Victory Formation
Victory Formation
Breaking Down the Cowboys' Roster: Surprises, Trades, and What’s Next for the Season!
In this episode of the "Victory Formation Podcast," we dive into the Dallas Cowboys' latest moves and predictions for the upcoming season. We chop it up, cuts, practice squad, and about the trade of tight end Peyton Hendershot to the Chiefs, the need for a solid running back, and CeeDee Lamb's contract. We share our thoughts on player performances during training camp and preseason games, expressing surprise at some roster decisions. As we wrap up Season 1, we reflect on the highs and lows, emphasizing the importance of family and community while gearing up for an exciting new season. LFG!!!
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Victory Formation Podcast Season Finale (00:00:35)
Discussion on the transition from Season 1 to Season 2 and the end of training camp.
Predictions for CeeDee Lamb's Contract (00:01:32)
Speakers reflect on David Hellman's accurate predictions regarding Lamb's contract details.
Peyton Hendershot Trade Announcement (00:03:00)
Announcement of Hendershot's trade to the Kansas City Chiefs for a seventh-round pick.
Roster Turnover Discussion (00:05:41)
Insight into the Cowboys' roster changes and the implications of Hendershot's trade.
Dalvin Cook's Visit (00:07:14)
Update on Dalvin Cook's visit and speculation about his potential signing.
Defensive Line Improvements (00:08:41)
Discussion on the addition of Linval Joseph and Jordan Phillips to strengthen the defensive line.
Roster Predictions Review (00:09:20)
Review of the accuracy of previous predictions regarding the Cowboys' roster.
Tight Ends Evaluation (00:11:24)
Analysis of the tight ends on the roster and the surprising cut of Hendershot.
Special Teams Overview (00:17:03)
Discussion on the specialists and the impact of roster decisions on the upcoming season.
Injury Reserve Rules (00:18:21)
Explanation of new rules regarding injured reserve and potential roster changes.
Final Thoughts on Roster Decisions (00:20:22)
Reflections on surprising cuts and the overall roster strategy moving forward.
Player Performance and Roster Changes (00:22:55)
Discussion on tight end Peyton Hendershot's preseason performance and roster decisions impacting the Cowboys.
Reflections on Tight End Blocking (00:23:19)
Analysis of tight end blocking skills and comparisons among players on the Cowboys' roster.
Dak Prescott's Favorite Pass (00:24:14)
Mention of Dak Prescott's preferred passing plays, particularly to tight ends, and a recent game turnover.
Player Achievements in Preseason (00:24:31)
Highlights of standout performances, including Flournoy and Phillips, who secured their spots on the team.
Refereeing Experience (00:27:01)
Speaker 1 shares his upcoming debut as a high school football referee and the challenges involved.
Discussion on NFL Referee Dynamics (00:29:11)
Comparison of referee numbers and responsibilities between high school and NFL games.
CeeDee Lamb's Contract Insights (00:30:12)
Speculation on CeeDee Lamb's contract negotiations and future with the Cowboys.
Salary Cap and Contract Details (00:31:23)
Breakdown of CeeDee Lamb's contract specifics, including signing bonuses and cap implications.
Tax Implications for NFL Players (00:32:56)
Discussion on the tax responsibilities of NFL players, including the "jock tax" and agent fees.
Player Salary Comparisons (00:34:15)
Comparison of player salaries and the reality of take-home pay after taxes and deductions.
Roster Championship Potential (00:38:16)
Debate on whether the current Cowboys roster is championship-ready and potentially needs improvement.
Running Back Acquisition Needs (00:39:15)
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Intro 00:00:00 I come. Here we go. Here I come. Here we go. Yeah. Come on. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. Cooper blue and I fought through a lot. Do not like us. How you're walking with a lion. Got me feeling like Michael. I've been on the way. The team on my bad. Like a biker. Shawty wanna be with a star. But you lucky if I invite you.
Prescott 00:00:19 We can take it to the next spot. The yellin like Dred Scott. Everybody like there ain't no brakes, no rest stop. We tryna get your head chopped.
Intro 00:00:26 The whole club yelling everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody.
Prescott 00:00:35 Everybody, everybody. Here we go, here we go. Here we go. Victory Formation podcast I think, this the season finale next week will be the first episode of season two. We still on season one, episode 33, I think. But since it's the end of training camp, we're gonna end the season here. Next week will be a new season for a new season and tell the people how you feel.
Eddie 00:01:00 What's up, ladies and gentlemen? It's a feel. It doesn't feel like the end of the of the season. It feels like something renewing, refreshing. Something. Something in the air. It smells like 88. You smell that nice man.
Prescott 00:01:17 Taste that taste. The air tastes good to see, man. I don't think.
Eddie 00:01:22 It tastes like the number 88 somewhere.
Prescott 00:01:25 It does. Man. Oh, it tastes like money, money money money money.
Eddie 00:01:30 Welcome back. City.
Prescott 00:01:32 Hey. Exactly. Man. Like was crazy, as David Hellman predicted. Predicted these exact numbers. Like in the middle of May or June. He tweeted about it and he predicted the exact numbers for years. Whatever, 34 million. It's crazy. And there's months ago.
Eddie 00:01:53 Really, I didn't I don't remember that. I don't remember anybody talked about it either. That's crazy. Well, he had.
Prescott 00:01:58 Brought it up. Well, of course he. He retweeted his tweet and he was like, it's crazy. I predicted these exact numbers on this date, so it was proof.
Prescott 00:02:05 He had the receipt. I was like, that's crazy.
Eddie 00:02:09 I know.
Prescott 00:02:10 Insider sometimes be known.
Eddie 00:02:11 I know you're, your cousin Pretty Ricky tweeted the the arrange. I know, he tweeted. He tweeted it's going to be four years, 136 or to 130, 134 to 136. But he didn't have any idea.
Prescott 00:02:28 Yeah. And then he tried to say when he's like trying to predict when Jesus is coming back. If you say it every day, eventually you're going to be right. So. But, no. See, he actually did had the date. He had some receipts. He had said like two weeks ago. He's like, watch. August, the 26th seed, will sign and and he had that receipt.
