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- 0:19Speaker 1: Here's Nick Eatman. What's up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented
- 0:28Speaker 1: by Gillette. I'm Nick Eatman. It's Wednesday, February the twenty fifth. Again,
- 0:33Speaker 1: we'll get that new setup. I'm back here. Doesn't change
- 0:39Speaker 1: my look, but that much I know it does some
- 0:41Speaker 1: of the others. Chris Beam's been doing a lot of
- 0:44Speaker 1: moving and shaking in this podcast studio, but it's gonna
- 0:49Speaker 1: sound the same, may not look exactly the same, but
- 0:51Speaker 1: hopefully we'll have same time fun here on Cowboys storyline.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Most of my team is actually in Indianapolis or getting
- 0:59Speaker 1: to Indianapolis as we speak for the scouting combine. Probably
- 1:04Speaker 1: have a little case of fomo there not being there.
- 1:06Speaker 1: I'm not I don't go every year, but we had
- 1:09Speaker 1: a lot of people there, so it should be a
- 1:11Speaker 1: lot of a lot of fun, a lot of good
- 1:13Speaker 1: information coming out of there.
- 1:14Speaker 4: I know.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Stephen Jones has talked a couple of times. Clayton Adams
- 1:19Speaker 1: chatted with some of our people up there. This morning,
- 1:22Speaker 1: we'll have a couple of different podcasts from there, just
- 1:26Speaker 1: just kind of an update for you guys. We'll have
- 1:28Speaker 1: obviously the draft show, and then we'll have another podcast
- 1:33Speaker 1: from just from the combine. Just guys coming by. Clayton Adams,
- 1:36Speaker 1: I know we'll stopped by this morning, Uh, Nicole Hudgerson,
- 1:39Speaker 1: Tommy arsh will be doing that. So Christian Parker maybe
- 1:43Speaker 1: later in the wee Boo McClay as well. So should
- 1:45Speaker 1: be good stuff coming out of Indianapolis as always, not
- 1:48Speaker 1: to mention shoddy talking at the podium. And then maybe
- 1:51Speaker 1: Jerry on the bus, which is always uh entertainment in itself.
- 1:55Speaker 1: All right, let's go to our phone lines eight eight
- 1:58Speaker 1: eight eight five five to two nine seven. Let's go
- 2:00Speaker 1: Irene is first, Irene, what's up?
- 2:03Speaker 5: Hey? Good morning? How you doing?
- 2:05Speaker 1: I'm good?
- 2:05Speaker 4: How are you good?
- 2:06Speaker 6: Good?
- 2:07Speaker 5: I like that Jerry on the bus versus Jerry on
- 2:09Speaker 5: the yacht. Which one do you like better?
- 2:11Speaker 1: I've never been on anywhere other than the bus, fair enough,
- 2:17Speaker 1: but I would I would think it would probably be
- 2:19Speaker 1: better on the yacht. But who knows.
- 2:21Speaker 4: There you got.
- 2:22Speaker 5: It was the best draft we ever had. I feel
- 2:24Speaker 5: it not ever, but it was best best drapped in
- 2:26Speaker 5: a while. Ye was on that yacht anyway, That was
- 2:29Speaker 5: obviously not what I was going to call. So Brandon Aubrey,
- 2:33Speaker 5: my boy, what are we doing?
- 2:35Speaker 6: Uh?
- 2:36Speaker 5: I'll say this. Gillen is going to text something to
- 2:38Speaker 5: text line because he can't call in, and he's going
- 2:41Speaker 5: to go through not getting caught up in the money
- 2:43Speaker 5: as much as the percentage of the cap. But you
- 2:47Speaker 5: know we were kind of going back and forth earlier
- 2:49Speaker 5: with that, and and that ten million is like three
- 2:52Speaker 5: point three percent of the increased projected cap, right, so
- 2:57Speaker 5: you know his thinking is, Okay, that's not that much
- 2:59Speaker 5: more than when Kerk got two and a half percent
- 3:02Speaker 5: of the cap in I don't remember what year, but
- 3:05Speaker 5: a few years ago. Right, it's it is. I will say,
- 3:08Speaker 5: it's frustrating as a fan to watch this always that
- 3:11Speaker 5: not now we can't even just get okay, the highest
- 3:15Speaker 5: paid contract, we have to also increase it. But I
- 3:17Speaker 5: understand his point, and I'm sure he'll go through it
- 3:19Speaker 5: very well that you're also trying to go along with
- 3:24Speaker 5: the cap. But I don't want to spend three point
- 3:25Speaker 5: three percent on him. I think it'll settle it like
- 3:28Speaker 5: eight and a half million or so, that's under the
- 3:30Speaker 5: three It's still seems rich for a kicker, but he
- 3:33Speaker 5: is a special kicker. So I understand that if we
- 3:38Speaker 5: don't get it done and as then we put that
- 3:41Speaker 5: tender on him, do you think someone would pick him
- 3:44Speaker 5: up for ten million? Give us a second? So that's
- 3:47Speaker 5: sort of that's sort of where Cowboys Nation is at
- 3:50Speaker 5: least I renas right now, a little frustrated, but understandable,
- 3:54Speaker 5: and yeah, there's reasoning to it. So all right, I'll
- 3:57Speaker 5: take your thoughts up stakes.
- 3:59Speaker 1: Well, nobody's ever in the history of the league since
- 4:03Speaker 1: they started doing those tenders, no one's ever done the
- 4:05Speaker 1: second round tender. No one's ever lost a second round
- 4:08Speaker 1: pick and signed anyone for that. Yeah, I would, I
- 4:12Speaker 1: would think that that you you would definitely do that.
- 4:17Speaker 1: And you know, I guess I guess word is coming
- 4:21Speaker 1: out with Aubrey that that he's that he's wanting the
- 4:23Speaker 1: ten million. I mean, I'd heard that a while ago.
- 4:25Speaker 1: It was kind of more laughable at the time, but
- 4:29Speaker 1: you know, the Cowboys haven't shown that they changed that
- 4:34Speaker 1: up just because people want people are asking for that,
- 4:37Speaker 1: that this isn't new I was talking with Derek Eagleton
- 4:41Speaker 1: about this yesterday. This isn't a new concept. In two
- 4:43Speaker 1: thousand and six, going into two thousand and seven season,
- 4:47Speaker 1: Tony Romo had played ten games and we needed a
- 4:51Speaker 1: new contract and Peyton Manning just won the Super Bowl
- 4:53Speaker 1: and the Cowboys, I mean, they were negotiating and Romo's
- 4:57Speaker 1: camp offered. You know, they asked for more money than
- 5:00Speaker 1: what Peyton Manning was making, and that's not what the
- 5:02Speaker 1: contract that they got, but that's where the negotiation started.
- 5:05Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't think this is anything new, but
- 5:09Speaker 1: there's no way that you have to go that high.
- 5:12Speaker 1: They Cowboys didn't go that high for Micah Parsons. They
- 5:14Speaker 1: didn't want they didn't do that, and they found somebody
- 5:17Speaker 1: that that would. But you know, you got to remember,
- 5:20Speaker 1: Jerry is a league guy. He does things his way,
- 5:23Speaker 1: but he's also about the league as well, and you
- 5:26Speaker 1: don't do contracts like that. I mean, it messes up
- 5:29Speaker 1: the entire market. So Irene, you're right about about the
- 5:34Speaker 1: that's crazy for a kicker, because it is it is.
- 5:37Speaker 1: I mean, think about it when when the other team
- 5:40Speaker 1: lines up to kick a field goal. I mean, don't
- 5:43Speaker 1: you think they're gonna make it, and they do. There's
- 5:46Speaker 1: a guy you never even heard of. You're like, who's
- 5:48Speaker 1: this Guy's he good?
- 5:49Speaker 7: You know?
- 5:49Speaker 1: Yeah? A fifty seven yard or into the net? You're like, oh, man, okay,
- 5:52Speaker 1: he's got a strong leg too. I mean, they're not
- 5:55Speaker 1: all like Aubrey. And Aubrey is fine. I mean he's
- 5:58Speaker 1: two time, you know, all pro I guess, and he's
- 6:01Speaker 1: made three Pro Bowls now in three years. I mean,
- 6:04Speaker 1: that's that's remarkable. But the problem is, is he going
- 6:10Speaker 1: to be Is he that much better than than the
- 6:13Speaker 1: rookie kicker that is going to sign with someone and
- 6:16Speaker 1: make a million dollars a year? Is he going to
- 6:18Speaker 1: be that much better? I don't know. He may be
- 6:21Speaker 1: a little bit more consistent, but that just seems like
- 6:25Speaker 1: a pretty rich for me. So I don't know. I
- 6:29Speaker 1: don't know where I stand on that. I'm not even
- 6:31Speaker 1: sure I like the six million a year for the kicker.
- 6:33Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I might have to come
- 6:35Speaker 1: around on that one. All right. Brian and Kansas City,
- 6:38Speaker 1: Good morning, sir, how are you doing?
- 6:42Speaker 3: I'm good man.
- 6:43Speaker 8: I was thinking about the difference between how easy it
- 6:49Speaker 8: sounds like Joe Monte Williams deal is versus you know
- 6:54Speaker 8: this report that's come out in the last couple of days.
- 6:56Speaker 9: Publicly, you said, you've already you already kind of knew this,
- 6:59Speaker 9: but you know, for the rest of us, it kind
- 7:03Speaker 9: of came out more recently about Aubrey wanting that much money.
- 7:08Speaker 9: But you think about just the dichotomy there of Gavonte Williams.
- 7:13Speaker 9: I think if you would have said a month ago,
- 7:16Speaker 9: eight million a year, yep, sign us up, We'll take it.
- 7:20Speaker 9: You know, he's the you know, a lot of people
- 7:23Speaker 9: have pointed out he's dead center of the running back
- 7:26Speaker 9: class in guaranteed money average per year. He's between fourteen
- 7:33Speaker 9: and sixteen in all those categories. So you'd say, yeah,
- 7:37Speaker 9: guy had twelve hundred yards in a sixteen game season,
- 7:41Speaker 9: he didn't play the last week, and he blocks like hell,
- 7:46Speaker 9: I mean, that's got to just love that guy.
- 7:48Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
- 7:50Speaker 9: So, yeah, just the dichotomy of you know, and I
- 7:53Speaker 9: assume you could probably shed some light on this. I
- 7:55Speaker 9: assume that's a little bit agent based that you know,
- 7:58Speaker 9: it's you know, probably some of what the player wants. Hey,
- 8:02Speaker 9: I want to be in Dallas, get this done, versus Hey,
- 8:05Speaker 9: I don't care where I go, just get me ten million. Yeah,
- 8:09Speaker 9: well so maybe you could shine the light on that,
- 8:11Speaker 9: and I'll make that question today.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Man, it is an agent driven I mean, I'll be
- 8:15Speaker 1: obviously he switched agents and and and he's got an
- 8:18Speaker 1: agent that's a lot more aggressive now. But they don't
- 8:22Speaker 1: hold any leverage. I mean, he really doesn't. So they
- 8:26Speaker 1: they can they can just put that second round tender
- 8:28Speaker 1: on him and if somebody signs him, the Cowboys have
- 8:31Speaker 1: the ability to match it they want to, they don't.
