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You're listening to the downbeat on ninety
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right, Dingers Morning News. You'll
have the latest on a weird thing happened

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in Dallas last night, triple shooting
bro over by Harry Hines. We have

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all the deats. I've got a
lot of Harry Heines and news lately that's

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going down. At eight o'clock.
We have fun stories too, Kevin Small,

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doom and gloom. Oh, of
course at eight o'clock the world debut

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of Welcome to the Eliminator. YEP, it's going to be incredibly dangerous.

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It is. Somebody texted in and
said, I hope there's less yelling than

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there was on Conundrum. I think
it could be less yelling. Probably somebody

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wants Conundrum back. They texted that
this morning. You think Kevin can handle

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then, I don't think so.
He can't. Too smart, it's too

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smart for Kevin. I don't think
he has enough emotional stability to handle.

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Can under him? You have to
be a well put together I don't want

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to go into the knife room.
Yeah, the tornado of insults. Oh

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no, that doesn't sound fun to
me. It just makes me slide underneath

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the coffee table. Is it a
glass coffee table that you hide under?

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Do you look up through the glass? Look up and roll around? So

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when you get a safe place you
feel, Oh yeah, when I'm sad,

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it's sure, I go like you. You the one in your house

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right now, can grab it and
swing under it. So when you feel

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sadness and you need a good cry, you crawl under your your coffee table.

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Throw on some death cab and it
has for a little bit. But

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it has a glass top, so
you're not really hiding. People can see

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you. Yeah, they to you
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or down through the table if they
were I'm inside though, man, it's

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do you move one of the chairs
at the end out of the way and

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the other chair stay where they are? Is your chair on the end of

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it? Oh? Wait, you
have one chair at your coffee table.

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Well, it's like up pulled up
to the couch. You have a couch,

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of course, that's cool. I
have a few nice things. How

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long do you stay under there?
On average? Two three hours? I'm

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sorry, two to three hours.
It depends on what's going on. I

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saw fingers. If I'm in a
bad place, When was the last time

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you were under the coffee table,
it's been a couple of months, a

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couple of months. Yeah, has
roxy come home and seen you under the

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coffee now? Do you hot?
You time it out? Yeah? Okay,

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so you'reuner there for three hours?
Did you like knock out Killers of

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the Flower Moon the last time you
were under there? Do you put it?

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Do you lay the TV down on
your glass table facing downward? It's

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really just good for like getting in
there and just kind of crying it out.

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What about your bed? What about
it as an alternative to being under

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the coffee to I'm trying to stay
out of the bed. I'm trying to

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I don't want to bed rot.
You know, that's a new thing,

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bed riding the new planking. That's
toddler. You know you can call a

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friend too, you canone. We
can talk through it. Friends. Yeah,

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talk to you guys enough every day. We're kind of your friends.

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Enough therapy. I'm a good listener. I'm good, I'm fine, I'm

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fine. I won't I promise,
I won't go Joe just came on.

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I won't make it about me.
I'll just listen, and I won't offer

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advice. I'll just listen. And
just kind of I don't know. We'll

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ride ride the wave together, the
wave of sadness. We're all good.

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It's Tuesday, the sun's not up
yet. Time change is great, by

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the way, daylight saying. People
were loving that, right, everyone out

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there was loving that. I'm not
getting sun not going down untill nine.

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People that don't have to get up
but four in the morning, the minority.

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And you know it's a privilege.
Yeah, yeah, I say this.

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I gotta say this. I'm done
with the morning bitching. I do

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it. Sometimes it's not great when
you walk into work and the smoke detector's

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going off and it's just the loudest
fire alarm. Ever, I don't think

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we bitch, and I certainly don't
bitch. No, I don't think I

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do either. I think in my
head I do. Mikey and I were

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talking yesterday. I think you had
gone out of the room to make manure

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or something, and we were talking
about how much we kind of like getting

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up early in the morning that you
went to grow your chocolate tail. Uh

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huh, No, I would never
do that. Here, I don't do

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that, and oh well they Won'tka
disappears again. I don't do that in

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public, but real quick, like
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so we probably shouldn't mentioned making a
switch at this point, but whatever,

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that was a common thing. Oh, these guys, they're gonna get up,

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you know. Yes, saw it
all, you hear it all.

