00:00Let's try to add just a little bit more to the Dallas Cowboys offseason.
00:06Good morning, Metroplex.
00:07Shout out to the 6 a.m. club here on your official home of America's team.
00:12Sean Trafe, RJ Choppy, and Cowboys insider Bobby Bell
00:15with the best remaining fits for free agents that are still out there.
00:20Matt Bowen coming up with this from ESPN.
00:23Which I love Matt Bowen.
00:25Matt's done, this is kind of his forte.
00:28He's a big film guy.
00:30He used to play in the NFL.
00:31And he will take these lists or he'll take draft fits or free agents or whatever else.
00:37And he goes in there and he'll study and he'll really try to do what Will McClay talked about.
00:41Which is like true scheme fit.
00:43And he tries to find who's going to match up the best with needs
00:46and what they want to do within their scheme.
00:47So he's got a list here of the 14 players that are left on the board.
00:52And he only pairs one of them with the Dallas Cowboys.
00:55So I'll start there.
00:56And then I'm going to go to the ones that I think probably should be on the list for the
01:00Cowboys.
01:01The player that he lists as one of the 14 best that would pair best with the Dallas Cowboys
01:06is not a defensive player.
01:08It is running back Nick Chubb.
01:11It says a veteran grinder at this point of his career.
01:13Chubb could provide value as the Cowboys number two or number three option behind starter Javante Williams.
01:19Chubb can still secure catches on swings and checkdowns in the passing game.
01:23But he should be viewed as an early down option who can use his power and vision in short yardage
01:27situations.
01:28He rushed for 520 yards in Houston last season.
01:32Nick Chubb is fine.
01:35I mean, it's again, he's what he's 30, 30 or 31, I think at this point.
01:40But no, thanks.
01:41I'm Des was all in.
01:43Des was like, oh, that sounds great.
01:45Nobody loves old football players more than old football players.
01:50They, they, they, like NFL guy will like, I got to get him on my team because he can play.
01:55Because I saw him do this against me back in 2016.
01:59Last year, he was 4.1 a carry.
02:01He did play.
02:02Wow.
02:0315 games.
02:04Very surprising.
02:05He was 4.1.
02:06Only played 10 games before that in his previous two Cleveland seasons.
02:11But last year, 506 yards with three touchdowns.
02:15Whenever I look at a player like Nick Chubb, I think of it the same way that Bill Simmons,
02:21who wrongly once tweeted about the Dallas Mavericks after they had brought in Sean Marion
02:26and everybody else for like the 2010, 2009 season, somewhere around there.
02:31Bill Simmons had said watching the Mavericks this year is going to be like having tickets
02:35to like, like up front row tickets to a 50 cent concert.
02:39And you're just going to think to yourself, this would have been really cool about six
02:42years ago.
02:43And that's what I think of with guys like Nick Chubb.
02:45Yeah, that would have been cool six years ago.
02:46I really have no use for Nick Chubb anymore.
02:49But some of the other guys on this list, I think absolutely would be of interest to the
02:53Cowboys or would be a fit for the Cowboys.
02:55I don't know that the Cowboys would necessarily prioritize them.
02:58You've got Trayvon Diggs on this list.
03:00I don't think that he would be here.
03:01Jadavion Clowney's on this list.
03:03Let me go down the Diggs write-up.
03:05Best team fit commanders, Washington could view Diggs as a reclamation project.
03:09Yeah, they'd have to.
03:11Helping him get back to being a true playmaker in the secondary.
03:14Under new coordinator Durante Jones, Diggs can use his man coverage traits and backfield
03:20vision to get a jump on the ball in the commander's pressure heavy scheme.
03:24However, he has plenty of availability concerns after spending at least a portion of the past
03:28three seasons on injured reserve.
03:30I know he didn't want to play in zone anymore, but he didn't like it, even though the numbers
03:35did say he was better in zone for his career.
03:38I don't see how there's any justification at all anymore to put him in man coverage.
03:43The dude physically cannot break on the ball the same way.
03:47There's massive limitations there that I would think...
03:49We're just playing the safety.
03:51Let's just play you comfortably in your zone as best we can, if at all.
03:56His career may be over.
03:57I think Trayvon Diggs' career is over.
03:59I think he's probably done.
04:0027.
04:01Yeah, and it's nuts because you wouldn't have...