- 8:34Speaker 1: They'll they'll take a second round pick, which they currently
- 8:36Speaker 1: do not own, so they would probably take that and
- 8:39Speaker 1: then go get another kicker. And that's kind of that
- 8:43Speaker 1: would that has to be the way that that that
- 8:46Speaker 1: they look at it here. You know, I don't think
- 8:50Speaker 1: anyone's going to pay ten million a year for for Aubrey.
- 8:55Speaker 1: And you know, remember, you know the Cowboys, you know,
- 8:59Speaker 1: they could at the franchise tag on him if they
- 9:01Speaker 1: wanted to, didn't have to be for pickings, and they
- 9:05Speaker 1: or they could sign him to this one year tender,
- 9:07Speaker 1: you know, for the for the second round restricted tender.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Then they could go into it and then they could
- 9:12Speaker 1: franchise them next year if they wanted to. I mean,
- 9:14Speaker 1: he's he already north of thirty, so you know, time
- 9:18Speaker 1: isn't on his side either, So I yeah, I think
- 9:20Speaker 1: they're trying to, you know, negotiate here, and this is
- 9:24Speaker 1: the you know, that's what you do. I mean, if
- 9:27Speaker 1: you really want seven, I mean you ask for ten,
- 9:29Speaker 1: which is crazy, and you can you can get to
- 9:32Speaker 1: seven or eight or whatever it is. But I still
- 9:36Speaker 1: think all that's pretty high for me. All Right, all right,
- 9:39Speaker 1: let's Chris, we have a caller or anything or not.
- 9:43Speaker 1: We can go to our first break, no, Josh, Josh
- 9:46Speaker 1: and Chicago. All right, Josh, what's up?
- 9:48Speaker 10: Hey?
- 9:49Speaker 3: Nick?
- 9:49Speaker 11: How you doing good?
- 9:50Speaker 3: How are you good?
- 9:51Speaker 6: Hey?
- 9:51Speaker 12: So I think it's call in last week and I
- 9:53Speaker 12: brought this up a couple of times, but yeah, in
- 9:56Speaker 12: my life, I'm a criminal defense council and I just
- 9:58Speaker 12: want to give a shout out to Nate Noon just
- 10:01Speaker 12: for the part all the work he's done since the
- 10:04Speaker 12: adversity he's seen in his life. I think it's just
- 10:06Speaker 12: a testament to sometimes you know, I could I could
- 10:09Speaker 12: grant on about the criminal justice process and everything else,
- 10:13Speaker 12: but you know, I just I really like the way
- 10:16Speaker 12: that he's carried himself as a man, as a father,
- 10:18Speaker 12: as a grandfather, and the work he's done, and it's
- 10:20Speaker 12: well deserved.
- 10:21Speaker 1: So right as a colleague as well, like we we
- 10:25Speaker 1: definitely see that as well from him.
- 10:28Speaker 3: Yep.
- 10:29Speaker 12: The next thing I want to talk about is Davonte
- 10:31Speaker 12: Williams Man.
- 10:32Speaker 1: I like it.
- 10:33Speaker 12: I'm happy that he's back in the building. I'm happy
- 10:35Speaker 12: that it's settled, that it was done quick and we
- 10:37Speaker 12: don't have to drag it out. Hopefully Aubrey can get
- 10:38Speaker 12: done faster. But like you were just saying, I think
- 10:41Speaker 12: you're right.
- 10:41Speaker 4: I think this is.
- 10:42Speaker 12: All about leverage to some degree, right, And maybe he
- 10:44Speaker 12: wants eight million and they're just trying to negotiate, so
- 10:47Speaker 12: we'll just see where that goes.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
- 10:50Speaker 12: The last thing I got for you is, you know,
- 10:53Speaker 12: we've we've been seeing some different people on the break lately,
- 10:56Speaker 12: mostly Tommy, but like, when are you going to get
- 10:57Speaker 12: back in there and mix it up with Derek? You know,
- 10:59Speaker 12: I missed the all day sometimes. Yeah you could double
- 11:03Speaker 12: up one day.
- 11:03Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, oh I could. And but you know,
- 11:09Speaker 1: for the for the longest time, May it was Brian
- 11:12Speaker 1: and Vatch. They don't miss shows, and so watch isn't
- 11:16Speaker 1: gonna miss shows because we know why. And uh, and
- 11:20Speaker 1: and Tommy's not you know if if he, if he
- 11:22Speaker 1: does it, he's gonna be there. So they're they're covered.
- 11:25Speaker 1: They're good. Derek and I mix it up upstairs enough.
- 11:29Speaker 1: We're we're good there. So we'll see, I mean, we'll
- 11:32Speaker 1: we might have something in the works where where Derek
- 11:35Speaker 1: and I will be on the same show again, but
- 11:37Speaker 1: it probably won't be the break, at least not for now.
- 11:40Speaker 12: But we'll see that Derek might come down to the
- 11:42Speaker 12: storyline sometimes to talk.
- 11:44Speaker 1: With him too. You know, we've had him on once.
- 11:47Speaker 1: I think I think that was probably once more than
- 11:50Speaker 1: he wanted to be on. Uh, that's fine. I can
- 11:54Speaker 1: bring Derek on again one time. That's not what I
- 11:56Speaker 1: was referring to. But we'll see. That's for another day,
- 12:00Speaker 1: all right, Josh, Yeah, I mean the they the Aubrey
- 12:05Speaker 1: st this is, this is what happens at the combine.
- 12:08Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is what's going on in
- 12:11Speaker 1: whatever happened. You know that that story again? I heard
- 12:14Speaker 1: ten million for Aubrey October. I mean it was a
- 12:19Speaker 1: while ago, and we just laughed it off whatever. But
- 12:24Speaker 1: you get to this point now where you're like, you know,
- 12:28Speaker 1: this is where this is. This is when the Cowboys
- 12:32Speaker 1: might have thrown that story out there. You know it.
- 12:35Speaker 1: This is part of the negotiation thing, and that's the
- 12:39Speaker 1: tactic people use. They use the media to negotiate both
- 12:42Speaker 1: sides do it. And it's probably happening here. I think
- 12:46Speaker 1: most people fans whatever, you know, the Cowboys probably are
- 12:51Speaker 1: tired of getting their ass kicked when it comes to
- 12:54Speaker 1: why don't they why don't they sign these guys? Why
- 12:56Speaker 1: don't they sign Michael Parsons, Why don't they sign Brandon Aubrey?
- 13:00Speaker 1: Why do they wait so long on Pickens? Well, if
- 13:04Speaker 1: you would have heard way back in training campus, well
- 13:06Speaker 1: you know it's forty it's forty and a half, forty one.
- 13:09Speaker 1: Miles Garrett got this and it's like, well, well, Michaels,
- 13:12Speaker 1: what in forty seven? If that would have come out earlier,
- 13:16Speaker 1: that would have changed some things, just like this does
- 13:19Speaker 1: ten million for Aubrey. Wow, it's a little it's a
- 13:22Speaker 1: little high, Yeah it is. It is. What do you
- 13:24Speaker 1: think Pickens is? And I don't know, I really don't
- 13:26Speaker 1: know that number for Pickings, but I'm just saying it's
- 13:30Speaker 1: it's it's different. So maybe it wouldn't surprise me if
- 13:32Speaker 1: the cowboys were like, yeah, yeah, they're asking for ten
- 13:35Speaker 1: report that. I'm not saying it went down like that,
- 13:39Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be the first time for sure. All Right,
- 13:41Speaker 1: Randy and Texa Cana's next. Randy, It's up, yo, ma on.
- 13:47Speaker 13: I can't I can't stop talking like a yeah, man,
- 13:50Speaker 13: how you're doing mine. I just got back from my
- 13:52Speaker 13: carebe crooms. I've been out of touch with reality. I
- 13:56Speaker 13: got my February can going and I just got back
- 14:01Speaker 13: in town and much needed Vacasian brothers. Tah, that was nice.
- 14:05Speaker 1: I bet you you walking around the Caribbean, I bet
- 14:09Speaker 1: you stood out so much your accent. I bet that
- 14:13Speaker 1: was a fun You're over here trying to talk, trying
- 14:15Speaker 1: to talk that way. Man, just just be you, because
- 14:18Speaker 1: I guarantee you they're over there. You left, They're like,
- 14:21Speaker 1: they're talking like you as you was you walked back
- 14:23Speaker 1: on the on the boat.
- 14:25Speaker 6: I'm telling you, they're.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Like, yeah, the guys of the Caribbean are like, yeah,
- 14:29Speaker 1: I'm a one legged man. In an ask if you
- 14:32Speaker 1: contest is from the lines you dropped that's all right.
- 14:36Speaker 6: That's right.
- 14:37Speaker 13: Yeah, I just had to get caught back up with
- 14:39Speaker 13: y'all and uh, they I saw your story on the
- 14:43Speaker 13: new coach, and you know, I didn't know much about
- 14:46Speaker 13: him before I left, but once they got back, all
- 14:49Speaker 13: my phone stuff work again. I watched the interview they
- 14:52Speaker 13: did with him, and I guess, you know, all season
- 14:57Speaker 13: crazy mind thought. But he gives me a vibe of
- 15:02Speaker 13: a young, a young John McVay as far as play
- 15:08Speaker 13: structures in his head are going, and the and the
- 15:12Speaker 13: attitude of a Tomlin for Pittsburgh as far as how
- 15:20Speaker 13: he's going to handle his players. And if I'm right
- 15:23Speaker 13: on either one of those, we may have gotten lucky
- 15:26Speaker 13: and have a guy that we can hang on for
- 15:30Speaker 13: possibly head coaching in the future.
- 15:32Speaker 8: Hopefully.
- 15:33Speaker 13: That's just my quick vibe. I don't have a whole
- 15:35Speaker 13: lot of information, but sometimes that first impression is what
- 15:39Speaker 13: you kind of hang you had on, and that's what
- 15:41Speaker 13: I'm getting.
