Player's Lounge: Who Really Won The Deal?

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NEWI it's a little cloudy in the Metroplex. But like I said, man row on players Lounge on a Friday, eleven thirty. Where else would you rather be? Where else would you rather be? Let's get to a big dog. All right, man, I've been I've been waiting, chomping at the bit since going to that Prescott press conference which was well over hour at the Star. I'm so glad I went because you needed to be there to see the reactions to the questions, just the way things were

bouncing and going. So to see Stephen Jones, Jerry Jones, and Dak Prescott, they're all giving their takes on this deal. So initially I wanted to get your thoughts on the contract and the press conference. Well, originally the contract. I'm here to say I was dead wrong, along with a lot of America out there. I was dead wrong. I thought, for Shirton for certain that he would not get this

deal done by by the deadline. I thought he would be franchise tag and I was even going out there saying that he wouldn't get a deal done by July fifteenth. But the Cowboys, they were able to work their magic. You know, Jerry has always said, and I'll never doubt Jerry again when it comes to this, because we heard it for two years. I'd never let anybody out want walk out of me. I'll walk off of this team. I keep who I want. And yeah, we heard the talk and we just all thought it was talk. But

Jerry got the deal done with Dak. So to me, I gotta give hats off to Jerry and his representatives and Dak and his representatives as well, because even though they got this deal done, I thought for sure, I thought for sure that they would have no cap space and it was going to be Dak versus the world

out there seeing how bad this defense was. But hats goes off to Jerry and Todd Franz because they were able to work something out to where Dak was able to get the money he wanted, the guaranteed money, the forty meal per year. He was able to get that. But also Jerry on the other sideay and year one let that that cap friendly, that team deal kind of work its magic. They ended up creating more cap space by paying this man this money. And I thought it

was I thought it was blasphemous. I didn't think there's no way that they're going to be able to get this man this money and still have cat space. But they were able to work it around, and I believe they freed up maybe even fifteen to seventeen meal right now. And to me that that's a win win on both cases. You have your franchise quarterback who's going to be there

for the foreseeable future. The leader, the unquestioned leader of this team there for the foreseeable future end, and you have enough cap space to address a little bit of the needs on this defense, because we know there's a lot of needs on this defense. So for me, I gotta get my hats off to both sides. They played it remarkably and hopefully you know it pays off for the Dallas Cowboys as in Super Bowls or something like that,

because we need it here in the Metroplex. But hats goes off to both sides getting this deal done and creating enough cat space to address that horrendous defense that they had last year. Let's hope it all works out. So I like when you spoke about just the parameters of the deal, and one of the questions, and one of thinks Steve and Jones had brought up was every time there was something that Steve was looking for that

could help the team, he said. Todd France said yes, because I believe I was number seven at the press conference today. They had us all lined up and I was number seven to ask the question. So I asked a question that Dak and the second question I asked was about the pie, Like, okay, you guys talked to all camp about you. There will be no pie for anybody else here. So is there pie left to fix

this bad defense you had? And that's when Steven referenced that Todd France was working with him and they understood the importance that, Okay, yeah, we want our quarterback, we want our guy to get his cash, but there has to be something left for some other people. So that was something I thought that was unique there. Jerry said I overpaid. Everybody out there, says Jerry overpaid, because he's

now Dak Prescott's the second highest paid quarterback in the game. Okay, second highest paid players Patrick Mahomes, then it is Dak Prescott, followed by Sean Watson. But we all knew how these deals go. The next guy tops the next guy. And when this, you know, when this TV deal is officially done, somebody's gonna top Dak Prescott. I mean this is how,

this is how these things go. Four years, one hundred and sixty million dollars, sixty six million dollars up front, one hundred and twenty six million dollars and guarantees overall. So this is this is where it's gone. Dak Prescott. Uh, and Todd France. They played this perfectly. They did not sign a deal. As Jerry spoke in the press conference.

I think Jerry let it out a little bit that he thought that they could wear Dak out, that the Dak would just be like, nah, I gotta take this deal, you know, after taking so little for so long, that he would jump at the chance. And he didn't do it. They didn't do it, didn't which ads goes off the dead. Yeah, yeah, they played it right. I mean he stayed still and

all of this. And I buddy of mine wrote a book called Stillness is the Key Ryan Holiday, and it's just that ability that while things around you are a little bit chaotic, how how still and calm can you be, which is a great for a quarterback, which is what he did, is while things were going around. But you should sign it. You should do that. You're not worth

thirty million. The guy just stayed where he was, ended up getting hurt and just still stayed still, kept working out of the facility, and it worked out well for him that he won the deal. Okay, Jared can talk all day long about how this is good, but Dack on this deal he did he wanted by landslide in my opinion, But it's gotta be a hard and that's why I say it's hats off to that, because it's gotta be hard. I mean, you're getting bombarded by the media.

