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  Speaker 1: The following.
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  Speaker 2: He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eapman.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It's been a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: February the twelfth is the is the date right now, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: February the twelfth. It's been a week. I know you
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  Speaker 1: guys love that, you love going weekly here. But let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see how quickly you can make these calls and
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  Speaker 1: get them in here and see how many we can
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  Speaker 1: get here in about an hour and forty five hour
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  Speaker 1: and fifteen minutes or so until the Cowboys break comes
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  Speaker 1: on at eleven a m. All right, we've to the
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  Speaker 1: football season is completely over. No more football until training camp.
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  Speaker 1: I know we got the draft, free agency, all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but the Super Bowl kind of capped that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening to this show and you listen all
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  Speaker 1: the time, that means you're a die hard Cowboy fans,
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  Speaker 1: and that means you hated the Super Bowl, or I
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  Speaker 1: would think unless you're one of those that didn't want
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City to get the fifth win, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I think Philadelphia holding the trophy in the airs. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty gross, so I would imagine you didn't love it.
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  Speaker 1: We can talk about it and talk about what it
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  Speaker 1: means for the cowboys and the cowboys moving forward, how
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  Speaker 1: they can get back to that level or anywhere close
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  Speaker 1: to it. That's what we can talk about it, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Eight A, A, eight, five, five, two two ninety seven
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  Speaker 1: is the numbers to call. Let's go out west Sacramento.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty early out there, Greg, Sacramento. What's up?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, how you doing Nick? Good morning?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning? How are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing well. It's a little old here, but I
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  Speaker 4: got the kids with me. They wanted to say Hi up.
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  Speaker 1: Kids go to schooling too?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to way to school. Yeah, exactly awesome
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  Speaker 4: because I tried to. I tried to college like during
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  Speaker 4: the other times. I didn't try to get off for
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  Speaker 4: like three weeks. But I feel like I've just been
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  Speaker 4: waiting too late to call maybe, so I figured today
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  Speaker 4: I'll call.
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  Speaker 5: Nice and early.
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  Speaker 1: Got your first.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, the first one, and I'm kind of surprised, but anyway,
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  Speaker 4: I had a we have a couple of questions for you,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, actually Benji wanted to ask one, So what
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  Speaker 4: did you want to.
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  Speaker 1: Coach? All right, that's a great question. That's a great question.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Greg, what's your question?
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  Speaker 4: And then my question is I know you're not a
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  Speaker 4: big draft guy, but I just want to know, like,
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  Speaker 4: what position do you think would be? And I know
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  Speaker 4: we have a lot of needs on the team, but
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  Speaker 4: what position would you like to see?
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  Speaker 6: I guess I'd like.
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  Speaker 4: To see the Cowboys draft. And then actually have one
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  Speaker 4: more question.
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  Speaker 7: How do I get your book?
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  Speaker 4: Don't get your book. I want to get a copy
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  Speaker 4: of your book because I want to bring Benji the
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  Speaker 4: training camp this this upcoming, uh you know, this next year,
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  Speaker 4: and I want to try to get your book signed
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  Speaker 4: and have him be able to meet you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm gonna bring some books to training
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  Speaker 1: camp this year so I'll be able to have some
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  Speaker 1: So that's probably one of the easiest things to do.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll have some there, and you know that won't
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  Speaker 1: look self serving at all, but I'll still I'll bring
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  Speaker 1: some habit and then if I see somebody like I
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  Speaker 1: saw you last year on the fence and all that
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  Speaker 1: and say like hey, I need a book, I can
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  Speaker 1: go get one and I can do that. So all right, thanks,
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  Speaker 1: Greg take Benja see you later. First question from Benji,
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  Speaker 1: what do I think of the new coach? He's undefeated,
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  Speaker 1: and I and I say that, I'm not really joking
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  Speaker 1: when I say that, like, like, so we're not judging
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  Speaker 1: off anything other than what we hear and what we
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  Speaker 1: see and and and the stuff that he says. So far,
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  Speaker 1: so good. I like the staff that that he's putting together,
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  Speaker 1: or he's pretty much put together. Seems pretty personable, down
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  Speaker 1: to earth, but also you know, he's motivated and all that.
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  Speaker 1: It all sounds good right now, and I and I
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  Speaker 1: get it. He's going to continue to impress people along
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  Speaker 1: the way until the season starts, and then then from there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all bets are off and that's just the
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  Speaker 1: way it goes. Everybody loved Jason Garrett. Everyone loved Jason
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  Speaker 1: Garrett as a player, for that awesome game when he
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  Speaker 1: when he was a player, just the stuff that he
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  Speaker 1: said the offensive coordinator when he was an offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: he takes over as an interim, Everything was good. And
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  Speaker 1: then you go eight and eight three years in a row,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody changes their opinion. So my point is is,
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  Speaker 1: right now, I like what I'm what I'm hearing and seeing,
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  Speaker 1: but I know it's early, and no one gets judged
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  Speaker 1: on what they do in February and March and April
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  Speaker 1: and all that. Boy position what I draft. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they can cover all of their needs
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  Speaker 1: and free agency. They just they're not built that way,
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  Speaker 1: and so unfortunately that they're going to go into the
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  Speaker 1: draft with some pretty big needs. Fortunately, you do have
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  Speaker 1: the twelfth pick and then you get the forty fourth
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  Speaker 1: pick in the second round, so you got you got
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  Speaker 1: some spots where you can, you can you should get
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  Speaker 1: some players early.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I think your offensive line is going to be
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  Speaker 1: needed at twelve. So I'm fine with with one of
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  Speaker 1: those guard tackles there. And I'm fine drafting a tackle
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  Speaker 1: and saying, all right, well so far so it's not
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  Speaker 1: working out with Tyler Geyton. If he changes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and he gets better, great, but if you can't count
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  Speaker 1: on that at this moment, so I would I would
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  Speaker 1: draft an offensive lineman. I'd be fine with that. I'd
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  Speaker 1: be fine if an edge rusher was the spot there,
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  Speaker 1: because what I saw from Philadelphia the other night, just
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  Speaker 1: just keep don't trade Micah, give him another, give me
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  Speaker 1: another Micah, and I don't know if that's possible, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not about trading Micah. I'm about getting more pass rush,
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  Speaker 1: more game wreckers, because that's exactly what happened there. So
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  Speaker 1: that's all right. Those are those are my three questions there.
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  Speaker 1: Good job, Greg and Benji and the kids are out
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  Speaker 1: in Sacermento. Let's go to Gary and in Mexico.
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  Speaker 9: I think, Nick, how's it going good?
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing? Good morning?
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  Speaker 9: I'm good man. This is the best time of the
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  Speaker 9: year to be a Cowboys fan because we still have hope.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, let me let me start. Let me ask you
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  Speaker 9: my trivia question for the week, if that's okay, and
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  Speaker 9: then I'll get to this year's team.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Defense.
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  Speaker 9: Philadelphia's defense dominated that game on Sunday. They did so
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  Speaker 9: in light of that, can you name for me the
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  Speaker 9: four Dallas Cowboy defenders to score touchdowns in the Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 1: Four that has scored a touchdown in the Super Bowl? Yes? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So let's go backwards here, or at least
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm going backwards. James Washington, he scored to
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  Speaker 1: Bowl twenty eight, should have an MVP. I agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: James Washington. Let's see Ken Norton Junior, Jimmy Jones, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Jones, and then Mike Hagman, Mike super Bowl thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: that's right.
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  Speaker 9: That's right man. Holly Wood hinders some hell, Terry Bradshaw
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  Speaker 9: and Mike Kegman stripped the ball six. Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 9: think I don't know this for sure, man. I think
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  Speaker 9: Dallas holds the record for most defensive touchdowns in the
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  Speaker 9: Super Bowl, but I don't know that for sure.
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  Speaker 10: And I will tell you that.
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  Speaker 1: And who should have been the fifth one?
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  Speaker 9: Who should have been the fifth one? Well, you're talking
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  Speaker 9: about Dallas player to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about a defensive player that that got really,
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  Speaker 1: really really close the score to the touchdown and didn't.
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  Speaker 9: Is it Larry Brown?
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  Speaker 1: It's Leon Less is who I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, Oh that's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 6: Should you should ban.
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  Speaker 7: Me from your show?
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  Speaker 1: Because that's what happens when you're like next level, you're
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  Speaker 1: thinking of all the little other ones. You kind of
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  Speaker 1: forget that one or most people have blocked that one out.
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  Speaker 9: But yeah, that one still hurts me. I really wanted
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  Speaker 9: them to get fifty nine points in that game. I
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  Speaker 9: was mad when that happened, But yeah, you're right, man,
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  Speaker 9: Leon Led How do we forget that? Okay, well, let's
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  Speaker 9: talk about this year's team. You're talking about the draft, man,
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  Speaker 9: for Dallas, just get the best player available. They don't
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  Speaker 9: need the cherry pick stuff. Whoever is the best player
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  Speaker 9: on your board. Just drafting, yeah, and go from there.
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  Speaker 9: But you saw that with Philadelphia on Sunday. Their defensive
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  Speaker 9: line dominated that football game. And if you go back
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  Speaker 9: and look at Cowboys super Bowl champions, they when they're
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  Speaker 9: winning super Bowls, they have dominant defensive lines. They have
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  Speaker 9: number one picks across the board. That was true with Landry,
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  Speaker 9: that was true with Jimmy Johnson. You got to get
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  Speaker 9: strong in the trenches, man. That the superstars on the
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  Speaker 9: outside are fun, but if you're not solid up front,
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  Speaker 9: it ain't gonna matter. And what Philadelphia did on Sunday
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  Speaker 9: was just awesome the way they and more power to them, man.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm not mad or upset because the Eagles won
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  Speaker 9: the Super Bowl. My model, the Cowboy fans and the
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  Speaker 9: Jerry and Stevens just go out and do a better job.