- 15:42Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm I think it's very similar to
- 15:46Speaker 1: the to the Schottenheimer stuff, where you know, when when
- 15:50Speaker 1: he was hired last year, you were like, well, you know,
- 15:53Speaker 1: obviously he's got to go out and win games, and
- 15:55Speaker 1: same with with the you know, defensive coordinator Parker, he's
- 15:58Speaker 1: got to go out and stop people, you know. And
- 15:59Speaker 1: and I what I wrote my column is that you know,
- 16:03Speaker 1: if you can't stop the Eagles, can't stop the push push,
- 16:07Speaker 1: can't stop the Giants, then it doesn't really matter. But
- 16:10Speaker 1: here we are in February, and and all you can
- 16:13Speaker 1: go off is what you're hearing and seeing. And it
- 16:15Speaker 1: looks pretty good, you know.
- 16:17Speaker 13: And and he's got that the eagle part of it.
- 16:22Speaker 13: You're right about that. We we we put a dent
- 16:26Speaker 13: in there by doing that.
- 16:29Speaker 3: Well.
- 16:29Speaker 1: So that's a good rule change that the NFL made
- 16:33Speaker 1: a few years ago about because it used to be
- 16:36Speaker 1: it didn't matter what position you were interviewing for. If
- 16:39Speaker 1: it wasn't head coach, you couldn't. You couldn't move on.
- 16:41Speaker 1: You could be a quality control coach that really only
- 16:44Speaker 1: gets coffee and donuts. But you but but you couldn't.
- 16:48Speaker 1: You couldn't interview for a defensive coordinator position. But now
- 16:52Speaker 1: you can. Now now they've they've moved that up to
- 16:56Speaker 1: if you are interview of position coach interviewing for a coordinator,
- 17:00Speaker 1: you can do that.
- 17:01Speaker 13: So yeah, that's tell me what is his I've heard
- 17:05Speaker 13: he's already made three or four hours of his own
- 17:08Speaker 13: How how does that seem to you? I don't know anything,
- 17:11Speaker 13: I'm telling you. Yeah, I've been a degree, buddy.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a younger it's a younger staff. There's no
- 17:19Speaker 1: doubt about it. It's a younger staff. It'll be one
- 17:22Speaker 1: that that I think is very relatable to the players. Now,
- 17:24Speaker 1: now that doesn't always I mean that, that doesn't always
- 17:28Speaker 1: mean it's going to be good. I mean, think about
- 17:29Speaker 1: when you're in high school, you see any twenty two
- 17:32Speaker 1: year old professor's teachers. I mean not really, So there's
- 17:35Speaker 1: a reason why you don't have it that way all
- 17:38Speaker 1: the time. But Shoddy pointed out he's he was thirty
- 17:42Speaker 1: four years old when he you know, thirty two, sorry,
- 17:44Speaker 1: when he was first a coordinator, and Christian Parker's thirty four,
- 17:48Speaker 1: so there's there's something to it. I had a good
- 17:51Speaker 1: conversation with Shoddy about that, and he was just, you know,
- 17:54Speaker 1: no offense to any other coach that's been there or whatever,
- 17:56Speaker 1: but it is different when when you when you could
- 17:58Speaker 1: relate to them and as long as they understand, yeah,
- 18:03Speaker 1: we we like the same things. We we we kind
- 18:06Speaker 1: of speak the same language. But when it's time to work,
- 18:08Speaker 1: I'm asking this is what I'm gonna ask, you know,
- 18:10Speaker 1: from you and and you know, get the job done.
- 18:13Speaker 13: So yeah, and you hear a lot of the younger
- 18:15Speaker 13: folks these days, they always talk about vibe. Yeah, he's
- 18:20Speaker 13: got that vibe and so hey, if they're as long
- 18:23Speaker 13: as they're vibing together, that's all we need. I don't
- 18:25Speaker 13: care how old, where you came from, what rock. You
- 18:28Speaker 13: crowd up to win us and games, and you're gonna
- 18:31Speaker 13: be number one, right, That's just the way it works,
- 18:33Speaker 13: the way it is.
- 18:34Speaker 4: Yep, that's the way it is.
- 18:35Speaker 13: And hey, real quick, far jump off, Ollie, you're my man,
- 18:39Speaker 13: he knows why.
- 18:40Speaker 1: All right, Love you guys, Thanks for the call. This
- 18:45Speaker 1: is awesome. All these little we got it like hidden
- 18:48Speaker 1: not not hidden jokes, but just just little references back
- 18:51Speaker 1: and forth going to each other like I'm sure just
- 18:55Speaker 1: I feel like I'm that kid in class, like notes
- 18:57Speaker 1: are getting passed by me. I'm like, yeah, okay, hey,
- 19:00Speaker 1: you know that that would happen to me. You know
- 19:03Speaker 1: a girl that gives me a note and like oh,
- 19:05Speaker 1: things like no, no, pass it to him, like sorry,
- 19:08Speaker 1: so anyways a league, you're the man, you know why?
- 19:10Speaker 1: All right, Chris and san Angelo?
- 19:14Speaker 11: Mister Nick, how are you doing this morning?
- 19:16Speaker 1: I'm good? What is up?
- 19:18Speaker 11: Hey? You know everything that didn't tie down? Buddy? What
- 19:23Speaker 11: I have is I love the Javonte signing. All it's
- 19:27Speaker 11: just going to piggyback on that. He just as an example,
- 19:32Speaker 11: like in Seattle, you know that Kenneth Walker, he kind
- 19:37Speaker 11: of took over, you know, the running back during the
- 19:40Speaker 11: playoffs and Super Bowl because the other Charbon Day got
- 19:44Speaker 11: injured right right, Well, the reason he was able to
- 19:48Speaker 11: carry the load, in my opinion, is that he was
- 19:51Speaker 11: able to limit his touches during the regular season so
- 19:56Speaker 11: he was still fresh. So what I was wondering this,
- 20:00Speaker 11: how do you think they ought to approach the second
- 20:05Speaker 11: running back position there? Do you think it's Blues to
- 20:10Speaker 11: lose or you know, basically I think they should bring
- 20:15Speaker 11: in competition. But do you think they ought to go
- 20:18Speaker 11: free agency drafts or like undrafted just to just to
- 20:26Speaker 11: see how you think they might approach that situation, because
- 20:30Speaker 11: you're definitely going to need somebody because especially now with
- 20:33Speaker 11: the with this new contract, that almost makes it more important.
- 20:39Speaker 1: Yeah, no, great question. Great, great references too with Seattle,
- 20:45Speaker 1: and I'll speak to that. Chris. Thanks for the thanks,
- 20:48Speaker 1: you buddy, appreciate it. I think I think you're right
- 20:54Speaker 1: about about the Kenneth Walker Seattle thing, as far as
- 20:57Speaker 1: you know him splitting carries and at the end of
- 20:59Speaker 1: the this season he was strong. I also look at it.
- 21:04Speaker 1: I don't think that's wrong. I think the two things
- 21:07Speaker 1: can be right. I think that that's part of it.
- 21:09Speaker 1: I also think that when you're going into the game
- 21:12Speaker 1: and you're going up against Seattle, you have to focus
- 21:15Speaker 1: on the guy that won AP Offensive Player of the Year,
- 21:18Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba. I mean, he's unbelievable, and I
- 21:22Speaker 1: mean he's not the biggest guy in the world. He
- 21:24Speaker 1: gets open and they got Shahid. I believe on the
- 21:27Speaker 1: outside he'll probably be a lot better next year when
- 21:31Speaker 1: they really get him a full offseason and all that.
- 21:34Speaker 1: But they have weapons, and they have weapons that probably
- 21:37Speaker 1: scare defensive coordinators more than the Kenneth Walker. Nothing against him,
- 21:41Speaker 1: he is a good running back. But I'm just saying,
- 21:44Speaker 1: you're going into it, you got to stop these guys.
- 21:46Speaker 1: And I think that's what happened with the Cowboys I
- 21:49Speaker 1: think that's what's going to happen again, and so and
- 21:53Speaker 1: Javonte knows that.
- 21:54Speaker 3: You know, I.
- 21:56Speaker 1: When I say I caught up with Javonte yesterday, really did.
- 22:00Speaker 1: And Chris can speak to that. I mean, he wasn't
- 22:03Speaker 1: He wasn't like in a full sprint, but I was
- 22:06Speaker 1: able to run him down for solid forty seconds. Maybe
- 22:09Speaker 1: got a few quotes out of him. One of the
- 22:12Speaker 1: things he said was when Jerry called him to congratulate him,
- 22:16Speaker 1: he had a message for him. He said he had
- 22:17Speaker 1: keep GP and yeah, he wants to keep his boy.
- 22:21Speaker 1: He also understands that the running lanes are a lot,
- 22:25Speaker 1: you know, wider when you've got CD George Pickens on
- 22:29Speaker 1: the other side. I think Ferguson feels that as well.
- 22:32Speaker 1: So there's there's something to that. It's not just keeping
- 22:37Speaker 1: fresh running backs, it's also having weapons around him that
- 22:41Speaker 1: you have to account for, ask for the backup spots.
- 22:45Speaker 1: Great question about who's you know, whose job is it
- 22:49Speaker 1: to lose? It's just going to be competition. And if
- 22:53Speaker 1: Jayden Blue doesn't doesn't realize that this offseason, then it's
- 22:56Speaker 1: on him. And it's not just Jayane Blowe, it's any
- 22:58Speaker 1: player that's going into their second year. This is when
- 23:01Speaker 1: you're supposed to make a big leap. This year. You're
- 23:05Speaker 1: supposed to say, all right, all right, last year, I
- 23:07Speaker 1: didn't know what I didn't know. Now I've got to
- 23:10Speaker 1: get in here. It could start right now. And we've
- 23:13Speaker 1: seen it. I want to see these players in the
- 23:17Speaker 1: training table where we eat. I want to see who's
- 23:20Speaker 1: here every single day, who's here when you know and
- 23:23Speaker 1: we've seen it. We've seen a few wide receivers that
- 23:25Speaker 1: you know here and there that that they they're here
- 23:29Speaker 1: all the time, they're here every day and now, oh,
- 23:32Speaker 1: you get the training camp and guess what, they're a
- 23:34Speaker 1: lot better too. So we'll see if that happens. I
- 23:37Speaker 1: think they want Jayden Blue to be that guy because
- 23:40Speaker 1: he is different than Javonte. He'd be the fastest, quickest
- 23:43Speaker 1: guy in the room. But if it's not going to
- 23:45Speaker 1: be him, I mean, Malik Davis isn't going to give
- 23:47Speaker 1: it to anybody, and then who knows what Phil Offf
- 23:50Speaker 1: is going to be able to do. So I think
- 23:52Speaker 1: if a running back makes sense in the draft, fine,
- 23:56Speaker 1: you know, later in the round, you're like, we really
- 23:58Speaker 1: like this guy. Okay, see where he fits into all this.
- 24:02Speaker 1: I don't know if free agency is the answer. Uh there,
- 24:05Speaker 1: I think because you have a kick returner, you have
- 24:07Speaker 1: special teams guys in Malik Davis, you got your starter.
