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Shan, RJ, and Bobby went Inside The Star and broke down potential trade interest for Josh Sweat and his fit in the Cowboys' defense. They discussed NFC East projections, a hot take on Tony Romo’s legacy, and more.
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00:00Bobby, you ready to trade away some more Cowboy second-rounders?
00:03Let's do it. Let's get rid of all the second-rounders. I don't need them anymore.
00:07So there is a rumor. There's chatter going on out there that Josh Sweat is unhappy with the Arizona Cardinals.
00:15Now, Josh Sweat was a guy who has been with Arizona now, I think it's just been a year, hasn't
00:20it?
00:20Where he ended up with Jonathan Gannon, and he was apparently a big Jonathan Gannon guy.
00:25And recently, when they had their OTA practices and different things like that, he was not hurt, but he was
00:29absent.
00:29And the Cardinals were not giving much of an explanation.
00:32And one Cardinals reporter, Kyle Odegaard, had said,
00:35Don't know the exact reason for the absence, but I've been hearing for a while that Josh Sweat is not
00:40particularly happy in Arizona.
00:42And then that was followed up with a report from Jenny Venerable of PHNX Sports,
00:49saying that Josh Sweat has previously requested a trade after Gannon's firing.
00:53And then it was Jordan Schultz saying that teams have been calling in, checking, saying,
00:58Hey, would he be available?
00:59And I would be willing to go after Josh Sweat.
01:04I'm not willing to give up a first-round pick.
01:06I'm not turning over that much capital.
01:07He's 29 years old.
01:09He had a 74 PFF.
01:12And last year was his career high in sacks with 12.
01:15Before that, with Filthy, 8, 6.5, 11, 7.5.
01:20And he plays 16 or 17 games.
01:24Yeah, he's a guy who is definitely someone who can get after the passer and somebody who can generate pressure
01:30for you.
01:31Now, we've talked about this a little bit with Christian Parker and what he does.
01:35Like, how much of what his philosophy is is dependent on just pitting your ears back and going and getting
01:41the quarterback.
01:41And how much is that cog missing in what they need?
01:47But I think that if you're talking about a second-round pick, which is a pick that you hope is
01:53somewhere in the later part of the round,
01:55like in the second half of the round, and you're talking about the way that they've typically gambled with second
02:01-round picks in the past
02:02and tried to, you know, oh, let's take a guy who's a little bit of a high-risk, high-reward
02:06guy
02:06and then some of the, you know, brushback they've gotten from it,
02:10then I think it's worth it to just say, all right, let me get an established pass rush for somebody
02:13to come in here
02:13and attack the quarterback and make everything else that I'm doing with the system,
02:17which is saying, let's confuse the quarterback.
02:19Fine, you can do all that.
02:20But also, you can go after the passer if you've just got somebody like Josh Sweat who can consistently generate
02:24pressure.
02:25So for me, second-round pick, go ahead and do it.
02:27As the cockmaster here, the king of compensation,
02:31feels a tiny bit rich for me.
02:33I'm going to agree with Tolo Joseph and Chep, who are like, how about a third?
02:40I'm not doing it for a second.
02:43We could talk about a third-round pick because the Cowboys, they do need, in my opinion, more pass rush.
02:50Award, Daddy.
02:50Wait, wait, wait, wait.
02:51Before you did this compensation, had you done your YouTube?
02:54Nope.
02:54Well, you got to do your YouTube before you settle it.
02:57You may look at the YouTube and you may want to give up a first.
02:58I don't know.
02:59Well, I mean, I'm looking at eight years playing, and I see the sack numbers.
03:04Yeah.
03:05I see it in the Christian Parker, Vic Fangio system, and I've decided that's not second-round worthy.
03:11I don't even have to look at the film that much.
03:13I'm that big of a cockmaster with the compensation.
03:18So, no, not for a second-round pick.
03:20At 29?
03:21No.
03:21Third-rounder, maybe.
03:23Yeah, because it'll be 30.
03:24No, he just turned 29.
03:27You know, that's not that old, especially at that position.
03:30You know, other positions, they may age more poorly than others.
03:34Although, don't tell people on the internet that.
03:36What's his money, by the way?
03:38So, his average annual value right now is 20, or it's 19.
03:44But here in Dallas, after the trade, after everything gets cleared up cap-wise, because
03:48his cap number in Arizona would not be the same here in Dallas.
03:50After he got traded to Dallas, it would be about 11 million this year.