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  Speaker 6: Go do a better job.
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  Speaker 9: Of building team, but you gotta get strong upfront. So
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  Speaker 9: with that amount, what are your thoughts on the defensive
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  Speaker 9: line and how we might be able to get better
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  Speaker 9: in that area moving forward?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think I think to me, it starts
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  Speaker 1: with Micah and I'm I'm not about trading him, I'm
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  Speaker 1: about adding more pieces there. And I think, like they
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  Speaker 1: did two years ago, when it was just how are
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  Speaker 1: these guys gonna all play? You know, Sam Williams and
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  Speaker 1: and Dante Fowler and Doran's armstrong and tank and and
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  Speaker 1: and of course Micah and you just kind of figure
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  Speaker 1: it out and and and they just stay stay ready,
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  Speaker 1: stay hungry, all that. And then when when that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: happen like this year, and then you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: well we're a little bit depleted. And then you keep
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  Speaker 1: getting injuries. Now now you've got a huge problem. So
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  Speaker 1: my point is I'm overloading there. I'm overloading that that
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  Speaker 1: position with with pass rushers, and you can't have enough.
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  Speaker 1: You just can't have enough. And then and if the
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  Speaker 1: worst problem is is that Sam Williams or Micah tweets
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  Speaker 1: out something like you know, they don't plaint me enough
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  Speaker 1: or I need to play more that's the worst thing.
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  Speaker 1: Then that's fine because then they're pissed off and then
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  Speaker 1: and then they rush the passer even better. So I
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  Speaker 1: just don't think you can have too many at that position.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm overloading there because that's what Rex games to me.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, can I can I make one more comment on
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  Speaker 9: that real quick? Of course, on that, A lot of
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  Speaker 9: people complain about Micah and he talks a lot and
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  Speaker 9: makes a lot of noise. Yeah, if you go back
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  Speaker 9: and just look at Cowboys, sister, and this goes all
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  Speaker 9: the way back to the seventies. Man, when they're winning championships,
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  Speaker 9: they have a little bit of crazy on defense. Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: I mean, Hollywood Henderson was a loud mouth show off,
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  Speaker 9: but he backed it up on the field. Charles Haley,
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  Speaker 9: you know, he was out there a little bit. You
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  Speaker 9: need a little bit of that on defense. You need
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  Speaker 9: a little bit of an edge, And I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 9: I'm okay with having a little bit of an edge
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  Speaker 9: on that side of the ball. But just go out
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  Speaker 9: and produce.
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  Speaker 6: So all right, thank you, Nick.
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  Speaker 1: I apprecure it. Yeah, you're right. I mean you can
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  Speaker 1: go to Dion Sanders and you know, I mean Ray
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  Speaker 1: Lewis on with other teams and straight handed, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that everybody's different in their own way. But being vocal,
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  Speaker 1: being loud, being confident, cocky, whatever you want to say,
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  Speaker 1: it swag is. You know that that's part of it too.
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  Speaker 1: And you know the the the Cowboys need a little
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  Speaker 1: bit they need more of that for sure. So anyways,
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  Speaker 1: good call, thanks for the trivia question, and let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Brian in Kansas City. Brian, what's up?
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  Speaker 11: Good morning, mister Eatman. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 11: I'm doing all right.
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  Speaker 12: I'm doing all right.
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  Speaker 11: Glad to be off for the day and get a
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  Speaker 11: chance to talk to Chris and you. And here here
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  Speaker 11: what Cowboys Nation has to say about the Eagles? What
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  Speaker 11: is that there?
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  Speaker 1: How's it going? How's it going in Kansas City?
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  Speaker 11: I think you know the answer to that, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I mean seriously, though, is it like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe this happened? Or is it still? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is like when you don't win a third straight? I
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  Speaker 1: mean you still you still have enough to hang your
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  Speaker 1: hat on a little bit.
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  Speaker 11: Well, so you know, the culture here is Kansas City
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  Speaker 11: is kind of a smaller city. You know, it's it's
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  Speaker 11: not New York, it's not La it's not Chicago, so.
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  Speaker 12: It's a little bit more of a smaller city feel.
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  Speaker 11: So when something like that happens, it's just crushing, you know,
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  Speaker 11: it's just just soul crushing. Like really, we got like
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  Speaker 11: we didn't even play competitively, you know, you know, as
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  Speaker 11: a Cowboys fan, I'm like, yeah, I feel your pain.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it happens, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, so but yeah it it was nobody and I
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  Speaker 11: don't think anybody in the sporting world. I knew that
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  Speaker 11: the Eagles were really, really, really good in the trenches.
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  Speaker 11: Maybe they have the best offensive and defensive lines right now.
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  Speaker 11: And I didn't see it coming. And I you know,
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  Speaker 11: I've been watching football for decades and decades, and I
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  Speaker 11: just thought, Mahomes is Mahomes and somehow he's gonna pull
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  Speaker 11: a rabbit out of his hat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I thought so.
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  Speaker 12: So all right, what do you got, Bran, Well, so
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  Speaker 12: think thinking that through. What I was wondering is, you know,
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  Speaker 12: listening to all the draft shows and all the people
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  Speaker 12: that do that for a living and analyze people. Well,
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  Speaker 12: I think, well, this is kind of what I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 12: But it comes with a question. So I think, you know, getting.
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  Speaker 11: Better in the trenches absolutely their way to go. In
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  Speaker 11: listening to all those experts, what I've heard is defensive
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  Speaker 11: line is a little on the deeper side. Offensive line
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  Speaker 11: not so much this draft. So I'm kind of guessing that,
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  Speaker 11: you know, outside of you know, maybe Genti falls to us,
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  Speaker 11: I don't really think he's gonna fall that part. To
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  Speaker 11: be honest with you, I know running backs don't traditionally
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  Speaker 11: go real high, but I don't think he's gonna make that.
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  Speaker 11: I don't think he'll be there at twelve.
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  Speaker 8: But.
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  Speaker 11: I'm kind of hoping for defensive line. My question for
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  Speaker 11: you is and and unfortunately two of the guys I
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  Speaker 11: would like are both Michigan defensive linemen, which would probably
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  Speaker 11: give Cowboys their aneurism. But my question to you is
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  Speaker 11: you've been in that organization a long time, and it's
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  Speaker 11: true across all pro professional sports football. When when they
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  Speaker 11: make a mistake, when there's a you know, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 11: they we made a mistake, how hard is it for
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  Speaker 11: an organization to refocus and say we're going to draft
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  Speaker 11: that same position again.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: No, No.
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  Speaker 11: In this case, the defensive line is the ones that
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  Speaker 11: that's deeper. I think we have a better chance at
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  Speaker 11: replacing Mazi Smith and you know, just how hard would
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  Speaker 11: it be in the year. But he's he only played
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  Speaker 11: two years, but not well you know, And I'm not
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  Speaker 11: saying he can't be a professional, but I think he's
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  Speaker 11: probably are just a rotational guy. Yeah, what are they
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  Speaker 11: are they ready to make? You know, just how hard
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  Speaker 11: is it your opinion in that organization to say we
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  Speaker 11: made a mistake. We're going to move on, all right.
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  Speaker 12: And I love you brothers.
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  Speaker 11: Enjoy the day, sir, I have a good day.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate that.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The thing about those type of questions about saying admitting
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  Speaker 1: that we've you know, made mistakes and moving on and
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  Speaker 1: all that. I think that that when you have in
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  Speaker 1: this case, when you have different coaching staff and I
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  Speaker 1: and I get that Jerry Steven and Will McLay, you
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  Speaker 1: know that they're the holdovers. They're still here, They're still
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  Speaker 1: making the decision. But I think, you know, you do
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of input from the coaches, Shottenheimer defensive coaches.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Schottenheimer and Matt Eberfluss are going to
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  Speaker 1: worry about picks that were made before them and all
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  Speaker 1: that defensive you know, coaches or offensive coach in this case,
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  Speaker 1: would be like, let me have this guy, if it's
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  Speaker 1: a Michigan lineman, a guy named Graham or whatever. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, they're in different systems than they were when
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  Speaker 1: they were drafted by the Cowboys. The Cowboys have a
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  Speaker 1: different system, so coaches have the biggest egos. They they're like,
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  Speaker 1: let me put my hands around that guy. I got him.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be fine. Don't worry about all that. So I
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  Speaker 1: think from that standpoint, and then that's all that that
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  Speaker 1: the Jerry Steven will kind of need to hear about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, oh, draft another Michigan guy or something like
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: that like that, you know, not worried about it. This
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: guy's different, he's special, we'll coach him differently. Blah blah blah,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: all that coach speaks. So I don't think that's the issue.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: What you're asking also is when do you kind of
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: cut the cord and say, you know, let's go back
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: to the well and a defensive tackle specifically. That'll come
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: down to what are they doing in free agency? Do
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: they re sign OSU? I mean, they have needs there,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: so you know, if you drafted one I mean, just
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: just think about your O line. Back In twenty eleven,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: they finally drafted Tyl Tyron Smith, first time they drafted
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: a lineman first round thirty years and then two years
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: later they draft Travis Frederick. The next year they draft
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Zach Martin. So you're trying to build something, sometimes it
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: takes more than one. So now I think that that's
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: that's a good question, But it's one that I think
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: that you know, you just have to look at your
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: team right now and say what does his team need.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what we've done before, doesn't matter about
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: hoping this guy turns the corner is you're drafting this
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: guy to think does he make us better? And if
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: it's the same position that it was, so be it.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Carolina. He's driving in Texas,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: East Texas, Long View, Texas, Carolina. What's up?