- 24:11Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if that makes sense there,
- 24:13Speaker 1: but you do have some young players that are gonna
- 24:15Speaker 1: be fighting for it, and that'll be it'll be fun
- 24:18Speaker 1: to watch for sure. Let's got a break here on
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- 26:18Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette. I
- 26:20Speaker 1: am Nick Eatman. Wednesday, February the twenty fifth. We were
- 26:24Speaker 1: rolling right along here, had a handful of callers. We've
- 26:29Speaker 1: been talking obviously about Brandon Aubrey. I don't think I
- 26:33Speaker 1: have a popular opinion when it comes to fans. What
- 26:37Speaker 1: I what I would imagine is the opinion from fans
- 26:40Speaker 1: about about Aubrey. I like the guy. I mean, I
- 26:46Speaker 1: like him. I mean, this is nothing about that I
- 26:48Speaker 1: saw him. I saw him at Super Bowl. I don't know.
- 26:52Speaker 1: I was going to say a restaurant, but then again,
- 26:54Speaker 1: I never know who the sponsors are or whatever. It
- 26:56Speaker 1: was just right across the street from the media center.
- 26:58Speaker 1: So sorry, he was, you know, just walking along. And
- 27:03Speaker 1: you know, his demeanor is always kind of the same,
- 27:06Speaker 1: which I think is which makes him a great kicker.
- 27:10Speaker 1: But I can't do ten million. I don't even I
- 27:13Speaker 1: don't even like these numbers up here in the six seven,
- 27:17Speaker 1: you know, eight million, nine million range. I mean, the
- 27:20Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to have to to to really think
- 27:23Speaker 1: about this one because and then I'm sure they have.
- 27:27Speaker 1: But yes, he's been he's been an all pro kicker
- 27:31Speaker 1: now for the last two years, made the Pro Bowl.
- 27:36Speaker 1: His rookie year if they even called it his rookie year,
- 27:39Speaker 1: it's his first year. The NFL came back and said
- 27:41Speaker 1: he wasn't a rookie, I think because he played in
- 27:43Speaker 1: the USFL. But he's an NFL rookie. Anyways, he's been
- 27:47Speaker 1: he's been great since he got here. Have the Cowboys
- 27:52Speaker 1: been great?
- 27:53Speaker 3: You know?
- 27:54Speaker 1: I think that's the question. They won twelve games his
- 27:57Speaker 1: first year. They had won twelve the previous two, so
- 28:00Speaker 1: you know, he jumped into this and uh and and
- 28:04Speaker 1: and they he won. He's won some games, there's no
- 28:06Speaker 1: doubt about it. But they won seven games and then
- 28:09Speaker 1: they've they've you know, they won seven again, So I
- 28:15Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, that's that's a tough one because
- 28:18Speaker 1: you want consistency, you want a kicker you can rely on,
- 28:22Speaker 1: and you can rely on him. His misses are like
- 28:25Speaker 1: in the fifty eight yard range, you know what I mean.
- 28:27Speaker 1: He's not really missing some thirty seven yard field goal whatever,
- 28:31Speaker 1: unless you go to Washington and he hasn't been great there.
- 28:34Speaker 1: But for the most part he has been lights out.
- 28:38Speaker 1: But that number for what you're probably going to get
- 28:43Speaker 1: if you go the cheaper route. I just don't know
- 28:45Speaker 1: if it's that much of a difference. I don't know.
- 28:48Speaker 1: All right, let's go, Joe. He's equipment Texas. Joe, what
- 28:52Speaker 1: is up?
- 28:54Speaker 5: Oh?
- 28:54Speaker 4: Not much.
- 28:55Speaker 17: I just had a novel concept. I'm going to go
- 28:58Speaker 17: out there and see what you say. Okay, defensive ends.
- 29:04Speaker 17: He's talking about going to like a three full concept
- 29:08Speaker 17: or multiple concepts. If we take one of our some
- 29:13Speaker 17: of the smaller defensive ends that we have, Like I
- 29:17Speaker 17: was thinking Sam Williams, move him or try him the
- 29:20Speaker 17: middle linebacker help on the run. He also pressed at
- 29:26Speaker 17: a quarterback and he had to speed to do good
- 29:29Speaker 17: and coverage. But I was thinking about something like that.
- 29:34Speaker 17: You can still draft from another tied end or defensive
- 29:37Speaker 17: end or secondary. But what do you think about the
- 29:41Speaker 17: concept of moving somebody or trying that.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, thanks, thanks for the call.
- 29:49Speaker 3: Joe.
- 29:49Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Yeah, this is the time of year when
- 29:52Speaker 1: when you're doing that and when you can have a
- 29:55Speaker 1: different visions for players. I don't know the backs story exactly,
- 30:01Speaker 1: but I can, Man, somebody can help me on this one.
- 30:05Speaker 1: But Bond from the Eagles, Zach Bond I believe I don't.
- 30:09Speaker 1: I don't. I think they they they moved him from
- 30:11Speaker 1: one position to another, and he went to Philly and
- 30:13Speaker 1: he was he was great. Not saying Christian Parker was
- 30:16Speaker 1: the guy that did that. He was there. I think
- 30:18Speaker 1: to see that. But you know, having having a plan
- 30:23Speaker 1: for a for a guy that you know that could
- 30:25Speaker 1: do something different is uh, you know, always thinking outside
- 30:30Speaker 1: the box. And that's that's how you become you know great.
- 30:33Speaker 1: It is seeing something and go oh, I can mold
- 30:38Speaker 1: it like that. Sam Williams is unrestricted free agent, so
- 30:44Speaker 1: you know when you were saying that, I was thinking
- 30:47Speaker 1: you might say, well, could he be your outside linebacker
- 30:51Speaker 1: in a three four. I don't think he's going to
- 30:54Speaker 1: be an inside linebacker. There's there's a lot to it.
- 30:57Speaker 1: I only get into. I'm not talking about Sam Williams
- 31:00Speaker 1: in general, but that position. The awareness has to be
- 31:04Speaker 1: off the charts. I mean it. You you have to
- 31:09Speaker 1: to be the quarterback, you know, you have to be
- 31:13Speaker 1: the quarterback of the defense. And that's not That's not
- 31:16Speaker 1: what Sam Williams is and that's not what a lot
- 31:18Speaker 1: of these guys, these pass rushers could be. I don't
- 31:19Speaker 1: think Michaeh Parsons would be great at that. I mean,
- 31:23Speaker 1: Michaeh could probably be great at punter if he tried
- 31:25Speaker 1: it a few times. But I don't think that's his
- 31:27Speaker 1: best position. And he didn't want that either, you know,
- 31:29Speaker 1: and a lot of that was tied to contracts and
- 31:31Speaker 1: stuff like that. But he could have done it. He
- 31:33Speaker 1: could have been good, but I don't think he would
- 31:36Speaker 1: have been his best and and and that's why he's
- 31:38Speaker 1: playing what he's playing. But I don't know if if
- 31:42Speaker 1: if Sam Williams, I don't know if that's the type
- 31:45Speaker 1: of move, but I like where you're thinking, though. I
- 31:47Speaker 1: like that kind of stuff. I think for him that
- 31:50Speaker 1: probably he would be more if you're outside three four
- 31:53Speaker 1: linebacker because he could you know, he could rush and
- 31:56Speaker 1: he could cover. And remember he's blocked punts, so he's
- 31:58Speaker 1: you know, he's got some agility to him. It'll be
- 32:01Speaker 1: interesting to see where he fits into the free agency,
- 32:05Speaker 1: even if it's not with the Cowboys kind of what
- 32:07Speaker 1: his position would be. But I think a three four
- 32:10Speaker 1: outside linebacker makes more sense for him. Not saying it's here,
- 32:13Speaker 1: but it could be. All right, let's move on here,
- 32:17Speaker 1: we got next Chris and Saratoga Springs. He's been holding
- 32:19Speaker 1: a little bit. Chris, what's up?
- 32:21Speaker 7: Not much? And Ick just trying to dig out of
- 32:23Speaker 7: the snow again up here in New York. I'm I'm
- 32:25Speaker 7: I'm ready for spring. I'm done with the winner.
- 32:29Speaker 6: I don't know anything about that, yeah, exactly.
- 32:33Speaker 7: I just want to say, I love the Javonte Williams signing. Fantastic.
- 32:37Speaker 7: I'm so glad they signed him. I think we're I
- 32:40Speaker 7: think we're set to be honest with it. At running back.
- 32:43Speaker 7: I think we were blue there and MafA MafA is
- 32:46Speaker 7: more of a Javante Williams type, the size and speed
- 32:51Speaker 7: of him, so we have him as a backup, and
- 32:53Speaker 7: Malik Davis as well, So I think we're pretty set
- 32:56Speaker 7: at running back, to be honest with you. As far
- 32:59Speaker 7: as an Aubrey, that's a lot of money, and my opinion,
- 33:03Speaker 7: I'm not giving him ten million dollars a year as
- 33:05Speaker 7: a kicker When we can sign one for three or
- 33:08Speaker 7: four and do a pretty decent job. I wouldn't mind
- 33:12Speaker 7: signing him. I mean, I think the highest page is
- 33:14Speaker 7: like six and a half right around there. If they
- 33:16Speaker 7: want to give him a hair over that amount, I'll
- 33:19Speaker 7: be happy with that, but definitely not in the eight nine,
- 33:23Speaker 7: ten million dollar range. I wouldn't be happy with that.
- 33:26Speaker 7: So that's my opinion on that. I'd love to talk
- 33:29Speaker 7: about the linebackers. We got two free agents I love,
- 33:32Speaker 7: I want your opinion on who you would like. We
- 33:34Speaker 7: got Nakobe Dean and then Klay Walker. Two outstanding went
- 33:39Speaker 7: healthy obviously linebackers, and I would love to see them
- 33:43Speaker 7: on the Cowboys, especially with the familiarity with the coaches
- 33:47Speaker 7: for both of them. I would love to see one
- 33:49Speaker 7: of those two on there. What are your thoughts as
- 33:52Speaker 7: far as that goes.
- 33:54Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'm with you on that. You know,
- 33:58Speaker 1: Ohio State guys, Georgia guys, Yeah, bring them over. Yeah,
- 34:03Speaker 1: those Bama even, you know, especially with the defensive guys
- 34:06Speaker 1: and all that. I know they've fallen off a little,
- 34:08Speaker 1: but those guys can can play. And I know it's
- 34:13Speaker 1: different when they get to the NFL. But but you
- 34:15Speaker 1: said it best when you're talking about the familiarity with
- 34:17Speaker 1: Christian Parker. I think, you know, having having a coach
- 34:21Speaker 1: that is seeing these guys practice and go hey, I
- 34:23Speaker 1: want to move him like this, And maybe it wasn't
- 34:25Speaker 1: his role to do that as the defensive backs coach
- 34:28Speaker 1: to say, I'm moving him here. But but I think
- 34:31Speaker 1: that the free agency, you know, having having a vision
- 34:35Speaker 1: for the player is certainly something that they need. Thanks
- 34:39Speaker 1: for the call Chris to go to the Aubrey stuff.
