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  Speaker 1: Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette. I'm
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  Speaker 4: Nick Eatman. Wednesday, March the fourth. Let's get talking about
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  Speaker 4: some Dallas Cowboys news and notes here as we get
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  Speaker 4: ready for about a week before training, I mean, sorry,
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  Speaker 4: week before the start of free agency. A little bit
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  Speaker 4: flustered this morning, of course, electronics failing me once again.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I'm failing electronics. Then again, maybe I should get
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  Speaker 4: here a little earlier. Eight eight A eighty five two
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  Speaker 4: two nine seven is the number to call. Let's start
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  Speaker 4: with the phone line. Let's start right off. Randy's first, What.
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  Speaker 5: John, Oh, my brother that I'm friends with your mother?
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Good? What's up?
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  Speaker 5: So let's just say scenario Dallas gives Oakland our number
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  Speaker 5: twenty pick and our second for next year, gets Crowsby
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  Speaker 5: on the front line. We use our money, we go
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  Speaker 5: out and we get the baddest linebackers we can find
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  Speaker 5: on the market. Now, the middle of our line is
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  Speaker 5: speech and we use our number twelve on either of
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  Speaker 5: the best safety or the best corner. Now we've got
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  Speaker 5: our back. We are done all that work that we've
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  Speaker 5: been begging them to do to fix this team up,
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  Speaker 5: and then our starting quarterback goes down. Are we really
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  Speaker 5: comfortable with finally hopefully having Jerry do all this work
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  Speaker 5: that we've been begging him to do and that's our back,
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  Speaker 5: our backup quarterback situation? Or should we maybe start thinking
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  Speaker 5: about upgrading that as well, just to protect all the
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  Speaker 5: other stuff they may do. And of course the news
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  Speaker 5: is Tyler he's out there. We're bringing him back to Chrisco.
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  Speaker 5: But they're not talking too too sweet on him right now.
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  Speaker 6: It's like they're having a hard.
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  Speaker 5: Time picking him a team. And maybe we can get
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  Speaker 5: him on a veteran's minimum one to two year try
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  Speaker 5: out something just or whoever else is out there. But
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  Speaker 5: what are you thinking about that? That's that's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of work that did to the team and then they
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  Speaker 5: just all go to waste if we lose a starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's that's the thing.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it depends on how much work you do,
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  Speaker 4: because if you do enough work, like you're talking about
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  Speaker 4: then an injury to your started quarterback doesn't derail the team,
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  Speaker 4: and so that's that's that's what the hope is. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: right in that last year, they didn't have a prayer
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  Speaker 4: if if Dak would have gone down. I don't think.
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  Speaker 4: But that's you want to be more balanced. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: saying that it'll be exactly like it was three or
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  Speaker 4: four years ago. But when Dak got hurt for four
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  Speaker 4: games and Cooper Rush had to play, they didn't lose
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  Speaker 4: a game until I think maybe the fifth game against
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  Speaker 4: Philly and so. But but Cooper Russian and he and
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  Speaker 4: he wasn't the guy that that was really leading the charge.
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  Speaker 4: It was just making smart decisions and letting the defense
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  Speaker 4: kind of take over. So I don't think we're at
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  Speaker 4: that point where you know the defense is gonna be
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  Speaker 4: good enough to take over. But I think the point
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to make is don't be so you know, uh,
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  Speaker 4: top heavy here at quarterback, or just be a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more balanced where you can kind of handle that.
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  Speaker 4: But I hear what you're saying. I mean, the question
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  Speaker 4: is is Joe Milton ready to be that guy for
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  Speaker 4: three or four games? And I don't know that, I
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  Speaker 4: really I don't. I think he got a chance to
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  Speaker 4: play some last year. He played some in the preseason,
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  Speaker 4: But I I think there are better options. Obviously, How
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  Speaker 4: how expensive are those options? You know, we'll we'll see,
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  Speaker 4: but there's no doubt there's there's other options there. But
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  Speaker 4: I think I think you're you make some some good points. Now,
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  Speaker 4: all the all the scenarios you're talking about, Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they they they moved to Vegas and case you didn't
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  Speaker 4: know that, Randy, they did move to Vegas. But then again,
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  Speaker 4: I don't blame anyone for that. Where the Raiders? Where
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  Speaker 4: are the Chargers? You know they're they're over there somewhere,
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  Speaker 4: all right. Next, uh caller is Dylan in Northport, Florida. Dylan,
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  Speaker 4: what's that man?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, how are you good?
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  Speaker 1: You?
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  Speaker 7: I'm good man, I'm good. I got a little Would
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  Speaker 7: you rather this morning?
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  Speaker 8: Two of them for you? This?
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  Speaker 7: So the first one, yeah, of course it's clean man.
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  Speaker 9: This is PG.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, this is g or PG.
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  Speaker 7: Right. The first one is the kicker. Would you rather
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  Speaker 7: pay him a four year deal worth eight million per
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  Speaker 7: year roughly? Or or three three or I know you know,
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  Speaker 7: and I want to talk about that too in the
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  Speaker 7: second year a year or from last week that you had.
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  Speaker 7: But the other option is the the tags. You can
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  Speaker 7: tender him for about six mil this year, tagging for
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  Speaker 7: about seven mil next year, and then eight and a
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  Speaker 7: half the next year, So you get basically three years
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  Speaker 7: of control over him without a long term deal. What
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  Speaker 7: do you like the tag and then maybe get rid
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  Speaker 7: of him or something.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, I like again, I'm not I've never been in
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  Speaker 4: those negotiations, so I don't really know how that works.
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  Speaker 4: But I think the tag is helping the Cowboys to
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  Speaker 4: like to kind of like tell you know, Aubrey's camp
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  Speaker 4: or whatever. All right, guys, let's let's let's calm down
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  Speaker 4: a little bit on if it's ten million or nine
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  Speaker 4: let's let's calm down.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, because this is what we can do.
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  Speaker 4: We can put it here at five and a half
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  Speaker 4: or sit, you know, and and the restricted second round
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  Speaker 4: tenders five and a half what five point six, and
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  Speaker 4: so we can just play this And then now you've
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  Speaker 4: got to go out there and play one of the
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  Speaker 4: most mentally demanding positions there is and play with that
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  Speaker 4: with every extra point, every kick is going to be
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  Speaker 4: calculated that way, and it's probably gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Be that way anyways.
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  Speaker 4: Or you can say to use that tag in next
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  Speaker 4: year's for franchise tag to say you want to come
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  Speaker 4: down off of that a little bit, Well, we'll meet
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  Speaker 4: you at maybe six and a half or seven, but
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  Speaker 4: we're not going to play this game because this is
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  Speaker 4: what we have in our back pocket. And I think
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  Speaker 4: that could probably help. That's the way I would at
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  Speaker 4: least approach it.
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  Speaker 7: What about you, Well, yeah, so if he was just
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  Speaker 7: a straight up unrestricted free agent, right and there was
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  Speaker 7: no tags available to do anything with, I think there
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  Speaker 7: is a team that would pay ten million a year
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  Speaker 7: to Brandon Aubrey, and I think it's I think you
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  Speaker 7: could justify it for I got a whole list of
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  Speaker 7: reasons here. I've been working on it for a couple
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  Speaker 7: of weeks, but I won't go through.
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  Speaker 2: All the reasons.
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  Speaker 7: We all know, we know all the reasons why he's
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  Speaker 7: still good.
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  Speaker 1: Top. I mean, what's the.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I mean, these are just these are some stats
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  Speaker 7: I have, right, just yeah, I mean yeah, so so
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  Speaker 7: one of them, there was twelve field goals from last
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  Speaker 7: year from sixty plus yards. A quarter of them came
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  Speaker 7: from Brandon Aubrey, cam Little may two of them. Other
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  Speaker 7: than that, nobody had kicked more than two since Aubrey's
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  Speaker 7: been in the NFL. Twenty one kick from sixty plus
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  Speaker 7: yards with me, I'll be a six of them. No
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  Speaker 7: other kicker has more than two. You know, against the Lions,
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  Speaker 7: is the first picker ever to hit fifty five plus
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  Speaker 7: yard field goals three times in one game. He got
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  Speaker 7: the highest the second highest make rate in the NFL
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  Speaker 7: less than fifty five yards in NFL history.
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  Speaker 11: So like he's a.
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  Speaker 7: Weapon, and you know, last week you said that, and
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  Speaker 7: I disagree with you, and we agree, we see it
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  Speaker 7: on a lot of things. But I did disagree with
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  Speaker 7: you last week that he makes your offense worse sometimes
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  Speaker 7: because they get stagnant. And it's not that it's not true,
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  Speaker 7: but I'm not gonna sacrifice my weapon, my kicker because
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  Speaker 7: of that reason. In particular, if anything, it would be
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  Speaker 7: maybe a money thing, But I'm not going to be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: play caller Schottenheimer and and quarterback Dack. You guys got
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  Speaker 7: a straighten up. I'm not going to sacrific I'm not
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  Speaker 7: going to cut off my nose to hopefully make my
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  Speaker 7: elbow work better, you know what I mean, Like.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to cut you off there, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I say makes the offense worse. I
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  Speaker 4: think that that. I do believe the play calling sometimes
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  Speaker 4: leans on him when it probably shouldn't. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if it makes the offense worse. I mean they score
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  Speaker 4: points in in scenarios when most teams are punting, So
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it.