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: What's going on?
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: Both, ma'am?
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 17:59
  Speaker 11: Ma'am?
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: All right?
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: One hundred and twenty five calls just to get in.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: It's crazy. You're line is going, man, it is going.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a good thing. That's a good thing. I
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: thought you were going to say, one hundred and twenty
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: five miles an hour that when you said one twenty five,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: Godness, no, that's rating real bad. That'd be very bad.
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: I don't go that fast.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Here, what's you got for me?
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: I got? I got got like three different points I
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: want to hit on. First one to ask you how
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: long do you think they're gonna wait to get this
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: parts bill done? Because I think that's going to be
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: evident to how they spend this money going forward to
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: free agency, not just our own, but you know, going
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: out time. That's my first question. My second question is
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: if they do go ahead and get this done and
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: open up the cap. In your eyes, where would you go?
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: I mean outside of the web position group would you go?
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: Because of course created before the draft? What need would
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: you feel if you have like a thought of who's
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: going to be available laying just a position?
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: What would you go for?
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: A first and lastly, I s listening to the Talking Cowboys, right,
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: not Talking Cowboys, this thing. It was the Draft show
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: and they made a comment that I think they said
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: Barry Standards if I'm not mistaken, said that the Cowboys
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: shouldn't draft Campy because they don't know what to do
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: with this, Like What does that really mean? Right in
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: your eyes?
• 19:35
  Speaker 13: What does that?
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: What does that mean? They don't know to do it
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: though I know there's a new coach to shake up,
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: So why would why would that be an issue? I
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: mean coaches coach Saners, I think I think not he
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: said somebody, Emmy Smith, that's it was. I'm sorry, Emmitt Smith.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: They said they had a backroom conversation with him at
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: I think one of the bulls trying bows or something
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: like that out there alab and they said he said
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: that they shouldn't draft me. He's so strongly about it
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: because they wouldn't know how to use some babic All right,
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: why would you think that's what would that be? A team?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: It's not a thing. That's not a thing. And again
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know who said that, and I don't I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: don't know if you're one hundred percent sure on who's saying.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: So let's not let's not go in there put anyone's okay,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: all right, all right, well all right, Carolina, thank you
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: for the call. I got your point in here. Let's
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: let's touch on that that. I didn't hear that comment.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: And but that makes no sense to me at all,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: especially if it was it because Ashton genty looks like
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: a faster version of Immit but but similar in the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: way that they run. They these guys know what to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: do with with I mean with a running back that
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you drafted twelfth over If you drafted a running back
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: twelfth overall, that's the reason why he's worthy of drafting
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: is because you don't have to make that decision of
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: what do you do with them? This is not Deuce Vaughan.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: This is not some power back that's two hundred and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: sixty pounds. This is a three down back that that
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: is why you take them in the first round because
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: you don't have to be a genius to figure it out.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: You run him here, you run him there, you let
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: him block, you throw a screen to him. He can
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: do it all. And if he can't do it all,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: then you don't draft him twelfth overall. So I don't
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: think he's even going to be available. Like Brian in
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Kansas City said, I don't agree that he's I don't
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: think he's going to be there for you. So I
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: don't agree with anybody's point, whoever's point that was. As
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I'm watching the mock drafts go here on NFL Network,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: And since last week, I haven't seen Ashton Genty get
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to the Cowboys at twelve. And there's the cow there's
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Walter Nolan. Ole Miss is the pick for the Cowboys
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: in this particular mock draft. I think Genti went seventh.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about what to do with
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: a guy like that. He's special and and I just
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: think that's that's being ridiculous to think that these NFL
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: teams coaches don't know what to do.
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: I don't.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear all that quote. There's got to be
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: more to it. No disrespect to any Hall of Fame
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: running back, but but I think the Cowboys, in any
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: team can figure out what to do with a special
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: running back like that. The question was, well they how
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: long will they wait? I don't think the Cowboys are
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: going to be They're not backed into the corner here
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and there, and they're certainly not going to be if
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: there's if there's a narrative that Micah Parsons has got
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to get done so the Cowboys can do stuff in
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: free agency that only plays into Micah and his agent
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and all of that, and the Cowboys are not going
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to be a part of that, we know that, we
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: know that they are not going to be, you know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: forced into making a deal that doesn't make sense. Now,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: if the deal makes sense today, you make it. If
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: it makes sense before the draft, then you make it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: But you know it's got to be it's got to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: work for both and this situation is going to have
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: to work for for both sides. And then to answer
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the question of if they had some money available, what
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: position in the salary cap I mean what I mean,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: what position on the in free agency would I think
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys address or should address. I would go with
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I would probably go with some veterans on the defensive line. Maybe,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: you know, try to get another Dante Fowler Carl Lawson
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: type pass rushroom, so you have some veteran there. I'm
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: looking at a corner too. I would think cornerback, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: you know those could get pricy in free agency. But uh,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: there's a couple, there's a couple of guys I think
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys could target there. So defense for sure, but
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you know, we'll see, we'll see what happened to me.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind them resigning their own guy in Jordan Lewis.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Robbie and Koco Beach, Florida. Robbie,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: what's up, Hey, Nick?
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: How are you Dad?
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: I'm good. You kind of threw me off with your
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: last answer to your question. Uh one, if that was
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: kind of what I was going to ask about free agency?
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: But can I ask it a different way?
• 24:22
  Speaker 13: Sure?
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: One of the earlier callers, Gary Maybe from New Xico
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: Maybe said it this, This defensive line class is supposed
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: to be pretty solid. Do we go after an offensive
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: lineman and free agency if we can? And second question
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: or statement question that you can expound on, maybe, is
• 24:43
  Speaker 10: I like that I heard Michael Parson say, Hey, I'd
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: like to take a team friendly deal. I'd like to
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: make a lot of money and get my bag, but
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: still take a team friendly deal that would help us
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: get more players.
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: I just I like to hear that.
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: I don't know if there's truth behind it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would like to see it. I mean, it
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: sounds beautiful, but let's what happens. We'll see if that
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: that really is the case, because a team friendly deal
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: isn't just about less money, but it's about the timing
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: of it. Like we've talked about before, that would be
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: team friendly. You know you want to get some help
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: in here. You want to get some some defensive players.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: You want to get have a better offense, so you can,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: you know, build a lead so he can rush the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: passer more than do a deal. Now that that that
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: makes sense.
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: And get that guy that you can't name because he's
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: still on another team. Maybe whoever, I've just thrown that
• 25:31
  Speaker 10: out there, you can.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you did that, I mean, that's just
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the party at the quarterback and then two guys meeting.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean that? Oh yeah, I mean
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: fans might might really you know, might be back on board,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and they might love Jerry and Steven, you know, like
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: more than we've ever seen if they did a move
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: like that. But you know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. Those
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: pass rushers like that. I mean, they're tough to to.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Let's see what what Cleveland's asking for because we were
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: talking about Miles, right, Let's see what they're asking for it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Because I say that because not for the Cowboys to
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: make a trade. But my point is if they're asking for.
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: The moon, then then it's not gonna happen.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Then Micah Parson's trading for Mike, you better get you
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: better get twice as much for.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: That the moon and a half the moon, the moon.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: And like Jupiter. If that's I don't I don't know
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: if it's I don't know if it would be worth anything.
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: But anyway, but I'm with you, man, then I have
• 26:35
  Speaker 10: been since the get go. Yeah, you don't trade Micah,
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: because even if you get three first round draft picks,
• 26:40
  Speaker 10: do you get one more generational talent that Mike is?
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: Who knows. I mean the success rate on first round
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: picks is fifty percent.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean three first round picks is a lot.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And this was discussed at lunch yesterday. We were kind
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of talking about it, and two first round picks doesn't
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: seem to be worth it to me enough because you're
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: getting you're getting one more pick because you have a
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: first round pick, you have a you have a parson,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: you have you have that, so you've got to get
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: another one and you got a draft to to make
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: it work. Now three three, there's a lot. I just
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: don't see that happening. But either way, I'm not. I
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: just I wouldn't trade it. I wouldn't trade him. I
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: wouldn't They got a luck.