- 34:42Speaker 1: Get back to Aubrey.
- 34:43Speaker 7: You know.
- 34:44Speaker 1: So the second round tender for him is a one
- 34:48Speaker 1: year tender, a five point eight million. They they give
- 34:54Speaker 1: them that tender nobody. If nobody signs them, then it's
- 34:59Speaker 1: five point eight and that's that's what it is.
- 35:01Speaker 14: Now.
- 35:01Speaker 1: It's the same as franchise in that you don't you
- 35:05Speaker 1: don't have to keep that. You can you can sign.
- 35:08Speaker 1: It's like more of a placeholder and you could sign
- 35:11Speaker 1: him to a long term deal. You can continue to negotiate.
- 35:16Speaker 1: You also, if somebody does sign him to a deal
- 35:20Speaker 1: and say they signed him this, I will pay you
- 35:22Speaker 1: seven million, eight million, We'll pay you ten whatever it is. Well,
- 35:25Speaker 1: they have to give the Cowboys second round pick if
- 35:27Speaker 1: if the if the team chooses not to match now
- 35:30Speaker 1: the other tender, there is a first round they they
- 35:33Speaker 1: could do that at eight point one million. You know,
- 35:39Speaker 1: that would be he probably wouldn't be as as upset
- 35:43Speaker 1: by that you know, if if the cowboy, let let's
- 35:46Speaker 1: say that they're offering eight and you know his campus is,
- 35:52Speaker 1: you know, firm on the ten, well that might be
- 35:55Speaker 1: an option to say, well, we're offering you eight million
- 35:58Speaker 1: a year, we'll do it for one year the first
- 36:02Speaker 1: round tender. No one's gonna probably give him a first
- 36:04Speaker 1: round or for that either and uh and then you know,
- 36:07Speaker 1: then we'll see what happens from there. But yeah, the
- 36:11Speaker 1: more the more this kind of is processing to me,
- 36:13Speaker 1: the more I'm I'm like, I'd be looking at other
- 36:16Speaker 1: options here. I mean, I really, I mean, I as
- 36:19Speaker 1: good as he's been, I just I just think that
- 36:23Speaker 1: that you can you could spend money in other ways
- 36:26Speaker 1: and you wouldn't see that much of a change. You know,
- 36:30Speaker 1: you don't have to be kicking sixty yard field goals
- 36:33Speaker 1: fifty nine yard field goals all the time. It's it's
- 36:35Speaker 1: nice to have, but I think it's hurt the team
- 36:38Speaker 1: at times too. I think it's hurt some of the
- 36:39Speaker 1: play calling of knowing that you've got a you know,
- 36:43Speaker 1: a guy that can make that. We've seen it. He misses.
- 36:46Speaker 1: He can miss at fifty eight yards, he can miss
- 36:48Speaker 1: the sixty yarders. I mean, and that's not easy. I mean,
- 36:51Speaker 1: that's not a great field position to be given to
- 36:54Speaker 1: to your defense when that happens. I'm not trying to
- 36:57Speaker 1: pick holes in his game. He has been amazing, but
- 37:00Speaker 1: this number is off the charts and and it just
- 37:05Speaker 1: doesn't seem to make the most sense there. So all right,
- 37:08Speaker 1: let's go to uh Eric in Arkansas? Eric, what's up?
- 37:14Speaker 3: Hey, yep, how's it going good?
- 37:15Speaker 1: How are you well?
- 37:17Speaker 3: You see that score yesterday?
- 37:20Speaker 1: What's score?
- 37:21Speaker 3: Arkansas? Arkansas State?
- 37:23Speaker 6: Oh?
- 37:24Speaker 1: Yes, Tuesday Tuesday baseball? That's right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
- 37:30Speaker 1: did see that. I did see that. Congratula is where
- 37:32Speaker 1: when's the preade is it? Is it going on now
- 37:35Speaker 1: in jones Borough? To have a prey going on for
- 37:37Speaker 1: winning Tuesday baseball? That's cool? All right? But I did
- 37:44Speaker 1: see that. I did see that. Yeah, it was it
- 37:47Speaker 1: looked like it was batting practice over there.
- 37:49Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 37:50Speaker 3: Yeah, I had to agree with you, man, because the thing, yeah,
- 37:54Speaker 3: I can't, I can't. We can't go tom if the
- 38:01Speaker 3: rumor is true. You know, we offer seven and a half,
- 38:04Speaker 3: which which is higher pay a kicker, I think, because
- 38:09Speaker 3: I think the kicker in Kansas is getting six and
- 38:10Speaker 3: a half. I mean, you're asking ten, we can't do that,
- 38:14Speaker 3: draft the kicker in seventh round or something. We can't
- 38:18Speaker 3: do this. We can't do that now. And I totally
- 38:23Speaker 3: agree with your points about you know, I think I
- 38:25Speaker 3: think it kind of handcuffs us. We depended on sixty
- 38:28Speaker 3: yard field goals, right, you know what I mean? So
- 38:31Speaker 3: I don't I don't sixty yard is good, but I
- 38:34Speaker 3: don't want to use that as a weapon. Yeah, I mean,
- 38:37Speaker 3: I don't want us to get comfortable with Okay, at
- 38:39Speaker 3: least we get as long as we get to the
- 38:40Speaker 3: fifty we can kick vilgo Our offense should be too
- 38:43Speaker 3: high power to depend on that.
- 38:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so, I'm with you, and I think the
- 38:48Speaker 1: Cowboys standpoint is is listen, I mean you you know,
- 38:53Speaker 1: Harrison Bucker would would probably love to kick half of
- 38:56Speaker 1: his games at AT and T Stadium, you know, as
- 38:59Speaker 1: opposed to it, you know, Arrowhead where it's you know,
- 39:01Speaker 1: this swirling wind and stuff like that, and and cold,
- 39:04Speaker 1: and it's not the easiest place to kick either. So again,
- 39:09Speaker 1: I don't like how this is sounding. This isn't going
- 39:11Speaker 1: well for me that I am. You know, it seems
- 39:14Speaker 1: like I'm really anti Aubrey. I just think that they
- 39:18Speaker 1: have to be smart on this and they have to
- 39:19Speaker 1: kind of hold firm. You know, they're offering him to
- 39:22Speaker 1: be the highest paid kicker in the league. Ye, then
- 39:24Speaker 1: that's where it should be. And and and yeah, Jared Joe,
- 39:29Speaker 1: he's not gonna know what.
- 39:31Speaker 3: You know what vibes I'm getting. I mean, cut you off,
- 39:33Speaker 3: you know what vibes I'm getting what I'm getting The
- 39:36Speaker 3: laugh negotiation that the person at the Green Bay packs, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 39:43Speaker 1: I don't and I'm not a man major, but they
- 39:45Speaker 1: were offering forty one and a half. Yeah, well forty
- 39:49Speaker 1: and a half was the was the the top. They
- 39:52Speaker 1: offered forty one and a half. He wanted forty seven.
- 39:55Speaker 1: So this is this is very similar to that, even
- 40:01Speaker 1: it's even way worse. I mean it's even way higher
- 40:04Speaker 1: when you think of percentages, because forty one to forty
- 40:07Speaker 1: seven that's not even close to you know, like a
- 40:10Speaker 1: one hundred percent. But think about six million to ten.
- 40:15Speaker 1: I mean, you you're getting close to double. You know,
- 40:18Speaker 1: you're not doubling, but I mean that is that's insane numbers.
- 40:22Speaker 3: Yeah, the mark now yeah, yeah.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Again, this is this is why it's we're over here
- 40:30Speaker 1: talking about it. Oh, this is crazy, when when you know,
- 40:35Speaker 1: it's probably one of those things where the cowboys are like, yeah,
- 40:37Speaker 1: what are you thinking here? And they're like ten, ten, okay,
- 40:43Speaker 1: all right, well we'll call you back, you know, and
- 40:45Speaker 1: and you know, then it's like, all right, now, let's
- 40:48Speaker 1: get serious here. And maybe that's not really serious. Maybe
- 40:51Speaker 1: they are. We'll see how long this goes. But you know,
- 40:55Speaker 1: I think offering him the contract as the highest aided
- 40:58Speaker 1: kicker in the league, knowing that body will jump that
- 41:00Speaker 1: and all that, that's that's the way it works, you know.
- 41:03Speaker 1: But but but to do it at ten, uh, it does.
- 41:07Speaker 1: It's that's what the Raiders did for years. That's what
- 41:12Speaker 1: the Raiders do. And they and then and then what
- 41:15Speaker 1: happens is is then there's a you do that with
- 41:18Speaker 1: Aubrey at ten, and then there's a kicker out there
- 41:21Speaker 1: that's not half as good as him. And I'm not
- 41:23Speaker 1: even gonna name a guy, but he's he's he's up
- 41:26Speaker 1: for a contract and he's been okay, and he's like, well,
- 41:29Speaker 1: if Aubrey's getting ten, I should be getting eight. Like no, no,
- 41:34Speaker 1: you messed up the entire market.
- 41:37Speaker 3: So yeah, you changed the market. Yeah, I told you
- 41:40Speaker 3: agree that.
- 41:41Speaker 1: Wow. All right, man, appreciate it. Good luck with you
- 41:45Speaker 1: with those red Wolves over there. If you guys don't
- 41:48Speaker 1: know what he's talking about, he's an Arkansas State fan.
- 41:50Speaker 1: There's about fifty in the state of Arkansas. Sorry, and
- 41:54Speaker 1: uh he's of Arkansas State. Most of them are Arkansas fans.
- 41:57Speaker 1: And they have a good baseball team, but apparently they
- 42:00Speaker 1: also Tuesday night game middle of the week, which most
- 42:03Speaker 1: major programs don't really care about their midweek baseball but
- 42:06Speaker 1: they should. And then you get beat by a team
- 42:08Speaker 1: in Satan. You got people in Dallas calling in and
- 42:10Speaker 1: you know, talking crap. Anyways, Uh, still basketball season in
- 42:17Speaker 1: my mind. All right, Isaac and Amarillo. What's up, Isaac?
- 42:22Speaker 18: Mister Nick Hope all in Well, sir, thanks for being
- 42:25Speaker 18: on the phone today. Always good to hear you. Yeah, Hey,
- 42:27Speaker 18: I know, yes, sir, I know everybody's kind of talking
- 42:30Speaker 18: about Davonte and Brandon Aubreys, though I don't want to
- 42:33Speaker 18: go there.