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And I was like, actually,
after about three days they were pretty adjusted

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and like, I kind of like
this. We were talking yesterday and I

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was like, if given the opportunity
right now to switch to afternoons, I

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think I would. I would say, yes, I absolutely would, but

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she bommed out by it. I
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I hate. Of all the shifts
I've worked in my life, mid day

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is the one that you like,
I hated the most. You hate mid

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days? I hated it, Yeah, I hated it. I hated ten

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to two really I did for like
three months. But it's like a sweet

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now you s DoD morning traffic to
deal with, and I don't know,

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it just felt like there wasn't enough
time left in the day when she got

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off before you get to start thinking, there's not enough time to get anything

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done before the show, which is
just like ours no time to do anything

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before our show, And there's literally
no time to do anything before your midday

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show either if you're if you're in
it, I mean, what time are

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you waking up? You get up
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hours. Yeah, I guess it
would only be things done at the house.

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But it's not two hours though,
because it takes longer to get to

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work at that time. No one
cares about our shifts. No sports,

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No one cares about the sports.
I don't know. And now sports starting

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this with a question, would you
rather have Dak at fifty million a year

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or Sam Donald at ten million a
year for one year? Well, what

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happens after that year? I don't
know. Okay, maybe you're developing more

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complex. I mean, Dak is
certainly better. So the Viking wait,

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what are we saying? The Vikings
go, well, the Vikings and we'll

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do a little more of this at
nine because Kirk Cousins moved to the Falcons,

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the Vikings signed Sam Donald for ten
million, and it just it's the

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perfect example of what would happen to
the Cowboys if they got ready to dick,

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which a lot of Cowboys fans want
it, or what after they missed

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the playoffs, because after they lose
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because the NFL is littered with Sam
Darnold's He's right, that's what the Vikings're

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gonna go with this year. Maybe
they try to draft someone. They have

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the number eleven pick of the draft. But but let's say they did that,

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the Cowboys get Sam Darnald. God, what a nightmare. Can you

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imagine the panic round here? Yeah, but then you have ninety million dollars

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to play with. I would say
forty million dollars to play with. I

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mean, I think it's kind of
weird. The Cowboys have done zero.

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It's weird that they did zero.
It's weird that they were interested in.

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The running back they were reportedly interested
in was Zack Moss, who is a

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good running back two in this league, and the numbers was around four million,

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but he ended up signing with the
Bengals, and the Bengals cut Joe

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Mixon. The Cowboys lost Tony Pollard
to the Titans. That would have been

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eight million a year. Tyler Biades, the starting center, goes to the

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Washington Commanders. Three at thirty deevens
En Dorance Armstrong, who do you think

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is a good player? Three at
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You aren't gonna give him fifteen million
dollars a year. I don't love

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him, but I don't love losing
chunks out of the middle. I don't

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either. You don't losing your center
and a serviceable defensive lineman. I think

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in an all in year, losing
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got to go figure that out.
He's gonna regret saying all in. So

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what's all in through one day doing
nothing and losing assorted people? Can I

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play this for you? This is
Jeff Kavanaugh yesterday from the speakeasy. I

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thought this was a really good and
before I play this, he commented,

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He goes, they could have done
something. They could have flip switches to

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create money that you'd have to pay
back later. They could have signed Ceedee

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Lamb could have signed an extension with
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Who gets it currently there around like
I think under they're two million dollars

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under over the cap. So they'd
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any noise, which that could happen
by releasing Michael Gallup. I mean there's

