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In this latest episode of the "Victory Formation Podcast," Prescott and Eddie do a deep dive into the world of Dallas Cowboys football, focusing on the upcoming NFL draft. We discuss the unpredictability of March Madness, (we had to) highlighting the impact of NIL deals on college basketball. Then we get to some Cowboys football, analyzing player strategies, emphasizing the need for versatility and unpredictability in offensive plays. We then have a spirited debate about Jalen Tolbert's performance and potential, and explore the dynamics between quarterbacks and receivers. Stay to the end and you will not be disappointed.
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March Madness Discussion (00:01:08)
Eddie and Prescott discuss their March Madness league and surprising bracket outcomes.

Bracket Strategies (00:02:27)
Speakers share their strategies for filling out March Madness brackets, including picking favorites and underdogs.

Impact of NIL on College Basketball (00:03:14)
Discussion on how NIL deals are affecting player recruitment and upsets in college basketball.

Micah Parsons Contract Talks (00:05:17)
Prescott and Eddie dive into the latest on Micah Parsons' contract negotiations and media misconceptions.

Agent Dynamics (00:09:11)
The hosts discuss the role of agents in contract negotiations and the importance of public perception.

Drafting Strategy (00:15:01)
The hosts express excitement about the Cowboys' ability to draft the best player available this year.

Potential Player Signings (00:13:15)
Discussion on which free agents the Cowboys might target, including Asante Samuel and Keenan Allen.

Drafting a New Center (00:17:19)
The Cowboys are scouting a center from Texas to potentially replace Cooper.

New Coaching Philosophy (00:19:34)
Discussion on the new coaching staff's emphasis on player flexibility and offensive strategy.

Discussion on Offensive Strategy (00:21:37)
Analyzing the importance of player versatility and the impact on defensive strategies.

Tight End Dynamics (00:22:19)
Exploring the role of tight ends in creating offensive confusion for defenses.

Wide Receiver Route Diversity (00:23:16)
Emphasizing the need for wide receivers to have multiple route options.

Jalen Tolbert's Performance (00:23:36)
Debating Jalen Tolbert's effectiveness and his reliance on broken plays.

Touchdown Count Clarification (00:24:15)
Discussing the accuracy of Jalen Tolbert's touchdown statistics from the previous season.

Player Development Predictions (00:26:04)
Speculating on which players will develop under new coaching, focusing on Tolbert and Mingo.

Gadget Player vs. Traditional Receiver (00:27:06)
Differentiating between gadget players and traditional receivers in offensive schemes.

Expectations for Flournoy and Mingo (00:28:04)
Discussing potential player development, particularly for Mingo as a second-round pick.

Cooper Rush's Impact on Receivers (00:29:12)
Analyzing how backup quarterbacks build rapport with receivers during practices.

Drafting History and Player Potential (00:33:01)
Reflecting on the Cowboys’ strategy of acquiring high-pedigree players for potential rehabilitation.

Demarcus Lawrence's Ring of Honor Debate (00:35:11)
Contemplating the criteria for the Cowboys' Ring of Honor and Lawrence's eligibility.

Upcoming Draft and Contract Discussions (00:37:55)
Previewing the upcoming draft and discussing Micah Parsons' contract situation.

Closing Thoughts on Life and Relationships (00:39:26)
Encouraging listeners to cherish relationships and enjoy life amidst challenges.

Transcript

Intro 00:00:05  Yeah. Come on. Here we go. Here I come. Here we go. Here I come. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. When I fall through a lot. Do not lie. Cause how you walkin with a lion. Got me feeling like Mike I've been on the way. The team on my back like a biker. Shorty 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 brakes, no rest stop. We tryna get your head chopped. The whole club yellin everybody.

Prescott 00:00:37  Here we go, here we go. Victory Formation podcast. I'm Prescott. This is boy Eddie. Man this screen just started doing something. Said we're doing a live recording. I'm like like a live thing. I'm like, I know I didn't push that setting, but yeah, we're good now. It kind of shocked me. I've never seen that before.

Eddie 00:00:58  You want to start over? What do you want to do?

Prescott 00:01:00  No, no.

Prescott 00:01:00  We're good, we're good man.

Eddie 00:01:02  Oh, I love it. Hey, this is, what happens when you do the slide, right? It's,

Prescott 00:01:07  Yeah, man.

Eddie 00:01:08  Welcome, everybody. We missed you guys. it's been it's been a long been a whole week without without this football. But we got some news. We got a little bit of things here and there. And we also got to talk about. We got to talk about, this, March Madness craziness that, Troy and I have in our, in our league.

Prescott 00:01:32  Our, our league is ridiculous. Night on and and and we can't even call them gurus, picking college basketball because he ain't even picking his kids.

Eddie 00:01:43  Picked it. His kids.

Prescott 00:01:44  Kids picked it. And and then he's submitted it, and he's in first place, like, he's not just in first place. He's like, in the in the top 3% of the world.

Eddie 00:01:53  He's in the 99th percentile. I think he was a top like 300,000. I mean, there's like, man, millions.

Eddie 00:02:01  It's insane. And I'm I'm right behind him. I think I was like 90.

Prescott 00:02:06  Yeah, yeah, you're.

Eddie 00:02:07  97.4 or something like that.

