The BEST Cowboys DRAFT in a DECADE!! | Building a NEW identity!

In this episode of the "Victory Formation Podcast," we waste no time diving into the recent NFL draft, focusing on the Dallas Cowboys' picks and overall team strategies. The discussion is a blend of excitement and critical analysis. Eddie was in his feelings, being overwhelmed by the draft process, and he is glad it is over. We go through each pick, highlighting what we liked and didn't like. We also touch on the Cowboys' focus on character and leadership in their selections. We wrap it up with a lively debate on free-agent wide receivers and a surprise trade for Shilo Sanders (NOT REALLY), capturing the essence of draft season. Tap in.

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Introduction to the Podcast (00:00:06)
The hosts introduce the "Victory Formation Podcast" and set the tone for the episode.

Draft Process Reflections (00:01:20)
Eddie expresses feelings of being overwhelmed by the emotional rollercoaster of the draft.

Discussion on Draft Picks (00:02:20)
The hosts discuss their favorite draft picks from other teams and express admiration for certain players.

Player Evaluations (00:03:19)
Debate on the potential of a player being utilized in different positions and the impact on their career.

Team Strategies and Player Roles (00:04:29)
Discussion on the importance of player roles and how they affect team dynamics and game strategy.

Analysis of Bears Offense (00:06:05)
The hosts analyze the Bears' offensive lineup and how new additions might impact their performance.

Thoughts on Shiloh Sanders (00:07:25)
The conversation shifts to Shiloh Sanders, with mixed feelings about his draft position and potential.

Comparison of Quarterbacks (00:08:22)
Discussion on the similarities between Shiloh Sanders and other quarterbacks in the NFL regarding talent and draft expectations.

Drafting Philosophy (00:10:01)
The hosts explore the reasons behind player draft positions, including skill level and perceived potential.

Excitement Over Drafted Players (00:12:15)
Eddie expresses disappointment about a favorite player being drafted by a rival team, the Giants.

Overview of Cowboys' Draft Picks (00:13:02)
The hosts review the Dallas Cowboys' draft picks and share excitement about their potential impact.

Analysis of Donovan's Draft Pick (00:15:25)
The hosts discuss the surprise and excitement surrounding the Cowboys' pick of Donovan from Boston College.

Player Comparisons and Expectations (00:17:11)
Discussion on how Donovan's stats and skills compare to Micah Parsons and the potential for team synergy.

Thoughts on Siobhan's Pick (00:18:57)
The hosts express excitement over the potential of Siobhan from East Carolina, emphasizing his past injuries.

Value of Late Draft Picks (00:20:41)
Reflection on the value of third-round picks and the potential for future success in the NFL.

Here are the extracted timestamps and their topics from the podcast episode transcription segment:

Surprise Running Back Pick (21:16)
Excitement about selecting a running back due to a strong offensive line.

Trade for Mingo (21:32)
Discussion on the Cowboys' trade for Mingo and lack of a fourth-round pick.

Cowboys' War Room Activity (21:46)
Analysis of the Cowboys' attempts to trade back during the draft.

Running Back Evaluation (22:06)
Evaluating the running back selected and comparisons to past successful picks.

Texas Running Backs (24:38)
Discussion on the prevalence of Texas running backs in the draft.

Defensive Line Coach's Reaction (28:47)
Excitement from the defensive line coach after a significant

Transcript

Intro 00:00:06  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 MCA I've been on the way. The team on my back 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 red sky. Everybody like there ain't no brakes, no rest stop. We tryna get your head chopped. The whole club yellin everybody.

Prescott 00:00:36  Here we go. Here we go.

Prescott 00:00:38  Victory Formation podcast.

Prescott 00:00:40  Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.

Prescott 00:00:43  Whatever that ESPN chime is for the next draft pick.

Eddie 00:00:47  For the draft. The draft time.

Prescott 00:00:50  Yeah, man, I found out something about that when it came out. They didn't even introduce it normally. Like they didn't introduce it like the ninth pick of the draft that they did it. It was Dante Whitner and it just out of nowhere, they just did it.

Prescott 00:01:03  And now they've done it for every pick since it was a it was a weird thing they decided to do, but not like for the number one, you know, one, one, it was like the ninth pick and they did it. It was strange, but bit of history. I stay up on stuff. So how are we feeling that? Tell the people how you feel, Eddie. Are we happy?

Prescott 00:01:20  We sad?

Eddie 00:01:22  I'm. I'm over. I'm overwhelmed. It's been a long three days, and it was, I've gone through the emotional roller coaster of our of how we draft the the months and months of us preparing and coming up with mocks and everything to not even be close to what we were going to draft.

Prescott 00:01:50  Man. I'm overwhelmed. I don't even watch game tape like you do. I just do the three minute highlight videos on YouTube and that's how I pick my people. So I know you're overwhelmed.

Eddie 00:02:00  it's just been a long, long draft thing. Hoping that they were going to draft.

Eddie 00:02:04  You know, this guy is available. Available, and then they just pass him up. I so our strategy just is. It's just it's just strange to watch other teams get better. And, well.

Prescott 00:02:20  Before we get into Cowboys news, let's go to the draft first. Just regular draft news. Any, anything you'd like about the draft? Anything you saw? Like, man, I like, you know, because even though the Cowboys, our team and any other team you like, you like, man, those those guys got a good player.

Eddie 00:02:38  I like that. Jacksonville traded. And even though Cleveland did kind of fleece him with that trade, I think that Jacksonville got the player that they really wanted though. I mean.

Prescott 00:02:48  Yeah.

Eddie 00:02:49  Travis is going to go and he's going to be a hero in Florida. Like that's where he's from right. So is. he's just going to be able to bring that whole Duvall attitude, but I think I like that. I like the where Will Campbell went to tackle from LSU? I really liked him.

Eddie 00:03:12  And you know, there was just some really, you know, good stories throughout the draft.

Prescott 00:03:18  Yeah. I think,

Eddie 00:03:19  Anything.

Prescott 00:03:20  Like that. I think I think Hunter's going to be good, even though they will ruin him by, trying to play him both ways. I hate that.

Prescott 00:03:30  Yeah.

