Mick Shots: OTA Benefits

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This is Mick shot streaming live on Dallascowboys dot com and the official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Savannah Humoller, Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola.

And three out of four eight bad load, two out of three. We're three out of four here because Bill Jones, I guess has a day job and with the Stars and the Mavericks still playing, he's a little bit overwhelmed those in town though, And I saw him last night doing his sports cast, so I know he's alive and well, just not with us on Micks in our.

S w B. Did he look? Did he look at TV?

Because he didn't have to go on site to running the command from the studio when he had helpers at the different games. So Everson Walls, Savannah, Mickey here with you. The Cowboys will have an OTA session today. I see the guys out there gathering getting ready for the start of their OTA session which got severely and I think severely is probably the right. Yes, it is interrupted yesterday by the storms overnight. Did everybody survive?

I was going to ask you guys, how you doing? You know, this is crazy? I was, man, oh my god, I'm surprised my daughter didn't come downstairs and jump in bed with her parents.

Did it wake you up?

Oh? Yeah, didn't know. And I couldn't sleep after.

That blew me out of bed.

Yeah.

Basically when I heard it, it was like holy. And then I looked outside and I go, you know, the trees in the back, they and got a chance in hell.

It's so funny that, you know, I woke up and you know, actually went around the neighborhood and you see trees like torn up by the roof like on TV type stuff Like, man, I made that okay? And I looked at my like, oh wait a minute, there's a branch. It's almost it was on our fence between our neighbor and our said. It was on our fence. The shed that my son and I tried to put together in the back, the roof came off of it and the

Yeah, it sounds like a lot of work.

Yeah, we got we got one of those in the back. It's like third of the tree cracked up here here and I just cleared out another tree that it uprooted and fell and it's like come on. But other than that, yeah, we kind of survived.

Yeah.

Yeah, I spent yesterday picking up sticks. It seemed like that's what it was.

Yeah, that's what I had.

So I came up here to the facility at like nine o'clock, drove through some of the rain.

But they have our hour right correct.

But we we were supposed to be working yesterday and there was no power. The WiFi still was working though for some reason the wife I was working.

I was fine, but no power.

We made it through. It came back on around noon and that was that it cleared out of here. I had assumed that there was a second round of storms coming in, is what everyone was.

Telling me, and nothing blew in the sun came out.

But I think there's like hopefully people are getting their power back on, because I think there was about five hundred thousand people in North.

Almost six hundred.

That's a lot.

I still can't send a picture of my tree being blown down to family yesterday because it kept saying you can't send because the.

Whole crap everybody's my WiFi is still.

I mean, it's like, I keep trying to send this one picture and it's no, can't send. Failed to sind.

Although I thought I saw this morning it said Wi fi is working. No Internet. It's like, well, what goods what that means?

What that means to me, it's the same thing, Yeah, double talk, that's what that sounds like.

Lost power for an hour and a half, two hours in the morning, and I had a dental appointment, so I didn't know if they were going to cancel it, right. So I found this little device we had. It's battery operated. You put it on the umbrella pole that you could sit outside, sits up like this, and I said, huh, I'm gonna use that thing that's more light than a flashlight, right, Well, of course the batteries were dead, right, So here I

We spent the whole morning on what family, what's up? You're good? You're good? Yeah, okay, piles out over here, We're good over here, trees down, you know, okay.

It was just loudly communicate storm season.

Well, all I want you guys to know is Double Oak finished number two in the second highest wind gusts at eighty miles an hour.

Yeah, now that was when when the sirens went off. That's got number.

Eighty six miles an hour in. Was it the colony? It was someplace kind of going toward Frisco.

Saw the playing, yes, yes, could you see that?

The American airlands?

Yeah?

Oh yeah, come on, something else, but yeah, delayed obviously, the cowboys.

Practicing, practicing, and media Days right exactly.

Yeah, yes, was here at six am this morning.

We have our player media days today.

They get to you know, go through all the stations and just get some content that we need of them for this season.

And all the guys seem really happy to.

Be here today and in a good mood, and we got practice underway here in just a little bit they'll be on the football field.

