Dallas Cowboys Find Three UDFA STEALS!

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Welcome back to the Lot-on Cowboys podcast, part of the Lot-on Podcast Network ORG, your team every day. We'd like to thank you for makingboys podcast, part of the Lotton Podcast Network, your team every day. We'd like to thank you for making us your first listen of the day. Today's episode is brought to you by Monopoly Go PRODUCT. I admit it, I have a competitive side. It is a big fan of Monopoly PRODUCT Go, the mobile hit twist on classic Monopoly.So join your friends and download Monopoly Go now free on the app store or Google Play ORG. Welcome back. I am your host, Marcus Mosier. You can follow free on the app store or Google Play ORG. Welcome back. I am your host, Marcus Mosier PERSON. You can follow me on Twitter at Marcus underscore Mosier. Joining me today, as always is Landon McCool PERSON. You can follow him on Twitter at McCool PERSON, BCB.On today's show, we are taking a look at three of the top undrafted free agents that the Cowboys signed after the 2024 NFL ORG draft. And just off the top, Landon PERSON, I got to say this is a weaker class than what I think we are used to seeing from the Cowboys ORG. Yeah.

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And honestly, I would say that this is a weaker class across the league, right? Because of everything that's happened with the COVID years and the extra extensions that this group got. I mean, the last three years has been so kind of wonky with talent because, you know, the kind of push and pull of people taking the extra COVID year, you know, fourth and fifth year seniors. So what it's ended up doing is draining this yearspecifically undrafted free agent class, right? Like because guys ended up even getting a year early, they got an extra year. And by the time the kind of class got down to the sixth and seventh round, it was pretty slim pickets. So I think what you see is a lot of guys that normally would be undrafted free agents getting selected in the six and seventh round. So yeah, I do agree that it is kind of a weaker class. But I think it's something, it's more to do with the class being weak overall as opposed to the Cowboys ORG,specifically struggling to sign folks. All right,

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let's start with the first, the biggest of the signings that we had, and that's a,

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yeah,

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I don't know, well, literally, figuratively. Uh, it's a tight end from Minnesota ORG, Brevin,Span Ford. What did you see when you turned on his tape?

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This guy's very raw. You know, he is a, he's kind of, uh, what you would expect from an old school kind of raw tied end, right? Uh, he is big body.Like, look at those numbers. He's 6,6 plus. He's 260, you know, at the combine. So like that he really probably was paying closer to 265. Uh, he's got, you know, good arm linked. He's got big hands.Uh, and he's got all the kind of, you know, elements that you want for a tight end in the NFL ORG. Now, he doesn't have, you know, elite speed. You know, as you see here, he's a 477 guy. Doesn't necessarily have.

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Faster than Jake Ferguson.

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But I don't know that he's quite still the kind of athlete.

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He doesn't play. Ferguson PERSON plays so much more athletically than.

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Yeah. And this guy, you know, it's one of those things, too, where he's like, he's really raw in a lot of different ways, right? Like, even the, the, the selling point for this guy that the top line for this guy is a developmental run blocker who could eventually maybe be a very solid tied in two or three right uh i think that where he has the most work to do is as a as a receiver uh he to me he is not a natural catcher of the football like the actual art

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of receiving i don't know how can i push back back that on a little bit? Please, please.

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Because I think if you watch only his 2023 tape, you're 100% right.

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I mean, he had nine drops according to Dane Bruehler in the Beast.

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I mean, it was horrendous. But if you watch some of his early stuff like 2021 and 2022, I mean, nobody's going to confuse him from Rob Grankowski PERSON or anything like that.

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But there were several times on his tape. Like he would make an unbelievable contested catch on the back, you know, on his back shoulder with a guy draped all over him. I have no idea what happened last year. Like he,as a receiver, he looked significantly worse than he did the first two years or the last two years. I don't know what happened. I just want to point that. And even the PFF grades agree. If you're looking with us on YouTube ORG right now, you see the percentile, right?16th percentile receiving grade from 2021 to 2023. If you remove the 2023 season, that's like in the 90th percentile. But he was atrocious this year and it brought that grade way, way down.

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Yeah, I mean, honestly, the drop numbers was not something I was aware of. To me, when I watch him on tape, and again, you're right, I have only watched this year's tape. It looks like he's not natural receiving the football, you know?

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Which is so weird. He's fighting the football, a lot of the times when he's catching it. And there's definitely times when you see it, too too on tape where he's a big body and he's getting hit as he's catching the football. And he can definitely hold on to the football even when being hit.

