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Bobby took us Below The Belt to grade the latest wave of Cowboys jersey number assignments, sparking debate over whether certain players picked fitting or questionable looks. They also dug into Troy Aikman’s growing involvement with the Dolphins, including his potential presence this year in the draft war room, and more.

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00:00we have a massive red flag about jaylen thompson after new jersey numbers were announced
00:07sean oh gosh i'm gonna have to go through grades on these and i'm gonna try to put biases aside
00:13because i think there is nothing worse that's happened to the game of football than when they
00:19decided to start letting everybody just like pick any number you want it's the wild west worse than
00:23cte worse way worse than cte i can forget about the number things if i had cte so this is
00:30way worse
00:31but the number decision is an awful one because you end up with just some ugly matches like because
00:38players were like well that was my favorite number so like you end up getting i'm a big time defensive
00:43end and i'm gonna wear 39 oh like you that's disgusting what are you doing uh so we've got
00:47some bad choices here but i'm gonna try and put aside that i'm just gonna like try to judge it
00:51based on the new world that we live in uh rashaun gary is wearing number seven i'm giving this a
00:56c
00:57i don't think you can be a bulky pass rusher the way he is and then wear seven yeah but
01:02i think it's
01:02still better than when he wore 52 52 was not a good look are we buying that rashaun gary's burner
01:08account was discovered man i don't know so probably aiden aiden's buying it a little bit probably because
01:15it got deleted as soon as people pointed it out and i don't think anybody just defend maybe it's a
01:20family member the burner to be fair was like defending rashaun and not like crazy no it was
01:26just like female porn stars no no it's just it was like you don't even know what he goes through
01:31he's he's a really great pastor like christy noem's husband it was yeah it was it was way more
01:36than that it gave off vibes to me honestly almost family member using an account and just not putting
01:42their name on it but it was definitely a rashaun gary fan account that's all they tweeted about
01:46um all right so that so gary's what number seven i don't love it don't love it but it's it's
01:54better
01:54than 52 i i don't i have no problem generally with changing numbers i i like i hate it because
02:00i'm a
02:01i'm a college fan first right and like this happens a lot in college but i feel like receivers
02:06wear 80s defensive ends pass rushers wear 90s 20s for the defensive backs sometimes 30s very rarely
02:1240s but like their rules here and then seven is just not a good number for a natural yeah like
02:18i
02:18don't care i don't mind a receiver wear number one actually i do but i hate the number one i
02:22don't
02:22think any player should wear number one that's that's a great transition number one pj lock i'm gonna
02:28go b minus so i don't think db should wear number one i don't think anybody other than probably
02:33like kickers returner yeah maybe like a returner um but if you're gonna wear number one i think
02:38generally it's like well you should be a badass if you're gonna wear number one we don't have a
02:41great history of people using number one here and being a badass but when i think of like his build
02:47and stuff i could see number one being a fitting number number two kobe durant b plus solid choice
02:53for durant there that was the number jordan lewis was wearing i've kind of become accustomed to it being
02:57a defensive backs number at this point and previously you just said that to be in the 20s maybe no
03:01i
03:01know but i'm saying in the new world that we operate under of like these are what numbers
03:05they're giving out i'm becoming more accustomed to seeing that's how it's going to be assigned
03:09because previously number two was a kicker number to me i didn't think a quarterback should wear it
03:12anybody else so if you want to co-opt it and make it your own that's a little better this
03:17is a gross
03:17one 13 sam howl uh what's the problem so dan marino's 13 okay okay that's a quarterback who's 13
03:25i don't think any other quarterback could pull that number off you think 13 should be retired like
03:30jackie robinson no no no no um certainly not for somebody who wasn't a winner are we gonna retire
03:34josh allen's number two um you brought i'm sure he was given the short end of the stick here his
03:38number was already uh let's see 17 one two and seven were picked he can't have eight or 12
03:44dak has four milton has 10 aubry has 17 i'm sure there were limited options here it's just 13 is
03:50kind
03:50of gross i don't like your worst your worst grading here's the worst perfectly acceptable here's the
03:55worst f minus and gives me major questions about his ability to make decisions read and react
04:03all sorts of questions here save all this for oxnard i'm making and give us jalen thompson
04:09and we're going to see if bobby mans up oh and and when we replay this clip to him yeah
04:14just i'll be
04:15able to do it as long as he's not wearing the number jersey so that i because i would vomit
04:19if he
04:19up on set wearing this f minus for number 34 34 is strictly a fullbacks number a fullback where's
04:2934 or just some was a philip tanner 34 some reserve play that's a back it's a running back it's
04:34either
04:35it's a it's a fullback or at the very least it is going to be generally like special teams running
04:39back is generally what it is that's not a number for a starting player who's going to be a big
04:44contributor on your defense especially when what numbers these were available 42 41 39 29 24 all
04:54better numbers no problem with it 24 is a you pick 24 that's what he should be that's a corner
04:59that's a corner if you're talking about okay then 29 29 is a better number 41 is a safety is
05:04a decent
05:05number 42 and 41 are good number in the 40s playing you know 30 30 the 30 is the cutoff
05:12the 30s are the
05:1334 is just bulky and ugly and not for a defensive name the best player you can think of the