So those guys showed up at six am, well we showed up.

But some of them started coming through around seven, so they were they were here probably doing something in the morning.

So they get the ot OTAs in today and we have availability to watch tomorrow Mike McCarthy with a press conference at ten forty five, I believe practice and then next week is mini camp and that's it until taking off for training camp. So we're moving right along with these off season. Although I was wondering what Everson had to say about this, was that that.

I saw.

Some talking about if there's an eighteen game season, that there would be no OTAs, like you would start training camp earlier, but nothing that they would have to be a part of if there's an eighteenth game.

See, when you start increasing games and you have to increase.

Pay, right, but not time off.

Well, I mean, as long as you increase the pay, I'm good with the time off. I mean that means what do they do with the salaries?

I mean, well, that's a good question. Yeah, because all these all these and I don't know when they would get to it, but the contracts now are contract right, so you get one less another less preseason game.

If I'm playing, if I'm trading the preseason game for a regular season game, I want more money because I'm they're gaining another game from me, a game that means something versus a preseason game. First of all, I probably wouldn't even play in the preseason game as a starter, so that you can't compare the games preseason versus regular season.

So how would you make that adjustment on a contract that's already in place.

They try to break it down into what eighteenths and then add another one.

So if you're getting if you're getting it in seventeen, then add one more seventeenth for the eight and you did say less not eighteen, and divide it all by eighteen, but you get less.

Yes.

And less OTAs.

Yeah, they would eliminate them and then eliminate them. You could start either start the OTAs before training camp, got it and see which there.

Saw at as ot as there? What are they doing? They really don't work that hard right? More thanks to us? Really? I mean we did the sacrifice, that's right. I mean, so to use that as leverage, it's like using the preseason game is leverage. That is not leverage. It's you gotta have something else. You gotta give me something else.

That's just my opinion, Yeah, because I think that what they thought was if you say, you start training camp July twentieth, so after the fourth you have o ta practice get ready for training.

Care, Yeah, then you gotta dangle another care.

That also means you don't have anything to do from February to July.

It's a long period of time off. If you ask me, its.

A long season, Yes, eighteen games, So what what would they would they would? Would they factor in another bye week with that? Maybe?

Do you see back to the old days right when you had two buys.

And if you do that once again, yes, you get the rest, but then that still stretches it out.

Super Bowl is going to be played in March.

Well, Mickey, that's interesting you said that because I think their their goal is to have the super Bowl the weekend of I think it's the is it President's Day?

Which is what the.

Second week in February?

Yeah?

Or well, because that means they play the super Bowl Sunday and then you get Monday off, like a day after the super Bowl off basically as a federal holiday. Right, not players, every no, but like everybody, like you go to a super Bowl gathering and you don't have to go to work the next day, or if you're a fan, you go to the super Bowl and you don't have to work the next.

Day, go to the parade.

I'm just saying in general, you know, because let's be honest with you, a super Bowl in the United States is a holiday exactly.

But then that Monday, well right now it's not. But yeah, but now it's not.

So then you do you have that Monday off basically, so it started the weekend after Labor Day like they always do.

Not a bad thought. I do like that.

Ever since I just noticed, did you come to play? You get a ball there?

No, this is a friend of mine, friend of mine, one of the I thought they were going to have a big star on it. I want to get a game ball with a big star on it. So I got a cowboy fan out there in Virginia sending this to him. Oh yeah, they send it for their nephews. Yeah, for the nephews.

If we were going to it around.

This is it needs it's a little it needs to be used a little bit. This is this is too new. You know this is the Kickers ball. I guess No, Kickers ball are more worn, correct, No, they're new. Okay, well yeah, this looks.

They have to kind of you remember what you guys used to do with the balls to break them in before you actually used them in a game.

I wasn't over that department. I didn't know. I wasn't over that department. They just throw it to me. I catch it.

So they used to when we were at the ranch. They would take the new balls for the game that week and they would put them in the dryer with those what are the fabric pass in there soft scentence softening, Yeah, and they would spin them to kind of break them in and get the slickness off. I also used to see him take a baseball bat and go in the racquetball courts and and and like you're taking on their own throw them up and slam them into the wall to loosen them up.