Eddie 00:02:51 He didn't have any receipts like that. Nobody had none.
Prescott 00:02:53 I'm telling you, he showed it. I'm. Man, I got to give credit where credit's due, but, I mean, it wasn't like a long time ago. He said, like, a couple of weeks telling me.
Eddie 00:03:00 David Hellman said CeeDee lamb is going to sign for 134 for four years on the 26. Man that's.
Prescott 00:03:10 About to find it.
Eddie 00:03:11 Bro. Okay. Moving on. we got some other, cowboy news, too. That that was pretty exciting. along with all of the cuts that we had today, which we'll go over. yeah, we had a little bit of a roster turnover, one of one of our favorite tight ends or one of my favorite tight ends. Got traded today from the Cowboys.
Prescott 00:03:36 Really, man. Hendershot. Look, I'm. Look, I'm looking at it right now. David Hellman, June 3rd. So four years, 136 million for CD. And it's it's on there he was he was answering a Rapoport tweet.
Eddie 00:03:49 So he I'm not I'm not questioning if he had the numbers Because the numbers. Everybody knew the numbers. What? You just said that he said he was going to sign on the 26. You said that he knew the day that he was. No.
Prescott 00:04:02 That was a no.
Prescott 00:04:03 See. No, no, no, no, Patrick. No. See, Walker did that.
Eddie 00:04:08 Okay. That makes sense. Well, I think that.
Prescott 00:04:10 He the one said on the 26th.
Eddie 00:04:11 There all those guys said that they knew it, man.
Prescott 00:04:14 If they'd help me guess the exact numbers and the exact date.
Eddie 00:04:17 Yeah, he would have been a witch.
Prescott 00:04:20 They would have burnt him on. He did it. Burn him at the stake. Yeah. It's no way.
Eddie 00:04:25 They're like Josina told you then.
Prescott 00:04:27 Then the fix would have been in man to fix would have been in.
Eddie 00:04:30 Is there her name? Is her name Josina or Josina? I think it's Josina. I think it's.
Prescott 00:04:35 Josina.
Eddie 00:04:36 She. Yeah. Yeah.
Prescott 00:04:38 I don't think she want to be called Josina. That man that never let her get out of high school with that name. Hey.
Eddie 00:04:44 I went to school with a lot of housing is. I'll tell you that right now. How for show. Oh. For show.
Eddie 00:04:58 okay. So, Yeah. So, our boy Peyton Hendershot got traded today to the to the Kansas City chefs for a seventh round pick, which, I'm pretty amazed that people want to talk shit about the front office, but what happened today was earlier, about 10:00, they said, they everything was released and said Peyton Hendershot was going to be released. Was released a waiver. and then not even an hour later, all of a sudden breaking news Kansas City Chiefs trade the Dallas Cowboys a seventh round pick for Peyton Hendershot so that he I.
Prescott 00:05:33 Think that's why they they leak it early for this exact reason. If they because they wait until the 3:00, then they miss out on the chance to trade him. Okay.
Eddie 00:05:41 But let me tell you, let me ask you this on the flip side of that, because both our moms would slap us in the face if they if we went to the store and they're like, we're throwing this out at 5:00. And you said, no, no, no, no, I want to buy it.
Eddie 00:05:55 You know what I mean?
Prescott 00:05:56 But but it depends because of the rules you can put in a claim form. Yeah. So if you're the Chiefs, you're last in claims because you won the Super Bowl. So you're number 32.
Eddie 00:06:08 So if you're but they're not they're not they're not number 32 on claim for everybody. They're only on number 32 on the first one that they try to claim. And then like the clock changes on everybody. Yeah. So I don't know.
Prescott 00:06:22 But but they'll still be pretty low for all of them. So if a good team wanted them or they had an idea that a terrible team wanted them, they would lose out on that player. So they really wanted them. You gotta treat.
Eddie 00:06:32 How did Peyton Hendershot do last year? How do you do the year?
Prescott 00:06:37 I'm not saying it's a smart move.
Eddie 00:06:38 I'm just.
Prescott 00:06:39 Trying to, you know.
Eddie 00:06:40 I'm. I'm playing devil's advocate because that's what you are doing. What kind of hurt and how many teams are going to go after Peyton Hendershot.
Eddie 00:06:48 I don't know how many teams were maybe. Maybe a handful. But there wasn't a there wasn't something where that. I mean, our front office did a hell of a job of getting a seventh round draft pick out of out of saying earlier that they're going to let him go. So that's all I wanted to say. Yeah. So let's move on to the next one. who? What else? What else happened in the last couple of weeks that we we we gained. Dalvin cook.
Prescott 00:07:14 Dalvin cook took a took a flight in here.
Eddie 00:07:16 True. Have you heard how it.
Prescott 00:07:19 No. They just said he left. He left.
Eddie 00:07:22 He already left.
Prescott 00:07:23 Yeah yeah man. They said he left this afternoon. So but I've seen that happen before where the player leaves and then they still end up signing him. So that's no, no, no indication of anything bad. Like if he was a high, you know, like first day of free agency and they leave, then I'd be like, man, he's not I mean, we're not getting him back.
Prescott 00:07:43 Yeah.
Eddie 00:07:44 I haven't seen a cook's name in the in the headlines recently for anything really, so it was a surprise.
Prescott 00:07:53 It looks better though.
Eddie 00:07:55 But better like he.
Prescott 00:07:59 Did last year because he was. Because he was still hurt last year when he played for the Jets. He looked terrible and then they released him and then the Ravens picked him up. Yeah, he had that one good run in the playoffs for the Ravens, which is what a grain of salt because they were already up like 30 something to ten. So it's like how hard were they really playing. So we really had to see. And him and that's going to be fresh. Zeke didn't have any training camp I mean no preseason runs I mean he did run in training camp. But we'll see how that goes. But we'll we'll get to that in a minute. How many running backs they kept. Only three will four if you count the vanilla gorilla Hunter Lipsky and the.
