Dave Helman on Cowboys players' relationship with the media, if team gets value from extensions

KRLD-FM / 105.3 The Fan

Do Cowboys players have a worse relationship with the media than they used to? Dave Helman from FOX Sports joined the GBag Nation to talk about the relationship players like Trevon Diggs have with the local media in the wake of his confrontation with Mike Leslie, as well as discuss if the Cowboys are getting good value from the players they give second contracts to

Transcript

00:00Yes, and the Cowboys need a winning team in their life, of course, Dave.

00:18How much are you thinking this downturn could be beyond this year, multiple season, or do

00:23you think they'll pull out of this and have a correction either at some point this year

00:26or next year at the latest?

00:30I'm willing to say I don't see a big upturn coming this year.

00:33I mean, maybe the Cowboys can do a couple things to, you know, improve this year's team,

00:39improve the run defense, find a way to scheme up some open receivers for a change.

00:45I don't see it going great for the rest of the season.

00:49I'm not ready to speculate on a multi-year turn.

00:53I mean, they're going to have cap space next year.

00:55They're going to have draft assets.

00:58It doesn't look like it right now, but they are typically pretty good in the draft at

01:04finding, you know, blue-chip caliber players.

01:07So I'm not worried about the big, big picture, but it's looking pretty bleak in 2024.

01:15What do you think about, Micah asked Trevon Diggs on the podcast and them kind of going

01:22back and forth thinking the media needs to protect them.

01:25We're supposed to be one.

01:26We're supposed to be together.

01:28I wonder your perspective of that, having worked at DallasCowboys.com, actually being

01:33the team's media, and now you're a national representative.

01:37Well, and I'm sure Brian has talked about this plenty of times.

01:41I think DallasCowboys.com is pretty unique among not just NFL teams, but really all team-owned

01:48media in the sense that we just had a lot more leeway to be critical and be honest.

01:55So I really, and I completely understand we were still owned by the team.

02:00You know, we still ultimately answered to the Jones family at the end of the day.

02:05But you compare the work that we did with pretty much any other team-owned media, and

02:11I think it's a vastly different experience.

02:14But I will say, I think it's a confusing time to digest media if you're not trained

02:22in the world of media.

02:24You know, I saw Micah and Trevon say that, and you know, for all of the traditional old-school

02:30outlets that do this and have done it for a long time, these days there are just as

02:36many podcasts, blogs, newsletters, whatever you want to call it, from people who are fans

02:43and who are unabashedly pro-Cowboys.

02:46So I just think there's so much noise.

02:50There's more noise than there's ever been, and it's coming from all different directions.

02:54And I'm not even saying that to disparage anybody because I think some of those, a lot

02:59of new media do really good work, but it's harder than it's ever been to parse through

03:06all of that.

03:07But you know, as we know, that's not traditionally the job of media, but I don't really blame

03:13Micah and Trevon for having an incorrect view of it, I guess.

Category

Transcript

Recommended