Prescott 00:02:09  Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. You're 97.4 and you're only ten points behind him. But he's in the 99th percentile. He's. And you're doing by place. He's in the 264,000, which seems like a lot. But it's not when you consider it compared to the 100 million brackets out there.

Eddie 00:02:27  So many. well, so this is what I did with these. Let's check it out. This is what my strategy this year I did three of them. One of the one of them I filled out with all my oh, my 12, five bracket busters, right? I did a whole crazy one like that.

Prescott 00:02:44  Yeah, I did.

Eddie 00:02:45  One like that. And then I did one with my favorites like, oh, I want to, I want this team to win. I want this team. I want to root for this team like the Carolinas and the Loboes.

Eddie 00:02:54  And then the third one I picked all the favorites. All I did. That's what I did. And that's the one. That's 97% is the favorite. All I did was pick the higher, the higher seed, the one that. The only thing that's killing me was Arkansas. And Arkansas killed me.

Prescott 00:03:11  Man.

Eddie 00:03:11  They said that.

Prescott 00:03:14  They said that because of Nile money, that was the cause. You know, recently in the last maybe 4 or 5 years, there's been a lot of upsets, a lot even like 3 or 4 years ago, there was a ton of upsets. That was because, you know, those smaller schools, their big thing was, oh, you get a lot of playing time, you'll get this. But now that millions of dollars are involved, these these good players are going to the good schools because now they can get the $5 million nil deal. And they said because of that it kind of skewed it. Now to where the big schools are getting the good players.

Prescott 00:03:47  And so that's why it's kind of like chalk where all four number ones made it.

Eddie 00:03:52  But also it's you don't have a whole team of of of blue chippers. Those blue chippers are spread out over the. Spread out?

Prescott 00:04:03  Yeah.

Eddie 00:04:03  Yeah, because they want the bigger piece of the pie on the end.

Prescott 00:04:06  Yeah, they do, because if you're if you're thinking, oh, man, I want to get some money. And, you know, Cooper Flag is at Duke. I'm like, man, I'm going to Auburn then because I'm just I it's only a certain amount of money you can get in in nil.

Eddie 00:04:19  Yeah. It's like what Julian love. Right? That guy from Carolina that went to Arizona. I mean, he was he was a big fish in a in a big pond in in Carolina. But then he went to Arizona and he was the man. Yeah, he's a stud.

Prescott 00:04:32  Yeah. So stuff like, I'm like, man, 99th percentile. And he didn't even pick any of them.

Prescott 00:04:37  His kids probably picked from colors and like, oh, let's pick this.

Eddie 00:04:40  And I said, you better take your kids to to the Vegas man. What are you doing with that?

Prescott 00:04:46  That's insane. Like, I've never seen I've I've never known I've always seen those where I'm like, man, who is this? Who are these people in the 99 percentile? But now I actually no know one in real life.

Eddie 00:04:55  Where we joke around, right? We're thinking of we're thinking that the kids are just like, oh, blah, blah, blah, what else? And we go and we we know that his kids are actually doing research. They got their idea, man. They really.

Prescott 00:05:06  Do. One of his kids are going to MIT. The other one's going to Harvard.

Eddie 00:05:10  Exactly. We're just laughing at us.

Prescott 00:05:12  These kids are nerds. So that's crazy. Anyway.

Eddie 00:05:17  Back to.

Prescott 00:05:17  The Cowboys.

Eddie 00:05:18  And the football here. So? So the the wasn't wasn't a huge week of news. I don't know how much you read and heard.

Eddie 00:05:28  I mean, there was some things here and there, but I think there was one thing that you wanted to talk about that you brought up earlier.

Prescott 00:05:35  I say the main, the main thing is just the, Micah Parsons, how close we are to to his deal. I don't like following fish, but he had an interesting tweet about how he he, like, highlighted the steps like this day. They did this this day they did this. and based off what he his progression, he said it's it's it's almost imminent that that he's doing it. But the the controversy in this whole thing was how by Parsons. Jerry Jones was like, yeah, we don't need, agents, you know, I don't even know his name. Which, you know, he knows his name. He's the most powerful agent in the league. He just, you know, Jerry, just talking noise. And then Micah Parsons got on there like, oh, my agent's name is this. And I don't do anything without my agent.

Prescott 00:06:20  One of those things to do about nothing.

Eddie 00:06:23  Think of it. Look at that. Like the way that you worded that. I get it. Like I'd be upset if I if that was like the actual truth. But the way that it actually was worded was Jerry said, Micah Parsons is not his contract is not the most important thing. Right. The second the draft is coming up, we're going to sign him. Yeah. He said this doesn't his negotiations doesn't have anything to do with the with his agent is what the verbiage was on that quote. And what happened was the the media took half the quote.

Prescott 00:06:58  Took it out of context.

Eddie 00:07:00  The back half of what he said and said the, the, the it's not about the, the agent. So but what he was saying was that the negotiations haven't stopped because of the agent. It's just that everything's been presented to Micah, and now it's his turn to kind of think about things. So when Jerry didn't say that agents aren't important, I think that everybody said, oh yeah, you're like, oh my God, I can't believe Jerry did this.

Eddie 00:07:26  That was the whole clickbait thing on this today. Yeah, Mike is going to be signed there. Just I, I think that, I mean, you are right. Like, his agent is one of the biggest guys. So that's why it was funny that when Micah said, like when Jerry said, I don't even know his name. Bullshit. Jerry, you know, exactly.