Eddie 00:08:41 And we actually got a lot bigger and more experienced on the defensive line by taking up Linval Joseph and Jordan Phillips.
Prescott 00:08:51 Sean Phillips man. So let let's let's go to it and let's compare it to ours from what we did, like what, 2 or 3 weeks ago. Let's see how smart I am because I think I picked that that on our spreadsheet. I think all the, the, the ones that we got correct with, the ones I picked and the ones we missed were the ones you pick. If if my memory serves me.
Eddie 00:09:14 I'm sure that's probably what it was. All right, so I start QB.
Prescott 00:09:20 That was the easiest one. Unless unless Trey Lance.
Eddie 00:09:24 Where's where's the official? I don't have the official. Do you have the official. Give it up.
Prescott 00:09:29 Yeah, yeah, I got it.
Eddie 00:09:30 Up all right.
Prescott 00:09:31 Yeah yeah I got it. I got it is on blocking the boys. They got it broken down. So quarterbacks, we were on the money. Unless Trey Lance, murdered the president. He was going to make this team.
Eddie 00:09:42 Oh, yeah.
Prescott 00:09:43 So those three were actually pretty easy.
Prescott 00:09:46 Running back. They kind of zagged on this. They kept Ezekiel Elliott, Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn and Hunter Lipkin. So Freeman let's see. We did this before they did the preseason games. We thought he was going to make it. And he actually did pretty good to me. But I think they believe cook is better than him. And that's why they try to get cook. Because if cook says, yeah, I'll sign because, you know, it's always about the money. If he signs, then he'll take that Freeman spot. Yeah. Wide receiver. It's kind of it's kind of janky only because Lam just signed. So he's still on the team. Still on the like retired list. Oh no no we all know.
Eddie 00:10:33 He's only the exception. She's only exception.
Prescott 00:10:37 Yeah. An exception is. So technically right now they have cooks Tolbert, Brooks, Flournoy, and Turpin. Who did they have?
Eddie 00:10:47 We have KD cooks. Turpin. Well, we have them all except for, the only one we didn't do.
Eddie 00:10:52 But yeah, for Flournoy.
Prescott 00:10:54 And that's because he was, he was actually balling at the time we made this. So at that time, he was doing better. Flournoy took over in the preseason games, and that's how he took his spot. So swap them out.
Eddie 00:11:06 We all know this was your boy right here. You were. You're cool.
Prescott 00:11:09 I like the man.
Eddie 00:11:11 It doesn't mean he's not going to be on the team anymore. He was just. Yeah, he was waived. And he'll probably come back to. If he doesn't, he probably.
Prescott 00:11:16 Come back to it because he was the best out of them. Cropper really crapped the bed.
Eddie 00:11:22 Very true. All right. Very true.
Prescott 00:11:24 Tight ends. We got Ferguson, Schoonmaker, Stevens and Spann forward.
Eddie 00:11:31 We're 100% on.
Prescott 00:11:33 Boom, 100% people on that. And it wasn't even like, we knew, Hendershot wasn't making this team. It seems like we call that one. And we were confident it wasn't. No guessing anything. All right, so, offensive line, you got Tyler Guyton, Tyler Smith, Cooper Bibby, Zach Martin, Terrence Steele.
Prescott 00:11:55 They'll start in five. Then we have five reserves Brock Hoffman, TJ bass, Awesome Richards Matt will let's go and choose a doga.
Eddie 00:12:09 We thought well let's go. Was going to be on the air. Yeah. And then it turns out.
Prescott 00:12:15 Doga is.
Eddie 00:12:16 Going to be who was the last.
Prescott 00:12:18 Doga to meet Doga. He's going to air. He's going to the short term air. So the only one missing out of this is. Well. Let's go. Okay. Thomas didn't make it.
Eddie 00:12:38 Not yet. All right, so let's go.
Prescott 00:12:43 Man we're doing pretty good. All right. So defensive line they they have them all lumped together. So I'm gonna go Michael Parsons DeMarcus Lawrence.
Eddie 00:12:55 But Marshawn Lynch let's let's let's break them down as we can read. So the we know Micah was at the end to read the demons.
Prescott 00:13:07 Oh the demons. Micah Parsons Lawrence kneeland and it's Tyrus Wheat. Is he a dean?
Eddie 00:13:19 I think they have a they have him at linebacker, but we he's number one, and he comes off the edge of all time.
Eddie 00:13:26 So, we made it. Yeah.
Prescott 00:13:29 None of our big the none of the the two ends that we picked up, and neither one of them made it.
Eddie 00:13:35 AQIM didn't make.
Prescott 00:13:36 AQIM. Nope, AQIM didn't make it or the other guy. And so by and and so the the defensive tackles are also Mazi Gholston Chauncey Gholston made it.
Eddie 00:13:52 On there I am Phillips John.
Prescott 00:13:56 Phillips. And this one is kind of a give me only because he wasn't even on the team at the time, but Linval Joseph made it to it.
Eddie 00:14:04 So this isn't on the team either. But when we made this. So.
Prescott 00:14:09 Oh yeah, he sure wouldn't. Yeah. So those two are, ones we can.
Eddie 00:14:13 We can.
Prescott 00:14:14 Chalk up to. They they didn't exist when we made this. So take off Aikman and Rogers. Rogers didn't make it right. It's no longer Mister Rogers Neighborhood.
Eddie 00:14:31 Was he a draft pick? Rogers was I think he was last year.
Prescott 00:14:36 I think he was, you know, it might be a draft.
Eddie 00:14:38 It was a draft pick this year. He he's from Auburn.
Prescott 00:14:42 That's right. Yeah.
Eddie 00:14:43 You didn't make the team?
Prescott 00:14:44 Nope. He didn't make it. All right so linebacker.
Eddie 00:14:49 Yeah Rogers make it. And we made it. We we is this is this guy right here is a total waste of of a hell of a helmet.
Prescott 00:15:00 So we got. Eric Kendricks over shown live for the moon Clark and Buddy Johnson.