We were supposed to be on those walls, were scientific.

Well that was better than deflating them, right, I.

Mean I don't know, Yeah, stop is this This must be what Romo used.

Yea, when they took the ball right out of the box.

What happened?

That thing was shiny as hell, that's all.

I didn't know that that was supposed to be a jelm. But it really did happen, right, I mean, it was brand new ball.

Then everything started changing where you had kicking balls and deflated. Yeah, and then they then they would put him in a room and they would like baseball and kind of rub them up, and then the officials had to be there to to monitor so that.

The almost goof. Did that lead to anything any changes in the.

I don't remember if he led to anything immedia, but it was you could see by time because it was dark by then and the lights were shining down. That math pretty much and went right through his hands all things.

And he still almost scored. Yeah.

I thought he was going to make it, and the guy just caught up. All he needed was a block from this.

Better footwork. It just better footwork.

That's unbelievable. And I see And that's how when people try to and I understand they hadn't been the time came in twenty eight years, But that happened, right, and and and does no catch happen right?

I still I still have my knuckles. I have a little bruise on it. You pound when he caught it. I was at my boy's house. Man, I was like, yes, I jumped up, and this ceiling fan was still going, No, my knuckles clans, pain in your hand, pain for so painful. We'll slapping five. I don't care. We're slapping five. And boy, give me another beer? Man? Wait? What not? What? No? No catch? Give me a break? No, No, it just went crazy. Never forget that t.

O suffers a high ankle spring before that playoff.

Game dropping the ball Patrick Craig.

Then yeah, I mean it was just you can't make this stuff up, right, But no one wants to hear it. I understand.

No, that's just that's our you know, predicament to deal with. No, we don't want anyone else to share in that. It is what it is.

That's just like, yeah, now it all comes back in your face with the Stars and the Mavericks in the car Friend's Finals. Although oops last night for the Mavericks.

I know, Dallas is it's a nice city to play sports and to watch sports.

It's just the best time right now. It's so fun, it really is.

You can get mad about Green Bay and all of that, but when you look at the regular season there, you look at what the MAVs are doing. Jason Kidd hell of a coach, guys. Oh yeah, so it's really doing well.

They are unbelievable. I think that they'll go in five. But I was at the game last night and excuse us, no, no, no, it's gonna say some of our you know, guys on the team they were there too. So I saw osa A Diggi Zua he was there, Michael Parsons was there, Trayvon Daggs.

I just saw Trayvon just yeah, yeah.

So they all were in attendance, cheering on the MAVs.

So well, they didn't chair hard enough. When they made Luca and Kyrie make thirteen or thirty nine shots, I was happy.

I would be happy with the sweet but I was realistic thinking it's going in six. So even if they went out there, I think we know, if we were to win in Minneapolis, that would really show.

How good Yeah we all, I hope.

So so let's let's look forward to that.

Well, they need to get lively back on the court. That was unfortunate for that to happen, and it showed up too, because all of a sudden the middle. Although Gafford did a nice job.

My goodness, does that guy happen with a lot. He's not as tall as you think, But how many.

Times have you somebody see somebody block a jump shot from twenty feet away? Right? It doesn't happen.

You got great footwork, great footwork.

Well got the stars tonight. And I don't know about the rest of the people in this town, but from an emotional standpoint, just watching it wears you out.

I don't have the text thread.

From the stars.

Oh my goodness, I felt like a commentator. I'm sending you guys all kind of that was close. You know.

Yes, they're just so fun to watch though, I mean, Jason roberts Robertson gets a hat trick and they come back being down by two wins, six to two, just just unbelievable, I'm sorry, six to three.

Yeah, crazy?

Is this the Cowboys show.

Yeah, and we did talk about the season. One of the things I did want to I noticed we talk about it before we have to hit the break, Chris, are we out hired at eleven?

Now?

Okay, so we can keep going. Actually, let's take a break, and I've got two things I want to talk about. Number One, I thought it was an interesting list of quarterbacks the Cowboys will face this year. And then another topic with and you guys can chime in on this, did you know who Nico Collins was?

