Which of our ROOKIES have the BEST chance to START?

In this episode of the Victory Formation Podcast. Today we dive into the aftermath of the NFL draft, discussing player signings, roster dynamics, and the potential impact of undrafted free agents. We analyze key draft picks, and debate the depth chart positioning of quarterbacks Will Grier and Joe Milton. We also highlight the significance of leadership qualities in players like Booker and the emotional weight of jersey numbers. Finally, we wrap up with a sense of optimism for the upcoming season. LFG!!!!!

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Introduction and Welcome (00:00:05)
The hosts introduce the podcast and express excitement about discussing recent NFL events.

Draft Recovery and Emotional Reactions (00:00:54)
Speakers share their feelings about the draft and unexpected player signings, highlighting emotional responses.

Quarterback Dynamics: Sanders Situation (00:02:01)
Discussion on Sanders draft to the Browns and implications of drafting another quarterback immediately after.

Free Agent Signings Overview (00:04:40)
Hosts review recent signings, focusing on undrafted free agents and their potential impact on the team.

Undrafted Free Agents and Team Dynamics (00:06:39)
Conversation about the history of undrafted free agents, their hype, and the team's expectations.

Rookie Class Projections (00:14:52)
Speakers analyze the drafted rookies and discuss who might become starters in the upcoming season.

Offensive Line Predictions (00:20:42)
Debate on the best offensive line configuration and the practicality of player positions based on performance.

Here are the extracted timestamps and their corresponding titles in chronological order:

Discussion on Booker’s Leadership (00:21:51)
The speakers discuss Booker's role as a leader and play caller at Alabama.

Rookie Numbers Assignment (00:23:34)
They talk about the significance of rookie numbers and their motivational implications.

Personal Experiences with Jersey Numbers (00:24:30)
Speakers share personal anecdotes about their own experiences with assigned jersey numbers.

Controversial Jersey Numbers (00:25:30)
Discussion on players requesting specific numbers and the reactions from current number holders.

Lawrence Taylor’s Legacy (00:26:04)
The speakers reflect on Lawrence Taylor's impact and controversial behavior during his career.

Ed Reed's Playing Style (00:28:11)
Discussion on Ed Reed’s unique style of play and his ability to read quarterbacks.

Comparing Coaching Styles (00:28:25)
Speakers compare different coaching styles and their effects on players’ performance.

Drafting Strategy Insights (00:35:00)
Insights into the Cowboys' draft strategy and their targeted players during the draft.

Running Back Draft Trends (00:37:24)
Discussion on the trends of running back selections during the draft and its implications.

Danny Amendola’s Undrafted Journey (00:40:07)
Speakers recount Danny Amendola's unique path to the NFL as an undrafted free agent.

Upcoming Signings (00:43:09)
Discussion on potential player signings, including Parsons, Bland, and Tyler Smith.

Closing Thoughts (00:43:27)
Eddie shares his feelings and suggests it's time to wrap up the episode.

Encouragement to Listeners (00:43:33)
A reminder to show love to those close and avoid going to bed angry.

Transcript

Intro 00:00:05  Yeah. Come on. Here we go. Here I come. Here we go. Here. Come on. Here we go. Yeah, yeah.

Intro 00:00:14  I'm blue when I fall through a lot. Do not like. How you're walking with a lion. Got me feelin like Mike. I've been known to wear 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 Prescott. Everybody like there ain't no brakes, no rest stop. We tryna get your head chopped. The whole club yellin everybody.

Prescott 00:00:36  Here we go, here we go. Victory Formation podcast. This is Prescott. That's your boy Eddie. Eddie, tell the people how you feel.

Eddie 00:00:45  Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. We've missed you in the last two days. Where are we in two days?

Prescott 00:00:52  Yeah.

Eddie 00:00:54  We're, we're all recovered from the. From the draft antics and the and the and the not. In the the late signing of cheddar.

Eddie 00:01:03  You guys okay? I know.

Prescott 00:01:06  I was worried. I called my therapist and asked him how I should feel. I was like, where's your. I need your to tell me how to feel. I told you.

Eddie 00:01:16  I called in sick, man. I was just because I couldn't believe that he slid.

Prescott 00:01:20  So far to deal with it. Oh, man. All the blatant racism and all that. It was. It was traumatic. I don't know how I'm. I don't know how I'm going to recover, but I'll make it somehow.

Eddie 00:01:29  Yeah. People are kind of taking it anywhere that they want. Right. It's like everywhere online. It's either that people have a very strong feeling about it.

Prescott 00:01:40  Yeah. That's not a big deal at all. Not a big deal at all.

Eddie 00:01:44  Either way, arguing it, you're you're kind of I don't know, I find myself kind of replying to something online and then I kind of say I delete it, I go. It's not even that important to me.

Eddie 00:01:55  Really, it really isn't. I'm making it more of a big deal than it is.

Prescott 00:01:59  So we're,

Eddie 00:02:01  The biggest thing that I want to know is how weird and what an awkward feeling. The for Dylan. Like, he dropped he got drafted in the third round by the Browns.

Prescott 00:02:15  Yeah.

Eddie 00:02:16  And then they just turned around and drafted another quarterback right after. After they have three quarterbacks with him. So what does he do. He's like I'm not going to make this team. Why did you draft me. Yeah I'd be pissed.

Prescott 00:02:27  Now you know what I think is going to happen I think he's going to outplay him and and be higher than him on the depth chart behind Flacco. I, I I'm booking it right now. That's my hot take.

Eddie 00:02:37  I saw the Toronto Argonauts signed him today for a they took it they took Scheider's name in their draft or they signed him and said if he doesn't make the NFL then he's going to be on our team.

Prescott 00:02:50  Yeah. The real quarterback question is, is Will Grier going to be hiring a depth chart than Joe Milton.

Prescott 00:02:58  That's the real quarterback question ESPN should be asking.