- 42:33Speaker 7: Everybody's had a lot.
- 42:34Speaker 18: Of good commentary, yeah, and good answers from you. The
- 42:37Speaker 18: thing I was thinking about just with my wife the
- 42:38Speaker 18: other day when we were driving I was thinking about
- 42:40Speaker 18: the twenty fourteen season and maybe everybody remembers it, for
- 42:45Speaker 18: of course, the Green Bay game in the playoffs.
- 42:47Speaker 9: Dez, yeah caught it.
- 42:49Speaker 18: It didn't catch it?
- 42:50Speaker 3: Whatever, No, no, no, no, he got it.
- 42:52Speaker 1: Let's let's don't put that out in the universe. He
- 42:54Speaker 1: caught it. We all know he got it. All right.
- 42:56Speaker 3: You said it, sir, You said it.
- 42:57Speaker 7: That was our ring.
- 42:58Speaker 3: It was our ring.
- 42:59Speaker 18: You really was the Detroit Lions playoff game. I feel
- 43:03Speaker 18: like there was so many storylines from that game. So
- 43:06Speaker 18: of course, you know, we had lost to the Lions
- 43:09Speaker 18: a couple of times in I think twenty eleven and
- 43:11Speaker 18: twenty thirteen, the Megatron game, the comeback game. I just
- 43:14Speaker 18: wanted to ask you, do you remember like a specific
- 43:18Speaker 18: I don't know, like, well, yeah, like this storyline. Maybe
- 43:21Speaker 18: it was Tony Romo back in the playoffs or can
- 43:23Speaker 18: the Cowboys handle the moment.
- 43:25Speaker 19: I'll take your call, Fier.
- 43:26Speaker 3: I just wanted to hear your thoughts from I have
- 43:29Speaker 3: a question for you.
- 43:29Speaker 1: You say, you're you're driving in the car, you're talking
- 43:33Speaker 1: to your wife about this. Did she is she caring
- 43:36Speaker 1: at all about this twenty fourteen game? Or she just
- 43:38Speaker 1: kind of letting you talk here or how does that work?
- 43:42Speaker 7: She just lets me talk.
- 43:43Speaker 3: She just lets me talk.
- 43:44Speaker 18: I think throughout our entire marriage, these moments happened because
- 43:49Speaker 18: I think it was Super Bowl week and I was
- 43:50Speaker 18: just like, man, love, the closest we ever got was
- 43:52Speaker 18: twenty fourteen, and like watching that game and watching Tony
- 43:56Speaker 18: Romo throw that touchdown pass to Terrence Williams, and She's
- 43:58Speaker 18: just like, yeah, yeah, that's so cool.
- 44:00Speaker 3: And I'm just like, well, okay, let me.
- 44:04Speaker 1: So you're asking me, you're asking me if I have
- 44:07Speaker 1: a if I have a memory about that game in
- 44:11Speaker 1: Detroit versus the Lions.
- 44:15Speaker 19: Yep, like just what like did they stand out from
- 44:17Speaker 19: that week? Like just like what's out?
- 44:19Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, thanks, thanks for the call. You know, you're
- 44:24Speaker 1: you're so right, because when you think about that season
- 44:27Speaker 1: in the playoffs, it's easy to just you know, Packers
- 44:29Speaker 1: game in the Divisional round, but they they're very fortunate
- 44:34Speaker 1: to win that game against Detroit. There were some interesting
- 44:39Speaker 1: calls that I mean, everyone remembers the calls that go
- 44:42Speaker 1: against the Cowboys, but I think the Lions were probably
- 44:45Speaker 1: really upset with a call. If I remember something with
- 44:48Speaker 1: Hitchens was a past interference that they called and then
- 44:52Speaker 1: all of a sudden said that they wasn't past interference
- 44:55Speaker 1: something like that. That kind of led to the the
- 45:00Speaker 1: drive that the Cowboys had, and there's a big story
- 45:03Speaker 1: about you know why option with fourth and six and
- 45:07Speaker 1: Witting making a play and to extend that drive. Then
- 45:10Speaker 1: of course the touchdown to Terrence Williams with that led
- 45:15Speaker 1: to romoing you know, his superman like celebration on a
- 45:22Speaker 1: face down. But you know, Terrence Williams, if I recall,
- 45:25Speaker 1: had another touchdown in that game, like a seventy five
- 45:28Speaker 1: yarder that kind of kept them going in the game. So,
- 45:33Speaker 1: you know, it was just one of those seasons where
- 45:36Speaker 1: the Cowboys were rolling at the end of the year,
- 45:38Speaker 1: and I think most people thought that game was going
- 45:41Speaker 1: to be a little easier than it was. And you know,
- 45:43Speaker 1: Lions came to play and they took it to the
- 45:45Speaker 1: Cowboys and probably thought that they should have won that game. So,
- 45:50Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those things where it's easy
- 45:53Speaker 1: to look at the desk catch game and he caught
- 45:55Speaker 1: it and all that. To me, it's about you've got
- 45:59Speaker 1: to be You've got to be way better than than
- 46:03Speaker 1: all of that. To make it to the super Bowl.
- 46:05Speaker 1: You know, you can't just be like, well, it's got
- 46:07Speaker 1: to break here, because if you got to you get
- 46:09Speaker 1: a break in the wildcard round, probably not going to
- 46:12Speaker 1: get it on the road in the divisional round. And
- 46:14Speaker 1: that's that's sort of what happened. You've got to make
- 46:16Speaker 1: your own breaks. And of course that does game, you know,
- 46:19Speaker 1: the does catch game, and there's so many things that
- 46:21Speaker 1: that could have happened that they could have won that
- 46:23Speaker 1: game and other other you know, aspects of it as well.
- 46:27Speaker 1: All right, let's go to a jr. In Avondale, Arizona Jr.
- 46:30Speaker 1: What's up?
- 46:31Speaker 9: What's up?
- 46:33Speaker 1: Good? How are you?
- 46:34Speaker 6: I'm doing right, doing great. I'm letting be able to
- 46:37Speaker 6: snow like so many of these folks are. So this
- 46:40Speaker 6: is a good thing. Hey, one hundred and ninety eight
- 46:42Speaker 6: days till the first Sunday of football, we were belowing
- 46:45Speaker 6: and doze a line. So that's a good thing. So
- 46:49Speaker 6: just to keep everybody posted. I don't want to talk
- 46:51Speaker 6: about Brandon Aubrey because coming the same voters and everybody
- 46:55Speaker 6: else don't want to pay the guy the kind of
- 46:59Speaker 6: money he's talking about. I don't think that they will
- 47:03Speaker 6: Kickers come and go unless you're nick fulk who just
- 47:06Speaker 6: seems to just keep kicking. So I mean, he said
- 47:11Speaker 6: guy in Jacksonville. But the thing about Aubrey and I said,
- 47:14Speaker 6: I wouldn't talk about him in here.
- 47:15Speaker 7: I go.
- 47:16Speaker 6: The guy in Jacksonville's kicking a seventy yarder in pre season,
- 47:19Speaker 6: he makes the record, but at the end of the year,
- 47:22Speaker 6: he fades and he's missing a lot of kicks. And
- 47:25Speaker 6: and that's the thing about Aubrey Man, it's his consistency
- 47:28Speaker 6: is something that's hard to find. So good luck Toffy
- 47:32Speaker 6: on getting the deal, and new luck to the Cowboys
- 47:34Speaker 6: on signing him. But I had another chance to talk
- 47:38Speaker 6: about the coaching staff. I love. This coaching staff just
- 47:41Speaker 6: has it's a different feel. I've been a Cowboys had
- 47:44Speaker 6: my whole life, and last time I felt like this
- 47:47Speaker 6: is when they hired this college coach and he brought
- 47:49Speaker 6: all these college coaches with him and everyone was laughing
- 47:51Speaker 6: about it, but any went laughing when they were kicking
- 47:54Speaker 6: everybody's butt. So I have a great feeling. It's a
- 47:58Speaker 6: different you know, it's a different young coaches. I can
- 48:02Speaker 6: never remember so many African American coaches. It's just such
- 48:07Speaker 6: a great feel that. I think he's got a light
- 48:11Speaker 6: minded guys. I think when you interview you you hire
- 48:14Speaker 6: people that talk about the same things you want. You know,
- 48:18Speaker 6: I've interviewed a lot of people, and before you tell
- 48:21Speaker 6: them what you want, you ask what they're looking for
- 48:24Speaker 6: and what they're planning to do, and if it's what
- 48:26Speaker 6: you want to do, you found the kind of right person.
- 48:29Speaker 6: I'm happy, really looking forward to that. And last thing
- 48:31Speaker 6: I'll go out there is the running back. I think
- 48:34Speaker 6: that I think Phil Moffat is going to plan a
- 48:37Speaker 6: big part of that. And I'm not a Clemson fan
- 48:41Speaker 6: for whatever reason, but Watson the guy in college before
- 48:44Speaker 6: his last year, he's a beast and I think he's
- 48:47Speaker 6: gonna if he can stay healthy. I think he's a
- 48:50Speaker 6: guy that's gonna can spell Javonte and I know we
- 48:54Speaker 6: talked about earlier. I'm not him not having so many carries.
- 48:59Speaker 6: I think MafA is a very physical runner. I think
- 49:02Speaker 6: he's going to show up this preseason. So anyway, so
- 49:05Speaker 6: I got thanks for taking my call, have a great thank.
- 49:09Speaker 1: You, all right, good stuff. Yeah, MafA was my pick
- 49:13Speaker 1: last year to to lead the lead the team and
- 49:17Speaker 1: in rushing yards in the preseason, I just thought he'd
- 49:19Speaker 1: be that kind of guy that would get a lot
- 49:21Speaker 1: of carries in the second half of games. And you know,
- 49:24Speaker 1: he got some. I think he got banged up a
- 49:26Speaker 1: little bit too. And they wanted to get Jayden Blue
- 49:29Speaker 1: some some reps, and you know, they picked up Malik Davis.
- 49:32Speaker 1: He went even at camp to start with.
- 49:34Speaker 4: And so.
- 49:36Speaker 1: You know, Malik Davis is a is a good story
- 49:39Speaker 1: though too. And and I don't think anyone really cares
- 49:42Speaker 1: where it comes from, as long as you can get
- 49:44Speaker 1: a quality back up.
- 49:45Speaker 3: And you know, he he.
- 49:48Speaker 1: I don't know, there's something about his journey and now
- 49:51Speaker 1: how he you know, he's worn like four different numbers
- 49:55Speaker 1: I think with this team. And I mean he's been cut,
- 49:57Speaker 1: he's been practice squad's been elevated and and you know
- 50:01Speaker 1: he got he's got his moment at the end of
- 50:03Speaker 1: the year. And he was a really good player for
- 50:06Speaker 1: this team, uh and a really good backup. So that's
- 50:09Speaker 1: kind of where the bar is. And if MafA and
- 50:11Speaker 1: and Jayde and Blue are gonna be better, I think
- 50:14Speaker 1: I think Malie Davis is kind of is what he is.