Eddie 00:15:13 The only thing that we messed up was I thought we would make it because we paid Harvey. He did the money, but the first.
Prescott 00:15:21 The first game, he was really good, you know, he dropped the pick six, but the last two games not so good. He was all right.
Eddie 00:15:31 You were insane. You were. I'm about to turn this one off today. It was all right, dude. He. He had ball. He had his hand on the ball three games in a row, you know? That's it. Yeah, but that's it.
Prescott 00:15:45 How many tackling.
Eddie 00:15:47 And all that? How many? It's more.
Prescott 00:15:51 It's more than. It's more than playing back and just getting in the way. Oh. All right, let's see who's next. Cornerback I see. I got Diggs, Lewis. Carson.
Eddie 00:16:04 Booth. We missed Ramos. We didn't have Booth because that trade hadn't happened yet. Yeah, and land fell off.
Prescott 00:16:13 So McCormick made it to cover for bland.
Eddie 00:16:17 Yeah.
Prescott 00:16:18 Bland to be out.
Eddie 00:16:19 You know, till.
Prescott 00:16:20 The bye week.
Eddie 00:16:21 You know, it's weird. Is, Who's got that in their booth made the team, but. no. Sean got cut from the Vikings as we made that trade for Booth.
Prescott 00:16:39 Oh, yeah, and the Sean. Right? Yeah.
Eddie 00:16:41 And Sean. Right. Got cut, got over.
Prescott 00:16:43 Don't let me got over on them.
Eddie 00:16:45 Oh, shit. I wonder if we pick them back up. We're like, hey, thanks. We'll pick them back up. Thanks for the seventh round. If anything.
Prescott 00:16:52 If anything.
Prescott 00:16:55 Quinn will pick him up. That's a Quinn disciple. Quinn loves those type of, cornerbacks.
Eddie 00:17:02 And then our safety. All right.
Prescott 00:17:03 Safety is Wilson, hooker, Bell, and boys to men.
Eddie 00:17:09 I cannot believe that we cut wood, but I think woods I mean, he'll be had come back. But there's no I don't understand why we cut him.
Prescott 00:17:21 All right, so then, specialist, those are the easiest. Aubry. Anger. Sieg. And I told you Goodman was going to make this team, man. You ain't want to put him on there.
Eddie 00:17:32 You didn't tell me. Shit. We'll go back up. We'll go back and watch it. We both said this. Oh, well, I said maybe. Maybe. Maybe we'll cut it. Maybe, maybe I'll get.
Prescott 00:17:43 Some some, some notes to pay attention to is. of course lamb wasn't on there because they still had him on the exemption list. well, it's the reserve did not report list during his holdout. So as soon as he is reinstated, he'll he'll take a roster spot.
Prescott 00:18:01 And then they're going to remove Chukwuma because he's going to air for four games. So even though he made it, they're going to put him on IR.
Eddie 00:18:11 So many, so many. And even Steve Steven, when they were talking about you know what the moves today. This is all in pencil in the next couple days. Yeah.
Prescott 00:18:21 So and it's a new rule too as well. You can place two players on injured reserve, that can be brought back during the season. They already did it with Darren Bland, which is why his name went on the roster. And you can do that with Chukwuma as well. So we got yeah, we still got about I'd say anywhere from 3 to 5 players will be gone or brought in before the season starts.
Eddie 00:18:52 And and that obviously that's going to be one of them's going to be here. We know Cook's if if they don't sign cook they're going to they're probably going to sign another running back or bring. Yeah somebody's got to sign.
Prescott 00:19:02 Another run back because they can't count on Rico and Zeke.
Prescott 00:19:06 And there's all like, oh.
Eddie 00:19:08 Wait, no Mick made it. Didn't make made it didn't we, didn't we say he made it?
Prescott 00:19:15 Yeah, McCoy made it. Yeah, he made it.
Eddie 00:19:18 To the wire. so, so we know that some of this goes.
Prescott 00:19:24 On in there either.
Eddie 00:19:26 Yeah, yeah. You just can't see him. He's just a little.
Prescott 00:19:29 Yeah. You put it in a real small font.
Eddie 00:19:32 Well, yeah. But, but you know what I mean. Like, some of these guys are these guys are going to be on the practice squad. One of the first brought up Flournoy.
Prescott 00:19:42 From there, he. He's on the team.
Eddie 00:19:44 He's going to be, they're going to be one of the first ones brought up right away. And then. But I really think that we're going to see some moves from outside of the organization organization as well, because they're talking about, another Dion was about to, try out for us, too. I know we had him on the phone.
Eddie 00:20:06 was that, that,
Prescott 00:20:09 And I forgot his name is something. Oh, yeah. Bowser, Bowser, Bowser.
Eddie 00:20:15 And, and I'm sure our Office of Lines not done. I'm sure they're looking at. I'm shocked.
Prescott 00:20:22 Man I'm shocked. Ball got cut only because recently, you know, they drafted him in like the six to seventh round. And all those years he sucked. They never cut him. This year he actually looked pretty good. And they cut him. So they'll figure who knows what they're thinking about.
Eddie 00:20:38 But what's weird is when we drafted him, we needed him really badly, and we pushed him into into times where he wasn't ready.
Prescott 00:20:47 He just wasn't ready.
Eddie 00:20:48 He looked really, really bad. And then now that we really don't need better options. Yeah, there was there was less like, pressure on him, I think. Yeah, I don't know. I mean there's probably a lot of factors in it. We have no idea what in his personal life or what's going on.
Eddie 00:21:05 But something changed. So he was the one.
Prescott 00:21:08 Who was the biggest shock, you think?
Eddie 00:21:12 Biggest shock for me is.
Prescott 00:21:15 Whether it be whether it be off or on.
Eddie 00:21:19 Wheat. I think we did. We did somebody that I'm like, I cannot believe that he made this team at all, even a little bit. I can't believe that he was on our, our he was at camp, really.
Prescott 00:21:34 I don't I don't remember him flashing into at the, in the preseason games. He must have been really good at camp.
