00:00you have two new dallas cowboy players i don't think you've lost any in free agency which may
00:06tell you something right there yeah it's uh you you you didn't have a lot of big time free agents
00:13that were exposed to the market but yeah i believe nick harris's note yesterday was they were the
00:16only team that had not lost anybody to free agency all 31 other teams had lost somebody
00:21we know that rashaun gary was dealt during the show for a fourth rounder to the green bay packers
00:27well they also got their safety bobby props to you you previewed and you predicted that arizona's
00:34jalen thompson would be a dallas cowboy target they got him three years 36 million dollars yeah and it's
00:41uh it's right at what the safety market was um i mean you had basically uh i think brian cook
00:49ended
00:49up going for 14 but essentially every safety that's been signing the last few days whether it's a
00:54re-sign or a new deal it's been 12 to 13 million dollars so you grabbed one of the top
01:00safeties
01:00available on the market you grabbed a guy that was a big target for you um and so this was
01:05i think a
01:06a really strong signing and a really good couple of moves for them the only thing you're wondering
01:12walking away from day one is did you leave things on the table that you shouldn't have like uh i
01:19i think
01:20they were watching the corner market fall yesterday they i think they could have gotten in there and
01:25gotten a deal because the corners were not a lot of the the market was way over the top for
01:31for
01:31certain positions guards were getting paid ridiculous yesterday edges were getting paid ridiculous amounts
01:37yesterday but corner generally came in a little below i think what a lot of what a lot of the
01:43projections were and then you are you are pretty much tapped out on the free agent market at linebacker
01:49now there's there's really not anything left after they they got in their bidding wars they put a
01:55competitive offer i mean they put apparently the same offer up as the raiders did for nicobe dean and
02:00he just ended up picking the raiders to go rejoin all his georgia teammates that signed there yesterday
02:04jalen thompson choppy has a familiarity with your secondary coach ryan smith i couldn't believe well i guess i
02:11could believe it on twitter that thompson is the first outside free agent the cowboys have signed
02:17for more than six million since jerald mccoy in 2020 oh well hey listen it's better than since
02:24brandon carr uh that's another stat where it's like hey sign this guy to an x amount of uh free
02:31agent
02:31money but i mean look i i don't know much about thompson um i i don't have anything i like
02:38the plan you
02:39know you're going you're getting some defensive guys and they've gotten a couple uh that was a need
02:44it's a position of need and it's a position that they might get shut out of in the draft you
02:48never
02:48know uh you gotta this is why you can't just bank on the draft the cowboys have banked on the
02:53draft
02:53too often so there was there's nothing wrong with this they should be they should be happy with this
02:57move bobby let's get an education on jalen thompson 27 years of age has spent his entire career
03:03with the arizona cardinals they took him in the supplemental draft out of washington state
03:09people still use that in 2019 last year he played 15 games finished with the lowest defensive
03:16completion percentage of his career 62 allowed 38 catches on 61 targets three touchdowns did have
03:23one pick and 95 tackles and he was hurt a lot of the year um and he still played at
03:29a a strong level
03:30this is i'm trying to think who it would be this might be man i did scanning through my head
03:38this might be the best safety they've gotten since somewhere along the lines of like ken hamlin
03:44or somebody like that i mean it's been a while since they've really gotten a safety who it's like
03:48yeah that's one of the the like better ones in the league he's not like a top five safety or
03:53anything
03:53like that but i mean he's a top 15 safety probably to me i think he's really really good he's
03:58somebody
03:59who he's not going to be as much of a deep middle guy he can do that i mean he
04:03can play center field
04:04he can roam it a little bit but where he's going to be most effective is sort of coming downhill
04:08uh playing a little bit of the nickel he played a lot in the slot last year um so he
04:13he'll take
04:14receivers out of the slot he'll you know contribute down in the box he'll contribute in the deep middle
04:19but he is a really physical tackler he's a really smart player the whole brain works line that will
04:26mcclay gave us uh from christian parker while we were in indianapolis jalen thompson's brain works he's a