Eddie 00:03:02  There's no way. Why, why, why in the world would our front office put somebody that doesn't make any money above him unless he's really, really doing a lot better?

Prescott 00:03:12  He might be good. Will Graham might be good. Wasn't he the one that when Dak called his his last game of preseason, he just went off and he had a real good game. Wouldn't let him.

Eddie 00:03:22  Yeah.

Prescott 00:03:22  But when they let that call to play.

Eddie 00:03:24  It was it was the fourth game. It was the fourth, game. And that's when everybody was just trying to make the team. So they played all. Yeah. Nobody.

Prescott 00:03:33  I mean, he was good.

Eddie 00:03:34  He was better. Have a play. You better have a good game. Had you been in the league for seven years, you've been making money, right? I, I.

Prescott 00:03:41  Don't. So the good news.

Eddie 00:03:42  I don't see any I don't see any scenario where Will Grier is our backup quarterback? Over Milton.

Eddie 00:03:49  There's no way.

Prescott 00:03:50  That's.

Eddie 00:03:50  Good.

Prescott 00:03:50  So the good news is it was no good or bad news the last few days. Nothing extreme. The only the only the only crazy news that happened was, Ben Donachie got released. So he's on the street in case, Milton or or grid on workout. We can pick up Ben fettuccine. Haven't come through.

Eddie 00:04:12  But, we did have some, before, we were done last, last time, and I think the edf's all got signed, so we can kind of go.

Prescott 00:04:20  Yeah, all of them did all that.

Eddie 00:04:22  We did, we did a knock up job again, like in our second drive.

Prescott 00:04:27  Give us the list, give us the list, and then you give us your favorite.

Eddie 00:04:32  Okay, well, let's see here. Let me share this one with you guys so you can see.

Prescott 00:04:35  Let's do this. We have the technology.

Eddie 00:04:40  We have the technology. So this is the list of the of the signings so far. As you can see we did a pretty good job of grabbing guys that we needed.

Eddie 00:04:52  These are this is a need not want. Right? So we we signed two say two receivers that should have been drafted. This kid right here, Shawn Holden. if we're I was looking I was reading something today about, you know, some scouts who were talking about Redford. And he said Tristan Holden was, I believe he said he was the 39th receiver on his draft board, and Josh Kelly was the 40th. Like, they were right next to each other. They're they should have been drafted and for some reason they didn't. I think Tristan had some disciplinary problems. I don't know about Josh Kelly, but, there are two really good, pickups. I think the. And, if you followed the Cowboys, you know that there is a we give bonuses to these guys, and the bigger the bonus and the guarantee, the more likely they're going to make the team. I mean, it's.

Prescott 00:05:45  Just we believe in us, right?

Eddie 00:05:47  We don't want to throw money away. I think the biggest bonus so far was to Rivaldo for Fairweather, and he has a guaranteed bonus.

Eddie 00:05:56  he's a tight end from Auburn. He also had some some issues at school, and I think that had to do with the reason why he dropped and fell. But we kept in communication with him, and I'm really happy with with a lot of the guys that we signed off the street.

Prescott 00:06:16  So what about your boy? Don't we always have? Don't we always seem to have one guy that's an undrafted free agent who we're like, man, I can't believe he was an undrafted free agent. He's going to come in this team and be a Hall of Famer. And he never pans out like, you know, like how he had Flournoy last year. And we always had one guy every year that we feel man, we we can't let this guy go.

Eddie 00:06:39  To.

Prescott 00:06:39  Draft. You know to waivers we draft. Oh well, whoever it was a receiver we had last year that was an undrafted guy who we were sure was going to be big, a big deal. But every.

Eddie 00:06:50  Year it.

Prescott 00:06:50  Seems like.

Eddie 00:06:52  The year before last it was that safety. Remember from.

Prescott 00:06:55  Oh yeah.

Eddie 00:06:55  Yeah, yeah. From.

Prescott 00:06:56  You always.

Eddie 00:06:57  Have.

Prescott 00:06:57  One player. Yeah. We always have one player who we feel like, man we can't, we can't put we can't release him. Someone's going to snatch him up and then nobody snatches him up. And then 2 or 3 years later we never remember that name ever again. That's Myles Austin I think.

Eddie 00:07:13  That's a that's one. But I mean we also have had quite a bit of success stories from the EDF base. Right. Right now our right tackle our starting right tackle was a UCLA.

Prescott 00:07:23  Yeah but but but but but but nobody was like man how did that guy make it.

Eddie 00:07:28  Turpin was a.

Prescott 00:07:30  Yep. Same win. No I'm I'm talking about the ones that we were so sure like man how did this guy make it. How did nobody draft him. We had a second round grade on him. Somehow he's an undrafted free agent. None of those guys ever make it.

Eddie 00:07:43  You're going to have to come up with an example of that, because I can't think of one person I know.

Prescott 00:07:48  Know what I'm saying? It. It is none. It. We've never had one that came in with a lot of hype that that held on to the hype. Like we've had some successful, like you said, like Turpin and all that.

Eddie 00:07:58  What I'm saying is that your example of a person that we loved that didn't.

Eddie 00:08:05  Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I see the same.

Eddie 00:08:07  You're gonna have to come up with one because I can't think of one right now.

Prescott 00:08:10  I can, I can find that. I can find that.

Eddie 00:08:13  so our our. Our free agents, our, obviously they're going to come to the team and they're going to try to establish a role. I think Holden, we probably were talking to Holden all day because of Junior Adams. Yeah. And I'm really I'm really excited about that. So, let's, we can also talk about some of the other free agents that got signed by other teams.

Eddie 00:08:42  Obviously, Shiloh didn't get signed, but he got signed right away. He was like one of the first phrases to sign Tampa Bay went out and they signed their free agents like and then that in like 30 minutes. It was crazy. Yeah, he he went.

Eddie 00:08:56  To.

Eddie 00:08:57  He went to Tampa Bay. so some of the other big signings, it gets to the point. I was watching the draft show the other day where some of the players were like, it's almost to the point where you don't want to be picked in the sixth or seventh round.