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: Go ahead, back to the first question and I'll let
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: you off there is I want to talk to lots
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: of people. Are there a veteran linemen out there that
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: you'd like to see brought in as a free agent
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: for a two year deal something like that? Offense, and
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: I'll listen to offense because the defense draft is supposed
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: to be so so deep.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well all right, all right, sounds good. I mean
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you can take that in different ways. If if the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: defensive line is so deep, then then maybe you draft
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: offense in the first round, you know, and you if
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: you have this deep, you know, class of defensive lineman,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you can get something in the later rounds and they
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: can still help you out. So there's different ways of
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: thinking there. Another part too, is and again I don't
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: know this, I haven't looked this far on free agency
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and good players and from like let's say Arizona, because
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: you are taking their offensive line coach and and Clayton
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Adams and how he's your offensive coordinator. Won't call the plays,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: but he's your offensive coordinator, and so he'll be working
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: closely with sounds like Ken Dorsey is going to be
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a part of it as well. So look, you're you're
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: bringing in player you know, coaches from other teams. That's
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: that's a different dynamic too, that that you know, like
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: maybe this guy who's played with him, you know, knows
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: how to coach him, knows what he can do best.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: So I haven't even connected those dots yet, but that's
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: something to do. You know, you can you can do
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: it for you know, the defensive side of the ball
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: as well. You know, if the Bears have a free agent,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: that's worth looking at. And you know you had Eberflus
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: or maybe the Colts from a few years ago. So
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: so the ties of the new coaches that that you know,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: that might work. Now, that's not always the case. I mean,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: you know, I know Zimmerhead a couple of guys in
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: here that he has coached before, and he was like, no,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: we're good. So just because you have history doesn't mean
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: it's a good history. So anyways, that's something to look
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: at when you look at free agency as some of
• 29:44
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  Speaker 16: Here, but a good that can be worth it over Brye.
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  Speaker 7: They not managed to get through, So that's something.
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  Speaker 5: Just like today we're not getting all that.
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  Speaker 16: Can you remember any one armed players who just excelled
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  Speaker 16: head and shoulders above all the other pro players and
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  Speaker 16: mean they're lay at the Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 1: Say that again. I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time here,
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  Speaker 1: and you said that one more time.
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  Speaker 16: Okay, I said, can you remember any of those one
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  Speaker 16: armed players who excelled of all the other two arm
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  Speaker 16: players and went to the Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, so you can't play the game with one arm.
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  Speaker 16: At this point, Jarry's in the front office has to
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  Speaker 16: look at what Philly's done and what all the other
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  Speaker 16: with one hand tie behind our back. You have to
• 32:49
  Speaker 16: spend some money in free agency this year. You got
• 32:52
  Speaker 16: no choice because of the twenty something players should have
• 32:54
  Speaker 16: gone out. But the way that I look at this
• 32:56
  Speaker 16: draft and look at the free agency is like that one.
• 33:01
  Speaker 16: We need jayaln Tober to either take that next leap
• 33:04
  Speaker 16: or you're gonna have to move on from him to
• 33:05
  Speaker 16: find somebody better. And then, in my opinion, yes, Micah
• 33:09
  Speaker 16: does need help. But I would prefer going free agency
• 33:12
  Speaker 16: for a known commodity at alignment at d Lions, whether
• 33:15
  Speaker 16: it be defensive tackle or a defensive end, and I
• 33:19
  Speaker 16: would draft Ashton Gentz. And then in that case, if
• 33:22
  Speaker 16: I'm going for Ashton Genty and I'm doing that, I
• 33:24
  Speaker 16: wouldn't be able to hold on to Rico Dono. And
• 33:26
  Speaker 16: I look at it like this. I take him Ashton
• 33:29
  Speaker 16: Puncher lib Key, and I take dusonto the season and
• 33:32
  Speaker 16: you are already letting a hunter handle all of the
• 33:34
  Speaker 16: short downyardage. Anyway, I think that would be more than
• 33:38
  Speaker 16: enough to get you over the hump at the running
• 33:41
  Speaker 16: back part, as well as giving you a receiving option
• 33:43
  Speaker 16: out of the backfield between Dukes and gent But I
• 33:46
  Speaker 16: want to see and we also need a linebacker for sure,
• 33:48
  Speaker 16: so we need some known commodities. We're gonna have to
• 33:50
  Speaker 16: spend a little bit more than a couple million dollars
• 33:52
  Speaker 16: that we normally go through, you know, shopping out the bargain. Ben,
• 33:55
  Speaker 16: we are a draft and developed team, but you have
• 33:57
  Speaker 16: to look at teams like Philly Billy's like, listen, don't
• 34:00
  Speaker 16: care we're paying a fifty five million dollars quarterback. We're
• 34:02
  Speaker 16: paying one of the top wide receivers in the league,
• 34:04
  Speaker 16: two of them. As a matter of fact, we went
• 34:06
  Speaker 16: to the Super Bowl three times in ten years. At
• 34:09
  Speaker 16: least all One is supposed to be a top five
• 34:12
  Speaker 16: team in our conference. That way, we're competing for it
• 34:15
  Speaker 16: every single year, not going to the playoffs and getting
• 34:18
  Speaker 16: knocked out in the first round. But you guys have
• 34:19
  Speaker 16: a great day, and.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: So all right, I think I think you said draft
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Ashton gent and then Hunter lifty would be your short
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: yardage back. I thought I heard that. But if you're
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: drafting a running back in the first round, especially in
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: the top half of the first round, he's got to
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: be able to do everything. That's why you're drafting him.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: If he's not, then then you get a guy in
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: the second round or the third round. You know, if
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: you're gonna if you're gonna mix things up like that,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: but you know the reason why you draft the guy
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: that you know, like that is because he's special. And
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: you drafted Zeke and he was. He was special. He
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: was a short yardage back, he was your first and
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: ten back, he was your third down back. He was everything.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: And I think that's that's what would happen if you
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: drafted a guy in the first round. Again, I don't
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: know if he's gonna if he's gonna make it that far,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: but if he does, I mean, you know, he would
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: handle that and then that's why that's why you draft him.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: But you know, I'm nothing against Hunter Lipke or Douce
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Vaughan or whatever. I think those are good. You know,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: they're they're good, solid players. Rico Daddle had had a
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: good season. But I think if you want to upgrade,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that you're gonna have to do
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: that through the draft. So as I see it, a
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: mock draft just went through with Astra genty at twelve.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Just like I just said, I haven't seen him go
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: that far again. Mock drafts, you know, do somebody's five
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: point zero mock draft, you know, I mean, which basically
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: just says I'm just gonna keep doing I'm just gonna
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: keep throwing stuff at the wall. See what sticks. I
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: mean it's before the Combine, it's before the Pro Day's
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of things change, but we get it. I mean,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the draft is here, people are talking. I mean the
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: draft talk is here. That's what people want to talk about.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I don't like to put a ton of stock and
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: all that because things change. Somebody's gonna go to the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Combine to run a four to two three. I don't
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: know what position or what, but all of a sudden
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: he becomes a first rounder. I don't think Xavier Worthy
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: was a first round pick going into the Combine, and
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: then he ran the fastest time ever. And guess what.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: There he is Chris Johnson from East Carolina. I remember
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: did the same thing, and you know you run like that.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Matt Jones, former Arkansas quarterback, went to Receivern like a
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: four three to one at six foot six. All of
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: a sudden, he's a first round pick for Jacksonville. So
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: my point is is, you know, we're going to see
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: five to ten guys that we haven't even really heard
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: about that are going to jump into the mix here,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: and maybe guys in the late teens are late. You know,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: first round is going to move up higher, and vice versa.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: And all that. So the point is still early in
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: the game. It hasn't been you know, this story of
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: the drafts hasn't even begun to be told yet. So
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: let's see what happens there. But I agree with Sebastian
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: with the bigger name free agent, even if that means
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: you're not signing as many guys as you because you
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: have to sign some guys. There's no doubt whether it
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: be your own or not. But I'm making I'm gonna
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: at least attempt to make a few more splashes this
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: time around. Then I just think it's it's it's it's
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: got to happen this year for this team, this fan base,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: in the locker room, I think I think they need
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: to make some splashes here. All right. Rick Webstern, Massachusetts,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: what's up?
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: How are you doing good?
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I'm all right? How was your week?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Good? Good?
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: I just had a couple of comments and one that
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: was in Carolina. Emmett did say that, but he's spanned
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: a little bit, but he said he enjoys enjoys. Uh,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: you know, there's a great running back, be a great choice,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: but I don't know if that based on what they've
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: done last year, maybe the befool How would they use
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: them if they don't know really how to use them
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: and they haven't used them, why would you draft them?
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I just don't know. How how would you what?
• 38:15
  Speaker 13: That was on?
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: It was one the fan.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't agree with that. I don't agree with
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the greatest running back in the history of the Cowboys
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: who said that. I just don't. I don't agree with that.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: What what what does he having to go off of? Of?
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: How the Cowboys aren't going to use them because they
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: didn't use Rico Dawdle the same way. That's not the
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: same player. They haven't had this guy. They haven't had
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: a first round type running back sitting here like that
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: for them for them to use. So how would you
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: say based off of what I mean? And I'm not
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: one that says that they waited too long to get
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: the ball to Rico Daddle, I don't. I don't agree
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: with that. Rico Daddles started like fourteen games, he got
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: chances in the first half of the season. He didn't.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Is Rick still there?
• 39:04
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: The other A couple other coms was, well, you were
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: talking about the genty maybe a little faster than well,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: That's what Genty said when they asked him, So what
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: do you think, Well, I think I'm a little faster
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Danama And that just went off. But the other thing
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: to talk about free agents that could come in Clayton
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Adam's offensive line from Carolina from Arizona. Yeah, Will hern
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Andz is I think a free agent, so they could
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: bring him over.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Yep. And and that was a player and that it
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: might have been what ten years. I don't know how
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: long he's been in the league, maybe not that long,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: but I know the Cowboys loved him coming out of
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the draft. And I haven't really followed his career that much,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: but he was a guy that they were very high
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: on if I remember correctly. So, yeah, that would be good.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that was good.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Uh. I think it's just with to everybody dunk and everything. Still,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I still believe that we should draft one of the
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: first three rounds. Should be drafting a defensive tackle, a
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: running back, and a wide receiver and go from there.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, again that depends on what they do in free agency.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, those are good three positions I can get.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: I can name three more that I It's like, how
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: do you not draft an offensive lineman, a cornerback, or
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: a linebacker. So that's the point, is that there's about
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: six to seven positions that make sense to address as
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: high as the first round. That means that you're not
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: going to address those positions. You know, some of them
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: aren't going to get touched at all because they don't
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: they don't have a fourth round pick, so you know
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: you may not you may not get some of those
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: positions till the fifth round the way it goes. So
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: all right, thank you, thank you, appreciate the call. All right,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: let's move on to my man, Randy, that's or Canna Randy.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: What's up man?