04:32really fast processor and a little bit light for a safety he's 5 11 190 which is a little small
04:38for
04:39for safety but he is a a physical player pound for pound he is one of the more physical players
04:44you
04:45saw in the cardinals defense um gonna be good in run support and somebody who as a zone defender
04:49in particular i think is going to be a big asset for them pff is discussing the versatility last year
04:56he spent 289 snaps at free safety 320 snaps in the box and 249 in the slot so you talk
05:06about playing
05:06different areas uh and you talk about that nickel corner that we've been highlighting so much in this
05:11cowboys offseason uh graziano has the details on the deal it guarantees him 22 million over the first
05:18two seasons 9.7 million dollar signing bonus a 1.8 million dollar salary in 2026 8.5 in 2027
05:28yes the budget his cap hits gonna start that yeah his cap hits gonna end up being i don't know
05:34then
05:34that sounds like it's around 5 million but he's uh i mean he's somebody who when you watch him play
05:41like when last year we saw all these different moments where it's like why do you guys not know
05:44where to be why do you not know where to line up why are you just so confused about what
05:49cover two
05:49is versus cover three like where are you supposed to be standing that's not jalen thompson there's not
05:54i didn't see i i don't know if i saw any plays on tape when i was watching him with
06:00the cardinals when
06:00i was studying him where he just had a complete bust i'm standing in the wrong spot so in position
06:05where he needs to be a really really good football player um and somebody who i think instantly makes
06:11their secondary much much better they also pick up two fifth rounders through the compensatory
06:16uh selection that was awarded the teams yesterday the ravens and others have always figured that out
06:23and then you look crazy how late they do this too that you don't find out what you get until
06:30weeks before the draft you think you would find that out way earlier they've gotten better about
06:34kind of projecting it a little bit let's talk about the players that they quote unquote missed out on
06:39the raiders they fixed their linebacker room real quick in about five minutes they signed the kobe
06:45dean to a three-year 36 million dollar deal uh jane sater reporting it was like 51 49 between the
06:53cowboys and the raiders the raiders obviously go ahead and win out they also signed quay walker who
06:59todd archer reported the cowboys were also in the mix for and they actually preferred quay walker
07:06over nicobe dean so nick harris did a nice job in the past 48 hours of kind of cooling the
07:13nicobe
07:13dean hype saying i don't know if he's this automatic lock for the cowboys roster like many are saying
07:19turns out they actually preferred quay and he's a raider as well i mean look i like what the raiders
07:24did
07:25um you know this this over the last couple of days with the trade for matt you know the max
07:29trade get
07:30the first you know getting linderbaum getting dean uh it is a little concerning that the cowboys
07:35offered basically the same deal and lost out that's concerning like i i you know you should never lose out
07:42to the raiders no but the bad team they they just i mean they acquired like three georgia defenders that
07:47nicobe dean played with in college so for them it's like a reunion it's it's it's it's like the uh
07:52it's the nova nicks at the raiders and so i mean that was their that was their top guy heading
07:58into
07:58yesterday at linebackers quay walker that's who they wanted and it didn't they they got a sense
08:03they weren't going to get him they thought they were closing in on nicobe dean and then nicobe dean
08:07picked the raiders um and so that was i don't know why it pissed me off it just pissed me
08:13i could
08:13have seen they they lost quay walker and nicobe dean back to back and that wouldn't have made me as
08:17as i just thought was the raiders signed nicobe dean the raiders signed quay walker it's like
08:21how many linebackers do y'all need yeah like come on you don't need to take both of them spread
08:24the
08:25well yeah you don't need to take both of them come on leave one quay got three for
08:2840 so keep that in mind i'm not sweating the loss of nicobe dean like everyone else i've never been
08:35in love with nicobe dean i think because of our coverage and the connection with christian parker
08:43to philadelphia nicobe dean was more of a a fan want than reality should have called for this is
08:50an injured player um and and the number one thing that stood out to me was okay maybe he gets
08:56your
08:56defense said maybe he's a good leader and maybe he's a good brain works guy out there but nicobe
