Mick Shots: Cap Talk Monday

One point two million dollars is your salary, okay, And I'm going to offer you a roster bonus due September first of twenty four million dollars, your number, twenty four collion dollars. Will you accept my offer and become a Dallas Cowboy once again? I will say no, he's making more money doing You're supposed to say. You're supposed to say, what's my workout bonus? So I will give a down, yes, sir, what Everson thinks? Everson? You might need an agent, Okay,

you might need an agent. I just offered you a one year, one point two million dollars that's your base salary, okay, which you will not see any of that money until you play in a game and a roster bonus do September first of twenty four million dollars. I can make it. You can make it. See that's right, Micky. Do you think he'll see that twenty four million dollars? No, okay, I'll take the one point. I'll Bloys have a big need at cornerback, Everson, and so I suggest that you

work your fanny off the next six months. I'm gonna go get that hunchback lady, and we are going to get on the boat and she's gonna get me in shape. I'll that is what's going on around the National Football League right now because the legal tampering window is now officially open. Why do they call it tampering? There? Yeah, that sound right at all? Negotiating, That doesn't sound right.

Legal tampering. That doesn't legal negotiating, and go go on right now, but you can't sign anything until March fifteenth. I thought that was a pretty good proposal forever. Since that is a great I'm glad you considered me. Absolutely, that's right, and he would only need to be the third corners. Someone's already calling Everson right now. He's got another offer on the table from another team, SPA, Spags

wouldn't offer me that. You know, you can just tell if he was part of management, he would be like, no, we don't need him. But you you're a good man. You're a good man, and it's not going to cost me any money, not at all. All right, here we are, which doesn't cost anybody on talk radio any money either.

There you go, all right. The new year will officially start at three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, but the legal negotiating period is open right now and I can't wait to get on Twitter to find out what deals are coming down right now or trades, Yeah, trades as well. It's already been a hectic weekend, starting was it on Friday? When the Bears traded away they number one overall pick

to the Carolina Panthers. A pretty good trade for the Bears, I think, because I'm thinking they're going to give Justin Fields one more chance, right, But they ended up with two first round picks and one of them's next year, So if Fields doesn't work out, they've got two first round picks in twenty twenty four to be able to maneuver to get a quarterback. If justin Fields is really bad,

they could have the number one big anyway. Yeah, or if he or if c. J. Stroud or Bryce Young are really bad for the Carolina Panthers, they might have the number one pick. Right. Okay, so this this narrative on Fields, I've seen the guy played. He did very well against us, against our defense. I mean, we had to keep scoring so we could secure the game. I thought they played pretty well. Right, But he's the kind

of person. He's in the position of you can put all the quarterbacks back there you want, if you don't have the other pieces, then you still have the same problem. So why do they keep thinking it's justin Fields as opposed to it being the offensive line, as opposed to you have no running back behind you, as opposed to who are your wife receivers? Again? Well, now they got

DJ Moore, Okay, one one, that's a start. That's a start. Yeah, right, and you have two first round picks, so they can do some business this year if you if you use those picks correctly, right, and hopefully use it as part of the offensive line or whatever's going to relieve your quarterback from having to run all over the place just to save his own life. And remember they traded for Claypool on the trade deadline last year, so they got

some pretty good wisa. Okay, there you go. And remember this about the Chicago Bears is they are so far under the salary cap right now. They can be a very big player in free agency, can make some big mistakes or make some big hits. In fact, they have to start spending money because they're so far below the salary cap right now, they can't reach their percentage of what they have to spend. Yeah. Yeah, but when I do look at Fields, I don't see the accuracy coming

out of college the way I do with Stroud. Okay, the way I saw it with Young. But I still saw and still see a hell of a player. Okay. So if you were the GM of the Chicago Bears, you they had the option there stick with Justin Fields, or they got the number one pick, they could go with C. J. Stroud. What would you have doing? I'd stick with Fields? Okay, the guys pretty damn good man. I think you got to give him another year. Yes, yeah, you have to, I mean right now, plus the first

round pick. You can't just okay, we're done it. Yeah he was. He was stroud when he came out, right, So now all of a sudden he's no good. You have to put the guys around him. I hope they end up doing that. According to over thecap dot com, the Bears have seventy five million dollars in cap space right now. They're taking a slow baby steps as opposed to Tampa Bay, which I saw was fifty five million over.

So they still got moves. They got a mate before they could even do business trying to find a quarterback. Although I think I saw something they were going to resign, uh Trask, Right, they already have him. He's under Kyle Trask is the only quarterback on the under contract. Saw. I think I saw some people bailing now. It seemed like a lot of people are leaving Tampa. Oh yeah, just Brady. Well they have to. Yeah, that's what happens when you sign a quarterback for all that money and

he decides I'm gonna retire. Well, he didn't have any any years left on that contract. Make he signed a one year deal last year. Yeah, but I think they had some dummy money passed over to this year. I'd need to go look at it. Well, but if if he was coming back then. But those other guys, there's so many unrestricted free agents on that Tampa Bay roster that it was all set up to coincide with Brady's