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm baking my truck trying to draw off I mean,
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: good gravy is bringing like a cow fishing on a
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: flat rocks right now. Holy moly. All right, so what's
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: been happening?
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, uh, just talking about the Cowboys and
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: not making it to the to the Super Bowl again
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and the Eagles. You know, I don't know if you
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: saw that they made it so just out here.
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's what I kind of won't touch that.
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: I hadn't been able to listen this morning because I've
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: been running crazy oven. But last night, I was listening
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: to Talking Cowboys and them guys. They got me pumped
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: up for about five minutes on the all the new coaches,
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: and then I started thinking, man, they're suckering and it's
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: only been over like a day or two. So I'm
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to like monotne my feelings right now, because yeah,
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: it sounds great, you know, all the coaching changes and
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: all that good stuff that they're doing. But until the
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: front office proves that they're gonna do a little bit
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: of you know, free agency and good drafts to somewhat
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: level the playing ground, I'm trying to not get sucked
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: in too quick. It's we got a long off season,
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: so yeah, that's where I'm at. And you know, and
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: I'm not getting political here at all, but with seeing
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: what's going on in the politics and see and how
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: money is what everybody's talking about, that that is where
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: we all need to focus. As long as the front
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: office is focused on money, because that's what it's all about.
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: That's one. And then making to the Super Bowl too.
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: That's just my feeling.
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: Until they have to.
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: Start tarping off the top layer of that stadium because
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: they're not making the money then maybe they'll start listening
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: to us and giving it care of what we feel.
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: But I feel like while that money's rolling in and
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: we keep packing the stadium, we keep buying the merchandise
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: and all that, and they're just gonna do what makes
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: them the money. And that's that's kind of how I feel.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: Hopefully they'll prove us wrong this year. I mean, they
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: haven't done anything to say otherwise in my opinion. You know,
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: it just keeps. They just keep seeming to just do
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: what's gonna fill up the house, and whether we make
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: it or not doesn't. It's crazy, how here you here
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: the old guys you know from my day, like Troy
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: and Emmett, Michael and no them. And if guys are frustrated,
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: and I honestly figured they wouldn't say much because they're like, hey,
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: look at us, what we did. Y'all can't touch what
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: we did. But they're actually voicing their opinions quite a
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: bit now, and you would think that would hold weight,
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: you know.
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: Not.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not really though, not to me. And that's that's
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: my point. And I've and and I just always I
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: always say this, at all due respect to the former players,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: I just don't put a lot of a lot of
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: stock into what they say about about this current team,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: this current situation, this current locker room, all of that,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: all the chemistry that they just they don't know any
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: more than us when it comes to what's going on here. Now.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Do they understand football and what makes a great team
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: and what they need, Yes, one hundred percent they understand that.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: But when you start getting into what's wrong with the team,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with the culture, what's wrong with things that
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: that it's hard to actually see from the outside. I
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: don't I don't put a ton of stock there, but
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, but what I like about it is there's
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: still cowboys. They always will be Troy and Michael. If
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: if they're frustrated, then then you guys can relate because
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: y'all are frustrated, you know. So I like that part.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: But sometimes I have to just pause a little bit
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: when I hear what they're saying, and I'm like, all right,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you know, let's see where this is really coming from.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: And are they plugged in? I mean, if they are,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: if they are talking to a lot of people inside
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: the building, didn't they are plugged in? But sometimes former
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: players just going off of their name and what they've done.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that they know what's happening. That's just
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: that's my take on it. Again, all due respect to
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: former players and what.
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: They can can I'll put a slightly different spin on
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: the same subject. I kind of think that they do
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: know this front office because they worked with them, They
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: know how they think they see what's going on because
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: I forgot who it was. It was one of our
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: guys that they were saying. You know, it feels like
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: Jerry is always trying to prove that he can do
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: it because those three Super Bowls, Jimmy did it. Jimmy
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: controlled all that stuff back then and he did it.
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: So I think that they're I mean, yeah, it's been
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: years and years since they were in that locker room,
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: and I agree with you on that, but I think
• 46:07
  Speaker 7: that they still they know them guys up front well,
• 46:11
  Speaker 7: because it's the same group, you know, it's the same family.
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: I kind of have a feeling they know a little
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: more than what we think they know maybe, and and
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: they're putting it out there just to let everybody else
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: know that they know more.
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: I don't know if I said that, all right, but.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, uh hey, it's.
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: Hey, I looked up to Troy. That was my big brother.
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: I would if I could have had a big brother.
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: Troy was it.
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: He was my superhero. And uh so when he talks,
• 46:40
  Speaker 7: I try to listen. You know, he brought me my
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: super Bowl.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: So I get it. I get it. No, I'm with you.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: I mean I'm the same way. I mean, I grew
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: up watching all those guys and they were they were
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: the heroes. So yeah, and I say that, and I
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: mean that i'd all due respect, you know, and they
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: it's a balance, you know, it's a that this whole
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: thing what you said about, well, you know, are they
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: trying to make money, they trying to win the Super Bowl?
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a balance. And and those guys
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: that are being vocal em it, Troy Michael, I mean
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: they're not opening up restaurants, or they're not selling merchandise,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: or they're not on commercials and things like that. I mean,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: they're they're still they're still making money. They're still you know,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: using their name to to to sell products and things
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: like that. On that side of it, which which which
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: they should do. They also have careers as well that
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: that they're doing. So it's a balance, and so I
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: I just don't agree with the is it this? Are
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: they trying to win Super Bowl? They trying to make money?
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Because it's always been it's always been both. All right,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Robin Vegas, rob what's up?
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: You know?
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: Hey?
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: How you doing good?
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 47:55
  Speaker 17: I'm good?
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 47:57
  Speaker 17: I watching that Super Bowl was was awful. It was like, well,
• 48:01
  Speaker 17: what's crazy is it was like I was watching the
• 48:04
  Speaker 17: nineties Cowboys. The Eagles have built so much like them,
• 48:09
  Speaker 17: where they got great lines, great running back, great wide receivers,
• 48:15
  Speaker 17: and their quarterback isn't asked to carry the team, but
• 48:20
  Speaker 17: he's asked to make plays when he has to win,
• 48:22
  Speaker 17: and Hurts does. And what's scary is there's so much
• 48:28
  Speaker 17: better than us in every way. They're better at every
• 48:32
  Speaker 17: position group but kicker, and their front office is and
• 48:37
  Speaker 17: you know they're gonna build on this team, so you're
• 48:40
  Speaker 17: gonna have to contend with them for probably four or five.
• 48:43
  Speaker 17: They got a four or five year window and they're
• 48:46
  Speaker 17: not gonna sit around. I mean, their own has sold
• 48:49
  Speaker 17: eight percent of the team to free up six hundred
• 48:52
  Speaker 17: and sixty five million cash so he could go buy
• 48:56
  Speaker 17: you know, spend those signing, you know, money for signing bonuses.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: You are you wearing? Are you going to be an
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: Eagles fan? Is that what you're telling us?
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: No, no, what I'm hearing.
• 49:06
  Speaker 17: No, but a cowboy a cowboy fan. Yeah, wishes wishes
• 49:13
  Speaker 17: we were like the Eagles.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Good good luck, good luck with that. I know a
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: team liked the Eagles, but nobody wants to be philling
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: olp No, no, no, I fan the garbage.
• 49:23
  Speaker 17: The city is garbage. But but that's how you build it.
• 49:28
  Speaker 17: That's how you build the team. And you gotta even
• 49:31
  Speaker 17: you got to give Kellvin more so much credit. He
• 49:34
  Speaker 17: walks in there and he says, I know Jalen Hurts
• 49:38
  Speaker 17: is making fifty plus, but he's not. If we focus
• 49:41
  Speaker 17: on him, we're not going to win. And he changed
• 49:44
  Speaker 17: the office. We all laughed where we said, I'll kill
• 49:46
  Speaker 17: him more. He ain't gonna run the ball. Belgity does wrong. Okay,
• 49:51
  Speaker 17: We're just we're light years away and free agency is
• 49:55
  Speaker 17: the key. I don't want to hear about the draft.
• 49:56
  Speaker 17: I could care less about the draft if they don't
• 49:59
  Speaker 17: go get a dominant defensive lineman like the guy from
• 50:03
  Speaker 17: Philadelphia who's a free agent, because those are men. Those
• 50:06
  Speaker 17: are grown men ready to rock and roll. The guys
• 50:11
  Speaker 17: that are coming from college are not grown men yet.
• 50:14
  Speaker 17: I need a grown ass man right now, Go get
• 50:18
  Speaker 17: me uh in free agency linemen, I could always get
• 50:22
  Speaker 17: the pretty wide receiver or the running back in the draft.