Yes? You do? Yes? Okay, Well, receive.

Right for the Texans who just signed an extension contract. Really we'll get into that too, which will continue to complicate the CD LAMB contract saga. And then also I wrote last Friday on kind of a blessing in disguise with the number of veteran guys not practicing, giving young guys more opportunities now to get snaps they can get. So when we turn to mix shots here on dallascowboys dot Com, we'll take on those topics. I'm Dak Prescott, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, and they.

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Does that qualify as a Savannah shot here on mix shots which someone hopes.

Though changing the name of the show, you just didn't know. You'll be the last one to find out.

Hey, I thought before we attack some of these topics that we pay our respects to Bill Walton. Yes, by the way, seventy one years old. So when he was starring at UCLA, you were maybe in.

Junior What what year was that? What was he there? So?

I think it's rookie season was nineteen seven or no, that's when he won it U c.

L A eleven find out I was eleven years old.

I want to say that was the first nineteen seventy one title.

Yeah, I was eleven years old. I wasn't in junior high yet, so I was my first year playing football.

Really, I think I was the.

Razorbacks s the AA Spring Valley Athletic Associations.

That was my last year in high school.

Then, yeah, damn you old.

Dude, Yes, we're the same.

You already, Oh, yes, you are thank you, Yeah, yeah, no, he was. He was known for several things. I mean, he was a he was a trailblazer. He was one of those guys that first of all, I think they said he tried to survive on sunflower seeds at one point. That's why he kept getting hurt. That's why his bones were always so weak, because I think he messed up his ankle several times, not just ankle, but just several broken bones throughout his career.

Just a weird connection between him and John Wooden, who was you know, button novatives. Wooden was was very button up.

Tie, traditional, traditional and Walton was anything but traditional. First of all, he was a hippie, he was a child and he was you know at that time it was huge. He was anti war, so he was out there picketing with the people that you know didn't believe in Vietnam. So you know, that was huge back then, you know, as an athlete to be participating in that. He was not just there, he was like in front with the signs and all that kind of stuff. Spoke on it

Yeah, and unique when he got into the NBA. And then when he started his career as a broadcaster, who everybody else is all dressed up, and he'd come on with a tie dyed T shirt, right, doing games and challenging the play by play guy. Right, they get in more arguments than they did anything.

But anyway, he did it while smiling. Yeah, he always had so.

Anyway, all right, let's dive into what's going on in the OTAs right now with the Cowboys. And I was sitting there last week when I'm watching the practice, and you know, at times during the week, here's a list of the guys that we were not practicing. Trayvon Diggs is still doing rehab. Demarvian Over shown still doing rehab. John Stevens and David Durdon last year's rookies toward their ACLS. They're still doing rehab. They hope they're ready for the

Hamb missed volunteer, yeah, yeah.

And Hambrick missed like the first two weeks or something, and he finally showed up, and so everybody's got to interview him, and you know where you've been. Why weren't you here? And he uttered the famous phrase of what do voluntary mean? Question everybody? Right, It's all we could think of is what if he had said that when Jimmy was here.

Voluntary, Jimmy would make it clear that it isn't. Yeah.

So anyway, having said that, uh, if you look at with c d not here and then really not needing to overwork Brandon Cooks. When you got the first team offense out there practicing, that meant more first team snaps with Dack for Jalen Tolbert, Jalen Brooks, Cavante Turpin, those three guys, and you're looking at Okay, you got to find a third receiver, right, but now somebody's got to be the second receiver out there and the third receiver

About That's that's an unexpected benefit that you just got. Now, have we ever had the starting quarterback not show up?

I do not ever recall that, not the quarterback because he's always under contract. This is rare for the quarterback to be playing in his final year of his contract, right.

That's why I was asking.

