Talkin' Cowboys: Free Agency Buzz

and our favorite tip of talking Cowboys. I'm sorry they changed to read on me again, so I forgot about that one, But welcome in. It is a busy, busy week at the Star in Frisco, and we are going to get into every single spit of it for the full hour, entire hour island right now, we have parked outside of island. We don't have time like to like, you know, bullcrap around the day. We got we need three hours, man, we don't need to do There's no shows after this. I think we're good. We're just gonna

keep on rolling. Beam. I know, I know, we've we've got places to be, things to do. But guess what free agency is here. It's the good, the bad, and the ugly of NFL free agency. And we're gonna hit all three of those throughout the segments, and initially in the rundown that I sent out to you guys, I had the good first. I wanted to start off on a positive show. I don't think we can now, I don't think we can do that magic carpet. We're gonna talk about the carpet that was ripped out from underneath

the Dallas Cowboys, and that involves Randy Gregory. Gregor, at least earlier this morning, thought to have agreed to terms with the Dallas Cowboys in a very not ludicrous, but a very large deal, I should say, got his money, got his bag, and he looked like he was coming back for the Dallas Cowboys. But Rob Phillips as of the last oh, this is mere pulling up to Rob pie Island. Yeah, Randy Gregory's going to Denver? What he's going to? The Denver Broncos apparently tap those brakes, right, spirt.

So we're taping this at eleven thirty three Central time, and literally I think about eleven twenty five am Central time, we're finding out that Randy Gregory's apparently going to the Broncos, not to the Dallas Cowboys. I'm literally just pulling up to the Star right now and hearing that this is

going down. So I'm I'm still trying to get some information on what happened, because as of I don't know, about an hour or two ago, he wasn't done, but the Cowboys were working on language and trying to trying to iron things out and finish it up. That's that was my understanding. And now, I mean, the Broncos are putting memes out on Twitter that they've got Randy Gregory. So that's where we're at right now. I mean, you wanted Pee Island. That's what he not a fun play.

You mentioned how we were at eleven thirty three, it was like eleven twenty nine, and then hekma looked over at the screen that's got NFL network on and he just had the most dejected look on his face. Well, I thought it was wrong. I thought it was a type yeah, and uh it's not. And well let me just start from where I was. I mean, every the media is backtracking on it. Now is backtracking on this.

Everybody had it though, Yeah, everybody had it. S I'm looking at the tweet from Schefter right now, Cowboys are resigning Randy Gregory because the agent put it out there. Exact money, Yeah, but now it's the same money, same deal, different place. It is Ultimately what it is, this is a yeah, this is uh yeah, that's that. There had to be some type of language in the contract something

I was. I was on my way in here to just talk about loyalty and you know, and you know, the organization showing loyalty to you and then you in

turn showing that loyalty back. I didn't, honestly, Isaiah, I didn't understand the contract from his standpoint because I'm looking at other guys signed bigger deals, and I'm saying to myself, like, wait a minute, that is definitely a hometown deal for Randy Gregory to the Dallas Cowboys, and that says thank you for staying down with me and believing in me. But this flip flop over to Denver, obviously without pe

telling us exactly what the language should have. What was that's in the contract that obviously flip flopped him at the last minute. I'm shocked. I'm shocked, I really am so. I just want to see what it is. But of all the free agents that we had, Randy Gregory was tops amongst the guy that you wanted to bring back because of his freaky athleticism, his ability to hunt the quarterback. And now it feels as though we are a sort

of back too. I know we got Tank we gotta talk about, but in a way, I think Tank kind of solidified himself on one end as a run stopper and not so much as a guy that's, you know, after the quarterback, which he can do that as well. I want to take that away from him. But man, I'm shocked. I think everybody is who I think everybody is. Way to go, Denver. What are your thoughts, Isaiah? They needed him? I agree they really needed this one hurts. I'm happy for Randy Gregory as a person. Let's just

get that out of the way. Got his bag overcame something. The story is still there. I still love Randy. He's still the guy. I wish he was a Dallas cowboy though. That's what hurts is I wish he was here. I wish he would have stuck with the initial thought process. And I'm looking at a tweet from rap report and of course this is all just reports, but understanding insisted on contract language. Dallas did that Gregory did not like

protecting themselves. So he heads back to Denver. Yeah, and it's it's all gonna come out now because the agent's gonna well, you know, people are gonna be contacting. They're gonna yeah, yeah, so Lang, which matters, it does. Sorry, I didn't mean to come No, you're good. I just I just they needed Gregory. They needed Gregory more than they needed d Law. And it's it's nice that they have d Law, but they needed Gregory. I will say that d Law was a want, Gregory was a need,

and they got it backwards. Is it because of what Heckma just said, the pass rushing ability from Gregory as opposed to the run stopping ability from Lawrence? I think Gregory dropping down from twenty million dollars a year down to ten million dollars a year. I think he asked him acknowledging Lawrence. Yeah, d Law. That's sorry, d Law making that adjustment in the contract. Wise, he understood where

where he was at. You know, he had he had to come to Jesus moment, and he had acknowledged that, hey, this is where I am uh and this is what my market is, and he took a deal that was bole to both him and the team. Gregory's deal needed to get done because now you don't have Gregory. Now you have to go get an end. You have to

go get a rush in. And not only do you have to go get a rush in, its like, do you get a dominant rush in and spend that same money that you're going to spend on Gregory or do you spend that money that you're gonna spend on Gregory? Go'll get you a B. Wagner and and get somebody who can compliment d law right instead of But one of the two things have to be. You have to get a dominant player art getting somebody else. You have

to get a goon. You have to get a goon at the defensive and position or at the mic linebacker position. One of those two. You can't just have okay guys at both Michael Parsons to Marcus Lawrence, Randy Gregory only played one hundred and forty snaps together this past season. In those one hundred and forty snaps, their yards per play yards per a tent and QBR allowed would have led all thirty two NFL teams in those one hundred and forty snaps. Yeah, so they're good on the field together.