• 50:27
  Speaker 17: I want grown ass men. And that's the line. Until
• 50:31
  Speaker 17: you build up that line both sides of the ball,
• 50:36
  Speaker 17: you can't compete with the Eagles. That's where they That's
• 50:39
  Speaker 17: not he destroyed. I mean they made Patrick Mahomes look
• 50:42
  Speaker 17: like a rookie. He I've never seen him lost. I
• 50:45
  Speaker 17: thought Philly would win. I didn't want to admit it
• 50:46
  Speaker 17: to myself because I think kidsas City was kind of
• 50:50
  Speaker 17: doing it with smoking mirror as the whole the whole year.
• 50:54
  Speaker 17: But I just think that Mahomes will find something now.
• 50:56
  Speaker 17: He had no answers. Yeah, and the Eagles are young.
• 51:01
  Speaker 10: There's so much younger than us.
• 51:02
  Speaker 17: If this doesn't light a fire under Jerry, then we
• 51:08
  Speaker 17: have no hope. Because I agree with the last caller.
• 51:15
  Speaker 17: He would like to luck into a super Bowl. But
• 51:18
  Speaker 17: he's a money making machine. That's probably why he doesn't
• 51:21
  Speaker 17: spend in free agency because he would rather take that
• 51:25
  Speaker 17: cash and invested in oil fields, and I'm sure he
• 51:28
  Speaker 17: would get a bigger return. So I I to made
• 51:31
  Speaker 17: that sort of reason why he doesn't do the free
• 51:33
  Speaker 17: agency like you did. And he he was disgruntled to
• 51:38
  Speaker 17: do it with CD and he was disgruntled to do
• 51:40
  Speaker 17: it with DAK. But that's the only reason why I
• 51:45
  Speaker 17: think he doesn't do it. He'd rather invest that money elsewhere.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Rob, appreciate that, you know, and I
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: agree with some of the stuff you're saying about Philly.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I'll say this though, there's and nobody wants to hear
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: this when it comes to like money and stuff like that.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: But like Jerry Jones and the Cowboys, could they could
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: fill I think we did the math on this, sixty
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: three salary caps sixty three Like that's how much he's
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: worth and the Cowboys are worth. Is that if they
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: could do the salary cap sixty three times and I
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: don't even know what it is, it's two fifty five
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: to sixty whatever the cap is, but that's how many
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: times he could do the cap. So when you're saying
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: he'd rather use that money for oil, that's that's so
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: stupid that I'll steal I'll steal a word that you
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: just said on the air for us that we need
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: to not do again. But that's what that is. Like
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: to think that the money crosses over like that is ridiculous. Okay,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: it is. It's not even the same. It's about building
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: the team, structuring it with the cap and how to
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: use the resources here. But it's not this money has
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with that. Like I said, he'd cover
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: sixty three salary caps. So we're not we're not talking
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: about that, all right, all right, Chris, did you want
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: to say something.
• 53:11
  Speaker 18: I was gonna say about the salary cap? Said what
• 53:14
  Speaker 18: he cannot use money that he doesn't use on the
• 53:18
  Speaker 18: salary it rolls over to the next year. That money
• 53:21
  Speaker 18: for the salary cap is used for the players, right,
• 53:25
  Speaker 18: it doesn't roll over. So his statement is wrong.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I he's got more money than that too. It's not
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: like you're actingly all of his money goes Well, I
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: could do this, I could. I mean, that's that's not
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: that's not the case, and that's not the reason why.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Now I can't give you the reason on the coaching stuff.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: I don't about head coaches and why it doesn't pay more.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you. I don't have that one, but
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't come down it's not because he doesn't
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: have it. So anyway, let's go to Raza in Springfield, Virginia. Raza, Hey, Nick,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: how you doing good?
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: How are you good?
• 54:02
  Speaker 16: Good?
• 54:03
  Speaker 19: I just want to say, just give a shout out
• 54:05
  Speaker 19: to the show. It's been my uh, probably the only
• 54:08
  Speaker 19: listen since you've been going to weekly, and with my job,
• 54:11
  Speaker 19: it's hard to listen as much, but I always make
• 54:13
  Speaker 19: sure I listen to my storyliners.
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: It's just, uh, just.
• 54:16
  Speaker 19: Give a shout out to you guys.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Is this first time I feel like you've called?
• 54:22
  Speaker 19: I called season one a couple of times and then
• 54:24
  Speaker 19: last year mostly I just can't call when you're live
• 54:27
  Speaker 19: today it snowed out here, so I have a day
• 54:29
  Speaker 19: off of work. Well, I always listen to listen.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: All right, awesome, awesome, appreciate.
• 54:36
  Speaker 12: It, yep.
• 54:37
  Speaker 19: And so I just want to go over just kind
• 54:40
  Speaker 19: of my off season wish list. And then one thing
• 54:42
  Speaker 19: I just want to get out off Why do we
• 54:44
  Speaker 19: always have to be in the headlines all Sunday like
• 54:48
  Speaker 19: that report? Why didn't need to come out? I mean,
• 54:52
  Speaker 19: I guess I don't know. And then I just really
• 54:54
  Speaker 19: hope we get Mike got done. I don't want to
• 54:56
  Speaker 19: wait till an hour before Week one like Dak was.
• 55:00
  Speaker 19: I just hope we get Micah done early. Just you know,
• 55:02
  Speaker 19: I don't want off season every week Ah, is Michael leaving?
• 55:06
  Speaker 19: Is Michael going there? Just I just hope we get
• 55:08
  Speaker 19: it done.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:10
  Speaker 19: And then my one question to you before I go
• 55:13
  Speaker 19: to my off season quick off season wish list. Do
• 55:16
  Speaker 19: you think we'll spend in free agency this year? It's
• 55:18
  Speaker 19: going to be more and more like are you getting
• 55:20
  Speaker 19: the feeling like the past couple of years?
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I think they're going to spend in free agency.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: I think free agency is going to look different because
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: you do have so many guys that you have to
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: that you have to sign. I mean that you're losing,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: so you have to you have to replace them. Do
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: they replace them by resigning them or do they look elsewhere?
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: And I think based off a seven and ten record
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: and a new coaching staff and a lot of new
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: coaches around the league that are coming from different places,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: I think you're going to see more players in free
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: agencies sign than we have in the past. That doesn't
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: necessarily mean they're going to be super aggressive means. I
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: think they'll bring in more players because there are spots
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: to fill. And I think in the past that they
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: kind of fall in love with their own players and
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: they re sign let's say ten to twelve of their
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: own guys. Maybe they only signed six of those and
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: then they signed six or seven from the outside. So
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna look different. It's not necessarily going
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: to be what everybody loves, I don't think, but I
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: do think they're going to bring in some other players,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: and hopefully one or two of them are some guys
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: like like Rob said, you know some dudes, some grown
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: men that they can come here and are ready to play,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: ready to compete at this highest level.
• 56:38
  Speaker 19: Okay, that sounds good, that sounds promising. So my wish
• 56:42
  Speaker 19: list is to get a wide receiver and free agency.
• 56:45
  Speaker 19: I want to free agent wide receiver instead of a rookie.
• 56:48
  Speaker 19: Maybe the rookie later on, but I would hope we
• 56:51
  Speaker 19: get like maybe Stefan Diggs pare them up with his brother.
• 56:54
  Speaker 19: That would be cool if they can rehab together and everything. Yeah,
• 56:57
  Speaker 19: feel cool thing if we could get him, or maybe
• 56:59
  Speaker 19: even Key and Allen, who I think might be a
• 57:02
  Speaker 19: free agent from Chicago. And then basically, I think this
• 57:06
  Speaker 19: offseason is genty our bust. I think we need genty.
• 57:10
  Speaker 19: This draft doesn't look so promising with like top end talent,
• 57:13
  Speaker 19: so I just really hope we get genty and uh
• 57:16
  Speaker 19: that's just my thoughts. I think it's genty your bust
• 57:18
  Speaker 19: for next year.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks for taking.
• 57:21
  Speaker 19: My call, and you know, enjoy it all.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Right, Well, thank you. You know, I don't think they'll
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: ever have that mentality on the draft of so and so,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: you know, or bust. I mean, you know, there's other
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: There's gonna be other players obviously in the first round,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: uh that could come in and help. And then as
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: far as the running back position goes, I mean I
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: think that they'll sign back a proven solid back and
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: that could be Rico Daddle because I mean I think
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: of for a thousand yard rushing season, he's he's proven
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: that he can be good, uh solid to good, but
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: he's that's not necessarily the difference maker. I think Rico
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Dodda will be a solid number two. I know he's
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: probably his agent. They're gonna probably try to get, you know,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: more than that and and maybe go to a place
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: where he could he could start. So you know, I
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: think you can you sign those guys, you sign that
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: that type of player. That doesn't mean that you don't
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: go and draft your your running back, but you're gonna
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: you're gonna sign a running back in free agency and
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: uh and have him here, have him on the roster,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: and then you know, then you don't have to go
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: and get a guy in the first round. But if
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: he's there, you still do it. And then you've got
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: two guys, but they're gonna try to cover you know,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: they're gonna put band aids on some of these wounds
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: at different positions and then hope that that you know,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: you you can upgrade when you get to the draft
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: if you need it. All right, let's go to Dylan
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: in Northport, Florida.
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: Heydeck, how you doing good?
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 58:55
  Speaker 13: I'm good man.
