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HOT PURSUIT: Cowboys Eye Veteran LB Trade Market— How Could This Impact 2026 Draft Strategy?
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Dallas Cowboys target All-Pro talent to solve their linebacker dilemma. Could a blockbuster trade for Jordyn Brooks or Azeez Al-Shaair transform their 2026 draft strategy? Marcus Mosher and Landon McCool break down the Cowboys’ pursuit of veteran linebackers, weighing the potential impact of roster moves on draft day flexibility. The conversation explores Brooks’ run-stopping prowess, Al-Shaair's coverage skills, and the ripple effect on picks for edge rusher and cornerback.
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Landon McCool
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Marcus Mosher
The Dallas Cowboys are hunting veteran linebackers. We'll tell you who they could target next. You are Locked on Cowboys, your daily Dallas Cowboys podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast network your team every day. Hello, I am Marcus Mosher. He is Lana McCool and today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. During the tournament, FanDuel is offering 300 back in bonus bets every day for 10 days. Head over to FanDuel.com to get started. Welcome back. We are talking about the Cowboys looking at some veteran linebackers via trade. We're going to talk about what that means for their draft strategy. What happens if they don't get one of these veteran linebackers. But Layton, let's start with this. Over the weekend, Nick Harris from the Fort Worth Star Telegram I was going to say reported, but kind of semi reported on Twitter that the Cowboys have been searching for veteran linebackers. That's not necessarily surprising. However, there are a couple big name guys that they're going after, including Jordan Brooks from the Miami Dolphins who was an all pro linebacker last year. Before we get into the names, is it surprising to you to hear that the Cowboys are going after like some of the top linebackers in the league in the trade market?
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Landon McCool
No, because I mean, I think they clearly have a need here at the position and, and I feel like, you know, we've talked about it before that like linebacker is one of those positions that if you can, if you're willing to spend a little bit of extra money or, or you know, have a willingness to put it in your budget. You could probably get a little bit more of a difference maker if you spend a little bit more than, as opposed with equal money to edge or cornerback. Right. But the, but the problem has always been availability. I mean, there's just not a ton of truly difference maker linebackers in the NFL and there's teams that have them
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Marcus Mosher
don't want to give them up.
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Landon McCool
Yeah. So I think that, you know, there have been a couple of situations that have been identified and, and, and yeah, like you said, Nick Harris didn't necessarily break the news of this, but more just kind of brought it back into the conversation with his report. And, and I think that it's, it's a, a good point to bring back up because you, it feels like other folks kind of hinting and whispering that, hey, this is something that the Cowboys are wanting to still try to do before the draft is try to find a way to get the veteran linebacker that they were hunting in free agency solved before they have to go into the draft and feel like their hands are tied.
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Marcus Mosher
Yeah. So the two names that Nick Harris brought up, the first one was Jordan Brooks from the Miami Dolphins and the other one was Aziz Al Shahir from the Houston Texans. And I think one of the reasons why maybe those names are being floated around is these are two, oh, I was gonna say older linebackers, but they're like, they're Gonna both be 29 this year. They're both on expiring contracts. And I got to believe that both Brooks and Al Shahir want new contracts. And the Cowboys are probably identifying these guys as, hey, maybe their current teams don't want to give them the deal. In the case of like Miami, how valuable is a soon to be 29 year old linebacker when you are rebuilding or at least signaling that you're going to rebuild? And that's why I'm not surprised by the names, but I am a little bit surprised by the caliber of players because you could tell me that Brooks and else here with two of the top five linebackers last year in the NFL and I think I would agree with you.
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Landon McCool
Yeah. And, and look, we, we don't know for sure the level of interest that the teams have in trading them, but I mean, I think if you just kind of look at their situations individually, Houston has got a lot of people that they're gonna about to have to pay. They got a lot of mouths that they're gonna have to feed coming up with including a quarterback, including a pass rusher who's going to get paid as the top defensive player in all of football.
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Marcus Mosher
Most they just made Eric Stingley the highest paid cornerback in the league last offseason. Kwame Lasseter their other corner who just had an all pro caliber season. He needs to get paid. They've got a lot of mouse.