03:53And under contract for how much longer?
03:55I think three more years.
03:56Oh, wow.
03:57Okay.
03:57Two or three more years.
03:58I like that.
03:59Yeah.
04:00Yeah, I'm not.
04:02Definitely not a two.
04:03Definitely not a two.
04:04Yeah, he's under contract 26, 27, 28.
04:07And you can get out of the deal after 26.
04:09But if you gave him a second-round pick, I'd imagine you wouldn't want to.
04:12Mark Slareth, weekly guest on the G-Bag Nation, went on FS1 and throw him onto the Cowboys
04:19bandwagon because of this discussion up front.
04:22One thing I will say about the Dallas Cowboys is you can win a lot of games in this league.
04:28You know, we all make it about receivers, which is the most overrated position in football.
04:32Wide receiver is just ridiculous.
04:35It's ridiculously overrated.
04:37Where they have invested is a young offensive line that can hammer people.
04:42They can beat up on people.
04:43And now they've invested defensively in their front seven.
04:47They got D-Winters from San Francisco.
04:48They went out and got Quentin Williams, who is an absolute beast from the Jets.
04:52Rashawn Gary is part of that.
04:54I think he was part of that trade with Michael Parsons.
04:56So, like, I don't know that they have a legit big-time edge guy that's, you know, kind of
05:01a war daddy off there on the edge.
05:03But, man, they have invested in that front seven.
05:05You control both lines of scrimmage in the National Football League, you're going to win
05:09a lot of football games.
05:10And when I look at the Dallas Cowboys, that's what jumps out, just jumps off the screen to
05:15me more than George Pickens and more than, you know, hey, how are we going to, CeeDee
05:21Lamb, George Pickens, our talent out there.
05:23They've got plenty of talent, man.
05:24I just look at them and say, I think this is a football team that can dominate both lines
05:29of scrimmage.
05:30And that, to me, that, to me, says, hey, man, Dallas Cowboys are front runners in my
05:35mind to win their division.
05:37So, you know, when you're buying in on a team, is he saying, like, he's all in on them as
05:41a Super Bowl contender?
05:42I mean, he just said they could dominate both sides of the line of scrimmage.
05:46That usually sounds like a team you think is a contender.
05:48And easy favorites in the East.
05:50Look, I love Mark Slareth probably more than anyone else in the building.
05:56I think he's off in terms of this offensive line trench domination.
06:04Where did they and how did they invest and build up so much more on the offensive line?
06:10Someone educate me.
06:12Why would I feel like they can bully anyone around right now with the questions at both
06:17tackles?
06:18Does he still think Travis Frederick and Zach Martin are here?
06:21Well, he thought that Rashawn Gary was involved in the Micah deal, right?
06:24Yeah, that wasn't correct at all.
06:26That's a Jerry Chassum moving.
06:29This is Herschel Walker 2.0.
06:30Yeah, he's involved, basically.
06:33So, the only thing that you can really say is a potential improvement or that you go
06:39like, hey, that could be better is just literally the time they've spent working together.
06:45So, like, if Guyton's healthier this year and if it's year three for Guyton and Guyton
06:50clicks, then yeah, okay.
06:51Like, I mean, it's not impossible to think there could be a step up for Guyton.
06:55It's not impossible to think there could be a step up for Booker and Beebe.
06:58You would just hope that Steele's issues last year, it wouldn't be about a step up.
07:02It'd be more about him getting back to where he was and then Tyler Smith being healthy.
07:07Like, you'd be banking on all those things.
07:09But there's honestly, like, there's margins for all five of them to get better, like, reasonably.
07:15But that's also a concern because that means that all five of them were potentially playing
07:18below where they could be.
07:20There's his wide receiver take.
07:25Listen.
07:26Hey, that's an old RJ Choppy take.
07:27That's a guard.
07:28If you have Drew Brees or Peyton Manning or Tom Brady.
07:34Well, Peyton Manning never went without.
07:35No, he didn't, but then you could ask, how much of those guys did he make?
07:39Right?
07:40You know, like.
07:40I mean, he didn't.
07:41I don't think he made Marvin Harrison.
07:43I don't.
07:44I don't think he made Marvin Harrison.
07:45I mean, I think somebody else in the, like, witness lineup made Marvin Harrison.
07:51But you don't need to.
07:52Then you could say, all right, those guys can make a wide receiver.