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  Speaker 1: Makes it worse.
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  Speaker 7: Something about they get to midfield and they slow down,
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  Speaker 7: which is it's not that it's not true. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: we saw it happen. It is true. But if I'm
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  Speaker 7: the GM and I have an issue with that, or
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  Speaker 7: you know, the coach or whatever, it might be, like
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  Speaker 7: I've got to look at myself and say, we've got
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  Speaker 7: to do some work better offensively. And it's not necessarily
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  Speaker 7: the special team's fault that the offense slows down around
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  Speaker 7: midfield because they're leaning on the kicker so much. Let's
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  Speaker 7: maybe not to do that while knowing, you know, it's
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  Speaker 7: in our back pocket if we need it.
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  Speaker 8: So.
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  Speaker 7: But I think there is a team that would overpay.
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  Speaker 7: I think ten million is an overpay. But I think
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  Speaker 7: there is a team out there that would overpay that,
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  Speaker 7: knowing the weapon that he is. But if you take
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  Speaker 7: Bucker's deal, add the twenty percent for the inflation rate,
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  Speaker 7: add five percent. Because he is better than any other
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  Speaker 7: kicker in the NFL, that's where you get, you know,
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  Speaker 7: the eight mil per year, which I think that rate
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  Speaker 7: is much more justifiable than anything else.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm with you.
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing the tender this year, and you can just
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  Speaker 7: plan that she want to take a team from the
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  Speaker 7: deal because I've got you, you know, I've got the control.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and like you said, somebody could pay
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  Speaker 4: ten don't give him the chance.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 4: The Cowboys really don't have to allow that opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: To happen now. And I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like to, like, you know, pick holes into
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  Speaker 4: Aubrey's game. He's been He's been absolutely amazing. What I
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  Speaker 4: wonder and I don't know the stat on this, I
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  Speaker 4: just wonder about kickers kicking mostly outdoors versus kickers kick
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  Speaker 4: kicking predominantly indoors. You know, is there a big difference there?
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  Speaker 4: Because I mean, what Butcker's doing in Kansas City, and
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  Speaker 4: that's not always the easiest place to kick relative to
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  Speaker 4: what Aubrey's been able to do and kick some games,
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  Speaker 4: you know, kick a lot of games indoors.
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  Speaker 1: I just wonder about that.
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  Speaker 7: But if there's another kicker that could come in for
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  Speaker 7: a lessons that similar to Aubrey and not obviously it's good,
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  Speaker 7: but maybe close enough type than.
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  Speaker 1: He's got issues in Washington, there's no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 7: I think a lot of people do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's again I'm kind of saying all this
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  Speaker 4: like I'm not. I don't have all the research of
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  Speaker 4: the kickers and whoever's paying them, you know, should should
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  Speaker 4: have that. You know, does everyone struggle up there at
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  Speaker 4: FedEx Field and what is his you know, he's not
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  Speaker 4: missing a lot of kicks, let's be honest about that.
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  Speaker 4: Then they play in Philly, they play the Giants, they
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  Speaker 4: play Washington. They you know, he's not missing all the
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  Speaker 4: time outdoors. It's not just an This isn't Amari Cooper
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  Speaker 4: road versus home type of thing.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, the only only two kickers made every field
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  Speaker 7: goal less than fifty yards, Aubrey was one of them.
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  Speaker 7: And the only misses he had less than fifty seven
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  Speaker 7: were from fifty two. And that's across all the stadiums,
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  Speaker 7: obviously half of them are played indoors, at least at
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  Speaker 7: a Cowboys State Eritt Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: But he's awesome, There's no doubt about it. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: saying the otherwise. The Cowboys hold the cards there, and
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  Speaker 4: I think those cards that they have could probably say,
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  Speaker 4: you know, do you really want to do this and
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  Speaker 4: play this one year tender and this next year tender?
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  Speaker 4: Or will this come to our level here and let's
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  Speaker 4: be in the sixth you know, six point seven, six
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  Speaker 4: point eight type range? Maybe seven. I think they you
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  Speaker 4: could probably go to seven and then just call it today.
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  Speaker 10: You think, okay, can.
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  Speaker 7: I hit you with one more really fast before I
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  Speaker 7: get off?
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  Speaker 12: Okay?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if we can we say names yet
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  Speaker 7: or no? For free agents that are projected to be free.
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  Speaker 1: Agents, you say what you want this? Yeh?
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  Speaker 8: Alright?
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  Speaker 1: What's on you?
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  Speaker 7: The guy out in Cincinnati? So Trey Hendrickson going to
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  Speaker 7: be a free agent, okay? And we hear, we hear
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  Speaker 7: the talk about Max Crosby right in the trade in
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  Speaker 7: the Capital. You're going to give up with him. I
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  Speaker 7: don't think it's gonna be twenty. It's gonna be a
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  Speaker 7: twelve and probably something else right for Max. So Max
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  Speaker 7: also comes with a huge price tag, right, So Hendrickson's
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  Speaker 7: projected to be about thirty percent less expensive than t
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  Speaker 7: been Max Crosby, and you get to keep all of
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  Speaker 7: your your draft capital. So for me, and I want
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  Speaker 7: to get your thoughts. Would you rather have a guy
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  Speaker 7: like Max Crosby and lose your twelve pick and lose
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  Speaker 7: the ability to go hunt other players in free agency
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  Speaker 7: as effectively as you could versus a Trey hendricks Cent
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  Speaker 7: plus maybe the top linebacker Devin Lloyd and the pre
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  Speaker 7: agency period plus pick twelve plus pick twenty, what would
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  Speaker 7: you rather go with?
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  Speaker 1: I like, I want to keep twelve.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to keep twelve regardless, And then with Crosby,
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  Speaker 4: I would probably, you know, I mean I'm saying it whatever,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's out there. I mean, everyone knows, you know,
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  Speaker 4: if this is going to happen, I would say twenty
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  Speaker 4: would probably you know, I'd go to twenty. And if
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  Speaker 4: you if that's not rich enough, then yeah, then I
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  Speaker 4: would probably look at other options. But I think keeping twelve.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm answering your question, I'm thinking keeping twelve is
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  Speaker 4: the top of the priority.
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  Speaker 1: But I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't hate your your scenario either, you know, keeping
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  Speaker 4: your picks and going with you know, you're not getting
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  Speaker 4: this dynamic of a player a little bit older but
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  Speaker 4: also very very productive too.
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  Speaker 7: Do you think that trading for in Max Crosby, with
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  Speaker 7: his contract the way it is, you owe him thirty
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  Speaker 7: You hit for your cat for thirty five million right now.
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  Speaker 7: You might be able to do something with it when
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  Speaker 7: he gets here, But it's a thirty five million dollars
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  Speaker 7: cap charge. Do you think that restricts you from going
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  Speaker 7: a hunting down linebackers and safeties and corners and free
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  Speaker 7: agency at that point.
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  Speaker 4: Possibly also depending on what happens with Pickens if he
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  Speaker 4: stays at.
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  Speaker 1: That number too, you know, because I mean you can get.
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  Speaker 4: You can get that number down if you can, if
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  Speaker 4: you could really make that work. So a lot of
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  Speaker 4: a lot of balls in the air there.
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  Speaker 1: But I I have.
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  Speaker 4: This feeling that we're we're not barking up the wrong
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  Speaker 4: tree here. I don't I think, you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: things are happening. I think they're going to happen, And
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the Cowboys are gonna sit back and
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  Speaker 4: not you know, not do anything. I think they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna do some some big time stuff. I really
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  Speaker 4: believe that.
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  Speaker 8: Fine.
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  Speaker 7: Cool, Well, thanks man, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Good stuff with you, all right, Brian in Kansas City,
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  Speaker 4: what's up?
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  Speaker 13: Good morning, sir?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 13: And you know, at a at the hell of a scenario,
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  Speaker 13: you know that doing throughout there?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 13: I'd have to think that one through. I don't think
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  Speaker 13: I'm ready to avoide an opinion on that one yet.
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  Speaker 13: It's two good players, but one significantly better than the other.
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  Speaker 13: And and like you said, younger, right, so you know,
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  Speaker 13: watching the combine, I'm just amazed at whatever they're putting
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  Speaker 13: in the water. And Akron, what's going on up there
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  Speaker 13: in Ohio that there's a linebacker that six what is
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  Speaker 13: he sixty five to forty five and he ran the
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  Speaker 13: time of a corner at four four six? I mean,
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  Speaker 13: you know so, but just based on what we saw
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  Speaker 13: in the combine, it sounds like like Styles and Reese
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  Speaker 13: are not They're gonna they're gonna go top eleven, you know.