contract anyway. All right, so what about these Dallas Cowboys, Well, they should be under the salary cap now, and how did they do that? Making and once the salary cap kicks in three pm on Wednesday? But they did what we suggested, that they restructure das contract and Zach Zack Martin's contract, reducing their base salaries. I think both of them got to reduce to one point seven million and

paid them restructure bonus on guaranteed money. For Dax, so he was going to get it one way or the other. Doing it this way, he ends up getting it up front twenty nine point three million, but his base salary for this year dropped, or his cap hit dropped from forty nine million to twenty seven million, So they cleared up a whole bunch of money. Moves are being made, guys, they are, and they will probably have a couple more

that they need to make. If they're going to keep Tyrn Smith, then they need to restructure or his thirteen point six million the way they did zach Zax was thirteen point five million, and they restructure that and got his cap hit down to eleven million for this coming year. So they need to do that with Tyrn and if they're keeping Zeke at ten point nine million dollar base, they'll restructure that and they need to keep working on And it's not that it's a big cap hit this year,

but it will be next year. Extending Ceedee Lamb who's going into the final year of well the fourth year of his contract, the fifth year, if they picked that up. The option by May first, I believe it is, the fifth year is nineteen point seven million, So they got to keep looking down the road and they could extend the fifth year options nineteen point seven million. Yes for a wide receiver. Wow, Yeah. Wide receivers are starting to get paid in this Yes they are. They're very important.

So there's a chance. And his base for this year two point five million is guaranteed, so he knows he's making that. If he wants a signing bonus on an extension, he can make a heck of a lot more and not have to wait. And usually if guys are getting good advice, you don't want to play that last year of your base salary because you never know what's going to happen. Dak Prescott, he was lucky. So yeah, So those are three things that going forward they can do

along with trying to start. You know, you think they got all this money, right, well, take ten million of that away to be able to resign, I mean, to do your draft. I think they're with the compensatory picks they picked up there right around ten million dollars for their rookie pool, and you need ten million, seven to ten million capital to kind of get through the season. They try to save that because you're gonna have other things.

So it's not like because they were over like about I think one of the figures I saw they were sixteen million over. So this gets them under, but this doesn't get them to go out into free agency and spend a whole bunch of big money, big money on what on whatever? We what do we want? I would like to see them resign Donovan Wilson. I don't know how much that's gonna cost. I think that's I would love to see them resign Layton vander Esh but I

don't know how much that. You know, market value is gonna dictate what goes on here, uh, these next couple days, because these guys are gonna go out there there, guys are gonna search and go, Okay, let me see what I'm worth, you know, and then you come back to the Cowboys and say, Okay, I can do this or I could do that. How bad you Lee? Do you want me back? Otherwise you're doing a lot of rebuilding at those two positions for sure. Because Anthony bar is

a free agent. I don't know that you want to sign him to a long term deal, but you you know, if if you're gonna use Micah Parsons as a defensive end whatever percentage of time, then you need linebackers. So to me, linebackers, safeties, corners, heck, wide receiver, you name the position. I'll give you a reason the Cowboys needed. I think if you prioritize, like what's most important, Yeah, I'm going to prioritize. I would. I would definitely try

to get that that second wide receiver. I don't know what's going on out there, but there's a lot of movement being made veterans leaving teams. Adam I think Adam Feelin's out there from the Vikings. I don't know if I want to get that old, but yeah, he is available. You don't want to get old on OBJ either, then, do you? No, I don't want to sign age, you know, like a guy that's probably on his getting ready to have his third contract, that's getting older. You gotta be careful.

You know. It's interesting on the linebacker situation as we'll see the market being set. I mean, Layton vander esh is an unrestricted free agent as of Wednesday at three pm, and reportedly the Jets agreed to a contract with Quincy Williams three years, eighteen million dollars, who's coming off two straight one hundred tackle seasons linebacker there, so that could be the market being set there. As far as Layton's concerned, I'm not sure. But um so three years five to

six million yeah per year? Yeah I do. That guy had a hundred tackles and he missed the last three regular season game. Who is this vandersh Okay? Yeah? And the same thing with Donovan Wilson. Um he led the team with one hundred night tackles. Um. Now, what value do you put on a I don't know, do you call him a free safety? Strong safety? Just the safety I think in today's NFL you're starting to put more value on the safety position. And consider Donovan Wilson using

them in a hybrid situation. More people doing that, showing more versatility from the safety position, not cornerback position, but from the safety position. Some can actually play corner, some linebacker and they could play safety to me linebacker. And that's what Bill saying that money needs. He had five sacks last year, led the league by the way for the safeties and tied to Cowboys franchise record and sacks and what. And the Cowboys started three safeties Bill Bates,

Bill before Bates got transition to specialties. So so yeah, I just think those those two guys for sure. Uh and there was a long list. You know, do you like Cooper Rush? You know, what are you gonna do for a backup quarter You know, everybody's saying, well they got a draft a quarterback backup of the future. Okay, Well, whoever you draft has to be better than Will Greer,

because if he's not, then there's no sense taking the guy. Um, so yeah, they got they got work to do, uh for sure, without going out and you know, making the big splash hit on a name got to be careful in free agency by signing names. You've got to look and see Number one, why the team there with doesn't want to resign them or allowing them to go into free agency. That's the first question you've got to answer.

