in the Dallas Fort Worth area Jerry Jones laying in his bed,
I picture the room, kind of like the producer and
Godfather. He doesn't find any horse heads in his bed but he
wakes up rolls over. He's got
one of those old touch-tone avocado phones with a cord on it
and he's laying in bed and he's doing
silk sheets. He's got silk sheets.
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Saying some stuff about Odell Beckham jr. And you know it was
also positive in glowing, four days, they were putting on
the full court press. They were showing the love Jerry Jones
speaking glowingly and I did have some
concern when Jones started saying, we need him to make
an impact this year.
Well,
it's December, I mean, at a certain point people started
looking at the same.
What do you really expect from this guy in 2022? And he
expects to be paid It into 2023. That's part of what he's
trying to do. He's trying to leverage, I'll help you now
with your help me later
and it all kind of hit the fan yesterday. Chris when
somebody
named Jones, most likely started telling somebody like
Edward ER and somebody like David Moore of the Dallas
Morning News, the concerns they have about Odell Beckham jr.
His knee. And that kind of pisses me off. Actually
he went to Buffalo and he went to New York and nobody said boo
about the medical examination about oh Beckham Juniors knee.
Well then Odell comes to Dallas and they get the sense that
Odell wants more money. They want to pay and all of
a sudden,
they're putting out all this negative stuff, about his knee
and whatever. The reason, whatever the reason they're
trying to drive his price down. Well, if I'm Aldo Beckham, I'm
not signing there after you put this stuff out there about me,
this a hell of a way to negotiate or they're trying to
just real in the expectations of the fans and of the players.
Who have been saying, we want him. Well, he's got a bad knee
on me. Okay, you want him but if he's injured, then I guess
we don't want him. So
I got a problem with all of it. I got to hear your take on it,
but I got a price. I think it's
I think it's not good. Well self-edit. Yeah, it's crap.
I think it's not good. Yeah. That they put that out there. No,
it's not. And we'll just like, Mike
the way you just explained it. I mean I see it similar way.
They're
they're they're trying to put the cat back in the bag here
but they're the ones that took it. A out there, the ones that
started this, they're the ones that back themselves into
the corner
of. We want to get Odell and it's the Dallas Cowboys and all
the media attention and everything around it.
They did that. And now they don't like what they hear and
now we're going to send out bad information about them because
we want, you know the conversation to sway back into
our power
favor here. Well, that's what it looks like. Yeah it does
seem like a little bit of a low blow
and then yes, to your point.
The Giants and the Buffalo Bills. Certainly didn't seem to
leaked that information, but because there's been so much
attention about this conversation in an, especially
in a place like Dallas, Texas,
where football is king and the Cowboys are a king
and you're doing,
you know in front of the microphone or from your bed
interviews all the time and you're talking about it all
the time.
Now you've led the fans to believe that this could be
coming around the corner and this move could get us over
the edge and get us to win the Super Bowl
and then it's weight.
You know you're not going to work out for us or wait you're
not going to you want this much money. And now we're going to
put that out there. Yeah that's
that's that's a low blow.
There's no doubt about it.
There is. And I do Del Beckham jr. Is going to have to be
really really wanting to play or desperate to play for
the Cowboys. I think to just kind of swipe that under the rug and
forgive all that.
Jack woltz was the character in The Godfather who
had the silk sheets, and woke up to find something
in those sheets on, on a faithful, but like, in Los
Angeles. Okay, go ahead. All right.
Yeah.
Here's my, here's my take on Cowboys
at first. I thought they were in this, to force the Giants to
pay more. I thought they were
hanging around to get the Giants to give too much money
to Odell Beckham jr.
And yesterday when that stuff first came out, I thought
they're trying to drive down his price. But then and this
was with the assistance of some people that I know and trust
who are smarter than me. That's a low
bar. I just came to the conclusion they want out
and they need to put the cat back in the bag because
the fans have an expectation the players have an expectation
that obj is coming to town to help save the day not that they
really needs to be saved.
And I think that's where they are, right.
Right now they're out and they're trying to spin it in a way
that gets the team
and gets the fans and gets the media to understand why they
would tap out of this thing that they made us think they
were definitely going to do. Yeah. I totally agree there
and it just it seems that way now, you know, the other part
of this is
I mean and i-i'll stick up from them in the sense of
the Situation's weird. It's different
in that. I mean
I wouldn't want to sign him back and give any real money.
