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Shan, RJ, and Bobby went Inside The Star and broke down the latest on the Cowboys, including the ongoing contract situations with George Pickens and Brandon Aubrey. They also discussed the team’s growing need at linebacker after recent departures, options to address the position, and more.
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00:00It's funny to watch all the Cowboys beat reporters send out their updates, and they're like,
00:04now we're off the clock when March Madness is starting.
00:06Todd Archer did it, and so did Calvin Watkins.
00:09Calvin tweeted, no contract progress involving Brandon Aubrey and George Pickens.
00:15A reminder, Aubrey asked for $10 million, offered just under $7 million.
00:20The Cowboys placed the second round tender at $5.76 million.
00:25They still want Aubrey to be the highest-paid kicker, but he did note no contract progress involving GP.
00:34Brandon Aubrey was on the dumb zone, and they asked him about his social media responses.
00:39He went to the fan Instagram page to respond over the reports, and he and his wife are feeling like,
00:45you know,
00:46the narrative when it first came out was against him, and Brandon Aubrey said they had had enough.
00:52I let her do that one, and I did the same thing at that point.
00:56It was so overwhelming that it felt like just turning the valve on a pressure cooker to open up a
01:02little bit,
01:02to ease the pressure off of us, because at that point, every time we looked at our phone,
01:06there was 100 DMs or messages saying how selfish and greedy you are, that you need to just take that
01:11offer.
01:12Like, okay, we didn't get the offer you think we got, so let's just move on.
01:16And that's all we wanted to say, and, you know, it did help just know that I want to be
01:22here in Dallas,
01:23and it seems like the Cowboys want me here in Dallas, so something will happen eventually.
01:28Maybe it did have the effect it did.
01:31So I'm just speaking on a more broad scale here.
01:34Generally, when these sort of things, you're catching heat for something,
01:37the solution to take the heat off is not.
01:40I'm going to go personally, like, jump in the comments section and address this with people.
01:44Well, they both said fake.
01:46They did.
01:46They both just said, like, fake.
01:48They didn't quit it.
01:49They did, which is, like, I mean, Todd France did his video from the bus of,
01:53oh, a lot of fake stuff.
01:54Like, that usually is like, all right, that's good enough.
01:56Like, I do feel like it extended the story a little bit when it's like, oh, now they're saying that
02:00it's fake.
02:01And, like, it doesn't cause things to die down easy all the time whenever you decide.
02:05I'm going to go address this.
02:06And this is part of where it's like, you know, it is a tough.
02:13You've got to have a filter.
02:14You've got to have, like, a trap door that tells you don't do this.
02:18Like, when you see something, when you're in your own comments, it's tough not to post when somebody says something
02:24factually inaccurate about you.
02:26It's very tough not to go back at them.
02:28Oh, yeah.
02:29Like, you want, like, it's human nature.
02:31You want to go back.
02:33And it's like, that's what the people who can avoid doing that, they're, like, the super special ones.
02:38Because they've just, like, we don't, I don't care.
02:40But very, very few could do that.
02:42When do we get a Pickens discussion?
02:44Yeah.
02:45Hello.
02:45When do we get a Pickens negotiation or phone call?
02:48Well, I don't know that we will.
02:50Like, it may just be he's playing on the tag.
02:52Because, like, I don't, like I said, when we came out of Indy, that was the impression I got is
02:55they're not getting an extension then.
02:57And so I think that they're, I think everybody's sort of, that they're.
03:00Did you get the impression Georgia play on it?
03:03They'll see you week eight.
03:05That was a little less clear.
03:07But I also think that that's, like, it struck me.
03:10This is just an interpretation.
03:11This is not anything anybody told me.
03:12It struck me that any sort of, like, reluctance to play on it, because it was not, like, an aggressive
03:17position,
03:19struck me that any reluctance to play on it may have just been, like, well, we can't let them know
03:23we'll play on it because we're trying to get a deal.
03:25And so I think ultimately he will play on the tag.
03:28They won't get an extension done, and who knows what happens after that.
03:32And he'll play week one, full season.
03:35That's my guess.
03:37I didn't get anybody who told me that or told me they anticipated that.
03:40That's just my read of the things that I heard.
03:41Man, that would be disappointing.
03:43I'm not disappointed if he plays week one.
03:45I'd be disappointed if it comes to him being on the tag.
03:48And that would, in your estimation, the Cowboys letting him do that would just be about judging his behavior for
03:56one more year, correct?
03:59Why else would they not engage?
04:01Because you're going to cost yourself more money if he balls out again.
04:04Right, but that's also their M.O.
04:06They love to wait.
04:07They don't view that they're losing anything by waiting.
04:10Right.
04:11Cap's going up.
04:12Cap's going up.
04:13So his tag this year is 28.
04:15Next year it's 33-ish?
04:17Yeah.
04:18To them?
04:20You know, because Florio has always said this, if you go in the tag one year, the new contract number
04:25becomes the next year's tag.
04:27They're comfortable with 33 already, I think.
04:30Yes, but that's the difference with companies and people who don't understand.
