Cowboys Break: Moving Day

I'm here joined by Meek and Brian. Derek is out for today, but we finally got stuff to talk about on the show. A lot of recent news that have happened. Yesterday was a pretty busy day for the Cowboys, and I think maybe the best way to start the show is just kind of go through the timeline of events.

We'll start off with the guys that the guy the Cowboys have signed, and then we'll get into the guys that have kind of parted ways or the reports out there that they're moving on and going to other teams. So let's start off with mister Donovan Wilson, big big signing for the Cowboys. They decided to offer him a three year deal and he's staying here in Dallas. Uh, what do you guys feel about this move? I like it.

I think it's a real good move for them and for him and also more than anything, you know, he's a guy that gets around the football. I tweeted that yesterday and not many guys in the league. Can you do what he does seventy five tackles, plus he had a hundred tackles. But like you know, he gets interceptions, he gets some sacks, he gets forced fumbles, fumble recoveries. But what I love the most about him is that he brings the swag, brings the toughness. He's not afraid

of anybody. Gets a few penalties now and then, but for the most part, he plays with a really aggressive style and I think the Cowboys need that, so I think that that's a big part to happen back. Yeah, this was one of those when Nick and I were like at the Super Bowl and then the combine and then you were kind of getting the feeling that there really was a pretty wide gap between what the Cowboys were going to be willing to offer and then what

you know, what what Wilson wanted. And I know the more that that you would kind of work through to this day of yesterday, well of yesterday, and then getting it done. You just kept hearing about Mike McCarthy, Dan Quinn. You know, they're like, we need Donovan Wilson back. That was one of those you know, when they when they go back, when they when they started to really evaluate where they needed to be for twenty twenty three, the first name you kept hearing was Donovan Wilson. Donovan Wilson.

And you know, I really do believe that there was that gap there and the Cowboys, Adam Pacific and those guys did a really good job of taking the coach's wishes and pushing that thing as far as they could

push it to get this thing done. You know, you know, we give I mean, I give the Cowboys a lot of grief about some of the offseason the signings or lack of and all that, and I always like to sign their own guys, but this was one of those signings where I kind of went, yeah, this made a lot of sense, and I think it got really pushed through because the staff really wanted him and they you know,

the vision for the player. And again I give the Cap guys a lot of credit for getting this thing done the way they did because it was it was a it was a pretty significant gap between them and the Cowboys when this thing first started. Yeah, when we talked about it last week, we were mentioning that we all would like to have him back, but I'm sure very difficult a guy like him to probably get the money that he would be making. Do we have the amount of kind of how much love was three years,

twenty four million dollars? Yeah, I don't, And I think it's a two year deal that is really what it is. Yeah, it can get up to twenty four, but I think a lot of things have to happen. He has to make, like career numbers and interceptions and all that kind of stuff. I think it's really more of a seven year deal, but a seven year per million per year. But you know, you look at the guy was at Bates from it. They got a big deal. It's like fourteen million or

something like that. And that's what you're saying. I think that that Wilson's you know, camp thought that maybe you know, he was going to be in that range, and you know, he had a chance. I think he was an alternate for a Pro Bowl. He was up there. You know, he had a chance to to to go to that and that probably would have helped his cause for the negotiation.

But you know, a good player brings a lot to the you know, defense and toughness, and I think I think they really needed to have that three headed monster back there at safety. Um, I think everyone's happy here would this side. I think that was the one. Well, that was the one. I mean, it was a day for me of surprises. Yesterday was a day of surprises.