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  Speaker 13: And the big surprise coming out is that Downs may
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  Speaker 13: not because now there's some health issues and Apparently Jerry
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  Speaker 13: said something I'm the bus about he doesn't want anybody
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  Speaker 13: that can't contribute this year, And he wasn't talking about
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  Speaker 13: a specific player. He was just asked the question about
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  Speaker 13: what about you know, guys that we've taken chances on
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  Speaker 13: the past. I guess the way it was asked. So
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  Speaker 13: based on everything we learned in the.
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  Speaker 8: Combine the good, the bad, you know, the people that tested,
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  Speaker 8: the people that didn't test.
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  Speaker 13: And why so Downs was a big one to come out.
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  Speaker 13: Why as he's got I guess a degenerative tendon or
• 15:32
  Speaker 13: something like that, And it's one of those things that
• 15:35
  Speaker 13: some players play through and some don't. Some just don't laugh.
• 15:39
  Speaker 13: All the things that we learned up there, did it
• 15:43
  Speaker 13: impact what you're hoping for or what you view as
• 15:47
  Speaker 13: who's going to be there at twelve and what you're
• 15:50
  Speaker 13: hoping for being that top pick? So, in my opinion,
• 15:53
  Speaker 13: it sounds like we wouldn't take Downs or McCoy due
• 15:58
  Speaker 13: to injury concerns. Styles and rees are not going to
• 16:01
  Speaker 13: be there, is what everybody's saying. You know, what do
• 16:05
  Speaker 13: you think? How do you think that shapes that out?
• 16:07
  Speaker 13: And I'll hang up and.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Look the man good to talk about right, appreciate it,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Again, I this is this is part of that process
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: where you know, the things come out from the from
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: the combine. Uh, That's why you have different you know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: That's why that everyone's medical team goes up there so
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: they can kind of evaluate everyone themselves. Then they come back,
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: they go to their own pro day, they'll have their
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: own workouts, visits. A lot of things will kind of
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: materialize between now and then. Some not so, you know,
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: not so serious, some of.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Them will be.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: I kind of I kind of wonder if if some
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: of the things that we see and hear aren't aren't
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: kind of overblown maybe a little bit. There might be
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: a team sitting at twelve or fifteen or twenty that
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: were like, oh, here but his knee, you know. And
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: again I'm not saying that that that's happening, but I'm
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: sure it has happened. And so again, not too serious
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: about all that stuff. I do like what Jerry said
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: about I like the fact that he's like, we're not
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: going to red shirt our second round pick. They don't
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: have a second round, they might end up with one,
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: but we're not red shirting these these players that they
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: need to play, and you know, it sounded like he
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: was maybe a little disappointed with the Rebels stuff. I'm
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: not disappointed by that it was a third round pick.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: If he plays this year and he's starting for you,
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: I think that would be a really really good, good
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: pick in a good situation, second round and maybe a
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: little too high for those risky situations that they've done
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: so many times when you get after that third, fourth round.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: I don't have a real big problem with them. All right,
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Josh in Chicago is next, Nick?
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I'm good. How are you good?
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: So with free agency looming, there's a couple of things
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: I want to bring up. The first thing is I
• 17:59
  Speaker 11: think people like fans need to remember that this is
• 18:01
  Speaker 11: a two way street. So we can make plays for
• 18:04
  Speaker 11: players out there and they just it might not work out.
• 18:07
  Speaker 11: So we can't just like pay everyone and expect them
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: to be here because there's other teams and other things
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: that are being done. I know we tend to get
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: lost in that sometimes, so I just want to remind
• 18:16
  Speaker 11: people like, this is a two way street and a
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: two way negotiation.
• 18:19
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 18:19
  Speaker 11: The other thing, I know, we keep signing sign sign Jeep,
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: sign GP, but it's gonna cost a lot of money,
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: and I do think like in the past, we've looked
• 18:27
  Speaker 11: at it and been like, well, we didn't really go
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: sign any big whales or do any big things in
• 18:30
  Speaker 11: free agency, like we signed g like GP to a
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: long term deal. You know, he was a top one
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: hundred player entering free agency before the franchise tag, So
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: don't forget, like like people don't forget that he's right, Yeah,
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: I think he was the top I don't see him
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: on the list anymore because I think not franchise.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Tag, yeah, not just just you know, the top one
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: hundred and the top player.
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: I saw a couple of lists where he was like
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: number one or like always the top five, right, top three.
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: I think.
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: I think what's the lowest I saw was the list
• 19:02
  Speaker 11: I had them at like the number three guys. So
• 19:04
  Speaker 11: that's a big deal. And I just wanted to kind
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: of talk with you a little bit. I know you've
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: talked in the past about like inflation and like how
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: free agency inflates everything, especially when the cap goes up.
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: But isn't that just kind of the nature of the game,
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: Like I know, we're gonna pay a little bit more
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: for somebody than a couple of years ago. But with
• 19:21
  Speaker 11: the cap going up, that's kind of just how all
• 19:23
  Speaker 11: inflation works. I guess I'm not an economist.
• 19:26
  Speaker 15: But I'm not either.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I always think it's funny when people say, oh,
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: the cap went up, you know, that's good for teams,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: you know, like like the Cowboys or any anybody that
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: that's like right there at the at the line.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: It's like, well, it's it's good for everybody, you know
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: what I mean.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: It's I don't think I don't think the cap going
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: up really helps one team or another, because it just
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: gives the team that does have much money even more
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: and it makes the market even even higher for them.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: You know, I think it's funny. I sat here a
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: few years ago and saw some of these players the
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Cowboys were losing in free agency, and could they have
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: paid him or him? And some of those guys are
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: getting cut now.
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, so that's one thing to remember, is is
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: the Cowboys, And you know it's it's buyer beware all
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: the time with free agency. There's something there's not wrong,
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: but there there's there's a reason why you wouldn't give
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: this guy so much money. Anyone George pickints included. There's
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: a reason.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Why you wouldn't.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: You're you're a little you're a little scared about it,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: but he's just too dynamic. The Cowboys are going to
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: try to make it work, obviously and resign him. But anybody, yeah,
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: the the Hendrick Center, whoever's out there, those guys, there's
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: a reason why. There's a reason why these guys aren't
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: getting signed by their own team. And and you have
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: to factor all that in. It's got to be a
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: good fit for what the Cowboys are doing or any
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: anybody's trying to do. So you're you're right about everything
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: that that you're saying there.
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: I also think, you know, we talked about extending contracts
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: and extending money. I was looking at the stuff on
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: the cap, I think yesterday or the day before or
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: and I think we're still like they're still like sixteen
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: or seventeen million or something like that for Zach Martin
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: and dead money. So don't forget too when we have
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: these void years and we push money down the road.
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: It's good, and I agree with doing this, especially like
• 21:11
  Speaker 11: with Back or CD, but sometimes letting Terrence Steel play
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: out helps us long term too, because we don't have
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: any dead money next year or something like that, when
• 21:19
  Speaker 11: he's not even.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Here playing at all, and you kind of answered your
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: own comment or your you know, your own comment. There
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: is look what they just did, Like like when I say,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: just get like what an hour ago ago, thirty minutes ago.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: I mean the Cowboys, this is woods, they morning. They
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: they extended the deals. They're you know, restructured contracts to
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Dak and Tyler Smith CD I think is going to happen. Yeah,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: and Terrence Steel wasn't on that list, you know, so
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: you're right. I mean, there's some contracts that you're like,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: let's let's play this out. Some of these guys are
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: getting cut. Some of these guys, like you said, are
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: just getting you know, you're just playing it out because
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: you could, Yeah, you could save money by Terrence Steel.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: But then what then who are you sign who are
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: you playing? Who's going to be better than Terrence Steel?
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: And you can laugh at that if you want to,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: but just be careful what you wish for when you
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: try to put in their right tackle. I'm not saying you, Josh,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying.
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: Yeah, no, I know, well, I've been critical of Terence
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: Steel in the past. And Guyton, And I'll stand by
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: Steel is not the best pass blocker, right, like, he
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: just isn't. He's a He's a darn good run blocker.
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: He's very good at that, and he grades out very
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: well at that. And I think even if you if
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: they cut him, yeah, you're saving some money because you're
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: not paying him the full contract. But I do think
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: in twenty seventeen there's still be some dead money sitting
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: around for him, right, So like, what are you really
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: what are you really saving?
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: You know?
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it just depends, right, So it's complicated issues contract talk,
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: right and signing free agents. But I mean I'm really
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: hoping that we get at least, you know, three defensive
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: leoship free agents. But you know, I also have the
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: realistic approach that they may not want to play here.