04:36And there's a gray area between numbers and feelings.
04:41Yes.
04:42You know, if we're playing a video game and you're in franchise mode and you're like, I'm going to get
04:47George for 20.
04:47I'm building my team.
04:48I'm going to get George for 28.
04:50Then I'm going to get him at 32.
04:51Hell yeah.
04:52Yeah, that is the absolute 100 out of 100 times that you go about building your football team with a
04:57salary cap on a video game.
05:00But you've got to take into account the feelings and the chemistry and the goodwill, the badwill that it builds.
05:09A lot of these companies are like, no, we don't have to do anything.
05:13And you're not going to do anything.
05:14Okay.
05:15Yeah, I'll work under it.
05:16But I'm not going to go the extra effort.
05:18And now I have a venom towards you that at some point in time is going to come out.
05:23That's the real world.
05:25From Georgia's side.
05:25Yeah.
05:25Yeah, of course.
05:26This is why having him play on the tag is stupid.
05:31You've got to sign him.
05:31Although I don't.
05:33It's not stupid if he is.
05:35If he's a nutcase.
05:36If he's kind of okay with it.
05:38Or he's a nutcase.
05:39The first year D-Law was tagged.
05:40D-Law was fine.
05:41He signed it after like a week.
05:42He was like, sure, I'll play on it.
05:43I mean, very few people are unhappy with $28 million.
05:45And then the next year he was unhappy.
05:47Dak, yeah.
05:47I mean, they wanted to get something done.
05:48But Dak was like, fine, I'll play on it.
05:50Pickens is we hear enough from people going like, yeah, he's a different dude.
05:53Like, it would not surprise me if he didn't have the normal reaction that other people would have to this.
05:57It would also.
05:58This is where Amuligh Guetta, his homework and a possible bluff could play out here.
06:04Where he goes right.
06:05He can go around and talk to other teams and figure it out.
06:08If other teams are like, Dave, we're not giving him 35.
06:12We're not rolling the dice on that.
06:14Then you're more apt to play on the tag.
06:16Now, is Dave going to go back and tell the Cowboys, yeah, we're fine with it.
06:21No one else is going to give him 35.
06:23Or is he going to bluff and play it out like, I don't care.
06:27I don't have clients that play on the franchise tag.
06:30Go check the history and we're not starting now.
06:32If I was the third leading receiver in the NFL.
06:35But the Cowboys may also say, you haven't come back to us and said someone's willing to pay him that
06:40much more.
06:41So we know you got nothing.
06:43He is, it's funny.
06:45I was talking to somebody in personnel outside of Dallas last year.
06:49And they were talking about the negotiations that have gone on.
06:53You know what Bucs guy?
06:55We were talking about the negotiations that have gone on with David's clients before.
07:00David Mulgueta.
07:02And they had said that out of all the agents in the business, they're like, his is the best poker
07:07face.
07:07He will not, like, you know he has to be under stress by what's going on with the deal or
07:15their negotiating position.
07:15He does not show it to you.
07:17He is, it's just like, been here before, does not bug me.
07:20And then, so even if he's upset by something, he usually is apparently going to just play it very, very,
07:27you know, comfortable.
07:28And we're even.
07:29We're right here.
07:30And you do what you got to do.
07:32We're going to be fine over here.
07:33And we know how to get our money.
07:34If you're coming off a year where you're, you know, pretty realistically a top five receiver that past year.
07:43Yeah, he 100% played as one of the five best players.
07:45Yeah, he did.
07:46And he may have played as one of the two or three best.
07:51You tell other teams, we're going to make you not pay me $35 million.
07:54Like, that's how, you're trying to get the max because you're going to force a team to say, you know
07:59what, we're not interested in the talent.
08:01We're too scared of the talent.
08:02You're going to force them to do that.
08:03Inside the star in the home of the Cowboys, 105.3, the fan, Todd Archer, searching for linebackers.
08:08Yeah, and I always, I love a good Todd Archer article where he references the names of players who are
08:14not in Dallas.
08:15Because if he's referencing the name of players who are not in Dallas, he's usually, I feel like, trying to...
08:19He tried to throw some breadcrumbs in Indy.
08:21Yeah, he's just, he's trying to drop some breadcrumbs for you and lead you to...
08:24Here, come here.
08:25While he's out mowing his lawn, dropping breadcrumbs.
08:26Yeah, it's just nothing.
08:27To us ducks.
08:28Yeah, he's yawning as he does it because it's just like, yeah, I'm mowing my lawn, I'm yawning, I'm leading
08:32breadcrumbs.
08:33He named three linebackers because he talked about what we've discussed of what is the biggest thing that they have
08:39to go get.
08:40And he closed this article, he said, in free agency, the Cowboys have filled their must-haves at outside linebacker
08:45safety, corner, defensive tackle.
08:46He goes, they have one more must-have to go get.
08:49And that is the linebacker position, the inside linebacker position.
08:52So, the Cowboys would rather not have a rookie do that next year.
08:56They don't want DeMarvian Overshawn to be the mic.