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ways to get over the cap or
get under the cap. But here's Jeff,

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and Jeff this is his iceberg gear
theory, and boy, this is

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not how I would imagine eighty one
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football life at this stage of his
real life. But this is interesting to

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me. They might know that twenty
twenty five is iceberg gear and they're going

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to smush the Cowboys Titanic into it. And so our free agents get signed,

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we get compensatory picks for this right
this second. They probably have an

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extra fifth, fifth, and sixth
a year from now, and so like

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we can load up on draft picks, which is cheap labor, which we

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know we're gonna need Dak help.
Maybe he's gone and we're eating fifty million

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dollars. Maybe Zach Martin's gonna retire
and we're eating twenty million dollars. They

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see where they're going, and instead
of forging ahead full speed, they're slowing

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down to smash into the iceberg.
And it's a chance that this is going

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to be an if a year and
twenty twenty five is gonna suck, there's

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a chance we have a full off
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But that's what it looks like today. Yesh. Yeah, So they

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know that they have to get it
done with what they have this year without

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making tons of only improvements as you
would make as to the draft, and

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then like, all right, that
doesn't work the coaches on his last year

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of his deal anyways, So then
we'll just start over and build it again.

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Now I could see Stephen thinking that
way, but Steven again is doing

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speeches, keynote speeches by Southwest with
you know, random indie rock bands,

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and he's watching moon Taxi, watching
Monkey Man, Yeah, Moon tax See,

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Like, so that's I'm not saying
Steven was not involved, but he

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clearly is involved a ton way more
than Jerry's. I think that is fascinating

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to look at the bigger picture and
to look at the franchise from that view,

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and I think he's Kavanaugh's probably onto
something, and no team would say

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can say that stuff out loud.
I mean, you have to work within

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the constructs that you're you're certainly you're
currently dealing with. But average Cowboy fans

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right now are like, all right, some big names flying around the league

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and what is it the Cowboys and
Saints, maybe the only teams that have

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done nothing. Yeah, except lose
the loose people that matter, the lose

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people that matter, which they big
believers in drafting their own, keeping their

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own and letting free agents go that
they deem not worthy and collecting picks for

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him later on. I get that, like I get why you wouldn't keep

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Dorian's armstrong. You can't keep him
at that money. Yeah, your center.

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I think that's pretty reasonable for be
honist who's solid, And I don't

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like the idea of having to go, Okay, well, we gotta get

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that, and if it's true that
Tyron's not coming back, we gotta figure

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out that. If we're gonna keep
Tyler Smith left guard, that's the best

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big stuff that you gotta fill.
And that's not even talking about running back,

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which I think is very easy to
replace. Now. You may not

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be max value that you could get
there, but you can get a running

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back in the draft for minimum wage
and be fine. I have no doubt

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about that. And you'll probably keep
Rico. But it is interesting to go,

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well, it's gonna happen this year, but we're not even gonna We're

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gonna go ahead and start hitting the
brake now. So it's a little less

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messy of a collision where you could
be like the Rams, go for it,

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and when it does crash, it's
so bad because you have so many

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players that you've traded draft picks for, or you have money that you've switched

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in contracts that you have to pay
down the road. But I was thinking

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about that the other day. I
mean, that was all the talk of

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the Rams punting drafts essentially, and
that's the price you paid to win a

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Super Bowl, which they did,
and then they went five and twelve and

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then they were ten to seven last
year and then playoffs. Yeah, and

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put up a hell of a fight
against the lines. Like they didn't deal

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with the drought that we were all
kind of screaming that they would be dealing

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with. They nailed their like three
draft picks. Yeah. That and they're

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well coached and you know it just
that lull never really happened to the level

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that we thought it would. That
was I mean yesterday, you're sitting there

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going, Okay, well everyone else
is doing stuff, why aren't we,

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right? And that's what hurts Watch
the Eagles out there making plays, whether

