Hangin' with the Boys: Trade Off

hearing behind me. Well, this is Kurt Daniels. We are hanging with the boys to some degree. I'm sitting here in the big boy chair because we're doing another mix and match day. Got Isaiah standback on one side. Glad to have you on board, sir, and and Nick Eaton and also nikod night Nick, good night. How are you guys doing today? Good man? Yeah, woke up. That was a good start. Yeah, that always helps. It is a

great start. That is that the motto. That's it. You wake up, it's a good start, and you're off to a you're off to a good day after that. It's all on you. N That's true. I mean I cannot argue with Yeah, yeah, no doubt the bar I mean, and also the bar couldn't be lower. I mean, like that's awesome. You wake up when I go up from there? Yeah, men hit by a car. But I mean, you know, woke up times nice. Well, how did you guys feel

when you woke up? Because Isaiah, as you said before we started show, a lot happened yesterday, didn't really happen much around here. Yeah, a lot happened when there was not one star that showed up on dog on news. There nothing nothing about the Dallas Cowboys should have been the news in that regard. I know there was some news in terms of Dallas the team yesterday, but um in terms of signing anybody off or getting any trades or there was no action. And I can't say that

I'm surprised. I can say that I'm disappointed simply, and I think to be disappointed it means that you have to have a some level of expectation that's not meant and you know, so I guess I have slight disappointment because because I didn't expect them to do anything, but

I wanted them to really do something. I really wanted them to pull a move that was going to put them over the edge and really give them that advantage and that extra push to go down, to go down the stretch like so many other teams seemingly are right now. And I think this one this year feels more. It feels more like teams are really going after it. After seeing what LA did last year, I think teams are

now more willing to give up picks. Teams are more willing to sacrifice what so called their future to go after the bag, right, because that's ultimately what you're playing for, planning for the future that never comes. It's not a strategy in my in my opinion, and I think LA showed that, and I think other teams now are really jumping on that bandwagon. But you know, to that point, I know one of the positions we were talking about was office a line yesterday and that didn't happen, none

of it. None of it happened, but receiver as well, so them not to go out there and get a receiver. I think that also gave Dallas fans a bust of confidence in terms of where James Washington must be in terms of his health. Yeah, and that and also how they how they've used certain players. I mean, there's some reports that they were close to making a couple of trades here and there, or at least one in particular

with Houston. But you know, I think at the end of the day, money, money played a factor, and also kind of what I talked to him before about what are you looking to do for your whole room if you do this with CD and and and gall Up and of course Washington and all that, and so I don't think there was anyone out there that they thought they needed to come in and kind of it'd be

one thing to fit in. But I think for what it was going to take for some of these other moves, it was gonna have to maybe flip it upside down, and I don't think they were ready to do that. I think, so, yeah, flip it upside down. As far as the chemistry in the room, yeah, I mean you'd be paying a guy, you'd be paying a guy per year as much as you're paying all of them combined, and production wouldn't have matched. Then you look at other moves that were made, like you know, the Bears got

h Claypool from um the Steelers. I mean, you could look at that and go, why couldn't we have done that? But you know, would you have wanted that a second round pick? I mean, yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. I mean, like, but would you have maybe for some other the deal they were talking and here and there. I don't think you're looking I think he's looking at a first round pick. Really. I think the price was high. The price was high, um, and then money was high.

And think about it like that. You can always be worked. It couldn't have been worked before three o'clock apparently yesterday. But also you're looking at it too, like what this does for your cap. You've got two defensive players that are going to break the bank and when you pay

your first round pick. That's what's the beauty of it first round pick is that they don't make a lot of money right off the bat, but if they would have made a move like like you know that's been talked about you yesterday with Houston, you are paying next year's first round pick a lot of money, which you kind of count on having that player, you know, at this this level right here. That's what happened with with Cooper when they traded for Amari Cooper the next year

and the year after. I mean, your first round pick is getting a lot of money, and that's what makes your cap go upside down. So you brought the name up, so I'm gonna bring him up now. But I think I think what happened with Amari Cooper back in the spring overshadowed kind of what is happening. It's making everything now worse. I think that that deal just looks worse

