Tuesday: Trevon Diggs Released

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
If you missed the opener, I am Sam three. He's
filling in for Andy Everett again today. If you want
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rounding out the lineup here on the final show of

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the twenty twenty five calendar year. And I really, I
really thought we were gonna go three hours without talking
any Cowboys today, believe it or not. I thought, well,
I figured, you know, there wasn't much to talk about
from that Christmas Day game. There isn't a whole lot
to talk about the Giants game coming up. I figured

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we're going to see Dak start, but probably not play more.
He won't play in the second half. I would anticipate.
It's too bad that he had a really good season
this year. And it's kind of reminds me of twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Man, they had now Randall cob come in for our
five year deal and then they had the best offensive
league that year and it was wasted.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, right right right before the end of the season.
It felt a lot like that. It's a bit of
a recurring trend when seeing some of these good Dak
years wasted. But then earlier this afternoon, of course, the
Cowboys had to put themselves smack middle smack in the
middle of the NFL Week eighteen narrative and they make

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the move that we all expected to come at the
end of the season. They go ahead and do it.
One week earlier, we got the word Trayvon Diggs officially
released by the Dallas Cowboys, and.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
We talked about this a couple of times. This felt
like inevitable. I'm just surprised that it happened so soon,
and which is weird for a couple reasons. One, you
and I I watched the Cowboys all of our lives.
Jerry Jones is very much a guy who kind of
drags things out longer than they need to go. And
two that he would do it with one game left
now I think I think he's he has no more heat.

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For those that know, his contract is still set up
till twenty twenty nine, but his guaranteed money is up,
so his cap hit after this year is lowered significantly
when it was this year, which is why you and
me and Andy and Dylan, we've all talked about how
this if you were gonna get rid of chairb On Diggs,
this would be the year just because of the way
that his contract was kind of, uh, it was kind
of it was kind of frontloaded for the first two

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years and these last four years are all what they
kind of call void years where there's like no guaranteed money.
It's all based on like roster bonuses and per game
and all that stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, and before we because we're going to talk about
the you know, financial ramifications and exactly how much it
saves the Cowboys money talk, but before we get into
the tired head money talk. Uh you you said it
right there. You know, we all expected it to happen,
but didn't expect it to happen today, right, especially when

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you go back and think about the fact that they
activated him and played him when an injury there would
have cost him to guarantee the money in his next year.
So it feels it feels really weird without having any
further knowledge the fact that they claim they activate him,
they put him in the lineup, and then a week

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later they cut him. But here's a little bit of
further explanation. Clarence Hill Junior with DLLs. Finally, former Cowboy
beat writers still kind of Cowboys, right, he put out.
Multiple sources confirmed that former Cowboys cornerback Trayvon Diggs initially

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went through proper channels and requested to stay in Washington
after the Christmas Day game and was denied. He still
chose to stay behind with family, and he's from the
DC area. He wanted to stay. He basically, he basically
wanted to go. He basically was the mama's boy on

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the junior high football but who chose to ride home
with his parents instead of riding home with the team.
That's basically what happened. So obviously they had a lot
of time off after that game because they played Thursday. Yeah,
and he could have turned around and gone right back
to Washington, d C. But to ask to stay, to

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be told no, we're traveling home as a team, and
then to defy those basically orders what the team says,
that was the final nail. That was. It feels like
that's why we got this news today.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
And I feel like and I think you would probably
agree on the same line. I think because remember, like
he had actually been cleared to practice weeks ago, but
because of the way the secondary was and how he
was not fitting with the obviously crap even Blu system
mushould be honest for what it is that he was
still practicing but he had not yet been activated, I believe,
and I think you would agree. If Doron Bland never

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goes on IR, then they just stick it out with
guys like Deron Bland, They stick it out with Ray Stewart,
they stick it out with Levon because he's he's a
rookie also coming off injury, but he's still kind of
getting back into it Kayla and so like, so like,
they never they never would have activated him if it
weren't for the fact that they needed bodies. And I
think right now, with one game left and the fact
that they had the playoffs, I think at this point

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they're wanting to swallow that last.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
I think he's owed what.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Like fifty thousand dollars left for this one game or
something like that.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Uh, it's five hundred and thirty, right, Okay, five five
hundred and thirty Okay, Then I read that wrong.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Five hundred thirty thousand. I'm way off on that.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
But I feel like if he's never reactivated, then it's
never an issue because I don't think the team won.
I don't think that that that I don't think era
Flus won a back. I never really saw this name
ever from Trayvon Diggs, even coming back from injury.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
This was honestly a lot.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Can I tell you something, In the last three years,
there have been fifty one Cowboys games. He's missed twenty
nine of them.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
That's not good. That's not good. I mean, you don't
have to be a you know, calculus major to understand
that arithmetic. That's not good.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
And remember the obviousely's remember like he uh, he didn't
go through the program the right way, so he had
to swallow a five hundred thousand dollars bonus that would
have gone to him had he gone through that.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
He didn't do that, and so that that was money
that was just left on the table.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, and you know, the whole, the whole Trayvon Diggs experience. Now,
looking back, there's a lot of there's obviously a lot
of red flags along the way that you could have said,
you know, this is probably going to be you could
have predicted this outcome sure two years ago, potentially, h
but the one thing getting to the money side of it, Yeah,