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: They may not want to play a Christian Parker, they
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: may not want to play under Jerry Jones, right like
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: that that's a reality too.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: So it's a reality I mean for some you know,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I mean some people, some people, do you know what,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: would want to play here? I mean it sounds like
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: thanks for the call, Josh, good stuff as always. I mean,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: you know, from what we're seeing out of hearing about
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Christian Parker is that these guys love him. I mean
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: they love to play for him, and so, you know,
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I it usually usually comes down to the money, though,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: you know. I mean it's it's not just well, I'm
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: going to go and play for the Dallas Cowboys because
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: my family loved the Cowboys or my dad was a
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: big fan.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: You hear some of that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: It happens, but the money's got to be right too,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: uh And and that's that's usually what you know. If
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: you're not in the in the same ballpark, then then
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: it really doesn't matter. For the Cowboys are gonna have
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: to be at that point. And if they are, you know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: then I then I like you my chances. If I'm
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: the Cowboys, I like Jerry's chances of selling the player.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: It's got to be, like I said, the contracts got
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: to be there. But I like Gary's chances of selling.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I like Christian Parker's chance. Brian shottheimer. You know, playing
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: on it on a defense with with an offense, it's
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: gonna score a lot of points. I mean, I've thought
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: about that this morning. I mean, like there were games
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: where you know, the Cowboys were you can tell we're
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: gonna get gonna get beat here. They just can't keep
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: up because their defense just couldn't stop them. Detroit, Denver, Chicago.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: You know, those weren't blowouts really, but they were definitely
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: one sided. But I might be missing some games too,
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: but it's just like the offense is always gonna kind
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: of keep you in these games and sometimes win them.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: So I think that would be kind of exciting for
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: the defense. I've got to go, you know what, bars Low,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Let's go in here and you know, let's get better.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Let's get off the let's get out of the thirties
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: in the ranking, you know, try to get middle of
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: the pack, if not better, and then let the offense
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: kind of do what it what it's gonna do.
• 24:56
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• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Let's go to Michael and Bowling Green. He's been holding
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: a little bit, Michael.
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: Top's go along, Matt, how are you doing pretty good?
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: I get a couple things real quick. I asked about
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: and uh, what you think I've heard after the combine down.
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: He's got some some physical problems that could keep him out,
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: depending on the severity, anywhere from two to twelve months.
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: And he's also got a degenerative ACL. If all that's
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: true and he drops up, would you take me knowing.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: That, Uh, that's not my That wouldn't be my call.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously that would be what I mean. You
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: have to listen to what your head trainer of Jim
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Mauer and his evaluation of the guy. You would have
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: to just listen to it and and see what what
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: he thinks. I mean, again, I can't sit here and say, well,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, how bad is it. I mean, there's been
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: stories on these guys, some of them. I mean, what's
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: been twenty something years. I remember the same thing was
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: said about a guy named Steven Jackson running back, and
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: he was pretty good for a long time. So you know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: and I'm sure there are stories of guys that that, hey,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: be careful, he's got a knee issue, and you know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: two or three years later he's out of the league,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: and so that they were right. I don't have the
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: studies on all that he's he's gonna fall. I wouldn't
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: be surprised if this is maybe blown out of proportion
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: a little bit, But again, I don't know all that.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: If they feel come, i'd say, this is he gonna
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: be able to play for you for three or four
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: five seasons? If so, then I'm I probably would do it.
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: Probably draft them also, her Tall, trading down to sixteen,
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: picking up either a third rounder or picking up a
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: four and of seven, drafting theism and then maybe a
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: twenty a h usher.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm fine with trading down.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: And if you're in a scenario of you know, the
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: top guys that you really want are kind of wiped out,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: and now you're looking at all, right, we could take
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: these guys. Now, these four guys up here are all
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: sort of in the same boat. We like them about
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: the same. So then so then I'm okay, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: moving to sixteen or so, like you said, and getting
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: one of those guys still and then picking up another
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: pick in that scenario, but not of well, you know,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: there's one guy we really like and and hope he falls,
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: but let's also pick.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Up a third.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Now that it wouldn't work that way, So it would
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: have to just see how the how the board falls.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: There's gonna be a few guys that they hope really
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: fall right to them, and if that happens, then that's
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: why you stay, you know, you stand past.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: So one more.
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I was talking to Brian in Kansas City last night.
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: I was out of town driving back to work.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: Left.
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: We ended up talking for a little while. We were
• 30:09
  Speaker 10: talking about Cowboys quarterbacks and I told him, I said,
• 30:13
  Speaker 10: I'll never forget this. I was like Troy eight when
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: near the end of his career through was it was
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: near the end of the game they were losing and
• 30:24
  Speaker 10: he's running around a little bit and all of a sudden,
• 30:26
  Speaker 10: the announcer goes on a Rockets wide open and Troy
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: just launched it, and I called the instride scored a touchdown.
• 30:38
  Speaker 10: And Brian said, that was your first game.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Washington, Yes, yeah, yeah.
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: That play because he made it look so easy.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, MTT made the play. I mean, if you
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: really want to be candid about it, it was third
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: and two or something like that around the twenty five
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: yard line and over time, and and you know, it
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: was a play action and the defense sucked, you know,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: it goes sucked into it, and it said all right,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: well it's gonna be em it for you know, like
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: it always is.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: And it was a.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Play action and and and they had thrown that pass
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: earlier in the game and Rocket it was Rocket's first
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: game for the Cowboys too, and Rocket it went right
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: through his hands. It was early in the game, went
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: right through his hands. And and they and Rocket tells
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: a great story. It might take about twelve minutes, but
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: he tells, he tells a great story about that play
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: in the huddle and then talking about it. But yeah,
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: it it's it's great. It's it's it's one of the
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's the top game for me of of
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: all time, of just you know, most memorable because it
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: was so meaningful and to be there and and and
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: to see, you know, because it wasn't just Eric Bjornsen
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: or Johnathan or Jeff Ogden or Chris Warren making plays.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: It was EMITTT.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: Smith, Michael Irvin, Troy Aikman and then Rocket at the end.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: It's those guys making the plays. At the end of
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: the nineties, the start of the decade, I was in
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: junior high in high school, you know, and loving these
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: guys and loving the cowboys and all that, and then
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: the end of the decade, here they are, those guys
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: are the ones making the plays. And so yeah, without
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: a doubt, that will always be my favorite game.
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: Oh I'll never forget that play, Yeah, never forget it.
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: The way they announced was like.
• 32:29
  Speaker 13: Oh Rocket, yeah, yeah.
• 32:32
  Speaker 10: He just launched it. I mean put it right in
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: he ownstride. And I'm like, I just don't. I just
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: don't see that like that a lot anymore. But yeah,
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: all right, hey, I appreciate that sounds good.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Appreciate you. All right, let's keep it rolling here, We've
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: got Steve in New York.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: How you been you know what been been great?
• 33:01
  Speaker 15: I mean I'm glad. I was just telling Chris, I
• 33:04
  Speaker 15: got like two feet of snow up here and now
• 33:06
  Speaker 15: it's going to be like sixty degrees, so.
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: I love it.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the rain here and it's like freaking everybody out.
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: So yeah, we'll see.
• 33:16
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 33:18
  Speaker 15: You know when you're talking about the whole picking thing,
• 33:20
  Speaker 15: and I'm glad they resigned them. You know, they put it,
• 33:23
  Speaker 15: they franchise them. You know, I wish when I went
• 33:26
  Speaker 15: to college that there was a course that you could
• 33:29
  Speaker 15: take for the salary cap because think about it, was
• 33:32
  Speaker 15: it ninety four, it came here, that's when, that's when
• 33:34
  Speaker 15: the NFL had it. What are we looking at? Like
• 33:37
  Speaker 15: there's still so many like intricacies and angles that I
• 33:42
  Speaker 15: think half the people I don't even understand it. Like
• 33:44
  Speaker 15: how many times do you see another team like the
• 33:47
  Speaker 15: Eagles they signed Someoney're like, how do they have money
• 33:50
  Speaker 15: right to get this guy? And I just wish there
• 33:53
  Speaker 15: was like you know, it's every time you think you
• 33:55
  Speaker 15: know the cap and like you said, oh what up
• 33:57
  Speaker 15: to three hundred million that's already So basically it went
• 34:02
  Speaker 15: up to something that we were over already, so I
• 34:04
  Speaker 15: don't you know.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, I always think of it like this.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Think about your own money, you like, like like your
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: own accounts, and you might have more than one and
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: different things, and you know, and.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: How you justify doing this here.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: I'll pay for this here, but you know, I don't
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: have to worry about that because I know this is
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: coming in here, like you can do You can do
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: that for yourself, you know, because you kind of know
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: all that stuff going on. And so I always think
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: it's weird when people try to write, like how much
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: money do the Cowboys have in the cap? It's so
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: fluid that like even this morning and like right now,
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: think about how different it is, just like that, just
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: like that the Cowboys decided to trigger this and change
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: it up here, and so you know, they can do
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: so many different things. And they're also they know these
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: things are coming in So every time you see you know,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: the Cowboys have fifty million caps, well twenty five of
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: it they've put over here on the shelf because they
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: know that they need it during the season. They know
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: you have to pay for these things here and there.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: So that's why it's I always think it's weird. I
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: wouldn't want anyone to come in and tell me about
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: what's going on with my finances. I think it's weird
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: when people try to do it others because it is
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: not black and white there.
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean they have.
• 35:22
  Speaker 15: They have all these websites where you can go to
• 35:24
  Speaker 15: and it's all I think, it's all you know.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, yes, some of those websites are good to
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: learn about the contract and understand how the contract works
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: the fourth year, the fifth year, if you cut him here,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: some of those. Some of those websites are pretty good
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: from a from a contract standpoint, right, But.