Prescott 00:09:16  Hey, you don't like you like forget that, because then you don't get to pick where you go.

Eddie 00:09:21  Well, it's it's not only that you don't get to pick where you go. It's also financially a huge because, if you're drafted in the in the seventh, you have a four year deal. If you are a UFA, you get a two year deal. So if you go out and you ball out your second year, you can make you can start making money right away if you.

Eddie 00:09:41  Yeah, if you were drafted in the seventh, you have to wait another two years, still making seventh round draft pick money. And your.

Prescott 00:09:49  Ball right? Yeah.

Eddie 00:09:51  You're making, like, 147,000 a year. People are laughing at you. It's just. But anyways, let me go ahead and.

Prescott 00:10:01  I'll go back three. I'll go back three years and see what it looked like. Hold on. Let me see. Oh, man, I thought I had the undrafted one for 2021. Hold on.

Eddie 00:10:11  So we did the undrafted. Some of the bigger ones were, you know, three years ago. it was that defensive end that we we played the game of putting him on the practice squad and he got pulled. And I think that's what jaded us. It was the defensive end linebacker that got pulled by the Titans I believe.

Prescott 00:10:30  All right so I'm looking at so let's go to 2023 2023 though like man we thought Cropper was going to be a big deal. We thought.

Eddie 00:10:41  He's.

Prescott 00:10:41  Going to be a big deal But you know what? You know what? The biggest one.

Prescott 00:10:46  And what I'm saying the the most hype person out of that whole class was Isaiah Land. Do you remember that guy?

Eddie 00:10:52  That's what I'm talking about. Isaiah Land is the guy that we didn't protect. And he got. Yeah.

Prescott 00:10:57  And he got put and and he said like and he went to Indianapolis where ever flew. not ever went to coach anymore. He, he already left. But he's been there. He haven't heard a single thing about him. He's not like a rotational starter or anything like that. Then the year before that, the one we had hyped the most, I would say is probably then we had a guy named, Ty Frye Fogle. Well, I would say either Peyton had the shot or Malik Davis. No, no, no. Dennis Houston that that that wide receiver we had high hopes for.

Eddie 00:11:36  Don't even get me started on Houston. Dennis Houston adamantly screaming at people when they said, But Dennis Houston's going to make the team. He's dad's favorite fucking receiver. Oh give me.

Prescott 00:11:47  A. Yeah I remember that.

Eddie 00:11:48  Oh I would fight with people. I literally wanted to physically fight with people because they liked Houston. And I was like, he's he's ridiculous. He's just a right now. It was that was because lamb wasn't playing. He was hurt.

Prescott 00:12:00  Yeah.

Eddie 00:12:01  and also we we didn't have any other receivers. So some, some random guy that Dak was was actually finding wide open people were thinking was going to make. Yeah. There was no way he was going.

Prescott 00:12:12  To in 2021. It really wasn't anybody I remember I mean Nick Ralston he was a tight end. We had Tyler Coyle as a defensive back. But no no names pop out. We had TJ basher as a wide receiver. I remember him getting a little bit of pub, but so I was wrong in 2021. But 2022 2023 last year is always, you know, one guy who's like, man, we can't let him get to waivers. Like, we'll never get him back. So I just want to I just want to see who that person is on the team now.

Eddie 00:12:42  Who was it last year?

Prescott 00:12:45  2024? Let me see who I didn't even look up to. 2024. It seemed like that was too fresh.

Eddie 00:12:53  But I mean, some of those guys that you named off, they're still on our squad.

Prescott 00:12:57  Yeah, but you know what I'm saying? The one who was, like, hyped because a lot of them made it like like Marquis Bell and TJ bass and like you said, steel. But but none of those guys came in like, oh, man, this guy's going to be great for us type thing. And then ended up.

Eddie 00:13:11  Oh.

Prescott 00:13:12  You.

Eddie 00:13:12  Know.

Prescott 00:13:12  Actually being.

Eddie 00:13:13  Great. It was it was a span forward. And he did.

Prescott 00:13:16  Stand for he had he had the big.

Eddie 00:13:18  Time.

Prescott 00:13:18  He did play tight end the big blocking tight end. And and he was pretty good. He was pretty good.

Eddie 00:13:23  He actually played a lot. It was crazy. So I mean you know we did pretty good. It's hit or miss.

Prescott 00:13:28  Yeah. But we always do good because they always put the they.

Prescott 00:13:32  Oh Cam Johnson I remember him the the the wide receiver. Everybody had high hopes for him And Julius Wood, the safety from East Carolina. Everybody had high hopes for him. They thought he was going to do pretty good.

Eddie 00:13:44  But that's a guy that got stolen from us and I was pissed.

Prescott 00:13:47  I loved it, Denzel Jackson, he's from the Bahamas. I remember that guy. I was hoping he would make it anyway.

Eddie 00:13:54  He he did. He was on. He's still on our squad.

Prescott 00:13:57  No, I was hoping he's going to make a bigger splash. I was hoping he's going to make, like, a big deal.

Eddie 00:14:01  They were. He was one of the guys that showed up for the the rookie camp that, that Michael went to just a couple of days ago right before the draft.

Prescott 00:14:10  Oh, okay.

Eddie 00:14:11  All right. Yeah. Because the guy was like, he's like, what? I keep calling this guy Jackson, but his last name is Jackson.

Prescott 00:14:17  Jackson.

Eddie 00:14:18  Oh, that's the dude from the islands.

Prescott 00:14:20  Yep. so. All right, so next thing we're going to do looking at our rookie class, how many rookies did we have? Like 9 or 10 drafted and not the undrafted guys. Forget those guys. The actual drafted guys out of all of those. Who do you think could end up being a legit starter this year? Not, not. Oh, three people got injured, so he's starting now. Not that kind of start. I'm talking about someone who, like, comes in and plays so well, they're like, man, we gotta play this guy. Who do you think?