Although Troy sort of did okay that two thousand season, now they had a there was a oh, what do you call the when you have the next year, it's not an official year on your contract like option Yearah, he had an option year for twenty twenty one. Steve Pellur had an option year for twenty twenty one. Eleven now nineteen eighty nine, okay, yeah, And then they drafted

So you're getting I wonder if they realized the opportunity this is yes, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, because I mean it's not just about just being there. You got to be in the field of it. You got to understand exactly what you're trying to get from me doing this defensive call or offensive call. Uh, you know, those things are very important. You don't just go out there and go body. You know, you hope that you get learned serious coaching points from here on because now you got a lot

Yeah, because it's more mental than anything else, right, and even and even it trickled down at wide receiver. So Ryan Floornoy, the sixth round pick, is getting more snaps. And then I had forgotten this guy was here. Uh was on the practice squad. Racy McMath uh, big big wide.

Receiver, heard of it.

Yeah, and he's getting snaps okay, so uh And even at the tight end position with Schoonmakers still not participating in the eleven on eleven stuff and Peyton Hendershot had a little something. John Stevens remember they were big on him in training camp, rookie free agent and he's still coming back from his torn ACL and suddenly getting upgraded snaps along with Jason Ferguson. Uh is Brevin spawn Ford, rookie free agent, kind of a name, more of a kind of a blocking tight end, but he looks like

So, and then their learning that's the night thing they're learning. You gotta learn. I mean, it's like being in class. You know, I'm falling behind on my grades or someone that maybe ahead of me. I want to catch with the honor class. You know, I want to bring my grades up. So to me, it's this is extremely extremely important. And when you start talking about having a go to guy, we know CD lambs, I go to God. I love that.

And say same thing at the offensive line with trickle down with Bass, who would be getting second team snaps, Well, he's getting first, so on the second team, and there's there's you know, spots to be had as backups, so awesome. Richards is getting second team snaps at guard, and so is Nate Thomas. The Cowboys seventh round draft joints where those guys would be out their third team right the whole time, so it really helps out the same thing at linebacker. Now, I don't know if Parsons would be

I get it. Uh.

So suddenly Chauncey Golston and Justin Thomas, the Justin Rogers, the last pick in the draft ends up getting getting snaps so with the first team at times. So again it's it's really helping out. Uh. And the same thing at at cornerback. Uh So no digs. So you got basically Deron Bland out there. Uh. And now suddenly they need a second corner on the outside, and the Shawn Wright, who's gonna probably be in a in a competition for his job as a backup, is out there working with

He looks really good in Ota. Yeah, I think he looked really good.

And then Josh Butler and then the rookie Kaylin Carson.

So how's the rookie.

I don't know that I saw. Here's the deal. The DBS cannot contest passes. They can run with the wide receiver and be where they're supposed to be, but when the ball's up in the air, you can't compete.

Yeah that's okay.

So I mean you you just kind of know where you're supposed to be and how you can cover.

So started baby steps, baby steps. I mean, as long as they know that they can can make the play or at least compete for the like if it's a fifty to fifty ball. But either way, if it's fifty to fifty ball, that means you're already in position you can work on getting the ball when you go work out with your boys in the off season. Do they still do that? Go to Phoenix and.

Some they did that took the wide receivers. I think to it Lanta last year. But yeah, they still kind of get together. And if not in his backyard.

If I'm if I don't care if I'm Ceedee Lamb or if I'm told I'm going to that camp, I'm going with you guys. You don't have to. I don't know who pays away or who whether you guys stay or whatever, but I'm going to be there. If I want to be on part of this team, I want to be a good wide receiver and dak or whatever team I'm on, they say, let's go, I'm going to be there. You don't have to call me. I'll be waiting on you.

Michael Irvin had a saying in the off season, if Troy's throwing, I'm going that it didn't matter when, where, how much to be.

That's how it has to be. I mean, that's that's the mentality that Hall of Famers have.

And Dak when he got asked about the younger guys and what's going on, he said, it's about getting these younger guys up to speed so we can make sure when we hit training camp with everybody taking the next step to make sure when we get in the fall with Game one, we're all at full speed.

Don't be the New York Knicks, you know, don't be the Knicks. The Nicks lost almost everybody doing this season in regards to the playoffs. That's why they're out. We don't want to be a team with no depth.

And as continues to say, is the biggest improvement this team can make is from within, meeting young guys stepping up, getting their chances. They need Marshaan Overshown to step up. They especially Yeah, yeah, absolutely so. Anyway, it's kind of, as I said, a blessing in disguise that what those guys missing, there's a trickle down effect that other guys out there.

