Player's Lounge: The Million Dollar Question

Mortgage virtual home studio. Barry's not in his home studios, living the life that he Shan's the shot con of the Jacksonville Jackets. Yes, sir, I love it, man, I love it. Oh man. You know I'm just trying to live out here, man, you know, just taking in all the scenes. Man. And it's a it's a beautiful Friday. It's a beautiful Friday. Look, it's a players lounge. So, like I always said, where else would you rather be than talking Cowboys football with me and Neui and our

co host d Mac. I've seen a lot of the Twitter Twitter questions asking where's he had? Is he coming back? He'll be back mid May, so just hold on a little bit and he'll be back for us. But like always, let's get started on as players lounge. Yes, in the business barrier, what we call it, it's on assignment. So you know, there we go, and he's still a part of the team. He's on assignment right now. So he's

gonna be back in May. But just right now, I just gotta let him be on assignment handling some things that he'll be back with us rolling along here. So the draft is less than a week away, and in some ways, if you think about a church, Thursday is

kind of easy. The Cowboys know exactly kind of what will be there for them at ten Friday is when the real work starts, because you're talking about the second and third round picks of the draft, and the Cowboys have had a trying to hit on these second round picks. And so to me, that's gonna be really key for the Cowboys in this twenty twenty one draft. What do you do in rounds two? In rounds three? You know you cannot come up with another Tristan Hill, Kay, you

just you just cannot. You need to have players you come in here immediately and get it to me day. These day two players need to become either walk in starters or major contributors to the football team without a doubt. You know, those two those rounds two through three, you know a lot of everybody's kind of you know, looking at that first round pick. It's you know, it's the

glitz and the glamour, it's the flashy pick. It's some teams you know, future franchise maybe quarterback or future franchise pick at that number one spot, and that's where all the glitz and glamour goes. But the real hard work and the real adding consistent depth to your team, that's when those rounds two through four, I believe come in.

That's when you come in, heredy, That's when you get your guys that they might not be day one starters, but you're saying to them, hey, look, future, the future could be yours. Just grind at it and get to yours. And this is where we need depth pieces because we know this team going into this season, you know, I hate to say it, but you know we're an injury

kind of injury prone team. I mean, over these past couple of years, we have a lot of starters miss huge chunks of time, and it kind of, you know, dismantled what we have throughout the season. So for me, these rounds two through four they're extremely vital. They're great for adding depth pieces and then you might be able to find that diamond in the rough. I mean, we saw what we were able to find in Dak Prescott in the fourth round, the future franchise quarterback in the

face of the Dallas Cowboys organization. So he was able to be found in the fourth round. Checho Woozie, I'm sorry, Traymon Diggs last year was in the second round pick and no he had, you know, an up and down season. I think everybody can say they love his fight and they love the dog in him, and he could be a future cornerstone piece to this defense. So to me, the rounds two through three or two through four, they're just as important as the first round. They're just not

as flashy. You look last year Diggs being taken in the second round. He was a player that we had talked about, we talked about the we talked, I should say about the Cowboys taking in the first so they get an absolute gift to get him in the second round. I thought he was the best corner that they had last year. And if they can get some help over there for that young man, I think he has a

good future. But just looking here at the Cowboys, you go back to twenty nineteen, that's when they took Tristan Hill in round in round two. They also took Connor McGovern, the guard in round three. He finally got on the field last year. For him taking the twenty eighteen Connor Williams was your second round pick, Michael Gallup your third

round pick. We've seen Gallup have an excellent career with the Cowboys, and Carter Williams has started a lot of games, but I don't know if he's going to get a second contract. When you start to think about what they do with his position, I think he's been He's been a decent pick. He hasn't been a Pro Bowl pick. And then I go back to twenty seventeen and you look at Cheeto A Woozier who was taking in the second round of the draft. Cheeto is now remember the

Cincinnati Bengals. They didn't give him a new deal, and you did see George Lewis their third round pick. George Lewis just signed an contract with the Cowboys, so they've got to improve in this area. So we're basically talking about here one, two, three, and then last year four drafts, Nevil Galliman was taken in third rounds the defensive line from Oklahoma. I think he is a player who can help the Cowboys. I see him as a rotational player or the defensive line. But they've got to start hitting

here and hitting at a better clip. So while Thursday is gonna be exciting, it's gonna be the first round because that's by the way of case. Some folks don't understand. The first round is third. Oh, it's just the first round. On Friday, it's rounds two through three. And this is where the Cowboys, in my opinion, really need to hit

on these picks. And this is where I trust a guy like Will McClay and hopefully they listen to Will McClay because Barry, the way things work around with the Cowboys, it's a lot they Jerry Jones takes a lot of different opinions. No, he consulted the t to a lot of people. So is dan quinn gonna make the pick if the player is a defensive player or is it the position coach. Is it going to be Mike McCarthy, Will it be Will McClay, will it be whoever Jerry

or Stephen wants. I mean, that's gonna be an interesting thing when it comes down to where did they go? And as you in my opinion, we started looking at this rounds two or three. People got pet cats man, and they may decide, well, I want this, I want that, And that's gonna be real interesting. Had somebody asked me on Twitter today about Mike McCarthy and did they think that Mike McCarthy would be making a defensive pick, like, hey, which about j C. Horne's Like, hey, because he knew

his dad? Because it came out on that video on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with the interview jac Horne when McCarthy was coaching down in New Orleans. Hey, do you think he'd go with jac Horn? Because he knew his dad? And I'm like, man, I don't think that Mike McCarthy is the guy I would lean on if from listening to Jerry's press conference, he spoke that Dan Quinn was

going to have a major set. So if j. C. Horne is on the board, the Cowboys are making the choice I would be talking to one Will McClay and the scouts. Okay, I want to talk to the scouts because they've done a lot of the work on it. And then I would ask Dan when what would he want to do? McCarthy be the last guy that I'd sit around here and ask about the defensive player, I

mean low and behold. Let's remember Mike McCarthy was the guy who was the offensive coordinator of San Francisco when they had the number one pick in the draft and said, let's take Alex Smith over Aaron Rod. You know, I wasn't that bad, but I don't understand what Aaron too. But stop long, guys go overall. Fame is gonna fall of fame. The guys, well, I he didn't have that bad of a career. Bulloo overall, I think, and I've said this for a long time. I've said this for

a long time. This draft is gonna put immense pressure on Will because you know, we got the deal done with Dak Prescott, and I think everybody's happy about how the deal worked out. We got a little bit of extra caps face for that first year, but the next couple of years, I mean, he's gonna eat a lot of that cap space. And where we're gonna have to find defensively is we're gonna have to find these guys, like we said in a second, third, fourth round, to