I'm you know me, I love Odell Beckham jr.
He when he's healthy, I think he's one of the most talented
greatest receivers have ever seen in my life and and I like
his off the field stuff I do.
I think he's a cool mofo. All right, but
at the same time,
we had my job is to evaluate situations here a little bit.
If I'm a team,
this situation scares me
with that without question.
I mean, yes. Wait wait, wait your knees not good
you as your second ACL tear. The first ACL tear. It took you
a little longer than 11 months. Yeah most wide receivers
to get back. The second one here, we're just at 11 months
right now
and where you're not going to let us see you work out and
it's early December, and wait, you want money for the future?
And all of that as well. But we're never going to really get
to see you
on the field at full speed.
Before we give you
that money for the future
and that's where, you know, the rubber doesn't meet the road
and I understand Dallas not wanting to be a part of that
situation.
I just guess I wish they were a little more
tactical and and how they went about those or at least release
this information.
The other side of it too is the Odell Beckham jr. Strategy,
I wrote something about this. Last week. The idea that
His Camp is using this vague promise of helping you now,
so I can get Financial Security later. There's a point where
that Rings Hollow, what is he going to do for anyone this
year? Last year, he was playing for the Browns
when he was released after the trade dead, right?
He debuted for the Rams week, 10, it took weeks
for him to get to the point where he was able to make
a contribution. He wasn't spectacular in the regular
season, he had some great posts. He's appearances and he
was on track to be the MVP
of Super Bowl 56
but this year that doesn't do it for me. And I know he feel
I feel for him and we felt very badly for a little Beckham jr.
Horrible is he was on the brink of getting a big contract in
the 2022. Offseason,
if he just stays healthy, my God, if he had been the Super
Bowl MVP, can you imagine he would have gotten 20 million
a year? Yeah, so now he wants that but the circumstances
don't
Support it. And you know one argument to be made Chris is
just sit out the rest of the season,
then you're a free agent
and you don't have to wait until March. You're a free agent,
you can get a jump on the market.
You can sign with somebody after the Super Bowl
and to, or you can wait inside with somebody and just play in
the Super Bowl. If you want to, if you really want to do that,
but you can sign whatever you want. I think he's going to
have to prove himself
some way somehow before anybody ever gives him big money.
I think that's it. I think note on these tours and he's not
working out for anybody, that's not going to make somebody like
Lisa I'll pay you 20 million dollars a year.
Exactly. What will pay a pro-rated? 20 million this year
and full 20 million next year. Let's do it. He's gonna have to
play
and I think it may be in his best interest to take what he
can get with a contender that he believes is going to be
playing deep into January and maybe in a February and go out
there and show your healthy
and then you get paid next year otherwise
if he's on the market next year. Chris
I'm not giving him more.
One-year deal. No
I'm not I'm not I can't justify that to my Pie ownership in
the people I answer to if I'm the GM cutting that deal. I'm with
you. I mean I feel like I we've been saying this from from
the get-go, really?
It's just too risky. It's that's not good business.
And again, you know, I love Odell and I believe in the
the talent he has but
that just, it makes no sense
to give somebody big money
into the future and you're out of age and have some injuries
here where there's legitimate. Questions.
I don't think, you know, I think he's smart enough to
realize that as well. I look at it almost like we talked about
Jimmy Garoppolo before the season or like we talked about
last year with Odell
just get on a team, that's a contender,
right? Get there,
it'll get on there, get a little healthy
and if you could be on a team, that's a contender to where you
can string together, three, good games in the playoffs, you
know and one of them may be be a Super Bowl
then you A chance
to get that contract and like, get a two or three-year deal at
a city that you want to be in. You know, maybe it's going to
be the city you're playing in already,
but yeah, I would think that's the play. I just don't know,
you know, and I know I said this from very early in this
process where
I was hearing from teams that he was asking for,
you know, multiple year contracts and
that night I was always like I don't even know how that's
possible or how that could work, I don't and That's where
I just get back. And do
know, just get healthy
hanging. Keep talking to Kansas City. I know, we haven't heard
them much lately, but, you know, Canary Estonian another
injury there, and these guys don't get healthy, he'll do,
the phone will ring again
Buffalo, I still believe needs it.