Eddie 00:03:31  I don't know if they're going to play him.

Prescott 00:03:34  Oh, man.

Eddie 00:03:34  I think that he's going to have a position, and then he's going to play a little bit of the other, a little, like he's not going to play like.

Prescott 00:03:41  I.

Eddie 00:03:41  Think.

Prescott 00:03:42  He's a big wide receiver. Yeah. Yeah.

Prescott 00:03:45  If I was him I would play play cornerback because the the chances of him being great at cornerback are better than him being great at wide receiver. Her chances of him getting paid top money is better at cornerback than being wide receiver because, you can be the 10th best wide receiver and have a great year. But there's a lot more great wide receivers out there. Like the the difference between the fifth best wide receiver and the 15th best is not that big of a difference as opposed to the fifth best cornerback in the 15th best cornerback.

Prescott 00:04:20  It's a huge it's a it's a it's a chasm. It's a big you know whole like. And so if I were him I would go cornerback. But that's just me.

Eddie 00:04:29  You also have to you also have to think of when you're on offense there's only one ball. But when you're on defense there's a lot of plays to make, right? So you know, when you're on, when you're playing corner, you're you're getting I mean, you're you're having to cover, you're having to make tackles. I mean, he's going to be active when when he's a receiver, he I mean, he's going to be running routes. He's going to be blocking. So he's not really getting the ball off.

Prescott 00:04:54  You're you one of those who like to have the ball and like you know how like my one pet peeve with wide receivers are when the defense knows that they're not getting the ball like the play is not coming for them because. And so they take that play off and it's like, oh yeah, he's not getting his ball.

Prescott 00:05:10  So they give him a like instead of running the route correctly, even though they know they're not getting the ball type thing. That's one of my pet peeves. But I don't think he's like that.

Eddie 00:05:18  You know what's funny? A lot of the stories that I've heard from from players after they stopped playing is like, they they have friends and stuff. You know, they play with for years and years. And when they come up, they, they have like a, an agreement like, hey, the you know, the ball's not coming to the side that's kind of chill out for a second. We're both.

Prescott 00:05:38  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Prescott 00:05:40  We used to do that on free throws when I played basketball. Like man you going you're not going. So like we wouldn't go hard on the free throw. Especially when we knew it was like a Steph Curry a 90% guy I'd be like man. Because you know our coaches get mad if we don't box out, but we're like, man, you've got to make this free.

Prescott 00:05:55  That's a waste of energy. So we're like, you going now? You're not going. All right. Cool. Let's let's just pretend so I know exactly what you mean. Yes, sir.

Prescott 00:06:04  Yes, sir.

Prescott 00:06:05  So the one thing I did like. Like you were just talking about one ball to go around. I don't know how that one ball is going to go around for the bears offense. Ben Johnson, they already had DJ Moore, roam Coleman commit DeAndre Swift. They added Colston Loveland to tight end and Luther Burton which oh man that that just hurt my soul.

Eddie 00:06:27  I think that it's because they're not going to have Allen right. So they're just going to have so they're just going to play. So they're just going to replace him with with Allen. And then just be able to run two tight ends like like you did in Detroit. They want to run.

Prescott 00:06:43  The ball see how it goes.

Eddie 00:06:44  I thought they were going to go after running back.

Prescott 00:06:46  Me too. I was a lot of people did because a lot of people were mocking like Gente and Hampton to them.

Prescott 00:06:53  Them and them. Like there's no way any of those running backs get past the bears and the the Raiders. That was the big thing going into it.

Eddie 00:07:01  But this makes me think that they might be going after Breece Hall. All right. That's going to be the, the prize of the the the belle of the ball right there is Breece Hall.

Prescott 00:07:11  Oh, yeah. So now we can jump into. Well, before we get into that, how do you feel about the Sanders? Did he go to high to low to the right team? What do you think?

Eddie 00:07:25  Oh, Shiloh. Oh,

Prescott 00:07:27  Shiloh, we don't care about Shiloh. Stop bringing up Shiloh on this show. You were banned from saying Shiloh Sanders.

Eddie 00:07:36  But, Yeah. I think that, Leslie, I think that, I think the talent showed a lot of I, I myself was the biggest fan of him. I think that he's an NFL starter. A lot of people do. I try, I try to. When I was thinking about him last night because after he didn't go drafted, everybody was, oh my God, I can't believe he didn't get drafted.

Eddie 00:08:07  And I started trying to think of like other quarterbacks that are in the NFL that have kind of the same talent that he has. And all I kept finding was, Dorian Thompson. what?

Prescott 00:08:22  Yeah.

Eddie 00:08:24  Yeah, I mean, he's almost exactly the same. I mean, they run the ball. They they're very athletic. Run the ball. He they're they're had they had to run because of the because they didn't have a lot of protection. He has a rocket of an arm but yeah not consistent. I mean it's the same thing. It's the same player. So if if the NFL is not chasing after DTR everywhere, Why are they? Why would they be stepping over each other to draft him?

Prescott 00:08:54  Exactly. So, me personally, I think he went where he was supposed to go. I didn't think he was the first three round quarterback. I mean, I know some like Mel Kiper and a couple of them thought he was. But like me, I watched a lot of the game because I was I was all on the Colorado hype.

Prescott 00:09:08  I was like, man, I love this team. But anytime I watch him, I'm like, man, he wasn't like a lot of times they were winning. He was the reason why they didn't win by a lot. They barely beat teams and they're like, oh, he's arrogant. That's why he didn't get drafted. I'm like, no, that's not why. If you remember, Johnny Manziel was even more arrogant than he was, man. He gentlemen said, we'll go on coke benders three games before the game. But the difference between Johnny Manziel and Chad Sanders is Johnny Manziel would come in and knock off number one Alabama or number seven LSU. Sanders would barely beat Colorado State by a late field goal. You know, something like that. And it's like that's why he didn't get drafted till late. I mean, you can try and say it's because he's arrogance. Now, I do believe part of it was they didn't want Dion to feel like he was running things, like they didn't want a LaVar ball situation dictating stuff.

Prescott 00:09:58  And so I think.

Eddie 00:09:58  There's a I think there's a bunch of combination of.