Eddie 00:21:41 He has a flashed in anything in my in my opinion. But then again, there, there was people yelling that, I can't believe the cowboys let, Foco go. I was like, did he?
Prescott 00:22:00 There was cut himself.
Eddie 00:22:01 He was writers that were like, oh, I can't believe they let him go. This whole NFL is going to be all over this kid. I'm like, are you kidding me? What do you mean all over this kid for? He was.
Prescott 00:22:12 So bad. So a couple of the biggest plays in the preseason. He gave up that one end around touchdown. That was completely on him. Yeah.
Eddie 00:22:20 That's tough.
Prescott 00:22:22 I think I'm shocked at the four at the four, tight ends and then the two being Stanford and Stevens.
Eddie 00:22:30 But those are.
Prescott 00:22:31 The.
Eddie 00:22:31 But who else would you have signed here?
Prescott 00:22:35 Hendershot should have made it.
Eddie 00:22:37 He got hurt last year.
Prescott 00:22:39 And I'm saying he should have made it. He got hurt last year. He was better this year. But I think they like him because they're better blockers. Who was that made that that that down the seam catch and then fumbled. Was that Stevens.
Eddie 00:22:52 Oh no.
Prescott 00:22:53 It was a nice pass from.
Eddie 00:22:55 Hendershot. Hasn't played this year I mean he played a couple times but he's still kind of banged up a little bit. So what has he done this year in preseason. You'd have been ready man.
Prescott 00:23:02 He has all these nice arm tattoos. He would have been ready. He has a good time.
Eddie 00:23:06 I'm serious though. I mean because there are people that that are pretty upset that he got, that he was going to be let go and I was I was in my in my head. Yeah.
Prescott 00:23:19 I think based off of what he's done in the past, he was ready. But I think what got him was just the blocking. Like, yeah, because he was because he was an undrafted free agent, tight end. And you can't pick him if if they're close, you pick the second round draft pick Schoomaker over him.
Eddie 00:23:36 So that's why I think the team would do that every time. But these these two right here span forward. And Stevens are like they're.
Prescott 00:23:43 Far better blockers.
Eddie 00:23:44 They're a combination of what we needed. Separate like Stanford is the size of a fucking left tackle. And he can move people and and Stevens is is got like the ballerina feet bro. Have you seen like him dance? I mean, I'm telling.
Prescott 00:24:01 You, I want to say he was the one that made that seam catch.
Prescott 00:24:04 And then he ended up fumble. But he ended up like it was like a 20 yard catch. But then you're talking about.
Eddie 00:24:08 This last game.
Prescott 00:24:09 Yeah. Yeah. And no, I want to say it was Stevens.
Eddie 00:24:12 Because he's number 81, right?
Prescott 00:24:14 Yeah. I can't remember his number. Yeah, but I remember it was a tight end and and I was like, man, that's that's Dak's favorite pass right there. That seemed to the tight end and he caught it. But then he fumbled it, turned it over. I was like, man, we had six turnovers that game. That's crazy. And and we still almost won.
Eddie 00:24:31 There's not too many players did themselves justice like Flournoy did in the last couple games to oh man, he made he amend him. He made.
Prescott 00:24:40 The team. Yeah. Like out of all the people on here, I would say he made this team. Phillips made the team based off his play because they they brought in some some other players. But they cut him.
Prescott 00:24:51 But Phillips he came in like the day before and he ended up starting the game. He can't he came in on a Thursday and ended up starting the game on Saturday. Yeah. And did great. So like he so so he made the team. Like if they really believe in wheat then he made the team. But I don't I don't see what he did to make the team. But all these players Flournoy made this team based off his plan.
Eddie 00:25:14 I know that I didn't see too much of what the other kid, the other end that was that brought was brought in with Aikman. It was a man.
Prescott 00:25:23 I forgot his name.
Eddie 00:25:24 Lawson. Carl. Lawson. Larsen. So I didn't see a lot of Carl Lawson. I know that he was kind of a I think he was a little bit banged up or he wasn't in shape. aACM came in and got, I think, in the preseason he got a sack and there was a lot of pressure. He made plays. We didn't do anything, and he was coming off the same edge.
Eddie 00:25:42 I don't, I don't I don't remember.
Prescott 00:25:44 Him doing anything.
Eddie 00:25:45 Prescott, you gotta make this under. You gotta we gotta get on the phone with Jerry right now. You got to call him.
Prescott 00:25:50 Out to pick. I would have picked Harvey over wheat, like, 100%, I don't know. I don't know, I don't know what they're thinking.
Eddie 00:25:56 Oh, Harvey. Yeah.
Prescott 00:25:57 Yeah, I'm a don't worry when I. When I go on the yacht this weekend with Jerry, we'll talk about it. I'll find out what happened and I'll report back.
Eddie 00:26:07 Better. Yeah. So they got they got a week off. We got football in two weeks. I hate.
Prescott 00:26:12 That man. Why? They give us a week in between. We always know.
Eddie 00:26:15 Hey, this weekend is, college football opening. Opening a college. So it kind of gives them play on Sunday. Yeah, but that's your. You got to wind down on Sunday because you watched.
Prescott 00:26:27 I already already kissed him. And I already kissed my wife goodbye last week.
Eddie 00:26:31 17 games. The day before that, you watched more football than there was time in the day. The day before. So it gives us a little bit of a break. I get why they're doing this.
Prescott 00:26:43 I won't be watching college football more this year, only because, I started doing refereeing for, for high school, and they used the same rules as college football, like for for Texas State high school. Did you start being a referee? Not actually. Thursday is my first time. Thursday is my first game.
Eddie 00:27:01 Oh, yeah. And you said this was a freshman game, right?
Prescott 00:27:04 Yeah.
Eddie 00:27:04 And so do you know what the teams.
Prescott 00:27:09 it's. And I don't. What time is it? I forgot.
Eddie 00:27:16 Do you know what position you're going to be? Are you lineman or. No?
Prescott 00:27:19 No one. You don't know until you get there, man.
