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It is. Somebody texted in and said, I hope there's less yelling than there was on Conundrum. I think it could be less yelling. Probably somebody wants Conundrum back. They texted that this morning. You think Kevin can handle then, I don't think so. He can't. Too smart, it's too smart for Kevin. I don't think he has enough emotional stability to handle. Can under him? You have to be a well put together I don't want to go into the knife room. Yeah, the tornado of insults. Oh
no, that doesn't sound fun to me. It just makes me slide underneath the coffee table. Is it a glass coffee table that you hide under? Do you look up through the glass? Look up and roll around? So when you get a safe place you feel, Oh yeah, when I'm sad, it's sure, I go like you. You the one in your house right now, can grab it and swing under it. So when you feel sadness and you need a good cry, you crawl under your your coffee table. Throw on some death cab and it has for a little bit. But
it has a glass top, so you're not really hiding. People can see you. Yeah, they to you from the side under the table and then or down through the table if they were I'm inside though, man, it's do you move one of the chairs at the end out of the way and the other chair stay where they are? Is your chair on the end of it? Oh? Wait, you have one chair at your coffee table. Well, it's like up pulled up to the couch. You have a couch, of course, that's cool. I have a few nice things. How
long do you stay under there? On average? Two three hours? I'm sorry, two to three hours. It depends on what's going on. I saw fingers. If I'm in a bad place, When was the last time you were under the coffee table, it's been a couple of months, a couple of months. Yeah, has roxy come home and seen you under the coffee now? Do you hot? You time it out? Yeah? Okay, so you'reuner there for three hours? Did you like knock out Killers of
the Flower Moon the last time you were under there? Do you put it? Do you lay the TV down on your glass table facing downward? It's really just good for like getting in there and just kind of crying it out. What about your bed? What about it as an alternative to being under the coffee to I'm trying to stay out of the bed. I'm trying to I don't want to bed rot. You know, that's a new thing, bed riding the new planking. That's toddler. You know you can call a
friend too, you canone. We can talk through it. Friends. Yeah, talk to you guys enough every day. We're kind of your friends. Enough therapy. I'm a good listener. I'm good, I'm fine, I'm fine. I won't I promise, I won't go Joe just came on. I won't make it about me. I'll just listen, and I won't offer advice. I'll just listen. And just kind of I don't know. We'll ride ride the wave together, the wave of sadness. We're all good. It's Tuesday, the sun's not up yet. Time change is great, by
the way, daylight saying. People were loving that, right, everyone out there was loving that. I'm not getting sun not going down untill nine. People that don't have to get up but four in the morning, the minority. And you know it's a privilege. Yeah, yeah, I say this. I gotta say this. I'm done with the morning bitching. I do it. Sometimes it's not great when you walk into work and the smoke detector's going off and it's just the loudest fire alarm. Ever, I don't think
we bitch, and I certainly don't bitch. No, I don't think I do either. I think in my head I do. Mikey and I were talking yesterday. I think you had gone out of the room to make manure or something, and we were talking about how much we kind of like getting up early in the morning that you went to grow your chocolate tail. Uh huh, No, I would never do that. Here, I don't do
that, and oh well they Won'tka disappears again. I don't do that in public, but real quick, like when we made the switch in July, so we probably shouldn't mentioned making a switch at this point, but whatever, that was a common thing. Oh, these guys, they're gonna get up, you know. Yes, saw it all, you hear it all. And I was like, actually, after about three days they were pretty adjusted
and like, I kind of like this. We were talking yesterday and I was like, if given the opportunity right now to switch to afternoons, I think I would. I would say, yes, I absolutely would, but she bommed out by it. I think the schedule is good for me. I hate. Of all the shifts I've worked in my life, mid day is the one that you like, I hated the most. You hate mid days? I hated it, Yeah, I hated it. I hated ten
to two really I did for like three months. But it's like a sweet now you s DoD morning traffic to deal with, and I don't know, it just felt like there wasn't enough time left in the day when she got off before you get to start thinking, there's not enough time to get anything done before the show, which is just like ours no time to do anything before our show, And there's literally no time to do anything before your midday show either if you're if you're in it, I mean, what time are
you waking up? You get up at seven, that's you know, two hours. Yeah, I guess it would only be things done at the house. But it's not two hours though, because it takes longer to get to work at that time. No one cares about our shifts. No sports, No one cares about the sports. I don't know. And now sports starting this with a question, would you rather have Dak at fifty million a year or Sam Donald at ten million a year for one year? Well, what
happens after that year? I don't know. Okay, maybe you're developing more complex. I mean, Dak is certainly better. So the Viking wait,
what are we saying? The Vikings go, well, the Vikings and we'll do a little more of this at nine because Kirk Cousins moved to the Falcons, the Vikings signed Sam Donald for ten million, and it just it's the perfect example of what would happen to the Cowboys if they got ready to dick, which a lot of Cowboys fans want it, or what after they missed the playoffs, because after they lose in the playoffs for a couple of weeks
because the NFL is littered with Sam Darnold's He's right, that's what the Vikings're gonna go with this year. Maybe they try to draft someone. They have the number eleven pick of the draft. But but let's say they did that, the Cowboys get Sam Darnald. God, what a nightmare. Can you imagine the panic round here? Yeah, but then you have ninety million dollars to play with. I would say forty million dollars to play with. I mean, I think it's kind of weird. The Cowboys have done zero.