I don't care what anybody says,
those weapons are not
the top notch, has they need to be, I think for them to feel
really good about going to the Super Bowl and you know,
those two Teams and what I look at more than it because I'm
canceling out Dallas Giants. I don't know if that makes real
sense here to sign on with them right now. If I was, I love
the Giants and
O'Dell. I'd love to see a back together. But damn, there's
a good chance you signed with the Giants next week and they lose
the next four games
and they don't even end up in the playoffs, you don't get
that chance. I think you're taking a risk there. So to me
that's where
my mind would be. If I got a chance to
talk to somebody in his camper him to
give them my two cents.
All this talk to you about the Giants and he wants to play for
the Giants and he wants a multi-year deal. Why the hell
are you signing with the John's? When you don't know who
the quarterback is going to be next year,
when you don't know whether or not to take one, Barclays going
to be there next year. The whole thing has made no sense
to me. And Chris you know what just like last year. Remember
last year,
the whole thing kind of lingered, it kind of sputtered
and we said and others may have said it to. I don't know
because I don't listen I don't watch I got on my
hands. How dare you what a jerk you are.
But we said we said
watch the Rams
the longer it lasts. Watch the Rams. I'm going to give you,
I'm gonna give you
this year's version of the longer it lasts, watch this
team. Who is he? Yeah,
the Eagles.
The longer it lasts, especially if he's pissed off at
the Cowboys.
Over what they did yesterday.
Go to the Eagles on a bargain-basement deal, you're
playing with the team. That's going to go to the Super Bowl.
You're gonna, they got AJ Brown, they got Devante Smith.
There's going to be some little crack. You know, they don't
have Dallas. Got it all know when he's gonna be back, but
they're
gonna have some little opportunity for Odell Beckham jr.
To make a play that gets people to say, he's healthy, he's
back, let's pay him in March
I would I would keep an eye
on how Heroes. Then
slipping it, when everybody's paying attention to the Giants,
Cowboys in the bills, maybe the Chiefs, maybe this, how are you
Roseman? Who has no need at the position? No, obvious needed
the position,
he slips in. He grabs him,
and he keeps him away
from somebody, he met see later and you can leverage
that Cowboys.
Thing that they did. I was careful again. Not to swear.
You can leverage that to get Odell to sign with you because
hey Odell guess where we're going Christmas Eve. We're
going to Dallas.
I'm telling you,
I ABS I don't think that's a
I think it's a really good thought by you.
I mean you're right. It makes sense,
you know, it makes sense from Odell
as long as he doesn't ask for too much money or
you know, anything that way.
But it's just like
Like the Rams of last year in a lot of ways that way
where it's like,
hey go to Philadelphia, they don't need you right away, you
get time to practice and get healthy. They got there guys,
right? It's great for the Eagles
Allah. Like if Robert Woods got hurt but you did last year or
you know, and I don't want to wish this on anybody Devante
Smith or somebody got her. Oh wait. Now we got Odell the damn
good thing beside that guy,
right? That's where it makes sense. You know, that. And and
Dan the Eagles, it seems like they've tried to pillage.
Read big star in football this year and that's another reason
it makes sense. I don't, I don't think that's a crazy
thought, Mike. I'm not going to sit here and tell you,
I thought of that. I did not cross my mind.
But yeah, this is one where they're sitting pretty
and they're just looking to,
you know, make sure
let's not what could happen to mess us up and cover that up
just in case
this this would fit that for them and
it would fit Odell for get healthy and then when you do
get out there, you're on a team that can you know, give you
the ball. And you can make some plays
and, you know, they're going to be playing
deep enough that you can do something at some point. That's
the bet you have to make. He made the bet on the Rams way
early last year and they lost three games in a row right
after. He got, there's a running and I made the wrong
bet. You you're making the safest possible BET right now,
if you go
with the Eagles and
and I could see how Heroes been trying to do it, and that
Cowboys angle is the way to draw him in. And getting say,
screw it, I'll take what I can get. I set myself up for 2023,
that's the play. That's what I would recommend to him.
Not that he cares, not that anyone close to him would be
listening to us, but if they are go to the Eagles, that's
your best.
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