Prescott 00:10:01  Yeah his skill level was the the biggest part in my eyes. The other stuff was still like that because the NFL can deal with divas. I mean they they'll draft them in the first round all the time. They don't care about that as long as you can help them win games. But if you're a diva and you're not going to help them win games, then yeah, you're not going to get the love.

Eddie 00:10:18  I think my my whole opinion on it is he got drafted because of his ceiling, not because of the talent that he showed everybody because, I mean, he there were times that Colorado could score from anywhere on the field at any second. Like, you know, like they, they the team would go up on them and you'd be like, oh shit, I was going to bring him right back. I mean, they're going to score somehow. Somebody's going to catch some crazy ass ball and it's going to be a touchdown.

Eddie 00:10:45  And it just it happened enough because there was enough camera time on that team to for people to be able to say, oh wow, look, did you see that throw? But you didn't see the the 12 throws before it because you're only seeing the highlights. But what it is, what it is he he got he got a chance. I mean I'm not one to knock somebody for for actually getting a chance.

Prescott 00:11:08  I mean, I hope he does. Well like go ahead and do it. Plus an NFL coach is a proud people. They think that they can fix people. That's why you like the Cowboys are good at it. They'll go and get someone who was drafted fourth over like Solomon Thomas from the 40 niners. Someone who drafted fourth overall bounced around a bit. They think, oh, he was that good. I can fix him. You know, kind of like the dude that sees the toxic woman. I'm like, I can fix her. Just, just, just let me be in her life.

Eddie 00:11:36  Well, that's that's the funny thing is, because we'll talk a little bit about the linebacker that we drafted in the fifth round because that that actually came up verbally. So But one thing I wanted to mention before we get into our draft was, one thing I was really disappointed with is I'm so glad that he got drafted because the kid is a bad ass and he's going to be a great player in the NFL. But god damn cam scatterbrain went to the Giants and now I can't I can't root for him. I can't I wanted to root for him anywhere that he went. I don't give a shit where he went. Except for Philly or the Giants or or

Prescott 00:12:15  Podcast last year.

Eddie 00:12:16  Or.

Prescott 00:12:17  Our guy was, Isaac Grindle, the dude that went to the 49. Yeah, yeah. So he was our guy last year. Gettysburg was our guy this year. But we can't, man. We can't, glaze him like we did because he's on the Giants. Like, that's that guy.

Eddie 00:12:33  And, what's his name? And, the from Ohio State.

Eddie 00:12:38  We really wanted that.

Prescott 00:12:40  Yeah, yeah. Jack Sawyer.

Eddie 00:12:41  Yeah. He just went to, like, the perfect spot that he could ever go to. My God came in to watch us meeting at the quarterback. Every. Every game. Every play.

Prescott 00:12:50  So now we can officially get into our. So I'm gonna read you the names, and I want you to tell me which one you're most excited for and which one you think like. Yeah.

Eddie 00:13:02  So before you read them here, let me, Here, I'll share this so that we can actually see what you're talking about.

Prescott 00:13:09  Okay. Yeah. Do that. Share that. I forgot. We have the technology. Let's share it.

Eddie 00:13:15  Yes, sir. Okay, here we go. So our first pick of the day of the day was your book.

Prescott 00:13:25  And people, people lost their minds when this came out. And so what what what would really bug me about it is it's not like we don't have a track record for this. Like when they drafted Tyler Smith, the outrage was worse than Tyler Booker.

Prescott 00:13:39  At least Tyler Booker was the best at his position. He wasn't a reach. He was the Best buy. You know, a few boys. ESPN had him at number two, but a lot of other places had him as the best guard in the draft. So it wasn't like it was a reach like Todd, like a lot of people thought Tyler Smith was a reach and they were outraged. And I'm like, how are you going to be outraged? I mean, and then two years later, they will gladly pick Tyler Smith again. If they could go back, travel back in time, they would pick him again. And so I was.

Eddie 00:14:06  Like, they do that all the time. And when they do those yeah.

Prescott 00:14:10  You seen it happen before.

Eddie 00:14:11  When they do those drafts and you see like where people should have been drafted. Yeah. You know this this kid right here was I remember when he said that that say or that quote, he said, I love to watch, my opponent's eyes, when they love for football.

Prescott 00:14:32  Make them hate playing football. They say that to the league.

Eddie 00:14:35  Let's see the the love for football leave their eyes when they're playing me. You know, I remember when he said that earlier in the year and I was like, who is this kid? And like that? It looks like the Cowboys did a lot of extensive, you know, meetings with him. And they really wanted him. And I think this is really I don't think that we went in thinking we were going to draft Booker. I think we were going to draft that. But he got picked early.

Prescott 00:14:59  Yeah he did. Yeah I think I think he's the only one that we would have. Well of course, but he's the only. But there was no way Jesse was even making it close to us. Ted had a chance once Ted was gone. That was it. I think they loved this guy more than they liked, like, Golden. Whatever.

Eddie 00:15:16  Carolina, just out of nowhere. Just picked that out of nowhere. They weren't.

Eddie 00:15:20  They weren't all about receiver. They were actually trying to get out from that pick all all off season.

Prescott 00:15:26  And they did whatever. And what's crazy is we traded our our fourth rounder to get the receiver from Carolina. So part of me hopes that Mingo has a better statistical season than Ted. Just so we can be like, look, our fourth run to beat your first rounder. So that's it. So who's the next? Who are we looking at? Second pick.

Eddie 00:15:48  This one's a surprise as well. Right. When this came up we were like woo hoo!

Prescott 00:15:53  Yeah a lot of people were like, what?

Eddie 00:15:56  Even like football? I mean, I, I try to think of myself as some, you know, a lower level draft nerd. And I mean, I heard of him, but I never thought that we were going to even be in the market for him at all. Right.

Prescott 00:16:13  Yeah. Oh, wait for the people who are just listening. We didn't say his name. His name is Donovan.

Prescott 00:16:16  Well, I call it easy because it's hard to say.

Eddie 00:16:18  His last name is Eric. It's it's not as hard as you think it is because there's a lot of symbols, is there?

Prescott 00:16:25  But the letters in his name. But Donovan is Eric from Boston College, in case.