You got guys like myself over here talking about, oh, he's got if he takes a deal, we're never gonna have a defense, and he can't carry this team without a defense, So why would we pay him that much? And then you got fans coming from all over the Metroplex all he's greedy. Why don't you take that? You know, there's guys that are, you know, getting paid way less than do more important jobs. So you're getting all this barking in your ears from every different direction, guys pulling

on you. And like you said, man, he remained still. He remained confident in that he was able him in toide of France, We're gonna be able to work out a deal in his favor as well as the team. And hats goes off because I know myself now, I know if people were chirping and pulling at me from all I don't know how, I don't know. And then you got thirty five meal dangling in front of your

face per year. That's a hard thing to stay still on and had those offs of those guys because because they were able to do it and ended up working out in the benefit both the Cowboys and Dak Prescott. So that was the question I asked to Dak. That was the first when I got because we got two questions to ask at the press conference, and that was

a question I asked Dad. And for two years you had to deal with people questioning you about the contract, people questioning what you were worth, and people saying what you weren't worth, that you weren't worth thirty million dollars. How did you deal with it? The other people around you? And Dak he went back to one of his cliches, which is, hey, I just control what I can control. But Church, you've been a player and you've been in this situation too where your contract was up and people

are asking you about your future. Here, I don't care how much you want to ignore it. You can't ignore it. This is your life. You can't ignore it at all. And he's been in the line last since his rookie year, so he's had people since his rookie year telling them

how great he is. And then when the time comes to get paid what he wants, people turned quick as they oh, now you're not worth thirty million, you're gonna wreckguard team and rep guard cap and man, he remained still and I'm just like that to me, just shows just shows that the type of just poise and confidence that that man has in himself to where everybody in the Metroplex, not even a metro player, I'm talking about

the whole sports world ESPN. I mean all those talk shows in the beginning of the orders, all those talk shows in the morning, that's all they do is talk Dallas Cowboys football. We know that. And at the head of the Cowboys football is Dak Prescott. And you got na should wide news people coming at you, you got local media coming at you, fans coming at you. And man, that boy stood his ground. And it's a tough thing to do because as a player, you want to please

your fans. You don't never want to be the hated guy out there. You know, this isn't wrestling where the villains are. You know, there's villains and there's heroes. You don't want to be hated by by your fan base out there. And he was able to, you know, keep that fan base happy as well as get his money and get the Cowboys organization as one. And you know, hey, now, like I said before, hats goes off those remarkable negotiation and contract. You are checking out the players, LOUDS, we NRSWBC,

mortgage and virtual home studios. I knew, he scrugs. Joined by Barry Church Danny mccraie with the Day Off here recapping this Dak Prescott historic contract, largest contract in Cowboys history. So he gets it done, and here's the aftermath. Thump. People starting to say well, and one of those people is Hall of Fame coach Jimmy Johnson, who won two Super Bowls as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys

and left enough talent for a third. And Jimmy told Colin Cowherd the Fox Sports that he does not think Dak Prescott can carry a football team. I've heard this several times from different people. The Dak good quarterback, not the guy that can carry a team. Barry, you've played this league. You've seen guys who can carry teams. How

do you feel about dat? Man? This one's tough, right here, This one's tough because, like you said, I've played on teams the Jacksonville Jaguars who had Blake boardles and arguably he was maybe thirty first out of thirty second quarterbacks when we were together there, and we were able to get to the AFC Championship despite him, just because we had an amazing defense. Now we don't have that type of defense here with the Dallas Cowboys. We don't have

any type of resemblance of that defense. But what we do have is an explosive offense, and we have a great I would say we have a good quarterback with the possibility of being great as he develops, but we have that on offense. So to me, we now have the cap space. We have a little bit of room to go ahead. And maybe we might not get a

