fifth year option on him. I think his price
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: tag goes up next year, so or this is his
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: fourth year, so this is really it for him. This
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: is you got to figure out on him this year.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: So it's not like you've got him in the fold
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: for a few years. He's only on their contract for
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: one more year. All right, Robin Vegas.
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, rob I agree with Dylan about Romo. I
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: think I think all the fans loved Romo because we
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: looked at him like he's good enough, but the team
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: was never good enough and then but by the time
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: the team got better, his body just broke down. And
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: you know, we forget that they after Zeke to play
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: with Romo. That would have been that would have been something,
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: you know, And what worries me about, you know, with
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: Dak now is you know, if he goes in last
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: year of his deal, is he gonna ball out? Because
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: we've talked about this in the past. What makes Dak
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: a really good quarterback is when he would run and throw.
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: So I don't know is he going to say to himself,
• 53:31
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I'm going to try to get
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: that first down, you know, because if I get injured, now,
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: who's gonna pay me? You know, So I don't know
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: if that goes into an athlete's head. Unfortunately, I never
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: been in that position where I'm making fifty million, you know,
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: so I don't I don't know if that would factor.
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: But I would hate to even think about that. When
• 53:55
  Speaker 6: I see him on thirty five run out, you know,
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: instead of maybe taking on defa to back, he slides
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: and runs out about. You know, I'd be like, come on,
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: So that's I think there's just there's no contracting is
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: going to be an issue all year because of stuff
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: like that.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: No, and I oh, I think it's great that Dylan
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: got that trophy. Ilwa was saying, you know, we should
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: do a we should send in pictures, you know, for
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: the old story line team like they do on Monday
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: Night football. Yeah, you know Ralph from Vegas, Staten Island,
• 54:34
  Speaker 6: New York. You know, you know, something like that, and
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: then we'll send them to you and somehow you put
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: them up on the wall or something that.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't know about you know, we have
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: to share. It's a shared space here. But one thing
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: we are going to do is I've been saying it
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: for a little while, but I am gonna we are
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: going to to add some a video element here where
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: I want some of you guys to send in your question,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: uh from a from a you know, a video fifteen
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: twenty thirty seconds whatever, and we'll put it out here
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: on the screen and then we'll you know, be able
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: to kind of see that and then again kind of
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: put a face to the name and voice.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: So that's another thing, you know, you got to you
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: gotta keep turning into this thing. And so that's what
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: we're looking at next. Year or this this year.
• 55:16
  Speaker 6: Actually, so yeah, I think that'd be that'd be cool.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: So all right, all right, Rob, good stuff? Yea? Anything else?
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: You good?
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: No, I'm good, I'm good.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: It was hard to get in, but that's a that's
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: a good.
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: You made it a good deal.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: You made it right here, you made it right here
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: in the ninth ninth, all right, speaking of see you later,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the ninth, we'll go this our ninth callers,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: our last one of the day. Michael and Colton, California. Michael,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: what's up?
• 55:43
  Speaker 10: What's going on?
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: Nick?
• 55:44
  Speaker 10: Cappy? Eastern everybody. I'll make it real quick, but uh hey,
• 55:47
  Speaker 10: I think that uh, you know, I think that for
• 55:50
  Speaker 10: the last couple of years, there's been such a big
• 55:52
  Speaker 10: emphasis on you know, first round, we got to take
• 55:54
  Speaker 10: an old lineman in our offensive line, you know, and
• 55:56
  Speaker 10: I know offensive line is very important, but I think
• 55:59
  Speaker 10: it's we should look more into building this defense, you
• 56:02
  Speaker 10: know what I mean. We get gashed up a lot
• 56:04
  Speaker 10: in the middle, and I just think that our focus
• 56:07
  Speaker 10: needs to be on defense.
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 56:08
  Speaker 10: I think I think I'm pretty excited to see what
• 56:11
  Speaker 10: these with these youngsters can do. Excuse me, I say
• 56:13
  Speaker 10: youngsters but you know, the younger guys what they can do.
• 56:16
  Speaker 10: I think I think t J. Bash, I think he's
• 56:19
  Speaker 10: gonna be pretty solid, you know, awesome Richards, you know
• 56:21
  Speaker 10: what I mean. I'm I'm pretty curious to see what
• 56:23
  Speaker 10: they're gonna do. And I just don't I just don't
• 56:26
  Speaker 10: see why there's such an all we need a first
• 56:29
  Speaker 10: round offensive line pick, you know. I think it's time
• 56:31
  Speaker 10: we start building up that defense, you know, and or
• 56:34
  Speaker 10: even we could even trade down and maybe pick up
• 56:36
  Speaker 10: an Edrin Cooper or I'm not sure about Peyton Wilson,
• 56:40
  Speaker 10: you know, just because the whole injury history. I'm not
• 56:42
  Speaker 10: trying to do the lv EA thing again. You know,
• 56:44
  Speaker 10: Ladon Vanders is great man, his rookie year. Man, that
• 56:47
  Speaker 10: dude is bad and he's still is that dude a
• 56:49
  Speaker 10: good ball player, you know, but just you know, injuries,
• 56:51
  Speaker 10: you know, I wouldn't want to go down that road,
• 56:53
  Speaker 10: you know, but maybe we could even trade back and
• 56:55
  Speaker 10: recoup that fourth front pick or or even Jeremiah Trotter Man.
• 56:59
  Speaker 10: I think that dude a solid right there. But you
• 57:02
  Speaker 10: can't have to everybody and shout off to the whole
• 57:04
  Speaker 10: Cowboys nation and thank you forking Mike Paul, you have.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: A great days, Michael, appreciate that. You know, when you're
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: picking twenty fourth, and not only twenty fourth in the
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: first round, but you're picking in that range in the
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: second and the third, I mean, you just you just
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: got to go to good players. I mean, so if
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: it ends up being a defensive guy, there's a reason
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: that he there's a way he can help. There's a
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: way that the edge rusher can help. If it's a
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: defensive tackle, he can certainly help. If it's a linebacker,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: if it's a corner, he can probably help, you know,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: down the road a little bit too. So if it's offense.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: If it's a center, you're starting. You know. If it's
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: a if it's a guard, then Tyler Spith playing tackle.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: If it's a tackle, Tyler Spence playing guard and you're starting.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: You know, if it's a running back, you're starting. So
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a you can make a case for
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: just about anything. So even a receiver, if there was
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: some awesome ceed Lamb type of guy that's falling to you,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, you can make a case for it.
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks won't be here forever. So in CD, you know,
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: some of the great offenses have two really good receivers,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: so you can make a case for everything. My point is,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: if he's if he's worthy of the spot that you're taking,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: go for it because I guarantee he can help. That's
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: what this team needs. They need guys that can help.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: All Right, sounds good. We'll see you on Thursday on
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Cowboys storyline. So for Chris b I'm Nick Eatman. We'll
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: see you, then see it.
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