Prescott 00:07:46  Like, you know.

Eddie 00:07:46  He's a liar, dude, but, But yeah.

Prescott 00:07:51  Jerry just can't. He just can't say stuff. Normally he knows good and well. he's going to get the highest. Especially since Myles Garrett saying he's going to get the highest non quarterback contract ever. That's that's a given. It doesn't matter if he's signed today or May the 7th. He's going to get the same amount of money like they might finagle here and there. But because another thing that came up was they were talking about how they were like, oh, we offered this to Dak and his agent. His agent went on there and was saying, you know, we, we kicked back that contract they offered.

Prescott 00:08:29  And, you know, a lot of people were like, oh, I thought that Jerry took forever to make an offer. And when he really made this offer and I was like, well, if you read the article, he clearly said the thing that hung them up was they wanted four years. The team wanted five years. So the money didn't have anything to do with the money was the money they wanted for they wanted five. So that's where the the hang up was. And that's what kept, you know, kicked it down the road to where it seemed like it took forever. So it was like anytime you have like that, that jostling and that, you know, that big dick swinging contest between the team and the agents, like, man, you gotta know this one. It's just business. One each side is trying to get as much money for their side as possible, and they don't care how it looks or the optics.

Eddie 00:09:11  And they're also trying to save face. Right. Because it it really is like Jerry saying, hey, you know, this this isn't about the agent.

Eddie 00:09:20  You know, we're going to pay Micah his money because he earned it, not because the agent is negotiating it and the agent is saying or Mike is saying, oh, you know what? I deserve this money. I mean, the whole it's all misconstrued. It is most of this stuff used to not be in the in the media. And it always just.

Prescott 00:09:37  You.

Eddie 00:09:38  Never heard of it?

Prescott 00:09:39  Yeah. You just show you just read the newspaper. Oh, Troy Aikman signed his contract today. You never heard the word about it before. Then every once in a while you did like with the Emmy thing, but that was like those were few and far between. Now it's like every week it's somebody else talking about their contract.

Eddie 00:09:54  It was. And you don't even really know what to believe and what not to believe. I know that there was verbiage, beforehand that was about, Mike making sure that he was present for OTAs and things like that, which I saw that, that that makes sense, because in the last couple of years he's been off doing his own thing.

Eddie 00:10:16  Not that saying that he wasn't working out and but he was just not a leader needs to be there, right? People are saying, oh, if Mike is not even there, why am I going to go?

Prescott 00:10:25  And I forgot who said it either ever flew or Schottenheimer said he fully expected he.

Eddie 00:10:29  Fixed it was he said it. So that makes total sense as to why there's a you know, there's a little bit of drag there. There's probably verbiage that says, hey, you're not you're not allowed to miss this much. And Mike is going to be like, yeah, I'm a I'm an adult. You're not going to tell me that I can't do this and that. So there's going to be a little bit of pushback here and there. But I don't I hardly think that there's going to be any issue with him signing that.

Prescott 00:10:55  Plus it's it's it's it's ego involved. If you're an agent you like to be able because, you know, they have to advertise the future clients. So you want to be able to say, hey, I got Micah Parsons the richest non quarterback contract in history.

Prescott 00:11:10  So you should sign with me.

Eddie 00:11:11  That's that's what I was saying with the save the face thing. Right. Because the agent's like hey just like what you're saying I got Micah this deal and Jerry's like, you didn't get shit. Yeah, you didn't get him.

Prescott 00:11:22  We were going to get regardless of the agent. I was going to give him this deal anyway. So, yeah, it's not like. Yeah.

Eddie 00:11:28  That's that's kind of how I'm making it.

Prescott 00:11:30  But agents make their, their money when they get the list. Players like they're good when they get a B-list player a, a contract or a C list player or B contract, that's when the agent is good. When you're signing like a Myles Garrett, a Micah Parsons or the best quarterback, you know. Ay ay ay ay ay. Patrick Mahomes. You know he's going to be the highest paid player when they sign the contract. So it's not like, you know or like how they do with the rookie contract. Like you already know rookies.

Prescott 00:11:56  They're slotted to make a certain amount of money. So like a lot of rookies don't even sign agents. And agents will say, hey, I'll handle your contract for free. And you don't even own me a commission. But you have to guarantee that I handle your next contract because it's already slotted. It's kind of like that. You can't brag about something else going to happen anyway.

Eddie 00:12:14  Well, usually. What? I mean, what used to happen before Nil deals is like those agents would swoop them up. They're that year they're going to be drafted and basically financially backed. Yeah. Loan.

Prescott 00:12:25  Loan amount. Loan them a few. They're like 4 to 5 million bucks.

Eddie 00:12:28  You and your family are living in this house that I own. And you're. And you guys are both driving my cars. You're going to sign with me when you're done kind of thing.

Prescott 00:12:35  And then they get the cut of the contract. Yeah. That usually happened a long time ago. But a lot of stuff has changed now with nil.

Prescott 00:12:42  They can't do it anymore because, well, they don't have any incentive to do it. Like I got my own money.

Eddie 00:12:46  Yeah. Fucking money. But but these. Now these. They got them. You know, negotiating nil deals now. So. Yeah. Yeah.

Prescott 00:12:55  So they got agents negotiating those. So we'll see how it goes.