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It's more the, you know, when he's on the run, can he, you know, contort his body and then get his hands where he needs to and and you know bring bring allow a soft landing for the football and then bringing in like that's where it just looks unnatural compared to when he's trying to move bodies now the other element side of this too is that you know the the kind of top line like i mentioned is that this is a blocking tight in but he's not ready to block in the NFL ORG right now.Like, he's still, like, is learning that aspect of the game as well. His technique is, you know, not perfect. He's a big body, and he's got strength, and he can move folks. And I think that that's something that you can't teach. And that's why he was so highly regarded, I think, because these types of tied-ins that come into the NFL ORG with sort of ready-made strength is pretty rare, right? And especially to kind of get that guy in the undrafted free agency, it's pretty rare. But there is a lot of work left to be done with this guy.

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And I feel like he is a, you know, very much a project at tight end that's going to need at least a year plus to kind of

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get to a point where he's going to be useful as a tight in three or, or two in an offense for the Cowboys ORG.

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All right, Lan, so let me ask you about his role in the NFL ORG. How do you think his game is going to translate to the Cowboys ORG? Do you believe this is somebody that can make the roster as a rookie? I think it's going to be tough.

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You know, I mean, you know, it's funny because on Twitter, I've been seeing a bunch of people talking about like, Hindershot PERSON better watch out and, you know, these guys, this guy's going to take jobs. I think he may be a little bit further away than that, right? Like, I think, you know, if hinder shot can get,you can put on the field right now in a certain couple different roles. And, you know, look, maybe he's disappointed us that he's not what we expected after his first year of exposure in the Cowboys ORG offense. But I just have a hard time seeing Spanford PERSON kind of being a regular contributor soon in this offense. Like he just, there's a lot to his game that still needs to be developed for, you know, you'd feel comfortable putting him out there as a blocker or as a receiver, I would think.

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See, I think he is going to make the 53 man roster because I think he can block in line.

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And I just don't know after Jake Ferguson and after Luke Schoonmaker PERSON, like,

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would you rather have Peyton Hender Shots's PERSON versatility or would you rather have Span Ford's PERSON ability to block in line? And I just have a feeling the Cowboys are going to prefer, first of all, the guy that has more years left on his on his deal and the guy that maybe has a little bit bigger of a body with more power, even if he's a little bit raw. So I do think he's going to make the 53-man roster.

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I see him as a guy that they're constantly trying to shield.

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Maybe he makes the initial 53-man roster gets cut and he spends the rest of the season

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on practice squad, and then he gets his call up call ups for a couple games i could see that i just you know i have a like even if hinder shot isn't on this team next year i i would have a hard time like feeling like he's reliable enough to be part of the game day roster as opposed to a guy that i have on the practice squad that i call up a couple times um we'll see i think that's going to be part of the game day roster as opposed to a guy that I have on the practice squad that I call up a couple different times. We'll see.

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I think that's going to be a really interesting battle after Ferguson, after Schoonmaker PERSON, who makes the team as that third tight end? Is it Hennershot PERSON? Is it John Stevens who was going to make the 53 main roster last year? Or is it span forward? We shall see.I want to talk about a running back who I know at least is intriguing to you,

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to put it nicely.

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Let's talk about Nathaniel Pete PERSON next.

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Well, it's a real tale of two cities with this kid, right? You know, he comes, he's from Missouri ORG. He comes out of college and was, I think, you know, one of the highly ranked running backs out of the state of Missouri ends up going to Stanford ORG of all places. Freshman year, because of some injuries and some other stuff,ends up becoming the kind of primary runner at Stanford and had a pretty decent little career there. And, you know had I think he had something like 600 yards rushing and and I think he still potentially holds the the record for the longest rushing touchdown in Stanford ORG history or or one of the longest ones he had an 87 yards yeah

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yeah and and I think what you see is a guy that's very similar to kind of what you're seeing on

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the razz here is that this is a guy who's very similar to kind of what you're seeing on the RAS here,

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is that this is a guy who's explosive and it can move a little bit, that 4-5-1,

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that's the estimated 40 time there.