Eddie 00:16:29  I think we should be calling him. You know, we should be calling him easy, you know that. And we just like with the NWA, easy. But every time, every time he he makes it, you know, looking at his numbers and and all the everything that he did at the combine and everything. Everything matches up with Micah almost to the to the tee.

Prescott 00:16:50  Everything. It was so uncanny how his numbers and his all his stuff matched up with what Micah did.

Eddie 00:16:57  And a lot of the a lot of the scouts are after the draft. After he was drafted, they were like, wow, Cowboy's got a lot of value there. This guy was like one of the most athletic and best pass rushers in the in the draft.

Eddie 00:17:10  In the draft.

Prescott 00:17:11  Yeah, a lot of people had him down as the like the third best. They had the guy from Georgia, they had Carter from Auburn, and it was one other person before him. It was like come down. Yeah. And they had him down at the fourth one. Oh yeah. And a lot of people had green eye ahead of him as well.

Eddie 00:17:31  The green man, he fell. He tumbled and tumbled and bubbled.

Prescott 00:17:35  But yeah, but they had this guy the fourth ranked Dee Dee Dee and his stats backed it up and he wasn't playing powderpuff. So it's not like he's from Bob University and just killing, you know, underwhelming schools. He was he was putting up big numbers against big schools.

Eddie 00:17:49  So yeah, if you if you saw if you saw any of his highlights or any of his tape is he really does look a lot like Mike out there playing off the edge because he does he does have he doesn't just use his strength. He has a lot of bend.

Eddie 00:18:04  He has a lot of moves. But he I really think this is going to allow us to move Micah around a lot too.

Prescott 00:18:10  Yeah. And they said exactly. They're they're really high for when we have our NASCAR package him on one side, Parsons on the other side kneeling on the inside. And also on the inside have those for when it's like obvious passing downs, you know.

Eddie 00:18:29  Could you imagine Sam Williams on the edge. He hit him on the edge Micah up the middle. You know those

Prescott 00:18:36  Blitzen or whatever.

Eddie 00:18:38  Oh, man. And then. And then you got, over Sean coming around the edge on the on the on a stunted blitz. I mean.

Prescott 00:18:45  Stop, stop. I can only get so engorged. I get so engorged.

Eddie 00:18:50  All right, so we had to wait a little bit for our third pic, right. Did you. This one was exciting to me.

Prescott 00:18:57  This was. This might end up being the best pick in our draft.

Eddie 00:19:02  I didn't think that we were going to have a chance at him.

Eddie 00:19:04  I thought he was going to be a first round or a second round. Easy.

Prescott 00:19:08  Yeah. Siobhan, for people who would think in East Carolina. DB this is a guy that had first round grade one of the top DBS, but he tore his ACL. But but the good thing about it is he tore it early in the season. So it was like very early in the season. Yeah. And so so he should be good to go when the season starts for us anyway. He should be there for training.

Eddie 00:19:31  I saw him on a treadmill today on one of those speed treadmills then. Yeah he literally looks he literally looks like like Dix did when he was a rookie. Remember, Diggs was, like, wide eyed and like, have to catching up with receivers because, I mean, that's kind of how it looked like. But people were going to be good.

Prescott 00:19:52  Yeah. And people were thinking, you know, Eastern Carolina that's not good that he didn't play. Trust me. They said lots of big name schools Alabama, Michigan, all the big schools were coming after him.

Prescott 00:20:05  But they would only he was. Yeah.

Eddie 00:20:08  He was he he he chose to stay instead of going into the, the portal like a bunch of big schools are coming after him. Yeah. So it shows.

Prescott 00:20:18  He's got a good.

Eddie 00:20:18  Story. He's loyalty.

Prescott 00:20:20  Yeah. He was working overnight at Amazon. He worked at 6 p.m., the 4 a.m. shift. His dad picked him up after work. They drove two hours Eastern Carolina for a tryout, and they gave him a scholarship. And so he felt indebted to him, like, man, you the only people that believed in me. So when the big schools came calling, he told them, nah, I'm gonna stay here and now. And and if he hadn't gotten hurt, he would have went first round for sure.

Eddie 00:20:41  Oh, is he so?

Prescott 00:20:43  So it wasn't like, you know, it was I mean, and it wasn't a bad drop. Third round. It's still not ideal, but it's still it's still pretty good.

Eddie 00:20:50  I mean, he was still projected pretty high and I think that people were just kind of.

Eddie 00:20:54  Yeah. I mean when you see him working out with the with the leg sleeve, I mean it kind of puts.

Prescott 00:21:01  If he got picked in the second round, nobody would have blinked or not. They would be like, oh, that's a good that's the would have been a good value. Like this is exceptional value for us at third and in the third round. So I'm very happy. I think he's going to end up being the best pick in the draft for us. When it's all said and done.

Eddie 00:21:16  It was a surprise. I was very excited. And then they said, you know what, let's get on this running back train. Since we since we have probably one of the best offensive lines in the league right now. Yeah, one of the not I'm not saying the.

Prescott 00:21:32  We didn't have a fourth round pick because we traded for Mingo in case anybody forgot. And so this is our fifth round pick.

Eddie 00:21:38  So and that was a big stretch right. That that 74 to 149 was a long stretch.

Eddie 00:21:46  And when it got to you know I was watching the Cowboys feed. So they kept showing the war room and the whole round. The Cowboys were on the phone then they were on the phone. They were getting they were getting calls and they were calling it. So I really do believe we're trying our hardest to move back in.

Prescott 00:22:05  Yeah.

Eddie 00:22:06  But you know, it is what it is. And it didn't work out. But we got we got a player that we really liked. We brought him in. I think we met with him like 2 or 3 times.

Prescott 00:22:15  Yeah. And so it was it was maddening because that's when they had the run of running backs who we thought were pretty decent, like who could have been starters. And so and it was a good place to get a running back. Remember we got DeMarco Murray in the fourth round. We got Pollard in the fourth round. So fourth round you can get good running backs then. So with this guy here, it's like not a clone, but he's someone who we can look at like a Pollard.

Prescott 00:22:42  He's a change of pace he's going to catch.