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sick one Berkley's still good or not. You know you can figure that out

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you want. The Eagles wouldn't got
him. The Eagles have gotten better,

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and it seems that they do it
every off season, and then in the

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middle of the year were like,
well, the Cowboys are just as good

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as the Eagles, and maybe that's
the plan. Their plan is like,

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hey, we'll just draft it up, we'll fill our holes to the draft,

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we'll wait and get Dack done.
But the thing that I think is

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really frustrating to me is I think
they could get Dak done if they wanted

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to. And I don't know.
I think they just love the art and

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war of negotiating. I think that's
what Jerry was put on this planet to

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do. Set a cross from you
and try to talk you out of something.

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It can't be that they love that, though, Like what did they

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do to put them in this position
right now? What they screw up?

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Because I feel like they do Reupdack
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would not say that they've really screwed
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the position they're in. I mean, what else could they have done?

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That's you know what? Okay,
yeah, missing your draft picks last year?

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Okay, well yeah, I mean
the second round, they wanted it

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tied end because they didn't believe Jake
Ferguson was what Jake Ferguson is. Probably

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they wanted help there. They could
have taken the best guard in the draft

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in my opinion, in round two
and they decided not to. Wouldn't it

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be great to have that covered Tyler
Smith already there and all you need is

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center now. Yeah, but that's
in a different category of screwing up.

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I think, not nailing your draft
picks. Yeah, I mean, and

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they normally good at that, so
it's not even good at that for a

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while. You know what, winning
in the playoffs. Maybe it's as simple

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as that, because I don't have
a problem with any of the money they've

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given to their dudes. Zach Martin
deserves to be paid like the best guard.

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Trevon Diggs deserved to get a contract
tank DeMarcus Lawrence. They lost that

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negotiation and let it go up.
But DeMarcus Lawrence is great and he's paid

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like it. He just gets tired. He just gets tired when he's on

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the set of the Super Bowl,
gets super tired. Yeah, we just

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burnt out. So yeah, I
don't know. I am tired. Do

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you expect any any live action today? Because we're still going to lose a

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few more guys, right, I
mean, gil Moore is going somewhere.

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There's rumors of Jordan Lewis maybe to
the commanders too, because dan Quinn loves

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him, and dan Quinn's like,
hey, we'll take all my former We

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had a good defense. We just
had really bad game there at the end,

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so I'll take some of these good
players. I don't know about dorm

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Armstrong at fifteen million dollars a year, but that's that's their problem. Are

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you surprised. I'm not surprised.
We talked about last few days. But

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I mean Tony Pollard gone. I
hate when you I don't know if you'd

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call Tony Pollard nailing a draft pick, you know, but I hate.

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I mean, the Dolphins are just
did this with Christian Wilkins. I hate

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when you get it right and then
you lose them. Yeah, and they

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did with Pauler. Even Paula was
a good pick. He was good,

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a good pick, and I kind
of think he's got something left. And

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I don't know that I wanted to
do three at twenty four because that violates

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never pay running backs. For instance, one name that got thrown around yesterday's

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Aaron Jones of the Packers who got
cut, and he got cut so they

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could sign. The Packers have similar
cap issues that the Cowboys do, but

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they're able to make some noise because
their quarterback makes nothing. Yeah, now,

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and that's about the change. That's
the whole luxury of the league.

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That's the big cheat code for sure. And the Cowboys had that and they

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just didn't take advantage of it.
You know, three four years ago they

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decided to do nothing. But they
kind of had that when Dak was a

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rookie with Aaron JONESO. He is
a Aaron Jones and his family are huge

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Cowboy fans, have been forever.
Now they turned into Packer fans when he

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went there. He went to college
at El Paso. The Packers needed him.