• 35:42
  Speaker 15: As far as like when they say, well this team
• 35:45
  Speaker 15: has you know, X amount of dollars available, that gets
• 35:47
  Speaker 15: really that's kind of not what the situation is, Which
• 35:51
  Speaker 15: leads me to this question. This is just you know,
• 35:52
  Speaker 15: your personal opinions, you know, based on this league and
• 35:55
  Speaker 15: what you've seen over the years. Do you think, and again,
• 35:58
  Speaker 15: I want to keep the guy, but do you think
• 36:00
  Speaker 15: it's financially possible with the cap to keep two number
• 36:05
  Speaker 15: one receivers like we would have to long term deals?
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: I think I think it's I think you can I
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: think you, you know, just how you want to be structured.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: But they but they have to take it up a notch.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: And I you know, I'm not just gonna say, well
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: the offense offense is fine, you know, just fixed the defense.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: None of the offense has to be even better than that,
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: especially if you're gonna pay pickings now, like it has
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: to be that dynamic and that borderline unstoppable, you know.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: And so because if that's how you're structuring what you're paying.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: You paid your quarterback, you're paying your two receivers. You've
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: got the highest guard in the game, and it sounds
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: like you're gonna have the highest kicker as well. You're
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: having having all these contracts. You better go in running
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: backs getting pretty good money too. Now you better go
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: and be a team that's going to get thirty to
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: thirty five points a game and outscore people. You have
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: to do that. That's how you're structure it. Then you
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: then that's the standard, and off nights aren't aren't really
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: gonna be accepted.
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: No fair enough.
• 37:17
  Speaker 15: I totally get that. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting real
• 37:22
  Speaker 15: real quick. On the trivia, segueing right into wide receivers,
• 37:25
  Speaker 15: our number eighty eight, so we know the history. Who's
• 37:29
  Speaker 15: a do you know who the eighty eight between the
• 37:33
  Speaker 15: tight end for the Cowboys early two thousands prior to
• 37:39
  Speaker 15: not Antonio Antonio O'Bryant was what was that two thousands
• 37:43
  Speaker 15: of Yeah, that was part in between there there was
• 37:46
  Speaker 15: an eighty eight who caught one pass as a cowboy,
• 37:50
  Speaker 15: maybe maybe two passes as a cowboy and his in
• 37:52
  Speaker 15: his NFL career. You know who it was. You probably
• 37:55
  Speaker 15: know who it wasn't have.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: A story, but well is Jackie Harris?
• 38:00
  Speaker 15: No, no, Jackie Harris. Well he did wear idio, but
• 38:02
  Speaker 15: he actually did a lot. He had a y pretty
• 38:04
  Speaker 15: good numbers.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: So there's another eighty eight. Yeah, in between Jackie Harris
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: and Antonio Bryant.
• 38:11
  Speaker 15: Listen, it's obscure, but you're you're good with the obscure.
• 38:14
  Speaker 15: So that's why.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Did Brett Pierce wear eighty eight?
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: Wow?
• 38:18
  Speaker 15: Yeah, Brett Pierce?
• 38:20
  Speaker 10: That you got it.
• 38:22
  Speaker 15: What's amazing too, because I think the only pass he
• 38:25
  Speaker 15: caught as a cowboy after check this but and I
• 38:28
  Speaker 15: don't even have to tell you what year, what week,
• 38:30
  Speaker 15: and because you'll know the game I just called the
• 38:33
  Speaker 15: Santana Moss Game because it was one of the worst
• 38:35
  Speaker 15: football mes.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Best half of the time, best halftime of all time
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: because because the triple went into the Ring of Honor.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: And then after that, Yeah, I remember being at the
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: stadium looking at my media guide to see when's the
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: last time the Cowboys had a shutout because it was
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: like thirteen to nothing, and then the next thing, you know,
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Moss Santana, Moss, they've those fourteen thirteen.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that was about with Brett Pierce. I
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: didn't I guess I didn't realize he wore eighty eight.
• 39:07
  Speaker 15: He did, he actually did for a year. Yeah, forty
• 39:11
  Speaker 15: nine guy, good guy. Yeah, you know, Nick, thank you
• 39:14
  Speaker 15: always for thanking man.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: I don't have a big story about Brett Pierce, but
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: I'll say this, especially with the way things are at
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: the combine and and how these guys can can drop
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: just based off of you know, dimensions and all that,
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: he didn't have the longest arms in the four tight end.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, in fact, he was one of the shortest
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: arms for for tight ends. Very noticeable too, so he
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: would have been if he did go to the combine,
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: he would have that would have been a story if
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: that I think it's kind of kind of crazy. And
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: I remember asking a scout we were we were on
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: a bus two years ago going to to you know,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: the bus ride from from Lax to Oxnard is is longer,
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: always longer than expected. You know, you think you're there,
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: you know, and you're still about an hour and a
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: half hour or though, depending on traffic. And I'm on
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: the bus and I'm talking to a scout and I'm like, so,
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: if Cooper Babe was so good and everyone's so excited
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: about him, why did he go to the third round?
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: And i mean without hesitation. The scout was like thirty
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: one and a half its charms. I'm like, oh, okay, yeah,
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: that's the thing. Yeah, thirty one in charms. That's why
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: you know that, that's why he's not playing guard, that's
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: why he's playing center. And I'm just like, okay, you know,
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: it's just it's it's funny to me how just a
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: couple of you know, a couple of inches here and
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: there are gonna are gonna change a guy going to
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: the you know what round, you know, second, third, fourth round.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: But you know you're hearing about it with Miami, with Bain,
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: another situation like that, you know, to me, if he
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: can play, he can play. And I said this before,
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: I want these guys that that love football, absolutely love
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: football one thousand percent, because those are the guys that
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: are gonna be in the in the weight room. Those
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: are the guys are gonna be in the film room.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: And and I think that you know, four to three
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: three sounds great, and and maybe forty three in vertical.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: All that stuff is awesome. But the guys that absolutely
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: are going to put their heart and soul in their
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: profession to play football, I think that makes up the
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: difference for a forty time or however long your arms
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: are and things like that.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Rob in Vegas.
• 41:19
  Speaker 8: What's up?
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Rob?
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: Hey?
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: Nick?
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: You doing good?
• 41:22
  Speaker 14: You?
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: I'm good. You know, talking about the draft, I heard
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: something yesterday. You know, everybody wants to keep the pigs,
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: and everybody has this great trust for whatever reason, for
• 41:36
  Speaker 9: the Cowboys drafting on defense. But they said, in the
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: last twelve years, twelve drafts, all the defensive ends, they've
• 41:45
  Speaker 9: drafted only one. And I was twelve years ago that
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: actually panned out with Tank Lawrence. If you look at it,
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: everybody else was pretty much averaged to a bus now.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Just defensive ends defensive end.
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: As Iraku let's say said, it's still we don't know,
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: but if you look at it, and it's crazy. When
• 42:09
  Speaker 9: they started naming the names, I'm like, who the hell
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: is that guy? I don't remember? I didn't remember eighty
• 42:17
  Speaker 9: percent of the guys. And I'm like, that's why when
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: you have an opportunity to get a you know, a
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: Max Max Crosby and hearing being here in Vegas, it's
• 42:33
  Speaker 9: it's going to happen, you know it. It is, he's going.
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: My fear is he's going to Philadelphia because they will
• 42:40
  Speaker 9: do whatever it takes. But people talking about the money.
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: Everybody was willing to give Micah and I definitely wanted
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: to forty million dollars. This guy's ten million dollars cheaper
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: and probably a better all around player at the position.
• 43:01
  Speaker 9: And I think he's only two years old these twenty eight,
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: So anybody talking about the money is ridiculous because you
• 43:09
  Speaker 9: would have dropped forty forty one, forty two on Mike
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: and a heartbeat, and you're getting this guy at thirty.
• 43:16
  Speaker 9: And I know there's other players out there, like a Hendrickson,
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: but he's older and he ain't going to be free.
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: He's going to be close to thirty, you know, twenty five,
• 43:28
  Speaker 9: you know, And I keep hearing about it. I keep
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: hear by talking about the Dak window, a three year window. Well,
• 43:37
  Speaker 9: then it to me, it's a no brainer. It's a
• 43:41
  Speaker 9: no brainer. If if Dak was gone and we were
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: starting with a rookie, then I don't expect much. Go
• 43:50
  Speaker 9: go do what you gotta do. But you got a
• 43:52
  Speaker 9: three year window now to Pickens thing. I love Pickens,
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: but I'd rather have a great defense, or I'm not
• 44:00
  Speaker 9: even going to say a great defense, but I think
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: this team would be more successful with a very good offense,
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: which they've always had with Deck, a healthy Deck at quarterback,
• 44:13
  Speaker 9: regardless who the wide receivers were, the offenses were, especially
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: once they got CD, they've always had top I think
• 44:20
  Speaker 9: he's had top five offense like three four times. I mean,
• 44:24
  Speaker 9: I'd rather have a very good offense, which I think
• 44:27
  Speaker 9: i'd get without Pickings, and a very good defense. I
• 44:31
  Speaker 9: could win more with that combination than what I had
• 44:34
  Speaker 9: last year. The number one offense, a number two offense,
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: but a terrible defense. And if we're expecting a Christian
• 44:44
  Speaker 9: Parker who's never been a DC to flip it from
• 44:48
  Speaker 9: a thirty second ranked defense to fifteen four. I mean,
• 44:53
  Speaker 9: let's asking a lot with just draft picks and a
• 44:57
  Speaker 9: couple of free agents. So to me, you got to
• 45:01
  Speaker 9: get stars at certain positions, and defensive end is the most.