They gotta take advana, they gotta take advantage.

And I will say, even with our running back committee, yes, they looked great on rotations out there. Duce Vawn was getting some reps in and I know even Bill was saying how he thinks that Deuce may have some type of bigger role later on, and he looked great. Royce Freeman was out there practicing like I think we have a really good committee at this time. And then Zeke obviously leading a lot of what that looks like.

I was a bit disappointed in Deuce and how they used him. I'm hoping this year would be different because guys like him, you gotta get me touches. He needs touches. I mean, you know, even the guy, what's the young guy that the small guy Spros, even Sprolls got at his size, he got a lot of touches.

Doing the game a lot on receptions.

Yes they threw that, yes he did, and they got him in space right, But we didn't show any creativity in trying to get deuce the ball in space. It seems like it was always figured out by the defense. So obviously we didn't We didn't show them enough activity over here to take him off the ball over here on deuce because every time he got the ball, somebody was on his ass.

Excuse me, well they were, and I think they are even more so because of his size. Like, okay, this little bug game, but if you give.

It to me soon or nothing, I don't have to worry about big man. Yeah, but when they got it to him, he was he was always under direction.

We saw some of that in the preseason, Yes, when he got opportunities. I think one of the things that happened and they're going to have to see if they can overcome that this year, is he couldn't help him on special teams and that was like a spot.

Now if I couldn't you mean as a return like a coverage guy, Well, no, you want to.

But Turpin was the so they couldn't create a whole a spot for him. Now this time around, with the kickoff rule changing, maybe he fits in there a little bit. No, not coverage has a return because it's almost like it's like a play from scrimmage.

Also, right, but it's good he's getting some reps in.

He's you know, good notice in some work.

I enjoyed watching him. And then not only that, but Trey Lance. He was out there taking snaps. He looked very decent as far as where he was throwing, and I think he got some uh some good repetition in as far as when they kind of split the team.

So it was good.

You need that because once again, you don't know what could happen exactly. He could be the.

Guy and and they've basically made a point of you know, second team reps. There's probably Trey Lance. We got to find out. We have to out what.

You have to because these hell of an athlete.

He's got a heck of an arm, yeah, and throws a nice ball. So but again they got to find that. You can see all that because that's all he did last year was technique stuff. Uh arm slot, you know, throw it against air basically.

Yeah, it's good to see him have a little pressure and some build behind him where he can you know, practice some of those aims.

Yeah, And I would imagine when we get to training camp, you're going to see even more and probably in the preseason.

In the preseason game, we may start, Yes, he probably will.

They know what Cooper rushed right, right, But he's on the final year of his contract. Trey Lance, final year of his contract and oh wait, Dex on the final year of his contract. I just thought we point that out.

I don't feel worried at.

All all right, speaking of quarterbacks, when we return, uh mix shots, we'll talk about some of the quarterbacks the Cowboys have to face this year here on Dallascowboys dot com.

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And we continue on on Mixed Shots, brought to you by Miller Light here at the SWBC Studios ever since. Savannah and Mickey here with you as the Cowboys should be out on the field here getting for that ot A practice with the sun shining, thank god. Although we're supposed to get some rain this afternoon three, I don't think we need anymore. Can we save it? I wish I had a big barrel in the back right save it for July and already get a cold plunge, put a pump in it with a hose, and use it

Seventy two point three years.

Three years, So that means that's an average of twenty four point five million for a guy that just kind of showed up, right. He ended up with eighty catches one two hundred ninety seven yards, eight touchdowns, ten starts.

So it's a wide receiver's day.

So where are you start?

What are you?

What are you asking for?

I don't know. But I met Nico this off season. Well, actually, oh that's why you knew who he was? Yeah, yeah, well I knew he was already. We were a coaches convention and the McDonald's All American Award convention down in South Padre, and I went down there and I met him. He's really cool guy. He's got He's got me by at least three inches.

Really.