And you know, remember we had this conversation about who's getting on the magic Micah bus, right, who's the magic who was getting on the bus. And we know Michael Parsons is on that bus already. We already said Trayvon Diggs, all right, now Tank is on that bus. Now I think they're obviously we want to have curse. These are guys that are standing on the outside that we're waiting

to get on. But still this defense, even with everything that's happened in the off season, everything that's beginning to happen free agency wise, you gotta start to see where this team isn't getting any better on both sides of the ball. You've lost a key contributor on both sides already. Mary Cooper's gone. Yeah, then now Randy Gregory is gone.

And so that's that's a that's gonna be that's gonna be big shoes to feel for a team no matter what that's looking for playmakers and we've just lost basically a big piece, a big cog in that and that will the Cowboys were prepared to sign Gregory to what was the what was the money? It was over five but it was really a two year, twenty eight million dollar deal because all of the money was already precent guaranteed. Yeah, and there was an out after the two years. I

wonder if that's the change between Denver and Dallas. I wonder if Denver came in and say, you know what, that's really a two year deal. They're kind of protecting themselves. We're gonna just we're gonna make sure that this is a five year deal for you. It could be that could be the change, or it could be more upfront money. Yeah, something like that. Um, but that's interesting because you know, like with Michael Gallup's deal, and we'll get into Michael

Gallup resigning as well. It's been a busy a few days. That's that's kind of like essentially a two year deal. If you really want to drill down on it. Tank is a two year deal too, technically, Yeah, so, but again, but they're still they were still willing to pay Gregory a nice chunk of change, and they're gonna have to

bad contract. I mean, Von Miller's out there. Our mail back question today is a Darius Smith like how how active are they going to be and trying to get another guy to to Isaiah's point, because man, that you thought you had your your your edge rushing duo intact and now it's it's yeah, I'm with you. They're gonna have to do something, I think, unless they want to make it the top priority in the draft, which that's

not how they operate. They operate by covering themselves before the draft and not being I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they go out and sign a wide receiver at some point too. Even though you know they lost um, Cedric Wilson, you think, oh, well they'll draft a guy, you know, a handful of receiver. They got a lot of things to do, They got a lot of Yeah,

they got a lot of holes to plug. And it seemed like they were on the right track in terms of obviously, um, you know, securing Gallop and you know, they made their move with Coop, which we knew was going to come down to that, and we didn't know

what they was going to trade them. We thought they're gonna just get released, but they were able to trade away Coop and it seemed like, you know, we're hearing rumors about their ability to hopefully try to bring curse back, and it seemed like they were you know, they got d laws like Okay, they made it friendly to their cap and you know, we're gonna made it him happy, and it's like, okay, these boys is they making some some moves man, as well as making some cap space

right and now who that rug just got pulled out, that road got pulled out. Now they're in a situation where I think they're gonna have to sign it, you know with Zadarius, Yeah, somebody like that. You have to get him. You have to get a Bobby. You got to get a big, a big name like that on that side of the ball that is a leader, that is a leader and has a motor and has proven

in this league. And that's it. And it is such a player that when you play an opposing team, they say, hey, you better freaking get this dude under control otherwise to erect the whole game. And I think coming into today you felt okay, even this morning, you felt pretty good about what things were lining up to be because you were putting yourself in a position to get your key pieces back and then also have a run at a potential couple names down the road that can make an

impact in their own right. You only had lost guys like Cedric Wilson. That's that's we kind of expected that he was going to go get that back somewhere. William Connor. Williams was gone to the Dolphins two years, fourteen million for for Connor row number two, which both both guys were not expected back now. Cedric, because and I've been

saying this, he was gonna get a nice deal. I didn't think he was to get it the first day of free agency, but he got it for him Connor, I think they were looking to change that left card position exactly. I think really the only thing we were surprised about, or that we were upset about, was Amari Cooper, and even then we had expected it. It wasn't really a surprise that he was surprised by d Law. Honestly, I was. I thought it was a pleasant surprise. Yeah,

a pleasant surprise, I thought. I mean, and Coop was I knew, we knew that Coop wasn't going to be back here. You wanted some kind of competence, compensation. Didn't think they're gonna get conversations. You got a little bit. Yeah, they got something. So kudos of them for not just releasing him. Right, They got some value for him. So if you were going to make that move, now, let me standing. I did not want Coop to leave everybody. Everybody okay, cool, So I just want to make sure

that people don't take the twister around. But if you're not that, you're gonna lose him. Minus will get something for him. Great job. They got some value there. Awesome, Okay, but they lost it right now. That receiver room is looking thin, scary, it's very scarce, and you're gonna have to go grab a veteran like Landry because who's leading

that room. You gotta go grab a Landry. You gotta grab somebody that's that's proven, not necessarily has to be a necessarily a dog, but a contributor that is a proven leader in this league, because otherwise that room has no leadership. It's gotta be Ce Lamb and Michael gall That's kind of what I'm thinking. No, no no, no, before you do the mic flip, no, I mean Michael Michael Gallas for this fifth season, you know, and they just paid him sixty two millions. He's got to be a leader.