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Apparently he ran a 4-3-2 or a 4-34, depending on who you ask, at Missouri Pro Day ORG. So, like, the guy can run, but I also think that that 10-yard split kind of beliles, you know, some of his other issues, right? Is that it's a little bit of a build-up speed, right? Yeah. And so he's, and he has some explosiveness. I mean, you can tell by the vertical and broad there.But when he's trying to get through the hole, it can take a little bit of time. And I think what you see is that he may be a better man gap, you know, kind of power scheme guy than he is a, you know, put your foot in the ground in the wide zone scheme. And I think that kind of played itself out a little bit at Missouri ORG, right? He, he transfers to Missouri ORG. I still think it's probably because he just wanted to graduate closer to home,maybe.

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He got the opportunity to be the starter right away at Missouri ORG, had some kind of mixed results, including, you know, as an Auburn ORG Tiger fan,

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I talked about the fact that he famously fumble lost the game against Auburn ORG in an overtime game in which he was trying to die for the pylon and fumbled the ball in overtime out of the back of the end zone, basically ending the game. And a couple of other series of fumbles and kind of miscuesthat finally resulted in by the fourth or fifth game of his senior season, basically having all his touches taken away. And given to the other running back at Missouri ORG, who I can't remember off the top of his name with this, touch with an S, but he ended up being like the leading rusher in the SEC after this and was they were basically a completely a wide zone scheme so yeah I mean it's justa very weird kind of of of of a pathway to go from starter as a freshman and like this kind of phenom and and Stanford ORG to transferring to Missouri where you basically are benched before the end of your senior year. He's tough to figure out because.

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Really tough.

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Because you could see it.

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Like I watched mostly his Stanford tape, which was 2021.

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I mean, like he would have an unbelievable cut and then would break off a defender.

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And then he would try like one too many moves.

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He's twirling, twirling, twirling to a freedom.

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Yeah. Exactly. And it would negate all this great stuff that he did ahead of time. But what's interesting to me is like he really doesn't have that much college production, he doesn't have that much of a college workload. No.

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Even if you look at the snaps, like for as many years that he was in college football I think he played like 700 career snaps which is not that many there's clearly talent here i've got no doubt that he's a talented player it's just to me it doesn't look like he is a very

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mature runner like it's you know how sometimes like these really good high school kids will come into college and like, they'll think they can outrun everybody to the sideline. Or they can string together three, four moves. You just can't do that,especially in the NFL ORG. You've got to make one cut and then go. And that's your move. I am interested here because you can tell that there's talent. The explosiveness is off the charts. And if you're watching with us on YouTube ORG right now,41 inch vertical and then there's a 10-8 broad jump.

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Both of those numbers are in the 98th percentile or 98th percentile, 96 percentile. Like he is an explosive athlete,

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but he doesn't have the startup speed. You're right. Like he is a buildup speed runner. And it's just a really interesting body type, an interesting style for an SEC ORG running back.

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He's compact Darren McFadden PERSON, right?

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Like where in a sense that he needs that runway to get going a little bit, he's probably not going to be a great zone runner because I think what's the,

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what you're struggling to what you're struggling to kind of quantify as his problem is to me instincts I don't think he has any instincts like I don't think he has any running back instincts or understanding of like that kind of predate natural ability to see the shifting lines like in front of you he doesn't anticipate

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anything that's coming no no no he's got to see the hole

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And then he'll get through it. And that's what it is, right? Is that he, that's why I think he struggles in zone schemes, right? Is that it is very simple, but you also have to kind of feel how the, the hole is developing and then get through. If you pull a guy in front of him and you downblock and create a hole, he'll get through that. Like, you know what I'm saying? That's why I think he's more of a man gapkind of guy. The other issue is, is the hand stuff, right? The fumbling, the, you know, he has small hands. I think he's eight and a half inch hands. And he fumbles a lot at times. So there are like,

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you know, very fundamental running back issues with him, but him with the ball in his hands is explosive. Like, and I think beyond that, too, the other thing that we haven't really mentioned is that not only is the running back, he's a very good kick returner and punt returner, but on top of that, he played a lot of special teams at Stanford ORG, like as a, not just as a kick and punt returner, but as a gunner and other things as well.So I think that's something that really appeals to the Cowboys ORG as well is the fact that potentially get some special teams usage out of him as well. Yeah, I just, it's interesting to see a guy who is the juice. That's like the undrafted free agent, right? Because he has the juice, but it's like, it's, yeah, you could easily see you turn around handing the balland then him running right into the butt of your offensive linemen and then going, oh, and then getting tackled for a loss or slowing down his feet while he waits for a hole to develop and then a lineback are getting through the line of scrimmage of tackle him. So I think that that's where that kind of second nature ability to get away from people to keep his feet clean away from trash. Like all that stuff is still not, you know, natural to him.