- 50:16Speaker 1: And I'm sure he'll he'll say yeah, I got improvement
- 50:18Speaker 1: to do all that. But you know, he that's probably
- 50:21Speaker 1: what we're gonna see out of out of him, which
- 50:22Speaker 1: is good. It's good as a as a backup Jayden
- 50:26Speaker 1: Blue and and MafA, they're gonna have to be better
- 50:28Speaker 1: than that. So I think running back, they're they're in
- 50:30Speaker 1: pretty good shape there. I think that. All right, let's
- 50:33Speaker 1: go to uh Armando in Mexico City. Armando, how are
- 50:40Speaker 1: you doing good some time?
- 50:44Speaker 14: Yeah?
- 50:45Speaker 10: Very good? Yeah, just once a weak thing again, it's
- 50:49Speaker 10: not my favorite, but you know, I think we're gonna
- 50:55Speaker 10: we're gonna send Irene to talk to Derek to try
- 50:58Speaker 10: to hit ball something well, so.
- 51:03Speaker 1: When Derek makes up his mind, I mean, it is
- 51:05Speaker 1: what it is. Uh, you know, it's not just about
- 51:07Speaker 1: our show. It's all the shows that it's it's it's
- 51:10Speaker 1: it's doing some you know, it's getting a little bit
- 51:12Speaker 1: of rest. And and also I mean it, you know,
- 51:16Speaker 1: who's tired of talking about Brandon Aubrey already? And this
- 51:19Speaker 1: show has been going on for less than less than
- 51:21Speaker 1: an hour. You do this every single day. I mean
- 51:25Speaker 1: there's just there's just not a lot of things that happen.
- 51:27Speaker 1: You do it during the season every day because you know,
- 51:29Speaker 1: you got a game and practice stuff like that. But
- 51:32Speaker 1: when when you just when you're just all talking on
- 51:34Speaker 1: the same news every day, I don't know. I'm kind
- 51:37Speaker 1: of with you. I miss you guys. I wouldn't mind
- 51:39Speaker 1: doing two shows a week, but I think for now,
- 51:42Speaker 1: this is what it is.
- 51:44Speaker 10: Yeah, I know, I understand. So I'm a little disappointed
- 51:48Speaker 10: at coming to Mexico. We're going to Bravil, but uh,
- 51:52Speaker 10: you're gonna have a la time there. Have you been
- 51:54Speaker 10: to Reveil before?
- 51:55Speaker 6: I have not.
- 51:56Speaker 1: I have the Cowboys haven't gone. I haven't gone. That's
- 51:58Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's actually I hate to say it
- 52:02Speaker 1: that way, but you know that that is my vacationing
- 52:05Speaker 1: is through the Cowboys. They take me down to California
- 52:08Speaker 1: every year. And uh, yeah, yeah, I've been to Japan.
- 52:13Speaker 1: I've been to what Mexico City, London.
- 52:18Speaker 4: Oh, Okay, Canada.
- 52:20Speaker 10: You'll have that right Tanger anyway. The things that you're
- 52:24Speaker 10: getting to forty nine er seconds, so that's kind of stuff. Well,
- 52:28Speaker 10: I'll be there anyway, so.
- 52:29Speaker 9: Yeah, we'll see.
- 52:31Speaker 10: Well, Nick, I just wanted to say hi, and we're here,
- 52:35Speaker 10: still following you everything until this is on start.
- 52:39Speaker 1: All right, well, appreciate it. Thank you so much for
- 52:42Speaker 1: the call, and we'll be ready to go. We'll hear
- 52:45Speaker 1: more from you and uh when we get closer to
- 52:47Speaker 1: the season, but I keep calling anytime you.
- 52:49Speaker 10: Can, of course I will.
- 52:51Speaker 1: All right, all right, thanks for the call. We're going
- 52:54Speaker 1: to go to break. Our lines are open right now,
- 52:56Speaker 1: so if you want to get in, this is the time.
- 52:59Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick and then we'll be back. Well,
- 53:01Speaker 1: we'll have maybe a few more minutes. If we can
- 53:03Speaker 1: get some calls, we'll be right back here on Cowboys
- 53:05Speaker 1: storyline Cowboys fans.
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- 54:20Speaker 1: All right back here on Cowboys Storyline. We'll take a
- 54:23Speaker 1: few more calls here we're gonna go overseas again. Mike Birmingham, England.
- 54:28Speaker 1: What's up?
- 54:28Speaker 6: Mike?
- 54:29Speaker 4: Hello, Nick, how you doing?
- 54:30Speaker 1: I'm good?
- 54:31Speaker 4: You yeah, good, thank you. Sorry, it's been a while.
- 54:34Speaker 4: This time is not working for me. But you can't
- 54:37Speaker 4: please all the people all the time. So that's that's
- 54:40Speaker 4: that's fine, as long as as long as a lot
- 54:43Speaker 4: of people can get in well.
- 54:45Speaker 1: Hold on. This is about the same time as we
- 54:46Speaker 1: always do it. I mean, maybe thirty thirty minutes earlier,
- 54:50Speaker 1: wet we still have I mean, did something change on
- 54:52Speaker 1: your in.
- 54:54Speaker 4: Well, Wednesday is today. We have our staff meeting after.
- 54:58Speaker 6: Work, so.
- 55:00Speaker 4: So during the season, you'll rarely get me on a Wednesday.
- 55:04Speaker 4: So yeah, when you said Wednesday at this time, it's
- 55:08Speaker 4: it's about the worst it could be. But that's fine.
- 55:10Speaker 4: I enjoy catching. Well, it's ICs fault's not yours.
- 55:16Speaker 1: Don't you hate when work, work gets in the way
- 55:19Speaker 1: of like doing what you want to do?
- 55:22Speaker 4: Well, Nick, I'm fifty, so I reckon, I've got about
- 55:25Speaker 4: another ten years of this and then I'll be calling
- 55:28Speaker 4: you every day.
- 55:28Speaker 1: So so there you go, Mike. I'm almost there. I'm almost.
- 55:33Speaker 4: Well you can't, you can't retire, No, but I'm almost.
- 55:36Speaker 1: I'm almost in the club.
- 55:37Speaker 6: There.
- 55:38Speaker 1: I'm getting there.
- 55:41Speaker 4: Because it's because it's been a little while.
- 55:45Speaker 6: Just got a couple of.
- 55:46Speaker 4: Little bits of housekeeping. So, first of all, did you
- 55:50Speaker 4: see which soccer club Snoop Dogg has adopted as his serf.
- 55:55Speaker 4: I thought you might be interested. Swansea, Swansie.
- 55:59Speaker 1: Yes, so yeah, two of you, now, I right right, yeah?
- 56:04Speaker 1: And I actually I actually play like what was it
- 56:07Speaker 1: called FC twenty six or whatever on that yeah Xbox. Yeah,
- 56:11Speaker 1: I got a couple of wins with with Swansea, so
- 56:13Speaker 1: they're in the game. So I'm meant, yeah, well when Chris,
- 56:16Speaker 1: when Chris doesn't jump in and play on Fortnite with me,
- 56:19Speaker 1: then I'll switch the I switched the soccer, you know.
- 56:23Speaker 4: Yeah, So getting to Cowboys, you have a call and
- 56:28Speaker 4: I'm going back months now, but it stuck with me
- 56:30Speaker 4: and I've not had the chance to reference it. I
- 56:35Speaker 4: think the guy's name was Joe from Fort Worth and
- 56:38Speaker 4: he was a first time caller, and he was asking
- 56:41Speaker 4: about things that a Cowboy should I think he just
- 56:43Speaker 4: moved to the area and he was asking about things
- 56:45Speaker 4: that a Cowboys phane should do in the area. And
- 56:49Speaker 4: I've got having visited for the first time, I've got
- 56:51Speaker 4: four things. Number one and number two is do both
- 56:55Speaker 4: of the tours do the stadium and do the training ground?
- 56:58Speaker 4: Absolutely fantastic and I want to share out out Julie
- 57:01Speaker 4: at the Star and Carla at the stadium brilliant tour
- 57:05Speaker 4: guides when I was there, So do that. The third
- 57:09Speaker 4: one is Salt Grass Steakhouse in Arlington. Have you ever
- 57:12Speaker 4: been nick what's it called Salt Grass Steakhouse? Yes?
- 57:20Speaker 1: Yes, yes, ah.
- 57:22Speaker 4: Also I've had steak all over the UK and Europe,
- 57:25Speaker 4: and that is by a distance the best steak I
- 57:28Speaker 4: have ever had. And the fourth one is get in
- 57:32Speaker 4: touch with sergeants who and go and hang out with him.
- 57:35Speaker 4: Those are the things that a Cowboys fan must do
- 57:38Speaker 4: over there. The only other thing I wanted to say,
- 57:42Speaker 4: because it's a little bit slow news wise, we sort
- 57:44Speaker 4: of sort of the calm before the storm, isn't it
- 57:46Speaker 4: a free agency and draft and all of that. But
- 57:50Speaker 4: Javonte Williams, I am absolutely delighted. That was my number one,
- 57:54Speaker 4: even before Dickens. I am so glad that that that
- 57:59Speaker 4: guy is is sticking around. One more thing, The Commanders
- 58:04Speaker 4: have got a home game in London, so I think
- 58:06Speaker 4: that gives me a one in eight chance of getting
- 58:10Speaker 4: the Cowboys over here. So if you could have a
- 58:13Speaker 4: word with Roger Goodell on that, then that would be appreciated.
- 58:17Speaker 1: Okay, all right, appreciate it. All right. Well, I don't
- 58:27Speaker 1: know what to think about those those four things. I mean,
- 58:31Speaker 1: of those four, I've never been on a tour at
- 58:37Speaker 1: the stadium. I'm sure it would be interesting. I mean,
- 58:42Speaker 1: that place is fifteen years old, and if I don't,
- 58:46Speaker 1: you know, if I'm not paying attention, you need get
- 58:48Speaker 1: lost in there still now, and I've been there several times,
- 58:52Speaker 1: so better tour would be cool. I feel like I'm
- 58:54Speaker 1: part of the tour sometimes here just because.
- 58:59Speaker 3: Oh you are.
- 59:00Speaker 1: It's right out side of our office.
- 59:02Speaker 11: We hear it.