add depth to this defense. And that's where Will McClay and Dan quinn I think they have to come together and get put their brain powers and all the brain trust together to pick a team or pick a player that can help on help on day one, whether it be you know, in a Nickel role or in some type of you know, backup world or in the special teams. They got to find a player defensively to help this

defense go along. So if so, when we're picking, like you said, I'm with you on that McCarthy thing, I don't think you know, we kind of we we look at his what he thinks we should pick, But I think I'm leaning towards Dan quinn and Will McClay one because Dan this is his defense. Hopefully they make it

his defense, and the carpenter needs his tools. Like we've always said, when he was with Seattle, he had the Legion of Boom, he had cam, he had Earl Thomas, Cliff Avril, all those boys over there, and he built that legion of Boom defense and what he thought would be a successful defense and then ended up being that way. So if I'm him, if I'm Jerry, I'm going to dan Quinn, what do you need? What tools do you need to make this defense from one of the historically

bad defense to at least middle of the road. Like I'm not even asking for a top ten defense. I'm not even asking for a legion of Boom style defense. But I need him to get tools on this defense

to make it a middle of the road defense. Because with the power we have offensively, with all that star power Dac, those receivers, the running game, hopefully a healthy offensive line, I think we will able to put up points out there and we can have the ability to be a top five, maybe even top three offense out there. So our defense just has to be a middle of the road. I'm leaning on Dan Quinn to make the right plays here with the assistance of Will McClay, and

he has. Will McClay has hit on draft picks these past couple of years. But this contract that we gave Dak Prescott is putting a lot of pressure on Will and I'm sure he'll be able to come through for us. Look, I think there's always pressure on anybody in scouting in the National Football League because you're always trying to find ways to improve your football team. My big question is when it comes down to these picks, who do who are you going to listen to? We saw where Rod

Marinelli had major juice. I mean Rod Marinelli wanted Triston Hill. Okay, he said I want this guy. And Chris Rashard is in the room, and so many people like Dave Hellman over Dallas Cowboys dot Com and that the guy's on the draft show. We're like, hey, man, they need to go take one thorn Hill to safety, and they didn't do it. One thorn Hill ends up going to the Kansas City Chiefs, is part of a Super Bowl team

and he's been a starter there. And Triston Hill is a guy coming off at ACL who has not lived up to the billing. One of the issues that I had with the whole Triston Hill thing was Rob Marionelli was saying, hey, look, I'm gonna make a contract with this guy. Basically a contract with this guy that this guy's gonna go out here and play hard. Triston Hills last year ucf he was benched. The new coaching staff had issues with him, and he had issues with them. And so this is a guy who was not starting

the year before under Scott Frost, he was starting. So the Cowboys basically didn't listen to the current coaching staff that was there. They went back to the other coaching staff who told him what they wanted to hear. And what at Tristan Hill become he was a problem. And that's where you just say, man, I don't know. I'll give Rob Marinelli credit on this when he's the one who want to Lake Vanderesh. I thought they should take in the linebacker around Alabama, but they took lake Vanderesh.

He made the Pro Bowl. Rob Marinelli was also the guy who said I want Taco Charlton. T J. Watt was a better football player at the Big Ten, and we've seen t J. Watters become an All Pro football player. But they were listening to Rod Marinelli. So that's my thing is just do you want to listen to your coaches, you want to listen to the scout, listen to the people who do this all the time. That's gonna be

an interesting question. Let me ask you a question, do you think it comes down to who has more juice in the room. Like Marionelli came in, he has this huge pedigree of being one of the best defensive minds in football. He's been in a part of the NFL for twenty some years. He's a part of the Cowboys, And do you think it was he Look, this guy has all the experience, he should know who to pick. And in a situation we got now, do you think they would lean towards dan Quinn in that situation like

this is a new guy coming in. He needs to get his defense in the right situation. He's to get all the tools he can get to get them most out of this defense. Do you think they lean on him like they did Marinelli? Or do you think, Hey, you know, McCarthy got the juice right now, he's the head coach. He's gonna pick who he wants to pick. I'm hoping that they lean towards the defensive side with the with um dan Quinn when they go to pick

like they did with Marinelli. But I just want to know, do you think it's who has more juice in the room, Because on the offensive side of the on the offensive side of the coordination or whatever it is. I think it was Marinelli and who was our OC was it? It was? It was Lenahan at the time, I believe, and I just think, you know, marion Nelli had a

little bit more juice. Do you think that has anything to do with who they lean on as far as picking, I've always heard it's who talked to Jerry last That's the thing I've heard through the years that was kind of be the way it went. But here's from talking to many people through covering football for so many years. Here this has just been my take. Coaches are going to look at what fits for me now, because coaches know they're like a milk carton many expiration day. You

know they're here to win now. If you're Mike McCarthy, if you're Dan Quinn, you need to win now. If you're Dan Quinn, if you can turn this Cowboys defense around real quick, you know what happens for you next year. You might be back hiring sys right this So dan Quinn is going to try to find somebody that he wants right now. If I'm Will McClay, I'm not looking here at that now. I'm looking here at the next two to three years, two to three to four years,

so they look at things differently. I go back to when Wade Phillips was the head coach and on the board I was told was an excellent linebacker Navarro Bowman. Well, they because they passed on him because Wade had brought in Keith Brooking, a player he had known, and so he's like, yeah, I got Brooking. So we had Brady James and Keith Brooking. Those are the linebackers here, and

the Cowboys made a mistake. They should have taken Navarro Bowman, and Bowman would have been an excellent choice to replace Keith Brooking because Keith Brooking's career here was it was on the down slide. He wasn't what he was with the Atlanta Falcons. But that goes back to when you start to have your coaches pick players. People don't ever talk about how Bill Parcels wanted Bobby Carpenter. That's the

guy he wanted. Bobby Carpenter was terrible, he was he was never a good football player here, and that was a guy that Bill wanted. I remember another player. I gotta go back here and check my notes here. I want to say it was Al Johnson that they allowed Bill Parcels to take because they took Terence Newman one year, and so Bill didn't want Terence Newman the corner and so they basically said, all right, you get to go ahead and pick the pick the second round pickings. So

he took Al Johnson, a center out of Wisconsin. Well, Al ended up getting hurt his rookie year, and Andre Girard went from guard to center, and Andrea had an excellent career as a center for the Dallas Cowboys. Andrea also played guard and center at Colorado on their Big Twelve championship team. So here's a guy that position flex and center was really his best position. So Al Johnson became a guy who really was they did. I think they moved into Arizona. But he didn't do anything here.