and worse and worse the further we get down. And so I think the fact that Cowboys fans are now seeing, you know, not only did you bring somebody in, but you let's you know, yeah, a second round pick for Claypool and you got a fifth for Cooper, a top ten receiver. I mean, it's just overall it but it just doesn't look good. But the reason why that that happened is because of the contract that I don't mind it, but that's no. But that's the reason why there's a

difference in in the fifth and the second rounder. That's that's why his value wasn't higher, because they're having to absorb this huge contract that the Cowboys paid for. And that's why the brown that's why the money. It's not like they were just saying, oh, well, all these other receivers are better when you when you do a trade like that, it's the money that you're having to absorb. That's why they didn't get a whole lot of value for him. But I agree with you all, not a

good move. I never wanted to trade to Mark Cooper far was a cow was never. I didn't like it. Yeah, and that's I mean, it's a dead horse that I shouldn't be even bringing up to beat on. But ed, I think it just fancy that then and then they see what happened didn't happen yesterday to just kind of will he's still playing Yeah, yeah, he's playing well. And with who's set I mean yeah, I mean you would like to think he could have been better. I think it makes the other guys better. He's such a good

route runner, I mean he's yeah, he's a dude. Now you you mentioned um kind of the chemistry aspect, and you, if I heard you right, you were sort of living in that to the receivers and yeah, you'd be paying one guy maybe as much as you do all the other guys. But how do the other guys look at that in the room? I mean, is your defensive guys sitting there going why why this offense needs it? You know?

Why didn't we do something here? Is it? Is it our players looking at that as I think they look at it and understand the dichotomy of the of the team in terms of where is the weight being placed. You understand now as a defender, if you didn't already know, you already knew as a defensive player on the Dallas Cowboys that you were bearing the weight of this team right now. You had the hope that they were going

to start figuring it out. And you also had the hope, based upon your depth chart issues right now at certain positions, that they would have tried to help themselves out, right, Because right now everything's hope. We hope that our offense are is getting back to where they were last year. We hope that somebody's receivers get healthy, right, We hope that everybody that gallop gets back to being what he was last year. Like, it's a lot of whole hope, tyrants, tyrants,

the whole tyrant. You knows, hope is not a strategy. Hope it's not a strategy. So I think as a defender on this team, you're like, all right, it's on us. Yeah, it's on us. You know, we have to start finding ways to create turnovers like we did last year. We have to start figuring that out because right now, for aside from last week, our team hasn't not put up a lot of points. And you can't put a lot of weight on last week. I mean, they're a professional

football team. But it's the Bears. Yeah, you know, but I mean they were number one and you know, with top top three in the league in past defense. So that was the accomplishment in terms of what you did there. But overall, you're right, you chop it up as this is the Bears, right and do we have it? And you have no choice but to start making comparisons to some of the teams that you're going to face that you have already face. You talk about the Philadelphia Eagles.

You see what they're gonna do offensively, you know they're gonna be a problem. I don't care how great your defense is, They're going to still get some points. It just is what it is. And you want to be prepared on the opposite side of the ball to be able to make up for that for that gap. I think Hope is a strategy, really, I really do a good one. I think that's that's the way we live our lives. Honestly, I think we do. I look out

of that way. You do have to hope, especially when in a contract situations like this with money involved, you hope that these things fall into place and and and because that's again that that's how we live. You know, when you're driving down the street on four way stop, I mean you're hoping this guy and this guy stopped and hit the top sign. You know, you're hoping that the plane lands when you do. I mean that's what you hope for. I mean, that's the strategy. That's how

you live. And you hope that Tyrn Smith I paid this money. Hope he comes back. I hope James Washington is what he is, because we've already invested into it um and and you don't want to just get it I get it from Nest stampoint. I guess that when you when you are in a position to control the outcome, Yeah, right, when you're in a position to control one element of the of this equation, you would like to think that your your organization would do so, especially coming off of