- 59:03Speaker 1: I could, I could. I don't think I could do
- 59:05Speaker 1: the entire tour, but I know there's certain parts of
- 59:07Speaker 1: it I could definitely do because I've heard the script
- 59:10Speaker 1: so many times. So yeah, the tours tours are great,
- 59:14Speaker 1: but I haven't necessarily been on them. I have been
- 59:18Speaker 1: to I have been to Salt Grass this year a
- 59:22Speaker 1: couple of times actually, so yeah, I mean, I I
- 59:24Speaker 1: don't I don't know if it's life changing, but I
- 59:27Speaker 1: get it where you know, I think I've had better.
- 59:32Speaker 1: But it's yeah, it's it's for solid so especially for
- 59:35Speaker 1: from from Birmingham, England you come over, Yeah, it's it's
- 59:38Speaker 1: it's very Texan like so. And then I have hung
- 59:41Speaker 1: out with start to student not in Texas actually in California. Uh,
- 59:45Speaker 1: and yeah, that guy's that guy's the best for sure.
- 59:48Speaker 1: All right, let's go to We've got a couple more
- 59:50Speaker 1: callers here. Brian in Kansas City coming back for more.
- 59:54Speaker 9: Yeah, well I heard you. When I heard you say
- 59:56Speaker 9: you were you wanted to go a couple more minutes.
- 59:58Speaker 9: I had a trivia question that I forgot to throw
- 1:00:01Speaker 9: in last time, so I thought i'd throw it in
- 1:00:03Speaker 9: and I'll hang up. So get another couple of people
- 1:00:05Speaker 9: in Brian.
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: You don't even know what you just did. By Colin again,
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: and I'll explain it maybe in a week or two.
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: But by Colin you actually that was a big call
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: for you, big time, so good. Oh yeah, good stuff.
- 1:00:19Speaker 9: I'm in the hundreds or the thousands, or the ten
- 1:00:21Speaker 9: thousands because I called in on.
- 1:00:23Speaker 3: Your very first show, Did you okay?
- 1:00:26Speaker 9: I can only imagine how many it must be because
- 1:00:29Speaker 9: half of that time I've been retired, so it's been
- 1:00:33Speaker 9: a lot of calls. Man, Hey, my trivia question is
- 1:00:37Speaker 9: I did not I don't know the answer, so I'm
- 1:00:39Speaker 9: not going to stay on the line. I didn't have
- 1:00:42Speaker 9: time to look it up. Have we Can you think
- 1:00:45Speaker 9: of the last time we lost somebody that we tendered.
- 1:00:49Speaker 9: I'm not saying we're going to tender him. I'm just
- 1:00:51Speaker 9: saying I can't remember the last time we lost somebody
- 1:00:54Speaker 9: that we did a tender on and got the draft
- 1:00:58Speaker 9: pick back. So I thought i'd throw that out there.
- 1:01:00Speaker 9: I'm sure you know the answer.
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: No, I really don't. I really don't. I feel like
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: it's way back in the early two thousands or something
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: like that. I can't even I can't even recall that
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: that that happening. I'm sure it has, but I don't remember.
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: It seems like the guys that they tender are the
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: original draft for the guys that you didn't. You didn't draft,
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: and so you don't get anything for them. Really, I
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: don't know. Keith Davis comes to mind, but but I don't. Again,
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: I don't think they lost him. He came back, he
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: played several times. It's a good question, though, I wish
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: I had an answer for you. I do not. Let's
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: go one more. John, My screens messed up? John is
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: John from Corpus Christie?
- 1:01:49Speaker 6: Is that right?
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: Yes? John? What's up?
- 1:01:52Speaker 3: Man?
- 1:01:55Speaker 10: Hey?
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: How are you doing? All right?
- 1:02:01Speaker 17: John?
- 1:02:03Speaker 4: Nick?
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: You there? Or John you there?
- 1:02:05Speaker 4: I'm here, yeah, stocking all right.
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: I don't want to end the show that way. You know,
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: if you if you're shooting baskets, Chris, you can't. You
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: can't just go off an airball, you know, like, oh,
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: I'm good. You know you gotta make a swish. You
- 1:02:24Speaker 1: gotta have a good one. So uh, maybe maybe we
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: can have another call back or something there or somebody else,
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: or we can get John going here, But uh, I
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: don't really want to end the show that way. That's
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: where I guess I'm seeing. That's what Mike in Birmingham
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: was talking about. They just announced the I'm seeing here
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: on the NFL network Washington Jaguars game. I got a
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: caller for you. Okay, that's fine.
- 1:02:50Speaker 11: Is that new?
- 1:02:51Speaker 21: The Washington and Jaguars. Yes, it just got announced. Jacksonville
- 1:02:54Speaker 21: is gonna play in Washington's playing at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: That's a home game. Oh right, Jacksonville owns that it
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: will be all Jacksonville fans.
- 1:03:03Speaker 21: You know, Jacksonville has a game and then Washington has
- 1:03:06Speaker 21: another game. So they haven't announced the matchups yet. Each
- 1:03:10Speaker 21: other got correct?
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: All right? Where we got who's on?
- 1:03:11Speaker 21: We got Corey and Frisco.
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: Corey, what's up? Hey, Nick?
- 1:03:15Speaker 19: How you doing? First time caller?
- 1:03:18Speaker 4: But I listen.
- 1:03:19Speaker 19: I listen almost every time the show's on.
- 1:03:22Speaker 9: Hey, big cowboy fan?
- 1:03:23Speaker 4: Of course, you know.
- 1:03:26Speaker 19: My my concern is, you know, you look at all
- 1:03:28Speaker 19: these mock drafts, and all the talk about the drafts
- 1:03:30Speaker 19: coming up is defense, defense, defense, And I agree the
- 1:03:34Speaker 19: defenses was awful this past year and needs improvement. But
- 1:03:38Speaker 19: I keep going back to what Jerry said, Uh, I
- 1:03:42Speaker 19: don't know a few years ago, and I think don't
- 1:03:45Speaker 19: quote me on this. I think the reference was building
- 1:03:49Speaker 19: a team or constructing a team is like holding yellow
- 1:03:52Speaker 19: in your hand. Once you think you have a hold
- 1:03:54Speaker 19: of one side, it keeps out the other the other side.
- 1:03:57Speaker 19: And I don't think to that to that, I don't
- 1:04:00Speaker 19: think we can completely ignore offense because nothing stays the
- 1:04:04Speaker 19: same over the year. Yeah, our offense was prolific this
- 1:04:07Speaker 19: past year in years past, but players get older, things change.
- 1:04:11Speaker 19: You can't have you can't count on things being in
- 1:04:14Speaker 19: the same year over year. So when it comes to
- 1:04:18Speaker 19: the draft, I think it would be even how bad
- 1:04:22Speaker 19: our defense was, I think it would be short sighted
- 1:04:25Speaker 19: to just assume that we need two picks on defense.
- 1:04:28Speaker 19: If there's a great offensive player there at twelve or twenty,
- 1:04:33Speaker 19: I think we have to consider taking that person. I
- 1:04:35Speaker 19: can see I love Javonte Williams, but I would love
- 1:04:38Speaker 19: a more explosive back to compliment him. And maybe that's
- 1:04:42Speaker 19: Jayden Blue if he can get things together, but maybe
- 1:04:48Speaker 19: not so. I'm thinking if Jeremiah Love is there at
- 1:04:51Speaker 19: twelve or twenty and we're wiped out with defensive players,
- 1:04:58Speaker 19: they're all gone. Didn't mind taking explosive offensive player. I
- 1:05:02Speaker 19: think we can upgrade that backle, running back and tight end.
- 1:05:07Speaker 19: So if any of those players are there and we're
- 1:05:09Speaker 19: wiped out, I wouldn't be against taking one of those
- 1:05:12Speaker 19: offensive players.
- 1:05:12Speaker 4: So your thoughtful about it?
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well thanks for the for the call, and
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: you're right, Jerry. Jerry loves that that analogy. He said
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: it several times about the holding the jell o uh
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: and and you're right about about the offense. You know,
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: you can't just assume, well, you know, offense is great,
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: you don't need to touch that. Every year is different.
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: The good thing about it, though, though, is you know,
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: you've you've got younger offensive linemen that are going to
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: continue to get better, uh there, and you've got you know,
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: a relatively younger tight end uh CD, I think, right
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: in the middle of his prime. And George Pricketts is
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: still you know, he assuming he comes back and he's
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: gonna he's the young he's twenty four years old, you know,
- 1:05:59Speaker 1: so in Javonte Williams is you know, in his prime
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: as well, and so there's reasons to think the offense
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: is just going to get better. But to sit there
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: and turn your back on the offensive players in the
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: draft would not make sense either. So you are one
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: hundred percent right there, and I think you've got to
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: take the best player. You just have to. And if
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: it's an offensive tackle, pick him. If the defense it
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: just doesn't work, you feel like you're reaching. You can't
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: get a trade partner to go back. And there's an
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: offensive tackle that you have graded high and he he
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: would work there, go for it. He'll play. I promise
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: you he will play and somewhere and it'll make them better.
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: And so I'm with you there. Tight end. You know,
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: you put money in that position with Ferguson running back,
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: you put money in there. I mean, Jeremiah Love, I
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: just saw some highlights a second ago, you know, And
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: I was at the Arkansas and Notre Dame game where
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: I think he scored six touchdowns in front of me.
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: So he's good, There's no doubt about it. He's really
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: good and he would be a great addition. But God,
- 1:07:07Speaker 1: even if you think you're wiped out at defense. You really,
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: there's no way you can be. You're gonna get You're
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: gonna get somebody. You may not. You may not have
- 1:07:16Speaker 1: the guys there that you want it twenty. I just
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: can't think that you're not going to have a defensive
- 1:07:20Speaker 1: player for you at number twelve. But we'll see, all right.
- 1:07:25Speaker 21: I have a trivia question follow up. Okay, I always
- 1:07:28Speaker 21: have never lost a person. They have tendered in a
- 1:07:32Speaker 21: restricted manner.
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: Wow and restricted? Yes, nice. I can't or franchised. I mean,
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: I know they haven't lost it one in franchise. So
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: they traded one that didn't they know he was in
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: He wasn't, No, I don't think so. I don't think
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: he was in his fifth year he was.
- 1:07:48Speaker 21: He got the Micah Right, we didn't franchise micacte.
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we had a right all right? Is there
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: any other callers? Because we know we're gonna end it
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: all right, we're going to start Sorry John and Corpus Christy.
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: Sorry that then didn't work out. Callback next week we'll
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: be uh, we'll be here next Wednesday. And I don't
- 1:08:08Speaker 1: I don't think we have any any changes in the
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: schedule for next week, we'll do it and do it again,
- 1:08:13Speaker 1: and we'll see if we can get We've got fifteen callers,
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: so good stuff. We'll see if we can do it
- 1:08:18Speaker 1: again next week. For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Keepman. See
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: you next time on Cowboys Storyline.
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