Mark Key free agent in the defense. The defensive side of the ball, we might not get an the Dominican suit or Anthony Harris as far as the safeties are concerned, because those guys might demand a little bit more coin than we're willing to give up. But with the money that we do have in that cap space, I feel like we can address this defense. I feel like we can put a veteran's free safety back there well maybe make you know, three to four million dollars nothing to

break the bank. But there's a lot of options out there at safety. Veteran safety with a great skill set, who can play that middle of the field defender, who could be that Earl Thomas type safety for this defense. I mean, there's Tayshaw Gibson out there who last year I think he played for the Bears for two point five or maybe three million. There's Trey Boston out there who won't even demand that much in the free agent market. So I think there's options out there. And you still

can address that defensive line. Like I said, you might not get in the Dominican suit, but you can get that Call Lawson from Cincinnati. You can get some of these lower tier defensive tackles that are better than what you have right now, and you compare them with Neville

Gallimore out there and see what can happen. But we have the cap space to address this defense, something that I thought we didn't have, or we wouldn't have once we paid Dak and I thought for sure, there's no way Dad can carry this team with the defense that's constructed right now. But if we can address this defense with that little bit of cap room that we have. I think he has the capabilities of taking his team far and to me that he's a good quarterback, he

might be great overtime. But if we can't address this defense a little bit, I think we have the solution to maybe reaching those heights that we want to see. All right, Church, So in your opinion, when Jimmy says a guy a quarterback who can carry a team, doesn't believe Dak, is that guy? Give me three quarterbacks in your opinion in the NFL who do carry their teams, who do carry their team, I would have to say

Patrick Mahomes. Put Patrick Mahomes on there. You know I would put I'm hesitant, but I think he can have the capabilities of carrying the team. And that's Russell Wilson. He hasn't done much since the Legion of Boom left, but he's kind of always kept that team in playoff contention. So I say, if he has a little bit more help here and there, he's one of those guys that can carry a team. And he's young right now, so

I have to put him. I gotta put him in there because he's young right now, and he had an amazing season last year. Even though they didn't the record didn't show, he still played well. And I think if you add maybe one or two pieces, he can carry a team with a terrible defense. And that's the Shaun Watson. Outside of those three quarterbacks, you know, Brady's up there in age and what he had around him in Tampa Bay, most quarterbacks would be able to win with. So I

can't put Brady in there. Oh there's one more. I gotta put Aaron Rodgers in there. I gotta put Rodgers in there. His remarkable arm talent. I mean, he eat that, He's seen pretty much every defense out there. So I gotta put Rodgers in there. But outside of those four quarterbacks, I'm not sure there's anyone left in the NFL I can carry a team by themselves. But outside of those four quarterbacks, and see, to me, I'm gonna stop it

at just Mahomes, Rogers and Brady. I mean, put those three right over here, and I'm looking at these guys. These are Super Bowl winners, These are are MVPs. Put them over there and everyone else. I mean, look, I love DeShawn Watson. And what are the fun things about playing fantasy football? And you have a quarterback as you follow him every week, you watch all them snaps and I had Watson last year. Watson is a fantastic player. But even you saw what was their record? Yeah? What hap?

Yeah it was a four to twelve. I think you know, he kind of reminds me of the Watson kind of reminds me of the Russell Westbrook, who you know, he could put up all these phenomenal he could average a triple double. Oh no, I'm sorry. You guys still got me? Hello? Yeah, I got you hello, Okay if I thought I was off. But the sign he kind of reminds me of the Russell Westbrook of the NFL, Like he can average a

triple double, put up all these stats, win MVPs. But at the end of the day, is he gonna bring you that hardware? Is he gonna make this team a competitive team in the playoffs? I'm not quite sure. I lean to put him in there just because he's still so young, but overall, you gotta put a little bit of talent around him to see the fruits of his production. But yeah, I would agree with you on that one. And so my thing with with Russell. When you put

in Russell Wilson that category and Deshaun Watson. And to me, most quarterbacks are like that. They're they're only about you know, the three guys I named who consider up here, put a team on their shoulders and go Lamar Jackson's won an MVP in this league, and I have a lot of respect for his ability. Josh Allen's is shown us he's a really good football player. But they're still needing

some help here. So we got three guys in this league right now that you can say, put that dude out there, that guy will go win you the game. And to me, everybody else is gonna have some warts and some flaws. And that's where Dak Prescott fits in. And so when Jimmy talks about, you know, him making this kind of money and paying him and he's gonna limit your cap every year, we keep seeing that happened.