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I've got a cop for you.

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And then I want to ask you what you think his role is going to be in the NFL ORG.

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He reminds me a lot of another former cowboy, briefly.

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Oh, dude. I just thought of it.

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I just came up in a name. Is it Christine Michael PERSON?

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No, you know what?

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That's funny because that was one of the ones I wrote down. So that one's good.

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But a different former cowboy who played in the Big 12 ORG.

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Lake Seastrunk LOC. Do you remember Lake Steastrunk FAC?

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Oh, yeah. Of course.

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I'm looking at Seastrug LOC stuff right now on mock draftable. 451, 40-yard dash, 41-5 inch vertical,, 134-inch broad jump, 5-9, 200 pounds. If you remember at Baylor ORG, like put up huge numbers at Baylor, but he got to the NFL ORG and it was just no instincts at all. And it's the reason why he bounced around a million different teams, despite being that talented.I think Nathaniel Pete PERSON's got a little bit of that in him. But I'm hopeful that when he plays behind a better offensive line and he's not just the center of attention for every opposing defense, maybe there's something here. Yeah.

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I mean, I think the idea is let's get him the ball and some space to see what he can do with it. Let's give him a couple of carries with some schemes that fit his play style. Maybe he can do do with it. Let's give him a couple of carries with some schemes that that fit his play style. Maybe he can do something with it. And, you know, that combined with the fact that he has some special teams background, maybe that's enough to kind of cobble together. Again, another kind of practice squad guy that, you know, you'll use up all his call-ups. And he becomes a guy that is a valuable special teams component who can maybe give you a carrier too if you want to kind of change it up in the game. So I think that that would be a good goal for Nathaniel Pete PERSON.All right. Let's talk about a defensive player.

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The Cowboys ORG did not do a great job of loading up talent and undrafted free agency on defense. But there is one linebacker that I think is at least somewhat intriguing. We will get to him next. This episode is brought to you by Monopoly Go PRODUCT. All right, game off. We got to pause to tell you about Monopoly Go PRODUCT.And I know what you're thinking that you guys have talked about Monopoly Go PRODUCT so much over the last couple of weeks. But we're not stopping because there's so much fun stuff in this game to tell you about in Monopoly Go PRODUCT. You can team up with friends for time tournaments where you work together to build up each other's boards.The more that you win together, the more awesome prizes that you unlock. And there's so much to get like unique stickers that you can trade with for your friends to complete albums for big prizes, cool new playing pieces to travel the boards with, and hilarious emojis for taunting friends when you smash their buildings or heist their vaults. Plus Monopoly Go feels new and exciting every day with constantly changing tournaments and challenges.A ton of them include their own unique mini games like digging for treasure. And there's always something new in the timed events to help you wing big, like massive multipliers for everything you win or rent frenzies. There's always something fun to discover it in Monopoly Go PRODUCT. So get off the bench and go download it now for free on the Google Play Store ORG or the App Store, Game on.Welcome back to the Lotton Cowboys ORG podcast. We are discussing three undrafted free agent signings that the Cowboys ORG made. And our final one here is Jason Johnson, a linebacker from UCF ORG. Lanham PERSON, what did you see here?

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Yeah, so it's a guy that looks like he's going to be a special teams player for sure. He's, you know, you see that here, not super athletic linebackers don't get drafted, right? But I think this guy has some good instincts to him. He can take on blocks.He's not afraid to get physical. You know, I think he's just a limited athlete, but he's got good upside in the sense that he's a smart player, it seems like. He was a dot guy for UCF ORG.Clearly, you know, he was the defense of MVP at the Hula Bowl EVENT, which is, you know,

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the Hulah Bowl EVENT is an interesting situation, right?

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Because it takes place in Orlando, which is funny because it's called the Hulah Bowl EVENT. But it also features a ton of UCF ORG players because they're trying to get people.

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Yeah, well, and they're trying to get people to go to the game, right?

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And so the best way to get people to go to the game is have the local team super populated

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into the bowl so that local fans will show up to the game, right? But even having said that, he had a really good game there. He was the guy that was, you know, calling the plays. It seemed like he had the play wrist on. And he had a good game. He was able to make a bunch of tackles.I think for the most part, you know, he is, he's going to be kind of a guy who is a contributor. He's going to be a solid player. That mistackle percentage is like, you know, that's probably part of the reason he's

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number one in the country. Yeah. Yeah.

