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Shan, RJ, and Bobby went Inside The Star to look at the latest Cowboys draft intel, including buzz around Sonny Styles and Caleb Downs. They analyzed how teams ahead of Dallas could shake things up, previewed several trade scenarios, and more.
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00:00Bobby latest Intel and rumors. Yeah, so there is the latest bit of hold on
00:06Let me get this story up here the on the latest with the the Cowboys. I gotta know which story
00:11you're talking about
00:12Which specific story I got like a bunch of them you want to start your
00:18Did you justify to me? I'm gonna piss me off
00:25Did you mean the barn well one or did you mean the one that we had referenced yesterday because there's
00:29two of them not the barn
00:31Well, okay, that's the only thing. All right, the latest Intel on the NFL draft now
00:36We'd reference this yesterday about the Cowboys potentially trading up to get somebody like Caleb Downs or get somebody like
00:40Ruben Bain
00:41So over at ESPN that they had taken Intel for each of the last 32 picks and it's not good
00:47news for the Cowboys
00:48Jordan Renan who covers the Giants says that the Giants have picked five
00:51They would take Sonny Styles over Caleb Downs, but he notes that interior offensive line is their biggest need
00:57The problem is there's no interior offensive lineman this year worth taking in the top 10
01:01Let me bring up something on Styles and I'm gonna need your research assistance
01:05Because there's going to be surprises. We're gonna come in here on Friday. It's part of the greatness of it
01:09And we're gonna say oh my god, we previewed this five billion times. We never predicted this
01:14I was wondering myself
01:15Uh, whether Styles could be the one to fall and drop
01:19I know that no mock has it
01:20That doesn't mean anything unless that someone in New York absolutely knows
01:24I was trying to think of the linebackers that went top five to top ten over the past five to
01:31ten years
01:32Because now all of a sudden magically everyone's saying hey
01:36This safety thing
01:39Allows them to drop and fall
01:42So now we're gonna buck the linebacker trend and all of a sudden have Sonny Styles go automatically top five
01:48Who have been the linebackers top five top five top ten that have gone in the top
01:54In the past five or ten years
01:56The closest would have been and he it's because at the time he was considered a linebacker was Micah
02:03Is the one that comes to mind. No, I know. That's what I'm saying. That's the one that comes to
02:06mind. I've been trying to figure out 11 or 12
02:0812, uh, he was 12
02:10Yeah, he would have been taken at 10
02:12I've been trying to figure out like the surprises and it just i'm like
02:15Common sense is telling me okay unless unless he's all world, but she could be
02:20This this would make sense that because of his position he falls
02:25Yeah, here's where the linebackers have been taken again. It's just linebackers. So you might get edge edges in there,
02:31too
02:31But I don't even want the edges right because he's not an edge last year. The first linebacker taken was
02:36Jalen Walker
02:37At 15th, okay
02:39The year before that it was edger and Cooper
02:42second round
02:43Uh the year before that it was will Anderson again. That's that's well
02:47Anderson's an edge. Yeah, you know, so the first non edge was Jack Campbell at 18
02:52Uh, you go to 2022
02:55Quay Walker was the first edge to a first linebacker at 22
02:582020 that was the last time Isaiah Simmons went eight which Isaiah Simmons is probably a similar skill set to
03:04sunny styles
03:05Yeah, so but either way it's a question. So I just wanted to throw that out there
03:09Uh, I'm not putting on the wall of hot takes as sunny styles falls, but I'm like
03:13That that would be one if we came in here and he went
03:17At 12 or lower where we're like
03:19Why do we all of a sudden think that a linebacker who's not an edge is going to go five
03:24and in 2020?