Eddie 00:27:22 Well, they can throw you anywhere. They can throw you the. Yeah, they can throw you the white hat. I mean, like.
Prescott 00:27:27 They they can technically the guy told me he's like, man, don't show up first because they can make you be the white hat man. It's an Eagle Mountain, Eagle Mountain High School against Glen Rose. That's what I'm doing. Well, that's a that's fun.
Eddie 00:27:42 That's. I can't beat.
Prescott 00:27:43 A white hat. I don't know the rules yet, man. I've been studying this book, and it's a lot more. I have a brand new respect for referees, man. Just. Just doing this.
Eddie 00:27:54 It is a not not not I mean, knowing the rules is good, but I think it's it's the timing, right. You have to be able to make a call in a matter of milliseconds because people are on your ass if you don't like. Yeah. How did you not see that? You're like, relax. I was about to make the call. This is. Yeah.
Prescott 00:28:15 And this is. And then it's, like, full speed. Like, everybody at home gets the benefit of super slow motion and HD six angles.
Prescott 00:28:23 A referee's got to make that call. Bang, bang. With large humans running into each other at the speed of light. And still gotta make it right.
Eddie 00:28:31 So you better watch your ass, man. There's some big ass freshman out there now. You better watch out that it'll run you over too fast.
Prescott 00:28:40 I was doing some scrimmages to learn. Not moving too fast. There's one guy almost ran me. I'm like, man, I almost died. It was running full speed, and he dodge out the way. And I felt the breeze from his body running past me at full speed. I was like, man, that would have been like a car wreck. I'd have died right there. But oh, so and so I started watching, the referee in NFL games not realize those guys don't move till almost everything is over. They watch everything once it's over. Then they run into the plane. I mean, I gotta be more patient.
Eddie 00:29:11 Well, if you think about that, I think the NFL has so many referees on the field, though.
Eddie 00:29:15 I mean, they're all over the place. I think there's more because.
Prescott 00:29:19 Most in like in high school they have seven. I think they have either 8 or 9 in the NFL. Yeah.
Eddie 00:29:24 And they're all over the.
Prescott 00:29:25 Place and they have backups in case somebody gets hurt.
Eddie 00:29:28 And they got snipers on the roof.
Prescott 00:29:31 Yeah. All of that. like an escape hatch in the basement and all that stuff. Man, the NFL don't play.
Eddie 00:29:39 So this next and this next week, I'm. I've been screaming. I think you and I both have been really big advocates of this, but in the next week, I'm still. I'm crossing every finger and every toe. Everything that I got that we signed at, man, just.
Prescott 00:29:57 You got 30 million.
Eddie 00:29:58 It's just going to relieve tension in in in a locker room on on our best player. You know just just give it and you know you're going to pay him.
Prescott 00:30:12 Yeah. Plus plus I gotta believe that that's how they signed lamb. They said, hey trust us man, trust us.
Prescott 00:30:19 We're going to sign that. We're going to sign your boy. I know he helped you break all those records last year because there's no way lamb signed for me. And if he thinks Lance or rush is going to be quarterback next year or a rookie.
Eddie 00:30:30 Yeah, there's no way. I don't see a reason why I wouldn't. I think that Jerry, alluded to that the other day, too. He said when everybody was saying, what's the hold up on on CDs contract? And he said future the futures hold up on the contract. Yeah. And people are like, what did he mean by the future? And I'm like, it's very easily said. He was saying, why would CD sign if there's no future in it at all? Yeah. And I think probably then I think probably Dak gave him the the reassert you know sign it I'm signing here. I'm sure they both know what's going on.
Prescott 00:31:04 Yep. And he knocked off 10 million in cap space. His. Because his cap hit because this was his fifth year option.
Prescott 00:31:12 year. So he was guaranteed 17 million. That's like the top seventh.
Eddie 00:31:17 Of seven, 16.9 or 17.99 million, down to 7.6.
Prescott 00:31:23 Yep. So we say there's 10 million in cap space. So now we're up to like 30. But because whatever rules they came up with you used to be able to roll over excess. But whatever we did we can't roll it over what we have. So they have to spend it this year or else just go, you know, it's like basically having $10 million there. But if you don't sign anybody, you just go, you know, you just wasting 10 million.
Eddie 00:31:45 So they also came out with some of the specifics of his contract. And, to be honest with you, his, his cap lowers in 26 and 27 or something like that. Like, yeah.
Prescott 00:32:00 It does.
Eddie 00:32:01 The fucking amazing job on this, on this car. They did.
Prescott 00:32:06 But he got the largest, signing bonus of any non quarterback ever, $38 million he's going to get right now.
Prescott 00:32:14 He's going to get a check for $38 million.
Eddie 00:32:17 And I wonder.
Prescott 00:32:18 That's insane.
Eddie 00:32:19 I know I know it's, tax free in Texas. I mean that's the that's one of the reasons why people want to go there. Right. So I'm wondering somebody.
Prescott 00:32:27 Ran the numbers.
Eddie 00:32:28 On that. It's like 20.
Prescott 00:32:31 It's 20 million. Somebody ran it. Because the one weird thing that a lot of people don't know about professional athletes, even though there's no income tax, they still have to pay taxes in every city they play. So they they so they look at their schedule and every city they pay play, they pay a prorated number for their taxes for.
Eddie 00:32:56 But for that for some reason, some some players get paid every week. Every week they'll get a check cut to them, depending on what the organization is, because the Cardinals used to pay the players every week. I used to work at the bank, and literally the wives and some of the players would come in to deposit their fucking $87,000 paycheck in that week.
Eddie 00:33:16 I'm like, but some some don't do it that way. Some will do, you know, a, a range or lump sum or direct deposit. And then, yeah, that makes total sense because they know that you're playing in Washington this week. It's the sales tax in Virginia. This is what you're going. This is how much is getting taken out of your check this week. And then you.
Prescott 00:33:39 Have to pay your, your agent gets a percentage.