Why is that happened? Now? Could be cap reasons, right, Okay, fine, but it's not like you got all this money to splurge sometimes, like in the I think in the in the Jalen Ramsey incident, I think it's just you know, they're they're cleaning house. They're cleaning house. I think, well, Cooper Cups, they're trying to get rid of him. If I'm not mistaken, Now you've got Jalen Ramsey's gone, you've got I don't know if Jalen's contract was that hard to get rid of. Well, let's come back to that.

Just second. We're talking about like Vanderesh. Would Abraflus be interested in Vanderesh? Oh? I bet well? The reportedly already Adam Schefter reporting that the Bears. We just talked about the Bears, that they're all the money they got to spend. H Eagles free agent linebacker T J. Edwards plans to sign with Chicago Bears. And he's at one hundred and twenty five tackles last season, so maybe that takes the

Bears off the what's the reported salad? I haven't seen that that has been go ahead for I was getting ready to say with Ramsey he had two years at seventeen and seventeen point five million guaranteed. So you do that, well, do you want to resign your cornerback? Because that's coming up? Right? You might have to make a and I don't Ramsey? Is he thirty? Yes, at least at least you gotta be And again you gotta be careful on that age.

I saw one and you know, if you believe these metrics, I he got charged with giving up seven touchdowns red Ramsey will turn twenty nine, okay in October, so that's not two old. But what is how tell you get to be this? When does he turn thirty? Though he already a year after that? Did he turn third twenty nine? This year? Almost twenty? Guy? Yeah, it's almost almost twenty. That's a difference than almost thirty. He could have turned thirty and July told was a long way away. I

told was a long way away. I get it. I get it. Yeah, but when in that situation, you've got a team that seems like they just dumping everybody, Well, they've got they got cap problems, and why do they have cap problems? They had to get that super Bowl? Okay, since we brought up Jalen Ramsey fifth pick in the draft in twenty sixteen, and remember seven years ago we were do the Cowboys take Zeke at number four? Or

do they take Jalen Ramsey at number four? And see what's happened with you got Zeke and what's happened in his career where he is right now? And you had Ramsey and now he's on his third team going out, third team Jacksonville Rams and then now the Dolphins who were your cornerbacks in twenty sixteen. Byron Jones was one of them, and you had just spent a first round Anthony Brown was Anthony Brown was in that draft as a backup obviously, but he was a sixth round pick.

Cotier Carwood's I can't remember, brain give me this, but anyway, it's just interesting now and you can go back and what do you think about that? I mean, if you compare, Yeah, Zelen Babson got a Super Bowl and You're not supposed to take a running back that high, right, Yeah. So and now you see what the Cowboys have done over the last seven years. And yeah, you had spent big money on Brandon Carr. I believe that he was probably

close to the end of his contract. And you had spent a first round pick on Morris Claiborne back in twenty twelve. Yeah, he was still with him though in as a so here starting corners in twenty sixteen were who Morris Claiborne car and then they used at the one position because Claiborne got hurt. I think Orlando Scandrick and Anthony Brown. Aaron Jones was on the team. Uh, doesn't shows a usual draft pick. I mean starter. Jones didn't come till year sixteen. He was eighteen May. Okay,

seventeen seventeen, that's right. Speaking to Byling Jones, he's gone, he's having issues. Well, I forget the fact that he's gone. That's what he said. He retired because he couldn't run or jump. He said, yeah, he's how you go from being the most athletic guy in the combines and now you can't run the jump? Was he taking shots? What's

going on with this guy. Well he said he was, but he tore his achilles and it had it was more than just a torn achilles, So there was problematic after it was a problems Yeah right, Fortunately I didn't. So that's what the Cowboys wound up doing at cornerback The following year is when they drafted Byron Jones. Right, So it's interesting. I think, I think when if you're going to compare Ramsey and Zeke, that was that's a good comparison. Huh six and one. You want the super Bowl, Zeke,

But man, you had a hell of a career. You have you're having a hell of a career. You had the NFL's leading rush, yes for what yes, two seasons and he was pretty he solidly. You know, you're on one team. You didn't go bounce the round. So and even that rookie season, I mean, they win the division and they're right there, man with a rookie quarterback they've taken in the fourth round. They were they were a man, they were a man. I don't think you can second yes,

that pick. I can't. That all can't. And I even like, what did what did Jacksonville get? When I know what happened with Byron Jones twenty fifteen. He was the first round, That's what I thought, but they moved him to safety. Okay, I was looking at usual. I thought he was a twenty fifteen, remember they moved Okay, all right, Yeah, you'll had me go in the wrong direction there, and I don't know if he had if you didn't have a running back at that point either. So you drafted the