When they you know they get that done, you're going to talk about the vander esh I mean, talking to people around the league, I kind of felt like that was a fifty fifty proposition at best. They were there was a couple of teams involved, Chargers, the Steelers were involved. So again, you know, the front office give them credit. We usually say they sit on their hands and they don't try. And you know they you know, Vanderesh was a very important player to him last year, Wilson was

an important player. And then you know the trade that they were able to make to a guy that could still play at a very high level. I said, they had a pretty damn good day, you know, trying to help their football team. Well, let's go ahead and jump into the vander Esh deal. Pretty interesting how everything has turned out for him. He gets drafted by the Cowboys, has a very nice rookie season, then every year because of the injuries, he kind of goes down as far

as performance. Then he gets to the fifth year option that they don't give to him, he kind of goes and test the market. Turns out he ends up back here with the Cowboys on a one year deal, and last year he did a really really good job, and now he's offered a two year deal to stay here

in Dallas. Another surprise. You talk about surprises. That was surprising to me, but I think he did deserve it, And just want to hear your thoughts on kind of like what he brings back to the Cowboys and this whole deal, just having him here again with this defense. I think that he's um. He thought he was going to get a lot more money for the second year in a row. I think he thought he was going to get more money. So I don't know how happy

he really is with the deal. I mean, yes, he's happy to be back with the cow Boys and all that, but I think, you know, there's just to disconnect on what maybe they think that his market is and then what the Cowboys like and other teams. I think other teams honestly are afraid of the injury that that's that's

exactly what it is. That's exactly what it is. And pre draft, there's teams that failed him on the physical you know, I mean there were before he was draft, before he was even drafted, And so what happens is teams have this, Okay, these are the problems that we run into that won't even let us draft this player. So there's teams out there that won't even touch him even though he's played and played at a high level. There's teams that but there's also the same teams will say, well,

missus games. He's missing games. Oh what is it. Oh well it's a shoulder. Oh it's a stinger. Oh it's a neck. Oh it's this. See, So that that's their justification, you know why they don't. And you know, for the Cowboys, they understand what he is, they understand his his uh, you know, the great things he can do. They also can live with the fact that they're going to deal with potentially the stingers, the neck, the back and other things the shoulders and things that you know, could set

him back two or three games. Yeah, with with Micah Parson's playing the way he does and where he does, and he's all over the place, and you need Layton vander As. You need that stability at inside linebacker. Um. You know, they don't have a lot of linebackers on this roster. Um. I was looking at that before he signed. I mean, they only had like four guys and one of them is really a pass usher in Michael Parsons. With Brill Cox, Demon Clark and Devin Harper, I mean,

that's a young, inexperienced linebacker. So I think it was important to get Layton in there. And and you know, and if he's a little vill salty about the deal, which you know, and he always carries a chip on his shoulder, that's that's great. He plays well like that. So at least he was smiling on the picture that was high. He had a nice smile. Yeah. Well, he I think he had a couple of options, you know,

from talking to people around the league. He had a couple of options, I believe, and the Cowboys were you know, I mean, he's he's played here, you know he has familiarity, you know, with Dan Quinn, you know, with what's going on with the defense. He's he's a big part of how well they played defense last year. And Nick's absolutely right. You just I know from a fact we're about to do the draft show after our show here today. This is not a very deep draft when it comes to linebackers.

You know, the Cowboys, you know, giving the extra year, you know, giving maybe a little bit more to get him to sign back here as a big play on their part. That's reading what's going on in the draft. You know that, hey, we might not know. They've got young guys that are really I mean, we've talked about Damon Clark, We've talked about Jabril Cox, We've these guys are yet to show what they what they're capable of doing.

I think there's been some flashes, but I don't don't know if necessarily it's the point where you're saying, Okay, let's throw him out there and see what happens. I mean, if you watch, if you watch Clark play without Vanderish, he looked like a totally different player, and not in a good way. He looked like a guy that was wait a minute. You're not telling me, Anthony Barr, what this formation is gonna do. You know, you're not telling

me where to go. You're not you know, late vandersh was the one guy in that defense that everybody looked up to, and you know, and and and kind of that, if you want to use the old phrase, the glue of what was holding that thing together. Now real quick, you mentioned Nike the whole like maybe he could possibly be a little salty with the deal. We don't know that, right, but I was gonna say, what do you think is the difference, uh this year compared to last year where

he kind of did go into the market. The Francency officially stars this afternoon at three pm. Of course, legal tampering has been happening since Monday. What do you think is the difference this year versus kind of last year where they did decide to kind of test the water.