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it's ironic because we've blasted the Cowboys for how they
do business, for dragging out the DAT contract, for dragging
out the CD LAMB contract, costing themselves money there Uh
end up paying the you know Dat, particularly paying him
more than they would have had to if they had
gotten the deal done early. Uh. Now we're predicting we're

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about to see the same thing. We saw it with Micah,
and we saw that split a week before the season started.
Well predicting we're about to see it with George Pickens.
What's funny enough, MICA's agent David Mullagedta, same agent, George Pickens,
same agency.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Trevon Diggs.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Now we have news today Trayvon Diggs is hiring h Mullagedta.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
I doubt Jerry's never heard of the guy.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
No, I doubt that as well. You know what's ironic
about all that? To say, it's ironic because Trayvon Diggs
is one of the guys that they did business the
right way.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
You tell someone else exactly about to talk, which is.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Why they don't have the dead money and why they
can get out of it now.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yes, and not just that, because like you look the
Cowboys history.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
I'm I'm amazed that you and I are in the
same wave link with that, because I was about to
say the Cowboys traditionally with their major extensions, have actually
signed their guys later of recent overall, when they signed
guys early, a lot of times those guys don't pan out.
Jalen Smith they signed him early. It didn't pan out
as he could. Elliott they signed him past, like honestly
past his prime. Didn't pan out. Laoe Collins, he had
like a year and a half where he was still

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good and then Terror still obviously was better than him,
didn't pan out. Trevon Diggs, same way. The guys they
signed late for whatever reason, Ceedee, Lamb, Dak Prescott, Zach Martin.
Those guys seem to work out. And I don't know
why that is because you think the best business move
signed guys in March, not in August.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, and that that just furthers the Wyatt is absolutely
can why it absolutely drives you insane because the guys
that do work out, like you said that, they drag along,
those are the guys you should be doing early.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Like.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
It's not hard to see how this, how this is
out of order, where your most important positions like quarterback,
like edge rusher, Micah that you didn't get done, like
wide receiver now way more important than running back. You're
dragging those deals out when you know those guys are
all pro level Zach. They messed around with Zach Martin's money.

(08:48):
How crazy is that? Exactly now that we're a couple
of years removed from that, And if Tyrone Smith had
wanted to put them over the barrel, he absolutely he
could have. The only reason that worked in the Cowboys
favor is because Tyron was like, it was fine with
I'll go team friendly.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Remember he his was like what a seven or eight
year deal, like three years into his career, yep, And
so like all they were doing was restructuring his deal
the entirety of his career, all the way un till
he eventually was released. And you know, you know that
Tyron Smith, ever since Dak was drafted, never never played
a full season.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
I mean, yeah, I watched it. That Phil's right. He
was put.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
He was held together with tape and was still somehow
one of the most impressively built athletes. By the way,
Trevon Diggs what sucks about him is his first three
years he was so much fun to watch. He had
the hands of a wide receiver and he played bait coverage. Now,
those that don't know and I put him, I know,
you know what bait coverage is. Essentially, when you're a
man coverage and you're off the guy three four, five
yards whatever it is, you'll give up a little bit
of ground to make the impression that the receivers open

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so that it forces.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
The quarterback to throw your way.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
And what you do is you then't step on the
route as who's the ball is out, You jump it
and you take it back the other way. That's why
Diggs had so many interceptions. I coupled them for touchdowns
because he gave the impression that the guy was open,
but really he was in position the where he needed
to be. Now you see that more with dan Quinn's system,
Ebraflus is more about like, oh, just playing space. He's
not a space cornerback. None of these guys are space cornerbacks.
And it was a bad It was a bad fit

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from the beginning. But Trayvon Digs even before Ebraflus got fired,
the right one.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Was on the wall. Yeah yeah, no again, like we've
when the drama and training camp with Trayvon made it
pretty clear that this was going to be his final season,
but getting the news today was a bit out of nowhere.
I'll tell you what, Let's carry this over because I've
got some We'll talk some more Trayvon, specifically the money

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side of it, but have some other cowboy thoughts, some
other cowboy notes to get to here, and we'll do
that next here on The Andy Everett Show.