Andrew Luck got paid and unfortunately injuries hurt him. But you know what, even he was not that guy who you know, he did well with the Colts, but you know, once he needed help. So this is the nature of the game. Dad got his money in four years, somebody's gonna go go blow past the money. So dat knows now that the bull's eyes on him. And I want to bring up another point of former Dallas cowboy had to say, and that's Darryl moose Johnston. Actually know I'll

bring up that. I'll bring that up later on, bring it up later on. Here. Want to touch in here on another DAK reaction, and that's Jerry Jones. Jerry Joe said he overpaid and he was glad to Oh, how you feel well? Actually, how did you feel? It was okay? This is why you had to be there, and being there and hearing it are two different things. Because when he at first he said anything that I ever bought a value I overpaid for. He said I overpaid for

the Dallas Cowboys. Everybody told me how dumb I was and it was a bad deal. Even Donald Trump back in the nineties said, hey, I could have bought the Cowboys, but it was so much money as a bad it was a bad investment. And then he said I overpaid for DAK. And then so it was a hey, yeah, overpaid, But you know what, you overpaid for good things. And if you underpaid for something, what are you gonna get? You're gonna get something that's not that valuable. So he

put Dak in that category. So when you say, how did you feel the way he said it, it made Dak feel like, okay, yeah, you know what, you got the best of me. And he even said, if I had to pay a single human being, I don't mind paying the guy to my right. So he was very complimentary in what he did. But he did over He overpaid because you and I know they could have got it for thirty two. You know, oh yeah, two years ago they probably probably could have got him for thirty right,

so they messed it up. Yeah, so there's no doubt he overpaid because hey, you did it. But this is been and we've talked about it right here on the players side. So this has been the Jerry Jones m He overpaid on Tank. Lawrence could have got Tank at a cheaper price. Overpaid on Himari Cooper should have got the Cooper deal done when they made the trade for him, didn't do it. Overpaid on Ezekiel Elliott made him the tops heay running back in the game. He overpaid there.

This is what he's done consistently, and you knew you were gonna have to overpay for the quarterback. But but that's a great thing about what you brought up. Was like, that's what you took from it when he said he was overpaid, But being there and hearing him say and how he was trying to convey it, it's like, yeah, man, I overpaid, but you know what, everything overpaid for was

worth it. This guy's worth it. So so I gotta ask you this, how was the enter when you were in there, Like was it like everybody was kind of sitting on pins and needles or was there like a lot of tension, Like how was the energy because on the TV it seemed like, you know, everybody was just like all giddy and just I can't believe this is what it is. So I just wanted to like being there in person, was there a lot of tension or was it just like everybody was just happy that it

finally got done and we can move forward with this. Yeah. So this was the first team press conference the NFL's had for a team. The last time the NFL had just a press conference all year long with the media and the people there the same thing, you know, in the same room, that was the Super Bowl. So no other NFL team has done what the Cowboys did, and bringing out Dak Presscott. Let's do it in person. Everything's

been virtual since last March. So this was the first time Jerry was happy to be into the building seeing people. He really loved it. He missed being in the arena of dealing with the media in the back and forth. It's are is the energy in terms of Dak and these people. Of course they're happy. Four years, one hundred and sixty million bucks. And Barry, you've been involved in contracts and you and you with the Cowboys and then

being in the locker room with the Jaguars. You know, when guys are happy for a certain player because they know, hey, man, that guy, that guy deserves his money without doubt. Yeah that was without a doubt. You know, go ahead, but go ahead. Oh no, I was just gonna say about the two locker rooms and being happy because, like you said, when you see guys get deals done, like you know, when when Tyron Crawford got his deal done, everybody in

the locker room was happy for him. You know when when Brandon Carr came in after getting paid from everybody was happy for him. Orlando, same thing. But when I went down to Jacksonville and then after we made that running the ANC championship, and they turned around and played and paid Blake Bortles what they paid them. I mean, you could you get cut the tension with a knife in the locker room. I mean, people, we was sitting there just grimacing, like you would think that man, you know,

ain't quarterback. Got paid. Man, everybody's getting high fives. Man. He walked through that locker room and people were just giving them like yeah, yeah, it looks like we're here for another four years, man. So I'm glad the tension wasn't as thick or wasn't as bad when Dak signed his deal as it was when Blake Bortles did his at Jacksonville, because I'll tell you that locker room was stone cold silent. And here's once again, here's another difference.

The respect about a guy in the room and the overall premise of you guys were like, dude, you getting to check. We should be getting to check because you just you got paid off what we did. You know, we're not getting any of this. You got it. You were basically jock riding off us. Nobody felt that way.