Eddie 00:14:52  I think right off the bat, I think all three of the first three will play big roles. Big, big roles.

Prescott 00:15:00  I agree too.

Eddie 00:15:01  Booker's going to come. Booker's going to start from day one.

Prescott 00:15:04  Yeah he will for sure.

Eddie 00:15:07  And then.

Prescott 00:15:08  I think they're gonna, he's as a racoon only because they have Fowler and Sam Williams should be back, and they have Fouler and they still have a kneeling.

Prescott 00:15:19  Kneeling. Neilan played pretty good before he got hurt.

Eddie 00:15:21  Depending on what. But. But they're not interchangeable. You have to understand that they're not like, wide receivers or defensive ends.

Prescott 00:15:30  They play. Yeah, yeah, yeah I agree.

Eddie 00:15:31  So like Kneeland is going to he's always going to be on the strong side and zero is he's undersized so he'll never play strong side.

Prescott 00:15:40  Yeah, he won't be.

Eddie 00:15:42  Weak Michael plays weak side or we put him in the gaps. Yeah. Sam Williams Sam Williams is a guy that maybe might be able to transition to the strong side. But right now he plays weak side. and then the other guys that we have on the squad as defensive end, are they. I think I named them all, didn't I?

Prescott 00:16:03  Yeah, I think, I think the first thing you're going to be there, but I think, I don't think Revell like I think they'll alternate them in, but I don't think he'll start. I think that Elam guy is going to start in place of bland when they bring rebel like along slowly instead of throwing him out there.

Prescott 00:16:20  I think rebel will be the first instance to where he is only playing because either Elam got hurt or whatever. I think they'll have Elam ahead of rebel unless he just balls out which which I don't think he will. Coming back from that knee injury, I don't think he's going to be like the guy he was in college yet. He might be toward the end of the season, especially next year, but I don't think he starts based off skill. He might start based off injury in case bland goes down. Carson goes down or Elam goes down. And so that's how I look at him. But the first two are easy. And Booker, I think we can book them as starters I think I think easy will actually be out.

Eddie 00:17:04  Fowler.

Prescott 00:17:04  Was a Sam Williams. Oh I think that's going to get Fowler to play.

Eddie 00:17:09  I don't I don't think that you can say we have a starting defensive ends. We have.

Prescott 00:17:13  Yeah I'll think about that too man. It's like they they don't play.

Eddie 00:17:17  In a rotation of 3.

Prescott 00:17:18  Or 4. Yeah.

Eddie 00:17:18  Because because because.

Prescott 00:17:19  Nobody plays more than 60% of the snaps. So that was kind of a catch 22 because, because nobody plays the majority of the time. like.

Eddie 00:17:29  A day back in the day, we used to call starters because you started and you basically played the whole game. You still played you nowadays. The the game has evolved so much that, I mean, they you rotate. The only positions that really don't rotate are.

Prescott 00:17:45  The starters were the first like if you want if you were there for the first play of the game, that's what made you a starter. But like for instance, kneeling. Kneeling might be there for the first play of the game because he's a good run stopper. But then when the pass comes in, they might take him out and put in easy or foul or whatever. So it's not really a he's a starter. He's just for that particular defense.

Eddie 00:18:05  I mean, if you think about it all, if you look at all 22 positions, the only guys that don't rotate are the five offensive linemen in the court.

Eddie 00:18:14  Yeah, yeah. Everybody else.

Prescott 00:18:16  Everybody else rotates. But but usually cornerbacks, the outside cornerbacks usually stay the same unless they get hurt.

Eddie 00:18:22  Well though. But they're they're not locked into a this is where I play. Like they can. Yeah exactly. Yeah. They can move around, they can run around. They can play in different but don't.

Prescott 00:18:32  But those who usually stay. Stay, stay the same. Like whenever they change it, like nickel or dime. They might change linebackers and safeties, but usually the cornerbacks stay the same too. I'm thinking along the lines of who plays a lot? Like whenever you put what percentage of the snaps like quarterback will play 100%. All five linemen will play 100%, and then the next highest one is usually the cornerbacks. And then other than that, it's it's tough.

Eddie 00:18:58  I think the guess of who's going to start and who's going to play a majority of the plays and stuff. We won't know any any of that. Anything that we say right now is complete and utter a guess because.

Prescott 00:19:11  Yeah it is.

Eddie 00:19:12  Pads. Come on, we'll know. We don't know what what the Elam has left. We don't know for sure.

Prescott 00:19:18  Don't. Yeah. They haven't seen this guy.

Eddie 00:19:21  75% Shavon Rivera is better than 100%, you know, bland.

Prescott 00:19:26  Right, Caleb Carson or whatever.

Eddie 00:19:28  Yeah, exactly. I mean, we could. So. So that's what everybody's like. You know, all these all these camps and everything. And people are going to be. When the when the camps start. Because they're going to start soon. They start next, next month. People are going to say, oh look, look at look who's starting here and there. It doesn't.

Prescott 00:19:44  Matter.

Eddie 00:19:45  It doesn't matter. Yeah.

Prescott 00:19:46  Because they're going to look to see what they have. So like people always look at that. And you know those the, the the the beat writers would be like man, looks like Caitlyn Carson is getting the majority of snaps today. But that's because the coach said, let's let's put him out there and let's see what he's got today.

Prescott 00:20:02  And then and then the next day they'll put somebody else. So you can't go off of that. Like, well, he had the majority of snaps, so that means they look like him the most. And so you really.

Eddie 00:20:09  Can't reminds me of my it reminds me of my freshman year in college. when I was playing running, I was I always was like in first in line. I wanted to play, I wanted to start. And like, even on game days, like when you're warming up, I'd step into that starting roll, and they would let me, like, warm up as a starter. Yeah. And then when the game came, I was just a freshman there, like sit down. You warmed everybody up. And I'm like, oh yeah. So yeah. So you gotta we gotta be careful about how we're feeling about who's going to play.