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He had the lowest mistackle rate of any player, not just linebacker, any player in college football last year, which is impressive.

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Which is probably why the Cowboys ORG liked him.

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You're bringing a guy in.

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Can he play on special teams and can he make a bunch of tackles?

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Sure. We'll figure out everything else. We'll figure out a way for him to make the defense.

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But if you can play on special teams and make tackles and don't miss them, you're going to have a role in the NFL ORG.

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Yeah.

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And he's good enough athlete, not like, you know, he certainly is good enough athlete for what he's, this looks is very poor. But again, these are all, you know, numbers of players that are in the NFL ORG, right?

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This is a lot of it is because of the size.

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He's just over six foot, 228 pounds.

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465 is not fast. Certainly not slow, though, either.

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It's more than fine for a special teamer. The shuttle and the three cone are less than ideal.

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451 shuttle 7383.3. But again, this is the reason why you're getting him as an undrafted free agent because he's not the biggest, not the fastest, but does make a lot of tackles.

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And he's a solid player, skilled player. I mean, I watched an interview with him. And he seems like he's a really smart, heady guy. Like he's got his head on straight. He's a hard worker. He's an underdog type.You know, he's coming from a smaller, a little bit of a smaller school, you know, and trying to make it into the NFL ORG. You know, so, you know, you root for these guys, but obviously, like, these guys, they get it, they get in on their skill set. They get in on their, what's between their ears, not so much like

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their explosive athleticism. If they had that, they would have been drafted and they would have, you know, been picked up earlier. So this is a dart throw for a guy that loves football that is a solid tackler, that maybe you can get some special teams of teams prowess.

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And again, you know, a practice squad guy who you kind of hope to keep into your roster.

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And for his career sake, he hopes to hang around the Cowboys for an entire season. And then maybe, you then maybe after his rookie year see what he can do with a leap and then maybe make a pursuit into trying to actually make the roster next year.

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The last thing before we go, you had to rank these three players in terms of how you think, the odds of them making the roster, how would you rank them? I think we should talk about this too a little bit.

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Like what are we referring to when we say making the roster? Are we talking about the 53 man, because the truth is is that the NFL ORG has really made this difficult now that everything's been expanded. They view rosters differently.

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Okay. Let's say play the most snaps this year.

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Okay.

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I would go.

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I would say Brevin Spade PERSON. I would honestly go the way that it is right now, probably, right?

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Because I think obviously you paid Brevin Spanford PERSON a lot of money.

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So you got to have an idea like if you want to continue this project at a certain point.

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And I think, look, Spanford PERSON is raw, but he's not like so raw that putting him out there for a couple snaps on goal line or in special packages.

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It's not going to hurt you.

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So I think he's likely to be the guy that plays the most.

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But I don't know.

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Like I could easily flip Pete and Spanford PERSON simply because of the positions and the needs there.

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But I would say that my guts goes with the order we have it here, Spanford, Pete, and then Johnson PERSON.

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My gut says that Spanford is going to make the 53 man roster.

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So therefore I think he's going to play the most snaps. I think this, to me, he's just the Sean McEwen PERSON upgrade, right? Like, I think the Cowboys like Sean McEwen PERSON, but it's time to move on to try to get somebody younger, maybe develop somebody else in that role. I think Span Ford PERSON, just surely because of size and body type, gives them something

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a little different than what they have in the roster. And the other two guys, I think, are practice squad guys with Pete PERSON probably the most likely to eventually get a call-up under the roster. But I don't feel great about their chances either. Yeah.

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I mean, I think these are all like, look, part of it is that the Cowboys ORG have a deep roster already.

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They do have a deep roster. They have a lot of numbers at these positions. Despite, you know, what the need is for running back, they have a lot of people. Yeah, they've got bodies. Yes. Yeah.So it's, it's going to be an uphill climb for these guys to kind of, you know, try to snipe one of those bottom of the roster sort of spots and take it for themselves. All right. That is it for today's show. We want to thank you for making Lotton Cowboys your first listen every single day. Go check out the channel on YouTube ORG.We are free and available on all platforms. Go follow Linen on Twitter at McCoolBCB ORG. I'm at Marcus underscore Mojure ORG, and we will see you right back here tomorrow. A Prime members, you can listen to this locked on podcast,

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