But this is what happens when you allow your coaches to pick players, they pick the guys that they want right here. Now, scouts usually tend to look towards the future and building a football team. I mean, let's let's look who Dan quinn brought in already this year. He brought in you know, Demante Kyz and Keyan O'Neill who

played for him in the past in Atlanta. And look, I mean I think that Keyan O'Neill was a solid I think it was a solid free agent get just if they leave him in that hybrid linebacker rule, I think it's a solid free agent fit. But let's not you know, mistake it for you know, Cam Chancellor or anything like that. And if we bring in Kaz who's coming off a tourn Achilles, and trust me, I've been through it. When you go through Achilles, it's that year one year one is the toughest to come back from.

So it's tough to me who you lean on in these situations because those two, those two free agent you know gets that we got right there. You know, I don't know if they're the best situation for us. We had Malie Cooker who's also coming off and Achilles as well, but when we had other safety options out there, but he decided to go with guys he knew like you had just mentioned. So we'll see, we'll see. I mean, the jury is still out to me on dan Quinn, but hopefully he can come through and pick us up

some great defensive assistance out there. Now, I raised my hand. I was beating the drum saying bringing some players and some coaches that dan Quinn knows, people that understand the system, guys who can help teach the system. So I don't have a problem with that. And then you look at the deals that these guys got, I mean, they're not these multi year contracts gonna tie to cows That's true. So the team right, right, So so I don't have

an issue with that. And there is something to be said for getting the right type of players that he wants. I mean, so the Cowboys scouts did their job. They went to dan Quinn and said, what kind of guys do you want? You know, what am I looking for in a corner? What am I looking for a d tackle? What am I looking for at an outside linebacker? So hopefully they've got the blueprint from him on what he wants for the defense, and you try to marry it together.

But you better believe there's gonna be times when the coach says I want this guy and a scout says, I believe that this guy's better. So how do you do how do you settle the how do you settle the ties? And recently we've seen Jerry Jones has gone to his coordinators and position coaches to make the call on these decisions. And my just thing was, I thought Rod Marinelli. I thought Rod Marinelli liked try hard guys

to a detriment. When I think about Rod Marinelli, how did Rod Marinelli get famous or how did he get known to most people? It was because of the work that they did in Tampa. Beck Well, when Rob Marionelli was here, the Cowboys never used the first round pick on a defensive blind me. That wasn't what they did when he was the coordinator because he basically shot him away from that. But in Tampa he had Warren Sapp first round pick, Yeah, Booker McFarland first round pick, Yeah,

Simeon Rice first round pick. If you want to run a simple books right, So, if you run a simple scheme, it's a lot easier when you have first round picks and great players doing it. You can only have so many try hard guys. I go back to that game at the La Colle scene when they played the Rams and the Rams just ran through room. Uh you know, just two guys right up for one hundred yards in that game and up the middle they were just too small.

And Rod Marinelli, in my opinions where the cowboys, somebody should have stepped in and say, hey, man, look we need to get us some bigger guys. This is where I was happy to hear Mike McCarthy at this press conference a couple of weeks back say hey, look, you can't have enough guys that are that are six six two seventy five. So he wants some beef up front. Mike Nolan wanted some beef up front too. They just got the wrong beef. But so so that's that's that great.

That's the great challenge of managing a draft room and and seeing how you make that all work. So everybody's got away. They want to do business. I wish we could talk to dan Quinn, man, I really do to fare out a little bit more about what do you want? That's what we need. That's the question. That's the million dollar question right there. We need to know what is in dan Quinn's mind. What is he thinking as far as the identity for this defense? Is it going to

be more how they Seattle style? Where it wasn't you know, traveling corners. It wasn't in a lot of lockdown, man, It was a lot of zone keeping your eyes on the quarterback. They had a great front four that can get after the quarterback, and I'm not sure we have that here in Dallas. So I don't I don't know what the identity is. But if we did, we can have a better solution on what angle this team is going for because and that's what we'll talk about it

a little bit later. But that's why I love certain at that pick, because he's multifaceted at the corner. He could be that man, he could be that that zone guy. He can fit any scheme. But that's why I love him. But that's the million dollar question, Nui. What is the identity of this defense gonna be? Because right now, I don't know if he has his tools to bring that simple style defense that made it so popular in Seattle down here. I don't know if he has the tools

and his defense has the tools to withstand. I mean, I just don't know, and I'm not sure about that. But we do know one thing's for sure. If we go out there with that same multiple scheme type of defense that Mike Nolan tried to put out there, we're gonna get run out of the stadium each and every game. So please don't go out there and have guys standing

up this way, he blitzed in that way. Just make it to where these gays can get the most production out of their defense, and hopefully dan Quink can bring that. All right, let's take a break here on the Players Lounge, brought to you by Hotels dot Com. When we come back, what name if this name is called on draft day, what's the name of the player that will make you scream in frustration at number ten. I'll give you my name, Church.

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Cowboys dot com. Rady up and we scutched. The long time Cowboys reporter joined by former Dallas Cowboys safety Barry Church or other running buddy. Danny mccrai is on assignment. All right. Thursday night, Cowboys are picking ten. If they called this one player, I will scream Michael Parsons linebacker penns Day, Yeah, I don't you don't like that? Folly three linebacker. You don't like that he's running fully three nine, he got the speed sideline, the sideline. You ain't liking that. No, No,

I am not. I am not, not not at ten, not at ten. Um, go ahead and if you possibly okay, and I'm not for sure, but you possibly can go ahead and trade down and get that guy fifteen. And so if you could trade, if you can get somebody to come to ten for a quarterback and give you a number one picked down the road, and if you want to take Parsons later on, fine, But if you sit there at ten and take Michael Parsons, I'd like Now we have seen the tenth pick be in play

when it comes to the draft. The Kansas City Chiefs went for twenty seven to ten to take Patrick Mahomes had to give up a number one. We saw a couple of years ago where the Cardinals jumped up a few spots to go to ten to take Josh Rosen. So I don't know. I personally don't feel like quarterbacks are gonna go one two three four like some people are saying. I do believe they'll go one, two three. So I think that you could see a quarterback in play at ten. Obviously, it depends on what Denver does

at nine and maybe what Carolina does at eight. But I think the Cowboys at ten could could trade back and if let's say Denver or Detroit or Carolina takes Patrick's or ten, if they takes ten, then yeah, you know, there's a question you gotta you gotta ask yourself. But I just don't see Michael Parsons at ten. I think that's a play that you can get later on down the road in this draft. And if you you pick up a one and still get that player, I would I could live with that, But just ten ten Church,