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eight six zero. That's Cape Postcompany dot com. Latest linebacker off the board reported three years, nineteen and a half million dollars deal, twelve million guaranteed, Bears signing T J. Edwards, and so there's your linebacker market. We all already talked about the Jets resigning Quincy Williams three years, eighteen million, probably about the same guarantee, I would assume. And those two teams probably have like Bokus of salary capital exactly. Well,

we already established at the bearers. They know the Bearers do bocuk. Depends if you're a French or so we know ever ever since Cajun, since he went to Grambling, right, and you're creole, Okay, let's get the Cajun out of there. I'm Creole all right. By the way they played in their conference championship basketball team, man, that was some exciting stuff all weekend to a fourteen and nineteen team that's

the Southern But they beat us all the time. They owned us in especially in basketball when it comes to the conference play. I don't know what's going on, but we had a chance to go I think for the first time in our basketball history to go to the Big Show. Really had a bit. That was it. That was right there. I think we were getting beat up pretty well, and then we came back and lost by about three points. But that was a frantic, you know rush at the end of the game. So back in

the day, was Grambling one double A? No, they were. It was always Division one they were. We were one double A when I was there, That's what I meant. But before that, you know, doing the Winner's Read days and all of that Larry Right days, you know there was Division one. It was. I think they would I think they were lower than that, especially especially with with Willis Reid. When Wills Read was there. Man, now they

want to play with the biggest boys. The history of Grambling basketball uh Division two, Level two NCAA Tournament appearances Division two nineteen fifty eight in nineteen seventy six fifty eight would have been will Us And and Okay. Grambling won the conference regular season championship this year. They also won it in twenty eighteen. Previously it was nineteen eighty nine. That's how dry it's been. That's been pretty dry. So there you go, and Missoi is in. They're in seventh seed.

Beat Tennessee. Beat Tennessee. That's pretty good. And they had Alabama's sweating for a while. I knew they couldn't beat him. Alabama's very much. It's only really good teams can beat Alabama. Like the last place team in the Big twelve, Oklahoma beat him by twenty. And Oklahoma play and Oklahoma can't, can't make the nighteen and they beat the number one overall seed of the NCAA Tournament by twenty. They've got a that six nine guard. They have Miller telling you

he's gone, yeah, and he's gonna be really good. I mean he can handle the ball, he can shoot through that. Kevin Durant looked to him, Yes he does. I'm impressed with ut The men's basketball. Yeah, so is everybody else, because everybody last night after at the end of the pick show or whatever they call it, every one of the guys on the panel had them going to the final against Alabama, every one of them. Yeah. Well you look at Texas basketball. Is the University of Houston still

number one? Well they were. They lost Marcus Sasser out of Red Oak. They're growing in the sea. They are. They're in the number two overall set in the tournament. And I didn't realize the tournaments in Houston too. Yeah, it's the final four state. It's all about Texas basketball. About Texas basketball. Now, that's the issue, the problem. And maybe they did this by design, so there wouldn't be

two Texas teams in the Final four. But Houston and Texas and Texas A and M are in the same region, and so the second round matchup could be Texas against A and M. Which would Texas to kill him? I think Texas to kill him. I love you know what I you know what I love about what they call a trending. They're playing better as the season goes on. Um, you know what I loved about watching Texas against Kansas the other day. I love their bet they beat them.

That their bench, I mean, their bench is so into the game. They were having so much fun, and I think it's a tribute to that coach. I mean they should have already said you're our You're our permanent coach going forward, Rodney Terry. I mean not to mention the players, well you know what they have to go through when you lose your coach, you know, doing doing the city like come on, and he is just steady, Eddie stays And the love that they showed to him after the game, Yeah,

that was very cool. Yeah, the interview that that lets you know the players are trying to speak to everyone at the University of Texas. This is the guy, you know who I spoke to more than anybody who is that recruits nice you know. Yeah, and they see that interview and they they see the players on yeah, well on him. Yeah him. And he's got a history at Texas too. He was for nine years. He was assistant

coach under Rick Barnes at Texas. Then he got a couple of head coaching jobs president State in UTEP and back for a second year as an assistant now the interim head coach. But I mean, yeah, get that thing done. That's why Missouri gave their guy an extension after just this first year to one point five to four million a year. If you have a connection with the players, and the university has to take that to consideration, they have to yea, all right, back to Zeke. Yes, So

what's going on with Zeke? You got Tony Pollard who was tagged last week? Okay, and now you got twenty seven million dollars on the cap dedicated to running Worry about that. Stop bringing up those specific It's the price of doing business, right. Look, think about this. Is Tony Pollard your lead running back twenty five touches a game

right now? Today you're good. You're good with whoever's your backup, because if it's not, then you got Pollard and you're gonna spend money on a first round pick, right and that first round picks already gone. He's not lasted to twenty six Yeah, and I'm talking b John Robinson speaking of long ones. Man, I love that guy. I do too. And do you ever hear him talk? Yes, Oh my goodness. He is the real deal. I mean he is a barring injury. He is going to be a player for

a long time. Trust our sales with a thought of a possibility that we have a chance. But I don't. I don't think you can count on it. But I mean, you never know how people value run. Well, here's the all right, you do whatever with Zeke, okay in my opinion, okay, to work whatever out with him. It should not affect whatever you do with Zeke should not affect your decision

at twenty six. And if, even though you got Pollard on a franchise tag, whatever, if you determine that Bijean Robinson is the best player for your football team in twenty six, I don't care that you've got Pollard and Zeke already on the team. You take Bijen Robins because you only have Pollard for one more year and there's no guarantee that he's the same guy after what happened with him with the injury. So that's one reason why they probably didn't sign him to a long term deal.