It's weird that they did zero. It's weird that they were interested in. The running back they were reportedly interested in was Zack Moss, who is a good running back two in this league, and the numbers was around four million, but he ended up signing with the Bengals, and the Bengals cut Joe Mixon. The Cowboys lost Tony Pollard to the Titans. That would have been eight million a year. Tyler Biades, the starting center, goes to the
Washington Commanders. Three at thirty deevens En Dorance Armstrong, who do you think is a good player? Three at forty five. No problem with him leaving. You aren't gonna give him fifteen million dollars a year. I don't love him, but I don't love losing chunks out of the middle. I don't either. You don't losing your center and a serviceable defensive lineman. I think in an all in year, losing your center is not ideal because now you've
got to go figure that out. He's gonna regret saying all in. So what's all in through one day doing nothing and losing assorted people? Can I play this for you? This is Jeff Kavanaugh yesterday from the speakeasy. I thought this was a really good and before I play this, he commented, He goes, they could have done something. They could have flip switches to
create money that you'd have to pay back later. They could have signed Ceedee Lamb could have signed an extension with DAK and created fifty million dollars of space. Who gets it currently there around like I think under they're two million dollars under over the cap. So they'd still have to do stuff to even make any noise, which that could happen by releasing Michael Gallup. I mean there's
ways to get over the cap or get under the cap. But here's Jeff, and Jeff this is his iceberg gear theory, and boy, this is not how I would imagine eighty one year old Jerry Jones wanting to live his football life at this stage of his real life. But this is interesting to me. They might know that twenty twenty five is iceberg gear and they're going to smush the Cowboys Titanic into it. And so our free agents get signed,
we get compensatory picks for this right this second. They probably have an extra fifth, fifth, and sixth a year from now, and so like we can load up on draft picks, which is cheap labor, which we know we're gonna need Dak help. Maybe he's gone and we're eating fifty million dollars. Maybe Zach Martin's gonna retire and we're eating twenty million dollars. They see where they're going, and instead of forging ahead full speed, they're slowing
down to smash into the iceberg. And it's a chance that this is going to be an if a year and twenty twenty five is gonna suck, there's a chance we have a full off season to go. We have no idea.
But that's what it looks like today. Yesh. Yeah, So they know that they have to get it done with what they have this year without making tons of only improvements as you would make as to the draft, and then like, all right, that doesn't work the coaches on his last year of his deal anyways, So then we'll just start over and build it again.