09:02dean has been a disappointment from the hype that followed him uh coming out of georgia i thought
09:08for sure one of dean or blankenship was going to find their way here just because of the relationship
09:13i think blankenship would have ended up here if thompson didn't
09:18yeah yeah it was after that was after uh they lost blankenship jaylen phillips and nicobe dean off
09:25their defense a lot of losses a lot of money they say that's a lot of money freed up you
09:30know which
09:31could be scary down the road but in one in one day where now you get a lot of guys
09:35that are already
09:36gone that you can't replace i i agree with you i'm not sweating in a vacuum the loss of nicobe
09:42dean
09:42i'm a little stressed about losing nicobe dean when you look at like what's left yeah there's
09:47just nobody there's no like big time players at linebacker i think devin lloyd last night cory
09:53majors guy three for 45 as carolina continues to spend big defensively i don't think they liked him
09:59very much dallas um the they're really left right now with some of the chatter that you've seen slater
10:05talk about which is i think they're kicking the tires a little bit on a patrick queen trade maybe
10:12and other than that they're just they're kind of scanning around and as it stands right now you
10:16are drafting a corner and a linebacker like that's what you have to draft if if things stay the same
10:21draft to dn still draft a pass rushing dn who's playing linebacker for me i need somebody you got
10:28overshot right now i'm not draft but i'm not i'm not going outside of the best player at dn for
10:35linebacker
10:36all right let's put them on the board let's put yes let's put styles and bain on the board i
10:44think
10:44styles is a significantly better player okay but i mean like i also know that everybody else would
10:49disagree with that like broadest would disagree with that broadest tried to strangle me when
10:52we're in indianapolis for just saying like hey is reuben bain maybe not a top five player and that
10:57freaked him out but i think there's a decent chance that the linebackers that you look at may be better
11:03than like at 20 cj allen from georgia he might be a better player than akeem mesador who's the
11:10edge rusher that that may be a better option for you but obviously the positional value somebody may
11:15say yeah but that's an edge rusher and and he's going to contribute in ways that i really need and
11:19so i i need that well i stand correct you don't need to draft defensive end because they brought
11:26back sam williams on a true one year three million dollar deal one for three for sam hey that's that's
11:32that's a cheap player that's cheap cheap end nine career sacks nine personal fouls is that the stat
11:39no that's not good the biggest fish left would be trey hendrickson yesterday ricky scoops before
11:48deleting his account again said trey hendrickson would be a cowboy chad ochocinco the former bangles
11:54legend said trey hendrickson will be a cowboy everything quiet on that front when it comes to trey
12:00people don't know what to do with him like the league does not know how to address him it's like
12:05we're talking about yesterday he's in this weird purgatory spot in terms of the finances around
12:10the league and then he's older and he's got an injury history and i think a lot of people are
12:16just
12:16like i how much do we pay him like what are we comfortable paying i don't think anybody's got a
12:21good beat on it and so uh i mean he's still sitting around i had talked to somebody yesterday who
12:26was just
12:26like what are what are they doing like money is drying up around the league why is why is trey
12:32hendrickson's team not getting him like we're not hearing about him no doing like zooms or anything
12:38there's no chatter about him getting close with any of these teams surely like there's a team out there
12:43that likes him in as a player the whole league likes him doesn't love the age doesn't love the money
12:50and there's going to come a point where the money is going to like it's going to come down to
12:53the
12:53market where it's just like i got to buy this house it's too good of a deal i can't say
12:57no to
12:57it like that's that's what's going to happen with with henderson like he's going to sign if he's
13:03running out of all this money he's going to sign for a deal that's going to be a sweetheart deal
13:07for
13:07some team i don't think so i think he's still gonna get like 35 40 not not that high not
13:12that high
13:13um well let's look at what jalen phillips did with setting the market you know at 30 million dollars a
13:20year
13:20you
13:20you
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