Eddie 00:12:58  So it's just about that's the way it really is as well. Saving face because Jerry. Jerry Jerry's going to say what he's going to say. Because he's the most powerful guy in that agent's going to be like, hey, I'm protecting my client. So it's all. It's all good. We'll figure it. Yeah, we'll get Micah signed. Don't worry. It'll happen soon.

Prescott 00:13:15  The only reason, the only way Micah doesn't get signed is if, God forbid, some kind of crazy injury where he can't play football ever again, or he gets caught with a underage person in the hotel room, something crazy would have to happen. So we're. He's getting signed, so we don't have to worry about that.

Prescott 00:13:35  So we just have to figure out, you know, which which of the big names who haven't signed are we going to get? Like like Achilles Campbell, he just fell off. So I think Asante Samuel and Keenan Allen, those are the two biggest names that haven't signed yet who are linked to the Cowboys, who, you know, a lot of people are saying we should sign one of those. I would rather have Keenan Allen over Santee Samuel, but I wouldn't mind having either one of them. And and either one of them shouldn't stop us from our draft plans. Like, like if Ted drops the 12, that shouldn't stop us if we already signed Keenan Allen. Let me put it that way.

Eddie 00:14:12  So. So we've already talked about on this pod, probably like 3 or 4 times what you just said that they this is the free agency period. We were we were what was the statement and the aggressively the.

Prescott 00:14:28  Oh yeah. Yeah.

Eddie 00:14:28  Select selective selective aggressiveness.

Prescott 00:14:31  Yeah. Selective aggression whatever.

Eddie 00:14:33  So it looks like they, you know, they and actually, shady had a, a quote I don't know if you saw that little interview that.

Prescott 00:14:41  Yeah. Well yeah. He was sitting at the table. Yeah.

Eddie 00:14:43  Yeah, yeah. So he, he actually gave some really good information saying that, you know, we're at a point the guy, the guy that was interviewing him stopped the, the recording and said, look at Shorty just gave us the, the the draft, the key to this draft. Yeah.

Prescott 00:15:00  Yeah.

Eddie 00:15:01  We're right now we're in a position where we're able to draft best player available and that I mean that that's huge because I mean, when was the last time we were in that position to be able to do that? And it was really because we did our homework with free agency and that. And plus Steven and Shorty both said were just this week. They said that we're not done yet, which I don't know.

Prescott 00:15:24  People ask.

Eddie 00:15:25  Yeah, could be an important.

Prescott 00:15:26  Ask what's, what's the what's the big deal about drafting the best player available now teams can't snipe us. Like for instance, the Micah Parsons draft. We needed a cornerback.

Prescott 00:15:38  Really, really bad DB. And we had the 10th pick and eighth and ninth pick with two cornerbacks. That was Jaycee Horn and Patrick Certain junior, and they knew that we wanted them. So that's why they went eighth and ninth, because they knew either one of those dropped the ten we were going to get them. So then we ended up trading back with the Eagles and we went to 12.

Eddie 00:16:01  That's like this year, whoever wants GNT is going to have to is going to have to hop the Raiders because he's going to Vegas.

Prescott 00:16:11  Yeah, he's going to the Raiders.

Eddie 00:16:13  He's going nuts. I keep seeing all these other things like the Raiders are going to draft linemen and they're not. Yeah like we were.

Prescott 00:16:21  Hoping they're stupid but you never know.

Eddie 00:16:24  Yeah. And then if it gets past the bears I mean it's just if you if there's.

Prescott 00:16:28  A game back as well.

Eddie 00:16:30  If you want a running back, you gotta hop in front of these guys or you, you've done your scouting and you know what the you know the One C and the one D running backs are in this draft, right? So like we already know all this.

Eddie 00:16:45  We've been we've gone over this many, many times. But it's just it's it's refreshing to hear the head coach say we're in a position right now to be able to select someone that's going to make our team overall better. We could draft a defensive end that is an insane athlete instead of having to draft a tackle or another. Another rumor that I saw today, which is really big, actually, we all love Cooper Beebe right at center.

Prescott 00:17:16  I saw that too. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, I saw that.

Eddie 00:17:19  And so they came out and said that they just sent the Cowboys to that Texas Pro day to check out.

Prescott 00:17:26  For the center guy.

Eddie 00:17:27  Yeah. Cade is a kid with some of the. It's the it's the Longhorns center. Yeah. And he's been a center for three years. Like, he's really good at what he does. So the The what? What I've heard was that they they're interchanging. They're thinking that moving Cooper to right guard, drafting a center.

Prescott 00:17:48  And then this guy at center.

Prescott 00:17:50  Yeah, he wasn't a natural center. He was always a guard. And so they wanted to get a natural center.

Eddie 00:17:56  I'm wondering if because Cooper is linemen because OC is linemen. Coach is like, hey, you know he was a.

Prescott 00:18:03  He.

Eddie 00:18:04  Knows guard.

Prescott 00:18:05  Yeah he was he was better at this position.

Eddie 00:18:07  So if we could draft a if we could draft a real center that isn't working on snaps and is actually that's just on the in the back of his mind. He's been doing that for years now. He's focusing on, you know, his footwork or where he needs to be. Where Cooper was already was doing all of that and being successful. Could you imagine if he didn't have to do that? He might.