I don't know about ten. Yeah, he right, it's a little it's a little high for Parsons. I mean, he is, you know, a playmaking linebacker out there, Um, you know Silad and sign a lit of type guy he can cover well. But if we get that guy, then you know, what are you gonna do with Jalen? You got Kean O'Neill, who's basically the same type of player, hybrid linebacker type deal. So I just don't know what you would do with

Parsons there at ten. So I can agree with that for me, the player that that I think would make me scream if we ended up picking him. And let me preface this by saying this, I don't think he would get to this to ten. I think he'll be gone before then because I think the Bengals will end up snagging them up because you know, they need some protection for Joe Burrow out there because he got his butt kicked last year. So I don't think this player

will slide that far. But if he does. If he does and we end up picking this player up, I would scream personally, uh, and the player, I'm gonna say, it's if I don't. If I don't his name, I'm sorry, Panay Sul, Did I say that? Right? All right? So I would screened if we picked this player. And I'm gonna tell you why, because I'm one of the guys, one of the few guys that believe Tyrn Smith is gonna come back and he's gonna go back into that

old mode. I think he's gonna come back and be one of the top tackles in the game, even though he's dealt with a lot of injuries in the past, but he missed a lot of games last year. With these injuries, He's got time to rest up. I think he's on a mission to come back and kind of reclaim his throne as being one of the top tackles in the game. And then you have Lyell Collins over there on the right side. Now, he was injured as well.

He was injured as well, he had surgery in the off season, But I believe he'll be able to come back and help this this offensive line get back to where they were now. If it's saying that, if saying that you know these two guys are gonna be healthy, you know, what do you do with sul at that point? You know you just wasted the first round draft pick on the guy that's gonna sit behind and maybe you

know in the future he'll be that guy. But I'm talking about right now because I believe this whole organization. I believe Jerry wants to win right now. So for me, I think if we went that round and had that guy, you know, a kind of a swing tackle back up for a while until tiring and them got up out of there, I think that's wasting the pick and I

think it would scream. I think I would scream just knowing that we could have had somebody, especially if certain and all those corners are available at ten, I would scream knowing we had a blue chip an opportunity to get a blue chip prospect at that corner position to help out this young secondary and help out this defense overall, and instead we went with a tackle who will probably sit behind you know, Tyren Smith and Laole Collins for

the first year or two. So for me, I would you know, I'm gonna say even any offensive pick in the first round would make me scream. And I'm a little biased because you know, I'm a defensive guy and I believe defenses win championships, so I'm a little bias in that regard. But overall, if we if we go any offensive route in the first round, I think I'm gonna go ahead and scream. And who knows, I might not even watch the rest of the draft. We'll see. Hold on, I'm gonna fight. I'm gonna fight you on

this one. Okay, I'm gonna fight you on the first off. I've said it before on social media. I'll say it again. Pinay, Soul is not going to get past five, Okay, Atlantic will tim Yeah, yeah, this is hypothetically. I don't believe he'll get past So if if Piney Soul is it ten, that means that he had that Laramie tubsul gas mask, smoking weed and it's something bad happened. If he's sitting here at ten for the Canadas, but they off the weed.

But but but but And talking to a couple of scouting buddies of mine, I said, give me a comp for Pinay Soul. Could I compare him to Jonathan oct And one of the people I trust said, that's pretty good. John Octon him was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens top five picks, started at guard because they had big Zeus Brown on the left tackle, and then they ended up they ended up moving Jonathan to left tackle. He had a Hall of Fame career, was a building block on

one of their Super Bull teams, pay Seul. If you talk to people, they believe he's that type of talent, that he's a really blue chip player and a better player coming out of the pack twelve than Tyron Smith was. And Tyron Smith is an all decade player who's building a Hall of Fame resume himself. That is the kind of player that you could be getting at Penay Soul, which is why I say he will not be there

at tent Okay. But so so if you told me you ended up having Penay's Seul start at guard and the healthy Tyrn Smith is at tackle, okay, I'll take that, yeah, because then you might have Ezekiel Ellit with the ability to lead the league of rushing one more time. I mean, that's the kind of player he is. But I go back to what I said before, angle beat him. Angle beat it because Atlanta and Cincinnati could both use that play.

So I don't see that player there at all. And then when you talked about Kyle Pitts, um the way people have pumped up his tape, the way people have talked about it, even the video conference. If you haven't looked on Dallas Cowboys dot com, they've got a lot of the great interviews with the players like pats Or Tan and J. C. Horne, Trayvon Morig and Kyle Pitts, guys that they've interviewed. Here there's another player who's so good at what he does and is a true blue

chit prospect. What arguably, you know you talk about stacking your board. One of the top five talents in the game. They're not gonna get to ten. That they're just not you know, they're not. You don't think there's a chance, Kyle, So so who do you? Because I think, all right, so maybe Atlanta, maybe Atlanta my grabbing, you know, maybe Carolina. Other than that, Okay, like you got Miami there, But you know, I don't know, man, I don't know. I

can see a scenario in which he could slide down there. Okay, So let's say Atlanta. All right, Let's say Atlanta says we're gonna go Kyle Pitts and try and do the whole Tony Gonzalez Matt Ryan deal. So Pitts is at four souls at five, these guys never get to ten. Say yeah for me, Suel definitely, I don't think he. I don't think he's gonna make it at all. There's I mean, I don't. I think there's no way in hell he would drop down to ten. I was just

doing it hypothetaly. But Pitts, I think there's a there's an opportunity. I think there's an opportunity that he would slide there. And I would scream if we ended up taking him. Okay, I'll give you the drop point where I think the cutoff point for Pitts, in my opinion is six to Miami. And I go back to what we said on a previous show. Who's the head coach there, Brian Flores. Brian Flores, former linebacker for former defensive coordinator

and a linebacker coach in New England. As the linebacker coach, what did he line up against during his tenure there? Ronk Gronk, Aaron Hernandez. This guy saw what difference making tight ends can do. So if you're talking about helping to a tug of byloa, you can. And I know they got Mike Jesseki there, but Mike Jesseeski and Kyle Pitts, and you could conceivably put those two guys out there if you wanted to. But I see that as the floor where Miami snatches that guy up right there, and

it helps too. And even if two is that their long term quarterback, it'll help the next quarterback. So to me, when you talk about four or five, six, I've got Pits and Sewell being the I got these guys going between four or five and six. That's where I see him at. So I never see these guys getting to the Dallas Cowboys attent. And when Jerry talks about sugar plums, yeah, he's dreaming because they're not. They're too talented not to be there. We say that. But okay, let me push