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: A pass rusher is the most important person on defense.
• 45:10
  Speaker 9: That's why they get paid the most. It's not quarterback.
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: It's not linebacker, and today maybe in nineteen ninety four
• 45:19
  Speaker 9: it was, but now if you cannot get to the quarterback,
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: you cannot win.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: I don't think the Cowboys disagree with you anything that
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: you're saying. I think this is one of those cases.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Rob. I think Jerry sounds like he's on the same page.
• 45:36
  Speaker 15: There.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens.
• 45:38
  Speaker 9: I mean, I know, but I don't have to. I
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: don't trust Jerry Jerry Law.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: You know, yeah, show me.
• 45:45
  Speaker 9: Show me you robbed.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: The free agency starts next week, so we can't do
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: it right now. I mean we can't.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: You can't.
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: Apt The only thing I don't like is what I've
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: heard is they're going to try to piecemeal this this
• 45:56
  Speaker 9: defensive end position again, and it doesn't I don't want
• 46:01
  Speaker 9: bodies I want one guy you could pencil in to
• 46:06
  Speaker 9: be able to be the starter to play most of
• 46:09
  Speaker 9: the snaps. Give me that guy who's really good. I
• 46:12
  Speaker 9: don't want free good guys. Give me one great player
• 46:17
  Speaker 9: at that position, and then you could have a couple
• 46:19
  Speaker 9: of good guys on the other side.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: All Right, I think thanks for the call.
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: I usually I would I would sit and argue with
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: you and kind of went off for a little bit.
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: We can argue about this next week. Let's let's do
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: the research on that. Because the one guy, the one
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: guy that you're talking about this here recently, those teams
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: aren't winning. You know, you just saw a Super Bowl team,
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: both of them with with a bunch of guys not
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: not really like a bona fide you know, stud pass rusher.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: There was a stat two years ago where the top
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: five pass rushers in the league, none of them they're
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: teams in make the playoffs. Michah was one of them
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: with with the Cowboys, Miles Garrett was Was it happened
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: again this this past year?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: TJ. Watt?
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: This was this is like two years ago. Hendrickson, Crosby, Watt, Garrett, Micah,
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: none of them made none of them made the playoffs
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: this year. Micah's team did obviously make the playoffs. I
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: think t J.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Watt they snuck in there. I mean, I don't. They
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: weren't world beaters, but they got in there.
• 47:27
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: Obviously Crosby didn't. Then Miles Garrett didn't, you know, And
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: I don't have those stats in front of me, but
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: but you can make that case that these top pass rushers,
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: it doesn't necessarily mean that they make the playoffs. I
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: like to do a little bit more of study on
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: that because I know what it's been the last couple
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: of years. I don't know long term, uh what it was.
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know saw DeMarcus where every year was
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: up there. Didn't mean the Cowboys always were, but it's
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: still good to have though, you know, he still want
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: that guy. I'll take my chances. I think I'm with you.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to argue with you on that. I'm
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: thinking I'm with you. I'd rather have that one guy
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: because what I've seen is that one guy makes the
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: other guys pretty good too, as opposed to if you
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: just got a bunch of other guys. I mean, you
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: can't have a bunch of solid guys you got to have.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: If you're not going to have an elite pass rusher,
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: then you need about three or four that are really good,
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: and that might even be more expensive to do that.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: All right, j R. And Avondale's next.
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: He Nick, how you doing hanging in there? Hey? One
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: hundred and ninety two days to the first Sunday of football. Hey,
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: I got to tell you, I've been a fan since
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: Don Meredith and Bob Hayes were playing while I was
• 48:49
  Speaker 8: a little kid. You're pulling Brett Pierce out. It's just
• 48:54
  Speaker 8: I almost sell off the couch. I would have ever
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: gotten that, and so I am definitely in awe of
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: your knowledge. So excellent, Josh.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: You know, we thank you. We all have our strengths
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: and we all have our weaknesses. I just, yeah, we don't.
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: I don't want Chris being getting on the mic telling
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: you things that I that I don't do so well.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: So you know what, we all do our things. We
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: all have her we all have our things, we all
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: have our quirks.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: All good.
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Friends called me to ask me things about Dallas Cowboys,
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: and I'm supposed to know all this stuff, and I
• 49:25
  Speaker 8: would have never in a million years gotten that. But anyway,
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: so about Caleb Downs, I've heard a NFC scout leaked
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: this information. Well, what if it was our scout leaked
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: that information to get him to drop to number twelve
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: so we can draft him or I don't know about
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: that information or how accurate it is, but if Caleb's down,
• 49:49
  Speaker 8: Caleb Downs is there at twelve, I'm drafting him. Yeah,
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: I'm taking him. Remember the guy out of Memphis years ago,
• 49:57
  Speaker 8: he had something wrong with his need degenitive knee condition
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: and then he wasn't going to play and he went undrafted.
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: His name was Ron Leary and he had a He
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: had a pretty good career with the Cowboys. And I
• 50:07
  Speaker 8: think the Bronco right another guy. I don't know about
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: a possible degenitive knee or any of that. But I'm
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: drafting Caleb Downs if he comes out at twelve. But anyway,
• 50:23
  Speaker 8: my question be special teams. We've talked so much about
• 50:26
  Speaker 8: defense and that I'm gonna go a different direction special teams.
• 50:30
  Speaker 8: I fully expected there to be a change at the
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: special teams coaching level, and I guess Nick Sorenson is
• 50:36
  Speaker 8: still there. So my question to you is good and
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: bad on special teams?
• 50:43
  Speaker 12: Last year.
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: Of course, I think we got spoiled with when Bones
• 50:46
  Speaker 8: Fossil was there. But do you think the issue with
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: special teams going the wrong direction? Is it coaching scheme
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: or I know there's a certain core of players that
• 50:58
  Speaker 8: play special teams and that's a group of players that
• 51:02
  Speaker 8: turn that they churn a lot. Do we need to
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: look at those players? Maybe? I know we're talking a
• 51:08
  Speaker 8: lot about all these important positions, so that's important too.
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: So do we need to look at getting some better
• 51:14
  Speaker 8: players in that group or do you think it was coaching? Anyway,
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: That's all I got and have a great day, go Cowboy.
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: All right, Thanks appreciated, j R. That's a good question
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: about special teams, and I think it's both. I mean,
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: I really believe it was a combination of both. I mean,
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: you know, Cavante Turpin set the record for most combined
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: return yards in Cowboys history.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Was he special?
• 51:41
  Speaker 14: Like?
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Was it really that? I mean, he had one long run.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: I think I forgot what game it was, you know,
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: eighty eighty nine yards eighty or ninety Later in the
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: season maybe Washington the Giants game at the last game
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: of the season, didn't score but had a long return
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: of the that he really didn't have a lot of
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: big returns. He only had fifty five pump return yards,
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: so it wasn't blocked that well for him. Now the
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: numbers came in and the fact that he just had
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: so many returns because the defense was so bad and
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: they kept giving up points and people kept kicking off
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: and and give Cavante in his one hundred and sixty
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: five seventy pounds, you know, give him credit for playing
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: all season and you know, taking a lot of hits
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: and getting back up and all that kind of stuff.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: So I think it's a it's a noteworthy record, but
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: I think we know why he had so many yards.
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: It wasn't because it was getting blocked so perfectly all
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: the time. Fifty five pound return yards for a season.
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: That show. That shows me a couple of things. Number One,
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: you're not stopping anyone and they're not punting. And number two,
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: when they are, you know they're they're you know, they're
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: not really given to an opportunity to do a whole lot.
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: And when he when there, you know, is that chance
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: it wasn't blocked that well personnel wise. Again, I hate
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: to keep blaming the defense, but it kind of starts there, right,
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: They couldn't figure out the defense at all. They couldn't
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: figure out who needs to be playing on defense, and
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: so you're getting guys brought up from the practice squad
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: all the time, elevated in the middle, you know, of
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: the of the week, elevated right before the game, and
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: and they have to play defense, and that some of
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: them are starting, and you know so so the whole
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: special teams part, I think you have a really good
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: special teams when you have core players, When you have
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: a core defensive guys and not doing a lot of
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: rotating there, your special teams guys get to kind of
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: be there. Not this game they're starting and now they're
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: back to special ms.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: It was kind of a mess, and it starts because
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: of the defense. I think if they get more consistency
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: on defense, I think you'd get more consistency on special teams.
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: But let's let's be honest. I mean, the scheme blocking
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: part that all could be better as well. All right,
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Ali and Florida's next.