03:25That was the third straight year. We had one in the top 10
03:27We had roquan at eight in 2018 and devin white at five in 2019
03:32So Mike Sando had pulled like four executives
03:36We read the story at the time where he said project the top 10
03:40And it had pulled various executives and things like this. This was after the combine
03:43So all the the sunny styles hype was there
03:46And on his list he had out of those four executives only one of them
03:52Had caleb downs in the top 10 only one of them had sunny styles in the top 10
03:56None of the other three did now
03:59Two of them had keldrick falk going four and that has shifted since then
04:04So it may be that stuff has shifted but there definitely was a period even after the combine where there
04:08were still people in the league who were going
04:09Yeah, I don't think sunny styles goes top 10. Yeah, so it very well could go that way
04:12There is a lot of smoke around the giants and styles. It feels like yeah
04:16They could take an interior offensive lineman. Maybe they would draft spencer fano from utah. That feels a little high
04:21He's a tackle, but a lot of people think he can move inside
04:24That would help dallas a ton
04:26Problem here is also that on tennessee
04:29Teron davenport where he's talking about what tennessee could do there and he lists like yeah
04:33Jeremiah love could be in play. You got this or that
04:34He says that the dark dark horse to watch for is sunny styles and there's a lot of
04:40Chatter starting to go about that one. So the issue about fred warner robert sala san francisco defensive mindset
04:47That makes a lot of sense and cincinnati
04:50They've got a cincinnati's a problem at 10 because they want secondary is everything that the chatter is there
04:55So if you think about it, who are their pass rushers cincinnati? Yeah, well not trey hendry. That's right. No.
05:01Yeah, there's not
05:01There's not him anymore. Uh, I can't remember off the top of my head who they have rushing the passer
05:06Um, just like okay, you might need an edge. You might need a bane. You might need a messador. So
05:10they've got
05:12Oh, didn't they get uh?
05:14Boye
05:15They did sign boy and moffat. I don't know that that'd be enough to just say i'm not drafting somebody
05:19though
05:19Uh, number four
05:21So if if the titans take sunny styles at four
05:23And then the giants are ooh styles or downs, but they lean styles
05:27Well, okay if styles is off the board at four downs goes at five
05:30And then you've got kansas city nine and ten
05:33There were kansas city nine bengals ten that could go secondary and take delane
05:37And then somewhere in there bane could go. It just it's feeling more and more like
05:42You just to me the biggest thing that would help the cowboys right now is somebody goes
05:46Yes, I trust jermon mccoy's knee
05:49If you trust jermon mccoy's knee
05:51Somebody might bail you out snatch him in the first 11 picks and then it pushes one of these people
05:55down to you
05:55That would be the biggest help for the cowboys right now based on this
05:59But a lot of the cintel right now saying exactly what you're fearful of which is that
06:03A lot of these teams like styles downs and a lot of these teams like, you know, monsoor delane
06:08The one that could slip I think I mean any one of them could I guess I do wonder if
06:13just on
06:14Questions alone if bane goes down to 12
06:16And if he does
06:18That might be dallas's pick right there could simpson surprise with a quarterback needy team above you possible
06:25I mean, I wouldn't rule anything out. I think the earliest simpson could go 16 to the jets
06:31But I mean it's it the jets could move up to get him
06:34I mean, I never would have said in million years anybody could have surprised us and picked michael pennex in
06:38the top 10 and then
06:38Somebody did it. So it's definitely lose their mind when it comes to court
06:42And I agree with the process
06:44But they do lose their mind when it comes to
06:46Well, a lot of times people will let I mean in recent history
06:49We've seen some quarterbacks like teams making a statement of just like he's not good enough
06:53We refuse to just reach yeah, but I'm not seeing it. I think you're right
06:57I'm not seeing it at all now does somebody try to jump ahead like if miami miami has shown they
07:03want to keep stacking picks
07:04Um, and so if somebody looks at the jets at 16 and goes there's a trade partner for us at
07:0911 in miami
07:10We'll we'll make the swap and the best thing about having two picks is
07:14Uh, even if they the jets do some with simpson at 16 that helps you at 20
07:19So that's the latest draft intel around the league. Let's talk about some possible different trade scenarios
07:25How about all the trade scenarios? Bill barnwell did an all trades mock draft where every single pick gets traded
07:31I have no idea how long this did this has to this has to be a maddening exercise
07:35Awful, awful, awful
07:37I don't know how maddening has to be for him. He just he seems to just go like yep
07:40This is it seems like just something he just churns out
07:43So the raiders trade the first pick they traded to the jets the jets to go from two to one
07:47Give up the second round their their second round pick which is number 33
07:51And their fourth round pick which is number 103 to move up one spot now
07:55Is he taking a player with these picks? He's not. Okay, he's not now obviously you would do it for
07:59fernando. Yeah, let's just skip to the cowboys
08:02All right, uh, well the cowboys don't have to wait very far the cowboys trade up
08:07Two number six cleveland
08:10The browns get 12 20 and a 20 27 second
08:17The cowboys get one hang on
08:21They get the browns first round pick number 24
08:26And a toy 27 fifth so they basically yes, they basically trade wait
08:31So because cleveland picks is six and 24
08:34Do you just swap first round picks so you get their firsts?