last year. They have history to look at, right, you have history. Now if you if you didn't have anything to look at it, you had no no, you know, perspective, then that's one thing, right, But you literally just look back six months, yeah, you know, look back and see what happened, right, what happened. You had an amazing team, Your team was healthy. You couldn't have dreamed to be

healthier than you were going into the playoffs. You couldn't have dreamed to have, you know, your offense playing better, like everything was going to wait that you ever write it up, and it still wasn't enough. Right, So understanding that and understanding that you're not even where you were last year as a team, you would have liked to see some moves made. Yeah. Yeah. And I think though that if this would have happened like a couple of days later, I think maybe Cowboy fans would have said,

all right, well they did something. I mean, they did go get Hankins. And I think I don't think that's a bad move because, like you said, you're going back to the forty nine er game. They got their ass beat in that game. They got beat up at the line of scrimmage. I don't think he's just one guy. But I don't think they're gonna be moving him around, I think. And they drafted that way too. They drafted bigger guys, tougher guys. They tried to go for size

that way. I don't know about the offensive side of the ball. They're not really bullying people around on offense yet, but they they try, you know, with Peters, and you know, we'll see, we'll see how it all shakes out. But I'm just saying I think they have tried to say, all right, we got to be a physical football team. That's why we got bounced in the first round last year. And I think they've made an effort to think they're

more physical now. I do. I think that they're They're more physical their offensive line, though, I mean I think it's it's I mean, they drafted Tyler Smith. I mean, he wasn't ready to be like a polished tackle guard, but he's a big, big man. Strength is what he's got and he'll develop into that. But you know, he's not getting pushed around. He's getting some technique here and there, and he has some penalties, but I think as far as strength goes, he's they've added strength with him so.

And I'm not in the front office, obviously, but it feels as if some of these teams in around the league are piecing together their teams based upon what they may face in their division and what they may face in their conference going towards the playoffs, right, And that's how I see like a lot of these organizations now are kind of scheming their team like, okay, all right, we're forty nine ers for saying, okay, let's go out there.

Let's how can we just make things impossible for defenses? Oh, let's get him a cap free, right, Okay, think about the affility of the Eagles. How can we make Dallas one? We know Dallas likes to run a lot of play action. How can we just take away their running game? Well, let's just load up the front end the big boys, right, okay, and then guess what, that's not enough. Let's go out there and get a defensive end out there that can

go chase after that. Teams are literally piecing together teams to handle the organizations and handle the franchise that they know that they have problems with and that they need to take down. And I feel like everybody is starting to do that, but Dallas, I don't feel like Dallas has put together now. Defensively, Dan quinn Is is a genius and in terms of pass rushing, you force any team to throw the ball, then you you're in a

great situation. But in terms of what we do, what teams do in the NFC East, they run the ball, and I don't think that they have done enough there to overthrow that. And if you know that you can't stop teams running the ball, then you or on the other side of the ball being able to score, to keep up to give your defense a chance. And I

don't think that they've addressed it in that in that regard. Yeah, with the last two playoff losses that they got ran over literally one right over, and then we saw that in the Eagles game when it was time, it was go time in the fourth quarter, they just crazy. And so yeah, I guess not. I just I keep going back to the because I do think they've gotten more physical and that Hankins move was definitely huge, But I don't know it just I think the Hankins move was

directly because of that Eagles loss. Yeah, you know, and it was did you see the splits on on the average yards given up rushing with him. Yeah, it was it was like two yards different. I was, and I was tweeting this out, like, I mean he was active for the game. He hadn't played yet. In that first drive when when the Bears were scoring and they got third and goal from the four or whatever, third and two from the four, and they ran in Montgomery up the middle for two, and I'm thinking, why is he

nine in the game. I mean, like, if you traded for him, you've made him act him. He's got to be ready to play. Why is he not here? I mean, Digizo was getting moved over here, and I mean did he play more than you thought he was gonna play. I think he finished like thirty snaps or something like that. He did. He didn't play early as much as I wanted to get him. I mean, can play the snaps you want, well, I mean first quarter or second I think it a second quarter. It was like why why