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: You pretty good, buddy? How about you?
• 54:02
  Speaker 17: Good couple of things. First of all, happy belated birthday.
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: I hope you.
• 54:10
  Speaker 17: Had a wonderful day.
• 54:12
  Speaker 12: I did.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you good.
• 54:14
  Speaker 17: You know, every birthday we get it's a birthday we
• 54:20
  Speaker 17: didn't have, so I'm.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: So happy for you.
• 54:23
  Speaker 17: Second, I want to put the vote for Irene to
• 54:27
  Speaker 17: be a president because she does a lot of stuff.
• 54:32
  Speaker 17: So she's just like she always notified us what to do.
• 54:37
  Speaker 6: Well not to do stuff. That's great.
• 54:39
  Speaker 17: That's my two cents.
• 54:41
  Speaker 13: Then thirteing.
• 54:44
  Speaker 8: This is a personal level.
• 54:45
  Speaker 17: I don't like Michael Parsons agent because I thought he
• 54:50
  Speaker 17: had a couple of things. You went on ESPN didn't
• 54:53
  Speaker 17: say the right thing. But I'm so glad Jerry put
• 54:57
  Speaker 17: the French franchise tagle on ticking, so at least we've
• 55:03
  Speaker 17: got the little control versus he.
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: Gets another last laugh.
• 55:10
  Speaker 17: The last thing my question to you is this, I'm
• 55:14
  Speaker 17: so happy about these coaching staff, defensive coaching staff.
• 55:21
  Speaker 10: On the.
• 55:23
  Speaker 17: On the press conference, one of the reporter asked the
• 55:33
  Speaker 17: I had defensive coordinated that are you going to bring
• 55:37
  Speaker 17: anybody from Eagles and then it says we don't want
• 55:41
  Speaker 17: to talk about that. Now I have a feeling he's
• 55:45
  Speaker 17: going to bring. I mean every coach that brings somebody
• 55:48
  Speaker 17: they know the system. He brings somebody from an Eagles
• 55:51
  Speaker 17: and I'm particularly some of these young coaches. What I'm
• 55:56
  Speaker 17: hoping they know a player under the radar, like a
• 56:01
  Speaker 17: Georgia linebacker coach. Then because they have a lot of
• 56:06
  Speaker 17: great lonebackers, they give us a little bit of benefit
• 56:09
  Speaker 17: that when we want to sign those lords here free
• 56:13
  Speaker 17: ah the daft pick. So because a little bit of
• 56:16
  Speaker 17: benefit of little knowledge from any.
• 56:19
  Speaker 6: Of these guys.
• 56:20
  Speaker 17: So but that's my take. And I just called say
• 56:24
  Speaker 17: hello and Bryer from Kansas City. It shuld be the
• 56:28
  Speaker 17: most politiest top the color of the storyliner.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: I love your brother, Thank you so much.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: You know, I think that that you're right about, you know,
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: the familiarity of coaches and the players that they've seen,
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: they've coached against some of them. It's not just the
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: guys that coach that that they've coached against and had
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: to prepare for. Man like man sure wouldn't mind having
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: that guy. When does he become a free agent? You know,
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: and that that that happens too. So you know, you
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: have a wide range of coaches that are they're younger
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: then you haven't been around the league too long. But
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: then again, I mean the guys that you're trying to
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: get in free agency here that you're drafting. Obviously they're
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: in college. Last year, the guys in free agency were
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: you know, been in the league for or five years
• 57:22
  Speaker 4: for the most part. So it's not like I'm not
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: saying that experience isn't good, because it's good in other ways.
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: But also, you know, if you've you've got some NFL experience,
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: you've been around for a few years. I mean, especially
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: when you're talking about personnel schemes, it's always evolving all
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: the time. So I don't think the Cowboys are going
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: to be uh short on experience. I think they're gonna
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: have a lot of energy. But you know, it's it's
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: all got to got to work out too. I Mean,
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: we saw it at training camp, saught a practice. I mean,
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: they do a lot of you know, crazy stuff at
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: practice and and the drills and and some of the
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: things that you see out there, and you know, it's
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: all it all sounds good, you know, but go win
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: some games, you know, and then then you won seven
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: last year, just like you won seven the year before.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: So I'm not.
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: Saying energy won't be the same, but you know, maybe
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: let's you know, focus more on on the middle of
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: the week and other things as opposed to going out
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: there and running around again. That's not why they didn't
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: win games, It's just that there's different approaches. You'll see
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: a different approach this year with with what they're what
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: they're doing. All right, let's go to break real quick
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• 59:47
  Speaker 4: We've got Lester, been on the line holding for a
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: little bit, Lester, what's up about?
• 59:53
  Speaker 19: Hey?
• 59:54
  Speaker 6: Good morning neck?
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Are you?
• 59:57
  Speaker 6: I'm doing good?
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 6: I didn't get a chance to get in last week,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: but uh, you know, of the callers sounded good. Hey,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 6: But on the which you would you rather think? I
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: would rather have we got a lot of holes of seal,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: so I would rather have the two linebackers and the
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: guy from Cincinnati I think Hendrix is his name, if
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 6: that's the scenario, because we got a lot of holes
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: the feal and I feel like we need to go
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: ahead and pay pickings man, because.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: The things that we're not talking about.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: And I'm not there, I don't I don't know for sure,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: but it seems like from afar this is the thing
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: we don't talk about it seems like Pickens is like
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: an inspiration to the at least the offense. And sometimes
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 6: that even though you know people have baggage or whatever,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: sometimes that that that that that holds a lot of
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: water man, and we're not talking about that part. It
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: seems like, I mean, dak is saying, hey sign a guy,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: guy say hey sign, we got to sign and the
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 6: running back when he said pay Pickings, and so it
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: just seems like he's an inspiration, and that's something we
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: don't talk about. Man. So that's why I say, you know,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: go ahead and pay him a course if you want
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 6: one hundred million dollars, you know, don't do that. I mean,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 6: you know that's obvious, but well he does.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: I mean over over three years maybe or or even
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: probably two and a half.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, illion a year.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: I know what you mean. I know what you mean.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: And you know, you know lesser. There's there's two sides
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: to that, because when you get paid the contract like that,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: you know, and whatever whatever the base salary is. Let's
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: say the base salary is thirty four million a year.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: Let's say that was his base salary. Well, it's you know,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: every I think it's usually they get divided by seventeen
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: you know, paychecks. Maybe it's eighteen now, but about seventeen paychecks,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: it's that's two million a year, consistently, two million every Tuesday.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: That's what you get paid consistently. So you're talking about
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: the what what he brings to the table, which is,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: you know, the the emotional part of it. Okay, that's fine,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: as long as it's the same as that paycheck and
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: it's consistent, and that that's what we all struggle with,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: right some days, we have good days, we have bad days. Whatever,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: what was going on in Detroit? Where was it that day?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: CD was hurt and he had to be out of
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: the game. Where was he that day? Now, the first
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: three or four games that Seed got hurt, he stepped
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: it up. There's no doubt about it, Carolina. They were
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: walking through the motions.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: He wasn't.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: He was jumping over people and scoring touchdowns. So Detroit
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: was kind of a weird game for the most part.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: He brought it.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: But if you're gonna ask for that kind of money
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: and you're gonna get it consistently, then he needs to
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: be that way as well. And that whole offense does.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: And I'm not saying they won't be This isn't picking
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: on him. I mean, I'm just saying, you know, he's
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: done everything he's done in his rookie contract, and he
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: made about three million last year and all that. You know,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: he got fined a lot, He gave a lot of
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: money back because he was late for this, late for that,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: missed this, missed that. But he kept making those plays
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: and then you kind of just deal with it. You
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: wonder about what happens when you're making thirty million a
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: year or more than that. What is going to be
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: the driving force for him? But he's got a maturity
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: is an issue with all these young players. He's one
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: of them. But again, is he worth it? Is he
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: worth it with the what he does on the field?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: And I think he is. I think the Cowboys think
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: he is too.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, hey man, I'm sure Jerry and the brain
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 6: trust they're going to make the good decisions this year.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 6: I just feel like this is a little different and
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 6: I'm a little apprehensive myself, like a lot of people
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 6: are saying, but I'm on the more of the positive
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 6: side of it. Looks like there's a difference. Looks like
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: Jerry got in that Dolory in again and went back
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 6: to the early nineties, and I got some advice from
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 6: younger Jerry, So I think it'll be all right, man,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 6: go Cowboys.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: All right, see you appreciate the call, Lester. Let's go
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: to Nick in Austin.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 19: Hey, Nick, how you doing good?
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: How are you good?
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: Thank you?