• 58:56
  Speaker 20: So you're talking about free agency and draft and all
• 58:59
  Speaker 20: this stuff, and we always have like just crazy amounts
• 59:02
  Speaker 20: of needs. They play this like one year, two year
• 59:04
  Speaker 20: contract game with their guys a lot, and so they're
• 59:08
  Speaker 20: constantly in this bucket where there's like twenty plus guys
• 59:10
  Speaker 20: that need to get refreshed or positions that need to
• 59:12
  Speaker 20: get refreshed and they're bringing you know, lower chier guys
• 59:14
  Speaker 20: again to refresh those positions, and that's fine, but this
• 59:17
  Speaker 20: year they're losing some like cornerstone guys, like potentially losing,
• 59:21
  Speaker 20: I should say, like a Zach Martin, Like at DeMarcus Lawrence.
• 59:24
  Speaker 20: You got Jordan Lewis and Osa obviously up and PFS
• 59:27
  Speaker 20: is saying, OHSA is going to catch like twenty million
• 59:29
  Speaker 20: a year. I'm out at that point. There's no way
• 59:32
  Speaker 20: I'll go draft a guy or get a big beefy
• 59:34
  Speaker 20: boy in free agency for cheap and cheaper than that,
• 59:37
  Speaker 20: I should say. But everybody's freaking out about kind of
• 59:41
  Speaker 20: there's like a civil war going on right now in
• 59:43
  Speaker 20: cowboy Land. I don't know if you pay attention to
• 59:45
  Speaker 20: Twitter much at all or not, but people are ready
• 59:47
  Speaker 20: to like fight each other over she would grab gent
• 59:50
  Speaker 20: in the trash. We would go running back detackle offensive lineman.
• 59:54
  Speaker 20: If you mentioned grabbing an offensive lineman on Twitter, Oh
• 59:57
  Speaker 20: my god, dude, good luck, good luck. You're You're dead
• 59:59
  Speaker 20: to half a cowboys population out there. And I think
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 20: that's silly because to me, you look at the names.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 20: I don't know why you look at the names. Right
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 20: and three out of the five positions I think are
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 20: very questionable, and there's a pretty low ceiling or a
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 20: moderate ceiling on those positions. You know, Tyler Smith and
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 20: Deb the other two guys that I'm confident and continue
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 20: to improve and play better. The other three spots, I
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 20: don't know, And I think people are freaking out because
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 20: they've already dedicated resources to those and to me. So
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 20: I don't care if you've dedicated the resources. If they're
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 20: not working out or they're not good enough, nothing else
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 20: matters until just like that one call, I forget his name,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 20: but he always ends it with got to have d
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 20: line or no line, right, And if you watch the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 20: Eagles Flinn in Super Bowl, nothing was more true than that.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Well, you're referring to Lester in Minnesota, who's actually on
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: the line. He'll be calling or he'll be talking here
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: after you. So you're right. I mean that it doesn't
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: matter if it didn't work, It doesn't mean you keep
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: using it.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 11: You know what I mean.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: If you buy a car and it doesn't run, you
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: don't keep driving it, you know, I mean, if you've
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: got to get you got to get something better. And
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: I agree with that. Now I guess what the question
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: is is Terrence Steel, Like what what is the thought
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: on him? Is he is he broke down? Is he
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: is he a guy that they can still you know,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: lean on. That's that's one where I think that they're
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: probably not going to make a change there. And they
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: may they may try to lower his base salary, but
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to go for that. And yeah,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: you know that that one's going to be interesting. There's
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of options there. You could you could you
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: can release him or try to, you know, alter his
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: contract a little.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 20: I think we know what his ceiling is, and that's fine.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 20: I mean there's only got, i think what two years
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 20: left at most on us contracts, So it just kind
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 20: of is what it is over there. If he's your
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 20: worst offensive lineman, that's fine. I'm cool with that. But
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 20: I mean they don't have, you know, guidance obviously questionable.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 20: The right guard positions I was questionable right now with
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 20: with Martin and his future and everything going on. So
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 20: and I'm not saying they have to go out and
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 20: pick a guy in the first round on on the
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 20: offensive line. I'm just thinking if he shapes up that way,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 20: that's fine. I'm what I'm hoping for is to trade
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 20: back scenario because they have you can throw a rock
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 20: at this team and you're gonna hit a hole. I mean,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 20: they got hold everywhere, needs everywhere. So just best best
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 20: player available potentially or trade back, I mean whatever. And
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 20: then last thing, real quick as far as pr agency goes,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 20: don't you know kind to sign a big contract guy.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 20: There's a lot of big names, key contributors for moderate prices,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 20: especially like linebacker and defensive interior. That's why I'm looking
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 20: at in free agency is the middle of the defense
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 20: and see what I can do there.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you got to you got to hit.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: I mean I think I think of all all thanks
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: for the call, Dylan. I mean I think the Eagles,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: you know, when you're looking at what they did obviously
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: that they made the big move to get sakuon Barkley,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: but you know what, and that put them over the
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: top of course on offense. Uh And I think it
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: made Kellen Moore look like a great offensive coordinator and
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: he helped him get a head coaching job. That's not
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: for did I mean he was with the Chargers and
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: he had a lot of talent over there and it
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: didn't didn't really work out, and so you know, players matter.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: But was Zach Bond on the other side, what a
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: great move that was, you know, And that wasn't it
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: wasn't a player that that was highly coveted. I mean,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: that was just a player that that that their coaches
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: had a vision for. And that's what that's what you need.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: That's what needs to happen here. You know, you've got
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: to hit on some of these. You've got to look
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: at it and go, yeah, Okay, this guy may not
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: be considered a top name or a top draft pick
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: or whatever, but he fits for me. And I always remember,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: I always tell this story about Anthony Hitchins, the linebacker
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: from Iowa that mel kiper or Todd McShay had as
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: a sixth or seventh rounder. But Rod Marinelli thought he
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: was he was gonna be somebody special. He had a
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: vision for his defense, and they picked him in the
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: fourth or out and a lot of people scoffed that
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: that was a reach. Well, he had one hundred tackles
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: as a rookie, made All Rookie team and started just
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: about every game and played about ten years. And I
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: know he went to the Chiefs won some Super Bowls
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: for them as well. But my point is is that
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: is that the coaches really need That's why coaches and
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: scouts have to work together when they're doing these these
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: the draft process because it's not only yes, you've graded
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: him here, Now what can I do with him? And
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: you know that's that's the big thing. Let's go to
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: a break here real quick on storyline. I know we
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: have two callers on the line. We'll go to a
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: break right and then we'll be right back after.
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• 1:05:14
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• 1:05:26
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  Speaker 2: It's the Cowboys storyline.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to Cowboys storyline. We got about
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: maybe ten minutes or so. Let's get let's get back
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: to the phone line. Lester in Minnesota, Lester, what's.