Last year was a little unique and I'm not sure exactly what happened, but from what I was told is that there was one team that was really sold on him all the way and that where he was going there and then at the last second, the chair kind of got pulled out from under him and they signed another player and then that he was kind of left holding the bag and so he had to come back to the Cowboys. And you know, anyway, and he had a really good season this year. I don't think it

happened like that. I think that they thought the market would be a little higher. And you know, it starts, it's supposed to start Monday, with all the discussions, I'm sure it starts back at the combine and after it starts earlier than that, and those agents talking to him, so they kind of know what the number is and so you know, I think that. But also, like Brian says, I think he sees the fit here too. Yeah, he sees the fit with Quinn. And he can play with

Michael Parsons. You can play with you know, now you can play with the secondary. That's pretty damn good. I mean the secondary is now starting to get I mean starting to look pretty good. And this is before the draft. Yeah. Well, then yesterday they made a trade with the Colds. They traded a fifth round pick in exchange for cornerback stuff

on Gilmore. He's a guy that has experienced a lot of experience, a veteran guy that and we were talking about this Brian before the break, you know the picture that was taken with Michael Parsons and Trevon Diggs that they're just kind of happy and one in the jersey and all that. And now they have him as a teammate. What does this type of addition mean for the Catboys? Let Brian start with them because you studied them a lot even when the Colts. Yeah, this is something this

guy can still play. And you know when you start to talk about he could play inside, he could play outside. He can match up with the tight ends. That's something that he's you know, big wide receivers, smaller wide receivers, that kind of doesn't matter. This guy, you know, he's not going to get h He's not going to get taken advantage of. Sometimes you see these corners and they can't play a certain they can't play a certain side,

they can't play against certain players. They you know, when you put him against quick guys, they kind of lose their their way that this guy is not that way. I mean, he wants to play off, he wants to break on the ball. That's kind of his game. Had an interception last year in the Dallas game, had five targets thrown at him too caught. You know, he's like a fifty percent when it comes to targets to catch a ratio, he's you know, one of the top if

you're believing the metrics and those things. He's one of the top cornerbacks the league. I think the top six when it comes to you know, being able to play pass defense. But he's got really good instincts. His ball skills have always been excellent with him. He's a physical cover style of a corner. And you know that's something when you start to talk about maybe Digs on the other side, Gilmore on the other and then they could play a little bit more of that that man coverage,

get up on somebody, bring Parsons, bring pressure. Now play on the outside and be this is this is a big, big upgrade for the Dallas Cowboys. And this was one of those that we thought the upgrade was going to come through the draft. And it's still might it's still might even and you know, you look at you know, you look at you know what that they've been able to do. And I think this is the end of

you know of an Anthony Brown. Guys like that, you know, we'll see what happens with Jordan Lewis because Deron Bland has shown that he could play inside, he could play outside. So right now, is Nick mentioned this is a group that can match up with you, lock you down, and then be able to sick that pass rush on him

that they want to do. You know what I like about you know that that photo that you're talking about with with Gilmore and um, you know Parsons and Diggs, is that you know, here here are young guys that they know who the good player is. You know, they have ultimate respect by that, And I would imagine Michael Parsons is not letting the jersey go to just anybody that's asking for it. You know, he needs to be you know, to get some value for it. And they

obviously see that. So you know, a lot of high high respect there. And I'll say this to anyone that says, well, if he was so good, why would he give a fifth round pick? I do remember the Raiders trading a fourth round pick for Randy Moss to New England and he still had plenty of the years left. He was

still setting records in New England. So sometimes just getting him off your your the books and off you know, payroll, and and they're just ready to move on and also helped the player, and you just get what you're gonna get for me. He's probably gonna cut him in. Yeah, new coaching staff in you know, same general manager, new coaching staff in in Uh, they're Innapolis in Indiapolis. So yeah, but yeah, I mean it's a compensatory five. It's not. I mean, you're not giving up the twenty sixth pick

of the draft to go get a guy. You're giving up a pick that you got for losing somebody at Cedric Wilson in free agency or somebody like that. That's what you're getting. You're giving up to go get a guy that could still play at a high level. I was talking to my guys, my gang is seven around the league. They're super positive. Like Dallas went and made

a nice trade here. This is one of those that kind of when you look at the salary, the level of play, the experience, I've heard nothing but good things about. I guarantee you the friendship that Jerry Jones and Bill Belichick have. Jerry Jones probably before this trade was made, got on the phone with Bill Belichick and was asking about Stefan Gilmour and asking Bill, give me some trades, give me some ideas, give me some thoughts, Like Jerry, this guy could still play. This is what he can do.