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 19: A couple of things real quick, Happy bladd birthday.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate that.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 19: And I also wanted to say thanks to the Cowboys
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 19: organization that you and Derek Eagleton at Chris and you know,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 19: for allowing the fans to be able to call it,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 19: because this is something truly special.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we'll thank you that.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 19: And then yeah, and a couple of things. I'm just
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 19: trying to be fast that somebody else can get on.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 19: Christian Parker is going to change a lot of things.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 19: My question to you real quick, because they always talk
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 19: about size, that we have speed, that we're too small,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 19: and I think there's something to that. I think our
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 19: linebackers have been too small. I think the last piece
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 19: acize the linebacker we have was late Vandersch and when
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 19: he was healthy, you saw the success he had. I
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 19: mean he you know, tight ends weren't a problem. You
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 19: got these big running backs for the problem. I believe
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 19: that Overshown is too small. He's he's tall or too skinny.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 19: I think he's very athletic. If it was me, I
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 19: would move him to box safety. I don't know what
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 19: you think about that. And then one other person that
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 19: I would move Sam Williams. He's not a great defensive end.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 19: I don't know if it's the pass rush skills that
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 19: he's lacking. He's great on special teams, but I think
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 19: if you could put him in some kind of a
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 19: linebacker role where he could just run and hit, I
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 19: think he'd be great. So thank you very much, and I'll.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: Listen appreciate that, you know, as a playing multiple schemes.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's one of the things that they that
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: we've heard a lot of here in the last few
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: weeks since they they brought on Christian Parker. You know,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: three four is going to be like the base defense.
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  Speaker 4: So you wonder where certain guys, especially the guys that
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  Speaker 4: you would call a tweener. Sam Williams would be one
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  Speaker 4: of those. You know, he's not really a defensive end body.
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  Speaker 1: He's not.
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  Speaker 4: He's a little bit bigger for an outside linebacker, and
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of what a three four outside linebacker rusher is.
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  Speaker 4: Overshown looks like you said, he's kind of light for
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  Speaker 4: a linebacker. He'd be a little bulky for safety. He's
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  Speaker 4: a tweener. Marquise Bell is another one like that. So
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  Speaker 4: you wonder about this defense is it going to have
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  Speaker 4: some of those type of guys. Now you mentioned Sam Williams.
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  Speaker 4: I think we have to point out he's an unrestricted
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  Speaker 4: free agent, so he's gonna probably hit free agency here.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know the plans for him. Maybe you never know,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I've told the flows l Adams Stroy, you
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  Speaker 4: never know. With Christian Parker and these guys come in
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  Speaker 4: and be like, we're gonna sign this guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he'd be.
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  Speaker 4: Perfect for you don't know, or it could be hey,
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  Speaker 4: let's let's you know, it's time to kind of move
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  Speaker 4: on and and uh, you know, go go a different
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  Speaker 4: direction here. So uh, you know, he needs to he'll
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  Speaker 4: get a chance to test test the market and there'll
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  Speaker 4: be some of some of those. But I your shot.
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  Speaker 4: He was was asked about linebacker. He's first guy you
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  Speaker 4: mentioned was was Overshown. He's excited about the fact that
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  Speaker 4: over Shown is going to be healthy in this offseason.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that that's he that hasn't happened. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he hasn't had knowledge, he hasn't had game experience and
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  Speaker 4: off season health ever in his career because when he
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  Speaker 4: he was here his rookie year and then he got
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  Speaker 4: hurt in the preseason, but he had never played in
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  Speaker 4: the game, and so he, you know, you didn't really
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  Speaker 4: know what to expect. Every other year that he's been here,
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  Speaker 4: he's been having the rehabit injury in the offseason. So
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  Speaker 4: the combination of health and experience is not anything that
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  Speaker 4: he's had before. Now another thing, and this is no
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  Speaker 4: different over Shown. This is his fourth year and this
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  Speaker 4: is his fourth defensive coordinator. So that's that's what the
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  Speaker 4: issue has been for defense and the inconsistencies there. But good,
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  Speaker 4: good call. Appreciate that. Let's see if we have any
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  Speaker 4: other callers, are we Chris? We got another caller?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeremy and salt Lake. There we go. Jeremy salt Lake.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, Bud?
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  Speaker 12: Hey, what's going on?
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  Speaker 16: Nick?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 19: I'm good?
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  Speaker 12: I'm good.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: I just kind of wanted to touch base, I knowing
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  Speaker 12: in a lot of time here, so I'll try to
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  Speaker 12: be quick. But as far as like I'd love how
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  Speaker 12: after every year, you know, well free agency is going on.
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  Speaker 12: We can be critical as we want, as far as
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  Speaker 12: the front office is spending money not spending money. But
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 12: how about we look back at last year now and
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  Speaker 12: look at all these signings that you know a lot
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  Speaker 12: of Cowboys fans got upset about, you know, especially like
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  Speaker 12: with the Commanders. You know, half the guys they signed
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  Speaker 12: last year they're not bringing back, right, So this thing
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  Speaker 12: can work two ways for you. You can go out and
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  Speaker 12: spend all this money and then miss the playoffs like
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  Speaker 12: Washington did and have a horrible season and then have no.
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  Speaker 13: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 12: Now you're going to be paying all this dead money
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  Speaker 12: from cutting all these players, So be careful what you
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  Speaker 12: wish for. I guess is what you're saying. Is what
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  Speaker 12: I'm saying, because there's there's two ends to every every
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  Speaker 12: decision that you make. And it's easy for us to
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 12: sit back and second guess to the front office and
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 12: Jerry Cenile and over the hill all this kind of crap, right,
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  Speaker 12: But at the end of the day, dude, go back
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  Speaker 12: and look at the last three three four years, these
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  Speaker 12: teams that really went out and made splash in free agency,
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  Speaker 12: and did they really go anywhere? Did they really do
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  Speaker 12: anything with it? So I just want us to make
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  Speaker 12: the right signings, right, That's that's for me. So you know,
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  Speaker 12: maybe not just get caught up in the numbers so much.
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  Speaker 12: But like I said, I'll be brief, right, take it offline, take.
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  Speaker 4: Reasbreak good call and uh, and you're exactly right. And
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  Speaker 4: you don't even have to look at other teams. Just
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  Speaker 4: look at the Cowboys. Just look at look at last year.
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  Speaker 4: I wrote down some of the additions. I'm I think
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  Speaker 4: I'm missing some here. But I have enough to work
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  Speaker 4: with for sure. I have, you know, eight eight guys
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  Speaker 4: that they they added, and and when you think about it, everything,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: you know, there's good, there's bad, there's good, there's bad.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's it's about fifty percent just just last year.
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  Speaker 4: You know who did they bring in? Well, they traded
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  Speaker 4: for Pickens. Wow, Okay, we'll see, we'll see what he does.
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  Speaker 4: He's been he's been kind of dynamic at times for Pittsburgh,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: you know, a little different. Hopefully he fits with the
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: Cowboys well. And then fast forward. And then now they
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  Speaker 4: franchise tag so that worked. Great move, Okay, well who
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: else they trade for? Kenneth Murray didn't work, didn't work
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  Speaker 4: the same. He was out there, he was the best
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  Speaker 4: that they had, but it wasn't It wasn't good enough.
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  Speaker 4: They added you Ante what, Okay, Wow, great great pickup.
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  Speaker 4: They added Jack Sanborn, Nah, not not so good. They
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: added Kayerrie Elam. He didn't even make it to the
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: end of the season. They added Joe Milton. Kind of
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  Speaker 4: neutral on that. I think it worked. He was your
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: backup quarterback, so I think you would you would say
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: that that that worked. It helped that Dak played every
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  Speaker 4: snap or every game. But but you know, I think
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 4: you could say that that that was pretty good move
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: there for him being the backup. Then in the middle
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 4: of the season, they traded for Logan Wilson. That didn't
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 4: really work. They traded for Quinn Williams. That did work,
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  Speaker 4: and that's gonna be good. So my point is I
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 4: just named eight guys that but four of them you
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  Speaker 4: would put over here is good decisions. Four of them
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  Speaker 4: you said no, not so much. So going into free
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: agency this year, just remember that's probably what's gonna happen here.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, you're you're gonna hit, You're gonna get some misses,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: you're gonna get some wins, and I would expect that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I mean, you you want, you want to
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 4: do better than, you know than most, and you'd certainly
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 4: want to win more than and then you lose. But
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: just remember, even last year when they added Yavante, they
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 4: added Pickings, you could still say there were some moves
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  Speaker 4: that are that were didn't work out, you know, so
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 4: well so, and I know there were some other guys.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: Dante Fowler was also in there and you know, kind
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 4: of neutral there as well.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have he have a great season.
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  Speaker 4: Then you can add Clowney later on and that that
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: did turn out to be good. So I really think
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: if you just keep playing this game, it's it's probably
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be fifty to fifty there. So hopefully the
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: Cowboys can improve on that. But but that's even in
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 4: a good year, it was still there were some misses
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 4: there too. Anyways, great great call was all day long.
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  Speaker 1: Guys.
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  Speaker 4: You guys did a great job. We had twelve calls.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate that. We'll be back to do it next week now,
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  Speaker 4: next week it'll be the first day of free agencies,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 4: so that that should be a lot of fun. And
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: there'll be a lot of things already kind of happening
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: that week, so that should be a fun show. Look
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: forward to that, all right, guys. For Chris Beam, I'm
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: Nick Keepan. We'll see next time. On Cowboys storyline has
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