And to your point, it's a two back system. And like with most every other team in the league. Yes, what I was going to say, both teams, all teams have two good running backs, at least two. We need to we need to catch right, we need to keep two running backs, So how are we going to keep two running backs? Well, thank god, the market doesn't pay well for top running backs, so it allows you to at least float with that more than you would any other position. And to me, we're at the best even

with Polot situation. I think we could be a little bit comfortable right now in regards to our running back position, hoping that he comes back full strength. And you get running backs like Pollard and Bijon Robinson, you can use them in ways that go beyond a traditional running back. I mean the Pollard came into the league listed on the draft charts as a wide receiver. I mean I didn't know that. I mean, he was what he did

at Memphis. He was a number two guy basically, and they used him as a receiver as much as as a running back there. I mean, he's got that ability. In Bijon I think has the same ability where you can play him in the slot to put bundlefield at the same time. And he was a return guy exactly right. No, Poler's big time return guy at Memphis. Of course, there are no such things as returns in the NFL anymore.

And yeah, I think, I think, yeah, right. Uh. I just think with Zeke, so he's got ten point nine million base salary, you get rid of him, it's an eleven point eight million dollars cap hit, and you got to sign somebody else, right, So you got your sign somebody else. And yeah, so you got no human being for that cap hit, whether it's all hit this year or spread over to spread five asist cut. But yeah,

and you have no you know, no sure replacement. Who's going to score those seven touchdowns from one yard out? You know you got somebody? Um, So yeah, I just think that you got to be careful. And I think if you maybe guarantee him that eleven million dollars and spread it over two years, I think he'd be meanable to that. Why wouldn't he be? Because his guy's got to know what the market is out there for running backs, right, That's what these next two days are. What's the market

for a guy? That's what twenty nine, twenty eight, twenty eight. I believe it isn't same ages, right, although I think he turns his birthdays in July? Okay, but yeah, what's

the market for you know, running back? On his he's actually a year younger than Jalen Ramsey's Turns twenty eight Turns twenty eight July twenty second, which usually if you go back in history and look at it, that's kind of the line of demarcation for running backs, Like after twenty eight, things kind of go downhill a little bit.

Well of everyone unless you're amateurs are yeah right, I don't think he is um apparently, and especially running backs that have been used as much as Zeke has, right, and so um, yeah, you know, I understand, um, I understand pollards. You know what he does, the big hit, right, but is he the little hit time and time and time again, you know, or is he trying to hit the big one and then he loses me two yards?

That that was all. And I understand how good Barry Sanders was and he was um, but he'll lose three or four yards on you trying to get ten. Well, you don't want to compare it. No, I'm not, I'm not, no, no, no, I'm just saying that type of running. Yeah, yeah, right, I want the guy that's going to get those those dirty, those dirty yards right when you should get one and

you get three and Barry retired at age thirty. Yeah, Well they could have played more, could have could have played more, but he decided to He was just pissed off of the coach. He detroits, wore wore him out when they when they hired Loss. I think it was that that pretty much did it. When did he retire, Like ninety two, ninety three, the year that he came, the year that the new coach came, he left his last year. Barry Sanders last year was nineteen ninety eight,

ninety eight, he went that first. Well, that's right, ninety because he came in about the time emmeted ninety eight, eighty eighty nine. He was third pick in the draft in eighty nine. So Sanders, yea, the same thing like Jim Brown. He retired early, right, and make me look him up now. I think he was he He wasn't much more than thirty if I remember correctly. His last year was nineteen sixty five, which would have put him at twenty nine years old. Yeah, but that was once again,

two exceptions, Yeah, two exceptions. You're going, you're comparing him to these guys. I don't know if you want to keep doing that. I bet that second time you've done that, he was making more money. He was making more money making movies. Oh that's what it was all about, right, Yeah, how old was Marrian Barber when he retired eight twenty eight? That that was a that was a hard Detroit twenty eight and running back the way he ran. Yeah. So so yeah, going back to Zeke, I just think they

need to rework it. And I can't imagine he would say no, he didn't want to leave. Yeah, I agree. You don't have to take advantage of you give him his money, just spread it out over two years and see how it goes. So I'm sorry. So what they've what if ECLA is available? What if ECLA is available, we have a shot at him and we say, okay,

we have a decision between he and Zeke. Oh, it would be between him and going forward with somebody else, because all he's a he's a yeah, but he's all down back though he ain't going for less than ten million a year. Guarantee you that. Zeke and Pollard, Yeah, and be shot. I'm okay with that. I don't think it's overkill, No, not at all. I mean, you look, we're the age, right, I mean we just went down the litany of running backs and they don't last that long,

you know. You gotta look, the draft is not just about this year. It's about the next four or five years, especially with the first round pick, where you have I'm under control for five years exactly, absolutely, and and that's what I think there's people are so shortsighted, especially with free agency. It could because now next year, by the way I read where the CAP's gonna go up a bunch, maybe the biggest jump ever because the TV contract money

goes in. So what is it? Is the banks stay solvent? Yeah? Right? Or a bank in California? Right? Um? What's the cap the cap jumped to? Is it two twenty four or two twenty eight this year? Something in that rate. But it's gonna get I saw our projection it would be in the two fifties next year when that money kicks in. And so we've already given that away to ever since September first situations, I want my all ca Okay, all right, we have more breaking news. Oh yeah, back here on