Eddie 00:33:43 But on a bonus. But on a bonus, I don't think they're paying tax on those states that they're playing in because the bonus is different bonuses, luxury. It's just like when you and I get a bonus at work, We get taxed 40% on that on that bonus, as opposed to our normal tax rate on our on our salary. So I think that's the difference. It really went the third from 38 to 20. I'd throw something at somebody. If I was KD, I'd be like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Prescott 00:34:15 So it says despite playing in Texas, a state with no income tax, lamb is still subject to a hefty federal tax bill of $12.6 million annually.
Prescott 00:34:26 Then they had this thing called.
Eddie 00:34:28 For his annual salary. This is that. Yep.
Prescott 00:34:30 And it's this thing called the jok tax. That's the one I was telling you. A levy imposed by states where the athletes play games. It's an estimated $1 million this year. He's going to have to pay in the jock tax. It's crazy. Then further deductions include agent fees, $1 million, then FICA Medicare taxes, which is Hundred thousand dollars, so approximately $18.6 million per year. He doesn't get to see. So take and we're not even talking about that 38. This just off his $34 million a year theme. So 34 -18. That's how much he's going to be getting paid I'm sorry. He's going to be getting paid 18.6 million per year after all this stuff comes out, which is still a lot of money, but it doesn't sound as sexy as, oh, I'll make $34 million a year when you're really only taking home 18.
Eddie 00:35:26 But square, I'm reading what you're what you're reading, right? I'm reading this thing.
Eddie 00:35:32 It was put out a day ago, right? Nobody knew any numbers from CDs contract yesterday. So how would they know? His 34 put it out after when?
Prescott 00:35:47 When they announced the form for a year. Whatever. 136 they just figured, okay, that's $34 million. All right. Now let's figure it out. They already know what the tax the federal tax rate is for him.
Eddie 00:35:58 He pays 20%. So for every million he gets, he paid he gets paid 800,000 basically for that job.
Prescott 00:36:05 And so and so they can just plug in the numbers like people have calculated for this. So that's how they figured out his tax tax is going to be 12.6 million.
Eddie 00:36:14 I want to know what his tax on his bonuses I don't give a shit about his his salary. I want to know what what that actual check looks like that gets deposited into his account.
Prescott 00:36:26 So if it's 34, yeah, it'll probably only be taxes out of that. So he's probably going to bring home like maybe 22, 23, 24 million some something around there.
Eddie 00:36:36 Would you imagine that. Did you imagine that.
Prescott 00:36:38 At one time man. Yeah. Like he just goes to a bank or just hand it over to his money manager and here you go.
Eddie 00:36:44 I was watching buy me some chalupas. I was watching Cam Newton. He was talking about his rookie year and what he you know Cam Newton podcast pretty good. And we'll pick it out. But yeah. Yeah he was talking about like how poor he was, you know, in Florida in college in high school and shit. And like just just like thinking, oh, let me check my balance on my account real quick to see if I can go to Taco Bell and shit. And then he's like, as soon as you went to the NFL. I mean, he knew the day before he knew that that night when he looked at his bank account, he'd watch it and he'd watch it and he said all the stuff. All of a sudden $726,000 deposit would pop up in his every, like on a dot.
Eddie 00:37:33 And I'm like, man, imagine looking at your account and looking at all those zeroes just pop up. It was one.
Prescott 00:37:38 Guy said he kept calling the bank because because, you know, the little robot voice will give you your balance. He said he would call it like every five minutes just so he can hear that you have 234,690. Whatever. Just to hear the lady tell him how much money you had. I'm like, man, that's oh, that's a nice problem to have. Like, how did these guys go broke? Man, I'm so mad.
Eddie 00:37:59 it's the people that are surrounding you, man. There's a everybody's got walls around them, and if you don't see it, it is. They're going to take advantage of you. And there's some people out there that'll pretend like they love the shit out of you, and they'll take everything that you have and more. So. All right.
Prescott 00:38:16 So looking at this, is this a is this a championship roster. What do you think. What are we missing.
Prescott 00:38:24 What are we missing.
Eddie 00:38:26 I think I think that the addition of, of cook is good. If he doesn't, if we don't end up signing him, I do. I really think that we do need to find a running back, because I don't think our running back room can get us have to. We can't get us through. And and I'm I'm. I'm a fan of Deuce, I really am. And there's a lot of people that say, why don't we just give him a chance? Oh, that's great. I definitely understand that. But there's physics involved. And I mean, I know that he has a lot of heart, but I mean, he's half the size of of these giant men that are really. So yes, I really want to see him do good. But I do think that we need to get a full sized running back in the room, in my opinion. And I do think we there were a.
Prescott 00:39:15 Few good ones got released.
Eddie 00:39:17 So I.
Prescott 00:39:18 Mean.
Eddie 00:39:19 The Texans released the release of This Week today to
Prescott 00:39:24 the Erik Prince from Kansas City got released.
Prescott 00:39:26 Samaje Perine I really wish that they would have traded for that. That dude from the Jets with the weird name don't say.
Eddie 00:39:34 Avocado because he avocado had the best he was. He had the best preseason of any running back because that that Hee hee hee. Basically is he's like that, that house on the block that they just. They totally redid everything, and they out. They out priced themselves on the block. Yeah, yeah, they're the only two $300,000 house. And everybody else had like one for.
Prescott 00:40:01 Starting running backs on their team. I'm like, man, y'all stop being so just keeping everything, man.
Eddie 00:40:07 And I think that they signed it. They didn't release any of them did they?
Prescott 00:40:11 I don't think so. I'm meant to look to see who they released.
Eddie 00:40:14 I think the Texans released the, the kid that we wanted. There was a previous Pierce. Yeah, I think they released him.
Prescott 00:40:24 Or maybe you're thinking about Prince, the one that got released by Kansas City.
Eddie 00:40:28 Who? I don't know who Prince is.
Prescott 00:40:30 His name is Erik Prince. Houston. It is. Let me see. Houston Texans roster cuts. Well, you know there should be on NFL.com. Yeah, but overall, man, I don't think it's a championship roster yet. Once Duran Duran comes back. Oh, yeah. Then and then and then I think we're good.