04:03That's how quickly what's a seemingly...
04:06I mean, when that story broke, it was, what, after week two of the 23rd?
04:10Which one, the TV poll?
04:10No, his knee, when he first hurt his knee.
04:13Where it was like, a clean tear of the ACL, he's just fine, but he tore his ACL in practice
04:18and rats, he's going to be out for...
04:20It feels like we're regressing with ACLs a little bit around the league.
04:24Like, they had reached a point where with ACLs, you didn't think anything of it.
04:28It was, all right, they're gone for the year, but they're going to come back.
04:29They're going to be the same player.
04:31And it's not been the case for a number of these guys.
04:34And the Cowboys have seen it happen in a big way with a couple of different players.
04:38They would, I think, say that Sam Williams was a guy who didn't come back the same way.
04:43They definitely would say Diggs and Gallup didn't come back the same way.
04:46Remains to be seen on Overshawn, and Overshawn's knee injury was not just a simple ACL.
04:50There was a lot of really...
04:52There's been a couple of them.
04:53That was a, yeah, that's a violent tear that he's had on a couple different occasions.
04:58So, some of the other names that are still on here.
05:01Stefan Diggs.
05:02And you tell me where to stop if you want the write-up or if you're interested in talking about
05:05them as a cowboy.
05:06No Stefan Diggs?
05:07Not interested in the write-up.
05:09I was interested in him and Cardi screaming outside a coffee shop in Maryland.
05:15What is wrong with this woman?
05:17Like, her picker...
05:18They're trying to fit in in Maryland.
05:19She terrifies...
05:20Baltimore, I don't know exactly where they were.
05:22She terrifies me for my daughter of choosing the wrong dude every single time.
05:27She's just...
05:27She's addicted to it.
05:29And she goes on Twitter and she's like,
05:30What?
05:31Y'all never yelled?
05:32I was hangry.
05:33Y'all never yelled at your baby daddy?
05:36She's also got a pretty toxic history.
05:38So, I think that it makes sense that she's probably gravitated toward some bad people.
05:43And there's a pretty long history of celebrity relationships not exactly being the most stable.
05:48The most grounded.
05:49Yeah.
05:50We can't all be Neil Patrick Harris and whoever his guy is or whatever.
05:55So, Kevin Zeitler, the guard.
05:58He's, I assume, out for everybody.
06:00Cowboys don't really have any issues at guard right now.
06:02So, this is the one that I think is the most...
06:06The strongest fit that I'd be the most in favor of.
06:09And that's Joey Bosa.
06:10Hmm.
06:11Bosa, I don't know how he's still out there.
06:14I understand there are people who have reservations about injury history and different things like that.
06:17I don't know why he wouldn't have just gotten some sort of a...
06:21Like, you know, a veteran deal on one year somewhere.
06:24Because he's played really well the last couple years and he's been available the last couple years.
06:28His injury history is really, really long.
06:30He's not a guy who's going to be double-digit sacks anymore.
06:33But he was a really strong player for Buffalo last year.
06:36One of the...
06:37I think if you're just talking about complete game and everything that you're asked to do.
06:41Whether it be dropping coverage occasionally, play the run, rush the passer.
06:44He was one of the, to me, probably top 20% of edge rushers in the NFL last year.
06:52He had an 80 PFF.
06:54Wow.
06:54He was really, really good last year.
06:56Yeah, I'm in on that.
06:57And I think the only reason I can think he's out off the market still is people had reservations about
07:03him.
07:04Only wanted to give him one-year type of deals.
07:06And so he just said, all right, if it's going to be one-year deals, I'm going to...
07:09Yeah, he's doing the clown.
07:10I'm just going to wait and I'm going to sit back and find the deal that I want.
07:14This is what Bowen wrote about him.
07:16He said,
07:16Bosa has answered some availability questions over the past two seasons, playing in at least 14 games in each.
07:21And he fits as a pass rusher in Raheem Morris' defense because he projected the 49ers as the best fit.
07:26He said,
07:26Bosa played 36 snaps per game last season in Buffalo.
07:29He finished with five sacks, five forced fumbles, and 42 pressures.
07:33We still see Bosa's speed to power ability on tape.
07:35And he still keeps high energy to make stops later in the down.
07:39He would provide quality depth for a 49ers pass rusher that ranked last in pressure rate and total sacks in
07:442025.