Prescott 00:18:27  Because for years we always did the we always did the drafting this guy and then putting him somewhere else. So we were drafted left tackle like kind of like Tyler Smith. Now it ended up working out with him, but he was a left tackle and then he moved him into guard.

Prescott 00:18:41  They did it with a lot of tackles.

Eddie 00:18:44  They moved him to the left.

Prescott 00:18:45  Tackle and then moved to left tackle. Where? And then even, like, Zack Martin, he played a lot of left tackle at, at, and and they moved him into guard. And then he ended up being a great guard. But they did it a lot with our team on our teams in the past. And so I'm like, I wonder what this new coaching regime. Well they just draft somebody at their position. Play them at their position.

Eddie 00:19:07  Yeah. The the the value with the the Jones, with the Joneses and with Will is finding players that can play multiple positions and not just that position 100%. Yeah.

Prescott 00:19:22  And they've always been.

Eddie 00:19:23  That that way they don't have to go and find all that shit in the free agency. They, they, they draft.

Prescott 00:19:28  They call it player flex, player flex.

Eddie 00:19:32  Yes, sir. so.

Prescott 00:19:34  And so with the new regime, the, the whole Schottenheimer. He gave a rundown of what he wants his offense to look like.

Prescott 00:19:45  He likes that player flex to where he wants players to be able to do different things. Not like, like, but like. For instance, if you're a wide receiver, you can play that on the outside, but you also got to come down and get right there next to the right tackle, right there next to the left tackle on the tight end. And you got to be able to block. You got to be able to run your passes out of that. And so that is the type of receiver that he's looking.

Eddie 00:20:10  Why did you read why.

Prescott 00:20:12  Yeah yeah because he wants all the sets to look exactly alike. But a bunch of different stuff out of a set that looks like. So you never know.

Eddie 00:20:20  That's what that's the biggest deal is like, like San Francisco. They're big on on movement. So, you know, they'll line up in this and you're like, oh shit, here comes the run. And then they they move and oh my God, they're in a passing set.

Eddie 00:20:33  And it's heavy on one side.

Prescott 00:20:35  Yeah.

Eddie 00:20:36  So what's the difference between that and our offense is you don't have to move around a lot if you're using the same guys in the same spots and they can. They're disguised. They're disguised. Right. Because the safety can't come up and be like oh, his, his, his set is two yards, you know, outside of where he normally is. So it's going outside. They have to always line up in the same spot. So the receiver has to be able to get off of that, get into a route or block in that same formation. And we don't have a lot of guys that used to be that have a lot of experience with that. KD moves around a lot and we put him in positions where so that we're we're affecting his coverage.

Prescott 00:21:20  But for those who don't know why, this is a big deal. Yeah. For those who don't know why this is a big deal, think back to when we had players like Lucky Whitehead. Anytime Lucky Whitehead came in, you knew it was going to be some kind of run because he was a good running wide receiver.

Prescott 00:21:37  He was a good blocker, wide receiver. So you knew he was not going to get a pass. Now one time they did we we were playing green Bay. And Brett Favre was in the booth and they did run a fake run. And then they threw it to him down the middle. And because he wasn't a good he still even got caught. Should have been a touchdown. So I was like, oh yeah. And they tricked him because everybody came up with the run. And so.

Eddie 00:22:01  Lucky Whitehead, he didn't.

Prescott 00:22:03  He didn't get past his thrown to him. Yeah. And so with this thinking is now when when we have that in, they can't say, oh this guy's in. So this is definitely a run play or this guy is in. So this is definitely a pass play. So it's like that is the confusion that we give defenses.

Eddie 00:22:19  That's that's going to be the biggest difference is going to be the tight ends that line up. You know you can't bring in a tight end that's always a blocker.

Eddie 00:22:28  You can't do it. You have to you have to be able if you if you line up in 11, then that other tight end has to be a threat for anything to be able to work. Yeah. Same thing with receivers, right? It's just like what you said. When? Last year. I think that you could probably count on your hands how many times you saw the Jalen's come in together when you saw Jalen Tolbert and Jalen and the other Jalen, whatever. The last time he you saw them come in, you're like, oh, the cornerbacks can just sit down. It's like you know. Yeah. Yeah. It was like that old baseball. He's like everybody come in. Yeah. Easy out easy out. I mean so you can't we can't have situations where the coach can see them coming in and be like, oh, here it comes.

Prescott 00:23:16  And you also have to know more than 1 or 2 routes. You can't just have a wide receiver where all he can run is a slant, or he can run as a cover.

Prescott 00:23:24  But then, you know, those two routes I can sit on. He's not going to run a go. He's not going to run a square, and he's not going to run any of that because he can't run it. He won't. They bring him in to run these two routes and that's it.

Eddie 00:23:36  That's that's why that's why I think you know J. Jalen Tolbert II he's Noah Brown. He's the guy that is right there. But he's just not there yet. Yeah. And I don't know if he'll ever get there. To me he was.

Prescott 00:23:52  Best at to me he was best at when plays broke down like when plays broke down and they scrambled a little bit. That's when he became at his best. No no no no no. Tolbert, like a lot of his touchdowns, came off of broken plays. Them running, you know, to the side. And that's what he would make his best plays like every once in a while.

Eddie 00:24:13  Yeah. Do you remember how many touchdowns.

Prescott 00:24:15  5 or 6.

Prescott 00:24:16  5 or.

