00:00Give us practice, give us your Schottenheimer reaction a week later, week and a half, whatever
00:21it's been.
00:22Have you come around to, okay, I can buy this a little more, or no?
00:27I understand it, and it's very simple when you break it down.
00:32They painted themselves into a corner twice in their negotiations with Dak.
00:36First when they let his rookie contract play out, they tagged him once, they tagged him
00:40a second time, and then they woke up one day and realized, holy crap, he can walk away
00:45after the year of the second tag, we better turn this into a contract.
00:49And Dak Prescott and his representatives did exactly what Jerry would have done in the
00:53same situation, squeeze every ounce of leverage out of it.
00:57So he's got a four-year, $160 million deal that was designed to get renegotiated after
01:02three years.
01:04The third year came and went.
01:05I think they toyed with the idea of playing it out.
01:08They realized right before the start of the season, holy crap, he can walk away after
01:11this season, we better do something.
01:13So they give him a deal now that's guaranteed for, I think, four more years as a practical
01:19matter, they can't walk away from this.
01:21So your most important player, your most expensive player, the centerpiece of your
01:24franchise is Dak Prescott.
01:26He wanted Mike McCarthy to stay because he wants continuity.
01:29They low-balled, I believe, Mike McCarthy on a short-term offer.
01:32He wanted a longer-term deal, and then it fell apart.
01:34They surely negotiated.
01:35They claimed they didn't.
01:36They surely negotiated in the eight days after the season ended and the day that they announced
01:39the parting of ways.
01:41So we've got to placate Dak.
01:43And there's two choices, Kellen Moore and Brian Schottenheimer.
01:48And Kellen Moore might not be cheap because the Saints are closing in on him, so let's
01:52go with Brian Schottenheimer.
01:53I understand that.
01:54But at the same time, it's not an accident that it was announced on a Friday night.
02:00They knew exactly what the reaction was going to be.
02:04They would have dropped that thing during the Eagles-Commanders game.
02:09They would have, just like they announced during Seahawks-Eagles five years ago that
02:13Jason Garrett wasn't coming back.
02:15They leaked during the Rams-Vikings playoff game that they'd talked to Deion Sanders.
02:20And they made sure they announced it the morning of the first week of the 2024 regular season
02:24that Dak's contracted.
02:25But they know how to bigfoot a news cycle, and they also know how to run and hide from
02:28a news cycle, and that's what they did.
02:29So I understand it.
02:30I understand everything about it.
02:32Because I see through the grift, and I think more and more people are starting to see through
02:35the grift, and they're going to have some issues going forward unless they start acting
02:39the way that they talk.
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