And everybody tells you this guy is really really good in the locker room too. He's a leader, he's a guy that people like we say, look up to. So this this is one of those deals. Fifth round pick, sure, great, whatever, you know. That's hey, you got a guy that can legitimately still play. You didn't get a broken football player here, you got a rule football play. And he's proven that he can adapt to different styles, different schemes. I mean,

he's played for this will be his fifth team. He's made the Pro Bowl for three different teams, the Bills, the Patriots in Carolina. Last year, he didn't make the Pro Bowl for Indianapolis, played all sixteen games. But he's bounced around. But it seems like he bounced around and has it in a cornerback. You can do that. You cover your guy, you know, you kind of know what the scheme is for the most part. You can adapt. And Dion Sanders bounced around. Yeah, and it's good. Yeah,

he was really good. Dallas, San Francisco Baltimore. Finally have a show title. Now, I could just title the show right now. Brought us comparison to Dion Sanders. You can just do that. You know what we need to go to break. But man, I'm getting freaking excited and pump about the defense already. And I have my little like you know, the little level and the little angel on each side of one's telling me stop at Amber, chill out.

The other one is like, I'm freaking pumped like the fact that it feels right now to me that you're actually building on the defense, like you're building up rather than losing people. You still got dan Quinn, you're signing guys to add on or keep hearing Dallas and then bringing a guy like that too. And you got the draft. It's really deep in a lot with the exception of linebackers, this is a really deep draft defensive line, secondary, safeties. However, you want to fix this thing or even add on

to it. Like you're talking, defense looking pretty pretty good right now, and it looks like they're building rather than just losing keep players this year. Let's go ahead and take our first break. When we come back, we're still going to talk about some of actually the guys that they have lost or that they're moving on from and some of the reports out there so far today, Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the cheetahs Savanta.

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The Star in Frisco. Sign up by May twelfth visit Dallas Cowboys dot com slash Camps. Welcome back to the second segment of The Break presented by Blockchain dot Com. There you go, Bran. All right, let's talk about some of the guys that have left the team. We're start off with Noah Brown. He is supposedly going to the Texans on a one year deal. Was this a guy that you guys, we talked about it. We didn't necessarily expect him to be back with the Cowboys. I thought

there was a possibility. Just was he signed four contracts, He's had four opportunities here while a while a long time. Yeah. I think that what we need to do is to give Noah Brown his credit. He never was Cedric Wilson or never became what Cedric Wilson was. But you can't talk about the Cincinnati game without talking about Noah Brown and what he was able to do on five targets with five catches, five really big catches, third down catches,

fourth down catches. You know, unfortunately people remember what happened in the Jacksonville game, you know, that kind of thing. And with Noah, you know, he gave you everything he had on special teams. That was kind of his calling card. But you know, they wanted him to be more and

he just really was. I think it's a great opportunity for him to go to a new staff there and Houston try and kind of figure some things out there with you know, with them, maybe maybe he gets a little bit more of a run to be that guy. Early in the season, I felt like he got some opportunities here. He just really couldn't It couldn't materialize like he wanted. But you know, Houston will give him an opportunity.