• 1:05:56
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  Speaker 5: How are you did to see that Super Bowl? Now,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 5: that's what I'm talking about. Offensive and defensive line. I
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: know you saw that and this show here I appreciate.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: I've heard a lot of callers in talking about the
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: offensive and defensive line. I even heard you saying something
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: about it. And then the reason why I say all
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 5: that is because again, if you're a quarterback, if you
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 5: don't have offensive line, your quarterback is on his back.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 5: You can't run the ball. And if you don't have
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: a defensive line, you can't stop anybody. But what I'm
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: also hearing today is that there's the people, a lot
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 5: of seem like a few people frustrated about spending money
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: and this and that. Well I'm not a salary cap
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: ologist or anything like that, but I did take accounting
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 5: in college, and there are ways. That's a lot of
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 5: creative ways you can stack the money, nick, And It'll
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: take me about an hour to get into it. So
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: I think I don't know if they are using some
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 5: of those creative ways. I'm sure they are using some,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 5: but they're more than what they're using. Probably you can
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 5: do a lot to manipulate a counting. You really can,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 5: I mean, you really really really can. Yeah, So it
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: would take me a long time to kind of get
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 5: into it. And I think that's the frustration because we
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 5: see these other teams manipulating, and I know that philosophy
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: is different from every team to team, but it just
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 5: seems it seems like without knowing that they're not using
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 5: a lot of the counting manipulation tools and sound. I'm sure,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 5: but it's a lot.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 5: But anyway, I just called in to say, Hey, how
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 5: you doing Cowboys fans. I didn't really like the results
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 5: of the Super Bowl because it wasn't any Cowboys in there.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: But I did like the offensive and defensive line, and
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 5: until we get a good to great offensive line and
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: deep at the same time, this is what we got.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 5: Cowboys Fans go Cowboys.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, Lester. I think this team can
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, they obviously can do better. I mean they
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: can do better with with uh building the roster to
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: say they don't manipulate the cap and all that. Again,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of you guys are talking about stuff that
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: you just don't know about, like like and I can't.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: And I'm not telling you that you're that you're right
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: or wrong because I don't know either, Like we don't
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: know the specifics of the contract. Okay, and I'm sorry,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: but spotrack and Overthecap dot Com don't get into all
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: of the specifics of the contracts as well. So just
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: because you go to these websites and you can see
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: what other people report off of it, doesn't mean you
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: know exactly what they're doing and what they did with
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Zach Martin's contract two years ago when he held out,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: and then how they they manipulated this to get it
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: to where they are right now and now he's going
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: to be a free agent, but they're probably gonna cut
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: him from and make them a June one cut. And
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: I mean like there's a lot of things involved here,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: and so to sit here and say that they don't
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: do it, No, that's not what it is. Let's just
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: be real clear what it is. Other teams are better
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: than the Cowboys right now. They got better players. They
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: they've drafted better, they've got better for in free agency.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: They've just put the team together in a better way.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: That's what it is. So there's a lot of teams.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: There's some good football teams that did not make it
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, that didn't make it to the
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: championship game. Cowboys were not a good team. They were
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: an average team, a little bit below average, and they
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: didn't they didn't make it there. Now every year is different.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: To start this thing over again, you know, they they've
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: hopefully they won't have as many injuries, but they need
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: to be they need to build this team better so
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: than they did before that when they do have these
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: injuries that that they can they can you know, plug
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: and play better players. So I'm not sitting here I'm
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: going to try to tell you that hey, it's it's
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: not as bad as you think it's. It's bad. I
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: mean it was a bad and it and it doesn't
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: look better. With Philadelphia bringing a lot of guys back,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: Washington looks like they're ready to to take another step,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: and they already took a big step last year. So
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a challenge. Your schedule is going
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: to be going to be tough, even as a third
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: play schedule, it's going to it's going to be tough.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: But you know, I still think the Cowboys have really
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: good players on this team, but they needed to get
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: they needed to stock pile some some you know, good players.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: I think they've got great players, but they need they
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: need a lot more good players. And that's what I think.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: You know, build your team. Let's go to Ronnie in
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: New Jersey. What's up? No, No, listen, I'm not I'm
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: not frustrated. It's just that I I know a lot
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: of people in the building here. I know I know
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: the people that deal with the CAP I don't necessarily
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: understand all the things that happen, and I definitely don't
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: know what goes on behind the scenes, which means you
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: guys don't either. So what are we talking about here.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Here's what we know. Cowboys aren't good enough right now.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: They have not been good enough. They weren't good enough
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: to even make it to the playoffs last year. So
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: they figure out a way to get better than that.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: But to say that they don't manipulate the cap, I mean, yes,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: they do it. Had they hit right, No they haven't,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: they haven't. They need to do a better job whatever
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: they're doing. They need to do a better job. But
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: to say that they're sitting back and they just run
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: these you know, cookie cutter contracts that are black and white,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: that's not the case, all right, sorry, Ronnie.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 6: I think the frustrating part is nicking where everybody mentions
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 6: the cap. And that's why everybody's talking about the cap,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 6: the cap, the cap, because it seems like Philadelphia and
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 6: all these other teams they were supposed to be in
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 6: salary cap hell and all this stuff. We're all, well,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 6: wait until they signed Jalen Hurts. I remember where Ryan
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 6: carteris was like, well when the sign bra her Sy,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 6: they're gonna be the same situation we are. And and
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 6: they're not, well.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: They they haven't. They haven't done anything with Hurts yet.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, like they signed him, but it's not it's
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: not until your third year or so, because you remember that,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: you know, they signed Dak a couple of times too,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: and and when you first sign him that you can
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: you can make the contract however you want. It's about
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: that third year when it really hits. But again, Philadelphia,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: they they've they've they've added help. That's the thing that
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia did is they signed him, but then they they
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: gave him a running game. And that's what the Cowboys
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: haven't done. They're like leaned on on Dak, like, hey,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: here here's the guy Dak and CD it's okay if
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: if if you run the ball. Philadelphia approved that you know,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: hurts one m v P. But he wasn't. You know,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: he had good, solid numbers. But I mean they were
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: leaning on the defense and and and they leaned on Barkley,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: and the Chiefs took Barkley away, and look what happened.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 6: It's also for us because we've had our chances. We
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 6: have some good things and and these teams and listen,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 6: we're watching our rivals being in the championship game. Okay,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 6: that's one thing. Then you see one of our rivals
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 6: winning the super Bowl. That's another thing that's like more
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 6: frustration build up on top of frustration, and then us
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 6: not being able to even get to like the second
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: round or pass the second round. It's where you know,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 6: I think all of us are fair. And you said, Jerry,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: don't listen to the show. I mean, if I know,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 6: you've been asked that. But if he was to listen
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 6: to the show, he will understand that this is where
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 6: all the fans are at. Like this, all this frustration
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 6: that you're getting, like people are getting your calls are
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 6: coming through. That's that's just like build up, you know
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 6: what I'm saying over the years, and now you're seeing
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 6: Philadelphia being in the super Bowl twice and winning it once.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 6: So that's the most hated team in our in our
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 6: in our rivalry right now, like and there's been because
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: of the way they are. But when they the salary cap, Tynick,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 6: I think it's a because because Stephen Jones and Jerry
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: Jones always talk about the cap. That's that's their number
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: one thing. They mentioned the cap. So that's why we
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 6: are like sold into the cap. The cap. The cap
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 6: well is Philadelphia, are they smarter than than than the
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 6: Joneses dealing with the cap.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 9: Are the Rams or any of these other Now, I
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 9: tell you what they're doing better.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: I tell you what those teams are doing better than
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys is there. They're drafting better, they're drafting better.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: I mean you can say free agency, Yeah, free agency.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: The Eagles did a much better drop in free agency obviously,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: but they they're drafting better and that and so you know,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: Will McClay doesn't get a pass anymore. Okay with Will McClay.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: They have to draft better. The last two or three
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: years have not been good. Their second round picks, third
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: round picks, even first round picks haven't hit. Hit the
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: success you got the Eagles got defensive players scoring touchdowns.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: You've got, you've got defensive rookies of the year. I mean,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: they're draft thing better then.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 6: The reason we don't put so much on the play.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, these past couple of first round picks haven't hit.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 6: But the second round picks, everybody knows. Well, the way
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 6: it seems, it seems like it's more Jerry Jones, because
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 6: Jones likes Jerry likes taking risk on hurt guys, and
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 6: he's been taking risk on hurt guys for years now.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: So so yeah, that's that's that's like, that's like the
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 6: comment that they gave you, like, well, with a team
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 6: won the Super Bowl whatever, a player with one hand
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 6: behind their back work or which is the one hand player.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 6: That's what you're doing when you're taking away a second
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 6: round pick and investing it in an either guy or
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 6: in a a guy that you know it's not going
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 6: to start this year or whatever. You need this draft.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 6: You need help now, Like you need help with free agents,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 6: you need help now, you need help with with the
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 6: whole draft. So I think that's where the frustrations.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: But you say that's that's easy though, Like you're right,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: there have been out of that in the second round.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the last two picks in the
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: second round or were that type of picks. I mean,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: I I schoonmaker Marshawn Neeland. I don't they missed and
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: and and that's the thing. And I love Will McClay
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: and I'm so happy that they brought him back. And
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that that he's here. You know, he he
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: he has GM type duties. Okay, he does, he does,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: he has I mean he's not the not the GM,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: but he gets He gets leaned on a lot in there,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: both free agency and the draft and so and he
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: knows that they have to do better. They have to
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: draft better. Uh, you can say what you want about
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: free agency, but if if your plan is to lean
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: on the draft, then then they they have to to
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: draft better than they have the last two or three years,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: because they really haven't been that good. I think for
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: the last three years. Micah was was a huge hit.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: Deron Bland was a hit, but you know he he
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: got hurt, took a step back. Jake Ferguson made a
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl but took a step back last year, also
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: got hurt. So they need to do more of those
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: and get more of those. Let's go one more called
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: Ali in Florida. Sorry, we run out of time. Ali.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: What's up.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 13: Good morning there, How are you pretty good? Buddy? First
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 13: of all, say hello to Jacob and Chris's children. Number
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 13: one two. You took some of my point.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 22: You're right as far as the dark is sixty million
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 22: dollar quarterback right now, offensive lawn is the most important
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 22: defensive tackle and running back.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 13: They have a lot of album. I mean it's a
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 13: pretty deep but if you look at the Super Bowl
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 13: Jalen Harrits has a big, huge pocket in front of
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 13: me versus my home, and all I have to say,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 13: and let me know when do you want to with
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 13: his pictures? I'll work on it. I love your brother.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 13: Nice talking to you.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: I make appreciate it. Thanks Ali. Yeah, yeah, Darren. Darren
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: said he likes the I Maybe maybe that was a
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Mica reference, who knows, but no, I mean again, and
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: this is not just for our least is for everybody.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: This is for Rob in Vegas. This is for running
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, Dylan Lester, all of them that have called
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: here lately, and and and and I totally get the frustration.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, let's let's argue about the things that
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: we kind of know about. But whatever the strategy is,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, it just hasn't been good enough. And
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: y'all know that I know it, and they know it.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: Hopefully they know it as well, and so and so
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not trying to side with them. What
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: I'm saying is is that you know, just because it's
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: see you see it one way or another, that doesn't
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: mean they're not trying here. But it hasn't worked. It
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: just hasn't worked, and I get that. Y'all see it,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: and we all see that that that too, So your
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: frustration is warranted. It's never fun to see the Eagles
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: win because because you know that's two games on your
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: schedule that are gonna be tough. Home and away. That's
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: always gonna be tough, and it's gonna be really tough
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: because you're not even close to him right now, not
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: even close.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 21: Was it?
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: Seventy five to thirteen? That's the two scores and Dak
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: didn't play, But he's not making up seventy five to
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: thirteen just because he's in there. I don't think it's
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: a lot more than that. They won fourteen games in
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: the regular season and then four more and you won seven.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: Not even close right now, not even close. And that's
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: a tough thing. That's where they got to get to
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: and they got to keep building for that. All right, guys,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: great show, appreciate it. We'll be back next Wednesday to
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: talk about it again. So for Chris Beam, I'm NICKI
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: even see you next week on Storyline.
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