back a little bit on the Miami situation. You don't think they You don't think they would say, all right, let me look at DeVante Smith, former teammate of two of they did great numbers together down in Alabama. This guy's coming in. They have an opportunity to boost their offense with another playmaking receiver out there, to go to go opposite a Parker you got, you already got Jaseki

there at the tight end position. You don't think they want to boost their wide receiver corps rather than take a Kyle Pitts in that spot, and that kind of that can push them further down the line. If they don't take him there, that pushes them further down the line. And I we're talking seven picks, seven, eight and nine, and then yeah, I don't know, I don't know, he

might he might have an opportunity to slide down there. Louis, I go back to something you and I spoke about earlier on the Players Lounge, and we started talking about just our top four you know, wide receivers that we like, you know, the top four guys in the game. And one of them that we mentioned was DeVante DeVante Adams

a Green Band second round pick. We mentioned DeAndre Hawkins number one pick, we mentioned Julio Jones number one pick, and then we mentioned Stepan Dicks a second round pick. You can go get a second round guy who could have the ability to be a Pro Bowl, All Pro receiver. Mean, Michael Thomas is the Saints. Another one from what people who scout this game are saying is that Kyle Pitts

is that guy in terms of his position. That you can't find another Kyle Pitts in round two, as you you're gonna find a Travis Kelsey like in round three, like a Kyle Pitts is but they're saying he's so much better than Travis Kelsey. So I just think if I'm Miami, i would take Kyle Pitts and then I'll just try to find another wide receiver in another round.

And maybe this receiver is deemed on height, weight, whatever, but I'll go ahead and take what seems to be the most polished prospect at this position to come into the National Football League in a minute. So that's what I would do. And Mike Jisecki, he's a nice player, but I'm sorry, Mike Jisecki's not on some Pro Bowl teams. He's not all pro. He's not Travis Kelsey. You know, you know, let's let's not put him. You know, let's not you know, he's a nice player for what they do.

But dudes ain't drawing up game plan saying stop Mike Jasecki. You know it might just say help them. You know, he could help. You know, he could be the Aaron Hernandez, but Kyle Pitts would be the GROUNK. So um, I just look at that, is that this is the way you can help supplement your football team. What they did in Tampa Bay. He've got camera break, but they also had O Jay Howard, so they had two good tight ends there. So I would I just don't think that it has to be, Hey, we got Mike Jazeki, so

we can't look at Kyle Pitts. I don't look at him that way. I think he's a good football player, but he's definitely not the kind of guy that I would say no to if I'm in a position like Miami, and I want to add pieces to help the quarterback. I can see that because you know, overall, I don't look at him as basically just a tight end. You know, I look at Kyle Pitts as an offensive weapon. You know, yes, he lined up he had you know, he lined up as an in line tight end. He lines up as

a big slot. He lines up on the outside. I've seen him go against jac Horne when Alabama played South Carolina and he was going he was battling him at the outside receiver. So to me, I looked at Kyle Pitts as an offensive weapon. And if what everybody's out there saying is correct, he can be this generational guy. He has a longer wingspan and a bigger catch radius than Megatron himself. Then you know, I can't really see.

And I wouldn't fault Miami for passing up on a guy like that, because if he's that great, it has that much rational talent, and just he can he can change a franchise like that, then he wouldn't fall down, he wouldn't fall at all. And maybe even Atlanta scoops him up. But we shall see, we shall see. So so so bring me this this no soon as than you said. It brought me back to this point as

championship can't. When you were playing with Jacksonville, you went against Grunt and we talked about, you know, a guy in the red zone and what Grunt was able to do and then grown six foot seven, Kyle Pits six foot six, So what is it like guarding someone that big that you know is a red zone weapon. Well,

see Grant. See Grant was a different animal because he never and I think he would be easier to guard, at least until the point of you know, the point of attack when you have to jump up with the ball, because he didn't have a lot of moves off the line. He didn't have that fast twitch muscle. He wasn't giving you a lot of shakes. He was basically just using his brute force. So as soon as he got off the line of scrimmage, if you got your hands on him,

you could pretty much ride him out the way. Now, when it got to the when the balls in the air, that's when it became a whole totally different because this guy can out jump anybody, and he just used his body and strength in ways that I've never seen anybody before. So I think he'd be a little bit easier to guard out in the field than a Kyle Pitts because Kyle Pitts from the tape I've seen, I mean, this guy has so much wiggle you would you would think

he was a slot receiver. He got wiggled like Travis Kelsey, but he's faster, has a bigger catch radius. It's it's kind of a it's like you said, he's an offensive weapon. So I think in the field of play, he'd be harder to guard than a Gronkowski. But when it comes down to that red zone, Gronkowski just used his body so much and he would just go over top of anybody's safety, linebackers, corners if you weren't double covering them.

I mean, it was, it was. It was hard to keep him away from the football once you got into that red zone, similar to Calvin Johnson. And that's where I can see Kyle Pitts a little bit because because Calvin Johnson didn't have a lot of wiggle, but once he got to that boy in that point of attack, it was hard to stop him from getting the balls. So I'm just being a lawyer. I just asked you a question. You just told me Kyle Pitts has the

ability to be a weapon. That Rob Gronkowski a guy who's built together a Hall of Fame resume, and so based on that, that doesn't get to ten, that does not slide well, doesn't get hypothetical zeal doesn't slide to ten at all. Okay, So stay with Kyle Pitts and something that he was asked and I would think it

was Al Harris who asked him. In the video chat you can check it out over Dallas Cowboys dot com where they interviewed J. C. Horne, they interviewed Kyle Pitts and they said, who's the best corner you went up against? And pitt said it was jac Horn, the corner from South Carolina. And right now, most draft experts and most people who who cover the National Football League or thinking Patrick s Utan or jac Horne to the Cowboys. So when you hear Kyle Pitts say, hey, J C. Horne

was the guy, what do you what are you? What are you thinking? I'm thinking because they're two different styles of corners. Um, I feel like j. Jac Horn might have been a tougher matchup for for Kyle Pitts because he thrives in that man to man. Let me press you at the line of scrimmage. You're gonna get this all day. And that's what he did. When they win against each other, he pressed him. He battled at the

line of scrimmage. You know, Kyle Pitts won some. Jac Horn won some, but he battled him throughout the whole entire game. And then when you look at a guy like sur Tam, if you're a team that just is constricted strictly man to man, they just that's all they do. They lock up single high, everybody else is locked up across the board. Then you gotta go that jac Horn route. But the reason I go certain is I think he's

a multifaceted corner. He got many tools out there. He might not be as great a man the man as jac Horn is, but he's still a good man the man corner. So let's just not say he's trash at man to man. He might be, you know, jac Horns one A, he's one B. But when it comes to everything else, I'm talking about the run game, I'm talking about zone coverage, getting your hands on the football. I think he gets a little bit of step above over J. C. Horne.