CD's your guy now, right, But got stuff. But at some point we're gonna have the Ceede Lamb conversation. We're gonna have a real conversation about Ceedee Lamb whether he can be the number one. We're also going to have to start having a real conversation about Kellen Moore in his offense. This is a real conversation that has to be had going into twenty twenty two. So that way, we can't deal with any what the alternate facts are, you know, fake news going on with our team, because

we're dealing with a lot of that right now. You talk about the rug being pulled from under us, that's all that was. Let's talk about d Law and the deal that he that he signed. Come to Jesus moment a reality check to go from nineteen million dollars to ten million dollars, dude, And not just that, but you cut his cap hit for twenty twenty two in half, which and I just had this conversation upstairs, like, well, that's why they should have tagged Randy Gregory, That's why

they should have given him the franchise tack. No, because they didn't want to carry a twenty million dollars cap chart. Now, I guess you could have tagged him with the expectation of trying to get a long term deal done. It's not guaranteed when you tag somebody, just like Dalton Schultz, is not guaranteed they're gonna get a deal done with him before July fifteen. No, that's why they probably didn't

want to do that. But that's why that's why Tanks deal is so big, because now you're opening up some cash, some space to get some other things done. They want to get jay Ron Curse done. That's another guy to watch for the next day to the show. If it's by the end of the show, I wouldn't be surprised. He's tweeting out already, thank you God, like he's he's sending these these cryptic tweets out there saying like something's happening,

something's going on behind the scenes. So that's curse Twitter. It's just saves everything, it really has. I mean, it's the instantaneous that's breaking their own news. You're right before with the factor Chine, the dial up tone, all online morse code crazy. There's a lot going on. This is this is as crazy a legal tampering period day as I can remember. All let's do it is real quick. I know we probably got go to break he in

a minute. What was your grade when you walked in today with the assumption that Kurse was going to be signed, because that hasn't happened, signed Hooker's back, right, and you got d law under under favorable contract, and you expected Gregor to be signed. What was your grade on the Cowboys offseason to part so far? I went being c to be with with the expectation of those those guys coming in. Okay, so you was at a B. Yeah,

I was probably like a B minus. I was right there. Yeah, I felt I didn't feel good about it, but I was okay with it. But it still kind of left a lot to be desired on the back end. There's still a long way to go until we build this role. I was at A based upon what I knew they were gonna do with Coop. I didn't obviously I didn't like that Coup decision. But if you're gonna get rid of Coup, they got valid. I think it's impossible to

be given a grade. Yeah, I would give I'm almo as far as they're what they had in terms of retention, Yeah, I would give an A. I was given an A because I didn't think that they were gonna be able to get both d Law and Greg back on the same roster, as well as get Cursed back and Hooker and you know what saying. I didn't think they're gonna

be able to get all these guys batch. So in terms of what they're doing up their numbers wise, they were doing a hell of a job, right, And then it's an A on defense you throw in the Coop thing, and so it was a huge well yeah, I mean but I would probably I would probably say it be yeah, because I you know, I'm giving it an A basic part. We knew that Coop wasn't coming back. Yeah, I don't like the Coop being gone. No, I mean I think, I mean, what would it be now? Who? Yeah, you

asked the question. I know you knew that. I think I'm dropping it down to a B minus because they can still they can reverse course, and they can still they can still make a big splash at half. I came into this with the expectation that they were going to make a ginormous splash, like a splash move somebody who's not on this roster. And I believe that now they even more so have to do that. Yeah, I

think that's Yeah. I think it's an incomplete because I think they still have work to do now, especially to be complete until we get to training. But they weren't. They were going to focus on their own guys first think, and now you lost one, apparently the thing would And I have to say this about Coop. I was, I was. I was really numb about the whole Coop deal anywhere.

I told you, I was like, look, man, how we didn't figure out a way to use him all the time that we had him, and we gave up to get him to then trade him away for a five or six. It basically said what we thought about him, or we gave up all our leverage in the negotiation portion of it. It was the leverage and the contract were the two biggest things that didn't give him return. Teams were scared away by the twenty million dollars a

year over the next three years. I think I think, I mean, I agree, but I think it was more so the fact that teams knew that he was gonna be released. I think that into it, sure, I mean, and I think the only reason why Cleveland. Cleveland knew that he wasn't going to sign with them if he went free. So Cleveland was like, let me beat everybody. That's a great point. We got a mail back question a couple of days ago asking what the Jets do it because and it's technically this is not official yet,

it's gonna get done. I'm confident of that. Uh, because the Jets, who would they sign? Would he signed with the Jets? No, so go ahead, and would you give up like a second round pick that wasn't going to happen because of the contract that that that's that's that's why deals like this don't happen that often when they do amark for a fifth round pick. Yeah, Cleveland was not destination for Mary Cooper. He was. No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't think he wanted to stay here. That's I'm

pretty kind. Like he has said over and over again, he wanted to stay. He loves Dallas, wanted to stay in Dallas. So that's why do you think the rumor has any merit to it? What's that him and him in that conversation. None, No, no, I don't want to know. I don't I don't think someone at all. I'm glad you asked that question though, because it's out there and a lot of people think it's a real thing. It's not a real thing at all. But we can we

can get into Mary. But but what I was gonna say was, I when when I saw what they did with Tank, it made me wonder, could they have done that with Coop? Should they have done that with Cooper? They could have, they could have reworked. Not they to do that with Coop? I don't know if they see I don't know if they did. I wonder if they just decided, look, we got to save money and we're gonna yeah we've got a CD Lamb to fall back back on. We don't have that. We don't have that

at the defensive end position. With what they thought was right, who's your starting three receivers opening day? Yeah, that's right now. I if Michael Gallup is good to go week one, which they're hopeful that he will be Ceedee Lamb, Michael Gallop and either an unnamed to be signed free agent Semi Phoko. I mean, no, I don't know where we're at right now. Signack oh no Brown did sign back?