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Landon McCool
I'm pretty sure that they have two other linebackers who are coming up as free agents the following two years as well. So yeah, it's a lot of people. So as much as there's a lot of protesting happening from a lot of Houston fans seeing this report and people talking about it, I wouldn't be shocked if Houston decided, hey, getting an asset from a guy in an expiring contract a year early might be a better play than trying to figure out if we could fit this guy into the cap with everything else that we're doing. So I think that there is an opportunity there. And for, for a minute, Miami, it makes way even more sense honestly, because this is just if you look at the timeline of where they are, they're clearly in a about as close to a tank as you can get. I would say their timelines are a little bit weird considering they just signed a free agent quarterback, but I would say that the rest of their posture seems to indicate that they are fully blowing up the situation. So you might be able to offer them a pick that kind of gives them even more ammunition maybe in the 2027 draft where they're really looking to kind of load up. And I think that they may be interested in kind of getting rid of a guy who I think they think is a good player. But with the contract needs and with the timeline of where he is in his career versus what they're trying to do, maybe it just makes more sense to get more assets for a guy like that than it is to try to continue on.
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Marcus Mosher
And honestly, the more I think about a potential trade, Brooks is really the guy that you probably want. She hears Al, she hears a really good player as well, but I think that's going to be the more likely target. Also, you mentioned the 2027 picks like Miami, I believe has five or six picks inside the top 100 this year. They probably want to start spreading those picks out a little bit more and giving them and again, I'm just making up a trade offer. Giving them a third round pick in 2027 is probably more appealing than giving a third rounder and a fifth rounder in this year's Draft. Right. And usually it's not that way. Usually future picks are always devalued a little bit. But I think in Miami's case, next year's is probably more value to valuable to them. The other part of it that I find fascinating, Landon, is these are both really, really good run defenders. And I think in the case of Brooks, he's, he's okay in coverage. I think Alshi here is good in coverage as well. But their, their strengths are being downhill, physical linebackers that can make plays at the football. Brooks is a phenomenal athlete. It's pretty clear they're looking for somebody that can come in and help them in the run game.
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Landon McCool
Yeah, I mean, I think even if you look at what they were looking at in the linebackers in free agency, those, you know, Quay Walker and.
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Marcus Mosher
No.
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Landon McCool
And not Nolan Smith,
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Marcus Mosher
Nakobe Dean, I got it.
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Landon McCool
Nicoby Dean, they're both downhill like linebackers. They're both, you know, attacking forward linebackers more than, than anything else. And I think that's also the case with Brooks and Al Shaheer. I think these are guys that they want more as their Mike linebackers. And I think the reason they're chasing veterans is because they're looking for green dot folks who can help get the defense organized, who understand modern defenses and how to call them. And so, yeah, I think that's why you see them initially going to try to look, go the veteran route when they weren't able to hit the targets they were looking for. I think that that's why they pivoted to the trade market as opposed to just defaulting to the draft because they feel like they need somebody with a little bit more experience at that mic, at that play caller, you know, a spot in this defense.
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Marcus Mosher
Do you think knowing that we kind of who they're targeting, does that change how you view the, the linebackers in this year's draft? Like, are you looking now more for the guys that can become, you know, downhill thumpers and help you in the run game, or is that just because these are the best guys that could potentially be available?
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Landon McCool
No, I, I mean, look, I think that it's like we've talked about before. I think if they're going to give a preference to it, it's just, it's like the, you know, the, the choice, the, the decision maker between touching tags, you know, like the. I think that they may have a little bit more of a preference for that kind of downhill player because this. And it's like we talked about before too. This defense just has a higher premium for those types of players than the previous defense. Right. Like they're playing more of a gap and a half scheme where you're, you're kind of half responsible for a previous gap. So you need to be able to come downhill a little bit and engage with, especially as the MIC engage with offensive linemen. So I think, you know, the fact is that they're looking at guys who have pretty physical profiles, like we said, guys who are unafraid of mixing it up in the gaps and, and kind of shooting through to, to make plays in the backfield. I don't think that that's coincidence and I think that that's probably why again, they're, they're, you're seeing them have a lot of interest in guys like C.J. allen and guys like that who are not necessarily the will linebacker, nickel coverage guy that you want. But if you're looking for someone to come downhill for being responsible for being an organizing principle for your defense, guys like that make a lot more sense. Great.