And that's why I take him over Horn in the long haul, because Horn may be that great physical man, the man shut you down. Hey, coach, I'm coming in film room. Who I got today? I'm locking him down? All right, I'll see you guys on the practice field. He's that tunnel vision locked in tight corner. Whereas you look at Sir Tan, you could do so much more

with him. You can leave him on anough, sad tight end because you know he has that run support in there, because a lot of a lot of teams nowadays, they'll try to leave that corner on an island on the enough said, where it is just a tight end, and they'll run straight at him because a lot of corners they want to make business decisions out here and they're not looking to tackle, you know, Josh Jacobs running down

or Derrick Henry running down. But I can see Sir Tan doing that, and that's why I kind of take him above JC Horn. He might not be as great of a a man the man corner, but he does everything else at such a high clip, and I think he's the guy that we need to go ahead and take. All right, here's where I rely on your expertise of the National Football League, with what we know about dan Quinn and what he ran in Atlanta and what he ran in Seattle, who is the better fit for the scheme?

Patrick's R Tanner without a doubt. I'm saying certain because in a lot of gang Quinn's defenses, unless he's going against a guy like Megatron or something where they gotta had that best guy on him, they don't travel a lot. You didn't see Richard Sherman, you know, traveling with the best receiver. He stayed on his right side. Brandon Browner

stayed on his left side. And that's how they worked in a dan Quinn system, and they ran a lot of cover three where the corner wasn't specifically locked on that outside ride receiver. He had to keep his eyes on the quarterback. He had to keep his eyes on other four mate or other routes coming into his zone. And I think that's what I would lean on as a guy that has such or so many tools out there. He can help you in the run, he can help you in the zone coverage, and he can help you

in man to man as well. Whereas JC Horn, I think is a lot better in man to man than he is at zone. And I just believe that, you know, with the pedocreas Certain has, I think he would fit perfectly with a dan Quinn system, and that's the route I'm going with it. I mean, we see, we see with Richard Sherman was able to do in his legion of boom defense. I think Certain has that same tool set but a little bit even more athleticism. And I think he'd beat that perfect pick at number ten for

the Cowboys. NFL writer I follow on Twitter's Doug Ferrard. He did excellent study on what he liked to call the abuse of cornerbacks, and he was talking about teams that took corners that just did not fit their scheme. This is the worst thing you could do. And basically one of the things he talked about is, hey, if you got a guy who plays man to man, don't bring him into your defensive he's playing zone. You're not going to get the best version of the football player.

Look at Mo Claiborne. Look at look at Mo Claiborne. We brought Mo Claiborne in LSU man to man. He won the Thorpe Award, and what he did best was just lock up on guys. Hey mo, you got this guy, Hey mo, you got that guy. And we brought him into this Marinelli system where it was mostly his own. We had him trying to chuck receivers and try to get back and look and cover two and tackle running backs in the flat and nothing to get his mo.

But that just wasn't his game. He was a lockdown, man to man corner who did wanted nothing to do with the run, nothing to do with zone. Let me lock it on this guy. And we brought him in there thinking, Okay, we can mold him into what we want him to be, and it just didn't work out that way. I mean, sometimes you gotta let a guy do what he does best. And he played man and

man and we tried to mold him. And that's just one example of how you I think you gotta gotta you gotta pick, You gotta fit pick a player that matches your scheme, not necessarily a player that's just great at doing one specific thing. All right, So let me take this a little bit further here. So you're the Cowboys and you get to ten. Let's say Patrick's or tan is off the board. Now you have the opportunity

to take jac Horne. But based on what you said, if they're not just gonna let Jac Horn go out there play man and man, would the Cowboys be better off looking at another player. Some people believe that Greg Newsom is that number four cornerback or maybe even they drop, you know, they say, hey, we'll trade down a little bit and maybe gamble on taking Caleb Farley. I mean, I'm trying to find a fit here because what I don't want to do is go bringing a guy like Horn.

If you say, hey, man, go play that man and you mess it up. I remember when Nandi Oswa left the Raiders, just a big deal of Philadelphia. That thing was a disaster. He was an excellent man to man guy. That three four defense that Rob Ryan was running. Went up to that zone in Philadelphia, he didn't get it. He wasn't good, and people said the guy couldn't play anymore. And it was a total abuse of the Eagles and

that guy's talent. So if Horne's more man to man is Greg Knwsom, the Northwestern possibly a better player, a guy who could play zone. According to some of the people I've spoken to, I'm gonna say it like this, If Certan's not there, I think you got a trade back. I think he got a trade back. And I say that because to me, and like we've had this discussion on earlier player Lounge shows, we like me and you think the same as far as we gotta build a

defense from the front to the back. Now, if there was that blue chip defensive lineman, if there was that blue chip interior defensive lineman, I'm all in it. But I don't see any of those, especially in a Round one. I don't see any blue chip defensive line prospects that could come in and be Day one contributors that can go out there and make a difference for our defense.

But I do see one in the secondary, and that's Patrick's just Tan not saying J. C. Horne is a player, but I don't see him as that blue chick prospect like Curtains. And then when you go to that that that second level of defense, which is just a linebacker level, do we have any blue chick prospects? You know, maybe

maybe Parsons. You know, he's a fast guy sideline the sideline, can make plays and stuff, But other than that, I don't really see a guy that sticks out that could be that blue chip we need to get him at ten other than certain and the secondary. So for me, I would trade back if that situation came about where it looks curtain's not there, depending on how sold they

are on JC Horn, I don't. I don't see a scenario where if those two guys aren't there, that we pick a you know, a defensive lineman or we pick up Parsons. I think we trade back, get more picks and get depth for this defense. If those guys aren't there, if those blue chip prospects aren't there, all right, we got to take a break in here. Could Jalen Smith wear number nine next year? Guys can down. Guys can now choose numbers. Okay, you can choose a different number.

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dot com. Berry Church for Dallas Cowboys safety rolling along with me here or other running buddy is Danny mccraig, another former Cowboys safety. He is on assignment. All right, So Church Lake Banneresh, they've got until May third to decide to pick up his fifth year option. What do you do? This one's tough. This one's tough because overall this guy was I mean, his first year, he popped out on the scene and you were like, holy sall,

who is this guy? Like? Who is this guy? But it's tough, man, because after that, I mean, these injuries and the injuries that he's had as a linebacker. Going in there and you got neck problems, it's it's hard.