Eddie 00:22:45  I was going to say a lot of a lot of what I've seen with with him and what he's done is, is Pollard s is really good out of the backfield. And Pollard was and Pollard was a receiver turned running back. Yeah. And Memphis he's one of the fastest in the in the call. He was one of the fastest running backs in college. Oh man he run that.

Prescott 00:23:07  So he would so in since 2020 until now we've had two people run 22.3 miles an hour with Raheem Mostert and Turpin in the NFL, two people have ran 22.3mph. This guy ran 22.3mph in the game last year. Like he is ridiculously fast. Think Turpin, but like a legit running back. Not a gimmick like how we used.

Eddie 00:23:33  It.

Prescott 00:23:33  Though.

Eddie 00:23:34  You know, like with our server and our discord, we there's a lot of players that follow Texas and we follow Texas pretty strong through the playoffs.

Prescott 00:23:42  Man, Moss was screwing his pants.

Eddie 00:23:45  Shut up. Moss.

Eddie 00:23:46  Shut up. text. But what? What's weird is that I kept saying, Where's Jayden? Blue. Blue wasn't blue. Didn't play a lot in the playoffs like they did. There was a in that game against ASU. He didn't even play until like fourth quarter or something. It was really strange. And so I was like, where is this kid? I really liked the fact that he was a hometown kid and maybe he was going to come out. I didn't even know if he was going to be draft eligible. I didn't know what was happening and he falls into our lap.

Prescott 00:24:14  So I needed this picture showing five Texas running backs sitting on the sideline, all of them been drafted, starting to run all the way up to Rashawn Johnson, this guy. man. So so Texas brings out the running backs and that's why I was excited for him. So this this is good. I like it. So who's who's next?

Eddie 00:24:38  So the next pick was and this was cool because I don't know I want to say cool.

Eddie 00:24:45  But we didn't move up. We we didn't. We package the A pick. We swapped the our fifth. And I think we gave up a seventh.

Prescott 00:24:54  For 6.

Eddie 00:24:55  Or.

Prescott 00:24:55  1 of them.

Eddie 00:24:57  But we moved up to to grab this kid Shamar Stewart. He, he was he's an off ball linebacker really fast. He reminds me a lot of older son. I mean, the way that he moves, the way that he he kind of sideline sideline kind of guy is he's not a downhill linebacker. There's not a lot of meat on this kid. He got he has gained a lot of weight. But to to to what we need him for. And what Aubuchon was really drafted it for us to cover. You know, these tight ends and these running backs and these these receivers that are lined up in the slot. So, he's really good at that. And what I really liked was when he was on the phone with him, he said, don't worry, kid, we're going, I'm going to I'm going to create or I'm going to make you into one badass linebacker.

Eddie 00:25:50  Yeah. And you know what that tells me and what it should tell everybody else with the, you know, the linebacker whisperer is that if he's going to spend attention on you, he sees something in you. That's all we need to do is to get him the, you know, get him the clay and let him mold. As a linebacker.

Prescott 00:26:07  I refer to the experts when it comes to people who I don't know and who seemed like the most happiest about this guy. Oh, man. On the, on the screen. So it's like one of those things where I'm like, man. And I trust even when it comes to defense, and I really trust him when it comes to linebackers. So he's excited about this guy. I'm all in.

Eddie 00:26:25  There was three times in this draft because I was watching the war room, and I like to see I like to see the coaches that are coming in because that's what, you know, what the show is saying. Oh, look at, you know, D-line coaches coming in first and we know it's going to be D-line, right? So you kind of try and and see the see how that's working out.

Eddie 00:26:43  But there's three times where the warm room went crazy and Shemar Stewart was one of them. And the,

Prescott 00:26:54  The Boston College guy was one of them.

Eddie 00:26:55  The Boston College guy was one of them. And then, yeah, our second running back that we drafted because, I don't know, it was a I think he's next.

Prescott 00:27:05  No, no, not.

Eddie 00:27:06  Next.

Prescott 00:27:06  Because we skipped the one.

Eddie 00:27:07  And I'll tell I'll tell you the story after that. But this kid was this this kid, played. He played guard and tackle for Oregon. Did you see any highlights from his name?

Prescott 00:27:19  We got to say his name. Johnny Cornelius.

Eddie 00:27:21  Johnny Cornelius. Johnny. A Johnny, from Oregon. How did you see any of his highlights or any. Anything that.

Prescott 00:27:30  No, I didn't see it. I don't watch.

Eddie 00:27:31  College.

Prescott 00:27:32  Tape.

Eddie 00:27:33  Well, I mean, like, after they after they get drafted, they kind of show a little.

Prescott 00:27:37  Yeah. Yeah. When they showed us the little snippets. Yeah.

Eddie 00:27:41  His punch is probably some of the best punches that you'll see from from a right tackle right now. I mean yeah I know he's I know this draft was for, or this, this particular, position right here was for, depth because, I mean, he's not going to start over anybody, but it it just takes one play, right? It takes one play for steel to turn an ankle. It takes one play for for somebody to.

Prescott 00:28:07  Play because his first name's not Tyler. So he's not playing on this offensive line.

Eddie 00:28:11  But I mean again we we beefed up our offensive line and got we got some, some really good talent.

Prescott 00:28:20  47 offensive linemen on this team.

Eddie 00:28:22  So 17 right now. 17.

Prescott 00:28:26  It's so. There's so many. It's so many.

Eddie 00:28:29  We have to. We have to release some people to to be able to sign some of these PDFs. But so are the pick after that. This is, this one was one that they got pretty excited about to this one the our defensive lineman, our defensive line coach.

Eddie 00:28:47  He bounced into the war room after this pic. This was really good. This kid's a bull. Like a like a bull in trying to

Prescott 00:28:57  Stuffer run.

Eddie 00:28:58  Stuffer. Oh my God. He is a ball of muscle. It's ridiculous. And if anybody knows if anybody played football or sports with any Islanders, these, Samoan and Tongan guys, they'll they'll eat your lunch. I'm telling you right now, I used to play with the. I used to play with, this this one guy, his name was Manu. That dude. I mean, he was just always looking for a fight no matter where we went. And you gotta have those guys on your team. And this guy really reminds me of one thing that I'm.