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Marcus Mosher
Fantastic. Now that C.J. allen's a good player, he's just not my favorite picket number 20. That's all. Let's talk about what happens if the Cowboys do acquire one of these linebackers because I do feel pretty confident that they're going to trade or sign for some assign somebody before the draft. What does that do to their draft plans? We'll get to that next foreign this episode is brought to you by fanduel. The tournament is here. It's one of the best times of the year. Brackets, buzzer beaters, upsets. We had it all on Sunday. It was absolutely awesome. It's non stop action from tip to final, cut down. And right now FanDuel is giving new customers a way to stay in the action all tournament long. And here's the best part. You get up to 300 back in bonus bets and every day for 10 days. That means 10 chances to stay involved throughout the entire tournament. You can mix it up however you want, game picks, futures or even same game parlays for bigger potential payouts. It's perfect for the tournament because every day there's something new. Different matchups, new storylines and more waves or more ways to get involved as the bracket unfolds. So visit FanDuel.com to sign up today. That is FanDuel.com to get in on the action.
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Marcus Mosher
Forget about the Everyday or Club for ad free episodes and access to a group chat with Landon and I and other listeners of the show, tap the link in the show notes or go to LockedOn cowboys.supercast.com to join the club. All right, Lynn, let's assume for a minute that the Cowboys do acquire one of these linebackers and let's say it's for a 2027 third round pick. Again, making this up, how do you think that changes their draft plans for this year?
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Landon McCool
I think it changes it quite a bit. I mean just simply by the fact that you're not necessarily feeling on the hook from trying to hit that target of getting three three starters at those three positions. I think it just opens things up for what you're available to do with these with these picks, especially the ones in the in the top end of of where you're picking maybe not 12 or 20, I think you still probably are looking to get dedicate those to a pass rusher and maybe a defensive back. But I I think you know, 92 certainly opens up and I guess it also also depends on what the aftermath is trade. Like what is the trade is the trade for 92 overall is the trade for 2027 pick that's going to have an impact in the draft as well. But I think just simply removing the pressing need for from aspect of of having to get a linebacker, I think it just helps with you understanding a little bit more of their draft strategy. Maybe. Maybe why wide receiver has been a position that they kind of have kept looking at because now you can maybe afford if you wanted to pick someone, if you liked him. I also think that, you know, defensive tackle, another position that they've been kind of looking at, becomes a lot easier to pick. I also think it becomes available to you if you so need it. And I think this is something the Cowboys should definitely consider is double dip at pass rusher, double dip at a spot that you feel that you need, and maybe even double dip at linebacker because it's not like you have a ton of numbers there either, even if you go out and get a guy. So I, I certainly think it helps alleviate some of the, the bp. Well, alleviate some of the pressure to pick for need as opposed to bpa. But I also think it doesn't completely erase your need for, for probably trying to get a line, another linebacker at some point.
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Marcus Mosher
I just think it opens them up for so many other possibilities.
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Landon McCool
Right?
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Marcus Mosher
Like I think they want to trade back from either 12 or 20 to pick up another top 100 pick and that way they can draft a little bit more freely. But if that doesn't happen, you can stay at 12 and take the best player available and maybe, maybe for them it's Dylan Thieman. And the hard part is, is hey, if they don't make a trade for linebacker, then you kind of have to draft a linebacker at 20 because the linebackers that you're going to get at 92, we like a lot of those guys, but they not. They might not fall, right? They might not fall to 92. Maybe those guys aren't every down players. And then all of a sudden you're leaving round one of the draft with a safety and a linebacker and you feel like you didn't cover either of your two biggest needs with edge rusher and cornerback. So they still have a lot of needs on that side of the ball. But just getting one of the biggest checked off and really the one that you feel the worst of, I think, I know you hate this when we say, hey, if you had to play a game today, the one that probably you feel the worst about going into the draft, which is starting linebacker, you just check it off your box and now you don't have to worry about it.
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Landon McCool
Yeah, I think it's fair to say that the, the one position where you need the singular most improvement or a singular talent to be added to the position the most is linebacker, because you just don't have anything there. You have Something at corner, you have something at edge. It's not enough. And not implying that either of those positions are enough, but linebacker is. It's not even, like, it's not even playable yet. You know, like you, you don't even have, like, you only have one guy who's a starter and he can't stay healthy. So. And he's on a contract this year. So I think at the short term and the long term, it makes a ton of sense to go out and get a guy that is a, you know, 29 is a great age. Right. Like, because he's old enough that maybe a younger team that's rebuilding isn't necessarily interested in rebuilding with him, but he's young enough that, hey, for the next three or four years, what the Cowboys need, he's probably going to be playing at a very similar level than when you signed him.
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Marcus Mosher
Absolutely. I just don't like the linebacker options at 20. And that's. This is really what it comes down to.