It's gonna be extremely hard to go in there and want to put your helmet and stick your head in there when you got those big linemen coming at you and running back to your pound and each and every play, subconsciously you want to go fullhead and go in there, but subconsciously you're always going to be trying to protect yourself and protect that neck area. So for me, it's tough because then you look at it. For the Cowboys perspective, you look, well, you know who we got. Who else

do we got back there that can help? That can if we don't pick up this, where else do we turn? We don't have any depth back there? So for me, I think you gotta pick up his option. I think you gotta pick up his option. Even though he's had those health issues and all that. You just got to hope that he can have a healthy season this year and then maybe you address the need in the draft next year. But going forward, I think you gotta get that fifth year option, even though it's a risk. I

think you gotta get it because there's nowhere left. There's nowhere left you can go. The depth is just not there for the Godallas Cowboys. So I think they backed themselves in the corner and they gotta go ahead and pick up that fifth year option. I'm with the one hundred percent. What you do is his insurance. I mean, you know, if you don't have it here, what's the insurance? You don't have anything you have to backup, So you go ahead and you pick up the fifth year option.

So um two players who resigned this week as restricted free agent Antoine Woods two million dollars defensive lineman and Cedric Wilson White receiver who had seventeen catches, one hundred eighty nine yards and two touchdowns last year. He's back to on a one year deal. How you feeling about that? The Antoine Wood or the yeah, yeah, the Antwine Woods one. I like that as a pick. You know, he came in and I believe he had solid contributions to this defense.

He's not going to be the guy that can get you high sack numbers or put his consistently pressure on the quarterback and go out there, and he's not going to be that main focal point that offensive lineman. They gotta make sure they take care of Antoine Woods. But I believe he's a solid, solid piece of this defense

and a solid rotational piece. He can come in and get guys breathers, and he's he has a skill setting a bit in an ability to be a factor against the run game, which we know we need all the help against the run game we need. So I think it was a solid resign for them to bring him

back to add depth to that interior defensive line. I think we still do need some more because right now we've got Neville Gallimore, you got Tristan Hill coming off an ACL, so who knows where he will be at, even though he did start the season off last year having a pretty good season before he tours ACL, so we don't know where he'll be at. Neville Gallimore, I

think is a star waiting to happen. I think if he can build upon last year's season, I think he can be someone that offenses have to make sure they take care of. And you bring in an Antoine Woods in there that can help get that depth piece when those guys need rest, and maybe we'll pick up some more in the draft. But I think overall, the Woods resigning was solid. The Cedric Wilson as well, I think,

you know he contributed to this wide receiver corps. I mean we got a Stud Trio right there, and Gallup Cooper and Cedee Lamb. Now we're bringing a Said Wilson and the Noah Brown. Those guys come in, you know, you get breathers there, and we've seen those guys make big plays during the season in past years. So I believe both of these signings are solid high or solid signings. But I will have to lean towards Woods at being the better of the two. Signings. All right, the NFL

has approved number change. So if you are a quarterback, you can wear one through nineteen. If you're defensive back, you can wear one through forty nine. Offensive linemen can wear fifty through seventy nine. Running backs, tight ends, wide receivers can wear one through thirty nine, and they can also wear eighty through eighty nine, and then linebackers they can wear one through fifty nine and then ninety through ninety nine, and defensive linemen can wear fifty to seventy

nine and they can wear ninety two ninety nine. Jalen Smith number nine next year? What do you think? Oh, they're gonna let him get away with that. They gonna so there's there's no way, you know, they're gonna let Romo's number get passed out like that. There's just no way. The Robo is the He's the prodible son of the Dallas Gudboys. There's no way. Don't let my boy, missus swiper Jalen Smith out there rock that number nine? Now?

Do I think it will look sweet? Hell? Yeah, I think it will look sweet to have a linebacker in a single digit number. I wish this rule was changed. When I was playing, I had a fullback number. I had number forty two at the safety and I was sick I had that old fullback number. If I could go back and they had this rule change, I'd be single digits like I always was. High school, I was number eight, college, I was number eight. Now I'm at forty two when I was with the Cowboys. So I

love the rule change. I love it, you know, I hope I hope these players take full advantage of it, Like, like you think that's sweet they have number one at the corner or number two at the safety position for these single digit linebackers, I think that looks sweet. And look, I'm all for the rule change. Even though there's some players out there, some older players I ain't gonna say no names, guys in Tampa Bay maybe that hate this rule change and they don't know how to mike guys

here and there. But I think it's a great change, and I think it'll look extremely sweet to see linebackers secondary guys in single digit numbers. So why receivers and single digit numbers. It'll bring me back to those high school in college days. And I think it's a great would change. Now. Dalvin Cook of the Minnesota Vikings currently wears number thirty three. At Florida State, he was number four, and he looked into it, thought about making a change.

Then he found out and as our producer Chris Beams spoke about, you have to buy of the NFL inventory for your number. So the NFL has already got a circle I know that jerseys. Oh yes, they've already got a certain number Dalvin Cook jerseys that are already been that are already available. You have to buy those up. So Dalvin Cook was going to have to pay one point five million dollars to change to number four. And you know what, Dalvin sus said, what do you say, No, no, channel, No,

you ain't fail at one point five to switch numbers. No, no, but that's wild that. So guys that don't have their jerseys out there in the stores all like that, Like let's just say Donovan Wilson, he doesn't have his jersey all out there and stores like that, they can change with no purchase or nothing like that. But guys that are you know, pretty much stars in this league that you know, people wear their jerseys and stadiums, they got

to pay to be able to switch their number. So Basically, you know guys who are free agents who or for this, maybe an Antoine Woods. You know, you possibly can go ahead and buy up those jerseys. But then again, he's making two million dollars, so because he want to have to take you know, maybe possibly a couple hundred grand out of his own pocket, you can go pay for

a number. This is going to be something that you see with new guys coming into the league, in my opinion, because if you're an establishment and you're thinking about, you know, Travis Kelsey, you want to pay this kind of money just to switch a number, I don't. I don't see that happening here. Patrick Mahomes is going to switch to his college number. They know it's gonna cost way too much money. Because this is where the NFL owners are geniuses. You want to switch, fine, but you gotta pay us

to do it. So if Dalvin Cook wants to give the NFL one point five million dollars and then he starts a new number and they go make more money off that, dude, it's good for the NFL. This is very smart business by the league. Yeah it is, And