Prescott 00:20:42  So how do you feel about who they're going to go on the offensive line? You think they're going to go with how things were before or with the best five? Because I've seen people say best five, but I seen people say to put the best five out there, it would be Tyler Smith at left tackle, Booker at left guard, Beebe at center, Hoffman at right guard and Tyler Guyton at right guard.

Prescott 00:21:11  I mean right tackle. And they said that like I've seen people saying that that's the best five out there. But I'm like.

Eddie 00:21:17  People. Those people are ridiculous and retarded. Yeah. I'm like they're looking at, you know, and all pro.

Prescott 00:21:24  Guard.

Eddie 00:21:25  To tackle. That's a Madden answer.

Prescott 00:21:28  That's. Yeah, exactly.

Eddie 00:21:30  It doesn't happen that way. So Tyler. Tyler. Which. Tyler. We have three. Tyler's now. Yeah.

Prescott 00:21:37  Guidance is going to be left tackle.

Eddie 00:21:39  Tyler is staying at our left tackle.

Prescott 00:21:42  Yeah. Smith is going to be our left guard. Booker is going to be our right guard. Bebe's going to be our center. And steel is going to be our right.

Eddie 00:21:49  That's the best five offensive lineman we have.

Prescott 00:21:51  I think so too. I think so too. As good as Brock Kaufman is, he's just not better than Tyler. But in my eyes, he's. He's good. Yeah, he's just not as good as Brock.

Eddie 00:21:59  You know what's crazy and I learned about Booker today is that he actually called the plays for Alabama.

Prescott 00:22:06  Yeah I mean, they said he was a leader and center.

Eddie 00:22:09  Most centers will sit down and they'll call the coverage. They'll look at, you know this guy's coming. This guy's coming. You go here, you go here. Booker was that guy. And that's not very often. Do you hear some like a a guard do that. He was brought. He was primarily drafted because he's going to be the leader of our offense.

Prescott 00:22:26  Yes. They said his his attitude and the way he carries himself, like he's going to like, be running that locker room. Yeah.

Eddie 00:22:34  You know, just like at work, you're in a training class with, like, new people. And you might not know it because it might be you, but there there's always somebody in that room that is a future leader, and you can see it right.

Prescott 00:22:47  Off the bat, and you can tell just by the way they work. You can tell. Yeah. But, yeah, but I think that that's the best vibe.

Prescott 00:22:54  And I think that's how it's going to be. And I'm glad that they didn't do the whole let's draft this guy and move him somewhere that he didn't he, that he hardly played in college like, you know, even though it worked out with Cooper because he really was a right guard. But I'm glad they didn't draft a right tackle. And like, let's put him in the guard and see what happens type of thing. Well, these guys are playing what they played.

Eddie 00:23:16  Cooper Beebe transitioned to that that center. And it was so, so easy because he worked out with his mom in the backyard and nobody noticed that if you if you had a single mom or if your mom was working out with you too. It just happened. It's just weird. It's weird. It's weird. But I don't.

Prescott 00:23:34  Want to.

Eddie 00:23:34  Disappoint mom about some of the. The rookies. they were assigned some numbers today. Only three of them.

Prescott 00:23:40  Oh, you.

Eddie 00:23:40  Got their actual numbers?

Prescott 00:23:42  Any cool numbers? Any.

Prescott 00:23:43  Any controversial numbers? Like, how do you get that guy? That number? He's a rookie.

Eddie 00:23:47  Yeah. And another thing we got to be careful with, like when these how these numbers are assigned. Because they could be assigned for motivation. Like when Paul I'm gonna I guarantee you I've read the story too. But I guarantee you, when you think about it, Pollard was given number 36. He asked for a number, a running back number. He was given 36, and they said, prove it. They did the same thing to, over Sean. He wanted a number. he wanted he wanted zero. And then he said, fine, I'll take 13. They said, no, you're going to get 35 until you prove to us that you. Yeah.

Prescott 00:24:27  So that's such a weird number for a linebacker.

Eddie 00:24:30  Oh, man. When I, when I was there, you know, in, in high school, I got brought up to varsity as a sophomore and I was like, yeah, you know, I'm a I'm a punk little, cocky little, sophomore kid.

Eddie 00:24:40  I'm coming in. I was like, I want my 22. And my coach said, no, you're getting a number. He gave me 30. 37. He gave me 30. So I was like, what is. It was like the ugliest thing I looked at it at.

Prescott 00:24:53  I don't even know who. I don't even know anybody had this number before like that.

Eddie 00:24:57  I'm like, this is so ugly. But it motivated me. I didn't I.

Prescott 00:25:01  Think Darrell Washington had it for the Cowboys back in the day.

Eddie 00:25:04  Yeah, I think there's some notable 30s it has to be.

Prescott 00:25:07  But like like the the like the one you're talking about like who's like blasphemous like that dude for the Giants Abdul Carter went number three. He's been asking for lights number 56. But What he's been asking in, in a in a respectful way. He's not saying like I don't care about like he's like, man, I want a BLT. So give me his number like that. So I don't mind. But like light.

Eddie 00:25:30  Light said no. He's like I don't I don't care if I'm out with no double zero. You gotta make that number yours. You're not me. He said you're not me. So when I.

Prescott 00:25:40  Get someplace, you just can't ask for their number, man. You can't ask for Emmitt Smith number. Oh, you can ask for, you know. Oh, man.

Eddie 00:25:46  This people have this, like this love for Lawrence Taylor. Like this. oh my gosh. But they you don't remember the time when you go back to if you lived in that time and you were a fan of football with little. It was a dick.

Prescott 00:26:04  He was he was terrible. He was a terrible human being. Yeah. The only reason they put up with him, because he was unstoppable. Like, if he kind of, like, should do a Sanders, you should do it. Sanders was the second coming of Tom Brady. Nobody would care. Nobody would care about his his interviews. But because he's, you know, middle of the road, he could be good.