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They had pushed his money back a
few times because of Aaron Rodgers,

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so they needed him to take a
pay cut. He's like, now I'll

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just go be a free agent.
And then they signed Josh Jacobs and now

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he's there, Like, if you
want him, you could probably get him

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for ten million dollars. Now that's
more than I want to pay a running

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back for one year. Maybe Okay, now made a one year more from

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Dreamy, but somebody will give it
more than Yeah, maybe Minnesota gives him

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two at twenty four, but maybe
he would play for the Cowboys for one

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at ten. I don't know.
And that's that's something that is like a

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little bit like Okay, that's worth
doing something for. I think he will

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be hurt for four games for five
games, and you have to weigh that

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into your into your mind. But
he is awesome. You could do Derrick

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Henry maybe, but it doesn't sound
like they have interest there. Did the

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price go up on Derrick Henry?
I'm wondering because the run market rose.

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Surprised the zoom call worked apparently.
I'm surprised at what Pollard got. I

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am too. He's averaging what eight
million a year? Yeah, three at

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twenty four. I think Saquan was
three at thirty eight or something, which

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I the day and age of a
running back making more than ten million dollars.

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I thought that was gone and it's
clearly back. I was surprised at

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those numbers. But man, you
you you mentioned something earlier. Them just

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absolutely crapping the bed in last year's
draft. I think it's got a direct

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effect on this Iceberg theory. Yeah. I mean if they just had hit

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on one out of the seven,
I mean that the only name that really

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comes to mind when you think of
that draft of getting their number called on

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a regular basis is what Deuce Vaughan. How many carries in the year did

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he get? Yeah? Season,
and you talked about it's one thing to

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miss on a draft pick, but
when you're drafting for a position that you

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clearly don't need, why would you
burn a number two on an effing tight

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end? Yeah, just because you
lost the one guy. I mean,

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anybody that watched the year before last
would tell you that Jake Ferguson was the

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next in line. He did enough, I thought in twenty twenty twenty two,

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I agree to warrant not having a
guy picked ahead of him at number

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two, especially when he already had
Hindershot on the team. Absolutely, like

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you already had a couple of guys
that you were okay with. I know,

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I saw like the rumor on I
mean, I guess Jalen Brooks,

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he was what Jalen Brooks was light
round, He was fine, and he's

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you know, Jalen Tolbert was the
third round behind. But the guys that

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I mentioned are sixth and seventh rounders. Yeah, well they This tells you

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too, I think how much they
want to spend it running back because the

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report from Michael Gelkin over the Dallas
Morning News was with Zach Moss, the

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price extended past their comfort point.
Moss agreed to a two year, eight

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million dollar contract with the Mingles to
be their running back. So they don't

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want to spend four million dollars on
a running back. That's why they're gonna

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draft one. So you draft from
midium watch and that's that's a fine play.

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I have actually no problem with that. You'll draft a left tackle at

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twenty four, or you'll move Tyler
Smith to left tackle, and you'll draft

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a center or a guard. Maybe
you think Tchuma e Dooga can be your

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left guard. I've got no problem
with it. They don't have a ton

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of holes to fill. They're still
in good shape as a team. They

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did this every year. Well the
joke. Nothing's abnormal about what they've done.

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But it wouldn't surprise you one damn
bit for them to restructure whomever they

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need to to create money. And
for them to go out and sign Derrick

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Henry. They might might, They
might do that because this is an organization

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that prefers sizzle over substance. Yes, like an hour ago apparently it came

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out Ravens of Ball for Derrick Henry
six point five million for one year.

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I don't think i'd do that for
the Cowboys. Yeah, too much with

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all the other holes they need to
fill. Yeah, I agree, that's

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not a huge number. And Jeff
lined it out to yesterday. He said,

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Look, they want you to believe
that they can't do anything because they

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gotta get Ceedee Lamb done. They
gotta get Dack done, they gotta get

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Michael Parsons done. They want you
to believe we can't do anything right now

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because our guys make too much because
they care about winning that narrative with the

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fans, which is very true.
Look, we'll do more of this at

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