Now I could see Stephen thinking that way, but Steven again is doing speeches, keynote speeches by Southwest with you know, random indie rock bands, and he's watching moon Taxi, watching Monkey Man, Yeah, Moon tax See, Like, so that's I'm not saying Steven was not involved, but he
clearly is involved a ton way more than Jerry's. I think that is fascinating to look at the bigger picture and to look at the franchise from that view, and I think he's Kavanaugh's probably onto something, and no team would say can say that stuff out loud. I mean, you have to work within
the constructs that you're you're certainly you're currently dealing with. But average Cowboy fans right now are like, all right, some big names flying around the league and what is it the Cowboys and Saints, maybe the only teams that have done nothing. Yeah, except lose the loose people that matter, the lose people that matter, which they big believers in drafting their own, keeping their own and letting free agents go that they deem not worthy and collecting picks for
him later on. I get that, like I get why you wouldn't keep Dorian's armstrong. You can't keep him at that money. Yeah, your center. I think that's pretty reasonable for be honist who's solid, And I don't like the idea of having to go, Okay, well, we gotta get that, and if it's true that Tyron's not coming back, we gotta figure out that. If we're gonna keep Tyler Smith left guard, that's the best big stuff that you gotta fill. And that's not even talking about running back,
which I think is very easy to replace. Now. You may not be max value that you could get there, but you can get a running back in the draft for minimum wage and be fine. I have no doubt about that. And you'll probably keep Rico. But it is interesting to go, well, it's gonna happen this year, but we're not even gonna We're
gonna go ahead and start hitting the brake now. So it's a little less messy of a collision where you could be like the Rams, go for it, and when it does crash, it's so bad because you have so many players that you've traded draft picks for, or you have money that you've switched in contracts that you have to pay down the road. But I was thinking
about that the other day. I mean, that was all the talk of the Rams punting drafts essentially, and that's the price you paid to win a Super Bowl, which they did, and then they went five and twelve and then they were ten to seven last year and then playoffs. Yeah, and put up a hell of a fight against the lines. Like they didn't deal with the drought that we were all kind of screaming that they would be dealing
with. They nailed their like three draft picks. Yeah. That and they're well coached and you know it just that lull never really happened to the level that we thought it would. That was I mean yesterday, you're sitting there going, Okay, well everyone else is doing stuff, why aren't we, right? And that's what hurts Watch the Eagles out there making plays, whether sick one Berkley's still good or not. You know you can figure that out
you want. The Eagles wouldn't got him. The Eagles have gotten better, and it seems that they do it every off season, and then in the middle of the year were like, well, the Cowboys are just as good as the Eagles, and maybe that's the plan. Their plan is like, hey, we'll just draft it up, we'll fill our holes to the draft, we'll wait and get Dack done. But the thing that I think is really frustrating to me is I think they could get Dak done if they wanted
to. And I don't know. I think they just love the art and war of negotiating. I think that's what Jerry was put on this planet to do. Set a cross from you and try to talk you out of something. It can't be that they love that, though, Like what did they do to put them in this position right now? What they screw up? Because I feel like they do Reupdack every couple of years. Uh. I would not say that they've really screwed up anything when it comes to being in
the position they're in. I mean, what else could they have done? That's you know what? Okay, yeah, missing your draft picks last year? Okay, well yeah, I mean the second round, they wanted it tied end because they didn't believe Jake Ferguson was what Jake Ferguson is. Probably they wanted help there. They could have taken the best guard in the draft in my opinion, in round two and they decided not to. Wouldn't it be great to have that covered Tyler Smith already there and all you need is
center now. Yeah, but that's in a different category of screwing up. I think, not nailing your draft picks. Yeah, I mean, and they normally good at that, so it's not even good at that for a while. You know what, winning in the playoffs. Maybe it's as simple as that, because I don't have a problem with any of the money they've given to their dudes. Zach Martin deserves to be paid like the best guard.
Trevon Diggs deserved to get a contract tank DeMarcus Lawrence. They lost that negotiation and let it go up. But DeMarcus Lawrence is great and he's paid like it. He just gets tired. He just gets tired when he's on the set of the Super Bowl, gets super tired. Yeah, we just burnt out. So yeah, I don't know. I am tired. Do you expect any any live action today? Because we're still going to lose a few more guys, right, I mean, gil Moore is going somewhere.
There's rumors of Jordan Lewis maybe to the commanders too, because dan Quinn loves him, and dan Quinn's like, hey, we'll take all my former We had a good defense. We just had really bad game there at the end, so I'll take some of these good players. I don't know about dorm Armstrong at fifteen million dollars a year, but that's that's their problem. Are you surprised. I'm not surprised. We talked about last few days. But
I mean Tony Pollard gone. I hate when you I don't know if you'd call Tony Pollard nailing a draft pick, you know, but I hate. I mean, the Dolphins are just did this with Christian Wilkins. I hate when you get it right and then you lose them. Yeah, and they did with Pauler. Even Paula was a good pick. He was good, a good pick, and I kind of think he's got something left. And I don't know that I wanted to do three at twenty four because that violates
never pay running backs. For instance, one name that got thrown around yesterday's Aaron Jones of the Packers who got cut, and he got cut so they could sign. The Packers have similar cap issues that the Cowboys do, but they're able to make some noise because their quarterback makes nothing. Yeah, now, and that's about the change. That's the whole luxury of the league.