I think you're right. It will just be new guys that are first are coming into the league that that'll take advantage of this rule change, because, like you said, if Dalvin Cook's number is one point five to change is imagine one of my homes or or a Brady or you know, somebody like that, it's gonna it's gonna be out of this world to change their number. And you know, if they're like you said, the NFL is smartness,

the ultimate business. And overall though, I think you'll see the college guys coming in with the ability to have these low numbers because you know, all the veterans they already they're already establishing their numbers. They couldn't use those those low single digit numbers when they first got in, and like you said, they're already establishing what they got. So these new guys coming in, they'll definitely I can see a couple of receivers rocking, you know, number two,

number three, number five out there. I mean, I can see that happening. But I think it'll be a new wave and those old guys that they're just not gonna want to pay one point five million just to switch a number. To me, it's not worth it. But you know, hey, well that was Cook, that was what Cook would have had to pay. So I don't know what Janalen Smith would have to pay to go to number nine. Not sure exactly what Ezekiel Elliot would have to pay to

go to number fifteen. We're number fifteen in Ohio state. So but these are just if you're a popular player in the league, and you're a player this moving product. It may be it may be hoo view to just stay where you are. So if you're Ceedee Lamb, going to number two is possibly gonna It may be too costly for you to switch from eighty eight. It may not.

You know, you may decide. I can put, in Dalin Cook's case, one point five million dollars of money to a better use number in arresting there, Hey want to end with a question from Carolina Panthers head coach Matt Rule. This is what he likes to ask um potential prospects. So I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you this what he asked them if you were on a desert island, what's the one recording artist you would want to listen to?

He by the way, he chose Dave Matthews. Dave Matthews Band was who Matt Rule picked is the one artist he would listen to on a deserted island. So who you got, You know, I gotta go with my boy Bob Marley. Man, if you guys watched the show, you see I got this poster in the background when we're doing my our shows. But I mean, especially if you're on a deserted island, you gotta have those happy vibes.

You gotta have those happy tunes to keep to keep the emotions going, to keep you going in the right direction. You don't want to sit there and be you know, awesome heavy metal and just man, I'm sitting on this island. How am I gonna get off? If you get those happy vibes Bob's always pushing into his music, You'll find a way to get off that island. Even if you don't get off for a while, you can at least

be happy while you're enjoying the island. So I gotta have Bob Marley and on my speaker box while I'm stuck at sea or stuck on an island. About ten ten, maybe six seven years ago, before he got into all his issues and troubles, I would have said our Kemp, but I can't. Yeah, I can't do that now. Nah nah, give me Stevie Wonder because Stevie Wonders, those artists were everybody likes Stevie, and Stevie's got love songs. He's got good song you know you play that old Master blast.

I mean he's got, you know, great stuff, superstition. Um. I just called to say I love you, overjoyed. I mean that the record, the records that Stevie has been making since the sixties are just classics. So I would pick something that is a classic. And there's a whole lot of different ones he could go with, So I would, I would rock. I would rock some Stevie Wonder. If I had just one artist to play, solid choice. Can't go wrong with Stevie Wonder out there, Stevie Wondering. Bob Marley, Yeah,

you'll be a you'll make it through. You'll make it through the island. You'll be straight. All right. Let's wrap the show up with a simple question. Cowboys picking at number ten next Thursday. Who do they select with a numbered with the number ten overall pick and the twenty twenty one NFL draft the Dalla This Cowboys select Patrick Curtan. I believe it's the second. I'm not sure if it's junior or the second, but I'm just gonna say Patrick

Curtan the second. He's gonna come be a cornerstone part of this defense. He's gonna turn around this young secondary hymn Treyvon Diggs and hopefully Demante Kazy back there can get these boys lined up, but they gotta go certain at number ten. I believe he's a blue chip prospect and I think he can get the most out of his defense if you add him along with the Treyvon Diggs out there. I am review one hundred percent. Patrick's Artan is the pick I'd like to see the Dallas

Cowboys make. I am worried about Caroline at eight, but I'm hoping Carolina takes Rashaan Slayter, the offensive tackle out of Northwestern, and at nine, maybe the Broncos take the quarterback. So it would be an amazing thing if the number one, I should say, the highest rated defensive player ended up not going until ten in the draft and the Cowboys were able to take him. I just think he fits so many needs of what they have and he could be a building block. And I'm looking not just next year.

I'm looking at for about ten years that the Cowboys could have at the number one corner in place here, and you put Sir Tannon Dix together knowing the kind of guys that they got to go face this year. You've got Kansas City on the schedule. So you've got Tyree Hill. You've got Michael Thomas the New Orleans Saints. You've got Keenan Allen of the Chargers, you got Feeling, you got Jefferson of the Vikings. You've got Chris gott When. You've got Mike Evans of the Bucks on the schedule.

You've got Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley on the schedule. You've got Kitty Galladaya the Giants on the schedule. You got who else the Eagle right, who else the Eagles decide to take. You got Curtis Samuel, and you've got scary Terry McLaurin of the Washington football team on your the white receivers that the Cowboys are gonna face this year to pretty wicked deal out there. You got the Hambling kid, and you got the kid from Alabama, Jerry Judy for the Denver Broncos. I mean, there's no shortage

to do. They're gonna have to face the Raiders with Henry Ruggs. I mean, the Cowboys are going to be taking on some serious wide receivers and it's a passing league. So I think he got to go ahead and try and address it. And I think Patrick's ten the second fits so many things for the Cowboys. Chris be my producer. Who you got taking at ten? By the way, we didn't ask you. We always talk amongst ourselves here, but but who you got? Who do you want to see

the Cowboys take their ten? Okay, we go, So we're all in agreement. We are all in agreement. We want to see number two from Alabama and I don't. And that's who's got Number two? Is miss Wander the punter? Is he number two? Because this one, Miss Wander, you gotta get that up, Miss Wander, you gotta get that. I mean so yeah, so so just looking right here, man, he could go ahead and rock that. He can rock. He can rock number two here. That would be pretty cool.

That would be pretty cool. Hey, that's the players Lounge. We appreciate you checking us out here. Will be back on Friday. We'll review that Cowboys first overall pick in the draft that they make at number ten, fifteen, twenty, wherever they make it, and maybe they make two picks in the first round. They have done that before. We appreciate you checking us out. For Barry Church producer Chris Beam, I'm new, he scrugs. Say again, Say again, Chris Beam. Oh,

Greg's urline the kickers number two. Yeah, go ahead, snatch that from him. Yeah, go ahead, Hey, Greg the leg you gotta get that up gregor leg, you gotta get up there. You're going. Yeah, you go ahead and take you, go ahead and take that from from the kicker all day long. Okay, Yeah, you just pay him a little bit of money, sending in the cobo, break him off a little bit. Thanksat exactly. Just just pay him a little cash and move on down the road. All right.

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