Prescott 00:29:31  Most excited for with this team is I really believe for the first time in a while, that teams aren't going to run down our throats anymore. Things are I'm not going to be able to run down our throats anymore. That's the one thing that they're going to fix. Now they might pick up, start passing more like we used to have a good passing defense, but they could just run whenever they wanted and it didn't matter.

Eddie 00:29:52  But the thing about that is, the thing about these picks that we did today was like, we don't have to have OSA and, you know, Solomon Thomas in there just getting their, their, their tails kicked in. Yeah. From all five offensive linemen from Washington. You know we we can have a a rotation of of players and hopefully get some of those big cats in there that we drafted last year or two in there.

Prescott 00:30:20  Yes indeed. This guy?

Eddie 00:30:23  Yeah.

Prescott 00:30:23  The guy you were talking about, this.

Eddie 00:30:26  This one was. This one was an exciting pick right here. Because I didn't know if we were going to pick up another running back.

Prescott 00:30:32  Oh. That's that, that's that, black panther. chante.

Eddie 00:30:38  Panther.

Prescott 00:30:39  Yeah. Look at that.

Eddie 00:30:42  You know that he's, he's from the Ivory Coast, right? He's he's from Africa. Yeah. So he's like, he grew up not knowing anything about football at all. He's just one of those guys that came in and they're like, here you go.

Eddie 00:30:54  And he was like, I'm. I'm the best I would've. And that anybody's ever seen in my town. I mean, this kid, he's about the size of the tight end and he. And he runs, I think I think he clocked him at, like a 4 or 5. He's pretty fast for as big as he is. Give him the ball and he can score. I think this was a really great pickup for the for how late we got him, and I think he'll be he'll be a good mix. And, you know, depending on what we do with any other free agents, running backs.

Prescott 00:31:30  Big dude man, I'm talking. We got thunder and lightning in these two picks. So Javonte and Miles Sanders, they better be on their P's and Q's. Malik Davis.

Eddie 00:31:38  Thinking like I'm thinking like if we if we had a rotation of of I don't know if is it Martha or Martha Martha or just say.

Prescott 00:31:48  I say that is Martha because I'm.

Eddie 00:31:51  Gonna call him Uncle Phil.

Eddie 00:31:52  Bro, it's Uncle Phil. Phil, man, I don't know how old he is. Phil, we got Uncle Phil and and.

Prescott 00:31:59  So, I mean, we lost Uncle Rico, so we got Uncle Phil. Now.

Eddie 00:32:02  There we go. Phil, we got, Javonte, I don't know what to expect from him. I, I really do believe that he's going to. I think he has some tread on the tires.

Prescott 00:32:13  So, man.

Eddie 00:32:13  A whole a rotation of him and Phil and and blue together like blue coming in Like change of pace. Like, remember when Pollard would come in after Zeke and the defense would be fucking beat up, and all of a sudden they had some blue streak running right by them.

Prescott 00:32:27  Yeah.

Eddie 00:32:29  But hey that's what I'm looking for.

Prescott 00:32:30  I'm ready.

Eddie 00:32:32  And then,

Prescott 00:32:34  The last guy I know.

Eddie 00:32:36  Did we trade back up? I didn't know if we traded back up.

Prescott 00:32:40  We already had the seventh when we, When, you know, we we did a trade and we got a pick back for it, like we traded somebody.

Prescott 00:32:47  Yeah, it was like we gave them a six.

Eddie 00:32:50  This was. This was the, the trade from, the quarterback that we got from it. So, Tommy.

Prescott 00:32:59  Got.

Eddie 00:33:00  A king, right? So, yeah, something like that.

Prescott 00:33:05  Let's go with.

Eddie 00:33:05  That. Another humongous run stopper. This guy is a motor, bro. And what what I saw when when they were talking about in the room was this kid. They talked to this kid, like, 3 or 4 times, during his pro day and the combine. And they knew that they were going to. They didn't want to fight anybody in, UEFA for him because they knew he was going to have multiple suitors. So they're like, we gotta drafted. I'm excited for him because he was excited on that phone with him. He was like, I'm just ready to do whatever I need to.

Prescott 00:33:40  About this draft is, let me tell you. So I'm gonna show you the schools we drafted him from. First round Alabama, second round Boston College, the only small school.

Prescott 00:33:49  Eastern Carolina next school Texas next school Florida next school Oregon next school UCLA. Next school Clemson. Next school Maryland. All big name schools. We're not going to those small schools that we used to do back in the day. And the one thing I did learn was a lot of these players, not all of them, but a lot of them were team captains on their team. So that was important to me that he picked a lot of team captains when he picked them, he wanted leaders to come in and change the culture. That's what he did. And so he's like what the coach was. They're going to be influencers in the locker room and on the field, and I really like that.

Eddie 00:34:29  One last thing I want to show you before we get into anything else is this here is our. Our UFA list. And right now. The the interface that have already signed with us. I mean, we can go over each one of them, but there's one in particular I really want to go over.

Eddie 00:34:50  Looks like we got a DB, another linebacker, a really tall receiver John Kelly. We did for.

Prescott 00:34:58  We went for DBS.

Eddie 00:35:00  We went with all DBS and and and receivers. We got a tight we got a tight end another receiver another corner. I love this guy's name. Rivaldo. Rivaldo Faldo for one of them. Yeah, he'd better make this team. He got another DB. But this guy right here. Tristan Holden from Oregon. This guy is somebody that I remember this name because I mean, I think when we got him, you had mentioned him. You mentioned that he came from, from Alabama first, right.

Prescott 00:35:39  So first and then he went to Oregon.

Eddie 00:35:41  He has he has an Alabama pedigree. And we know that Alabama receivers are not anybody to play with. He went to Oregon. He had a little bit of disciplinary problem. Who doesn't in college. But he has a a working relationship with our with our new receivers coach. Yeah. And Junior Adams. This kid is I don't know if you've seen what I, what I want to challenge you to just take a just just Google when we get off the phone.

Eddie 00:36:11  Just Google or when we get out of here, just Google trash on holding highlights. You're going to sit there. You're going to want to watch. Multiple ones. Because the first couple ones are just like, you got to be kidding me. How did this kid get go? Undrafted. I said the same thing.