07:56If you don't have an all-time great quarterback, you do need wide receivers.
08:01You do need to pay them.
08:04And there are guys, like, you know.
08:06Romo made wide receivers.
08:08Romo made Ron Robinson.
08:09And he's not an all-time great.
08:11No, but that's like, you know, he was at the top of the, you know, kind of near the top
08:17of the league.
08:17You know, he was a top six, seven, you know, quarterback in the league.
08:21Or close to it.
08:22So, like, if you have a upper echelon quarterback, sure.
08:27But Patrick Mahomes showed this year that you kind of do need him.
08:30I just think Schlereth on this one seems a little bit off.
08:34And I normally don't say that about his takes.
08:36And I know he comes on and spits some fire, some anti-cowboy fire on G-Bag.
08:40But this one, I'm like, you need to go back over.
08:43There's a reason, you know, Greg Olson won that analyst Emmy over everyone else.
08:48It's easier to, like, listen and go, like, okay, maybe he knows something I don't.
08:54If he hadn't also just said a couple things that were just factually incorrect about the team.
08:58Where it's like, you know, Sean Gary, he was in that Micah trade.
09:00And then, you know, the offensive line dominant.
09:02It's like, well, that's not right.
09:04I was stunned that Bobby Bell just threw out that Romo comment.
09:09But I should have known.
09:10Again, with these guys, I'm the only one that's, you know, 100% just no agendas.
09:16What you get from me is pure.
09:18It's that pure cut cocaine.
09:20You guys are always lacing it.
09:21Oh, yeah, I'm lacing.
09:22You're cutting it with something.
09:23My coke is lacing.
09:23Baking soda, usually.
09:24You're cutting it with something.
09:26And it just clicked in my head why Bobby gave Romo the compliment.
09:31No, it had nothing to do with it.
09:33It legitimately, whenever I think of a, here in Dallas, a quarterback helping get a receiver paid,
09:40I always think of Romo and Laurent Robinson.
09:42It's the default.
09:43Well, OCU Minora from the Giants.
09:48Nominating him for Friday at 9?
09:49No, no, awarding him already.
09:50It's done.
09:51He's one worst take of the week.
09:53And this is for anybody who even loves Romo.
09:55Although, I don't know.
09:55The fan text, there are some who really, really love him.
09:58Somebody may say, no, he's 100% right here.
10:00OCU Minora was talking to RJ Ochoa from Blogging the Boys.
10:04And RJ was just like, hey, I'm curious.
10:07There's always a lot of different split opinion on Tony Romo, somebody who played against him
10:11for several years.
10:13What do you think about Tony Romo?
10:14And OCU Minora gave the most glowing endorsement of anyone about Tony Romo, even probably family
10:22members.
10:23This is going to come as a surprise to you and as a surprise to many people.
10:26Tony Romo was the most difficult quarterback we ever faced.
10:30He's number one.
10:31I rate Romo as the best quarterback we ever played against.
10:34And we played against some incredible ones.
10:37We played against the GOAT, Tom Brady, the greatest of all time.
10:40I played against Peyton Manning.
10:42But for me personally, my level of respect for Tony Romo, having faced him year in and year
10:49out, such an underrated football player.
10:52People don't understand the type of headache he was as a player.
10:58And they don't give him enough credit, man.
11:00If he would have won the Super Bowl, which he should have, I think things would have been
11:04different.
11:05But without a shadow of a doubt, one of the all-time great NFL quarterbacks, man.
11:09And they need to put a lot more respect on that man's name.
11:12How much did he pay for that?
11:14Where are the breadcrumbs here?
11:16Wow.
11:16Does he live here?
11:18First he goes, most difficult.
11:19And then he goes, wait, wait, wait.
11:20I got to clarify.
11:21The greatest.
11:22If he would have just stopped at difficult and headache, I could have maybe spun it.
11:28And if he would have won the Super Bowl, which he should have.
11:30I could have better called Chopped and said, all right, running around.
11:34Yeah.
11:34A difficult matchup.
11:36A difficult matchup.
11:37Catch a fumble and run it 40 yards.
11:40My goodness.
11:41This is going to be tough to top.
11:43Better than Brady.
11:44Better than Manning.
11:45The only all-time great.
11:47The only connection he has is DeMarcus Ware.
11:51They were teammates in college.
11:52And you think you can get DeMarcus Ware to say Romo's better than Peyton?
11:55Probably not.
11:57No.
11:57No.