No Brown, But but that it won't be that it's gonna it's gonna be either a third round, fourth round pick or more than likely they're gonna sign I wouldn't be surprised if they sign a free agent at some point. So we're thin, yes, right now, you're thin in a wide receiver room. Now you're all of a sudden thin at edge rusher. Now you're also thin and linebacker thin and tight end anymore? Hey, tight end's taking care of No, that's part of this thinking, right because he's a pass catcher.

Like if they are we talking about you got one tight end you let Well that's a good point. Okay, you're not starting over a tight end now, not starting over there? So you thin? Sound fer thin minute? It's girl scout month, mint, I don't know, Summer, I don't know if it is. I think of a line then yeah, well that's part of the fact that you haven't signed anybody. All these guys are leaving and you haven't brought in anybody else. How much cat space that we have now?

I think twenty eight million is what I'm looking at right now. Available. I think so under that may not be completely accurate, but that's what I've gotten here. Okay, so my math could be wrong, and that's not taking out the Randy Gregory supposed deal right that doesn't include Randy on the book set. My point was, if you if you move on from Coope, that opens up space. I'm not saying this right, I'm not. I'm not saying it's ripe, but I'm saying it's a quantity thing. You retain,

you create space for Dalton Schultz, Michael Gallup. It gives you more flexibility to fill out your roster. I don't like it, but I'm just saying that's why. I think that's the decision they made at that position. Extreme distaste for them, party ways with Coop. Yeah, well Michael Gallups gets a deal done. Congratulations from Michael Gallup. He deserves it. He's what you want. You want to be able to draft guys. They do well in your organization and you

reward them. I will say, when I'm looking at these other contracts that are being handed out, I asked myself, well, Mike, did you not think that you know, where are you with your knee? And maybe that's the reason why he signed such a favorable deal to the Cowboys because he could have went out and got way more money a

lot of than what he signed for. A lot of people were thinking it wasn't a favorable deal whenever he signed it, because he signed it so early, and it was like even before the legal tampering period even opened up free agency officially began that the numbers were kind

of leaked out there. But like now that you're seeing this, Cedric Wilsons and Christian Christian Kirk south there and crazy yeah, Zay Jones even going back to Jacksonville, if they assigned Kirk and Jones those numbers up there, it's like, oh, maybe maybe this is a team friendly deal more so than we thought initially. I mean, Christian Kurks getting what eighteen million from Jacksonville, Amar's was twenty That's why hear yourself say what you just said, Christian Kirk got eighteen

million dollars. That's why free that's coming from an aggy too. I love my guy. That's this guy, but that's why, that's why, that's why fans look at the AMAR thing and guys, fans aren't happy because it's like, Okay, he's twenty million. Yes, he's twenty million, but he's a productive guy. And and to your point, you're right, they gotta they

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secure your spot today. You don't think Ceedee Lamb's a number one wide receiver. We're gonna carry over this. We were talking in the middle of the break. Jip Jazz, you gotta help us out here. Jazz Jazz is running in in the back actually doing a fantastic job. I want to I want to hear what Isaiah's thought about is on the air. I want to hear what are you talking about I'm talking about to sign a guy,

sign a leader in the way. Let me start by saying I don't know the man personally, I'm gonna say I'm gonna start by saying that, However, I don't get the sense that he is a leader of men in that room, speaking of speaking of Cede Lamb, I don't get the vibe that he's leading those guys in terms of their ability to overcome adversity, in terms of their ability to have a sound mind, in terms of their ability to be have emotional intelligence. I don't get that

vibe from him. Now, he very well made possess those capabilities, I don't feel that. So I feel as if Amari Cooper was that guy for the Cowboys. I feel as if Amary Cooper was that level headed guy that could speak to those guys from a veteran standpoint and say, hey, chill out right, or this is a situation, or hey, this is where we need to approach this thing, or hey, guys, So everybody looks at him and sees that he's calm,

cool and colle right, He's not spassing out emotionally. I don't see that they have that guy in the locker room now at that particular position. So when I say that, I believe that they need to go out and attain a veteran like a Jarvis Landry. Why do you think Jarvis Landry was there in Cleveland with O'Dell. He was there to keep him under wraps. He wasn't there to be the most productive guy in a So you're calling Jarvis Landry level headed and veteran leaden compared to what

you have on the roster right now. Yeah, And the thing is, let's just say Amari Cooper is probably never spassed out a day in his life. Just who he is, most probably say that he's always the call me voice in the room. But I think what you're pointing to is more of a maturity thing more than anything else. And you've seen guys come into the league that have maturity things that they do and then they mature into their role. Let's just talk about what Ceedee Lamb is

carrying on his back, and that's those two aids. And with those two aids come the expectation of a whole organism Z. And he's in a pressure cooker right now. That's just the way it is. And so he has to produce they look he fell in their lap. And Kyle had to run from his apartment too, because he didn't think there was gonna be a snowball chance in hell that we're gonna be able to get cde Lamb.

But here he is. And look as much as we look at Amari Cooper and his face being indifferent and not being that passionate leader that we're used to, he still top in the league and what he does. And I think that's where the fan base is divided. But now the expectation falls solely on cd Lamb, and it's and it falls solely on Michael Gallop. And you've had those sample sizes in games where you've relied on them and you didn't get the production that you were thinking

that you could. So when you say the room is thin and you need a proven leader, I believe I can trust that I could go to the bank with that. But at the same time, this team, you're gonna have to let your young guys at least have a peek a chance at being that leader. A couple of things to piggyback on that point, because you've spent not only is he carrying the eighty eight, you spent the seventeenth overall pick on CD Lamb. At some point, a seventeenth

overall pick needs to be the number one receiver. He's got to be your wide receiver. One. You didn't spend a middle first round pick on a guy who's going to be a number two or number three the entirety of his career. Second point, Michael Gallup's getting sixty two million dollars, I mean he's getting the bag. He got the bag not to be a number two or number three. He needs to be a one A or one B.