Nobody felt that way about Dad and those leadership traits, those are the things in my mind being a reporter that fans and maybe even some people who do this for a living in the media don't understand of guys in the room know who's the dude. They know who's that guy. They know who who a team should be paying. That's Dad, And it's not reflective in numbers. It's it's a it's a it's a leadership thing, and sometimes you gotta be there or have been around real leaders to

understand it. He's that guy and and that's why I believe you pay for that. I think that's a quality you pay for. You just mentioned Blake Portals. He didn't have that. He did not have the Jews, he didn't have the leadership ability, and he couldn't lead guys and make guys get up say the guy gotta check me, like, oh man, how much that should out? Dad gets his money and the dudes are like, good for you. And it's crazy because he's been like that since his rookie year.

I remember him walking in to the training room or walking into the to the locker room for we were up in Oxnard, California, and it was his first start in the preseason game. Because I believe Tony Romo was sitting it out and it was against the Rams twenty sixteen, and he went in there and you could just feel it.

I don't know, I can't really explain, I can't put words to it, but you could just feel it like he just he just came out the locker room with just as poison just as I don't call it out aura, but it kind of was. He just came out on the field and you knew the guys around him knew that they just already had this belief in him. And once we saw him perform like that in that game out in California, we were like, we might have something,

We might have a solid backup. Little did we know, you know, Romo was gonna go down and he was gonna take over. But from game one, when Dac was under center, he just had this calmness as poisonous about him that everybody believed in him. I'm talking about even the veterans, even Jason Witten's and the Dead Bryant's and the Doug Freeze of the world who were best friends with Tony Romo, and that was their guy, that was their ride or die guy. They looked at Dac and said, look,

this is the answer. This is how we're gonna get to where we need to go. And when you have a belief and a guy like that, it don't matter how much you're down. You could be down twenty points, you could be down fourteen points with two minutes left in the game. The team is still gonna fight hard and they're still gonna believe that he can go out there and he can get a win for us, no matter how bad we're down. And that's the stuff that you want to pay for as a team and as

an organization. When you got the guy that everybody believes in and no matter what the circumstances are, we're gonna fight our butts off for this guy because he can bring us home a victory. That's what you can pay for it. And that's what I believe Jerry Jones paid for it when it came to Dak Prescott, because he might have overpaid him, but you can't you can't put a price on the intangibles of guys believing you and

believing in you in the locker room. And that's what Dak provides for this team, all right, the Cowboys, and we got a whole bunch of other things to dive into, but I just want to make sure we got the DAK reaction there. They've restructured contracts. Who are some free agents the Cowboys need to let go. Who are some of the guys that they need to keep on this

football team. Also, let's get into dan Quinn. There was a whole lot of conversation about dan Quinn at the DAK press conference because the first time the media had an opportunity to ask Jerry and Stephen about it, and DAK also weighed in on the new defensive coordinator will do that. Players Lounge we brought to you by Hotels dot com coming up right here on Dallas Cowboys dot

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longtime safety. Our other safety is Barry McCray. He just say Danny mccraig. He's out, Barry and I running this thing. Hey, Chris, I got some feedback in my ears, so take that out for me right there, please? All right, um, let's get into restructured contracts here because now Dak Prescott is signed. All right, Church, here's the thing. The Cowboys decided to go to Tyring Smith, Lell Collins, Zach Martin say hey, guys, we want to reduce your cap number this year, I mean,

or reduce our cap number this year. We're gonna give you your money right now, which means, okay, instead of getting a check every seventeen weeks, they're gonna go ahead and decide to give it to you all at one time. I don't know about you, but I really would prefer that if I'm play there, I'm so I see, I've never really understood the any restructure, Like I didn't know how it worked when it but is that that's how

it works. So when they were structuring your deal, instead of getting paid you know every week every game, you should get that lump sum right at the beginning, right because this is they're they're not tricking the books. So they're just tricking the books now and say, hey, look, you know a church, we owe you ten meal this year, but you know we're gonna do We're gonna give it all to you a sign of bonus right now. So you know what here it is, Um, we're not we're

only paying you through the year. But that's fine, We're good. So this is a it's a magic trick. But ultimately they needed to create more room. Okay, so the Dack deals done, but they still need more room to sign draft picks and to play a free agency. So those are the three guys they decided to go to. Here's something that I noticed, it's who they didn't restructure. Amari Cooper.