11:58Good Lord.
11:59This is.
12:00Okay.
12:01So I can explain the Brady thing.
12:04That is a Giants player going, he wasn't that bad.
12:07We beat him.
12:08We didn't think he was that great.
12:09Like, that's them.
12:11The Peyton one is, is that Eli endorsement?
12:15You know, Peyton's not even that great.
12:17Eli's just as good as a baby.
12:18But there's something that, for him to go, like, then to add on to the end of this, if
12:22he would have won a Super Bowl, which he should have.
12:24Like, he was cheated out of a Super Bowl.
12:26He was so close.
12:26I was like, what is it?
12:27Where did this come from?
12:29It's like he'd been waiting for somebody to just ask him for years.
12:32Like, please, God, someone ask me how great Romo is so I can tell them.
12:36Throw me this sop on a tee.
12:38280 retweets.
12:39It's a, look, it's a, he was, he is a, he is a criminally underrated quarterback.
12:45Criminally?
12:45Yes, he is.
12:46He was very good.
12:47He was very, very good.
12:49And he did not get enough of the credit during his playing days for how good he was.
12:54And history will probably not remember how good of a player he was.
12:58He was, he was a genuinely, like, top, probably all the R's were really good.
13:05I can't remember everybody that was in each sort of section, but I would say he was generally
13:09like a top six to eight quarterback, generally, when he was playing.
13:13And he's not going to be remembered like that, but that's, that's going a little over the
13:17top.
13:18That's strong.
13:18That's strong.
13:19Yeah, that's a little too heavy on the glazing.
13:21Let's take it from Romo to Aikman before we hook you up with Luke Bryan tickets and chop
13:26it up.
13:26Yeah, we've all talked about the, the, uh, like the, the nature that everybody's been
13:32so upset by Troy Aikman working with the dolphins and not doing things with the Cowboys.
13:37And he even said, I would have loved to roll with the Cowboys at one point, kind of doing
13:41this sort of thing, but you know, that's passed a little bit.
13:43Well, uh, Michael Irvin was on with DLS yesterday and he was just lamenting sick to his stomach
13:53about Troy Aikman working with the dolphins.
13:56Troy Aikman was the main part of it, you know, and, and, and it does pain me to see that.
14:03I mean, I, I think it was from, for any club not to try to just glean as much as
14:12you can
14:12from a guy like Troy Aikman whose job, whose job is to go and talk to teams, talk to coaches
14:21and bring an understanding of what's going on behind the scenes to the world.
14:26So, so he understands each thing that's going on in your organization.
14:32I mean, there is no better place of information than to get from a guy like Troy Aikman.
14:38And Tom Brady's smart enough to be doing that and have part ownership into a team.
14:44I think that's a hell of an advantage for Tom Brady.
14:47You know what I mean?
14:47Soon or later, he has to get it right.
14:49So, so, so yeah, absolutely.
14:51That hurts me.
14:52It pains me to see that happen.
14:55Because I know Troy wanted to do that.
14:57Troy wanted a John Elway situation here in Dallas.
15:01And I know he wanted it and certainly he earned it.
15:03But it's not going to happen.
15:07Why won't anybody...
15:08What's wrong with that audio?
15:10I don't know.
15:10It's the clip they posted.
15:12Why won't anybody just say directly why they have issues?
15:19Like there's clearly just tension that exists between Jerry and Troy.
15:22Yeah.
15:22And they don't, they don't really, they don't want to say it.
15:25They don't want to, well, I mean, no, they will air Dirty Laundry.
15:29They have no problem talking about Micah and things like that.
15:32Not when it comes to Jerry.
15:34No, Troy will sideswipe a little bit.
15:36Troy.
15:37But then they won't ever just, and I like, I kind of want to ask him whether,
15:41probably Oxnard's the place where it says it may be a G-bag thing.
15:44I'm going to have to stick Dawson on them again.
15:47Where somebody, like, I want somebody to just ask Jerry, like, hey, look,
15:51he ended up with the Dolphins instead of here.
15:53It seems like there's always some sort of, like, heavy-handed criticism
15:56that can come your way from it.
15:58Like, do you guys have an issue?
15:59Like, because I don't know if he's just been asked directly, is there a problem?
16:02Troy Aitman does not respect Jerry Jones' level and love for winning.
16:08He doesn't, he, if you're not all about it, one, two, three, winning, W's.
16:15Troy Aitman doesn't ultimately respect it 100%.