You have those two guys there. I have no argument against anything that either one of you guys are saying. In order to be a number one doesn't mean that you have to be a leader. No, you're You're right on that. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about production. I don't question either one of their ability to produce on the field. I'm talking about a leader. I'm talking about what I'm supposed to be the quarterback that you just paid one hundred and forty billion dollars.

In the room, though, in that room, in that room, when the when in that room, when Dak's not throwing accurate balls and the velocity is falling off and things aren't going their way, and they both in CD's throwing a hissy fit because he's mad and the balls not coming his way. Be a bad body language. Who's there to say, hey, hey, lock it up. You don't have that, You don't have it anymore. So if that's going to be your leader out there that has bad body language

and who I don't know. As being said, I could just go off what I see, right, and it doesn't when when things aren't going well, you can visually see that he is angry about it. You can visually see that he's that he's up in arms about it. Who is in that room now, who's sitting on that bench? But we don't have any proof that Amari was actually that guy that we do not agree. We have nothing but assumptions. We have nothing but assumptions, absolutely, And there's

also not any proof that anybody you bring in. You could go sign at James Washington. I know that name has been kind of floating around out there as well. You could go sign somebody like that, and it doesn't mean that they're going to come in and be that guy either. Know, everything is a hope in this league everything in this league is hope. No. And that's but that's why, like part of me thinks I understand why

there did it. I understand because at some point you got to make these decisions with the cap and I don't think it's so much about his personality and he's not you know, yeah, all that's with a Mari Like they did not touch his contract last year to give themselves the option to do this. Yeah, they knew coming up in the twenty twenty two this could be an issue, but it doesn't. If Michael galluper healthy, I'd feel better

about it. He's not healthy right now. And so to your point, they are thin at the position and you're asking Ceede Lamb to step up into that role. I don't have a problem with that because he's seventeenth overall pick and he's been to the Pro Bowl. Like that's kind of the nature of the NFL and this cap y can't keep everybody together. You gotta have guys step up, and so I see why they did it from that standpoint. But you're not better without Amari Cooper. No, you're not.

Just let me just say this, like I'm a sucker for a magic trick, you know, I love a good magic trick, Like Randy Gregory just pulled on the SAP. I'm just saying, David Blaine has the best. Yeah, levit Ac, pick a card, shuffle them. You can't guess where it is. Like every single year we get caught up in the magic trick of this team is better because we did made this move in free agency, or we did this in the draft, and we come right back to the

table saying all right, this team is better. All right, But now in the offseason, I'm here and Steven say, well, we had we thought that last year's roster was going to propel us to the Super Bowl. I don't know if coming off of the twenty twenty season any of us in this room thought that. I thought, hey, we could be leaps and bounds better. We can get a

shot at the NFC East. But even playing in the NFC Championship, that seemed like a stretch throughout the season we're following falling for the But now in the tailpipe right now, and I'm just I just want to call it out and let's be real about it, because how

did we get better with that move? How did we get better by letting said go now with the pieces that we're losing, all right, And so if we're saying, look, we're just gonna go in free agency, we're gonna get some guys in free agcy, we're gonna go into the draft. How much you were just asking who's going to be the starting receivers? Can the starting receiver next year take that production that Amari Cooper had. I think he did like eight hundred in something yards last year, nine touchdowns,

seventy eight catches, seventy eight catches. Is that guy gonna have seventy eight catches to replace that production? Another question too, is without his presence affect that as Dalton Schultz get the production he got. I think he's I think he's a very good young tight end. But like that's I think he benefited from that too. I think that's another question asked. And Ceedee Lamb benefited from having Amari Cooper on the field, and Michael Galla benefited from having a

Marie Cooper A little different. When you're a number two receiver here, you're not better and Coop for my next trick, well, you know, And that's that's where frustration from the fan base comes, right that, like on paper, someday or not, as it looks like they're headed towards a roster that's

not gonna be as talent. It's certainly not going to be because but but that's why that playoff loss stunk so much, because everybody knew this was not And I think even if it were a similar roster and it was similar in talent, you wouldn't fall for the magic trick anyways, because you still didn't make it that far. You still didn't go that far, even with a talented roster and everything that you felt like was lining up, and you still didn't make it to an NFC championship game.

You didn't make a push to the super Bowl. Because of that, I think you could have brought back all of these guys and then hit on four of your draft picks and you start fourteen and oh, fifteen and oh, and fans are still gonna be like winning the playoffs, find a way to win in the postseason, because the fan base's the same thing. We haven't sniffed the NFC championship in twenty six years. You haven't got there. You

want to win the NFC East. I could tell you based off of the moves that the other teams wire making. We're gonna win the NFC East again. You'll see the T shirt in the grocery store. Hey, why chap malanners. They're they're firing up. They've got Carson went stop, just go on. You've been serious. If that's where we're like, people are sitting there gonna wait a minute, dog, how do how does that get us to a super Bowl?