You know, if he can fit in with a new quarterback down there be a good target and maybe get him more a longer term, more security deal in the future. I haven't gone to look at this, but I mean the seventh round of the twenty seventeen draft, I would imagine Noah Brown's probably played more games than anyone else and that picked in the seventh round. Maybe I'm missing a couple of guys, but but I mean, needless to say, he's had a great career based off of where and

he still is. It's not over, I mean, but but but you got to give him credit. He stays in there, keeps his mouth shut. He just goes up there. He works and and you know, he's been kind of a big bodied receiver, played special teams. They've moved him some to tight end, you know, as a big blocker, but for the most part, he's just a big wide receiver that I thought, if if he's gonna be your fifth guy that can play special teams, it's a steal. But

you know, you can't can't keep doing that. So yeah, he wants to be probably a three, maybe a two. And Houston, you know, they're not a good football team. You know that almost beat the Cowboys, but they're almost there. They weren't a good team last year. There's there's room for for you know, younger plays to go and succeed, and maybe he'll have a chance to do that. But

I gotta give him credit though. He stayed in here a lot longer than I thought he would, and he had his moments, but yeah, he's he's not going to be your your two, number two receiver, and you know, at least not for the Cowboy Yeah. Yeah, No, he had a good run here with the Cowboys for a while. Uh my guy, look Giffer that I had so much hope for him just since the moment he got here with the Cowboys. Unfortunately, never really became to me personally

that type of linebacker I wanted him to be. But he's now going to the Titans on a two year deal. Yeah. I think John fossil special teams coach, probably not happy about that one, because you know, he was a core special teams guy, led the team in tackles last year. Again, this is one of those opportunities that he's probably going to get the chance to play some defense, I would imagine with the contract um that he got, and and you know, maybe maybe as a nickel and special teams um.

But but yeah, I think I think he was one of those players just like Connor McGovern, which maybe we'll get to but but just you want them. Here's your number to keep them and then when they get more than that, you just had to say, all right, good luck to you. Do you see this as a loss for the Cowboys brain, Yeah, I think this is one of those that they felt like that that he could have developed into the ability to play more, you know, and that's something that that when they fossil, you know,

he was a core special teams guy. You started to see him work into some games too, and so it was like maybe three four snaps maybe a series and then you know, but he you know the guy, I mean he if you remember he really burst on the scene and like preseason and got hurt with the San Francisco preseason game and it hurt his knee, and but he was he was one of those guys that kept showing up when you know his rookie year and you're like, man, they might have got somebody here. And but the special

team stuff was really really good. Hetty smart knows where to be, can finish as a tackler. You know, that's one of those ones that you know, I hope they don't look back and go, man, we had a vision for the player. We just didn't complete the mission. He goes on and has a decent, decent career, you know, with somebody else by the way, nick, uh, Chris Carson in the seventh round of that draft is the only one that has more catches than Noah Brown, the running

back round back Seattle, Seattle. Yeah, he had one hundred and seven and Noah has eighty two. So the only one that's good. Um. Interesting, you know, don't look now, but I think both of the both of the players that lined up at fullback for the Cowboys last year, other than I guess the tight end McKellen are gone because you know, Gifford did it like for one game yea,

and McGovern has done it as well. Yeah you know, and uh and of course will govern high market for these fullback I guess yeah, if you if you show you can you can block for even a snap or two. Well, McGovern has headed to the Bills. Another guy where another guy where. It was one of those things like, yeah, we would love to keep you, but but you know, you can't tell me that Buffalo just woke up Monday

morning and decided they wanted to give him that. I think he was targeted by them for a long time. And that's that's one thing that I think he has to always be pointed out. McGovern is a good example for this to me is that when draft experts, and Brian is one of them, and and free agent experts, when they do their list of players and all that, you're you're doing it based off of fit and scheme for most teams. But but but sometimes a team can look at and go, you know what, that's the guy