Prescott 00:36:25  I didn't know him at all until I started looking at stuff and everybody was the same, like, man, how did he go? Undrafted. So I was like, we'll have to see. He was he was going to.

Eddie 00:36:34  I think it was the, disciplinary problem. he was also I mean, he had so many plays last year. And you know how some some players don't break up their highlights between years? Like it's a whole whole your whole career highlights. This was just the 2024 highlights. Yeah it was ridiculous.

Prescott 00:36:54  Crazy man. Jay took he had a tweet that really got me thinking about what it was. It's like this draft is full of winter coats and clothes for Christmas.

Prescott 00:37:06  It wasn't anything sexy. You didn't get a PlayStation? You didn't get a motorcycle, but you got stuff that you needed. And, you know, two years from now, you're going to you're still going to have those clothes from Christmas. This is winter coats and clothes for Christmas. You got to be a real draft crazy person to appreciate this draft. And that's why I'm like, man, I'm really liking this draft.

Eddie 00:37:27  It was almost the fact, like, yeah, we all.

Prescott 00:37:31  Know it. It was no gimmick players in here. It was just straight football players across the board. And that was really what impressed me the most.

Eddie 00:37:39  Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. I 100% agree with that. I think, a lot of people didn't really know how we were going to go in and what kind of scheme like everybody's like, gotta grab these playmakers in the beginning and you gotta grab a receiver. Which receiver are we going to draft? We're going to grab Golden. Ashton turned out to be just a that was a dream that we should have cut off a long time ago.

Eddie 00:38:02  Yeah.

Prescott 00:38:03  But that guy.

Eddie 00:38:05  The simple fact of it is that after every pick, we were like, oh, who is this guy? Oh, he kind of read about him and then you start reading more about him and you're like, how did this guy get to us? How did this guy get to us? And then like, by the fourth pick, like, how did this how did this guy get to us? I know that we didn't draft how we wanted, but we got players that were absolutely out of our range at that exact moment.

Prescott 00:38:30  Our first three players that we picked all had first round grades on them, so we got first, second and third like the highest. one of them was was 28.

Eddie 00:38:40  I don't think any, any, any of the picks that we picked people, I don't I didn't say why did we pick them there? Jesus. The only thing, the only one that I would have said maybe was, the trade up for the linebacker. I don't know him very well.

Eddie 00:38:55  I don't know very well at all. He really liked them a lot. So. So something had to have happened there, but it just didn't. It didn't make sense why we did that. But we had a plan and we followed it. Yeah. The, the one thing, with the film pick was was different in the war room was nobody was in the room. Jerry Jones and Jerry Jones Jr. Were face to face and Jack Jones Jr was like he was adamant. And he was like pointing at Jerry. And he was like using his hands. And then Jerry clapped his hands and they turned around and everybody came in the room and they picked this guy. So somebody had this guy on their radar, and they were like, we're going to draft him. So I wonder, I wonder if that story will come out. Yeah.

Prescott 00:39:44  Kind of like see how that goes.

Eddie 00:39:46  Like the new story came out like. Yeah. You know, a couple of years ago.

Prescott 00:39:50  Because they had, it was a couple running backs that was still on the board when we got him.

Prescott 00:39:56  Like what? What what? So we got him in the seventh, right?

Eddie 00:39:59  We got him in the seventh at, 239.

Prescott 00:40:05  Because it was somebody else that came after him. no no no no no no. And this was, No, I'm talking about the Texas running back before blue.

Eddie 00:40:18  Yeah. It was, I know what you're talking about.

Prescott 00:40:22  I meant to see.

Eddie 00:40:22  Who it was. Damien Martinez. Damien Martinez was sitting right there.

Prescott 00:40:26  Martinez. And that's who. Everybody was like, man, how you picked this guy and didn't pick Martinez. And it's like, I don't know, man.

Eddie 00:40:32  Everybody was saying the same thing on the draft show. They're like, did, actually, Vox said it. He was like, Did Damien Martinez kill somebody? Because I have no idea why he hasn't drafted. He he I'm going to say one thing watching that draft show, I really hope that they bring back next year and the year after because he he he wasn't supposed to be there. They brought him in and he was he was really good.

Eddie 00:40:59  He brought something different that these other guys don't usually bring. He kept asking questions. They were like, oh, I didn't even think about that. And like he had he had a comedic, like a pause to it. Like it wasn't so serious at all, all the time. I really enjoyed.

Prescott 00:41:14  It, but these were the names that people were saying that were bad. Like when we pick blue, like Giddens was after him, Neil came after him, Taj Brooks and Damien Martinez. Those four were like the big names that people were like, how do you pick blue before him? And I'm like, I think because they knew they were going to get filmed for the big guy. So they could be.

Eddie 00:41:35  Could be that that was a plan. Like, if we get this guy, we should get this guy kind of this guy, this guy, compliments this guy. But yeah, I also, you know, we these guys came in for visits. The other guys, we didn't.

Eddie 00:41:50  I mean, I think we brought in Paul Brooks, but we didn't bring in the other guys for for multiple visits and things like Giddens was like a, like a cup of coffee visit and, you know, things like that. So.

Prescott 00:42:01  So say before we leave out of here is PFF gave grades and they gave us an A+. A lot of the places gave us like the worst. The worst one they actually gave us was like a lot of people saying the worst draft pick, even though it wasn't bad. It's probably the blue, the blue pick because he has a fumbling problem. And out of all the running backs, they said we probably could have got a more every down back besides him because he's not really a every down back. But we'll see. Like, I mean if a C because that was the only C I saw was for him, everybody else was a B and A. So if that's the only C we got then I think we made out really, really well when it comes to plays.

Prescott 00:42:40  But you never know.

Eddie 00:42:41  After after we picked blue and we kind of were winding down for a little bit, we had to wait for a little bit. I was a little upset. I was like, if if blue was the only guy that we got out of this whole running back class and receiver class, you know, he was the only one. I was going to be pissed. Yeah, but it wasn't it wasn't the case.