05:21bucky
05:21jones who was a 34 34 defensive back who's a badass i don't even know that i could think of
05:29one but i
05:30can you can still think of somebody like a 47 like i think of like ryan mcneil was 47 he
05:34was a decent
05:34player i don't think of ryan mcneil at all who do you think of i don't know i'm literally i
05:37just
05:38i don't i don't think of revel look at anybody okay or no green brian davis so like he's out
05:44savone revel i think that says it all all right let's talk about parker that let's talk about
05:49a number not available to anybody number eight uh and that's because not because they've retired
05:54the number but because number eight is owned i guess by the miami dolphins now that is troy
05:57a couple different stories about troy and the miami dolphins jeff halfley
06:02was talking to the media last week and he was being asked about hey what's uh what's it what's
06:08been like having troy eggman around he'd said that troy eggman's been a great sounding board for him
06:12he's been able to bounce ideas off of him this was this had florio in a tizzy that jeff halfley
06:17was
06:17talking about maybe michael have the stones to talk about it since he wanted to silence chris simms
06:22then yesterday on russini john eric sullivan the new general manager there they continue to expand
06:30the visibility of trakeman he is going to be in the war room with the miami dolphins during the
06:35draft now they said he's not going to be consulted about picks don't believe that oh i just i mean
06:41why is he in the war room if they say like if they say he's not studied it so he
06:46wouldn't weigh in that
06:46way fine but if they're saying oh we're going to be above board we're not going to ask him his
06:50opinion
06:50i don't believe that and this is to me and this is the controversial take i'm going to have today
06:56this to me the connection with aikman and given the position that he's in what he's doing
07:00this to me is just as bad as what's going on with russini oh wow just as bad podcast just
07:10as just as
07:10bad in terms of what not like morally obviously like anything but in terms of you talk about the
07:15conflict of interest and the questions it raises about i think this is worse the ability yeah i think
07:22it's actually worse yeah people fight with their lovers all the time you could be mad at him and
07:27then cover them poorly it's very very different yeah um clearly i don't consider like troy's not a
07:33journalist for one so he doesn't is that into the he doesn't have to adhere to the journalistic ethics
07:39and troy's not doing some of the things that she was right and he's not he's not an insider
07:43not breaking news but this is in there high-fiving shaking hands like yeah we got the guy that's gonna
07:50be an awful look on tv to me yeah i mean i wouldn't he has to be banned from the
07:57other
07:57facilities like tom he would have to i would think he would have to and the nfl will not give
08:01florio this will be the final nail for the league cracking down florio this to me is like this sounds
08:07like you're an executive for them and you're like this sounds more involved than brady now i also think
08:12the raiders have done their best to try and hide how much brady's involved they're not openly talking
08:16about it as much as miami seems to be but the dolphins seem to just be if it's a rule
08:21they seem
08:22to be just flaunted like okay big deal who cares we're gonna put him here i just i think this
08:26is
08:27gonna be such a poor look and obviously john eric sullivan and jeff halfley the two guys who have
08:31weighed in on this recently talked about his presence and things aikman hired them basically
08:35or he was the advisor that got them the jobs so clearly there's gonna be a relationship there and
08:40they've got these sort of connections and these favorable thoughts and feelings towards them
08:43but this one i don't know why the nfl will not talk about it because florio florio and other
08:49outlets have an easy precedent like the long decision making and the tough thinking already
08:54has been done for the first case which was tom yeah tom and now you have it here with joy
08:59because
09:00i mean look i mean imagine espn draft coverage and they're like and then in the war room you see
09:05our lead commentator troy aikman as he's celebrating the dolphins pick yeah i think it'll look cool like
09:10for fans and the league oh yeah it'll look cool but like if i was the league uh like office
09:16up top
09:17i'd be like he's a he's a former player so so obviously like it's got a different weight to it
09:22it does imagine if we cut to the cowboys war room and we're like ah there you see trading high
09:26fives
09:26jay glazer everybody would be like what right yeah it would but it'd be more like romo if romo was
09:32in
09:32their trade of us which i think you know what i assume i think most people say you saw romo
09:38in the
09:38titans war room then because romo plays for the cowboys that's weird yeah that's weird if he played
09:42for the cat if he's in the cowboys war room high-fiving i think i think most people assume
09:46tony romo's a cowboy if marino was in there nobody would say anything about marino but like there are
09:50all these sort of things yeah they go well that's kind of their family so right when aikman's doing
09:53it with miami it's like that's a job it's a job that is a job you've been hired absolutely right
09:58if aikman was just in the cowboys warm high-fiving i don't think anybody has a problem with that
10:02because it's like all right he's a cowboys fan i almost kind of chuckle over the flippancy like at the
10:08miami is just like flaunting it and troy and troy's like yeah what are you gonna i'm gonna i'm
10:14gonna be on tv in the war room they have to let's get to troy aikman live with reaction here
10:20on he's
10:20like guys i'm in the war room here doing my dolphins job he instead of jeff darlington they
10:25sent aikman out to miami my dolphins made a great pay like if he's calling a dolphins game next year
10:30hey do a mock do an ai aikman on miami's picks i need to i'll need to create an ai
10:34aikman
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