I want. I can I have a vision for the player that's a little bit different. We see it in the draft. You guys will be surprised on draft day that somebody you have as a fourth or fifth round guy goes in the second or third because that team just wants him and they can be right or wrong. But but so therefore, I don't think this was a case with McGovern where I don't think McGovern was on

anybody's top one hundred free agent less. But the Bills are like, this is the guy we want, and this is where we see him, and you know, and that's why these scouting departments do what they do. Yeah, I think the thing with McGovern was with the Cowboys, we really don't know, well, maybe you guys know. I know, me being at one oh five three the fan trying to kind of figure out things on the radio side

of this whole thing with Tyron Smith. Yeah, you know, we're all trying to figure out is this sincere about Tyron Smith? Because you know, it's is there a cap savings? Are they going to really bring it back? Are they going to move Tyler Smith? They'll really the left guard? You know, there's there's so much that you really don't

know right now. I mean, you know, I was kind of sitting there when with Jerry and Steven and then we're talking at the Senior Bowl and they were like, now we're bringing Zeke back, We're bringing Tyron Smith back. And I'm like, going, Okay, Well, they haven't had their meeting yet. They haven't had that meeting where they kind of go, Okay, this is where we are with the cap, this is where we are with playing. You know, we'll see what happens with Elliott. I'm sure we'll get into

that a little bit. But the thing about it is with Tyron Smith is in fact, is he going to come back and play left tackle? You know? Is he going to go? And then are they going to play Tyler? Me personally, I'd just like to see Tyler Smith keep playing left tackle. You know, I felt like watching Tyron Smith play that everything was gonna be okay on that right side with him, felt like, oh, high level football,

Tyron Smith is. You know, he made the switch. It wasn't the smoothest, it wasn't the most comfortable, and at times they struggled with him over there, you know, And that's a Hall of Fame player. But he moved from the left side to the right side. Are they going to now move him back over to his natural side and move Tyler Smith inside? Which I think Tyler Smith, I mean, you invested really the whole season in him

playing left tackle. Yeah, I would like to see him in one spot and just that me too, me too, And that's kind of where I'm I'm kind of like, I don't know, I don't know where because and I'm used to saying all this because of them just letting McGovern go. You know, if if if Tyrn Smith was gone, there might have been more of a fight for McGovern to keep him at that left guard spot. Yeah. You know one thing that I was told um yesterday that I didn't even think about when he McGovern first left.

But um, he's very forgettable sometimes, But I think there's people in the building that believe that Matt Farniak is just as good, if not with the highest ceiling. The McGovern he played that he played the Tampa game. If you remember the opening game where that Tampa or the game here in Dallas, he McGovern gets hurt and they immediately put Farniac in there and they play. You know that that was their guy. So yeah, to me, Farniac, I see kind of just a center body. That's what

I see him as. I don't see him as with you do you remember us coming back here a game talking and giving him much. I mean he stepped in there and did fine because they were blocking Vita Vea and guys like that. I mean he was you know, it's not easy. But to me, I always I didn't ever with McGovern, I see bulk size, the fact that he could play center, the he could play guard. I think that's why Buffalo did what they did. They look at this guy like, man, this guy's got some versatility.

Plus you know, he's got some toughness about him too, you know him and Tyler Smith did a nice job over there on that side. Yeah, they really really did that wasn't the issue. I think this is shaping up pretty well though. When you talked about the excitement on the defense, you know, I mean you just you look at what you have on your football team and again, and I say this all the time that people like to forget, but this was a good football team. This

is a really good team. Last year they were one of the top six. There's three in the NFC, three in the AFC. They are one of them. And I promise you this. The teams that are that were good on the other side, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Kansas City. I would put Philly in there. Only Dallas and San Francisco figured out a way to win without their starting quarterback. I mean, I just don't believe that that that Josh Allen can miss five games for Buffalo and they'd be okay. I

know Philly couldn't because we saw what was happening. My point is is that they have a good football team around them and that showed last year and now they're they're they're adding to it. They're keeping their guys and you know, if you had to go play a game tomorrow, which you don't, but I think that you know you're in a good situation there. But to your point of Brian about Tyron Smith, it is an interesting thing. I think something will happen today with him. Not I think

he stays on the team. But I think you'll see some news on Tyron Smith today that they're going to keep him here. But where does he play? That's still see that's that's that's the question I have. If you get the restructure on the deal, then you know, is he is he going to be a swing? Is he going to be your Is he gonna be your Jason Peters? You know, I've I like to believe that. You know, if that's the case, you know, fine, because I think