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Landon McCool
Me.
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Marcus Mosher
Yeah. And I mean, and really there's only one linebacker I like in round one, and that's Sonny Styles at 12. And if you can get Sunny Styles at 12, you do that even if you trade for a linebacker, like if they trade for Jordan Brooks and Sonny Styles is there at 12, it, it doesn't matter. You just take Sonny Styles and you figure it out later. I like Jacob Rodriguez from Texas Tech quite a bit. 20 is a little bit rich for me. I love the player. Like, love, love, love the player. But even I can acknowledge, like, hey, drafting a 24 year old linebacker in round one is probably a little bit rich. It just takes that decision really off your plate where now you're not having to force a pick. And now you can figure, oh, hey, if it's, if it's a safety or a corner or it's an edge rusher at 20, you feel just so much better about the draft. And we're going to do a mock draft later today. Make sure you go check it out on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast. The sequencing just makes so much more sense when you don't feel like you have to force a linebacker pick in round one. And I'm sure the Cowboys have done mock draft scenarios over the last two weeks and I'm, I'm positive they're coming up with the same conclusion. Like, hey, this, it just doesn't work out as well if we have to reach here at 20 for a guy that maybe we don't love.
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Landon McCool
Even, even in the Sunny Styles scenario. Like, I Love Sonny Styles. It would be worth it for me to take it. I'm not suggesting you don't. But you still have work to do after that. You still gotta, you gotta figure out how you're gonna get the things that you need after taking a linebacker at 12, which is part of the issue. Right.
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Marcus Mosher
So again, assume that you do the Jordan Brooks trade and it's. Let's say it's. Yeah, it's pick 92 for Jordan Brooks and Sonny Styles there. You're not going to pass on Styles. Your linebackers are Brooks, Styles and demarvi and overshone. You can use all three of those guys. But now you've got one more pick inside the top 100 and you've got needs at corner and edge and it wouldn't be bad to have another safety as well.
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Landon McCool
Yeah. So again, it's, it's a lot. It's. So, yeah, if the Cowboys can't find a way to trade back or to, you know, again, I think the, to me, out of all these situations, the best case scenario is if the Cowboys are able to use a 2027 pick for Jordan Brooks. Because I think you don't use. You keep your powder dry for 2026. You, you, you are able to get the position, the player at the level of talent that you need for the position, and then you can focus on those two other positions with those first round picks or the third round pick and maybe all three. And, and, and that's the best way to kind of get the, the most spread out results, the. The most likelihood of getting a talented group of guys.
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Marcus Mosher
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Marcus Mosher
welcome back to the Locked on Cowboys podcast. We'd like to thank you for making us your first listen every single day. Lynn. We think the Cowboys are going to acquire one of these veteran linebackers, whether that's Jordan Brooks or Bobby Okariki. In free agency, there's plenty of options. Yeah, but what if they don't? What if they strike out on all of these guys? How much is that going to change their draft strategy and philosophy going into April?
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Landon McCool
Well, I mean it's kind of just the, the opposite direction of what we just talked about, right? Like, as much as it would benefit them to kind of get that off of their plate, if they don't, it's just another thing on their shopping list that they have to come out of the draft with with limited resources. So if, if anything, it probably further forces your hand to, to try to seek a trade back of some sort in order to accumulate some more picks. I, I just think, and, and like we talked about like depending on how they feel about some of these linebackers, if you don't get one of them in the first round, you're really, really holding your breath. And I, and I, I think about was it the running back position a couple years ago with, with Jaden Blue, right, where you didn't get one in the fourth round and you were really just holding your breath that someone of quality would make it to to you in the fifth and it just didn't work out. You saw, you watched all those names come off of the board between your two picks. That's what I would say could be the Cowboys could be in kind of that similar sort of nervous situation where you've got a list of guys, you feel like that maybe, you know, maybe they don't step in right away as like the full time starter. And you still need to go get some veteran out there, but you can get a guy that could develop into a really quality starter in the third round. But I mean, again, you're still going to be going throughout the whole second round and for most of the third round just holding your breath. Watch, wait. Watching his linebacker name after linebacker name comes off of the board. And it's just not a great way to live. It's, you know, it's really putting it to chance in a way that, you know, if you can execute a trade, it's just grabbing hold of your destiny here a little bit better than hoping that the sequencing lines up and that the talent lasts into the third round.