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would play? Safety? How about this? Giants for appending free agent safety Tony Jefferson has been playing safety his entire career, now ten years in the league. He says his objective right now is being on the field for every down as a linebacker and not just passing situations. So he is currently trying to put on weight so he can

be a linebacker. Do you think you could play a linebacker and maybe replaced Donovan Wilson If the problem he's having is he's having problems keeping up with these quick ass wide He's like, you know what, I need to step down there. The trotting is going down there. So that could be an option for you, could be an option. Just just woke me out, baby, bring me along. Who Who's who's our guy? Who's our way guy? Who's our way guy, who's our wait and conditioning guy. Our nutritionist

is Scott Sainer. So the traditionalist with the nutrition, the nutrition has getting me bigger on what the weight. The way we got work together on this, they were as a team can work with that hand in hand. Breaking news from around the National Football League, the Baltimore Ravens have released Klaius Campbell. So there you go. That's big man, right. He is a big man, very big man. And he's like a Walter Peyton Man of the Year type big man too. He was a good guy character. Yep, how

do you kalaiss Campbell? He's been pretty good? Yea, he has. Now he's up there in years and I bet his contract was probably up up there and in numbers, is well. I mean, that's what happens with those guys, right, what guys when they get to that thirty something you know Campbell Campbell is will turn thirty seven first when you when you get your ruster. But we're talking Peter's status right ye who. By the way, it's a free agent because of Wednesday at three o'clock. You know what I

changed my answer? Long snapper? Long snapper? That would be if I came back for another life. Okay, long snapper would be my choice, especially since they can't line up over you exactly, and you would be you would be he go down. Cowboys are looking for a long snapper because both of their are long snappers. Jake McQuaid and mad Overton are pending free agent. Let's look at this, and I don't even have to gain weight. I'm not no one. Yeah, I's no one's lining up now, and

it'd be great. There's a lot of long snappers that are free agents. You don't have to worry about the punts. But because they could circle around and come over, you don't worry hide up the middle. I'm gonna I'm not gonna be running down there that fact. Think you were a long snapper and days weren't right. Did they circle around on you? Oh? I just did it for practice because the kickers didn't have anything to do at that time. Oh, and I wasn't gonna play defent, so Harold Harold Nash

would take care of you. So if the Cowboys put some weight on you, I don't need So if the Cowboys had a need, like in training camp, for a long snapper, you could go out there and long snap like I've done that. Like the size of your long snapper makes a difference. It does not. They don't do anything now they jump right over you. Cowboys are in camp and McCarthy looks around. Let's say the long snappers tweaked the hammy or something and they just they need

somebody to come snap. Can I get it back there? And like seven seconds instead of one point two. Man to the difference between your snap and the real guys. I have to go in once and play guard in a game sophomore year. And when we watched what we watched tape, it looked like, oh he had one person because it went boom. Wait wait wait, wait wait. They did not have tape back then. We had film film film. Yeah, I must say, look like we had a four man line.

I had an offensive guard that was your your size, Scott Krueger I think his name high school. Yeah, and he was your shorter than you. That's what That's one of the reasons we want worth the crap. But yeah, I've seen it and it does look very very well. We had billy Don Jackson played against Billy Don Jackson Sherman. This little guy played against Billy Don Jackson. Could you imagine how they went? Could you imag imagine how that went? I mean he just would pick him up and just

set him aside and make him play. I'm telling you, Billy Don Johnson against the guy you last in the past. I got it right, yeah, Sherman, Yeah, of course sixty three. It says here on his I don't know this in Wikipedia whatever it is sixty three two hundred and thirty pound defensive lineman. He had to be three hundred and thirty pounds, you know, but back then it just and

plus he was a man. I mean, he was built like your dad, and he played at UCLA, but he was he was by the way, you berkener Ram, are you going to give credit to the Lake Highlands Wildcats for what the state won the state championship basketball? He did? Yes? Wow, Lake Hylands. First time since nineteen sixty eight Highlands. Yeah, not first time in fifty five years. Lake Highlands won the Class six A state championship there, led by the number one ranked June You're in the nation, Trey Johnson,

who is a heck of a player. Is it was it fun from somewhere from Hamilton Park? I'm not sure because you know Hamilton Park. Hamilton Park kids go to Lake Hollands. We have too. That's out three two. It's Bugner Richardson, Lake Hollands. Okay, that's out to Hamilton's. Okay, do you have your choice? No, you did not. You know how you don't want all those black kids. But Hamilton Park is large enough. We can't have that. But