08:59And they need to bring somebody in here to kind of wear the green dot, be in charge of the
09:02defense, and be that guy in the middle.
09:04So, he names three players.
09:06And we've talked about one of these.
09:07Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen, because he said there are three linebackers entering the final year of their contracts.
09:12So, perhaps these could be guys on the market.
09:15Patrick Queen had 120 tackles last season.
09:17Several scouts said his play fell off last year, according to Todd.
09:22Patrick Queen was a 44 grade on PFF, just for reference.
09:25He will make $10.83 million next year.
09:27Oh, God.
09:28Next up, Aziz Al-Shair.
09:30He is the, he's where we got the famous Sean drop when he was reading Aziz Al-Shair's statement, apologizing
09:38for the Trevor Lawrence situation.
09:40And he had the, there you go, that's the one.
09:4411, that was how he opened his statement.
09:46Aziz Al-Shair will make $11 million in 2026.
09:49He had a 70.9 grade from PFF last year.
09:51And the final option, and the one that fans have been chirping about on Twitter for months now.
09:58There's somebody we brought up out of the trade deadline of, like, would they unload him?
10:01And we never got any indication they would.
10:03The Miami Dolphins and their fire sale.
10:05Jordan Brooks is in the last year of his contract.
10:07Texas Tech guy.
10:08He had 183 tackles and three and a half sacks last season.
10:11They're in a complete rebuild.
10:12He's 29 years old.
10:13So, he's due to make $7.8 million, which is way cheaper.
10:17He had a 77.8 PFF grade last year, which was 10th best in the NFL for linebackers.
10:22So, those are three that, if Todd's mentioning those, I don't think Todd just usually goes, like, let me scan
10:27rosters and see.
10:28That to me says that.
10:29Put your cock number on him.
10:31Um, ooh, he's, uh, he's, he's, he's, like, in terms of, measure it.
10:36He's a solid nine, I'd say.
10:38Oh, that's a big cock number.
10:39A ninth round pick?
10:40Yeah, that's a big one.
10:41Ninth round pick?
10:42No, in terms of, I think so, what's his in terms of, like, Todd's reliability of, like, calling these.
10:46Oh, no, the cock, the cock rating is.
10:48And that means king of compensation, guys.
10:50That's what that stands for.
10:51It's a big cock rating.
10:52Yeah, I would say, uh.
10:55Fourth or fifth?
10:55Brooks?
10:56Yeah, Brooks.
10:57I think probably a, a fourth.
11:01Fourth is what I would guess.
11:02Hard four?
11:03Um, sure.
11:04And what do we do, a fours?
11:06We flush them.
11:08We love to flush a good four.
11:10Love to flush a good four.
11:11Send them to Indianapolis, based on what we saw.
11:13So there are some, that's God telling you.
11:15What's that cup?
11:16This is the Corinth cup, and, and, yeah, this was.
11:19That should be blocked.
11:20Yours is blocked by the laptop.
11:22That's the only reason why it was a lot.
11:22Well, God can make it.
11:23I'll block this one here.
11:24So God is pushing over the God cup.
11:28That's the God pronunciation for the city, right?
11:30That's true, yeah.
11:31Uh, Jalen Thompson, talking to the beat yesterday.
11:34Yep, Jalen Thompson, who, I know this has been confusing, Sean, over here, because we
11:38get audio that will play of Jalen Thompson or somebody, and it's them interviewing with
11:41the website last week.
11:43Well, then they're doing a conference call with the media this week, and then, who knows,
11:46maybe they'll talk to some other people on this radio dial next week.
11:49Well.
11:50But Nick Harris had highlights from the conference call that he had with beat reporters, Jalen Thompson.
11:53And he said, the facility has a family feel, which is, quote, something I've missed through
11:57seven years.
11:58Uh, he takes pride in his versatility, said his relationship with Ryan Smith, the secondary
12:01coach, played a big role in him coming to Dallas.
12:03He thinks the secondary has the pieces it needs, excited to create identity with that
12:06unit.
12:07And this is the standout quote for Nick.
12:09Definitely see myself playing in the slot.
12:11Definitely see myself playing deep.
12:13Definitely playing safety.
12:14Definitely see myself playing strong, free, wherever they need me at.
12:17My film shows it.
12:18And that's a generic quote.
12:19He said, I can do everything for you.
12:20I can be that super versatile player.
12:23But this is not, every single time he's started talking about what he can do, and the couple
12:27times he's talked with Dallas Media, he starts talking about his ability to play the nickel.
12:33Like, that's always, like, something that's really topping at the front right there.
12:37And that does make me wonder, okay, if nickel is something that they've communicated to him,
12:41he'll be playing a significant amount of, which would make sense as that hybrid player.
12:45Now you've got Durant, Bland, Revel, and then Thompson that are going to be rotating a corner
12:51currently.
12:52And if you're just looking at, all right, let's look at needs in the draft.
12:57And if we've got players graded similarly at similar positions, maybe you're looking more
13:00towards the front seven at that point.
13:02Inside the star.
13:03And if we're going to be able to do that, we're going to be able to do that.
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