Eddie 00:24:16  6. What? No way.

Prescott 00:24:18  Yeah. I'm telling you. Yeah.

Eddie 00:24:21  In his whole career, last year.

Prescott 00:24:22  No no no no.

Eddie 00:24:23  Last year Jalen Tolbert did not have six touchdowns last year. no friggin way. I think he had, like one touchdown.

Prescott 00:24:31  I, I swear to you, man. Hold on. Let me look. I'm about to tell you.

Eddie 00:24:35  We could both be totally wrong.

Prescott 00:24:37  Jalen Tolbert. He had seven touchdowns. He had 49 receptions. He had 49 receptions 610 yards for seven. I'm telling you I knew he had at least 5 or 6. I was at least 5 or 6.

Eddie 00:24:51  That's how much it didn't didn't register with me at all. That he was even on the field at those times. Because those in.

Prescott 00:24:58  December.

Eddie 00:24:58  He would have been.

Prescott 00:25:00  In December he went off. He had three straight games with a touchdown, one against Carolina, once again Tampa Bay and once against Philly. He had three straight games with a touchdown.

Eddie 00:25:09  So those were two games where we were coming back in the end that we didn't even have a chance to win.

Eddie 00:25:14  Yeah.

Prescott 00:25:15  We won two of those. Carolina. We won Tampa Bay like that Tampa Bay game. He sucked, but he caught a touchdown. He only had two catches for 20 yards. But but he did have a touchdown. His best game was against Washington the last game of the year. He had four catches for 98 yards.

Eddie 00:25:31  I promise you right now, Prescott, I promise you on live as we're speaking right now, I will sing a song in this on this quote. If Jalen Tolbert is a is anything on our team next year. This coming season if you can see something for what.

Prescott 00:25:49  What does it mean something. But you know what. You know who I think is going to take his spot. So so hold on. Before we get to that I was I was on Twitter and Aisha Morrison, you know who that is, right?

Eddie 00:26:03  Aisha.

Prescott 00:26:04  She's a yeah. She's the, she's on the the girl talk on the on the Dallas Cowboys podcast guarantee.

Eddie 00:26:12  I don't listen to it.

Prescott 00:26:14  Okay. So so anyway, so she's on the girl talk one. She she actually has good takes. I, I like her. Anyway, she she had a tweet. So, so I'm not going to steal this idea, but she had a tweet that said, Junior Adams. Well, she asked who do you think is going to have the best development under him this year? And she dropped Turpin, Tolbert, Flournoy or Mingo. And so if you had to pick out of those four Turpin, Tolbert, Flournoy or Mingo, who's going to have the biggest development this year on the Junior Adams? I think I know you're going to say, but let me see. We're on the same wavelength.

Eddie 00:26:51  I if if I do the the way that my brain thinks is put that that position player really in an NFL game. Turpin is not a receiver. Turpin is a he's a gadget.

Prescott 00:27:06  He's a weapon. He's a gadget guy. Yeah he's.

Eddie 00:27:08  A weapon. He's a gadget guy. He's not he's not a receiver that's going to go out there and run routes and get and catch balls like you want him to, so it's not going to be him.

Eddie 00:27:17  Jalen Tolbert is on his third or fourth year. At the end of it. There's no upside for us to get him any better because all it's going to be do is cost us money. Yeah. In my in my opinion.

Prescott 00:27:31  Blows up the sign.

Eddie 00:27:33  We have to sign them next year. So I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think they're going to invest time and money in him anymore. It's already done. I think Flournoy, he's. This is the second year. He was a rookie last year.

Prescott 00:27:46  Yeah.

Eddie 00:27:47  This is his. This is his step up. I think it's going to be Flournoy. In my opinion, baby does. I I'm thinking it's going to be him. What do you think?

Prescott 00:27:58  I think that is going to be Mingo. I think Mingo.

Eddie 00:28:04  I also think Mingo, too. I think that's what I said. Mingo earlier. You're. You're right. I think. Did I say Flournoy? Yeah.

Prescott 00:28:12  Yeah. You said Flournoy.

Eddie 00:28:13  No.

Prescott 00:28:14  You got him, baby.

Prescott 00:28:15  Which they do. Call him baby dead. I think it's going to be Mingo only because. His pedigree. He was a second round draft pick. And he was really good in college. Like he he deserved a second round pick. It wasn't like they reached for him. He's supposed to be a fifth round or whatever. He he he deserved to be a second round pick. I don't think they were using him. Right. So they they did trade a fourth for him. I think he can not he can be exactly like Trey Lance but the but the opposite where we actually look back at me like, man, I'm glad we spent a fourth round pick on that guy because I think he can be that, especially in this type of offense. Only because what I saw last year. Cooper Rush. God bless his heart, man. Cooper Rush would miss him. So it was so many times they have highlights of this where it was one in particular. He dusted this guy, dusted the DB safety.

Prescott 00:29:12  Saad was trying to catch up wide open. Cooper rush through it way out of bounds over us. It was so bad. It should have been an easy touchdown. And he did that a lot throughout the season where Mingo should have had pretty big numbers, but he didn't because Cooper Rush is really Lamar Jackson lite. So that's why that was that.

Eddie 00:29:31  Was like that was probably one of the bigger, frustrating things last year between, like, you and I, both were pretty. He was he was screaming about.

Prescott 00:29:41  In.