Yeah, I'm standing up next to the guy and I'm looking up. Yeah, I'm looking up. He's a wide receiver. I'm looking up at him, and I'm just thinking to myself, Wow, what would I have to do with this guy. He's a little ganglic, but he's very athletic. Uh just wasn't much of a public speaker. I should have gotten his check because I did all the damn talking. But now he was a really cool guy. They love him down south in Texas. I would imagine CJ had something to do,

It.

Yeah, that's one of those things that you know, puts a lot of optimism into everybody, everyone in camp. So I think that was one of those feel good moments for them as a team to say, Okay, we're going to keep these guys together as long as we can. Because CJ and Rico Nico both did a great job.

So when I see that, I'm sitting there going They're they're asking for forty million, right average, Right, that's almost well that is quarterback money.

So Jerry's up here like, no, no.

Yeah, we couldn't sign these guys? What are you doing to me? Right? Because aj Brown got an extension and his was fifty one million guaranteed, So you can see these numbers dwarf for everybody else's right.

So how does would this delay things for us? Well?

Probably I would think it was here's the deal, CD Lamb's agent and Justin Jefferson's agent. Not the same guy, but say agencycha, So no one wants to pull the trigger, right, because then another guy could top me.

How long can they go like this?

Well, I mean, come.

On, after a while, someone has to blink, right, right, So I mean, and how does this affect us in regard to getting our affairs together? Does that affect that getting any money? Does it affect his contract? Does it affect what he's thinking about going into the next season? Yeah, that's all I care about. I can give a damn about those other wide receivers, right, but I want to know how that affects our football operations because.

Neither guy wants to go first signing a deal, So they're both sitting there kind of. I don't want to say it's collusion, but they're comparing numbers, right, and that's fine.

It's fine as long as you guys, let's let's make a move. Let's make a move together. Then we can make it, have a concerted move, you know what I mean, coordinated towards getting the same agency. Right, we can all we can all get paid, right you know.

But the problem is they could both ask for the save. But does it mean both teams are.

Too different teams?

Oh?

Yeah, different right now? The teams won't cooperate.

So it's kind of complicated.

I think it's the long game.

I think that it's going to take a little bit longer than I think everyone's wanting.

Yeah, how long are we thinking? I mean, are we talking into training camp and see he going to show up the training camp?

I don't know, he's und there, he's under contract.

Okay, I was too right now, I was. It wasn't but thirty thousand dollars. But I was in the contract as well.

But held were they finding?

Yes, they did one thousand dollars a day, did they really? Yeah, well they did. But when I signed, then you just signed, right, they get rid of it.

They give you four more thousand.

Right, No, I think I was. I was out for like a week.

What are you really what year was it.

I was in eighty two, so.

Your second year because you only signed a one year and no.

I had other but man, I signed a three year with an option. If I'm not mistaken, But dude, I was leading the league twice. Come on, I'm not No, I'm not coming to camp. I mean, I'm not coming to camp. You know, Gil know he got away with something at that time. So and I think what spurred me on was they tried to come to me with another low ball contract and act as if they're doing me a favor. Hey, ever, sence making thirty thousand, Hey here's eighty. You know everybody else is making two fifty

And even though you got a big race.

Yeah, well yeah I did. I did, but I didn't take that. I played. That's what the contract race was. I came back in without signing. I still played for whatever the original contract. So as like the kids do now that I bet on myself and it came out and I want.

So, So I think we'll we'll find out about the Cold War next week when it's the mini camp. That's not voluntary, right, and if you remember last year, he ain't coming. Remember when Zach was Zach was kind of quietly holding out, Remember he had a hamstring. Well he was angling for a raise. But as long as you're here, you don't have to participate, so you don't get fined for the mini I could see that. And same thing with Zach when we went.

Training hamstring brother him right now.

Yeah, yeah, exactly here. So that'll be interesting to London. Yeah, when it's when it's no longer voluntary.

Uh you know, we can.

Say, well, what do mandatory mean? Well, I don't want to get fine, I guarantee you. Yeah. So anyway, interesting conundrum there on trying to get that settled out and then quickly the Cowboys. So thirteen of the top fourteen paid players in the league or quarterbacks, and the Cowboys have to play number eight Deshaun Watson, number four, Lamar Jackson, number twelve for what it's worth twice Daniel Jones number nine, Jared Goff number ten, Kirk Cousins number two, Joe Burrow.