07:44And Bosa, I believe, is only just now 30, maybe 31.
07:49Yeah, he's 30.
07:50He's going to turn 31 in July, which it...
07:53I mean, he's been in the league for 10 years now.
07:55I was about to say, it feels like he's been in the league for 15 years.
07:56Well, we're getting close.
07:58But he was so young when he got into the NFL.
08:00He and Zeke were like same age, and they were both two of the younger players in football.
08:04But I'd be all over looking at this if he were open.
08:07It just seems like he's at a mercenary stage right now.
08:10I'd be in on it.
08:11Good, you know, good enough player.
08:13And we need...
08:14Look, I need somebody else in here with a nose bigger than mine to even things out.
08:20All right.
08:20Next name on the list, Deebo Samuel, wide receiver, who he says best team fit is the Colts.
08:27AJ Epinesa, edge rusher.
08:30Epinesa is not your classic, like, Bosa build and go get the quarterback.
08:35He is a bigger...
08:35I would imagine if he were here, they might say, hey, go hit the weight room, put on 10
08:40pounds, and we'll put you in the ground, like, rotating with LT Overton and guys like that.
08:45So not necessarily somebody who's going to come in here and contribute a ton in the pass rush.
08:50Taylor Decker, the offensive tackle who the Lions moved on from.
08:53Jonu Smith, tight end.
08:55They put the best fit there as the Carolina Panthers.
08:58Cameron Jordan.
08:59And Njoku just got signed recently.
09:01Yeah.
09:02It was a late one for Njoku, too.
09:04Yeah.
09:04And he's...
09:04David Njoku's another one who...
09:06I think a lot of these veterans, you're starting to see them say, if I'm not going to get a
09:09multi-year deal right out of the gate, I'm just going to sit back and I'm going to wait
09:13for whatever deal comes across that fits more what I'm looking for.
09:17Cameron Jordan's still being available.
09:19He's somebody who's talked about he still wants to play.
09:21It was funny.
09:22Somebody had thrown out a suggestion on Twitter the other day.
09:24They're like, what if the Buccaneers scooped him up?
09:26He could play.
09:27And he, like, quote tweeted it with somebody vomiting.
09:30And so Cameron Jordan's still being a super competitive Saints guy.
09:34This is the name that I know I've talked about with a couple other people in the media,
09:38and this is the top name for them.
09:39Whereas Bosa's mine, it's Bobby Wagner, who they list as the best fit being the Jaguars.
09:43But he says Wagner's nine and a half tackles per game, ranked sixth overall in 2025,
09:49showing he can still key quickly and rack up run stops.
09:51He does have limitations in coverage at this stage of his career,
09:54which Jaguars defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile would have to manage.
09:58However, as an early down defender, Wagner could potentially take on the role next to Devin Lloyd,
10:03who is a mainstay on Jacksonville's second level.
10:06I love how you didn't say the first name of that.
10:08I wasn't even going to try.
10:09Did you know that?
10:09For your side of a look?
10:11Yeah, you go ahead.
10:11You say that.
10:12But if you, Wagner is one who, I think if he is, like,
10:18one-year deals are all he's going to get at this stage of his career.
10:20He's in his mid-30s.
10:22He's somebody who's still playing at a high level,
10:24but there's just risk associated with that that people don't want to tie to an older player.
10:27He's one that I think absolutely you would at least kick the tires on.
10:32For some reason, they've had some hesitation on recently.
10:35This is going to be an interesting case study about where the players think the Cowboys are.
10:41Let's say the Jags and the Cowboys both go after him,
10:45and he chooses Jacksonville, and the money's similar.
10:50There's no tax advantage for going to Florida over here, right?
10:54They're the same.
10:55It might indicate that, oh, okay, the league thinks that we're further away than the Jags,
11:00or just maybe he likes to fit in the defensive coordinator.
11:03Play in time.
11:03Play in time, whatever.
11:04But it could be an interesting little case study.
11:06Yeah, because it is something where I would imagine in Jacksonville he would probably have a more prominent role.
11:12Christian Parker's philosophy is so particular, I think he'd be in here as just like a part-time player.
11:17Clowney's on here.
11:18Vaughn is on here.
11:20Cam Jordan is on here as well.
11:22The best remaining fits for some of the free agents out there in the NFL offseason.
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