Prescott 00:42:59  It wasn't like in my eyes. I think that means that we're going to get a run and we might get another running back. I wouldn't leave that out the realm of possibility. And I think we're definitely, definitely going up to getting the wide receiver somebody Kenneth Allen, maybe even trading for Pickens. But then now it's too late for those teams want don't want to pick next year. And they wanted to pick this year so.

Eddie 00:43:20  Well no I think I think that'll happen. You know if if the Steelers want to get him off the payroll, then they'll do whatever they need to and we'll and we'll we'll send them something.

Eddie 00:43:31  But the it's the it's the free agent receivers that we I mean Amari is still out there too. And there's like 3 or 4 receivers and there's a couple.

Prescott 00:43:38  Still out there Amari still out there Keenan Allen is still out there. I'd be happy with in in order I'd rather go Amari because he's been here Keenan Allen and then Deontay Johnson. Those are my three in a row.

Eddie 00:43:52  Brandin cooks is still out there too. And you.

Prescott 00:43:55  Know he.

Eddie 00:43:55  Is. You know who's coming back is third. And Renfroe is making a comeback. Did you hear that man.

Prescott 00:44:02  Third and Renfroe man I was so mad we didn't get him last year. We needed.

Eddie 00:44:05  Him. And so the. What was weird? I really liked, I don't know if anybody saw, but the Raiders drafted two quarterbacks back to back. They did. And they were both FCS quarterbacks that played in the FCS national championship against each other that year. So they they drafted both of them. But that one quarterback that they drafted from Montana State, he he won the equivalent of the Heisman.

Eddie 00:44:30  And we worked him out like a week and a half ago because he's going to be he's he's turning into a wide receiver. He's going to be like a slot guy that just gets open.

Prescott 00:44:39  So yeah, he didn't do what the Browns did and draft two quarterbacks even though they already picked up two quarterbacks.

Eddie 00:44:47  The Raiders picked two quarterbacks and they signed, Gina.

Prescott 00:44:52  Yeah.

Eddie 00:44:53  Browns have five starting quarterbacks on there. I mean, there's two rookies you want to say starting, but there's five NFL caliber quarterbacks on that team right now. Yeah. Crazy.

Prescott 00:45:06  That's strange. So we'll see how that goes. But anyway, so a plus is what we've been getting. A's across the board. You might see a few random people who just hate the Cowboys. Pick like give them like, a C. But overall, I think you did excellent.

Eddie 00:45:20  Have you seen a grade yet? Have they given us? Have you seen any grades?

Prescott 00:45:25  I've only seen. PFF give us A+.

Eddie 00:45:27  But it'll give us an A plus for the whole draft.

Prescott 00:45:31  Plus for the whole draft, I'm telling you. And then the scene was a C for C was a, they gave blue a C and that was the lowest grade we had on a player. But overall we got an A+. Yes. All over Twitter.

Eddie 00:45:42  That's insane.

Prescott 00:45:45  Man.

Eddie 00:45:46  Last time we got a fucking a anything. We're going to put this draft on the refrigerator.

Prescott 00:45:51  People are upset. But to be fair to the front office, shiny. And all those they told us before the draft what they were going to do, and they did it. So it wasn't like it was a surprise. Like last year. You know, Jerry was blowing smoke up our bus like, oh, are we gonna do this? We're all in. And then they just went completely different this year. They told us exactly what they were going to do, and then they did it. And people were still mad, like, why don't you get a receiver? He's like, he told you what we were going to do.

Prescott 00:46:15  So listen.

Eddie 00:46:16  I didn't. I just say that the other day, right after I left, right after I watched that that LA nation podcast where cowboy was our boss. Cowboy was like, if you guys would just listen to our head coach, he's telling us that he's not going to draft a receiver. Yep, the receiver is not in the picture.

Prescott 00:46:35  And they did not want to listen.

Eddie 00:46:36  So which receiver are we going to get? We're going to get ten. Are we going to get golden. You're like it's like talking to your teenager. You're like lifting. You can't use the car this weekend.

Prescott 00:46:46  You learn you learn man. Overall I am happy with draft. And we got some players coming back. We got Diggs coming back. over. Sean won't be till later in the year. Sam Williams will be back before the season start. So we've got some players coming back. I think we're in a good spot.

Eddie 00:47:03  Wait, what is this? I just got an alert. Cowboys trade six round pick to Buccaneers for Shilo Sanders.

Prescott 00:47:15  Oh, so you have me listening. Yeah, me listening to you. Breaking news.

Eddie 00:47:18  You really saw news right now. I'm.

Prescott 00:47:22  I'm I'm still trying to get some some tweets. Man.

Eddie 00:47:25  I'm still sending your son that, Shiloh Sanders Jersey man.

Prescott 00:47:29  All I had to do is. Just went in there and dusted off their their old Deion Sanders jerseys like he had 21.

Eddie 00:47:36  That's what I'm saying. That's why Jerry was so happy.

Prescott 00:47:39  I thought he's going to have to fight a seat belt for it because Carson is 21.

Eddie 00:47:44  Oh yeah. Yeah. The Carson for the 2140.

Prescott 00:47:49  Yeah, but I would have paid the 40 grand or whatever it takes to get the jersey.

Eddie 00:47:53  Then Dan would have had some, some some tall men meet him up in the corner and be like, hey, you don't like that one anyway?

Prescott 00:48:03  Anyway, but that's all we got folks. We'll come back next week, give us some more feedback and give you some more feedback from what the team is saying. Hopefully they'll make some moves by next week when they'll be come and talk to you.

Prescott 00:48:15  So stand by and we'll come to Eddy. Tell the people how you feel before we head on out.

Eddie 00:48:21  You know how things don't go to bed angry for your kids. You love them. That's right. Here.

Prescott 00:48:28  Draft weekends over all you dynasty fantasy people. Y'all get to it. It's time to draft and see.

Eddie 00:48:34  Your face all over you. There for you, DFA.

Prescott 00:48:37  Yeah.

Eddie 00:48:38  We'll see. We'll see how it goes. And then and then and then we get to turn Madden on and try to.

Prescott 00:48:44  Add the players.

Eddie 00:48:47  All right man.

Prescott 00:48:48  So y'all be cool. We're out next week.

Eddie 00:48:51  Oh DC for life.