Eddie 00:40:57 Could you imagine like later on in the year we got bland back and hopefully Carson just went through a rain of fire at his rookie year. Right. He got. Yeah. He, he there's nothing better than you know, when you're when you're training for a new job. Think about it. When when you're training for a new job, it's not. There's nothing scarier than when someone says, okay, we're going to put you out there. Are you going to take first call or something? Right. But it's nothing like on the first day of training when they said, there's nothing I can teach you, you just need to do it. And that that right there, he's going to he's going to be thrown out to the wolves.
Eddie 00:41:42 And if he doesn't do well, then it's on him. You know, like a coach. They're going to coach him up and stuff. But this is a tough spot to be in for a rookie and this is what it is. Bland went through it. Dak went through.
Prescott 00:41:56 It. Yep. Came up with five interceptions and Collins got released.
Eddie 00:42:01 Who are.
Prescott 00:42:03 They. Collins. Oh I think Collins got released. He's still hurt Ben the new kid got released.
Eddie 00:42:10 The nooch.
Prescott 00:42:12 Yeah. See, the Jets didn't release any of their running backs. They have them all. No.
Eddie 00:42:17 That's a curse. That's. That's fine. You guys are going to have a curse. You know, you want to hoard all the running backs.
Prescott 00:42:24 I know.
Eddie 00:42:25 Then.
Prescott 00:42:26 But I hope one of them can throw.
Eddie 00:42:28 No. Not exactly. What's going to happen is, a-rod's in his fucking decrepit fucking. Our bones are going to fucking fall apart. They gonna fall on the first snap of the game. He's going to just fucking fall apart.
Eddie 00:42:45 And then they're going to say, at least we have four starting running backs on our team.
Prescott 00:42:48 Yeah.
Prescott 00:42:50 Like we just run the triple option wing-t over and over.
Eddie 00:42:53 Good luck with the Wildcat.
Prescott 00:42:55 Yeah. The how Miami used to run with Cadillac Williams.
Eddie 00:42:59 Yes sir.
Prescott 00:43:01 Anyway so we'll see how that goes. Yeah.
Eddie 00:43:04 There'll be some more moments around the league in the next couple of days.
Prescott 00:43:07 All right. So next week we'll be able to do a little preview of the Browns. The mood should be finalized when the team should be finalized by then. So we'll talk about that. Go. The Browns give us some some predictions on on sleeper app. And they have this thing where you can pick some over unders. We're going to bet five bucks a week and see how we do by the end of the season and just try to make us some money. Cool. So we'll need some some input. We're going to pick like 3 to 5 different props like over under whatever each week. So I'll have them I'll pull it up on here.
Prescott 00:43:43 We can look at it and we can do it.
Eddie 00:43:45 Sounds good to me. Sounds real good.
Prescott 00:43:50 Well all right.
Eddie 00:43:53 Well that's next right? Yeah. Watch some college football this weekend.
Prescott 00:43:58 Yeah, I'll try and do it. I got to, learn how to do some some referee calls first down. Yeah. Number two was ejected. Targeting.
Eddie 00:44:09 you know, we'll have to throw some, some calls out at you and see if we, we can, get a scenario going where you would have to make a call.
Prescott 00:44:19 Let's see what. yeah. We'll see. I'll, I'll I'll review the calls all season, like. Yeah. I didn't like that one.
Eddie 00:44:26 To be like, we we have our, our referee in Prescott one.
Prescott 00:44:31 Yeah.
Prescott 00:44:33 I'll be the guy that, you know, they go to in the booth. Yeah. I'll be that guy. All right.
Eddie 00:44:37 That makes sense. All right.
Prescott 00:44:38 Then. All right, so here we go. He'll be go. Eddie, tell the people.
Prescott 00:44:43 Bye. It's time to go. Man, I know you tired?
Eddie 00:44:45 Oh. Yes, sir. Long day. you know, you know the drill. Ladies and gentlemen, don't. Don't go to bed angry. Make sure you tell everyone you love them. Hug your kids, hug, hug your family. And, DC for life.
Prescott 00:44:59 We'll talk next week.
Intro 00:45:17 Here we go. Here I come. Here we go. Yeah. Come on. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. Cooper blue and I fought through a lot. Do not like us. How you're walking with a lion. Got me feeling like Michael.
Intro 00:45:29 I've been on the way. The team on my bad. Like a biker. Shawty wanna be with a star. But you lucky if I invite you. We can take it to the next spot. They yellin like Prescott. Everybody like there ain't no breaks, no rest stop. We tryna get.
Intro 00:45:41 Your head chopped. The whole club yelling. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody.
Intro 00:45:48 Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Skating alfresco. Hoppin like Chris. Go livin on the screen.
Intro 00:45:57 The team putting on a big show. Diamonds make my wrist glow. Did he? Ever since though Brody like Winslow. From the wall to the window. We can take it to the next spot. They yellow like Prescott. Everybody like there ain't no breaks, no rest stop.
Intro 00:46:09 We tryna get your head chopped. The whole club yelling. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Pushing out the Palladium to pull up in the stadium.
Intro 00:46:24 Hunnid K in attendance A duffle bag if they paint them. Look what blue honeys made of them. If you're playing, you play and I'm jumping out. The gymnasium can't be here. If you pay for it, then take it to the next spot. They yellin like Prescott. Everybody like there ain't no brakes, no rest stop. We're trying to get your head chopped.
Intro 00:46:39 The whole club yelling. Everybody, everybody.
Intro 00:46:44 Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody talk back that can get you wrapped up.
Intro 00:46:53 Rolls Royce pushing like a mack truck I can snap it. Get you quarter backed up. When you're walking with the buzz. You see it, get it packed up. We can take it to the next spot. They yelling like Prescott. Everybody like there ain't no brakes no rest stop. We tryna get your head chopped.
Intro 00:47:08 The whole club yelling everybody. Everybody everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody. Everybody.