you need to play those young guys. I'll I've always admitted this, and I'll admit it till I leave this business. I was wrong about Tared Steele. You ran the ball really well with Terrence Steele in there. You didn't run the ball as well with with Tyren Smith plan over there. You just didn't. And you know, and so the quicker they could get Tared steelback. Now the thing about Steel real quick, his guy's gone, Joe Philbin is no longer

in the building. Can Mike Solari continue the growth of what we've seen with with with with Terrence Steele, and you know, and the growth with well let's Go and Ball and farni Ac and you know, then these guys as well Let's go. That might that might be well, well let's go might be the one. I'm kind of the ball one. I'm kind of got one foot in the parking lot on He's kind of but with with Let's Go, he's missing, like he's got the sublexation problem

with the shoulder. They get it fixed, he comes back and in training camp and he looks better. He hadn't practiced all year. They throw him in a preseason game and he looks better than the guy's been practicing the whole time. You know, that might be the one that all of a suddense like, ah, that light came on. Oh he got opportunity. Oh you know, a coach is helping him out here. That's that's the one. I'm keeping.

Those those guys that come back after their first year and even their second year and see what they look like in the weight room. You know, well, let's go, it's got that tall frame. D like to see what happens with the whole, the whole, you know, year on the off season. Same with Farniac too, so um, you know with Steele coming back from the injury too, that you know, maybe this is a situation like hey, it'll it'll work itself out, you know. But you're right about

Tyler Smith. I just and I said it a couple shows ago about Tyrone Crawford. I just don't want him to be a guy. It's playing a thousand positions, just moving around because he can do it. When when you're stunting his growth and I mean growth potential moving around, you got to stick to one spot. Especially Round moved around a little bit though didn't he did. But the thing about Larry Allen though, is that I don't have

a good answer for this. But the thing with especially with a young guy, Larry Allen wasn't established and I know, but he was. You know, to me, Tyler Smith, that left tackle is a is a good deal, you know. And I that's your future, yea, that is your future. And you know and in the minute that we I and I hate to say this because I don't want to be this guy, but I I'll be this guy. The thing about it is, every time we talk about Tyrn Smith, it's like, well, when is that, when's that time?

When's that time? When? Oh, well, he woke up with back tightness today, oh woke up with the shoulder. Oh well, you know, and you know, we're watching practice here out here at the at the Star, and and all of a sudden, he's on the ground and you're like, did he hit anybody? You know? Did he? Oh he ripped? Yeah? Him, yeah, like him wanting to still be here. Oh no, No. The fact that your body gonna tell you know, the

fact that he even moved over to right tackle. I mean, I think that's why the Cowboys are doing this or staying on this. I think the I think the Cowboys are looking at this, the front office and the coaches are saying this Hall of fame left tackle saw with a situation and moved over to the right side to try and help the team. That's you know, his contract. When you look at tackles throughout the history, he was

grossly underpaid. And I'm sorry to the cap guys if they're listening today, but you guys did a great job of getting that contract done because if you look at the grand scheme of thing of what tackles make, he was kind of underpaid. From that contract that he was. But that's that's what that's Tyren Smith. And that's what Zach Martin is too. When you look at what you know that they signed Zack Martin to a deal a few years ago and they still kind of move his

money around and all that. And you're seeing what Lyndstrom you know, I guess as he a center from the guy from Atlantic, Yeah, because he's a guard. Yeah yeah, I mean it was you making like a hundred million. I mean like, oh no, it's crazy. Yeah. And so Tyrant could have done that every year, you know, he really could have every year. He could have set it. Let's take our no, not a final break, because we're about to hit the end of the show, so and

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segment of the Break. We only have five minutes left if we're planning on finishing on time. So let's get into some of the reports out there. This is not official or anything in the team. We haven't heard officially from the Cowboy and what they're doing. But the reports floating around social media right now is that Zekiel Ezekiel Eliot he's supposedly going to get released from the Cowboys and that they didn't manage to work out a deal between the two. And this is something that has been

kind of speculated for a while. We have heard weeks ago, even right after the season, possibly then working out a deal where Zeke would take a pay cut and still managed to stay on the team. But this is something that wouldn't necessarily be surprising, just because of how things have been kind of falling and knowing that it would possibly be hard to keep both running backs together. We know Tony Power got the tax, So where's the situation.