Eddie 00:29:41  The let's just see something. Let's just see what he had first.

Prescott 00:29:46  I was upset. I'm like, why? Why is.

Eddie 00:29:48  He.

Prescott 00:29:49  He catches in the last four games and then you would do it and then you would look at it and be like, man, Cooper Rush is really like Cooper. Rush was pretty good with Tolbert. All of Tolbert good games came after Dak went out because because, you know, of course, a lot of times backup quarterbacks always have a good rapport with backup wide receivers because that's what they work out with.

Prescott 00:30:10  The first guy runs with the first wide receivers and then the second guy was the second wide receivers. And so they built a kind of, you know, like a sixth sense to where it's like, oh, if you see this guy do that and you lean on your back hip. You're in the break left. And they and they know this because you practice.

Eddie 00:30:26  And so that's why Romo and that's why Romo and Witten were such best friends. Because they were on the second team together.

Prescott 00:30:33  And that's why Dak and Ferguson have that same thing down pat. And it's like and then of course Schoomaker ended up being very good once Dak went out. But then of course Ferguson went out. But but that's who Cooper Rush practices with. He's practiced with Schoomaker. He practiced with Tolbert. So when Dak went out Tolbert game picked up. Shoemaker's game picked up. If that was.

Eddie 00:30:58  It.

Prescott 00:30:59  Then it would have been crazy.

Eddie 00:31:01  You would have thought that rush would have been a little bit more. I mean, I know that Mingo was brand new, right? He hadn't been there the whole offseason.

Eddie 00:31:08  If he would have been there the whole offseason, they probably would have had some sort of connection. Him and rush. Yeah, because they would have because.

Prescott 00:31:14  He.

Eddie 00:31:14  Would have.

Prescott 00:31:14  Been down the line. Yeah. Yep.

Eddie 00:31:17  I, I should have said Mingo because I mean it is if you think about it. Our team has always done. You know, where were you drafted? You know that that's going to be your playing time. Where were you drafted? So if we spent a fourth round pick on this guy, the the the front office is going to try and get everything they can out of it. It's not like if you do you remember the receiver that we picked up the year before last that, hadn't played in a long time. And we Martavis Bryant.

Prescott 00:31:49  Yeah that's it from Pittsburgh. Okay.

Eddie 00:31:51  So Monte I mean Bryant kind of seems like he he upset a lot of people a lot of fans because a lot of fans are like oh you know we got this guy and he's a shell of who we really was.

Eddie 00:32:07  So everybody I think a lot of people think that Mingo is is Martavis Bryant you know 2.0. Like we just picked him up. And we're trying to say. But I really think this guy is very, very talented. He just needs somebody to get him the ball.

Prescott 00:32:24  But Brian, Brian was out of the league for whatever reason. I think he got suspended or he got in trouble. So he was out of the league. He was playing for a while.

Eddie 00:32:31  And I'm just saying the.

Prescott 00:32:32  Bengals been playing all the time.

Eddie 00:32:34  I'm just saying, well, Mingo Mingo also was hurt and he was on the on the Panthers and not getting any balls thrown him too.

Prescott 00:32:41  So it's one thing the Cowboys love doing is picking up players who used to have a high pedigree draft pedigree, and they're like people out on them. Like, I mean, if you look at it, it was like it was a graphic I saw. They picked up like Solomon Thomas, Javonte Williams, Miles Sanders.

Eddie 00:33:01  You're looking at that picture.

Eddie 00:33:02  Dante Fowler, second round draft picks. Yeah.

Prescott 00:33:04  Like all those people who were picked in the first, first or second round, who Dallas picked up this free agent period.

Eddie 00:33:11  Was like 7 or.

Prescott 00:33:12  8. Yeah, it was a lot of them. And and it's like they they like doing it. And Mingo was you can add him to that list. But he was from last year. He was the second round pick and he was a high second round pick. So it's like they love picking up players who had a high pedigree and for some reason didn't work out. And now they think that they can rehabilitate him, which I love when they did it with the Rolando McClain. That really worked out. And so I'm hoping one of one of these players, if if I had to pick one of these players to turn into a man, we really turn that guy's career back around is either going to be Mingo or it's going to be Solomon Thomas. Those two are the two guys who I think can really, really, really turn it around to where it's like, yeah.

Eddie 00:33:58  Yeah, I think, I think Thomas is at the end of his career. I think he just come into to retire because he's a native. I mean, he lives in the Dallas area. I just, I think that there's a who was the I think Dante Fowler is is going to have a hell of a year.

Prescott 00:34:17  He's a he's a mercenary and I call him a mercenary. He just shows up and gets sacks.

Eddie 00:34:24  I just I think that this last year with him getting his, like, the accolades and like his, his flowers, I think it's going to be. Yeah, a big difference because he wasn't getting that with us. He was like that third or fourth down.

Prescott 00:34:39  He sure wasn't. Yeah.

Eddie 00:34:40  Coming up right. He still did the great things, but it just wasn't.

Prescott 00:34:44  The lion's gone. It's going to yeah. He's going to get some opportunities because we only have what's the most dude that was our gunner Sam Sam Williams. And then we have Marshawn Nelson. So those are two guys, you know, opposite, Parsons of course.

Prescott 00:34:59  But we need another guy which they can put him in if they move Parsons around. So and then Solomon Thomas is in there now. We still have OSA. We Gholston is gone.