give them a chance? I mean that's like this is this is a tailor made play for him. I mean third and goal from the two and they ran the ball right up the middle. You know. So anyways, he played, and he'll he'll get accustomed to it. I don't know what all them, you know, reasons for different packages that they have, but I do think that he's a guy that will help them in the middle, especially helped him

on those RPO read options. Yeah, but again, as far as as guys, you went through a few of these trade deadline days, Guys in the room, it wasn't it's you know, you don't feel that there's any remorse or what happened, or we should have done this or that. I just think that I think, don't know, man, I don't. I don't. We don't know what happened in the front office. We don't, right, I mean, you know, you probably have more insight than anybody in terms of some of the

things that happened. But you know, obviously they cut Tristan Hill. I would imagine that you would have tried to they didn't try to trade him. I'm sure they try to trade him and they couldn't, right, That's how it works. So I mean, but I don't know, man. I just as a defensive player right now, I'm like, we need points. Man. You know, we understand that we're beasts, we're dogs on the side of the ball, but crap, there's gonna be our there's gonna be those days. They're going to be

those days. And when those days are happening, we much rather have a lights out offense that that that just lights up the scoreboard and you have and you you know that you're capable. That's the thing. A year ago, you were literally the best team at that. They might have that game against the Bears might have hurt the man, hurt themselves. You know, like wait a saying we really need to be We just scored forty forty two on offense,

forty nine points the Bears. You know, the Bears won't be making the playoffs, you know, like there's gonna be better team tams. They still put up some good points too. Yeah they didn't, you know what I mean, like yeah crap, yeah yeah yeah. I really believe that games take a life of their own. I think sometimes, you know, like that that Lions game, you know, when it was ten to six and the fourth quarter, I think if the Cowboys had scored twenty more points, I think the Lion score.

I just think sometimes you're sential urgency changes a little bit. It's rare to get these forty nine to nothing. I mean, when to one team is scoring, the other team scores, and this is kind of the way the game goes. The game a punk. Yeah, all right, Well, let's take our first break. Um, maybe we'll move on to some other things. Maybe we'll take some calls. You want to give us a right eight five five two two nine

seven eight eight eight five two two nine seven. Um, some other questions you mentioned, Tyron Smith, I might have a question for you. We've been talking defense. Might run through that a little bit more. So give us a call and we'll be right back on hanging with the boys. I'm Dak Prescott, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. Blockchain dot com is one of the most trusted ways to buy, sell,

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and T Stadium. You know, when I left the press box though yesterday everybody said, you know, to the people that work up there, the attendance, so we'll see a Thanksgiving I was like, woln't even November? Yes, that was it. That was the last game at home until Thanksgiving when the Giants come one technically one game and think in November one game, yeah, bye week two road games at the Giants. Never thought that was going to be such a huge game. Yeah for Thanksgiving. What a good call

by the NFL to put that one there. They hadn't played them, and I think it's thirty years they didn't play the Giants Place Giving since ninety two. You know what happened in ninety two? Tell us break it down? Well, Well, Week one they played the Redskins and that's what they were called then, so I can call them that they beat them twenty three to ten. And then this week two, Now I was kidding they your ball that year? Nice? All right, quick question I wanted to bring up for you.

I don't know if we need to get too much into I feel like this is a subject for maybe later down the road. But since you brought up Tyrn Smith, at first, we were here and he'd be lucky if he'd be back by the end of the season. Now her Aaron, it could be three or four weeks. And coming off our recent Dak experience where he was gonna be back in a couple of weeks. Is this just all smoke or is this really gonna Should we believe anything that's being said? Yeah, Yeah, I think he looks

pretty good. I've seen him a couple of times. Yeah, I think he. I saw him about three weeks ago, just doing a little movement, and I thought, in a month like that's gonna look a lot better, and then in six to eight weeks that's I mean, that's gonna look like playing football, you know. And so I think you look skeptical over there. I haven't seen him. I've seen I've seen him in passing