Because we see the difference when when it was championship time, they had an Aaron Donald to get a sack, They had a Von Miller to get a sack. They had an Odell Beckham that carried that first half before the Cooper Cup got warmed up. They had all of those pieces. Where are our pieces? No reesus? Just say, dog, is we're at that point where you have to start asking the tough question, how do we make it better? I don't lean on them. I don't lean on them. I

don't lean on Hope. That's not something that I rest on. You know. I think that the big moves have to be made. And I think the move today or like thereof the rug pool hurt that hurt man and anybody that's that's out there saying, oh I know Kyle you know the whole draft, and and you know some of the young talent. But I don't put expectations on Ricky's like that. I don't care whether they're especially unless they're

a top ten pick. I don't put expectations on I'm going to come in and just be a beast and be a microL Parson. No, I don't. I don't. That was the exception. Not Yes, absolutely, by every sense of the imagination. Also, the rug pool today with with Randy Gregory, what you're talking about. It took when we had the draft show earlier and we expected Randygory on the roster. When we recorded, we were talking about and we said

edge rushers off the board early. Now it's right back on the board now if he's not available and you don't go get a guy you're talking about maybe an address four. Let's answer this question. If you had to make one big splash signing what position edge rusher At the moment, edge usher, I would say edge rusher or interior offensive line. Those would be my two. Because I still feel confident you can find a receiver in the draft. I know you're talking about leadership, and that's that quality.

I think the signings of Michael Gallup and then the elevation of of CD Lamb. That's got to be your leadership in that room. Now those two guys for the next couple of years, that's your core. Go get a young receiver that can learn underneath those guys. That's where I'm at. I'm counting on the draft for the line stuff, at least the interior part of it. I don't know if I don't know if it's the first round, but I mean, what what's the free agent landscape at that position?

You know, there's a couple of Harts out there, there's a couple of guards out there. If you wanted to go get a veteran guard and draft your center, if let's say Tyler linder Bomb's there at twenty four, sure that I would be ecstatic by that. Actually, if you went and grabbed a guard and then had your center there and take take the center, or if you take your guard and go sign a veteran center, either one

of those. But I would rather make a splash signing at one of those positions or at edge rusher, which one you choose, to know you got big one edge rusher, because I don't know who else is there other than tank. You're going edge edge. Yeah. And the reason I'm saying edges because you you lose a dynamic on your defense that allows you to get aft to the quarterback. We lost that. And I know Michael Parsons is special, but we play him all over the place. So if he's

there are games we have him in the middle. There are other games that we have mid edge and we bump tank down. Now you don't even have that dynamic anymore because you need tank coming from off of the end. I'm gonna I was so excited. I'm gonna go against the Green And I think if you're gonna make a big splash signing, you're just like making conversation. No, no,

I mean going back. No. I think if I had to make a big splash signing, I know I gotta choose, it would be either at the linebacker position or it would be at the guard. Let's go we have let's just gonna have the conversation. I don't think they're gonna get do it. I think Bobby might. I mean I would love for Bobby to be here. You guys know that, but I think Bobby might if they have enough money done in the Charger land. I think they're gonna make you.

You wouldn't know more than anybody. I'm interested in your thought process here. Bobby's what thirty one about to be thirty two. He's gonna he's gonna still demand sixteen million. Yeah, that's fine. Money is still going on. I'm sure he'd love to play with the Q. Yeah, but they afford money. The money is there. It might be there now, it's there now. I mean you can take the same deal from Randy Gregor if you add Bobby to this roster. It's it's a problem on defense. The problem is is

how explosive is this offense? Because that for years, that's where you've laid your hat. You've laid your hat on the ability to move people off the ball on your offensive line and turns to your running game. Dak can't be successful without a solid running game. Let's just say it now, Dak needs a running game, which means you need an offense a line that can move people off

the ball. So you better focus on being able to get an offensive line that can go ahead and just bullrush people down the field so Z can do what he does. So I'm gonna do what he does, I'm gonna go with old line. Okay, I'm gonna go to line. I'm gonna say line. I would love to have a big time linebacker, but I'm gonna say old line because this team doesn't do anything anything. I don't care how well the defense players and gets the ball three and outs and all that stuff. It still has to come

back to the offense. And if this offense can't run the ball, then they can't pass the ball. I don't disagree with you there, Yeah, I just don't. I don't know if that's gonna be the fay. Oh I don't think so either, But oh, I'd like to amend my tight end is then an argument. Jeremy Sprinkle is back on a one year So now Dolkey Sean mckut's party

got numbers at tight end. Y'all stereo goes back. They're okay, I'm just they've just been I'm just mocking what fans are saying right now because I'm right there with you, guys. Just so you know I'm there with you. Let's take our second break when we come back. Which side of the football do we feel more confident in at this

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is a frenzy, baby, it is a crazy morning. David Hellman, of course from upstairs, just said, this is certainly one of the more memorable mornings of my time covering Cowboys free agency. I think I could echo that sentiment. I haven't been here as long as you have. Rob, can you say the same? This might be at the top right there, at least top. Yeah, with the with the Randy news Wild you said you look like you were

going to say something there. I just wanted a non non on the field subject real quires more of condolences for Marilyn Love, the Cowboys long time Jerry Jones's long time executive assistant who passed away last week. Um, it's tough day for a lot of people in the building, everybody the building. So I just wanted to throw that

out there. Yeah, as crazy as it's been that that certainly is at the front of a lot of people's minds here at the Star, and you even see the pictures and the slide shows on the screens throughout the building. So certainly our our prayers and condolences as a show and the full woman. Absolutely, yes, she was great. I mean every time you had an interaction with her, she was fantastic. So uh sad that that sad day around the Star in Frisco. For sure, Glad you brought that up.

I'm certainly I should have probably said that. No, no, no, it's been a it's been a crazy it has been a crazy morning. Okay, let's let's recap what's happened for those of you listening and have stuck around this long. Thank you. Yeah, buckle up? Uh Noah brown Back on a one year contract. Michael Callup agreed to a five year deal. That's really a two year deal. Malie Cooker signing this morning to your contract for Malie Cooker. That's pretty good for Dalton Schultz has been issued the franchise

tag that was later last week. No. Cedric Wilson moving on three year contract with the Miami Dolphins. Connor Williams also with the Miami offense two years, fourteen million dollars. Jeremy Sprinkle is back. Do we have contract details? No? Nothing yet. Sorry. Jake McQuaid is back. No fist pump, long snapper, nothing. Randy Gregory onto Denver. They had to do that. We didn't say the good news. Thank Lawrence resigns. Greg's orline has been cut. Is that what there is?