Eddie 00:35:10  Well, I gotta say, we.

Prescott 00:35:11  Still have.

Eddie 00:35:12  Mozzie. You brought because you brought this up, and we gotta talk about it before we're done here, which I think is absolutely goddamn ridiculous if this happens. But if Jerry puts DeMarcus Lawrence in the ring of honor, I'm going to throw something. Oh my God.

Prescott 00:35:27  Man. He does not.

Eddie 00:35:28  I don't know what he was saying that for, but I'm like, hey, let him be. I look at Your Honor, if he's going to win the Super Bowl.

Prescott 00:35:35  I look at the Ring of Honor as like how they do the NFL Hall of Fame. Can you tell the story of the NFL without the guy that's going into the Hall of Fame? If you can't, then he needs to be in there. The same thing with the Ring of Honor.

Prescott 00:35:49  Can you tell the Dallas Cowboys story without mentioning this guy? And I think they can like, like you can't tell the Dallas Cowboys story without mentioning Romo, not mentioning Witten.

Eddie 00:36:00  You put DeMarcus Ware in there before you put DeMarcus Lawrence. You know what I mean. And where was it and where probably had the same stats as Lawrence did I mean it was.

Prescott 00:36:10  And before we get into craziness I'm a huge DeMarcus Lawrence fan, I hope. I was hoping he came back this year. So so it's not like I'm trying to throw shade or I'm mad about the stuff he said going out the door. Forget that. I would if if he was like, you know what? Like if he was still a free agent, he's like, I'm gonna come back to Dallas. I'd be very happy because I think he is a he was a very underrated player. But all that being said, he does not deserve to be in the Ring of Honor, even though he's a really good player. He's one of my favorite players.

Prescott 00:36:40  I liked his fire. He does not need to be in the Ring of honor. And that's just my $0.02.

Eddie 00:36:43  I like the outcome of some of of some of the plays that he had in some of the games that were like goal line, like he would stop a runner on the goal line and shit like that, right? but you know, everything that was said afterwards, I mean, that was some ex-girlfriend bullshit. I mean, that was really.

Prescott 00:37:00  Yeah. Like, man, that's crazy petty going out the door and stuff. Yeah, but the one thing I did like about him was he he won us the Detroit playoff game. Then he lost it for us. And then he wanted for us again because he he got the fumble, he picked it up and tried to run and he fumbled it and and they got the ball back. But then I got a couple plays later he got the sack again. That ended the game. So it's like he almost became the Goat. And that's all I remember about DeMarcus Lawrence.

Prescott 00:37:27  He was pretty good. And then when he told that kid who won the signature who was wearing the Giants jerseys like, you got the wrong jersey, young bro. And then he just kept walking. I was like, yeah man, go ahead.

Eddie 00:37:35  Like that.

Prescott 00:37:37  Right. Anyway. But anyway we'll we'll end it at that. Hopefully by next week we'll have a, a a signature. We'll be breaking down the, the Parsons contract to see how much he got. We'll be that much closer to the draft man. We got.

Eddie 00:37:55  What, three weeks 23 days 23 days.

Prescott 00:38:00  And then we'll have draft people to break down. Eddie will let us know if this is a good draft or not.

Eddie 00:38:05  We gotta we gotta.

Prescott 00:38:06  Do a.

Eddie 00:38:07  We gotta do, our annual,

Prescott 00:38:12  Mock draft.

Eddie 00:38:12  You got to get the software, man. Yeah, we got to do that.

Prescott 00:38:15  We did it last year. Yeah, we got this. So we we'll do that.

Eddie 00:38:18  Not not like.

Prescott 00:38:19  Two weeks next week because, I'll be out of town next week.

Prescott 00:38:23  So we gotta do that at the end of next week. I'll be out of town till Thursday. So we'll try to do it Thursday night or Friday. So we'll do it anyway. Eddie.

Eddie 00:38:34  Figure it.

Prescott 00:38:34  Out. Tell the people. Yeah, tell the people how you feel before we head on out.

Eddie 00:38:38  You know? You know, I'm always saying, you know, go. Don't go mad or angry. Make sure that you tell your loved ones that you love them because you might not get a chance to tell them again. But, What, what I want to say today is you're fucking awesome. Remember that every single person that's listening to this is valuable and are part of something that that can never be changed. And I'm just telling you, man, there's a lot of people, you know, everybody's. I saw something the other day where it said, you know, my my list is getting shorter by the the day. Right. As you grow older, your list of friends and colleagues and people that are that are important to you are get shorter every month, every day.

Eddie 00:39:26  So don't waste the time, you know, being sad about it. Just get out and enjoy life and tell people that you care about them and stop. Stop holding grudges because we don't need that shit anymore.

Prescott 00:39:38  Stop with all the petty stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I remember.

Eddie 00:39:40  Being Patti LaBelle. So now I'm off my box. I'm off my soapbox.

Prescott 00:39:45  Let me show you. Yeah. Yeah. Make sure y'all get those Easter baskets made and get. Get ready for the draft. Do some research and don't fall for the clickbait. Just come to us and we'll tell you if it's if it's the sky is falling. Or do you need to pay attention to this? Trust us. Believe in us. We know.

Eddie 00:40:03  Trust.

Prescott 00:40:04  And with that, y'all have a good one. And.