Hamilton Park it's split up into three different part shapes. Okay, but well, you know at that time, the Junior highs Well, Richardson Junior High doesn't exist anymore, Forest Medals and Northwood. Okay, and of course Northwood doesn't exist anymore either. That lets you know we are old. We're now your school start closing down. It's an academy there somewhere or something. So yeah, we're split into those three different part shapes, and we

ended up fee into Bergner, Richardson and Lake Hollins. J J. Piace is like, yeah, all ain't coming over here. So somehow they weren't involved in this. This little division got another free agent signing thanks to the producers Supreme Grabeam. Hey, it's not a signing, it's not a signing, it's they've a great du a deal Denver giving former Ravens guard Ben Powers, the former Oklahoma Sooner, four years fifty two million dollars twenty eight and a half million guaranteed. That

is old line you at Oklahoma how much? Four years fifty two million dollars twenty eight and a half million guaranteed. So seven million for a guard for a guard see that, Connor McGovern. As the time he says God, he kind of spits it out. Connor McGovern. By the way, there are two Connor McGovern's on the market this year as of three o'clock on Wednesday, both of them, huh, both of Connor McGovern the center for the New York Jets

in our Connor McGovern. That'll be an interesting one, although I think I think a team with a whole bunch of cap space might give him a pretty good deal just because of his versatility. Guard center, could be a backup center, fullback. Should we review the Cowboys pending free agency as we close out the shop today? We can do that, and I would have one last question, but when we finished that is, what do you think the position of priority is for the Cowboys? Either free agency

or draft? Okay, so let's run through offensive free agents for the Cowboys tied end Dalton Schultz, wide receivers t Y Hilton and Noah Brown, offensive tackle Jason Peters, quarterback Cooper Rush, offensive guard Connor McGovern, Avion Collins who also plays tackle, and of course, well we haven't mentioned about Terrence Steel, the restricted free agent who has been tendered the second round draft choice and teams have until three

o'clock on Wednesday to make that official. But the second round tender for Terrence Steel would amount to around four million dollars four point three. So there are your offensive free agents. Would you like me to run down the defensive free agents or would you'd like to discuss offensive free agents first? I would say, on almost the answer to every one of these is going to be market value. It's like, what's the market value for these guys? And can I do I have the means to be able

to match whatever they think that market value is. They're going to have to find a offer and and give me the opportunity to match it. I think Dalton Schultz is in one of the more unique situations. You got some good tight ends coming out of college, and you got some really good young tight ends on this team. As well your teammates. That's what that's kind of the

prevailing notion, right if I don't have them. I spent a fourth round pick on Ferguson, Yes, fourth round, that's what I spent on Shoultz, Right, So is this guy ready might be a better blocker on the line of scrimmage? Now, I don't know about, you know, ability to get down field. Yeah, I don't know. If I've never I don't know if they can get open in one on one Hendershot I think has that possible. So that's that's kind of what

they've got away. What do we have here and can they make that second year or jump to what I have with Like, I'm not a good time to be an unrestricted free agent in the NFL as a tight end, Yeah, because I just didn't. Some guys just get traded or somebody resigned, somebody The Patriots signed the guy I think they signed. Yeah, what you're talking about the Falcons signed John Smith. Went from the Patriots to the Falcons or it's going there I think for a seventh round draft now.

John UW. Smith was one of the tight ends that the Patriots signed, one of those big free agent signings and right now they're getting a seventh round pick for him and what and there was a tight end involved in their Ramsey trade, wouldn't there? Hunter Long? Hunter Long? Yeah? So yeah, market value on all that, I don't know what Chelse is a good tight end, but he's not that athletic tight end everybody wants. But he's solid. But he's solid. So can I just give him a solid contract?

I don't know what category that's here? Right? And then you know you would like Cooper rush back. Does anybody think he's a multimillion dollars or at least a backup? Right? I mean people paid three four million maybe for a backup. I don't know will the Chargers pay that? Good question? If you like, Oh I put that together, I know it. I know what tree you're parking up. Defensively, the Cowboys have safety Donovan Wilson, linebacker Layton vander Esh, linebacker Anthony Barr,

cornerback Anthony Brown, edge rusher Dante Fowler, special teams demon CJ. Goodwin, interior, your defensive lineman Jonathan Hankins, interior defensive lineman Carlos Watkins, and linebacker Luke Gifford. So to me, Wilson and Layton Vanderish are the priorities there. If I'm resigning somebody, Um, I think Anthony Brown, who by the way, has started his rehab like on field rehab on the Resistance Chords, but it's only steps. It's not like he's running yet

or anything. Baby steps. And I've seen also m Jordan Lewis starting his field rehab also. Um. But if I'm if I'm Anthony Brown, I'm taking a one year deal, Um, whatever they tell me it's worth with incentives, so I can stay here and continue to rehab the ruptured Achilles. Don't want to have to go somewhere else on the defensive back right Achilles problem. Yeah, that's all we do is backpedaling plant And if they'll give me that one year kind of prove it deal, I would take it. Yeah,

And and he might too. I mean he's he's getting close to that thirty, that plateau thirty rage. I knew that question was coming, and so he will turn thirty on December fifteenth, So that's twenty nine at the majority of the season. So yeah, and then the rest of those guys, Um, it's just market value. Would I like to have now Hankins is up there right in a yes, Yeah, make me look that one up. If I'm not mistaken. I saw Carlos making a lot of plays last year. Yeah.