That's the big cheat code for sure. And the Cowboys had that and they just didn't take advantage of it. You know, three four years ago they decided to do nothing. But they kind of had that when Dak was a rookie with Aaron JONESO. He is a Aaron Jones and his family are huge Cowboy fans, have been forever. Now they turned into Packer fans when he went there. He went to college at El Paso. The Packers needed him. They had pushed his money back a few times because of Aaron Rodgers,
so they needed him to take a pay cut. He's like, now I'll just go be a free agent. And then they signed Josh Jacobs and now he's there, Like, if you want him, you could probably get him for ten million dollars. Now that's more than I want to pay a running back for one year. Maybe Okay, now made a one year more from Dreamy, but somebody will give it more than Yeah, maybe Minnesota gives him two at twenty four, but maybe he would play for the Cowboys for one
at ten. I don't know. And that's that's something that is like a little bit like Okay, that's worth doing something for. I think he will be hurt for four games for five games, and you have to weigh that into your into your mind. But he is awesome. You could do Derrick Henry maybe, but it doesn't sound like they have interest there. Did the price go up on Derrick Henry? I'm wondering because the run market rose. Surprised the zoom call worked apparently. I'm surprised at what Pollard got. I
am too. He's averaging what eight million a year? Yeah, three at twenty four. I think Saquan was three at thirty eight or something, which I the day and age of a running back making more than ten million dollars. I thought that was gone and it's clearly back. I was surprised at those numbers. But man, you you you mentioned something earlier. Them just absolutely crapping the bed in last year's draft. I think it's got a direct
effect on this Iceberg theory. Yeah. I mean if they just had hit on one out of the seven, I mean that the only name that really comes to mind when you think of that draft of getting their number called on a regular basis is what Deuce Vaughan. How many carries in the year did he get? Yeah? Season, and you talked about it's one thing to miss on a draft pick, but when you're drafting for a position that you clearly don't need, why would you burn a number two on an effing tight
end? Yeah, just because you lost the one guy. I mean, anybody that watched the year before last would tell you that Jake Ferguson was the next in line. He did enough, I thought in twenty twenty twenty two, I agree to warrant not having a guy picked ahead of him at number two, especially when he already had Hindershot on the team. Absolutely, like
you already had a couple of guys that you were okay with. I know, I saw like the rumor on I mean, I guess Jalen Brooks, he was what Jalen Brooks was light round, He was fine, and he's you know, Jalen Tolbert was the third round behind. But the guys that I mentioned are sixth and seventh rounders. Yeah, well they This tells you too, I think how much they want to spend it running back because the report from Michael Gelkin over the Dallas Morning News was with Zach Moss, the
price extended past their comfort point. Moss agreed to a two year, eight million dollar contract with the Mingles to be their running back. So they don't want to spend four million dollars on a running back. That's why they're gonna draft one. So you draft from midium watch and that's that's a fine play. I have actually no problem with that. You'll draft a left tackle at twenty four, or you'll move Tyler Smith to left tackle, and you'll draft
a center or a guard. Maybe you think Tchuma e Dooga can be your left guard. I've got no problem with it. They don't have a ton of holes to fill. They're still in good shape as a team. They did this every year. Well the joke. Nothing's abnormal about what they've done. But it wouldn't surprise you one damn bit for them to restructure whomever they need to to create money. And for them to go out and sign Derrick Henry. They might might, They might do that because this is an organization
that prefers sizzle over substance. Yes, like an hour ago apparently it came out Ravens of Ball for Derrick Henry six point five million for one year. I don't think i'd do that for the Cowboys. Yeah, too much with all the other holes they need to fill. Yeah, I agree, that's not a huge number. And Jeff lined it out to yesterday. He said, Look, they want you to believe that they can't do anything because they gotta get Ceedee Lamb done. They gotta get Dack done, they gotta get
Michael Parsons done. They want you to believe we can't do anything right now because our guys make too much because they care about winning that narrative with the fans, which is very true. Look, we'll do more of this at nine. Meanwhile, Steven's down at South by a keynote speaking with Kurt Viile. Carl Charlotte loves Thundercat all right, I love pretend to Jerry Well who got a well double ding Action a lie spot and the Dingers Morning News.
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