Prescott 00:26:23  He could be great. But right now he's just middle of the road. They end up putting up with that.

Eddie 00:26:27  He doesn't even know the names of the teams that he was playing.

Prescott 00:26:30  Man it's.

Eddie 00:26:30  Crazy. He heard those games, those stories about like yeah, the the quarterbacks have to tell them what teams were playing and the guys that are on the teams that are in your division. And he's like, just tell me where to be. I'll show up. That's because his nose was so full of coke that he didn't he didn't give a shit. He he was a person.

Prescott 00:26:51  Like, I hate the Giants. But my favorite light story, my favorite of all time, was when he was playing and I forgot the guy. I think whoever there when, when, when Parcells was there and they went to the Super Bowl, their defensive coordinator. So they they called a play. You know how they call plays on defense. He didn't do anything that he was supposed to do. But he when he blew up the the tackle and got the sack.

Prescott 00:27:16  When he came to the sideline, his coach was pissed. Like you run the place like we tell you. You do what we tell you to do. Blah blah blah. The very next play they they call the play. Same thing he did exactly the exact opposite of what he supposed to do. He got a strip sack. They return the fumble for a touchdown. He came to the sideline. He looked at the coach like, man, I did it again, didn't I? And I'm like, man, I was like, that was the perfect answer. Like. And that's the type of player that Lawrence Taylor was. And they put up with it because if when he messed up and you know. Whoo hoo hoo. You do that a lot. Ed Reed I would talk to, what I would listen to to, Peyton Manning talk. And he was like, he knew their plays back and forth, so he knew where everybody was supposed to be. But Airdrie would pick him off because he's supposed to play middle deep, right? But he would know, oh, he's going to go to Brandon Stokely on the left hand side.

Prescott 00:28:11  So he would run all the way, blow up the play, Leave his side of his field wide open and pick him off. And he'll be. And and and Manning will be pissed like he's not supposed to be there. He's supposed to be over here on the right hand side. I'm going away from him. But Ed Reed would know that.

Eddie 00:28:25  That reminds me of, like, a coach. A coach's kid that plays center second, third shortstop, right, field. Right. Put him in the middle and he goes everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. Those are the kids that you know you're not organized. You're just a great athlete. And you just make plays no matter what.

Prescott 00:28:41  Yeah. Like what? What? When I played, I would get in trouble with my coach because I played before Steph Curry came in the threes. But I was a good three point shooter. So I'm fast breaks you know like would steal it like like you know you know you let somebody get by you and then you tap the ball to your teammate and then he'll throw it up.

Prescott 00:29:00  So I'll be on a one on zero not stop at the three point line and shoot a three and it'll go in. I mean it'll go in. My coach will still put me on the bench. He was so mad.

Intro 00:29:07  Like, no, you go for the layup.

Eddie 00:29:09  Don't you do the same thing. My my coach. culture. When I remember one time in basketball, we were it was JV and I was going up with my buddy Brian. We got a steal and I'm driving up the court and he tells me off the backboard, off the backboard. And like I could hear my coach, my coach Randy Isaacs rip, rip Isaac. He's a he he just passed away. But I could hear his voice say, you better not. I heard it as I ran back. You know, what I did was I obviously did it off the bat. I threw it off the backboard and.

Prescott 00:29:44  Like you got to.

Eddie 00:29:44  And and and Goodell. Goodell. I think he reversed. He went up and reversed.

Eddie 00:29:50  Tapped it in. We weren't big enough to dunk obviously back then. But it it was pretty sweet. It was awesome. Everybody was cheering. And I just remember Isaacs pointing to the chair next to him. Yeah.

Prescott 00:30:00  You know sitting next to me I'm telling you.

Eddie 00:30:02  And when I went and sat down I could see him smiling and laughing. But he still had to try to prove that point to me. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

Prescott 00:30:10  Exactly. All right, man. That's funny. Before we get off the rails, I do have something. well, we already talked about it before the, the starters. We think those first three are going to start. Yeah.

Eddie 00:30:22  what I wanted to do was tell you about their numbers because their numbers came out today.

Prescott 00:30:25  Oh, yeah, that's right, that's right, that's finished that.

Eddie 00:30:27  We're talking about the numbers. so Booker got 52, which is awesome. That's what he wore in college.

Prescott 00:30:33  okay.

Eddie 00:30:35  Syracuse.

Prescott 00:30:35  That was, Oh, boy.

Prescott 00:30:37  The Williams. Connor Williams had that for a little bit.

Eddie 00:30:40  Yeah. He did. I tried to think of another 52. I couldn't think of anybody that was wearing it again. the the next one is our defensive end. Syracuse. He got assigned number 41. I don't know how long he'll have that.

Prescott 00:30:53  He's not gonna keep that. Yeah, he doesn't let him keep that. I'll be mad if he shows up in the first game of the year with 41.

Eddie 00:31:01  Snapped in that, like, it could be.

Prescott 00:31:02  Like stabbing somebody.

Eddie 00:31:03  That he. Yeah, he wants to. He wants to establish that number. I don't know. The most famous 41 on the Cowboys has to be Terence Newman.

Prescott 00:31:12  Terence Newman. Yep. Man, I don't know what. Why do I remember these people's numbers? Like I have all this useless information. Like, why do I need to know Connor Williams number? He's a no. Like he's nobody. But I know his number for some reason. I don't.

Eddie 00:31:23  Know.

Prescott 00:31:24  But I can't remember my kid's birthday. Go figure.

Eddie 00:31:28  Well, don't worry, because your son's birthday is getting that, that Sanders jersey, remember?

Prescott 00:31:34  Oh, man.

Eddie 00:31:36  And then the last one is, Siobhan Ravel. This one's kind of cool because, I think the Cowboys did this for a reason. They gave him 27. Who wore 27 for.

Prescott 00:31:46  Oh, that's an old, Diggs number.

Eddie 00:31:48  His first. His first year. His freshman year. His freshman year. His his.