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Marcus Mosher
The other part of it is, is I've seen the Cowboys in, in recent years miss out because of runs on positions. And a good example would be like 2024 running back. They were hoping that Jonathan Brooks was going to follow them in this second round. Didn't happen. Right. And you saw running back after running back after running back go off the board. And the Cowboys never got one because they just never felt comfortable reaching on a running back. So they went into the season with Rico Dowdle who had an awesome year for them. Like he out produced. I'm pretty sure Rico Dowdle had more rushing yards that year than the entire 2024 running back class had combined. Right. And sometimes it's okay to miss out. They, they wanted Tedro McMillan last year at 12. He goes 8. The Cowboys don't draft a receiver and they trade for George Pickens and they get an all pro receiver for a third round pick. Like just don't reach. Because the opposite end of this would be the 2023 draft when they saw all these tight ends go ahead of them in the second round. A bunch of tight ends. So what do they do? They reach for Luke Scudmaker and it's been one of the worst picks that they've made over the last decade. Right. Even if they don't get this linebacker position solved before the draft, I just do not want them to have to reach to get a need because there will be other way ways to fill that position rather than using a premium asset on a player that you don't love.
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Landon McCool
Yeah. And just to kind of prep everyone, part of the reason that they're looking at these wide receivers is because, you know, there is obviously a reality in which the Cowboys are completely wiped out at one of these spots and they can't trade back. So sometimes it's better to take, take a more talented player than a player that you absolutely need. So that's maybe why they're taking a look at Omar Cooper is like if they get stuck at some place they can't get out of and there's not a good defender, it's better just to take a better player than it is to, you know, take a lesser player that because you have a need.
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Marcus Mosher
Yeah, because I mean I ideally. But I guess if let's say you were to take Cooper at 20 again, that's probably not what we're all anticipating, but maybe there's an option for you to flip Ryan Flournoy for a fourth or fifth round pick and then in turn you can move that for a linebacker. Or maybe the worst case scenario is George Pickens still hasn't signed his franchise tag and you're able to flip him for a pick and a linebacker or whatever you want to do. The worst part to be in is you just don't want to reach on a player that you don't love. And my fear is that the Cowboys are going to talk themselves into liking these linebackers more than they maybe shouldn't and drafting one high because they have a big need. We've seen them do that in the past before for and it never really works out. That's why I'm, I'm really rooting for the Ian Rapaport notification like to pop up my phone one of these days that the Cowboys have acquired a linebacker because it's just going to take so much stress at least off my plate when it comes to the draft. And I know that's very selfish.
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Landon McCool
But, but I, I will say, and look, I, I agree with you generally that, that, that some of the guys that the Cowboys could take at linebacker at 20s would be reaches. I also don't think they would be end of the world reaches. Like I, I, maybe that's where you and I disagree.
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Marcus Mosher
I don't think they are like I'm not a huge C.J. allen fan. I think he's a second round graded player. But you're drafting at 20 in a draft that probably has 10 to 12 first round graded players. It's not the end of the world. It's to me taking a guy like Luke Schoonmaker in the second who was really like a day three pick. That is a way worse pick than taking CJ Allen who I think should be drafted somewhere inside the top 40 anyways.
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Landon McCool
And I say that only because, you know, this is the time of year where it's all or nothing with everyone's takes, you know. And so it's like, I want everyone to understand, like, although we may not prefer a C.J. allen at 20, there's a difference between us taking C.J. allen at 20. And like you said Schoon Maker like they did in the second round or some of these other picks like that have been real reaches. It's just that we feel like there are probably better players that would be available the time.
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Marcus Mosher
It reminds me of when the Tyler Guy discussion. I didn't love Tyler Guyton at 24, but I don't think they took him at 30 and that felt, felt way better. Right? It's the same thing for C.J. allen. If they draft him at 20, not great. You draft him at 27. Okay. Much more appealing, right? And that's, that's the draft. All right. That is it for today's show. If you never miss an episode of the lot on Cowboys Podcast, the everyday club is built for you. Get Locked on Cowboys ad free members only, discord access, and so much more. Head over to lockdown cowboys supercast.com to join the club. And for those of you on video, we can send you the first ever 24.7national NBA YouTube channel and on audio, make your second listen the locked on NFL Draft podcast. Follow Landon on Twitter @McCool BCB. I'm @Marcus Moser and we will see you right back here tomorrow.
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Marcus Mosher
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Landon McCool
for a limited time.
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