16:18I get that.
16:20Do you think he's just never forgiven him for Jimmy?
16:24I think he would forgive him, but, like, do you think he has?
16:27I think he has.
16:28I'm going to guess.
16:29This is all guessing.
16:30I don't know anything.
16:31I think he has probably forgiven him, but Troy is not a great BS-er, in my opinion.
16:39And for 30 years, he has to be asked why the Cowboys aren't around it.
16:44And I think, to the best, Troy tiptoeing is, like, in heels.
16:49He can't do it.
16:51Troy tiptoes in heels.
16:53And he's a brutally honest, blunt dude.
16:56And he believes, and he has known, that winning the championship,
17:02if you walk by the Cowboys' whiteboard, may not have been sitting there,
17:07really, in reality, number one for 30 years.
17:10Yeah, I think Troy feels like—
17:12I just think it's a respect thing for winning.
17:14Yeah, I wonder if Troy feels like he was most impacted legacy-wise by the Jimmy thing.
17:21Because if they, you know, quarterbacks—
17:23Yeah.
17:23You know, if he gets a fourth—
17:24Because Emmitt was not.
17:25Emmitt wasn't.
17:26You know, Michael—
17:28It took Michael a little bit to get in the Hall of Fame, but how much of that was—
17:30Yeah, if they went in 94, you're probably never again seeing a team win four straight titles.
17:34And it hadn't happened in the Super Bowl era at that point.
17:37And Aikman's placement is never amongst, like, the top—
17:39Never close.
17:40Top, top.
17:41You cannot find a person outside of DFW that puts them in the top ten.
17:44Mike Fisher.
17:45Mike Fisher.
17:46Outside of DFW.
17:47I almost had to beat Mike's ass arguing Aikman and Marino once.
17:50But nobody, nobody puts them in the top ten outside of DFW.
17:53And if he wins his fourth Super Bowl, just about everybody would put him in the top ten.
17:59I mean, they didn't with Bradshaw.
18:01No.
18:02No, they didn't.
18:03But four in a row is different.
18:04Four in a row is different, and there was no—
18:06There was a good defense.
18:07It wasn't the steel curtain.
18:09You know?
18:09Yeah.
18:09So, it just puts you in a different stratosphere.
18:13I think he was impacted most legacy-wise, and it just offends him.
18:16It bothers him.
18:16And I don't know.
18:17I guess Jerry just feels that.
18:19Because I do—I don't—I think it's reciprocated tension.
18:21I don't think it's just one side.
18:22And Jerry's like, why—I think Jerry has frustrations.
18:25Well, Troy doesn't—look.
18:28Let's be real about it, all right?
18:30And we like—we love Michael.
18:34Michael will be a little critical in his own way.
18:38He's laughing while being critical.
18:40When he criticizes the Cowboys, he'll really go after the players in the locker room.
18:44But Deion Sanders kisses Jerry Jones' ass.
18:47And Michael Irvin would probably be second in that.
18:52Every time we see Emmitt Smith—well, I tell him, I love how honest you're being.
18:58Moose will be kind of blunt.
19:01Oh, yeah.
19:02And a little bit critical.
19:03But Emmitt is probably the most critical, and then Aikman.
19:08And that's the divide of Cowboy legends, right?
19:13Deion won't say anything about Jerry.
19:16Michael is right behind him.
19:18And then on the other side, Emmitt will destroy them.
19:21Not necessarily Jerry, but, you know, Troy will question their commitment to winning.
19:26And I think that's the divide.
19:28That's what I think.
19:29Yeah, and I think that that's—maybe it is just he doesn't pull punches because he's that serious about winning.
19:34But that's the thing.
19:35It does make me wonder, like—I think all those guys, like, Michael was very serious about winning.
19:38Yeah.
19:39And other guys were very—so it makes me wonder, is it deeper than just you weren't committed to winning?
19:43I feel like Michael, though, feels like he owes Jerry a lot more than Troy would ever feel like he
19:49owes Jerry.
19:49I don't think Troy thinks he owes Jerry anything.
19:52And Michael may feel a little bit indebted to a lot of the players.
19:55I think if you privately asked—I think if you privately talked to Jerry and Troy about it,
20:01I think they could probably pinpoint, like, there was an instance where it just was like,
20:05oh, this has shifted now.
20:07Like, I think there was—I think they—it just—it's too awkwardly unsaid and tense.
20:14It's—it's up.
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