What's what's happening? Nick? What can you say you expect? Now? I think Zeke um, we'll see what happens. But you know, this is one of those things where there's smoke, there's fire, and there's a lot of smoke about this. We've talked about it. We said that that that we think I've said it. I don't know about we, but I think I think we've all kind of agreed that it's probably

makes the most sense to do that. You know, I don't to release him, Um, you know, they don't want to lower his salary like like what they need him to do to be on this team. To me, he's gonna be If he was on this team, he'd be the third running back because you have to draft one. With Tony Pollard as a franchise tag, you have to draft a good one and then you got those two guys and then where does Zeke fall in. Last year's third running back made eight hundred, seven hundred thousand, Malie Davis,

that's you're not going to offer him that. So I just think it's it's it's time, it's run its course, and it'll probably happen. That's what we've said before. And I think, you know, based off of report, so they're probably not wrong. We'll see what happens later today or tomorrow. Yeah, that's uh, you know, it's it's a it was a

heck of a run if that's the case. And you know, like I said, they they've you know, it reminds me so much of I remember, I think this, well, okay, I think this is different from the Dez Bryant thing that we all went through. Remember that Nick and Amber when it when it was like we're waiting for that. Are they gonna do something? What are they gonna do? They're not gonna let him get into free agency? What's going on? Why they hold in? We get to April.

You know, it's like Dez and Jerry. I remember, I remember, like I remember bumping into Dez in the hallway. I was over at the Video Department visiting with Robert Blackwell, and Dez came bouncing down the hall. He was meeting with Jerry there in the in the war room right there nixt to the and I remember he's like he was all so happy in this, that and the other. And I'm like, oh, well great. And then you know, seven minutes later he's hustling out of here because it

was over. You know, and we've seen we've seen him move on from guys, we've seen him move on from We've seen him move on from where from. You know,

they've moved on from Terrell Owens. They've moved on for some from some guy is here, it moved on from Tony Romo, you know, so, uh, you know, this is one of those kinds when it was time, I think, I think Zeke did everything he could to help you win football games, and but just towards the point now where the contract is too much for for what you're for what you're trying to do, you know, or the way that the way he's playing, you know, it's weird and it's it's a sad day for me because I

haven't experienced this yet. I haven't experienced a key play or a key member of the team, a guy that you drafted, a guy that was a star for your team, and then let's say he does get released. I havn't lived through that through the beginning and ending of a star player for the Cowboys. So it's just very uh sat from from my eyes, you know, it's just it's it sucks, and I still I would have loved to

keep Zeke. But I do understand, like Nick mentioned, the business aspect of it, in the financial aspect and how it just doesn't seem like it's right. Well, that's the thing about it is that you know, teams get accused of keeping players too long, you know, and there's people probably will argue with the Cowboys that they kept Zeke probably too long. Yeah, but the fact that they're willing

to you know, potentially. Again, nothing official here, nothing official, but all indications are kind of where like Nick says, with their smoke, there's fire. You just you feel like that that we've seen Zeke for the last time. And I hate to say it was him playing center in a game for the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, that was the last play. All right, Well, that is all the time we have for today, um, potentially a big day for

the Cowboys and free agency. We'll see what kind of moves happen today, what kind of other big signings or releases, potential releases happen today. Make sure to stay tuned on the website Dallas Cowboys dot com. We have a pretty cool tracker up there a free agency that you and go in check it out and you just easily see everything that has been happening with signing or guys that have parted ways with the Cowboys. So that's an easy

way to keep track of everything that's going on. And I don't think anything Draft Show next Draft Show is about to come up next and anyone else weeks Spanish After Draft show. We have some Cowboys on there all right, thank you so much for Nikki Mean Brian broad Us, a member GARCIA. This has been the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club