That's quite Only about three of those really concerned me.

So who concerned you most besides Jackson.

Jalen Lamar, uh huh. Burrow is really as good as he is. He doesn't concern me. Okay, uh, we played didn't we play them? We played them we played them well.

Cincinnati, we didn't play on last year.

Last year before.

I think it was the year before we did.

We did hurt. I think he played Okay, we did well.

Uh, because he's coming off of an injury. Still correct it was the hand injury.

Joe Burrow at the end of the season right this year.

Yeah, because at first it was the Yeah, the calf because I saw something that he threw in the o t a practice. Jared Goff bother.

You golf does he does? Bother me? Dad? The whole team bother this week? The coach bother this week. No, I'm I mean they're good. They're good, they're intimidating, they can be intimidating. And c J. Stroud and Stroud he bought. He concerns me.

Yeah, so I agree with you.

It's you know, when we talk about the schedule, we talk about teams, but more so quarterbacks because we know what drives the league.

The only one that would probably surprise me is Deshaun Watson because he just really wasn't ready last year. It's like coming back from an injury the first year, it's gonna be tough the second year. Okay, my feet feel a little better. But right now he's I think he's going for I'm sure this offseason he is going all out to get better, but you could just tell his timing wasn't there. His instincts had had failed him last year. Before that though, if you recall, he was one of

So it's really because.

That defense as well is good as well. The defense so.

Really important now that Deron Bland has established himself as an outside corner, that Trayvon Diggs comes back as Trayvon Diggs after his ACL.

Right, hope, let's hope that he you know, he doesn't. I don't want that buffer year, you know, like we have with Michael Gallup. I want them to come back, you know, at least as close to one hundred percent as possible.

Yeah, because then you get those two guys on the outside, Jordan Lewis in the slot. But then now I need some guys to step up, and those guys are.

Getting We have we have returning playmakers. We have returning playmakers in the same spots that we need them. It's it's the it's the backups, it's the depth that has to be strong for us. Our Nickel package, Din package has to be good. You know, we can't have if we decide to go to this, to the Din package. We got to be able to play the run better. Yeah, you know all those things that we know has burned us, that we all remember in this one. I'm sure they remembered over there as well.

It's oh my god, So stop the run, get through the quarterbacks.

Right and overall all defense there you go, all defense, every facet right, exactly, all right, before we.

Go no, no, no, no, yes, Rambling State University baseball, come on, man, that's right. We're based basket. Now football has to catch up, just like Dallas. Right, come on, just like Dallas. The football team has to catch up. But they were five hundred, they were like twenty six and twenty six.

In baseball baseball, and they.

Won the Contra yeah over Jackson State. So now we're doing very well.

Where do they go with A and L?

They go to A and L to A and M. Well, they play A and M. I don't know where they go to play, but they play. Yeah, God sent you the video and I think he said it's going to be along. They won the bus, right, celebrate it. Very cool, they're on the bus. I don't know the trophy. But then he said it's going to be a long ride to the video at the end of the video the commentator had made fun of. He says, it's going to be a long bus ride to whoever they have to play. I can't remember where it is.

If called out college stution, well I don't think it's the team. It's a four team region.

Okay, okay, so they're away.

Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to think of the college station. Regional is.

Yes, they're in with Louisiana, Texas, Grambling State, and Texan and m University of Louisiana.

Yeah, yeah, Texas, we can beat that. Louisiana is the number two.

See, actually that's true, we can be that.

Who do they play the first round? Chris does it A and.

M plays Grambling. Oh okay, yeah, and then Louisiana plays Texas.

Now it's double elimination.

See I can throw these headphones at you, man, don't say that. Don't put it out there like that.

All right, Well, that's a robust mix shots here with the three of us and uh, we'll be back next week Chris on Monday.

Monday for the final show before Brian, I didn't want to say it. I wanted Chris to say it.

All right, and I hope you guys will be back joining us and we'll see you next time.

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