Prescott 00:31:52  But then, what's his name? didn't, your favorite player who wears number two? Well, well, well, he left Jordan Lewis. Didn't he wear a 27 as well?

Eddie 00:32:03  At one point? I think he's worth. He wore, 20. 21.

Prescott 00:32:09  Man, I want to say he used the word 27.

Eddie 00:32:12  Well, look it up. We'll look it up. but 27 is going to be. He's going to rock that number. Obviously, I don't know how long he's going to keep it, but I don't think that's too bad of a number for a cornerback right now.

Eddie 00:32:22  Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Prescott 00:32:24  Number 27.

Prescott 00:32:26  And one wonders.

Eddie 00:32:27  People. People. Jordan Lewis.

Prescott 00:32:29  27. For for for the first five years he wore 27.

Eddie 00:32:35  So I, I wouldn't.

Intro 00:32:37  Why.

Prescott 00:32:37  Do I know this? Why do I know this man? I'm mad at myself. I don't need to know. Jordan Lewis number the first five.

Eddie 00:32:42  I just I, I, I probably blocked it out because Jordan Lewis Lewis.

Prescott 00:32:47  He's your favorite.

Eddie 00:32:50  Except for.

Intro 00:32:51  Me anyway.

Eddie 00:32:52  the except for a few plays last year and the year before, but.

Prescott 00:32:57  Yeah, so so so so those are only three.

Eddie 00:33:00  Those are the only three. Yeah. The next numbers will be coming soon. well we'll see.

Prescott 00:33:04  So hopefully giving him 27 will have him mimic Stefon Diggs career. That'll kick start it because if he turns into Stefon Diggs, except I believe he's a more sticky cornerback than Diggs is like he's a cover corner. Diggs is a is a ball hawk. Like he'll cover but he's more. He's trying to get interceptions every time.

Eddie 00:33:27  Yeah. Diggs plays cornerback like a receiver. Yeah there's receivers out there playing this. Ravel is a is a corner. And he's he's more like who was that one dude. Number 31 that we drafted from Connecticut. That really good corner that we used to have.

Prescott 00:33:45  Oh, Byron Jones.

Intro 00:33:46  Byron.

Prescott 00:33:47  How do I know this Byron Jones.

Eddie 00:33:49  Byron Jones was was one of the best corner. I mean, best cover corners that we've ever had.

Prescott 00:33:56  He was.

Eddie 00:33:56  Man. He didn't have a lot of respect. He didn't have a lot of interceptions at all or pass breakups because his.

Prescott 00:34:01  He might have had like three interceptions his whole career. He would. He would never get off the pill. Yeah. He was never getting off the field, even though he only had, like three interceptions. Like the best like, the best guy to do that to me was Darrelle Revis. Darrelle Revis might have averaged 3 to 5 interceptions a year, but he was giving up 22% completion rate the whole game. Like he was just on him like like glue.

Prescott 00:34:27  But it didn't it didn't result in the turnovers. But people just.

Eddie 00:34:32  It started with Dion Low right. Yeah it started.

Prescott 00:34:36  Because then you have.

Prescott 00:34:37  Corner.

Eddie 00:34:38  Corners. Didn't say corners just said you know what that half the field didn't even doesn't.

Prescott 00:34:41  Even.

Prescott 00:34:41  Forget it. He was shut down half a field.

Eddie 00:34:44  He could get down fucking Indian style. The quarterback wasn't even seen.

Prescott 00:34:49  All right.

Prescott 00:34:50  So before we go, I did find one article I wanted to discuss. It was this guy. His name is Dan Rogers. He wrote a article about. It's called ten Things He Learned about the Cowboys during the draft, which I thought were pretty interesting. So I'll name a few of them. So number one. Hee hee hee confirmed that Ted McMillan was their target. If if he made it to 12, he would have got it. Which? Which everybody knew. The other one was they were looking to trade back, which everybody knew, but they just didn't get a good deal. he said that they they were very prepared for exactly what happened when Ted didn't do it.

Prescott 00:35:26  He said they spent an hour rehearsing the exact dilemma that happened with pick 12. Their their their guy was gone. Of course, Jenny and Ted were probably the two they would have picked had they made 12 and they were gone. So what would happen? So they were prepared for that. It wasn't like a shock or like, oh man, they got our guy. What do we do now? Anything like that. But the one thing I found interesting was Walter Nolan. Was there other guy? Jerry let that slip. The, the defensive tackle? Yeah, he was the other guy that they were targeting.

Eddie 00:35:58  They told us the day before the draft was there, like, they were like. And this Walter Nolan guy out of nowhere that everybody wants. Yeah, cowboys really want get him out. Like don't get it.

Prescott 00:36:07  Don't. I think they had Booker rated higher which which which also says that they they stuck to their board like the whole they drafted like talent took precedence over their needs when they got to a place.

Prescott 00:36:22  Even though they didn't necessarily need a D in the D, N was their top rated person, so they took them when they got to.

Eddie 00:36:29  Well, that shows that it shows in the it shows with the second and the third pick that we made, because that second pick there was, there was needs that were there that we could have picked a more like more.

Prescott 00:36:41  Yeah.

Eddie 00:36:41  How can you pass this kid up? Because this guy's gonna. Yeah, this guy could be, you know, like Micah, like generational. Why wouldn't.

Prescott 00:36:47  We exactly.

Eddie 00:36:49  Like.

Prescott 00:36:49  An.

Eddie 00:36:50  Eagle. We don't want to see him.

Prescott 00:36:51  And I have. Yeah. And I have zero problem with that zero problem. I'm glad they they they did that. And another weird thing was they were right about the running back that they didn't start going second and third round for a running back because this that it was 25 running backs got taken in the draft and 19 of them were picked on day three. So six of them went in Thursday and Friday and then 19 went on Saturday out of the 25 running back.

Prescott 00:37:23  So it was very.