I don't know if I like calling somebody losing their job. I've lost many jobs before. But to the discussions that we've had in this role, yeah, okay, we thought that he was going to be attached to the hip a fossil. I mean, it's still not out of the question that he's back. Legatron, the greg the leg That was a concerning position. Yeah, it still is. There's nobody on the roster you talk about. Then they don't have a kicker or a punter really at the moment right now, but

they have a long snapper. Hello, I get the ball to you. Yeah, somebody snapping his angered still free? Yeah, hit it man. And that's that's another position where like they would like to resign him, you know, but I appreciate that. I appreciate their stance. They're saying, look, you think you can go get elsewhere. Yeah, go ahead and test the market. Let's see what market you had. Come home, they come home back. The Rams released their punter today.

Who was the first team All Pro? Just real quick, I mean like five years ago. Remember how just that was such a stabilizing section of the roster. Yes, you had LP, you had Dan Bailey, you had Chris Jones, and you just knew who it was. It was just never had to worry about it. Now it's you know, there could be some change. They were both spots. Oh maybe they're about to go back to that because they have three fifth round picks and there's a shot that

they go draft the kicker in that fifth round. Exciting that's on the table. Oh, that might be the mail back question for tomorrow. You want me to answer it. I mean, I pop on. I've never done a mailbag, but I'll do it. Are there some kickers out there? Yeah? You like Cameron Dicker out of Texas Dicker the kick. Yeah, he should go around the fifth round. Kate Yorke out of LSU. He got so excited. Isaiah's beside himself at the moment. He's a good kicker. K York who's product.

He's training up here, all right. Yeah, so they've got guys that would be available if he cam Yeah, we'll call him Cameron, Cameron Dicker. Now he's on a first dame basis. I'm trying to help my man recover over here. I got so excited about that. Back the whole show. Anyway, they've got a there's a punter from San Diego State, by the way, who's just a total badass, total badass.

He's super fun to watch. So uh yeah, I mean they could go get a kicker and a punter in the fifth round and still have an extra fifth left over man, So you could potentially look at that as a possibility. But that's kind of the update as to what is happening with free agency at the moment. What has been your favorite so far? Let's talk about the good stuff, because we've been fifty minutes of this show moaning and complaining and talking about what could have been.

What is the good things that you've seen from this free agency period so far, because of course, by the time we record again next week, everything's gonna change again. The good thing, for my stance is what they've been able to do with the cap space. Very surprising. They've been men. They kudos, kudos to them. I'm obviously I'm not happy about the coop thing, but the obviously that's the cap space is a positive from them. That's a

part of it. Aside from the coop releasing, I think that they've done a magnificent job in regards to the cap and im and that's just as a hand hunts nice a little golf clap to those guys upstairs. I'm maneuvering money around and messing with the paperwork and the lawyers and all that jazz. Magnificent job. They are seventh in the NFL right now in cap space total cap space right this second, they are number seven. Going from almost late twenties to seven in a matter of a

couple of days. Is all right, you know what, man, I really appreciate some of the other things that I'm hearing that they're doing. Guys that they're thinking about offloading. I can appreciate that from the front office, you know, making moves, not just allowing guys. And I think in the past you've seen cowboys just stay around for way too long, way past their productive peers. And I don't think that this front office is going to stand for

that anymore. So the best apology is changed behavior and seeing them change their stands on some guys that they were high on. I like to hear it. You know. Our offensive line is we're worried about Connor Williams going to the Dolphins. That's one thing, But look how they feel about tearing steel and what I'm hearing about him possibly being a starter now at right tackle. I'm okay with that. We haven't mentioned Lyle Colin. No, we haven't.

How do you guys feel about that? That's what I'm talking about that one way or another, doesn't appear like he's going to be back, whether he's a post to you one cut, whether he's traded. I said last week that I think that you need to bring him back. I still stand behind that. I don't think that you bring him back at the number that he was currently at, that he was at previously. But I think it's gonna be hard to find that, you know. I just I just think it's I mean, I mean, you feel guys

feel comfortable about steal and that's that's awesome. Right, he stepped up. But this office a line unless they make a big splash I still have question marks. I think tackle is a sneaky need. I wanted to talk about this this morning on the Draft Show. But I think tackle is a sneaky need because they're worried about his health, they're worried about his longevity and Lyle Collins. They're they're worried about him potentially being Lyle Collins again. And if

he's not that, maybe try and shop him. Go out and look where else you can go and see who would take him, sign resign him under something that's more favorable. Right, well, he's not, he's not. His contracts still, Well, I'm saying, like pull a d law, you know what I mean, like like you know, like I mean, I've been saying, like why couldn't you try him at left guard? Apparently that doesn't seem like something they they palatable want to do that. So now left guards the need to y'all's point,

like they got to figure that out. I think Tyler Beyandis is probably gonna be your starting center, but maybe not. Maybe you know, maybe that's a maybe that's a draft need. I think the only way to dress left guard next to him, And that's that's the reason why I say make a big splash at the left guard position. Right, Connor's gone, Um, kudos to him getting a contract, But like you need a big boy dog. That's the whole

league knows a defensive line. When they step up, they're like, crap, I got this dude, and I look over there and I got I got Martin order god dog, and you worry a little bit less about beads. If yeah, you put two guys and you say I want him in there. Either way you want to pick what either side of beyantas you want to choose, he gonna have help if you have a if you have a goon at that position. Right. So that's why I say spending money on the on the guard, and then you then you draft the backups