I would like him back. Yeah, I just don't know how much I can. He's got to be a foot out, but I would like him back. Also, Jonathan Hankins will turn thirty one March thirty did I say thirty five? Geez? Thirty one thirty one March. Well, that's not unreasonable for a defensive tackle. Takes space, yea three hundred and forty pounds worth of space. Yeah, so either one of those, whichever one I can afford. By the way, and then you're I'm sorry, go ahead, you're talking about offensive lineman.

Another signing news, Chris Lindstrom, you're talking about offensive lineman. You, I would say probably Boston College. Chris Listrom out of Boston College. Got five years, one hundred and five million from Atlanta. That's average twenty one million a year, and that relates to the Cowboys. That does relate to the cowboys too, because market for guy Jane guards there you go, it relates to the Cowboys. The Governor's probably like if I could get half that I should have. Why why

do we stuck playing guard? Nott Tyla Smith is like, put me back at guard please? Well, well, there is a Lyndstrom on the Cowboys roster. So there's that too, brother, if he could stay healthy, So maybe he's a future one hundred five million dollars player, right wo you know you've got a bunch of cap space if you can spend that on a guard. Didn't the Cowboys spend that on a guard? Yeah? Well, this guy's going to the

Pro Football Hall of Fame. Right Well, Lindstrom was the second team All Pro last year, so I'm sorry, Chris, that was a week come back. I don't think Martin was first, so he's not Larry Allen or Zach Martin. Right, by the way, I'll put up my Oklahoma offense of linemen against your Boston College. Boston College offensive linemen. I mean, go to the Kansas City. You got Creed hun Frege center about the Philadelphia with Lane Johnson at right tackle?

Can I can I just throw this out and just add a guard that went for Flower much to Denver about Boston College? What's the guarantee, Trent will you? I didn't even mention Trent Williams Steward. What's the guarantee one hundred million dollars, dude, because right now, what's happening with these contracts? Those are agent Those are agent numbers, right, and you gotta know what the guarantee is because a lot of those those base salaries the fourth and fifth

year are like sky high. This relates to the Cowboys. The Washington Commanders just signed Darren Payne. They're all pro type. I don't know if he actually made all pro, but he probably should have a defensive tackle to let a reported four year, nine million dollars deal guaranteed sixty million. Okay, so that's fifteen million, second second highest paid interior defensive lineman in the league behind So it's fifteen million a year.

Just tell me what the guarantee is, because I don't care about that last base salary that's forty six million, not guaranteed. That's what it's all about. Tell me the guaranteed, don't tell me the package. So are we able to go as long as we want to today? I think we are until it's until Christmas, until Chris just cuts us off, all right. I just another imagine. Imagine that's gonna happen by the time we can ven me next next Monday. Then the Cowboys we'll start signing guys. Well,

that will be right. We'll be setting the table for the Cowboys signing that that special player that Jerry was talking to. Okay, here we go. Last question. Okay, what position? Wide receiver? We're three for three. Somewhere along the line. I need another wide receiver who goes by initials. I've got no initials. Just somebody'd open. I'm not Would you like a wide receiver that goes by initials? I do not care that. I'd rather. I'd rather he'd better ball,

That's all I know. Does he catch with two hands? Yeah? And see all that is cute because I saw Chris and he only caught the boss with one hand the whole time. And you can. You can be as good as you want. Right If if a DB's coming up, I saw it. If you got dB coming at you and you keep on with you, it's one handed crap, You're gonna get busted up, that's all. Especially if Everson hits you, you're gonna get busted up. And same knee to ACLS MM factor that in on a long term deal.

You're gonna give him five years. How old is he? Probably twenty nine? So we're talking, we're talking draft for free agent. Yeah, which one? Which one? I'm saying which one? I don't care. I just need a quality next receiver because right now it's Michael Gallup, Ceedee Lamb and I went time Odella's third. He'll be thirty one November fifth, m m and I love young wife receivers. Whib Recely was coming out of the college now get ready the NFL ready, so that that might be Yeah, that's where

you go. I mean, think about what happened this year, right you had to go sign Hilton at the end of the season to be your third guy. Sign him at the beginning of the season, sign him in March. Does he want to play or is he gonna? Don't know? No, I'm not I'm just saying in general, I watch it kind of like to see him come back. I wouldn't mind it. But does he want to play? Yeah? I mean the reason he didn't play last year because he wanted to watch kids play football, and I would imagine

maybe he wants to do that again. I don't help his kids. Remember, we'll get hit yet, I think they're like junior high early high school. While I mean he's he's only you want to go make I mean ever since he's hungry, I'm hungry and I walk a dog. Nicky can keep talking. We're just gonna off. Okay, that does it for this? Why we call it mix shots. He calls the shots, and we'll see you again next

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