Eddie 00:37:24  Good for them. I think they had a plan for them. and I think some of, I think 1 or 2 of them were stolen out from under us for we could get him. I know Damien Martinez. I know for a fact that he, he was because we interviewed him three times and they said that they liked, they.

Prescott 00:37:41  Liked and they wanted. Yeah.

Eddie 00:37:43  And he got he got picked like, like 6 or 7 draft picks for us.

Prescott 00:37:47  Yeah. And it just works out that way. And then one thing that was weird too, was the same thing with the running backs. Linebacker was like that the first two days of the draft. They only. Only four linebackers were chosen in the whole draft. And and for running back. Six running backs were taken on day one. And. I'm sorry. And day one and two and four linebackers were taken on day one and two. And then so after that we we went to linebackers. So they went with, the Shamar James.

Prescott 00:38:18  Once they saw him, that's when they traded up and was like, we gotta get this guy. This is our guy. And another weird thing was they really believe in Jonathan Mingo. Seems like they really believe in this guy. And if if you watch the tape, he put some good tape out there and rush just couldn't get him the ball. But he put some good tape out there. And it was against quality starters.

Eddie 00:38:41  yeah, I agree, but I think people keep saying this because we haven't gone and gone our free agent yet. Everybody, I think people just need to understand that in a, in a couple of weeks or a week or a couple of days, our situation when receiver room can be a lot different.

Prescott 00:38:58  A lot different. There's still there's been a bunch of talk about Amari Cooper Keenan Allen. Oh man. Somebody's already got third and Renfro. So we couldn't get him. But I don't know how Deontay Johnson is still getting signed by teams. But people people are tantalized by his talent.

Eddie 00:39:14  Man he's a the the least productive guy that's been traded and moved around like a four different teams in three years.

Prescott 00:39:23  I'm telling you it's like, well it's like the guy. Yeah. It's like the guy who I mean, the that that one crazy girl everybody talks to, but that one guy, every guy is like, I can fix her. I can fix her. Once she gets with me, things will change. And that's how they are with Deontay Johnson. They feel they can fix him. He has the talent but he's just not getting there man. Right. But anyway. But yeah but those are some some weird facts. Not facts but things that they reported that I thought were interesting about the draft.

Eddie 00:39:49  You know, you know, what's kind of crazy is I've been watching these all these shorts about, the draft process and stuff and, there was a receiver back in the day that we, that we picked up as a free agent. I don't know if you guys remember him Danny Amendola.

Prescott 00:40:07  But Danny Amendola he was undrafted free agent. Yeah.

Eddie 00:40:11  He was he was a hometown kid right. He he's from Texas.

Prescott 00:40:14  Well Texas Tech or. Yeah tech. He went to Texas Tech I think.

Eddie 00:40:19  So so when Alma Amendola wasn't gonna get drafted he knew it. We knew it, the teams knew it. But, he he came to a tryout for us, and he, it was kind of a weird tryout because we we didn't have any quarterbacks to throw. So the actual quarterback that was thrown to him was Troy Aikman was throwing him the ball, and he was running routes against like some real corners. And and the the front office was I don't know if it was like a break or something, but like the front of the scouts weren't watching them. It was just a bunch of players. They were watching this game, this little impromptu game. And, Roger. what? Why am I blanking on his name? one of our best quarterbacks ever. Roger. The Roger.

Prescott 00:41:11  Staubach.

Eddie 00:41:13  Staubach.

Eddie 00:41:13  Staubach. Starbuck was. He was in the group that was watching him. And Amendola went up and he made, like a behind the back one handed grab to to end this little session that they're running right. Everybody was like Troy Aikman was like I can't believe he made that catch. And like nobody saw it. It wasn't on camera. Nobody. The scouts didn't see it or anything. What happened was Staubach went to the front office and he didn't back. But he said, you know, you got you have to sign this kid. You have to sign him. And we signed him to a UFA contract. Unfortunately, he got stolen from us off the practice.

Prescott 00:41:53  Squad got cut and he went and had a great career with the with Tom Brady.

Eddie 00:41:59  But was what was what the whole the whole premise of this is that at this like a rookie like symposium thing where everybody was Amendola was kind of sitting off by himself. Nobody really knew who he was. Everybody was like, you know, everybody's giving attention to all these rookies.

Eddie 00:42:15  And the big time guys had medals all by himself. And then when they announced his name, he got up and shook everybody's hand. Thanks a lot. And he walked up to Roger Staubach and hugged him. And everybody was like, what the hell? Who who is this guy hugging? You know, this guy? And Troy Aikman's high fiving himself. And that's that's the day that Amendola kind of became Amendola to everybody in that in in our organizations as he should have been.

Prescott 00:42:40  Sometimes you just need a chance. Exactly. Sometimes you just need a chance.

Eddie 00:42:45  Little like not in front of the coaches or the scouts. You just playing around with everybody. You go up and make a, like an impression on somebody that has. I mean, wherever you are, if you're at work and you're sitting in the break room and you're careful with how you're talking because somebody could hear you.

Prescott 00:43:00  And paying attention, like.

Eddie 00:43:02  Exactly. They're like, impress somebody. You can impress ideas in the break room. That's pretty amazing.

Eddie 00:43:07  Let me talk to you about that. And it could change your whole trajectory.

Prescott 00:43:09  How it is. Yep. So y'all keep that in mind. Well, that'll do us another week in the books. Hopefully next week we'll have some good news. Such as somebody will be signed, whether it be Parsons Bland or Tyler Smith. Somebody be signed by next week I feel it, I feel it in my plums.

Eddie 00:43:27  So we'll.

Prescott 00:43:28  See. Eddie, tell the people how you feel. Let's head on out. Think it's dinner time?

Eddie 00:43:33  I'm tired today. I'm just tired just so. So be nice to be nice to the people that you love. Tell them that you care about them. Don't go to bed angry. We love you. We'll see you guys next week.

Prescott 00:43:43  That's how we roll I.