08:38We uh, they get our firsts and then you also give up next year's two and you get back next
08:44year's five
08:45Yes, so you're picking six of 24 versus 12 between bailey's off the board, bobby
08:49Uh, i'm still guaranteeing one of these other guys styles down to ever and then i'm dead
08:53I didn't I still have two first round picks and the hood will probably be there 24. Would you do
08:57it for down?
08:58I mean, sorry, would you do it for styles? Yeah, I mean for that for that return like like I
09:02don't
09:03in theory like
09:05Now those point values when we talk about the trade value chart that does not add up for cleveland
09:09That would definitely house dallas dallas would come out ahead in that trade swap, you know
09:14They're they're also talking about teams moving up getting and you've mentioned this I think
09:18Getting more value than they should
09:20For what they're trading up for
09:22Uh, so it's it's rare typically if you trade up you end up paying a tax like you end up
09:28paying like 10% tax on it
09:30So that's the first cowboys pick
09:34Then you got to go and you got to get to the cowboys actual pick and let's say the cowboys
09:38don't
09:39Make that move with the browns the cowboys
09:42Trade up to number two
09:46With the jets
09:47They trade their number one which is 12
09:51Their fourth round pick 112
09:54Their 20-27-1
09:57And their 20-27-3
09:59And in return they get the second overall pick and a fifth round pick next year
10:03So they get to keep 20
10:05This doesn't make any sense to me at all
10:07I don't know how you go from from 12 to 2 and somehow keep 20 but they had them doing
10:12it
10:12Especially when you're giving over away your top pick next year
10:15Yeah, that's that's odd now
10:18How are these people like bruce feldman barnwell on this?
10:22Missing so much on the compensation
10:24Feldman I get because feldman doesn't cover it regularly barnwell. I think is just dumb
10:31I think he's a fake smart guy
10:34But the other thing there is trading it as a first to the jets
10:39I don't know if they're allowed to do that
10:41Now it might be different because the jets are the ones who have the we get the higher of the
10:44two picks currently as it is
10:45So you may be able to say well, we're just trading you the second one
10:48So that's why it may not have the same rules applied
10:51But otherwise you'd have to trade it as a two that escalates and I don't know if you can do
10:54that with that draft trade
10:55Oh, yeah, that would make sense
10:58I mean
11:01That seems like a Dallas wins on that trade though again
11:03If you're just talking trade valley chart, that's two of them now where they trade up and they win now
11:07Let's go to number 20
11:09The Cowboys send number 20 to the Chiefs
11:12They drop down nine spots to 29
11:14They also pick up the Chiefs third round pick which is 74 and the Chiefs fourth round pick which is
11:20109
11:20Hmm. Yeah, I'll do that
11:23You do that one too?
11:24Yep
11:25I do it. I do all three of those in fact if I bet there
11:28I keep feeling like they are going to make a trade with the Chiefs on draft day
11:31Whether it's to go up to nine or go back to 29 they'll they'll work with them on one of
11:35those
11:36And that is all she wrote
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