for the for those for the tackle positions. And the only reason Tyler Biadish is not your starting center because I think they would rather just see if the draft board falls to him. If Tyler Linderbaum is there, he'll be your starting center next year. If he's not, it'll most likely be Tyler. Be honest, because I think I'm with you. They would rather upgrade the guard spot and let him play, rather than upgrade the center spot and still have a huge question mark over the guard spot

to his left. Does Linderbaum have any flex? Could he play guard for you? Not? Really, No, he could is a cent. He's been a center in college. Yeah, you don't want him to do that, Okay, Yeah, he's he's too good of a center too. I mean, he'll be a starter wherever he goes. And I think the value is in a guy that's can be flex There is value in that. But that doesn't take away how good Linderbaum is. I'm not trying to take anything away from him. I'm saying that Beyondest has been on your roster now

for two years. This is third year, all right, and I've seen, I guess in my experience where the organization doesn't just throw guys away based off of, you know, three years. They still believe that he can become a part of the future. And so that's why I think going to the left guard, like you said, it's probably gonna be in their future versus just bringing on Linda Bomb and cutting uh. I don't think they would cut him.

He would be the backup because he's still on a rookie deal and he got him in the fourth round. It's not like he's eating up a massive amount of I don't see them going away from beyondih. I mean, I don't think that there's any games that we can circle and say beyond play like crape. You know there's a couple there's a couple of game you look at and say, yeah, he doesn't have the reps and he still needs to get his eyes right and all those type of things that strengths all those kind of things.

But I don't think there's not any games where you just say this dude just getting his butt kicked the entire dog on game right Stepford, the freaking uh Jones that everybody, but I mean, he destroyed the whole left side of it. He was taking everybody out there. But I think at some point Isaiah even got got the business from yeah, Chris Jones brab me up the studios.

But I think I mean to that point, sign a big time left guard, because your most valuable asset that you continue to stand behind us who Dak Prescott yep. So if that's your most valuable asset, then protect the interior. Protect the interior so that he has zero question marks and you have to get the ground game going. I go back to this. If they can't run the ball, this offense doesn't go. That's that's been my number one

thing for a while. But I guess I was counting on Randy Gregory being back, and as of this taping of the show, he's headed to Colorado. So um, yeah, Harry and Lloyd, it's more That's that might be the most disappointing part of this whole thing, other than me wanting Gregory to be back and and loving him as a player and loving him as an off the field guy. The one thing about Randy not being here is now

it opens up the need for edge again. And I said that earlier in the in the in the show, but you thought, at least with him being back, you thought your defense was was looking way better. You can go get a line back here, Hey, you can go go get your safeties back. And now it's like, ok, are we gonna have enough time to address the offensive line? Are we gonna have to use those those resources to go get an edge rusher again? It hurts and you can't and you can't just say, hey, Mica being able,

because who are your linebackers now? Layton Vanderesh is a free agent. Yeah, that's what wouldn't totally rule out him coming back, but you're think I think it makes it more likely that he comes back with Randy Gunno Layton Vanderesh, just based off of the money and the allocated dollars on that side of the football. Don't you don't think it affects it? Yeah, that's that's a tough one. I think it does. But but going back to Randy Man, I just look this year. I don't want to confuse

good with special. I see other teams that have special. T J. Watt He's special, right, the Bosu brothers, they're special. What we're getting is we're getting another guy to fill the role. Now that the deal would have been good for us as a team, but when are we going to get that special guy? It's it's third and eight step up and you and he coming, and we don't know. We don't have that yet, Micah. But he can't be the end all to be all, because if that's the case,

then teams are gonna do double team him. Who's gonna be our other guy? And we still don't have that guy yet. Mike is your Swiss army knife who's coming from different spots, and honestly, like I mean, I've thought Michael was fabulous, but like he benefits from having Randy there. Thank you, Tank there, Tank rushing inside that was that was the beauty of that. Everybody had a had a one on one opportunity. So do you would you spend

money on Chandler Jones? I would. I have to get somebody, specially, we gotta get somebody. I gotta get somebody with some bend. I gotta get somebody that when when we need it, that has a respected official lines they're gonna be going against. And everybody did that for Randy Gregory. They knew that Randy's that's the thing about Randy that made him so special. Dog he'd come off that end and teams have to make a decision like call, don't call off side, Please,

don't call offside. He's gonna be pissed off. Yeah side, Sure, No they call off side. He's like, I mean, moves galore, I mean answer all of that, man, And you cannot duplicate that, Nope, by just saying all we're just gonna hear next guy up. I just that's just not where we are. Edwarder just tweeted that the Broncos had Randy rated higher on their free agent wish list than Chandler Jones. Yep.

And I'm looking at an article right now where Chandler Jones was looked at by Denver and who said that, So hey, yeah, all right, I mean by the time, by the time we reconvene, we'll probably have more answers, but right now we don't. We were listening off a lot of questions. If there's something positive, I mean, beyond the tank space that he created with his new deal.

I think Malie Cooker's a sneaky good signing because I think he played his best down the stretch and maybe he's your starter and maybe a year removed Heather year removed from the Achilles and he dono news, no news, no, okay, nothing right now. And then I mean, there's really nothing else in terms of curse yet and some of these other names you mentioned, lve nothing yet. But I guarantee you as soon as we sign off, as soon as we sign off here in the next ten seconds, it's

going to come down. We will be back on Tuesday to break it all down for you. Back here from the Star in Frisco for Jazz in the Back. Rob Phillips Isaiah stand back for heck Ma Harrison. I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long from the Star in Frisco. We'll see you next week on Talking Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.