Amari Cooper, the wide receiver, has basically a two year It's spent two years of guaranteed money, all right, and so after these two seasons, and this is gonna be the second season, they're free. So when you start to look at, okay, who are veterans with contracts and you know that they're going to be ending here the Cowboys out on Amari Cooper is twenty twenty two because all the all the money would have been gotten in the

first two years of the deal. So their cap hit after if you know, for twenty twenty two, would be six million dollars to let them go dead cap hit, which is this is this is just a thought. Okay, I'm just just pontificated. Let's say after this season, you want to say goodbye to Amari Cooper is making a twenty million a year. You want to say goodbye, You'll do a three million dollars cap hit in twenty twenty two or a three million dollars cap hit in twenty

twenty three. You spread over two years, you take that set of paying him twenty million bucks, you could give Michael Gallup ten and then you take another ten million dollars and try and fix your football team because Gallup is a after the season. I have no problem with that. If that's the route they want to go, and they say, you know what, Coop has been real two years, You've been productive, but you know we're gonna save a little

bit of money and go elsewhere. I have no problem with that because if you look at that Prescott and you look at what he does when he passes the vall and he put goes through these you know, godly numbers, he spreads the fall around. It's not like he's featured on one guy like Michael Thomas when he had you know, one hundred and fifty catches that one year. He's not

focused on. He spreads the vall around. So in sending that, I feel like you can you can take Calamari Cooper, who is a productive receiver and it is a very good receiver, but you can take him out. You can plug in somebody who might not be the caliber of a Namari Cooper but can still be productive. Maybe an the Manuel saying there's I'm not saying that's where they would go, but a player like that who's productive but

not to the caliber of a TheMark Cooper. You put a guy like that in there, I feel like you don't miss a beat because what we know about Dak Prescott is he spreads it around. You got Blake jarr Went at the tight end. Don't shoulta to the tight end. They've both proven the b wall at least don'ton Shoultezz proven to be a mismatch when it comes to linebackers covering. Then more safeties, so he gets spread the ball there.

You still got Michael Gallant, who's a deep ball threat of fifty fifty jump ball guy that you can get the ball to. And you oh and we forgot we got an emerging CD Lamb who had an amazing rookie season out the slot. So I feel like he can spread the ball to multiple people and it's not like he's laser and focusing in on Amark Cooper. And if you take him out of the game, what am I gonna do with the rest of my You know, what am I gonna do with the rest of his talent?

I can't. I can't do anything without a Mark Cooper. I feel like he spreads the ball enough to where if a Mark Cooper were to leave after this year, it wouldn't be that big of a problem and they could plug in somebody else for it, So I wouldn't have a problem with that. And if that was the case, so this could be the final year for Amari Cooper

then and it wouldn't be about his talent. This has really starting to look at all, right, the structure of your salary cap trying to find cheaper ways, and you drafted CD Lamb number one. That's five years of control you're going to have at some point in time push this guy, elevate him up. And so to elevate him up, you may have to go ahead and remove Cooper out of it. You'd like to possibly keep gallup and keep

him at a lower price to Coop. So this is just the price of business, okay, And this is what it comes to all right, another contract that you were asking about, guys Jaylen Smith. All right, so the out for the Cowboys would be after this season. I know there's some folks out there Thurston to get Jalen Smith going this year. It ain't happening. Jaylen Smith is going to be with the Cowboys, okay, and Stephen Jones admitted

that and said it again. So Jalen would be His out is twenty twenty two, so it'll be next year, and it would be six point eight million dollars a dead cap hit. Everybody, no one else is really good. I mean, Tyrant Smith, you could do it at twelve million, a dead cap hit, but I don't see them wanting to take something that huge tank. It's too much. It would be after the twenty after going into the twenty twenty twenty two season, to be nineteen million. You don't

want to do that Deadcapit money much. And then Zeke's Zeke's is not until twenty twenty three, and that's when it would be six point seven million. So Ezekiel Ellis would be here for the next couple of years. So so when when you asked about that overstructuring contracts, there you go. Um. This last Sunday, the Dallas Morning News did a little synopsis on who's likely to depart. So these were the five guys. Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News said, he thinks we'll go. I wanted to

get your take on it. Number one Shawn Lee, Number two, Tyrone Crawford, Number three, Shadow be A Woozier, Number four, Andy Dalton, number five, Joe Thomas. This was this was my five, all right, Shawn Lee, Tyrone Crawford, Cheeto,